We all met down at Joe's room, and started the festivities i.e.: drinking! Alex had me doing a shot or two of tequila, and Sara was making me these really cool drinks... vodka and cranberry juice I think. Well, after a bit, we were all having a really good time. More learning about each other, seeing the majority of us had met the night before. About 30 minutes after I got there, there was a knocking on the door. Matthew had arrived. If you have not gotten the chance to meet him, do so. He is such a class act. Very personable, and very very funny. On more than one occasion that week, he had me hurting from laughing so hard. One of the first things we did was fill him in on a little prank Mia and Sara had decided to organize. It is now known as "Operation: Panty Raid." For the first 4 shows, Jack told a story about how he had 2 palm trees in his back yard, and how they were perfect for a hammock. But Jack being Jack, wanted to make his own out of woman�s bras and panties. This is where they decided to bombard Jack with everything from old lady bras and panties, to boxer shorts and lil' girl undies. More on this later.

Well, I offered him a shot of tequila, and being the good ol' Texan he is, he accepted. I offered to get him some salt and a lemon wedge, but he declined, and said from the bottle was fine. At that point, I was scared! So, we took a few turns taking hits from the bottle, and settled in for some fun loving grilling/learning.

Everyone had questions for Matthew. Most about his life, and working with Jack on his solo CD "Shelter Me." He was wonderful and answered all the questions the best he could. We ended up popping the CD into the disc player and listened with him. After a few more beers for Matthew, he got even funnier, telling jokes, singing, and playing air guitar. What a rush. I think we all were having a great time, and I even got some laughs out of my infamous "Pipperjaxx" joke, (don't ask!)

A bit after Matthew showed up, the new roadie Dave joined our little party. Didn't get to learn much about him... he was kinda just enjoying watching everyone have fun, and ended up going to check his e mail. It was about 4:30 or 5:00 when everyone decided to go their own ways, and head off to bed.

We rolled out of bed in the early afternoon, quite groggy, but feeling OK. We decided to get something to eat with Alex and Lori before they left to return home. It was such a great weekend, sucked to have to wish them off, but they just couldn't stay. When we finally saw them to the road, the rest of us headed over to K Mart. I was dropped off at CVS to get some film developed, and Joe took Sara and Mia over to the Big K. They loaded up on about 20 different things, and ended up letting Audie in on the gag because he happened to walk in while they were in the check out line. They decided to try to get a bunch of people involved, by asking some of the concert goers to toss em' at Jack when he started his story. Lil' ol' innocent me was brought into the mix also. You see, I, as a 29 year old man, finally got my first training bra! My job, was to try to get Jack to mess up while singing. This was going to be a blast, if it went over OK.

Well, we got to the club at about 7:00'ish, and there was nobody there yet, so we parked ourselves on the wall in front of the stage and waited. Once again, 3 god forsaken opening bands. We were starting to wonder if there would be enough people to show up to take part in our gag. The night before, they had sold out, but at this point, only about 40 people in the club. Because of the opening bands, the club was running a bit late, so when it was time for the Guys to take the stage, the cut short "American Band" and just started the show. There ended up being about 100 people at the show, but that didn't seem to phase Jack a bit. He just said it looked like a private party tonight, and the rest who were there last night, and didn't came back were just a bunch of pussies who don't know how to party.

I got to sing a bit of the chorus on Call it Rock n Roll with Jack, which was my first time ever singing with him. When he got done, he looked at the crowd and said "We got our hard-core fans here tonight. Hell you guys know this one, you sing it for me." The band started "Face The Day." Jack held out the mic as we all were yelling "I don't wanna face the day, I don't wanna face they day, I don't wanna face..." at this time, Jack started to shake his head and said, "Yall are a little flat on this..." and started to laugh. Was the first of many laughs that night. The band kicked in, and Jack tore up the rest of the song. I also got to help on the chorus on this one too!

For some reason, maybe Jack was tipped off, but he went into his story right then. Mia was left scrambling to pass out the contraband without Jack noticing. Well, he mentioned that he didn't want any "granny panties, and don't be throwing up any guy shit..." Well, before he could finish his story, the stage was covered with panties and bras. He started picking them up and laughing. He held up a huge pair and said... "if these are your girlfriends... dump her" and laughed. He then picked up a small pair of panties that had one of the days of the week on them, and said... "you know, I have a tour manager who would be interested in meeting the person who these belong to..." another laugh, and back to the show.

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