Bringing It Home Festival, Flint, Michigan
by Wondergirl
July 21, 2007

OMF(RICKIN')G!!!!! That was the best concert!!! He sang for an hour. Here is a list of the ones I remember:

Get Here
Let's Stay Together
What's Goin' On (Yes, the Marvin Gaye one)
Night and Day
Mr. Right (new song!)
Behind the Times (new song)
I Saw Your Face (funky version!)
Easy (dedicated to Brenda Ritchie...I know, weird, right?)
The Married People Song (OMG, I forgot the name of it...it's a famous song though. Shelley, help me out!!) ["Give It To Me"]
Another 2 songs I can't remember ["All I Do" & "I Can't Help It"]

I went with Shelley, her friend and step-brother. We had a BLAST!! Laughter was the key word today....as was....people watching. Wow.

Enough about that. The lady that Shelley talked to was at the event and took Shelley's number so that we could maybe go back and meet Justin before the actual Meet & Greet...didn't happen. BUT...he did sign autographs/take photos for 30 minutes before he went onstage and ALSO...stayed afterwards from 6PM to we don't know when he left because we left. LOL

Details...because I can't think straight right now.

AMAZING, PHENOMENAL video was taken by Shelley's step-brother, Tim, who is my favorite person right now. LOL He was also our photographer for the day. I got some pics and video, but he videoed the entire show. I took lots of photos, but the lighting in the arena blew. I kept taking blurry pics, but I also got some GREAT photos. Will share as soon as I get home tomorrow.

Justin wore jeans, some black boots and a greenish-grayish-brownish shirt with an Asian design with like...applique stuff on it. I am not describing it well, but you'll see it in the pics. I asked him where he got the shirt and he lifted it up to look for a tag...and I saw....THE HAPPY TRAIL. Frick yeah! He didn't find the tag (who cares! LOL) but said the Japanese people loved it. Not sure if he bought it over there or if he had it already.

Shirley, I told him you said hello and reminded him you are the Justin's Journey lady. He was like "OMG, yeah, she is amazing for doing that. I love that." :)

When it was my turn in line, I went up and said "Do you remember me?" and he goes "Yeahh...and looked at me in the eyes and I go "I'm from Fort Worth, Texas" and he goes "YES!" I probably looked a bit familiar, but I can never tell if he really remembers me or not. Heh. I got diarrhea of the mouth and just kept chatting with him...saying "We can't wait for the movie, the album, everything!" and he goes "Neither can I." He thanked me for coming from so far away and even autographed my pic (the TV Guide pic) "Thanks for coming so far!"

The second time we went through the line, we decided no autographs...just a photo of Shelley, me and Emily (Shelley's friend). I said "Justin, could we have a pic of the three of us with you." and he goes "Sure!" and comes out from behind the table and stood in between Emily and I. THANK YOU SHELLEY for letting us be closest to him. You are awesome! I'm blanking on what I said to him...something along the lines of "The concert was awesome and we loved the new songs!" Folks....they were TERRIFIC. Also, we made sure it was okay to put everything online...like the videos and stuff...he goes "Sure. Everything is copyrighted, so no worries." <---Not exact quote...me paraphrasing.

No Eventually, but he sang 3 (?) new songs. One he wrote fighting insomnia either on the way to England or IN England. I can't recall. My brain is fried!

The fro, it was a-bouncin'. LOL He shaved off the beard, but still had some stubble. GAH, he looked hot. Greg Gordon-Smith was there, playing keyboards. New guy on drums (looked a bit like Shooter Jennings), new bassist (looked like Ethan Zohn from Survivor) and a lady singing harmony. I can't remember their names! Sorry!

No Holly.

He was all over that stage. He sang various types of songs and interacted with the audience a lot. His voice was AMAZING and I teared up at the end of Get Here.

I am blanking on so many things, I just know it.

I had a friggin' blast with Shelley, Tim and Emily. We had fun, laughed lots and met/saw Justin again. What a great day.

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