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Along with all the stars that interviewing and mingling walked away from the 83rd with guest throughout the Annual Academy Awards evening. This regal gathering ceremony with that coveted included an official Oscar Oscar, the ACMC Foundation program as given to those walked away a winner after at Kodak theater, splendid the regional official Oscar hor d’uerves, a vast array viewing party. The event was of auction items of which held at The Lodge at Geneva many were movie and sports and took place on February related, televisions throughout 27th simultaneously with the the party area to see the live Hollywood event. presentation, and casino games for Attendees were greeted with any choosing a diversion. champagne and paparazzi as they The ACMC Foundation strolled to the red carpet and on into procured the party as a fundraiser the elegant ballroom. NewsChannel to build a clinic for the uninsured 5 Chief Meteorologist, Mark Johnson, or underinsured of the surrounding was the celebrity host for the evening community. The participants helped to and yes, a brief segment was aired provide much needed funding and the on the 11p.m. news that evening. evening was deemed a success. Local personalities, Mark, Jeremy and Jennifer from Media One Group were
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Stop by Horizons Lounge located at The Lodge and enjoy big screen TV’s, great views of Lake Erie as well as weekend live entertainment, James Franco and Anne daily drink specials and a relaxing break from the everyday. Hathaway host the 83rd Annual Academy Awards® Photo by Michael Yada / ©A.M.P.A.S.
NewsChannel 5 Chief Karen O’Hara (Set Decoration) Meteorologist, Mark Johnson, 19 - Dave Young accepts the Oscar® for Achieve- was the celebrity host. 26 - Joey Vanilli ment in Art Direction for work done on “Alice in Wonderland” from Tom Hanks. Photo: Michael Yada / ©A.M.P.A.S. 05 - Joey Vanilli 12 - Next Best Thing 19 - Dave Young 26 - Dennis Ford
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March 5 to the west/ I stroke it to the woman to quit! The seventy- know back then that that I love best!” Who can remember five-year-old soul singer, someday I would Music by those racy lyrics to Clarence Carter’s who began his musical be interviewing this Steve Jochum hit single “Strokin’”? Although the kind career in 1960 at the iconic forerunner of 8pm of lascivious thoughts expressed in the age of twenty-four, has Southern-fried soul. song would be considered tame today, never stopped recording NCV: Tell me in 1986 the lyrics were way too explicit or touring. The artist about your early life, March 8 to be played on mainstream radio. has earned five gold growing up in the Fat Tuesday Nevertheless, the hilariously lewd records and released South. Sheppard’s Pie • Gumbo tune with the catchy hook garnered 46 albums over the CARTER: Beads by Booter! the singer a gold record and became a years, including“Ain’t This Ready to Retire”Well, I was born favorite in clubs and jukeboxes across Is Clarence Carter in in Montgomery, the nation 2010, and I Couldn’t Alabama in 1936, on a Sat. Carter knows all too well that Refuse in 2011. cold, cloudy Tuesday March 12 times - and tastes - have changed. He To many a teenager (such as morning. I started school Hardcore understands that older musicians have myself) during the sixties, Clarence when I was six years old at the Alabama a tough time getting Carter’s stinging guitar licks School for the Blind in Talladega. Troubadours heard in the world of exemplified the gritty, earthy (Carter was blind from birth.) modern show business. sound of Muscle Shoals R NCV: I know that is the same “A lot of the older & B, fusing the raw emotion school where the Blind Boys of St. Patty’s musicians who used to of the blues with a wicked Alabama met. Did you know any of Day Party record still do,” Carter wit to create deeply soulful them? Open 12:00 pm said. “But once you pass music with Southern roots, CARTER: Yes, I did. They were a forty, you’ve gotten out of distinctly different from little older and when they left school Food Specials the limelight of what they the polished, more urban and went out on the road performing, Including Delicious are going to play on the Motown music coming we were all real proud of them. Corned Beef & radio.” across the airwaves from NCV: How did you get started Drink Specials playing music? “Green Beer”! CARTER: When I was eleven years old, my mother told me that Santa would not be coming to our house anymore. Though this news was Sat. disappointing to me at first, I quickly March 19 recovered when she told me that she Karaoke with bought me a guitar for Christmas. I DJ Emmett had a hard time learning to play it because I had to teach myself, but I was determined. I listened to other people play and copied what I heard. MONDAY-FRIDAY NCV: Well, you sound pretty good $1.50 Happy Hour on that Jazzmaster. Who inspired you? CARTER: I listened to the blues 3-6pm classics of John Lee Hooker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Jimmy Reed. I loved the Mon: 35¢ Wings country music and they had a good (Dine in only) radio station. Ray Charles was a big
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But he ing in a full four pop chart hits. The biggest one was, which inspired really cared about his artists and he had of course, was “Slip Away” at #6, but “Funky Fever”; Etta James to great musical taste. “Looking for a Fox”, and “Thread the Needle” would respond with NCV: How about Ahmet Ertegun? do any soul playlist proud. So, for that matter, would her major hit CARTER: Ahmet was a lot of fun, the rest of the album; there ain’t a weak track on it! “Tell Mama.” and “good people” too. I remember Atlantic Re- one time he came up to Detroit where cords I was playing some little club and he inspiration. I knew he was blind when I Carter’s stayed for two days! I thought, “What’s was in school and it made me happy to association with he doing here listening to me when he see him successful. Fame Records could be anywhere?” But that’s just the ••••• lasted from 1966 way he was – record producers back These were the days of racial experiences with Duke Records until 1973, during which time he honed then really got to know their artists; tension and injustice in the South, happened the day we received our first his songwriting skills and consistently they tried to help them and get them and getting into college was not an royalty check that amounted to twenty- hit the charts. The superb popcorn- what they needed. Not like today. easy task for a black man in Alabama. five cents! soul effort “Thread the Needle” was a Atlantic Records proved to be Rick (Remember Governor George ••••• minor crossover hit, and “Looking for Hall’s good idea for my career; it was Wallace blocking the doorway to the In all, the duo cut four Duke a Fox” was the first of many singles that company that gave stability in the University of Alabama in protest of singles, none of them generating more to slyly reference the singer’s visual music business for me. desegregation?) Clarence says:”It than a shrug at radio -- finally, in impairment. He was also signed as ••••• was hard trying to convince the 1965 they traveled to Fame Studio in a solo artist with Jerry Wexler’s big Atlantic soon released “Slip officials to pay for a ‘black’ to go to Muscle Shoals, paying $85 to record the label Atlantic in 1968. The percolating Away,” a perfect amalgam of Carter’s college; likewise it was more difficult wrenching ballad “Step by Step” and its “Snatching It Back” was Carter’s first wrenching vocal and guitar styles and persuading college presidents that flip side, “Rooster Knees and Rice.” An Atlantic release of 1969 -- its B-side, the powerhouse Muscle Shoals rhythm blind students could perform in Atlanta radio personality recommended a remake of James Carr’s deep soul section (Rick Hall’s Fame house band). college.” However, through steadfast Clarence & Calvin to Atlantic Records classic “The Dark End of the Street,” The record broke into the national perseverance, several black students producer Jerry Wexler, and the label remains one of the singer’s most Top 10 and made the “Muscle Shoals were able to attend Alabama State issued “Step by Step” on its smaller potent efforts, drawing on traditional sound” famous. Few performances College in Montgomery, where Atco subsidiary -- the record failed blues and gospel to explore both the better typified the emerging Carter Clarence majored in music and to chart, and the duo was once again absurdity and anguish of infidelity. Carter continued on page 23 learned how to transcribe charts and looking for a label. arrangements in Braille, graduating NCV: How long did you work with with a B.S. degree in music in1960. Calvin Scott? NCV: How did you start your CARTER: My association with musical career? Calvin was short lived because in CARTER: It began with a school pal 1966, we had an automobile accident of mine, Calvin Scott, and we signed that caused us to choose different a contract with Duke Records from careers. I then signed a contract with which we had two releases that you Rick Hall, who owned Fame Records, probably never heard. We were known which was located in Muscle Shoals, by several names, Clarence and Calvin Alabama. This was probably one of and sometimes were called the C.C. the wisest moves I have ever made. I Boys. The songs that we recorded were learned how to write songs, how to sing “You Stole My Heart” and “Money and professionally and how songs were Women”. I think one of the funniest produced into hit records. The name of
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Foreword: Upon proofreading this piece, I discovered that the opening paragraphs project a certain negativity that is quite unlike my usual approach to this column. I do assure you though, the Grammy’s. day – her mother. UNDER CONSTRUCTION that once you’ve read beyond my initial I have the utmost respect for At age four, after watching opinionated rant, you will discover a many of those who have been classical cellist Yo Yo Ma perform “Face Value” wealth of positive information about an chosen as Grammy on an episode of amazing young talent. Award recipients. Mister Rogers’ I must admit that I did not Those who have been Neighborhood, watch the Grammy Awards this chosen because of she knew that year. As a matter of fact, I’ve not true accomplishment, she wanted to once seen the program. Nor have I based upon true become involved ever viewed The American Music talent. I do, however in music. Within Awards. You would probably have feel that the validity a year, she to tie me to a chair and tape my of the award seems had essentially Armand Cadieux • Guitar eyelids open to get me to watch questionable, when taught herself to Greg Pudder • Bass Joey Pyles • Drums that one. I have, from time to time a recipient is chosen play the violin Don Perry • Sax caught a glimpse of The Oscars, but based more on pop stature, than well enough to land a spot in The usually not much more than the true talent. Chamber Music Society of Oregon, featuring occasional opening of an envelope. Recently, while enjoying dinner a community orchestra that was For full schedule, Something about people wasting with friends at Grand River Cellars open to both children and adult check website more money on a gown than the and listening to the smooth saxwork musicians. She stayed with the DonPerrySaxman.com average person has set aside for of my friend Stan Miller, I learned group for ten years, and by age retirement just doesn’t set well of an upset at the 2011 Grammy 15, she had been elevated to a with me. Don’t even get me started Awards. A young woman who is concertmaster position. on the payscale of professional the definition of “true talent” was At age16, Spaulding left high athletes! chosen as this year’s “Best New school, armed with her GED and I believe that we would set a Artist”, an award that was almost aided by a generous scholarship, much better example for future certain to be presented to the most she enrolled in the music program generations, if we would reserve the recent “teen sensation” whose hair, at Portland State University. From awards and attention with which I may, or may not have mentioned there she moved to the opposite we shower “pop culture heroes” for earlier. coast to attend the Berklee College the true heroes of our time, such as The “Best New Artist, 2011” of Music where the pieces all came nurses, teachers, and firefighters. award goes to Esperanza Spaulding, together and doors started opening. These are some of the people who a young woman who is blessed with After three years of accelerated have chosen truly noble professions, not only the gift of immense musical study, she not only earned a B.M., and whose futures are in jeopardy talent, but with the sensibility but also signed on, at the age of even as you are reading this column. and desire to accomplish the 20, as an instructor, to become the As I was leaving for work unimaginable. She was the only youngest faculty member in the just the other day, I noticed that jazz artist nominated in the “Best history of the college. the topic of discussion on Good New Artist” category and the first Her accomplishments over the Morning America was the fact ever, to win it. In Spanish, her name past five years are many and now that the latest “teen sensation” got means “Hope”; she is a composer, include a Grammy Award, one that his hair cut… Seriously?… In a bassist and a bilingual vocalist with recognizes her for the gift she was world where men and women are a bio even more unbelievable than born with and for the true talent dying for their country, is this really the fact that a jazz artist won the that she has worked to refine. National news? I will not mention Best New Artist category. A tip of my hat to Esperanza his name, partially because I’m not Spalding was born in 1984 Spaulding as well as to the people sure of the proper spelling. Correct in Portland, Oregon and was who have chosen to award her me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Danny raised in a single-parent home with the recognition she so truly Partridge sporting a quite similar amid economically adverse deserves. hairstyle 40 years ago? Quite circumstances. She learned Whether you are a jazz frankly, I wasn’t too impressed with early lessons in the meaning of enthusiast, a music enthusiast, or him either. perseverance and moral character someone who simply appreciates art Hmm, I seem to have forgotten from the role model whom she and those who create it, please visit where I was going with this. Ah yes, holds in the highest regard to this www.esperanzaspaulding.com 10 www.NorthCoastVoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 2 - 23, 2011 North Coast Voice An (Untold) American Tale Wilkerson’s “The Warmth of Other Suns,” illuminates brightly in Ohio nnn...... By Chad Felton
“But I think that the past accounts of days gone by; it became and resettlement of The migration wasn’t cherished ritual, the formal procedure African-Americans without its elements of danger, is all that makes the present of the oppressed everywhere to link past from the South didn’t trepidation and trumped-up coherent, and further that the to present, while building bridges to the have a vocational tone charges. (African-Americans future. Storytelling itself became, in a to it; this wasn’t a were often stopped on past will remain horrible for word, history. relocation of sorts, like trains bound from the South “If this labor of love were a human to a new job in Denver and arrested for vagrancy, exactly as long as we refuse to being, it would be in high school and or being transferred to whimsically. One isn’t assess it honestly.” dating,” Wilkerson said of “Suns,” to another department or technically “working” if one genuine, rolling laughter. Aptly, a first office north or west of is sitting in seat waiting for a –James Baldwin generation child of the migration herself, an existing situation, transit unit to depart.) Wilkerson grew up in Washington, D.C. but a defection, an Arriving in new cities To championship game-like She told the listeners that she had a “very apostasy from the presented, naturally, new applause, she took the speaker’s platform blessed career in journalism,” and later de facto segregation challenges. “People of the almost casually, her smiling face finally began asking herself questions during said masquerading as migration found themselves meeting the expectancy that stirred in career regarding not only her origin, but equality. The pedigree of Jim Crow, in in bustling, belching cities, with things the library meeting room. As with most the origins of her parents (her mother from all its nefarious clutches, gripped and nominally better,” Wilkerson said, “but writers’ appearances, it seemed the Rome, Georgia, her father from Virginia). terrorized lives, prohibited opportunity not free of prevalent prejudice and racial audience’s questions brimmed, wanting Her personal and greater, shared historical and relegated African-Americans to hostility. That was the basic experience. to be immediately asked her. And, curiosity far from satisfied, Wilkerson second-class citizenship. The atmosphere Success wasn’t measured by aspirations to oh, would they. Almost knew she wanted to write an of the South was more or less polluted, become CEOs of Fortune 500 companies sensing the heft of the account, singular by no means, of essentially, by twentieth century slavery or builders of skyscrapers. The migrated anticipation, Pulitzer Prize- stories like her parents who met for more than one hundred years after wanted to build futures for their children, winning writer/journalist removed from the land that sired the Emancipation Proclamation. send them to better schools, own houses Isabel Wilkerson eschewed them, stories of a people seeking Though “theoretically free,” African- and put down new roots. And in the face a reading from her work, to discover a better life, a people Americans were bound worse than of the restricted covenants, new lineages perhaps by design before who gradually began to detach Prometheus by the instituted rules of the were created. It really is a miracle that she ever set foot inside the themselves from the past, from region. “It was against the law for people this revolutionary epic scale was in effect Maple Heights branch, their ancestral soil, from their of a different race to be seen playing leaderless. No politician, minister or and began her address beloved forebears. After 15 years checkers, illegal to pass white motorists messiah emerged. It was all through the with gratitude and a brief of effort and research, and over a on the road,” Wilkerson said, citing will of the people.” synopsis of her astounding staggering 1,200 interviews that simply two of the countless indoctrinated “Suns,” endures as an anthology narrative nonfiction took her all over the country, the (and beyond ridiculous) restrictive delineating the fact that a people need account, “The Warmth culmination of “The Warmth of realities in a caste system of a baleful not have crossed the Atlantic on an of Other Suns: The Epic Other Suns,” was born. era, the audience shaking its collective ocean liner to be a true and significant Story of America’s Great What would you have head, incredulously. Breach of any type story of emigration. The book stands as Migration.” done, stayed or gone? Leave the land your of protocol often meant death. “Imagine a universally and classically American “Suns,” which landed on best ancestors helped build or go on the hope what else they couldn’t do?” telling of historical perspective, with book lists of 2010 all over the country, and prayer of discovering something new The denial of inalienable rights, as the characteristics of courage, grit and continues to stimulate the book world and changing your life and the lives of one can guess, didn’t end there, with fortitude living in its participants equally in its scope and breadth of research, your children? the arcane incomprehension of deep- as the millions that left Europe to arrive at storytelling and narration. It chronicles “Suns,” is indubitably a united tale, seeded racism, in some Southern courts, Ellis Island. the largely untold 20th century exodus woven into the fabric of the American reaching a religious fever pitch, with The cultural impact of the migration of African-American citizens from the experience, nothing within its pages “Black” and “White” Bibles being used also produced scores of icons, including South. The book garnered praise from at all being culturally exclusive to any previous to the taking of oaths. musicians, world-class athletes, television journalist Tom Brokaw, author particular segment of the populace. The To identify what pivotal specifics politicians, writers and executives. “The Gay Talese to fellow Pulitzer winner John stories contained between the covers are that served as catalysts for the initiation soundtrack of America would sound much Meacham and Princeton intellectual and not those of special interests or divisions of the migration is unknowable; however, different,” Wilkerson said. “Where would professor Cornel West. Yet the prose and or partisan concentrations. The book isn’t one certainly was the breakout of WWI, we be as a culture had the migration not passages that comprise the five major a separate entity or merely an African- which spawned opportunities to be taken place?” parts through its three compelling yet American experience, but a human seized by African-Americans in regions To speak of the ultimate legacy of separate individuals’ tales are inviting experience. in the North, Midwest and West. Having The Great Migration is to “look around and familial, free of overly analytical or “We have more in common than we voids to fill left by workers off to war, the room,” Wilkerson said. “You’re it,” technical prose. This, too, is by design. have been lead to believe,” Wilkerson employers went to the cheapest labor referring to the generations of offspring Wilkerson’s collective theme’s genesis said. “Connect the dots and everybody in the land, i.e., the sharecroppers, who acknowledged their parents and began in the oral African-American came from somewhere else.” To her point, domestics, teachers, etc. Though the grandparents had come from the South. tradition of recordkeeping, (testimony 90 percent of African-Americans lived South didn’t take lightly to the poaching “The fact that we exist is the legacy. The to the important role of “griots,” the in the South, pre-migration. “My goal of its labor force, the entreaties of souls of the migration did what they had to hereditary repositories of history) since was to understand what propelled them, heavy recruiting from other areas were do, they answered a higher purpose. I was official documents and records were what motivated them. They changed the answered, and many African-Americans called to write this book. It instills hope in not luxuries afforded to many African- country, 6 million people. The migration began heading to industrial cities, us all. If they could do it, there’s nothing Americans in the early days of the was like jumping off a cliff,” she said. “It leaving behind the fields of cotton, we can’t do. I’ve learned a valuable lesson. republic. Storytelling became more than was a leap of faith.” sugarcane, tobacco and rice, the lifeblood I literally would not exist if not for the just that, more than glorified eyewitness Spanning decades, the journey of the Southern economy. migration. We owe a great debt.”
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“pre-televised Grammy ceremony speech was brief, but he had the 2011 – it is still accessible.) I have whole audience laughing when he included in this column a list of the said “They used to call me Pinetop, nominees and winners in but now they call me Pinebottom!” The results are in from the 53rd categories I feel are Bluesman Annual Grammy Awards ceremony. relevant to our roots Buddy Guy, who Many music fans are not aware of music in this country. was born in Pointe the fact that the awards ceremony This year the Coupee Parish, actually begins early in the Recording Academy Louisiana, took afternoon, with the majority (over honored a couple of home his seventh 100) of awards being handed out in blues music’s revered Grammy for “Best the ”pre-televised” portion of the elder statesmen. The Contemporary show; that is, it is not broadcast on duo of Pinetop Perkins Blues Album” network television. This segment of and Willie “Big Eyes” for Living Proof. the show covers the less commercial Smith won the award He beat out New categories such as blues, jazz, folk, for “Best Traditional Orleans music icon Zydeco, gospel, Native American, Blues Album” for Dr. John, who was Americana, world music, spoken the pair’s tour de force, Joined up for his sixth Grammy award, for word, etc. and is available for live At The Hip. Both well into their “Tribal,” the album recorded with streaming and post-ceremony eighties, they were visibly moved his band “The Lower 911.” While viewing over the Web. (Just Google they accepted their award. Smith he did not bring home a Grammy, fought back tears Dr. John will be as he thanked inducted next month his wife, fellow into the Rock and NO EVENT musicians, and Roll Hall of Fame. TOO BIG OR producers, as well Louisiana native as the “good Lord Chubby Carrier and SMALL! above.” Perkins, his Bayou Swamp at who approached Band earned a the stage in a Grammy award in the wheelchair, stood Best Zydeco or Cajun Bilicic’s Busy Mart up and struggled music album, for up the steps to “Zydeco Junkie.” Call us or Stop in for all your the podium. His New Orleanian Special Event & Party Needs! Tents Tables Chairs Keg Coolers Authorized Dealer
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In honor of National Women’s in the coming weeks. Tickets go on sale History month (March) the North to Rock Hall members on Monday, Coast Voice thought this would be March 28 and to the general public on the perfect time to announce the Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Visit rockhall. upcoming concert and exhibit to be com for more information. brought to Cleveland. The exhibition will spotlight The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than 60 artists and fill two entire and Museum will open a ground- floors of the museum. The exhibit breaking and provocative will feature artifacts, video new exhibit that will and listening stations, as well illustrate the important as a recording booth where roles women have played visitors can film a short story in rock and roll, from its or moment of inspiration inception through today. related to women in rock. The Who Rock will compare and contrast Get Outta that Kitchen, Women Who Rock: Vision, exhibit will move through the artist experiences, highlighting the Rattle Those Pots and Pans: Passion, Power will highlight rock and roll eras, weaving female spirit as the engine of creation Rock and Roll Emerges the flashpoints, the firsts, a powerful and engaging and change in the music.” “How many of us know the names the best, the celebrated narrative that demonstrates Throughout the year, the museum of the pioneer women songwriters/ and sometimes lesser- how women have been the will offer educational programming singers/musicians of the ‘50s?” is a known women who moved engines of creation and change that will explore the role that women question asked by Yoko Ono in her rock and roll music and in popular music, from the have played in rock and roll, including preface to She’s a Rebel: The History of American culture forward. early years of the 20th Century interviews, performances, panel Women in Rock and Roll. Two names Women Who Rock will open to the present. discussions, a symposium, plus classes that the Museum will highlight in the to the public on Friday, May “This exhibit is going for K-12 and university students. emergence of rock are Ruth Brown 13, 2011. to illustrate the vital role “The Women Who Rock exhibit and Wanda Jackson, the voices of two To kick off the exhibit’s women played in shaping the gives us a fantastic opportunity to predominant roots of rock – R&B and opening weekend on evolution of rock and roll,” advance the educational mission of country/ rockabilly, along with LaVern Mary Wilson Saturday, May 14, the Museum’s said Jim Henke, vice president the Museum,” said Dr. Lauren Onkey, Baker and Brenda Lee. of the annual It’s Only Rock and of exhibitions and curatorial Vice President of Education and Public Roll Spring Benefit Concert Supremes’ affairs for the Rock and Roll Programs. “We will bring performers, Will You Love Me Tomorrow: will feature an all-star lineup Green Petals Hall of Fame and Museum. songwriters, scholars and students The Early 1960s / Girl Groups including Rock and Roll Hall of Dress, “Visitors are going to walk away together to explore this important Girl groups, though sometimes Fame Inductee Wanda Jackson 1968 from this exhibit with a deeper story in rock and roll history.” seen as puppets manipulated by and Cyndi Lauper, both featured appreciation of how these artists unseen and mostly male handlers, Women Who Rock Exhibit Eras: in the Women Who Rock exhibit. contributed to the rock and roll art were an authentic manifestation of the Additional artists will be announced form and changed our society. Women Suffragettes to Juke-Joint Mamas : worldview of teenage girls – a group The Foremothers / Roots of Rock just coming into its own in the early In the 1920s, blues women like 1960s and increasingly recognized Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith were the for its growing economic power as first – and for a while, the only – artists consumers and arbiters of style. to record the blues. Mother Maybelle The girl groups reflected teenage Carter made the first country music girls’ explorations of their world, recordings in 1927. American women their limitations and their limitless of this era made great strides toward potential. Groups like the Shangri-Las gaining equality and basic human and the Ronettes give voice to those rights for themselves and others in explorations and the possibilities that society, including attaining the right to waited down the street or just around vote and working toward social justice. the corner. The 20th Century was a wide-open opportunity for women to embrace Revolution, the Counterculture the modern world, outside of the and the Pill: traditional bounds of the home. The The Late 1960s narrative of these ground-breaking American society experienced a women will be presented along with revolution in the late 1960s and early the stories of trailblazers such as ‘70s, especially for African- Americans Mahalia Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and women. Janis Joplin was the and Billie Holiday. finest white blues singer of her 16 www.NorthCoastVoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 2 - 23, 2011 North Coast Voice generation; female Grace Slick of the singer-songwriters Jefferson Airplane, like Joni Mitchell Discover bared their souls, Grant Park, Chicago: and Aretha Franklin May 1969 emerged as the Queen of Soul. Bonnie Raitt Tina Turner, established herself as Ohio Wine Country both a strong vocalist Blossom Music Center, Spring Fling Wine Weekends and brilliant guitarist. June 18, 1984 Visit 15 wineries in the Akron/Canton area, receive a wreath cork Highlighted artists cage, and enjoy appetizers and sample wine. will also include Photo by Tina Turner and Anastasia Pantsios March 25-26, April 1-2 & 8-9 Noon to 6pm each day Grace Slick, as well as country artists Wine N Bloom Weekends including Loretta Visit 14 wineries in northeast Ohio, collect a variety of Bluestone Lynn. perennials as you enjoy appetizers and sample wine. May 6-7 & 13-14 Noon to 6pm each day I Will Survive: The 1970s – Rockers to Disco Divas Call 800-227-6972 or visit OhioWines.org Women are in the center of the ‘70s mainstream, from Joan Jett and the for more information Runaways, Heart and Fleetwood Mac or to purchase tickets to Donna Summer. The gains of the feminist movement throughout the ‘70s enabled women working in all areas of the music industry to assume more control over their careers.
Dance this Mess Around: Punk and Post Punk Chrissie Hynde said, “That was the beauty of the punk thing: [Sexual] discrimination didn’t exist in that scene.” The DIY aspect of punk rock made it easier for a woman to find a “PNC and the Rock and Roll place in music. Highlighted artists will Hall of Fame and Museum share include Yoko Ono, Siouxsie Sioux, Kate a passion for celebrating great Pierson and Cindy Wilson of the B-52s, achievements,” said Paul Clark, PNC Deborah Harry, Tina Weymouth, Kim regional president, speaking on Deal and Marianne Faithful. behalf of The PNC Foundation. “It was a natural fit to extend our long- Causing a Commotion: standing support of the museum to Madonna and the Pop Explosion the groundbreaking Women Who Madonna unapologetically celebrated Rock exhibit, which will honor some and monetized her sexuality and of the most celebrated artists in physicality, paving the way for female history. We believe the exhibit will performers to explore previously inspire visitors to make their voices taboo roles and take control of their heard as the next generation of image and career. Highlighted artists female leaders - whether onstage or will include Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, in the boardroom.” Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, “As a leading provider of Gwen Stefani and Janet Jackson. entertainment, Time Warner Cable is proud to lend its name Ladies First: to this ground-breaking exhibit,” The ‘90s and the New Millennium said Liz Watson, Senior Director The 1990s was the era the riot grrrl, of Marketing, Time Warner the rapper and Lilith Fair, reshaping Cable Northeast Ohio/Western traditional ideas of feminism and Pennsylvania. “I grew up with the traditionally male-dominated areas music of Ann and Nancy Wilson of the music industry. Women have and Stevie Nicks and their influence arguably become the leading voices of led me to explore the history of the industry, standing -- army-booted, women in rock. This exhibition will bare-footed, or high-heeled stiletto showcase an important contribution -- toe to toe with any artist of today. to our culture.” Highlighted artists will include Bikini The exhibit at the Rock Hall will Kill, Meg White, Taylor Swift, Queen be open through Sunday, February Latifah, Alicia Keys and Lady Gaga. 26, 2012.
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with fellow musicians and created the band, Ozone before moving to Los Angeles. “We played pretty steady at a club in LA that was called Century 3000. That was an amazing place to play in. There was MON.- FRI 10:30am-7pm a glass window behind the band $1.50 DOMESTICS & WELL DRINKS so people could see us from the HAPPY HOUR street. I remember lines of people waiting to get in. The lines wrapped DINE-IN ¢ around the corner and down the ONLY 30 A WING block. Our band was creating a buzz TUES. & THURS. back then. Our manager at the time was friends with Billy Preston. He $ brought Billy by the club one night 7.00 Buckets to see us. Three weeks after that, we WEEKENDS were in Alaska with Billy. I was only of Beer Enjoying Motown success seventeen at this time.” with his band, Ozone then playing “We recorded five albums with Little Richard for twenty-five together as Ozone. We had played Fri. Mar. 4: Armstrong Bearcat years with countless projects and in nearly every venue and played performances in between, it is easy with many big names. (Lionel to see why Charles Glenn is The Richie, Sammy Davis, Jr., Luther NEVER Sat. Mar. 5: Ted Riser FRI & SAT Bass King! Vandross, DeBarge and Teena A COVER & The Marshall Band BANDS AT Charles Glenn has been playing Marie). After we moved on past the CHARGE 9PM since his early teens. “I taught Motown label, we broke up. We did myself to play the bass guitar when have a lot of success together but Tues. Mar. 8 I was around thirteen years old,” I think everyone was burned out. remembers Charles. “I had a friend Our success was created through FAT TUESDAY PARTY who got a guitar for Christmas. Motown. They teach you how to be I spent that whole year playing a number one artist. It was through Hosted by Time Machine bass guitar parts on his guitar. I Billy Preston that I met Little started thinking that if I could get Richard.” Little Richard liked the a bass guitar of my own then we way Charles played and offered him Fri. Mar. 11: Elm Street Bules Band could start a band. The following a spot in his band. Christmas I was able to talk my Charles has played bass guitar Sat. Mar. 12: The JiMILLER Band mother into getting one and then we for Little Richard for twenty- (Grateful Dead Tribute) were able to get our band going.” five years. “He has been like a He continues, “The first song second father to me. What’s really I learned to play was Papa Was a something is that my parents knew Thurs. Mar. 17: Rolling Stone by The Temptations. Little Richard for many years prior I was so excited that I played it all but that had nothing to do with me ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARTY night. Another thing too about joining his band as many would playing the bass is that I was so think,” said Charles. “In the early Hosted by Ted Riser infatuated with it that it caught my days when Little Richard would father’s attention. He had never come to town and perform in the Fri. Mar. 18: Redneck Incorporated seen me show interest in anything local clubs, my father worked as a like this before and it worried him. bartender at the time so he often (Country) He told me he would lock the bass served Little Richard and they in the trunk if I didn’t start doing struck up a friendship. It wasn’t Sat. Mar. 19: The Allies something else with my life. Then until years later that Little Richard he saw me play bass at a concert said he remembered my parents.” Fri. Mar. 25: The Burnt River Band with Sammy Davis, Jr. who was one “About a year and a half after of my father’s favorite artists. After my parents passed away,” recalls he saw that show, he never said Charles. “Little Richard called me Sat. Mar. 26: Brickhouse Blues Band anything to me again about playing and said “Charles, I’m going to the bass.” (Laughs) be your dad. I’m not taking your 38501 Lakeshore Blvd. • Willoughby Charles is from Nashville and father’s place because he was my At the intersection of Lakeshore & Lost Nation Rd. • 440 942-6520 it is where he first got together Glenn continued on page 29 March 2 - 23, 2011 www.NorthCoastVoice.com • (440) 415-0999 19 North Coast Voice bass player. One day she said to Dennis, “I wish I could play bass”, – Welcome To Their Living Room …. so he began teaching her. “She, Jason and I started playing around with acoustic music and it got so New Acoustic Based Concept Band good we made a band of it,” Roeder explains. Quickly Sweeping The North Coast They began practicing at Jason nnn...... By Jim Ales and Erin’s house on Marion Avenue in Painesville… hence the name. How often do you go see a to satisfy any audience. They are their performance. He lived and “It seems like every time we had a band and feel like you’re partying not your “coffee house” acoustic played in the Cleveland area, rehearsal, all the neighbors would in someone’s living room? That’s band, but rather a powerful, “in Nashville, Albuquerque and most come over,” Roeder went on to the atmosphere you get at a Marion your face” kind of show interacting recently, Fort Myers. In Fort Myers, say. “We never had a practice by Avenue show with end tables and with the crowd making it a truly fun he played bass for a Motown artist ourselves. There were anywhere lamps on their stage set. Through time. “We tend to put our own spin named Nate Evans. Nate was a from 5 to 20 people at every a wide variety of up on everything we do,” singer for the Impressions, and later practice. We got so used to it, that beat fun songs to says guitarist Dennis went on to be a back up singer for we decided when we were ready melodramatic power Roeder. “We make the David Ruffian after David left the to take the show out to the public; ballads, Marion songs our own.” By Temptations. Dennis also played we’d bring the living room with us. Avenue delivers the way, if it’s your bass for a guy named Johnny T, So we did! We love our friends and a show of great birthday, watch out who was one of the singers in the followers, and we want everyone appreciation to music for the giant paddle! doo-wap band The Mystics (they’re to feel like they are at our house, in aficionados. And So, who are these big hit was Hush-A-Bye, which the our living room.” with the living room people in Marion Beach Boys re-did). All three members play a few setting, you can feel right at home… Avenue? Jason Lorenzo on acoustic guitar other instruments and probably will except you don’t have to clean up Highly respected and well- and vocals conveys the artistic begin to incorporate them into their the mess. seasoned guitarist Dennis Roeder is inspiration and originality to the show soon. Dennis plays guitar, Marion Avenue is an acoustic the veteran musician that lays the line up. “Jason’s the writer, and bass, a little mandolin and banjo. trio with the right ingredients of foundation for the band’s melodies he’s pretty good at it,” says Roeder. Erin plays bass and guitar, and players that makes a perfect blend holding everything together during “If he keeps plugging away at it, we a little piano. Jason plays guitar, may have an original CD someday.” bass, drums and a little banjo. “We Jason grew up with a strict diet of will bring other instruments in if metal and hard rock, and loved they improve our sound,” Roeder jamming with his friends. He was insists. “That’s the bottom line. FREE FREE a front man for “Easily Amused”, a We’re pretty happy with our overall PARTY Nirvana tribute band. He also sang sound. We have no intention of PARTY for XS-NRG, an alternative cover adding a drummer. We feel we ROOM! ROOM! band, but departed from them to don’t need one.” In addition to pursue his new interest for acoustic their great talent and sound, their music. vocal harmonies are tight. Come for the Food ... Stay for the Entertainment Last but certainly not least, Although very accomplished is the ever free spirited Erin at guitar and music, Dennis is Fri. March 4: Gotta Play Descenza on bass and vocals. Erin very humble about his skills and brings an untamed, charismatic knowledge. He has mentored Erin Sat. March 5: Marion Avenue personality that defines the band’s and Jason but credits their natural Fri. March 11: Four Kings character. She is a standout display talents and hard work that brought of a woman’s independence that them to the level they are at. “They Sat. March 12: South of the Moon really loves being on stage. She have really rose to the occasion has sung various styles ranging to be very good musicians,” he from big band music to hard rock. modestly expresses.” I am so proud Thur. March 17 • St. Patty’s Day! She fronted the four piece rock to be playing with them.” McMarion Avenue 6:00-10:00 cover band, Loaded Question. Her Marion Avenue is quickly becoming striking range of vocals will send a popular band across the north Corned Beef Dinners - 8.99 • Corned Beef Sandwich - 6.99 shivers down your spine. She is also coast. If you come to one of their Served All Day! one of the friendliest people to talk shows, they promise you’ll have with; always smiling and positive… a lot of fun You can catch them Sat. March 19: Buster Cherry but there is no taming her! Saturday March 5th at Cebars The coming together of Restaurant & Lounge in Madison; Fri. March 25: Bar Trek Marion Avenue….. Saturday March 12th at Sammy K’s Sat. March 26: Ernest T Band When Dennis moved back in Perry; A special performance at to Cleveland, he joined Loaded Cebars in Madison on St. Patrick’s 6884 North Ridge Road (Rt. 20) • 440.428.9926 Question where he and Erin met. Day and The Stadium Bar & Grill in She was the singer and he was the Mentor Friday, March 18. 20 www.NorthCoastVoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 2 - 23, 2011 North Coast Voice
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You don’t have to leave your dogs kennelled or alone while you’re away, nnn they can stay with em! ...... By Luthier Patrick Podpadec With March finally approaching it looked just fine to me, but as I they were supposed to go. The one “old man winter” is going to be panned over to look at the rest of brace that was not clamped was laying down for bed soon and it will the bracing was taken aback by separated from the top about a ¼” be time for all the spring flowers the absolutely terrible work that with dried glue holding it away to be popping up there beautiful the previous repairman passed off from the top. I was quite surprised colors and song birds back to their as a repair! Apparently the guitar because after playing the guitar singing and all that is good with the had a pretty devastating blow to a little bit, before taking off the world will be back to normal again. the top underneath the pickguard strings, there was no rattle or buzzes I love Spring! I might be jumping area. The top had been cracked and actually it sounded pretty good. the gun just a little bit, but I can’t but more damage had been to the After spending over three hours seem to wait after having such a bracing than anything. Both main removing the braces and cleaning X-braces had been broken and • Safe, fenced-in yard long cold winter. The only good the excess glue off then correctly • Lots of play time & exercise that comes from the long winters is split away from the top and a few gluing and clamping them into their • Sleeps in the house that it gives me time to think and other small “finger” braces had • Obedience training available proper places, I strung it back up • Day camp, vacation, weekends plan my moves for the upcoming also fallen off. That in itself was and it played beautifully. • Puppies & Seniors welcome seasons. All of my gardening, house not so bad until I got a look at how The point that I am trying to • Reasonable rates! the repair had been done. The first Call Linde! and shop renovations and all the make here is that when you are things that can’t be done while there thing that was wrong was that the purchasing a used guitar from a 440-951-2468 is a foot of snow and it’s 20 degrees type of glue the repair person used. music store or from a private owner outside. It looked to be that “gorilla glue” it is important that you look at I have gotten lucky once again (expanding urethane foam) type. the whole guitar. Do not discard this past month with a steady Please note that this type of glue the sale because of a few outside supply of small repair jobs, along should never even be near a musical blemishes that really doesn’t affect PUPPY RAISER, Leader Dogs for the Blind with a few neck sets and refrets to instrument let alone touch it. The the sound. Take the time to look carry me through another issue or second mistake that was made is inside the instrument. This is where two of interesting topics to discuss. that there were no clamps used in the “business” end of the guitar is If You Can Dream It, A “Larrivee” came into my shop the gluing process. The third thing anyway. Most sellers will not be was that there was no attempt at all I Can Build It. last week for a setup and basic offended if you bring along a small overall inspection. For those of made to try to remove any of the flash light and a small pocket mirror you who are not familiar with the excess glue, (which there was plenty to inspect the braces and the overall Larrivee brand name, it is a high of that) It looked like the person quality of the construction inside end guitar company run by one just coated the broken braces as the instrument. After seeing the of the industries earliest luthiers liberally as possible and tried to put Custom Designs inside of a few guitars you will start named Shean Larrivee. He is a well them (at least the two main braces) Guitars to get a good feel for the things that Basses known luthier from Canada who somewhere in the vicinity of where that you need to look for. Things Acoustic has spawned a number of other like the smoothness of the braces, Electric great luthiers from his shop during the different bracing patterns, Mandolins the late 60’s and early 70’s such as whether or not the braces have been Double Necks Michael Gurian, Grit Laskin , and “scalloped” (a process where certain Harp Guitars Linda Manzer to name a few. He Major Repairs areas of the brace are removed so
currently has a factory in California that the top can vibrate more freely Fast, Reliable Turnover Reliable Fast, for Working Musicians Working for Restorations “The Dreamcaster” Custom built and also in Canada I believe. His Refinishing for Brian Henke at certain frequencies) or excess Refretting guitars are highly prized and are of amounts of glue and even other Intonation Adjustments the highest quality. The guitar that previously bad repair jobs. This Acoustic Pickup Installs came into my shop was purchased type of inspection should be done used by the owner and on arrival to on all guitars, regardless of name, WINTER SPECIAL my shop I noticed that someone had $ 00 quality or price range. As with any 10 OFF refinished the top of the guitar. The purchase the buyer should beware ANY REPAIR finish was rough and had not been With mention of of any defects because it puts the this ad. sanded down or buffed out. (No bargaining power in your hands. So big deal at first.) I went about my now it’s time to go out and buy that Patrick Podpadec business of leveling and crowning instrument you have been looking Luthier the frets and after finishing decided at and make sure that you “stay in 440.474-2141 to look inside the guitar. The owner tune”! [email protected] had told me that he had glued a Thanks Again! brace and to look at it to see if it www.wood-n-strings.net Patrick from Wood-n-Strings was o.k. I looked at his repair and 22 www.NorthCoastVoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 2 - 23, 2011 North Coast Voice Carter continued from page 9 only to be told that my music was no nice rocking chairs but they just wasn’t longer desired. Just around the time I made for me,” he sings. “It’s gonna be a aesthetic than “Slip Away,” a superior was about ready to give up, I happened long time before I hang up my rock ‘n’ cheating ballad spotlighting his to go to Los Angles and played a tape roll shoes.” anguished, massive baritone alongside for Curtis Shaw, a well known attorney “If I had ‘Strokin’ ‘ out now, I might the remarkable musicianship of Fame’s in the music business, and he contacted shake hands with Donald Trump,” exemplary backing band. The tune the president of Venture Records. Carter says with that same deep, The Coolest turned out to be his They listened and wicked chuckle …hey-hey-hey! Music Store! big breakthrough. decided to release Clarence Carter will be appearing “That’s the song the album and to at the Fourth Annual Cleveland Blues that turned me top it all off, they Festival at Playhouse Square’s State String Prices on to that type of were willing to Theater on Saturday, March 5th, along thought,” Carter advance me some with “Bobby Blue” Bland, Denise Lowest in Town! said, “let’s slip away front money. LaSalle, Floyd Taylor, Sir Charles and do something In 1981, I Jones, and Theodis Ealey. Tickets: In-Store Repairs we ain’t supposed was chosen as playhousesquare.org or charge by to be doing.” the “Come Back phone 216-241-6000. He ended Artist of the Year.” Over 50 Years of 1968 with a self- I could hardly penned funky believe my luck, for Musical Experience Christmas single, now I not only had the raunchy “Back music that people Karaoke Equipment Door Santa,” which liked and danced Lighting Products eventually went to, but I also was Yorkville Amps gold. In addition, being interviewed his band embarked by leading Guitars & Bases on a national tour featuring backing magazines like Jet. The record that vocalist Candi Staton, who later became made all this possible was “Working WE BUY USED GEAR Carter’s wife as well as a soul star in her on A Love Building” from the album Lessons: Guitar, Bass, Banjo own right. “Let’s Burn” on Venture records. They From 1968 to 1970, Carter was a went out of business, but now I had my Mandoline & Piano well-known fixture on the pop charts. own recording studio and could record 1493 Mentor Ave. The albums from this, his finest period, my own songs. I wrote a song called Painesville Commons Shopping Center included This Is Clarence Carter, “Strokin’”. 440.352.8986 The Dynamic Clarence Carter, and All this time the only way I Patches. Carter’s last and biggest single, was able to hang was by doing “Patches,” was an R&B re-working of performances in night clubs for what the folk and country-western styles I could collect off the door. Me and of artists like Tennessee Ernie Ford, the band played “Strokin’” in live Burl Ives and Marty Robbins. With its performances long before deciding to themes of hard times and responsibility record it. Everywhere I went, people to family, it struck a chord and was wanted to know - What was that? So I equally popular with blacks and whites. released it and it became a big hit. I had The Atlantic years proved to be the no idea it would catch on that fast – I heyday of Carter’s career. “Slip Away” was so surprised! (1968), “Too Weak To Fight”(1969) and NCV: Well, Mr. Carter, I just want “Patches” (1970) all made the top ten, to tell you that I fell in love once while each selling over one million copies that song was playing, and I’m sure I’m and earning him three gold records. not the only one! (“Patches” went gold in just three days, CARTER: Hey-hey-hey… (That unheard of in the record industry at the laugh - just like on his records!) I love time.) to hear stories about my songs and Strokin’ what they mean to people … hey-hey- After the success of “Patches,” hey………… Clarence Carter fell from his lofty position as a national chart-maker. “Sassified” The big contract with Atlantic ended, Carter’s status as the godfather and although he continued to put out of raunchy soul and as an inspiration albums on a host of small labels, a to modern singers such as R. Kelly national hit eluded him. While Carter did not happen by accident. It took dabbled in blues and some other years of hard work, dedication to the forms during this time, he remained road, and paying dues. The gregarious remarkably true to his Southern Soul performer continues to record and tour style. The leering “Sixty Minute Man” the country regularly, maintaining a proved a novelty hit in 1973, but the particularly strong fan base throughout disco era of the later seventies was not the South. kind to soul singers. Mr. Carter informed me that he NCV: Tell me about the disco years. is working on a new album right now. CARTER: The disco age came along The prolific songwriter’s 2009 cut “I and damn near sent me to bankruptcy. I Ain’t Ready to Retire” explains his sent tape after tape to record companies current state of mind. “They got some March 2 - 23, 2011 www.NorthCoastVoice.com • (440) 415-0999 23 North Coast Voice Ten Ways to Tell You’re Ready for Spring! nnn...... By Tom Todd
Let’s face it: We like winter temperatures, are now of mail that snow and cold until about starting to ‘thaw,’ the snowplow December 26th, and then we are in other words turn scattered months Sat, Mar. 5 • 7 - 11 ready for spring. We count the to an orangish- ago, including Pipers III Restaurant days. We try to guess when the brownish soup. a free 10-day ice will melt, when the first robin vacation Tues, Mar. 8 • 7 - 11 will appear, when the furnace will 5. You’re you won (Fat Tuesday) Beachclub Grill • Concord go off for more than 3 minutes. actually anxious to but had We want warmer weather mow your lawn. to claim Fri, Mar. 11 • 7 - 11 Debonne Winery NOW!!! We are an impatient lot. by Dec 31st. Anyway, here are 10 ways to 6. River ice Rats! Sat, Mar. 12 • 7 - 11 tell when you’re really ready for breaks up, jams Pipers III Restaurant spring…. up, rivers overflow, and the 10. The snow drifts melt 1. The thermometer hits 32 people who live by the river are and you discover Aunt Edith. Boy Sun, Mar. 13 • 4:30 - 7:30 and it’s a “warming spell.” surprised when their basement she’s mad! Old Mill Winery • OPEN MIC becomes a swimming pool, even Don’t be fooled! It happens Thurs, Mar. 17 2. The snow drifts melt and though it happens every year. every time! Just when you’re Willoughby Eagles you discover where you put the getting out the sandals and the lawn mower last fall. 7. The snow drifts melt and sunscreen and the barbeque grill, Fri, Mar. 18 • 7:30 - 10:30 you discover where your kid Mother Nature lets out an evil The Winery at Spring Hill 3. You see that “big yellow parked his $400 bike. laugh and hits us with another Sat, Mar. 19 • 6:00 - 9:30 round thing in the sky” and can’t 20 inches of the white stuff! But Ferrantes Winery remember what it’s called. 8. Even the snowman looks keep your head up, keep smiling cold and tired of snow. and be happy in the knowledge check out www.tomtoddmusic.com 4. Your pumpkins from last that spring is just around for more information & pictures Halloween, which have been 9. The snow drifts melt and the corner! Meanwhile, keep nicely preserved by the frigid you discover a whole bunch shoveling!
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There’s a New Kid in Town nnn...... By Trenda Jones
“Music is all I ever wanted Jason Mraz. His mom made the arrangements music is everywhere, there’s so to do.” says 23-year-old Bryan Bryan was five years old the for him to sing at the local Moose much opportunity!” Knowles. While growing up first first time he sang for an audience. Lodge. Week after week, young During his intended month in small town Amherst, Bryan performed his favorite long stay, Bryan was introduced VA then Virginia Beach, song “Achy Breaky Heart” to Cleveland rocker, Ted Riser, his grandfather was his for Lodge members and their and the two music junkies began first musical influence. guests. jamming together. Bryan has sat “I remember listening to At thirteen, he became in with Ted several times and has my granddad sing and more serious about his also had a few solo gigs. Bryans’ play guitar, he sounded music, writing songs as main focuses is country music, but like George Jones.” As he he taught himself guitar. when you see him expect to hear grew, Bryan was greatly “Movies, books and TV are more than that. His warm voice, affected by country ok, but it’s music that drives exceptional guitar playing and his legends; Hank Williams Sr., me.” It is that driving force dazzling good looks are sure to Johnny Cash and Randy keeping Bryan in Cleveland. please! Travis. During the 90’s he He came to the area seven Bryan Knowles plays solo, but enjoyed alternative groups months ago to visit his has a network of fine musicians Matchbox 20, The Spin brother, and now plans on ready to back him up when needed. Doctors and Pearl Jam. staying. “It’s great here, For booking info - (440) 251-6753 He also admires acoustic reggae with the softer sounds of Jack Johnson and Bryan Knowles accompanies Ted Riser
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nnn...... By Westside Steve
Hall Pass OK, I see it now!!! New Line • R • 105 min The tell tale sign that something’s going to blow no Well gang, the Oscar issue is matter how much money it makes. already on the stands. It’s too late to Two little words: Farrelly Brothers. backtrack so if my predictions don’t These bums can (as usual) have come to pass, well, remember how taken what ought to be a pretty long ago my deadline was. good idea for a romantic comedy At any rate, after cramming and turn it into garbage. for it and watching so many highly I think the guy who wrote the touted best picture nominations I basic story is Pete Jones but figure it’s time for one with abso- I could be wrong. frigging-lutely has no chance in hell Here’s the idea. of being mentioned at next year’s Every one of us older Academy Awards. guys will sometimes kid Hmmm, now what could be a himself into believing he has sure fire way to tell that a movie will a shot at a young hottie. be a stinker. One might even Maybe the words “starring forget how “hot” your Owen Wilson?” Nah, he’s far from grandmother’s friends a great actor but I just can’t hate the looked to you when you guy. were twenty something. Anyway Rick and Fred (Wilson and James Sudeikis) with their crude bunch of to, but remember there married pals spend a lot of time nudity. are a few nearly forgotten bemoaning the fact that married life Otherwise the acting was gems I’ll mention to you is holding them back from certain shoddy, the jokes grubby and every issue. sexual glory. Wilson looked like This time it’s one Well the wives hear this talk he just got out of of my favorites, the thanks to a way overused two rehab. original 1979 version of way monitor gag and thanks to As always the THE WARRIORS. the advice of the uber obnoxious Farrellys seem to This one is Walter Joy (The View) Behar two of them have the Midas Hill’s semi surreal tale Westside issue the boys a “hall pass” (hence touch for the box of NYC street gangs. the title) to spend one week as a office but the Ex A charismatic Steve single guy with no responsibilities Lax touch when it self-styled leader, whatsoever. comes to comedy. Cyrus, calls a meeting Fri. Mar. 4 • 7:30 PM of all the gangs with Old Mill Winery • Geneva The result is like if a dog is Everything they chasing your car and you stop and touch turns to, ahh a grandiose plan to Sat. Mar. 5 • 9:00 PM consolidate power and Firehouse Grille • Malvern, Ohio give him the keys; heck he can’t you know. thereby rule the city. Fri. Mar. 11 • 6:00 PM drive right? McCarthy's Ale House • Lakewood Sure that sounds like a good D He’s assassinated and when the Warriors Sat. Mar. 12: idea until Peter and Bobby Farrelly North Hill Hibernians Irish run it through the IQ filter set just are falsely accused N. Main St Akron after the parade below the sixth grade and add Net Pick 3 they face a perilous Sun. Mar. 13: The Worx in a healthy serving of unfunny journey to get back Detroit, Mi after the Parade! The vulgarity. to their home turf, Thur. Mar. 17: On Tap Montrose Don’t get me wrong, I loves me Coney Island. Along Akron's biggest St. Paddy’s Day party Warriors some vulgarity be it really needs to the way the fight Sat. Mar. 19 • 9:00 PM be funny. elude or outwit every Eastland Inn • Berea 1979 To be honest I’d planned on a D So among the other gang in the city Sat. Mar. 26 • 10:00 PM Minus grade but there was actually who are vying for the Mullarkey's Irish Pub • Willoughby online flicks you one chuckle (albeit from a poop can find as much bounty on their heads. www.westsidesteve.com joke) and there was a few seconds of rubbish as you care Action and 26 www.NorthCoastVoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 2 - 23, 2011 North Coast Voice When he awakens nobody remembers him, not his wife friends associates or especially the guy with his wife who claims to be the real Dr Martin Harris. Thanks to the barrage of ads, we already knew that much so it’s good that this is all covered in the first few minutes. personal interaction throughout this Now we have the trip through an evil wonderland rest of the film to ponder the who, made this one of my all time what, and why. favorites. His search for the truth is a (Be careful not to pick 1990 tough one since nobody wants to BRONX WARRIORS, unless your talk to him and even the hot young up for one of the all time worst!) taxi driver Gina (Diana Kruger) who saved his life now seems hostile. A There are also some Euro trash looking bad guys who are trying to kill him Unknown You may wonder how this Warner Brothers • PG 13 • 113 min sedentary academic, fresh out of a Well it’s early in the year and coma, is able to handle himself so the ideal time for a crowd pleaser. well against trained assassins, but Doesn’t need to be any big deal but you’ll find out. it’s a good bet that an action thriller I won’t blow the ending since it mystery starring Liam Neeson will was actually pretty good. Well, not sell some tickets. great like a Harlan Coben novel but I’ll admit to having a kind of Déjà not too shabby at all. vu with this one. Sure there have The action never gets been no small number of amnesia overbearing even with two, count mysteries but for some reason it ‘em, two chase scenes and you will HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL seemed like this one has been out become attached to some of the Listen To High School Basketball on ESPN 970 WFUN before. characters, especially Giua. After watching I assume it was The director wisely avoids the just the long ad campaign that did it. romance angle between her and Joe “PIGSKIN” Pete If you’ve seen the trailer, and the aging Neeson but keeps the & Coach Brad Ellis call all of the action I don’t know how you could have relationship as platonic as it can be missed it, Neeson is a scientist, for two people constantly at risk of Doctor Martin Harris who’s on his being killed. TUES. 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nnn...... By Jeremy James
I had some random thoughts Lucky for lady about the wide world of Lady GaGa GaGa the music and the Grammy’s. First off, can stands alone! anything ever be just part of a show Maybe I should or does everything with this woman trying do the Star have to be some sort of message. 97.1 morning show Do we really need to live in some after three days strange egg thing for 3 days before of mediation and a show? incubation. Now don’t get me wrong, her On a side note, music is very well done, creative there is no way and she has 3 new Grammy’s to I would sit in an show for it! I think that maybe I am egg for days on tired of the entire show and shock end. I can’t even value! How far do we really need stay home for more them 24 hours. to push the envelope? Is it really None the less, we are playing the performance! important to see something off the new Lady GaGa song called “Born Best to all of you little monsters wall or is it more important to just This Way” enjoy! You can always from Jeremy James, I still remember enjoy the music. hit up YouTube for the Grammy the Fred Savage movie!
28 www.NorthCoastVoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 2 - 23, 2011 North Coast Voice Glenn continued from page 19 as a young man. I like to listen to all instruments in a composition. I friend but I feel that I should step appreciate everything.” LOST SHEEP in.” Ever since then, no matter In addition to playing with where we are he introduces me as Little Richard, one of the most BAND his son before I play my solos. He is recent projects for Charles is the amazing.” release of his CD, Nonstop. “It has Inspiration for music is always twelve tracks and one of them is on the radar for Charles. “I can be a cover of Stop, Look & Listen by inspired by something I’ve seen or The Stylistics. I have my friend, El read. I’m feeling music right now DeBarge singing on it.” and deciding if or when I’m going Charles never tires of doing to do something about it. I have what he loves. “As I get older, I still Saturday, always had a beat in my head, even want to keep going. I never Sat. March 12 find this is getting old. I want March 5th to keep playing. I feel what I do is create excitement when B a r & I play. When I see people catch that, it’s pretty mind R e s t a u r a n t blowing. People have often 9:00 to 1:00am told me that I am one of the Lost most exciting bass players Sat. March 19 Nation they have ever seen. I like Airport that.” For more information about Charles Glenn, please Willoughby visit: www.thebassking.com His new CD, Nonstop is 9:00- Midnight available through his web site 7:00 to 11:00pm and iTunes. www.lostsheepband.com www.Abbeyrodeo.com Charles Glenn with Little Richard CLASSIFIEDS Clean houses? Shovel snow? HELP WANTED Do handyman work? PETS MUSICAL Freelance writers needed! Dog-sitting service. Don’t kennel Advertise your services here! Entertainment is the primary focus your dog when you go on vacation, EQUIPMENT but will consider other content. he can stay with me! Lots of exer- Gallien – Krueger Bass Amp - E-mail writing sample and MUSICIANS cise and socialization. Sleeps in the $400 or Best Offer. Easy to move contact information to house! Long/Short Term and Day around. Two 10” speakers, good editorial@northcoastvoice. com WANTED Care at reasonable rates. for acoustic or small venues. Call Serious bass player needed for Call Linde 440-951-2468. 440-417-2475 Advertising Sales Rep to cover roots rock country band. Weekly Geauga and Cuyahoga counties rehearsals, upcoming gigs. for the North Coast Voice Magazine. Call Loui (440) 840- 5022 or FREE STUFF FIREWOOD Selling Firewood for fireplaces, Commission based – Great oppor- Patrick (440) 655-1974. Do you need fill for a beach or tunity to make extra money. Extra a pond? Large chunks of concrete stoves or camping? Advertise it here. perks: Gas card, tickets to shows, Andy’s Last Band is looking for removed from old foundation need gift certificates for dining out. bass player. Must be EXTREMELY a new home. If you can remove it Don’t need it? Call 440-415-0999 talented to carry an old drum- you can have it. mer, lazy guitar player, and Call 440- 415-6589 Sell it. Trade it. SERVICES incorrigible Diva. 440-354-0074 Give it away. Or list something Does your band need photos for Great Introductory Rate! your web site or advertising? you’re looking for! 15-20 images burned to CD for $15 For 30 words! your use, group and/or individ- Gives Two Weeks Exposure! TWO WEEKS ual shots. On-location only, your Email info to [email protected] and pay online choice or mine. $40. through our Advertising link at www.northcoastvoice.com LISTING Call 440-344-8535 Mail ad with check/money order to $ NCV P.O. Box 118 Geneva, Oh 44041 FOR JUST 15.00!
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Driving Me Crazy! As most of you know I’ve been If I had been driving the whole 51 traveling back and forth to Iowa hours that would be an average speed helping ‘Austin’s On The Trail’ get of 17 miles per hour, which would have up and running and it’s been an been lightning speed for me about 3 experience to say the least. hours into the trip! I’ve learned some interesting Just this side of Des Moines Iowa things on my visits to Iowa, like ‘How it started to rain and my truck decides to ride the wave’ and accumulate to have a hissy-fit! Keep in mind that mega ‘wave this poor ole boy has over points’ for one. 309,000 miles on it and has I also learned given me just about as some new many ‘whodathunkits’ ‘whodathunkits’, over the years I’ve and a major one owned it too! is to limit myself All of a sudden on the ‘Snarp Water’! it starts jerking and (‘Whodathunkit’, kicking and bucking which is short for ‘who- and snorting like a big would-of-thunk-it, are ole Brahma bull! Down life’s lessons we learn through ”CA-POP-CA- 1. ___ Muirhead was Mary Kane in the 1941 classic, Citizen Kane (5) bewilderment!) PAP-CA-PING-CA-CHUNK-WHIRRR- 2. First name of the motel owner in 15 Across (6) Three ‘Snarp Water’s’ put me POW-POW!”, then again… ”CA-POP- 3. ___ Roberts is Tess Ocean in the 2004 movie, Ocean’s Twelve (5) 4. Pauline in the 2005 movie, The Dukes of Hazzard (5,6) down… hard, but I was still in designer POW-CA-PAP-POW-POW-CA-PING- 5. Longfellow Deeds in the 2002 movie, Mr. Deeds (4,7) mode and I don’t think that should POW-CA-CHUNK-WHIRRR-POW- 6. ___ West starred in the 1933 movie, I’m No Angel (3) count. ‘Snarp Water’ is for sipping, not POW-WHIRRR!” 7. Liv ___ is Maya in the 2004 movie, Jersey Girl (5) gulping and if anyone tries to give you The ole boy started jerking so bad 10. Halle __ is Rowena Price in the 2007 movie, Perfect Stranger (5) ‘Snarp Water Shooters’ I guarantee that hot coffee jumped out of my cup 13. ___ Goldberg is Jodi in the 2009 movie, Stream (6) they are out to hurt you… RUN onto my leg, sun glasses came flying 14. Jerry ___ is George Fawkes in the 1995 movie, Funny Bones (5) AWAY! at me from the dash, my head was 15. ___ Abbott and Lou Costello (3) Snarp Water Shooters’ will melt nodding back and forth like a Jewish 16. Alan Ladd starred in the title role of this 1953 western (5) your shoes to the floor so you can’t Dude at the praying wall on steroids Across walk and if you try you WILL fall which caused my cigar to hit the 1. She is Fox in the 2008 movie, Wanted (8,5) 6. First name of actress playing Sugar Kane in the 1959 movie, Some Like It Hot (7) down! Take my advice and don’t be steering wheel immediately sending 8. Doris ___ is Jan Morrow in the 1959 movie, Pillow Talk (3) fooled by the ‘namby-pamby’ sound of a shower of hot flaming sparks in my 9. Alan Ladd starred in this 1953 movie (5) the ingredients of ‘Snarp Water’. Just face, down my shirt, between my legs, 11. ___ Bean is Ian Howe in the 2004 movie, National Treasure (4) because it’s made using cinnamon and and I can see flames shooting out of my 12. ___ Hayworth is Ann Shankland in the 1958 movie, Separate Tables (4) peppermint doesn’t make it a wussy tail pipe in the mirror! 15. Name of the motel featured in the 1960 movie, Psycho (5) drink, it will hurt you! “What the… OUCH- OOO- 17. ___ River, starring John Wayne as Thomas Dunson (3) However if you do find yourself AHHHHHH!!” 18. Rat Pack member, Peter ___ (7) doing ‘Snarp Water Shooters’ take off I finally get off to the side of the 19. John Connor in the 2009 movie, Terminator Salvation (9,4) your shoes and don’t be surprised if freeway, put out the fires in my seat, my you wake up on the floor… any floor, chest and saved the ‘boys’ with some and if you mixed them with beer you’ll bottled water! It then took me about 14 probably have a hangover but your hours to go 230 miles to find civilization flatulence will be minty fresh! with an AutoZone that of course had to Nothing would have been better order my part, so I got a room, next day than a cool glass of ‘Snarp Water’ fixed my truck, and so 26 hours later about half way back to Ohio last week headed home only to find that the bars though. Normally it takes about 12 to were closed! That’s just wrong! 14 hours to drive from Iowa to Ohio, ~ Snarp this time it took about 51 hours! www.snarparkle.com
~ Rick Ray
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St. Patrick’s Celebration · March 18th Music plays Friday & Saturday from Enjoy corned beef sandwiches and dinners all day long. Entertainment by 7:30-10:30 p.m. & Sunday from 4-7. Forsythe Special with traditional Irish pub music from 7:30-10:30 plus Irish dancing by Ziemba Family Dancers. Reservations recommended. 32 www.NorthCoastVoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 2 - 23, 2011