Welcome to the Friday update and the Friday edition of "I Love the Company".

Today, I'm gonna play some kickin' music from a couple of good friends of mine, and a few of your phone calls (Some of them from different parts of the country and the world) ...and I'm going to finally play the song from which the podcast gets it's name. (With an explanation of how and why the song was written in the first place.)

And, yeah... you can download two of my newest songs for FREE a little further down the page. (You just hafta promise to tell a few more friends about this website and the podcast.)

Cool?

Okay let's get to today's ILTC.

Before that, just wanna let you know that... yes! I'm planning to be hangin' out with you tomorrow in Central Park.

Cool. And, now... click on this logo for the Friday installment of "I Love the Company".

Do me a favor, though. After you listen to today's show, call the ILTC number if you have anything to say. Anything at all. Especially if you have something you think you'd like me to talk about on next week's "Wednesday Wake-Up Call".

Go ahead... don't be shy. Call the number right now:

646-224-8162

Today's musical guests are: Sam Leopold and Roger Bartlett. (As always, click on their photos to visit their websites, find out about them, where they're playing and how to get more of their music.)

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Okay... FREE STUFF! Here are 2 new FREE downloads. I'd really like to hear from you about both of them. YEAH! One of these is the song that has rocketted around the internet over the past 72 hours. Okay, okay... so, it's a parody. But, I hadda get it out fast. Blame webmaster James Marino for this one! (Well, and ex-Congressman Mark Foley) This came about during a diner-run the other day!

"Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Pages"

The other is a song about one of the greatest engines of human conflict ever devised, click on this link! It's "The Religion Song" and it's brand new.

It looks really good for another great afternoon hangin' out together in Central Park. I know there are a ot of people reading this in different parts of the country and different parts f the world. But, if you're in or around New York City... yeah. I'm gonna head out to the park this weekend. And, I was contacted by a PBS affiliate in Japan who wants to come out and do a segment on "The Hill" and what we've been doing out there all these years. So, come on out and get your ass on Japanese television.

Kinda cool. If you don't know where I am in Central Park... here's a new map! Click on the image for the larger "Where's Waldo" version.

I hope I see all of you at Merkin Concert Hall on December 6th. Believe it or not, man! It's right around the corner again! That is one fun show every year. We have blast!(Tickets went on sale last week!)

Even though the show sold out last year, a lot of people told me that they couldn't attend because it was so damned close to the holidays. So, this year the show is earlier... on Wednesday, December 6th. If you wanna be among the first to get the best seats, go ahead and follow this link. You can get tickets right now and every day except Saturday.

Um... or if it's easier, you can just call the box office number today (Sunday) and every day this week:

212-501-3330

Now, this is something that isn't a whole lotta fun for me to do. And tragically, it's getting harder and harder to keep up. But, I committed to it and no matter how painful this is to do every day, I'm gonna keep bringing you...

GEORGE W. BUSH'S TRAGIC NUMBER

This just isn't funny. It's outrageously tragic. At least 23 more Americans have lost their lives in Iraq in the first 6 days of this month. But, that's only one horrible number.

Here at The Guitar Man website, I'm posting George W. Bush's "Tragic Number". That's the number of American fatalities in wholly unAmerican and immoral Iraq War until George W. Bush is directly responsible for the EQUAL number of people killed by Osama Bin Laden in the World Trade Center.

If YOU voted for him and continue to support his war, I hope you will wake up soon. At the time I posted this, the number stands at 12. (Of course, more Americans and certainly more Iraqis have probably died while you're reading this. People are dying so fast in the nightmare over there that I'm having a hard time keeping up with this update.)

Harsh?

You betcha!

Live with it. Or, wake up! It's not too late. (Well, it's too late for those who are dead or dying. But, it's not too late for you. As John Lennon said, "I hope someday you will join us.")

Moving on...

Okay, before I get outta here I'm gonna ask you all to check out the MySpace page. And, when you do I'd like you to sign up as a friend. I'm very new on the damned thing. But, I'm really exploring the whole MySpace thing to see if it's gonna be fun and worth the effort.

Let me know what you think, okay?

Here's the link:

If you've been comin' around for a while, thanks for always showing up... here and in the park. And if you're brand new here, take a look around. There's a lot of cool stuff on this site. And, you can go back and listen through a whole bunch of the previous Podcasts. Actually... you can go back and listen to all of them if you have the time.

You can also email me about anything you want by clicking on that "Contact" button over there. I can't answer all the email I get these days. But I promise I read every single one.

Thanks again.