Taylor Hicks ~~ "Can't it be about the MUSIC"

From Taylor Hicks on twitter this week:

“@TaylorRHicks: This is some serious music!!! Yall ready?”

My forty-something niece follows a band. When they appeared for a major New Year’s event, I decided to watch. There are a lot of good bands out there.

I did like their sound. And then came the pyrotechnics. They lost me. Stage pyrotechnics—not New Year's fireworks. I was gone.

I have quoted music blogger, Bob Lefsetz, often because he expresses many of my feelings about music much better than I can. He is SO much “about the MUSIC.”

I know someone else like that.

From yesterday’s blog about Pink’s Plunge:

“If the music is not enough, we're doomed.

“Music when done right is the hottest medium there is. Nothing can compete, not movies or sculpture or television or Facebook. But you've got to respect it, you've got to own the imperfections and build upon them, not get so much plastic surgery that you look like Jocelyn Wildenstein. Yes, that's what today's records are, plastic confections. Built in studios by Pro Tools experts, you can dance to them, but they've got the nutritional value of a Sprite, sweet and sticky, you might like it going down but then you get sick.

"I'm glad Pink wasn't seriously hurt. But come on. Can't it be about the MUSIC!”

Taylor Hicks is all about the music. The most stage effects you might sometimes see is what is fondly called “quirky dancing.”

His upcoming Summer Tour 2010, opening in New York City at the Highline Ballroom July 25, will be about the MUSIC. There’s an idea for a title:

Taylor Hicks About the Music Tour 2010!

It may not have the same ring as “The Bad Ass Tour”!!! But it IS descriptive of what will happen every time he and his musicians light up the stage in over 20 venues this summer and fall.

And I think that’s pretty “bad ass”!

Yall ready?? Here’s the complete “bad ass” schedule:

July 25~Highline Ballroom, New York City, NY, 8:00 p.m.
July 27~Jonathan’s Ogunquit, Ogunquit, ME, 8:00 p.m.
July 29~The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA, 7:30 p.m.
July 30~Crocodile Rock Café, Allentown, PA, 7:00 p.m.
July 31~Mexicali Live, Teaneck, NJ, 8:30 p.m.
**August 3~Ram’s Head On Stage, ANNAPOLIS, MD, 8:00 p.m.
August 6~Fat Fish Blue, Cleveland, OH, 9:00 p.m.
August 7~Veterans’ Park, Bay City, MI, 7:00 p.m.
August 9~Reggie’s Rock Club, Chicago, IL, 9:00 p.m.
August 10~Sangamon Auditorium, Springfield, IL, 7:30 p.m.
**August 11~Dakota Jazz Club, Minneapolis, MN, 7:00 p.m.
August 12~The Annex, Madison, WI 8:00 p.m.
August 16~The Grove, Lincoln NE 7:00 p.m.
**August 19~Mesa Theatre, Grand Junction, CO 8:00 p.m.
August 21~Aquarius Pavilion, Laughlin, NV, 8:00 p.m.
**August 22~Anthology Supper Club, San Diego, CA, -Unconfirmed
**August 24~Downtown Brewing Company, San Luis Obispo, CA, 7:00 p.m. -Unconfirmed
August 25~The Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, CA, 7:30 p.m.
August 26~Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino, Coarsegold, CA
September 18~Paramount Theatre, Rutland, VT, 8:00 p.m. -Unconfirmed
September 26~SOS Children’s Villages Concert w/Matt Cusson, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA, 8:00 p.m.
**November 6 & 7~Epcot Center “Eat to the Beat Concert Series, Orlando, FL, 5:15, 6:30, 7:45 p.m.

**New and rescheduled shows.
"Unconfirmed" concerts are not posted on taylorhicks.ning.com

@Taylorhicksteam on Twitter Tour Schedule with ticket links:

http://twitpic.com/265f3n

For more tour and venue information:

http://taylorconnections.com/forum/1573907/


Quoted: Bob Lefsetz, “Pink’s Plunge” 7/16/10 http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/

Photo by San: Taylor Hicks and Josh Smith, Biloxi, MS, 2007's "bad ass" tour

Taylor Hicks on the phone in the cone...

“Hello, hello…is this thing on?”

Who would have thought the malt shop cone could cause such a twitter.

All of Taylorland is twittering about the sweet tweets from the cone—Easter greetings from the cone…wobbly tweets while the cone is moving…

Holy Smokes! What if the cone opens and he’s twittering!

This is Taylor Hicks taking connections to a new high…high above the “Grease” stage as he waits in the chocolate-covered cone through the opening scene of Act Two. This is time management to the max. Taylor connects with fans from the phone in the cone—actually the latest Blackberry hooked into the social phenomenon, twitter.com—for the few minutes he is caught in the cone waiting for Frenchy to dream her Teen Angel onto stage.

Since Taylor is a perpetual motion machine on stage, one can only imagine his chagrin at being stuck in the small confining confection. So, it may ease his stay in the sugary prison to reach out to the far corners of fandom and anywhere else that anyone is curious enough to investigate a tweet from a phone in a cone. It’s only flying fingers on the keyboard, but it is motion for the moment. After all, he can’t roam in the ice cream cone.

Will the phone ever make it out of the cone—a tweet from the trolley? From the golf course, would it be a tweetie bird or a birdie tweet? The cone phone could travel like the gnomes with tweets from Tuscaloosa and Talladega. He could tweet from stage as Frenchy swoons, “I’m all atwitter!” On the concert stage—next to the water—a quick tweet, “Flown the cone and lovin’ to roam!”

Taylor Hicks tweeting from the cone just hammers home what he has said before. “The best is yet to come.” We ain’t seen nothing yet from the man who tweets from a cone and is prone to surprising us all!

Along with the phone, there’s a genius in the cone!

I’m off to twitter…or is it tweet? Or…off to tweet on twitter?

I think I’ll just have some ice cream…while I try to figure out all this tweeting and twittering…

If you understand any of this, you can follow the phone in the cone at taylorrhicks@twitter.com

~~The cone is still in San Fran this weekend...read the latest from the cone.

If you want to see what happens to this twitterer…or tweeter, I’m at san_tthc@twitter.com


Photo "Taylor at Roxy's" by san. Please do not repost without permission.