“We started talking, and I said I would find her in the balcony during the show, and during Sheryl Crow’s set I grabbed a pass, which was a medallion, and took it to her and brought her down,” J.T., who works frequently as host and emcee of Las Vegas Raiders events, said Friday. Julie’s name was drawn, and she was set for the Stones show, further mapping this couple’s path to destiny. She was solo, having won the opportunity to buy a balcony ticket by dropping her ticket to a previous John Mellencamp show at the Joint into a drum for a random drawing. As was customary in The Center Bar’s golden era, J.T. The list was dotted with such name-checks as Jack Nicholson, Sting, Brad Pitt, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Gwen Stefani, Jenny McCarthy, Dennis Hopper, Lars Ulrich of Metallica, Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson. The concert was remarkable musically, opening with a spree of “(I Can’t Get No Satisfaction,” “You Got Me Rocking” and “Flip The Switch”) and for its superstar celebrity turnout. We took to calling that Stones concert The Fire Code Show, for its potential violation of capacity limits. The series was playing arenas except for the Vegas date, where 2,000 fans jammed into the old Hard Rock music hall (today’s Theater at Virgin Hotel Las Vegas). The Brick had a front-row ticket to a singularly wild Stones show on its “Bridges To Babylon” tour. It was the day after Valentine’s Day, but love was still in the air. The popular national “Mad Dog Sports” host on SiriusXM and veteran broadcaster (whose legal name is John Tournour), attended the historic Stones show at The Joint at the Hard Rock on Feb. The Brick and his wife, Julie, owe it all to the Rolling Stones and the fabled Center Bar at Hard Rock Hotel. Las Vegas guitarist JImmy McIntosh plays at the Sand Dollar Lounge on Wednesday night, when Tim Ries and Bernard Fowler joined his band for an unannounced set.
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