During the next song,
"Grand Illusion," we were all still trapped in the aisle, trying our
best to push the point without getting in anyone's face, but not really
getting anywhere. Next thing I knew, around the corner from backstage came
this vision on a charging white horse. Well, okay, maybe he was just walking
fast, but Keith Marks couldn't have looked any more like a knight in shining
armor than he did to us at that moment! I heard Tani yell "YEAH!"
and after Keith walked past us, Tani, Louis, Karen and I lined up and got
ready to move! Keith went up to the security people in front of the very
center of the stage and spoke to them for a few seconds, pointed in our
direction, and then came back. The funny thing here is, we didn't move until
Keith walked back past us. The number one rule, even higher priority than
getting to the stage, is: We Don't Trample Keith! But as soon as he had passed
our front line, BOOM - we were out of there!
I followed Tani and Louis; they
were good blockers! They hit the spots they wanted before I did though,
so I kept going. I made it
about halfway between Tommy and JY's microphones when the middle security guy
stopped me. Only
one person was farther over than I
was, Karen nobody, and another security staffer stopped her. She told me later
that he was saying something to her and she couldn't understand a word, so she
just kept saying "What? What? What?" As for me, where I had gotten
stopped was by coincidence - seriously - directly in front of where
JY was playing at the moment. So I
was standing there, looking straight up - happy. I heard the security guy
say to me, "Ma'am, you have to go back to your seat." So I answered
him, "Okay," still staring straight up and not moving! Apparently
that wasn't what he wanted, because a couple of seconds later I heard,
"Ma'am, you have to sit down." Me, still not moving and not looking
away: "Uh huh." Couple more seconds, him: "Ma'am, you have to
go back to your seat." Me: "All right." See, I was being
cooperative, not arguing - how much nicer (and more innocent) could I
be?
I really don't know what
happened with security after that. I have a vague recollection of seeing the
security guy talking on his radio a few seconds later, so maybe they got the
final word that it was okay to let us stay. All I really know for sure
is that annoying man stopped saying all those silly things to me and
vanished - literally for all I know! The next time I was aware of my
surroundings, there were tons more people around me and behind me, some I knew
and some I didn't, and I don't know where they came from either! By the time
"Lorelei" started, I was all settled in, and I may have gotten a bit
preoccupied!
