Well, this weekend is the "unofficial start" to the summer. It's lookin' really good for a great day, weather-wise tomorrow, in Central Park. The Sun is gonna feel sooooo good today and tomorrow after such a shitty week. (Well, it was actually pretty typical... for a cold and rainy October.) I'm gonna head out there at the usual time and play all day. If you're staying in town this weekend, come and hang out with me. Maybe we'll be sitting with a larger percentage of people who are here from someplace else. If you're a "Hill" regular... sing loud tomorrow. Show 'em what it's about.

"Crazy on the Same Day"
"Just Hafta Trust Me"
"OBI"
"Where'dat Money Go"

And, I'm gonna definitely run some of the new cover tunes...

"Unwell", Matchbox Twenty
"Thunder Road", Springsteen
"Look what You've Done", Jet

Gonna be a great day.

Everyone who knows me knows, I love this city. But, I love this town on holiday weekends when everybody leaves. (Like I've said sometimes in the park, the weekends "...when all the annoying people have gone to the beach!" The streets are quieter, the pace is slower. Many of the groups of people you see standing on street corners all over town are huddled around subway maps. Y'know? It's kinda cool to live in a place that people wanna travel from all over the world to see. I get a good feeling everytime I see one of those double-decker tour busses go by... people snapping pictures of things I experience every day... Central Park, Lincoln Center, Broadway, faces of every color... the only truly international city. I very often make a point of looking up at those people, and smiling as the bus goes by.

Anyway... I'll be out in the park tomorrow. Today, I'm run some of the new songs I've written over the winter, and maybe bring out a few of my older songs that I haven't played in a while.

Hey! Right now, I wanna thank all of you who show up in the "Forum" (message board) over there. And, I wanna invite anyone who is new to this website to go ahead and jump in. Say, "Hey"... and, tell 'em where you're from. This website gets visited, and I get emails from people all across this country and around the world. It's very cool. You guys oughta get to know each other in the "Forum".

Hey, if you are new here at this website, click on the "Archives" button and look around. See what we've been up to here.

If you are a regular here, you may have read about this next thing already. If you have, you can stop reading. But, would you do me a HUGE favor? Would you take a minute.... right now... and think of one friend or aquaintance that might be interested in this project, and email them the link to this website.

Right now, think of at least one.

And ask them to visit this site, okay?

You're aware that I'm jumping in, up to my neck, in an effort to put together a concert to help the innocent, ordinary people who are taking the brunt of the hurt in the war we started in Iraq. Y'know? The most decent and reasonable places in my heart cannot fathom a WAR TIME where politicians bluster and bullshit about parliamentary procedure, the news media covers "unbalanced brides" and Michael Jackson, and military units are often placed in a "defensive" or "don't-get-killed" mode, while the ordinary, civilian men, women and children are out there getting there asses kicked. Y'know? It's like the politicians are holed-up inside a great, fortified castle called the "Green Zone", while the peasants are being slaughtered all around them. (I guess, the peasant-in-me gets pissed off.)

I'm hoping to pull something off in September or October to raise money and get help directly to these people.

This is what I meant before about doing some Good. Y'know, you can have an awful lotta fun, doing really hard work, if you know you're working toward something good. So, in the coming weeks, I'm gonna be asking for help from ordinary people... like... um... you.

Right now, I'm gonna ask you to click on this link and take a few minutes to read what's there, okay? Please?

EVERYTHING YOU WANNA KNOW ABOUT THE CONCERT...

...so far.

So far, I'm really jazzed by the response I'm getting from nearly every one of the artists, professionals and friends I'm sharing this idea with. Next Monday, I'm going to meet with a wonderful guy who runs the BEST concert venue and production facility in New York City... to get his thoughts, advice and expertise. My buddy Dennis Riley is helping put the proposal together and all the initial grunt work. But, we're both working with a woman named Mimi Evans who, so far, is a juggernaut... such an enthusiatic positive energy. When we pull this off, it will be because of her spirit and commitment. (Well, she has one son who is in the military right now, and one son who just spent a year in Iraq as a civilian, and months in Afghanistan, helping ordinary people.)

Maybe it's time for the rest of us ordinary people in America to do something extraordinary for those people.

Gotta run right now. Got work to do. Jump in the "Forum" yourself and say "Hi". Talk about whatever you want... music, Love, sex, world events, politics, movies... whatever. Maybe I'll see you in there.

See you, in person, tomorrow!

Thanks for everything.