Rai subsequently bought their albums, posters and DVDs, and watched for them on MTV. “I was supposed to marry him,” Rai said with a laugh. Rai remembers getting her photo taken with McIntyre, who sang lead on “Please Don’t Go Girl” and was her crush. They wound up meeting the rest of the band: Joey McIntyre and Danny Wood in a hallway and Jordan Knight in the lobby. “We just kind of said, ‘Before our dad picks us up, let’s go and see if we can find them.’ ” “Girls were checking on every floor to see where they were,” Rai said. With security minimal, it was easy to wander the hotel in search of other members of the band. The girls also overheard people trying to figure out where the band was rooming. “I remember them saying, ‘We’re so glad to be in Hawaii, because Hawaii has the most beautiful girls in the world.’ And you know that they say that at other concerts, but I remember the crowd went wild because they said that, and you think you’re special.”Īfter the concert, the girls went backstage and met band members Donnie Wahlberg and Jonathan Knight. She remembers that the concert was “great.” “They were engaging with the crowd,” she said. “We were like, ‘What?’ Because we didn’t even ask, he just offered.” “Either the guy knew my dad, or he thought it was cool to take care of a cop’s daughters, so he said, ‘If you guys come back after, I’ll let you guys go backstage,’ ” Rai said. While waiting in line talking with a security officer, the two girls mentioned that their father was a police officer. NKOTB was not yet well-known at the time with just two albums released - their eponymous debut album in 1986, a flop, and in the summer of 1988, “Hangin’ Tough,” which featured a single “Please Don’t Go Girl” that was getting radio airplay and would become the band’s first hit.
Opening the show was the girl group Sweet Sensation, who had performed in Hawaii in 1987 in an all-female concert that included Taylor Dayne and Lisa Lisa. Eager to see something different and new, she and her sister got tickets to the concert from a local radio station.
She was then Michelle Konn, the teenybopper daughter of a Honolulu Police Department officer. 27, 1988, at the Pacific Beach Hotel (now the Alohilani Resort), recall an age of innocence. Rai’s memories of her first NKOTB concert, which took place on Dec. “We’ll never get to go to a first concert again with our kids,” Rai said. The whole clan has prime seats at Blaisdell Arena for Friday and Saturday nights. Rai’s sister also will be bringing her kids to the concerts, a first for them as well. She’s taking them to two of the three concerts. The band, now commonly referred to by the initials NKOTB, was “still a little bit new, and had just started to play some of their own songs,” said Rai, who now lives in Southern California.įor the band’s upcoming visit, she’ll be reprising the experience with her own children, Sophie, 17, and Joshua, 13. It was during the 1988 holiday season at a Waikiki hotel, and it was the first concert she ever attended. Rai was born and raised in Hawaii and attended the boy band’s first performance in the Aloha State with her sister.
THE OVERPASS MODS
With all the different types of ammo/weapon mods out there now, they barely worked anyway.
Removed dozens of errant spaces in location/item/container names.
THE OVERPASS MOD
Changed dozens of editor IDs relating to this mod for organizational purposes.Wrote dozens of new dialogue lines for the guards/scientists, as well as gave them all new AI packages that breathe a little life into this desolate space.Re-organized story structure to flow better.Cleaned up spelling and grammar errors.However, that said, I still do not recommend bringing your companions with you until you restore the overpass. This means that companions can now properly come onto the overpass with you. Completely remade all relevant interior navmeshes. Removed hundreds of dirty edits that the GECK likes to drop in.
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