Ok forget the whole Depends gig..get Bro on Oprah, they connnect, on a purely spiritual level o’course. she provides mega-funding for his career as a serious musician and songwriter, and even his own magazine, with his pic on the cover of every single issue, ya! they will call it..B’O…golden!

*pssst* There is another petition in the works to get Bro Brice on the Oprah show. That should make your day.

I would definitely sign that Matt. And I echo the sentiment of STFU already “peeps”.

maybe some one should start a petition to get bo brice fans to stop starting petitions

Since when are 35-40 year olds granny fans? There might be a handful of fans older. Good god, the band members are in their early 30s. Are they going to be grampas in a couple of years? I’m Bo’s age. I’ll be 31 this year. Oh god I hope my 5 year old doesn’t get pregnant in the next couple of years and make me a granny. You people are insane.

I don’t know which is sadder - that Bo only has a thousand internet fans interested in his original music, or that they’re probably all granny fans. So, so not rocking.

They could always sell Beltone hearing aids at the fan merchandise table outside the concert too. Does Hanes Her Way have a special discount for white briefs?

I hear that Depends may be looking for a new spokesperson.

Come on, now. Give it a rest.

I always envied rock band guys. They always look like they are having a great time playing their music and getting the crowd into rocking with them. They also have the perk of hot chicks at concerts throwing their thongs and room keys on the stage. Bo seems like he is probably a cool dude so it must be weird for him to have those big white panties hurled on stage along with keys to senior citizen condos. Bo Dude have your security folks refuse to allow those senior citizen bus tours to stop at your concerts.

Holy crap. Now there is another petition to get Bo Bice and his band onto Oprah? Who watches Oprah again? Oh that’s right, granny fans. My god, these fans are psychotic. It is so embarassing to Bo Bice. Even if his band sucks, do they really deserve to be obsessed over and humiliated like this? So pathetic and very uncool. These fans need to step away from the computer and take up knitting or some other hobby that doesn’t involve ruining a young musician’s career.

A scant 1054 signatures after two weeks and a link from one of music’s leading media sources?! More people signed the petition demanding a pop machine be installed in my high-school’s cafeteria.

Maybe old Clive knows what he’s doing after all.

To MY Generation: I will acknowledge that Bo needs a universal mix of fans for a successful image, so please step aside gracefully and let the image of a younger audience shine through. Do venues have a blocked off area for the aged?

Clive, meet Kaycee. Kaycee, meet Clive. Now this could be a conversation that benefits Bo’s long-range career.

I loved Bo Bice on AI and so did my Mom. I’m in my 20s she is in her 40’s. I bought his album, it was just Okay. I really did not like the B side of the dual disc. I only listened once or twice. If this is the music the petitoners would like to see on a CD I would never buy it. I thought Bo said he was a rocker, his originals do not rock.I was hoping for songs more like Nickleback or Staind or even Rob Thomas type music. I really liked Chris this year on AI. I am waiting to hear some great rocking type music from him on his CD. If Bo records another album I sure hope it rocks or I just will not buy it. I have been to a lot of concerts,but never to a concert with rocking grannies in the front row. I will have to go to one of Bo’s concerts that would be hilarious to watch, as long as I do not see my own Mom up there among them.

I completely agree that Bo does not need a granny rock image, or any other image that limits him to any one type of fan. Music should be universal. My concern is how anyone could let what a handful of older women are doing down front affect them at all. The ratio is about 1 granny type fan to about 100 isn’t it? As I said before, if I have bothered or embarrassed anyone, I’m very sorry. I’ll gladly step back if the majority of you feel that it’s a deal breaker to whether or not Bo can launch a successful musical career, but I have a feeling that Bo Bice will be just fine no matter where I end up in the crowd!.

I think it’s nice to see fans of all ages at Bo’s concerts. But all that middle-aged lust focused on a 30-year-old guy, it’s just an odd situation.

Word,Anonymous! Your comment is the most clear headed thing I’ve read here. You summed it up perfectly.

I hope older fans don’t rush to post how they know younger fans who like the same musicians as their parents or how they go with their kids to see Metallica. IN GENERAL, what Anonymous said is the truth. Hope Bo fans can get that.

Dan’s just saying that it’s not good for Bo’s image with younger listeners if they start getting the impression that his core fans are all old enough to be their mothers. It’s a generation thing. Each generation wants its own musicians and idols and they don’t want to share them with their mothers or fathers.

Do what you want, but, yes, stop taking it personally and actually think about what’s being written here. There’s some reasonable observations being made if people can get past their defensiveness about the age issue.

“Musicians need support from fans of all ages. What Bice doesn’t need is a “granny rock” image. Big difference. Quit taking everything personally.”

Dan, I’m missing your point. Are “some” fans supposed to concede legitimacy to “some other” fans? Are “some” fans supposed to stand aside at the mere sight of “some other” fans? What happened to civil rights, eh? You want my front row spot, you better Get There First. End.Of.Story.

And please stop with the total horsesh*t about how you watch a concert. You want to look around you in the audience before you know whether you’re having a good time? Try watching the show! That ought to tell you.

Musicians need support from fans of all ages. What Bice doesn’t need is a “granny rock” image. Big difference. Quit taking everything personally. Think about what Bo really needs to make it in this business and act accordingly. Give support but don’t give him a “granny rock” image.

Its more about the connection to fame and band groupie family/friend closeness (”those hardworking boys”, I buy them gifts, they know my face) instead of music?

Really, everybody, enough.

The petition was and still is just a tool used to gain attention to the fact that in the future, Bo’s fans would like to see more of the real Bo. Eventually we would like to see a CD that makes you stop and say “OMG I have to have that!
As far as the countless hours that Bo’s fans put toward making this happen…esp. the older fans, what possible difference does it make to you? You weren’t complaining all those times you stood at my door asking me to support your high school football team, or buying your girlscout cookies. If a older fan supports a professional sport…baseball, football or basketball nobody ever says “hey, we don’t need your time or your money!”

Anonymous’s latest post got me thinking about what fandom means, which I suppose is really what the idea of a petition is all about. I’ve considered myself a fan of several musicians over the years, from superstars to local favorites. I’ve enjoyed their recorded and live music but the personal investement and obsession of some of these people whose comments appear below are beyond me. And I can’t imagine looking up at Led Zeppelin all those years ago and thinking to myself, oh yeah, those are a bunch of hardworking young men. Something about this just ain’t right, or maybe it just ain’t rock.

This is unbelievable. Granny fans aren’t taking all the meet and greets. They join the fan club and their name is chosen and it isn’t chosen based on age. The meet and greet I attended had children and adults ranging from around 7 years old to in their fifties. I fall in between. Bo chose the name Peeps and refers to us that way. We didn’t choose it. Names were submitted by members and Bo chose it. I like it. And concerning concerts if there are some more mature fans who choose to wait for hours to be close to Bo who is to say they can’t? I’ve seen Bo a few times and I’ve been surrounded by children as well as people in their eighties. Bo’s mother is a beautiful woman in her early fifties and I’ll bet if she wanted to see some young man in concert Bo would not tell her to stay back and let the younger ones up front. And for those of you who were being so critical of Bo’s band I don’t know what to say. They are hard working young men committed to their professions and they are who Bo has chosen. He is in control of his career. Not the fans, no matter what age. And when he sees that albums are selling he most likely doesn’t care to whom they are being sold. If anyone reads this who is not a fan of Bo or just a casual fan go and listen to his new single You Make Me Better. Let the music speak for itself. Thank you for the opportunity to express my thoughts.

The label didn’t sign his band…would his band play on his second release if it is original music.

Bo Bice hasn’t been on a tour yet with anyone, just his own smaller concerts…a few hundred to maybe a thousand size crowds. Is his band ok’d to be his band on a real tour?

Honestly, I dont give a crap about how old anyone is. This article was about the silliness of a petition to force RCA to let Bo Bice perform his own songs on his next CD, a petition put out by some of his fans. If My Gen. and others have to work so hard buying CDs, calling radio stations for airplay, promoting Bo (what the hell does this mean anyway? Doesn’t he have professionals for this?), and sitting at your computers doing countless other “voting” things for Bo, well, as someone else downthread said, maybe it’s not meant to be.

If I like an artist I’ll buy the album, go to concerts if I really like the person, but come on! If you Bo Peeps have to work so hard to the point that you are putting out a petition for Bo, well, that’s just weird to me. Maybe, just maybe, he’s not as good as you think he is. I dont think the Rolling Stones or the Allman Brothers or Skynyrd, let alone Green Day or U2 had to have their fans work so hard for them. Either the guy has it or he doesn’t. Let him manage his own career. I assume he has real professionals for that.

And for the record, since one of you peeps will ask, yes I did like him on Idol and yes I went to a recent concert and yes Bo is good, but his band sucks really badly. In fact I was embarassed for him to be playing with such substandard people. If he got a real band perhaps you all could relax and not work so hard. Maybe you can put up a petition for Bo to get a real band because that would be useful.

Thirtysomethings are “kiddos”?

I am one of Bo’s older fans. I’m the person you seem so upset about. I cheer loud and I stand close. I’m sorry if I offended you. I’m sorry if I embarrassed anyone. I was excited to see friends that I only see every 6-8 months or maybe 1 a year. I was excited Iguess because so many of these blessed people have sustained me thru hard times and I got a little caught up in the moment. I’ve been a Bo fan from the beginning. I would never intentionaly do one single thing to damage or hold him back. If you really think that hundreds and hundreds new fans will step up and support Bo and S$ just because I agree to sit back and watch from a respectful distance, then I will do so…gladly! But I want you to know that I don’t understand you. I don’t understand how a handful of silly women could make or break an artist career, do you not hear the music? I think Bo is unique. I think his music is amazing. No one in the front row regardless of size or age would stop me from supporting Bo if I were your age and I really liked him. Where is your spine? Is it really me that you object to, or is it the fact that you can’t think for yourself?
I will go and sit quietly and I will gladly let you and your friends have my spot. Rally your friends together and scream your lungs out. But there is a hell of alot of hard work and hours that I’ve spent at the computer voting, buying Cd’s and helping with the promoting, not to mention airfare,gasoline,hotel rooms, and lost vacation days. I’ve worked my butt off young friend and Bo and S$ know they can count on me. What about you? Are you in it for the long haul? Make sure you don’t drop the ball kiddo!

The Beth that posted six people after me yesterday is another Beth using some of the same words I used in my post. It wasn’t me. If you see another post by Beth it’s not me, because I won’t be posting under my name anymore.

No fan defines an artist. A fan base is the audience attracted by an artist regardless of his, her or their age. Everyone from U2 to Green Day to Chris Isaak to All American Rejects has a broad spectrum of fans. Truly, the whole discussion of younger vs. older is what’s not normal.

Who’s making these dumbass rules? Never mind…I don’t care!

My mommie told me about the petition and said that she was going to put my name on it. I said sure, I would be very happy if we got more pets. Is it like when you ask Santa for something at Christmas time cause I dont always get everything I want even when I make sure that its on the list. Mommie says not to be a spoiled brat, dont you have enough stuff already? And when you grow up you can’t just make a list you have to work for it. But I would like some more pets. And that’s the truth.

Not all of us granny (wink) fans were pleased by the fan club name selected and that’s an understatement. When we kicked up a fuss the administrators let us know Bo personally chose the name from those submitted. Yes by fans for the Name the Fan Club Contest. Makes a body wonder what the other submissions were!

Not all of us granny fans were pleased by the fan club name selected and that’s an understatement. When we kicked up a fuss the administrators let us know Bo personally chose the name from those submitted. Yes by fans for the Name the Fan Club Contest. Makes a body wonder what the other submissions were!

Now I see why it’s called the “Me Generation”. For some fans it’s more about themselves (”We have a right to do whatever we want no matter how it looks to the average fan, we’re “friends” to the band and they love us) then helping Bo attract a normal fan base.

At general admission shows, fans who want the front few rows must expect to arrive first and make the same dash for it that everyone else makes. Concerts are not like video shoots where the first rows consist of the winners of a casting call for cute young things. What makes anyone believe they’re entitled to the front row at a GA show? You want to be first, get there first. This is very basic logic and should need no explanation.

Oh I bet Clive makes all his decisions from online petitions. I am sure he would never record another CD with Bo or any of his other signed artist with out the input of a petition. Probably sits at his computer just wanting for them to arrive in his inbox. I am sure he will be really impressed with a petiton signed by Bo’s “Peeps”. Get over yourselves this petition is ridiculous.

My, my Edie, judgemental much? I won’t be here to read any more responses because the hate on this page has been too unpleasant.

Please support Bo by buying his music and seeing his shows. TRT is a very good cd, but please, don’t take MY word for it…listen for yourself!

Funny….I thought this was over the petition. How did we get to where the discussion is now?

“We pay our money, we travel, we support the band, and we have a damn good time doing it.”

There’s alot of WE in there, isn’t there? I guess “we” now know why you are fantatical about it - it’s all about you, isn’t it? It’s not really about Bo, that’s just your cover for what sounds like a mid-life crisis. I feel for Bo, I doubt he asked for this kind of obsessive fame. Cant you all just join that red & purple hat society and call it a day?

Great God in Heaven, is there no end to the “younger is better” crap around here? Seriously, people, why do you think that youth is more desirable to these guys? We pay our money, we travel, we support the band, and we have a damn good time doing it.

As for us lining up hours early vs. “normal” - people who want to be in the front row can get there and wait with the rest of us. Obviously not all “young” people (although ‘young’ is a relative term) think the same way but many of the ones who have posted in this thread seem to think that their age entitles them to some special place in life, that because they’ve lived fewer years, they are more deserving. Get over your badselves already!

You want to see a great rock ‘n roll show, check out Bo’s schedule. As Linda said before, you’re more than welcome! But for everyone’s sake, cut the age discrimination crap!

Amen, Summer!!!!!!!!!

There are normal Bo Bice fans out there and they are turned off by the granny fan image. If you care about Bo Bice’s career, give the guy a frikkin change to develop a fan base beyond grannies. He is NOT Clay Aiken, he needs normal fans if he’s going to make it in this business.

The really sad thing about this is that Bo could have been really cool. But after reading the comments from his “fans”, most of whom seem like part of his granny fanny brigade, they just dont seem to get it. Nobody’s saying dont support him or stay away from concerts - just dont be hogging all the down in front and meet & greets. Most of you have met him and/or been down in the front row of a concert already, how many times is enough to satisfy you all? You say that you consider yourself his “family’? Seriously, that is sad and a bit unrealistic, dont you think? I seriously doubt Bo Bice and his wife consider you all their “family”. You are “fans”, and a bit fantatical if you ask alot of us here. People are suggesting you all just mellow out. But you keep posting the crazy posts and making it clearer that Bo Bice’s fans are sort of delusional. That makes me sad for Bo. He’s a southern gentleman and there is no way he’d tell you all what he really thinks. Sure he thanks you for buying his CDs - that’s what fans are supposed to do if they like the CD. He’d never say anything negative publically but for godsake, just put his career first if you like him so much, and step back for a bit. If he cant “make it” without you all buying multiple copies of his CDs, and without you all signing silly petitions, and without you all holding his proverbial hand, then its probably not meant to be.

It would be much better to see younger fans up front near the stage. And yes, Bo needs a younger fan base image, even though he enjoys us older fans.

Lori, you have no clue what you would do “if you were 50 years old!” Kindly stop the patronizing, self-rightous bullsh*t. Again, Bo is “old school” and if you have a gripe about that, take it up with him.

Linda~if I were 50 years old and happened to like a singer that was 20 years younger I would keep that in mind as I help support his career..I would do every thing I could to avoid giving him a “Granny Fans” image…I would want him to have fans his age…I wouldn’t want to embarass him by showing up with an entire front section of grandmotherly fans. I’d step back and let other fans have a chance to be up close for a change…not concert after concert of granny fans taking over because they can stand in line for hours for good spots. Some older fans would be expected but when a big portion of the entire front section is over 50 do you believe Bo Bice does not feel strange? It’s strange…ask any guy Bo’s age in a band what he would think and tell him to be honest with you. What do you think young guys and girls think when they see women in their 50s salivating over Bo Bice? It makes Bo Bice seem less than cool. You have have a right to be there and a right to rock…but the fact remains that Bo Bice needs the big part of his fans to be younger fans than granny fans if he is going to have a career that lasts decades.

The sugarmoney band members refer to their fans as “friends”. Am I missing something here?

The older fans may not be making Bice look cool but they’re filling up the venues. If they weren’t there, I think the places he has played would have been a lot emptier. The older fans are the ones by the stage because they’re faster than other people when tickets go on sale. Or they wait in line like 4 hours before a general admission show and save their friends places at the front of the line. Normal people can’t compete with that.

BRAVO Linda!

Tim, it has indeed been suggested that older fans stay home or at least back off. All I have to say is, when you’re 20 years older, you won’t appreciate being told you’re supposed to stop feeling young. To stop being inspired by music. To stop having a community of friends who came together by way of music.

Bo has posters of Hendrix, Marley, Joplin and Garcia hanging on the wall behind him at concerts. Y’all need to stop telling us we’re the wrong people to want to see Bo. Y’all need to stop telling other people of good will how to live their lives. If you want to see more young fans at Bo’s shows, come on out! You’re completely welcome.

Let me get this straight: concerts and rock musicians are the realm of the 20-something crowd? The older fans who choose to follow a musician or group (in this case Bo Bice) are an embarrassment? Seems to me that there are some pretty self-absorbed, me-me-me attitudes in those statements. What on earth makes anyone feel that it’s okay to slam an entire group of PAYING fans. Oh, you say you buy more cds? I’m in my mid-40s and have purchased multiple copies of Bo’s cd to give as gifts. Have any of you younger people done that? Or done anything for someone other than yourselves? If I’m willing to spend my time and my money supporting Bo’s career, I don’t feel that it’s anyone’s business to pass judgement. Fortunately, the opinions of these people who do not know me have no power over my own self-worth.

Older Bo Bice fans take things too far. It has not been suggested that Bo Bice have an audience fully comprised of TEENY BOPPERS…or that older fans must stay home or sit in the back row.

The comments here I read were about how Bo Bice is ONLY 29 or 30 and why shouldn’t he have fans who are mostly in their twenties or thirties. That would be normal. NOT TEENY BOPPERS but fans who are 25 or 30 or even 35..including men…so when Bo Bice looks out into the crowd he sees an audience AROUND his own age group. Men 18 to 35 aren’t going to think Bo Bice is legitimate if the first few rows of his concert are women over 40 or 45 throwing themselves at the stage. WHY WOULD THEY…rock and roll is supposed to be cool…if grannies are “going wild” how is that helping to attract guys like Bo to the concert? There can be fans in their teens or younger and fans over 35 or 40 or 45 or 50 or 55 or 60 but when the MAJORITY of the fans crowding the front are 15 years older than Bo…YES THAT IS AKWARD!

Older Bo fans, over 40 or 45…these comments aren’t hateful they are about helping Bo attract YOUNGER (as in under 45!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) FANS down front by the stage so he can look at least a small amount COOL and SEXY to the younger demographic (under 40-45!!!!!!!!!!) and have a long career. He was on TRL….did the Granny fans want to crash that and make his image akward there???? When Bo Bice is on a television show he sometimes is trying to present an image that will sell to those under 40 or 45, why ruin that for him and show up and make it more about YOU? It’s not support it’s just selfishness. *He needs younger fans*…under 40 or 45…why do you think they put him on TRL? Why would you want to deprive younger fans…under 40 or 45…and make them think Bo’s target audience is the older crowd.

BO IS 29 or 30! Do you think he prefers seeing a woman his mom’s age acting like he’s sexy at the concert instead of seeing a young couple maybe in the thirties age group….do would you want to stand in the way of him having fans his *own age group*? He needs those fans in order to be a successful artist…he cannot rely on granny fans alone!! He needs a LOT of fans of all ages but especially fans in his *own demographic*! Please back off a little so he can have an image that attracts his own age group because no cool rock and roll fans under 40 or 45 are going think GRANNY ROCK is where it’s at!

Fred I think your a fool. You have nothing better to do than grade my post then I really feel sorry for you. Sorry I didn’t take the time to check over my post for typing mistakes but I have better things to do. You seemed to have gotten the drift of my post anyway. I’m not a typist by profession either so lighten up. I am 35 and soooooo hottttt looking the much younger guys are all over me and I have to beat them off with a stick. I tell them to go home to mama there not man enough to handle me! Since you have so much time I thought I would post again just to give you something to do. Here grade away any mistakes this time for I didn’t check this one either before I posted.

I have taken many of my friends teenage children and many of my own relitives teenage children to rock concerts. Number one because I like going to concerts and there parents don’t, number two because they are not old enough to drive yet and number three if I didn’t take them then they wouldn’t get to go. So believe me they have begged me to please take them to many concerts for I’m the only one that will do it. Another reason being that their parents wont let them go to a concert without an adult because they aren’t the safest of places to be! Oh and by the way I’m over thirty and they don’t seem to mind at all!

Thanks for that very entertaining comment Big Carol. But if you will allow me, I do believe:
“To many” should be “Too Many”;
“no nothing” should be “know nothing”; “spesk” should be “speak”; “buy the way” should be “by the way” - hope that helps Big carol!

BO BICE did not give his fan club members the name BO PEEPS they chose that name themselves. Get your info correct. To many speak of what they no nothing about. So it’s best to not spesk at all! Oh and buy the way I’m not a BO PEEP just like the facts to be stated correctly. Plus the majority of BO’s fans are not granny fannys as you put it. Sure hope you don’t talk about your own mother or grandmother with such disrespect. If you do they should smack you down real good!

Bo Bice actually cooked up a nickname for his fans? That’s so moronic. Thanks Annie, for enlightening us normal folks as to the ridiculous extremes that Bo Bice is going to to keep his granny fannys (sorry but it was too easy) happy. Bo’s Peeps, you say? Besides being a moronic name, you dont GIVE your fans a name, it just happens. Everything about the Bice dude feels so forced that its just sad. I dont think there’s much credibility left for the guy if he’s got grannies in the front row acting like 19 year olds and if he calls his fans Bo Peeps. Wow. Just wow.

So we need Bo to tell us if he accepts his grannys as true fans..give me a break. You really think that BoBice is going to tell you that because you are a baby boomer that you won’t be accepted as a fan? Get a brain folks. The best thing the granny fans could do for Bo and his career is offer to babysit a night while your daughters and or sons attend a concert for the evening.

Boy. This has taken on a life of its own hasn’t it? But just for your information, Bo himself named his fan club members Peeps. So stop slinging mud when you don’t know what the hell you are even talking about.

Bo needs younger fans. There is no reason a rocker that is on TRL should not have fans who are 20 to 35.

The fans online are the extreme cases. Not all Bo fans are 45 or 50.

Emily, you state your case in the voice of an apparently reasonable person. Just one thing though, you forgot to mention the site in which Bo fans are called “peeps”, yes, that’s right world, Bo Peeps.Isn’t that the point of origin of this brilliant petition? Watch your step in there, the floor is slippery.

Ultimately, I think the “Let Bo Be Bo” petition will prove to be a nice gesture and nothing more. To expect otherwise is probably naïve. Compare 1000 signatures to several HUNDRED thousand units sold. Numbers talk, and they ain’t saying, “More gritty blues/rock, please.”

And it may be redundant if you’ve read the comments posted here, but a warning to Bo Bice fans under 30: Stay far, far away from his unofficial fansites. Navigating the forums is akin to witnessing a collective mid-life crisis. If you’ve never read a discussion carried on by women your mother’s–even your grandmother’s–age, from the perspective of their “cooters”? YOU WIN.

I voted for Bo on American Idol and I would like to see him be more than a nostalgia act playing 1970’s music. He deserves better and can do more than Skynard cover tunes or music only those over 40 or 50 are fans of.

He can have most of his fans be in the 20s to 30s and 40s range if he can be more relevant and get his songs on the radio. I DO NOT WANT HIM TO HAVE TO SPEND HIS CAREER PLAYING NOSTALIGA CONCERTS TO BABY BOOMERS.

I am a Bo fan. I attend his concerts. I am down front. I DO NOT act wild. I don’t think he’s afraid of me because I’m a little older than him. Bo is being true to Bo, and in doing that he is not attracting the demograpic you people are saying WE older fans are keeping him away from. This stupid subject and argument needs to end. Now. To quote the guy below, STFU.

I agree, STFU already. Take your fan wars elsewhere. Or, get a life.

What mac said!!!

…my thoughts on BO…he is a rarity…he has the innate ability to connect with the audience of ALL AGES, which i think is a gift in itself.HE SINGS TO ALL. PERIOD. the truth of the matter is that BO’s WONDROUS GIFT shall not go in vain and forgotten. heavens forbid, he is too good to be passed on! he needs all our support to keep him up there! the music industry DOES NOT recognize a REAL talent without a $$$ coming in in all directions!!! it is sad, but it is true. now, why do you supposed that a highly maligned “weirdly matured/intellectuals/moneyed supporters of BO exists? they recognize what is at stake here: a truly gifted musician who deserves to be heard. yes, young audience, my guess is that you do not realize the gravity of where BO stands today. As i said before, BO is a rarity. you are engrossed with music like beyonce’s, rihanna’s, and the like. well…need i say anymore? on a oersonal note, i await the result of my state boards exam, work my dream job, and join BO in his quest for music stardom. i will continue to lurk with the intention of joining all his fansites, which i love them all. going to BO’s concerts with them is a high probability! now, call me weird whatever, i do not care. BO’s voice is so beautiful, and it is the only thing i care.

I have come to the conclusion that this is a new form of the Mrs. Robinson complex. Chasing after the attractive rock star status much like Mick Jaggar, and Tom Jones era. The baby boomers have the time and funds to create this experience.
Reading one of the comments listed about taking a child to an appearance of a rock concert-I would be so totally grossed out to go with my parents to a rock concert. It just is not a natural thing.

Shut the fuk up. It’s been a week.

BO has many young fans on his fourm and in his my space. Also many older fans some are his family members,some friends of his family and others know BO and his band members personally. They meaning the older men and women use their own money to fly where ever BO has a concert or a tv appearance to show support for him. When his concert tour started the venues were very small not alot of people and some of the older fans where always there to make sure he wasn’t alone and to show their support. Where were the young people that are speaking out now not there to support him for sure. They also spend their own money to support him in many other ways. Don’t think you young things could afford to have done what they have done in support BO right off AI when an artist really needs it!I doubt that a 50 or 60 year old was hanging on BO more like a 30 or 40 year old and their not to old for BO. BO is 30 or 31 by now plus look at DEMI MOORE her husband is at least 20 yrs younger. Anyway BO is happily married and not interested in anyone else.Let me assure all of you that BO has young fans some as young a 8 yrs old as did the Rolling Stones. So I think if he is still around afew yrs down the road after all his older fans are dead he will still have a following!Bo has alot of other things in the works for one they just released a 07 calender that has some beautiful pictures in it. He’s coming out with his own guitar will be on the market soon. There is alot of opportunities out there for someone in his position.If you young people are so grossed out over an older person being up front at Bo’s concerts then where the hell are you. These older people have BO’s back but you were no where to be found sometimes, meaning in the beginning of his tour. Thats what fans do and these people and their families followed Bo all through AI and when the venue isn’t 21 and over they bring their kids and grandchildren who love BO and they will be the start of a whole new generation of BO fans. BO is doing all right and I am 35 and I think BO is so damn hotttttttttttt it hurtsssss.If anyone is interested in a BO calendar you can get it at MegaCalendars.com!

Hey Memphis!

Are you about to tell the world that you spend your time at concerts watching the audience? That was my point, which I guess you missed.

To Linda I am laughing so hard at the term you used - bogus-. Who in Gods green pasture could be making this up about rabid Grannys drooling over Bo Bices toes. Linda, the next time that you have a few extra minutes go read some of the recaps from the traveling Grannys. I am sure you will conclude that there are some weird fans that follow Bo Bice and his career as a living. A starving artist could write a best seller with the material they provide weekly from their travels.
Waiting for your reply.

Are you guys making this up as you go? All this attention that the audience is supposedly focusing on one another is so bogus. Because from my experience at a Bo Bice concert, the only person I paid the slightest attention to was himself. If your eye is wandering while Bo is on, you must have some serious ADD.

I think there’s a difference between having the granny fans in the crowd or seats, and having them pressed up against the stage grabbing at his legs. There’s a difference between grannies enjoying the music and performance, and lusting after someone half their age. It’s just hard for young fans to see Bo as a young hot rock star when he’s being groped by grannies at his concerts. Not cool.

The average venue holds about… 800 - 1500? I don’t see how 10 or 15, 45+ fans at any given concert are stopping anyone from being a “young fan”. There’s plenty of room for everyone.
(Licking toes? WTF…That’s just gross no matter how old you are)

And Yeh, I would have loved it if my parents would have been into my music instead of Lawrence Welk. I know my kids certainly did not mind it when I took them to a Metallica concert. We had a blast!!!

Give younger Bo fans a chance ‘twenties and thirties’. Give him a a chance to attract a fan base that can stick with him and grow with him. You had your fun mid forties and fifties and sixties. Would you have liked it if your parents back then were into your bands and went to the shows and fantasized about a young hot lead singer?

Let Bo be a YOUNG HOT ROCK STAR not a musician known for a granny following. No matter how you talk of free love and throwback music, it ain’t cool. Step back a little and quit embarrasing Bo and the fans he needs to attract.

This is just way “too far out” beyond comprehension..a 50 year old female in the front row of a concert fantascizing of Bo Bices toes to lick them. But, alas if your of that age group maybe you had dropped too much acid in your hay days.
Give it up and let the young rock and roll fans have at it.

I’m thinking that there are a lot of 45+ fans of Bo Bice and Sugarmoney because he is a throw back to the 70’s, when Rock Music was pure and from the soul, instead of some of this pre-frabricated stuff on the airways. TRT is what it is…. but there are many fans that have heard Bo perform his original stuff or cover Skynyrd, Hendrix, etc and they love what they are hearing… and they want to hear more of it. I think that is the attraction. These so called “grannys” are the same pot smoking, Flower Power, Free Lovin, spirits of the 60’s and early 70’s that helped pave the way.

So I say, all power to you gals… Keep on Rockin’ !!!

As you can tell from my handle that I’m not an “American Idol” fan. So, let me see if I remember who this Bo Bice is… Wasn’t he that Creed sound-a-like who came in second to a fresh-faced country music singing waif? This is what every poster here is ranting about? The only thing I could say is that: If he pulls a “Kelly Clarkson” and breakaway from the AI management team and proves that he got talent; then most of America will start to take him and his fans seriously.

As for the topic of fans’ petitions, I think it’s a good thing that fans are being more vocal to radio, TV, artists, and artists’ management. Right now there are too many carbon copy bands and artists creating some really bland music. There are alot of great artists/bands that are being overlooked. If fans’ input could effect some change on pop culture, that would be a good thing. The best example would be “Firefly/Serenity” fans involvement. Even though “Serenity” wasn’t a mega-blockbuster that “Firefly” fans were hoping for. At least, they got a great movie that provided closure to a criminally underwatched TV show. Also, the movie had created more fans of “Firefly” who missed the first time around because how FOX network bungled the promotion and scheduling of the show. Yet, the same network can figure out to promote a lame talent show like “American Idol”.

Bo needs a fan base that grow with him through the years. If Mick Jagger [age 63] had most of his fans much older than him when he started out [fans who were 15 or 20 or 30 years older like Bo fans who are 45, 50, or 60], he’d have fans today who were ages 78, 83, or 98!

There’s something to say about being the first generation of rock. It only took ten years to get from “Rock Around the Clock” to “Revolver,” and the Beatles’ White Album remains a pinnacle of creative and political expression. Those who dismiss the older rock gen are imo a little ignorant. The first rock gen still gets it — all of it, if it’s good.

Beth, who said you had to knit or listen to soft music. What I said was that it is prolly weird for Bo Bice a 29 year.old guy to have the section by the stage be mostly fifty yearolds. I was saying what I thought was good for Bo the young rock musician and him getting fans his own age not what you were allowed to enjoy. It’s not your age that I’m talking about it’s your age in relation to Bo Bice’s age and the fact that he is a young guy in rock.

Mark,
FYI, people your parents’ age are still allowed to enjoy and participate in rock concerts. What do you want us to do….knit, while listening to Barry Manilow?
Beth
a.k.a yourmomsage

Bo Bice is the Messiah of Southern Rock!

Anyone who doubts it should go see him live. Even the poppiest songs on the CD become seriously rockin’ songs when performed LIVE by Bo & SugarMoney (his band).

And he is one hot little rock and roll dude, too!

Yeah, I’ve seen and heard Bo sing. He’s good, but he’s not the best thing in 25 years, let’s be real here. And come on, TRT isn’t exactly “real music, not that stuff that passes for rock ‘n roll these days” and TRT doesn’t really have anything to do with “rock ‘n roll and … its roots and its soul and heart!!!”

Okay, I’ve kept quiet long enough…I just have to say this: Has anyone ever listened to Bo sing? Has anyone ever seen him perform on stage? If you have, you would know that for the first time in the last 25 years there is someone who 1)can sing 2)knows how to connect with his audience 3)loves real music, not that stuff that passes for rock ‘n roll these days 4)has tremendous respect and appreciation for rock ‘n roll and understands its roots and its soul and heart!!!

That’s why I love Bo…I believe you can never grow old if you listen to rock ‘n roll!!

Cheryl, you have no “point” about your fansite woes. Please realize that nobody in the outside world — like, say, the readers of Rolling Stone online — knows or cares who the F**K you’re mad at inside the Bo community.

My point about Bonafide Bice (I’m no longer a Bice fan, was for a while though) is that the few times I’ve read there I’ve seen many jokes about other American Idol contestant fanbase (mainly Constantine, Taylor, Clay). They like to slam their careers and knock the types of fans they have. Bo isn’t exactly burning up the charts and selling millions given the huge fanbase he had during his time on Idol. I don’t care one bit how old someones fans are, but there are people there are on BFB who have called the Taylor and Clay fans “old”, when there are “old” people there. There many “old” people at Bo’s concerts. And some of them while may be supportive of Bo, and that’s nice, they’re no better than the typical crazy fan. One “older” woman there has followed Bo around to several concerts and is practically buying him his whole wardrobe. So my point? They’re huge hypocrites to insult other fanbases. Clay and Tayloe may have a bunch of old fans, but they obviously know how to spend money on CD’s.

I saw a Bo Bice concert and he is a musician with serious abilities. I agree his label should let him have rock songs. No no way is this guy Ashley Parker Angel pop style.

He does seem to attract older women up by the stage. What Jilly said was harsh but it is true in its own way. It’s not hating it’s just the truth. No one is expecting Bo Bice to have only hotties under the age of 24 as groupies\big fans. Not every fan in his or her twenties or thirties is hot looking. But Bice is 28,29 so why would I expect him to have a fifty year.olds gone wild? It is weird for anyone Bice’s age group to watch that. A 25 year.old guy or girl who likes Bice from the radio or his video is going to think..why are women my mom’s age all nuts for a cool young musician like Bice? In bands I know the fans are near age of the band or younger\not 10.20.30 years older. You don’t have to be a hot chick under 24 to like rock music..but when the guy you’re acting nuts for is only 29 give him some respect\let him be a guy his age with some cool factor. Bice is smart to say he loves fans of all ages..what is he supposed to say? It makes me feel creeped out that women my mom’s age act like groupies? He needs every fan he can get and he’s a nice Christian guy. He can’t say what any normal guy in his position would say…this is weird, wish I had more fans my own age up in front acting wild.

Ah, me. This column was intended to be controversial? It doesn’t read as such to me. It’s the predictable reaction by rabid, overinvested fans that’s prolonging the shelf life of this silly story.

This column is not a suitable place for fan or fansite wars, y’all. The insiders already know their sentiments toward one another, and the unsuspecting casual reader gets to see you being whackjobs with no sense of place or perspective. If it proves anything, it’s that y’all are not competent to make rational judgments about Bo Bice’s best interests. Thank God he’s got “people” for that.

…and for him/her who believes in BO, from a 100 year old to a 3 year old, keep on rockin’!!! really, all one needs is a good pair of ears for a good listenin’!!!

First, to the author of the original article, Elizabeth Goodman, CONGRATULATIONS!!!! You wanted to create a controversy, and you have succeeded in the traditions of the National Inquirer and the Globe. The Half Truths in the uninformed article illustrate the point that YOU SHOULD NEVER BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ. Nice job!

How about a little reality check. If anyone has bothered to read the petition in question, it only requests some more “original” songs on the next CD. Nothing more… and nothing less… Don’t want more original songs? Don’t sign the petition. Seems pretty simple to me.

As for TRT, I think all of Bo’s fans, from EVERY board, are doing what they can to promote this CD and the new single “You Make Me Better”. With 700,000 in sales so far.. not too shabby for a first effort but we aren’t done yet.

Some of you have chosen to raid some of the fan boards and copy some of the posts here, completely out of context. The “gift” for 10,000 miles is from a well meaning and loved fan for other fans of. When we hit 50,000 miles, we have to bite the head off of a live chicken.
I can’t believe some of you are falling for this stuff. Do you’all have nothing better to do?

To MEG: I challenge you to attend a CURRENT Bo Bice and SugarMoney concert. You must stand there and not clap your hands, no foot tapping, no head banging, no shaking your fist in the air, and no smile on your face. You must stay for the entire concert, including the encore fondly known as SWEETBIRD.
Many have tried, and all have been converted. I dare ya…

And my favorite of all, to THE BREEZE. I have read your post and re-read it. You should change your name to THE FART because that’s what this smells like. Anyone that knows Bo, INCLUDING FORMER BANDMATES, knows that this is a bunch of rubbish. Nice try at creating drama, but the curtain has been pulled, and you are certainly not in the know…. So be gone LITTLE FART.

So keep it real people…

Rock music is for all ages. The boy was saying that it’s AKWARD AS F*CK for a YOUNG DUDE like Bo Bice to have 50 year old females going wild at concerts down front. It is strange for fans his age and younger to see that display//esp. males his age.

i love BO…i can’t fully explain it, but he makes me weak in the knees whenever i hear that VOICE of his! i mean, he can just simply talk to me, and it has the same effect: weak on the knees! no other singer has affected me in this way! there is a noticeable QUALITY in his voice that sets him apart from his peers. i do not care for all the so called multiplatinum albums, for they do not perk up my ears, and make me weak on the knees! sadly, in the music scene of today, the only way to get in, one has to sell gazillions!!?? whether one is worth a penny or not, it just doesn’t matter. now, why not have a world petition to clean-up the airwaves of polluted products and stop promoting garbage. i am all for “petition for BO…” he puts himself out there, and it takes a lot of courage to do that. he wants to make beautiful music, and that is music to my ears. i would love to buy a BO&Sugarmoney album. why? it sounds good. i love TRT. the voice quality that BO is gifted with is there. listen up, he’ll make you weak on the knees, too.

Online petitions, lavish gifts(things that Bo will never use), fan forums that seem to know what is best for Bo, and now the newest craze “Who has attended 10 performances or traveled 10,000 miles”.. will receive a gift!@#*&!*
Am I missing something here?
I prefer to be a True Fan by purchasing bo bice music.

Rock music is for all ages. So I don’t know what’s up with people who think only the kiddos below 21 know real rock n’ roll. Truth is lots of them are into gooey loud music posing as rock. I may be above 30 but I have friends who are in their early twenties but dig Bo like they dig other older bands like Beatles, The Who, U2, RS. On the other hand, I remember being pre-puberty and loving some Led Zep, Foreigner and Hendrix while hating Madonna and even Prince. Go figure.

The attempts @ dissing the best informational & witty Bo Bice board out there (BonafideBice) are pathetic & show jealously. It isnt my home board they have current Bo news daily….the blog is my first stop mornings. It is not positive fluff there’s plenty o’discussion & a mix of views and some members under 35.

I myself am not dissing other Idols….I don’t think about Taylor, sorry.

Bo keep working on your songs. Write!!!!!! It’ll all happen….have some faith.

Support “U Make Me Better” and the “The Real Thing” dual disk cd.

Cheryl, you referred to the wrong fan site!

Lighten up, people!

All I ever say to anyone is to try to give the CD a few listens and to try to see him live (which makes ALL the difference). If they like, they like, if not then that’s ok, too.

Bonafide Bice makes me laugh. They try to prop themselves up as THE mature, smart Bo board and in actuality they’re no better than the rest. God forbid you don’t blow sunshine up Bo’s butt, the positive police come marching in going on about how everything is just perfect with Bo’s career.

Funny thing is they love to trash other Idols and often laugh at them, yet Bo hasn’t even been able to crack a million in sales and is playing high school football fields. They’ve made cracks about Clay & Taylor and their “old lady” fans, yet look at some of the avatars used on BFB from the ones who got M&G’s with Bo. Oh the irony!

If we choose to support Bo in his musical career it is done by buying his cd’s. If my youngest wants to buy s cd I have to screen the whole cd before purchase. I like the fact I don’t have to do that with Bo and my kids love him. Time will tell what will happen to Bo’s career not some petition. By the way BREEZE does thou protest to much?

Bo Bice needs a general fan base. I do not want him to become a rock version of Clay Aikin.

Count another vote for hoping young fans embrace Bo Bice-young as is under 40 or 50 or 65.

Bo Bice is an amazing talent. With RCA and the backing of Clive Davis he will go far. Secondly, Bo Bice needs to reach out for a REAL band, not his best buddies that tag along trying oh so hard to be a band. Thirdly, Bo should concentrate more on the younger crowd, not the tag along granny caravan that follow him around showering him with lavish gifts trying to impress each other that “we are the true fans”. I consider myself to be a True Fan by supporting his music. Taylor Hicks please take note,and don’t make the same mistake as others who fall in the limelight of the Idol Machine and the fan bases that ride the wave.

Sure, lots of things have changed in the music industry. Seems to me though, that when you choose a path it still makes sense to look at least a little way ahead and think about whose hand you’re holding. If a musician’s goal is to be taken seriously, how could he or she think that stunts like a fan petition could possibly help. I stand by my original statement. There is no substitute for talent and brains.

Nothing against Bonnie, but that was 35 years ago and pretty much everything about radio and the recording industry has changed. I’m sure having a very famous and talented father didn’t hurt her either.

Did Bonnie Raitt sign up for a pop show that helped create “From Justin to Kelly?”

Bo Bice has it made compared to most struggling artists.

Last night Bonnie Raitt was on the Craig Ferguson show and the topic came up about creative control. She said that she when she was first offered a recording contract, straight out of college, she put her foot down from day one. She would only sign if she retained full creative control. And she had a good lawyer. Guess there’s no substitute for talent and brains.

As long as there’s a prominent place for Paris Hilton and Nick Lachey on the radio, there’s no point in discussing the merits of Madonna’s or Miss J’s new efforts. I see no correlation between talent and success in a depressing number of Pop “artists.”

Hey! Did crazy “Meg” disguise herself as “Meg1001″? You little shape-shifter you. I may have to go find out who Bo Bice is after all this.

ITA with deb. Madonna’s problem is that her album isn’t new or interesting. Same for janet Jackson.

With all due respect to her talent, hasn’t Madonna just about done it all by now? Maybe if she can reinvent herself one more time, she will catch the interest of the PTB who control radio airplay.

To “THE BREEZE” if you think anyone with half a brain believes that crap you posted you have another think coming. To some of you posting nasty tid bits don’t you have a better way to use your time like go help mommy and daddy. Your just posting crap you know nothing about just to be an a–. No one gives a rats a– about what you have to say anyway! SO SCAT, BE GONE, GET LOST!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought bonafidebice.com is the Land of Enlightenmnent. Within are wise and uber-knowledgeable experts in the music trade. They carefully polish Bo’s image by sending him meticulously chosen clothing. They shape-change into nubile young pop fans who spam radio stations requesting his songs. Hausfraus? Not in that sanctified haven.

www.bobice.com is the Garden of Eden. Bo arrives at the garden,Two by Two the BoPeeps follow in line to see what he has to offer. The delight for the day is a big red shiny apple. Dangled in front of all the glaring eyes each BoPeep shares a bite of the juicy poisoned apple. The flock of BoPeeps two by two more than willing to please pass the forbidden fruit to the laborers in the other gardens. All in a day in the life in the Garden Of Eden.

Hey Meg, Do they let you out of the padded room much?

Breeze…bitter much? Wow! *rolling eyes*

Guys and gals, no need to slam the petition signers. We all did something we believe in, and that’s sometimes much more than some people would do. This world is full of apathy. A trivial thing like trying to give more chances for Bo’s original songs be included in the next BO CD, is, hey, a good sign. If people are more proactive in trying to let their views and ideas known to those “who rule”, the world will be a much better place to live in.

I’m 29 and I love Bo. I’d consider myself a huge fan.I have listened to Exgratia,I have bought The Oneness Progect,Recipe For Flavor,Inside Your Heaven/Vehicle cd single,and TRT dual disc.And because I didnt see him perform on American Idol until the end of the show,I also bought off ebay a cd and dvd of his American Idol performances.Every thing I’ve heard Bo sing I love.Bo could sing the Websters Dictionary and I would buy it.I love his voice he’s an awesome singer.Whether it be christian,rock or TRT, Bo is great at whatever he does.I would love for Bo to record more of his original music,but in time I think that will happen.I think his fans want to see more of his original stuff because there is alot of pressure to be a “legitimate artist” writing your own music and there afaid if he doesn’t get to release his own music soon that people wont take him seriously.I may be wrong but it’s only an opinion.But no matter what happens I’ll keep buying anything you release Bo. MUCH LUV!

I don’t know about any online fan issues…I am just a fan of Bo’s who bought his cd and saw him on the Idol tour.

In my opinion Bo will be fine…if he gets to write his own songs that is fine…but if he has to do a few covers that is fine because his VOICE is so beautiful and he’s got that ROCK STAR vibe done so perfectly…he’s a joy to see live…if he tours with his old band that is nice but if not I’m sure he’ll be okay too. Bo is the one who went on American Idol and who people voted for. You can’t expect his band to be taken along for the exact same ride. I don’t think Bo is just about money…he could do more selling out if he was only in this for cash…I think Bo has a heartfelt love of music.

I love Bo and wish him the best. I’ll keep buying his cd’s no matter what. He’s a special talent that doesn’t come along every day. ROCK ON BO BICE!

The Bo Peeps don’t know what they want; they are following their Bo-God’s wishes that he get more original music on the next CD. Bo is an egotistical maniac. He always has been. I have known him for years. He doesn’t give a crap about his fans on the web. He actually makes fun of them behind their backs. He does care about his original songs because publishing rights = $.
Meg said it best: “Bo Bice was given a gift that most “real” musicians would give their right arms for - a recording contract with RCA and guidance from Clive Davis himself. And what has Bo Bice done with that gift of opportunity? He’s squandered it by hanging out in online chats with his fanatic fans (most of whom are frumpy overweight housefraus desperately in need of a real life), asking them to put up petitions for him to be able to do all his own songs next go round (yeah, like Clive Davis will respond well to that!), and he’s caused enough drama to last a lifetime. Not only that, he’s also insisted - after being given a very good, professional studio band - that he be allowed to tour and play with “his brothers”, which amounts to two sad sack halfwits that between them cannot keep a rhythm beat with drums nor bass, and other assorted mediocre at best people pretending to be a band. He had access to the best RCA could offer but he literally refuses to play with the best, only the worst is good enough for Bo Bice apparently.
Bo Bice is responsible for this disaster, in my opinion. It is always he who shows up and starts getting his fanatics to do his bidding. It’s like he thinks he’s Jesus or something. At least I’m pretty sure most of his fanatics think he’s the second coming of Christ. All I can say to all that is: jesus h christ!”

Bo drops people like hot potatoes such as his previous bandmate “brothers”, his sugarmony.net webmaster “best friend”, and various managers. When he was on AI he had an automatically generated email that thanked everybody for their support and he promised to write back to everyone that wrote him. Ha ha. He didn’t even publish a blanket thank you letter. It is all about Bo people and getting others to do his dirty work. He doesn’t care about the music style just so he gets publishing rights. Wake up and smell the BOiling crap. The next step is that he will bring his band down and go solo for a while. There is no way RCA is going to let that band do anything other than these small time tours. They will not be in the studio with him once again and he will watch them starve to stand in his limelight because that is the REAL Bo.

The Stones have lots of fans older than they are? Heh.

It is groovy that Bo Bice has older women fans but it would be creepy if they made up most of his fans. Wasn’t he on American Idol when he was 28? I’d think he as a normal guy who has played in bands for years would expect a bellcurve of age distribtuion, i.e. mainly fans his own age with some younger and some older.

It looks like his online fans at least the ones mentioned are older than what you’d expect if most are in their 40s-60s. That isn’t be ageist to say it’s being honest. I’m in a band and I don’t know too many guys who’d think it’s rockin’ to have a 50 year old women following me around from gig to gig and acting like a groupie during the show.

I might pubically say it’s all good but would I really want that to be my image and for long term career prospects?

Bo will do well if he can grab some of the average music buying public (bellcurve around his own age) and some male fans.

Amen Keith.

Why isn’t radio playing Madonna? Because her album is crap, that’s why. Oh sure, her CD sold because she’s Madonna, but once people got it home and listened to it, the truth came out.

I would say that it’s a good thing that those who bought the cd far outnumber a few online nutjobs.

Oh for God’s sake. You know each other right? Then take the private war elsewhere. Or don’t you get it YET, that this is an excruciating display of childish pique for others to witness? Stop it already.

Hey, I agree these Bo fans are nuts and this petition is dumb and I wouldn’t have even bothered to comment except that it would be really, really nice if y’all could stop acting like simply being a woman over 40 makes you a nutjob. It’s old style, throw-back sexism and it’s not attractive. Now carry on laughing at the crazies.

Oh great, a little Bo fan war at RS. Meg, why don’t you and your hausfrauen buddies go get a room somewhere and have a private catfight? You’re not making Bo and his fans look any better.

Ah ha! So the real Fifi is now here. Why on earth would you say “My feeling about the petition is also that it probably won’t work” when YOU are the very person that put up that silly petition. Of course you used one of your many alias’ - Little Wing - but we all know it was you. To now say it wont do anything - after all the possible damage it has already done, AND made Bo fans and Bo look like idiots, well SHAME ON YOU. Step away from the keyboard honey.

I don’t know about petitions or fan clubs but I know I’ve seen Bo Bice in concert and he puts on a hell of a show. He showed up with a real band, not recorded track like some pop artist, and mixed it up with CD songs, original songs, and covers (his Freebird is better than Skynyrd and I love Skynyrd). If I were his publicist I would be making sure that word gets out about his concerts and direct people to sites like youtube to watch Bo do his thing live. Apparently Clive doesn’t mind that Bo does not put on a “pop” show.

OOOOOPS 700,000 cd’s are you happy now, it was early I feel lucky that it was readable at all.Bo has fans of all ages and when the venues and the hours of the concerts are appropriate for younger people they come. If they aren’t then you see older fans at the venues.Because of BO being on AI he has fans that are older and younger as well.An artist doesn’t care the age of a fan that buys his cd or pays to see his concerts didn’t know there was an age limit on that.The Rolling Stones are still big after all these years and they have fans that are their age which is older and fans that are young. My mother is older and she loves all kinds of music and still goes to concerts. You super young things I guess your parents just sit in a rocking chair when they turn 35 don’t enjoy much of anything or go anywhere. I bet you think they are to old to have sex as well it’s only for the super young well guess again. They do and it gets better with age so wise up.Just because people get older doesn’t mean they don’t enjoy everything they did when they were younger.I’m 35 and believe me I’m know were ready for the rocking chair I’ll be going to concerts,screaming and waving my arms in the air till I’m in the grave if you youngsters don’t like it to bad.Enough said except that BO is SUPER HOTTTTTTT yes I can still see I have perfect vision!!!!!!!!!

I don’t know about fans being “12″ but what’s the median age of Bo’s typical online nut fan? 42? 52? Older?

Therein lies the problem. Some of those fans are way beyond current in their musical preferences…so he’s surrounded by women who suck up to him and tell him what he thinks he wants to hear even if makes no business sense.

Right, so someone is passing themselves off as me also. Cute, but are we twelve?

My feeling about the petition is also that it probably won’t work. But if there’s even a chance that it might help get some more actual Bo Bice music on the next album, I am more than happy to get behind it.

Yes, the real OldBoFan. Imagine how surprised I was to see my screen name here with a post I did make! To those of you who are posting around - here as well as everywhere - using my screen name to make posts: have the courage to use your own name. A fan asked Bo what fans could do for him, and he said start an online petition. So, if you want to destroy the petition Bo requested, go ahead and try. It’s a free country. But do it in your own name, not mine.

Ya, Clive will be on board with comments like this:
“Let Bo Be Bo! You wouldn’t have Sinatra sing rap - would you?”
“he mite need help so help him let him rock me love him”
“don’t do to him what you did to prince” Kid you not, these are on the petition. But my all time fave is “line voided”

Beyonce should rely more on her voice than her clothes and bootie shaking. Skanky video? Yeah.

Bo Bice? He’s a good egg. His fans seem to need to chill a bit about this petition. If they want one, fine. But, let it speak for itself, and don’t make yourselves (or Bo) seem desperate. I know he’s not…are you?

Oh, and Madonna? Madonna who?

So at first I thought that it said that Beyonce’s video was shaky.

Then I realized it said SKANKY. Which made NO sense to me. Isn’t it a GOOD thing to be skanky if you’re Beyonce? I gotta go out and see just how skanky it is….I thought the one a few years ago with her husband or whatever was bad enough.

Thanks for the tip RS.

I went to a Bo concert and there were older women up front crowding the stage. He’s a young hot guy about 29 I think and it was ******WEIRD****** seeing these type of females acting like that. I was embarassed for him. Are these the women who made up the petition?

My girlfriends and I listen to hits radio and we love Bo but these older fans don’t make him look as sexy. He’s cool but I feel bad for him that these women can’t see that he needs space to be a young hot guy. Is it more about them or Bo?

Bo will be a hit based on fans who are general music fans not those who act crazy ======

What’s the difference between frumpy hausfrauen who want pop rock Bo and frumpy hausfrauen who want non pop rock Bo? Seem to be a few disheveled househemanner thrown in there too, unless they’re really hausfrauen in drag. Ever seen a Bo groupie? This dude has collected some real nutcases. Just do what you gotta do buddy, and ignore the crazies.

There’s the voice of your worst unintended consequences, fans! Betcha didn’t have THAT in mind!

Your honor, I rest my case.

The saddest things about the Fall of Bo Bice are that he has a crazy, delusional fanbase, and his ego. Allow me to explain.

Bo Bice was given a gift that most “real” musicians would give their right arms for - a recording contract with RCA and guidance from Clive Davis himself. And what has Bo Bice done with that gift of opportunity? He’s squandered it by hanging out in online chats with his fanatic fans (most of whom are frumpy overweight housefraus desperately in need of a real life), asking them to put up petitions for him to be able to do all his own songs next go round (yeah, like Clive Davis will respond well to that!), and he’s caused enough drama to last a lifetime. Not only that, he’s also insisted - after being given a very good, professional studio band - that he be allowed to tour and play with “his brothers”, which amounts to two sad sack halfwits that between them cannot keep a rhythm beat with drums nor bass, and other assorted mediocre at best people pretending to be a band. He had access to the best RCA could offer but he literally refuses to play with the best, only the worst is good enough for Bo Bice apparently.

Bo Bice is responsible for this disaster, in my opinion. It is always he who shows up and starts getting his fanatics to do his bidding. It’s like he thinks he’s Jesus or something. At least I’m pretty sure most of his fanatics think he’s the second coming of Christ. All I can say to all that is: jesus h christ!

Poor Bo….he has to deal with fans who think by going along with this petition that they are showing him “MUCH LUV”…….if only he had more intelligent fans with common sense.

The worst thing Bo Bice has going for him right now is a nutty base of fans who want to please him so much and be his BFF that they can’t think about the big picture.

I think Bo’s music is good. If Clive agrees, he’ll let him put it on the next album. No petition or fan input will change that.

And are you telling me that Beyonce ISN’T a skank? Good thing I had a petition to let me know, cause I kinda thought she was.

Hello Bo’s cd is not just “pop”. It is pop rock ready for radio & his other dual cd has a few of his own songs. There is a middle ground between pure pop and all out originals folk or blues oriented rock. Not all fans want Bo exclusively releasing only Southern Rock because what radio channels play Southern Rock in 2006? Let Bo write some originals but keep releasing material that has some chance of success so Bo’s name can stay out there.

I do not think he should be taking career advice about doing blues and 1970’s rock from women his mother’s age. He needs a younger fanbase of fans in 20’s and 30’s and men also. These older women (40’s and 50’s and 60’s) are making it seem like they represent what most Bo fans want when they didn’t buy all his cds. There are Bo fans who don’t want a return to Lynyrd Skynyrd. They want something more modern but with Bo’s rock sensibilities.

Some of you seem surprised that an online petition got unwelcome online attention. I’m not sure what you thought was going to happen when this went public, but raised-eyebrow coverage from Rolling Stone — and its readers — might have been something to anticipate. Well, here it is. Stop telling others not to react to what you did.

Bo “deserves to” write his own songs because he was on a pop television show? What world do you live in?

Bo Bice is fortunate to even be in the position he’s in. How many singers out there would love to have a record deal and be touring, even if it meant not writing all your own songs right now?

Liz,
My dear, I am a fan of music from before you were probably even a gleam in your poor papa’s eyes. Yes, I do have the right to give artist’s my “input,” I do everytime I decide to purchase OR NOT purchase their music.

Unfortunately today, the choices are: POP or POP or NOT. There ARE people who love music and it’s NOT the mainstream crap that’s getting radio play. Does that make me a bad music fan? No, it does not.

I do remember the day when The Rolling Stone actually was worth reading…….

I exercise my rights by purchasing music I like, I listen to radio if it plays what I like, and I read magazines if it is intelligent…enough said.

Stuff like this makes me embarrassed to be a fan. I’m not in Mensa (what that has to do with anything I don’t know, cause I’m pretty sure that common sense isn’t required to ‘get in’), but I do know how to think beyond the immediate (OMG Bo is telling me to do something!!) moment and realize that this is not. good.

I’m confident Bo will get more of his original music on the next CD (and I love this one too) because it’s GOOD, not because his fans created a petition.

Yes, Clive knows what he’s doing with Bo. That’s why TRT was released to overwhelming critical acclaim. What? Oh, it was universally panned? Oh well, at least gobs of AI fans bought it. What, he’s sold fewer than a quarter of Carrie’s sales? Well, at least Clive and Bo are making gobs of money off it. What, they’ve put so much in promotion that they’re probably still in the red?
Yeah, that’s real rock and roll, man. Clive really knows his rock. Give Bo a break, he just wants to play his music. Too bad he’s got crazy fans who just want him to listen to the man and be a pop! star!

I think the fact that many of you are sitting here lecturing others about reality and and trying to show your intellectual superiority proves that maybe it is YOU that has to much time on your hands and no one left in your life to listen to your insipid drivel!!!

What do you care what goes on with Bo Bice and his fans, what possible effect could it have on your life, other that to give you a reason to force your opinions on to others….

I love the talk about the “online” fanatics…but you guys are commenting about it on an article in an online magazine! People in glass houses…

Hate to break the news to some of you, but the fans DO control every artists destiny. We, don’t buy the music, merchandise, or concert tickets…they are still just a musician/artist trying to make it big, regarless if they have an RCA contract or not.

It seems Bo has asked his fans to do this for him, so why should it matter to anyone else…but you just keep linking to the petition and putting his picture in your paper and the fans will sit back and watch the petition grow!

Intelligence and common sense do not go hand in hand. You know the old saying: “With age comes wisdom. Sometimes age comes by itself.”

As for the “any publicity is good” idea, a certain rehabbing Road Warrior might disagree with that sentiment!

7000 cds should have read 700,000 cds

Well the petion has got everyone talking about Mr BO BICE thats great. I love his cd The Real Thing just want more ROCK AND ROLL on the next cd which BO does so well. Plus he has several original songs that I love also Whiskey Women and Time, Ain’t Got Money and Only Words to name a few. I think it’s great that were all talking about BO, his music and his beautiful voice.He has sold close to 7000 cd’s which BO is grateful for and will probably go platinum before long. But like any artist BO wants to get his own material out there at the request of his fans who love it. Guess what BO has many fans under 40yrs old take in one of his concerts which are out of sight and you will see all ages love BO. There are way more fans on the net than a couple hundred as stated above try a few thousands would be more like it. Enough said!!!!!!!!!!!

If I can hear Bo’s voice, I will buy whatever he releases. I doubt if the petition will mean anything. RCA is not going to put out something they think will fail. Bo should have more input. VOA and the three songs he wrote on the dual disk proves he can write.

Why does this remind me of the tantrums some of my kindergarten students throw?

Well, my mother, who is older than dirt LOVES Bo as do I. What’s wrong with wanting him to write all his own songs? He deserves to. Alot of Bo’s fans are very smart. In fact some of us are members of Mensa so it’s not like we’re stupid crazy fans. You can learn more about us at:
thebounderground.com

The petition is NOT stupid. Bo asked for it HIMSELF, in a chat he had with his REAL FANS on his own fan site! He asked us to petition for him so Clive Davis will know that we all want him to write his own music for the next CD. It’s Bo’s request.

Word to your entire post Beth!
I wish the fans who are obsessed with this petition, would put their energy into promoting Bo’s current cd. TRT has not done poorly as some “Bo fan” suggested. It has gone gold and is still selling slowly but surely. There are hundreds of artists who would love to have the level of success that Bo has had, 2 songs currently being played on the radio and a video that was #1 on MTV and VH1. I think Clive knows exactly what he is doing. He will put more of Bo’s originals on his next cd, if he thinks they will help sell the cd, not because of some online petition.