Jeff's Portland concert review (01/14)

OK first off, wow! Carrie is simply amazing live!

so the concert starts at three, and i met up with 2 other CFers, dorothy and robin at my hotel and we walked to the civic center... and lo and behold the place was packed! i was glad to see the place packed, cos to be honest, i wasnt sure if the place would have a good attendence, but whaddya know, never doubt Carrie and her fans! so we were waiting for the place to be opened and we saw a few other CFers! erin, ashley and don!

so we get to our seats, and im seated next to Don! (well i knew this before the concert started) guys, this guy is truly as funny in real life as he is on his posts here he constantly had me in stitches with all his adventures with the blue hair! seated next to don were Jamie (musicali) and jen.

don campbell was an amazing opener! that guy and his band are really talented. go check out his band. don and i bought his cd. the song "mr bill gates" is really funny

after don campbell performed for about 35 minutes, jeff gordon came out and thanked us for supporting his foundation and then introduced carrie!

for those who havent seen carrie in concert, she truly is amazing live! even better than her CD, if that is possible! she sang every song + independence day (with the exception of whenever you remember).

i wont say too much about the songs, except for "thats where it is". i mean on her CD that song, to me, is like low on my list, but wow she totally nailed that song!

(on a side note, when carrie came over to my side of the stage, i did a little wave at her, and i think she waved back )

so carrie ran off the stage, and don turned to me and was like did she sing all the songs? my brain froze! the crowd gave carrie a standing ovation and continued clapping nonstop... and out bounced our cute miss underwood and she sand I aint in Checotah Anymore! and at the end i believe it was Katie and her friends who ran up and passed carrie some carebears!

the meet and greet started out crazy... they ushered us to a section of the arena, and ushered us to another place after that... so we were like near the end of the line (all the CFers were it seemed! all together!), where i met another CFer michelle (lilbit). so don remembers my story how i nearly missed meeting carrie at the country cares concert in michigan, so he was like "hey jeff, is it something with you that always gets you last to meet carrie?" lol, and the event staff announced that carrie had another engagement to attend to so we needed to speed things up! i was like hell no not again!

anyhow, everyone managed to meet carrie so that was good. what wasnt so cool, at least for me personally, was that i was soooo freakin nervous!!! i wanted to congratulate her on JTTW being #1 i couldnt say that! i just babbled some crap, and basically was such a wreck i didnt make any sense haha... i shall spare myself further embarassment by not revealing the details. i did give her some presents (again) and she thanked me for them. A couple of tshirts and a brooch.

all in all, i really enjoyed everything! carries performance, getting to meet carrie even though i was a complete mess, and meeting the great CFers here!