Hello all, as many of you already know I had the privilege of attending the 53rd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday February 13, 2011....... for free he he he. It was so much fun once I actually got in the building and I went from not seeing any celebrities in L.A. to seeing a whole slew of them; that's right I said slew. I saw the cream of the crop of music celeb's up close for those of you who are still wondering how in the heck I even went; I was working as a seat filler. A seat fillers job is to sit in empty seats when someone leaves, goes to the bathroom, gets up to present/ perform, or maybe they just didn't show up. The producers of the awards shows want to make sure that from the beginning to the end of the show every seat near the stage is full, so that when the camera pans the audience it doesn’t look empty. So I was there working, but working at the Grammy's is wear work and fun meet.
After checking in and waiting for 2 hours, all the seat fillers had to walk through a crowd of protesters to get to the Staples Center. The protesters were holding up signs saying “God hates Ga Ga" and "Read your Bible" and some random guy saying how Jewish people stole some bodies music. I didn't know what in the world he was talking about but it was very weird walking through my first protesters group. Once I got past that, we had to wait about another hour before the show actually started.
We finally got into the arena and sat on the floor in the "seat fillers holding section (SFHS)" behind this very large structure that was blocking the stage. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to stay there for the remainder of the show, so whenever I got a chance to move up to the front I did, or at least I tried. See what would happen is the guy would run to the SFHS and say “Alright I need 5 people or 8 people or 3 people" and when he said that you had to get up and move. Sometimes the seats filled up so fast that if you didn't get there quickly you would have to go back to the SFHS.
I made 3 attempts to move to the front before being turned around because I wasn’t needed. But finally I got to the side of the Staples center, it wasn't a great seat but at least my view wasn't blocked by a large black structure (that's what she said). I realized that towards the middle of the show a lot of people were starting to leave. If a celebrity was nominated for an award but didn't win they would just leave so that was the perfect time for me to move up if I wanted to. I took initiative and moved up on my own and ended up sitting in the roots seat. When B.O.B and Bruno Mars left seat filler and I decided to move up into their seats which was right next to Janelle Monae. I spoke to Janelle and she is really nice and pretty. I sat in that seat for the remainder of the show which were pretty damn good seats. It was 3 rows behind Beyonce and Gwyneth Paltrow and Russell Brand and Katy Perry were diagonally to my right about two rows up. I had a great seat for Rihanna and Drakes performance which I really enjoyed.
Some of the celebrities saw up close was:
The Roots
Cee Lo Green
Gwyneth Paltrow
Beyonce
Janelle Monae
B.O.B.
Bruno Mars
Paramore
Dr. Dre
Cindy Lauper
Lenny Kravitz ( who is really short)
Rihanna
Drake
Russell Brand
Katy Perry
Jennifer Lopez
Mark Anthony
Lori Ann Gipson (choreographer)
Jimmy Jam (Producer)
This was a very fun experience and I would defiantly do it again, it just sucks that we were.
After checking in and waiting for 2 hours, all the seat fillers had to walk through a crowd of protesters to get to the Staples Center. The protesters were holding up signs saying “God hates Ga Ga" and "Read your Bible" and some random guy saying how Jewish people stole some bodies music. I didn't know what in the world he was talking about but it was very weird walking through my first protesters group. Once I got past that, we had to wait about another hour before the show actually started.
We finally got into the arena and sat on the floor in the "seat fillers holding section (SFHS)" behind this very large structure that was blocking the stage. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to stay there for the remainder of the show, so whenever I got a chance to move up to the front I did, or at least I tried. See what would happen is the guy would run to the SFHS and say “Alright I need 5 people or 8 people or 3 people" and when he said that you had to get up and move. Sometimes the seats filled up so fast that if you didn't get there quickly you would have to go back to the SFHS.
I made 3 attempts to move to the front before being turned around because I wasn’t needed. But finally I got to the side of the Staples center, it wasn't a great seat but at least my view wasn't blocked by a large black structure (that's what she said). I realized that towards the middle of the show a lot of people were starting to leave. If a celebrity was nominated for an award but didn't win they would just leave so that was the perfect time for me to move up if I wanted to. I took initiative and moved up on my own and ended up sitting in the roots seat. When B.O.B and Bruno Mars left seat filler and I decided to move up into their seats which was right next to Janelle Monae. I spoke to Janelle and she is really nice and pretty. I sat in that seat for the remainder of the show which were pretty damn good seats. It was 3 rows behind Beyonce and Gwyneth Paltrow and Russell Brand and Katy Perry were diagonally to my right about two rows up. I had a great seat for Rihanna and Drakes performance which I really enjoyed.
Some of the celebrities saw up close was:
The Roots
Cee Lo Green
Gwyneth Paltrow
Beyonce
Janelle Monae
B.O.B.
Bruno Mars
Paramore
Dr. Dre
Cindy Lauper
Lenny Kravitz ( who is really short)
Rihanna
Drake
Russell Brand
Katy Perry
Jennifer Lopez
Mark Anthony
Lori Ann Gipson (choreographer)
Jimmy Jam (Producer)
This was a very fun experience and I would defiantly do it again, it just sucks that we were.
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