Saturday September 30th, 2006 Rick's message: (orginally posted to the diary in the ACCESS-RS.com members area on 9.10.2006) Ouch ouch ouch, my head hurts. Went to a friends daughters wedding last night. Drank too much....note to self: Don't do that again. I know at some point in the evening's festivities I ( and a couple of equally liquid-challenged friends went up to the wedding band and.....well, we may have had weapons, I'm not sure...or maybe we just pulled the "Jessie's Girl" card...whatever happened) we all ended up with instruments in our hands and played the rest of the night (I think... not too clear on the details). I'm glad they weren't paying me, they might have asked for their money back. But it WAS a blast. I am feeling much better now though thank you. Also (another note to self) don't, don't, don't ever ever EVER answer emails at 3:00 am after a wedding party. Sorry to all the recipients. Okay, we are having so much fun on the road and the band is so good we dont want to stop (especially Rodgee who now has a family and extra mouths to feed...but what a cute family. I am hoping he puts some of his Treo videos of the boys up on his Doghouse website, or at least on his myspace)..Hey I have a myspace too, but I also keep getting those phoney spam myspace emails (how they find my address I dont know, wait, there are no secrets on the World Wide Web..bless Al Gore for inventing it...speaking of AG..see 'An inconvenient truth'.. all the Sci-Fi books I read as a kid are coming true.) Oh oh..where was I (that's the trouble with parenthesis.. you can quickly lose your way)..Hang on let me read back over what I've written.........uh huh.......mmm....yes, I see.......okay.......... myspace..right..As I said a while back I keep getting emails from people who want to be my friend...As Seinfeld once said, when you were a kid, any reason was good enough to make a friend "You like Cherry Coke? I like Cherry Coke too"...but once you hit 30, it's like "I'm sorry, I'm sure you're very nice but I'm just not taking applications for new friends right now".... Why do they want to be my friend? Do they even know who I am? What my deepest desires and dreams are? WHO AM I?????? (Hang on, I may still be a little buzzed from last night.....remember what I said about emailing when you've had a few too many..so before I embarrass myself any further I am going to stop............... (Did you notice I didnt even close the parenthesis????........(that one either) love RS Go to Top

	Saturday September 30th, 2006 Rick's message: (orginally posted to the diary in the ACCESS-RS.com members area on 8.24.2006) It is really sad to hear about Bruce Gary's passing. What a great drummer he was and a nice guy. Who can ever forget his great opening to "My Sharona". Classic stuff. Love to his great spirit. RS  Go to Top

	Saturday September 30th, 2006 Rick's message: (orginally posted to the diary in the ACCESS-RS.com members area on 8.23.2006) Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Happy birthday dear Roooooo-ster Happy birthday to me. Thanks to you all for the birthday wishes and stuff. It\'s nice to remembered even if it\'s for being...well, older than your mom. I got a DVD of the Titanic (birthday gift) at the last gig and I was watching it last night on my computer ( I watch videos and TV on my Ipod and movies on my computer... I havent turned on a TV in years...I truly dont know how to work our main TV at home) and in amongst all the interviewees ( a couple of whom I am sure still live in their mothers basement and have never kissed a girl), up pops little Ricky Springfield talking about his Titanic collection. We laughed out loud it was so unexpected. (I know there is a part of me that still lives in my mums basement.... "Hey did I tell you about my StarWars collection"?... I swear there is a little piece of me that is, at all times, mere seconds from putting on a pair of home made Spock ears and high-tailing it to the nearest Trekkie convention). Okay Matty's here and we are going to work on the Christmas album I think. Yours in geekiness. RS Go to Top

	Saturday September 30th, 2006 Rick's message: (orginally posted to the diary in the ACCESS-RS.com members area on 8.22.2006) Hey there, hi there, ho there... Where's a 'ho'? Oh okay, there she is. What??? We are numb from the past month. Unbelievable. Even a few fans at shows have said "Are you guys insane?" This time out (3 shows) we actually took 8 planes and flew from the West to the East to the West to the East and back home to the West again. And we do it all for you (well, okay we enjoy the shows too). They have been great. The last 3 shows were some of the most fun we\'ve had and the band has never sounded better. Rodger actually played so hard at the last gig that he walked off stage and threw up!! Now that\'s dedication. He was voted best drummer by a Japanese heavy metal magazine earlier this year..with GOOD reason, even tho my dog is more handsome than his (tho his is pretty sweet). We did some of the 80's shows which have been insane and I have the marks on my body to prove it. Thanks so much to everyone who is making the committment to raising money and awareness of Sahara\'s fight. She has had chemo and will start radiation soon and has been handling it pretty well tho shes been sick a few times and was VERY pissed off that she had to start school at the ever incredible Ronald McDonald House today. RMDH is really one of the most meaningful uses of corporation money that I have personally witnessed. Anyway, I increasingly dig all of you guys. Hahahaha my Mum is calling in (phone machine) and saying she just saw an interview I did for Aussie TV and was all thrilled. She is so cute (tho I didnt think so when I was 15) and will be here rocking out with us next May. The DVD from Rockford is finally done and will be out soon with 5 addtitional songs and interviews and yadda yadda. We are having such a great time playing on the road that we are actually excited about going out on Thursday. See you all (well, a lot of you anyway) soon. Love RS  Go to Top