Tickets for Daughtry's Erie concert on Oct. 1 at the Warner Theater went on sale today. They are selling "very, very well," according to a well-placed civic center source. They'll likely be gone within a few days, so you better move fast if you hope to score one.

A local club owner is looking into booking the Zappa Plays Zappa show that we nearly had in July at the Warner. Slow advance sales scuttled that date. But the local owner noted that the show is playing Buffalo's Town Ballroom, a relatively intimate venue. If they can do it there, why not here -- especially since drummer Joe Travers is an Erie native and vaultmeister for the Zappa estate. He'd not only love to play his hometown, but especially play Zappa music.

Let's hope this works out.

Make sure you check Thursday's Showcase for the final schedule for the RockErie Music Awards stage. It's packed with local artists -- possibly more than have ever played CelebrateErie before.
The cool thing is you can check them out outside -- not in a stuffy, smoke-flled bar -- and get a feel for a wide range of bands. Maybe you'll discover a few new favorites and start following them. That's the general idea -- expose our wealth of musical talent.

Speaking of next week's Showcase, look for interviews with Trace Adkins and Lynryd Skynyrd, who are both playing the Crawford County Fair, as well as CelebrateErie-bound artists the Romantics and Emerson Drive.

Guess what showed up in the mail this week? An advance copy of Pat Monahan's first solo CD, "Last of Seven," that's what. WIth the weekend ahead, I plan on diving in. Look for first impressions in the next blog, though a full review must wait until September, when the CD is released.

Billboard magazine reports that Led Zeppelin is mulling over tour offers for 2008. Maybe Plant & Page noted how much money the Police are raking in. Imagine what a Zep reunion would do -- this one with Plant, Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham, son of the late, immensely great John Bonham.
Then again, Zep has fielded these offers before and turned them all down. Plus, Plant has his own CD coming out, with Alison Krauss of all people. My guess: This tour never happens.

What a jammed-up weekend. We've got "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" followed by Joseph Allen Popp's Weirdo Theater tonight at Art Museum annex, Kipp Elbaum's birthday bash at Beer Mug on Saturday, Killerinas plus Angry Wigs on Sunday at Trance, and the whole Roar on the Shore motorcycle rally Fri/Sat over at LIberty Park, with a stellar Edgar Winter/Rick and Roadhouse Rockers/Man's Room Band lineup on Saturday.

Then, on Tuesday, we get the return of Jake's Blues and the Jungle over at 8 Great Tuesdays. Don't overlook Guitar Zack who opens; he toured Europe with Steve Vai, and is just 20 years old.

See you somewhere.