“You have to come to the convention,” he told her.

“That sounds boring,” came her predictable reply.

“No, it’s just like this, but bigger,” he assured her, after showing her how to make the “devil’s horns” hand sign favored by heavy metalers everywhere. Which evidently worked, because by the end of the conversation, she was convinced. So look for Paris this summer in Denver and/or Minneapolis (she can stay at the Hilton).

Velvet Revolver, which was without lead singer Scott Weiland, was running through a set of covers. Huey, who still fronts a South Bend, Ind.-based band called the Surreal McCoys, got backstage in the hopes of joining the band for a Ramones song. But, alas, time went short in the short set, and Huey was leftto live out his big-time rock ’n’ roll dreams another day.