posted: 08/07/08

Friday night August 1st Moon Tan Music posted The King of Honky Tonks and Cool video on YouTube.com. Saturday, Keepin' The Faith and The Craziest Thing videos were uploaded as well.

Then Saturday night, Rick and The Kings of Cool headlined the Abbotsford Agrifair. While performing the Hot Wheels song Rick wrote for Mattel 5 years ago he stepped to the side of the stage to climb up on the speaker stand that he was up on earlier in the show. Due to a blue tarp that was pulled over the speaker stand Rick couldn't see that at the very back of the tarp there was nothing to stand on. 48 seconds into the song Rick walked over to the speaker stand and proceeded to step onto the area of the tarp where there was no platform. Rick fell to the ground bruising his right leg and hip. While he was falling and trying to get back up on the stage Rick continued to sing. The Kings of Cool had no idea of what had happened but the audience on the other hand, could see something was wrong.

There are now 3 different clips of the mishap on YouTube.com you can view. Audience members Evelyn, Terry and Todd all caught the mishap on their camcorders. To view the footage go to www.youtube.com and search Rick Tippe Hot Wheels. In two of the videos you'll see Rick's fall and in the third you'll see his reaction to the mishap. Be sure to check out Rick's music videos while you are there.


posted: 08/07/08

Moon Tan Music is continually working to get Rick and The Kings of Cool more exposure. A fairly new artist website called Reverbnation is another place Moon Tan Music has posted information, photos, music and video of Rick and The Kings of Cool. Click onto Rick's Widget and add it to your Facebook page (widgets are easily installed onto the New Facebook). You'll get the full length versions of Forever, Let's Go To Hell and The King of Honky Tonks and Cool from Rick's new CD The Power of One. The link to Rick's site is www.reverbnation.com/ricktippe


posted: 08/07/08

August 20th - Heritage Park Mission, BC
September 20th - The ACT Maple Ridge, BC
December 31st - New Year's Eve Party Ladner, BC


posted: 08/07/08

We would like to Thank the following radio stations for adding Rick's new single Radio On to their play list:

- Country 107.1 (Abbotsford, BC)
- Country 103 (Kamloops, BC)
- CKCQ (Quesnel, BC)
- CKWL (Williams Lake, BC)
- CKBX (100 Mile House, BC)
- 96.5 CKfm (Olds, AB)
- XM105 (Whitecourt, AB)
- CFWE (Edmonton, AB)
- CJVR (Melfort, SK)
- GX94 (Yorkton, SK)
- CKDM (Dauphin, MB)
- CKLQ (Brandon, MB)
- NCI FM (Winnipeg, MB)
- CKNX (Wingham, ON)
- CFRM (Little Current, ON)
- CFSX (Stephenville, NL)
- CFCB (Cornerbrook, NL)

Radio stations that have featured the song include:

- CILG (Moose Jaw, SK)
- CFSL (Weyburn, SK)
- CKBI (Prince Albert, SK)
- CHOK (Sarnia, ON)
- CHSJ (Saint John, NB)

If you'd like to hear Radio On, on your favourite country radio station then give them a call and let them know.


posted: 08/07/08

On 93.7 JRfm in Vancouver, Forever continues to do very well with the listeners. At JRfm you can sign up on their website and become a member of their Music Advisory Panel. The radio station takes into consideration this information when they are programming their music. Every week or so, JRfm submits to their members a number of songs to vote on in various categories. This past week Forever received the most votes to make it the #1 Favourite Canadian Song. Thank you JRfm, and all your listeners for this incredible support. This week Forever is #11 on the JRfm Top 30 Countdown.


posted: 08/07/08

The new Pick the Rick Video of the Month has been decided by you! Now showing in the Video section is I'll Do Anything. This is the first time this video has aired on www.ricktippe.com and it was released in October 2002. The video was the second from Rick's CD Singin' a Different Tune.

Voting has begun for the September Video of the Month, so remember you can cast your vote once a day, every day throughout the month of September to determine the next Rick Tippe video to play here at www.ricktippe.com

Fun Facts about I'll Do Anything music video - The video was a one day shoot, filmed at Crescent Beach in White Rock, B.C. and it was directed by Stephano Barberis. The video features appearances by Rick's mom, the elderly lady that loses her shopping cart, Rick's nephew, the kid that jumps out of the way of the runaway shopping cart and later sprays the girl on the blanket at the beach with a water gun and Rick's brother in-law, one of the guys in the park that has his motorcycle stolen.

The day before the filming of the I'll Do Anything music video Moon Tan Music received a phone call from the parents of the young lady that was cast as the female lead. Their daughter was having second thoughts about taking on the lead role so the mad scramble was on to find another young lady to fill the role with less than 20 hours to filming. After a few hours of frantic phone calls and brain storming to find a replacement the situations was resolved. Nicole Charlton who is the daughter of Rick's friends Rob and Corinna agreed to play the role and she did a fantastic job acting!

There were a few injuries suffered during the filming of the video as well. Our lead male actor actually took a spill on the motorcycle while attempting to turn around on a dead end street and earlier in the day one of the two guys who were running after him in the park when he initially steals the motorcycle took a nasty fall on the gravel and tore up his jeans and his knee.

The cheerleading squad was a group of young ladies and one lone young man from Rick's hometown of Maple Ridge, B.C.

08/20/08	Mission, BC
09/20/08	Maple Ridge, BC
12/31/08	Ladner, BC

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