November 21, 2001
Reading, PA
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Our conversation with Jim was rather short...he's so sweet but just really quiet.  Gill and I told him what a kick ass bass player we think he is, and how we thought his solo was awesome as usual!  I can't really remember if we said anything else, but Gill said that she thinks his hand was pretty close to her ass!  Maybe he likes tall girls (Gill is 6'1!).
Kevin is such a sweet heart...although I already knew that.  I honestly can't remember what we talked to him about, but I remember that I told him that I love "Hidden Sun" (I had mentioned that to him before, and it made him so happy, I figured why not do it again?) and that it gives me a "warm and fuzzy feeling" and he put his hand on my shoulder and looked at me and said "that's what it's supposed to do."  It was so cute!  Then I said something stupid like "I think I'll listen to it as soon as I get in the car so I can warm up (it was really cold that night)" and he laughed.
Gill and I had a nice conversation with Tyler.  Once again I can't really remember the entire conversation, but the definite high light was when he said "you guys were fun in the front row."  We said that we had an awesome time, and what a great show it was and he said "fans like you really make the show a lot more fun for us."  That made us so happy!  Gill thanked him for his drumstick (which he threw RIGHT to her!).  Then when we got close to take the picture, for some reason I rubbed my hand on his jacket (like a complete ditz) and said "oh, is this fur?"  He said "faux-fur baby!" 
Gill and I met these girls while we were waiting for the guys to come out.  They were really nice, but they didn't have a camera, so I told them I could take a picture of them with Steve and send it to them...I didn't mean all of us with Steve though!  That's okay...I think Steve thought we were all together.  It was funny, Gill made the sign that she's holding up in the car because I had a sign for Ed and she felt bad for Steve since last time I made a sign for Ed that said "Ed is Bootylicious" and Steve complained that there weren't any signs for him (he complained ON stage!  This was at the MD show) so I told Gill she should make a really
random sign for Steve, so she scribbled "hey steve" really quick in the car.  Steve saw the sign during the show and said "there are all these nice signs for Kevin and Ed, and then these girls (meaning Gill and I) make this crappy sign that just says 'hey steve.'  Thanks for the effort!  Hey!"  It was so funny!  After the show, Gill showed him the sign and We said how we didn't appreciate him making fun of the sign, because it took us a really long time to make it in the car.  He said "yeah, I know, you cut down the trees and made the paper and everything."  It was great...we had a good laugh about it, and then when we went walked over towards him to have our picture taken with him, he started running kiddingly running away from us!  We ended up talking to him for a while and he was SO nice to us!  I've heard a few times about Steve being kind of stand-offish after shows (because he's kind of shy offstage) but he was so friendly to us!