The quest for the hottest ticket in town

After nigh 20 age of writing about entertainment, professional instincts compel me to attempt the Place To Be on whatsoever given nox. Without question, the Place to Be on Thursday is Invesco Field at Mile High, the Denver stadium where Barack Obama will deliver his acceptance speech.

Everyone, regardless of political orientation, should want to go, if only for the experience of standing where the eyes of the nation and world are focused. John McCain might study sneaking in disguised with Rudy Giuliani's infamous wig and get dressed.

Invesco seating area around 75,000 people, but it is the toughest ticket in ithiel Town. Many are reserved for Democratic donors and VIPs. The 5,000 rule delegates are guaranteed seats, as are the 15,000 or so journalists credentialed for the convention.

I am not among those officially canonic scribes. So weeks agone, I applied for a civilian "Community Credential" through the Democratic convention Web site. Each state was allotted a certain number of such credentials. They were available to anyone regardless of party tie-up, or want thereof.

I submitted my request by the deadline -- and heard nothing.

Time for plan B.

In college, my buddy Kenny and I crafted fake backstage passes from a CD long box -- turns forbidden those composition board monstrosities weren't entirely useless -- and strolled undisputed into a Rolling Stones concert.

But the Secret Service certificate at Invesco will be considerably tighter than that provided by disinterested Superdome ticket-takers. Much of downtown Denver is on lockdown; a stretch out of Interstate 25 nigh the sports stadium is organism closed for four hours. And many, many law enforcement officers with guns will be patrolling for uninvited gate-crashers.

So I pinned my hopes on the "miracle ticket" route pioneered by countless Deadheads who stood outside sold-out venues pleading for a "miracle" in the form of a ticket, rather free.

I intended to ride the light-rail trail from where I'm staying southwest of Denver to Invesco, debark, and hold up a "Need One Ticket" sign. It's been my experience that the larger the event, the greater the number of tickets floating around at the net minute.

The DNC has gone to great lengths to discourage the scalping and transferring of tickets. My plan hinged on the physical tickets not being electronically labelled to the original recipient's name. Surely someone would have an extra.

Competition is stiff. Supposedly thousands of Colorado residents are on a wait list for that state's ticket allocation. On Sunday, the Denver Post ran a narrative about Billy Pitt, a 76-year-old lifelong Democrat from Tennessee. His daughter bought him a plane ticket to Denver and offered $250 on Craigslist for an Invesco ticket. As of last weekend, she'd found no takers.

Given the feel-good potential of this

Mp3 music: John Sykes

Artist: John Sykes: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Rock Rock: Hard-Rock Pop     John Sykes's discography:      Bad Boy Live!    Year: 2005    Tracks: 11      Please Don't Leave Me    Year: 2000    Tracks: 11      Nuclear Cowboy    Year: 2000    Tracks: 12      Loveland    Year: 1997    Tracks: 10      20Th Century    Year: 1997    Tracks: 10      Out Of My Tree    Year: 1995    Tracks: 10      I don't wanna live my life like you    Year: 1995    Tracks: 4 Best known for his stints with unvoiced gem outfits Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake, guitar player John Sykes was born July 29, 1959 in Reading, England. He began playing euphony at 14, and linked the group Streetfighter in 1980; a stint with Badlands followed before Sykes united the Tygers of Pan Tang, issue the LP Hypnotized in 1981. After complemental work on the album Crazy Nights, he left wing the Tygers to land together Thin Lizzy in time for the group's terminal studio LP, 1983's Thunder and Lightning; the following year, Sykes united Whitesnake, devising his debut with the album Microscope slide It In. Their 1987 self-titled LP was the band's commercial incur, with Sykes teaming with frontman David Coverdale to author the dispatch "Is This Love"; however, in front long after finishing the platter Coverdale fired the rest of the ring, and Sykes returned to England to form his possess mathematical group, Blue Murder, with drummer Carmine Appice and bassist Tony Franklin. Blue Murder released trine albums 'tween 1989 and 1994 before profligacy; after touring with a reunited Thin Lizzy, in 1997 Sykes issued the solo lay aggregation Loveland. twentieth Century, which appeared afterwards that same year, was credited to simply Sykes, the triad the guitar player formed with bassist Marco Mendoza and drummer Tommy O'Steen; the Chapter One digest followed in 1998, and two days later he issued Out of My Tree.

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Nbc - Viewers Angered Over Scarce Live Olympic Programming

NBC's decision to prove the most-anticipated Olympics events during primetime resulted in an avalanche of complaints, particularly from West Coast viewers, wHO saw near nothing live, including Michael Phelps's 1st swimming victory on Saturday, which would have aired at 7 00 p.m. if it had been presented live just was instead delayed until 10 00 p.m. Writer Henry Blodget wrote on the Silicon Alley website Sunday "Sponsors don't benefit when fans are tuning in to see HOW Michael Phelps north Korean won rather than IF HE WINS. They don't benefit when viewers are cursing the meshwork and throwing imaginary fruit at the TV. They don't benefit when the country develops a collective loathing for the web that lasts far longer than the two-week games." Today's (Monday) New York Times reported that some viewers were able to find alive coverage on the Internet posted from foreign websites. But NBC, it aforementioned, engaged in what the newspaper called "a

Ramsey Lewis

   
Artist: Ramsey Lewis

   Genre(s): 
R&B: Soul
   Jazz
   Other
   Dance
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Time Flies

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11


   
 Another Voyage

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Electric Collection

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 14


   
 Greatest Hits

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 20


   
 Between The Keys

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 1


   
 Ivory Pyramid

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 8


   
 Mother Nature's Son

   Year: 1968   
Tracks: 8


   
 Up pops

   Year: 1967   
Tracks: 10


   
 In Person 1960-1967 (cd2)

   Year:    
Tracks: 13


   
 In Person 1960-1967 (cd1)

   Year:    
Tracks: 15


   
 Dance Of The Soul

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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Ramsey Lewis has long straddled the limit between bop-oriented jazz and pop music. Most of his recordings (in particular by the mid-'60s) were identical accessible and attracted a gravid non-jazz audience. In 1956, he formed a triad with bassist Eldee Young and drummer Red Holt. From the part (1958), their records for Argo/Cadet were popular, although in the early days, they had a strong jazz content. In 1958, Lewis as well recorded with Max Roach and Lem Winchester. On the 1965 albums The In Crowd and Hang On, Ramsey made the piano player into a major attractiveness and from that point, on his records became much more than predictable and pop-oriented. In 1966, his trio's staff office office changed with bassist Cleveland Eaton and drummer Maurice White (later the founder of Earth, Wind & Fire) connection Lewis. In the 1970s, Lewis a great deal played electric pianissimo, although by later in the tenner he was relieved to acoustic and hiring an additional keyboardist. He can still dally melodic jazz when he wants to, but Ramsey Lewis has generally stuck to easy hearing pop music during the past 30 old age. In 2004 he released Time Flies, a look back at some of his most popular songs through new recordings.

IAMX

   
Artist: IAMX

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Alternative
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Missile (Single CD)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2


   
 Live Salzbourg

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 9


   
 Live - unplugged - rhiz Vienna - Sneaker pimps

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10

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Sneaker Pimps introduction member Chris Corner began playacting as the drippingly seductive electro-pop theatrical role IAMX in 2003. Adopting the furnishing of mid-'80s electro-pop and raw wafture acts of the Apostles like New Order, the Cure, and Depeche Mode with his pounding, reverb-swathed, synth-washed compositions, Corner's work as IAMX represented a noteworthy departure from his ferment with the Sneaker Pimps. His first full-length as IAMX, Buss & Swallow, was released on Recall in 2004; the sophomore IAMX album, The Alternative, followed on Major iI days by and by. Both albums featured a dark, vampirish sensibility and dealt with topics like alternative sexuality and drug habit.





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Rich Robinson

   
Artist: Rich Robinson

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Brothers of a Feather

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 14


   
 Paper

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14

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When the Black Crowes either skint up or went on indefinite hiatus (depends on wHO you need and sometimes when you enquire), guitar player Rich Robinson exhausted a few months with his family at habitation, computation out what to do next. There were some deaths in his extended family that exactly added to how unusual it was adjusting to life without the Crowes, and how strange it was to be working on projects without his brother, singer Chris Robinson. He complete up edifice a studio in his Connecticut family and worked on his production chops. New avenues were opening, too, with Robinson composition the soundtrack for the 2001 film Highway piece severely working on his painting for the number one time since the Crowes had formed.


In 2003, he formed the four-piece isthmus Hookah Brown, which toured a bit before Robinson accomplished he couldn't stand isthmus politics any longer. Going it alone meant vocalizing lessons, since the guitarist had never handled lead vocals. It took one lesson for Robinson to realize his technique was all wrong. It built up his confidence and renewed his interest in releasing an album. Playing everything merely the drums himself, Robinson soon had sufficiency for an album. Joe Magistro took care of the drum parts, then node appearances from ex-Crowes keyboardist Eddie Hawrsch and BR5-49's Donnie Herron were added, and the album was done. Robinson released the result, Newspaper, in August of 2004 on his own Keyhole pronounce.





Gossip Pays

Sony Films To Distribute Live Shows At Digital Theaters

Sony Films hopes to expand the utilization of new digital projection equipment in
theaters by launching a new division, Hot Ticket, that will provide live concerts,
plays and sports events in high definition and sometimes in 3D to theaters. The studio
said that its first presentation will be Delirium, a Cirque du Soleil production,
in August. The following month it will present the musical Rent on its closing
night on Broadway. Sony distribution chief Rory Bruer told today's (Thursday) Los An
geles Times that the company plans to present about 10-12 such events a year.
"In the beginning this business is not going to be a huge moneymaker," Bruer said,
"but this is a long-term play."

22/05/2008

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