SweetPear wrote:
Now what was this, a party with Elvis? How did this come about you lucky little wentch??
I guess this could be posted elsewhere on the board, but I'll hide it over here...I won a trip to see a "private" Elvis and the Imposters Concert (and John Mayer opened) in New York in support of WIWC last April (2002). It was amazing! I hadn't heard the album yet (it wasn't out yet) and then he played "My Little Blue Window" in the soundcheck and I heard it for the first time...it was wonderful and he didn't play it later that night! Yup, we got to go to the soundcheck too. Elvis was funny and he welcomed us warmly.
I had to call in every day when they played an Elvis song during the week to win that trip
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I won the 17th trip out of twenty they gave away with the song "Girls Talk"...it was the second time I got through and I finally was caller 20!
We had a meet and greet with him at a bar near the Bowery Ballroom. I should have prepared myself better with something to engage him in conversation. It would have been a great time to chat with him about anything and make him feel like less of a freak and more of a person. He seemed so uncomfortable and it wasn't arranged well. However, I always get so distracted by not wanting to be greedy and take up all of his time so I said hello, and had him sign a photo, we took the photo, and let him go on. A lot of the people that were on the trip with me didn't even like Elvis, they just wanted to see New York post 9/11. They took up his time asking him stupid questions just to talk to the "celebrity" of whom they knew nothing! I wanted to drag this one lady away from him...she was so ridiculous and talking his ear off about nothing! He did sign the photo of me and him from the first time I "met" him (see my avatar photo) and he couldn't figure out why he was dressed so funny, he said "what is that I'm wearing?" but he was still wearing his costume from Steve Nieve's opera, so I told him that was from the opera...I hope he realized to which opera I was referring!
Jill