Day in the Zone festival, Sacramento, CA 6/11/06

[Cindy]

More pretty pictures! These are from April Herrera.

www.martycasey.org/sacramento2_6-11.htm

Thank you April!!

[Shihgirl]

Hi everyone, the concert was great, the lovehammers were the best in my opinion, but I left before the last two bands played and missed INXS again, we were hot and tired after rocking out to lovehammers and tracking them down to talk to them and then waiting in a long line to get autographs, all I want are pictures and hugs, so that is a bummer, I did talk to them through the fence, Marty was in his trailer and I saw him and waved to him and he came out to talk to me and my kids, wasn't that sweet of him, also talked to Dino, showed me the finger I took the picture you see, and talked to Billy too. I am glad I this little one on one time with them, the signing autograph in line things is a drag, I want to hug them and talk to them, my 10 year old daughter gave him her school picture with some things written on the back about how much we love him and he asked her to sign it and said he would keep it in the tour bus, so I did get a quick shot of that as you all see. I don't think any other band was doing any meet and greets, the lovehammers are one of a kind, great guys that really can rock, they were awesome during their set, even played this town, which is my daughters fave. I feel so sad it is over now, my neice was up on the rail for all the bands, I had to drive back to get her when it was all over, she said JD hurt is knee and was in pain, when I went back for her I saw Dino around talking to some girls inside the fenced area, we yelled his name but he was busy. My neice did get bobby to come over before I got there, and he came over and gave her a hug, she told him to slip through the two gates and he did, she got a picture of him and her, she won't let me post it, the brat. I saw Jen standing next to me during the lovehammer set, I saw rockbeast took his picture, I saw rockdiva girl, she was so sweet and gave me a hug. she had others with her sorry I forgot the names now. It is so sad to leave a lovehammer concert when you know they are still there hanging out, but thats life! now its back to normal every day stuff. the DJ there said that marty and the guys were some of the nicest guys they have ever met, that was so nice to hear.
I am so beat, I am really getting old, this all day event was to much for this lady. so happy to see the guys and glad they played early. talk to you all later.

[Shihgirl]

Oh yea, where was Kes? I thought I would see you, and get to meet you, but I did not see you, unless I did not know it was you! oh well there is always October.

[Sandra]

thank you so much for your review and pics sounds like you had alot of fun

[cfeelvr]

Thanks Cindy and Amy for getting the pics up so fast. Checked them out before I went to bed last night. The guys looked great as always and what do you know, Marty had white pants on........ So sweet of him to give us what we like.
Have a Hammered day!! Pam

[Stephd]

Great photos guys! Thanks for getting them on so quickly.

[katiplrgrl]

Mahalo Nui Loa for the great photos and review, that was fast! Sounds like all had a good time. Just wish I could have made it.

[beachgirl]

Shihgirl, what a great review! I loved the pictures, the one with your daughter signing her pic is so cute. What a cool story she has to tell. I'm glad you all had fun!

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the review and pics, Shihgirl! Your daughter is a doll! Those boys that she's with aren't bad either.

[grumpypirate]

Thanks for the review and the pics Shihgirl! They were great!

Thanks to Cindy and Amy for getting them up so fast!

[jean]

All I can say to you all, ENVY, ENVY
Nope, glad you had a blast,

i told my best friend who lives in Sac. about the concert. She did not want to go at first, but now she is a diehard Lovehammers fan. I live in Florida or would have gone with her.

now, puleeze guys ,come to Florida!!!!!!!

Jean

[angelshadow]

I just got home from the Best weekend I have EVER HAD!! Thank you to all the hammerheads who made me feel at home In Sac. I Wish I could have stayed for another beautiful day! After I sleep I will tell some details for you all to enjoy!

A very Special Thank you to Rockbeast I am so glad we are friends again and that we made the trip together! It was such a Blast hanging out with you and disturbing our neighbors in the hotel rooms next to us with our Rock music as soon as we would get back to the room!! Haha!! Love ya Bro!

Ok ok, I will give a small detail or two.. I got Billy to Sign my pack of smokes WOO HOO no more Ciggys for Angelshadow!! (my idea not his) and He is lookin real good and I told him so adding... Have you been eating healthy again To which he replied YES (with the biggest grin on his face!) (he ate sushi in the trailer after thier set)

Anyone who caught a pic of me please send it to me! Thanks a bunch!

Hammerlove,
~AngelShadow~

[ChiTownChick]

Shihgirl and Angelshadow,

Thanks for your posts - sounds like everyone had a great time!

Amy and Cindy, thanks for getting the pics up so quickly.

[mrsbud]

Someone may have already posted this, but Marty was wearing his mc.org wristband in the pics.

[Cindy]

We have lots more pics up now and a short video clip (from MelindaL) of Marty climbing

www.martycasey.org/sacramento3_6-11.htm (thanks to nina99)
www.martycasey.org/sacramento4_6-11.htm (thanks to Melinda)
www.martycasey.org/sacramento5_6-11.htm (thanks to MadameRubi)

[yerbamate]

Wow! Thanks for all the photos and stories everyone.

[klly]

Thanks so much for the reviews and pics. It sounds like a fantastic show. As always.

[rockfan]

admin said:

We have lots more pics up now and a short video clip (from MelindaL) of Marty climbing

Wonderful pics ;D. Thanks Cindy for getting those up so quickly.

BTW - the video clip is not working (at least for me) wwaahhh.

[kimberly87]

I am finally home....

I just wanted to give everyone a little re-cap of the show from my perspective...
It has been 3 months since a LH show so needless to say I was more than due and more than excited to finally get to see the guys again.
I drove up with 3 other hammerchickies, they met me at my house and from Hollywood we drove to Sacramanto...took ua 7 hous total and it wasn;t bad at all. We met up w/ RDG and we azll stayed in the same 2 bed hotel room....look we fangirls will do what we have to to keep costs down...ha ha.
We all went out Sat night and met up w/ a lot of fellow hammerchick and dudes, the spot we went to was a dive to say the least and after a few instances of sexual harrassment from the staff there (and he wasn't even cute ha ha) some of us headed over to another place, which was only a little better...we decided to head over to a gay bar we heard of...and the area was hopping...and really cute...we ended up staying there the rest of the night. All together there were about12 of us, drinking taking "fabulous" pics and jut getting ready for a great night.

We woke up really early Sunday so we could get to the show and get in line (we were determined to get in the front row) (center between marty and dino....for RDG and I anyway) We head up and Polarfan and I park the car all the way in BFE while RDG, 4R and CJ go to get in line....when Polar and I finally walk the 6.7 miles back to the line we see that our girls are only a few people back in line...and we are wondering HOW?? A felloe hammer chick allowed them to "cut" in line w/ her.....thanks so much....we stood there and talked to INXS fans and just passed the time...when they finally let us in at 12:30 we were running to the front....it was almost chaotic in that our whole group ended up all spread out...all of us trying to get as close as possible. 4R, Doc and I ended up right beind these two very nice ladies (so we were only 1 back),,,,but they were INXS fans so said that as long as they could have their spot back after LH went on we could have the front. So they went back to their blanket on the lawn and there we were in the VERY front smack dab in the middle, a little to the left towards Dino...EXACTLY where I wanted to be. YEA....2 really great band (7Standard and Norwall went one befor LH...they were really really good. 7Standard had a really heavy sound at times and was really working for me. Norwall were these really cute hippie ish guys whose keyboard player was so cute...I was flirting w/ him a bit from the crowd and Doc was laughing her ass off at me cuz as she said he must have been 18.......but, what can you do..I deemed him "pink boy" due to his shirt...and we refferred to him as such all day. Finally our guys came on. Opened up w/ SAAA as usual...that song really gets people going...I had several cell certs to do and could not hear what was going on on the other end and my phone only had 1 bar and I had no idea if I had a connection or not...etc...so I kept dissconnecting after only like one song cuz I had so much going on and didn't want to hold up a phone if I didn't even have a connection....sorry if you only got part of a song. Wee anyway...needless to say Marty looked AMAZING (as usual)..and was wearing his white pants (yummy)...dino came out and was looking H*O*T!!!! props to him on that..billy looked amazing, his hair was really big and wild and he had that smile that he has that lights up the place....GENIUS!!! Bobby, well Bobby, I couldn't say,,,I was so pissed off...they had his set was back on stage so us in front couldn't see him (there was one little section between the amps where I could lean over and see his face, but otherwise...I could just jear those stick pounding...and loved it. If you were to pay me a million dollars for the set list I would be SOL...I have no idea, it went by so fast and I was way to psyched. I know one thing though...Marty did his littlt "strip tease" as I like to call it. He dreeses in layers and as the show goes on he takes off more and more and more until he is shirtles...well it was good. ha ha.
During The Tunnel he climbed up on the scaffolding and one at the top (as as he was singing he was thrusting his legs backways go he was swinging on the darn thing and I was freaking out since he was just holding on with one hand... I looked down and saw Dan sitting there, crouched down, looking up, as if he was ready to pounce to catch Marty in case he fell. It was so nerve racking...the crowd was going crazy though. Marty came back down and was doing the little hand "hypnotize" thing I love so much... It was so funny....it was supposed to be like 83 degrees but it felt like it was 100 degrees...we were just wiping ourselves down and trying to make sure our knees were bent so we didnt pass out and have to get passed through the crowd to a paramedic like in footage from whimbley sadium...ha ha. Though that could have been good press for LH.. "LH perform to thousands as exhausted fans collaspe" haha. During I am not sure what song Marty did that "scraping the Mike on the stage" bit he did in Memphis, though it was I think MUCH shrter that then...But I looked at Billy as Marty was doing this and he was looking to Bobby and just laughing. I love this...it has so much angst.....I love it...ha ha ha. Dino sounded amazing and at one point looked down at me and gave me a look like "oh wow...hey it's you"!!!! it was cute. Marty went to the right of the stage was was laying on it and hanging his head over the edge grasping for the crowd....there were so many great moments and it all went past in a blur...I think it was about a 0 minute set...about songs...At one point I heard "Ultrasound" coming on and thay did the begginning of that then took it into This town...that was amazing....Sounded great. The last song was Trees and I was jumping up and down as he sang and Marty caught my eye and just smiled as he sang...probaby think "wow this chic is going crazy" ha ha. There was no encore but the show was quite enough. Afterwards I had to do a bit of street teaming and it was the easiest thing I have ever done...I had brought these 4x6 cards I had printed up for MCLH and I was targeting young guys and chics...they were begging for them, then as the guys were signing autographs at the fence, people were trying to use dollars and papers...anything to get an autograph and I went over and almost got mobbed for the cards...it was genius...The guys finally did a formal M&G at 3:30...I think it must have lasted about and hour and a half...the line was very long...I don't really do autopgraphs but wanted to say hi to the guys so I did the autograph thing...got up to the front where I hear a "hey darlin" coming from dino...chatted for a second about hanging out after the show...etc then moved on, to bobby then marty and I had a short exchange about a memory from vegas and then someone pulled him away and some chic scooted me out of line....there were a lot of people behind me..It was not ideal...but it was a M&G what can you expect. We went to eat and walk around...they guys finished up, watched Switchfoote, then throughout the rest of the day they were signing autographs through the fence to the never ending crowds that always seemed to appear...and we all know marty is always willing to ablige the fans for hours on end...he was signing shoes, t-shirts, postcards, flyers...panties....any and everything. Dino billy and bobby came out and did the same a couple of time...at one point these 2 ,7 year old boys were trying to jump the fence and get to them and the event lady was standing with dino and yelling at them and in true dino form he was encouraging them to jump it and covering up that lady's eyes...it was so funny.

We ended up leaving before the INXS show was over and went home to freshen up...we all went and had dinner and then met up with Dino for some drinks at this ridiculous dive bar, we had a good time though....dino and i can cuss each other out all night long so it was a lot of fun. ha ha. we played some music on the jukebox and played some old Rock and just chatted and laughed...etc. we girls took alot more "faboulous" pics and were having fun eventhough we were the only group in the crappy bar....I want to know where the good bars are in Sac...cuz we never found any (straight ones anyway). Overall it was a great time...and the time with Dino afterwards was alot of fun too (as usual)

I got to see SHR again which is always fun, that girl is crazy in a fantastic way...and I think loves to give me a hard time,,,ha ha.

Anyway...it was an amzing day...and worth the 7 hour drive to, and back home today. would love to do it again...and love seeing all my hammer chicks.

[Cindy]

rockfan said:

Wonderful pics ;D. Thanks Cindy for getting those up so quickly.

BTW - the video clip is not working (at least for me) wwaahhh.

RF

Do you get a page not found error...or will it just not load and play. If not load and play, make sure you have a current Windows Media player.... players get messed up sometimes....

www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx