u/spirit-awakening

Since the concert, I have jumped back into listening to TONS of No Doubt. It's like I'm 14 again.

Anyway, while I still loved Return of Saturn back then, it was my least favorite of their albums. I was super into ska so it felt like a huge departure from the first 3 albums. But I have been listening to it a LOT lately. I think I understand it more as an adult and it's SO raw and even awkwardly honest at times. I love it.

Is there anywhere online that I can listen to the instrumental version of Sunday Morning? The one that came in the VIP package?

Hey everyone! I've been collecting pandora for a long time. I don't buy anything gold plated anymore, since I found out that they no longer use sterling silver as a base. Is there a marking on the ring that will tell me if it's one of the older, sterling silver pieces, or one of the newer ones with the mystery base metal?

HEY! Remember when my favorite band from when I was a teenager came to Vegas (where I live!!!) and played a bunch of shows and I got to see it twice?!

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Man, even after the shows that I didn't go to, I was excited to come on here and see everyone's pictures or hear their stories. I MISS IT SO MUCH, ALREADY!

I have been kinda emotional since I saw No Doubt on Wednesday. I also went on opening night and it was so good but Wednesday hit me right in the feels.

I'm 41. My friend, Debbie introduced me to No Doubt on NYE 1996. I was immediately obsessed. I was a weird kid. But No Doubt felt weird and fun and badass all at the same time. Gwen was everything. I wanted to be like her so bad. And I named my teenage journals after Adrian. 😂 Even through high school, I started every entry as if I were writing to Adrian. Of course it was all bs teenage drama.

I went to see them in 1997, in San Diego. It was just a few days before I turned 13. I took my friend Debbie and both my parents came because they are old rockers and wanted to be there for my first concert. When they performed Just a Girl and Gwen did the whole thing with the guys saying it, and then the girls saying "f you I'm a girl," I was trying to play it cool but both Debbie and I ended up standing and screaming along.

I saw them 3 more times by 2002. The 2nd time was at a little ballroom at UCSD. Super small venue. I stood all the way at the back of the room and could see everything perfectly. I went to the ROS tour and then in 2002, I saw them after they released Rock Steady. They had Garbage (!) and The Distillers (another fave-but that's a whole thing) touring with them.

In 2004 I started making some pretty crappy life choices. I was a full blown hard drug addict and there was nothing fun about my life. I was only 19, but it felt like the version of myself that had existed before that was gone. I mostly got my act together a while after that. I listened to Gwen's solo stuff a bit but it never grabbed me like ND. I very casually watched what they all did for years. I wasn't super into them anymore but I still appreciated that they were such a big part of my life when I was growing up.

When I heard they were reuniting to play Cochella, I kinda didn't care much. But the first weekend, I stumbled on some videos and it looked SO good. I was impressed and it brought me back! I watched the live stream the next week and I hadn't heard all of those songs in so long. It legitimately made me cry for days. It was this crazy nostalgia and realizing that, subconsciously, I felt like there was a "before drugs" version of me and I was never going to be her, again. But I got completely sober and did so much work on myself in 2023, that I felt like I wanted to embrace who I was at every part of my life. It was really a cool feeling.

I live in Vegas, now. So when I heard they were doing the Sphere residency, I knew I had to go. I went on opening night and brought my daughter. It was her first concert and we both loved that No Doubt was both of our first concerts. I took a bunch of photos and videos because I knew my teenage self would have killed to be able to take those pictures.

We went again on the 27th because I got the hookup on some resale tix. I decided to just be there in the moment- no phone or videos or pictures. I found myself crying during Spiderwebs 😂😭. It's such a fun song so it was so weird to be crying but it just gave me all of these feelings.

So I've been listening to them and a lot of the ska bands I loved in the late 90's. And I'm constantly realizing that 12 year old me was a badass and way cooler than she thought she was.

I just had to share this with people who could get it. 🖤🍊

So I went to see them on opening night and then went back tonight. I made a point of not having my phone out so I could really experience it fully and that was super worth it!

That said, in one of the songs they had what looked like photo strips of changing photos of each individual band member. Does anyone have photos of that? The reason I want to see is really silly. 😂 Gwen was wearing some rings in those pictures and I wanted to see if I could find some similar ones (probably dupes lol)

Hello friends!!

Does anyone know if any of the band members are doing other events here in Vegas, while they are here? I desperately wanted to go see Adrian at the Punk Rock Museum but all my kids had things going on that day. So I was just wondering if anyone knew of anything else going on.

Also, here's a fun, lil, embarrassing fact: I journaled A LOT as a middle school/ high school student and wrote the entries like letters to someone. I wanted an ambiguous name and while I was trying to think of one, I looked up at the many No Doubt posters on my wall and decided on the name Adrian. So all of my teenage journals are named after him 😂😂🤦

I went to the experience and the show on the 6th but the pop-up was already sold out of so much stuff. In pics, I had seen a tote bag with Tragic Kingdom images on it and I wanted it super bad. Alas, it was sold out by the time I got there.

Has anyone been since then and seen them? I live in Vegas, so I'm down to just go back down there if I see they re-stocked. Thank you! 🍊🍊

I just wanted to let everyone know it was so good! They played for a good 2 hours. They did start about 15 minutes late. They sounded so good! This is my 5th time seeing them but it's been 23 years since the 4th time 🥹🥹 It gave me all the feelings

Any Vegas locals going to the Sphere? I'm going on opening night and I have no idea what to do for parking, how quickly parking will fill up, nothing. Has anyone planned anything out or have any experience with this?