Third Day on The Tonight Show

Tonight! Tuesday, July 29th! My friends a.k.a. Third Day are on The Tonight Show. Get your TiVo ready and catch it live.

You can follow Mark Lee--guitarist extraordinaire on Twitter here.

My friend Carlos is hosting a contest on his blog to win a free autographed CD and shirt from Mark Lee of Third Day here.

Third Day also released their new album "Revelation" today. You can buy the album now by clicking the iTunes link below.



'Nuff said.

P.S. Love you, Mark. You'll make it to the big time someday.

Third Day for 3K

At 9:59am EST on Friday, I was sitting with my credit card at my computer anxiously awaiting the time when I could log on for The Music Builds Tour with Third Day, Switchfoot, Jars of Clay, and Robert Randolph and the Family Band.

10:00am. Boom! I log right on to my personal Ticketmaster account.

10:06am. I purchased three tickets for the pavilion (choice seats!) and 8 tickets for the lawn for some people on the music team.

10:08am. I check my email for the “confirmation” of my purchase. Check.

10:10am. I log back in to my Ticketmaster account to print tickets.

10:12am. I poop my pants.



















I look at the invoice for my tickets and find I have been charged over $3,000.00 for my tickets. I double-checked to make sure I didn’t do anything dumb and found I had done everything right.

Is this why the new Third Day album is called "Revelation?"

According to the site, Ticketmaster charged me a few hundred dollars for a convenience charge on each ticket.

Now, I am already not a fan of Facility Charges and Convenience Charges with Ticketmaster. Every ticket purchase usually stirs a little venom in me but THIS one sent me through the roof.


I called Ticketmaster after a 3-hour tour through their website to find an 800 number.


P.S. Ticketmaster, if you have Google Alerted your name and are reading my blog right now, please put an 800 number on your site. On every page. Where it is visible. Please. Look through my records. See how much I have spent on concerts. I should own stock in Ticketmaster. An 800 number. It is all I ask. Oh, and that you lower your Convenience Charges.

Thankfully, the lady at Ticketmaster was extremely helpful and very kind. She talked me down from my panic attack and explained they are having a glitch in the system and that I only paid what I was supposed to pay.

Still, today, the site still says I have paid over 3K. I am trusting the nice Ticketmaster lady.

If she is wrong, this will be the most expensive show I have ever been to. Paul McCartney has nothing on this ticket price. I saved my whole life to see Paul in a decent seat in the auditorium. But, he wasn’t 3K.

So, boys, rock the house. I will be filling my tank with a couple hundred bucks of gas and coming to your $3,000.00 rock extravaganza. Good thing I already own a t-shirt.

On another note, nice artwork on the new album Third Day! Being a Radiohead fanatic, I can't help but think of the Radiohead artwork by Stanley Donwood for the Hail to the Thief album. I don't know if this album artwork was a tribute but, it is a great concept.

Third Day News

I have been a Third Day fan since I heard the first bit of amp feedback before the words were uttered, "on and on and on and on and on she goes and where she stops no one really knows."

If you don't know what I am referring to, go buy everything Third Day ever recorded.

I have seen these guys play countless times and I have had the opportunity to take my kids backstage twice (which leads me to say--when you are any age it is cool to go backstage at a rock show but when you are 15 there is nothing greater).

I became an even bigger fan of the band when I had my first conversation outside of a quick handshake with Mark Lee--Third Day guitarist extraordinaire-- a few years ago at cre:ate in Nashville. Mark was approachable and funny and his wonderful wife Stephanie was very kind to my wife Tahni.

So, being the fan that I am--of the band and the "people" of Third Day you can imagine the great week I am having in light of the following two things taking place:

#1 Yesterday, I got an email announcing tickets go on sale Friday for the "Music Builds" tour starring Third Day, Switchfoot, Jars of Clay, and Robert Randolph and the Family Band. August 21st at 6:00pm Detroit Rock City will get its hot pants rocked off. Yeah, guess who is going to that show. I am taking the whole freaking day off so I can eat a good breakfast and prepare for the rocking.

#2 I check my Google reader today and find this:
Mark Lee, Third Day guitarist posted about my blog--the blog you are reading-- on his blog This Guy Falls Down!

I have enjoyed Mark's blog immensely over the past few years. It is full of all the good rock and roll jargon and humor I would expect from a rock and roll guy's blog. Mark has great taste in music, tells it like he sees it, and often shares fun bits of trivia and invites his readers to participate in the conversation. Mark is also very tech savvy and has a lot of good web 2.0 talk on his blog. The thing that impresses me most is Mark's commitment to his family.

If R.E.M. or The Black Crowes are a regular part of your vocabulary, you will especially dig Mark's blog.

So, read Mark's blog. Subscribe to it. Buy Third Day tickets. Buy the t-shirt. Look for the new album, Revelation out on July 29.