Kiki’s Korner

There are days I love Jon Stewart, and then there are days I loooooooooooove Jon Stewart.

The day he introduced the John McCain puppet was one of the latter ones. OMG. So. Damn. Funny.

Get. Off. My. Lawn.

We were sifting through the music guide trying to find plans to fill our Saturday night when we came across a listing for Eddie Money, playing at the RRazz room at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.

Eddie Money? Acoustic show? Um, yes please. Eddie’s music carried me into my teens and when hits like Take Me Home Tonight, Baby Hold On To Me or Two Tickets To Paradise come on the radio, I still, to this day, belt them out at the top of my lungs. Man, I loved his voice. I was excited to go.

The show was good. He sang all the classics, and we all sang along with him, but you can see years of drug and alcohol abuse has taken their toll on Eddie. With that said, I was glad we got to see him live as it brought back a lot of great memories and made me revisit some of those songs I truly love buried deep in my iTunes library.

So keep rockin Eddie. Shake your money maker. And just like Ronnie sang…be my little babyyyyyyyyyy.

P.S. The RRazz room is a great little venue that sits about 100 people in total. You are up close and personal with the artist, reminding me of the venues VH1 used to use for their Storytellers series years ago. Perfect for an acoustic show.

Came across this great video from the Funny or Die crew. Awesome.

Heuer and I were treated to a private concert from new Sony artist, Chris Mann, in the Berkeley Hills thanks to our pal VDog.

I had not heard of Chris before Victoria’s invite, and was pleasantly surprised to find this guy can really belt it out. He reminds me of a good mixture of Jason Mraz and Adam Levine, the lead singer from Maroon 5. If you like either of those artists, you will love Chris Mann. His voice raw enough to pierce you at the core, mature enough to be in total control of his instrument. Could hear him sing for hours.

He was joined by his buddy, Chris Jagich, a music teacher from L.A. who strummed the guitar along side Mann. Chris (and Chris) played a handful of songs to the 20 of us in the room and the 40+ folks following along to the live stream VDog set up since they could not join us in person.

Have I said how much I love Chris Mann’s voice? I really do.

After the concert, I decided to Google him and found he remade the Kanye West song, Heartless. Love it. Even better is our girl ‘VDog’ is in the video, about half way through – holding up the ‘fool’ sign (at 2:18 in the video). Woot! You a hunny VDog!

Chris’ album is supposed to hit in September – keep an eye out for it. Sure to please.