Thank you David,
As Always, you be the man....

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Thank you so much for the pics David.

As a dedicatd Moz fan I would like to offer my services to all you lucky fans that got to see him in New York and LA. I live near San Francisco and was hoping Moz would roll in here as well, but that's okay.

I will print your picture from the digital shot for only the cost of the photo paper, ink, and postage. I will work out how much it will cost, it shouldn't be much. Feel free to contact me about getting it printed. jphegley@adobe.com or 408-536-5103. I have to say that a print will look much better and much more like a photo if I print it at a smaller size(like 3 by 5) any bigger will start looking fuzzy and "digital".

It'd be my pleasure!

What are those, gerbera daisies. They are quite striking.

David, you RULE! Thank you SO much for doing this for us - the pictures are FABULOUS! :)

A sincere and heartfelt thanks to david for making this speacial occasion even more memorable. That day was quite stressful as I had to fly to a wedding that night and I was a bit worried we wouldn't make it, but everything worked out. Personally I felt the whole event, though terribly disorganized, was extremely pleasurable and the staff were about as nice as can be, at least to my group. They(and the people in line) must have had to answer "Who are you waiting to see?" more times than we care to admit. Morrissey couldn't have been nicer. The man has amazing eyebrows!!! But I digress...
Again David, THANK YOU for the pictures on behalf of veryone in my small group(Page 7 PA 2000992 through PA2000997 - I'm # PA2000994!)

Moz looks wonderful...very Vauxhall era, which suits him best!

xooxx

The LA crowd seemed so crazy-like. Frantic. YOu knwo its true. The New Yorkers seemed so laid back. The people have so much Morrissey access. You would think it would have been the other way around. I cannot just sit a any random Cafe or Diner and just run into him here in Houston liek those in LA can. I am sure the New Yorkers think the same thing.

he looks absolutely stunning, gorgeous, amazing.
Truly the most handsome man alive. Truly, truly...
thanks for letting us over here be part of it, david.

Thank you, David, for capturing our special moments with Morrissey with your camera! I was so engrossed in my conversation with him that I completely forgot your presence, but these images of our tête-à-tête (it *felt* private!) mean more to me than a smiley posed pic would have. We are all so very lucky to have these photos and lucky indeed to have such a talented and conscientious webmaster running this terrific fan site. Bravo!

P.S. It was wonderful to renew old acquaintances and make so many new ones. Thanks to all who helped make my day so lovely- especially Kirk and company for the ride back from the Beautiful South!

Just a little note to say thank you David, now I have even more of a momento from my experience! I walked away so amazed, I thought it was all a dream!

David, thank you for capturing such great photos of Morrissey.

Thank you so Much! I look like a dork, but what the hell I am a dork!
Thank you, thank you, thank you...

Dina, did you see how many pictures of you are up there!?

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Thank you so much David! I am so happy you got a picture of my hug with Morrissey. I screamed when I saw it :) Hey Kristin, you don't look like a dork! Dina there has to be at least ten pictures of you. I am jealous!
In case anyone wants to look, I am on album page 3, the last three pictures. Thanks again David!

Can someone please tell me what Moz is signing in this pic? I thought he was only signing the DVD??

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First of all, thank you David for coming up to New York to take pictures... I'm so glad to have them as a memento of that great day...

I personally have about twenty-or-so images that were mostly taken during the pre-signing period. If you remember me taking a shot of you (i was wearing jeans, a "queen is dead" tee & black blazer) and you'd like to see how it turned out, just let me know & i'll e-mail it to you. Lots of them look really great! Sorry, but I'm not sure if I'll have time to upload them all to a webpage, so this system will have to do for now... ciao!

Again, I saw the pics and I am ssooooo envious.

I wish I Could be there. I would hug him and kiss his cheek (as we do in my country). I would not mind about security!

(Is Morrissey aware of how many women he attracts? -ja ja ja ja-)

Moz, Why don't you come down to South Carolina? I conform just with a Hi and a hug, and a sign. Period.

What if Moz goes bald? It should not matter, should it?

Can someone please tell me why did the guards held back some of you guys in N.Y.? It seems like they didn't want you guys to close to MOZ. Is this true? Did something happen and that's why they were being so strict? Or what's the deal with the guards? Can someone please let me know. ..........AND ABOUT THE L.A. FANS....... I think the fans in L.A. seem more "crazy", "wild", or whatever.>>>>because they appear to be more into MOZ. Just my opinion, not a fact. Don't you fellow fans get ofended now.....Not all, but most of the N.Y. fans seem like whatever. I think that if you'r a true fan, it is very, very hard or even impossible to keep you kool while meeting MOZ. P.S. If you have the answer to my questions? please answer them.......Thankyou....

can i just comment that the most lovely creature there was the girl lovingly captured in photo PA200989, and i certainly would have told here there if she werent with the guy with the HORRIBLE rats nest/"quiff" of hair....oh yes..

...you are incredibly cute...and that means the young lady in the blue t-shirt, *not* the guards (for you jokesters).

xooxox

jasong_27@yahoo.com

Wow!! Thanks so much for taking these photos.
You really are a selfless fellow to trek on out to
NYC to capture our moment with the man. I'm gonna
have some jealous friends (who didn't feel inclined to skip out of work-Fools!!!) when they see how close we really were. Thank you again!!!

PS-What's with Moz and the telephone?

Sorry about this, but I must know - who is the person in photos PA200891, PA200892 and PA200893?
I spoke to you for a few minutes and I think you're adorable. ;)

shynessisnice71@yahoo.com

... and tell me whether I am the only one who thinks Morrissey appears smitten w/ the young lad before him. I for one would be damn stoked if the guy in this photo visited a table at which I sat.

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So I just finished viewing the pictures from the NYC signing and couldn't help but to wonder, what happened to all the so called good looking NYC people?
They claimed to be so much better looking than the L.A. people so I was obviously expecting to see NYC fans at their best, instead what is it that I see is a bunch of shabby looking fans who seem to have just put on what ever they found at arm's reach when they got dressed.
There is a diffrence from L.A. fans to NYC fans in L.A. alot of the fans did sport the pomp but they did not look ugh......like they just spent the night on the subway.
Not to say that the L.A. fans looked better than the NYC fans but considering all smack that the NY people talked I expected a good looking crowd..

There are places that specialize in output of digital media,
but since they Moz signing pics are pictures from the internet they are ore only 72 dpi... this means that you should not go to a high end digital output center like the type that process professional photographers film rolls.
Go to Kinko's, or any other low budget service bureau, although I would never use them they are good for the non artistic output needs.

thank you for shareing with us those wonderful pictures. hey, you are a nice man. your devotion makes me touched. .....hey, would you please tell morrissey that i exist?????????????...lol

My God!!! Julia Riley looks as if she is going to turn into a large mound of blue jello when she is hugging Moz.

Wow he's so sexy!

  & isn't it funny to see people who aren't clearly (though I have no doubt they ARE) fans meeting Morrissey. I wonder how he reacts to people his own age who are so impressed by him. I wonder if it's a bity like meeting a long lost cousin and you go through all that 'So what are you doing now?, where are you living' stuff? The picture I find intriguing is 200688

ok. morrissey is not going bald, his hair looked thick as ever. he looked beautiful. he's getting older like all the rest of us, can you handle it.

just because the majority of us didn't boo hoo, it doesn't mean we don't deeply love moz. i was on the verge of tears and then became so happy at the sight of his profile that i almost exploded w/joy. but i contained myself so as not to explode upon him.

although there are a few beauties walking among us, guess what, the majority of new yorkers are not superfine, we are just average. i myself am your average slightly sexy celibate-for-too-long nerd and i was not going to don a taffeta ball gown to go meet him (look out, i might do it next time).

david t., i just want to be tied to the back of your camera. you get mad, mad props.

morrissey, thanks for everything. you get mad, mad props for just being YOU.

Thank you David for taking pictures for everyone. As for the rest all I can say is, Morrissey - "Come on to my house"

Oh what to say...it was really quite amazing to see him i of course lost all power of speech and brain function upon seeing him i can't quite remember what i said other than "Thank You " i did get to press the flesh (i shook his hand) but it was over all too quickly!
Incidently does anyone know who the girl in PA200978 is? (the picture does not do her justice!)
well whoever you are, you are quite beautiful...

check out:
pa200-962
pa200-799
pa200-789

Does anyone know where that man with the light blue T-shirt with the "West Ham Boys Club" logo bought it from? I'd like a copy for myself. If you know, please email me at Lalo71@aol.com.

I wonder to myself,

Lalo

oohhh slice.

Does his mum really have to phone him telling him his dinner's getting cold during the middle of a signing? How inconsiderate!

He looked beautiful! sitting there all shy and handsome I could barely contain myself....-forever yours, forever mine... I Love you Morrissey Thank you, Thank you.
Sincerely your "insatiable one"

There was alot of smack being thrown around about the looks of LA fans. Not every New Yorker was slinging it, but there were a few. Fact is, UGLY PEOPLE EXIST EVERYWHERE!! I saw some in these photos. Did you see that one fat guy getting his West Ham shirt signed? Dude looked like Norm from Cheers! Besides NY, what are you smacking LA for? The Big Apple is also home to the queen of all fat pigs...Rosie O'Donut! There are alot of ugly fans in LA, there are alot of them in NY, and there are also alot of them in the rest of the world. Get over it!

I like the attitude of the NY fans. They have their own style (LA does too but it is more evident in NY), and they don't get as frantic as some of us LA fans do. To all of you claiming that Moz remembered you and security wouldn't "let" him sign things or take pictures, GET A LIFE! First of all, Morrissey can't possibly remember everyone he meets, especially if it was when he was driving away and he just managed to see your hand waving at him. Secondly, as it was stated before, the no camera rule was "per artist request" Do you think he would actually be able to sit in front of a flashing light three or four hundred times without going blind!? The pics David took didn't involve Morrissey looking straight into the lens each and every single time. Same goes for the sigs. Do you think he actually wants to sign the dvd, your CD booklet, and that memo book you made especially for him? Nor does he want to take home all of five hundred love letters you wrote to him. Look, Moz is human like the rest of us, and the guards were just doing their job. Of course if you manage to sneak one past the guy, Morrissey is not going to look like a jerk and say no. He wants to please his fans and not go crazy while doing it. If you can't understand that, then try and use the same reasoning as to why he hates it when people camp out in front of his house.

WAR paying someone to not make you look bad!!

OUT!!

I'm ruined, I can't funtion! my tortured mind re-plays my encounter with The Man oh! all the things I wanted to say...and didn't...I was struck dumb by his beauty...Please come round again soon...

These pictures are 150k in "jpeg" format.. but is actually larger if opened up in photoshop..

the size is actually 2.5 megabytes in ".tif" format... and is good enough to print photographically at 2.5 x 3.5 you can also image size it up to 5 x 3.75 and still retain it's photographic quality!...

if you have an epson printer 900 or any bubble jet/inkjet printer with 1200 dpi resolution or more.... your printed pictures will be very close to photographic quality...

-guy with stomach tatoo from virginia
-jason from ?, we spoke in line to the bathroom
-natalie, originally from ireland
-raquel from the stamps

i don't know why i'm looking for you, i just want to stay in touch with some keen people i met at the signing!

my pictures are approximately 10" x 14"...(why are the others getting 2" x 3"?) the resolution is 72...so if you have photoshop or photo deluxe or something like that, you can increase the resolution and print out a decent picture...
as long as you use good photo paper...these run around $15 for a pack of 20 or so...you should get a decent quality print out even with an ink jet printer

Why does everyone in New York own one of those handbags? And they say LA is trendy.

  Just thought I'd say something if anything. I enjoyed all the pictures greatly, I think it's interesting that all the male fans like to throw out that one in a million "shout out" to their "dream girl" who's sitting at home right now pining away in their little room listening to morrissey and hoping that some disturbed young man happened to see them on their one day outside in the year.
  No, but there were a lot of attractive people out there, both sexes. My favorite picture has to be 200808, just because it strikes me as an album cover or something. The boy looks so similar.

It was cool to see some fresh pics from the ol´mozzer, he seemed to enjoy it. But I wonder when he´s gonna but out a new set of songs, my patience is stretched and my loyalty vexed. I want to hear him sing some new stuff again.

By the way, I heard some clip from the Smiths "Ask" on a program called "Expedition: Robinson" on swedish television a few days ago. And if that was´nt enough, swedish Tv4 have a footballprogram were they show some goals from premier league (England) while the intro for "Girl afraid"???? is played.Bizarre...eh.

thank you so much, davidt, for going through this massive amount of trouble just so we can have a pic of our measly selves with this charming man. having a picture of me hugging morrissey on my wall makes going back to everyday life after meeting morrissey a little easier. by the way, does reality seem even more boring than before to anyone else?
love & morrissey,
~~*~~melissa~~*~~

it was great 2 chat w/moz re:veg/chrissie hynde/lloyd cole.
Personal to Kerri, sva student
Great 2 chat w/u
hope 2 invite u to shout or Brit soon.
Please call!! Thanx

Yes it is marvellous to see a plethora of photos from the "signings" both in L.A and New York. While looking at all these shots however, I couldn't help thinking of this really naff/yucky pop song sung by some Canadian female singer back in the 70's, I believe to be Helen ready that goes like this:

"From L.A to New York, from New York to L.A,
In my life there's no place for the man that I love,
And livin' my life just to live and be free,
Yeah! that's meeee-ahhh,
From L.A to New York, from New York to L.A"

Yes, truly a dire pop song with execrable lyrics yet strangely prophetic concerning Moz the God and his DVD signings in the year 2000!

While looking spritely and chirpy for the L.A signings, I couldn't help thinking that Our Steven, looked rather wan and pale in New York, perhaps suffering from psychic/emotional exhaustion as a result of being a magnet for so many of his followers/disciples and ultimately the saddos whose lives will eternally revolve around this 'major event' in their life.

Personally I don't think people should meet their idols, in the long term it could damage your mental health, as some of the postings in here in relation to meeting Mozzer in New York and LA would testify. Furthermore, he will never ever remember you, and although the moment may be ever so precious to you, to him the entire signing event is purely a promotional/marketing tool to sell, sell and sell lots of product. To him, meeting you people is Hard Work, and ultimately a truly forgettable experience! He's going to lay in bed for the rest of year after all the sheer drudgery over the past few weeks.

I had an opportunity to meet Morrissey in the late 80's, when he passed me in the street in London. However I was sensitive enough to know then,that to be liked and befriended by Steven is perhaps akin to entering the pearly gates of Heaven, but to be spurned by him is perhaps to experience the hell of eternal damnation. I glanced at him briefly and walked on! Although regretting my decision for the rest of the day, I now have to say in retrospect, that I am proud of the remarkable restraint and maturity I showed that day, considering how much I worship him!

Although I love him dearly, I never, ever want to meet him! Hell and Heaven or not for me, I just want to get on with the drudgery of living on Planet Earth, does anyone out there understand what I mean? To meet him is to be offered hope, and I've gotten rather use to things on the hopeless side, the last thing I want is the merest suggestion that my dreams could come through.

Last year I bought a ticket to one of his London concerts, and needless to say I didn't go. The more I ignore him the closer he gets. Ignoring and avoiding one's idol means having complete control over the situation, I completely recommend this approach. An air of detachment is always becoming I say.

He's a martyr to his celebrity that man, and knows when it comes to pulling power no one, and I mean no one, has the queue forming capacity that he alone. If someone came up to Johnny Marr and asked him for fifty pence, he'd take it as a compliment, a sign of his never waning popularity!

Of course people turn up when the Eltons, and the Madonnas, and the Mariahs do a signing, but how often do their FANS ask for a kiss and cuddle? Old MaDogga would rather urinate on you then give you the time of day, and Elton John would probably ask you for the glossy folicles off your scalp in exchange for an air kiss from him, personally. The ever naked Mariah Carey would ask you for your warm coat, as she constantly seems to be shivering both on stage and off, hence her never ending caterwauling. No one around has charisma like Morrissey!

For those who survived meeting Morrissey and having their shirt/tits/wrists/back/cd's/vd's/dvd's/arse/neck/b ook/arm signed by the Charismatic One, I envy you your short lived joy and pleasant memory, but to those who did NOT survive meeting the The Gifted One, god bless

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wow, thank you so much for taking pictures of practically everyone who was at the NYC signing. I was there and had an overall great experience. I am the guy w/ the pink shirt towards the bottom of page 5 of pix. Moz was mostly warm and friendly towards me and most other people, given the circumstances (notice the heavy presence of security.) As I approached him, I noticed him yawning, and asked him if he was at all tired. He said he "actually felt very good" and seemed to be enjoying the moment. And that was about it, for my less than 8 seconds of meeting him. But really, the most exciting part was just being there and watching him interact with dedicated fans. Also, I managed to take about 3 good pictures when it was all over. That part was incredible, Morrissey actually walked (with security) right thru the store past the T-shirt racks towards the elevators. At this point, ther were about 50 fans still there. Experiencing this was actually better than "meeting" him. I just want to say thank you to Morrissey, Morrissey-solo.com, and the really cute girls I saw or met while in line. Thanks again, especially to this site for informing all of us. Cheers, Mike Dodd.
  mikedodd@dellnet.com
or
dodd@main.morris.org

Sorry about this, but who are those beautiful boys at:
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200703
200889/90

MORRISSEY looks gorgeous!!!

beautiful n.y.c. people !!!!