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  9. #60: I l.o.v.e. my hawt humanatarianactivistsingersongwriterambassador boyfriend!

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    Looks like Clay and Crew were still in Minnesota yesterday.

    Via bouncer15 at CV:

    many sightings of Clay at Mall of America: first 3 are facebook

    Deonta David Bebber Clay aiken + de on the moa elevator together... Made my lunch break haha

    1 hour ago

    Delaney Collins Clay Aiken is shopping at MOA today...

    2 hours ago

    Jessica Nelms Wow i just saw clay aiken at the mall

    4 hours ago

    twitter:

    kristennsweet Is currently on a hunt for Clay Aiken at #MOA. We were given the details from a very excited gay man in forever 21!

    5 hours ago

    And from Quiana's twitter overnight:

    Pandora does not work well on a moving bus! & one more thing goodbye Minnesota! Too much snow for me!

    2 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone

  11. #60: I l.o.v.e. my hawt humanatarianactivistsingersongwriterambassador boyfriend!

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    @clayaiken

    Clay's Memphis show has been cancelled. Please visit this link for info - http://say.ly/mKVaLB

    The link goes to the OFC news section.

    It is with regret that we announce the cancellation of Clay Aiken's scheduled tour date in Memphis, TN at Minglewood Hall on Monday, March 7, 2011. All tickets will be fully refunded at point of purchase. Clay Aiken Official Fan Club members who purchased tickets through the Fan Club pre-sale will receive an email detailing their full refund. Ticket holders can also email: tickets@minglewoodhall.com with any questions. We apologize for any inconvenience. The remaining tour dates, listed below, will proceed as planned.

    Mar 8- Grand Prairie, TX:

    Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie

    Mar 10- Phoenix, AZ:

    Mesa Arts Center - Downtown Mesa

    Mar 12- San Francisco, CA:

    Warfield Theatre

  13. #60: I l.o.v.e. my hawt humanatarianactivistsingersongwriterambassador boyfriend!

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    Via Hope at CH:

    The following Scarlett clips from the Waukegan show are now on You Tube:

    Who's Sorry Now, Burlesque style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_QIO66jBAg

    Who's Sorry Now, Russian Folk style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mf7lMyyv7I

    Who's Sorry Now, Disney style:

    Who's Sorry Now, New Age style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_P72fdwxj0

    IMO, funniest group of WSN's in the tour so far.

  18. #60: I l.o.v.e. my hawt humanatarianactivistsingersongwriterambassador boyfriend!

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    Here's laughn's M&G recap from GCA:

    Just home from Ft Wayne but I wanted to post this M&G recap before other things from the concert came flooding into my brain and I lost some thoughts. My brain can only hold so much you know. :P

    We were the last M&G before the show - the OFC peeps and the auction winners - about 9 of us. We had waited through two PBS M&Gs held before ours and held in a different location. They went right, we headed left with Jerome. They checked photo IDs twice. The venue had checked our IDs when we first arrived and gave us our M&G tags. Jerome asked us for our photo IDs once again before he let us pass. We were led down to the pit area and seated by number in the first row of seats. The floor moved under our feet when we were taking our seats but nothing like it did when Jerome walked off to get Clay or when Clay jumped off the stage and took a step later. Made me laugh during the show that he mentioned the floor being held up by strings, lol. The M&G gal sitting next to me had the seat right behind us for the show that evening. I saw her again after the show and she said the floor didn't didn't feel like it was moving at all then, so the weight of a full pit audience must have anchored it better. It was a weird sensation.

    Anyhow, Clay walked out on stage and sat in front of us, all sweatshirt and cut off sweats with his t-shirt hem sticking out in back. Looked like my kid dresses. He seemed totally casual with the loveliest smile ever. His hair looked soft and shinny and I thought already styled for the show. Pretty color.

    Some time in that immediate rush of adrenaline when you realize you're talking to Clay Aiken and have no idea if he's even wearing shoes, he asked our names and shook our hands and found out where we were all from. The Great White North was represented on both ends of the row. He teased them later about taking over the M&G questions, but they really were not. We were all pretty gabby. He was just doing the regular Aiken tease with folk. Seemed amused by the gal from Michigan City, IN. Said he assumed that was close to Michigan. lol. Where we were from also lead to one of the M&G questions, "When are you going to come to Lansing." He said he thought he had already been there and seemed up for a argument, abet a light one. He really thought he had performed there. Anyhow, he stated again during that conversation that this tour would be it for a bit. He used a cute phrase for that, (for a short amount of time) but right now I can't remember what it was. Sorry.

    canuck actually asked my favorite question. She asked why is was that we sometimes hear him speaking with a horse voice but when he sang his voice was beautiful. He spent a great deal of time explaining the process. He rubbed his hands on his neck and said that was where his talking voice came from. He then took his fingers and rubbed from his nose out, under his eyes and said that was where his singing voice came from. There and the area above his eyes as well. (He rubbed his fingers over that upper sinus area too) He said some low notes come from the throat but mostly he sang from the area from his nose up and that he had to consciously had to throw his voice up there when he's singing - well, I guess up or down depending on the song. He said that was why What Kind of Fool Am I was one of his favorites because the notes from that song are all from nose up. I don't know much about music and singing but I'm sure that makes sense to the folks who do. He also said he has never taken vocal lessons and that most performers think they know their voices better than other folk.

    Lovely Canadian gal to my left said she had been at Raleigh PBS taping and the sound in that theater had been so rich and wonderful and asked if he (or they) up on stage could hear the difference like that from other performances. He said no, he couldn't hear any of that. He said every venue was different and the same man who did the sound in Raleigh did the sound for this tour. He said he was told (meaning from the sound guy) that the Ft Wayne theater had some bad spots for sound but apparently the sound guy must have fixed them because Clay praised the way Quiana was sounding up on stage during the show. And in case you didn't know, Clay sounded wonderful to. :)

    Same gal asked about the Jazz medley and the changes in the set since the beginning of the tour. He said it just didn't work or feel right at the beginning and that even now they are still playing with it. He said when people respond to hearing The Way and TITN and MOAM he knows they recognize the song as his. He said he did not get that kind of response from Open Arms and he didn't feel people knew that song as his so much so they just decided to remove it from the set. I guess I was pretty impressed that he was gauging audience reactions so closely and that they were still tweaking this far into the tour.

    Someone in the middle of the group asked if he still remembered much of his signing. (ASL) They now do that daily in their profession and they still remember watching Clay sign during concerts. He said he only remember some basic commands and words and stressed repeatedly that they need to keep using it so they would lose it.

    I couldn't see who asked, canuck or yaknell, about the power outage in Vancouver that happened shortly before he was going to perform there one concert and he said he wasn't aware. He teased about us knowing more of this stuff than he did. :)

    He was asked who 'Team Clay, ' was. He said he didn't know for sure. He figures it represents everyone in the management office, (Clay named everyone) but it wouldn't be a name he would use.

    My question was about Sporcle. I asked if he had a Sporcle app for his phone. He stopped and got this funny look on his face and said he had no idea what I was talking about. I told him it was a website for quizzes. His head sort of went up then, (he was signing our items as he was answering some questions) and he said that sounded interesting. I had heard that he loved taking quizzes and I figured that might be fun for him if he didn't know that site existed. The new director at our art museum suggested the staff visit that site now and then to exercise our brains. I didn't tell Clay that. LOL

    We all hopped up then and got into line to have our pictures snapped. (more floor movement :P) One gal got her picture snapped out of line so we had to stop for a moment and reorganize. They had to make sure our names and seat numbers matched the picture order so we would all get the correct photos. Clay said he told the folks in Cincinnati the night before that they were the only ones who had gone through the process without getting mixed up, so you Cincy M&Gers give yourselves a pat on the back!! Hee.

    That was it. We all said good-bye, Clay jumped back on stage and I wished him a good night, and out we walked.

    Odds and ends:

    While waiting for the two earlier M&G to finish I watched Ben just looking out the venue door standing in the lobby. He was there for a long time and I wondered what he was thinking.

    People in the lobby talked to Jerome a bit. He said they don't look out to see what the weather is while traveling. Not unless the bus swerves. LOL. Said he sleeps in the bunks like everyone else. His is just a bit deeper/taller, but no longer than the others. He golfs, but not nearly as good as Felix. He just sort of drops his ball somewhere near Felix's ball and shoots from there.

    The OFC/auction M&G ended around 6:40 so he had just an hour to finish getting ready before he hit the stage. We talked for almost half an hour.

    Mary was there and took our pictures.

    When we walked in we noticed a uniformed police office near the side door, (off duty security?) and someone in our group suggested that our reputations must have proceeded us if they thought tasers were needed.

    :P

    That's it. Brain dump. If there's something I've forgotten, I don't know it. LOL

    I had a wonderful time and I realize very much how lucky I am.

  19. #60: I l.o.v.e. my hawt humanatarianactivistsingersongwriterambassador boyfriend!

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    A couple pf notes about how the show is still evolving. In laughn's M&G last night (keep an eye out for her recap - she remembers lots of details, and should be writing them up later), Clay was discussing the jazzy medley of his own songs. He told the M&G'ers they dropped "Open Arms" because the crowds didn't give it the same response as they did for his better-known songs, like "Invisible" and "The Way". During the concert, Clay mentioned there was an awkward transition - I think it was from the jazzy medley to the next song. He interrupted the lyrics to proclaim he had just figured out how to fix it, so you Waukegan-ites should get the benefit of that. I like very much how this format allows Clay and the band to nimbly make changes and tweaks from show to show.

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