Like a fat kid loves……

Cake performed last night at the Denver Botanic Gardens and it was amazing. I’m feeling shitty today so I thought I would rehash the awesome events of last night for you fine folks.

So as you know I run a security company. Well my biggest client is the Denver Botanic Gardens. They have a pretty cool concert season each year, but last night was the coolest yet. Not only was the concert cool, but some awesome stuff happened before and after.

So before the concert one of my employees and I were clearing the grounds to prepare for the show. I was on one side of the place and was on the other. We were to meet up in the back. well I come around the corner and see him hassling some guy. I guess he had said he was with the band and my guy didn’t believe him (we get that story a lot). So I go over and point out that the guy he is trying to escort off the site is none other than John McCrea, the lead singer for Cake. He was cool with the whole thing and thanked us for doing our jobs. He asked for some pine trees to relax near. We pointed him on his way and then went back to work. About fifteen minutes before we opened the gates I told my guy to go find him so that he could et to the safety of the dressing room before we opened the gates. We got him and as we were walking back he asked to see the conservatory. So we took him in, then we escorted him back to the dressing room. On the way we were chatting and he asked for my cell number so he could call me after the show to hang out and look around. Of course I gave it to him.

So the concert is winding down and the band comes off without doing their two biggest songs: The Distance and Short Skirt, Long Jacket. Everyone is thinking Encore, but they walk off stage and start heading towards the dressing room. The hired help security staff doesn’t know they are done so they don’t follow them for some reason. So there I am standing with the band in the middle of a sea of fans and John McCrea looks at me and says “Shit, Kyle, I forgot my sunglass on the stage.” Then the drummer said “Well we didn’t play the last two songs, we could go back.” then John looks at me and says “can you get us back?” I tell me that of course I can and I start pushing our way back towards the stage amidst 5,000 screaming fans that are thrilled that they are coming back. I get them to the stage, chew the security guys there a new ass hole, and they do the encore. They come off stage and I say “john, did you grab your glasses?” He says “Shit, Kyle, they are still on my amp.” But the crowd is just crazy and he can’t get back to the steps. So I push my way through and get onto the stage and grab the glasses. I turn around and the hired security staff is gone with the band, except John McCrea who is being pushed up the steps. So i run to him and hand him his glasses and say ‘You ready for this?” And I grab his arm and bulldoze through the crowd. Once we hit the walkway at the top of the amphitheater we break out into a run as I bat hands away from him. We duck through a door that I know and go through a back staircase and I get him o the dressing room. He turns and yells “Thanks Kyle!” as I walk off. So I say “No problem John, call me!” It was crazy.

And you know what? He called. We ended up hanging out for a few minutes and then after they left he called and thanked me again and we talked for like 45 minutes. He got my email address and said he’d drop me a line next time he was out this way.

It was awesome!!!!

So that was my night.