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BRET MICHAELS
April 24, 2008
Hi-5 Street Party

We've been living through the Dark Period, all winter long inside
dark bars with little light and less room but now it's out the in
door to the vast open spaces which is a shock to the systems to
be shot through this transition but the Raleigh weather has made
the tequila-worm-hole leap an exciting adventure and all eyes are
now wide open with the transition to the new again world.

It's not a complete cycle yet with some concert tickets still left
to be burned through that are back within walls but the Earth has
turned on its axis and we being along for the ride take the first
thrilling banking turn on Friday at the BRET MICHAELS/POISON Event
on the blocked off street beside Hi-5/Bogart's.

DEF LEPPARD, STYX, REO SPEEDWAGON
Greensboro Coliseum
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Love Greensboro, walk right in with no searches/metal detectors and that was a good thing for more than one reason because everyone wanted to be there at the early 7:00pm start time since the triple-threat line-up wasn't anything you wanted to miss a minute of.

Who remembered that REO has so many hits:
Don't Let Him Go
Take It On The Run
Ridin' The Storm Out
Keep On Loving You
Can't Fight This Feeling

Neal Doughtry on keys is the sole remaining founding member but Kevin Cronin did a front man 9-on-the-10 scale of presentation and powered these songs through the venue. Bruce Hall on bass with long straight blond hair flipping back from his eyes jumped to the center position was all

JIMMY BUFFET ON-SALE

As any Parrot Head that's not in detox would know, JIMMY BUFFETT went
on-sale today at 10:00am for a Saturday, June 7th Event at THE CREEK.

I hit the venue box office and joined about ~60 others to take my chance
hoping to draw a good ticket line lottery number but just like my luck
in the North Carolina Education Lottery, "Luck" and "Suck" are just one
single letter away and I'm stuck on "S".

FRONT ROW, DEAD CENTER!
No Wait. Those are my 2002 Jimmy Buffett at The Creek ticket stubs.
Ah those were the days: $64.00 bucks for Front Row, and you could
actually get them. Close enough to even score a pic.

I'll bet the NSA's Electronic Communications Spike Indicator Machine
went into HIGH ALERT! CODE RED! Mode when word of the VAN HALEN crisis
hit Raleigh like the contagious flu bug when everyone logged on to
their communicators.

Ticketmaster, RBC Center, N&O, Radio, TV, all over the internet,
Live Nation, Email, Friends, Calls, and even my mother.

Yes yes, I know. The Brother's have canceled, er, postponed.

"Eddie has issues": I wonder if those issues are:
He's either back on the horse or back on the horse because his x-wife,
Valerie Bertinelli, went on Opra and said she was doing Steven Spielberg
while married to Eddie. (Val still didn't get the movie part with
Spielberg.)

KID ROCK, Dickey Betts, Reverend Run
RBC Center aka: The Hockey Arena
Friday, Feb, 22, 2008

It was a cloud covered hazy night from the recently passed rains
and while sitting at the top of the exit ramp off Wade on to
Blue Ridge, the highest point in Wake County, 330 degrees around
you was veiled in a cloak of darkness but over the tree line the
lights from the RBC beamed in the air as a directional signal
calling all those looking for Rock, Kid Rock.

When I hit the parking lot there was more than incandescent light
filling the sky, every tailgater with a bar-b-q'er had it burning
like a construction site's 55-gallon drum for the warmth although
the vast majority of those partying were just freezing their tail
gates off.

I hit a MeetUp.com gathering early Saturday evening at
Quail Ridge Books about "How To Publish A Book". They
had 4 authors doing a panel with discussions and
questions about their trials and tribulations of
writing and publishing.

Two had publishers and about 20 books between them, two
were self-published, one being a pretty jacked up local
gentleman named Adam Shepard who is currently promoting
his book titled "Scratch Beginnings,
(www.scratchbeginnings.com), and will be on the
Today Show Feb 26th.

QUEENSRYCHE
DON DOKKEN
Feb. 10, 2008
House Of Blues, M. Beach

After being out and about Thursday, Friday and Saturday it is a
stretch to add on a Sunday but Myrtle Beach was calling and I am
a lot more willing to answer that call during this time of year
when hotel rooms are 1/3rd the summer rate, there are zero lines
at restaurants and the Russian strippers are actually glad to see
you. Ok, their glad to see your money but until you pop the garter
belt and let go of it, it's a part of you.

There was one line in town today, the snaking trail of Metal Heads
lined-up out the door, down the sidewalk and around the corner
waiting to be molested by perverts with metal detectors. You would
have thought he was using an iron instead of a wand and no that's
not a wrinkle in my pants so move along with that thing.

Oh my god, what is that sound my hard disk is making??? I don't know
but it's new and strange enough that I had better stop all that I am
doing and run a massive and full backup of all my files.

Ok, I spent all that unpaid, distracted time but now if my mess
crashes and burns I'll be able to sleep at night since I'm covered.
What if I would have actually lost those winning emails of overseas
lotteries; all that money would have went to waste.

Well I walk in last night and all was quiet in the office/house but
wait, what is that? It's the same noise my hard disk is making but
the computer isn't on. How is that happening?

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA
RBC Center
Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007

Four years ago this Event was in Memorial Auditorium. Two years ago it was
at the RBC Center with a curtain down the center to only sell half the house.
This year, the whole arena is: Sold Out.

This trip around it's called: "Winter Tour 2007" and is in big demand, but
not so popular yet that there is a "Summer Tour" although I'm sure some
marketing type will run the numbers and figure out some way.

Having no opening act was a plus although that did not stop the show from
starting late but that gave you extra time to circle the concourse and check
out all the ladies dressed up in their Holiday finery. And there were so many
pregnant ladies; I had to wonder if they had a scheduled virgin birth
re-enactment on the program.

This weekend will be a large one for ladies being out/about
wearing some of their best existing clothing finery; with
the Christmas parties and the weekend right before the
holiday all the ladies will be shopping in their closet
for their wildest and most lovely clothes to wear.

BUT, the best time comes After Santa brings them all their
new clothing shopping trophies. The nights out past the
25th, thru New Years and for weeks into 2008 all the girls
will be on the town wearing Their HOT NEW OUTFITS...!
Nothing lights up a girl like being on the town with her
new club clothes.