Performed at the White House – Check. Late show with David Letterman – Check. 24 hit singles on the Billboard Charts, 11 CMA awards and 3 Grammy awards – Check, Check and Check.
Brad Paisley at the White House
Meet Brad Douglas Paisley – country music singer, song writer and guitarist all rolled into one.
And now he’s got himself another 7 nominations to this year’s County Music Association Awards, which by the way – he’s co-hosting again with Carrie Underwood on Nov 11 in Nashville, TN.
Brad Paisley is clean as a whistle – a family guy, and the only thing that keeps him in the limelight (and on the road) is his voice, his lyrics and his guitar.
For country singers, doing the honky-tonks of Route 66 is a rite of passage. Brad Paisley did one better, and got himself instant fame in a TLC special by performing Route 66 (the song) live on a bridge in Kansas.
Being on the road with Brad Paisley certainly doesn’t involve any of the usual hedonistic pursuits that celebrity performers wallow in. So what does it feel like?
Muslims go to Mecca. Catholics go to the Vatican. Hard Rock fans go to an AC/DC concert. AC/DC has held its fans in a religious trance since 1973, when Angus and Malcom Young founded the band in Sydney. Since then, AC/DC has sold over 200 million albums worldwide.
And now, 36 years later, the Rock ‘n’ Roll train is still rolling, with last year’s release of AC/DC’s latest studio album – Black Ice. AC/DC is currently on a marathon 18 month Black Ice world tour, which started in late 2008, and continues well into 2010.
Angus Young
Adventure travel in the Himalayas or a safari in South Africa is tame stuff, compared to the roar in the stadium as Phil Rudd gets going on the drums and the absolute frenzy that breaks out when Brian Johnson and Angus Young hit their stride. It’s an awesome experience, and if you’re not doing any concert travel, then you’ll never know what you missed.
If you want to be touched by the magic, check out the venues and dates listed below, and get yourself some AC/DC concert tickets.
AC/DC concert dates & Phil Rudd
From Dec 2-6 they’ll be holding 3 concerts in Buenos Aires, and then they hit Asia-Pacific in early 2010, with concerts scheduled for Wellington and Auckland in New Zealand; back to their roots in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth in Australia; and then on to Saitama and Osaka in Japan in March.
The first time I was offered a ticket to San Juan Capistrano’s Mission, it was by my Mother. Who was with her Sister. It was a nice gesture, but being single and broke, I chose to go ahead and let them go, less that be the final straw in the crumbling fortress that was originally my self-confidence.
7 years later, I found myself slightly better and decided to take the trip down from Los Angeles as a statement of my healing.
I was 33, making ridiculous money from blogging articles like these and was ready. Read More »
I mean, sure, I could have probably bought the train ticket and somehow found my way around the neighboring city, guidebook in hand, taking it all in, but as luck would have it, a friend offered to take me there in her car. On the autobahn. Which was all the rage when I was 12.
‘There’s NO SPEED LIMIT! You can go as FAST AS YOU WANT!’ – sad that this was the extent of my European knowledge. Read More »
If you're out of town on Halloween, you won't have to carve that pumpkin
I’ve never been a big fan of Halloween. As a kid I loved dressing up and, of course, the candy, but I never quite warmed to the idea of going to strangers houses begging for a handout. Fast forward thirty a couple of years to the present, and you’ll find me manning the candy bowl at home rather than taking my son around the neighborhood.
However.
Fall is my favorite time of the year, and I will use any excuse to travel. Even Halloween. And if you’re going to use it as an excuse to get out of town, why not make it interesting by planning a haunted vacation? That’s something even I could get into.
You could be obvious and head to Salem, Massachusetts, but you’d be missing out. Across the U.S. there are a ton of spooky destinations that you may never have considered.
My regular readers reader knows that I’ve written once or twice about my home town of Clayton. Well, I would be dreadfully remiss in my “representin” duties if I did not blog about our annual Oktoberfest.
This year’s Oktoberfest was held on the weekend of September 26-27. Yea, I know. Don’t ask me. I guess all the weekends in October were spoken for. Whatever. In fairness though, that other Oktoberfest actually begins mid-late September, and ends in early October, so I guess we Claytonites just decided to jump right into the middle of the whole brew-ha-ha. Get it??
Many people think of the desert when they think of Southern Utah, but the desert can be beautiful. Encompassing over 3,700 acres, the Coral Pink Sand Dunes make an ideal location for part of your family adventure vacation. The dunes are created because winds flow between the Moccasin and Moquith mountains carrying grains of sand creating the beautiful park. The park is surrounded by the red sandstone cliffs Southern Utah is famous for. Add in the stunning blue sky and the green trees around the perimeter and you’ve got the perfect photo opportunity.
Yellow Flowers at Coral Pink Sand Dunes Utah State Park
If you go to Coral Pink Sand Dunes in your RV, there is an inexpensive campground on the premises. Kanab is nearby and makes a great place to stay if you’re not camping. You can rent off road vehicles in Kanab to play on the dunes as well as go hiking or sand tubing. Two popular places to hike are South Fork Indian Canyon Pictographs, where ancient pictographs can be seen along the sand walls, and Moquith Mountains where you can actually see the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
You don’t get a lot of sleep when there are 5 people on the bus. But you do get a lot of laughs. Sleep you can find anywhere, so it’s a fair enough trade. All of us except Tim, who’s been fighting off something for the past few days, got up early. Robin, Kate and I dropped off Collin to go try and quickly download an iPhone app for his golf (in)ability before playing 18 and we headed over to the Lower 9th Ward, which is – if you don’t know – the hardest hit area of Katrina. Read More »
