The Official Clay Aiken Discussion Thread

[disneychrista]

Where can you download files from the concert? Since Clay apparently has forgotten that there is more to the US then the West Coast, I have no opportunity to see him . Did I hear that right that he sings 70 songs during the concert? that can't be right? Can it? That would mean that the concert is 4 hours long.

 

[scarlett873]

nice picture!!! i assume that's from last night's show...

sigh...just a few more weeks!!

 

[Kimber1963]

You can download video on this website:

http://www.allthingsclayaiken.com/videos.html

He sings songs from each rock decade starting with the 50's. If you want the songlist from last night, I have that also.

 

[Kimber1963]

The 50's Medley
Twistin' the Night Away
Johnny be Good
Rockin' Robin
The Great Pretender
Only You
I'll Be Blue
Mr. Postman
Mr. Sandman
That'll Be The Day
Rockin' Roll Is Here To Stay
Let’s go to the Hop
Great Balls of Fire

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Unchained Melody --- FULL SONG
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Elvis Medley
Love Me Tender
Hound Dog
Blue Swade Shoes
Don't Be Cruel
Rock Around The Clock
Heartbreak Hotel
Jail House Rock
I Can't Help Falling In Love With You
Suspicious Minds

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The 60's Medley
Daydream Believer
Downtown
Can't Buy Me Love
Sugar Sugar
Happy Together

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Solitaire --- FULL SONG
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Mowtown Medley
Where Did Our Love Go? --- Angela
Midnight Train To Georgia --- Quiana
My Girl
Tears of a Clown
Rescue Me --- Angela/Quiana
Heard It theought The Grapevine
I'll be There
Freedom
Ain't No Mountain High Enough --- Clay/Angela

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INTERMISSION --- 20 MINUTES
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The 70's Medley
Car Wash
Oh What A Night
September
Nights On Broadway
To Much Heaven
I Feel The Earth Move --- Angela

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Mandy --- FULL SONG
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Bridge Over Troubled Water --- FULL SONG
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When Doves Cry --- FULL SONG
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The 80's Medley
All Night Long
Never Gonna Give You Up
Alone
Rock With You --- Jacob

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Sailing --- FULL SONG
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The 90's Medley
Can't Touch This --- Introduction
Black Velvet
End Of The Road --- Clay/Jacob
Iris
Livin' La Vida Loca
I Can't Make You Love Me
Turn Down The Lights
I Will Always Love You --- Quiana
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The 00's Medley (MOAM Songs)
I Will Carry You
The Way
When You Say You Love Me

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2 New Songs
Song 1 - Back For More --- UPTEMPO
-- First one has a strong back beat. I can't hear the words. Fast song. High notes. Good dance tune. A brand new sound for him! Brand new!!!!!! Cool song. One lyric is "I can't breathe."

Song 2 - Just You --- BALLAD
-- Slower song. Some high notes. I love it!!! Brand new sound again. Like nothing we've ever heard him sing. Can't catch the words. Wailing at one point. Good rock sound to it. Shows off his voice beautifully. This is a brand new sound.

Invisible
ENCORE--This is the Night

 

[scarlett873]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BOTW???? WDC?????? How will i survive the night????????




EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

 

[Fantasmic303]

Um, Brandie? You won't survive the night.

This is Kylene's spirit talking. She didn't make it past the grinding in WDC last night, but she asked me to check in with y'all.

You seriously...won't...survive.

I've gotta leave shortly, so I don't have time to do a play by play, but I love every stupid little thing about that kid/man/guy/Clay. He looks really good in green. And orange. And a suit with a skinny tie. And even polyester.

His sarcasm and self-deprecating humor? I think we've found a winner. He'd hold his own at any family dinner in my house.

And you know what sticks with me the most?

He's got the best laugh. Absolute. Are any of you familiar with the Disneyland version of Fantasmic? And the segment with Peter Pan, right at the end, when he says to the croc, "do you like codfish? You DOOOOO" and then laughs??

Clay has that laugh. It's infectious.

You know, I know he's a dork, and I love him for it, but watching him tonight, I really don't know how he could've been THAT shunned in high school. I suppose a lot has to do with the physical changes he's gone through (the boy's thighs aren't as skinny as they used to be, ladies!! ), and even more to do with his confidence, but I don't get how anyone could NOT like him.

Not love him? Sure....I guess. Kids can be cruel, but he's exactly the type of person who would've had a lot of friends in my high school. But maybe I'm biased and that's just coming from a cool dork.

The only weird thing about last night??

There was NO encore. He didn't perform This is the Night, and I made my family SIT there, with the lights on and everyone leaving for it, thinking, "har har....jokes on them, he's coming BACK!"

He didn't. I figured that out when they started striking the set and there was no more piano.

He was amazing, all you lucky girls....well, love him for me. Tell him I'll gladly retire to a modest home in North Carolina and spend my life writing and raising our hypothetical children. I'm not expensive. I can be frugal. We don't need to live the high life.

I just wanna hear him laugh.

Oh, I took pictures (some darn good ones too...yikes!!) but I don't have them hosted anywhere, so that'll be a project for when I get home from the game.


Let me tell you though...these darn Yankees are definitely going to be a let down after last night.

 

[Kimber1963]

Thanks for the great report, spirit of Kylene!

 

[padisneyfan]

Thanks for the great report. I have not purchased any tickets to see him, but after seeing him on GMA and the reports coming in about the concert it is making me change my mind. I live only 2 hours form Musifest and there are still tickets way back so I might have to break down and buy 1. I might be able to get my one friend to go. This is an open venue and my one big conern is the weather. Even though I really love Clay, I am not going to sit or stand in pouring down rain to see him.

I hope the dates for his Christmas concert come out soon. I am going to be at WDW 12/8-14. Last year he came to Baltimore early Dec so hopefully that happens again this year and I can see him before my trip.

Keep the concert reports coming in.

Nancy

 

[phisigprincess]

Still on a Clay high!!!! Figured I'd check in with you girls and tell you about the BEST CLAY SHOW I'VE EVER SEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, I've been to all 4 Clay tours and have got to say this was the best one yet! The show starts exactly at 8, so don't wait around thinking there's an opening act. Thank goodness my DSis called a Clay friend and found out - otherwise we would have missed the '50's! The show is LONG. It started at 8 and went till 11 or so. People actually left early!! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?!!! How could you do this is the better question! At one point Clay said "hey, you're leaving? Fine. Pshaw. Whatever!" It was too funny.

I almost fell over when he sang Mandy. Barry and Clay!?!? PERFECTION! And Mandy is probably my favorite Barry song too! They do costume changes through each of the decades which is really neat. During the intermission they have a thing where you can text message "Clay" and it shows up on the big jumbo screens. My sister sent one that said "Clay, I'm leaving my boyfriend Cody for you!" It was so funny! She was the 3rd TM on the screen or something. I doubt he actually reads them, but it was fun anyway.

WDC was WAY better than the last time if you can imagine that!! Angela, I am more jealous of you than any other human in the world. ::sigh:: Quiana, Angela, and Jacob all get their own songs which is great.

He actually FORGOT the words to "when you say you love me." It was too funny!! He went to the wrong verse and then just started laughing and asking the audience to help him out. THen he kept joking about there being 65 songs prior to that and the only lyrics he messed up were his own! Then he couldn't stop laughing through the rest of the song. Too cute!

For our show he sang the new song from GMA which I love and another ballad (it might have been the one metioned before). He said he switches them every show just to try them out. That way we're supposed to go see more shows. "Marketing, people. It's all about the marketing." I cracked up at that!

Invisible was the last song and he didn't do an encore. All in all it was the most fun I've had at a concert in a long time. Definately my favorite Clay show yet!!! Now I'm considering trying to get tickets to another show.... must.... not.... spend... more.... money!!!!!

So all of you people going have to check back in because each show is a little different.

 

[lsyorke]

WooHoo! Thanks for the report. We've heard nothing but good things about this show and the videos that are out there are amazing!

 

[scarlett873]

Woo hoo! 17 more days before I get to see Clayton!!!!!

 

[phisigprincess]

Woo hoo! 17 more days before I get to see Clayton!!!!!

Trust me, you will NOT be disappointed!!!


Is anyone else in the Official fan club?

 

[Fantasmic303]

Is anyone else in the Official fan club?

I am. But I'm boycotting right now 'cause it depresses me. I could only bring myself to stop in there once this weekend, and that was only to request meet 'n greets for later shows. Which I don't have tickets to. But I'll sell my sister if I win a meet 'n greet and have to buy scalper tickets.


And Brandi, no, you will NOT be disappointed. You may die and have to have your spirit post about it for all of us to read, but other than that one little detail, it'll be magical.


Can you possibly give him a little for me? Remember, I'm not expensive and would gladly retire to a modest home in North Carolina to write and raise our nerdy little Aiken babies. In fact, the only thing I require is frequent visits to Disney World, but we're DVC members, so he doesn't even need to worry about that!!

 

[Fantasmic303]

OH!!

I forgot!!

For anyone who doesn't get to keep up on the quickly ever changing life of Clay, mark your calendars:



Wednesday, September 14 on All My Children


"Erica Kane" will be interviewing Clay on her new talk show. If you don't watch AMC, you should probably still tune in for this one - it's on ABC, and here in CT, that's channel 7 or 8 at 1:00.

 

[scarlett873]

When he sings BOTW, is it the choir and all? Is it reminiscent of his BOTW on the AI finals? And more importantly, does he appear to hit the high note at the end? You know the one...ease your mIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIInd....


~flutter flutter flutter~

 

[Fantasmic303]

When he sings BOTW, is it the choir and all? Is it reminiscent of his BOTW on the AI finals? And more importantly, does he appear to hit the high note at the end? You know the one...ease your mIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIInd....


~flutter flutter flutter~

Yeah, you'll be fluttering.

But, actually, the "choir" is only Jacob, Angela, and Quiana. It's still an amazing rendition, though, and YES he hits his glory note. For our show (I assume staging is the same for every venue, but you never know), he actually came to the edge of the stage for it, so it was....amazing. The man was mere feet from me. Much more effective than being a little deeper in the stage.

Of course, that's not to take anything away from his Livin' La Vida Loca, which he DOES perform from the top of his stairs but....WHOA!!

When he rips that vest off....

It's amazing. And just to see the sheepish grin across his face as he does it is enough to send the spirit of Kylene back to the Dis.....

 

[disneychrista]

Where can I download files from his shows? audio video both? One of these days Clay will remember us on the west coast.

 

[Fantasmic303]

Check out http://www.allthingsclayaiken.com/videos.html. I've downloaded most of the mp3s, and they're holding me over, but I'm hoping there's better audio at some point. I'm on dial up, so I don't know how the videos are, but people are drooling over them on other boards, so they can't be too shabby.

 

[phisigprincess]

I think my sister almost passed out when he sang BOTW b/c it's her favorite! We call our voicemails during songs so we can have them after the concert. They're usually pretty crappy, but I do have to admit that I LOVE having them! Confession: I sat here at work on an "important phone call" while I was really just calling my cell phone's voicemail and listening to the Clay concert! LOL!!!! I highly recommend it to all of you!

The dancing during Livin' La Vida Loca about killed me! It was so great!! I WANT TO GO AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[shamrock bunch]

Hey there Phi Sig! I'd thought I'd check in here today knowing that you probably went to last nights concert. I couldn't go since it was my anniversary and my DH wouldn't even think of buying tickets and treating me to a special night. I did make him drive by and I could hear Clay singing Unchained Melody!!