True Blood fans have written to The Vault to share their experience about Friday night’s Out4Blood Event at the Echoplex in Los Angeles which highlighted the Grammy Nominated True Blood Soundtrack.
Gary Calamar, True Blood’s Music supervisor, DJ’d the show which included Jace Everett, CC Adcock, John Doe, Chuck Prophet, Pilbilly Knights, and Todd Lowe and his band. Below are the accounts of two fans, Kelby and Tessa. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us!
Kelby says:
I had a fantastic evening. My sister, Carissa, her friend, Bernadette, and I are all huge fans of the show and have been great followers on the music and soundtrack. When I heard there was going to be a True Blood concert with all the music I knew I had to go. We had never gone to the Echoplex, but when we arrived we were more than excited and could not believe it was down a random alley on the street, but we love those types of places. The Pilbilly Knights kicked off the night first and were outrageous and genius. They have great sound, stage presence, and were very entertaining overall. I loved their three girl dancers, ahah! During the John Doe performance I heard my sister’s friend say, “We found vampire Bill.” We didn’t want to cause a scene and so we very quietly went up to him and asked for a picture. He was kinder than I could have ever imagined. I usually don’t like to bother people for pictures, but he didn’t seem to mind too much at all. In fact, he thought he blinked in one photo and insisted I take another one just to make sure he had his eyes open. He could not have treated us as fans any better and when we apologized for getting him noticed by other fans he kept saying, “Don’t worry love.“ We were way too excited by now and couldn’t believe how great the night was going. Before we know it we see Stephen Moyer walking away from the crowd with his arm around some girl with a bunch of tattoos. We knew he was dating Anna Paquin and it turned out it was her. We finally all asked for picture with Anna as well. “Of course you can,” she said with a big smile. I was starting to feel bad for thinking these people I love on the show could possibly be assholes in reality because now Anna Paquin was treating us as if we were all friends. We thanked her and went on our way. We danced nonstop towards the back through Jace Everett and CC Adcock. The night could not have gone any better and we got more out of it than we could have ever expected. We were all big fans of True Blood, but after this night we became lifelong obsessed True Blood fans. Below are Kelby’s photos from the event.
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Tessa says:
Gary Calamar DJ’d the event and he was fantastic; wish he could be my personal DJ. He had a lot of songs from the show, including the songs from which the episode titles were pulled. First Todd Lowe’s band played. Then Todd came back out and introduced John Doe, who was definitely a highlight of the night. I’m not a big X fan but I hadn’t heard his solo stuff yet. It was beautiful and well-crafted. After John finished, Michelle Forbes and Chris Bauer came out to introduce Jace Everett. He was pretty good. Everyone was really excited for Bad Things, which he played last of course. After he finished there was a mass exodus of people, leaving what seemed to be about half of the audience to witness CC Adcock and the Lafayette Marquis. I managed to get right up to the rail and was watching them set up the stage, and then I looked to the side of the stage where you could see a dressing room door, and all of a sudden I see Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer walk through. I looked to the girl on my left who saw the same thing and our eyes bulged. No one else seemed to notice them. So we enjoyed our private little secret for a couple minutes before the two of them came on stage to introduce CC and his band which absolutely killed and were the best of the night for sure. Jace came out and sat on the side of the stage for some of his set. After they finished there was one more act not mentioned on the flyer, Chuck Prophet. All the lights throughout the venue were red. It was a really cool night, with an interesting collection of people in the audience. Below are Tessa’s photo and videos from the event.
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Does Anna’s dress have an extremely low cut back?
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Tessa Reply:
February 1st, 2010 at 1:04
Yes, extremely. Almost down to her butt. Haha. It was hot.
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Anna has a tatoo on her arm?
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Sanna Reply:
January 31st, 2010 at 16:07
It’s painted :-)
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wkw Reply:
January 31st, 2010 at 18:27
Whew. I wondered.
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Sanna Reply:
January 31st, 2010 at 19:09
I think she wanted it to go with the outfit. Her whole look is very gothic and the tatoos fit, I guess, haha
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Thanks Kelby and Tessa so much for this. I was kinda worried that we wouldn’t get to read any stories, lol! Sounds awesome. And that clip with Stephen and Anna introducing(even though you can hardly hear anything, hehe) is very very cute
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Thank you Kelby for sharing, and allowing us TB fans to experience what a great night you plus sis & friend had at the Out4Bkood Event. The photo’s are great.
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Many thanks to Kelby and Tessa for sharing their experiences/pics with ASM and The Vault. I’m surprised the mainstream media wasn’t there, but it kinda makes it cooler that it was a funky, low-key concert – very appropriate for a show like True Blood.
I’m glad Stephen and Anna took time to pose for pics with fans. That would’ve definitely been the highlight for me!
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Thanks, Kelby and Tessa, for sharing your Out4Blood experiences … both stories and pics. Much appreciated. Sounds like a fantastic evening. I’m with Lou. The highlight for me would have been a picture taken with Anna and Stephen.
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Sounds like it was a blast and a chance to see some the cast. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for sharing your story, you lucky people! Once again confirming the generousity & kindness of our Stephen & Anna in RL to their fans. Sanna, thanks for explaining tats on Anna, I thought so. Had to chuckle at Kelby saying she knew they were “dating” — hmm, it’s a bit more than a dating situation. I’m amazed at how much they’ve been out & about at many events the past few weeks. I wish I had their energy, especially while working full time shooting TB.
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Thanks so much for the story and pictures…….I love reading about how nice Stephen and Anna are to their fans. They are so adorable! Love them!!
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THNX KELBY AND TESSA!!! U ARE SO LUCKY!!!!
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Thankyou very much! I really enjoyed your article, pics and vid!
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Thanks for sharing with someone (me) who is neither young enough or cool enough to attend this type of thing and not look like someone’s mom who was checking up on her kid. As always, they were genial to fans. Great pictures!
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wow..if Stephen would have said that to me ” don’t worry love” I wouldn’t have been able to walk a straight line after that!
Anna with a bunch of tats…hmmmmm interesting……could have been for the outfit , could have been for some upcoming scenes…….
thanks for posting!! how exciting.:D
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@Dorothea, you are not alone. Age is irrelevant, trust me, when it comes to being attracted, obsessed, or addicted to certain actors, who caught our attention based on the characters they play, and then we find out that they are amazingly normal, grounded, genuinely good, smart interesting people we would want to know in real life. Regarding Stephen & Anna, there’s other things in that mix. A true RL loving relationship. So it goes, and can’t keep my eyes away and I’m sure I’m at least your age.
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Sanna Reply:
February 2nd, 2010 at 13:22
I really do think it was just for the outfit. It if was for a scene, then she wouldn’t have it on when she wasn’t filming
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Sanna Reply:
February 2nd, 2010 at 13:23
Oops, that was ment to Lovely. Sorry, haha
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