Let The Fans Be Fans
While I was High School and the years after I hung out with my three good friends, Rocky, Dan, and Tim. Dan, Tim and I all graduated together from Huntington Beach High School. Rocky, also graduated from HBHS but a couple of years before us making him two years older than us, a fact we never let him forget. We were seemingly always together, maybe not all four at once but if I was having an In and Out Burger with Dan, Rocky was with Tim at Tower Records and so on and so forth
Nash Vegas
If you’re a golfer, once in your life you need to go to Scotland and play the Old Course in St. Andrews. If you’re a baseball fan, you need to see a game at Yankee Stadium or Dodger Stadium. If you’re a music fan or a musician, you need go to Nashville, Tennessee. If you’ve never been you’re probably thinking exactly what I thought before last week. Nashville is the home of country music, why as a rock guy, would I want to go there? While downtown does have the Country Music
Tangible Music
The last time I flew cross country, which was a couple of months ago, I got up from row 11 and walked to the back of the plane to use the facilities. As I made my way back, I noticed the two people sitting behind me were reading books. I would say that 60% of the people I saw were reading either a book or a magazine. I saw only 2 people with an E reader. Weren’t they the hottest things on the market not that long ago? After the initial cost, aren’t digital books cheaper? How
Def Leppard!!! Styx!!! And Tesla?
It was a dark and stormy night in Tampa Florida. You know what ol’ Jack always says? Let’s go to a rock show!! Def Leppard picked Tampa to kick off their 2015 United States tour; sixty dates in 5 months. The first leg of the tour features openers Styx and Tesla. It’s a pretty strong bill. Strong enough to pack the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheater (I know, horrible name) to the gills, pun intended. Tampa is a notoriously lazy market. The capacity of the venue is 29,500 in