2nd Annual Coors Light - Cowboy Bill's Super Bowl Party Sunday, February 1st, 2009

A last minute P.S. for this post: As soon as the game is over, Scarekrow will light up our stage like neon swizzle sticks in the night sky!

Get Ready for the 2nd Annual Cowboy Bill's - Coors Light Super Bowl Party!

Howdy, it's Rowdy with some news about the 2nd Annual Super Bowl Party.

If you were at this party last year, you know it was the best Super Bowl party of any bar in Key West.

Like last year, this year we will be giving away two 37 inch LCD HD TVs made by Vizio. To be one of the two winners of these TVs, you must qualify by being one of the first 200 people through our doors.

Here's How the LCD TV Giveaway Football Pool works

Like last year, we are only selling 300 tickets to this year's party. But only the first 200 of the 300 people admitted will be entered in the giant Coors Light-Cowboy Bill's TV giveaways. We are erecting a giant sized 8' X 8' game pool board (100 squares like a regular office pool for football). If you are one of the first 200 people in the doors, you will have your ID bracelet number written with a Sharpie in one of those squares. You will share that square with one other person.

At the beginning of the game, the persons with the scores ending in 0,0 will be escorted to two inflatable chairs up on the Rock Star Party Deck. Those two people will drink free beer or mixed drinks the whole time they sit in those chairs.

When the score change . . . and for illustrative purposes let's say Pittsburgh Steelers score first with a field goal . . .we then go out and find the two people whose square corresponds with Pittsburgh 3, St. Louis 0. These two people will then take over the two chairs from the people who were sitting in them at the beginning of the game when the score was 0-0.

Again, the two new people sitting in the Rock Star Party Deck chairs will drink FREE.

Now here's where the TVs come in . . .

The last two people sitting in the chairs at the end of the game win the two TVs. They will walk out of Cowboy Bill's with the two new televisions worth $1500 each at retail.

Last year, an out of town couple won a TV. The other was won by Bob and Deb who are regulars at Cowboy Bill's and that really made us happy as Bob and Deb are big time supporters of our bands.



Other specials for our 2nd Annual Super Bowl Party

All 300 of you who enter the bar will receive a wrist band corresponding to the team you support. Let's say you are rooting for the Arizona Cardinals. And let's say they score 5 times during this game. Well, all you need to do is show your wrist band to a bartender or waitress and you will receive one free shot every time your team scores! Five scores = five shots. Hello!

Also, your ticket purchase ($20 per person) will entitle you to an all you can eat Southern Style BBQ Buffet with all the fixins. Last year, every scrap was eaten it was so good. So, this year, we're bringing back our friends from Dolphin Deli up on Stock Island to cater our food again. Come hungry!

Since Coors Light is co-promoting, we will sell buckets of Coors Light for $10 all throughout the game.

We will also have other door prizes and T-shirt giveaways.

And, for sure, you'll be seeing a lot of your friends at this event.

Now if you want your $20 tickets, you better get them tonight. You can do this two ways:

1. Either buy the tickets from me while I'm in the DJ Booth all night

or

2. Go to http://www.keystix.com/ and buy them online

By the way, tonight's band is one of this town's favorites, Scarekrow. They will also be playing tomorrow, Sunday, right after the game ends.

Speaking of which . . . the game starts at 6:20 . . . at least that's what time the NFL says kickoff will be this year. However, the gates open at 12 noon. And keep in mind, it's the first 200 people to arrive with tickets in hand (you can buy them at the door if any are let), will be entered into the TV Giveaway Football Pool.

So, get here early. Hang out. Play some pinball, watch the buildup to the game, talk to the band members hanging out early with us employees.

See you Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Feel the power, power, power!

Cowboy Bill's - Coor's Light's 2nd Annual Super Bowl Party!


Rowdy over and out,


p.s. Again, tickets are only $20 and you get the buffet, free shots everytime your team scores, you can sit indoors or outdoors and watch the game on our 36 TVs and big screens. We will set up tables and chairs on the dancefloor and those go by a "first come, first seated" basis. And don't forget, only the first 200 of you 300 people will entered in the gigantic LCD TV Giveaway Football Pool. Free shots every time your team scores. Buckets of Coors Light for only $10. Huge Southern Style BBQ Buffet (eat all you want). And 300 people screaming for their favorite team.

It's going to be a humdinger. Hope to see you here!

p.p.s. Tickets can be bought from me Saturday Night for $20 or you can order online at http://www.keystix.com/

Rick Monroe Joins Jagermeister Tour To Pump "Honky Tonk Road Trip" Behind Pat Green and Randy Houser

Howdy, it's Rowdy with a quick note:

Rick Monroe Releases His New Single/Video, 'Honky-Tonk Road Trip' & Embarks On the Inaugural Jagermeister Country Tour With Pat Green/Randy Houser

Click on the headline above to read the press release . . .

The blog post immediately following this one has two versions of Rick's song "Honky
Tonk Road Trip" which I think will enter the Top Ten of the Country Charts or I'll eat my Cowboy Bill' s hat.I like the second version, the one on CMTV as it is better sound and much better definition in the video.

By the way, I played this video in the club last night from our DJ booth. The sound was mind blowing good coming out of our big PA.

"Honky Tonk Road Trip" . . . request it from your favorite country station now!

Rick Monroe Band Finally Releases Their Key West Hit "Honky Tonk Road Trip"

Howdy, it's Rowdy . . .

So I am called into the office a few minutes ago wondering, "What did I do wrong this time?"

Anyway, Irene (as in one of our owners) tells me to take a load off my feet, sit, and watch the following video I'm about to share with you.

It's by a band which has played our stage quite frequently, Rick Monroe Band, and they've just gone national with a song they wrote while they were down here in Key West. The name of this song is "Honky Tonk Road Trip" and if you saw Rick and his band the last 2 or 3 times they were here, you'll remember this song as it packed the dancefloor and was a favorite of locals and our staff.

If you look closely, you'll see Rick is wearing his Cowboy Bill's camo baseball cap (I've got mine on right now . . . and if you want mine . . . you can't have it. Buy one online right here) and the next thing you want to do is listen closely to the lyrics.

The song is about a guy leaving a girl and going on a honky tonk road trip. In the song, this fella decides to go on down to Cowboy Bill's in Key West and see "Crazy Irene" . . . as in Irene, one of our owners.

So the bar is namechecked. Irene is name checked. And our bar's best selling baseball cap is on Rick's head half of the time he's shown in the video.

So, without further adieu, I'm going to plaster the Director's cut of "Honky Tonk Road Trip" here. And then after the video I'll give you a second link so you can see the cut now showing on CMTV.

And if Rick and the guys are reading this, great job on the production of the song! We really hope this one blows up big for you . . . and as always . . . best of luck!

Here's the link for the youtube video (regular definition for the video, unlike the CMTV version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LCiwvJSpqA





The next video . . . shown on CMTV . . . is in high definition, so you'll see the Cowboy Bill's logo right there on the ball cap. Great song! Fun video. Go out and buy yourself a copy of it.

Rowdy, over and out.

Here's the CMTV link:

http://www.cmt.com/videos/rick-monroe/335797/honky-tonk-roadtrip.jhtml

. . . and here's the HD version shown on CMTV:

Rick Monroe More CMT Music More CMT Music Videos

Oh yeah, forgot to leave you Rick Monroe's website address:

http://www.rickmonroe.com/?ref=cowboybillskw.com

Part 8 - Thursday Night of Fantasy Fest Week 2008 - 2nd Annual Git 'R Wet Contest

Chad Bradford is Coming In Next Week, Scarekrow Coming in At the End of the Month!

Howdy, gang, it's Rowdy . . .

I just noticed the calendar on the main website has not turned over to the new year for whatever reason. So, I thought I should tip you off as to who is coming in this week for a Tuesday through Sunday run: Chad Bradford and the Damn Band.

As some of you know, Chad was the opening band for Billy Currington when we had Billy down here for three nights this past April.

And if you remember, Chad's band of aces, The Damn Band, were Billy Currington's stage band too . . . that's how good the musicianship is when Chad brings a band to town. (See the Billy Currington video on this blog down a bit further. That's Chad's band playing behind Billy Currington at that huge Mallory Square show).

I don't know what Chad is up to at the moment as his website is being re-constructed. However, Chad's myspace.com page seems to be okay, so here's the link for you who've never seen or heard Chad and his band Be sure to listen to some of his song samples on myspace, many of which we play all the time at Cowboy Bill's and Cowboy Bill's reloaded:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=17818259

Scarekrow News

I talked to Bo Allen today. Scarekrow is playing up in frigid Minnesota at the moment, and they are ready for a trip to Key West soon. The big news is Bo and the boys are going back into the studio with a five star producer, a guy who has worked with Michael McDonald (Doobie Brothers), Rascal Flatts, and so on.

Bo is telling me he's got a new song written which both he and Kevin Rawlings (lead guitarist for Scarekrow) are hot to record. It's called "Tired of Being Gone" and I can't wait to hear them do it live on our stage when they get here.

Bo's excitement was palpable over the phone and we discussed how the band has made giant steps recently. Scarekrow is one of the most organized bands behind the scenes when it comes to promotion, accounting, traveling, etc., and to watch these guys get even more pumped about their music, well, I'll just say, I'm putting my money on these guys breaking Nationally sometime soon.

At this point in my young Cowboy Bill's career, I can think of a half-dozen bands who've got self-written material that you keep requesting in our DJ Booth, and all it takes is to get some of this music played on national radio stations before one of these bands make it to the big time.

So, I'm watching what Scarekrow is doing, very closely. I think this new album they are going to work on (I won't discuss the cost, but it's a healthy, big hunk of change to work with this all-star producer) and knowing how great the songs are off their eponymous CD "Scarekrow" (some of which will be recut for this first big time studio production) , I know that Bo, Kevin and the rest of the guys in Scarekrow are more than ready to put a Top Ten song out there on Radio. Again, all they need is airplay. And I think these boys have got their shit together (excuse my French).

When I think of all the great singers who've hit our stage this past year such as Kyle Jennings, Chad Bradford, Chas Blakemore, Bo Allen, JT Curtis, Craig Boyd and so on, I think about how much of a toll road travel takes out of a guy who has to leave a gig up North after more than an hour of packing, then driving 20 hours to Key West, arriving a few hours before the first show, and then jumping on stage to give their all.

There are many a nights where I've worked all day and I come in to Cowboy Bill's out of gas, I mean, below "E", and suddenly one of these great bands I'm referring to above kicks into gear and takes me to another place where there's laughter and energy in abundance.

I'm a DJ, but I tell you, folks, there ain't nothing like a crack band playing live music, especially a band which has written some great songs and mixes them in with some old standard country songs. At Cowboy Bill's, we have excellent bands and singers in abundance. Your support of them is most important to their careers and to their shows.

I know we have a load of Chad Bradford and Scarekrow fans in Key West. So you better drop in this week for Chad, and prepare for Scarekrow in late January.

Never been a better time to book a room in Key West in the past 10 years!

For you out of towners here's a tip: Key West is going through a Tourist Recession, i.e., when it comes to American visitors. Because there was so much overbuilding recently of condotels during the Housing Bubble, and because so many rooms which were being renovated and off the books last year are open for season this year, we now have bidding wars for lower and lower room rates.

Here's an example: the Santa Maria luxury condotel, when it first opened (and out of season at that) had rooms going for $440 a night. Last week, during season, you could get these same top end rooms for $245 a night. Tonight, the average price is back up to $334 a night. Prices rise and fall with demand.

Now, if you check the follwoing website daily . . . hotels.com . . . you'll see room rates fluctuate as vacancies make hotel managers sweat and they'll do anything to fill those rooms; hence, when fewer people book, more hotels go online and play low bid war games.

To give you guys a feel for how crazy low the prices have become I am typing in the same parameters for a one week stay in Key West.

I told the hotels.com shopper bot that I want to arrive tomorrow, Monday, and stay Monday through Sunday.

I wanted a one bedroom for two adults.

Okay, here's the link, and please notice how many rooms can be had right now, today, at less than $200.00 per night. Ready?

Click here to see the list.

To do this on your own, go to hotels.com. Then type in Key West's zip code. Then type in when you'd think about coming down. Then watch the hotel rates materialize right before your eyes with eye popping discounts I haven't seen since the mid-1990s.

There are many rooms at many different hotels and guest houses for less than $200 a night now, something which many unemployed Realtors thought would never ever happen again in their lifetimes down here.

One more tip: after you see what the hotels are asking in their bidding wars on hotels.com, you could then go to priceline.com and bid those prices even further down to where your pocketbook can afford a vacation. This will take a little more of your time, but then again, there are rooms open all over town . . . in season . . . and hotels do not want to have vacancies.

So, if you live in Miami or Naples or Tampa, and you love Chad Bradford, make a weekend of it next weekend or this coming week. Play hooky from work. Go to hotel.com today and find rooms that cost 50% less than they did just a year ago. And by the way, these prices don't even include the extra discounts you might get with an AARP card or other discounts you might get with AAA or American Express.

Come on down. The weather is gorgeous (I got my sliding doors open with a fan on the porch pushing fresh night air into the condo), the fishing is outstanding, and at Cowboy Bill's, we're locked and loaded with great talent on stage and with great staff behind our bars, on the floor and at our doors.

Get here soon, we'll make sure you have another great time at Cowboy Bill's.

Rowdy, over and out

p.s. For some reason, the formatting of paragraphs is not working correctly tonight via blogger, my hosted blog location. I apologize for the no breaks between paragraphs here at the end, but the message contained within is too important to not pass on tonight.