Before I get into last night’s show at the Handlebar, let me just say that yesterday was not one of the greatest days.  To be honest, the past week or so has just been hell for me in more ways than I care to get into.  I got to the station in one of my post-holiday weekend ‘can’t-believe-it’s-Monday’ moods.  When I am in one of these moods I just try to avoid people as much as possible in attempt to bypass any head-biting that might come from me when I’m grumpy.  And, of course, my evasive tactics are always thwarted by at least someone in building which resulted in a rather good tongue-lashing between myself and the co-worker (one of at least three run-ins I have had with different co-workers over the course of a week - maybe I shouldn’t be such an ass!).

After finally getting the matter resolved, I get back to work only to have my ex-girlfriend wig out on me and back out on last night’s SHINEDOWN show.  So, when I get off work, I head to the Handlebar, alone I might add, for the meet-and-greet with SHINEDOWN.  Finally, this was a turning point in my otherwise sucky day as the guys were really cool, conversational and very appreciative of the radio station and their fans.  I nabbed a couple of autographs, one for me and one for my estranged ex-girlfriend.

After that, Turtle, Greg (our promotions guy) and I introduced the first band, A VACANT SOUL.  The audience, of course, was all psyched for SHINEDOWN while a good many were pumped about PARMALEE yet just a handful of people to my left were familiar with AVS.  I can say with confidence that AVS recruited quite a number of new fans last night at the Handlebar!

Mattman and Paige from The Rise Guys Morning Show gave PARMALEE their stage introduction and then Turtle, intern Tyler (not to be confused with our other Tyler in promotions) and I introduced SHINEDOWN.  Tyler had the wonderful idea of Turtle and I going on with no shirts on since the place was so flippin’ hot and I took it a step further and suggested we actually throw out the shirts off our backs in addition to nice and clean station shirts we were throwing out.  So we did after mopping sweat off various body parts first!

SHINEDOWN came on opening with their killer new single, “Devour” which sent the crowd into a frenzy.  Overall, the entire show was great and I got to meet some avid listeners of the Planet and the Twisted Zone.  The only thing that still concerns me a bit is the fact that male listeners are a lot more excited to meet me than female listeners - and, when I say that, I mean more excited than any male should be when meeting another male!  Oh well, guess I should just become accustomed to signing more man boobs!  LOL!!!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 at 11:22 am and is filed under Concerts/live entertainment, Ranting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.