Maaaan. The concert was SO awesome. It felt so surreal. He played two shows in Detroit, one on Friday night and one on Saturday night. We went to the one on Saturday night but I was dying all Friday knowing that I was just 3 miles away from PAUL and I couldn't do anything about it. We had a driver pick us up from the airport on Friday when we got in from DC and he told us he had been driving Paul's accountant around all week and we finally got out of him what hotel he was staying at. Unfortunantly we went the wrong way on the street his hotel was on and couldn't find it. Oh well. We got to see Paul nonetheless, right? Yeah. My Uncle Joel and his son, Kyle, came in Saturday afternoon to see the concert. I felt really bad because when we asked him how much he paid for his tickets he wouldn't say... he would only say that the original value was like $120... It had to be A LOT more than that. I hope it was worth his money though. I know it was worth ours! Hell, I want to go back! Anyway... so we left to go to the concert at about 6:45 and pulled in about 7, the concert was supposed to start at 8 but Joel had read that Paul would be a bit late on stage because there was a DJ that came on stage that not many people paid attention to so we stood in line for almost the whole hour to buy some Teeshirts. I bought 2 and then a set of buttons then we went and took our seats. After the DJ everything went dark and EVERYBODY started cheering, screaming, and generally just making noise. The video screens then came on to show the promotional video of his life and career from birth, Quarrymen, Beatles, Wings, to current... After a climactic ending the curtain rose and Paul blasted into Magical Mystery Tour. Not stopping for a break or to talk to the audience he went straight into his next song after that, Flaming Pie. I'm not sure if he stopped before Jet but something tells me he didn't... which most 20 year olds can't handle. Way to show 'em up Paulie! Next was a song most people didn't know but I'm proud to say I knew most of the lyrics (I would have known them all if I could find the CD that it's on!) I'll Get You. After the first three songs, maybe the first two he shook his fingers and mouthed "ow!" Pour Paul! Haha. Next was Drive My Car, Til There Was You, Let Me Roll It, Got to Get You Into My Life, Fine Line, Maybe I'm Amazed, The Long and Winding Road (I cried), In Spite of All Danger (in which he explained was the first song the Quarry Men ever recording), I Will (the chick beside me cried), Jenny Wren (he said something about eating in a Mexican restuarant and a guy coming up to him and telling him about his daughter so I guess that's the inspiration for Jenny Wren? Maybe he was talking about I Will, I have no idea. He lost me a couple times.), For No One, Fixing a Hole, English Tea (where we learned a new vocabulary word! How many concerts can you go to that you learn a new word? It was "paraventure" which means, maybe, perhaps... That kind of thing.), I'll Follow the Sun (he said he wrote this one while looking through his mom's curtains before the Beatles, or before they got big, I don't remember), Blackbird, Eleanor Rigby, Too Many People, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, Good Day Sunshine (he explained that last July the first space shuttle commanded by a woman took off and had to stay up there for longer than they expected because of some technical difficulties. So the day they came home their wakeup music was "Good Day Sunshine" because it described a great day with your feet on the ground), Band on the Run, Penny Lane, I Got a Feeling, Back in the USSR (where he talked about the first time he went to Russia to preform this song and it was an outside venue. He was concerned about the weather but the guy said "do not worry weather will be fine..." and then said that they went up in planes the day of and sprayed something that made the weather stop or turn around or something. Then he's like "it's true!" he took a second or two to go the the piano for the next one and when he got there he's like "it's true! it's true! You don't believe me?" then he said that he would need help in playing this next one and went into a song that I don't think any of the audience knew and stopped and said "hang on... that's not the song I wanted to play...."), Hey Jude (EVERYBODY wen't crazy and was singing. He had everyone singing "Naaa Naaaa Naaaaa NA NA NA NAAAA! NA NA NA NAAAA HEY JUDE!" then he'd be like, "this section, now that section! All the guys! All the girls!" and so on...), Live and Let Die (the pyrotechnics were awesome!), Yesterday (with the guitar he used on Ed Sullivan. When he said that we all started screaming), Get Back, Helter Skelter (oh yeah!), Let it Be, Please Please Me, then he started saying that everything has to end and that we would all have to go home eventually (to loud protests) and went into the Reprise of Sgt Pepper followed by, The End. Afterwards he stayed on stage signing things for people who were throwing things up there in the first row. I was so jealous! Somewhere, I don't remember the exact spot, in the middle of the concert he talked about John and George and said "why don't we honor our departed loved ones" and for about 5 minutes the crowd (including me) were screaming and cheering for John and George, yelling "we love you John and George" and just generally making noise in their memories. It was great. I cried a little then, too.

All in all it was the BEST concert I have ever, and probably will ever, be to.

Apparently I missed out on a $20 gift certificate by not going to school... oh well, it doesn't bother me in the least bit.

As you can see, I'm staying home today too because we got in really late and I never had the chance to do that President's project for AP US. Haha.