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I’m flying home from Tampa, FL to the cold, grey and snowy weather of Cleveland, OH…or as I like to call it, C-Town…and thought it would be a good time to post something.

We just finished a wonderful 4-day run of concerts at Busch Gardens, performing 3 shows a day for a total of 12. It’s always one of the tour dates I look forward to each year for many reasons: 1 - It’s always in February, which means I get a brake from the cold weather. 2 – I’m actually at one place for 5 days…lots of times I’m not even home for that many days. 3. The Noonatics come from all parts of the world and converge on Busch Gardens for the entire 4 days…and that makes the week even more fun. They even made dolls of Peter and each of us Hermits. Below are some pics from the 4 days.

“Busch Gardens”

“Peter and the Herman’s Hermits dolls”

“Peter, myself and mini-me”

Local update: I’ll be performing around town a lot from the end of February through March. The “Cover Girls” will be doing a reunion in the end of February with the original line-up….we haven’t performed together since 2003. The “Cover Girls” were/are: Debi Lewin, Jennifer Lee, Billy Sullivan and myself. I’ll also be singing “That 80s Band” for a few shows in March. “Spina, Sullivan & Hudak” will be doing a reunion show on St. Patrick’s Day and “The Cleveland Boys” will be performing a couple days later. As usual, Billy and I will be holding down our Thursdays at the Mad Cactus and actually making most of them over the next couple of months.

On a lighter note: A lot of people have been talking about and sometimes making fun of the Tea Party Patriots…a new political movement. Well, the one that I find hysterical is the movement that call themselves “Progressives”…now there’s a true oxymoron…and heavy on the last 2 syllables. Why you ask; lets just go back to when the movement really began in America, around 1880. Just putting 1880 and the word “progress” in the same sentence makes me snicker. And now lets add in Presidents that were “Progressives”…Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft. Not real memorable guys, huh? And now lets go to some of today’s “Progressives” core values….a lot of them date back to the Roman Empire…just before it crumbled!! So, unless “failure” is “progress”, they should either change their name or their beliefs…otherwise they will just be viewed comically.

Talk to ya soon!!!