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| One of my most powerful Elliott moments occured when he wasn't even there. I was having medical problems and was sitting in the waiting room of the third doctor in two days. At that time I was also in the middle of several problems with my family and my friends. I was feeling very depressed and like my life was going all wrong. I was listening to my discman and suddenly Rock River came on. I put my head in my hands and started weeping just from feeling like nothing was there to save me, that I had no Rock River. But as quickly as the song had riled me up, it calmed me down, as I listened to Elliott assure me that everything was going to be okay, and I realized that I am my own Rock River, and that although I might lose everything else, I will always have my inner strength. It has been my favorite song ever since. ~Louise |
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| I have a similar Rock River story. I would prefer not to get into the detail, because I would feel strange knowing that my personal things were floating around the internet. But anyway, some truly horrible stuff what happening this year towards the end of February. Anyway, once I came home in tears - after a few hours wasted trying to find something out, and learning nothing more - I realized that I had left "Out Cold" playing in my CD player when i had run out of the house. I flung myself onto my bed, still in tears, and was about to turn it off when Rock River started. I froze and really listened to the song and the lyrics for the first time. That song helped me get through what I consider to be the most difficult, painful, and tragic experience of my life. And, like Louise, it has been my pillar of strength ever since. Thank you, Elliott, for writing that song. ~Sue |
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| Before I had money enough for those imports....I had napster. Well my sister was compiling some songs for me that I had asked her to as I was not able to afford them at the time. I had waited so long and now I had a way at least to hear them. Well, I was listening to my new CD for the first time and I was like "This is not Rockapella...but I do like it, I like it a lot!" I continued to listen. You see, El gets so little obvious attention musically because he gets so blended. I mean beautifully and importantly blended, but blended none the less. And this was such a beautiful pure El, I did not even realize it was actually him. Then the bridge came, the obvious Scott wail...and I realized that this musical wonder was indeed Elliott, much to my pleasure, and promptly repeated the song to hear it again - giving Elliott the proper admiration in my mind during the song. His voice is so beautiful in this song, and it was one of my favorite Rockapella songs. Thanks Elliott! Rock River means so much to us all...Pure Elliott is Pure Enjoyment. ~Kathy |
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| My newest Moment of El takes place in Holyoke, Massachusetts where he attempted to apologize for being mean to me in Albany. :) He's like, "I know you THINK I hate you but it just isn't true!" or something to that effect. He kept going around in circles with it since he was sooo tired. Most of what he said didn't make much sense. But he's so cute that it doesn't matter. ~Amy |
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| My latest Moment of El occurred in Providence, Rhode Island on September 8, 2001. After the concert, we were all headed down to the afterglow party. Elliott turned to go downstairs and we (Louise, Sue, Amy, Kathy, and I) followed him. I was right behind Elliott. When he got to the bottom of the stairs in the room, I ask him for a hug, because he looked so cute. It was my first. :-) I also did it to "make Kevin jealous" to which El said "do you think it worked?" as if he thought I was serious. lol. After hugging El, Sue decided to PUSH me HARD in the room, which made me squeal, but there were some choirs singing, so El turned around and "shushed" me. Then when I told him it was Sue's fault, he "shushed" me again! Ok, daddy, we'll behave now. We have a great night hanging out with El, Scott, and Kevin. ~Jenn |
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| Okay, so I'm standing in line for the meet&greet in Ann Arbor (June 23) and feeling like a complete idiot for getting the hair-brained notion of drawing caricatures of each Rockafella. It's finally my turn, and I chat a little bit with Kevin, who's first in line. But somehow, I'm too nervous to give the drawings to him, so I shove my manilla envelope at Elliott (who was next) and say "These are for you." El starts to open the envelope, and he goes "Wow, these are all for me?" I said "Well... there's one for each of you." So El proceeded to pass each guy's drawing to him. He looks at his own, and suddenly he gets this huge grin on his face. He pokes Kevin and says "Lookit that, she got my shoes!" I said "YES! I love the elf shoes!" And El started laughing really hard. :S ~Jillyn |
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