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By Steve, November 6, 2011 9:57 am

Country superstar Dierks Bentley was in the area Friday night.

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By Steve, February 6, 2009 7:54 am

You’ve heard the phrase “pay it forward“. This morning I was the recipient of prep it forward. The morning guys at B93.7 in Grand Rapids dropped me an email about a Jessica Simpson stage meltdown that occurred last night. She’s opening for Rascal Flatts, and they’re in Champaign, Illinois, tonight (where I host a morning show). So I get this email which alerts me to Jessica Simpson’s meltdown — which turns out to be a nice bit of prep to have since the concert’s a big topic of conversation this morning.

That’s prep it forward.

When an artist says or does something unique at a concert, or you see something crazy in the crowd, why not find out where the act is playing next and email a morning show in that town?

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By Steve, October 8, 2007 5:18 am

From KansasCity.com: It was only a few minutes after 10 a.m. Saturday when the marquee at the Sprint Center flashed the happy news: “Second show added Nov. 12.”A Garth Brooks crowd numbering in the hundreds whooped it up — hey, these are country music fans — and it seemed that every face grew a big smile. Fans knew that tickets to Brooks’ originally announced show on Nov. 14 at Sprint would get snapped up soon after 10 a.m., when they first went on sale. But many felt comfortably certain another show would be added. Then came announcements at 10:17 a.m., 10:29 a.m. and 10:40 a.m. of third, fourth and fifth shows. Each time the crowd grew giddier. A sixth show was added, and by 11 a.m. the line was gone and the mayhem over. Ticket buyers could walk right up to windows of the new Sprint Center. A total of nine shows were announced, Nov. 5 to 12 and Nov. 14, along with special guest Trisha Yearwood. And they were all sold out. That’s about 140,000 tickets, each costing no more than $32.50. Brooks apparently knows how to make concert fans happy — and how to do it dramatically.