Aaron Lewis of Staind
Friday, February 27, 2009
So as I previously stated, I won tickets to see Aaron Lewis of Staind live, solo, and acoustic at the Seneca Niagara Casino last night. With that, I also won 2 passes to a private acoustic session with Aaron today (Friday) at the 103.3 WEDG radio station. We went to the show last night, and met Aaron today.
Anyone who knows anything about me will know I am a card-holding member of Staind's fan club. So in short, this was a dream. Aaron was very nice, and very stoned. Talked to him for a few minutes, and he signed my copies of Tormented and Illusions of Progress, as well as signed my old acoustic guitar. Here's some pictures of the 2 events.
Here's Aaron at Seneca Niagara in the Bear's Den lounge. It was very intimate. Only a few hundred people. He could hear every person in the room.
It was actually so intimate that Aaron sat on the forward monitor and played and sang completely acoustic. It was amazing
Here's Aaron at the EDG session. We sat in the front row. There was only 15 or so people there. He played like 10 feet away from us, and man he can sing loud.
Here's Aaron with Meg and I in front of the EDG banner.
Here's the signature on the guitar.
I brought my own paint marker for him to sign with. I opened it right before we left, so it had never been used. He got it working, signed my stuff, then asked to keep the marker because it was better that the one he was using. So he kept it.
It says "To John. Aaron Lews 2009"
It was awesome, and I really lucked out on a lot of things here. I was sent my copy of Tormented by a friend about 10 years ago. A woman brought a copy to be signed that she bought on eBay recently for $55. It's really rare. Some women at the show said that they drove 3 hours and bought the tickets on eBay because it was sold out. We got it all for free.
Plus, Taco Bell sponsored the EDG session, so we got LOTS of free food.
Great experience.
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