My God last night was phenomenal! In fact, other than the day I closed on my first house a few weeks ago, I'd say this was the best night I've ever had!!!

We got there right around 4 o'clock-ish. Judging by the line before the doors opened, I'd say we were at least in the first quarter of the line. (We just happened to be standing in front of The Cupboard, which made things fun and interesting We met all kinds of people in line. It’s pretty amazing how strangers can meet in line and only have one thing in common. But we were all friends by the time the doors opened. I was pretty chatty though. I kept recognizing people's faces from this site. The guys from Cinder Road came out and were passing out stickers to the people in line. That was pretty cool of them to come out and mingle with us beforehand.

The doors finally opened at around 7:05 or so. My hand was stamped with the word “sausage” for being over 21. (I just had to add that since I found it funny). After going to the restroom, grabbing some beer and food we got to the stage area to find ourselves about six “rows” back from the stage.

Cinder Road took the stage first. They had good stage presence and the lead singers eyes looked like they could stare through you. Eye makeup does that I guess. He almost had the Constantine from AI look about him. Something else I have to mention: the lead singer had pants on that were extremely low. When I say low, I mean his goods were close to being exposed low. They were skinny guys with great big voices. I actually really liked their music. I found myself feeling it more than I thought I would.

Next up to the stage was Eve To Adam. One word: BE-AU-TI-FUL. Before they even opened their mouths and were just setting up I turned to my friend and said that to her. Talk about tall, dark and handsome. The only one that didn’t have dark hair was great looking too. In fact I kept saying he looked like a rockin’ younger version of Kevin Bacon. Haha These guys were the ones your moms warned you about. Oh to be a young and naïve again. Anyway… the music! May I just say that I loved it? I thought they were a perfect compliment to DAUGHTRY. My three favorite songs they sang were “If U R”, “Gift” and “Comin’ Home”. I have a good feeling that in a while Eve to Adam will score big time and be all over the radio. Oh, and one more thing in regards to how hot this band is. When the lead singer took his shirt off and showed off his awesome abs, I began cracking up and whispered in my friend’s ear that his chest needed the sweat licked off and I was just the girl to do it. Hahaha (Mind you I’m all talk by the way!) (Note also that the pictures does NOT do him justice).

Right after Eve To Adam the audience started getting more jam-packed. Most of the people in the audience were awesome though. Everyone was there to have fun and listen to the music. There was a taller guy in front of us that took my friend's camera and got better pictures for her since she is short. He was soo nice. There were only a few people that were bad. There were a couple girls literally fighting their way to the front of the stage. When people started stopping them four security guards actually had to break things up! Drama! One of the chicks behind me said, "I'm over 30 and have kids, I'm too old for this sh*t". hahaha

When DAUGHTRY’s band members finally took the stage the crowd went bats***. Then when Chris eventually walked out it got even worse. I was one of those people. I started jumping up and down so high you’d think I would have had a trampoline beneath me.
My vocal chords became so strained that I thought for sure I wouldn’t be able to speak today. I screamed louder last night than I do at Bengals games. (And that’s saying a lot!) And he teased us. He just stood there looking all hot in his black beanie cap with his head bowed to his mike—torturing us. I don’t remember the actual order of the songs he played unfortunately. It all went by so quickly. I was having such an excellent time and like the snap of a finger it was over. I know he played: “Crashed”, “What I Want”, “Used To”, “Its Not Over”, “Breakdown”, “Gone”, “Over You” and the Pearl Jam hit “Black”. That Pearl Jam song took me totally be surprise and was a hit with the audience for sure. I was able to catch loads of pictures and some video of the concert on my camera. And I recorded a couple songs on my cell phone. Hmmn… which one should be my new ring tone?

I am still in disbelief on how close we were to the stage. We could see absolutely everything. At one point one of the guitar pics that Chris threw out landed right in front of me. I thought there was going to be a catfight. Here I am 30 years old and I’m down on the ground with my camera trying to light the way to finding that pic along with about five other people. Finally one of them yells all sly “It’s now in my pocket”. I patted her on the back and congratulated her. Of course that was after I had to be picked up off the floor by one of the big guys. I guess all the standing had locked my legs up. Man, I’m old.

DAUGHTRY ended the show with them coming back for an encore in his fresh clean white “ONE” tshirt singing “There And Back Again”. What a way to end the night! Freaking fantastic!!!

After the show ended and the lights went dim on stage I told my friends adamantly that we were under no circumstances leaving. And boy did that sentiment pay off! We just walked as slowly as possible towards the back. Security was giving us a hard time about being pokey but we just kind of ignored them. There were so many fans exchanging email addresses. Since I got such great pictures I promised about three different people I met that I’d email them with them.

Eventually we made our way up to the main area. I wanted to purchase the cds of both Cinder Road and Eve to Adam. Before the concert began I already purchased my $40 DAUGHTRY hoodie. I wish I had bought them then. But it turned out okay. Cinder Road came out and greeted people and offered to sign cds and take pictures with the band. They were total cheesers when that camera pointed their direction. I think they loved the attention the ladies were giving them. Each member signed my cd which tickled me to death. My photo turned out pretty good too. Then JP came out and started mingling around with everyone. I got my picture taken with him too (the guy w/ the mohawk). Later Joey made his way out. He had a cute little red pair of furry handcuffs on and he slipped his hands over my head to pose in the picture with me. OMG. I seriously was so close to him I could smell the sweat. Love, love, love me some Joey. Then when Joey mentioned to us that they were going across the street to the bar I was in seventh heaven!!! I mean seriously… they didn’t even hide the fact where they were going. He just nonchalantly told the fans that were still standing there to come hang out with them. Again, did I mention that I love, love, love me some Joey?!?!

When we walked outside to the front of Bogarts I was taken aback. #1 by how great the cold air felt after being so hot. #2 because the boys from Eve To Adam were standing outside. And again, they were so approachable! The lead singer Tiki and the drummer Alex were cutting on each other. When I questioned Tiki on it, he said, “We’re brothers”. It definitely makes sense because those two are so freaking gorgeous and resembled one another. Don’t get me wrong though Gaurav and Riv were both hot too. In fact, when I had them sign my cd and pose for pictures with me, I mentioned to Tiki that everyone within ten feet of me while they were singing were commenting on how hot they were. His response: “Well, I hope you ladies enjoyed the music too at least”. Too funny! I really enjoyed meeting them. In fact out of Cinder Road and Eve to Adam, I think the band members of Eve To Adam were even friendlier with the fans. (In the picture you'll see lead singer Tiki and guitarist Gaurav with us).

So after hob-knobbing with Eve To Adam, we went back to my car, which was parked on the same street as Bogarts. Lucky me! We put our newly acquired sweatshirts and cds away. While were checking ourselves out in the mirror we saw JP walking with the guys from Cinder Road walk around the corner towards the bar that Joey was telling us about. I think we were out of the car shortly after that and went into that bar. There weren’t many people in there to my surprise. It was the members of Eve to Adam, Cinder Road and then JP and Joey. Cinder Road’s good friend from Cincinnati that they did the shout out during their performance to was also there. (He is also extremely nice. His name is Billy Carri.) But the rest of the bar just had a sprinkling of people inside that were actually fans from the concert. At first the guys kept to themselves in their own corner but then started mingling around with people. They even sang happy birthday to a girl at the bar. (I secretly wished it was my birthday last night).

I drank my long island and we gabbed about the concert and we left. We hit White Castle on the way home (mistake) and headed home. I think I got home around 2am if I’m not mistaken. I was so tired. My legs and feet hurt so bad. I really wished I would have had someone waiting on me to rub them. Not so much.

Let me tell you though… I went to bed with my feet propped up in my freshly cleaned sheets with a huge ol’ smile on my face. That concert was great. And it was probably one of the highlights of my life.

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"Super Fan Stacy"-- aka DAUGHTRY's biggest fan in Cincinnati!!!