Went to see Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals in Pittsburgh (we live in NC) once and lucked up and got backstage afterwards. Ben comes over and we tell him we wanted to go to New York to see him at Radio Music Hall the next night for my wife's birthday but chickened out last minute and didn't get the tickets. He then calls his guy over and hooks us up with tickets to the show and tells my wife happy birthday! So we drove to NYC the next day, crashed at a hotel just outside the city after the show and drove home the next day.
"The future ain't what it used to be."