Las Vegas, NV,New Year's Eve 2002- 2003

I'm back from Vegas. I still can't believe what happened.

I didn't meet Anthony or the band but I went to the show on the 31st of December, very front row and I was just 2 meters away from him. This is too much.
I got backstage several hours before the concert even started, around 11 a.m. and I talked to the technical crew and hoped for a backstage pass but they kicked us out and asked us to leave. It sucked and I thought I had blown it. I had lost any hope and then, I was just wandering around the casino when suddenly I saw Blackie. He was there both nights, the 30th and 31st with the girl who won the VH1 BBQ contest and had the Peppers playing at her home. She's a nice girl.


Anyways... I sat with him for about an hour and he told me the most amazing stories and he even invited us a few beers . He's such a cool amazing guy and he told me all this stuff about how him and Anthony shared girls, a story about a French hooker, about how he met John Lennon and one of the Beach Boys picked him up when he was hitch hiking... Then he talked to me about his work as an actor, and said that Anthony's sister Jenny, could tell me more about him. So he called her and she came over and she's just so sweet, so open and kind hearted. After the beers we had together Blackie hugged me good bye and told me he would ask Anthony if I could meet him, but next day I saw Blackie and he didn’t mention anything so I didn’t want to push it.

Blackie and I

Jenny, Blackie and I

On the other hand, the show was the most amazing one I've ever witnessed. I guess partly because the venue was so tiny that it just felt pretty intimate. On a side by the stage Heidi Klum was sitting there and when 12 o'clock stoke, they had started to play “Venice Queen” but Anthony stopped and he said "happy New Year" and the guys kept on playing but he ran all over Heidi and kissed her and kissed her and kissed her. I have to say he looked really, really happy, there was this shine in his eyes on the New Year, and it was so sweet just how he threw himself at her. I felt so jealously happy for him. There were balloons falling over our heads and an inflatable sex doll going around the stage. It was such a special thing to spend the New Year in that concert.
John stopped playing and he kissed his girlfriend too, who was very sweet and told him to keep on playing. Flea's girl was there as well. Anthony was dancing so wildly that he fell on the drums and got himself hurt, he was bleeding badly and in the end he ripped his t-shirt off and the cut on his back was pretty big. Blackie said that Anthony was pretty happy with Heidi and that she's very nice. He also told me that AK had been heart broken from Yohanna and all the songs in BTW were about her (not that it wasn't obvious), but he confirmed the rumor that Anthony wanted to have kids and she wasn't ready. And many things more. I also got the set list, which someone from the crew handed to me at the end: