So what do you do when you are finally facing the lead singer of one of your favorite bands, after making three attempts at building enough courage to walk right up to him? Well, my friends, if you are me, you let the adrenaline building up in you tell him that you don’t like one of his albums…

m: Chris? Could you please sign my cd covers?
Chris: Sure. *shuffles through the cd covers* Wow. You have all of them.
m: Well you’re one of my favorite bands.
Chris: Really? :)
m: *diarrhea of the mouth* I don’t have Stay What You Are with me because I’m really bad about putting cds back in their cases and I couldn’t find it in time to make the show. Do you have it here for sale? I’d be really happy to buy it again. It was the first album of yours I bought.
Chris: Was it? :)
m: *diarrhea of the mouth continues* Yes and I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but it did help me through a really hard time in my life and I just wanted to say “thank you” for your music.
Chris: Thank you for coming to the show. :)
m: *diarrhea bonanza continues* I try to make all your shows. The first one I went to was when Ash opened for you.
Chris: Wow! Yeah. That was a great show. :) So is there a song in particular you want to hear tonight? :)
m: Freakish, Third Engine, Jessie My Whetstone…
Chris: :)
m: *diarrhea floodgates have opened* Anything, really. I just, well, of all your albums I just couldn’t get into Can’t Slow Down as much as the others…
Chris: :|
m: so, um, anything really. I just want to be able to sing along with at least one song.
Chris: :| Thanks for coming to the show.

Aaaaannnd then I was dismissed. I feel dumb. I blame it on the adrenaline it took to give me the courage to walk up to a stranger whose music I admire so much. The show, in fact, was incredible. The whole bar/club/lounge sang along with Chris on every song. He did sing Freakish and Jessie My Whetstone, but I’m sure not because of me. Several people in the crowd were shouting for them to be sung. As far as Third Engine, I’m thinking it’s one of the songs that he needs the rest of the band for. He had to apologetically not play a few requests because he said that he needed the band for those songs.

Afterward, I decided to make him suffer my presence again. I went up to tell him the show was incredible (hahhahaa looking back, he seemed very wary of me when I went up to him again). Then I told him that his music always seems to cleanse my blood, which it does and that’s how I’ve described the band’s music to people over the years. I think that was enough of a truce for him because he said, “Awww” and gave me a hug. I thanked him again for the great show and wished him safe journey on his tour.

I feel bad that I basically told him,”I’d love to hear you play anything except any song from Can’t Slow Down, because that album sucked bung hole.” I honestly didn’t mean for it to come out that way. I love his music and it’s a good album. I just say stupid things. That is my way.