December 2007

Editor Pick: ARF Rocks!

12/26/07

Editor Pick: ARF Rocks!

The first Friday night of each year is always the loudest night of the year at the Lesher Arts Center in Walnut Creek, as Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation hosts its annual ARF Rocks! fundraiser concert.

I'll never forget the inaugural ARF Rocks!, featuring Sammy Hagar a few years back. Hagar put on his typically loud and debaucherous show, to the delight of his fans—and to the horror of the Regional Center volunteer ushers, who desperately tried to make a stampede of stage-rushing rockers return to their assigned seats. Up in the balcony, there were even public displays of nudity, another first for the Lesher Center.

This year's show promises to be just as wild. Motley Crue singer and perennial rock 'n' roll bad boy Vince Neil will headline the...

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