Wednesday*September 10, 1997

First Avenue*Minneapolis, MN

My best friend and I were excited for this show, because we were going to show Aaron and Scott the t-shirts we had made with them on it.  I had a bright yellow t-shirt with the picture from "Turn Off the Radio's booklet printed on the front and on the back it read, "Scottie Girl".  Then my best friend had a gray t-shirt that had the picture of Aaron from the same booklet and "Aaron Chick" printed on the back. The first band was Kara's Flowers.  Which, are a really talented young band.  I didn't really get into their show much, but I really did enjoy their music. The second band was the Aquabats and boy was that fun!!  That was the first time I had ever seen then and did I think they were something else.  They were so different from any other show that I had been to, so creative and had the crowd get involved.  They even had Aaron come out as the magic chicken.  Which made me and my best friend laugh. The Reel Big Fish came on-stage.  Yeah!!  I crowd surfed for the first time at that show.  It was so hot in there, that when I left, it was as if someone had just tossed a whole bucket of water onto me.  And it wasn't even all my sweat. After the show, my best friend waited around to let our hero's see our shirts.  Aaron was out first and my best friend showed him her shirt and he totally dug it, thinking it was really neat.  He signed his name on the most non-wet spot on the shirt and even gave her a hug.  Meanwhile, I'm nagging the back stage guard to go and get Scott, because I just had to show him my shirt before I went.  After a ton of patience Scott comes out.  I'm really bummed because he tells me that he has a cold and I don't want my hero to ever be sick.  But I show him my shirt, which probably scared him, but he said that he liked it and he also signed the most non-wet spot that he could find.  I asked him for a hug (not caring if he got me sick, cause I would have been damn proud to have a cold that passed from him!!).  Then my best friend and I left, very satisfied.