LAST NIGHT ROCKED!!!! THANKS MIKE G ( incredible story inside)
 

If you are a true blue musician or just a fan of rock and roll then you must read this!!!
If you are sober or on drugs .....you will appreciate what I saw last night at the Music Box Theatre in Hollywood at the Henry Fond Theatre.

So Mike is my concert buddy- We both have a mutual friend in Matt Sorum the drummer for the Cult, Velvet Revolver and G&R and have been to many VR shows in the past and hung backstage with the band many times. Great guys- well except for Weiland.

Last night Mike calls me and asks me what my plans were for the evening and I told him I had to attend the SHANE'S WORLD, SMASH PICTURES, HUSH party at Cinespace at 10 and meet my boy Max from TMZ and Efren Ramirez ( Pedro from Napolean Dynamite we share the same publicist). I had to get there no later than 10:30.

Mike then tells me he has a pass for tonights special event for Music Cares and the MAP Fund " An Intimate Evening with Alice Cooper and SLASH" Featuring Camp Freddy who are basically the Cult and Guns and Roses.

So of course I jump at the chance to see this show.
We arrive at the venue at 7:00 and are whisked right in.
We have passes for both the mezzanine and the VIP area downstairs.

As I belly up to the bar to order the drink the bartender says it's a "DRY" show just juices, water, and cokes. LOL

Mike and I really weren't planning on drinking...but it was Friday night a beer would have been awesome. So I go and pick up a program for the night's events and to my shock and amazement....the show is for recovering addicts in the Music Biz. Music Cares is a recovery program for music industry people.

I look at the evening's line up and JUST ABOUT SHIT MYSELF.

The host for the evening's event was former "In Living Color" star and comedian Tommy Davidson. Who absolutely BOMBED. I couldn't believe what a poor choice he was to emcee such a star studded event....but hey we haven't gotten to that yet.

As the show opens it's the band, Blind Melon obviously not with original singer Shannon Hoon- but I guess they are still around, and although they were very mellow and didn't even play their only hit, "No Rain" they were pretty good. They played 3 songs and were turned off faster than me eating stinky pussy.

Next up after a short dedication by Anthony Keidis to Bill Timmons the founder of MAP who passed away in March- was camp Freddy-

With Chris Chaney, Donovan Leitch, Billy Morrison, and Matt Sorum

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS CHESTER PENNINGTON, WAYNE KRAMER, DUFF MCKAGAN,
STEVEN TYLER AND ROBIN ZANDER!!!!!!!

They came out and rocked to Cheap Trick's "Dream Police" with Robin Zander on vocals
and then played " Gonna Raise Hell" and sounded amazing!

Chester Bennington came out next and sang Alice Copper's " Eighteen" and was oustanding as well...

It wasn't until they brought out Slash with Steven Tyler (after giving Slash his 2 year sobriety chip with a touching and funny speech) that I absolutely went on sensory overload- Tyler and the band went into a version of " Whole Lotta love" that tore the house down....well not really.

You see in any other place this show would have had people flipping out.
Being a sober environment with industry people, no one rocked out.

No one danced, no pumped fists...it was like sitting at a Bar Mitzvah and watching Mick Jagger sing Hava Nagilia.

I couldn't believe it! Needless to say after Bernie Taupin, (Elton John's writing partner) gave a great speeech about Alice Cooper partying back in the day and getting sober, Alice took the stage and rocked with his band along with Slash- "School's Out", "Telephone is Ringing" " and "Welcome to My Nightmare".
The show was INSANE- we got to hobknob with a ton of rockstars and celebrities-
I interviewed Shauna Sand for TMZ and kinda made fun of Janie Lane from Warrant for a minute- he was a good sport.

Duff and his wife Susan are tremendous people and no one there last night had an ego at all-

I am happy to see that this program has worked for so many musicians-
It was really cool to learn about this organization.

So the show ends at 10 on the dot- we zip over to the SMASH Party and we had a blast chilling with Efren in his booth.

Dude had HOTTIES everywhere last night.
VOTE FOR PEDRO!

Big thanks to Stuart Wall, Voodoo, Megan, AIREK, and Louis for the hook up I was honered to be there....

and I apologize in advance for any inappropriate ass grabbing my friend Max may have made last night to any of you....girls or BOYS.

LOL


he was a wee bit drunk
:-))


What a night!

OH PS-

There were only aabout 400 people in the venue.
Now that was intimate!

american.

you are infidel.

That wasn't our party Bizzle.

That was a Smash Pictures party in association with Luis De Paz.

I think the reason people think it is ours is we handle their websites. But for the record the party was a Luis De Paz party. Shane's World and Hush were not involved with planning or anything. Our people showed to support the Smash guys.

:)

Hope you had fun.

Wow that would beeen a awesome event to attend. btw "Telephone is Ringing" is Under my wheels..big Alice Cooper fan.seen him here in Vancouver where he fell off the stage and split his head open..way back when

Just logged on and saw this.

Your welcome to come along anytime......We've had some bad ass concerts together.
Camp Freddy with Slash, Duff and Steve Tyler doing Whole lotta love was fucking incredible..

The only correction to you story I have, was Slash was playing the whole set, not just when Steve came out :thumbsup

I'll just sit here in awed silence and



drool over the whole Steven Tyler thing... oh and Slash.. doing anything.

PK

Thanks KB, now I got to hear how I didnt get to go TWICE!!!

Bastard....

So were you attending this recovery meeting by chance?

That was definately a kick ass event. Some of my favorite bands.

Why doesn't shit like this happen more often on the east coast?

Sounds cool. Normally i hate your bragging.

Because it is the east coast.

My bragging is usually tongue in cheek
:-))

But in this case, it was too over the top not to post about it-

lol

Sounds like an awesome night Kevin. Thanks for sharing....

Mike never takes me anywhere

wtf?

Lost me after the first few sentences... i've got the attention span of a gnat.

KB and Mike - really you guys had fun? YOUR FUCKING WELCOME!

I can't believe it not even of a mention of who fucking got you guys the seats...

sounds like you were at the place to be at last night KB :thumbsup

I was going to call you personally on Monday,
You are a MENSCH my friend and of course I thank you from the bottom of my heart!


PS congrats on the birth of your baby

:winkwink:

Dude that sounds insane! lucky mofos! :)

Sounds like a damn good time!

i am a duck

I Invented Sober Musicians.