The Diary of Elvis' bass player

This is the story of my life in an Elvis Tribute Show

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Location: Peoria, Illinois, United States

Sunday, June 29, 2008

2007

Well folks, sorry I have not kept up with my blog. I enjoyed taking care of it when I started. Then there was a spell where we had no shows, and hence no blogging of the shows. Silly me, once the shows picked up, my blogging did not. I have lost my blogging way.





Again folks, sorry for the inconvience.





2007 held some good shows for the band. Each of them deserves their own post, however, seeing that it is halfway through 2008, I am going to downsize. We played at the Lincoln Square Theater in Decatur, IL. In Rock Island's downtown district we split the bill with The Rat Pack and Neil Diamond. We played at the Prime Beef Festival in Monmouth. Our first ever Elvis Gospel Show was at Galesburg High School in October.



We had a special Elvis Christmas show at Legends. We have played at some really cool places, but Legend's is like our home turf. The show there are always more comfortable than anywhere else. I guess it's like that until you headline in Vegas.

The next six pictures are of the Lincoln Theater in Decatur, IL. It's such a beautiful place, you can't help but want to take pictures of it!

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This is the Lincoln Square Theater in Deactur, Il.



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They were auctioning off this Mustang for charity.



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This is what the theater looks like from the stage. They had just opened the doors, in a few minutes that theater was PACKED with people. It's hard not to get excited when you look out at all those seats. Now imagine what it feels like to walk out on stage and there's a person sitting in each of these seats.


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I tried to capture how cool the ceiling above the seats looks.


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Here is the stage at the Lincoln Theater. I love these old Theaters. They hold this immense feeling that some great entertainment has taken place there over the years.



In Rock Island's downtown district we split the bill with The Rat Pack and Neil Diamond.

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In Downtown Rock Island, a place they call The District, is a really cool place. They took this six block section of downtown, and permanately closed off the roads. There are park benches where there were stoplights, and local artist's murals on the street where there was once only pavement. There are all sorts of bars, restaurants, food vendors and even two of Chicago's best known bluesmen, Jake and Elwood Blues

Jake and Elwood Blues

The first stage act was The Rat Pack. These guys were a riot. They were drinking and smoking on stage, just being out of control all around. It was a lot of fun.

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Again, I'm sorry but I don't have any picutures of our show, but it was just starting to get dark, a pretty large crowd showed up, and we rocked the house!!

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Here is the Neil Diamond Impersonator from Las Vegas. Him and his band were great.
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We played at the Prime Beef Festival in Monmouth. Unfortunately, I have no pictures of that show.

Our first ever Elvis Gospel Show was at Galesburg High School in October.

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