Stone Temple Pilots Blog and Journals

So here what I remember about Friday night, January 16, 2008, aka THE DAY I GOT TO MEET SCOTT WEILAND!!! ;D

We started of in Fort Worth, I went to pick up Rachel (shatterdreams) at the train station and we headed to Austin!  It's about a 3.5 hour drive but it went SUPER fast with Rachel there to talk to!  So all the sudden we were in Austin three hours early, searching for a bathroom and batteries!

We found both...eventually and then went in search of the venue, NO THANKS TO YAHOO, we found the place and then parked and went to Spaghetti Wharehouse to eat, yummy, I LOVE that place :D

ANYWHOOOOO....no on to the concert!  The opening band was Alpha Rev.  An awesome band from Austin!  They seriously blew me away.  I was there to see Scott, but DEF came away a fan of this band. They kind of had a Radiohead sound.  They had a violinist that was amazing!  They had a pretty big sound, I just liked everything about them...did I mention the violinist?  Yeah!  They were good!

NOW!  On to the man of the evening.  About 30 minutes after they were supposd to start, Scott Weiland and company showed up on stage!  It was AWESOME!!!  I was in awe of the whole evening!  He came on and sang and danced, it was fantastic!  (All the exclamation points are necessary, trust me!!!!)  So pretty much he sang stuff off of "Happy" in Galoshes, his new solo CD.  But he also sang a couple of STP songs, Vaseline, Interstate Love Song, Atlanta and I think he sang another one...I can't really remember...I also think that he might have sang Mockingbird Girl, but I can't be for sure, I would have to ask Rachel to be sure...but that was how the concert went!  It was GREAT!  Scott sang and danced, unfortunately his shirt didn't come completely off.

So after the show was over Rachel and I were going to hang out, but they were kicking everyone out of the concert area.  We decided that we would go stand out by the bus.  We were there for awhile and no Scott, but the bassist (Who was super hot, me and Rachel both agreed on that) showed up.  He walked back into the bar, so we followed him, thought if anything we would get to meet him and that would be good enough.  This whole time, I HOPING we could meet Mr. Weiland, but I REALLY didn't think it was going to happen. 

We go back in the bar and were kinda standing around.  The bassist was pretty much surrounded by people the whole time, so we kinda decided to chill out for a bit, Rachel got a beer, I was trying not to fall asleep (HEY! GIVE ME AN F-ING BREAK!!!  I was up at like 6 am Friday morning and at this time it was about 1 am Saturday morning, I was EXHAUSTED)  I was loosing hope pretty quickly.  We had pretty much decided after Rachel finished her beer, we would go. So we sat down on a couch and started talking to this guy.  After a couple of minutes Rachel grabbed my hand...I looked up and SCOTT WEILAND WAS IN THE FUCKING BAR!!! OMG! OMG! OMG!!!!!  I had NO IDEA what I was going to do.  I think that at first me and Rachel were going to go up to him. but we decided we would give him some space, he just put on a show!  Geez, let the man have a beer right?  NO!  He got himself a drink and ended up in a booth with the bassist and a couple of chicks.  Then a crowd of people descended on the booth.  I started loosing hope even then!  I was like, this isn't going to happen!  So we waited

After a little while I was like "Rachel lets go!" as in let's go to Scott.  We both got up and then when we got up there, I was lke "NOO!!! I can't do this" Seriously, I got SSSOOO nervous!  I just had ZERO confidence.  The guy that we were talking to followed us up there, there was still a bunch of people surrounding Scott, so we were kinda standing there.  From this point on it is kinda a blur.  I think that everyone at the table was getting irritated with everyone else hanging out asking for pics and stuff.  Somehow we ended up at the table and we got to shake hands with Scott and say hi, he smiled! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! Afterwards, I was talking to Rachel and we both decided that Scott had nice hands and they were nice and soft and not clammy or anything, they were great LOL!!!!

At this time, everyone at the table apparently decided they were going to leave the bar.  At first, when we asked for a pic, Scott said no, like I said there were tons of people standing around asking for the same thing and I think that the group was really irritated.  Then somehow, for some reason, the guy that we had been talking to on the couch stepped in and did some SERIOUS fast talking and managed to talk Scott into a pic and he agreed!  I have no idea who that guy was or what he said, but THANK YOU!!!!! 

And just that fast it was over!  We were walking out of the bar and headed back to Fort Worth!!!  Also Mr. Weiland!  THANK YOU for taking a pic with us, you have NO IDEA how much that meant to a bunch of little fan girls like us, you totally made my day, week, month, year, LIFE!  LOL!!!  I still can't believe how great that day turned out!  It was a GREAT way to start off the year!

THE END!!! :D

P.S. Sorry for the rambling...It's just kinda how I remember the night going! LOL!!!