Kat

Gary Wright, Billy Squier, Ringo Starr, and Edgar Winter (not shown: Colin Hay, Hamish Stuart & Gregg Bisonette)

Seeing Ringo again was awesome. It's hard to believe he is nearly 70. I squeezed in next to the CNN TV camera for a bit and got some great pictures.... that is until the blue meanie police officer told me to move. Ringo talked a bit to the press about the tour and then they brought out lots of cupcakes with little peace signs on them.

I also went to the concert a few days later and it was one of the best tours ever. Unfortunately, I didn't think I could bring in a camera and left it at home. This was a really good group of musicians. I was really amazed at what a versatile musician Edgar Winter is. His most famous songs are Free Ride and Frankenstein and he was the first musician to ever attach a strap to a keyboard and play. He was also playing saxophone and drums during the show. Gary Wright is an old friend of Ringo and George Harrison and told the story of how George introduced him to Indian philosophy and how a poem in a book George gave him inspired him to write Dreamweaver. Gary seems like a wonderful guy and even posted a couple of my photos on his myspace. Colin Hay performed his Men at Work hits and a newer song, Are you Looking at Me, and everyone was singing along. Billy Squier did his popular songs like The Stroke, Lonely is the Night and what was really pretty cool was that he did a cover of an acoustic cover that someone did of his song In The Dark that he saw on youtube.

Ringo was of course the great showman, everyone's best friend and a wonderful host. He did several Beatles songs as well as solo songs, including Liverpool 8. At the end for their not an encore, they brought in Richard Marx, and Ringo totally outted Billy and Richard. It was pretty funny seeing those guys grinning up there. They sang With a Little Help from My Friends and the chorus of Give Peace a Chance. It was a really great show and if the band comes through your town, go see them. It is a great show!

Here is a list of the songs they performed:

1. With A Little Help From My Friends Introduction (Ringo vocal)

2. It Don't Come Easy (Ringo vocal)

3. What Goes On (Ringo vocal)

4. Memphis in My Mind (Ringo vocal)

5. Lonely is the Night (Billy Squier vocal)

6. Free Ride (Edgar Winter vocal)

7. Down Under (Colin Hay vocal)

8. Dream Weaver (Gary Wright vocal)

9. Boys (Ringo vocal/drums)

10. Pick Up the Pieces (Hamish Stuart vocal/guitar)

11. Liverpool 8 (Ringo vocal)

12. Act Naturally (Ringo vocal)

13. Yellow Submarine (Ringo vocal)

14. Are You Lookin' At Me? (Colin vocal/solo acoustic)

15. In the Dark (Billy vocal/solo acoustic)

16. Frankenstein (Edgar keyboards/alto sax/drums)

17. Never Without You (Ringo vocal)

18. Choose Love (Ringo vocal/drums)

19. The Stroke (Billy vocal)

20. Work to Do (Hamish vocal/acoustic guitar)

21. I Wanna Be Your Man (Ringo vocal/drums)

22. Love is Alive (Gary vocal)

23. Who Can it Be Now (Colin vocal)

24. Photograph (Ringo vocal)

25. Oh, My My (Ringo vocal)

26. With A Little Help From My Friends (Ringo vocal)

27. Give Peace a Chance (Everyone vocal - with Chicago guest Richard Marx)

Kat

Thanks Chris and Happy New Year. We've enjoyed having you here with us. I hope 2008 brings you much joy and much better health.

Big group hug :hug:

Best,

Kat

Kori, It is up to Victor how he wants to handle exposing the plagiarisms. The list may be posted in your blog or emailed directly to Michael or myself. We will deal with the issues when we get back home. Hopefully, there is not a whole lot more of this mess to clean up.

Have a great 4th.

Kat

OK, now the kitten is hissing! Those *%&^%*&%^ spammers put trackbacks in my blog for all kinds of diet drugs and crap. Don't click on their links! Now I have to get tech support involved so I can get those links off my blog.

HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

(edit: I have disabled pings and trackbacks in the community blogs. That seems to have solved the problem.)

This WW thing is a bit more challenging than I expected. They only give me 20 points and I'm hungry!!! I'm trying to get used to eating low fat stuff and less carbs, and there is definitely a difference in taste and texture in diet food. Who knows, maybe I will end up liking those 2 point Fiber One bars that taste like paper to me now but people were raving about them at the WW meeting. I will stick with the South Beach cinnamon raisin bars or my frozen Frappucino bars when I want a 2 point treat, thank you. I suppose yucky is an acquired taste and this is the first time I have ever tried dieting. Surprisingly, switching over to skim milk, fat free dairy and other reduced fat dairy is pretty easy. It is amazing how much fat you can get from dairy. I'm talking about a difference between a scoop of ice cream being 23 points or 2 points. As much as I love ice cream it is not worth all my daily points and then some. I also want to try some more new fruits and veggies. They are mostly freebies when it comes to points. Michael turned me on to papaya (mow-mow) and chayote (shu-shoo) this past week. (I think they talk baby talk in Brazil. :baby: ) I really like the chayote and although the papaya will take a little more getting used to, it mixes well with cantaloupe and other stuff in a smoothie. Let's see, he mixed papaya with cantaloupe, unpeeled apples and nectarines, a little OJ and ice and whipped it up in a blender... YUM!

Michael is not exactly working the program, but he is losing weight without counting points. He will probably go to the core plan if he ever gets with the program. He is an angel for going grocery shopping with me and my points calculator. He doesn't go to the meetings with me because I go to Weight Watchers at work. It is a special program offered to employers by WW and many companies do this to encourage employees to be healthy in order keep their healthcare costs low. If 15 or more people join WW@W they can have someone from WW come in once a week to lead meetings. You can't beat it for convenience. It is Monday during lunch hour. However, if I start going to neighborhood groups, I will drag Michael along. He is also working out on the gazelle, but not every day like moi.

I will keep plugging away though—losing a couple pounds a week. Slow and steady wins the race.

Kat