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Kim (KimAnderson)

You will never guess what happened to me in Lenox, Massachusetts...

Our tickets were lost in the mail for one.

We had to settle for lawn seats.

But then...as we sat down I noticed a familiar face, it was Eric Holden (Josh's bass player). He was just chilling before the show with his family out on the lawn. I had my mother walk up to this man standing beside the Eric Holden look-alike and ask if it was actually "Eric Holden" and it was. I bolted over everyones towels, their chairs, and their picinic set-ups. It was him! I introduced myself and told him how much of an excellent bass player he was. He was very very very very thoughtful and so polite! As I walked away in awe, my mother bursted out that it'd be a good idea to get his autograph and I did just that! But then as I was about to walk away he asked if I'd like my picture taken also. So, I took a photo with him and then he bent down a bit to my ear and softly whispered where Josh would be after the show. I couldn't believe that Eric had given me a personal invite! I felt honored! It was awesome! I felt as though it wasn't completely real. I was going to see Josh personally after the show? No way! It was true. Eric insisted upon writing the "personal invite" down on my Tanglewood Program booklet.

Elyse (etihw wons)

The gates were supposed to open at 5:30, and they must have opened them early, because every good spot on the lawn was taken, and we wound up having to have to settle for being 500 feet away. So, after sitting for quite a while, I convinced my brother, Jody to take a walk with me around the place. Toward the end of our walk, I saw this huge white tent with a whole bunch of mostly female people in it. I figured that was probably the tent where the Grobanites were having their M&G.

Walking around had taken a good chunk of time. I think by the time we got back to our seats, it was about 7:30. Now, my great aunt and uncle had called us, when we were on our way, and they wanted us to get them lawn tickets, so that they could meet us. Now, they live about an hour away from Tanglewood. And, they’re in their mid 80’s. They’re just a really fun old couple. But, anyway, less than an hour away from the concert’s starting, they called to let us know that traffic was very heavy, and that they were going to be a little while longer getting there, although they were close. So, Jody, my dad, and me went out to the entrance, and peered over the gate. There were TONS of people pouring in. There were four buses that got dropped off, filled with people. I mean, the place was already packed, and now all these other people are were coming in. I don’t know how they found seats!

While we were standing there, waiting for them to show up, I saw this short, bald, snazzy looking man emerge from the building we were next to, and come out on the other side of the gate. He caught my eye, and I gave him a good looking over. “Is that…..no, it can’t be. But it looks SO much like him. And how many short, bald, snazzy little men would there be here?” I thought. He was wearing black trousers, a black shirt, tucked in, black shiny shoes, and he had on really neat glasses. He also had on one of those cool fabric belts, with the square metal thingy. My brother has the exact same belt. And, the more I looked at him, the more confident I became it was him. Now, I’m sure all the Grobanites know who I think I saw…ZACHERY! And he was so close to where I was standing too. He must have been maybe 10 feet away from me. I came so close to just yelling out: “Zachery!” and seeing what would happen. I DEFINITELY should have done that, too! But, after a while (he was out there a really long time. He must have been in plain site for like, 10 minutes. Just standing.), he went back into the building. At this point I was totally unsure. I mean, he looked frighteningly like Zachery, and the way he was dressed was another hint. The black pants, with the black shirt, with a jacket over it, is like his signature outfit. But, at the same time, why would Zachery Provost be out in plain sight, almost mingling with the people coming in? But, then, after he left, I saw a guy in a tux standing out in almost the exact same spot. The tux was a dead giveaway that he was a member of the orchestra. So, if a member of the orchestra was out there, maybe Zachery really was too…

Well, it turned out that my great aunt and uncle’s camper broke down on the way to Tanglewood. They were close, but, couldn’t come because they needed to get their camper towed. So, that was interesting. So, after we found out about that, we went back to where we were sitting, and it was like, 20 minutes before the show started. I was getting pumped. The orchestra was warming up, and everything. It was really exciting! So, before it started, me, mom, our friend that went with us, and Jody went to use the restroom. And it was funny, because as I was walking out, I noticed this young girl, who was flushed, and hyper looking. And she looked at my shirt (I had a Josh pic on it), and nearly exploded. She MUST have been a Grobanite. We came out of the bathroom, and met up with Jody. We were standing by the shed for a few minutes, waiting for it to start, and I saw the short, bald, snazzy little man walk past us again! I was like “Hey! There he is!” But, then, I began to doubt that it was Zachery, because why would he be in a crowd of people like that? So, I painfully dismissed the thought, for the most part, leaving just a little bit of a “maybe” in there. I figured that when Josh started, I’d look at Zachery, and see if the outfit, and everything was the same.

So, then, the concert STARTED! The John Williams part of it alone was just great! I loved it. I think my two favorite pieces in the first half, were Dual of the Fates, from The Phantom Menace, and the song from Amistad they did. So, the intermission started like, a half an hour after the concert started. And during the intermission, we all started to get terribly worried, because there was lightning, in the distance. Wouldn’t that just be perfect? Probably the only opportunity I’ll ever have in my life, to see Josh, and we have to leave because of a thunderstorm! I was like, biting my nails, and hoping that they’d get started quickly. And it was funny, because there was a Grobanite behind us (I know this, because a girl asked her: “Are you sure you’re a Grobanite?” and the girl said: “I’m positive!”), and she was like: “I am staying, even if there’s lightning! I’m staying!” Hehehe! My sentiments exactly! Even if the tree we were in front of, got hit by lightning, and fell on us, I would stay! LOL! But, during the intermission, they brought out a piano! And I was like: “Oh my goodness, that’s for JOSH!!!!!!!!!!”

So, finally, after what felt like an eternity, the concert started again. I enjoyed it a LOT, and when ET started, I KNEW that Josh was coming out after him. I started to get really excited. After much begging to Jody, he took me down, to where we had stood right before the concert started, near the shed, to see Josh closer, when he came out. Well, I guess everyone else had the same idea, and the official people were telling everyone to please sit down. So, that didn’t really work. And I didn’t get to see him when he came out, because there were still people standing, so I couldn’t see the stage. So, we quickly started back to our seats, and as we were going, the music for Alla started playing. And then “Qui”. When he started, I nearly fell over, as I was walking. Oh my GOODNESS! His voice was so powerful, and rich, and beautiful. I almost didn’t make it back to our seats, and I was squealing, and Jody was like: “Shhhh!” So, we got back to our seats, and I had my eyes plastered on the screen. He looked GOOD! He was wearing black. Hehe. It kind of looked, from what I could see, like the first outfit, in the PBS concert, only with a black shirt, instead of a maroon one.

Okay, so by now, I am just totally hyper, about to explode, trying to take in every detail of him, from the screen, and his voice! Oh my goodness! His voice is even more amazing in person. But, during Alla, the camera went to Zachery. IT WAS HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . He had on the same glasses, and everything! He just threw a jacket over his shirt. It was him! I had been 10 feet away from Zachery. So, that was a great feeling, knowing that I had been so close to Zachery.
But, anyway, back to the performance! So, Alla was just WOW! He did a “knock ‘em dead” performance! And I think there was the loudest applause for him, of the show (of course! All us Grobies there!). And it was so funny! During the applauds for Alla, he had that appreciative, flirty, shy smily on his face, and after things quieted down a little, he said a regular type Joshie “hi” to everyone there, and then, all of the sudden, there was a big boom of cheers, obviously from the Grobanites, and he stopped talking, and gave out a multi-tonal, shy, flirty “hi-iii-iii.” Oh my goodness, it was so cute! He was like: “I have people! John, look! I have people!” He didn’t actually say that…I’m just kind of musing that that’s what was going through his head. It was just so adorable, and special too. He knew exactly whom those cheers were coming from. It was great! By this time, okay, I was like, soooooooooo exploding. LOL! And he explained how he wasn’t able to make it last year, because of “two very annoying tonsils”, and he said “I would get a sore throat every time I would sing”, and about how they said that he should just have them taken out. So, after he did all that, he started introducing the next song. I knew exactly which one he was doing, when he said that it was a song that really spoke to him. “Yep, Vincent!” I thought. And sure enough, he started on Vincent. And I’ll tell you, when he started with the first “Starry starry night”, oh my goodness. His voice…Oh, words can’t describe it.

Now, I didn’t think that I was going to cry, like at all during the concert. HAH! Like, 30 seconds into Vincent I started blubbering like an idiot. I was SO glad it was dark out, and not many people could see me. That song can sometimes make me cry when I listen to it on the CD, I should have known I wasn’t going to make it through a live performance. But, I was proud. That was the only song I REALLY cried at. And I cried for pretty much the whole thing. Now, I can’t quite remember where he said this, but I THINK it was after Vincent. He said something like: “It’s really is hot in here!” and then he “Whoo”’d. That was cute, his little “whoo” Heeeeeeeee! *THUDD*

So then after Vincent, he sang Cinema Paradiso. And the way he pronounced Cinema Paradiso was enough to make you thudd. LOL! I liked it almost as much, as the way he pronounced Gira Con Me on The View. But, anyway, he did a GREAT job on that. Fantastic. And after he sang it, he was like: “It’s not raining out there, is it?” (at least I THINK that’s where he said it. He might have said that at another part, though) and the Grobanite behind me said: “No! And it’s not going to, either!” She was right. It didn’t, something that we were truly relieved about! Now, his last song that was listed for him to do was Gira, which is my personal favorite, on the CD…..I think. LOL! But, anyway, he started, and I was in 7th heaven, listening to him, and he was doing a wonderful job on it, and then all of the sudden, he started having trouble with the mic, and it went out!!! When he realized the mic went out, he started looking around, and he stopped singing for a second. After a couple seconds, they got it back up, and he started singing again. I felt so bad for him! You know how he gets really nervous before he performs anyway, but to have something like that happen, I’m sure it made him SUPER nervous. And you could tell a little (it wasn’t perceivable to the average person. Just to a detail-oriented Grobanite. ), and his voice strained just the teensiest bit, hardly noticeable though. And he pulled through it amazingly. Oh, I was so proud of him, for that! I knew, it’s weird being proud of someone you never met. But, I was.

So, he went backstage for a minute, pretending like he was done, and then they came back out for the “encore”, and oh my goodness! Guess what he sang????? He sang the “An Affair To Remember” song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness! Oh, that was amazing! It was just him singing, and John was on the piano. John said they didn’t have an orchestration for it, so he just played it on the piano. It was beautiful! Stunning. Breathtaking. OH MY THUDD! LOL! It was great. And hearing him sing the lyrics to that song just made me melt into a puddle of goo. Oh, it was great! And then, after that, he sang Alejate. So, we got SIX songs out of him! g *YAY* Oh, it was wonderful! Absolutely fantastically superb, in every way! I’m still floating…….Heeee! And earlier in the day, on the way to Tanglewood, I bought myself a mood ring. And when I looked at it, after the concert, it was DEEP blue. Blue is like, extremely happy, love, romance. LOL! That sums it up beautifully. And although I didn’t get to meet him, it was still a great night. Truly truly wonderful!!!

Connie (ConnieG)

Zachary was walking around the shed prior to the performance. I ran into him there. Kinda silly because I stopped dead in my tracks 2 feet in front of him and couldn't figure out what to say. He stopped too. I said "Hi, I'm a grobanite named Connie. Just going for a walk?". He shook my hand and my friend Mary's hand and said he was looking for family. How he was going to find them in 18000 people was a mystery to me, but he said later that he did find them.

Ellen (OctOpal1001)

I am still on kind of a major brain freeze from last night. It was so amazing. The first thing I remember is that it must have been packed to overflowing because even John Williams commented on the traffic. And while on Mr. Wiiliams, I can't think of any composer, especially one of his capacity, that would be gracious enough to allow another artist to have a mini concert within his own.While everyone was on their cell phones while Josh was singin, my daughter called her brother when they did Indiana Jones! So a major HUGE THANK YOU to Mr. Williams.

Josh was just awesome, his voice really is amazing live,he even had to hit this high note and totally nailed it. And he does put so much expression into his songs(binoculars helped to see this).

Kay (homiesmurf)

had such a great time at Tanglewood!!! I feel like a dork because I started crying. Not for Josh... but when the Boston Pops started playing. I was like thats what I want to do when I get older. . But Josh sang so beautifully. I had to watch through the binoculars and look at his mouth because it felt like he was lip synking. Not like he would do that... but it sounded exactly like his cd. He's awesome... and when he came to visit the tent. He is such a nice guy. I mean he was talking to us and I just felt like it was this normal guy that was standing up there. I mean he doesnt act like he's famous or that everyone LOVES HIM!!!! He is so down to earth and nice. I wish he was my boyfriend just because I think he is the only nice straight guy out there. haha. . And Lisa, thank you so much for throwing an awesome party. I had a lot of fun and I ended up meeting some new people. Thank you. I will always remember last night and it was because of you.
Love,
Kay

Kay (dkayg)

To be honest the first half of the concert, although really great, has already left my consciousness. The sax player, Dan Higgins was amazing!

Josh made up most of the second half! Five songs and we know you've all read above and An Affair to Remember! Wow! It was awesome. There were a few microphone problems and at one point in Gira the mike went out completely and we could tell that Josh could not hear the orchestra. But he's a real pro and he kept on singing, everything came back and he finished the song beautifully (as always). There is a lot of love & mutual respect between Josh & John Williams that is apparent. They are very demonstrative & easy with one another. So nice to see.

As an audience we 'behaved'. We shouted and clapped and stood and clapped some more! Josh did the 'hand over heart' thing for us and, as usual, appeared humbled by the ovation. Once again, although the Grobies did of course start the ovation, by the time Alejate was finished, it was the entire Shed on their feel and roaring--not just sections 12, 13 & 14!

Monique (Nique)

This was my first Josh concert.

I still haven't returned to earth.

I, unfortunately, was one of those people caught in the ridiculous traffic into Tanglewood. We listened to the first half of the concert on the radio in the car! But (me and my only Grobanian friend) finally parked and got to the lawn 20 min before Josh came out. We couldn't even see the big screen from where we were. I didn't let that stop me though. I lurked up through the lawn and into the shed and actually got close enough to see expressions on his face. He's as good and as perfect as I've always imagined. I was so shocked when John Williams introduced "An affair to remember" as a solo for him to sing because I have always loved that song. He nailed it (including that soft high note at the end) and I actually teared up (I never cry).

Josh got so much love from the crowd. It was his night. I could tell because there was a huge exodus of people as soon as he left the stage.

Everything else (including the 3 hour trip back home to New Hampshire) is a blur. Josh is the ONLY artist worth traffic and lawn lurking.

ImaNana

The concert was so wonderful. John Williams had some really clever montages showing various villains, heroes and heroinesall with the music to go along with it. At the very end for an encore he mentioned he had worked with Bob Hope in '60 and '62 and then he did a beautiful version of "Thanks For The Memories". It was really nice.

Of course Josh was magnificent. When John Williams announced he would sing a song that was from an old movie called An Affair To Remember I couldn't believe it. That has always been a favorite of mine and my husbands. We saw that movie years ago. The song was sung in the movie by Vic Damone. Josh! Listen to David! You did an awesome rendition
of that old favorite. You HAVE to record it. PLEASE. It's so romantic.

Dave (DaveCT96)

It was great to see and hear Josh perform live for the first time, no doubt about it, and also to see and meet some real Grobanites live and in person . . . your excitement and good vibes certainly electrified the otherwise sedate gathering that Tanglewood concerts generally attract (yes, I have been going there for more years than I'd care to think about!)

Sadly, the Josh performance was nearly spoiled because the Tanglewood sound engineering staff fell down on the job, a horrible time to do so. It was obvious from the first note that there were microphone and/or volume problems in Alle Luce, as the volume of Josh's voice (microphone) seemed almost to rise and fall, often being overpowered by the Pops orchestra.

I was sitting close enough to the stage to see Josh's face clearly and the expression on his face during GIRA could be translated as "What's going on here??" Not sure whether John Williams had any inkling of the problems with Josh's mike, and Josh is way too nice to ever say anything critical about it, but I will never believe that he lost his place or forgot the words to Gira Con Me, as some have suggested in here. I have seen performers who have "gone blank" (including Carol Channing, one of the greatest Broadway has ever known) and Josh's facial expression in NO WAY reflected such a situation.

A couple of years back, at a Pops concert in Boston, Keith Lockhart immediately stopped the orchestra in mid-note and had the sound techies come fix the guest vocalist's mike, all the while making some wisecracks and cute jokes to cover the situation. Then they started fresh from the beginning, and it was the right thing to do. The same treatment would have been justified last night at Tanglewood, so that Josh's great voice and performance could be appreciated even more by those who were just getting to know him.

In spite of the unfortunate technical or engineering misfires, Josh still did a magnificent job, never losing his cool, and received one of the biggest ovations for a guest artist at Tanglewood in many, many moons! He was clearly the Star of the Show last night, and rightly so! There may have been 300 Grobanites on hand, but Josh "wowed" 5,000 in the shed and thousands more outside on the lawn.

shorti330

hi everyone...like all of u said-josh was great last night (i can't believe it was only yesterday) i couldnt believe how good he and all the other performers sounded. unfortunately i couldnt go to the m&g because my cousin surprised me with tickets not too long b4 the concert and she didnt kno about the m&g...so we decided to wait outside behind the shed hoping to get a glimse of josh, and everyone kept saying he left, go home, etc..but we decided to wait just in case and then we saw him in his golf cart surrounded by a buncha ppl and he got out and they tried to rush him inside but he came out and said hi real quick and thanx for coming and left..i was a little disappointed i didnt get to meet everyone but the night was jus so awesome. i guess there's always next time.

Jessi (grobiefreak)

We went over around 8 to the shed...or in our case the lawn...and they show started around 8:40 I think. It wasn't raining!! Mother Nature must be a Grobanite. John Williams and the Boston Pops did music from Catch Me If You Can, Star Wars: Episode 1, dadada uhmm what's that other movie??.................Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It was nice but my mind was going- Josh Josh Josh Josh Josh so sorry if that part wasn't as VIVID in my mind. Then they had an intermission. They had some great numbers, one with a Bugs Bunny cartoon and they played the music, same for the end scene of E.T. phooone hooome. sorry.

Then There Was JOSH.

When he walked out, I'll never forget when I saw his curly little head, and yes, it was LITTLE from where I was! and then that was the only time I saw him on stage, I could only see him on the screens they had up after that. He sang Alla Luce Del Sol and it was beautiful. When he finished he said HI, and all us Grobanites were like HIIIIII!!! so then he said HIIIIiiiiiii in a sing song voice. It was so cute. I think I need to stop gushing a little, I don't even understand myself. Then he sang Vincent, Se (Cinema Paradiso) and Gira Con Me. I was so incredibly happy, I was almost crying during Gira. He went off stage but OF COURSE had to come back for an encore! John Williams played the piano and Josh sang A Love Affair to Remember. It was gorgeous. I don't know what movie that's from though...and then he did Alejate. 6 songs! It rocked the casbah baby!

tangled

Okay, I admit I behaved VERY BADLY at the concert. Lisa had mentioned to us at the pre-concert M&G that the acoustics at the Shed were perfect. She said the slightest noise carries there, so please turn off our cell phones, etc. When Josh finished his first song, and said "Hi" to the audience, I was the first...and ONLY person to shout out with a "Hiiiiiiiiiii!" (Right afterwards others added theirs.) “Good God, DID I JUST DO THAT?” I said to those I was sitting with. I couldn't believe I had done it....it just came out automatically!!!! So much for Tanglewood protocol!

On the first song, Alla Luce Del Sole, the volume on his microphone did not seem loud enough (my thought was that the lovely depth of his voice might not be captured by those hearing him the first time) and he lightly hit the stem portion of the microphone with his hand a few times....I've never seen him do that. I wondered if it might have been a sign for the sound technician.

Regarding the Gira problems, I had my binoculars right up to my eyes the entire song. I noticed he looked up, as though he was confused, and stopped singing altogether for a couple of seconds. Actually, I thought it might have been a joke he and John Williams might have prepared in advance.

There was the error in the program with his bio regarding his "upcoming" PBS special, due to be aired "November 23". I would find it hard to believe Liz Rosenberg did not submit an updated bio....my guess is that Tanglewood submitted to the printer the one that was supposed to be used last year, when he had to cancel. That was such a shame, because about 18,000 attendees (less 300+ Grobanites) missed notification of his upcoming CD release date of November 11, 2003.

What a pleasure this young man is! The things he said in the Grobanite tent later could not be captured with the written word. He was just sooooo pumped and energetic....surprisingly so, given the heat and humidity.

Michele (lunaticfriend)

I really haven’t been a Josh fan very long, but from the very first time I popped in the CD … to coin a phrase … he had me at “Qui.” The anticipation of seeing him live was enough to dismiss my appetite for the entire afternoon (miraculous in itself). Wondering to myself on some level if the experience would live up to the hype I had self-created, and worrying that in some horrifying, unforeseeable, unfathomable way it might not. (Can you tell I live the majority of my life bracing for disappointment? At every turn?) Anyway, I was pretty proud of myself that all through the concert (I was about one-third of the way back in the shed) I was able to just exist in the moment and absorb the enveloping beauty. The music was just incredible; superlatives don’t begin to cover it.

In the first half the orchestra played the instrumental version of “An Affair to Remember,” which caught me off guard in my blissful state and was a little hard for me. Oh, how to make a lengthy story short: that song was special in my marriage. While married, my husband and I, every single Valentine’s Day, would skip the night on the town, order in, and watch Sleepless in Seattle. It was the only time we allowed ourselves to see it, as to keep it our own special tradition and retain meaning, but we would play the soundtrack frequently. Divorce, all divorce, sucks on pretty much every level, and mine was heinous. Turns out I was married for nine years to a vile and sick man who refuses help. For months after I found out about all sorts of things he had done and it made getting through the whole muck even worse. But, I survived -- I looked financial and emotional ruin in the face and fought them both off. I’ve felt for a little while now this grieving phase taking a turn towards closure. And while I am grateful for that, with it also comes the new “now what” phase.

During the concert, I also began to get very excited as the program drew near to Josh’s appearance. My friend thinks Josh is a tremendous talent but she fails to “idolize” him as we Grobanites do, still she was sweetly amused at my anticipation as the evening progressed. At last, there he was, looking absolutely flawless, and as the melody begins flowing from him I’m reminding myself that breathing is not a good thing to give up for minutes on end. I, who would forget my head were it not screwed on, actually remembered binoculars so I sat transfixed and blissful.

Then, to my surprise AND horror, John Williams leads up to Josh’s performance of “Affair to Remember.” And I begin to think, oh God, not only do I have to make it through this song again, but coming from one of the world’s most beautiful voices which emanates from one of the world’s most beautiful faces, attached to one of the world’s most beautiful persons. I seriously did not know if I would make it through this one. I looked for a quick exit but there was not one from my seat, and even if there was, where could I run to escape the wretched magnificence of the sound? I whispered to my friend be prepared to suck me up with a Shop-Vac off of the ground after it was over. So, the piano introduction began, Josh started singing, and with clenched fists and closed eyes I literally braced myself for an onslaught of emotion.

I don’t think I can describe everything that went through me in just the first seconds of that song. This has happened once before, in Disneyland of all places, where I, unprepared, heard a song from my own wedding. You force every last ounce of strength inside of you to buckle down, suck it up and solemnly determine make it through the next three minutes warding off a complete meltdown. It is a given that if one tear escapes the torrent will not be stopped – not this time. For a few seconds the thought of everything I’ve lost came down on me like a hammering flood. Couldn’t see, couldn’t hear, couldn’t do anything but reel from the crushing weight of how I got to where I am, and what if everything I ever did was a mistake. Drowning ... drowning. Amazing how fast and unexpectedly that can all fall on you.

But then a shaft of hope caught me as I faintly realized that THIS could be the replacement memory. THIS incredible rendition of the song could be MINE and only MINE and not something that reckoned back to a distant, shattered WE. So I grabbed at the notion and opened my ears and eyes with wild abandon, soaking in every magnificent sound wave. One more step forward, away from the place of brokenness.

So this, fellow Grobanites, is what I came away with from Tanglewood. Something painful released into the freedom to make it lovely. A personal victory, one I hope did not bore you to tears.

Granny Grobanite

I wondered if you Grobies have listend to Celine Dion's new song "Have You Ever Been In Love"? I ask this because in the song there is a line that goes: "Have you ever said a prayer and found that it's been answered?" Well prayers do get answered because as I was sitting at the concert listening to Josh, I had to pinch myself to believe I was actually sitting there hearing him perform in person. I glanced to the heavens as I sat in my seat and said a "Thank You" of gigantic portions. I use to live just an 1-1/2 away from Tanglewood just over the Mass. border into Connecticut and have attended many concerts there, but this was a dream come true. And to have him come back to the tent was an extra added bonus. He is as down-to-earth with feet planted firmly on the ground as the boy next door. Wish he lived next door to me! Anyway another prayer was answered on my way home from the concert. At 1:00 a.m. up in the mountains on my way back to Connecticut where I was staying with friends, my car decided to throw a fit. It was pitch black out, not another soul on the roads and I couldn't get a cell phone signal out there in the boonies. I prayed that the car would just hold out til I could get back to civilization. Well, as I said prayers are indeed answered. I did make it all the way back, but the car died going up the driveway. The car is now in the shop having a new transmission installed before I can make the trip back home to Virginia. All the driving and the stress of the car malfunction was worth just hearing Josh sing "An Affair to Remember" alone. It was unfortunate about the sound system, but Josh could just hum and I would be happy! I just hope other's recognized what the problem was and that it doesn't taint their opinion of his talent. It was fantastic seeing all of you Grobies. You're a wonderful group of folks.