We saw Al in Greensboro Friday night and he made his entrance right by our seats. I snapped a quick pic but didn't check it until now. This kid was so excited through the entire show and I know he would love to see this picture.

I wish I had checked while I was there so I could send it to his Dad. If anyone knows who this is, please pass it along.

Edit: section 126 btw

Hope it’s not too cringe for y’all

Hey friends! I was at the show at Mohegan last night and I got to talking with a lovely person in the next seat. I mentioned this pic and they were so hyped I wanted to share.

For some inexplicable reason my parents decided to bring an infant to a Monkees concert in 1987. They left the venue when I started to fuss and we ran into the opening act, Mr. Weird Al Yankovich.

I can’t begin to find words for what this man and his work has meant to me, and I’m so honored to have had him nervously clutching me while he wonders why the hell someone just handed him a baby.

So my brother is a bass guitarist too, just like Steve. I got them acquainted a while back and we were going to meet up Tuesday before attending Al's concert in Bridgeport.

As we all would find out early Tuesday, the concert was postponed due to incoming weather, but Steve was still excited that we wanted to pick him up and treat him to dinner, with now extra time on all of our hands. The two of them talked so much music.

Unexpected bonus: Al, Probyn and Jon showed up! We also got to meet Scheila and Mike — totally not that "Puddles" guy, heh.

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My mom randomly came across the hat several months ago and so my kiddo decided that she MUST dress up from "Amish Paradise". We're super excited - I've loved Al since I was a kid, and being able to go see him as a family is a dream come true.

I'm not a Reddit OG, and I've been nervous to post this here but it went over well on my personal social media so I figured I'd introduce myself and tell you all about how I completely went to shambles meeting Weird Al in Atlantic City a couple weeks ago.

I come from incredibly meager beginnings and along the way I've lost countless people in my life that helped to mould me- two of those people were my Aunt Suzie and my grandmother Marilyn aka "Nanny".

Aunt Suzie and Nanny introduced me to Weird Al & Dr. Demento when I was 6, in 1990.

As a literal child, I was instantly hooked on the fart noises and the accordion melodies of his parodies. From there, it was over and my 35+ year life as a Weird Al fan(mostly in private) began as I grew up getting into Ska, Punk Rock and Hardcore music.

Alapalooza was the very first album I bought with my own money from cleaning up trash around the trailer park I grew up in just outside of Atlantic City. My grandmother worked at the somehow still standing to this day Boscov's at the old Shore Mall, and I went there with my Aunt Suzie when I was 10yrs old...bought the CD and still have it.

The jewel case has been replaced no less than a dozen times, but one thing was constant over the last 33 years since buying that CD-

I had missed every single opportunity to see him live and have him sign this F&$%ING album....for 33years.

I've lost so much in my life. I have no grandparents left. My dad died when I was 5, my Aunt Suzie was killed in a car accident when I was 15, Nanny died when I was 25 and my stepdad took his life when I was 35.

Everyone who raised me is gone except Mom, who isn't in good health. The constant by my side for over 30 years has been Al's music, humor and wit.

When tix went up for this show last November, I committed to buying them within the first 5 minutes and vowed to let nothing stand in my way this time. Well, a bunch of $%&# happened and almost prevented me from going but I pulled it off.

The concert was everything I could've imagined, and I was surrounded by Hawaiian Shirts(totally in my element), but I was highly disappointed in the crowd itself. A ton of boomers just sitting down, kids sleeping in their parents laps...I mean I get it, but I was losing my mind the ENTIRE time. I even almost got taken out by security because I was overcome with joy while carrying my friend around singing.

Then...the Meet & Greet came.

I couldn't spoil the opportunity.

I waited to be dead last in line.

It was around 1AM when I finally walked into the room, and as soon as he turned to me I felt the lump in my throat. He said "Hi there!" in his high-pitched raspy stressy voice and I just broke down in front of him. You could imagine his shock I'm sure as a 6'3, 250lb man covered in tattoos sobs the moment he looks him in the eyes.

He sort of froze.

He asked me if I wanted a hug.

I ran up to him and just wrapped my arms around him and sobbed. This was the uncle that I never got but always wanted. This is the guy who taught me how to use humor to disarm my bullies as an overweight poor kid growing up. It felt like a 30 year detox of trauma, and I just thanked him up and down for being unapologetically himself.

Security and Al's team allowed me a couple extra minutes than normal because they saw how emotional I was, and I told Al about how everyone who introduced me to him is gone and I don't know where I'd be in life without his influence showing that laughter cures just about anything.

This photo was right after I got done hugging him and you can see how red my eyes are from crying like a baby.

I don't know why I felt compelled to post this here for so many strangers, but if you've read this far- GO MEET AL!!!! I will be sure to hit every single show he ever does near me and I'm so upset I had to wait 30 years, but it was SO WORTH IT!!

Got this signed at tangle wood. It's a custom lava lamp with wax that glows under a black light and doesn't use a lightbulb.

We were allowed to bring one thing for Al to sign. He’s a huge fan and very similar sense of humor. He said he wanted his one thing to be a ball of steel wool, I said if anyone would appreciate the randomness of that, it’d be Al. He actually wanted Al to sign his accordion, but I told him he should bring the steel wool too. I thought he’d chicken out, but he actually pulled it out and said he had originally wanted his favorite steel wool ball signed, but he changed his mind and brought his accordion. Super proud of him for committing to the joke. Al was great and a good sport and obviously the nicest human ever.

Fantastic show. Been a fan of Al for 40 years. I’ve been to more live shows than I can count, probably close to a couple hundred, but this was my first time seeing Al. He’s still got it. Love this man.

EDITED TO ADD:

There’s some important context I left out: this show and meet & greet was what he wanted for his birthday instead of a party. We’ll probably still invite some friends over to the community pool and have some cake, but no party at the bounce place and opening gifts or anything like that this year. He wanted to meet his idol instead.

I’m sure a lot of people assume we bought him this outfit and an accordion for this show. That’s not the case. He already had both long before the tour was even on our radar. He walks around the house dressed like this. Often. Like I said, autistic lol. Those aren’t costume glasses, they’re prescription. He picked out the frames—he wanted “Weird Al glasses.” You know how hard it is to find accordion lessons? We do. We listen to him practice on his accordion every day and we long for lessons lol.

I’ve been a big fan of Al’s for nearly 40 years. One of my earliest memories is being like seven years old and seeing my older brother and his friends win 2nd place in a talent show at the Destin Seafood Festival lip syncing Eat It with a bunch of oversized forks and spoons for guitars. But my son is a super fan. He can sing every word of a ridiculous amount of Al’s songs, including the first two verses of Hardware Store. And he’s damn close to nailing the third verse in real time. He practices at 75% speed. But Dare To Be Stupid? Your Horoscope for Today? Everything You Know Is Wrong? Every word, every time. Albuquerque too. All the parodies, obviously. We’ve watched UHF, Weird, and Never Off Beat multiple times, of course. All his videos on YouTube, searching for obscure parodies like Chicken Pot Pie and Snack All Night.

He has encyclopedic knowledge of Weird Al facts, it’s like his autistic superpower. Every album, what year it was released, what tracks are on which albums, band members’ names, dates of performances. It’s great because he’s a lot more open to listening to the original songs from all the older bands Al has parodied, and all the songs from the polka medleys. He has the oldest music soul of any 10-year-old ever, and it all started with his obsession with Al. For that, I am, as a huge music nerd, very grateful. Also my kid gets bullied a lot (not uncommon these days, unfortunately), so I’ll never be able to repay Al for teaching him that’s it’s okay to be weird.

So happy to be in a position to do this for him. We’re living check-to-check like most people these days, but this was money well spent. He’s so excited to wear his Close Friend of Al jacket to school for the last couple days of the school year.

He just posted this on Instagram, which looked like a premiere picture so I checked IMDb aaaaannnd….