Looking back to the Google Popularity Rankings on the top celebs that have or are going to visit Tulsa, an update....
Metallica 72,700,000
AC/DC 34,200,000
Janet Jackson 16,200,000
NINE INCH NAILS 13,800,000
Carrie Underwood 7,830,000 Up from 2 million
ZZ Top 7,270,000
The Eagles 7,120,000
Neil Diamond 6,580,000
David Cook 5,150,000
Kenny Chesney 4,340,000
Rascal Flatts 4,000,000
Jeff Dunham 2,860,000
Casting Crowns 1,810,000
Celtic Thunder 1,190,000
Venues
BOK Center 237,000
Expo Square 119,000
Champman Theater (Tulsa Performing Arts) 66,800
Mabee Center 30,000
Quik Trip Center 7,800
Tulsa Pavillion 137
Rose Bowl Event Center 45
Politics:
Barack Obama 73,800,000
John McCain 65,400,000
Hillary Clinton 37,400,000
I researched these below a few months ago. Most are higher now.
Updates on the Celebs that visited Tulsa list
Here are the Google search results, for whatever they are worth:
1 Elvis 55,800,000
2 U2 45,300,000
3 Hanson 29,700,000
4 Spider Man 25,800,000
5 The Animals 23,000,000
6 Tiger Woods 12,300,000
7 Tom Cruise 12,100,000
8 Caruso 10,700,000
9 Hillary Clinton 8,170,000
10 Celine Dion 7,500,000
Kinks 7,190,000
Led Zeppelin 3,200,000
Jimi Hendrix 2,960,000
Bon Jovi 2,730,000
Francis Ford Copolla 2,720,000
Frank Sinatra 2,690,000
Marilyn Monroe 2,680,000
Jay Leno 2,590,000
Eric Clapton 2,550,000
Jethro Tull 2,480,000
Beach Boys 2,480,000
Alice Cooper 2,370,000
Al Yankovic 2,340,000
Billy Joel 2,310,000
Willie Nelson 2,240,000
John F. Kennedy 2,220,000
Elizabeth Taylor 2,220,000
Bad Company 2,100,000
Neil Diamond 2,080,000
Lucianno Pavarotti 2,040,000
Oral Roberts 2,030,000
Carrie Underwood 2,000,000
Oprah Winfrey 2,000,000
Garth Brooks 1,930,000
Joan Jett 1,920,000
Will Rogers 1,860,000
Ronald McDonald 1,860,000
Dennis Hopper 1,850,000
Howard Hughes 1,830,000
Gene Aurty 1,820,000
Tony Stewart 1,800,000
Jeff Gordon 1,790,000
Sofia Coppola 1,670,000
Matt Dillon 1,650,000
Mickey Rourke 1,500,000
Ted Nugent 1,460,000
Sammy Hagar 1,170,000
Amelia Earhart 1,140,000
Peter Frampton 1,130,000
Sonny & Cher 1,040,000
Rob Lowe 1,030,000
Charles Lindbergh 845,000
Gary Busey 707,000
Evel Knievel 670,000
Roy Clark 583,000
Leon Russell 544,000
Bob Wills 491,000
Donna Reed 449,000
John Force 184,000
Hamburglar 120,000
Jane Mansfield 92.000
John Zink 73,600
Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney 38,600
Big deal.
Michael Patton has 378,000 google hits.
I am halfway between Bob Wills and the Hamburgler.
You forgot KISS 352,000,000
KISS, are they coming to or have preformed in Tulsa?
While many of the Google rankings are fairly accurate when using the full name of the band in quotes such as "The Eagles" a common word such as Kiss will give you a count on every article online searched by their web spider that contains the word kiss and not the actual band kiss.
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Originally posted by RecycleMichael
Big deal.
Michael Patton has 378,000 google hits.
I am halfway between Bob Wills and the Hamburgler.
Actually Michael Patton ranks 61,800
Have to put the name in quotes to isolate it from Michael and Patton.
My little Indoor Motorcycle races
AMP Outlaw Winter Nationals ranks 2,840
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Originally posted by AMP
KISS, are they coming to or have preformed in Tulsa?
I know that Mini Kiss has been here.
(http://www.voccoquan.com/images2006/mini-kiss.jpg)
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Originally posted by AMP
KISS, are they coming to or have preformed in Tulsa?
I saw them here in the mid-70's!
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Originally posted by TURobY
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Originally posted by AMP
KISS, are they coming to or have preformed in Tulsa?
I know that Mini Kiss has been here.
(http://www.voccoquan.com/images2006/mini-kiss.jpg)
That's just wrong
U Tulsa had "little Elvis" for half time when Memphis was in town. Classic.
Queen has 307,000,000 hits.
Just sayin'.
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Originally posted by AMP
KISS, are they coming to or have preformed in Tulsa?
I saw Kiss perform here in Tulsa circa 1975. Someone had set off a bottle rocket early in the show that headed straight toward Peter Kriss' drum set. While he was singing "Beth" someone threw a roll of toilet paper and a bottle at the stage. He got mad and yelled "F YOU TULSA" and walked off stage while the background music to "Beth" kept playing. Very weird. The crowd was left dumbfounded. An announcement was made that the show was over for the safety of the band.
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Originally posted by swake
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Originally posted by TURobY
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Originally posted by AMP
KISS, are they coming to or have preformed in Tulsa?
I know that Mini Kiss has been here.
(http://www.voccoquan.com/images2006/mini-kiss.jpg)
That's just wrong
Here's an actual photo from their Tulsa performance:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/2905215630_16c1008e38.jpg)
Are their "bandaid's" little or big?
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Originally posted by sgrizzle
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Originally posted by swake
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Originally posted by TURobY
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Originally posted by AMP
KISS, are they coming to or have preformed in Tulsa?
I know that Mini Kiss has been here.
(http://www.voccoquan.com/images2006/mini-kiss.jpg)
That's just wrong
Here's an actual photo from their Tulsa performance:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/2905215630_16c1008e38.jpg)
That's one hot dwarf....
Hold up a lighter and chant "Lollipop Guild"
Last time KISS was here was in the early 90's. 1991 I think. Hot In The Shade Tour. They played the Expo Square Pavillion.
OK grizz...we know that picture you posted came from inside of a topless club where little Kiss was performing.
Does Mrs. grizzle know you are frequenting such establishments?
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Originally posted by RecycleMichael
OK grizz...we know that picture you posted came from inside of a topless club where little Kiss was performing.
Does Mrs. grizzle know you are frequenting such establishments?
There ain't nothing wrong with that! What's to say he didn't take the missus with him? I used to when I had a missus!
She liked it.
[:D]
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Originally posted by Hoss
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Originally posted by RecycleMichael
OK grizz...we know that picture you posted came from inside of a topless club where little Kiss was performing.
Does Mrs. grizzle know you are frequenting such establishments?
There ain't nothing wrong with that! What's to say he didn't take the missus with him? I used to when I had a missus!
She liked it.
[:D]
Yep, lots of couples visit on Friday and Saturday nights. Ladies get in free. Of course I only know that from the radio commercials [;)]
Random, that reminds me of Frank Zappa! Saw him at the Brady back about '76. He was always adventurous musically and was making an attempt at jazz/classical/rock fusion. Really cool stuff.
The audience was mostly drunk or altered in some way. Vodka bottles kept rolling from beneath the seats. Frequently someone in the crowd would yell out a favorite..."Suzy Creamcheese!!"
He yelled out "Shut up you dumb f***ing Okie rednecks!" Man, it was beautiful.
Random I too was at that Kiss concert back in the day. I was on the floor just to the left of the stage and I do not remember the bottle rocket being shot, but I saw the bottle hit his drum and he turned around and looked at his drums and shortly after that he was hit in the face by the toilet paper and thats when he stood up and said f#* you Tulsa F-you and the lights came up and the announcer said that Kiss would probably never come back to Tulsa again. Well of course they did and have since then. When we went outside there was a guy who had gotten beaten up pretty bad and the people standing around said it was the guy who threw the toilet paper. I saw them with and without makeup.
Waterboy, I too was at Frank's show at the Brady. Man what a showman he was, When he came out in that multi colored outfit with green elf shoes I about lost it. Granted his music is a acquired taste and when he sang Broken Hearts are for A-holes and was pointing at people in the audience and then at himself, I had to run out the next day and buy the Sheik your booty LP. It was so cool when his guitar solo was coming they would bring his guitar out at the perfect time and he would duck up underneath it and put his cigarette(one of many)in the strings of the neck and start wailing away. Man what great concerts Tulsa used to have.
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Random I too was at that Kiss concert back in the day. I was on the floor just to the left of the stage and I do not remember the bottle rocket being shot, but I saw the bottle hit his drum and he turned around and looked at his drums and shortly after that he was hit in the face by the toilet paper and thats when he stood up and said f#* you Tulsa F-you and the lights came up and the announcer said that Kiss would probably never come back to Tulsa again. Well of course they did and have since then. When we went outside there was a guy who had gotten beaten up pretty bad and the people standing around said it was the guy who threw the toilet paper. I saw them with and without makeup.
Waterboy, I too was at Frank's show at the Brady. Man what a showman he was, When he came out in that multi colored outfit with green elf shoes I about lost it. Granted his music is a acquired taste and when he sang Broken Hearts are for A-holes and was pointing at people in the audience and then at himself, I had to run out the next day and buy the Sheik your booty LP. It was so cool when his guitar solo was coming they would bring his guitar out at the perfect time and he would duck up underneath it and put his cigarette(one of many)in the strings of the neck and start wailing away. Man what great concerts Tulsa used to have.
It took them until 1986 before they did come back though. I was at that concert at the Expo, post makeup.
I went to a concert when they put the makeup back on in Houston. They still put on one of the best shows ever. This is when all four of the originals toured. Great stuff.
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Originally posted by waterboy
Random, that reminds me of Frank Zappa! Saw him at the Brady back about '76. He was always adventurous musically and was making an attempt at jazz/classical/rock fusion. Really cool stuff.
The audience was mostly drunk or altered in some way. Vodka bottles kept rolling from beneath the seats. Frequently someone in the crowd would yell out a favorite..."Suzy Creamcheese!!"
He yelled out "Shut up you dumb f***ing Okie rednecks!" Man, it was beautiful.
[:D]
LOL. That's hilarious!
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Originally posted by RecycleMichael
OK grizz...we know that picture you posted came from inside of a topless club where little Kiss was performing.
Does Mrs. grizzle know you are frequenting such establishments?
Well actually I got that picture in email from a coworker, and I even have a picture of him with the band but doubt he wants it posted on tha innarwebs.
I do enjoy such combinations like "Kiss Tribute Band" + "Midgets" and last night they combined "Amateur Topless Women" + "Karaoke" but I missed that one too.
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Originally posted by random
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Originally posted by AMP
KISS, are they coming to or have preformed in Tulsa?
I saw Kiss perform here in Tulsa circa 1975. Someone had set off a bottle rocket early in the show that headed straight toward Peter Kriss' drum set. While he was singing "Beth" someone threw a roll of toilet paper and a bottle at the stage. He got mad and yelled "F YOU TULSA" and walked off stage while the background music to "Beth" kept playing. Very weird. The crowd was left dumbfounded. An announcement was made that the show was over for the safety of the band.
I remember them playing the Assembly Center in 1977.