My Warped World: What I did on a Wednesday night..

I have this friend...let's call him CR. CR is a huuuuuuge KISS fan. Huuuuuuuuge. Now, I thought I was a KISS fan, but compared to CR, I'm not. I'm a run-of-the-mill fan. I like the stuff from the '70's, and maybe early '80's, but that's as far as I go. CR however loves it all- '70's, '80's, '90's, 2000's. And every Christmas up until the last couple of years, Husband and I comb the internet for unique KISS gifts to get him.

So, when he asked if I wanted to go to the KISS concert tonight, I said yes- the last one we went to was in oh...2003? I think? And before that, I saw KISS with my parents in 1977 during the KISS ALIVE II concert when my mom was an entertainment reporter in Ames, Iowa. And I was 5, and a huge KISS fan, to the horror of my mom. My uncle bought me my first album- Rock & Roll Over. She wrote a whole article about it:

Now, CR and I have been talking about the next KISS concert we see together, and possibly getting meet & greet tickets, so when he said he could get them, I said yes, even at the much. much more expensive price. It's been a dream of mine ever since finding out you could do that! And then a few days ago he asked if we should upgrade them to backstage passes- complete with hard hats. I thought maybe that was a little pricey for little back, so I kinda said um no, too much.

Much to my surprise, when we showed up at the Pepsi Center to get our tickets and start the meet & greet, CR had decided to upgrade the tickets and surprised me in line before we picked them up, so presto chango!- we were going to meet the band aaaaaand take a backstage tour! Here's our package goodies:

Plus, we got a picture taken with the band in full makeup that we'll get online in a couple of days.

Not only that but the meet & greet included an acoustic performance by the band:

It was awesome....stupendous...magnificent!! I'd post the videos I took, but I'm afraid I'll crash my blogger site...

Then we got to meet everyone and have autographs signed:

Next, it was off for the backstage tour:

Paul Stanley's guitar- one of many@

One of Gene Simmon's guitars

Me, with one of Paul Stanley's guitars!!

I can't even begin to describe how amazing it was! And I took at least 4 times as many pictures as I've shown here, and we hadn't even started the concert yet!

Did I mention Def Leppard was opening for KISS?