7.20.13 Adam unleashed in Paso Robles!!

Anybody think it was a complete and total coincidence that Adam was wearing almost the exact facial hair features as Tim McGraw, Trace Adkins, and Brantley Gilbert in the poster?

It's long been bothering me that Pro-Boards does not know how to handle web links that contain special characters like an eclaimation point.  So, I finally got frustrated enough with it that I did a little research to figure it out. Of course it helps that I have seen this type of thing before when writing computer programs. So here is how you do it:

For a web address that contains a special character like "!", just inserting the web link using the "Link" Pro-Boards with give:

"www.keek.com/!Z1S3cab#jwuJcab"

Notice that only the part of the web link that is before the "!" is highlighted as a web link. When you click on this, it only takes you to the home keek web page and not to the specific keek from Tommy. For other example, it may not take you to any web link at all.

In the Pro-Boards Reply editor, switch to the BBCode view by clicking on the "BBCode" tab at the bottom of the edit window.  You will see something that looks like this (I left off the surrounding [ ] so that it won't show up as a link):

      a href="https://www.keek.com/!Z1S3cab#jwuJcab"]https://www.keek.com/!Z1S3cab#jwuJcab[/a

Replace the 2nd "!" with its "HTML Escape Code" found on at this web link:

www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/entity-escape-characters.php

For the above example, the HTML Escape Code for "!" should be replaced by "!" (without the surrounding quotes). I can't really show you the result, because once it is posted the "!" shows up as "!". Don't worry about this. It has to do with how the key strokes on the computer keyboard are encoded and gets real technical (yea, I know this already too technical).

I loved the concert because it seemed so real to me.  In spite of Adam's obvious frustration with the sound issues, I found his aggravated, homicidal faces and hand gestures endearing and hilarious.  Sometimes things go smoothy, sometimes they do not, but my admiration for Adam grows each time I see him deal with problems and still put on a great show.  That being said, I am aware that Mr. Lambert is a solo artist, but the fact that he has a few crazy people, Tommy, Brian, Ashley, Rick, backing him up, does not hurt when things go awry.  A shared laugh, a snicker, a snort of amusement, can all go a long way to breaking the tension.  Of course I think we, his fans, help also.  Adam knows that a little flub is worth a 1000 sarcastic, amused tweets.  

As another example of my instructions above, I replaced the "!" in the web link above with "&#33" (not including the quotes) and get:

mega.co.nz/#F!6d0ClLqA!O1FwYDoKOYhpv8UdXMpEpA

ETA - Yep definitely have to made the modification in the BBCode tab and not the Preview tab of the Reply editor. Also have to replace both "!" in the after the 2nd "https".

Also have to be real careful not to introduce any extra spaces into the web link.