Archuleta opened with à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Touch My Handà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  from his self-titled album. Although he didnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t literally touch any of his fansà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ hands, every girl in the front row reached for the 18-year-old Honduran-American.

I have not seen “Honduran-American” in print before to describe David. Is this unusual?

David Cook blows the lights and then plays Light On..:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfz5uizBQw

More recap & pictures:
http://www.davidcookofficial.com/blog/rowan-university-3-7-09

Dave was in his Terry the light tech outfit (not sure if he wore the scraggly black wig with that before). Andy and a few other people were filming. AI Extra was there with Ace Young. A very nice security guy named Mike told us that he heard MTV was there filming too. So god only knows where film of Dave dressed as Terry is going to show up lol.

He told us they were having problems with the sound system in the venue all day.
Halfway through his set you could smell something burning. He announced “This is a first for us. We just blew out the lights but it’s ok nobody is in danger” LOL flag So we’re all just sitting there cheering with the smell of electrical fire around us. Nobody was leaving.
I cried when he sang Permanent. It just really got to me tonight and was so beautiful.
It was a fantastic show despite the blown lights, late entrance and sound system scare etc.
I told Dave that Permanent made me cry but that it was a good cry. He reached out and gave me the sweetest hug and squeeze.

A young girl was celebrating her Sweet Sixteen at the concert with her friends. One of them had a sign that said she was having THE TIME OF MY LIFE at (I forget the girl’s name) sweet sixteen. Well Dave read the sign from the stage. The look on his face as he read “The Time of My Life” was priceless.
The crowd was very mixed with people there from 6 to 60 years old.
The actual concert part of the day flew by so quickly. I know he sang for a while but I could have listened to his beautiful voice forever!

Other scoopies: David will be putting out Album #2 and a Christmas album by the end of the year!

Wow!! Two new albums so soon!!! I’m so excited!

Here’s David doing a shout out to the fans from HOB (kinda like a vlog part 2, haha)…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zkGr68iaIs

à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Professional videographers were in attendance. Scoop: look for an official à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ live videoà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  of Touch My Hands (from House of Blues) to pop up very soon! Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m not sure where it will premier, but ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s comingà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦

My guess is the video will be one of the prizes on his ArchMadness game when you get to a landmark. That would be cool!

ETA: It’s so nice of David to treat us to these vlogs in place of his written blogs recently. He’s been listening in on us apparently, haha!

“Professional videographers were in attendance. Scoop: look for an official à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ live videoà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  of Touch My Hands (from House of Blues) to pop up very soon! Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m not sure where it will premier, but ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s comingà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦

Other scoopies: David will be putting out Album #2 and a Christmas album by the end of the year! I think that tidbit was already out there, but it was nice to hear it confirmed. Davidà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s day off will be spent in Oklahoma City after the 13-hour bus ride from Chicago. He is uber-excited about the UK and Asia. He LOVES touring: when he gets onstage, time shifts into warp speed and it feels to him like heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s only been singing for 20 minutes (yeah, thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s what it feels like for us, too, David!). He is eating healthy, thanks to Kendra, and he feels great. He is looking forward to him mom joining him at a few shows soon. Heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s pumped about performing at the E-Center, and is glad that the seating was limited there because he wanted it to be at least a litte intimate like the smaller venues have been.

Jive staffers were in attendance last night, and they saw for themselves the amazing response to Zero Gravity. Let me tell you, that song is show-stopper. We were all jumping and singing along and just feeding off of Davidà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s energy. Fun, fun, fun!”
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new vlog from HOB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5ukktnEy0s

Cute DC interview. I think he made that little girlà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s day!

Judging by the adudience’s reaction… I think he made those women’s day…

Hey LK09 is being a while since I saw you here…

Someone on FOD said that the footage from the concerts is rumored to being possibly used on a new deluxe album with some of the bonus/unreleased songs.

The HOB outfit is fantastic.

Hunkerdowns FTW!

His answer to whatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s the weirdest thing a fan didà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦haha..he so funny and the part with the little girl, Oliviaà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦awww that was so sweet.

Cute DC interview. I think he made that little girl’s day!

BTW, this whole thread is hilarious….

His answer to what’s the weirdest thing a fan didà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦haha..he so funny and the part with the little girl, Oliviaà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦awww that was so sweet.

Another link:
http://www.965tic.com/

Note HOB vid at 2:17-2:30à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦.toddler with full diaper squat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL. The fanbase calls those his “hunkerdowns”. lol He’s been trained to do that. He does that when he has to hit a higher note. There’s a technical reason for it that voice coaches teach. Masterclass Lady explained it during her critiques during AI7. He’s actually doing it the proper way without damaging the voice. And he has to be extra careful of that in light of his vocal chord issues. And it’s why he usually doesn’t go for those notes while sitting at the piano. The chest muscles won’t work the same way sitting down.