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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue_Kryptonite" data-source="post: 2594078" data-attributes="member: 10949">Location: Des Moines, IowaTime: Friday, 3:33 AMAmbiance: Raining  The rain lets up a little as the tour bus approaches the first stop on the Rock Aid 2005 tour. The city at night is not what you would expect from America’s breadbasket. By the time you’re pulling into downtown, the storm system has been left behind for a while. The clear night air is warm and welcoming, with the smell of rain on the wind playing catch up. Even in the dead middle of the night, the city is alive and vibrant.<img src="http://www.nationmaster.com/wikimir/images/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d0/350px-Des_Moines_skyline_night.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The hotel is across the street from Principle Park Stadium. <img src="http://www.alsaiowa.org/Images/WalktoDFeetALS/Principal_Park_2.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />You play Friday Night, the Iowa Cubs return home to Sec Taylor Field for the final double header in a split series against the Albuquerque Isotopes on Saturday. <img src="http://www.baseballroadtrip.net/AAA/PacificCoast/iowa/images/PICT0042.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Check-in is quick and quiet, with the top floor of the Des Moines Four Points Sheraton reserved for your use through Sunday night.<img src="http://reservations.pegsinc.com/booker/AppLogic+booker.util.ImageBlob?brand=FP&pid=104&image_link=104_B2A" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Ticketmaster sales show a good 3/4 of the show sold out, with walk-ins expected to fill near capacity. You’re meetings with 95 KGGO’s Heather In The Morning at 10 AM.<img src="http://images.radcity.net/3126/1108853.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Then, down one floor in the same building to talk to LAZER 103.3’s Andy Hall.<img src="http://www.lazer1033.com/graphics/masthead.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://lazer1033.com/graphics/jocks/andy.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Over to the stadium at 2 for brunch, then rehearsal at 4 before the gates open at 7. In 12 hours, the concert tour begins. In Des Moines. In a AAA baseball stadium. For some reason. The real reason, of course, is something’s not right in Des Moines. Something unnatural stalks the streets. Native Cloris Leachman is in California, so TV’s “Phyllis” is off the hook. With no prior instructions, there’s nothing to do but go through the rock & routine until your contact makes him or herself known. Until then, whatever time isn’t owned by the marketing machine is your own.</blockquote>

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