The Bobby Rock NewsBlast - 5-12-21 - Tour Dates Update
Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends...
(Sorry.... been on an Emerson, Lake & Palmer kick lately!)
Hey Everyone -
Just a brief check-in this week:
Two Quick Things
Most Recent Tour Date Info
Dates are continuing to come in for our return to the road next month! It's looking like this could be for real. Here's what we have so far. More dates are coming in every week. ALSO: one of the features of the bobbyrock.com website is that, if you sign up with name/password/address, you will get an automatic e-mail notification if I'm ever playing within 150 miles of your crib. Click HERE to sign up real quick if you haven't already.
Here's the latest into July:
June 5 - Sunbury, PA - Spyglass Ridge Winery - Live United Live Music Festival(with Dokken, Warrant, Jack Russell’s Great White, and George Lynch)
June 11 - Rice Lake, WI - Aquafest
June 24 - Brainerd, MN - Lakes Jam (with Ratt, Slaughter, Kip Winger, and Autograph)
June 25 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live - (with Warrant, Bulletboys, and John Corabi)
June 26 - Tulsa, OK - IDL Ballroom
July 1 - Indianapolis, IN - Marion County Fairgrounds (with Firehouse)
July 4 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion - M3 (with Night Ranger, Warrant, Great White, LA Guns, Faster Pussycat, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Little Caesar)
July 8 - Streator, IL - Northpoint Field
July 16 - Ashland, VA - The Marks and Harrison Pavillion (with Dokken and Lynch Mob)
July 17 - Roanoke, VA - Berglund Performing Arts Theater
July 20 - Mentor, OH - Mentor Civic Amphitheater
July 21 - Lorain, OH - Rockin’ the River
July 23 - Grover Hill, OH - Wetzel Moto Fest (with Molly Hatchet)
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In Case You Missed It
14 months ago, I was on "The 80s Cruise" with Lita Ford, playing the last couple shows we would play for quite awhile. It's interesting to revisit the blog about that experience... and ponder all that has happened since. Could we have ever imagined how long this shit would've dragged on?
Just got back last Sunday from the 80s Cruise with Lita Ford and company. It’s kind of like a Monsters of Rock Cruise, but considerably less of a hard rock extravaganza, and more of an immersion into 80s mainstream pop culture. We were out to sea for an entire week, just as shit was starting to implode everywhere else in the world with this coronavirus situation.
In fact, the first thing that happened prior to pushing off to sea was we found out a couple of our fellow headliners would not be joining us. This altered the performance itinerary quite a bit: instead of playing on nights one and four, we would now be playing on nights six and seven, co-headlining with Kool and the Gang. This meant five days of out-at-sea downtime before showtime! (By the way, it would be announced a day or two later that three more bands pulled out, as well. Pretty unprecedented.)
Once we set sail on Sunday, and even as I was catching wind of the “global unraveling” that was beginning to go down, I chose to remain almost completely off-the-grid for as much of the trip as possible, particularly for the first five days. (Yes, even more so than usual!) Not as an act of reality denial because, after all, what could I do about anything from out there? But more in an effort to take a much-needed digital/communication sabbatical: no texts, calls, emails, internet, TV, or social media posts for virtually the entire trip.
