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Meeting Collective Soul
Wednesday night was the Collective Soul concert here in Calgary. If you know anything about me, you know that Collective Soul is by far my favourite band. This was exciting stuff. They played at Flames Central and I didn’t think it was going to be very big. For those of you who don’t know where Flames Central is, it is basically on 1st Street and Stephan Ave (8th Ave). If that doesn’t mean anything to you and you really want to know where it is, go look at a Google Map. Anyway, we drove down 2nd Street hoping to find a parking meter, which I didn’t actually expect to find. As expected, we didn’t find one. We did, however, find on on 3rd St and about 7th Ave. Anyway, that isn’t the point. As we drove down 2nd St we noticed the people lined up to get in. Both Cassandra and I thought that that many people surely couldn’t fit in Flames Central. By the time we got parked and walked down there and got in line, we were basically at 9th Ave. That’s a long line.
When we finally got inside, we were both very surprised at how big it actually was. It is a really cool place. We had VIP tickets, which meant we got to meet Collective Soul. We really weren’t sure how it was all going to go down, because the email I got about it was pretty fuzzy on the details. We decided to ask someone, but got sidetracked by the merchandise. I decided to ask the cashier lady, but she didn’t know anything. I bought my shirt and we decided to just wait until 9: 30. That didn’t happen. At around 9:15, we decided to go find someone else. We found a security guard to ask, and he thought I was asking about the band when I said “Meet and Greet.” When we finally got him to understand what we wanted he directed us to the guy by the door who we wanted to talk to originally. We talked to him and he told use where to go.
After some waiting we were led upstairs to the VIP lounge-type area. When they came in, we still weren’t sure how it was all going to work. I had heard that it was like a wedding reception and that was exactly what it was like. We were one of the first people through. We just went through and introduced ourselves and said hello. After we went through, we noticed that everyone else was taking pictures and getting autographs and stuff. We felt pretty ripped off, so we went through again.
We got to stay up there for the rest of the concert, which was awesome. The concert was really good. We had a lot of fun.
4 Responses to “Meeting Collective Soul”
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February 11th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Pretty awesome! I didn’t know that it was at Flames Central - that seems like a small venue for them!
February 11th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Ever since their four year break, they have been playing at small venues. The last couple times they have come to Calgary, they played at like Cowboys and Outlaws.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
you spelled favorite wrong.
February 17th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
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