By Roger Anderson
May 2004
Ticket Alert - O Productions presents July 1-4, 2004, the Midwest’s largest rockfest – Rockin’ the Hills, located in the hills of North Dakota featuring Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, Styx, Peter Frampton, Great White, Santana’s Gregg Rolie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Corey Stevens, Live, Puddle of Mudd, Firehouse, Warrant, Tesla, Seven Mary Three, LA Guns, etc., not to mention camping, barrels of booze, skinny dipping, and good ole fashion Woodstock-like rockfest fun – for more info go to Rockin’ the Hills or to www.armentertainment.com. . .The Pacer Center Benefit features Jewel in a special acoustic performance direct from Carnegie Hall – your sweetness on the 1st at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Mpls., tickets - $50, phone 952-838-9000 . . . Cheer on our Timberwolves in games 6 & 7 if needed - on May 2 at the Pepsi Center in Denver and just in case May 4th at Target Center . . . Harry Connick Jr presented by Jam is live at the Northrop Auditorium on the U of M campus on the 5th, Connick’s new release "Only You," is in stores everywhere . . . Blink182 (blink182.com) with special guests, Cypress Hill and Taking Back Sunday at Target Center, May 18th, plus Jimmy Buffet and the Coral Reefer Band "License to Chill Tour 2004"on the 20th . . . Dick Dale direct from Los Angeles, California for you nostalgia beach-guitar freaks, that is if there are any of you left, be at the Cabooze on May 14th . . . The Moody Blues at Grand Casino in Hinckley on the 23rd , tickets only $21 & $35 – What a deal if you stay away from the Black Jack tables . . . Across Memorial Day weekend in Somerset, WI, 93X Fest has been reincarnated as Riverfest this year and features Sevendust, Anthrax and Twisted Sister to name a few. . . For some feline fun check out our Minnesota Lynx as they host the New York Liberty on Sunday the 30th of May at Target Center – lynxbasketball.com . . .Up Next: Shania Twain – "ooh, I feel like a woman…blow your horns baby" at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul on the 4th of June . . . Dido "The Life For Rent Tour" at the Northrop Auditorium also on the 4th . . . Journey (Separate Ways without Steve Perry) at Mystic Lake Casino on the 17th of June . . . The Darkness is at Roy Wilkens/St. Paul on June 25th . . . Kiss and Poison will rock Somerset, WI on June 26th . . .The Duke Ellington Orchestra at Orchestra Hall on the 27th of June . . . JULY 1 – Strip or be Stripped with CHRISTINA AGUILERA at Target Center . . . Crosby, Stills & Nash may be stripped searched at Mystic Lake Casino on July 1st. . . and strip Van Halen of David Lee Roth and you’ve got vocalist, Sammy Hagar who can’t drive 55 performing July 22nd with Eddy and the gang at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul . . . No surprise, David Lee Roth will NOT be touring this summer . . . Two Twin Cities drummers have moved up the ladder as former Flipp backbeat, Kilo Bale has landed the Everclear gig and Noah Levy is now hitting the tubs for Five for Fighting – Congrats Boys! . . .Did anyone see Rolling Stone’s Top 50 ‘artists of all time’? If not the Top 10 of the list are as follows: 1. The Beatles, 2. Bob Dylan, 3. Elvis Presley, 4. The Rolling Stones, 5. Chuck Berry, 6. Jimi Hendrix, 7. James Brown, 8. Little Richard, 9. Aretha Franklin, 10. Ray Charles . . . May I share with you - maybe not the Top 10 of all time, but my Top 10: 1. The Beatles 2. The Dave Clark 5 3. Deep Purple 4. Emerson Lake & Palmer 5. Journey 6. Styx 7. The Beach Boys 8. Fleetwood Mac 9. The Doors 10. Mason Proffit - go to www.masonproffit.com if you’re too young to know better. So there you have it! E-mail you Top 10 list to ra@armentertainment.com for potential printing next issue . . . "Summer Breeze make me feel fine," see you mid-May in Aruba, and if not, that’s O.K. too, Bon Voyage!!!