I wanted so badly to get tickets to the Earth Wind and Fire www.earthwindandfire.com/ Chicago  www.chicagotheband.com concert, coming up at Fiddler's Green  fiddlers-green-amphitheatre-formerly-coors- amphitheatre.  I have to tell you, I'm so glad I couldn't afford them.  I heard the bands together on the CBS morning show this week - Oh My God.  As much as I love these guys, they stank! Here's the video link.  http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/id=5097294n&tag=contentMain;contentBody  

They may be in good spirits but they're not in good voice.  I know they've already been touring for a month but if you can't hit a note on national TV, you can't hit a note.  The EWF gang couldn't hit a note with a hammer.  There's nothing more frustrating than sitting in an audience thinking you could sing better than the guys you came to hear.  (I always wonder, "Do these folks think we're deaf, or that we simply can't remember?)  The two horn sections together are skin-tingling, but with the best seats selling at better than a thousand dollars, I'd say, wait until the bands record an album together, then buy the finished product.  

OK, SO DID YOU SEE OUR FORMER HOMETOWN GUY ON STEVEN COLBERT?

I'm talking about General Ray Odierno (great Italian name) formerly at Fort Carson. He visited Steven (here's the link to the video clip) http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/230466/june-11-2009/stephen-gets-his-hair-cut on the show's trip to visit the troops in middle east and announced that if Colbert wanted to play soldier, he needed to look the part, i.e., a military haircut.  As Colbert protested, the Commander in Chief was beamed in via satellite, saying, "I heard the general say you need a haircut."  

Colbert said, "Are your spy satellites really that good?"

The president responded, "No, my ears are really that big."