Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Jimmy Limo Is Leaving Las Vegas :(


A Typical Jimmy Limo Performance Makes You
Want To Dance Or Sing Along


Vegas Fans Say Aloha And Mahalo To Jimmy Limo


I had known Jimmy Limo since my wife and I met him at the Nevada Palace in March of 2006. He was playing the instrumental song "Apache" and I thought it was music piped in on the PA system until I saw this affable, smiling guy sitting on a stool near the entrance to the Boulder Cafe Restaurant, playing a strat guitar that was the real source of all this wonderful sound.

Jimmy would later talk to me during breaks about our mutual love of classic rock music, and he demonstrated a near encyclopedic knowledge of the subject. This would often be the only topic of our conversation, until I proposed that I help him set up a fan page on what used to be the number one social networking site - MySpace ! Later I would help him restore an old website to which he had lost the rights to the domain name, and to which we eventually re-hosted as jimmylimo.com. I urged Jimmy to find somebody "professional" to create a new web site for him, but Jimmy would not wait, and so he created his own, jimmylimo.net!! Jimmy also produced his own remarkable promotional videos which can be viewed on his YouTube channel.

The ability for anybody to even approach the herculean task of being a successful one-man musical show in Las Vegas is an amazing feat, and redundantly, by no means a small undertaking, in my opinion. Jimmy, my wife and I and all your fans will miss you, and we hope that you can continue to keep in touch with your fans through the remarkable Al Gore invention :) known as the Internet. And maybe return one day for another extended Vegas engagement ( but my feeling is that your next move, if any, would probably be back to Hawaii ! ).

Jimmy left a message for all his "mail list" friends, but I don't think he would mind if I repeat it here:

HI & BYE YA'LL....
HOPE TO SEE SOME OF YA TONIGHT &TOMORROW (TU-WED)
AT THE SKYLINE CASINO, 6-10pm, MY LAST NIGHTS THERE...
THEN THURS. AT SAM'S TOWN 3-6pm (MY LAST GIG IN VEGAS...)
3,000 GIGS IN 11 YEARS IS A LOT ! I'VE BEEN LUCKY TO MEET
SO MANY GREAT PEOPLE AND ROCK'n'ROLL FANS...

HOPE 2011 BRINGS YOU ALL PEACE, HAPPINESS AND MAYBE
EVEN A LITTLE PROSPERITY.....
"CALIFORNIA HERE I COME, RIGHT BACK WHERE I STARTED FROM..."
KEEP ROCKIN'..... JIMMY LIMO

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