Carolina Clay

As many times as they all hugged on stage at Sterling Heights, it's a wonder the whole gang doesn't have a cold. Caro

Lickiest, I read your great recap on CV and started to tell them they had your name wrong! Welcome back, Cindy! :F_05BL17blowkiss: Hello, FCA! Caro

Bottlecap, looking forward to your "random thoughts"! I'm sure they will be awesome ... fabulous ... wow!!! Laughn, your recap is amazing. I sent the CV link for it to Sally. I love all the crowd demographics you brought into the report. Thank you for the interesting and thorough write-up. I think Clay added to his fan club last night, for sure. Anybody see Aspiegirl? She was with the Central Ohio Clay fan group. She was really excited and took her sister to her first Clay concert. Caro

Good Morning, FCA! :F_05BL17blowkiss: Love the recaps -- WOOHOO for you, Bottlecap! Poster #3000, no less! YSRN, the girl with Jerome is ClaysBabyGurl333 from Clayversity. A high school grad this spring, she was very excited to meet Jerome at Walmart. My blog can't keep up with all these concerts. I think I'll stay with the New York 3-Fer for another day. Love the video from Chautauqua and just located a few more pictures. Meanwhile, reports are coming in from Columbus, so I'm off to read. :Tour3: Have a great day, all! Breathe -- I think we need the break as much as Clay & Co.! Caro

For the record (and it does seem to fly by) ... the columbus symphony! and all good things, must come to an end Its ok, there will be another concert next week you see, what you should do, come to the symphony..if you get the same 3000 people to follow you around, we know all these people by name almost, they will chase us, they will surround the bus tonight. One of our favorite things to do is travel the country and see the amazing talent that is right in the local communities, and you are so lucky to be here tonight, to have such an amazing group that we have onstage. I say it every night, I believe there is more talnet on this stage then in every major record label in the country, if you live in colombus and you dont support the columbus symphony and you dont support the local talent then you are crazy. Its amazing how great community arts are, and thats really where the heart of the performing arts are. They have the pops every summer, make sure you find information out from them. make sure you find more about what they do all year, and if you dont support them then they go away and we dont have the opportuinty to play with them. and a special thank you especially for allowing the 5 of us, did I count that right, yeah the 5 of us on stage quiana and angela 5 years, growing old together, jesse 3 years..sean 3 weeks, he will stick around for awhile longer. WEre also very blessed to have the opportunity to do this every night, and Im very grateful to you for supporting me through kelly ripa, just for everything, weve had a wonderful time, drive safely home, we hope to be back in columbus soon, we hope you come then thank you SO much for your support, WE LOVE YOU!

Handsome new avi, Claygasm! Caro

After Angie's song ... now how am I supposed to sing now? g'night all! I think we need to fire her and quiana, they show me up every night, and I come out here and sing real quiet, thank you..you did your job angela fisher ladies and gentleman, one of these days Im afraid that her larynx is gonna fly out and hit someone in the audience. my executive producer jaymes foster wanted me to write a song, and i dont know...some people write music, but she was really adament about it, she is a woman, very adament. And she has a brother who is a prolific songwriter, david foster,she said write clay a song and we'll try to get him to write the lyrics. he sat down and in 5 minutes, no 4 minutes he wrote a whole song..and she gave it to me and nagged and nagged and nagged and nagged and I sat down and it took me 4 minutes....and 7 months

if we can sing a (something) jackson song, we can sing anything..Ill let you in on a little secret, Im not even that cool..I know its hard to believe right quiana? and the girls around here they try to teach me how to be hip, and cool and off the chain. fasheezy in the heezy, we thought if we have a great orchestra like the columbus symphony we'd like to sing anything, classics important to america, fast songs that are really the brick to america, thought maybe if I sing songs like that, Ill be cool..and maybe, if I even dance...I I I could beat justin timberlake. I wanna try, but we reached way back and we found some of the best, the songs that your childrens, childrens childrens children that will be singing to their grandchildren and say remember that classic song I love big butts

This was before the "Classics" ... just read it and corrected the composers, LOL! so were having a hard time, first of all columbus symphony was nice enough to come out, give them a hand. when we travel with a symphony its always hard, always really hard to find a fast song, with a symphony..cause with a symphony you think of ballads so often, its hard to find something for a symphony thats fast, not neccessarily something I would sing, but whats a fast song with a symphony kitty rock?? whats a fast song that you guys play often? Rimsky Korsakov oh look at you? you think I didnt know he said that? so with the exception of Korsakov and Tchaikowski and kenny loggins I had a hard time finding songs that were fast, but jesse, he convinced me that it was possible, the problem is that when he found this song, Ive been having a hard time learning the words, now Im gonna need your help here, get out of your seats he is coming out on the lawn

Security very tight, nabbing people with cameras, clack will be difficult.

Before the concert, our cellcerter said the tables are very close, and walking around is almost impossible.

Do y'all need this or are you hearing it? were gonna take a break in just a second here (boo) we'll be back cause ya know, weve been drinking and there are only 2 toilets around here, 15 minutes, 15 minutes...quiana parlor is gonna be singing, and then were gonna take a 15 minute break ladies and gentleman quiana parlor

This makes sense on the KC comment: He saw an empty table and he said that they musta thought this was going to be a Kelly Clarkson Concert. And they left or didn't show up when they realized it wasn't qoing to be K elly.

BFS on OFC says they got rid of the easel and cards Annoucing songs before singing

Here's some more: they stopped me, said can you sing something else? that was stupid! that was the theme songs from perfect strangers with balky, but when you think of theme songs you think "this is stupid" but I got pretty far! but they are good songs, and they get stuck in your head. this table that didnt eat their food got really excited when I started talking about tv.

I can basically hear everything, and this is what Smitten typed up. They are on the TV songs now ... I watch to much tv, thats why Im so fat, that and Krispy Kremes..(someone screamed) you like to scream you dont even care what you scream at SHOE!! see the songs that you get stuck in your head more then anything is tv show theme songs, you get em stuck in your head If I dont watch it I dont know, sorry..maybe I dont watch enough tv. I love the tv show theme songs, cause when I was younger they always had tv show theme songs, and they had such a great melody, now it goes straight into commercial and you have no theme songs at all. The most embarressing story for me is I was auditioning for this show..survivor..no, american idol..when I was auditioning you had to stand in line for awhile, now they jsut get to get in the building, but we had to wait in line. I auditioned in charlotte and got cut,and I said I aint getting cut the first day. I went to the show in atlanta and said I need to be prepared this time, I had 5 or 6 songs in my head and said I need to be prepared this time "you had songs planned didnt you" "no" everyone was singing their songs on the street, so I could have stolen one, but no...everyone was singing their songs and I wanted to hold my cards close (did the NY city song, and always and forever) I had all these songs in my head and I was so prepared, but when I got in the room I was scared to death, nobody had went through everyone had been cut, so I was scared to death and when I walked in the room here is the problem, instead of any of the songs that I had planned to sing, I asked God(something about showing "me" ?) and this is what he did...

Somebody else is saying this on the KC mention: He saw an empty table and he said that they musta thought this was going to be a Kelly Clarkson Concert.

Earlier he said there were so many people there that they must have thought this was a Kelly Clarkson Concert.

I like when he takes the high "oohs" ...

Before ETYGA, Clay said something about how they were in a chemical contaminated field and that he didn't mind that his hair was falling out.

Our Oregon girl posted all this banter: theres a lot more people here then I expected, they must be pulling people off the street giving them free tickets, you people back there, can you even see me!?!? are you good, are you full? you ate? this is the first show where you get to eat. Lots of men here, eager..the women of columbus ohio are very strong willed and they drug their husbands here, or the alcohol tab is extremely high. talking to someone in the audience..all that food, all that food and you havent eaten any of it, there are a lot of leftovers there(someone said "your welcomed to it!" and he said "youll have to hold these people back" and these yellow shirts, you all sit together in this general area but your friends got stuck in the back, what happened? (my wife made me sit with her) is that how it is? Im sorry bout that, will..we'll be real loud for you. We had a great time doing this traveling, we did the symphony thing before, but were having a great time doing the non christmas thing. Not worried about it ONE BIT. Great day columbus isnt it? WHOA! ethel got a little carried away, she got a shirt that said "yes Im ethel" well ethel, yes Im clay aiken, you got a nice gift for me, throw it up here..see these things, they are electrical wired, there are like 300 bulbs. ok, you had your moment, sit down! we know her, she follows us, behind the bus..every night, shes our own personal stalker..behind the bus, every show..in our nightmares everything. You got me this shirt, do you think Ive gained this much wait.. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa..whats going on right here? no no no, your a little what? a little late? we only do 6 songs and Ive already done 3...where are you sitting? your sitting in the front?there arent enough seats there, someone stole your seat, probably ethel. we got a letter a few nights ago, somoene wrote quiana and said I was fat. you people over here, what are you doing? you didnt even pay for tickets you are standing on the..they didnt even pay for tickets, you should have taken their seat, they just showed up not a minute ago. Someone wrote me the other day and said I was fat, said I should lay off the maccaroni and cheese and Krispy Kremes. Im about to get mean in here, we better sing, noone even took that table

Me, too, Couchie -- all I want to hear is the concert. However, I was really good on the musical terms during the last holiday tour. :eusa_whistle:

Another report, LOL! suit coat from Houston, cream or lite yellow shirt, jeans and loafers

From BB4CA He has on Black pants, a tan shirt and a brown Jacket.

Hi, all! :F_05BL17blowkiss: The CV stream sounds great right now! Caro