Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR Pre-show. It is Monday, July 21st. I'm Shannon the Dude being joined by Billy Rutledge. And you can give us a call on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line at 859-2-2-80-2287. You can also send us a text at 502-26566-56 beer, whiskey thief call of the day. And the KSR prer pre-show as always being brought to you by italics

fine italian dining in lexington billy good morning to you how are you how was your weekend good morning

dude it was great the fiancee was away for the weekend so it was kind of like when the you know

cats away the mice will play yeah uh no cold play concerts or anything like that but uh it was a

nice relaxing weekend

and fired up to be with you this morning. Yeah, we'll get into the TBT stuff in just a minute, but first, you know, we don't have a whole lot of breaking news on the pre-show, not a whole lot of news breaks at 9 a.m. on a Monday morning, but I've got a little bit of breaking news of my own here.

Okay.

And that is the announcement that coming up on August the 8th, my band, Alice Bluegown,

will be playing at the Manchester Music Hall.

And we're going to be opening up for a band that you may have heard of called Everclear.

Whoa.

Yeah.

Tickets are on set right now.

We are opening for Everclear. August the 8th, Friday night. So you got no excuse. It's going to be the weekend. It's going to be a lot of fun. We want to try to sell that place out if we can. So I'm inviting the entire state of Kentucky and all of Lexington, especially, to come out to the Manchester Music Hall and see our show with Everclear. We're really excited about it. You know, every now and then we get these cool opportunities that come along. We were approached on Friday to do this show with Everclear, and we're like, yeah, let's go. Let's do it. So I'm really excited about it. And hopefully we're going to have a great crowd out there and really looking forward to it.

Well, hell yeah, man. Congratulations. I know that's got to make you happy.

Obviously, the show at Log Still Distillery when you opened up for Third Eye Blind was a lot of fun.

And now at another great venue at the Manchester Music Hall. And boy, was this, I mean, come on, Shannon.

A little pinch me moment here? Come on, Everclear? clear yeah that's a hell of a band open for it's always cool when you get to open up for a band

who sold you know you know millions and millions of albums i don't know how many albums exactly they've

sold but they've sold quite a bit you know they were pretty successful one of the big bands of the

90s and they've obviously

had continued success to be able to still do this thing 30 years later. I've been to a lot of shows at the Manchester Music Hall. We've had an OVW show or two at the Manchester Music Hall, but I've never actually been up as a performer in a band on stage at the Manchester Music Hall. So I'm looking forward to it man. It's going to be a lot of fun.

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