A friend of mine's son has paid down $150 for a backstage meet-and-greet(m&g hereafter) experience with one of his favorite bands, poppy industrial metal makers, Skillet, when they come of the Christian music festival near their home this summer. I didn't grill him n what's al included in that m&g, but for that price, I'd hope he's getting more out of the encounter than a few handshakes and/or hugs after the concert. Have you ever paid extra for a concert ticket to have a more personal time with someone whose music you enjoy?

The friend I referenced in the previous question is a longtime "Weird Al" Yankovic aficionado and has seen Yankovic perform multiple times (once with me!). For $21 shy of double what my friend's son paid for his Skillet m&g, a V.I.P. m&g is available for shows on Yankovic's upcoming tour. I've found what's included in the pakage for $279. Which features of this m&g would be worth that price for a music act you especially enjoy (answer options partially copied and pasted from page on Yankvoc's websitwe)?

I witnessed a different kind of m&g--part of one, anyway-- when I saw Enrique Iglesias in concert in the 1990's when he was only singing in Spanish. During his show, I saw from my vantage point wthin the first few rows of the venue that he invited ytoung women onstage and led backstage. Part of me thought that it looked skeezy and lecherokus, but m a y b e it was innocent and chaste. Would you be willing to picked out from a concert audience to go backstage to undergo Lord onhly knows what?

All of the few m&g's to which I've been privy have come my way thanks to my writing work. Though it's gratifying been when a couple of the people I've hung out with in those settings has told me s/he's read my work, the most special of my m&g's was like likely the one after the date of the Down From The Mountain tour (the run of shows featuring artists appearing on the soundtrack of the movie O Brother Where Art Thou), where I spoke with Buck White of The Whites. Not only was it cool to speak at some length with someone who had success in bluegrass, mainstream country, and gospel, he seemed genuine and unaffected by his share of the spotlight. Were price no impediment and there' s a musical act with whom you'd like a m&g, how about sharing who that'd be in a comment?