We are the vegetables

Today I was asked if I was a fan of INXS and if I watched Rockstar. How does one answer what type of fan I was of INXS. I simply answered yes, said I met them and that it was important to see who would end up becoming their singer. I stumbled how to answer...
Let's see, I took a day off from school and work one day back in 1988 to see if we could find the hotel they were staying at. Is that a fan or a Felony style Fanatic? The best part of that story is that a writer for the Tribune wrote a story about them and in her article she said what alias she had to call for Jon Farriss. God bless her and her editor for leaving that in the article. We spent hours calling resorts in Phoenix (there are a lot) and finally I hit paydirt, The Arizona Biltmore had the alias staying there and rang his room! We went to the show at Compton Terrace then were wise to leave early, before the show was over and head tot the Biltmore. Without any harassment from the management, we sat in the lobby and waited. Our wait was rewarded. I sat facing the entryway and there was Tim Farriss with some guys walking in. I said "Hi Tim" so calmly Karri V didn't believe I was talking to anyone, she thought I was "practicing" He was a sweetheart, signed a piece of paper I had. Apparently we didn't think to bring stuff to have signed.
I know we saw Hutch and his then girlfriend Joni come in and go to the front desk. I don't recall any of us talking to him but I remember I stood at the desk near him. I think I recall Andrew Farriss having room troubles and was at the front desk also. For some reason we all split up looking for them. Karen and I were near the elevator and around the corner comes Kirk Pengilly. I can't recall what we said to him but Karen reminded me that I was wearing pigtails(?) and he tugged on them both. I recall thinking he was an absolute sweetheart afterwards. After the Biltmore, we saw them around their hotel the next night in Tucson (it's not hard to find any band in Tucson) Further into the Kick tour, Karri V and I drove to Orange County to see them. We lucked out to be staying at the same hotel as the opener Ziggy Marley. We met some of Marley's band and they gave us backstage passes. The passes were not supposed to be for after INXS but KV was not taking no for an answer and she talked us back. It was a celeb fest in the backstage area including Tom Jones. (I have a list somewhere of who all we saw backstage.) We saw most all the INXS boys backstage there except Jon. Later in my INXS fandom, I had a Michael utchence b-day show on my morning show on KUKQ. I was able to do a phone interview with him while they were recording (Welcome to where ever we are) Oh yeah, we also saw Michael in NYC for CMJ, he was promoting MaxQ. Finally I was able to interview Tim for my morning show, I had my choice of which member and of course I chose Timmy! I will have to dig that stuff out sometime. It would have taken all lunch to truly answer if I was an INXS fan.