Recovering from a serious illness?………………………….Hop a plane to Vegas, see a Manilow Show! Needs some cheering up?………………………………………Hop a plane to Vegas, see a Manilow Show! Feeling down in general?……………………………………….Hop a plane to Vegas, see a Manilow Show! At least that’s what I do, and that’s what I’ll be doing this weekend. Good Music always works [...]
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Don’t I wish……. Actually, I’m going to the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas . I’m finally following through on one of the promises I made to myself the last time I got out of prison, which was to treat myself to a Barry Manilow show if I survived. No front row seats for me this [...]
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I thought Las Vegas was fabulous as usual, but apparently my lungs didn’t share the same view, and as a result, I was unable to do the ET race. I’m not sure if it was the desert climate or being exposed to the smokey environment of the Hotels and Casinos, but by Saturday afternoon I [...]
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…. ” And would it be asking too much, if you could beam me up to your space craft and zap me a new pair of lungs?” In just a few hours, this lung defective humanoid is off to Nevada to not only do the ET marathon, but also to attend a string of 3 [...]
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…..How about sitting 6 feet away from your favorite performer in a classy Las Vegas theater? Yup, it was another fantastic performance from this musical genius. I liked “Music&Passion” , but I like “Ultimate Manilow the Hits” …even more. A little less glitzy, with more music…and much more Manilow!! There’s always something special and/or unique [...]
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For exercising hard and never allowing this disease to get the better of me, I occasionally reward myself with a trip to see the is an all new show for Barry, replacing Music& Passion, which has been headlining and selling out shows at the Hilton theater for the past 3 years. Among is fan base,the [...]
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Barry’s performance, as always, was awesome. Last night in San Jose, in front of 15,500 fans, he brought the house down. I had an incredible seat, but by the end of the show, I was totally deaf…(I forgot just how loud it can be up in the front row.) Here’s some photos I took. Here’s [...]
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See that tiny black dot in the orange section next to the stage? ….That’s my seat! I lucked out and got a winning bid on front row center seats at two of Barry’s upcoming Music&Passion shows.The only way you can get “real” front row center seats for any of his concerts, is by bidding on [...]
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If you’ve ever done the Portland Marathon , you might recognize this place around mile 24. Well, Saturday I’m off to visit that place again. No…..not to walk the marathon (even though I’ll be in a crowd of about the same size) No…. this time I’ll be inside that building taking part in an event [...]
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This is slightly off topic, but I just had to Thank Barry Manilow , Stiletto and all musicians , performers and behind- the- scenes personnel, for putting together the bonus section of the new Music & Passion DVD . I just received it today. Definitely a treat for his die hard fans and anyone else [...]
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We’re there! Here’s Mom . Its no secret that I’m huge Barry Manilow Fan. Back on December 12th 2005, my Mom and I were lucky enough to get tickets for the taping of this incredible show at the Las Vegas Hilton. We got to sit through 4 hours of nearly non-stop frenzy. Boy..what an amazing [...]
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On any given day walk day, I listen to at least 1.5 hours of non-stop music on my Mp3 player. Helps me get though these sometimes grueling workouts. Today I feel compelled to acknowledge just how much of an impact Barry Manilow’s music has had on my life . Though Ive been a fan since [...]
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Attending the recent taping of Barry Manilow’s Music& Passion Special in Las Vegas and checking out all the sound production equipment and everything, made me flash back to a time when I was actually doing sound production for a living. In case you didn’t know, from the ages of 22-28 , I worked in the [...]
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