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It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack Podcast. You know, on Saturdays we play fun music and we feature great information at 993thevine.com with me, Big Rick Stewart, and music from my time at Live 105 and at KFOG. We also mix in some stories that I find kind of interesting, whether it's local music or food or tech or just kind of some cool things I think you ought to know about. It's always lots of fun. Fun music and great information happens every Saturday at 993thevine.com and the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack Podcast features great information like this. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack, fun music and great information with me, Big Rick Stewart. We do this every Saturday at 993thevine.com. How about a big old TV party? Yeah, break out some popcorn, let's go. Get a little YouTube streaming on your TV. You know what you can do next weekend? You can watch Coachella. Coachella is going to be on YouTube once again. Now they've done this before, but here's an upgrade. YouTube will live stream six Coachella feeds at once this year, six at once. So let's say your phone, your buddy's phone, your TV, your picture-in-picture, your other TV. I don't know how you're going to do all this. I think you can't do it all. But there's going to be a lot of Coachella on YouTube this year, and that's like a pretty good thing, right? Last year was three simultaneous live streams. This year it is six. Now you should probably know that if you want to see the whole show, there's really nothing quite like being there, except it's really expensive to go there and fly and stay and buy tickets for the whole concert. YouTube is going to show highlights from many of the weekend's performances, they say. And this will all be available on demand later. So there's no hurry. Live streams start at 4 p.m. each day, and the whole thing kicks off on the 14th. And this is all from The Verge, if you want to get more information. YouTube, Coachella, your house, big screen TV. Let's do it. I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Fun music and great information right here at 99threethevine.com. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Fun music and great information every Saturday here at 99threethevine.com. The Big Rick Radio Studios are now located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Wow, so I just feel like it's my duty to go see lots of music and tell you about some of these shows. It's my job. I have to do it. Okay, I really, really like to do it. So I love seeing live music, and I recently saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers. They played at Allegiant Stadium, home of the Raiders. So it's a big football stadium, giant, right? I don't know how many tickets they sold. 60,000 tickets or something like that sold out, packed from the floor to the ceiling, the whole thing. It was an incredible show, and I've seen the Chili Peppers a whole bunch of times, but not recently, not like in a handful of years, maybe too long, because I forgot what monster musicians John Flea and Chad the Drummer are. I mean, they're like incredible, and they keep this energy level up for like two hours. It just goes on and on. It's just amazing. Even the ballads and the slow songs from the Chili Peppers are super intense and super amazing. And of course, Anthony was great on vocals and very heartfelt on the ballads and the slower songs and super energetic and really delivering on the faster songs. I mean, they've been doing this for a while, but they are far from those punk rock kids that jumped around on stage in their early days. They are awesome musicians. It was a great show. The crowd loved it. It had a sprinkling of hits, lots of songs you'll know, but I would imagine the set list can change from night to night. So who knows what they'll do when they come to Bottle Rock in Napa Valley and they headline their Bottle Rock Night. The encore was a super crowd-pleasing version of Give It Away, a song with the philosophy that you should just give things away. They are gonna kill it on stage for Bottle Rock, so do not miss the Red Hot Chili Peppers when they come to Napa Valley. It was a great show down here in Vegas. Hey, it's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Fun music and great information right here at 993thevine.com. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Fun music and great information here at 993thevine.com. This is from thepointsguy.com. You've heard me talk about them before. I just think it's a great travel site, even though I don't travel that much. I like reading about things, and I like sharing things that have headlines like this. Ready? You can now take sunrise yoga classes at Disneyland. What? Who saw that coming? Disneyland's newest experience gives guests the unique opportunity to be inside the park before it officially opens and get a good stretch in before maybe a long day. Now, they just started this in April. You can take classes inside Disneyland or Disney California Adventure on select days. You gotta make sure you sign up for all this stuff because I would think this is kind of sort of popular. Ready? So the details are that it's for all levels. It's not just expert yoga folks, so you can go there even if you've never done yoga in your life. How about doing yoga like at Space Mountain? Tomorrowland, that would be wild, right? And they'll get you into the class, and you can do your thing, and you can stretch around. Classes occur on selected dates and cost about $90 per person. Advanced reservations are required. And you can ask your hotel about it when you check in and all that good stuff. It's pretty cool. Now, a couple things. No, you cannot hang out at Disneyland afterwards and be the first in line for your favorite rides. They're going to escort you off of the property after yoga class. Then you can have your breakfast. Then you come back in when everybody else comes in. But you get to hang out at Disneyland when it's nice and quiet and peaceful. That's kind of cool. Maybe get some awesome photos without 1,000 people in the background. All right, if you do it, let me know about it. I'm Big Rick Stewart. Yoga at Disneyland. How about that? It's 99.3 thevine.com and the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Fun music and great information every Saturday here at 99.3 thevine.com. I'm Big Rick Stewart. Thanks for hanging out today. If you're driving to Tahoe, well, you know, drive safely and enjoy. If you're not driving to Tahoe this weekend, don't worry. You got a few more weekends to go up to Tahoe and enjoy the snow because, according to thepointsguide.com, they're going to have skiing open. The lifts and everything. Until July of Tahoe. That is amazing, right? And if you want to be more specific, okay, we're talking about a place called Palisades Tahoe. It used to be called Squaw Valley. Palisades Tahoe is going to be open through July 4th weekend. That's just incredible, right? They've got over 700 inches of snow, I think, which is just about, well, normally 400 inches is what they normally get. So they've got a lot of snow. And they're going to stay open all weekend. And they're going to stay open, and you can go up there. Even if you don't ski, it's going to be like nice, beautiful weather and snow-capped mountains would be nice to kind of look at. The ski lifts will be open through July 4th. And here is a pretty cool deal. They are part of the Icon Ski Pass. And now if you buy a ski pass for next season, 23 to 24, you get to ski for free this spring, starting on the 10th of April, coming right up. So you get to ski all of the rest of this year through July 4th, and then use your ski pass for next season. Well, that's pretty amazing, right? You can buy a three-pack for just $143. Use the tickets for yourself or even share them among friends. Not bad skiing for less than $50 a day, they say, is a steal in the ski industry at a top resort like that, especially. All right, look at thepointsguide.com for information or just make your plans and head to Tahoe. Lots of snow means lots of skiing through July 4th weekend. That is fun. I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Fun music, great information at 99threetovine.com. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack with me, Big Rick Stewart. Thanks for hanging out today. As always, fun music and great information every Saturday at 99threetovine.com. Record Store Day is coming right up and there are some awesome releases you might want to get your hands on. Van Halen fans, they will be releasing the 93 Live album, Live, right here, right now as a four LP set with all 24 songs from the original CD plus some bonus tracks added. Here's something kind of cool. Fans of the Doors can get their hands on a Record Store Day limited edition set featuring the Doors branded mini turntable along with three inch records of some of their classic hits. Stevie Nicks has Belladonna Live coming out on vinyl. There's also some Motley Crue also on the list. Duran Duran, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney, U2, Warren Z. Vaughn. Hey, it's a big long list. Get into Record Store Day. It's happening on the 22nd, coming right up and they'll be featuring these tracks at independent record shops all across the country including right here in Napa. Hey, I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack at 99threedivine.com. I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Fun music and great information every Saturday here at 99threedivine.com. Maybe you're looking for something to do this weekend or next weekend or at some point in your life. Maybe you work weekends. I totally get that. You know, hospitality industry. So like, you know, Tuesday, Wednesday is your weekend. You know, whatever. Over at Travel and Leisure, they have a pretty good idea. They actually have a pretty good list of some of the coolest and best destinations in California. But some of these are kind of far away. But one is just over the hill if you're here in Wine Country. In fact, you might be there right now. And they have a nice little review of Healdsburg. Kind of eccentric. Healdsburg is a little bit hippie, a little bit yuppie, a little bit wine, a little bit beer, a little bit horses and cows. You know what I mean? That's kind of Healdsburg. Healdsburg is really cool. Now, I know it's changed a lot over the years, but it's a pretty good place to go. So it made this list over at Travel and Leisure online. You can look that up. A couple things that they didn't mention, because it's a pretty short article, they were listing like 25 things. Some of my favorite things, well, it's a great place to take your dog, actually. Lots of dog-friendly things. You know, if you travel with your dog in the car, the dog might have to, you know, do number one or number two. It might have ants in its pants and just needs to run around a little bit. And your dog will be much better when you go to restaurants in Healdsburg, if you take them to a place like Villa Chanticleer Dog Park. It's kind of out of town a little bit, but it has shade and water and parking, and it's actually a great off-leash dog park. I've always liked taking my dog there whenever I go to Healdsburg. A couple places to check out, you know, as well as walking around the square and other things. Chalkboard, the Rooftop, the Healdsburg Bar and Grill, all friendly and welcoming to dogs, as are many of the wineries over there. Thumbs up to visiting Healdsburg whenever you can. Keep it local, and thanks for listening to local radio. The Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Fun music and great information at 993thevine.com. ♪♪ Hey, I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Fun music and great information every Saturday. Tell your friends Big Rick lives at 993thevine.com. And tell your friends to be listening. Well, today would be great. I would really appreciate that. But coming up soon, we're going to have a preview of Bottle Rock Bands. And I've got a special guest who's going to join me. His name is Jim Harrington, and he is the music critic for the Bay Area News Group. And he's a really cool guy. He's not one of these music critics that, you know, like hates everything. Oh, I hate everything. I'm a music critic. He's actually kind of the opposite. He kind of likes everything, whether it's like pop music or heavy metal. He appreciates everything. And he writes some great stories about some of the live shows that he goes to see. He is the Bay Area News Group's pop music critic, and he's been writing for them since about 1992 or so. He's a Bay Area native, and he goes to all the shows that you go to, and he loves going to Bottle Rock. And so I said, Jim, why don't you come on and you pick the songs, you pick the artists, and tell us about them, and we'll play them on the radio. So that's coming up pretty soon right here on the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. I'm looking forward to hanging out with Jim and playing some of these artists coming to Bottle Rock. Some you may know, some you may not know. And that's kind of the whole point of the afternoon. Coming up soon, not today, but very soon we'll give you a really awesome Bottle Rock preview right here on the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack at 993thevine.com. Well, those are some stories that I have featured on the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Tune in at 8 a.m. every Saturday at 993thevine.com. I'm Big Rick Stewart. Hear music from my days at Live 105 in Cape Fog, some current songs, lots of surprises, and more. It's always lots of fun. We have a 10 at 10, a Beatles brunch at noon. It happens all day. The Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack and the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack podcast. Tell your friends, and thanks for listening to this podcast, and thanks for checking out 993thevine.com.