NKOTB In The Bay

A little more than 24 hours to go and then the New Kids on the Block make their bay area stop on their current tour. The excitement is catching on.

I missed them the first time around when all the hoopla surrounded them in the late 80's and early 90's.

They even appeared a few times on Dance Party USA. I had that captured on tape too. Where said tape is located is beyond me.

Flower Girl is going. Jean Jacket is going. Goose is excited about the early bird dinner. Buster will have that cocktail for the road. Hula Kuya can't make it. And me and the rest of the peeps will be making our way to the HP Pavil.

Remember, Lady GaGa and Natasha Bedingfield will be the opening acts. That's a good lineup. So Natasha and Daniel Bedingfield (If You're Not The One) are brother and sister? Where's he right now? Locked in with the rest of the one hit wonders, I suppose.

Dance Party USA

Remember this show from the late 80's? God, I was obsessed with Dance Party USA and totally crushing on Ed-D Tully. Remember the lightening lip-syncs, Dance & Romance Thursday, Freaky Friday, and so on? And I know there are those closet DPU fans lurking around. I am proud/embarrassed to say that I have some shows on tape. But the best ones I recorded were on Betamax and have been searching for those for years so I can convert them to DVD's. But alas, they have gone missing. Betamax? Betamax?

Kelly Ripa is the most popular dance member to make it big. First, with All My Children and of course, cute as a button co-host of Live! with Regis and Kelly. But she never talks about it. One day, when I go to New York and watch a Live taping, I will flag her down and ask about her time on the show. Just like how I asked the members of Color Me Badd about their experience with the cast of 90210 eons and eons ago.

Some info about these regular dancers from Jersey (may have changed though):

Ed-D Tully is in real estate and is married with 2 kids

Chris Tully is a teacher and married with 3 sons

Bob Catalano is some adult film star in Puerto Rico, is it?

Princess (Heather Day) is a married mom who had an exercise video out

The Ware sisters, Sara & Ann - one of them is a teacher (was Greg Ware their brother?)

Joanna Mistretta - Who's interested?

Jimmy Jam is some sort of DJ or music affiliated employed

They used to have clips on You Tube but it looks like they were all removed; strange.

Okay, Buster - 1 out of 2 requests fulfilled. I'll get to the other one later.