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mabram
Beacon Journal pop music writer Malcolm X Abram was invited to spend Friday afternoon with the Jonas Brothers as they toured Northeast Ohio before their sold-out Blossom concert. Here's how the first part of the day unfolded.
12:30 p.m. — Rock and Roll Hall of Fame conference room. Two pools of reporters, one local and the other from Japan and Brazil, are listening to many, many instructions before we join the Jonas Brothers (insert reflexive scream here) on the special tour/photo op/interview/artifact presentation.
Most of the rules are from the rock hall officials, and it's obvious that the brothers' tour/photo/interview op has been carefully planned, with curator Jim Henke and Meredith Rutledge set to take the trio around the building. Security folks are floating around and there's a slowly growing crowd awaiting a peek at the boys.
It feels like the president is coming, only there are no stern-faced men in dark suits talking into their sleeves. ''I half expect someone to bring in bomb-sniffing dogs,'' one photographer says.
Aside from the official Jonas Brothers press pool, there are a couple of girls who through familial connections will get to meet the boys. For the reporters, they become immediate Jonas Brothers expert sources, answering questions such as ''wait, which one is Nick?''
1 p.m. — The press pool is shuffled back into the lobby, where a crowd of young fans and their chaperones has somehow managed to hear about the event. The energy is palpable as more security folks get in place to protect the boys from about 100 girls and a few boys.
One little girl simply can't stop bouncing up and down while another is gnawing her nails to the nub, eyes wide open. Several are sporting their official Jonas Brothers T-shirts and a few more are holding small posters in the hope of getting them signed by one of the boys.
1:37 p.m. — ENTER THE JONAS BROTHERS. Nick, Kevin and Joe, along with Mama Denise, Papa Kevin, little brother Frankie, aka the Bonus Jonas, and Big Rob, arguably the most famous bodyguard among the 7- to 14-year-old set, make their entrance. Surprisingly, the assembled (and still growing) group of fans manages to keep cool, thrusting signable objects, some of which they are already wearing, at the trio. The boys meet up with Henke, who begins his spiel on the cylindrical cases full of other famous folks' guitars.
''Omigod, omigod, omigod,'' one girl repeats while watching the youngest of the trio, Nick, text someone in front of one of Jerry Garcia's guitars.
More to come . . .
mabram
Beacon Journal pop music writer Malcolm X Abram was invited to spend Friday afternoon with the Jonas Brothers as they toured Northeast Ohio before their sold-out Blossom concert. Here's how the first part of the day unfolded.
12:30 p.m. — Rock and Roll Hall of Fame conference room. Two pools of reporters, one local and the other from Japan and Brazil, are listening to many, many instructions before we join the Jonas Brothers (insert reflexive scream here) on the special tour/photo op/interview/artifact presentation.
Most of the rules are from the rock hall officials, and it's obvious that the brothers' tour/photo/interview op has been carefully planned, with curator Jim Henke and Meredith Rutledge set to take the trio around the building. Security folks are floating around and there's a slowly growing crowd awaiting a peek at the boys.
It feels like the president is coming, only there are no stern-faced men in dark suits talking into their sleeves. ''I half expect someone to bring in bomb-sniffing dogs,'' one photographer says.
Aside from the official Jonas Brothers press pool, there are a couple of girls who through familial connections will get to meet the boys. For the reporters, they become immediate Jonas Brothers expert sources, answering questions such as ''wait, which one is Nick?''
1 p.m. — The press pool is shuffled back into the lobby, where a crowd of young fans and their chaperones has somehow managed to hear about the event. The energy is palpable as more security folks get in place to protect the boys from about 100 girls and a few boys.
One little girl simply can't stop bouncing up and down while another is gnawing her nails to the nub, eyes wide open. Several are sporting their official Jonas Brothers T-shirts and a few more are holding small posters in the hope of getting them signed by one of the boys.
1:37 p.m. — ENTER THE JONAS BROTHERS. Nick, Kevin and Joe, along with Mama Denise, Papa Kevin, little brother Frankie, aka the Bonus Jonas, and Big Rob, arguably the most famous bodyguard among the 7- to 14-year-old set, make their entrance. Surprisingly, the assembled (and still growing) group of fans manages to keep cool, thrusting signable objects, some of which they are already wearing, at the trio. The boys meet up with Henke, who begins his spiel on the cylindrical cases full of other famous folks' guitars.
''Omigod, omigod, omigod,'' one girl repeats while watching the youngest of the trio, Nick, text someone in front of one of Jerry Garcia's guitars.
More to come . . .
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