This page is called *N Counters for a reason. Here, you
can put up your encounters with the group *N Sync! Have
you gone to a concert? Have you met them in person? Well,
you've come to the right place! Just simply e-mail me
your story at the address at the bottom of this page,
and I'll put up your story! Simple, huh? Of course it is!
Well, since this page has just started, I don't have many
*N Counters yet! Please send them in! Thanx! - Desi
Well, I went to the *N Sync concert on April 15th, 1999
at the Cox Arena in San Diego, CA. I went with my friend,
Sandy. We got there pretty early...about 4:somehing P.M.,
and the concert didn't start until 8:00 P.M. When we got
there, we heard a bunch of girls screaming as if *N Sync
was outside, so we ran there. Sandy grabbed my arm and
we started running for the gate where everyone else was.
I must have been running too fast for myself because I
fell. I got back up and continued running. We waited
outside until about 7:30 when they let everyone inside.
We were so excited! Once we got inside and situated, the
guys kept peeking their heads out from backstage, and of
course, the fans ran as far over to them in the bleachers
as they could. I got a small glimpse of Justin, but that
was the extent of it. Then, the crowd went back to their
seats and the lights went out. Everyone started screaming!
The first openers was a group called "Blaque." They were
pretty good, although they didn't really hype up the
crowd that much. Then the lights went out again, and they
announced Tatiana Ali. She really tore it up. After her
performance, the lights went out again and then the main
lights came on. The crew went and removed a huge curtain
and tarps from the stage. When the lights finally went
out again, There was so much screaming! There was a giant
television screen in the back of the stage, and it came
on. There was a monster on the screen, and then one on
the stage. It began to move and dance, then they took it
down. *N Sync went backstage and took off their black
cloaks and came out again and grabbed giant neon poles
that glowed. When all this is happening, there is only
black lights on, and the guys are in costumes that cover
their entire bodies, including their faces. They danced
and did tricks with the glowing sticks. All the lights
went out and they tore off their costumes. There were
pyrotechnics on both sides of the stage and the lights
came on. They were really hyped! They opened up with
"Here We Go." It was so loud! It was so cool being able
to see them live! Here's what they wore: Justin:
Turquoise/white/black jacket, white undershirt, black
pants; J.C.: Yellow/black Adidas jacket, yellow Adidas
undershirt (longsleeve), black Adidas pants; Lance: Neon
green Adidas jacket, white Adidas undershirt, black
Adidas pants; Joey: White Adidas jacket with red stripes,
red undershirt, black Adidas pants; Chris: Green Jets
jersey (#19), black Adidas pants. J.C. said "What's up,
San Diego!!!" and the place erupted even more! I was
screaming so loudly, and poor Sandy couldn't scream much
'cause she had a Show Choir performance the next day.
The next song that they performed was "You Got It." That
was cool. They then took a teeny tiny break to set up
for the next song. They brought up the girls that had
won a contest or something or had backstage passes onto
the stage. They got to be onstage with *NSYNC!!! I was
so jealous! They brought out chairs and they spun them.
The song was "For The Girl Who Has Everything," and J.C.
and Justin sang the song, I believe. J.C. put so much
emotion into the song! I got the best picture of him
singing this song. Then, the TV came on and showed stuff
from the sixties. They came out and sang "That Thing You
Do." They were all wearing red suit jackets and black
pants with black shirts underneath. They all played
instruments, too. J.C. sang, Justin played bass guitar,
Chris played lead guitar, Lance played keyboards, and
Joey played the drums. Then they had scenes from the
seventies and they came out in afros and huge hats and
sang "ABC." That was cool. Chris sang lead. Then there
were scenes from the eighties and they sang "Celebration."
They looked like the New Kids on the Block!!! Then they
finally reached the nineties. They were all wearing
different colored Tommy Hilfiger jerseys. Here's what
they were wearing: Justin: Baby blue/white/navy blue;
J.C.: Navy blue/yellow/?????; Lance: Green/white/black;
Joey: White/red/navy blue; Chris: Navy blue/red/white.
They were all wearing black pants, too. They sang one of
their songs, "Crazy for you." After the song, they went
backstage and grabbed black jackets and put them on.
They sang "I Drive Myself Crazy" in acapella and then
the music came on. They sang it with the music for most
of the way, but they ended it in acapella, too. It was
so beautiful! The next song was "I Just Wanna Be With
You." I love the choreography in this song!!! It was so
good! The next song they did was "God Must Have Spent A
Little More Time On You." The end of the song was really
great. Justin has the last part, and instead of saying
"A little more time..." like he's supposed to, he just
stopped. He looked around at the audience and everyone
screamed louder. Then he'd tease us by singing a little
bit and stopping again. He did this like three times.
The last time, Joey was looking at his watch, and looking
up, waiting. I don't know what J.C. or Lance were doing,
but Chris came up to Justin and whispered something in
his ear. Justin shook his head yes, and Chris began to
walk away. Then he came back and said something else to
him and walked away, but this time, Justin looked
disturbed, or even upset by what he was just told. He
finished the song for real this time. It was so great.
They escorted their "guests" off the stage and they went
off as well. They went and changed into new outfits.
This time they had yellow/ black/orange flame shirts on
and black pants. They sang "I Want You Back." That was
cool. Joey even did that "I want you, I want you back,
girl" thing he does before the bridge. They finished the
song and went backstage. The TV came on again and they
showed the video to "U Drive Me Crazy." I had never
heard the song before, and now I love it! I fell in love
with the song and the video at the concert. When the
video was over, they came out in these jumpsuit things.
I didn't know what was going on, but they were being
hooked up with these harnesses. The music for "Sailing"
came on and they sang the song. Before the first chorus
came on, they all stood up from their stools and moved
away from them a bit. As J.C. sang "Sailing," he was
lifted up and the rest followed. They formed a pyramid.
Before the chorus was over, they all came back to the
stage except for J.C. He started going across the
audience and moving his arms and legs like he was
running. He sang the second verse like that, and then
when the chorus came on again, the rest of *NSYNC
started flying across the audience. They kept going up
and down and they got almost close enough to touch the
people. It has got to be the coolest thing I have ever
seen in my life. They finally got back to the stage and
unhooked themselves. They finished the concert with
"Tearin' Up My Heart." It was so energetic and they all
know how to dance so well!!! When the song was over,
they got back into their harness thingies (actually,
just the cables were reattached) and flew over the
audience again. They were having so much fun up there
doing flips and stuff. They got back to the stage and
said thank you and everything and made their way to the
top of the stage. If I remember correctly, there were
more pyrotechnics and they disappeared when the lights
went out. It was so great!!! I'll never forget that
night. It was the first concert I've ever been to, and I
had so much fun. If you haven't been to an *NSYNC concert,
I highly recommend that you go!
Kerrie's *N Counter
I went to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena,California on July 24th. Yes! The same
day that "Celebrity" was released!!! My two best friends and I woke up at
6:30 AM that morning. We were sooo psyched! This was going to be my first
*nsync concert and their second! We packed up the car (which we decorated the
night before). We TRIED to eat breakfast, we took showers, got dressed and
left for Best Buy at 9:30 AM. We got their at 9:55 and their was already a
line. The second the store opened, we ran in and bought , what other than
"Celebrity". We got four copies, one for each of us and then my friend
Justina's mom (who drove us) wanted one. We popped the CD in and blasted
"POP" as we left the parking lot. Girls went crazy cause the back of our car
said "POPODYSSEY TOUR 2001 - ROSE BOWL". We then realized how lucky we were
to be going! We only had three hours to meet Justin's challenge of knowing
all the words for the concert. We would be at the venue in 3 hours...then we
woud wait to catch a glimpse of the guys. As we drove down the freeway, cars
that were also decorated starting screaming "yah!!!!!!!! *NSYNC RULES!!!!!!"
out their windows while also listening to "Celebrity". after about a 2 1/2
hour drive, we started getting nervous. Then we saw the sign that said "Rose
Bowl, next exit" WE FLIPPED! KiiSFM was already there and the fans were
screaming on the radio. We turned the CD back on (after turning it off for
like 2 seconds!) and BLASTED and do I mean BLASTED! "POP" we pulled into the
parking zone and jumped out of the car. We grabbed our *Nsync pants that had
taken us 2 months to make and ran to a portapottie to change into them. I was
wearing my Fuman Skeeto shirt. HECK YAH! SUPPORT THE FU!!!! We got changed
and went out to the radio station but it got boring after a while so we went
to the gates where we saw the most fans. We went right up to the gates and 2
seconds later my best friend Julie yells "OH MY GOD IT'S LANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!"
and we start freaking out as Lance drove around in a golf cart teasing the
crap out of us! He then went to the tent that was set up and picked up JC. My
best friend Justina that is OBSESSED with JC screamed at the top of her lungs
and almost fainted! They came ssssoooooo incredibly close to us. Of course me
being the dork that I am, I start crying and screaming for Chris. Justina's
mom got pics of them (u can go to my site listed below for pics that should
be up VERY soon!) . Then they left and we thought "they might come out of the
other side!" So we ran to the other gate. We waited for an hour an half...but
no *Nsync. We met, Steve Fatone, Joey's brother and Joey's dad, Anthony the
tour dude, Meredith Edwards, and the girls from the *NSync fan bus (pics on
the site). We then left and went to go talk to Meredith and Winter (the girls
from the *nsync fan bus). We took pics with them and chatted with them about
*nsync for about 20-30 minutes. I love those girls! My gosh! They are THE
SWEETEST!!!!!!!! We said our goodbyes and said we would keep in touch through
emails. we then left to go see what else was going on. We found out MTV's TRL
was there, so we went to check it out and we got a camera in our faces saying
"SAY HELLO TO MTV!!!" It was so cool to be on TRL! Then we were walking to
the carnival when the news caught our eyes. We went and talked to them and
got on some news channel. I wanted to check the radio station out again so we
walked over to the front of the big truck that was there. They started
playing "POP" and me and my two best friends started doing the dance.
EVERYONE stopped what they were doing and watched us in awe. We got some
beads for doing it "so good". and were on our way to the free carnival that
was set up outside the stadium. On our way we got stopped by a lot of people
admiring our *Nsync pants. Then we saw some girls from school that we aren't
to friendly with. But hey, they're *Nsync fans, so we said "hi" and hugged
and stuff. Then it was into the carnival...one problem...we couldn't go on
any rides cause we couldn't sit down cause of our pants :) So we left and
went to stand by the radio station again in hopes of them playing "It's gonna
be me" cause that's our favorite dance to do. We were there for about 5
minutes when I felt someone watching me. I turned around and saw a lady from
the press taking pictures of my pants. I was like "SWEET!!!!!" She took pics
of me and my two friends and left...I dunno where those pics are going, but
it was so totally cool!!!!! We hung around for the rest of the day and took
pics...6 hours waiting for the concert to start. We went and bought tour
shirts, tour book, and visors. FINALLY it's 7:00 so we start walking into the
venue but then realize we have tickets for people that were supposed to meet
us at 6:30. We called them and they were a half an hour away from the
stadium, we were freaking out! 7:15 came and we called them again. They were
STILL 20 minutes away. "GREAT! WE'RE GONNA MISS THE CONCERT!" we were having
heart attacks. 7:45 came and we were pissed cause it started at 7:30, luckily
the opening acts were 2 1/2 hours long. We decided to go into the venue and
they can call us from there and we will stand by the gate and meet them. They
finally get there and Justina's mom goes to give them the tickets as we go to
3 different gates just to get into the concert. "you need to go to gate 5"
said two people from the event staff "you need to go to gate 7" said two
other people from gate 5. "You need to go to the table over there to get a
bracelet cause ur on the floor" said the pople in gate 7. We got our
bracelets on and were told to go to gate 8 to get down onto the floor. We get
down their and are amazed. "OH MY GOD!!!!!!! LOOK HOW CLOSE WE ARE!!!!!!!!!"
I screamed with excitement. "Section B5, 18th row" we repeat as we get closer
and closer to the stage. "HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS WE ARE STILL GOING AND THE STAGE
IS RIGHT THERE!" Julie screams. We find our seats and are in TOTAL AWE! They
both thank me for finding other seats. Before when it was just going to be
the two of them going they had section 5 in the stands. I went online in May
and got new seats for us cause I decided that I wanted to go and so did
Justina's mom. We had missed the first two opening acts. Eden's Crush
::blah:: and Meredith Edwards who I actually wanted to see. Then Dante Thomas
came on with Nelly or someone. ::blah:: then Samantha Mumba! She is so
awesome! Then Rick Dees came out and started teasing us. They had a LOT of
commercials and stuff as they counted down from 30 minutes until
"POPODYSSEY". I was totally freaking out. Then the countdown got good. 10
seconds, 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2...Joey comes on the screen in a "movie" about Nsync
starting from when they first started out. They popped out of this peapod
thingie on the other side of the catwalk. Oh boy was it awesome!!! They sang
"pop" "Tearin up my heart, i want you back, and GMHSALMTOY" in a medly
thingie. I balled yet again. They sang "up against the wall" "the game is
over" "this i promise you" "gone" "the two of us" "celebrity" "no strings
attached" "space cowboy" riding mechanical bulls ::WOAH!:: "Selfish"
"Falling" "see right through you" "it's gonna be me" and "bye bye bye" On
"Selfish" Justin saw Justina and Julie's laser things that said "Celebrity"
and "Justin!" on them and sang to them, pointed to Julie saying "all i want
is your love", winked, then waved and stayed facing us the rest of the time
till he went to the other stage. Then on Chris' solo, it was very quiet and
the stage was litterally like right on top of us and I screamed "CHRIS I LOVE
YOU!" and started balling yet again. He was facing the other way, so he
turned around saw me and waved at me! I then broke down and started screaming
and crying that I love him. (Come to find out later, I was sitting right next
to his mom and little sister,LOL) Then on "No Strings Attatched" Me, Justina,
and Julie were doing the dance, JC saw us and smiled! Before we knew it, the
concert was over. We cried as we walked back to the car. I felt proud that we
had met Justin's challenge and we were screaming every single word to the new
songs. We got in the car and balled as "Gone" came on the radio. I tried to
tell Julie that I couldn't believe we just saw them, but I had no voice.
"Kerrie got laryngitis" Justina said laughing. I attempted to scream "SHUT
UP!" but nothing but air came out of my mouth. I cried even harder and opened
my window and Julie scream "KERRIE LOVES CHRISTOPHER ALAN KIRKPATRICK" I felt
a little better, but not totally. We sat in the parking lot for an hour
before we got out. We drove back home and got home at 4 in the morning. We
fell asleep so fast, but I woke up at 6:30 and woke Julie up. (we were all at
Justina's). Justina's brother came out to the living room where we were
playing the *nsync game and told us how it was all over the news and MTV and
that it was the biggest "release party" ever. I tried to scream with
happiness, but all that came out were tears. All in all, i've been to 3
hanson concerts (they USED to be my favorite) but those concerts put together
will NEVER add up to the ONE *nsync concert I attended. I really hope they
release this concert out on video or HBO or something because the fans that
didn't see it, have no idea what they are missing. And people that aren't
fans will DEFINATELY become fans after this concert!
