Alrighty.... These past two days have been slightly unbelievable. So i'd like to share exactly what happened. Okay, let's start with yesterday (SUNDAY JUNE 13) Day starts off with a little jog and swim, then church service, then Chaminade LIFE team celebration, Church in Santa Monica at St. Monicas, Philosophy night in North Hollywood with my friend Matt and finally HOUSE OF BLUES in Hollywood. Busy little sabbath ya know. Well, everything was great but at the House of Blues something happened.
My Room/Housemate DJ EDDIE was DJing a private event at House of Blues. I was very proud he got this gig and wanted to show some love and support and roll through. When I arrive I proceed to go on stage with Eddie and find out through his girlfriend that there is special guest performance about to take place! I was excited enough to be there however when I found out that SNOOP DOGG was performing I was totally DOWN!
Snoop comes out! Does a great 25 min set. I am dancing behind him on stage and it was GREAT! You know those people you see at concerts that just stand in the back and bob their head while the music is playing... well that was me... except I was dancing hardcore. After everything was over snoop came out as we were loading Eddie's car. I snagged a pic the Mr. Dogg before he entered his private lincoln sedan. Great day! So excited I S N Double O P!
Next day (MONDAY JUNE 14) go to school to help with the LIFE TEAM meeting. Play some BBALL and then had a missed call twitter message from SAM LEON. Sam usually hits me up when something really important is going on. Sam was a former student of mine who last year brought me to the AMERICAN IDOL finale performance show. He's always in the know of what's happening in LA and where the CONCERTS are going down. He tells me that there is this huge event for ACTIVISION which is a video game company. He said there's a conference in town and ACTIVISION spent nearly 6million to make this show!
I'm telling SAM how do we get tickets... he responds with it's invite only but I think I just won tickets from AMP RADIO. He calls back 5 mins later to confirm we have tix to the show. PRAISE GOD because he gave me a list of performers that were INCREDIBLE!
We get our wrist bands... enter the staple center around 8:30pm. As we walk in we soon realized that everything was FREE. Imagine going to the movies and ordering anything you want from the concessions that is usually 10x it's normal price.... FOR FREE!! They even had free beer and wine! WOW!
As we are waiting we see David Guetta and Tony Hawk on the red carpet. Stoked! Then the doors open and we walk down... and down.... and down.... right to the floor. We could touch the stage! Now the fun begins... Here was the line up for the ACTIVISION E 3 Concert!
1) DeadMaus - incredible dj wears a funny looking mouse head while he is DJing
2) David Guetta- produced sexy chick, Memories (kid cudi) Getting over you (Fergie, LMFAO) and many more. Dude flew in from Paris for the show.
3) USHER- My MAN! Danced to 4 songs and completely rocked it!
4) Will.I.AM came out to perform OMG with Usher.
5) Tony Hawk- talked about his new game coming out soon
6) Queen- Classic rock band! They sang with a full orchestra and gospel chior
7) Janes Addiction- Rock band with Dave Navarro on the guitar
8) Talented Aerialist who climbed up a 100 ft pole and did incredible tricks
9) Sound Garden- rock band (I didn't know them too well)
10) NERD- awesome band featuring SUPERPRODUCER Pharell Williams. They inspired me a ton when I was a kid listening to their music.
11)A random new artist... female... sounded good but I didn't get her name
12) Last but not least EMINEM featuring Travis Barker on the Drums and a guest performance by Rihanna!!
Talk about an incredible night. ACTIVISION really did it big. I have mad props for their hospitality and ability to invest in their very own customers and co-workers. The funny thing was Sam and I were trying to win TIX to Wango Tango.That was a huge event which also contains many incredible artists. We didn't get tix but I told sam maybe God has bigger and better things in store for us. HE DID WITH ACTIVISION!! I loved every performance but my favorite were USHER and EMINEM's set. Soooo good!
So that's what's happening now.. I wonder what tomorrow will bring.
PEACE!
JOE
