If music can sooth the savage yeast, then imagine what the listings for Shania Twain or Superjoint Ritual could do to those in the position to change the planet for the better? Imagine what the Middle East might be like if Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat shared a mutual love of The String Cheese Incident. What if North Korea’s Kim Jong-II spent more time checking out the dates for Marilyn Manson rather than coming up with new ways to speed up the race to Armageddon? What if Al Franken and Bill O’Reilly argued more about which of the Indigo Girls is more talented, and spent less time hurling heated barbs at each other? What kind of world would it be?

It would be a fabulous world! A world filled with people discussing the latest dates for Hey Mercedes, the set list for Adler’s Appetite Feat. Steven Adler and the support acts for the Aerosmith / KISS tour. Kings and queens, presidents and dictators, they’d all gather together to discuss the dates for the upcoming Korn / Limp Bizkit co-headline tour, the European run for Fleetwood Mac, and whom amongst them has enough pull to snag backstage passes for Eric Clapton.

Of course, we can’t change the world. We’re tour date specialists and we can no more transform humanity than we can reunite David Gest with Liza Minnelli, or pick the songs for David Bowie’s set list. All we can offer is date, city, state and venue for bands like new monsoon and Kindred, and artists like Vince Gill, Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin and Rickie Lee Jones. We’re not miracle workers.

That’s why we’re going to start small. Maybe we can’t bring peace to the Middle East, Northern Ireland or the Democratic National Committee. However, we firmly believe that a Web site such as this can make a difference. We can build mountains out of molehills. We can help people see the forest and the trees.

That’s why we’re collecting signatures for a petition urging Rod Stewart to take back what he said about Elton John, Paul McCartney and Sting. After all, it’s the least we can do when the future of the world is at stake.