Tommie and the Bartender

Tommie & The Bartender Dot Com expires after the summer…

Tommie and the Bartender — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:45:01 +0000

…so, if you’re wondering where we’re at now and what we’re up to…here’s the latest.

Craig is still part of the morning show on 95.3…and if you haven’t heard him, he sounds fantastic. He’s also doing a bit of double-duty by helping out on 95.7 WAOR.

Me? I’m still “on the beach”, although I’m working weekends on my old stomping grounds…Rock 107 WIRX in Benton Harbor. I’m also still trying to arrange a publisher for my novel. You can follow my progress at http://whereisdavidprast.com.

But there won’t be anymore updates on this website. Point your browsers at http://iamtommielee.com if you want to keep up with me.

Again, a big thanks to everyone who loved the show and made it so fun to do.

Talk to you soon.

- Tommie

Here’s The Audio Of Our Last Show

Tommie and the Bartender — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:50:58 +0000

Big thanks to all of our guests, all of our clients, and most importantly all of you listeners who made our show such a great time. Here’s the audio in four parts of our last show. Right click to download on mp3, and we’ll talk to you somewhere down the road, I’m sure.

Remember: WAOR didn’t go away. Find it on 95.7 FM in South Bend or online at http://www.waor.com

Well…”we gone”.

Tommie and the Bartender — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:42:07 +0000

Here’s the last picture taken of us on our final day as Tommie & The Bartender (taken by a friend, I’d forgoten how grainy Blackberry cameras are), while we were at The Backer.

We really appreciate all of the love you guys gave us during our 4 years (and one week) on the air together on 95.3 WAOR.

What’s next for us?

Craig is doing sports in the moring right here:

And as for Tommie…well, the search is on. I’ll keep you posted on facebook.

Best wishes to all of you. I’ll be posting the audio of our last show at some point (still cutting it together).

Towmaster brings us a cake

Tommie and the Bartender — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:38:39 +0000

Towmaster has been a loyal piece of the morning show since it’s infancy, and we really apreciate him.

Thanks, Brutha. And many thanks to all of you who heard us one morning over the last four years and decided we needed to have food brought in to us. Kept us alive more often than you know.

Wednesday Weather Kid – Kaitlyn

Tommie and the Bartender — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:24:10 +0000

Kaitlyn is the last Weather Kid on the Tommie & The Bartender Show. Right click the files below to hear how she did!

Our thanks to all our Weather Kids, and their families…and of course Meijer for providing the prize!

505WeatherKid_Kaitlyn_AIR <—interview

505WeatherKid_Kaitlyn_MIX <—weather

Ernie Harwell Is Dead, And That Really Sucks

Tommie and the Bartender — Wed, 05 May 2010 01:22:46 +0000

I grew up in Northern Michigan, listening to the southern drawl of one of the greatest baseball announcers ever.

Fishing on the AuSable with my friends…listening to a plastic dial radio at Boy Scout Summer Camp…hunting trips off F-41…wherever I went as a kid, chances are Ernie was calling a game on some station or another.

I didn’t grow up to be a Tigers fan…but just once I would have loved to have been in the stands and snagged a foul ball. Just to see, if by some miracle, he’d really say “…and a little boy from Oscoda just got himself a souvenir!”

Another piece of how cool it was to grow up in Michigan is gone. We really, really cherished Ernie as a State Institution. Rest In Peace, sir.

Tuesday Rock Roundup for May 4th

Tommie and the Bartender — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:00:35 +0000

Bret Michaels is walking, his sister Michelle Sychak said in a radio interview yesterday. Although he remains in intensive care since suffering a brain hemorrhage more than a week ago, Bret’s sister said he “was definitely doing better — he was kind of getting up and started to walk a bit.” His doctors will hold a press conference today with more details on his progress.

Robert Plant was supposed to be working on a follow-up to his Grammy-winning album with Alison Krauss, Raising Sand, but that seems to have been put on the backburner. In an interview on a U.K. T.V. show, Plant says, “We go dancing together, but she’s gone back to her old band, back to the bluegrass stuff, and I’m with another band now in Nashville.”

Roger Waters will be on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon tomorrow night.

Speaking of late night…Max Weinberg will reportedly not be back in the bandleader role when Conan O’Brien starts his new late-night show in the fall, that according to Al Kooper whose band includes members of Conan’s band.

NEW RELEASES:

Asia “Omega” CD

Extreme “Take It Alive” (Live in Boston 2009) CD

Steve Howe “Homebrew 4″ CD

Roy Orbison “Final Concert” CD

Chickenfoot: Get Your Buzz On – Live [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray – 2010)

Leap Year ~ Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, and Adam Scott (DVD – 2010)

Nine ~ Daniel Day-Lewis, et al. (DVD – 2010)

Tooth Fairy ~ Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews, and Stephen Merchant (DVD – 2010)

Dirt: The Complete Second Season ~ Courteney Cox, Ian Hart, Josh Stewart, and Alexandra Breckenridge (DVD – 2010)

Cool BluRay Of The Week: Saving Private Ryan [Blu-ray]