Tony Lucca

The Bitter End, NYC
Monday, September 6, 1999
by Robin

***The pictures in this review belong to me PLEASE do not use them on your page. Thank you!

We saw some of the MMC Marathon until we had to leave to go to the city. We FREAKED OUT when they showed the 4th and 5th season episodes because we were expecting only 6th and 7th. And right before we left Court was saying how she wanted to see Chipmunks and Now and Forever. And that was the last one they showed before we had to go!!!

We got to the bar around 7 and we met Christina and Lauren and then we found some bar stools to sit on by the side of the stage.

Tony was standing right next to us talking to some people. We didn't want to interrupt their conversation so we chatted with each other while Tony talked, sipped his mug of beer and got his instruments ready.

Tony was very very very good with his own songs! He performed a bunch of songs including "Honestly For You", "Melancholy Collar" (which he dedicated to a friend who was turning 23. He said the song is about being 23). He also sang "After All" and "All Aboard" and some songs I didn't recognize. He performed a song on the piano and made quips about writing about your lovelife and having people pay to listen about it. He gave us an "eeny meenie miney mo" choice for the last song but the piano wasn't cooperating so he picked up his guitar and sang "It's You". He thanked the people he was staying with for putting him up and said "unless my lady's in town and she puts me up".

You may have heard that JC and Joey were there. This is true and yes we saw them. They were sitting at the bar right across from us. They were pretty inconspicuous until Tony started singing TUMH and JC ran out of the room laughing. JC was all grooving to the music and his bodyguard seemed really into it cos he bought a Cd.

We watched Tony's show and took tonsa pictures! Court says I took all the good Tony pics cos every time he turned to face us I snapped a pic. I took a whole role!!!

I also moved so I could see better and stood by the bathrooms in the back and took a couple of pics from that angle. Then I moved again to the other side of the room and I ended up standing behind Ilana ( Ilana's only like an inch or two shorter than me!!) She looked at me and smiled.

After the show Tasha and Ilana were wandering around and Tasha went to say hi to Joey and he gave her a big bear hug.

Joey was teasing her about being all bubbly and energentic. He's like "How much did you have to drink?" and she's like "NOTHING!" and he said "you're like that without alcohol?!" And she commented on his Ronald Mc Donald hair!

The place was a mob scene after Tony's set because Tony performed first and a whole big crowd came out to see the second dude so no one had anywhere to go and people were trying to get out and people were trying to talk to Tony. And of course people wnated to see JC and Joey. JC's bodyguard started yelling and he was all like "this is NOT an autograph signing" and JC, Joey, the bodyguards and Tony dissappeared into the back.

Court and I waited for Tony to come back and found Ilana and Tasha. Tahsa was running around looking for Ilana and she asked us if we knew where Ilana went. Afterwards the girls were signing autographs. There was some dude who wanted them to sign his MMC 4th season mag. Then Court handed them the pics she took last time and asked if they would autograph them. Tasha recognized Court's pic from the Tasha yahoo club! she said "Are you the one who put the picture on the website?" I introduced myself as AUPoohBear and she was like "OH YEAH! I've seen you!" She was SOOOO sweet!!! I asked Tasha about her demo and she said it's going good. It's in Chicago being mastered. I felt weird asking for autographs so I didn't get any from the girls. We did take turns taking pictures with them though.

Next we waited in a long line to talk to Tony and some chick goes "who is that a picture of?" and we said "Ilana" and she goes "Who's Ilana?" she was standing right behind the chick too! We just said she was on MMC with Tony.

When we got to Tony, Court had her photo autographed and I got my CD cover autographed. Court told him (and Ilana) about the newsletter and Tony signed the inside of my new CD cover. He nodded while I rambled about a friend of mine who wanted to come and then we said nice to meet you and took pics. I felt SOOOOOO short standing next to him but he was very very sweet!

The Bitter End, NYC
Saturday, May 8, 1999
by Courtney

***The pictures from the first review belong to me PLEASE do not use them on your page or take them!!! Thank you!

At 8:00 the place opened and I was the first one in and got a seat right in front right next to the stage that my leg was touching the edge of it. Right dead center. Really cool. So this wasn't exactly a concert, but being in the "front row" for a show, especially for one of my all time fave people, was VERY exciting!! Then at 8:30 the first act started it was this girl who reminded me of Jewel with a keyboard instead of guitar. She was good. Then, about 15 min into her set, Tony and Josh walked in. OMG people, I was soooooo in shock that Tony was actually standing in the same place as I was right there!!!

So then the first girl ended. Jenn walked in and then so did Ilana and I guess her boyfriend. So Tony and Josh were hugging and talking to them and then a while later Tasha came in. Jenn looks so great, she has short hair all one length up to her chin and its very blonde. Ilana looks exactly the same and is so tiny in person! And her hair was up to her chin and all curly and it looked really cute. Tasha looks the same too and her hair is not long like it used to be adn it was up. Josh IS SOO HOT!!! He had on this tight shirt and he's got a good bod from what it looks like!! :) Terra was there too, she was talking to the rest of them and she was with her boyfriend or something.

So then at 9:30 Tony went on stage and I was sitting right there and then OMG OMG all of a sudden he looks down at me and (ok, I brought my MMC cd cover, a b & w pic of Josh, Ilana, Jenn from the Sterling Mc/Fadden thing, a color pic of JC and Tony from the 4th Season, and a color pic of Tony, JC, Matt and Ricky from Tutti) picks up my MMC cd cover and goes to me, "can I see this? " So I'm like, thinking OMG, but said, "sure" and he starts flipping through it and laughing and then he showed this guy sitting at the table next to us (I guess a friend of his or something) the cover and then flipped it to the page of him in that suit (I believe the page with "Step to the Rhythm") and the guy was laughing and laughing and so was Tony. then Tony gave it back to me and said thanks and I asked him if he would sign it later and he said sure.

So then I went to the bathroom cuz I had to pee so bad and so did Jenn (my friend) and then tony started. So I watched the first song by the bathroom. LOL Then as I was going back to my seat, Tony was talking to the crowd and goes, get this, "Hi, I'm Tony Lucca and Welcome to the Mickey Mouse Club! Today is Music Day and our special guest is" and he was laughing!! I think the reason he said that was cuz of my CD cover cuz he didn't say anything like that at the Monday show according to Christina. LOLOL!! How funny was that! He was so cool about it! So then he performed and OMG, to be honest, his music is very different than 'N Sync, so when I first heard the album I wasn't sure what to expect. Boy, was I wrong. He was soooooo great in person, I could've sat there and listened to him play all night!! I had no clue what the songs were, so I couldn't tell ya what he sang, but he was soooo good!!

And then in between one of the songs he said, "for those of you who didn't have the Disney channel my name is Tony Lucca" LOLOL and then in between another one of his songs, he goes, "I want to give a shout out to so many of my old (well, I don't remember what he said but it was to the extent that he was happy to see the MMC'ers there to support him)

Anyway, so then he was all done and did like two encores and then we packed up and like jetted for them. I first managed to go up to Josh and I just went right up to him and held out my hand and said, "Hi Josh, my name is Courtney, nice to meet you." and he said, "Hi I'm Josh how are you?" and I asked him for his autograph, I couldn't find the picture of him so he signed the front of my MMC cd cover instead. And I took a pic with him whcih took forever cuz Christina couldn't figure out how to use my camera! LOL (which meant 3 min or so with Josh's arm around me! Woohoo!) My convo with Josh was interrupted when Terra came back and literally threw herself at Josh!!! So anyway, Christina and Jenn were too shy to talk to anyone so she gave me something to give to Jenn. So then I went right up to Jenn and did the same thing as I did with Josh, just held out my hand, and introduced myself to her.

Ok, lemme tell ya Jenn is the NICEST person in the whole world!!!!!!!! We could've talked all night!! She signed my pic of her and I took a pic with her and Tasha. I was talking to Tasha too. It was hard to hear cuz the music was so loud in there, but Tasha said something about the University of Miami and Jenn is graduating NYU on Thursday. She (Jenn) also said her album should be coming out in two years and that she would love to do a concert with both Brit and Christina! We talked more about stuf and then Tasha said they had to go. So we said bye and I shook their hands again. Wow.

Then, I turned around and bought Tony's cd from this guy and then I went up to Tony. (My friends are such chickens they did not go up to any of them, so they were my camera and holding my stuff people LOL) I introduced myself and asked him if I could gvie him a hug. We hugged and then did a little dance to get around people who were walking in between us. LOL He ended up signing my Tony cd instead of the MMC one cuz I said, "you could sign this one instead" and he laughed. I told him he was great and we talked for a little bit and then we left. I can't believe it, I finally talked to Tony!! Whoa baby!! It was so amazing!! I'm sitll in shock adn it hasn't sunk in that I met him and talked to him and everything!!

On the way out, Josh was sitting on a stool and Christina wanted a pic with him so we took another one with him and then I started to talk to him. He's also graduating from NYU this Thursday and he majored in film. He wants to make movies, just like me. I told him that I hope to see him at the Oscars one day :) (that is, as long as wer're not up for the same award LOL) As we were walking out I introduced myself to Ilana and then we went out. We ended up waiting for Tony to leave and when they finally all wlked out we waved bye to them (I was so loud, I was like "BYE GUYS!!") and they all waved back and said bye and smiled!! They are sooooo nice!! Then they were just hanging around and I went up to Ilana and took a pic with her and she's now a frosh I guess at NYU. She doesn't know her major yet though. Then Tony went back inside and we finally left. It's so werid how you can talk to them and they have like no security or crazy people in your way.

So that's my Tony review of the show!! Hope you all enjoyed reading it! :)

Los Angeles
March 28, 1999
by Anbar

It was soo kewl! Dale, Keri, Tony, Chase, and Marc was there! And then from our group, me, Kate, Trace, Melissa, Melissa (webmaster for Tony's page), and Rachel and I think some others were too! He sang some stuff from his album.

by Kate

The song "After All" was AWESOME!! He also sang "So Satisfied" from the album but he put a little erotic poem before it. He didn't announce the titles to anything, but just played. One song was just C.C. White. He played some song that he said was for some guy who he always played it for, not to, remembering Orlando '94.

Dale looks the same. I didn't know he was so short. Tony looked a lot thinner. Marc I hardly recognized. Chase is the same but really long hair. Keri is as beautiful as ever.

Trace and Melissa and Anbar are so COOL! I had so much fun just hanging out with them. Take care!

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