On March 18, 1999 I went to see Ringo Starr and his All Star Band in concert! It took place at Universal Amphitheatre, Universal City, California. Here is the whole story about teh concert. I took a lot of pictures at the concert. Most of them came out blurry, but I scanned the best ones and put them up for you to see. If you want to see the pictures click here.
Ok I'll give you all the details... if you're interested. =)
Ok, in the morning I did my Ringo poster.
Then at 4 I went to the Universal City walk in Universal City (it's like
this big place with stores and stuff, and it's this huge center where the
universal Amphitheater is located)
I was supposed to meet my pen pal, Ivonne. She came all the way from
TEXAS too see Ringo with me!
So we met at the Hard Rock cafe, at like 4 o'clock. We spent like 3
hours talking about the fabs and stuff, and at around 7 we went
throughout he whole city walk tot eh Amphitheater. As we were walking
there were all these people in Beatle shirts. And Ivonne and i were
wearing Beatle shirts too. Her's had cartoon fabs on it, and mine was
Hard Day's night. I also wore 5 buttons, and she wore one. =)
Ok, we both brought posters to the concert, and when we were walking in,
this stupid security person said we can't bring in posters cuz they
block people's views. =(. he told us to take 'em to our cars, but we
just folded them and stuffed 'em in Ivonne's backpack. =) And we brought
them in anyhow. HAHA!!!!!!
We weren't sure if we could bring in cameras, so Ivonne put hers in her
SOCK! And I wrapped mine in my sweater!!!! haha! Well, we were allowed
to bring cameras, but that was fun.
Then we both bought tour Tshirts and took pics in front of the Logo.
inside, Ivonne and I were sitting right across from each other at
totally opposite sides of the room. We were sitting on the side, but it
was closer to the stage than if we were sitting in the center.
Then RINGO came out!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!! HE WAS SO
FINE!!!!!!!!! Ok, he was wearing black jeans, a tshirt, tennis shoes,
and a green jacket. And of course his shades the only ring he wore was
his wedding ring, but that was OK....
The tour consisted of Timmy Capello, who was wearing a yellow Sleeveless
shirt and beige pants and kewl shoes; gary brooker who was wearing a
purple beret and jacket; simon kirke who was wearing REALLY tight gray
shorts... hee-hee, they were REALLY tight, and a yellow tshirt; todd
rundgren, who was so psychedelic! he was wearing these funky crazy kewl
bellbottoms and a colorful shirt; and jack bruce who was wearing a red
shirt and I think blue jeans.
I screamed "RINGO" as loud as I could. And some other people did too,
but surprisingly not many. The first some was it don't come easy. I got
up of my chair for better view and these dorks behind me were all
telling me to sit down, but i didn't care. if they can't see they can
get up!!!!!! I mean, it's RINGO!!!!!! how can they NOT get up?????? I
mean.... they're looking at RINGO STARR!!!!!! They can sit on their fat
a**es at home, but not during a RINGO concert!
Anyhow... umm... I'll give you a list of the songs they band played. I
think this is the correct order, if something is wrong.. sorry!!!!!! =)
Cuz I'm not really familiar w/all the songs the other members of the
band were playing.
1. It don't come easy
2. Act Naturally
3. Whiskey train
4. Shooting star
5. Sunshine of your love
6. (umm... I'm not sure. i didn't know the song)
7. Boys
8. Love me do
9. Yellow Submarine
10. (umm... I'm not sure. i didn't know the song)
11. (umm... I'm not sure. i didn't know the song)
THEN HE INTRODUCED THE BAND AND JOKED. LIKE HE SAID "IF I TAKE OF MY
JACKET I WILL LOOK LIKE TIMMY" (TIMMY IS VERY MUSCULAR")
12. I'm the greatest
13. The no-no song
AFTER THE NO NO SONG RINGO SAID "ONE DAY I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT MY
CONDITION WHEN I WROTE THIS SONG" IT WAS SO FUNNY!!!!! A COUPLE OF
PEOPLE INCLUDING MYSELF SCREAMED "NOOOOOOOWWW TELL US NOW!" BUT HE
DIDN'T LISTEN. HOWEVER, WHEN IT GOT QUIT, AND I SCREAMED "WE LOVE YOU
RING" SOME OTHER PEOPLE DID TOO, AND RINGO WAS LIKE "I GOT YA!!!!" IT
WAS SO COOL!!!!!
14. Boogaloo
15. (umm... I'm not sure. i didn't know the song)
16. (umm... I'm not sure. i didn't know the song)
17. I wanna be your man
AT THE END OF THIS SONG IVONNE SCREAMED "I WANNA BE YOUR GIRL" IT WAS SO
COOL!!!!!
18. (umm... I'm not sure. i didn't know the song)
19. (umm... I'm not sure. i didn't know the song) =) haha...
21. Photograph
AND THAT WAS THE END...
BUT WAIT!!!!!! THERE WAS AN ENCORE WITH 2 SONGS!!!!!!
1. You're 16
2. With a little help from my friends.
The cool part was.. OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!! ***RINGO WAVED AT IVONNE!!!!!!!!
***cuz when it got quiet after a song she screamed "I CAME ALL THE WAY
FROM TEXAS TO SEE YOU!" and Ringo turned that way, kinda shielded his
eyes, and looked who said that nd then he waved at Ivonne!!!!!! It was
so cool!!!!!!!! i saw him waving, and the only person standing up in the
area he was waving was Ivonne! (dunno why no other idiot got up) but he
WAVED at her!!!!!
the BEST part was, I had this flashy ring that glows in he dark and
stuff. It's flashes red, and looks like the ring in HELP! So i wore it
to the concert, and It was all shining and stuff, and during the songs
when Ringo was sitting at the drums and not walking on stage he was
staring at me with my ring!!!!!! WELL, I couldn't really tell if he was
staring at ME cuz of his shades, but I was the only person in my section
standing up, and his face was turned my way, and I was swaying my hands
in eh air, and his head was kinda following my shiny ring! So he was
watching me!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!
OHOHOH!!!!!!!!! Also, since we brought our posters in, we wanted to get
them to Ringo. We were too scared to unwrap them during the show, but at
the very end of the last song, Ivonne, who had the poster, ran up the
the stage. And the security person grabbed her by the shirt, and pulled
her back, but Ivonne hi them or something, and got close enough to the
stage to throw our posters on it!!!!! It was so cool!!!!!!!!!!
*******IVONNE, YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!****
I tried to run up, but this security person was blocking me, and he was
too huge and strong for me to get past him. Oh well, i was pretty close
to the stage.
The whole concert was SOOOOOOOOOOO exciting!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!
First, out posters, also the WAVE and the STARE!!!! and Ivonne's brave
run-up!!!!!! It was so COOOOOOOLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!
I'll NEVER FORGET THAT !!!!!!!!!!!!
At the end, Ivonne and I almost killed each other with hugs!!!!!!! We
were both so happy!!!!
We were yelling to each other "he looked at me!!!!" and "he waved at
me!!!!!" the whole time we were going back to our cars!
Our dads were laughing, an people around were staring at us. =) it was
funny. And some people that went to the concert came up to us and
started talking to us and asking us about us being beatles fans, and
they were all really impressed and stuff, and everyone was like "wow"
when we told 'em about our RINGO STARES AND WAVES!!!
