So, Tonight Queensryche was supposed to play a private show at Newsday but more Spinal Tap-ness.... The flight was canceled not once or twice but like 5 times! So the show didn't happen. Mark from Samson and I were talking all day trying to figure out what time I was going to go and meet up with him before the show. We were IMing each other back and forth all day. He kept updating me with the cancellations and delays and stuff so finally I drove out to his house in Smithtown. 3/4's of the way there he calls me to tell me it got delayed once again! UGH! So I get to his house we hang for a bit and then he realizes that I have to drive back to queens cause he doesn't have enough room for everyone. Brian was supposed to get the band with him but when he heard they were delayed again he went home. So now I have to drive all the way back to Queens 5 minutes from my house! As we are driving back Mark calls me like 5 minutes after we left his house to tell me they just landed!! We are like 40 minutes away!!! OMG!!! So now we fly back and I tell Mark to take the Northern State to the LIE but he misses the LIE exit! Mark was flying like 100 MPH lol I was doing like 65-85 and I beat him back to the airport. LOL So I pull up and Geoff, Stone and Whip along with the tour manager Adam are waiting for us. It's starting to drizzle and I say hello to everyone and tell them that there's going to be 2 cars and ask who wants to get in mine. Wilton is the first on my car as we wait for Mark, but he can't find us. So everyone crams into Jeep Geoff, Wilton and Stone in the back and Adam in the front. Then Mark pulls up so Stone goes with him. We drive the to the hotel and Mark asks if anyone wants to go out for some food. Geoff wants to rest up after being delayed and on that plane all day I don't blame him but the other guys are raring to go. We are trying to figure out where to go and someone said wings and Hooter's was brought up so, off we go to Hooter's on Hempstead Turnpike. Wilton comes with me and Adam and Stone go with Mark. Whip and I catch up except for a brief time at NAMM we haven't talked in almost a year. We talk about the things we did at NAMM and I tell him about this site and He want's to do an interview. So there will be a Michael Wilton interview on here along with Stone, Adam, Lee (Stone's Tech) and I will try to get the rest of the guys. (look in the NAMM Part 4 to see who else signed on) I am stoked cause Whip is a great guy. Actually everyone in the Queensryche camp is really cool. Just as we get off the meadowbrook Whip say he's hungry and I tell him we'll be there in a second and he sees the sign. We park and Mark pulls up next to us and we go in. We sit down Order some beer and they had a new item, I don't remember the name but it was fried shrimp and fried jalapeno's....YUM! 2 orders of those. We also ordered 50 hot wings 1/2 naked and 1/2 breaded, buffalo shrimp, Mark and Stone got burgers and Whip and I shared 1/2 a dozen oysters. While we waited we were talking bout NAMM and the funny stories this (some of which you'll read about in my NAMM blog) We talked about the set list on this tour which will be a few cover songs and a lot of songs they haven't played in awhile, which is great! We talked about the fact that they are going to Europe to do a tour doing Mindcrime 1 & 2. Mark was telling Adam about the Zoom H-2 and Stone and Whip were giving it rave reviews! So we are done with the food and drinks and they need to get back to the hotel so I tell Mark that I'll drive them back since it's right by my house and he is the opposite way. Mark tells them we are going to come to the shows on Thursday at Starland, Friday at Nokia and Saturday done in Atlantic City and they seem stoked...cool! On the ride home we talks about food and I bring up the fact that my friend Mike has a Mexican restaurant in NJ called Tito's Burritos and maybe I'll bring some food for them on Thursday at Starland and they seem to be interested so I tried calling Mike but no answer I will call him today to take care of that. I drop them off and they thank me for the ride and I thank them for the company. So, That's another Blog done for more info on Queensryche and Tito's Burritos please click on the links below.
PEACE OUT! Bagel
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