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April 5, 2008
NKOTB... OMG!
Alright, I'm now very well aware I don't read enough 'entertainment' news. Why this realization you ask? Because I just now figured out that 80's boy band New Kids on the Block is reuniting, releasing an new album and going on a world tour. This was apparently big news this time last month, but somehow I missed it.
I wasn't a fan per se, because I was probably 6 or 7 at the time, but I have vivid memories of NKOTB (and no, not because of the short-lived cartoon). The truth is, at the height of NKOTB mania, I had one teenage sister and one pre-teen sister. EVERYTHING was about NKOTB at my house. And being the youngest of the bunch, I had to go along with whatever they wanted to watch on TV, play on the radio, etc.
So, I was an innocent by standard throughout the whole thing. And as embarrassing as it might be (according to a lot of people), my first concert was a NKOTB concert at the former Starwood Amphitheater. Again, I was 6 or 7, my sisters' Girl Scout troop went to the concert. My mother was a troop leader and my dad happened to be out of town so I couldn't stay home (that's my excuse anyway).
It was a memorable evening. Some pathological liar friend of my sister said she had back stage passes and could get some of them back stage too. So they wondered off from the group, parents were mad, and scolding ensued once they showed back up. Needless to say they never got back stage.
Oh and then the NKOTB were playing basketball outside at the back of the amphitheater at some point, and there was a high fence, but everyone was trying to crawl over. But one of my sisters was held up and an unidentified NKOTB touched her hand.
Oh well, good times. That's about enough of a post on NKOTB.
| By hpadam | 12:39 PM
