RALEIGH -- Debbie Holt was ready to close Cooper's BBQ for the day when she got a call. From U2.

Well, from U2's private jet services coordinator, a man she knows only as Maurice.

Holt, who co-owns the landmark Raleigh barbecue joint with her husband, Randy, was shocked early Saturday evening when she got a call from Maurice, requesting enough food for 25 people: barbecue, pork rinds, five fried chickens, pig skins, ribs, cole slaw, hush puppies.

The band was 30 minutes away from landing at RDU and then dashing to its performance at Carter-Finley Stadium, but could she please have the food ready for them at 10:50 p.m. sharp, just before the band's scheduled departure?

Why, yes, Holt said calmly.

The band had heard all about Cooper's, Maurice said, and they were hoping to get some of what they'd heard was the nation's best barbecue before they left town. Would she take a credit card?

Nope. Cooper's doesn't take credit cards, Holt said. The cost of the order would be $276.77, including a $50 delivery fee.

Maurice said he'd check to see if there was enough cash on the plane and call her back. A few minutes later, he called back, still airborne, and said the food mission was a go. He hung up, and Holt screamed.

"I had to be a grown-up on the phone, but I haven't been grown up since," she said.

Holt and her husband scrambled to cook everything fresh and fried to perfection. Randy Holt and cook Chess Smith heated the chopped, Eastern-style barbecue and made sure the hush puppies were properly greased.

"We close at 6 every day," said Holt, who once managed the restaurant for an owner who bought it from the founder of the place, the late Clyde Cooper. "But when U2 calls you, you do what you have to do, honey."

They threw in fresh banana pudding for good measure.

Debbie Holt and her 14-year-old daughter, Ashley, took their van to the private lot at RDU where U2's jet was waiting.

"I screamed like a little girl," she said.

The pair was escorted by eight security guards into the back of the jet, near ovens and kitchen space. They worked in the tight confines of the jet while the band was roaring through the final moments of their stadium show.

Debbie Holt was still holding on to a pan when guitarist Dave "The Edge" Evans appeared, fresh from the show, standing six inches in front of her. He was the only band member they met.

"He said, 'Hi, how are you? Did you bring me food?' I lost it when I saw him," she said. "If I would've known he would move that close, I would've kissed him."

The Edge and staff members tore into the pork skins and loved the banana pudding, said Holt, who has co-owned the restaurant with her husband since the summer of 2008.

This isn't the only time Cooper's, which opened on New Year's Day in 1938, has seen celebrity attention. The Rolling Stones, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett and the Allman Brothers have visited the restaurant, Debbie Holt said. Just last week, Clay Aiken dropped by for a bite, she said.

Holt and her daughter left the jet after about 20 minutes. Maurice handed them $300. Not much of a tip.

"But U2 is something else, honey," Debbie Holt said. "I don't care, and I've been a crazy woman ever since. I'd much rather serve them than go to the concert."

Joey, that new local on the 8's format is horrible.

Joey wrote on Oct 6^th, 2009 at 5:34pm:

Al Roker will f*ck that up soon enough- mark my words.

" Al Roker will f*ck that up soon enough- mark my words "


Some Guy ..............................



YOU MAKE JOEY CRY LIKE BABY !!!!!!!!


WHY ?!

U2's 360° Tour is selling out globally, but no lines formed for No Line on the Horizon, an album that has sold 1 million copies in seven months -- shy of the tally that 2004's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb racked up in two weeks.

"We didn't have a hit," Bono says. " 'Get On Your Boots' is going over better and better live, but that spongy funky sound didn't connect with rock radio. If your first single doesn't go off, it can knock the momentum. We believe in the songs and we want people to have them in their hearts and their iPods."

Missing 2008's fourth quarter hurt sales, which in an era of rampant piracy no longer reflect the music's reach.

"You don't know how far the music travels," says bassist Adam Clayton. "The new songs get a great reaction live. Nobody's yawning or groaning. Releasing it outside that last quarter made it more uphill. Other factors skew the numbers. The record business is collapsing, and radio and the media."

What's beyond Horizon? A trio of albums, starting with the ambient Songs of Ascent, containing surplus material from Horizon sessions. It may include the buzzed-about "Every Breaking Wave."

"It's a very intimate affair," Bono says. "They are beautiful love songs, where the object of love is not always obvious."

The band also wants to finish its shelved rock album with producer Rick Rubin, and Bono and Edge are wrapping up songs for the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark musical.

"That's a monster album, a wild ride with very big songs," says Bono, who hopes the pair's project will evolve into a U2 album with special guests. "Edge and I knew it had to be dramatic, melodic and character-based. We'd just dream up the maddest stuff. Spider-Man may be the funnest project I've ever been involved with. Never a dull day, never a dark day until a few weeks ago when we woke up to the news that the production company had run out of cash."

Bono asked Canadian promoter Michael Cohl to help get the project on track. Spidey may be delayed but won't be derailed, he says.

Release dates are indefinite.

"The Spider-Man collection is the most developed but the least appropriate to the band," Edge says. "We've got so much material at different stages of completion, it's going to be a nice problem when we've got a few weeks to look at it."

Joey, nobody cares. This weekend in San Francisco we have the President's Cup golf tournament going on. Not only that,but the Blue Angels are in town since it's Fleet Week. You would really enjoy that Joey. We know how much you like seaman.....Young SCL now busts out laughing here at the office.

' joey ..... when is jb's REAL birthday ?  '


This Sunday Some Guy  --- October 11th !!!!!!!!

Word .


J.

A REAL Happy Birthday to my dear friend jb.
You are missed around here!!!
Here's to happiness, continued success, good heath and A STONES TOUR!!!!!!!!!!


--photo courtesy of Raining Blimps

xoxo
LJ
             

In America, we believe big time in publicizing the shit out of 'we ain't talkin'.' First we make goddamn sure that everybody knows we ain't saying anything. Then we get three jets for each syllable, Van-Ha-Len, and ya gotta line 'em up so that it spells out. We reconnoiter a super studio somewhere tropical, salt water, solar power, fly the entire mad dog and Englishman retinue, wives, girlfriends, household pets, favorite paintings, don't pack light. Bring the palm trees, and we'll go get someplace with a vaguely French name like 'mosquito.' We'll spend three months down there, 90 days metric, putting together an entire album and rehearsing said material plus all the classic VH stuff by loading all of this 80 to a 120 person entourage onto between four and seven great, grandiose tall masted sailboats, and touring adjacent islands and playing at thatched roof, propeller in the ceiling bars on Friday and Saturday nights. I would hire the Coen Brothers and Sonnenfeld as our cinematographer to make a documentary with a twist. Build a sub-plot or four or five. Dinners on Friday nights will be replete and complete with 40-plus guests, doesn't include the 120 original members-Quentin Tarantino, Heidi Fleiss...now I'm just going off the top of my head here, this is just the first 38 seconds of recon here. Then it becomes suddenly evident that we must tour. Well, that means we have to rehearse in Paris, London, NY, Miami and LA. Just to get the flavor, because you play like what you ate for dinner. And then we run the band through its paces in the Pacific Rim and South America. And we leak, dribble, ooze and supply the internet with all the most colorful, rumor-mongering, gossip, detailed, tabloidal...'they were chasing him and nine paparazzi were killed in a tunnel.'
--David Lee Roth, on how he would record a new Van Halen album.
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' joey ..... will josh be attending this evening's u2 gig at new cowboys stadium ? '

**** SIGH !!!! *****


" The iconic cover of Abbey Road, which shows the band crossing the street. McCartney is barefoot, similar to how corpses are typically buried; while Lennon, dressed in all white, is theoretically the preacher; George Harrison, in denim, is the gravedigger; and Ringo Starr, in a dark suit, is the mourner. A license plate in the distance reads "28IF," supposedly signifying that the bassist would have been 28 years old had he lived.

* Played backwards, a bit of gibberish between "I'm So Tired" and "Blackbird" on the "White Album," appears to be Lennon's voice saying "Paul is dead, miss him, miss him."

* Lennon appears to utter "I buried Paul" during the outro to "Strawberry Fields Forever," on the "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Years later, Lennon confirmed what close listenings suggest: Actually, he inexplicably says "cranberry sauce."

* On the "Sgt. Pepper" album cover, wax effigies of the band members appear to be looking down on a flower arrangement in the shape of McCartney's familiar violin-shaped Hoffner bass. "

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" Unforgettable Night in Dallas12 October 2009
Over 120,000 in the stadium tonight, and with the roof over our heads, we really knew it.

It's the first of two big nights in Texas with the Houston show coming up Wednesday. Special mention for the Dallas Cowboys at the end of Breathe - this is only the fourth show in this their new stadium.

This being Texas, during One Bono paid tribute to George Bush for the work he supported as President in helping stop the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa.

How was it for you in Dallas tonight? Tell us what it was like and post your photos in our comments area.



Breathe
Get on Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways
Beautiful Day
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Stuck In A Moment
No Line on the Horizon
Elevation
Until The End of the World
Unforgettable Fire
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
I'll Go Crazy - Remix
Sunday Bloody Sunday
MLK
Walk On
One
Where The Streets Have No Name

Ultraviolet
With or Without You
Moment of Surrender  "

http://www.u2.com/news/title/unforgettable-night-in-dallas


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