TheBilcourt: Walk Hard and The Cox Across America Tour!!

Walk Hard and The Cox Across America Tour!!

Saturday night was so much fun....

I got off work around 4:30 and I headed over to Josh's office near downtown(thanks iphone's google maps!). After meeting up with Josh and Jesse, we headed to Green Hills to go see "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story"

Backstory time! I had heard about this screening and concert about a week ago, but the site said it was all sold out. I was totally bummed, but thanks to Jayne at work, I got passes yesterday.

Anyways, We got Green Hills and got in line and waited to get in. After a little while, my friend Napoleon met up with us in line. The movie started around 7:15 and was introduced by Dewey Cox himself, John C. Reilly! He thanked everyone for coming out and encouraged everyone to head over to the concert after the movie.

The movie started....It is hilarious! Another Apatow gem in my opinion. It is full of cameos from people from The Office and other Apatow movies/shows. Jenna Fischer: wow wow wee wa! It's nice to see her in a different role other than Pam. It's also nice to see John C. Reilly be the star in a movie. For so long he's been a "that guy". He's been great in all the roles in his other movies, but he was never the star. I think with Talladega Nights, he found a niche in comedy. It was weird because no one had ever really seen him play that kind of role. I think its great that an actor can go from being in Oscar quality movies like Chicago, The Aviator, Gangs of New York, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia to almost the complete opposite like Walk Hard and Talladega Nights.

After the movie, we quickly left the theatre(we saw Jack White of The White Stripes) and headed out towards Mercy Lounge in downtown Nashville. We made really good time getting there thanks to Josh exceptionally great downtown driving skills(I have never gone that fast in the downtown Nashville area). We found a great parking spot near the swingers club beside Mercy Lounge. We totally avoided the traffic getting in. We got up to Mercy Lounge and there was already a long line to get in. Well, Jesse did some recon work and it turned out that we didn't have to wait in the line. Because we had gone to the movie and had gotten wristbands we could go right in. Everyone else in line had not gone to the movie. We got in and found a great spot up front. We had to have been no more than 5-8 feet from the stage.

Around 9:45, John C. Reilly took the stage as Dewey Cox with his band The Hard Walkers. He played a full set with music from the movie as well as some other songs. He did a cover of Amy Winehouse's Rehab, Eric Clapton's Cocaine, and some other Muddy Waters song. He really is a great live performer. I was pleasantly surprised with how good it really was! Holly Williams joined him for a song from the movie called "Let's Duet" She took the place of Jenna Fischer. Man, that would have been so awesome if she had been there!

I took some pics and videos of the concert portion. They wouldn't let me take my iPhone in the theatre. I played by the full set of rules on this sneak. I didn't use my regal cred to bend any rules for me or anything, thank you very much!

Anyways, it was a great night and I am really grateful to Jayne for giving us the passes.

The Show Opener

I thought this was funny...

Let's Duet w/ Holly Williams in place of Jenna Fischer

Dewey's Rehab

Walk Hard

Dewey sings a Christmas song... "For Christmas, the people want Cox"

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3 Comments:

At 10:02 AM, Jesse E. Hunter said...: Great recap Billy and thanks again for calling us! What a smoothly-running night we had, eh? I think they're actually the Hard Walkers...I'd love to know what Napoleon thought about it all.

Mind if I link to your blog, instead of writing my own?
At 10:08 AM, Billy H. said...: I think you are correct about the band name. I will fix that! I'm glad you caught it! Sure, you can link to here :) I haven't had a chance to talk to Napoleon about it but I'm sure he had fun.
At 1:24 PM, Josh said...: that is a serious recap!

i havent even gotten the pics/videos off the camera yet!

Walk Hard and The Cox Across America Tour!!

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What's Sneaky Billy up to right now???

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