Archive for September, 2007
Archive from old site
5-11-07
Quick update added a few pictures from the Randy Rogers concert. Check out thier stuff it’s good. View Pictures from the show here.
4-8-07
Time for the montly update, which I admit is sad. Here is a quick recap of the last month: got a promotion, worked more, went to visit Krissy’s friends in NashVegas, saw Mickey and the Motorcars & Reckless Kelly, bought a new gun, got sick for 3 days, and watched Blades of Glory.
Now for some entertainment….. I filmed my Dad and I target shooting back at home over easter enjoy.
3-2-07
Hello all, hope everyone is ready for spring, I know I am. I can’t wait for the weather to warm up so I can start fishing and hiking. My bud Rance has a place on the lake now, so we are planning some Crappie&Beer weekends. He came down last weekend for his b-day. I took him to the Snorty on Friday to see the Mark Chapman Band. If any of you haven’t seen these guys I highly recommend you do so soon. (My co-worker Bart is the drummer so if you see him tell him you know me!) Sat. we went to DA Bears game and watched them whip up on Drake. We ended the night with plenty of beer and drunken Wii bowling!
2-11-07
Boland rocked the Snorty Small Room! Everytime I see Roger Ray play steel guitar I realize more and more how talented he really is. Jason did a great job entertaining the crowd. I was also impressed with his cover of Copperhead Road. Here are a few pics I took from the show.
2-5-07
Jason Boland is coming to the Snorty Saturday 2/10, get your tickets quick
this will sell out! I’m looking to update some of the visuals on this site in the near future. Any suggestions?
1-24-07
Ragweed at the Snorty was amazing!
Here is a video of Cody’s new song “Leaving Nashville” Live from the Snorty
1-20-07
Pictures and a recap of our trip to Steamboat
View pictures of our trip here.
Day 1 : We departed from Springfield at approximately 6:30 PM in our rental, a 2007 AWD Toyota Rav 4. With the GPS synched, and days worth of music ready and waiting we were finally off on the trip we had been planning for months. I drove straight through Missouri and into Kansas for several hours, finally stopping in the middle of nowhere Kansas for our first of many restroom/gas/stretch breaks. After refueling and chugging down a few cans of AMP we were back on the road. About this time while traveling down I-70 with no other cars in sight I see a very bright green swooping light about 2-300 ft in the air. I assume it was a very low shooting star, but who knows? (Strange things happen in the middle of Kansas- we later found out there was a meteor shower that night) We stopped again in the lonely town of Hays and Krissy took over driving for awhile.
Day 2: Approx. 1AM : I take a much needed stare at the back of my eyelids while Krissy takes us into Colorado. I wake up to snow and the temp about 20 degrees. (At this point I started thinking about how much the last few hours resembled the scene from Dumb & Dumber, where Harry falls asleep and Lloyd drives them off course into the other direction. When Harry wakes up Lloyd comments that “man I thought the Rockies would be a little rockier than this!….. that John Denver was full of shit man….”) Thankfully Krissy is much brighter than Lloyd and Harry were and got us to CO without any problems. We stopped in Limon and filled up and took a much needed bathroom break. I got back into the drivers seat and headed into Denver. Just outside of Denver I decide to make a risky move and go with the updated “quicker” route that the GPS has just calculated for me. After looking it over for a few minutes, I decide what the heck why not it looks like it will save us about 2 hours. So the new route takes us up through Winter Park and through some crazy hairpin curves through the mountains. The fastest I think we ever went was about 40 mph. We were both thankful we got out of the pass, hitting a more forgiving Hwy 40. (Later the next day we hear that there was a massive avalanche along this very route…. I was pretty excited that we had conquered “the beast”, but Krissy was already demanding that we take a different route back!) We roll into the Steamboat area about 7:30 AM mountain time.
7:45: We try to check in to MusicFest, but learn that it will be at least 2 more hours until they are ready. We park in the Holiday Inn parking lot, kick back the seats and catch some z’s. We check in about 11AM and get our wristbands, directions, etc. We venture across the street to our hotel and check in. Luckily this wasn’t Krissy’s first time to MusicFest and she knew how to beat the system by checking into everything early. We then ventured to Gondola Square and got our skis/boots/poles. After venturing around Ski Times Square for awhile we headed downtown to scope out the shops, trying to hit everything before anyone else had even arrived. After a few hours of walking around downtown Steamboat we ventured over to the famous 8th street steakhouse for an anniversary dinner of prime rib. Krissy vouched that she would not leave Steamboat until she had prime rib from here. I must agree with her when she says that it is the best!
After stuffing ourselves we headed back to the hotel and hit the outdoor hot-tub with a bottle of Asti.
Day 3: We wake up early and head to the slopes. Since this is my first time snow skiing I figured I better get some lessons so I went to Ski school for a few hours. The instructor asked for anyone who had ever water-skiedb, rollerbladed, or ice skated. I had done all three so I went to the “Advanced Track”. After about 30 mins of demonstration and lecturing, my instructor J.J. (a cool old man about 60 years old) takes us to the lift and down our first slope. He informed us that after about an hour and a half we were farther than most people got in an entire day. After about 5-6 runs on the preview hills I felt fairly comfortable and skipped out on the rest of the school day to meet Krissy for lunch at the Slopeside Grill. After eating we went up and took my first full green. While I was at ski school Krissy went up to take a green, but mistakenly got on blue runs twice, so she was thankful to slow it down a bit.
We went back to the hotel and got ready for the 1st show of the evening. We got to the “big tent” about an hour early so that we could get a good spot. Tonight was Wade Bowen/Cross Canadian Ragweed/ Jack Ingram. Wade came out and impressed us both singing mostly stuff from his new album “Lost Hotel.” CCR came out and played about an hour and a half set, including most of the favorites, and Cody’s newest song “Oklahoma (which I love!).” Jack Ingram came out and played a set that included his number 1 hit “Love You.” Neither Krissy nor I were impressed with Jack’s cocky stage presence, or his “alternative” band members, but overall the music was good. We got out of the tent about midnight and took the 1st of many interesting city bus rides back to the hotel.
Day 4: We decided to skip the slopes in order to prepare for a full day of concerts. After lunch we ventured to the outdoor concert at the base of the mountain. Brandon Rhyder and the Randy Rogers band were playing. Both of them commented on how crazy all of us were for standing out in 1 degree weather with snow pouring down! I must say it was one of the best concerts I have been too. There were about 1,000 people standing out in the snow singing every word to Randy’s songs, it was amazing! Later that evening we planned on heading up the mountain to see Mickey and Motorcars, but after standing outside in line for an hour in blizzard conditions, they cancelled the show due to high winds. We then ventured over to the grand ballroom for plan B - The Red Dirt Rangers and Jason Boland & The Stragglers. I am glad that the first concert was cancelled because the Rangers put on one hell of a show with Jason. After the show I managed to snatch a pick from Boland, and then got to meet Red Dirt Rangers fiddle player Randy “The Wildman” Crouch. I got to chat with him for about 5 minutes and he told me about his house in Tahlequah, OK. He lives out in the woods, no electricity, and has all natural wells. He also had rigged up a recording studio using solar panels and car batteries!
Video of Red Dirt Rangers & Stoney LaRue - Playing Idabell Blues
Day 5: This was the last day of concerts, so decided to take it pretty easy during the day shopping around for souvenirs and eating lunch. The concerts began with the Cross Canadian Ragweed Jam session at 2:00. This was a great set with appearances by many of the musicians who had performed earlier in the week. This performance was an opportunity for the musicians to play whatever they wanted; there wasn’t a predefined set list, and they could go on and off stage as they pleased. The last show of Music Fest was one of the most anticipated, Mickey and the Motorcars and Reckless Kelly lead the way with others joining near the end for a final farewell. We rode the bus back to the hotel for the last time and prepared for our departure back to Missouri the next day.
1-19-07
Man it has been awhile since I updated! I’ve been busy the past few months and rarely find any downtime to update this. I will try in the next few months to get back on the ball. A quick recap of the last few months.
- Working fulltime as a project manager = busy
- Spent Thanksgiving at the Dallas Cowboys Game
- Joined my family and Krissy’s for Christmas
- Spent New Years in STL
- Took a week vacation to Music Fest in Steamboat CO
- Listened to tons of Red Dirt Music
- Hit the slopes for my first time
- Got tons of great pictures
- Survived one of the worst ice storms to hit the mid-west in years