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Brevard Live October 2018 Brevard Live October 2018 - 1 2 - Brevard Live October 2018 Brevard Live October 2018 - 3 4 - Brevard Live October 2018 Brevard Live October 2018 - 5 6 - Brevard Live October 2018 Contents October 2018 FEATURES FRANNIPALOOZA Franni’s music quest started in 1980 WAR COMES TO BREVARD when she arrived in Florida. She worked Columns War, featuring original member Lonnie for years at the legendary Musicians Ex- Charles Van Riper Jordan, is coming to Brevard to play all change in Fort Lauderdale. Now she is 20 Political Satire their greatest hits…and there are quite a booking famous Blues artists at Earl’s It’s That Time few. The concert takes place at SC Har- Hideaway. She truly is a legend among ley Davidson and benefits The Great legends. Brevard Live talked to her. Calendars Leaps Academy. Page 14 27 Live Entertainment, Page 10 Concerts, Festivals WOMEN WHO ROCK! SPACE COAST STATE FAIR Karalyn Woulas is a rocket scientist, an The Mandela Effect The Space Coast State Fair is Brevard’s avid surfer, front-lady of 2 bands - The by Matt Bretz largest and most popular annual family 35 Lady & The Tramps and Karalyn & The Human Satire event. Located in the middle of Brevard Dawn Patrol - a politician and enjoys County, and easily accessible from Inter- riding her Harley Davidson Sportster. state-95, The Space Coast State Fair is a Local Lowdown short ride from all areas of Brevard Page 18 36 by Steve Keller Page 13 Jam Night! MIFF PROGRAM by Heike Clarke NATIVE RHYTHMS FESTIVAL The Melbourne Independent Filmmak- 39 The 10th annual Native Rhythms Fes- ers Festival is a jewel for fans of the in- The Dope Doctor tival will be held at the Wickham Park dependent short film. The event features Luis A. Delgado, CAP amphitheater in Melbourne, the weekend the popular Fright Night, a Red Carpet 42 of November 9th thru 11th. It’s a free, reception and an awards show. See the family friendly event. detailed program in the centerfold. Florida Arts by Bruce Marion Page 13 Page 23 44 Brevard Live October 2018 - 7 8 - Brevard Live October 2018 BREVARD LIVE The largest and most BREVARD LATELY popular free entertainment magazine on the Space Coast and beyond for 27 years. PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GRAPHIC ART/ SALES Heike Clarke SALES ASSOCIATE Anna Delgado CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Matthew Bretz Ian Bertel Bruce Marion Rob Pedrick Steve Keller David Miller PHOTOGRAPHY Chuck Van Riper This place in Eau Gallie is not a concert hall that seats hundreds of people, none- theless world-famous rocker Pat Travers performed there with Local 518, David COLUMNISTS Pastorius’ band with Al Brodeur on guitar and Alex Petrosky on drums. How did this Chuck Van Riper happen? Pastorius is the bassist for the Pat Travers band and Petrosky the current Luis A. Delgado Richard Hendry drummer since Tommy Craig injured his arm in an accident, and when David is not Spence Servoss touring with with Pat, he plays at Little Lattitude. Reproduction of any portion of Brevard Live Magazine is strictly prohibited without the written permission of the publisher. ADVERTISEMENT/ SALES Phone: (321) 956-9207 [email protected] COMMENTS & LETTERS Brevard Live Magazine P.O. Box 1452, Melbourne, Fl 32902 Copyright © 2018 Brevard Live All rights reserved We are not responsible for photos or scripts sent to Brevard Live Magazine. Published photos and articles become property of this publication. We are not responsible for wrongful advertised or canceled venues. Download a pdf file BREVARD FLORIDA The 33rd annual NKF Rich Salick Pro/AM Surf Festival on Labor Day Weekend at the Cocoa Beach Pier drew once again a huge crowd and raised more than LIVE $100,000 for the National Kidney Foundation. Photos by Chuck Van Riper at www.brevardlive.com Brevard Live October 2018 - 9 Brevard Live moniker of War. Before long the band was performing as Eric Burdon and War. After a string of shows around Cali- fornia they went into the studio and put down their first re- cord, Eric Burdon Declares “War”. On that album was a song called “Spill the Wine,” so infectious and groovy was that song it was an immediate hit and launched the band’s career right out of the gate. The band toured extensively, all throughout 1970, do- mestically and abroad to wild crowds and rave reviews. One paper in London was quoted as calling Eric Burdon and War the best live band they had ever seen. On September 18th, Jimi Hendrix joined the band onstage for the last half hour of their 2nd set. The crowd went crazy, and the guys in the band remember that night as being super special, but it was poignant for another reason as well. It would go down as the last time Jimi Hendrix would perform for anyone at all. The next day he was found dead. Before 1970 was over, the band would release a two- disc album entitled The Black-Man’s Burdon. It was the last time they would record with Eric Burdon for a while, as he decided to leave the band shortly after. Newly christened as Sunday, November 11, SC Harley Davidson simply “War”, the band went back into the studio to record the self-titled War which released in 1971 to only modest WAR Comes To Brevard success. Later that year the band would release two singles “All Day Music,” and “Slipping into the Darkness.” “Dark- By Matthew Bretz ness” went on to sell over a million copies and achieve gold status. n the early 90’s the country was learning about a In 1972 the band released the number 2 album on the new kind of rap headed up by a group from Long Billboard Top 100 for that year. The World Is a Ghetto pro- Beach,I Cali called N.W.A.. And by the late 90’s duced one of their biggest hits of all time - “The Cisco Kid” the face of music was getting a style makeover by which shipped gold. The World Is a Ghetto went on to be- Bradley Noll and his band Sublime, later known come Billboard’s pick for the hottest album of the year as as the Long Beach Dub Allstars. But way back in well as the best-selling record of 1973. Remember, the band the late 60’s there was a different band from Long had only just gotten going a few years before. Beach making theworld look at California. That In 1973 the band caught on fire even more with the re- band was WAR. lease of Deliver the World which gave us the likes of “Gyp- sy Man,” “Me and Baby Brother” which went on to sell over In 1969 record producer Jerry Goldstein saw a group called 2 million copies. Then in 1975 Why Can’t We Be Friends? The Creators play at a little place in Long Beach, CA. The produced its title track as well as “Lowrider”—two of War’s Creators had recorded a few albums for Dore Records. They greatest hits of all time. In 1976, War released a greatest hits weren’t very successful yet, and most of the guys had day album because even though they hadn’t been together even jobs, but Goldstein saw the beginnings of what he thought a decade, they had enough hits to do it. The album did have he could turn into a promising enterprise. He had had quite one new song on it though - “Summer”, which also went a bit of success in his own career with hits like “My Boy- straight to gold making it a greatest hit on their greatest hits friend’s Back”, “Hang on Sloopy”, and “I Want Candy”, so album…even though it was brand new. Later that year they when he told his friend Eric Burdon—formerly lead singer also put out another new album With Eric Burdon - Love of The Animals—that he should go down to listen to the is All Around. You may remember the title track from the band with him; he listened. They were both impressed with movie Love Actually in which Bill Nighey plays an aging the music and the message The Creators were trying to con- Rockstar who tries to boost his career back into the spot- vey. They claimed it was all about fighting for the every light by recording a Christmas themed version of it called man and woman, the poor, and the hungry. They wanted “Christmas is All Around.” to use their instruments to speak out about social issues. A The end of the 70’s saw the release of Galaxy in 1977 band bent on world peace that would come to take on the featuring the title track, a song inspired by the newly pre- 10 - Brevard Live October 2018 miered Star Wars movie. And the last album of the decade for War would be the soundtrack to the movie Youngblood in 1978. It was a hell of a decade for the big little band from Long Beach. The 1980’s proved to be a tumultuous year for the band. Numerous personnel changes prompted the group to change their name to The Music Band, but at the last minute they decided to stick with War and use The Music Band as the title to a series of albums. Speaking of al- bums…War would also change over record companies a couple of times in this decade including LA Records and RCA Victor. The albums they recorded in the 80s weren’t nearly as successful as the previous decade and their ac- tions began to mirror that level of success.
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