We felt Concert Blast had a successful year in 2011 with our stats and the experiences we were very blessed to encounter. We will have a series of Concert Blast Blogs from each of us that is dedicated to 2011 as Mike Arnold, James Downing, and Tom Thompson remember their favorite times covering events for Concert Blast.
Here is Mike Arnold’s Concert Blast Favorites from 2011.
We felt Concert Blast had a successful year in 2011 with our stats and the experiences we were very blessed to encounter. We will have a series of Concert Blast Blogs from each of us that is dedicated to 2011 as Mike Arnold, James Downing, and Tom Thompson remember their favorite times covering events for Concert Blast.
This Blog is Tom Thompson’s Concert Blast Favorites from 2011.
We felt Concert Blast had a very successful year in 2011 from our stats and the experiences we were very blessed to encounter. This is the first in a series of Concert Blast Blogs from each host that will be dedicated to 2011 as Mike Arnold, James Downing, and Tom Thompson remember their favorite times covering events for Concert Blast.
Enjoy James Downing’s favorite 2011 Concert Blast Experiences!
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Billy Burnette
James Downing met up with legendary musician, singer, songwriter, Billy Burnette before his show at 3rd and Lindsley in Nashville, TN for an interview. This interview covers Billy’s wide range of his musical history, his childhood, and his acting carreer. Billy has toured with many artists including being a member of Fleetwood Mac and John Fogerty’s touring band.
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Mike Arnold Interviews Lauren Alaina
During the CMA Music Festival 2011, Concert Blast conducted various interviews at various events and more in this audio podcast.
This podcast is focused on the CMA Music Festival 2011 Events. Not the stadium concerts, but the other events. The coverage includes the Montgomery Gentry Fan Club Party, The Fan Fair Booth signings, The Celebrity Softball Game to raise money for the City of Hope Cancer Research Center, Riverfront Park Concerts, and the Wildhorse Saloon.
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This podcast is a special post from Mike Arnold’s book, Concert Blast Experiences - Guest List-Backstage-VIP. This is actually an audio of Chapter 16 – Artists Crazy Concert Experiences. We are giving this to you in the format of using the recorded clips from our Concert Blast Interviews. Mike sets up each clip and then you will hear the artist tell their crazy concert experience. Over 20 music artists are telling us their Crazy Concert Experience.
Written by Mike Arnold
While the concert-touring season has slowed down for the winter, I thought it would be nice to show our listening audiences what we went through in 2010. I created multiple videos of our experiences with a month by month journey of our adventures.
Here’s Part 6, the final chapter of our 2010 Concert Blast Posts. This video takes you through our experiences of October through December.
Written by Mike Arnold
While the concert-touring season has slowed down for the winter, I thought it would be nice to show our listening audiences what we went through in 2010. I created multiple videos of our experiences with a month by month journey of our adventures.
Here’s Part 5 of our 2010 Concert Blast Posts. This video takes you through our experiences in Memphis, TN with REO Speedwagon and Pat Benatar, in Nashville, TN at the Bridgstone Arena with the Scorpions and Ratt, Paul McCartney, as well as Crosby, Stills, and Nash with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. There was the Heart Concert at the Ryman, the Michael Bolton concert at the Wildhorse Saloon as well Hard Rockers Cinderella also at the Wildhorse Saloon. We also covered the Americana Music Festival shows from the Cannery which was a lot of fun!
Written by Mike Arnold
While the concert-touring season has slowed down for the winter, I thought it would be nice to show our listening audiences what we went through in 2010. I created multiple videos of our experiences with a month by month journey of our adventures.
Here’s Part 2 of our 2010 Concert Blast Posts. This video takes you through the month of May as we covered the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival and more and then carries you through the first portion of the month of June 2010.
Written by Mike Arnold
While the concert touring season has slowed down for the winter, I thought it would be nice to show our listening audiences what we went through in 2010. I created multiple videos of our experiences with a month by month journey of our adventures.
Here’s Part 1 of our 2010 Concert Blast Posts. This video contains an Intro of our hosts (with the song “Shine” from the Newsboys) and then carries you through the months of January through April.
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CONCERT BLAST - Brian Hasbrook, Mike Arnold, Tom Thompson, and James Downing
HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM CONCERT BLAST!
Here’s a Concert Blast Thanksgiving Special. This podcast contains a portion of many different interviews from many different genres of music as the artists answer one question, “What are you thankful for?”
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Cinderella In Concert - Tom Keifer
It was a hot September Thursday night in Nashville, TN, but inside the Wildhorse Saloon it was much hotter! 80′s Rockers, Cinderella took the stage and cranked up the Rock and Roll heat in the Sold-Out venue.
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Bruce Kulick - Backstage with Concert Blast
On Saturday, June 26th, Concert Blast hosts, Mike Arnold, Brian Hasbrook, and James Downing traveled to Elizabethtown, KY for the Grand Funk Railroad / The Guess Who concert and took time to interview Bruce Kulick (Grand Funk Railroad-KISS-ESP-solo), Garry Peterson (The Guess Who), and Kenny Lewis (auctioneer-councilman-concert promoter). Continue Reading…
Alice Cooper
May 17, 2010
Knoxville Memorial Coliseum
Knoxville TN
Written by James Downing
When I was 14 years old I was listening to the music of The Partridge Family, Bobby Sherman, The Osmonds and all of the other “Bubblegum Music” of that era. I thought this music was so cool. Little did I know I had no idea what cool was.
I remember sitting in study hall reading a teen magazine and a friend came up and thumbed through it.
He asked me a question that would change the way I looked at music for the rest of my life. He said, “Have you ever listened to Alice Cooper?”
Alice Cooper In Concert
Of course my response was “Who is she?” He laughed and said it was a guy. Continue Reading…
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This show consists of six different short interviews with George Klein (Radio/TV personality, songwriter, author, and Elvis Presley’s long-time friend), Nate Whitlock (Memphis musician, solo artist, and brother of Eric Clapton’s sideman, Bobby Whitlock), Billy Cox (Jimi Hendrix’s bass player and solo artist), Charlie Daniels (Country Rock solo artist), Charlotte Medley (singer/songwriter/performer), and Tommy Tutone (known for the song “Jenny 867-5309”). These interviews were recorded from three different places over the past year.
Mike Arnold (Concert Blast) with George Klein
This show begins from the backstage area of the Beale Street Music Festival during the Memphis In May festivities. George Klein invited Mike Arnold backstage to hang out after Jerry Lee Lewis’ set. Mike interviewed George Klein discussing his career, his friendship with Elvis Presley, and his latest book, “Elvis, My Best Man.” Continue Reading…
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