Las Vegas Is Not Exactly Hell This Year
Is it a coincidence that the first song I heard during my first morning in Las Vegas was "If You're Going Through Hell"? I am the rare traveler who doesn't really look forward to visiting Sin City, but it's been OK this year, I guess. None of the lines have been more than 20 minutes. I haven't overheated (in fact, it's been in the 50s and 60s), and this morning, I found yet another Starbucks in the MGM Grand. There's a secret elevator next to my room, and it drops you off in a nightclub, which is next to the Starbucks, and right after that, there are lions in a big glass terrarium. And some poker sharks in their natural habitat, too. Now I am on my way to the pressroom, but first let me tell you about my weekend.
So far I've seen LeAnn Rimes, Jason Aldean, Kellie Pickler and some new artists playing free shows at the Fremont Street Experience, which is like a long, electronic canopy in downtown Las Vegas, a few miles from the Strip. It's like the generic version of a name-brand product that's otherwise marketed very well. I wouldn't consider it family-friendly since there's an impossible-to-miss LCD billboard of women taking off their bikinis, time and time again, censored by exclamations like ADZOOKS!
The free music lasted about five hours, till midnight both nights -- which was 2 a.m., Nashville time. Whew! Before Jason Aldean's set, I planted myself at a penny slot machine just so I could sit down. I put in five dollars and selected five lines and two as the wager, over and over. Suddenly the machine lit up: Ka-ching! All the lights were flashing and I won 100 ... pennies! Woo hoo! See, it's hasn't been all bad.
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RedMaZ says:
Ever heard these following songs?
Sin City - Flying Burrito Brothers
Oooh Las Vegas - Gram Parsons
Vegas - Two Tons of Steel
NoDoubt says:
Did anyone take these awards seriously this year? seems like more people are making Vegas jokes and writing fashion police tickets today. Anyone really care who won what?
Kitkat says:
I want to know if Brad Paisleys’ wife had their baby and what sex it was? I feel asleep in my recliner.
Roger says:
Please define duo. Brooks and Dunn is NOT a duo. It’s the Ronnie Dunn show and Sugarland is NOT a duo it the Jennifer Nettles show. Please be more realistic if you want real people to take Country Music Awards seriously.
Lois Cronic says:
I has been country forever, but country isn’t country anymore. The closest performer to the true country was Jamie Johnson followed by Tobey Keith & Tracy Atkins. Taylor Swift is one of the worst ones out there, she is not country…have you heard her sing without the modern technolgy filling in? All the “new female” singers look like clones. What is the definitation of country music today? Whats happened to the awards honoring those who created country music? Maybe there just isn’t that many out there anymore that are the Willie’s, Waylen’s, Roger Miller, Lorette Lynn, Tammys, Floyd Crammer, George’s…..I miss them and their music. As for Carrie award, you have to be kidding? I think this was my last awards show. The awards go to ever is “hot” at the time, not who’s been “hot” for years over and over. A few songs don’t make it…….
rj says:
My last award show was a few yrs ago. Now I just flip through. I don’t even know what country music is now, except jamey johnson. Toby keith and trace adkins, I guess dumbass songs equal $$$ equal country music. Ha! Taylor swift is a joke and I’ve had about enough of the island cowboy. Carrie underwood, entertainer of the year. What a joke? Wake up acm\cma, get it right next time.
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Valerie says:
lol on the 100 pennies