Tuesday, January 02, 2007

News from all over - Orlando

There he was, Esteban, playing songs from his new album, Best of Esteban, on a tiny stage between the jugs of Carlo Rossi burgundy and the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. It was the pop-culture icon's first Wal-Mart concert.

And the fans who buy the albums were there, maybe 100 of them, swaying and clapping along. Some arrived with Esteban guitars to be signed, such as Eric DeAngelo of Orlando. "I started a band a couple months ago, but we're not getting too far," says Eric, 16, who had received his Esteban guitar in the mail just a day earlier.

You may recognize Esteban ... he took his image to the masses in one of those Geico ads, where he arrives presumably to teach guitar to a struggling garage band...