September 11, 2010 is and forever will be the BEST night of my LIFE EVER. Do I still have a lot of life left to live? Yes but I cant imagine nor do I believe anything will ever top tonight. As you all know, even if you dont know me super well you know that my addiction and absolutle favorite thing in this world is the show Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel. I love all the guys on that show dearly (except Keith Colburn, but no one likes him including all the guys on the show.) their all like my extended family, best friends whatever, you watch a show for 6 years and I dont care what anyone says you feel like you know these people and like they are your family and friends.
Anyways apparently dreams do come true, I thought the chances of me ever getting to see them in person was highly unlikely, since their all based out of mainly Alaska and Seattle. Then one lucky day I'm on my Uncle's laptop and I swing by the Time Bandit website http://www.timebandit.tv/ and what do I see? Johnathan<3 and Andy Hillstrand along with Sig Hansen are doing this small 'An Evening With The Captains Tour'. Now its only a 9 city tour, figured the chances of them coming to Massachusetts was a long shot. BUT low and behold one of the dates was in Lowell, Mass about an hour and a half from my house. I literally screamed and ordered 3 tickets ASAP!
It seemed like it was a year before the day finally came when it was a month or two. FINALLY its the day of the show and needless to say I'm tweaking out, started shaking from the moment I woke up and realized I'm going to see my DC boys tonight! My Dad and Kevin were excited but not as much as me, them and the show are like crack with me. We get to the Lowell Auditorium and walk in to our seats and I see the four chairs (3 for the Captains and 1 for the Moderator) then the back drop which is like a map of the seas in Alaska mainly just the Bering Sea and Bristol Bay, and this good sized projection screen in the middle. I it was so surreal I couldn't believe it was happening. The Moderator comes out and starts amping up the crowd (like he needed too we were all already singing to the music playing and wooting) so he shows a video that the Captains put together for the show. And in the video the music is the theme the show "Wanted Dead Or Alive" by Bon Jovi, in between laughing and watching the video the whole audience, myself included are singing with the music. Video ends and he introduces the Captains, the whole auditorium ERUPTED! Of course I'm videoing it, standing, yelling and clapping like everyone else. Then Andy tells us that their filming this show only for a live DVD!! Then Johnathan makes a small speech talking briefly about his history of fishing up here in Gloucester back in the day and says he loves Massachusetts.
So it starts their talking about the job, family lives, what goes on behind the scenes, different stories, basically anything and everything. Not even 20 minutes into it, these two girls on the side lower balcony yelled "I love you" or something along those lines. Andy smiles, Johnathan points at them and waves and Sig turns around and yells "SHOW US YOUR TITTIES AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!" I thought I was going to die laughing, my Dad and Kevin are almost pissing themselves. Needless to say it was definitely a show for a mature audience.
Then they start talking about Capt. Phil, now unless you've been living under a rock for 7 months you know that on February 9th of this year Phil passed away after a stroke and throwing another blood clot. So everyone we all took a moment to stand up, raise a glass and toast Phil and say we miss you buddy and we love ya. They told some really cool stories about Phil. Not above admitting I started tearing up, cause his death still affects me greatly and I know the guys are hurting much more than I am.
On to a happier note, those guys are true rockstars, I know they still think their just blue collar guys but they truly are rockstars, just amazing guys and super funny. I had so much love and respect for them before the show but that love and respect has grown 1000000000000x more after. Unfortunately I didnt get a chance to meet them, and I really thought I would be disappointed and bumming about it, but I'm not because it was such a magical night and I'm so honored to be a part of it. I dont have any words to describe how I feel its just unbelieveable. So I will end this blog and my first post on here. But for those of you who are interested here's a video I put together of the show.
Thanks for reading my ramblings! Come back soon I hope to update this frequently.
~Alyssa~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCfI-kJolFU
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