Camden, NJ   August 25th, 1999.  7 P.M.


My friend and I arrived about 45 minutes early to get shirts 
and look around for the tour buses. No one was around, but 
that was ok. The show started at 7:30, so we got in our 
seats around 7. Our seats were absolutely fab- 13th row, 
left, where John played all night! Fastball opened right 
after 7:30 and played for 30 mins. They were alright, but 
their sound wasn't very good. You could tell that they were
 not the band people were there for! After a short break, 
Sugar Ray came on strong. He really got the crowd going when
 he performed Someday and Every Morning. He kept coming over
 to our side on this platform, so I got excited, hoping 
John would follow his example!

Finally, after Sugar Ray and a 15 minute break, the Goos 
came on, playing "Dizzy" strong and loud. The crowd went 
crazy! So did my friend and I--we were singing along and 
jumping around. Everyone was so into them, it was great. 
They got much more of a response then the other groups. 
About halfway through the set, John got a bright pink 
feather boa from a girl in the audience and played wore 
it all through "Slide"...I'm not sure if she got it back,
though!

The best songs of the night were "Name", although John 
didn't tell the story of it, and "Acoustic #3", which he
 introduced as "the song without a name. I couldn't think
 of one, so, oh well."

One amazing part of the night was during one of the last 
songs. A bunch of people in front of us left (I don't know why),
 so my friend Katie and I were out in the open. So, John came 
over to our side (as he did throughout the whole show!!) for
 one of the songs. My friend and I were singing really loudly
 and waving to him, hoping he'd see us. Well--he looked over 
at us and pointed us out to Robby. Then he took his guitar
 and pointed at us when he hit the next big chord. It was 
awesome- the people down the aisle from us gave us a big 
grin! He made our night! (Actually, my year!!) All throughout
 the set, John kept making jokes and really playing up to the
 audience. He is a wonderful performer. He told some jokes and
 gave advice to college girls on how to succeed while away at
 school: "Don't get DRUNK!" The crowd loved it. The best part
 was a joke he told near the end of the show. Some people in
the front were getting wild, so he stopped singing right in 
the middle of "Iris" to talk to them. He's like, "Man, I'm
 singing! Why the hostility?" He was so nice about it. He
 announced that he was going to tell a joke to "relieve the
 tension".This got him huge laughs, it was hysterical!

This was my first Goo concert and it won't be my last. John 
has me totally hooked--on both their music and his body! All 
in all, this night could only have been better if I had 
really met them--but I haven't given up yet!


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