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I've posted some more videos of the John Schlitt The Grafting India tour 2008, Chennai concert, in addition to the three that are already available at my YouTube channel . They are available at the following locations: 4. John Schlitt - The Grafting India tour May 08 : 04 Grafting 5. John Schlitt - The Grafting India tour May 08 : 05 Creed 6. John Schlitt - The Grafting India tour May 08 : 06 Beyond Belief I'm in the process of uploading the rest. Not got too many left, but am really looking forward to posting the one where Schlitt breaks off. Was the saddest moment of the entire evening, for me. Was standing there, totally stupefied, astonished and shocked. My jaw dropped open and stayed that way during his entire explanation. Unfortunately, AJ didn't realise what was going on, and so John's apology speech didn't get recorded. Not even a little bit. :( But, I guess that's the way it's meant to be. :)

Hey all.... I've just had a glorious weekend sleeping over at S uncle's place (from church). And yesterday, Sunday, I convinced him to purchase a MacBook. Or rather, I convinced him to take a look at the MacBook at the Imagine store in Forum Mall. (For the sake of our international readers, I should mention that India does not yet have a single Apple Store ) So we went... And I told one of the sales guys that this uncle wants to purchase a MacBook - so do your best job in selling it. Truth be told, half of the selling was done by moi .... There were even certain facts which that guy had got wrong. :) A quick check on the Internet proved I was right. The sales guy was mighty pleased to meet such an Apple fan... Anyways, I spent the night over at uncle's place, setting up Leopard (which is a cinch) and then going through a few key actions and customisations so that uncle would be able to find his way around it. Uncle was really really really pleased with GarageBand . He feel

Hello again, The videos of the Chennai concert are taking simply ages to upload. But they are in the process of being uploaded to my YouTube channel - http://www.youtube.com/ajcfreak/ Currently, I've uploaded only three videos - none of them of the song performances yet. John Schlitt - The Grafting India tour May 08 : 01 Setup John Schlitt - The Grafting India tour May 08 : 02 Pre-show John Schlitt - The Grafting India tour May 08 : 03 Kickoff Keep watching for the other videos... I really love the 03 Kickoff video... cos that's when John takes the stage! Yahoooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Hello all... The photos of the event are up on my Picasa folders. There are two folders - One with really high-quality pics, taken badly (cos we used the wrong setting on the camera) and another folder of pics taken with one of those point-and-shoot digicams. You may check out both folders at the following weblinks: http://picasaweb.google.com/ajcfreak/JohnSchlittTheGraftingIndiaTourChennaiMay17th http://picasaweb.google.com/ajcfreak/JohnSchlittTheGraftingIndiaTourChennaiMay17thSmallerCam And the photo of the moment (still) is this one: John Schlitt, with Dan (me)

Hi all... Just a quick note to let everyone know that the Chennai show was great. It kinda had a major hiccup, but I had the time of my life. I've got some photos and videos, but right now am sitting on a pretty slow connection. Will upload them within the next week - gimme few days. But for now, the photo of the moment is the one where John's got his arm around me!!!! (Tried uploading it - really slow connect, though! Try checking my orkut profile.)

We're at d John Schlitt concert... We got here at 3.30 and were let in at half past five... And right now, we're waiting for half past seven to arrive - which is when they're supposed to begin. But we've had a few issues with having such a huge camera at the concert... And also, we saw John's band doing d sound check wit a few Petra numbers and a few of John's own. Haven't seen or heard THE man yet - we're all eyes. The posters have been printed - we're all set. Let's get rocked, people.

Well, looking at my list made earlier , let's see how far we've come, shall we: 1. Front-row seats (350 bucks each) Check! 2. Arrive at the venue at 3.55 PM (gates open at 4; concert's at 7 PM) 3. Buy a white tee   Check! 4. Buy a permanent marker 5. Hold up a sign saying "I made your promo video, John!" (Ha - only I can do that!)   Slightly different , but still - Check! 6. Get Daddy's big, badass semi-SLR Digi Cam - it's photos and videos galore   That, plus a video cam to film the whole event - Check! 7. Make sure the whole world knows where you're gonna be   Chk orkut, or google "Human Divination", thou should know - Check! 8. Get a splitting headache You gonna be there or what?!

So, if you check the stuff that needs to be done to attend a John Schlitt concert , you'd see that a poster was mentioned.... Why not make it three?!!?! Well, so we're gonna get a few posters printed out on A3 size paper, and then hold it up, from our front-row seats (no points for guessing that we won't be seated!) so that John (and the band) could see it... and be encouraged!!! In honour of the song, God Is Too Big , from John's 1996 album, Unfit For Swine . Wake The Dead, is an awesome way to start off John's first solo album, Shake (1995) We Worship You , from Unfit For Swine (1996) and Lord, Have Mercy , from The Grafting (2008) would definitely be sung at the concert (we're hoping!) and we hope to hold this poster up when those songs get sung.... All in all, we're planning to go grand this saturday. So be there... cos John Schlitt will definitely be there!!! NOTE: If you're still looking around for tickets, try GenXEntertainment.com and/or call 0

Yep - a little bit of lobbying yielded a lot more photos. For your joy and excitement, I'm putting up some more of the photos that I could get my hands on.... We've arrived, yo Indians look out! Chk yer belongings.... got 'em all? YAIY! Go guys... Our Indian promoter being quite encouraging (John Schlitt) He came.... He saw.... And he ordered food.... Yep. Looks like that's what he's doing here.... Just outta curiosity, I'd like to know exactly what he ate, and how his western stomach adjusted to our spicy curry and food..... :D

So... The tour of Petra 's lead vocalist for twenty years - John Schlitt - is all set to begin. I've bought myself a nice white tee that I'm hoping to get him to sign.... and we're planning on printing out some vinyl poster or something. Let's see. But for those of you itching for a glimpse of the rock vocalist, here're a coupla pix of the maestro stepping onto Indian soil - at the Chennai International airport. John pushing around some equipment.... C'mon guys - don't make our hero work so hard!!!! :D John with one of the promoters of the tour, I guess. Don't know this bigwig by face.... John's band members mill around, as John looks on........... So... John Schlitt, people... in the flesh. Is in namma singara Chennai. This is gonna be awesome, this is gonna be cool, this is gonna be rocking and this is definitely gonna be mind-blowing. God is amazing. Also, if nobody remembered to mention it to John, it's gonna be swelteringly hot! Run to