Hey...  Please join me as I host the T.J. Maloney's "Tail Gate Party" in the parking lot of T.J.'s on U.S. 30 in Merrillville this Saturday (July 12) from 3pm until 8pm...

This event is taking place prior to the REO SPEEDWAGON concert. SO if you're going to the show, why not stop out early and get your rock 'n' roll mojo going inside the 40-foot by 100 foot covered Miller beer tent where classic rock will be pumping loud and proud all day.

I'll have trivia, games and even karaoke going on inside the the tent too!  So that you can win great prizes like tickets to see REO that night at the Star Plaza, tickets to see Rick Springfield, The Plain White Ts and Molly Hatchet when they give grandstand stage performances in August at the 2008 Lake County Fair.  You can also win overnight stays at the Radisson Hotel, dinner gift cards for T.J. Maloney's, t-shirts and more.

Lots of things to win...Lots of fun to have...with me at the T.J. Maloney's tail Gate Party on Saturday from 3-8pm.

Hey...

Don't forget to join my son Dylan and I at the Star Plaza Theatre this Saturday (July 5) to catch the always outrageously entertaining WEIRD AL YANKOVIC! 

Here's a couple of pix of WEIRD AL in the radio studio with me on my afternoon drive show recently to promote his July 5th concert.  Dylan joined me at work that day...naturally!  Don't miss this one folks...

Hey folks...

One of the most underrated and under appreciated guitar gods of  the classic rock era also happens to be one of my favorote blues/rock guitar gods.  He's Canadian string-bender Pat Travers and I'll never forget celebrating one of my birthdays many years back with Pat and his band at the old Club Dimension night club in my hometown of Highland, IN.  I was working as promotions guy for the club at the time and the always cool and cordial Pat gifted me with a free PT concert and PT hat for spending my birthday working his show.  As if that wasn't enough of a present in itself. There's a shot of us from that night on my "Celeb Scrapbook" slide show. Though the photo is labeled 1995, that date is wrong as it actually dates back a couple of years earlier. View the PT and me shot in Book #3 of the 1990s folder at:

http://www.midwestbeat.com/celeb_pixs.htm

Anyway, I digress.  The point of this blog posting it to report to all the other PT fans out there that our guitar guru has a powerful new live concert album on the way.  "Stick  With What You Know - Live In Europe" on Provogue Records will ship this month on July 22.

This hard rocking blues performance is in true Pat signature style - in your face and full of  big guitars. The album was recorded live at the Bosuil in Weert, The Netherlands. The Pat Travers band on this live performance consists of Pat (guitars, slide guitar & vocals), Kirk McKim (guitar & backing vocals), Frank McDaniel (bass & backing vocals) and Eric Frates (drums & backing vocals). The album was mixed at the Red Room Studios by Sean Shannon assisted by Brad Johnson.

For more information on this extraordinary live performance album go to www.pattravers.com or www.provoguerecords.com

Track listing:

1          Life in London

2          Crash and Burn

3          I Don’t Care

4          Heat in the Street

5          Elijah

6          Red House

7          If I Had Possession over Judgement Day

8          Oh Pretty Woman

9          PT Nutz aka Linus and Lucy

10         Snortin’ Whiskey

11         Boom Boom (out go the lights)

12         PT’s solo time

13         Born under a Bad Sign

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_MsrsKzMM

Turn it up and learn!!!

Hey Guns 'N Roses fans!

Every weekday at 5:30pm by answering the daily FLASHBACK POP QUIZ QUESTION you can get registered to win some great national prizes!

After I give you the question, you have a 15 minute window to call the national TOLL FREE number with the correct answer.  Everyone who answers that afternoon's question correctly gets a shot at a great national prize... 

This week's daily prize (JULY 11-17 only) is...a SLASH SIGNITURE EPIPHONE GIBSON GUITAR...

U.S. MSRP:  $1,464

This prize includes:  Custom hard case and certificate of authenticity.

Designed and produced in close cooperation with Slash, this new Epiphone guitar combines all the great design features that have made the Les Paul guitar "the" rock guitar while Slash's own personal touches create a unique instrument destined to become an instant classic.  For more information and to check out this guitar online, log on at --
www.epiphone.com/slash

Tom Lounges hangin' out with Spencer Davis in the Private Spice Club at the Point East in Lynwood, Il. 1981.

 

 

    Gainesville, Florida five-piece Sister Hazel will be releasing a live

acoustic album –– "Before The Amplifiers, Live Acoustic" –– on June 17.  The

record features sixteen tracks, including the band's hits, fan favorites, and

live concert staples, all in a stripped-down, acoustic format. 

 

    Region fans who caught Sister Hazel live at the Blue Chip Casino in

Michigan City last year when all of their stage gear was sent to the wrong airport,

can attest to how well the guys can adapt to the unplugged format. Yours

truly, Tom Lounges, served as stage emcee for Sister Hazel at that show, as they

completly "winged it" and performed an amazing concert taking audience

requests, all played on borrowed acoustic guitars and sans drums.

 

    "Before The Amplifiers"  was recorded on January 12th at Nickel and Dime

Studios in Atlanta (other bands who have recorded there in the past include

Indigo Girls, The B-52's, Shawn Mullins) in front of 100 lucky fans who were

chosen at random from over five thousand entries.   

 

    Says band lead singer Ken Block: "One of my favorite things about our

band is that we have always appreciated breaking it down just as much as we love

to crank it up.  The fans have always connected with the acoustic sets and

enjoy the acoustic moments at our bigger shows.  They've been asking us to do an

acoustic record for as long as we've been a band.  We felt like we were in the

perfect space to capture an acoustic evening and it turned out great. There

are a lot of different sounds and several alternate

arrangements that were a blast to play. Acoustic versions really get their

power from musical subtleties, the lyricism and the naked harmonies.  That's

where the intimacy really shines."

 

    Sister Hazel can be found online at www.sisterhazel.com and

www.myspace.com/sisterhazel.

 

 

Listen to Tom Lounges on X-ROCK 103.9

Monday-Friday from 2-7pm and on Sundays for the "Night Rock" show from

6-10pm.