Tanya Tucker Sycuan Casino Concert Photos

Photos may not be copied or used without permission from the photographer. Photos by Michael (CA)

We finally arrived to the hotel about 3pm on Thursday, the day of the show. We get out of the car and low and behold, there was T's bus barreling down the hwy and wouldn't ya'll know it, my camera was packed tightly away in the suit case, so, I will just get a pic later of the bus, NOT! I asked security where T's bus was and he said it is in the under-ground garage and no one was allowed down there....OK, I understand that, no prob! So, we have a couple of drinks at the hotel, (ok more than a couple) but, the hotel offered shuttle service. We get ourselves ready to go, jump on the shuttle, and head for the theatre, well, I gotta say that everyone on this shuttle was headin' for the concert as well, all very cool folks. ..continued below

I asked, hey ya'll can I get a picture of everyone and of coarse they said yes, so where in the heck is my camera you ask.....sittin' on the damn end-table of our room...LMAO! We get to the theatre and turn right around and jump on another shuttle that takes us back to our room and sure enough, there it sat. I guess we should just of had ONLY a couple of drinks. Ok, we get back on the shuttle (they waited till we retrieved the camera) and go figure, there was NOT a soul on that bus to take a picture of except for the bus driver and wasn't going to the concert.

We get to the theatre, 7:30 pm (would of been there sooner if it wasn't for the camera), walk up to the ticket office and good news, the concert was sold out weeks in advance. Then the "nice" lady in the ticket office proceeds to tell me, "Im sorry sir, there will be NO picture takin' this evenin'! WHAT??? I replied with, "You cant even imagine what I have gone thru with this camera, gettin' a brand new digital and then trying figure out how to work the damn thing." (not a camera genius), I'm soooooooo sorry sir, NO picture taking tonight. I said oh OK, (this lady just don't know me) so we walk into this absolutely beautiful theatre, proceed down the step to the FRONT OF THE THEATRE....YES! We take our seats, four rows back in center, man this was awesome. The show was suppose to start at 8 pm but T showed her pretty little self at 8:20, you know, the TuckerTime thing.

She looked absolutely beautiful in her black tight pants, black top with tassles that hung way down below her shoulders and she just sounded amazing. My wife said she just looks beautiful and she did. She started with Some kind of Trouble, Strong Enough to bend, and may of her big hits in between.

The show actually ended at 10:15 (almost a 2 hr show), the theatre was packed and T was having a blast, well all good things come to an end right? Nope, not yet it hasn't, not for me anyway.

I noticed T had a Black marker in her hand and I said to myself, self, this is when your gonna get your picture's. As she came to the front of the stage, I got there before anyone (very determined) I thru that camera on auto pilot and just started snappin away. T was very gracious and took about 5-10 min. signing autographs, shirts, and a few bald heads...LMAO. (I think I started a camera frenzy, I started snappin' and most followed right behind). Looked like a BIG ASS Lightning storm with the cameras going off at the same time.

Then, this big huge guy comes runnin' out to the front of the stage as T was standing right in front of me, still snappin' away and yells, No Picture's! T pretty much told him to go away and he did indeed, GO AWAY.

I have to say, this was, by far, the very best T concert I have ever seen and she thanked everyone over and over for the nice gifts and flowers she received that evening and to please come back and see her again in beautiful El Cajon California, then, poof, she was gone. By the way, Tuckerville is still up in the air.....DAMMIT!

As we exited the theatre, there was BIG GUY tellin' everyone that passed, there were to be NO pictures to be taken that evening, I stopped and looked up at him and said, "If your security dept. would of been on the ball then, there probably wouldn't of been any picture's taking this evening"