Yo Joe, this is my first time posting to reach out to you. My oldest son Andrew turned me onto your music and I have been hooked ever since and have been to many shows with my son's in Tampa Bay. The reason I am posting I am posting is my son Andrew is in the US Army stationed in Calif. in a remote base Camp Roberts, recently you jammed in the state and Andrews wife Shannon saved up the dough to treat Andrew for a anniversary gift. Shannon jumped thru hoops to get front row seats knowing you are Andrew's favorite musician and paid a huge premium to get them. Needless to say it's not like they rolling in cash as Shannon is also going to college, they had to travel about 4 hours to get to the venue, they were so pumped. Now Joe when they wet to enter into the venue, Shannon was turned away because she was not 21, she is 20 ~ they were crushed, angry and so upset after all the planning, the travel time just to be turned away. What a bummer to spend all the hard earned money for the show, gas to get there and back and never here a string stretch. It would seem to me the ticker sellers need to make this known to the buyers. I felt so disappointed for Shannon as she did so much to surprise Andrew with this gift and for their anniversary ~ they just wanted to see your show. I would be very cool if some how you could find 2.3 minutes of your day to reach out a to the Andrew with a call, text or email. As a really good dude who serves us all, paid very little my most standards in comparision to the private sector, he and Shannon deserve the respect considering the dough wasted and the heart break of this young couple, hell man they just wanted to rock like crazy. :)
I will be at your show at Ruth Eckerd Hall on 12-4-2010 with my other son Christian ( I call Binkers) to celebrate his 17th birthday (his is 12-8) and for sure he is so excited, seems like most the time I walk by his room I hear your music. This will be very special for him as he plays also and admires your skills to no end. We will be in row "T" seats 52 & 53 if you feel like throwing out a birthday kudos, a pick or just a boo ya.
Anyway we are all admirers and I / we understand the gig in Calif. is something you have no control over so no bad vibes are sent your way, I just wanted to throw it out to you.
I wish I could fly Andrew and Shannon back here to Tampa Bay to treat them to your show here, man would that be awesome. The fact is Andrew has a high level "Top Secret" clearance in the Army and simply can't up and bolt when some others can ~ they need him for all of us.
Well anyway, I don't know if this going to be just a excercise of my crappy typing skills or not, but I feel if was worth a try, my son's are worth so much to me a and to see them happy I would type till the cows come home. I look forward to rockin out at the show in Tampa Bay with Binkers and I know he is bragging his ass off to his friends about going. See you then, David. aka ~ Midknight
Contact me back and I will hook you up with Andrews #.
