My friend Christian Lamb (who happens to be the son of Chris Lamb, the tour director for Madonna who can always be spotted donning a cowboy hat) invited me to Madonna’s Saturday night’s secret run-through, staged for a cozy gathering of 3,000. Christian directs and produces all her videos you see in the background while Madonna is on-stage (for instance, the video of her petting and riding horses during this Confessions concert) and goes along with the tour to handle the technical aspects or steaming them in at the right time.

Friends & family of those working for Madonna’s tour were invited to see Madonna’s first performance of her Confessions tour at The Forum in L.A. for a sort of “Thank You.” Madonna is smart to do this kick off event because it makes her whole team/staff able to invite their loved ones to see what they will be doing for the next 6 months of their lives away from home.

Christian is a cinematographer, photographer and produces photo shoots, music videos and visuals for concerts, like this. He runs a production company called Frank the Plumber and travels with the tour to oversee visuals. Another friend, Chris Kantrowitz, works with Christian (Chris introduced us all) and is the Where’s Waldo of Hollywood, I feel. His little sister is Jamie Kantrowitz, who went to high school with me at Harvard-Westlake, is well known for her effect on Rock the Vote and Myspace where she has done marketing … Power siblings.

At the concert I saw Slash and Perla (his wife), and a bunch of friends from my days at Maverick Films (Madonna’s production company) including CEO Mark Morgan, VP Brent Emery and TV Department head Michael Rosenberg. Maverick was started by L.A. Native Guy O’seary (Beverly) after he successfully launch Maverick Records for her.

Madonna was style for her concerts by Jean-Paul Gaultier. Equestrian riding duds and glam-punk outfits matched perfectly with the horse-and-crop videos streaming behind her and the dance troupe Parkor dancing, krumping, roller skating and performing acrobatics.

Madonna Confessions Album – “Jump” featuring French Parkor dancing ….