Rock For Kosair XI Benefit (Saturday, November 19 at Diamond Pub on Barret) is going again now that I'm feeling better. It's a lot of work and planning and dealing with lots of people, from sponsors to bands to venues to radio stations! It's crazy. But I love doing this and being able to help someone. Hopefully, we'll be able to buy tons of toys for the kids for Christmas, like we have done every year! This is the first one back since the Phoenix Hill Tavern closed down, so the kids really need us this year! This would be the first year for Kosair to not get help from RFK, so we cannot let that happen.

I know attendance at Louisville original shows has plummeted and it's not like the good ole days, but it is what it is and we cannot give up, especially when it comes to the kids. So please, even if you don't like the bands - or me, for that matter - please come to support the cause of helping needy families to be able to give their children a decent Christmas. Kosair Charities is an awesome organization! Great people. In gratitude, they even made me a memory book  of the kids opening the toys on Christmas! That was cool. I wouldn't work with anyone else. Plus, it's always a great party and a rockin' rock show! And the guitars and prizes we give away are pretty sweet. The odds of winning aren't that bad, either!! Much better than you would think.

Jared at Diamond Pub gave us a nice deal, so I thank him for that! What a great guy! That's what it is all about! Peeps working together instead of egos, attitudes and negative Neds who want you to fail. There is way too much of that nonsense in our music scene and that sucks ass. This is our chance to come together and do something GOOD. So let's not waste the opportunity. The Kosair rep Stephanie Smith was very happy we are back with RFK and she will be helping us, too.
The lineup is: White Crosses (Ramones Tribute), Guerrilla Red, Naked Garden, Year of the Gun, Grindstone, Jack Brizendine (of Jefferson TARC Bus), Despite The Fallen, Before The Streetlights, Jayson William Allen Band, Hellfire Militia, Doppelganger and the Boombox Poets, plus more. Diamond Pub, November 19. Tickets are only $10.

--Eddy Metal