Hey! Were you out in Central Park yesterday?

If you were... thanks! What a great day! I mean, yeah, it looked like it was gonna thunderstorm on our asses for most of the afternoon. But, it held off and I got to hang out and play alotta music. So, if you were there, thanks for stickin' it out!

Listen... I'm in such a tricky, technical, bureaucratic kinda situation, today. But, I've never received the actual "Special Events" permits that the Parks Department was supposed to issue for this weekend. (There seems to have been a turnover of personnel in the Permit Office or something. Because the paper I'm getting in the mail right now makes no sense.)

So, I'm just gonna take this beautiful day as another opportunity to go play and sing by the Lake. I'll get out there around 12:30 and play until the Sun goes down... or, until the police come to haul me away. Please come out there and join me. We'll either have another great day of music, or some really good video for the show "COPS".

Nah! Today is just another perfect day for an outdoor concert.

Besides, I still gotta get my feet under a couple of these new cover tunes...

Unwell
Look What You've Done
Veronica
Thunder Road
Wanted Dead or Alive

And, I didn't get a chance to play a couple of my new tunes that I wrote over the winter...

You Don't Know
I Was You

I'll run 'em today.

On another more important note...

Y'know, we look at the stats and know that there are people who read this website all across this country and around the world, but 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, in Central Park today!

Thanks for everything.