At this point, the girls all around me went wild & I was swamped by girls going mad who all wanted to dance with me. As he was thanking the audience for the applause he saw me standing with my friends in front of him & said 'Hello Alan, everyone this is my good friend Alan, say hello to Alan'. As he stood up I realized the Roger I had met & been drinking with, was Roger Taylor the band drummer. Roger did a solo piece on the drums & then stood up to thank everyone for coming. When he got round to the drummer in front of me & the girls I was with, he introduced the Drummer of the band Roger Taylor. Each member of the band stood up as they were introduced & did a solo piece with whatever instrument they played. Shortly after the warm-up band finished, Duran Duran came on & started with some of their biggest hits.Īfter they had sung a few songs Simon welcomed everyone to the show & introduced all the band members one at a time. They all wondered where I had been & didn't believe a word I said when I told them I had been drinking with someone who must be something to do with the band & that I had met Simon & Yasmin le Bon at a bar above the stage. I then thought he must be a roadie or something else connected to the band.Īfter the band left I walked back down to the dance floor to the girls I had arrived with. Roger said goodbye to me & said it was nice meeting me but he had to go. After a short while, Simon & Yasmin said goodbye & told Roger they had better go down to the stage. Roger quickly introduced me to Yasmin & Simon le Bon & the rest of the band & people at the bar, telling them that I was from England but now lived in Orlando. I couldn't believe it & was just about to say something to Roger when Yasmin came across to him gave him a kiss & a hug & started talking. My first guess was that Roger must work at Disney & that we were going to the staff bar.Īs we arrived at the bar he ordered two more beers & as we stood at the bar talking I started looking around & saw that Simon le Bon & his wife Yasmin were standing drinking next to us. As we approached the door he opened it & walked through, as I walked through two large bouncers stopped me but before I could say anything to them, Roger turned around & said 'It's OK Alan is with me' & I was let in. Staying on the floor we were on, we walked around to a side door, to another bar, which must have been directly above the stage. I said OK & told him I didn't know there was another bar. We carried on talking for a while & as we finished our beers he told me he was going to a bar above the stage & asked if I wanted another beer. I told him my name was Alan & he told me his name was Roger. When I finished my beer I ordered myself another beer & asked him if he wanted one, he thanked me for the beer & asked me what my name was. I told him that I was there with a group of friends who were all dancing right in front of the stage so they could see the bands better. I told him that I had lived in Orlando for a few years & had seen a few groups there but that it was the first time I had seen Duran Duran. He asked me if I lived in Orlando & if I went to see many shows at The House of Blues. I told him I couldn't believe we were the only ones drinking upstairs & saying how busy it was at the downstairs bar. I walked up to the bar & asked the barmaid for a bottle of beer & began talking to the man there. When I got there I quickly ducked under the bar & was surprised to see that apart from myself there was no one else there apart from one barmaid who was serving a man at the bar. When I got to the end of the bar I quickly made sure no one would see me, then ducked under the serving hatch & walked up the stairs to the bar above. Realising that I would have to wait for ages to get served & remembering that at the end of & behind the bar was a staff staircase to get to the upstairs bar, I made my way to the end of the bar. I walked towards the bar only to find that the queue of people all along the length of the bar was four deep. I went with them to see where they would be, but after dancing with them briefly while the warm-up band was on, I decided I would get a beer before Duran Duran came on. There was a group of about eight of us going & it was my first time seeing Duran Duran, although I had been to the House of Blues several times. When we arrived the place was packed & the girls I was with all wanted to get on the dance floor as close to the stage as they could. When I lived in Orlando, I went to watch Duran Duran live at The House of Blues, in Walt Disney World.
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