American Idol Finale 2008

Wendsday was the season finale of the 2008 American Idol. I can't say I've seen the show since the days of Kelly and Justin, but my good friend Lauren was able to get 8 tickets and I love a good event so of course I thanked her for the invite with a yes! Although the taping was to begin at 5 pm pacific time, we had to leave at 8 am to pick up our hard tickets and from there on our little L.A. day was an adventure. First off, let me say, if you ever get the opportunity to see a live show taping, don't pass it up. There's a lot of chaos involved and hunts for parking spots, but seeing a show in person with the behind the scenes view of how it works, is well worth whatever trouble may come in the way.



For us, there was a lot of trouble. We had a late start, hitting the road at 8:30 with a tank of gas below empty and after 2 tickets, 1 wrong freeway, and 4 wrong exits we finally arrived. We only live around 40 minutes from L.A. but were surprised to see over 1,000 people already in line. We ended up being ticket number 1430-1434 with half of our party up in the 600's. It took until after 1 pm for us to finally get our hard tickets, which lucky for us was dead center orcestra tickets and we grabbed lunch and went to the showing.


Find what you can on youtube because it was amazing! The only acts that were leaked were the Jonas Brothes along with Carrie Underwood. I would have been happy with just those two acts, but Seal, George Michaels, Bryan Adams Jordin Sparks and many others performed as well. Even more so, whoever was not on stage that is in the business was in the audience. I was able to scope out Ashley Tisdale, Joel from the Soup, Matt Lienart, Blake Lewis, Justin from season 1, Michael Myers, Jerry Springer, and many more.

The crew worked very hard to make sure everyone in the audience was entertained and they did an amazing job. The finale passed my expectations providing for an excellent show that was beyond what they needed to do to provide a free show even though it was taped. Of course David Cook won, but although the night was meant to be on him, music lovers in general all enjoyed the show from start to finish. Just like a better wango tango besides the abscence of Miley Cyrus I can only thank the crew of American Idol for a fantastic evening, and I hope I can go again next year.