Volume 13 — Issue 1

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Volume 13 — Issue 1

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January 16 - February 6, 2013
Chocolate is for Lovers Wine Trail
February 1-2-8-9 from 1 - 6 pm each day
Sixteen wineries (list below) will each offer
two wine samples, an appetizer, and luscious
chocolates by Bakers Candies of Cleveland
to take home (in addition to the bottles of
wine they may decide to gather along the
way). Travelers will also receive a Schott
Zwiesel wine glass as well as a candy dish.
Enjoy the hospitality of each family owned
winery during an otherwise dreary time of
year.
Participating wineries are:
Bene Vino Urban Winery, Perry
Biscotti’s Family Winery, Conneaut
Buccia Vineyards, Conneaut
Debonné Vineyards, Madison
Deer’s Leap Winery, Geneva
Emerine Estates, Jefferson
Ferrante Winery & Ristorante, Geneva
Goddess Wine House, Ashtabula
Grand River Cellars, Madison
Maple Ridge Vineyards, Madison
Old Firehouse Winery, Geneva-on-the-Lake
Old Mill Winery, Geneva
Tarsitano Winery, Conneaut
The Lakehouse Inn Winery, Geneva-on-theLake
The Winery at Spring Hill, Geneva
Virant Family Winery, Geneva
Reservations are required. Cost is $50 a
couple, $40 a single traveler.
Several lodgers are offering discounted room
rates for weekend travelers ...... a perfect way
to create a weekend escape from the ordinary!!
For more information and make reservations:
800-227-6972 or OhioWines.org
Some ‘chocolatey’ ideas and information:
Pairing chocolates with wine
This is the season to experiment with pairing
yummy chocolates with great regional wines.
While it may seem a bit counter-intuitive to
do wine with ‘sweets’, the ‘normal’ food and
wine ‘rules’ [dark with dark, light with light]
still apply. So the darker the chocolates
think ‘heartier reds’ and for white and
milk chocolates think ‘lighter and whiter
wines.’ Below are a couple of easy to
prepare, elegant pairings.
Chocolate covered strawberries
Serve with a lovely Cabernet Franc Rose,
Chambourcin or perhaps a Pinot Noir.
16 ounces milk chocolate chips
2 tablespoons shortening
1 pound fresh strawberries with leaves
Directions:
In a double boiler, melt the chocolate and
shortening, stirring occasionally until smooth.
Holding them by the toothpicks, dip the
strawberries into the chocolate mixture. Insert
toothpicks into the tops of the strawberries.
Turn the strawberries upside down and insert
the toothpick into Styrofoam for the chocolate
to cool.
mixture by rounded teaspoons, about 2 inches
apart, onto ungreased large cookie sheet.
Bake cookies 8 to 10 minutes, until lightly
browned. With pancake turner,
remove cookies to wire rack to
cool. Repeat with remaining
dough. Store cookies in tightly
covered container.
And for pure, decadent
pleasure: a lovely glass of
Cabernet Sauvignon with a couple
of chunks of dark chocolate along with some
chocolate dusted almonds.....all in front of a
roaring fireplace ....
Some fun facts about ‘chocolate’
It was originally made by the natives in the
Amazon River Basin over 4000 years ago
The Aztecs and Mayans thought it brought
wisdom to all who ate it.
Columbus, on his 4th trip to the New World,
wrote he was very impressed with the
confection.
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Into large
bowl, measure first 7 ingredients. With
mixer at medium speed, beat ingredients
until blended, occasionally scraping bowl
with rubber spatula. With spoon, stir in
white chocolate and macadamia nuts.Drop
During the Renaissance, the Belgians were
recognized for producing the world’s finest
chocolates.
In 1765, the first American chocolates were
made in a New England factory.
It was not until 1819 that the Swiss opened
their first factory.
In 1849, the Cadbury brothers launched their
operation in London
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Serve with an Ohio ice wine, late harvest
Riesling or sweet white blend
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3/4 cup(s) sugar
1/2 cup(s) (1 stick) margarine or
butter, softened
1 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon(s) baking soda
1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
1 large egg
8 ounce(s) white chocolate
Swiss confectionery bar, or white baking
bar, chopped
1 jar(s) (7 ounces) macadamia nuts, chopped
By the Middle Ages, Pope Pius V
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(although not meat) on Fridays.
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3 ........ Chocolate is for Lovers Wine Trail
5 ............................................... Chuckles
6 ....................................... Wine 101
8 ....................................... Bluesville
10 ...............................Angie Bowie
11 .................... What’s On The Shelf
12 ................................ On the Beat
13 ....................... What About Jazz?
14 ................................... Epic Eats
16 ....................... Brewin’ The Brew
17 ........................Geneva Winterfest
19 ..........................Mind Body Spirit
23 ............................. Movie Reviews
24 ................................. Stay in Tune
25 ................ Rock Hall Honors MLK
28 .......................................Kickin It
30 ................................ Snarp Farkle
We would like to thank all of our sponsors and
encourage our readers to patronize the fine
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Editor
Sage Satori
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Man of Many Hats
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Snarp Farkle • Don Perry
Patrick Podpadec • Helen Marketti
Westside Steve
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Larry Jennings • Pete Roche
Tom Todd • Donniella Winchell
Trenda Jones • Alan Cliffe • Steve Guy
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He started crying out for joy as the ice melted. A
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There are three morals to this story:
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3. “Let’s just say it’s gonna stay cold ‘till I get
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2. “Don’t know, but we could figure it out over
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Top 10 Al Roker Explanations For Why It’s
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Entertainment Fri & Sat: 7-11pm
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WARMING WINTER FONDUES
Romantic, festive, and delicious, fondue
is a traditional Swish dish that usually
includes melted cheese and white wine served
in a communal pot called a caquelon. The
actual word fondue is derived from the French
word “fondre” that means “to melt.” Gruyere
and Emmenthaler are the two types of cheese
that are most commonly used. However, in
recent years, fondue has been taken to a new
culinary level with the introduction of many
other types of ingredients.
Made with wild mushrooms and three
different cheeses, Mushroom Fondue is an
example of a modern day version of this
warm satisfying dish. Blended with both red
and white wine, it is savory and delectable
when served with slices of sausages and
chunks of assorted breads for dipping. This
is sure to be a guest favorite at your next gettogether.
Heat one cup of the red wine and pour over
dry mushrooms in a small bowl. Let sit for
one hour or until mushrooms are tender. In a
medium bowl, toss Fontina and Swiss cheeses
with flour. Place garlic in fondue pot and
add white wine. Cook on medium heat until
hot. Add the cheese one handful at a time,
stirring constantly. Wait until cheese is melted
before adding another handful. Stir in the
Parmesan cheese. Drain the mushrooms and
chop into small pieces. Stir in the mushrooms
and the remaining 2 tablespoons of red wine.
Add pepper to taste. Serve with sausages,
mushroom caps, and cubes of bread. If the
fondue gets too thick, stir in additional white
wine.
Mushroom Fondue
Serves 10 to 12 as an appetizer
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Red Wine and Dark Chocolate
Fondue
This simple fondue has only four ingredients,
and yet it tastes simply divine. The secret to
this recipe is in the quality of the chocolate...
only buy the very best chocolate you can find,
preferably in bar form, and melt it verrrrry
slowly to keep it from burning. Fill up your
favorite tray (that antique silver one would
be perfect) with the right dippers (angel food
cake and strawberries are our favorites!) light
the candles and savor every bite!
Ingredients:
1/2 cup heavy cream
10 oz. Bittersweet chocolate - use chips or cut
a bar into pieces
1/2 c. red wine
1/2 tsp. chili powder
Prepare:
Stovetop: in a heavy saucepan, heat the cream
until it bubbles, and drop in the chocolate,
immediately reducing heat. Stir slowly until
the chocolate melts, then stir in the wine and
chili powder until smooth and well combined.
Microwave: place the chocolate in a small
glass bowl and heat on high for 2 minutes.
Once chocolate has melted, stir in the wine
and chili powder until smooth and heat again
to combine all ingredients.
How to Serve:
Transfer mixture to a fondue pot and light a
low flame, or pour into a warmed ceramic dish
and serve immediately. Serve with dippers.
Experiment: Create a platter with an
assortment of fun and delicious dippers, such
as the following:
• Fruit slices/chunks: strawberries, grapes,
oranges
• Biscotti
• Cream cheese balls, made by shaping small
chunks of chilled cream cheese and rolling
them in cocoa powder and cinnamon
• Marshmallows
• Small pieces of candy bars, like Snickers or
Mars Bar
• Cake squares - angel food, chocolate, lemon
• Brownies or pieces of cookies
Wine Pairings: With wine already in the
fondue, why not pour a glass alongside?
The dark chocolate can stand up to whatever
you’re in the mood for, so go ahead and break
out that big, juicy Cabernet for a double dose
of decadence.
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440-593-5976
OPEN ALL WINTER
Feb 1 & 2 • Feb. 8 & 9
CHOCOLATE IS FOR LOVERS
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BLUES ARTISTS
WE LOST IN 2012
We are always saddened by the passing
of blues talents that leave behind a lifetime of
great music. 2012 took its share of legends,
including Etta James, Johnny Otis, and Levon
Helm, among too many others, young and old.
We honor these bluesmen and women, obscure
and well-known alike, with this list of blues
artists who died in 2012.
Johnnie Bassett
Photo courtesy Sly Dog Records
Blues guitarist Johnnie Bassett, a staple
of the thriving Detroit blues scene for decades,
passed away on Saturday night, August 4,
2012 after a brief battle with cancer. Bassett
was 76 years old. During the late 1950s and
through the ‘80s, Bassett was known primarily
as a sideman, playing with the Bluenotes
as a session musician for Detroit’s Fortune
Records, later backing the Miracles during a
stint with Chess Records. Through his lengthy
career, Bassett played alongside such artists
as John Lee Hooker, Lowell Fulson, Tina
Turner, and others. Bassett emerged as a singer
and bandleader during the 1990s, releasing
five albums before his death, and was honored
with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the
Detroit Blues Society in 1994.
Michael “Iron Man” Burks
Photo courtesy Alligator Records
Blues guitarist Michael “Iron Man”
Burks passed away on Sunday, May 6,
2012 from an apparent heart attack after
returning to the states from a European tour
and collapsing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport. Burks was 52 years
old. Raised in a musical family, Burks first
picked up a guitar at the age of two. By the
age of five, he was learning to play songs
from his father’s record collection and by his
early teens, Burks was fronting his own band
as well as backing many of the blues and
R&B talents that performed at his family’s
juke-joint. Burks released his self-produced
debut album in 1997 and signed with Alligator
Records for a handful of recordings, including
his posthumous Show of Strength album.
Burks earned his “Iron Man” nickname by
delivering hours-long, physically-demanding
performances night after night, his soulful
vocals matched by a fierce, unique guitar style
that would leave audiences breathless.
Cody Burnside
Photo courtesy of the North Mississippi Hill
Country Picnic
Cody Burnside, the grandson of
North Mississippi Hill Country blues legend
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R.L. Burnside and brother of acclaimed
blues drummer Cedric Burnside, passed
away on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 of
unconfirmed causes. Cody was the epitome
of what Chris Thomas King called the “21st
century hip-hop blues,” a skilled rapper who
appeared on the North Mississippi Allstars’
2003 album Polaris as well as on John-Alex
Mason’s 2011 album Juke Joint Thunderclap.
With Cedric and uncle Garry Burnside, Cody
helped form the Cedric Burnside Project,
which mixed up blues, funk, and R&B
grooves with hip-hop vocals. He was also a
fixture at the annual North Mississippi Hill
Country Picnic
Nick Curran
Photo courtesy Delta Groove Music
Roots ‘n’ blues guitarist Nick Curran
succumbed to cancer on Saturday, October 6,
2012 after a lengthy battle with the disease;
Curran was 35 years old. Curran launched
his musical career as a touring sideman with
rockabilly legend Ronnie Dawson, and later
joined Texas rockabilly singer Kim Lenz’s
band the Jaguars, where he would spend two
years and record the singer’s 1999 album The
One and Only. He spent three years with
the Fabulous Thunderbirds circa 2004-2007,
forming his band the Lowlifes in 2008 to
pursue his vision of rockin’ roots ‘n’ blues.
Curran and the Lowlifes released a single
critically-acclaimed album, 2010’s Reform
School Girl, on Eclecto Groove Records.
Donald “Duck” Dunn
Photo from the Frank Diggs Collection,
courtesy Getty Images
Memphis soul and Stax Records legend
Donald “Duck” Dunn passed away in his sleep
on Sunday morning, May 13, 2012 while in
Tokyo, Japan for a series of shows. Dunn
was 70 years old. Dunn was a member of the
Stax Records’ house band, Booker T. & the
M.G.’s, his fluid bass lines providing the
heavy bottom end sound that was one of the
band’s hallmarks. Aside from their own chart
hits like “Green Onions,” the MGs backed up
a literal “who’s who” of 1960s-era R&B and
soul stars, including Rufus Thomas, Wilson
Pickett, and Otis Redding, among others,
including bluesman Albert King. Through the
years, Dunn brought his unique bass sound to
recordings by artists as varied as Eric Clapton,
Tom Petty, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Neil
Young, Jerry Lee Lewis, and many more.
Kay Kay Greenwade
Photo courtesy Catfood Records
Blues singer Kay Kay Greenwade
passed away on Monday, July 9, 2012 after
a long illness. Greenwade was 56 years
old. A life-long resident of Odessa, Texas,
Greenwade began singing gospel music in
the church. Her band Kay Kay and the Rays
was a long-time fixture on the Odessa music
scene. Soul great Johnny Rawls produced the
band’s second album, 2001’s Texas Justice,
but after the release of 2003’s acclaimed Big
Bad Girl album, family tragedies would break
up Kay Kay and the Rays. The band’s inspired
mix of blues, soul, funk, gospel, and R&B
lived on, however, and the fifteen-song The
Best of Kay Kay and the Rays album, drawing
from the band’s three studio discs, was
released by Catfood Records in November
2011.
Levon Helm
Photo courtesy Vanguard Records
Roots-rock legend Levon Helm passed
away on Thursday, April 19, 2012 after a
lengthy battle with throat cancer. Helm was
71 years old. Helm taught himself guitar at
the age of eight, but later switched over to
drums. His first professional gig was with
rockabilly star Ronnie Hawkins, relocating
from Memphis to Toronto where he would
recruit the musicians who would later become
known as The Band. After a stint backing
up Bob Dylan, the Band would release better
than a half dozen classic albums during the
1960s and ‘70s. Helm launched his solo career
after the Band’s break-up, releasing a number
of albums until his death, winning three
Grammy® Awards. While not strictly a blues
singer, Levon Helm always displayed a weary,
soulful sound to his vocals, influenced by the
blues and R&B music he heard on the radio
growing up in Arkansas.
Bugs Henderson
Photo courtesy Bugs Henderson
Texas blues guitarist Bugs Henderson
died on Thursday, March 8, 2012 after a short
fight with cancer; he was 68 years old. Raised
in Tyler, Texas, Henderson first picked up a
guitar at the age of six; by the time he was
a teen, he was working in a record store and
sneaking out of the house at night to catch live
p music. By the end of the 1960s, Henderson
was playing music full-time as the house
guitarist at Robin Hood Studios in Tyler.
Encouraged by his mentor – legendary blues
guitarist Freddie King, Henderson moved to
Dallas, Texas and formed the Bugs Henderson
Group. The band released its debut album At
Last in 1978 and would go on to release
better than a dozen albums over the next three
decades. Henderson’s inspired musical mix of
blues, rock, jazz, and funk vaulted him from
club dates to high-profile gigs opening for acts
like the Allman Brothers Band, B.B. King, and
Eric Clapton, among others.
Etta James
Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez, courtesy Getty
Images
R&B legend Etta James passed away
on Friday morning, January 20, 2012 from
leukemia. James was 73 years old and had
been suffering from a host of health issues
over the past couple of years. After recording
a string of hits for Modern Records in the
mid-1950s, James toured as part of the Johnny
Otis Band. James left Modern in 1960 to sign
with Chess Records, the company with which
she is most firmly identified and where she
stayed until 1978. With Chess, James chalked
up a number of classic R&B hits, including
the eternal “At Last,” “I’d Rather Go Blind,”
and “Tell Mama,” influencing a generation
of singers coming up behind her, including
talents like Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt,
Shemekia Copeland, and others. After Chess
folded, James continued to tour and record
until her illness sidelined her in 2009. A six
time Grammy winner and an inductee into the
Blues and Rock & Roll Hall of Fames, we’ll
never hear another voice like Etta’s again.
Johnny Otis
R&B legend Johnny Otis passed away on
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at his California
home. Otis was 90 years old and had been
in bad health for a number of years. Otis is
one of the true pioneers of rhythm & blues
music, his role as singer, songwriter, musician,
producer, talent scout, and bandleader
unparalleled in contemporary music. Along
with the many hats he wore in the world of
music, Otis was also a political activist, a
preacher, an accomplished author, a visual
artist who dabbled in painting and sculpture,
and late in life, an organic farmer.
It is Otis’s contributions to the world
of music for which he will be remembered,
however, whether it was through the writing
of songs like “So Fine,” “Every Beat of My
Heart,” and the classic “Willie and the Hand
Jive” or by his work with artists as diverse as
Etta James, Big Mama Thornton, and Jackie
Wilson, among many others. Otis was a true
renaissance man, and we’ll not see another
like him anytime soon.
Eddie King
Photo courtesy Eddie King
Chicago blues guitarist Eddie King
passed away on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
after a lengthy illness with a Parkinson’s-like
disorder. King was 73 years old. King moved
to Chicago as a teen in the early 1950s and
became enamored of the city’s thriving blues
scene. By 1960, known as “Little” Eddie
King, the young guitarist had earned his
place among a second generation of Chicago
bluesmen. In the early 1960s, King worked
with producer Willie Dixon and played on
several Sonny Boy Williamson recordings.
The guitarist is best known as the lead
guitarist in Koko Taylor’s band, a job he
had for better than 20 years. King recorded
sporadically through the years, releasing a
handful of solo albums. In his later years, he
struggled with a rare form of palsy that robbed
him of his ability to play the guitar, but which
didn’t deter him from performing as a blues
singer as late as 2010.
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“From The Vanishing Point”
Winter Tour includes Rock Boat
cruise with Brandi Carlile
Performance for NPR’s
“Mountain Stage” now
available online
Red Wanting Blue is following up
two sold out end-of-the-year shows with
the launched a run of west coast dates on
January 9th in San Luis Obispo, CA. The
Columbus, Ohio based band has been
touring non-stop for the past year behind its
2012 album release From The Vanishing
Point. The latest run of dates includes Red
Wanting Blue’s second voyage on The
Rock Boat cruise, which this year also
features Brandi Carlile, Good Old War,
Scars On 45 and more. The tour wraps with
a headlining appearance at NYC’s Bowery
Ballroom on Saturday, March 9th.
Red Wanting Blue recently showcased
songs From The Vanishing Point on
the long-running NPR radio program
“Mountain Stage,” heard on 100-plus NPR
affiliates nationwide and now streaming
online and available for podcast download.
The episode also includes appearances by
Dr. Dog and The Mountain Goats. Video of
Red Wanting Blue’s performance of the song
“Hope On A Rope” has been made available
here on YouTube.
Red Wanting Blue’s story is a textbook
case of local boys making good. Following
the release of the band’s From The Vanishing
Point album in January, 2012, Red Wanting
Blue has seen increased attention paid to
the sound that band leader, Scott Terry, has
been bringing to America, and building a
growing, devoted following for, over the
past decade. Since signing a record deal
after more than a half-dozen self-released
albums, Red Wanting Blue has appeared
on David Letterman, sold-out Cleveland’s
1300-capacity House of Blues in advance,
and has seen its first album recorded for a
label land in the Top 10 on the Billboard
“Heatseekers” chart.
RWB at Grand Canyon
The winter tour includes the following
cities:
01/20 Seattle, WA
@ Sunset Tavern w/ NoRey, The Frost Giants
01/21 Vancouver, BC The Media Club
01/23 Bend, OR
@ Old St. Francis – Father Luke’s **
01/24 Portland, OR
@ Kennedy School – Gym **
01/25 Gearhart, OR
@ Sandtrap – Livingston’s Room **
01/26 Forest Grove, OR
@ Grand Lodge – Compass Room **
01/27 Portland, OR
@ Crystal Ballroom – Lola’s Room **
01/29 Salt Lake City, UT
@ Urban Lounge
01/30 Denver, CO
@ Larimer Lounge w/ The Yawpers
01/31 Omaha, NE
The Waiting Room w/ The Whipkey Three
02/01 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
w/ Van Ghost, Poor Young Things
02/02 Bloomington, IL
@ Castle Theater w/ Poor Young Things
02/08 Sarnia, ONT
@ The Studio w/ The Trews
02/09 Sarnia, ONT
@ The Studio w/ The Trews
02/14 Bowling Green, OH Howard’s
w/ Poor Young Things
02/15 Indianapolis, IN
@ The Vogue w/ Poor Young Things
02/16 Cincinnati, OH
@ Bogart’s w/ Poor Young Things
02/24 – 3/01 Miami, FL
@ The Rock Boat XIII w/ Brandi Carlile,
Good Old War, Scars on 45
03/09 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
By Pete Roche
Rolling Stones: One-on-One.
Insight Editions
London photographer Gered Mankowitz
was only eighteen when Rolling Stones
manager Andrew Loog Oldham interviewed
him for a once-in-a-lifetime gig: Fresh off
an apprenticeship with Tom Blau at Camera
Press, the rookie shutterbug would travel with
the band on its fourth U.S. tour, acting as the
Stones’ official in-house
man-with-camera.
Mankowitz had already
spent time shooting pop
duo Chad & Jeremy, who
introduced him to young
chanteuse Marianne
Faithfull. Oldham saw
something in the images
Mankowitz took of Mick
Jagger’s sometimegirlfriend at Salisbury Pub,
so he phoned the young
photographer for a meeting
at his Gloucester Place
office.
Before Gered could
say “(I Can’t Get No)
Satisfaction,” he was
shooting the Stones at his
studio at Mason Place.
“The Beatles’ moptop haircuts where cute,”
Mankowitz recalls. “But
the collar-brushing locks of the Stones were
brutal-looking for the times, while their
individualistic dress took some getting used
to in a pop scene where no previous ensemble
had done anything other than sport a group
uniform.”
Gered accompanied the band on its
American tour between October-December
1965 and was invited back for more work
in 1966-67. Samples of his best work from
these times have been lovingly compiled into
the new Insight Editions collection Rolling
Stones: One-on-One.
The new One-on-One series from Insight
Editions presents the images of one artist or
band taken by a single photographer during a
significant period. In other words, the photocentric travelogues document moments in rock
history when the stars truly did align. Other
titles profile Elvis Presley and Bob Marley.
But with this Mankowitz-assembled volume,
music enthusiasts are winged back to that
crucial time when the Stones metamorphosed
from just another competent R&B covers band
into an original, self-contained rock and roll
phenomenon.
An introduction by Mankowitz himself
divulges the cameraman’s initial impressions
of the caveman-like London quintet (Billboard
/ Rolling Stone scribe Sean Egan contributes
additional text). Blonde-haired guitarist Brian
Jones had a “definite pop star element to him”
and was the most conventionally photogenic.
Drummer Charlie Watts was “very rounded in
terms of his personal image because he was
the jazz freak and had adopted this hip New
York look.” Mankowitz remembers bassist
Bill Wyman also had a unique appearance—
but Mick Jagger and Keith Richards “still
looked a bit student-like.”
Mick was “teetering on the brink
of ugliness,” writes Gered. “The mouth
was too full and his on-stage performance
had elements of
grotesqueness to it.”
But then he reconsiders:
“Actually, in repose, he
was quite beautiful.”
Richards would
eventually develop his
own style, cultivating
a legendary image
that fell somewhere
between mariachi and
pirate, what with his
skull rings, hair bobs
and bandana headbands.
But Mankowitz says
the guitarist was
definitely “gauche in the
beginning. There was
an innocence…nobody
knew where this was
going.”
So off went
Mankowitz with his
Hasselblad to snatch
images of The Beatles’ closest rivals as they
stormed through the States in Autumn ’65.
Enjoying all-access privileges, he was treated
like another member of the band, permitted to
hang backstage and in other private quarters
with the group (along with Oldham and roadie
Ian Stewart). Shunning paparazzi tendencies,
he regarded hotel rooms as sacrosanct and
wouldn’t shoot there unless asked to do so. “I
didn’t walk around with a camera around my
neck all the time,” he says.
Pages 20-120 reproduce Gered’s material
from the tour and intervening recording
sessions. The lighting was abysmal on the
road; the band didn’t have their own rig just
yet, and Mankowitz—who wasn’t allowed to
use a flash—sometimes opted to shoot into
the spotlights to produce silhouette images
of the musicians in concert. At a show in
Sacramento, Richards was nearly killed when
the electricity from ungrounded wires blew
him backwards. “Get a shot,” instructed
Machiavellian manager Alan Klein, who
had his sights set on co-opting the band (and
whose meddling would frustrate the band’s
fortunes in the Seventies).
Brian Jones laughs on an airplane with
a Michelob on page 38. On 39, Charlie
reads while smoking a cigarette (a reminder
that almost everyone smoked in the Sixties,
and could do so almost anywhere). Pages
40-43 depict the group’s return to America,
with the five young men marching down
the steps from a TWA jet. On pages 47-48
Keith and Mick relax in the back seat of a
car; closer inspection of Richards’ glasses
reveals a reflection of Mankowitz himself.
The captured moments continue; Keith is
warming up with his Epiphone guitar in a
locker room somewhere, Mick showing off his
athletic prowess with a basketball, Brian—
still cherubic-looking and in good health—
readying his instrument for show time, and
there’s Mick and Andrew Loog Oldham
chatting and laughing over snacks.
Pages 74-88 collect some of Gered’s best
show shots—in full color as well as black-andwhite. We see Brian tinkering on keyboard,
Keith wailing on guitar with a stuffed animal
lifeless at his feet, and Mick shuffling for the
crowd. Pages 96-99 show the band prepping
for a TV appearance; Brian gets his hair done,
and then joins his mates in ogling the group
of girls who go on before them. The section
on 1965 culminates with a study of Keith in
bandito attire (horse, holster, and cowboy
hat included) and a series of in-studio shots
featuring great color candids of Charlie and
Mick.
As their success compounded, the Stones
became more wary of going out in public
when they didn’t absolutely have to. So
Mankowitz spent several days shooting the
musicians in their homes in early 1966. We
get Richards sitting on a toilet bowl in the
front yard of his Redlands estate, Charlie and
his wife Shirley on horseback, and Bill in
his car and seated at a piano. Richards also
poses in a rowboat, indoors with his dog, and
sitting on a fence with a cold drink. Mick’s
sessions yields shots of the singer reclining
in a bathtub—fully dressed. On page 175 we
get a live shot (in color) of the band going
through its paces on the Ready, Steady, Go!
TV show, and on pages 177-188 we’re treated
to Mankowitz’ artsy shots of the band as taken
through his Vaseline-treated lens, resulting
in beautifully blurred edges framing the
foreground subjects.
Alan Klein took over management
from Oldham in 1967, and Mankowitz
started losing his privileged insider status
to photographer Michael Cooper. Drugs,
tardiness, and ambivalence made it harder
to work around the band in the Summer of
Love, especially after the notorious raid at
Redlands that nearly cost Jagger and Richards
their freedom. “The atmosphere was really,
really strained,” Mankowitz recalls. Still,
the budding photojournalist felt this was
his peak period with the band because his
confidence had grown to the point where
he could actively shape the Stones’ world
with his own art: The cover photos for
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Head to Cleveland hotspot, Nighttown,
on Jan 31st to catch Canadian string-pullers,
Sultans of String, who recently released their
revved up CD, MOVE!
Known for dizzying world-music
jams, polyrhythms and finger-poppin’ riffs,
they can’t be pinned down, geographically
speaking — it’s Sable Island meets the Silk
Road, with detours through the Gypsy-jazz
coffeehouses of Eastern Europe and over to
the majestic Arctic.
Seamlessly traversing diverse themes
of heart, place and tradition, fiery violin
dances with kinetic guitar while a funk bass
lays down unstoppable grooves. Throughout,
acoustic strings meet electronic wizardry to
create layers and depth of sound.
Since their formation only 5 years ago,
Sultans of String have been riding a wave
of success, from their debut CD, “Luna”,
and 2nd offering, “Yalla Yalla!”, both hitting
# 1 on world/international music charts
in Canada, to MOVE’s *quadruple* 2012
CFMA nominations, winning World Music
Group of the Year. In the past 2 years alone,
they’ve acquired a JUNO (Canada’s Grammy)
nomination, 1st place in the International
Songwriting Competition, and won this year’s
Festivals & Events Ontario-Entertainer of The
Year Award.
The latest good news is that The
Chieftains have invited the Sultans to open
for them this coming spring in Connecticut—
exciting times for this hardworking indie
band!
“Canada’s ambassadors of musical
diversity” include 6-string violinist Chris
McKhool (Pavlo, Jesse Cook), guitar czar
Kevin Laliberté (guested on tour with The
Chieftains) and bass master, Drew Birston
(Chantal Kreviazuk).
Blue Lunch News
The first week of February finds Blue
Lunch member Bob Frank travelling to
Memphis to represent the Cleveland Blues
Society in the International Blues Challenge
solo/duo category. To replace Bob, the band
will have two International Blues Challenge
veterans.
Blue Lunch will back Sean Carney at
12
Wilbert’s on Friday, February 1 for an 8PM
show. Sean is the 2007 IBC Champion, as
well as the Albert King Outstanding Guitarist
recipient. Sean hails from Columbus and just
got back from a world tour of three continents,
including performances at the Himalaya Blues
Festival, Spain, and Italy.
Opening the show at Wilbert’s will be
Cleveland’s own Tim Matson, who, along with
Becky Boyd, was a top ten finalist at the IBC
in 2010 when Blue Lunch competed. After
Tim’s opening set, he’ll join Blue Lunch and
Sean on the Wilbert’s stage for what should be
a fantastic show! Blue Lunch will then back
Sean the next night (Sat. Feb 2) at the more
intimate ambiance of Harpersfield Vineyards
for a 7:30 show.
Former Scorpion’s Guitarist, Uli Jon
Roth, Plays The Pirates Cove (inside
Peabody’s) February 2nd
R. Ray
In 1973 at
the ripe old age of
19, Uli Jon Roth
replaced Michael
Schenker in the
Scorpions. Uli
is arguably the
best guitarist the
Scorpions ever
had. To end any
argument, give
a listen to the
Scorpions album,
‘Taken By Force’,
an exceptional
recording with
some unbelievable
guitar work by Uli.
The Scorpions were down to two members
after Mr. Schenker left to join UFO, Rudolf
Schenker and Klaus Meine, they merged with
the four members of Dawn Road, (Uli Jon
Roth, Achim Kirschning, Francis Buchholz,
Jürgen Rosenthal) using the name Scorpions
as they were more well known than Dawn
Road. This band worked very hard and really
started gaining ground. In 1978, right when
the album ‘Tokyo Tapes’ came out, a million
selling album that went gold in quite a few
countries, Uli left the Scorpions because he
thought the band was getting too commercial.
The Scorpions have gone on to become a very
successful band but they were never the same
after Uli’s departure. He recorded five albums
with the band. Uli then formed his own band,
Electric Sun which lasted till ‘85.This band
sometimes played with Orchestras
across Europe, as Uli had written four
symphonies and two concertos.
In 1998 Uli toured Europe with
the G3 which at this time consisted of
Joe Satriani, Michael Schenker and Uli
Jon Roth, on one of the nights Brian
May was added to the bill, kind of a
G4. Uli has had some reunions with the
Scorpions over the years and has gone
on to a solo career and has released five
albums and also has quite a few in the
can that are, as of this writing, unreleased.
Uli Jon Roth is touring the world right
now and is coming to Cleveland, Ohio on
Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 at the Pirate’s
Cove inside Peabody’s, 2045 East 21st
Street, an intimate setting for this high caliber
musician. If you need proof of what a great
guitarist Uli is, look up “Uli Jon Roth Sails
Of Charon” on YouTube. This is a song from
the previously mentioned Scorpions album
‘Taken By Force’, a song which has stayed in
Uli’s setlist all these years. And speaking of
which, Uli’s songwriting is equal to his guitar
ability. A 100%, A+, phenomenal musician
and composer. His stunning fretwork will
leave “jaws on the floor” and I cannot stress
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By Don Perry
Making Memories at CK’s Lounge
As I begin this article, memories of the
holidays are still quite fresh in my mind. As a
matter of fact, tomorrow will be the beginning
of the first 5-day workweek of this New
Year. Hopefully, by the time this first issue of
2013 reaches your hands, you will have fully
recovered from your holiday frivolities and
maybe I will have too.
I’ve never put much effort into making,
nor maintaining, New Year’s resolutions. I
do however try very hard to avoid repeating
mistakes that may have been made in the past.
I do know that I will not soon forget many of
the events, both good and not so good, from
2012 and I certainly intend to learn from these
experiences and apply these lessons to daily life
this year and in years to come. What more can
you do?
I’m quite sure that my editor would
appreciate it if my resolution this year would be
to submit at least a few of my articles prior to
the imposed deadline. Well… maybe next year.
I would like to share with you, a couple of
memories from this holiday season involving
music and how it can bring people together in
ways that are completely unpredictable and
special. These stories begin at CK’s Lounge in
Quail Hollow Resort where I have spent many
an evening over the past 3 years as well as the
last 3 New Year’s Eves.
First though, I would like to revisit another
tale, which also began in CK’s Lounge. I did
write about this little adventure in the fall of
2010 yet I feel the need to re-tell the story,
though in a much-edited version, because…
well… because it’s fun.
In September of that year, my wife Charleen
and I stopped in at CK’s, to listen to “Next
Best Thing”, a group of musicians/friends that
we enjoy very much. I was fortunate enough
this night, to be invited to join them for a set.
A table of 4 gentlemen from the Finger Lakes
region, who were in town for an Indians game
were very excited about this development and
supported us quite enthusiastically. During the
evening they described to us the highlights of
the Finger Lakes region, so Charleen and I later
decided to spend our upcoming anniversary in
Watkins Glen, New York.
Two weeks later, on our 1st evening in
Watkins Glen, an area that boasts approximately
60 wineries (none of which, feature live
entertainment mind you!!!) we found the one
comfortably crowded bar that hosted a local
blues band. We had been there maybe a half an
hour, when a wedding party arrived and among
them, was one of the guys we had met at CK’s!
He was not, how should I say, a bashful
fellow, so news of this amazing coincidence
spread through the crowd quite quickly. We then
met and were quickly befriended by his wife,
many friends and the band members. Within
minutes his newfound friend, the “Sax Guy from
Cleveland”, (who just so happened to have his
horn in the car) was asked to join the band for
several songs.
The night was amazing! We partied until
closing with dozens of people whom we had
0 never previously met. Although most of the
names now escape me, that night is one I hope to
never forget. These next two, more recent stories,
extend across County lines, not States, but they
are now fond memories of mine, just the same.
“Face Value” was scheduled to play at CK’s
on December 22nd, and the Bar Manager, Chris
Burry, had kindly agreed to feature “Great Lakes
Christmas Ale” as the special of the evening. I
had extended an invitation to friends and fellow
musicians, with whom I had worked throughout
the year, to stop in and join us for a Christmas
Ale and a song or two.
Over the course of the evening I believe
11 musicians, in addition to “Face Value”,
participated in what turned into an incredible
jam session. Many special moments were shared
between the musicians themselves (many whom
had never even met before) and also among the
listeners. The night was filled with great music,
cool solos and a kind of fellowship that only
music can generate, but there was one special
guest, who took the night to a Whole ‘Nother
Level. I have been fortunate enough to have
played with and acquired many good friends
in Lake County and none have been more
supportive than my dear friend Mr. O.J. Holohan.
O.J. and his son Eric, who has also been to many
of my gigs over the past few years, were both at
CK’s for our little “Holiday Jam”. Eric knows
just about anything there is to know about the
Cleveland Browns, and he is quite an expert
on Elvis Presley as well. Eric also has Downs
Syndrome.
Upon Charleen’s suggestion, I invited Eric
to join in and sing an Elvis song. He did not
hesitate for a single second and was on stage
immediately! He sang every word to “Little
Sister” and never missed a beat! There was
not an empty seat in the house and the place
exploded with applause as the song came to a
close. What I found even more powerful than the
crowd’s emotional response was the expression
on Eric’s face and even more so, was the look
in his father’s eyes when he said “Thank you”.
That, my friends, was the highlight of the entire
holiday season.
It is hard to follow a story like that one,
but this is another example of just how small
the world can be when music is involved. I
must set it up slightly by explaining that while
playing a solo gig last fall I was approach by a
bride-to-be and booked for a January 5th, wedding
reception at Moreland Mansion, a lavish home
built in the 1890s and preserved on the Lakeland
Community College property.
Another key component to this tale is that Quail
Hollow Resort hosted a New Year’s Eve package
that included dinner, a room, and a celebration
in the grand ballroom. This is an annual event
and this year’s guest list exceeded 350. Keeping
these facts in mind, I once again take you to
CK’s Lounge, this time on New Year’s Eve.
Rich Branham and I together form the “Face
Value Duo” and we began our show in CK’s
at 8:30 pm. Shortly thereafter the 1st couple to
venture to CK’s from the Hotel Ballroom walked
into the lounge. They were quickly joined by
more couples. This was a fun-loving group, they
immediately began to dance and quickly became
friends with Charleen and the friends with whom
she was sitting.
As the night progressed, more and more
guests from the Ballroom found their way to
CK’s lounge. The room was filled as we rang
in the New Year, with dozens of hotel guests
who had decided to spend much of this special
evening with Rich and me. By the end of the
night, the first 4 couples that had joined us felt
like long-time friends.
Five days later, while playing the wedding
reception dinner at Moreland Manner, in walked
the very first couple to join us on New Year’s
Eve. We recognized one another quickly and
they approached me as I finished the song I was
playing. “How do you know my father”, she
exclaimed. “I’m not sure that I do”, I replied.
She smiled and said, “He’s the Groom”……..
Cool!
So with this New Year I happily welcome
new friends yet, with much sadness, I must bid
farewell to one whom I’ve only known for a few
years. He too was brought into my life by music.
Charles McGeady was a dedicated husband,
father and professional.
He had also been a piano player most of his life,
yet the first time he played before an audience,
was with friends at our Geneva-on-the-Lake jam
session, 4 years ago. He was 76 years old at the
time.
Chuck, may you always be among friends!
God Bless.
Face Value Duo:
Fri. Jan. 25th • 7:30-10:30
The Winery at Springhill
Sat. Feb. 2nd • 8-Midnight
CK's@ Quail Hollow Resort
Face Value:
Fri. Jan. 18th • 8-Midnight
CK's@ Quail Hollow Resort
Sat. Jan. 26th • 8-Midnight
Sons of Italy, Ashtabula
Fri. Feb. 1st • 7-11
Old Mill Winery
For full schedule
DonPerrySaxman.com
or
www.facevaluemusic.com
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By Chef C.T. Basil
It’s a new year and a new beginning
and the Basil hopes you all had a memorable
holiday season! With that said I am truly going
to try and eat healthier. The only problem I
am having is the whole “less bacon and more
salads.” It is my professional opinion that
bacon can make you eat more salad due to its
taste and texture! So maybe bacon should be
considered a health food friend! In moderation
the great oink of flavor can indeed get you to
eat healthier!
Ok, now that I have my bacon rant out
of the way we can really talk healthy. I want
everyone reading this to say veggies are good
and veggies are my friend! It breaks the Chefs
heart to hear people say they don’t eat vegetables. The solution is to find ways that you
like to eat them. Do you like your veggies raw
or do you like them sautéed, baked, steamed
or boiled? They are all good to me, as are the
other colored veggies from orange to purple
they all have their magnificent health benefits.
Most veggie vitamins and minerals are best
absorbed in the raw form but spinach is one
that needs to be cooked to give up its goods.
Spinach contains oxalic acid which binds
with iron and calcium preventing the body
from absorbing these essential minerals. It
also helps to eat foods filled with vitamin
C which allows the body to absorb all that
the spinach has to offer. The almighty little
trees, also known as broccoli, are packed with
cancer fighting nutrients, particularly sulforaphane, a great compound that boost the body’s
Arnold Schwarzenegger of enzymes which
flush out the cancer causing chemicals. So do
as your mother
says and eat your
vegetables, get
healthy and live
a long wonderful
life! Chef C.T.
Basil wishing you
all a prosperous
New Year and new
adventures!
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1 Tablespoon olive oil
1 Tablespoon minced garlic
2 tablespoon white wine
1/8 cup veal or beef stock
1 pint cherry tomatoes cut in half
6 pencil thick asparagus cut on the bias 1 inch
long
½ cup scallions whites and greens cut on the
bias 1 inch long
1 head broccoli small dice and blanched
1 Tablespoon butter
2 cups packed fresh spinach
Salt and pepper to taste
Parmesan cheese garnish
While the pasta is boiling sauté the garlic
in a large sauté pan for 2 minutes over medium high heat. Deglaze the pan with the white
wine and stock and reduce by half then add
the vegetables and cook for 3 to 5 minutes.
Add the butter to the vegetables and let melt,
add salt and pepper, toss with the penne pasta
and just as you serve up some awesomeness
add the spinach to let wilt a little, top with the
Parmesan cheese and there you go, a good
way to get some great vegetables in your diet.
If you want to cut some calories leave out the
butter and cut the olive oil in half.
Enjoy and cook forever!!!
By Helen Marketti
Angie Bowie has an acute awareness
of culture, life, music, writing and sexuality
that has been her voice for as long as she can
remember. She has a sense of style, fashion
and flair since an early age. A creative mind
for thinking outside the box with strong
thoughts to support any topic at hand, her
latest book, “Lipstick Legends” (Publish
America) delves into fashion and sexuality
with music intertwined which connects
the dots to
individuality.
She was married
to David Bowie
for ten years and
helped to create
“his look” with
her natural spark
for fashion and
instinctively
knew how it
would work for
him.
“I think all
young girls go
through that
at some point
where you have
role models
for fashion and
want to read
all of the latest
magazines,”
said Angie.
“I believe
having lived
in Switzerland
for awhile
made more of
an impression
on me when I was young. I was very big on
Sophia Loren. We had lived in Europe for
several years so I was more into what was
going on there than in America. I liked the
styles of the English actresses and singers.
I loved reading all of the fashion magazines
from Switzerland, France and Italy. I attended
an all girls’ school that had 56 nationalities,
28 religions and 150 female students. On
Sunday evenings, everyone wore their
national costume. It reminded one that there
were two levels, meaning there was the ethnic
and national pride type of fashion and then
there was the type of fashion that people clung
to because of the western world which wasn’t
necessarily any better during that time in the
60s but it offered a better outlook for women.”
During the 60s it seemed fashion boutiques
were popping up all over and it was growing
in popularity where young people could
acquire stylish clothing without going broke.
Angie explains how the fashion boutiques
came to be, “I
spent more time
in England, than
America. After
World War II,
people were still
having a hard
time. During the
1950s in England,
everything was
still very drab
and gray because
there were still
shortages of
items. By the
1960s is when
it started to
improve. The
young people
were beginning
to become
designers, which
in turn led them
to their friends
who were
business folks.
Their business
friends were
happy to take the
designer dreams
and create a less expensive version of the ole
couture. After the war, only those of the upper
echelon had access to the better textiles. So,
when the young clothing designers started
providing fashions for the middle class
couture it still wasn’t at the level where big
department stores like Harrods would carry
them and that’s how the fashion boutiques
were born. The boutiques provided a way
to overcome class and privilege that was
affordable. Eventually the department stores
realized this because they only carried clothes
the Queen
would wear
so they were
missing an
entire market
with young
people and
eventually
saw the
great
potential.”
Today,
we often see fashion styles that resemble the
looks of the 60s. “I think we see it even more
now than we ever expected,” said Angie.
“Eventually everything peters out and the
individuality of designers with the explosions
of color, short skirts, long hair and all of
those things run their course. It’s like when
you are making soup and you have all of the
ingredients ready and each one of them is
great on their own but when you put all of
them together it kind of turns plain brown
with small splashes of color. I think fashion
works the same way. It starts with all the great
designers and their individual style. As time
goes by it all is mixed together and becomes
mundane, it loses its panache because it’s
manufactured quickly and the individuality is
lost. If you have an order for six million pairs
of pink shoes, that’s not fashion any more,
~Continued on page 22
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I’m expanding my repertoire... not just “A guy
walks in the bar” jokes. I’m steppin’ it up (-;
Before I get into the real column, let
me tell you about one of the “Manliest Shot
of 2013”. It’s called the “Stuntman Tequila
Shot”. It has the same ingredients as a regular
a regular tequila shot, but you snort the salt,
drink the shot and squeeze the lemon in your
eye! Indeed for real men only!
Okay, onto the good stuff. Did you hear
that CLEVELAND made another list? No,
not fattest, drunkest or ugliest, but one of
America’s 10 Best Beer Cities! Alpha Male of
the Group reported that Cleveland made the
Top 10!
Albert Costill writes, “There’s a lot to
consider when planning a vacation. The cost,
climate, and sightseeing are of course major
factors, but what about the beers that are
brewed in that city?”
Well Cleveland is indeed well-endowed,
when it comes to Micro-Breweries! Market
Garden Brewery, Fat Heads, Buckeye
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Great Lakes Brewing Company. Even towns
nearby, like Madison, Chardon and Kirtland,
are great places to check out if you’re a beer
enthusiast. Chardon BrewWorks, Cellar Rats,
Cornerstone Brewing Co., Little Mountain
Brewing Co., Willoughby Brewing Co.... the
list goes on. New breweries are popping up all
over. Cleland Heights has a new brewery, The
Bottle House Brewing Co.
By the time you read this, the Jan. 26th
BJRU Bus Trip to Rocky River Brewing Co.,
Nano-Brew, Bottle House Brewing Co. and
Lagerheads, will likely be sold out. It is almost
full, but feel free to inquire. We now added a
26-seater motor coach.
You BUD LIGHT drinkers owe it to
yourself to try some of the local craft beers.
Man does not live by BUD LIGHT alone!
There’s no better way to do this but by taking
one of the BJRU Brewery Bus Trips. The
Lake/Geauga County trip is just for!
Another date and starting point for the
Lake/Geauga BJRU Brewery Tour is being
chosen. Likely a February date will be
selected. After meeting with Bob Weber, the
owner of Little Mountain Brewing, I believe
it will be selected as the starting point of this
trip! This is for you folks out East! Cellar
Rats, Chardon BrewWorks, Cornerstone
Brewing Co. and Little Mountain Brewing Co.
are included.
COLUMBUS! Yep, we are doing a
Brewery Trip to Columbus on March 2nd!
BARLEYS, COLUMBUS & ELEVATOR
Breweries have been selected with a meal at
the Old Mohawk Tavern in German Village.
We were starting in Kent, BUT if we have
enough folks in Lake County, we will start up
here and pick-up the Kent folks on the way!
This is one not to be missed!
I also want to let you know that you can
check us out on Facebook; Beer Joints R Us,
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Joints R Us and of course on our website;
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The Annual Winterfest in Geneva is
gearing up for another winter season of
community fun and events throughout Geneva
Saturday, February 2. There will be a Chili
cook-off, Parade, Talent Contest, Pancake
Breakfast, Carriage Rides, if there is snow Snowmobile Rides, Sled Riding, and much
more. Many participating businesses will
have local musicians playing at their facilities
during Winterfest. The event is free to the
public and a great time for everyone! A
benefit Reverse Raffle with Chinese Auction
will also be held on Friday, Feb 1st at the
VFW.
There is still time to sign up to anyone wishing
to participate in any of the contest.
2013 Chili Cook-Off—
Winterfest Pageant 2013
February 2, 2013
Tiny Miss Winterfest / Ages 0-3
Little Miss Winterfest / Ages 4-7
Young Miss Winterfest / Ages 8-10
Junior Miss Winterfest / Ages 11-13
Senior Miss Winterfest / Ages 14-18
Miss Congeniality
The Pageant will be held Thursday,
January 31, 6:00 p.m.
Geneva Lodge & Conference Center
4888 North Broadway Street
Geneva-On-The-Lake, OH 44041
General Information:
Contestants will be judged on appearance,
personality, poise, confidence and overall
stage presence. All judges’ decisions are final.
Long or short dresses are acceptable for the
pageant. Bring in a 5x7 or 8x10 to turn in at
registration on the night of the pageant.
Arrive at the pageant at 5:00 p.m. for a quick
rehearsal.
1. You must be pre-registered by January
29, 2013. See website below for form.
Drop off or mail form to:
Geneva Area Chamber of Commerce, P O
Box 84, 866 E. Main St., Geneva, OH 44041
2. There is NO fee for the contest registration.
3. We can provide electricity from 11:30 a.m.
to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 2, 2013.
Below are some details of the events included
at Winterfest 2013:
Geneva Winterfest Talent
Contest
Do you have a talent? Singing, dancing,
telling jokes, do you play an instrument,
do you have a silly stunt or a dog that does
tricks? Sign up as soon as possible for the
Second Annual Geneva Winterfest Talent
Contest. There are two age groups (13 and
under, 14 and over) and one winner in each
will take home 50 bucks! The event will be
hosted by Hoss and judged by Brian Kelly,
your afternoon host on WKKY and Jim Ales
and Sage Satori from The North Coast Voice
entertainment magazine.
Hoss said, “It’s a fun contest, meant to be
more fun than serious, but we have seen some
very good talent in the past.”
The event is Saturday, Feb. 2nd during
the Geneva Winterfest Celebration. It will be
held at the Geneva Community Center starting
at 3 p.m. Registration forms are at WKKY,
Geneva area merchants and online at www.
genevaohio.com. Entries must be received by
January 26th. For more info call 415-5369.
Geneva Winterfest Parade
February 2 at 12:00 Noon
The theme will be “The Great outdoors”
1st place Winner $50.00 - 2nd place Winner
$50.00
BEST DECORATED MOBILE UNIT,
BEST WINTER THEME MARCHING
UNIT.
The judging will be done in the
center of town.
If you wish to enter please mail
your application so it reaches us
on or
before January 24, 2013.
For more info call 440-474-3042.
Set up by 11:30 a.m. You will set up at the
DEPOT Street Parking Lot
(Near the railroad tracks). Shelter will be
provided for extreme weather conditions.
4. You are responsible to supply your own
chairs and 25’heavy-duty power cord.
5. You must have at least 3 gallons of precooked chili to participate.
6. Tasting bowls, spoons and napkins will be
provided. Chili is free to the public.
7. One prize of $100 and trophy will be
issued to each (3) winning contestant in
commercial, private and non-profit category.
Also, an engraved brick of the winners will be
placed in the sidewalk downtown Geneva.
8. A trophy will be awarded to the taster’s
choice.
9. Contest will be independently judged and
judging decisions are final.
10. Winners will be announced by 2:30 p.m.
the day of the event.
11. Geneva Area Chamber of Commerce,
Geneva Business Association, City of Geneva
and/ or other sponsors are not responsible for
any liability.
12. For additional information contact
the Geneva Area Chamber 4668694, Mike Goddard at Crawford
Insurance 466-1144 or Tim Lenart
466-4125.
How to Enter:
1. Complete the application form (available
online).
2. Attach your check/sponsor check in the
amount of $25.00. Make checks payable to
Christine Harting.
3. Mail your application and entry fee to:
Christine Harting 27 South Elm Street
Jefferson, OH 44047
Application deadline
Tuesday, January 26, 2013.
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~Continued from page 11
December’s Children and Between the Buttons
utilized Gered images (the former featuring a
serendipitous arrangement of the band as seen
through a triangular portal, the latter another
of Mankowitz’ strategically smudged Vaseline
images). Page 167 shows a baggy-eyed Brian
slouched over a keyboard; the guitarist was
a hopeless drug addict by this time. Pages
212-216 find Paul McCartney joining Jagger
to record some background vocals for one of
Marianne’s albums.
Mankowitz went on to enjoy a prolific
career after his time with the Stones, taking
memorable shots of other luminaries like Jimi
Hendrix, Elton John, and George Harrison.
But in 1982 he received a call from a friend
to reunite with the Stones at Shepperton Film
Studios, where the now god-like musicians
were rehearsing for the Tattoo You tour. Gered
was tasked with netting some pictures for a
cover story in The Observer—but he found
things had changed a great deal since the old
days, starting with the clandestine “bullshitty,
ridiculous” travel arrangements to the topsecret location.
“The world they now occupied had
nothing to do with the world I’d know them
in,” he reflects. “They were not the same
people anymore.”
In fact, a drunken Jagger questioned
Mankowitz’ presence at one point, telling
the taken-aback photographer that his formal
cover shot “Ain’t f@cking happening.”
Richards chimed in only to say Gered only
reminded the band of the “very bad times.”
This was news to Mankowitz, who reasoned
that the band’s collective memory of 1966-67
was tainted by the drug bust and Jones’ death
(and also, perhaps, by the debacle at Altamont
Speedway in ’69). Still, our guy on the inside
again overcame bad lighting to produce some
terrific shots of Mick hamming it up with
guitarist Ron Wood, and of Charlie twirling
his drumsticks, and of a band once again
making magic with its patented blend of dirty,
rhythm and blues-based, rock and roll.
The 240-page Rolling Stones: One-onOne is a bargain book worthy of a spot in
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Cyndi Lauper has sold millions of
records with her 3 ½ octave-range voice. But
her big mouth has also gotten her in plenty
of trouble over the years, as she attests in her
new autobiography, Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir
(338 pp. Atria).
The first—and better—half of Lauper’s
book depicts the spunky singer’s unlikely
rise from squalor and anonymity in Queens,
New York, to pop-rock superstardom in
1984. We’re taken from Lauper’s humble
Ozone Park roots to her Grammy-winning,
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multiplatinum run at the top of the charts in
the mid-Eighties and subsequent career shifts
(and motherhood). And while Lauper’s rock ‘n
roll journey may not feature the rollercoaster
of drug addiction common to many musical
bios, central themes include Cyndi’s struggles
with (and against) misogyny, rape, and
homophobia in a business dominated by
backward-thinking males.
Chapter One provides a glimpse of
Cyndi’s tumultuous teenage home life in the
late Sixties; a creepy stepdad spies on her
through a crack in a bathroom door window.
“Mom married a pedophile who beat her,”
Lauper writes. But Catherine Lauper, an oldschool Sicilian, didn’t feel it was her place to
confront the man of the house.
So Cyndi, inspired by elder sis Elle,
decided to pack up and move out at age
seventeen, with only a change of underwear
and a copy of Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit in tow.
Her travels found her and a dog, Sparkle,
living in campsites and transitional housing
in Canada (where she was admitted under
the pretense of conducting a “tree study) and
Vermont (where she furthered her knowledge
of art in the PROVE Program for troubled
youths). Good Samaritans helped along the
way, but for every guardian angel—like art
mentor Bob Barrell—there was a predator that
wouldn’t let Cyn out of his car (or woodshop
class) without sexual favors. Lauper
developed a survivor mentality as a result
of her hard street living—but many of the
experiences continued haunting her into her
adult life.
Cyndi remembers growing up listening
to The Beatles (Paul was her fave), Janis
Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, and Cream,
and learning guitar using Mel Bay’s ubiquitous
study guides (“God bless Mel!”). She vaguely
recalls listening to her father play xylophone
and harmonica, but has vivid memories of
singing along to her mom’s Broadway albums
(South Pacific, My Fair Lady) and Barbara
Streisand records.
Before her hard-won superstardom,
Lauper bounced from welfare office to
youth hostel and back.
She took menial jobs as a
seamstress, IHOP waitress,
hotwalker for horses, mail
room sorter at a cosmetics
company, singer at a
Japanese gentlemen’s club,
dog-walker at a kennel,
topless dancer, busker, life
model for a drawing class,
babysitter, receptionist
at Simon and Schuster,
and general run-of-themill secretary. But Cyndi
admits her “gal Friday the
Thirteenth” approach to
office life cost her more than
a few gigs: she drank beer
at her desk and left sweat all
over her boss’s telephone.
Meanwhile, she lived in
roach-infested apartments
with her sister and a friend
(Wha), or with one of many boyfriends. Cyndi
even learned to clean and prepare the squirrel
one beau bagged for dinner.
“I never had much luck with young
men,” she laments.
Still, boys had a big part in Cyndi’s life.
One of her early companions suggested she
spell her name with a Y (swapping the I and
Y in “Cindy”). Another taught her to paint.
Another advised her to “always get a receipt”
for work rendered or money paid.
Having already dabbled in a folk duo
(Spring Harvest) with a friend, Lauper moved
back home with mom and tried singing
professionally in night clubs like Glendale
Lounge and The Three Ships. She quickly
became the focal point of her first band,
Flyer, but her “sexist, manipulative asshole”
manager relegated her to a support role behind
the other musicians. Guitarist Richie became
Cyn’s “first love” and turned her on to Elvis
Costello, David Bowie, and the Kinks. He
worked at an airport while Cyndi earned extra
cash as a stripper (nickname “Carrot”) at
Gracie Lounge in Nyack. There, she realized
her sexuality could be used to get ahead in
life; she had to learn to “turn it off” when
not on the job, unlike other dancers who
made sport of seducing men and competing
with other girls for male attention. Or like
her fellow musicians, who subjected her to a
vicious sexual attack she wasn’t able to fend
off.
Lauper regained her voice following
surgery to remove a nasty nodule and took
lessons with vocal coach Katie Agresta.
Friendship with saxophonist John Turi lead
to the formation of Cyndi’s next group, Blue
Angel (named after a Marlene Dietrich movie)
which eventually inked a deal with Polydor
Records. Pay-to-play gigs at CBGB’s,
Trude Heller’s and The Bottom Line soon
became opening slots with big-name artists
like Peter Frampton, but Lauper soured from
mishandling by manager Steve Marrasky.
Despite high-profile trips to Puerto Rico
and Europe (and a minor chart hit in the
Netherlands) Blue Angel disbanded, leaving
Lauper bankrupt and
disenchanted.
Cyndi writes of her
serendipitous meeting with
exterminator/messengerturned-showman Dave
Wolfe, who became
Lauper’s new heartthrob
and musical partner by
early 1982. Wolfe in
turn introduced Cyndi to
Lennie Petze, the A&R
man at Epic Records who
jumpstarted her solo career.
Lauper also chronicles
an earlier meeting with
music mogul Tommy
Mottola, but she didn’t
want to become part of the
future Mr. Mariah Carey’s
“collection.” Instead, she
teamed with producer Rick
Cherthoff and writers Rob
Hyman and Eric Bazilian (of Hooters fame)
and began work-shopping material for her first
release on Portrait Records.
Recorded at a freezing studio in
Manyayunk, Pennsylvania and at The Record
Plant in New York (in a room opposite
rock gods KISS) She’s So Unusual would
eventually sell over six million copies. Lauper
tells the stories behind all the chart-toppers
and other songs, from writing and recording
to performances on tour. The Robert
Hazard-written “Girls Just Wanna Have
Fun” started off with a male point of view,
which Lauper subverted into an “anthem”
for females. “Time After Time” (penned
with Hyman) came late in the proceedings,
having been named after a movie starring
Malcom McDowell and Mary Steenburgen.
Lauper became the first woman in Billboard
history to land four singles in the Top Five
when the Julian Shear-penned “All Through
the Night” was released. “She Bop” and
“Money Changes Everything” rounded out the
exuberant debut.
Despite writing almost none of the songs
on Unusual alone (or its follow-ups) Lauper
insisted on exerting artistic control over all
aspects of production. She writes of her
efforts to incorporate “slices of life” into the
mix, which she wanted to feature reggae-rock
and “trashy sounds” over a bedrock of rhythm
punctuated by gated snare drum. Lauper
also masterminded the album cover shoot
with photographer Annie Liebovitz, who
encouraged her 30-year old subject to show
off the “grab bag” fashion that so inspired her
while working vintage shops like McCrory’s,
Trash and Vaudeville, and Screaming Mimi’s.
Lauper even called on Mimi’s employee Laura
Wills to act as her stylist for the Coney Island
photo session.
Lauper’s colorful presence was perfect for
then-nascent MTV, which brought her image
to millions in promotional videos for “Girls”
and “Time.” Boyfriend Richie appeared in
both clips—and was just as shocked as anyone
when Cyndi removed her hat in “Time After
Time” to reveal a checkerboard pattern shaved
into her hair (she hadn’t told him in advance).
The success of She’s So Unusual plopped
Lauper on the cover of Rolling Stone and in
a list of Ms. Magazine’s women of the year.
She garnered a Grammy and an MTV award
for Best New Artist, but considered it the
“kiss of death,” given that previous recipients
included Christopher Cross and Rickie
Lee Jones. She blew up balloons on tour to
exercise her lungs, lunched with Boy George,
and befriended Yoko Ono.
Cyndi called out her band members
engaging in “sexist” behavior on the road,
noting how they bed “mothers and daughters”
despite her message of female empowerment.
Why Lauper doesn’t hold the female fans
as accountable as the musicians is anyone’s
guess; she’s quick to assign big doses of blame
to men throughout the book. Apparently,
given past traumas, it made sense for Lauper
to presume her band was comprised of beer~Continued on page 21
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Mindfulness is the practice of having a
calm awareness of one’s feelings, thoughts and
experiences in the present moment, without
judging them, or yourself, as good or bad. It
means living in the moment and awakening
to new experiences. It is part of the Zen mind,
and it is one pathway to living a life of your
choosing, and to overcome any problem.
The Zen Master
One day an earthquake shook an entire
Zen temple. The ground beneath them began
to shake, the building collapsed and the
monks were terrified. As the world seemed
to be falling apart a Zen Master calmly led
everyone to the kitchen, the strongest part of
the temple.
When the earthquake subsided the Master
said, “Now you have had the opportunity to
see how a Zen man behaves in a crisis. I did
not panic. I was aware of what was happening
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without any injuries. I had a Zen mind.
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One of the monks smiled, but didn’t say
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a large glass of soy sauce.”
No matter who we are, when
an earthquake hits, we all feel many feelings.
They come upon us in different ways,
affecting our bodies, minds and hearts. At
times an emotion is experienced directly,
at other times there is increased heartbeat,
sweating, chills, fast breathing, a sense of
dread or impending doom.
Then, there are the times when we are not
even aware of what we are feeling. Instead,
like the Zen Master, in shock, we may feel
as though we are in control, but actually not
able to tell the difference. Pursuing a Zen
mind is becoming aware of our state of being
which leads to clarity, peacefulness and a new
form of awareness about our lives.
Being stung by a painful emotion can
be like being stung by a serpent: it fills you
with poison, immobilizes your senses, and
blocks your understanding of how to proceed
in life. Therefore, recognizing and releasing
feelings is a daily practice to achieving the
Zen mind. The more you do it, the easier it
becomes. Once emotions dissolve, clarity
arises, along with spontaneous knowledge of
what to do. This actually helps prevent many
negative events that might otherwise be able
to unfold. Or, if the difficult situation has
already appeared, by dissolving your emotion,
things calm down, recede and take much
less of a toll. On the other hand, when you
allow emotions to fester or grow, you may be
blowing up something small, or even drawing
the situation to yourself.
To begin the process of achieving the
Zen mind let’s become aware of the many
ways which feelings appear, the effects they
have upon us, and how feelings camouflage
themselves and infiltrate all aspects of our
lives.
The Many Faces of Feelings
Feelings are tricksters, they manifest in all
kinds of ways; as obsession, confusion, loss
of control, or dysfunction in many areas
of our lives. Feelings can be triggered by
anything - thoughts, beliefs, memories, tastes,
smells, unconscious ideas. You see someone
who reminds you of a cruel person in your
childhood and become flooded with fear.
Or you are asked to do something you feel
uneasy about and anger arises. Sometimes
you enter a situation feeling good, pick up on
the negative energy of others, and your happy
mood disappears. Feelings are contagious and
suddenly you too are pessimistic, nervous
and glum. When you are in the grip of strong
feelings, people and situations can easily
manipulate and control you. We are longer in
charge of our minds, or spirits. We are not in a
Zen mind.
Realize - it is not the message you
hear, but the way you perceive it, which
causes suffering. A threatening person or
circumstance thrives on your perceptions. It
or they needs you to see everything it says
as true, as dangerous and life threatening.
So, to achieve a Zen mind, we begin by
understanding the nature of our perceptions.
To begin you have to look at yourself in a
mirror, and not push away unwanted feelings.
First, stop and be aware of your thoughts,
your surroundings, and your emotions. You
must be willing to stand back, make their
acquaintance, let go of resisting them, and see
them for what they are.
Notice what is going through your mind.
Feel your feet connected to the ground. Listen
to your breath. You may see an image of your
past, or a fear of the future. You may realize
a false belief you are holding. Before you can
see the truth of a situation, and before you
can re-claim your inner freedom and the full
measure of who you are, you must stand back
and grow to understand how your feelings
arise. What triggers your feelings? How do
they disguise themselves and take hold in so
many areas of your life? When you answer
these questions, you become empowered;
you have achieved a Zen mind, and can live a
chosen life and overcome the problems which
arise in your life.
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swilling, skirt-chasing predators. That may
have been so, but it doesn’t preclude the
likelihood that her girl groupies got exactly
what they were after.
Readers are taken inside sessions for
USA for Africa charity single “We Are the
World,” where producer Quincy Jones noticed
Lauper’s jewelry jangling in the playback.
Cyndi, a “little guy” among music luminaries,
removed her accessories—but she lambasts
Jones in the book for not showcasing more
females in his celebrity lineup. Lauper
contributed the song “Good Enough” to the
soundtrack for Richard Donner’s, Goonies,
but insulted producer Steven Spielberg when
he suggested using green screens for the
accompanying music video. In hindsight,
Lauper acknowledges she “didn’t know how
to be diplomatic” with others: “I had no
filter.”
Work on 1986 album True Colors found
Cyndi dumping her band for session musicians
like King Crimson’s, Adrien Belew, and
keyboardist, Peter Wood. Originally destined
for Anne Murray, “True Colors” became the
album centerpiece, big hit, and theme behind
Lauper’s residence for LGBT teens on the
run. A bout of endometriosis prevented her
from participating in Live Aid, but she found
other ways to parlay her continued solo into
support for causes like AIDS prevention and
awareness.
She landed a starring role in the 1988
rom-com Vibes and was glad to work with
director Ron Howard and funnyman Dan
Aykroyd—only both men bailed early on,
leaving Cyn with Jeff Goldblum, whom she
also took to insulting on set because of his
unorthodox rehearsal methods.
“When I get angry, I get arrogant,”
Lauper admits. “And arrogance is probably
my biggest fault.”
A Memoir is peppered with similar
emotional blow-ups, tantrums, and insulthurling sessions, but there are also a few
instances where Cyndi demonstrates she’s
learned from her hot-headed mistakes: “I do
and say a lot of things that are wrong…I’m
human.” She cautions fans not to confuse
her work with who she really is, lest they be
disappointed, but 200 pages in she’s already
made clear her songs do reflect her values,
beliefs, sensibilities, and opinions.
The book’s second half features notes
on albums like A Night to Remember, Hat
Full of Stars, Sisters of Avalon, and Shine—
culminating with 2010’s acclaimed covers
album Memphis Blues. Cyndi also shares
stories behind her engagement and marriage
to actor David Thornton and the birth of their
son, Declan. But an increasing number of
paragraphs are devoted to editorial asides—
like why Julianne Phillips shouldn’t have
married Bruce Springsteen—and discussions
about Cyndi’s charity work on behalf of
gays and trans-genders. The philanthropy
is commendable, but Cyndi’s causes and
music become more inseparable with each
new album and tour. Lauper invited acts like
Erasure and Deborah Harry out for her True
Colors Tour to support human rights, refusing
to blanche even when parents complained
about foul-mouthed emcee Margaret Cho’s
decidedly off-color jokes.
A later chapter discusses Lauper’s time
“working” for Donald Trump on the ninth
season of The Celebrity Apprentice. Cyndi
competed with other stars like Sharon Osborne
and Bret Michaels before being “fired” over
the way she decorated an apartment. Lauper
has no regrets; she raised several thousand
dollars for her “Give a Damn” campaign,
designed to spread knowledge of AIDS among
straights.
Lauper describes herself as a “recovering
Catholic,” having shunned the Old Testament
notions of patriarchy under which her mother
and grandmothers lived.
“I think the Bible is the raciest book you
can freakin’ buy,” she comments. “It’s got
murder, incest, rape, pillage, and war.”
She also developed a knee-jerk aversion
to other institutions that subjugated women in
any way. While working as a cleaner at a Hari
Krishna center in the late Seventies, Lauper
thought she’d found a place of serenity,
performing menial labor while being watched
over by the figures in the striking murals on
the wall—but then one of the guys in charge
put the moves on her, offering to make her
his wife. It’s the kind of behavior she’d
endure even after becoming a multiplatinum
artist; even Bob Dylan paid a back-handed
compliment by saying he’d have Cyndi in
his band even though he didn’t have “chicks”
in his band. Don’t worry; Cyndi set ol’ Bob
straight.
Written with an assist from Jancee Dunn
(Rolling Stone, Vogue, GQ), A Memoir is a
brisk read. Lauper writes like she speaks—
one can almost hear that thick New Yawk
accent in her prose—and isn’t afraid to resort
to F-bombs for emphasis when something
gets in her craw. Hers is the perspective of an
artist who’s overcome a lot of emotional and
physical barriers to achieve the improbable,
yet is aware that luck has as much to do with
her success as her own determination.
Yes, she’s so unusual. But how boring
(and less colorful) would the 80s have been
without Lauper’s bubbly music and perky
performances?
A Memoir also includes two photo sections,
with twenty pages of full-color shots of young
Cyndi at confirmation, posing with WWF
friends (Captain Lou Albano, Hulk Hogan,
Mr. T, etc.), hanging out in Russia, giving
Vibes costar Peter Falk “finger waves” in his
hair, and performing on tour. Several black
and whites in back show Cyn jamming with
bassist Bill Wittman, sax player John Turi,
drummer Sammy Merendino, and keyboard
player Steve Gaboury. There’s also a couple
“we can laugh about it now” type shots of
Flyer and Blue Angel.
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that’s fitting an army.” (laughs)
Angie has definite thoughts on today’s rock
fashion styles. “It’s all a repeat,” she says.
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Lady Gaga but her looks are theatre; it has
nothing to do with fashion. People love for
you to think what you see on stage is fashion
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interesting. I do love Michael
Kors but none of them is a
Valentina or a designer that really
twists it. They aren’t the guys
that were part of City Lights
Studio.”
Angie continues, “Rock &
Roll is rooted in fashion, the
look and how many perceive
themselves to be. The fashion has
not become any more interesting;
it has become more mundane. I
remember once thinking that if I
have to keep looking at someone
on stage in a pair of jeans I
would hurl. Now if I go to a
place and see someone wearing
anything else but full rock star
black or jeans with a t-shirt,
your jaw drops because you are
amazed that someone thought
of a look and took the time to
get dressed up. Unfortunately
though, most of the time we are
forced to endure mediocrity.”
Throughout Angie’s book, “Lipstick
Legends”, we are reminded of musicians
who brought fashion into their rock look and
it not only commanded attention, it showed
individual style that walked hand in hand
with their music. Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones,
Little Richard, Liberace, David Bowie,
Marc Bolan, Motown; the endless list of put
together musicians regardless of sexual origin
took style and fashion while mixing the look
with their music and we do remember those
images.
“Until you sit down
and look at things in a
chronological order, you
can then see exactly how
it developed,” said Angie.
“It all glorifies peace. Even
back in the days of courts
and early monarchy, people
concerned themselves with
fashion and fine fabrics.
Many dress a certain way
and style so they can get
laid.” (laughs)
Angie describes in her
book how the audience
would get dressed up when
going to a show and be part
of the experience. She feels
that has now changed. “It
doesn’t seem that audiences
have the total camaraderie
any more of being part of
the concert experience.
There is no longer a
collective sharing of being a team and being
part of the music either by dressing in costume
or having a certain look or a dance. People
may sing the words but it’s like repeating a
mantra. It’s as though audiences think towards
the artist, “Entertain me or die.” They sing the
words while standing there in their sweatshirts
and jeans, having shown up to the concert as
though it was an imposition but they attend
because they paid so much for the ticket.”
As the former wife of David Bowie,
Angie helped him to have a certain look
that intertwined with his music. “David was
always a mod and a dandy,” explains Angie. “I
took what he wore, how he looked, the things
he was interested in and I put it all through
the filter of what I experienced in my life and
then made suggestions. I also knew he would
never do a bloody thing that I said, so I just
bought the clothes and hung them around. I
did things in a way that had the desired effect
without subverting the person’s ego because
they think they owe you. I didn’t want him
to feel like that; I just wanted to be helpful. I
was sick of him not succeeding. It was quite
obvious he needed to be taken in hand and
have someone organizing in such a way that
was hard hitting so he would stop whining
about everything that was the matter with his
career and focus on everything that was right
for his career. I’m good at organizing and
promoting. When people would ask me about
it, I would back off because I wasn’t trying
to take credit. David is the one who wrote
the songs, cavorted around onstage and slept
with anything that moved. All I did was paint
a frame around what he was doing and give it
meaning so he could deliver it on the
radio and on television. It has purpose
and a meaning. It was easier to hang
that on a hook. What had happened to
both of us was sexuality.”
She continues, “Many of those
English rock and rollers had the same
thing going but how could you tell
the difference? You could tell the
difference if you say, “He’s bisexual
and will sleep with anything that
moves!” It’s so much simpler when it’s
the truth. You can never sell something
if it’s not the truth.”
For more information on Angie Bowie:
www.angiebowie.net
Angie Bowie is on Facebook.
By Westside Steve Simmons
Les Miserables
Universal PG13 157min
Here’s a little tip for anyone who plans to
go to a Broadway show or a film based on it.
It might be a good idea to listen to the CD of
the music before going to the theater in order
to become a bit more familiar with the songs.
I did not do that before I’d ventured out to see
LES MISERABLES. Probably my unfamiliar
iti with the music made the experience slightly
less enjoyable than when seeing other musicals including JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
It may also be that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music is more accessible but I digress.
There are a couple of approaches with casting
Broadway musicals for film. You can find
great but unknown Broadway stars with world
class voices or you may choose charismatic
movie stars who can also sing a bit and hope
that the facial expressions carry the song.
Here they’ve opted for the movie stars and
I’ll admit I have no real problem with that
approach.
At the opposite and would be the sequel
to The Phantom of the Opera which included
a stellar cast made up of world class talent.
Even though I found the music and story to be
dreadful I couldn’t help but be in awe of the
spectacular performances.
In Les Miserables, while I was impressed
by the production, I was more surprised that
Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman could sing
at all. No disrespect intended but that is what
Jimmy Ales
pitch correction software is for.
It’s the Victor Hugo tale of the French Revolution, a story of good versus evil and duty
versus human nature.
Valiean (Jackman) has been sentenced to
many years of hard labor for a minor crime.
Javert (Crow) is the police officer who will
hound him for his entire life, not from any
type of hatred, but for his own twisted reality
of the black and white, right and wrong.
Soon after being paroled Valiean burglarizes a
church and the kindness showed to him upon
his apprehension is an epiphany in his life.
He pledges to live his life to make the world a
better place and takes charge of an orphaned
child. Though his life has changed Javert still
suspect him of being the parole breaker from
years gone by.
The events of the revolution bring the
adversaries face to face yet again. I will leave
you to ponder whether Jackman will come to
grips with his true identity or if Crowe can
face and overcome his self-imposed dogma.
There are few memorable songs and only
a couple light hearted, if you can call them
that, moments featuring Sasha Baron Cohen as
a conniving innkeeper.
At nearly 3 hours the film has a tendency
to drag, although surprisingly, not terribly.
I’m guessing I may well like the powerful
story better the second time as I become more
acquainted with the soundtrack
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I wouldn’t have taken
notice of NOT FADE AWAY
unless I’d seen the blurb
stating that it’s a coming
of age films about a minor
league rock and roll band
in the sixties, and not even
minor league to the level that
the Wonders were in THAT
THING YOU DO. For the
hundreds of upstart bands who get
so much as one record made there
are literally thousands who never make it out
of the basement, garage or the neighborhood.
This film deals with the latter
I suppose the emotions and conflicts
shown here are similar in any microcosm of
young life.
Even though these guys were 6 or 7 years
apart from my own roots (6 or 7 years is an
eternity in popular music) many of the personal relationships are ageless.
There’s the alpha male struggle concerning who will be the one to front the band.
There’s the friction caused by the girl who
has had relationships with other members of
the band. There are musicians anxious to take
a gamble and those who constantly hesitate;
blue collar, preppy, rich, poor, all bound
together under the banner of rock and roll. The
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By Luthier Patrick Podpadec
I hope everyone had a great holiday
season. It comes and goes so fast. I had a
great time this year watching all of the little
nieces and nephews opening their gifts. It’s so
fun to see the excitement on their little faces
when they get some new toy. That excitement
is always contagious even if it is for just a
moment. If only we could hang on to that
emotion and hold it forever.
Well, I’m trying to
go back in my mind and
remember all of the things
that happened in the past few
weeks and it seems as though
it was months ago already.
Why is that? I don’t think I’ll
ever figure that one out. One
thing that definitely stands
out is the beautiful Concert
Ukelele that I built for my
friend Chad Ely’s daughter,
Emma. I delivered it to her
last week on her 10th birthday
and her smile will live in my
memory forever.
I know that ukeleles are
making a big come back in
the music world, and I think I
know why. They are so damn
cute! They are even more
fun to build than guitars. For whatever reason
the excitement of putting it all together and to
hear the first notes that are played from them
are overwhelming. I really have to thank Chad
and his wife for giving me the opportunity to
build this ukelele for their daughter. It gave
me a new perspective on my business. All of
my creative juices were able to be rejuvenated
and it feels great! I was able to have all of
the design control and I believe I came up
with a very nice shape that will be a big hit in
the ukelele world. The body style is sort of a
takeoff on a design from the Kay Kraft brand
of instruments that were built in the 1930’s.
I changed the body style ever so slightly and
added my traditional oval sound hole with the
overlay ring. I adjusted the headstock shape
to fit my style of headstock design that I have
used on previous instruments.
Another feature that I believe is kind of
cool is that I used as many domesticated
woods as I could. The back and sides were
made of “spalted sycamore”, a wood that I
personally cut, milled , and dried myself right
here in Madison, Ohio about 6-8 yrs ago. The
neck wood was also cut and processed by me
from Madison. It was a lamination of black
cherry (from my yard) and “flamed maple’
(from my mother’s yard). The fingerboard was
a beautiful piece of quartersawn walnut that
was salvaged out of a stack of firewood about
5 yrs ago. I’m always looking at wood from
the woodpile. I have found many very nice
pieces through the years that have been used
for different projects.
The top was from a gorgeous piece of
California redwood
that was salvaged
from when I helped
build the back deck for
the “Flying Burrito”
about 10 yrs ago. The
deck is solid redwood
that a friend of mine
salvaged from some
very large wine barrels
from California in
the early 1900’s. So
the wood has been
salvaged twice. How
cool is that? I can only
imagine that the tone
this little concert size
ukelele will produce
through the upcoming
years (and forever ) will emanate its beautiful
memories and the fun loving energy that I
put into building it through every note that is
played on it.
I also tried a new type of “hybrid”
waterborne finish on it which I was really
pleased with the ease of application and final
results of how it buffed out. It has a very high
gloss finish which with the proper cure time
(about 4 days, 1/3 of the time for traditional
lacquers) it can be buffed out very nicely. I
have wanted to use finish materials that are
more environmentally friendly and less toxic
on my health. After all, I would like to still be
producing instruments as long as I can. So far
this new product seems to be a good candidate
for my future builds.
Another thing about building this
instrument is that it gave me a good
opportunity to document the time and effort
that goes into designing and building a new
instrument. I’m sure that the time would
vary greatly between every different builder,
but at least I got a pretty good handle on
what it took for me to do it. Having never
built a ukelele before I had to build a few
jigs and forms so that I could be sure that
my building procedures went smoothly.
This process will also vary greatly between
builders but I estimate that it took me at least
16-20 hrs to figure out and build a couple of
different forms for the uke. Then the woods
that you decide to use for your instrument
have to be processed, and milled. Bending the
sides (once you have studied and know the
procedure) and putting the body together after
you have glued on all of the braces properly
to the back and sides also takes about 16-20
hrs. I then rout and bind the top and back (8
hrs). I start shaping and sanding the neck to
the final profile which takes 6-8 hrs I then cut
all of the fret slots and press in the frets. After
shaping, filing and polishing the frets about 6
hrs have gone by. Now I cut the mortise and
tenon joint and align and fit the body/neck
joint to the proper neck angle (4-6 hrs). After
I’m confident that all is going as planned, I
build the bridge, cut the saddle slot and build
the nut and saddle from a blank of bone. This
can take another 6-8 hrs. Gluing, sanding, and
fixing any small imperfection that inevitably
happen aligning everything up perfectly can
take another 4-6 hrs.
Now it’s off to finishing. This process has
always been my “nemesis”. The time spent
on this procedure can also vary widely. With
drying, sanding, filling in small imperfections
and curing time, buffing and final stringing it
up and setup to play properly it can take up
to a 40 or 50 hrs in itself. I guess I still have a
few things to learn yet before I can reach my
goal of 50 instruments a year. Please “Stay in
Tune” at my website at liamguitars.com for
many cool pics and info on the instruments
that I build.
Thanks Again!
Patrick from Liam Guitars/ Wood-n-Strings
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame pays tribute to
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with free Museum admission,
live performances, film screening
Monday, January 21
Multi-platinum R&B recording artist Bobby V (Bobby Valentino) will headline
To celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame and Museum will once again open its
doors to the public free of charge on Monday,
January 21 in a celebration of community
spirit and civic pride. This marks the 12th
straight year that the Museum offers FREE
admission to the public.
The Rock Hall will be open from 10
a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Visitors to the Museum
will have the opportunity to tour the facility
free of charge until closing. Throughout
the day an array of entertainment will take
place at the Museum, including a continuous
film screening in the Foster Theater of the
complete “I Have a Dream” speech from
August 28, 1963. Music will begin on
the Main Stage shortly after the Museum
opens and will include performances by the
Distinguished Gentlemen of the Spoken
Word, all-female band Women in the Spirit,
girl group cover band Tra-la-la, the Antioch
Spiritual Arts Choir, solo R&B artist Diamond
Carter and multi-platinum artist Bobby V
(formally known as Bobby Valentino). The
event will be emceed by Jason Walker of Terry
Macklin Entertainment.
R&B recording artist Bobby V (formally
Bobby Valentino) has had No. 1 singles,
platinum and gold albums, has toured the
world and has appeared on songs with Lil
Wayne and Ludacris, among many others.
Five years into a remarkable solo career,
Bobby V has experienced the best the music
industry has to offer while working with some
of the industry’s most successful artists.
Bobby V scored a hit when he was only 15
years old with as one-fourth of the 1990s R&B
group Mista with “Blackberry
Molasses,” a tune produced
by Organized Noize (OutKast,
TLC) that became a Top 20
R&B hit. Even with this success,
Mista dissolved. Bobby V
then enrolled at Clark Atlanta
University, where he graduated
with a communications degree
and developed a keen business
sense.
His debut solo album, 2005′s
Disturbing Tha Peace Presents
Bobby Valentino, earned the No.
1 spot on Billboard’s Top R&B/
Hip-Hop Albums chart. In 2007,
Bobby V returned with Special
Occasion, which featured the Timbaland
produced hit, “Anonymous,” and Rodney
Jerkins produced, “Turn the Page.” His third
album, 2009′s the Rebirth, featured the hit
“Beep” and was the first album released on his
own Blu Kolla Dreams imprint, in conjunction
with Capitol Records, which debuted at
Number 1 on the Billboard Hip Hop and R&B
chart.
His latest album, Fly on the Wall,
released in October 2012, is filled with
stories of his remarkable experiences. With
production handled by Tim & Bob (Boyz
II Men, Michael Jackson), the Pentagon
(formerly the Underdogs [Beyonce, Justin
Timberlake]), LOS (Usher, the Dream) and
Jazze Pha (T.I., Ciara), Fly On The Wall
contains the type of polished production
accented by live instrumentation that has
become Bobby V’s signature.
As his career continues expanding, he
makes a point to give back to those who
are less fortunate. Through his Bobby V
Foundation, the singer encourages people to
value and to pursue higher education.
For a list of current exhibits and for more
information about this and other Rock Hall
events, visit rockhall.com. The Rock Hall’s
Community Festivals are sponsored by
KeyBank.
history and continuing significance of rock
and roll music. It carries out this mission
through its operation of a world-class museum
that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets
this art form and through its library and
archives as well as its educational programs.
The Museum is open seven days a week
from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On Wednesdays,
the Museum is open until 9 p.m. Museum
admission is $22 for adults, $17 for seniors
(65+) and $13 for youth (9-12). When you
become a member of the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame and Museum, the world of
rock and roll becomes yours to explore. Call
216.515.8425 for information on becoming a
member. For general inquiries,
please call 216.781.ROCK (7625) or visit
www.rockhall.com.
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brutal realization by the self-styled artist that
there is a reason it’s called the music business.
In one of the story lines father James Gandolfini tries to bridge the gap between him and
his son. Yes, dad hates the haircut, hates the
clothing, hates the music but is beginning to
face the fact that his son will soon be whatever
amounts to a patriarch. He will speak to his
son as he might to a priest at confession which
reminds me how daunting the idea is that
someday each boy will someday be the man of
the family.
I admit that I probably liked it more because
I could relate to a lot of the reality of my own
experience
Possibly one of the reasons this strikes such a
chord with those who have been in the music
business at any level is that the producer is
Steve Van Zandt, guitar player for Bruce
Springsteen and Jersey legend.
A-
Jack Reacher
Paramount PG12
Jack Reacher is a character in a very successful series of novels created by author Lee
Child. Thanks to audible.com I’ve read a few
of these and it seems they follow a particular
pattern.
Reacher (Tom Cruise) is a tough as nails
ex army cop who wanders the country and
finds himself embroiled in all kinds of dangerous situations.
There are some plot devices that find
their way into just about every novel. The bad
guys are usually people with power who prey
upon innocent people for their own wicked
purposes. Often a bystander will be framed for
those crimes. Local law enforcement officials
are almost always ill prepared to deal with the
skullduggery prompting Reacher to reluctantly
come to their aid. At 6 foot 5 inches Reacher
really is meaner than a junkyard dog and
makes bad bad Leroy Brown look like Wally
Cox.
The mysteries are often resolved by the
big man either beating the living shit out of
the bad guys, killing them, or both.
In this film, adapted from the novel One
Shot, a sharpshooter with a checkered past
is framed for a mass murder. Though at first
Reacher believes he’s guilty something still
smells fishy and he gets to the bottom of it.
Another familiar scene in Childs novels is
when multiple thugs attempt to scare our hero
away. Usually he will counsel these inbred
idiots to come back at a later date and to
bring reinforcements. I mean why waste time
hospitalizing 2 or 3 crackers when you can
send a half dozen or more to the emergency
room? Oh, I realize that’s a cheap and easy
gimmick but to be honest I enjoy it every time
it happens.
It will probably take a while to get used
to the idea that the miniscule Tom Cruise is
in the lead role but what the hell? I’ve never
heard anyone complain about Alan Ladd’s
pygmy stature so...
If you enjoy seeing bad guys getting
their asses kicked this is for you.
B
Django Unchained
Weinstein R 165min
You gotta love Quentin Tarantino. The
guy has an apparent love affair with all of
the worst genres of the late sixties
and seventies films.
Remember those really crappy
slasher and blood spattered epics
they used to package up in groups
of 3 for the drive-ins?
Same thing with
those awful generic
karate flicks? But to
tell you the truth, as
bad as those were,
when Tarantino
reproduces one it’s
almost always sick,
twisted, gory, chintzy
and especially a lot of
fun to watch.
DJANGO UNCHAINED is his salute to what they called
blacksploitation flicks
decades ago. Remember SHAFT? Remember MANDINGO? The
hook in these is usually that
white people suck and that
the noble hero, as star Jamie Foxx quipped on
Saturday Night Live, gets to kill a lot of white
people.
In this film the only Caucasian who isn’t
a truly rotten son of a bitch is bounty hunter
Dr. King Shultz (Christoph Waltz.)
He’s looking to collect the reward for the
notorious Brittle brothers. Django is a slave on
his way to be sold but who just happens to be
one of a few people who actually know what
the Brittle brothers look like.
Waltz purchases Django fair and square to
be his assistant on this quest and promises that
when it is complete he will have his freedom
as a reward.
Well, after the little brothers are blown to
smithereens Django decides he enjoys the job
and becomes a partner with a mission of his
own.
He wants to find and rescue his wife who
has been sold to some pretty nasty
folks and Waltz is happy to assist.
After many months of this bloody
crusade she’s found at the plantation called
Candyland owned the elegantly vicious Leonardo DiCaprio.
The whole thing is bloody violent and
even laugh out loud funny on occasion. It reminded me a little of a Sam Peckinpah version
of Blazing Saddles.
I’ve heard complaints of gratuitous
violence and over the top racism and those
things are impossible to deny. No doubt, had a
similar film been made and the races reversed
there would be hell to pay.
Probably only the chronically outraged and
the faint of heart will really hate this. Then
again they hate everything.
On the other hand it’s crap but it’s fun crap.
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Travel Bug or History Buff?
Castles of Southern Ireland
By Wm Martin
My name is William Martin and I’m of
Irish lineage. My grandparents came over
from Ireland in the early 20th century, but not
with each other. My grandmother, Elizabeth
Rafferty, was merely 14 years of age when
she landed on Ellis Island along with her older
sister. My grandfather Joseph Martin had
arrived several years earlier in 1890. I grew
up in a home very proud of its Irish heritage,
regaled with the legends and filled with the
Celtic music of Ireland. Like many children of
immigrants, I have had a desire to go back to
my ancestral soil.
Very little has fascinated me more about
Ireland than its history of turmoil and clan
rivalries, its religious wars together with the
mark they have left on the people along with
its landscape. One of the most important
marks left on the ground is castles. Ireland is
full of castles, old castles, destroyed castles,
castles forgotten, and castles remodeled and
converted into grand hotels. It’s no blarney,
you will discover hundreds of castles in
Ireland therefore we will restrict ourselves to
just a few of the more interesting. By the way
that is blarney with a small B, Blarney with
a big B is, needless to say, a castle in County
Cork.
So, why not start with the afore referred
to Blarney Castle. Blarney may very well be
the most renowned castle in all of Ireland.
Countless visitors come each and every year
to visit the gardens, castle, and of course, to
kiss the renowned Blarney Stone. The original
castle dates back to the 13th century however
it was destroyed and rebuilt in the 15th
century. Blarney was the citadel home of the
McCarthy clan and it is from here that Cormac
McCarthy sent his evasive answers to Queen
Elizabeth’s calls for submission. Elizabeth is
thought to have coined the word blarney to
describe all evasive answers and obfuscation.
The ruin of Leep Castle, in County Offally, is
the ancestral home of the warlike O’Carroll
sept. The castle safeguards a strategic
mountain pass and from here the
O’Carroll’s were the last holdouts
in opposition to English control
in the 17th century. Leep Castle
is alleged to be haunted. Teige
O’Carroll murdered his brother, a
Catholic priest, at the altar of the
castle church. Local people say
that after the castle was destroyed
by fire in 1922, cartloads of
bones were removed from the
castle’s dungeons. Leap castle is
off of the beaten path but you can
arrange a tour with the owner. A visit to this
haunted castle is said to be a once in a lifetime
experience.
Kilkenny Castle, also known as Butler
Castle, is the ancestral home of the Butler
Earls of Ormond. The castle was originally
established by William Marshall, Earl of
Pembroke, in the late 12th century at a fording
spot on the River Nore. It was obtained by
the Butler’s 1n 1391. Kilkenny Castle is one
of the most breathtaking in all of Ireland.
Currently the castle and grounds belong to the
people of Ireland and it is open to the public.
Every three years there is a Butler Reunion
held at Kilkenny Castle where there is also
a Butler genealogy archive. No vacation to
Ireland could be complete without a stop at
Kilkenny Castle.
I have only highlighted a few of the
many castles existing throughout southern
Ireland. Other popular castles od County
Cork are Ballea Castle, Ballynamona Castle
and Desmond Castle to mention a just few
more. Plan your Irish vacation to include some
or all of these marvelous cultural landmarks
and you won’t get it wrong. Erin go braugh.
Wm M. Martin is a genealogist at Name Game
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The members of Southern Rock quintet
Blackberry Smoke are no strangers to hard
work. Playing up to 250 dates each year, the
guys are on the road more often than not, and
they’ve seen tangible results of their labor.
The band has toured with and befriended idols
such as The Marshall Tucker Band, ZZ Top
(with Billy Gibbons jamming with the band on
a Florida stop), Lynyrd Skynyrd and George
Jones. The band was even asked to play for
Jones on his 80th birthday, not long after the
country legend turned in a guest appearance
on the band’s sophomore album. They’ve
toured Europe thrice over, and had their songs
featured in video games (EA Sports’ NASCAR
08) and films (Swing Vote), as well.
Mixing elements of gospel, bluegrass,
arena rock, soul and more than a touch of
outlaw country, Blackberry Smoke has earned
a passionate fanbase that continues to grow
as the band itself evolves. The band is as blue
collar as the bandanas its members wear.
In a little more than a decade together,
Blackberry Smoke has released three fulllength albums—including 2012’s The
Whippoorwill, the band’s first for country
megastar Zac Brown’s Southern Ground
label—two EPs and a live DVD, Live at the
Georgia Theatre, which serves as the perfect
showcase for the band’s raucous, rockin’
good-times-for-all take on rock ’n’ roll. A
chunk of the DVD’s concert footage has aired
numerous times on Palladia, and the band
also shot a DirecTV concert that has aired
countless times.
Though these road dogs rarely have
downtime, they recently managed to carve
out enough time to record their newest batch
of songs for The Whippoorwill, an album that
serves as a platform for smart, battle-tested
songwriting and for the band’s ability to leave
audiences breathless. Despite the additional
resources at its fingertips, the band decided
that The Whippoorwill would be largely an
in-house affair—its own songs, done its own
way. Consequently, the band is more excited
for this album’s release than any effort thus
far.
“I remember not being able to sleep
well at night when we were making this new
album,” Charlie recalls. “I was so excited
about which songs we were going to cut the
next day. After it’s done and we can hold it
in our hands and be proud of it we know that
there’s another one that will have to be made
in the not too distant future, but it feels really
good to have this one finished; we’re all really
proud of it.”
With Zac Brown and the entire Southern
Ground team behind them, Charlie and the
Blackberry Smoke L-R: Richard Turner - Bass/Vocals,
Chasrlie Starr - Guitar/Vocals, Brandon Still - Keys, Brit
Turner - Drums, Paul Jackson - Guitar/Vocals
boys are experiencing all the benefits of life
on a larger label. For an already busy band,
business is booming. Even though they have
a wealth of experience under their belts, with
the release of The Whippoorwill, the guys find
themselves in uncharted territory. “We’ve
never done an album and actually planned a
tour around it,” Charlie confesses. “It’s always
been ‘tour constantly and whenever the album
is done, it comes out.’ It’s a new thing for us to
actually plan this far ahead.”
“For all the planning ahead, we still had
to get it done in four-and-a-half days, so it’s
not like we had time to stretch out and find
the most comfortable chair in the studio,”
Charlie says. “In a perfect world, I’d like to
take a little bit more time to record, but it’s
not possible until they add more hours in the
day and more days in the week. We’re used to
doing it that way anyway.”
Regardless of whatever pressures the band
might have been under while the red light was
on in the studio, that stress isn’t evident on any
of The Whippoorwill’s 13 tracks. For example,
album opener, “Six Ways to Sunday,” is a
footstomping tune that mirrors the song’s
carefree attitude, and could be mistaken for an
old Motown track at times. At the same time,
the title track has the effortless blues approach
of ’70s-era Pink Floyd, but with more grease.
Nothing feels forced.
Indeed, the band’s history together gives
them a natural chemistry when writing the
songs that could easily find a home with a
diverse set of audiences. Straddling the line
between paying homage to one’s heroes and
blatant theft is a tricky business, but it’s a
divide that the members of Blackberry Smoke
traverse with ease. The band invites a few
comparisons to the hallowed forefathers of
Skynyrd, but don’t expect to hear the same
worn out clichés in their songs that every other
band with country, pop or rock leanings have
already espoused.
Blackberry Smoke’s video “Pretty Little Lie”
premieres on CMT.com January 18th.
Visit houseofblues.com/Cleveland for ticket
info.
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I’m Sicker than You!
Well, we’ve moved out of the holiday
season into the wonderful flu season but you
don’t hear any Holidacians touting “Happy
Influenza” now do you? You don’t see them
filling their yards with blow up flu shots yard
crap or decorating a tree with cough drop
boxes and used Kleenex tissues either!
That’s because there’s absolutely nothing
happy about having the flu, except realizing
that you no longer have it!
We don’t know precisely when we’re
going to get the flu; it just happens one day
and usually at the most inopportune times!
Well there is this one day when I was in the
5th grade that I was happy to have the flu
because it actually made me a hero of sorts
for about a week amongst some of my fellow
classmates!
My 5th grade teacher was a bit of an OCD
stuffed shirt type of guy. Teaching was more
of a job than a passion with him. He dressed
like James Bond with his hair all slicked back
with Brylcreem and he wore those brown
leather loafers with the little leather tassels
dangling off the center of the tongue.
He liked things to be in order; he liked
thinking he was in control while holding
the future of 30 eleven year olds in the
palms of his hands each day. He also liked
to hear himself talk and did not like being
interrupted.
This one fateful day though his life was
about to change, he didn’t know that morning
while standing in front of his mirror combing
the Brylcreem into his hair that he was about
to learn a valuable lesson in life…
don’t… ignore… the Snarp!
He’s sitting on his desk with one foot
on the floor and the other one dangling from
the desktop and he’s blabbering on about
something that I really didn’t care about.
My desk is directly in front of his
because he liked to taunt me about sitting
still all the time, when out of the blue I start
feeling a little queasy, so I raised my hand,
like a good little Snarp, to get his permission
to go to the restroom but he ignores me. He
continues to yak on, glaring down at me
obviously disturbed that I wasn’t about to give
up and put my hand down, I had an important
question damnit!
Well, after 20 minutes of Mr. Flu
creeping up on me, my stomach getting
queasier by the second, the teacher continuing
to yak and not calling on me to see what I
wanted, I finally gave up trying to be polite
and just hurled about a gallon of green colored
oatmeal laden bile all down his pant leg and
all over his nicely polished brown leather
loafer with the little leather tassels!
Ha-Ha-Ha!!
This not only got his attention to stop
ignoring me and tell me I could go to the
restroom but started a chain reaction of some
of the weaker stomached classmates and they
raced out of the room too! Nothing like the
smell of fresh bile first thing in the morning to
brighten your day!
Ha-Ha-Ha!
After a day at home recuperating I
returned to school and got lots of pats on
the back from the male gender classmates
for performing such a classic hurl while the
females kept telling me how sick it was!
There’s a difference in being ill with a
twisted stomach and being sick with a twisted
mind. I was ill but ignored, which made
me sick and twisted my mind to react to my
situation! Needless to say from
that day on I always got his
attention, he moved me to the
back of the room and I never
saw him wearing those nicely
polished brown leather loafers
with the little leather tassels
again! Ha-Ha-Ha!
~ Snarp
www.snarpfarkle.com
~ Rick Ray
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