TPC Sawgrass Drone Tour

The action returns in March this year to TPC Sawgrass for The Players.

Have an early look:

A Look at Kennesaw State's New Football Offices

Kennesaw State University doesn't start playing football until 2015, but by talking to Athletics Director Vaughn Williams and Head Football Coach Brian Bohannon, you get the sense they are ready.

They also have their football offices in place, two years ahead of time and they opened the facility to the media on Wednesday with a tour led by Bohannon.

More on the facility in my Examiner.com article:

Link:

http://www.examiner.com/article/kennesaw-state-unveils-high-tech-football-offices-to-media?cid=db_articles

The Beach Boys Rocket Up the Charts

What year is this, 1965?

I guess it doesn't matter, but this one of the comeback stories of the year.

The Beach Boys' new album is sitting on top of the charts and their tour is selling out from coast to coast.

And it's good. 

"That's Why God Made the Radio" was released this week and it will soon be No. 1 on the charts.  It's the same timeless melodies we've come to expect from Mike Love, Brian Wilson and Co.

The song writing on this album is strong and these guys can still sing and play.

I had a brush with The Beach Boys back in 2002, I beleive.  I was having breakfast at the Hyatt in Downtown Dallas when a couple guys in Hawaiian shirts parked themselves at the table next to me.  I thought nothing of it, until I recognized one of the guys and it was Mike Love, eating his oatmeal.

They were doing a concert in Dallas that day and they couldn't have been nicer.  Lengends of American music, good guys and a great story.

It's worth a listen and a purchase.

Clips From My Thomas Dolby Interview

Musician Thomas Dolby of "She Blinded Me With Science" fame is back out on tour this Spring and he will be coming to Atlanta on March 20, with a concert at The Loft.

I had the opportunity to talk to him over the weekend about what he's been up and various other topics.

Thought I would post clips of parts of the interview.

Here I ask him about how his music is different now than 30 years ago,

listen to ‘Thomas Dolby 1’ on Audioboo

In another question, I ask him about his top-5 hit "She Blinded Me With Science" and how it lives on today in television shows like "The Big Bang Theory".

listen to ‘Thomas Dolby 2’ on Audioboo

Enjoy... and let me know if you want to hear addional clips.

It's 1983 All Over Again...Culture Club Reforms

First is was Van Halen, then Duran Duran...now Culture Club?

80's pop band Culture Club is planning to reunite in 2011 to celebrate their 30th anniversary.

The BBC is saying the group is plotting a tour and new album for 2012.  This just in, hell is freezing over and the Cubs have just won the World Series.

A Culture Club reunion in 2012 would celebrate the slightly less-milestone-like 31st anniversary of the band's formation. The band came together in 1981, after Boy George stopped sitting in with Bow Wow Wow and started up his own project. From 1982 to 1984 they logged their greatest international acclaim thanks to hits like "Karma Chameleon," "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me," and a catchy tune in "Church of the Poison Mind", and by '86 the band had split following George's struggle with drug addiction and a few sales disasters. Their first unsuccessful reunion attempt came in 1989, and in 1998 they managed to pull off a tour that was anchored by a set on "VH1 Storytellers." In 2002 they performed at what was billed as a 20th anniversary show at Royal Albert Hall (the math was a bit off; it was actually their 21st birthday, but nobody seemed to mind.

The latter half of the decade proved harder on the band: Bassist Mikey Craig and drummer Jon Moss recruited a George replacement named Sam Butcher for a tour that never got off the ground, and George was arrested for imprisoning a male escort in his New York apartment and sentenced to trash duty in the city. Because he was on probation, he was prohibited from appearing on the U.K.'s "Celebrity Big Brother" (which was perhaps a more painful consequence -- publicity-wise, at least).

George is now on the promotional circuit for his eighth solo disc, "Ordinary Alien," and nothing grabs headlines like talk of an '80s band reuniting -- especially an '80s band that has sold more than 20 million albums worldwide.

All we need now is Boy George appearing on Celebrity Apprentice.  I don't put it past Donald Trump.