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Vol. 18 - Issue 3 • March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018

INSIDE Winery Guide Ice Wine Festival continues March 10th & 17th Craft Brew News Book Review: Ashtabula Harbor. Ohio Interviews: Chuck Negron of , Ethan Brosh, Stu Hamm & Movie Reviews

Entertainment, Dining & Leisure Connection Read online at www.northcoastvoice.com North Coast Voice OLD FIREHOUSE

5499 Lake RoadWINERY East • Geneva-on-the Lake, Ohio Restaurant & Tasting Room Open 7 Days Year Round Hours: Sun- urs Noon to 7pm, Fri & Sat Noon to 11pm Entertainment 1-800-Uncork-1 Tasting Rooms all weekend. (see ad on pg. 5) FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND EVENTS, SEE OUR AD ON PG. 7 Kitchen Open! Hours: Mon & Tues. Closed Hours: Mon. - Tue. Closed Wed 12-4 Wine Tasting and Cheese Wed. - Th ur. 3 – 7 Boards, Fri. & Sat. Noon - 11, Sun. Noon - 7 Thurs 12-7, Fri & Sat 12-8 & Sun 12-5 834 South County Line Road 4573 Rt. 307 East, Harpersfi eld, Oh Harpersfi eld, Ohio 44041 440.415.0661 216.973.2711 www.laurellovineyards.com www.bennyvinourbanwinery.com [email protected] [email protected]

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North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 3 North Coast Voice March. 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 • VOLUME 18 • ISSUE 3 •••••••••••••••••••••••• • • • • • CONTENTS • • TA K E II • We would like to thank all of our sponsors and • Playing 50-60-70's • encourage our readers to patronize the fine • Favorites and Much More • businesses appearing in the North Coast VOICE. WINE COUNTRY NEWS 5 CONCERT & CD ANNOUNCEMENT 17 • • Publisher Ethan Brosh releases CD •••••••••••••••••••••••• COOKING WITH WINE 6 Fri. Mar. 9 • 7-10 PM LCS Communications Hartford Hill, Hartford OH NOW WE’RE TALKING ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• V WHAT ABOUT JAZZ 8 19 Sat. Mar. 10 • 5:30-8:30 PM Editor Luisa’s Mexican Restaurant Sage Satori Bassist Stu Hamm & Poncho’s Cantina, Geneva CSU’s saxophone virtuoso - ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• [email protected] Sat. Mar. 17 • 7:00 pm Howie Smith MOVIES 21 Lil'l Paws Winery, Lake Milton, OH ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Advertising & Marketing Sat. Mar. 24 • 6-9 PM Hunter BLUESVILLE 9 Black Panther, Game Night, Green Eagle Winery Cortland, OH ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sales/Social Media/Events & Promotions Sun. Mar. 25 • 2-5 PM Death Wish Benny Vino Winery, S. Countyline 440-813-3336 WHAT’S ON THE SHELF 11 Harpersfield [email protected] ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Chuck Negron releases final BREW NEWS 23 Fri. Mar. 30 • 7-10 PM Trenda Jones Deers Leap Rt.534, Geneva Mentor, Willoughby, Chardon area ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• STAY IN TUNE 25 Sat. Mar. 31 • 7-11 PM edition of his autobiography Moose Lodge, Rt. 46, Cortland Staff Writers ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• TALKIN SHOP 26 Sat. Apr. 7 • 8-10 PM Sage Satori • Cat Lilly ON THE BEAT 13 Goddess Winehouse, Ashtabula Snarp Farkle • Don Perry ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Fri. Apr. 13 • 7-10 PM Patrick Podpadec • Helen Marketti Fun things to see & do NOW WE’RE TALKING 27 Hartford Hill ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Film Editor Saturday 14 • 6-9 PM SPOTLIGHT 15 Interview with Michael Schenker Green Eagle Winery, Cortland. Westside Steve Pop Culture and the Hippies CD REVIEW 28 For booking call Ellie Contributing Writers 330-770-5613 Chad Felton • Mike Edgerly Susan Surftone Patti Ann Dooms • Pete Roche WHAT’S ON THE SHELF 16 www.takeii.com Tom Todd • Donniella Winchell Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio Trenda Jones • Alan Cliffe Circulation Manager James Alexander Off The Wooden Spool Happy St. Circulation Bob Covert • Dan Gestwicki an Etsy shop Trenda Jones • Jim Ales Patrick’s Day! Unique quilted gifts from the heart Happy Easter! Visit my shop for information and pricing.

Graphic Design Linde Graphics Co. • (440) 951-2468 Happy Spring! Vandy Linhart • [email protected] Please Note: Views and opinions expressed in articles submitted for print are not necessarily the opinions of the North Coast VOICE staff or its sponsors. Advertisers assume responsibility for the content of their ads.The entire contents of the North Coast VOICE are copyright 2018 by the North Coast VOICE. Under no circumstance will any portion of this publication be reproduced, including using electronic systems without permission of the publishers of the North Coast VOICE. The North Coast VOICE is not affliated with any other publication. MAILING ADDRESS North Coast VOICE Magazine P.O. Box 118 • Geneva, Ohio 44041 Phone: (440) 415-0999 E-Mail: [email protected]

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Ferrante’s Vidal Blanc Ice Wine Steals “Best of Show” Entertainment all Weekend! VJust in Time for 14th Annual Ice Wine Festival Continuing on March 10, & 17 Friday & Saturday: 7-10p • Sunday: 2-5p Th e cold winter blues of Ferrante, Winemaker. Debonné Vineyards, Grand River Cel- MARCH Fri. 9th- Joe Brunetti Northeastern Ohio can be Ferrante’s will showcase their well- lars, Laurello Vineyards, and St. Joseph Sat. 10th- Hampshire Moon depressing this time of year; deserved award-winning Grand River Vineyards. Each winery will provide a Sun. 11th- Jimmy Ales Fri. 16th- Patrick Jochum and Fred Grupe however, in the Grand River Valley Vidal Blanc Ice Wine paired with sample of their wines, an ice wine glass, Sat.17th - St. Pat's Day- FOG- Four Old Guys Valley wine region the winter Chef Nina’s Gorgonzola Prosciutto Mac and a complimentary appetizer. Th e Sun.18th- Facemyer Band Fri. 23rd- Legacy Band blues are lessened as the winer- & Cheese. Th is rich dessert wine has aro- event begins at noon and ends at 5 pm. Sat. 24th- R&B with IN DEMAND ies celebrate their annual Ice mas of apricot and orange blossoms with Th e cost is $6 per person at each winery. Sun. 25th- Take II Wine festival!! fl avors of honey and ripe melon fi nished In an eff ort to help the local food banks, Fri. 30th- Ageless Band Sat. 31st- Joe Brunetti APRIL Ferrante’s Vidal Blanc Ice with a 19% residual sugar. Ferrante’s the wineries are encouraging everyone Sun. 1st- Easter Wine was named Best of Show will also be pouring their new vintage of to bring in canned food items for which Fri. 6th- All Night Shoe Store & Best of Class at the 2018 Vidal Blanc. Th eir Ice Wine Bellini will they will receive $1 off at each location. Sat. 7th Legacy Band Sun. 8th Joe Brunetti American Fine Wine Competi- be available for an additional tasting as Be the fi rst 35 guests to purchase a Fri. 13th- 2 Guys 12 Strings tion. Ferrante’s Ice Wine also well! bottle of Ferrante Vidal Blanc Ice wine Sat. 14th- R&B with IN DEMAND received a Double Gold at the On Saturday, March 17, join Ferrante and included with your purchase you will Sun. 15th- Pickin Rocks 2018 San Francisco Chronicle at 1pm and 3pm for a demonstration of receive a gel ice bag!!! Wine Competition. “Ice Wine their Signature Ice Wine Bellini! Tastings Ferrante Ice Wine inspired menu will Kitchen Open! truly is a gift from Mother will be $5 per person and will include be available all three weekends! To view Wed. & Thur. Noon-7p • Fri. & Sat. Noon-11p • Sun. Noon-7p Nature. Ice Wine can only be samples of the Signature Hot Toddy, the menu and additional details, visit 834 South County Line Rd. made in certain regions of the Casa Hot Cocoa, and Ice Wine Bellini. our website www.FerranteWinery.com Harpersfield, Ohio 44041 world and we make some of the most Tickets can only be purchased at the win- or call the winery at (440) 466-8466. 216-973-2711 exceptional, award-winning Ice Wines ery that day; space is limited. Look for Ferrante wines are your local www.bennyvinourbanwinery.com here in the Grand River Valley,” said Nick Other participating wineries include: grocery stores! Ice Wine Tastings at Mark your calendars to attend the 1st Annual Kosicek Vineyards Vintage Ohio South Although Kosicek Vineyards is not a part of the Grape Growers of the Grand Come and sample wines from all cor- It's Your Winery, Medina River Valley's ice wine festival, they will ners of the state, shop the local crafters Maize Valley Winery & Craft Brewery, be off ering ice wine tastings and specials and artisans and tantalize your taste Hartville the fi rst three weekends of March! You buds with foods from local food trucks Meier's Wine Cellars, Silverton can taste 2 ice wines and keep your tast- and restaurant vendors. Meranda-Nixon Winery, Ripley ing glass for $5. Choose from concord Th e event takes place at Clark County Old Mason Winery & Vineyards, West ice wine, Vidal Blanc ice wine, and late Fairgrounds in Springfi eld, Ohio on Milton harvest Vidal Blanc. Saturday, May 12th from 1-8 pm. Olde Schoolhouse Vineyards, Eaton Kosicek will also off er their very popu- Relax and enjoy the sounds of some Th e Winery at Versailles, Versailles lar wine slushies back for those three of your favorite musicians and learn Valley Vineyards, Morrow weekends! how to make appetizers that pair well www.kosicekvineyards.com 440-361-4573 with wines at the cooking demos off ered Tickets throughout the day. Tickets pre-sale $25 or $30 at the Ice Wine Tasting Package Th e highlight of this festival is the door at Old Firehouse Winery opportunity to sample Ohio wines and Your entrance fee includes a wine Saturdays & Sundays, March 10-11 & to purchase bottles to enjoy at home. glass, 12 wine sampling tickets, and a March 17-18 Noon to 7pm Gather your friends and family together six-bottle carrier tote for taking your Join Firehouse after the 5 pm Satur- and start a tradition of celebrating all favorite wines home. Additional wine day conclusion of the Grand River Valley that Ohio wines have to off er. sampling tickets may be purchased at a Ice Wine Festival or stay overnight and cost of $5.00 for 3 tickets and $5.00 for enjoy this tasting on Sunday. Participating Ohio Wineries: a glass of wine. Firehouse is featuring a special tasting AR Winery, Arcanum Designated Driver tickets available for package of their Apple Ice Wine. Th e Brandeberry Winery, Enon $10 and includes 4 complimentary pops package includes a souvenir tasting glass Caesar Creek Vineyard, Xenia or waters. Free parking and a homemade dessert. Debonne Vineyards, Madison Tickets can be purchased through www.OldFirehouseWinery.com Hanover Winery, Hamilton www.ohiowines.org 440-466-9300 Heineman's Winery, Put-in-Bay North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 5 North Coast Voice 403 S. Broadway • Geneva 440.466.5560 www.theoldmillwinery.com COOKING WITH WINE Gift Certificates Celebrating make great gifts! Sat. March 17th! Creamed Mushrooms and Spinach Serving Reubens & Green Jello Shots Vin White Wine Sauce && RESTAURANTRESTAURANT Closed Sunday, April 1st • Happy Easter!! Ingredients 10 oz fresh baby spinach Fri & Sat: 7:30-10:30 • Sunday Open Mic 4:30-7:30 PASTA SUNDAY 1/2 lb crimini or baby Portobello mushrooms Fri, Mar 9: The O'Needers ONLY Includes Garlic Bread 1-2 Tbsp vegetable oil for cooking With purchase of beverage. 1 garlic clove Sat, Mar 10: Lost Sheep Band $ 99 Dine-in only, please. 1/4 cup white wine Sun, Mar 11: Open mic w/Mitch Larson 2 Meatballs/Sausage 99¢/ea. ENJOY PASTA WHILE LISTENING TO OPEN MIC! 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream Fri, Mar 1: Tyronne Blues Sensation PASTA SUNDAY CONTINUES THRU MARCH! Salt and fresh cracked black pepper Sat, Mar 17: Castaways Instructions Beer of Month: Killians & Guiness $2.50 Preheat a large cooking pan over medium heat and add oil. Chop spinach and slice Sun, Mar 18: Open mic w/Tom Todd Burger of Month: Dublin Burger $10.99 Fri, Mar 23: Face Value mushrooms. Add mushrooms and spinach into the cooking pan. Season with some Pizza of Month: Reuben Pizza $8.99 salt and pepper, cover and cook until spinach is a little more than half way cooked Sat, Mar 24: Bobby Hayes & H20 down, stir occasionally. Take the lid off and continue cooking until spinach is all Sun, Mar 25: Open mic w/Jimmy Ales Enjoy new weekday specials... wilted. Peel garlic clove and smash it. Add garlic to spinach and mushrooms and mix Fri, Mar 30: Burnt Valves 8 meals under $8 well. Sat, Mar 31: Ernest T Band Add white wine and simmer for a few minutes. Add heavy cream, taste and add Acoustic Thursday Returns in Spring! Fri, Apr 6: Incahootz more salt as needed. Simmer for about 5 minutes and serve. 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Contests & give-aways! 1 teaspoon cinnamon Try our famous Reuben and 2 tablespoons Sambuca, anisette or brandy dance the jig with the 1 egg, beaten O'porch Rockers Daily Specials at the Winery! Mix oil & wine in a bowl. Pulse the fl our, sugar & salt in a food processor. Add the SUNDAY: Homestyle Dinners egg yolks 1 at a time. Pulse. Add butter. pulse until in tiny pieces. With motor on, Mar. 23 tba MONDAY: Quesadilla & Fajita Specials add oil & mix until dough forms. Mar. 24 Black Jack Gypsies TUESDAY: 2.00 off Gourmet Burgers Turn out dough and kneed for about 2 minutes until smooth, adding a little fl our WEDNESDAY: Our famous BOGO Wings, if needed. Wrap in plastic & refrigerate for 1 hour. Mar. 30 Take II Band and now ... BoGo Boneless Wings with Preheat oven to 350 Mar. 31 Andy’s Last Band your favorite Wing Sauce! Toss apples, nuts, sugar, raisins, spices & liquor in a bowl. THURSDAY: Create your own Divide dough into 4 equal pieces. 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North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 7 North Coast Voice WHAT ABOUT JAZZ? ■■■ By Don Perry VJazzworks- featuring CSU's saxophone virtuoso V Howie Smith, appearing at 2 most recognized Cleveland jazz venues Mon. March 19th, 7 pm. Nighttown St. Patrick's Day Fri. March 30th, 8 pm. Bop Stop at Th e Music Settlement Sat. Mar. 17th • 7:30-10:30 VFW Post 943 Saxophonist, composer, jazz musician at Cleveland State University where he Ashtabula and educator Howie Smith was born in was Coordinator of Jazz Studies from Pottsville, Pennsylvania in 1943. At age 1979–2005, served as Interim Chair of fi ve, he was off ered his fi rst-ever instru- the Music Department (1986–87), and Fri. Mar. 23rd ment and music lesson at Wittich’s Music served as Chair of the Art Department 7:30 - 10:30 Store in Reading, Pennsylvania. Seduced from 2003-2007. Old Mill Winery by a shiny horn with three simple- Howie Smith is a full professor at looking keys, he hoped for a trumpet but Cleveland State University, has been a Face Value Duo: the teacher was on his lunch break. By frequent performer with the Cleveland Sat. Mar. 10th & 24th • 6-9:30 chance, a remarkable teacher and musi- Orchestra and soloist with the Cleve- Ferrante Winery cian named J. Carl Borelli arrived, and 30 land Chamber Symphony since 1982, minutes later Howie had his fi rst lesson and has presented numerous concerts Sat. Apr. 7th • 6-9 on an old, curved, Buescher soprano and workshops throughout the United Laurello Vineyards saxophone. States, Canada, South America, Europe @facevaluemusic Howie graduated from Reading Senior and Australia. His annual Concert in High School in 1961. He auditioned for Progress has presented a wealth of and was off ered a scholarship to attend original music – 184 new compositions Ithaca College, as a clarinet major, and at so far – ranging from intimate solos I’d be Hoppy age 22 he received a Bachelor of Science and duets to larger ensembles and what to be your degree with a major in Music Education. might be called performance art. Rec- He continued his education at the Uni- ognition and awards have followed his 13-piece band directed by Jack Schantz; agent! versity of Illinois, where he received his constant search for “good music.” Twice and TCJF Soundworks, the resident en- master's degree, also in Music Education, he has served as the co-chair of both the semble of the annual Tri-C JazzFest. He in 1968. Jazz Fellowship(s) Panel and the Music is also a member of the Blossom Festival In the years following graduation, Overview Panel for the National Endow- Band, the Blossom Festival Orchestra, Howie toured into the early 1970's with ment for the Arts. His compositions have the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, and is a an impressive list of musicians, including earned him Ohio Arts Council Artist frequent performer with the Cleveland Glen Campbell, Bob Crosby and even the Fellowships on seven diff erent occasions. Auto Home Business Life Orchestra. "King" himself - Elvis Presley. In 1985, he was awarded the Cleveland JazzWorks is comprised of Jack We Offer the Smith was an instructor for the Arts Prize for Music, and in 2012 was Schantz on trumpet, John Klayman and Personal Service University of Illinois Division Of Music awarded a Creative Workforce Fellowship Howie Smith on saxophones, Chris An- Extension from 1970 to 1973 teaching a from Cleveland’s Community Partner- derson on trombone, Bob Ferrazza on You’ve Missed Lately course titled Jazz and Youth Music and ship for Arts & Culture. , Th eron Brown on piano, Aidan AUTO • HOME in 1973, He received a Fulbright grant Smith was commissioned to compose Plank on bass, and Reggie Jackson on BUSINESS • LIFE (through the Australian-American Edu- music for the opening ceremony of drums. cational Foundation) to set up the fi rst Cuyahoga Community College’s Unifi ed Like all creative sorts, Howie is often TREEN jazz studies program on a tertiary level in Technologies Center in 1986, and the asked which piece or performance is his Australia, at the New South Wales State fanfare for the opening of the Michel- favorite. His reply is a quote borrowed INSURANCE Conservatorium, where he remained as son-Morley Centennial Celebrations in – in the best jazz tradition – from Duke Director of Jazz Studies through to 1976. Severance Hall in 1987. He has been Ellington: “Th e next one.” 1484 State Route 46 N. • Suite 8 Th irty four years since its establishment, a Yamaha artist/clinician since 1971. Jefferson, Ohio 44047 To learn more about this extraordi- Jazz Studies continues to be a most He currently works with and writes for nary Cleveland Jazz Artist/Educator - (440) 576-5926 popular course at the Sydney Conserva- Organ Ism, an organ trio/quartet; Iron visit www.howiesmith.com. or for ticket torium. Toys, a saxophone/woodwind quartet; information to the upcoming Jazzworks In 1976 he returned to the USA and Wind Machine, a group composed of 6 shows, go to www.nighttowncleveland. after working as a free-lance musician in saxophones, piano, bass, drums, and com or www.themusicsettlement.org. San Diego he ultimately took a position vocalist; the Jazz Unit, a forward-looking Scott Treen 8 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 North Coast Voice

Saturday, Mar. 17 • 9-1 BLUESVILLE St. Pat's at ■■■ By Cat Lilly the Corner Bar in Austinburg Alan Greene Blues Jam "Blues Time", broadcast every Saturday w/ Swamp Rattlers night from nine until midnight. www. Imelda May V20 Year Anniversary alangreene.com Irish Blues Friday, March 30th Cebar’s on 185th Alan is backed up by his top-notch band every Sunday night, cranking out The Winery at Spring Hill the blues for the masses. Tom Odegard w/ Swamp Rattlers (Odie) is considered by many to be one 7:30-10:30 of Northeast Ohio's fi nest blues singers, with a harmonica style that is truly his Saturday, April 7th own. Performing for over thirty years (Elm Street Blues Band, Unfortunate Luisa’s Mexican Grill Sons), Tom is a talented as 5:30-8:30 well - several of his original songs help make up the Alan Greene Band's songlist. Rob Luoma is one of Cleveland's best and most respected drummers. His 12 year stint with regional sensation Oro- boros took him all over the US and as far as Th ailand playing to enthusiastic audi- Cat ences and keeping the dance fl oors fi lled with his solid timekeeping and imagina- Lilly tive dynamics. Justin Butcher rounds out the Alan For Bookings call Greene Band with his strong, versa- 440-466-4623 or 440-417-4199 tile bass playing and vocal abilities. A Th e end of her thirteen-year marriage multi-instrumentalist, Justin has played to guitarist Darrel Higham gave Imelda with numerous groups, such as Th e May plenty to sing the blues about. "Life Sunday, February 25th marked the Castaways, Th e Tim Facemyer Band, and changes. You have to roll with it," the 20th anniversary of the Alan Greene Miles Beyond", and has appeared onstage Irish songstress told Billboard. "Certainly Blues Jam Night at Cebar’s on 185th. with Joe Vitale. Justin and Rob are as an artist you have a good way to chan- And what a party it was!!! Th e weekend locked in tight, creating a rhythm section nel whatever's going on. Songwriting, never ends at Cebar’s where every Sun- that keeps crowds moving and helps which I'm always doing, is almost like a day night a host of musicians, friends defi ne a unique identity for the Alan diary." Her latest , Life Love Flesh and fans congregate to make this ongo- Greene Band. Alan is a gracious host, and Blood, takes a page from that journal and Cleveland ing blues jam the longest continually- this is a great jam to attend as a specta- draws on the emotional struggle of her running jam session in Cleveland. tor, dancer, or a player! 2015 divorce. Blues Society Alan Greene, a veteran of the Cleve- Produced by T Bone Burnett and land music scene, is a gracious host. He recorded in Los Angeles, Life Love Flesh VISIT OUR makes sure players are accommodated Blues Society Blood reveals an intimate portrait of and acknowledged. Alan has been voted the artist as a woman with the blues. WEBSITE "Best Guitarist in Northeast Ohio" by Meetings "On this album I didn't want to hide both the 1997 Scene Magazine Annual Cleveland Blues Society’s March anything," May acknowledged. “I wrote FOR ALL Readers Poll and the 2004 Free Times monthly jam (Monday, 3/12) will be about a whole series of emotions I was THE LATEST Readers Poll, an award he was nomi- held at Kurt’s Getaway Bar and Grill feeling at the time – sadness, happiness, nated for fi ve additional times (2001, (8909 Garfi eld Blvd Frnt, Garfi eld guilt, regret, everything. God knows how HAPPENINGS '02, '05, '06 and '08). He was a member Heights, 44125) and will be hosted by I'm going to be able to perform it now..." IN CLEVELAND of the reformed Humble Pie, along with the Sam Hopper Band. Th e CBS April In addition to the lyrical shift, Life Breathless, and the Mr. Stress Blues jam will take place on Monday, 4/9 at Love Flesh Blood also takes May in a new BLUES! Band", as well as being featured on Union House, 2713 Brook Park Road, sonic direction, moving from rockabilly recordings by Michael Stanley, Don- Cleveland, 44134 and will be hosted to the kind of rootsy Americana sound nie Iris, and Pere Ubu. In 2010, Carlos by the Bluescasters. Jams run from Burnett does so well with hints of blues NEW Santana released the song, "Angel Love", 7:30-11:30. Check www.cleveland and country noir. "T Bone and I met co-written by Greene, on his "Super- blues.org for upcoming events. quite a few times before recording," May MEMBERS natural" Legacy Edition CD. He also remembers, "and when he heard the new hosts internet radio station oWOW's WELCOME!

Continued on page 10 www.clevelandblues.org North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 9 North Coast Voice Continued from page 9 take on rockabilly, swing and jazz she & TRAILS LEAD TO THE stuff I'd been writing he said, 'I've known has essayed on such vivacious tunes as S ATM GRAND RIVER Mastercard VISA D NETWORK ® of you. I've been keeping my eye on you, “Johnny Got A Boom Boom” and “Big A MANOR but you just weren't ready for me. Now Bad Handsome Man”. LLFB is about OPEN you're ready for me.'" more than loss, from which the artist DAILY 1153 Mechanicsville Rd. "I started with blues. That's what I has emerged triumphantly, maintaining INCLUDING Geneva • 440-466-9229 HOLIDAYS! started singing as a teenager in Dublin," her classic tastes, while losing the more www.grandrivermanor.com May says. "It just sits well with me. So colorful retro stylings. ALL RO I wanted to go back to basics in a way. That raw emotion is certainly evident I said the other day it's a fabulous mix in "Black Tears," which May co-wrote in V St. Patrick’s Day Celebration! • Sat. March 17th of classy and badass -- that's the sound Nashville with Angelo Petraglia. "I came Flying Pig Entertainment I wanted on this. I wanted it to be like up with the title first; It was after having velvet, but with a kick to it. That's what a difficult goodbye and I came home and will be playing your favorite songs and Irish melodies. [Burnett] does so well." just caught a glimpse of myself in the Win Prizes for wearing your best Green! Serving Corned Beef & Cabbage A precocious singer from Dublin who, mirror and noticed my face was streaked dinners and Ruebens all day. Green Beer too! in her mid-teens acquired a taste for with my mascara running," May recalls. blues and rock’n’roll, Imelda May turned The concept also appealed to Jeff Beck, Nacho Thursday! professional in the early nineties. She who featured May on his 2010 album, Beef or Barbacoa Nachos & Taco Specials formed her own band with her husband, Emotion & Commotion. Imelda asked rockabilly guitarist Darrell Higham, in Beck to play on Life Love Flesh Blood. TUESDAY WING NIGHT 2002, and released her debut studio al- She sent him some songs and he chose 50¢JUMBO WINGS & 55¢ BONELESS WINGS bum, No Turning Back. After the release, “Black Tears” – he solos over the dark, brooding chord progression like a man OPEN MIC WITH JIMMY ALES • 7PM May relocated to London, her UK career taking off after she secured a barnstorm- who understands. FRIDAYS AT 8pm....QUEEN OF HEARTS DRAWING ing performance on Later... With Jools In January 2010 May performed at Holland in 2008, followed by the release the 52nd Grammy Awards with Jeff 100% WINNINGS IF PRESENT! of her second studio album, Love Tattoo Beck in a tribute to Les Paul. The per- PARTY ROOM AVAILABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS! in 2009. Life Love Flesh Blood is her fifth formance was a highlight of her career, studio album, released worldwide in showcasing her vocal skills and versatil- FOOD & DRINK Watch the CAVS on Our Big Screens! SPECIALS! April 2017. ity like never before. The same year, she Burnett teamed May with a small released her third studio album, May- core studio band that included himself, hem, which went to No. 1 in the Irish Tom Waits collaborator Marc Ribot on and Album Charts. , Last Shadow Puppets bassist Recently Imelda found out she had Zach Dawes, Jay Bellerose on drums and acquired a new fan. Bob Dylan has EVERY TUESDAY, 7-10 Patrick Warren on keyboards. Imelda’s divulged he enjoys her work. The Nobel old friend, Jools Holland stopped in to laureate, in an interview on his website Grand River Manor contribute piano on the gospel flavored to promote his own covers album, re- "When It's My Time." vealed that among his current listening It was a different way of working for was the Dublin-born rockabilly revival- OPEN MIC • Wing Night May, used to dealing with her own band. ist, alongside Amy Winehouse, Iggy Now she was far from home with some Pop and The Stereophonics. May had no of the slickest session musicians around. inkling at all he was a fan and she was Sun Mar 11, 2- 5 But things went well and 15 tracks thrilled. were done and dusted in a week. “It just Although a self-reliant musician Benny Vino flowed really well. T Bone set it up, got who writes her own material and has the right musicians in the right place at produced or co-produced all her work the right time and we clicked.” to date, the gregarious May has sung Sat Mar 17, 2-5 May also had the counsel of U2’s Bono, with an enviable range of talents, among a good friend, while making the album. them Lou Reed, Ronnie Wood and Dublin Down "I've been able to lean on him a lot. He Sinead O’Connor. She is currently tour- steers me in the right direction," May ing on both sides of the Atlantic -- and Playing Irish Songs says. Fellow Irish artist Gavin Friday, hopes her fans will embrace the set's meanwhile, gave Life Love Flesh Blood new sound. “This is the album I needed its title, which aptly suggests this latest to make for this moment in time. And effort springs from a place of upheaval it's not all a sad album. It's not all about Jim Ales Sun Mar 25, 4 :30 - 7:30 and pain. heartbreak. It's about everything. It's Old Mill Winery The singer has ditched her spiral- a life-change album. I think people will Acoustic Fun! ing quiff and leopard skin prints of her relate to that." Open Mic rockabilly past. LLFB is her most person- Imelda May’s album ‘Life. Love. Flesh. al, powerful and heartfelt work to date, Blood’ is out now on Decca Records a huge leap from the vibrant, playful https://imeldamay.co.uk/#home Call me at (440) 417-2475 or find me on Facebook 10 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 North Coast Voice

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Continued from page 11 all the damage I heaped upon myself. I system so if people were being paroled started taking oxygen readings after even know feel blessed to be doing this at age 75. I who were drug addicts they went there. my shows and my numbers were low. who he was! will never be the way I was but I am glad You had to quit your habit cold turkey. Low enough where I could have had a So we went to for what I am able to give,” said Chuck. Th ere was no such thing as detox,” heart attack or brain damage. We went the party and Life was not always kind to Chuck explains Chuck. “When you’re kick- to see a specialist and he said I would Th e Mothers Negron. He admits that had come from ing, you can’t sleep. Every fi ber in your need to wear an oxygen cannula. At fi rst of Invention his own doing. Eventually, he turned to body needs something to calm it down. I thought I would wear it but there was were jamming. heroin, which in turn nearly ended his Th ere is no sleep. My mind did not stop. no way I was going to wear it onstage. I It was at the life and life as he once knew. “Th e fi rst It always seemed I was hatching a plan fi gured that my career was over. Enter- party when time I went through rehab was in 1985. every second. One day a friend of mine, tainers are supposed to make people I fi rst met I saw it as an opportunity to change my Mike Finnigan stopped by to visit and relax, have fun and not remind them of Danny Hut- life but when I got out of rehab the call I told him I couldn’t take this anymore life tragedies or illness. Th at’s the way I ton. Someone to get high again was there and I didn’t that I would rather die. Mike told me I felt,” explains Chuck. introduced put into practice what I had learned, had to pray and ask for God’s acceptance. “My girlfriend and manager, Ami us and we hit it off right away and we or should I say I didn’t want to. I spent He said I had to accept whatever came Albea looked into the matter further. started hanging out.” thirteen years in and out of 37 rehab my way. He literally taught me how to She found a company called, Oxy-View. Chuck continues, “I went on the road facilities. Rehabs became my safe haven pray. I went to my room that night and Th ey design the glasses where the oxygen for a while and when I returned there from being homeless. For a while, I had prayed. I prayed to God to let me die or cannula is hooked up to the back rims of were several messages from Danny. We lived with my dealer who lived in an at least have one minute of relief from the glasses with two small hoses that fi t met up again and this time he had Cory abandoned building. Being in rehabs this sickness and relentless obsession. in your nose. You can’t even see it from Wells with him. He and Cory had gotten kept me from people who wanted to get Th en I fell asleep when I thought I would the stage. We fi gured out how to increase together and they decided they needed rid of me, who didn’t want anything to never sleep and when I woke up the next the oxygen intake. I have been able to a third person for a three-part harmony do with me. Th ey were places to stay and morning, it was over. Th e obsession I had continue my career. It’s been a blessing. I and three lead singers. Th at’s how Th ree it was another part of my addiction and felt was gone. I had no problem moving know that some of the fans have gotten Dog Night got started. Th ere were mo- another part of my hustle.” forward to deal with my sickness and my them, too,” said Chuck. ments where it seemed we couldn’t live “Th e 37th place I was at was called Cri- life changed. I knew that God had inter- Chuck does as many as 70 shows per without each other. It was a time that Help and that was for hard core heroin vened. I threw myself in the program and year. He does solo work as well as travels was very special and magical.” addicts. Th e Betty Ford Clinic wouldn’t it changed my life.” Chuck is celebrating with Th e Happy Together tour, which “I feel grateful that I have this oppor- even take me on because they didn’t 26 years of sobriety. will start in June. In addition to travel, tunity to still sing these songs. I am glad handle people like me is what I was told. He shares numerous experiences in he has recorded with his two daughters, I have something left to give in spite of Cri-Help had contracts with the prison his autobiography, Th ree Dog Nightmare Annabelle and Charlotte. Th eir album, with eleven new chapters due for release Negron Generations was released last March 13. Th is will be the fi nal edition. year. “My daughters have been singing “Th e book is used in some rehab facili- with me since they were little kids. Char- Join us for a ties, including Cri-Help,” said Chuck. Th e lotte (Charlie) performed with me when fi rst edition of the book was released in she was nine years old at the Hollywood FREE 1999. “I worked with Chris Blatchford Bowl in front of 17,000 people. She made who worked as an investigative reporter her fi rst record when she was nine or ten Atlas Movie Night for FOX News. He encouraged me to with David Foster. She is a great singer. write the book and share my story. I was Annabelle has worked with me in Vegas. at the Diamond Center not trying to make an excuse for my She has done her own songs in addi- behavior. I needed to own my past, which tion to providing backing vocals. I have March 29th for was pathetic. When you tell the truth, always wanted to sing with my daughters you will have people who like you and and work on a project together. I wanted Sherlock Gnomes! people who will hate your guts. When to share the experience and teach them you hit a nerve, they become angry and life lessons,” explains Chuck. Listen for your chance to win feel they have a right to abuse you. Th ey Chuck is never at a loss for projects feel they have that right because you and entertaining. “I wrote a song with are messing with their life. I write about Juliet Piper who has a new record and your way into this free family those experiences in the book. Over video. Th e song we did together was, “It time, the guys in the band treated me Sometimes Rains When It’s Sunny”. She movie night and enjoy the new like a piece of shit. It was unbelievable. is an Indie artist so it’s very diff erent Once you have been a drug addict, you from anything I have ever done,” he said. seats at Atlas. Remember you make everyone around you sick as well. “I am also gearing up to work on another Your family is sick, your friends are sick record but may do a single fi rst, if I have must be pre-qualified to attend and so are the people you work with.” the time. In early June, I will be going on As Chuck got back to his music career, the road with Th e Happy Together Tour. I this free event. he noticed over time he would be out love the creative process. Th e act of artis- of breath when he came off stage. “My tic endeavors is the reward. You do what breathing was very labored but I didn’t TO LISTEN LIVE AND WATCH OUR LIVE COUGAR CAM you love and hope the magic happens.” worry about it because I knew I would See Chuck on Th e Happy Together WWW.COUGAR937.COM recover. I wasn’t scared. I was too dumb Tour August 12, see Page 13 for details. I guess.” (laughs) My girlfriend, Ami www.chucknegron.com 12 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 North Coast Voice

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Th is summer, the Happy Together thing Th at Touches You” Tour returns with six headline artists Mark Lindsay, former lead singer of who delivered the biggest hits of the era: Paul Revere and the Raiders made his Th e Turtles, Chuck Negron, formerly of mark with “Kicks,” “Hungry,” “Him Or Come for the Food ... Stay for the Entertainment Th ree Dog Night, Gary Puckett & Th e Me (What’s It Gonna Be?),” “Steppin’ CORN BEEF DINNERS, SANDWICHES & RUEBENS Union Gap, Th e Association, Mark Lind- Out,” “Good Th ing,” “Indian Reserva- say, former Lead Singer of Paul Revere & tion,” “Arizona” and many others. Mark SERVED ALL DAY ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY! Th e Raiders and Th e Cowsills. Lindsay was the co-founder and lead Th e following is just a reminder of some singer of this seminal act from its incep- Open Easter Sunday and serving delicious dinner specials! the great music from a few of the artists. tion in 1963 through 1975. His voice is Chuck Negron, formerly of Th ree Dog heard on all the Raiders’ 16 Top 20 Hits. Night, is back on the Happy Together Th e Happy Together Tour began in Comedy Night Sat. Mar. 10 • 8pm Tour due to popular demand! He brings 1984 with mainstays Th e Turtles. It Th ree Dog Night’s biggest hits to the stage, started up again in 2010 with 2018 Shawn Boyd including “Joy To Th e World,” “Mama Told being its 9th consecutive year. Th e This Cleveland area comedy giant is energetic and Me Not To Come,” “Shambala,” “One”, overwhelming response and love for relatable as he covers topics about life, family, and “” among others. the music has endured and Th e Happy pop culture. Shawn has appeared at the Cleveland Gary Puckett & Th e Union Gap is Together Tour 2018 brings that magic Comedy Festival and on syndicated TV. thrilled to be on the Happy Together back to fans, night after night! Opener - Joke Teller Grampa Moses Tour again. Gary’s trademark voice Reserved Tickets: $85, $57.50, $44.50 will be belting out his hits one more On sale Friday March 9 at 10 a.m. Tickets only $5 in advance and $7 at the door! Reservations are strongly recommended. time. Fans will aff ectionately remem- Fans can purchase at the Rocksino Box Mark your calendars for the next comedy night on April 14th ber “Young Girl,” “Over You” “Woman, Offi ce, LiveNation.com, Ticketmaster. Woman”, “Th is Girl Is A Woman Now”, com or by phone (800)745-3000. 6884 North Ridge Road (Rt. 20) • 440.428.9926 Continued on page 14 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 13 North Coast Voice Continued from page 13 And Then There Were None mystery opens at Arlene’s in Conneaut “And Then There Were None,” the The show is under the direction of Agatha Christie mystery based on the Michael Mooney, a first-time director at poem “Ten Little Indians”, opens Friday, the theater. March 9 at Arlene’s Broadway on Buf- “This is a well-known play…a very falo, 236 Buffalo St., Conneaut. The well-known play,” said Mooney. “But show continues March 10, 11 and 16-18. there’s still room for interpretation and V The show touches on a dramatic area I think people will be entertained by ABOB hasn’t really explored yet on stage our version. “It’s like an old-time horror - the murder mystery. An ABOB-affiliat- movie, just without the blood and gore,” ed group, Theater 99, does produce origi- he said. The show has two possible end- nal murder mysteries at area venues. ings, and Mooney has opted to go with In the 1939 novel, a group of people the ending most like that in the book, are lured into coming to an island under eschewing the standard “happy” ending different pretexts - offers of employ- in the play. ment, to enjoy a late summer holiday or Cast members include Fred Robsel, to meet old friends. All have been com- David Jones, Tyler Cogar, Lindsay plicit in the deaths of other people, but Bidwell, Marisha Sullivan, Douglas either escaped justice or committed an Anderson, Marti Dixon, James Howells, act for which there was no official crime. Dennis Dixon, Ellen Kolman and Larry The guests and two servants at the house Gasch. are charged with their respective crimes Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for by a gramophone recording after dinner students and may be reserved by calling the first night, and told they have been 440-599-7529. All shows for “And Then brought to the island to pay for their There Were None” will begin at 7:30 misdeeds. One by one, they begin to die p.m.; seating will begin at 6:45 p.m. in unusual ways.

The Kent Stage Welcomes Mary Bridget Davies & Mia Dyson - Sat. May 5th @ 8pm Tony Award®-nominated singer, Mary Bridget Davies will bring her power- house blues and rock to The Kent Stage on Saturday, May 5. Australian singer- songwriter and guitarist Mia Dyson will open the show. Mary Bridget Davies' musical journey began in her hometown of Cleveland in 2001 when she first started singing in local bands, and she hasn't slowed down a perfect complement to the evening. since. In 2005 she won the lead role in Dyson released three while the national touring production of "Love, living in her native country, with Janis" - featuring the music of the Janis 2005's Parking Lots getting a nod for Joplin. Best Blues and Roots Album from the Davies toured Europe with that icon's Australian Recording Industry Associa- original band, Big Brother and the Hold- tion. She relocated to the U.S. in 2009, ing Company, and eventually landed and released two more records, with her the lead in "A Night with Janis Joplin." sound maturing and evolving. Dyson, She stayed with that production until who has opened for Eric Clapton, Stevie it hit Off Broadway and then Broadway, Nicks and Chris Isaak, shapes her soulful garnering a Tony Award® nomination sound with stellar vocal and guitar work. for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. The Her latest album, If I Said Only So Far I New York Times heralded her "ebullient Take It Back drops on March 9. personality and raspy tone" and said she Gold Circle tickets are $40, floor seats "captured the Joplin sound perfectly." are $30 and balcony seating is $20. The She now fronts her own band, touring show begins at 8 p.m., with doors open- festivals and venues worldwide. ing at 7 p.m. The roots rock of Mia Dyson will be Continued on page 29 14 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 North Coast Voice

Ohio City but Coventry has always been the leader, a welcoming neighborhood.” SPOTLIGHT When asked what he hopes the audi- ence will take away from the discussion, ■■■ By Helen Marketti Steve said, “I hope they understand that these are defi nitely diff erent times. Th ere are many memories. I am sharing stories Pop Culture and the Hippies and thoughts from that time from my V own interpretation. Th ere were many Steve Presser to give talk at Music Box small businesses around then, today not www.Abbeyrodeo.com that point, California was not my thing so much. Rent goes through the roof and so I moved back to Cleveland. I started sales go down. Th ere isn’t the infi nity of Saturday, working with people who had develop- love and loyalty that places used to have. March 24th mental disabilities and I loved it. I did Sadly, the next generation is more of a that for a couple of years. THEN I totally disposable generation and they are not switched gears, started wearing a suit collecting or showing much of an inter- Cebars and tie every day and worked as a stock est. Many factors change the landscape Restaurant & Lounge broker for seven years at Paine Webber,” of the way things once were. It’s impor- he remembers. “It was 1990 that I ini- tant to preserve what we can.” Madison tially opened up a pop up shop of Big Fun www.musicboxcle.com while we did renovations. We opened Big *Writer’s Update: After nearly 30 8:30 pm-11:00 pm Fun on April Fool’s Day in 1991. So the years of being in business, Steve Presser 6884 North Ridge Rd. big joke was I went from stock to schlock! recently announced that Big Fun will be (laughs) What people embrace when they closing its doors at the end of May. “After Madison, OH were younger, they want to recapture recently going through some personal when they become adults. Nostalgia losses of close friends, you begin to never goes out of style.” Abbey Rodeo is: Jim Bonfonti, Chris Butcher, reevaluate where you are in life. It is time Verne McClelland, P. J. Philips, Steve is often asked to give talks about close to Big Fun and move on to another Bob Yocum and Chuck Citraro. a variety of topics ranging from trending chapter.” Check out the Abbey Rodeo video at: During the late 60s and early 70s, toys, days gone by or thoughts on any www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwWk_2hELk hippies were not only concentrated in topic ranging from soup to nuts and that California. Th ey were sprinkled ev- could be quite literally. erywhere in the United States. One of “I give talks all the time. I work the Ohio’s main cities where they congre- library circuit and gave a dozen talks last gated was in Cleveland, more specifi - year. I sometimes talk about the history cally, Th e Coventry neighborhood. of toys, the evolution of Mom and Pop Steve Presser who is the owner of the stores, independent storeowners and novelty and nostalgia store, Big Fun in pop culture. We discuss how things have the Coventry area will be engaging in a changed over the years,” explains Steve. “Q and A” at the Music Box Supper Club “I am also enamored with the whole hip- in Cleveland for those interested in the pie philosophy. Everyone talks about free hippie culture and looking to escape love. While that was part of it, I am more cabin fever on Wednesday, April 25 at interested in the music, the styles, the 7:00 pm. independent thought and social activ- “I would say I have an eclectic taste ism. I fi nd it fascinating. I grew up in the in music,” said Steve. “When I was University Heights and Coventry area of younger, it was obviously classic rock Cleveland. Th e area was a hot spot for the like Th e Stones, Th e Beatles, Tommy Bohemian Hippie district. 1967 through James and Th e Shondells and Simon 1970 were magical years. Working at Big and Garfunkel. When I went to college, Fun I am a collector of history so that I became interested in reggae, new wave time period is of interest.” and punk. I like nearly every genre of He continues, “It was a time period of music.” great social consciousness and the great- Steve’s career path has taken several est time for music. Th e Music Box Supper interesting twists and turns. “I attended Club contacted me and asked if I would the University of Michigan and gradu- talk about the hippies and that genera- ated with a Bachelor of Science in Pre- tion. It will be set up as a Q and A. I can Med but I never went to med school. I talk at nauseam on a great many topics!” went out to California after college to (laughs) “Coventry has always been one attend graduate school at Berkley. At of the cool, hip neighborhoods. It now has competition such as Tremont and

North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 15 North Coast Voice CLYDE HILL CREATIVE WORKS WHAT’S ON THE SHELF ■■■ By John Stoker VAshtabula Harbor, Ohio V NOW AT MADISON'S Th e World’s Greatest Iron Ore Receiving Port WIT & WHIMSY Did you know that Ashtabula Harbor is tours to picnickers. UNIQUE GIFTABLES man-made? Th e fi rst pioneers found only Did you know that Pinney Dock stands a sandbar at the mouth of the Ashtabula on the site of Woodland Beach Park, to River. Th e original docks were behind the which travelers from Pittsburgh, Erie river’s pronounced bend shortly before and Cleveland came by the hundreds in it reaches the lake, but the turn was too excursions by train for summer week- tight to navigate for the big lake freight- ends, or that the religious Finns who Unique ceramic creations ers of the 20th century, so the docks lived on Oak (now 8th) Street referred to 764 South County Line Road were expanded by muscle and dynamite. the settlement of the socialist Finns at Harpersfield Did you know that the 1911 armed Haywood Beach as “Sin Swamp’? robbery of the Marine National Bank on Comprehensive, entertaining, and fully (440) 645-9029 Bridge Street involved a car chase and indexed, Carl E. Feather’s Ashtabula Har- tossing everyone on deck into the river. By appointment only shootout worthy of the Keystone Cops? bor, Ohio, subtitled Th e World’s Greatest Th e boys on the masts ended up in the text, call, or FB msg. Th e robbers ultimately escaped by boat Iron Ore Receiving Port, is generously deepest part of the river. Seven of them, from Ninevah Beach. Twenty-two years illustrated with maps, charts and photo- entangled by the ropes of the rigging, INSPIRED BY NATURE. earlier, the two-masted schooner Sophia graphs from various local collections. It drowned. INTERPRETED THRU Minch was grounded on that same Nine- features numerous sidebars about two But not all the ghosts tell tales of IMAGINATION. vah Beach. Unable to free his ship for a hundred years of interesting Harbor disaster. In a sidebar, Feather quotes a year, the captain set up residence, giving people and incidents, and includes an letter written by one Artie M. Hopkins, NOW LISTING ON ETSY! extensive bibliography. a musician who played with Leek’s Th e book’s 416 pages are divided into Orchestra for an all-day and all-night 22 chapters arranged in fi ve sections. Th e Fourth of July dance on the Point at fi rst of these sections traces the history the Harbor. “Th ey had built a sort of of Ashtabula Harbor as an industrial sheep-pen, and it was so raw (cold) that port. Th e second, “Saloons, Brothels and they put blankets and carpets on the Other Necessities,” gives a colorful ac- north side of the pen to protect the count of the denizens and businesses of (orchestra) players. We ate three meals Bridge Street over the years, Part Th ree at the Point Park Hotel, without cost to focuses on fl oods, fi res and shipwrecks, us, and when the big dance was over, as well as deaths in tugboat accidents we shared the returns with the hotel and among workers on the docks. Part keeper and counting it, we had, each Four, “Th e Immigrants,” recounts the man in the orchestra, $12.50. It looked tales of the Finns, Swedes and Italians like a million to me.” Today’s Harbor who came to do the hard work of build- musicians will perhaps recognize a ing and operating an industrial port. kindred spirit. Finally, the last section details the back Feather himself seems conscious stories of various landmarks, including of this eff ect. In a poignant epilogue, the three moveable bridges built across he writes of “college students sipping the Ashtabula River and the lighthouses, their lattes” so close to where cars once shipyards and fi sheries that came and plunged into the river after driving off went. the old swing bridge and working men Reading a good local history like were mangled by Hulett unloaders like Feather’s summons to the imagination baby chicks tossed into a food grinder. the ghosts in one’s own neighborhood. He has a reporter’s eye for detail and On August 20, 1818, for example, when nose for a good story, and a poet’s sense a celebration was held at the launch site of irony in the bittersweet passing of of the Superior, boys scampered into time. the rigging while men drank whiskey on Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio is available deck. When the drunken men attempted from Amazon.com, and from carl@ to rock the ship free of its cradle, the thefeathercottage.com. customary method of launching, they rocked it so violently that it capsized, 16 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 North Coast Voice CONCERT & CD ANNOUNCEMENT ■■■ By Pete Roche Ethan Brosh releases CD - Conspiracy, tour stop Vat Beachland Ballroom VOICE: Is there a concept Guitarist Ethan Brosh has shared stu- or narrative that listen- dios and stages with such rock royalty as ers should be aware of? MARCH Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Schenker Th e sci-fi sleeve art nods 3/16 NAVE’ LOUNGE ASHTABULA 9-12 (UFO), Eddie Money, (Mr. at the space race, and the Big), Mike Mangini (Dream Th eater), title hints at international 3/17 DAYS INN CONNEAUT 9-12 and brother drummers Carmine and intrigue and cover-ups. WILD SIDE JEFFERSON - Vinnie Appice (, Dio). E.B: Th ere’s not an overarch- 3/23 9 12 Fleet-fi ngered Brosh also teamed with ing story. But there’s a story be- 3/24 CLAY STREET AUSTINBURG 9-1am members of Megadeth and Manowar in hind every song. In the CD and the super-group Angels of Babylon and the vinyl there’s a long descrip- 3/30 CHESTNUT CAFE CONNEAUT 9-12 contributed guitar tracks to (Stryper tion for every song that talks 3/31 BRENNANS PUB ASHTABULA 9-12 singer) Michael Sweet’s 2016 solo album about the whole thing and how One-Sided War. they came about. But as far as But Ethan’s been stepping out on a concept for the album itself, APRIL his own in recent years. Raised in New it’s not something I read too York, the Bach-loving Brosh picked up much into. It’s just 4/20 RARE CHERRY ASHTABULA 9-12 the guitar after hearing Iron Maiden something where I 4/21 BRENNANS PUB ASHTABULA 9-12 and relocated to Boston, where he stud- noticed that a lot of ied (and later taught) at the prestigious the song titles had Berklee College of Music. He made a more of a connota- For bookings call: splash with his 2009 solo debut Out of VOICE: Tell us about the tion that would 216-903-9798 Oblivion on the Magna Carta label, then creation process for Conspir- sound fi tting for committed to years of session work and acy. How was it like—or not heavy metal. It was collaborations before following up with like—doing your fi rst two back to my heavy 2014’s Live the Dream. albums? metal roots! So I Now Brosh is back with his third ex- ETHAN BROSH: Well, I fi guredConspiracy Just citing instrumental release, Conspiracy. always try to make a better would be a good LIKE Mixed by Max Norman (Bad Com- product. Like everybody else, I try to name for the record, and it fi t exactly pany, Ozzy) and mastered by Brad evolve as a musician and just be a better with what Derek Riggs had in mind for That! Blackwood (Alison Krauss), the 14-track songwriter, better guitar player, and the cover. disc boasts fl uid, memorable melodies make a better album with better sound Th is album cover was actually an idea by Brosh and robust rhythms from band quality. I’m huge on production! So this is that was sent to Iron Maiden for Th e ACOUSTIC POWER TRIO! members Giorgio Mongelli (bass), Dan something where every time I put out an Final Frontier. I don’t know why Maiden Whitelock (drums), and Nate Montalvo album, I see it as an opportunity for me ended up going with someone other than Friday, March 9th (guitar). Th e release is packed with more to get it better than last time. Especially Derek, but when Derek showed me the of the lickety-split string work Ethan’s in the style we’re talking about, hard sketch, I loved it! It unifi es everything, Halcyon become known for, and Steel Panther rock and heavy metal. It’s all about the as far as the sound and the look of the guitarist “Satchel” enjoys a guest cameo huge sound and nice mix! I just wanted record. Ashtabula Harbor on the swashbuckling single “Tomb of to make a better album, period! VOICE: Tell us a bit about the band 7-10pm the Gods.” I do think it’s actually a better album you’ve got playing with you, and how Oh, and the album features fantas- than my previous two. With those re- everyone else contributed in the tical sci-fi cover art by Iron Maiden cords, it was the same story: I spent a lot studio. 2018 illustrator Derek Riggs. of time, money, and eff ort to make those E.B: For the last four years or so I’ve bookings available We spoke with Brosh by phone earlier records! But at this point I just think that had the same band. We’re a tight band. call Scott this week about writing and record- somehow, when I listen to this record, it Tight playing-wise, and tight as friends! 440-812-3772 ing Conspiracy, his quest to elevate fl ows better in my mind. It’s a fun listen, It just works! And fi nally I got to involve instrumental rock guitar to its highest and I think I got a slightly better bal- my band on an album, which is some- heights, and his upcoming North Ameri- ance of harder tunes and mellow tunes. thing that didn’t really happen on my Featuring: can tour with Ross “Th e Boss” Friedman I’m really happy with the mix that Max previous albums. Th ose were with hired (Manowar, Dictators)—which swings Norman did, and the mastering came guys. Th is time the whole process was Scott Treen, Chuck Ditri by the Beachland Ballroom on Tues- out really good. I’m very happy with the a lot smoother. I had more experience day, March 20. results! Continued on Page 18 & Gary Slovensky North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 17 North Coast Voice V

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Continued from Page 17 VOICE: You’re a very melodic gui- making records and better recording tarist. You’re technically skilled, but equipment. I can jam with the band and you take the time to create melodies just have sessions with them and was in the songs. able to enjoy the whole experience. It E.B: You can hear with my instrumen- just came out better overall, I think. Max tal music, it’s never just one long guitar Norman—the guy who made my last solo or “shred-fest.” Th e tunes are writ- record, Live the Dream—I spent ten days ten as songs, with intros and verses and with him in New York working on mixing a chorus. Normally they have a bunch of Conspiracy and letting him do his thing. sections, and a lot of thought is put into I’d give my input, but the thing I love each of those and into what the whole about Max is that he’s a perfectionist! form of the song will be like so that it Sometimes I was driving him crazy, like, all fl ows and feels natural. And on this “I want this a little quieter” or “I want record a bunch of guitar stuff from the this louder!” But we’re similar in that demos—the improvised solos—stayed way. He wants it the best way possible, on specifi cally because I knew I couldn’t and he’s generous with his time and do them any better! Th ey felt organic and helped me fulfi ll the visions of what I natural. So usually that’s how I operate. had for the sounds. I think both of us are Later on in the process I might feel like, happy with the results. And we’ve got a “Oh, this section is too long; let’s cut great mastering engineer in Brad Black- it shorter” or “We need to add another wood. He’s worked with a lot of Grammy part.” Like when Satchel agreed to play award-winners and has mastered for a on the record, I had to create something lot of the industry. I wasn’t even there in the tune that didn’t exist before. I in Nashville when he did it. I sent him had to do open-heart surgery on that the tunes with my instructions. We did particular section and create a space for a bunch of the revisions, but everything him! You have to think about how things sounded so clear and so huge! I was very modulate. happy about it. VOICE: What advice would you give VOICE: Th e song “Tomb of the to a youngster just starting out on a Gods” also features a guest solo by guitar today? Satchel from Steel Panther. Some E.B: I would say you need to focus on people can’t get past that band’s hu- one specifi c thing. You can’t slack off on mor, but they’re very talented. the foundations! Nowadays it’s easy for E.B: Yeah! I always knew that they someone to get lost with all the informa- were good players. But until I saw them tion out there! You have all these short live for the fi rst time, I didn’t quite get video clips that show you all these fl ashy just how amazing their show is, how things in a million diff erent styles. You funny they are and how big the produc- can go crazy over the amount of stuff out tion is. Th e musicality is great. Satchel’s there! So I’d say you really need to stick playing is fl awless! I’ve seen him play to something and approach the guitar many times, and I can’t tell you a single in a certain way, in that you’re focused time I saw him make the tiniest mistake, on just one style or one thing at a time. a missed fret or string noise or anything. It helps to know theory, to know some He’s so smooth! He’s very musical and chords, to be able to play some rhythm. melodic, and the band is amazing. It And then you can come up with your own made me so happy to have him agree to stuff ! But if you want to be a good guitar participate on the record. He’s such an player, you’ve got to spend a looot of time awesome guy. working on it!

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S.H: Well, I do it. I mean, when I’m LOST SHEEP BAND done with a book I’ll leave it in the seat NOW WE’RE TALKIN pocket in front of me when I’m on a plane. I’m mischievous! I’ll sometimes ■■■ By Pete Roche hide books in hotel rooms for other guests and hope that housekeeping won’t fi nd it. So this guy must’ve done the Interview with Bassist Stu Hamm same thing. It’s cathartic; it’s an act of VBassist Stu Hamm release. You write something and leave has boogied along- it someplace. I can’t say exactly what his side some of the motivation was for doing it, but certainly most gifted guitar- provided me with an interesting jump- Fri. Mar. 9 ists and drummers ing-off point to create this project. Winery at Spring Hill 7:30-10:30 in modern rock and VOICE: Did the text in the diary jazz. give any clues about how long it’d Sat. Mar. 10 Th e four-string been sitting there? Was there any phenomenon at- Old Mill Winery way to determine when it was writ- 7:30-10:30 tended the presti- ten? gious Berklee College S.H: I did a little digging. First thing Sat. Mar. 24 of Music in Boston, I did was ask the guy at the hotel about then made a name Spring Fling at ten entries him. Of course, they wouldn’t give me Pine Ridge Country Club for himself in the ‘80s by recording and from a jour- any information, which made me feel touring with guitar “shredders” like Joe in Wickliffe nal Hamm good about hotel guys everywhere! I kind 7-10:00 Satriani, , and Eric Johnson. found in an of knew the guys at the hotel, but they Hamm’s also performed with Frank Italian hotel, were good about protecting his informa- Sat. Apr. 7 Gambale and Alex Skolnick (Testa- the concept tion and wouldn’t tell me much. But this ment), jammed with stickmen Steve Deer’s Leap album fi nds hotel had only been open for a couple 7-10:00 Smith (Journey) and Gregg Bissonette Stu survey- years, so it’s not like it had been written (), and traveled with ing the life in the 1930s or 1940s. I’m guessing it www.lostsheepband.com (Mr. Big) and Jeff Berlin experiences (and concomitant philo- Continued on Page 20 (Allan Holdsworth) in the bass-centric sophical themes) he discovered he had Bx3 combo. in common with the tome’s enigmatic Incorporating techniques as slap, author. pop, and tap into his tricky repertoire, VOICE: Hello, Stu! So tell us about Hamm expounded upon the ‘70s styles the intriguing diary that inspired of “fusion” bassists like Jaco Pastorius Patrick Xavier. and Stanley Clarke. His thrifty thumb- STU HAMM: Well, I’m always read- work and onstage charisma made him a ing…and trying to write. I was in this ho- terrifi c addition to many popular hard tel, and my whole life was kind of thrown rock, metal, and progressive ensembles in a blender. Th is was 2015. I had to go in an era marked by instrumental ath- on sort of a Chautauqua or vision quest leticism: Give Hamm ten minutes, and or what have you, and take a bunch of he’ll astound you with jaw-dropping, gigs and travel as much as possible. But I two-handed versions of “Th e Star- found this diary in the lending library of Spangled Banner,” “Linus & Lucy” (from the hotel room, and it turned out it was Peanuts), or the theme from Star Trek. by an American guy who had decided to But appearing on a slew of magazine do the same thing. Take a walkabout. Th e covers and receiving countless accolades more I read it, the more I saw how much for your rhythmic prowess doesn’t it was the same. It was a little diff erent, necessarily mean you’re a demigod with since he’s not a musician. But it was re- all the secrets of the universe stuff ed in ally interesting, and he’d been to some of your back pocket. the same places. It gave me a lot of ideas No, humble Hamm’s as human as to write music about, so I tried con- the rest of us. But his musical acumen nect with his diary entries to what I had probably aff ords greater insight when it experienced, and I fi gured that would comes to seeking existential answers. be a great jumping-off point for a very We spoke with the bass icon recently personal record. I’m proud of it; it’s very about his latest solo eff ort-Indiegogo- personal, and it came out great. produced Th e Diary of Patrick Xavier-and VOICE: Did it seem odd that some- upcoming U.S. tour. one just left his journal there like Loosely structured on the handwrit- that? North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 19 North Coast Voice

Continued from Page 19 piece, but using solo bass with his com- I listen to called Hearts of Space, and they fingers. But that one was clearly made by was just a couple years ago. positional ideas and techniques. The song play slow music for fast times. There’s a creating with the sounds. Because when VOICE: Talk a little bit about the was pretty easy to write after that! movement called post-modernist minimal- I’m recording, obviously what I’m hear- process of translating written text VOICE: How did you come up with ism. When I put on music I like to listen ing affects what I’m playing! I’ve got a lot and mental visuals into music other the sequence for the music? It’s to stuff that relaxes me and calms me of tremolo there. And on “Billy Pilgrim” people can hear. It must be chal- peculiar in that the album begins down. And this record can operate in a there’s distortion and delay. The other lenging, even for someone who is with “Goodbye” but concludes with lot of ways. Hopefully it’s a nice record stuff…I use a lot of different basses. renowned for being able to create all “Hello.” you can put on, and there’s relaxing mu- Mostly it’s been two of my new War- kinds of sounds with a single instru- S.H: There are a couple songs I re- sic in the background. Or you can have wicks, these prototypes of a Stu Hamm ment. corded on my laptop at the hotel where I a record where you get involved in the model. And I pulled out one of my Wash- S.H: Thank God I get these ideas! I got the idea for the album. At one point story. There’s times I want to hear some- burns that has the tempered tuning—it don’t know where they come from! They the idea was to do it all sequentially, but thing like that, or there’s times I want has a curved neck to compensate for the keep springing in my head. For me, when when you put it together sonically you to put on “Starship Trooper” [Yes] and tuning. I played the melody for “Hello” I figure out what a song is supposed to have to move a few things around. And pretend I’m eighteen again! But more on one of my old Urge II fretless basses. be about emotionally and musically— there were three songs that I wanted to often than not lately I just relax and We used some Hartke stuff for some or what it’s supposed to make a listener write that just didn’t quite happen. I had become contemplative. But when I had of it, but the last half of the record has feel—sometimes it’s a case of fill-in-the- ideas for them—they were great songs, the idea for the record, I had to put some this new prototype of a Markbass amp blanks. There’s a piece called, “The City,” and one day they’ll come together—but levity to it because I didn’t want it to be that I helped designed. I worked with a which is about San Francisco, where I I couldn’t finish them. It doesn’t always the “pretentious divorce album” and all guy in Berkeley, California who’s helped lived for a couple years. And he’d written work! that stuff. So I sent a text to the editor of with the last four or five records. We’ll about these locations in San Francisco VOICE: Most of the pieces are very Bass Guitar Magazine in the U.K. and he go D.I. and then put it through a tube that were used in the Hitchcock movie intimate. There’s busy playing, but confirmed to me that I was on the right amp pre-amp, and we do a direct signal Vertigo. So I wanted to write one piece for it’s quiet and subdued, and—if I’m path. And I wanted to have some fun in and mic the amp close, and we’ll put a the record that was one melody on the not mistaken—most of it is one pass there, although it is a serious project. room mic there. At the end of the day bass. No chords or grooves or anything. on a single bass. How do you decide VOICE: The song “Ballad of Billy it’s like a 99% direct signal for the bass. I’m a big fan of Bernard Herrmann, who when to keep it cozy and quiet, or Pilgrim” seems to introduce another Depending on the song, we’ll use a did all the film scores for the Hitchcock when to layer the parts? character into the Patrick Xavier little bit of close-mic cabinet. The new movies. So bam! There’s the idea. I’ll S.H: That’s something I wrestled with. story. Why does that name sound Markbass I use has so much presence for write a song about San Francisco, a la John Scofield did a great solo guitar familiar? a little cabinet. But again, good gear is Bernard Herrmann writing a Hitchcock record recently, and Pat Metheny did a S.H: Billy Pilgrim was a character in supposed to amplify the sound! It’s not great solo record called One Quiet Night. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five who really supposed to create the sound. I’ve It’s just a beautiful recording of him becomes unstuck in time. That’s what been fortunate to work with people like playing acoustic guitar. So I wasn’t sure that song is about—how I’m convinced Marcus Spangler who built the basses how to approach it. One of the songs that time is not linear. Every time I go at Warwick, and I’ve known the guys that didn’t make it was a song written for back to Nighttown [Cleveland jazz club], at GHS forever. When the gear is there a three-piece bass choir. Lots of people for example, I remember the gig I played and it’s all working right, then I’m able have done records where they overdub there with Alex Skolnick and with other to say what I have to say! I could talk for their basses, but here it seemed to ruin bands. That energy is still there. That’s twenty hours about bass gear; I’m a total the integrity of a record where you’re just what that song is about—being unstuck geek! playing one bass. There’s one song there in time. VOICE: On Instagram you recently called “Smoke Break” where I laid one VOICE: I read Slaughterhouse in posted a photo of a green bass that groove so that I could solo over it. And high school. I should’ve known that. sustained some damage to the also I’ll be able to reproduce it live by us- And I read Welcome to the Monkey bridge. Is it okay now? ing a sampler and looper. House and Breakfast of Champions S.H: I’m looking at that very bass VOICE: Right, “Smoke Break.” and other Vonnegut in college. right now because I’ve been playing it That’s a funkier number, and you’ve S.H: Sirens of Titan is also great. Won- all morning. I did some artwork for it. got the funny gang vocal there that derful! But sometimes the more paint you put reminds me of the refrain from “If VOICE: I’d be remiss if I didn’t ask on, it doesn’t allow the body to vibrate. You’re Scared, Stay Home” from The about the gadgets and gear you used I have an Urge II bass that was in the Urge album. on the record. Fender shop. They asked what I wanted S.H: People who know me know I’m S.H: I use some stuff for the more it to look like, and I said I wanted it to always trying to get a laugh. I’m an easy- experimental tunes, like “Billy Pilgrim.” look like a lava lamp full of Welch’s grape going guy. But I’m also a serious person. I get worried that people will hear that juice! And it’s the most beautiful bass, I read a lot. This is an important project song and want their money back, like, but there’s so much paint on the body for me, and I’m trying to do something “What the hell is this?” But for me it’s that it doesn’t resonate. But the green special. That particular song, yes, it’s a powerful. I love it. Another one is “Coun- bass…it got messed up in shipping, and I good laugh. ty Road,” which is about a night spent thought it was done for. I sent it to Mar- VOICE: Sometimes smaller and out at a farm in Texas. Usually when I do cus at Warwick, who asked for another quieter is better! my solo stuff, one of the selling points is chance with it. He brought it back to me S.H: Yeah! It’s troubled times we live that I don’t need many effects, and that at the NAMM show, and I’ve been play- in, right? And there’s a great website that I’m doing all these sounds just with my ing it ever since. It’s just awesome! http://www.stuarthamm.net/

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maybe it doesn’t? Who knows. Anyway murdered in Gotham City, or that Peter V that’s the idea and that’s why it’s fun. Parker was actually bitten by a radioac- Westside Steve More than once along the way I thought tive spider. So the backstory for BLACK that I’d fi gured out what was going on PANTHER isn’t any more ridiculous Sun. Mar. 11 • 2:00 PM but pleased to learn that I’d guessed except when, as you might have seen on The Works, Detroit incorrectly. Th e dialogue was quirky to the news on opening day, people actually Mon. Mar. 12 • 10:00 PM the point of annoyance at the outset but believed it. Here goes. WBWC.COM once you get used to it it’s fi ne. I don’t Hidden somewhere around the Congo, Island Time Radio Show one of the most destitute places in the think anyone involved with this fl ick Sat. Mar. 17 • 5:30 PM needs to save shelf space for an Academy world, there is an entire country called On Tap, Montrose Award next winter but what the hell? Wakanda, home to the most advanced St Patrick's Day Extravaganza B and politically correct civilization in the WSS world. (Even though it technically is a Sat. Mar. 24 • 10:00 PM Mullarkey’s Irish Pub, Wlgby. kingdom all the smartest healers and the Game Night most powerful warriors are women.) It Fri. Mar. 30 • 8:00 PM New Line|R|93 min sits on top of an almost endless supply Barbarino's, Columbia Station of a magical mineral called Vibranium, Remember that even though the late Sat. Apr. 14 • 8:30 PM winter and spring time is where the which has kept the country hidden Firehouse Grill • Malvern Ohio from colonialist from around the world studios dump the fi lms that have no Check Westside Steve Simmons on Facebook for changes. Oscar buzz that doesn’t mean that there thereby allowing the people to thrive To purchase Westside Steve Simmons isn’t still some entertainment out there. and prosper. You might be surprised that newest CD A Pirates Life visit GAME NIGHT is a good example. I don’t such an advanced Society is nothing like www.cdbaby.com/artist/westsidestevesimmons know exactly what you would call it but a democracy but instead choose a King www.westsidesteve.com this is a sub-genre of action comedy. You by random combat. know, a situation starts out one way and Th ere are a couple of plots going on unexpectedly turns into something else here and one of them is that bad white and you’re never quite sure which is fake people want to steal the Vibranium and and which isn’t. Often these movies are more than likely do something bad with entertaining if, like here, the writers Black Panther it. Th e other, and more substantial, plot assemble the plot devices in the right Marvel|PG13|135 min is of one of those Kings challenges I was order. It’s a good idea to start off with a As you know I won’t look at any other talking about between forces who want charismatic cast and Jason Bateman and reviews until I’ve got mine pretty much to use the magic mineral to help the Rachel McAdams as Maxx and Annie decided, and for that reason I fear I’m world and the forces who want to kill the plus Kyle Chandler has Brooks, Maxx going to catch a little bit of fl ack for this oppressors across the globe. I’m assum- somewhat overbearing brother, are one. Right after the Oscars is tradition- ing that as the series goes along BLACK good choices. In many groups of friends ally the worst time of the year if you hap- PANTHER will spend more and more there’s that one dork that everyone tries pen to be a movie fan. Nobody is going to of his time in the hood where the fi lm to avoid and here it’s next door neighbor remember many of the fi lms that come begins. To be fair, the racial stereotypes Gary, played by Jesse Plemons, who, out in February or March by the time weren’t nearly as overbearing as one though a little bit creepy, might just the Academy Awards voting gets under- might fear even though it was clear who have a part to play. way so the studios release a lot of crap. the bad guys were. Every week Maxx and Annie and 6 One of the most anticipated and biggest But at the end of the day the reason other friends get together for what they selling pieces of crap so far this winter I didn’t personally enjoy the fi lm is the called Game Night where the group of has been Marvels Blaxploitation fi lm the same as the reason I don’t enjoy most friends plays charades and I’m guess- BLACK PANTHER. For those who have superhero fi lms. Too often the plot is just ing other Interactive games, when one never heard of this particular superhero, something too loosely held together; a week Brooks suggest everyone come to including myself, this is one of those ori- furious sequence of action scenes and his spectacular home to play an equally gin fi lms that explain how the hero came loud noises. Th is one added a dose of spectacular game along the lines of one to be what he or she is today. First of all, ham-handed social preaching along with of those murder mysteries complete as I give you the setup, remember that some of the unintentionally funniest ac- with props and actors. Okay, I don’t the silly premise really has nothing to cents we’ve heard from a group of mostly think anybody will be shocked when it do with whether or not I liked the fi lm. American actors in a long time. turns out that’s something goes wrong Believe it or not I don’t believe that Kal- C and the bogus game gets mixed up with El actually came from a planet with a red WSS real bad guys and actual danger. Or Sun, or that Bruce Wayne’s parents were Continued on page 22 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 21 North Coast Voice

Continued from page 21 aren’t much better at tracking down the Vigilante as they were the bad guys in the fi rst place. One more diff erence in the new ver- sion is the addition of Frank Kersey, Paul’s brother, played by Vincent D’Onofrio, and I’m always happy to see him in a fi lm. I was also glad to see Elisa- beth Shue in the role of the wife even though she gets killed reasonably early. V If you don’t remember the ending of the 1974 version, well it hasn’t changed even though I won’t blow it for you here. Death Wish At the end of the day gang, this one de- MGM|R|109 min livers just what you would expect really Okay, again, back to my policy of not bad guys getting shot by the good guy. reading other reviews before I’ve made And who doesn’t love that? up my mind. I just grabbed a quick glance B at Metacritic and read blurbs from a WSS handful of terrible reviews for the new Bruce Willis action fl ick, a remake of the Charles Bronson 1974 classic DEATH Oscar Predictions WISH. I guess I wasn’t really surprised As you know the Oscars will have by the wailing and gnashing of teeth by already been awarded by the time you’re some who are obsessed with politically reading this, yet after I’ve turned in the correct agendas and social media com- predictions there’s nowhere to hide gang. mentary, but gee whiz guys, is it really In my opinion this is the worst set of that hard for some of you to unclench nominations as far as I can remember your butt cheeks for a couple hours and and most of them for reasons other than have some fun with a good old fashioned excellence in fi lmmaking so it’s just as revenge thriller? Seriously, most of the well nobody bets the deed to the farm best picture nominations positively wal- based on my guesses. low in dreary social injustice and they’re Best picture: Only two fi lms are still in the theaters, with plenty of avail- even worthy of a nomination and I had able seats. thought Th e Shape of Water had the edge With very few twists this version of but in the last few days I think the tide DEATH WISH isn’t much diff erent from has shifted and the winner will be Th ree its nearly 45 year-old predecessor. As Billboards Outside Ebbing Montana. a matter of fact it seems slightly less Best director: I’m thinking the acad- violent in places than the original and emy will feel guilty about not picking Th e I’m not positive that’s a great idea, after Shape of Water so best director could go all an R rating today and an R rating in to Guillermo del Toro. 74 are quite diff erent. One diff erence is Best actor: James Franco should have that Charles Bronson’s Paul Kersey was been at least nominated for the Disas- a successful architect while Bruce Willis ter Artist but he wasn’t. Gary Oldman character is an emergency room doc- turned in the undisputed best perfor- tor, a mild-mannered and decent man mance this year. dedicated to saving lives. Of course for Best supporting actor: Th ree Billboards both these guys that all changes when is getting a lot of love so I think Sam a gang of thugs burglarize their home Rockwell takes it. I liked Woody Harrel- leaving the wife dead and the daughter son in this one but not enough for gold. in a coma. Overwhelmed by grief and Best actress: Margot Robbie is too fueled by the inability of the police to young and Meryl Streep didn’t do solve the crime Kersey takes the situa- anything spectacular this time. Frances tion into his own hands and sets out on McDormand has been around for a long a mission to track down the gang and time and done some great work. Th is year kill them. Nicknamed the Grim Reaper she gets a statue. by the newspapers and radio talk shows, Best supporting actress: I Tonya just including Chicago’s venerable Mancow, barely got edged out of the best picture he rids the streets of a few rapists, mug- nominations but I think the academy gers, drug dealers and other scum, and wants to throw them a bone. Let’s go becomes something of a folk hero. Lucky with Allison Janney. for the citizens of Chicago that the police WSS 22 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 North Coast Voice

MITCH LARSON ate Cold Brew 2.0—a combination of cof- fee and beer where both shine through. BREW NEWS Both Cold Brew IPA and Cold Brew 2.0 pour like their respective beer styles, but with completely diff erent drinking expe- https://youtu.be/Opv7UCds_fM riences. Where Cold Brew IPA plays up Dougal Gunn Sharp, Innis & Gunn’s the two big bold fl avors of hops and cof- V founder and master brewer, commented: fee, Cold Brew 2.0 explores the intrica- “Th e Scots and Irish share a powerful cies of coff ee aromatics and delicate malt Celtic connection in our culture and our notes ending with a smooth, crisp fi nish. character, a bond that draws us together Cold Brew 2.0 combines coff ee and with Tullamore D.E.W. A brew that is beer: two of Rogue’s favorite things. greater than the sum of its parts, Kin- “We love brewing with cold brew coff ee Sunday, March 11th dred Spirits is a celebration of the best because it is bold and smooth, but it also of Scots and Irish craftsmanship, and in has less acidity than regular drip coff ee Old Mill Winery our partnership using our unique barrel and it blends nicely with the malts in into beer ageing process with Tullamore’s the beer,” says Rogue Brewmaster John Open Mic • 4:30-7:30 pm legendary Irish whiskey barrels, it has Maier. “Our beer and Stumptown’s coff ee Kindred Spirits - Innis sparked the creation of an exciting and collide to create something sessionable unique fl avor packed alternative to the and really damn tasty. I love it after a Sunday, March 18th & Gunn and Tullamore usual stouts.” bike ride.” D.E.W. collaborate on John Quinn, Tullamore D.E.W. Global Cold Brew 2.0 is available nationally in Hundley Cellars Brand Ambassador, commented: 6-packs of 12 ounce cans and on draft. Irish Whiskey Barrel “Our partnership with Innis & Gunn Use the Rogue Finder to fi nd it near you. 2-5 pm brings us closer to a brand that shares Rogue Ales & Spirits Aged Stout our passion for innovation and creating Rogue Ales & Spirits is an agri- fermenter founded in Oregon in 1988 216-513-0529 for bookings Two pioneers of craft brewing and products of exceptional quality and char- Facebook.com/MitchLarsonAcousticMusic distilling, Innis & Gunn and Tullamore acter. Beer and whiskey have always been Continued on page 24 D.E.W. Irish Whiskey, have collaborated ‘malt cousins’ because malted barley is a for the fi rst time to create Kindred key ingredient in both, and we celebrate Spirits, a limited edition Scottish stout this unique bond through D.E.W. and a aged using triple distilled Irish whiskey Brew – the pairing of Tullamore D.E.W. barrels. with great craft beers like Kindred Spirits Using a unique barrel ageing process for an evening full of true character.” developed by the brewing team at Innis Kindred Spirits is available now in the & Gunn, Kindred Spirits is matured us- UK and Ireland, US, Canada, Sweden, ing the fi nest triple distilled, triple blend France, Australia, South Africa, Den- Irish whiskey barrels from Tullamore mark, Finland, Singapore. D.E.W. to create a smooth and delicious Scottish Stout that is greater than the sum of its parts. Th e result is a one of a kind craft stout – a perfect pairing of the character of Innis & Gunn’s rich fl avour packed beer, and the sweet, spicy, smooth taste of Tullamore D.E.W., with notes of dark chocolate and coff ee alongside hints of vanilla and oak in the 6.1% ABV brew. To mark their special collaboration, Kindred Spirits celebrates the rich part that music plays in both Scottish and Irish culture, as much as whiskey and beer, by bringing together one of each country’s fi nest musical exports to collaborate on a cover of a traditional Rogue Cold Brew 2.0 Scottish folk song. Irish band Ash and now available Scotland’s Frightened Rabbit met over a Like the perfect amount of cream in Kindred Spirits in Innis & Gunn’s home- your coff ee, Rogue infuses its blonde ale town of Edinburgh to create the Kindred with Stumptown Cold Brew Coff ee to cre- Sessions, now available to watch at North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 23 North Coast Voice

IPA, a refreshingly juicy and hazy IPA. backyard, but there are still plenty of in-house and gives the whole brewery an Continued from page 23 Previously available only in New Eng- drinkers across the country who haven’t intoxicating aroma on brew day. as one of America’s fi rst microbrewer- land, Sam Adams brewers listened to had a chance to try this unique style yet. 5.0% ABV, 22 IBU Limited Release ies. Rogue has won more than 1,900 drinkers’ enthusiasm for the beer, which Our brewers worked for more than a awards for taste, quality and packaging was the best-selling growler of 2017 at year to develop a brew with a distinctive Well Played – Left Hand’s red IPA and is available in all 50 states as well the Boston Brewery, and are responding set of fl avor characteristics that involve returns with a new experimental hop. as 54 countries. Since 2008, Rogue has by rolling it out across the country for unusual and novel brewing practices to Experimental hops are small plots of remained committed to saving the ter- craft beer lovers to enjoy. give our version of a New England IPA hops that are sent out to select brewer- roir of Oregon hops, barley, rye, wheat, Developed in Sam Adams’ experimen- its hazy, juicy and smooth character. ies. A group of our brewers together honey, jalapeños, and pumpkins one acre tal nanobrewery in Boston, New England We can’t wait for drinkers to try it for selected our 2018 hop. Th e hop chosen V at a time by growing its own. IPA is a medium-bodied, unfi ltered brew themselves and see what the haze craze is BRU-1 by Haas from Yakima, WA. with a slight sweetness that is perfectly is all about!” 6.8% ABV, 70 IBU Seasonal Release: balanced by the unique combination of New England IPA Availability: FEB – APR Mosaic, Citra, Galaxy, Simcoe and Cas- Previously only available on draft at cade hops. Th e hops bring a big fruited the Samuel Adams Boston Brewery and Saison au Miel – Les Quatres pineapple and grapefruit hop character at select bars and restaurants in the Saisons, Left Hand’s quarterly Saison se- to the beer, and at 35 IBUs, the brew Boston area, New England IPA is now ries returns with Saison au Miel. Brewed is neither bitter nor harsh on drinkers’ available nationwide on draft. Beginning with native Colorado ingredients, each palates. At 6.8% ABV, the unfi ltered IPA in April, New England IPA will also be beer in the collection will highlight a is a mouth-watering refresher with a available in four-pack 16 oz. cans for a unique addition. Saison au Miel features smooth, clean fi nish that leaves drinkers suggested retail price of $8.99 – $9.99. wildfl ower honey to bring a touch of wanting another sip. Prices vary by market. sweetness to soften the dry and crisp Compared to West Coast IPAs, which farmhouse-style ale. Th e Colorado wild- Samuel Adams New are known for their prominent hop bit- fl ower honey sourced from 5th genera- England IPA goes into terness and light, dry mouthfeel, New tion Johnson Family Farm in Northern England IPAs generally have a juicy and Colorado. national distribution luscious fl avor along with a hazy appear- 6.8% ABV, 10 IBU Seasonal Release: New England’s leading independent ance and are best enjoyed fresh. FEB – APR craft brewer is paying homage to its Jim Koch, Sam Adams Founder & roots by proudly celebrating the national Brewer, on New England IPA: Left Hand IPA – Th e newest year release of Samuel Adams New England “New England IPAs originated in our round beer is pale orange, with a light maltiness. It is brewed with Azacca, Gal- axy, and Citra hops. Galaxy is Director of Brewing, Matt “Truck” Th rall’s favor- ite hop and the combination of hops Left Hand Chai Milk provides fl avors and aromas of orange, Stout Nitro, new IPA passionfruit, peach and lemon. 6.6% ABV, 70 IBU Available: year and spring seasonals round

released in February, About Left Hand Brewing Company get it while it lasts! Employee Owned, Righteously Inde- Th e start of the year means new pendent. Celebrating twenty-fi ve years ingredients, new hops, and of course of brewing a well-balanced portfolio of new beers. Th e beginning of the 2018 craft beers, Left Hand Brewing Com- beer lineup includes the newest beer in pany is located at 1265 Boston Avenue Left Hand Brewing’s nitro can series, the in Longmont, Colorado. Left Hand is much-anticipated Chai Milk Stout Nitro, one of the most honored and recognized plus the new Left Hand IPA, and two breweries in the state, with over 28 favorite returning seasonal beers. Great American Beer Festival medals, 11 World Beer Cup awards, and 9 European Chai Milk Stout Nitro – A custom Beer Star awards. Famous for their blend of cloves, ginger and intensely Nitro series, Left Hand Brewing estab- fl avored spices are smoothed out by the lished America’s original Nitro bottle sweetness of our infamous Milk Stout with their popular Milk Stout Nitro. and nitrogen cascade … right from the Left Hand’s collection of perennial and can. Th is beer was fi rst brewed for our seasonal beers are available in 41 states annual Nitro Fest event this past Novem- & DC. Distribution: AL, AK, AZ, CA, CO, ber. It was such a favorite, we decided to CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, share it with all of our nitro-loving beer KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MN, NC, fans as the newest beer in our nitro can NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, series. Th e chai spice mixture is brewed RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY

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a little something about the guitar. For If You Can Dream It, instance the "FG" stands for Fender guitar I Can Build It. and the 700 refers to the style or shape of the instrument. You will often see a slight STAY IN TUNE or major shape change in most guitar ■■■ By Luthier Patrick Podpadec companies through either the number series or with a letter series. In this case Custom Designs with Yamaha the "X" stands for electrifi ed Guitars Well, here it is March and we had just that the pop Basses had a week of very tolerable weather. It metal inside and the "SC" at the end of the model # Acoustic V refers to a sunburst fi nish with a cutaway. was quite nice I might add, with the buds the shaft Electric popping on the trees and the crocuses in that the After many years of hearing these model Mandolins bloom. After having just said that, as I gear turns numbers it gets pretty easy to imagine Double Necks 'm sitting down at my computer writing on had what the guitar might look like just by the Harp Guitars

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I have faith that this weather machine SPRING SPECIAL is beginning to change to my favorite head's shape and features. $ Anyway, this guitar was also in great 10 OFF season of all "Spring Time". failure was ANY REPAIR condition except for the normal setup With mention of So getting back to the article on guitar no fault of this ad. repair, (I almost forgot why I was here) I my negli- which would include leveling the frets, hope that's not a sign of things to come). gence in any Fitting the neck re-crowning them and adjusting the truss rod. On this guitar the customer was Patrick Podpadec I have been getting a steady stream of way, I felt Luthier repairs coming in. Some of the latest in- it was ap- interested in improving the tone of the clude a set up on an acoustic bass. Some- propriate to charge the customer for its instrument so I suggested replacing the 440.474-2141 times things don't always go as you may replacement. As I searched around at my plastic nut and saddle with bone. 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I get to the D string and held nicely and tuned it up and off it went. Th anks for reading, see you next Debonne Vineyards • Trio suddenly the tuner is stripped out and Another guitar for the same customer month! Keep Smiling! To Book: 440-796-3057 will not hold tension on the string. WT? was a 700 series Yamaha Acoustic model www.agelessband.com So I take the tuner apart, hoping that I # FGX700SC. With most model numbers Patrick from Liam Guitars / Smoking may be able to somehow fi x it and I fi nd there are telltale prefi xes which tell you Hot Guitars Check out our videos! North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 25 North Coast Voice TALKING SHOP ■■■ By Mike Edgerly VTh e awesome Yamaha Revstar RS720B Sometimes in life you fi nd a gem where guitars that fall short V you would least expect it to be. A lot of here. Buzz in the signal these types of instances happen purely that can honestly just out of personal and social expectations. drive you insane. Let us Th is falls in all categories of life and for continue. Th e mahogany a musician it's sometimes with gear. I neck is set directly into get surprised quite often when walk- the mahogany body. Th is ing through music stores and seeing maximizes vibrational new gear that I would normally never transfer throughout the even glance at, let alone purchase. I get guitar for impressive my face slapped here and there. Let me sustain. Clean tones ring explain why my cheeks are red yet again nicely while overdriven this week. I happen to be on a mission tones can sustain for to pick up a new stand for my Roland what seems an eternity. Now this next product when I waltz through the guitar feature description is not unexpected beautiful sound all around. I moved on section. I do the double takes here and from Yamaha. Th e Style is inspired by to a Mesa amp and played some stan- there, admiring the new Ibanez models. London and Tokyo's vintage street- dard rock jams like , etc. It I always check out the ESP and Jackson racing motorbikes, with dramatic curves, held up nice. Solos were bright and the lines, new and used. I even stop and play character-packed custom-wound pickups, neck was easy to play on when it came one or two because it would be unholy and a muscular tone. Each model in the to sweeps and quick runs. Even Satriani not to. During this sideline to the drum Revstar lineup has its own distinct per- licks were pretty friendly on this guitar. department I see a little spot on the wall sonality. I did not expect anything less Th e standard heavy blues material was cleared out and displaying a guitar I at when Yamaha goes for a unique design. just as clean. Th e Hendrix and Vaughn fi rst found too odd to look at. Curiosity When I plugged this guitar in I was material was easy and great sounding. I got the best of me and I strolled over and immediately fl oored with the neck and was really impressed. I could go on for was shocked at the name on the head- feel of the guitar. It doesn't weigh too days with the standard rock material. stock. much, but more than you would think in Let's just say a great quantity of it stood Th is edition of Talking shop we will its tiny frame. Both clean and distortion up with this guitar. I even went as far as look at the Yamaha Revstar RS720B, channels were challenged with numerous to crank the gain and play some metal. and yes, I purchased it. First off it has a pedals being beaten down. When I saw Everything from classic Iron Maiden, Bigsby. So awesome. Yamaha spent a lot the price I was even happier. Th e model Rainbow, Sabbath, and even Priest was of time fi ne-tuning the pickups testing I picked out, RS720B, ran me around very tight sounding and not cumber- over 50 prototypes before settling on $600. It came with a sturdy gig bag but some on the neck. Modern jams like the perfect combination of wire, wind- I purchased a fi ne fi tting hardshell. So Megadeth, Samael, and even as heavy as ings, magnets, and baseplates. Th e VT5 to recap the features on this before we Cannibal Corpse was surprisingly awe- humbuckers employ Alnico V magnets, get into why I think this is a guitar you some on this model. Th e pickups were a brass baseplate, and under wound should check out. Th is model is vintage- punchy and the tone brutal. I was very polyurethane wire giving a clear, ring- inspired with comfortable rear body and excited and with an unfolded wallet, I ing, low-output tone just like some of front arm contours, set-in neck construc- purchased the Revstar. I even took it for the most beloved vintage guitars ever tion enhances sustain and note defi ni- a gig after a quick setup. People asked created. tion, VT5 humbucking pickups deliver me what kind of guitar it was and were So already you see this guitar is not clear, ringing, low-output tone, Push- as shocked as I was when I told them. the normal Yamaha electric on the shelf. pull Dry switch cuts low frequencies A few people even played it and it was Th ere is more, just wait. Th e Dry switch for more clarity and defi nition, Smooth funny to see them mimic my initial gives you the tone-shaping capabilities of playability thanks to jumbo frets and a reactions. So there you have it folks, a coil tap circuit, it is a noise-free opera- medium neck profi le. Yes, that’s pretty something new for you to play with. I tion of your humbuckers. Th e push-pull sweet sounding. So what did I think in think you will be impressed with what Dry switch is actually a passive fi lter that the end? Well, at fi rst I played some clean Yamaha has off ered here. If you see me cuts out low frequencies, WHAT!, giving channel blues. Th e smoothness of the at a gig and want to try it out it is on my your tone even more clarity and punch. neck was quite impressive. I even decided rack of guitars and staying. Let's have a You will get the same enhanced snap and to be adventurous and I played a little drink and you can jam a little. I would twang that you'd expect from a single- bluegrass. Again I was not disappointed. love to hear your reaction and we can coil pickup, without introducing any Th e tone was great and I paired it with a even Talk Shop. noise into your signal. I have a few other fender tweed amp for these jams. It has 26 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 North Coast Voice

since I’d devoted all my energy to these stuff , instrumentals and whole albums diff erent lineups. Some groups stick that we wrote where the music doesn’t NOW WE’RE TALKIN with the same lineup for forty or fi fty stop! I had an experimental way of do- years. But I’ve had groups that change ing things that wouldn’t have stood up ■■■ By Pete Roche according to my circumstances, and I with any set way of doing things, as far put all my energy into them. So for this as bands and a commercial tour, like in third part of my life I wanted to gather Scorpions or UFO. But in 2008 some- all that together and combine all the thing happened—I developed the stage V original singers so they could sing the fright. I didn’t understand it. I wanted songs the way they were written and re- to be onstage, but it took time. corded! I thought the ‘80s would be the VOICE: Th ere’s no sense of compe- best bet. So I called Graham and Robin tition or ego between the singers. and Gary, and they were happy to do it! It’s a nice collaboration. Chris and Ted were the rhythm section MICHAEL SCHENKER: Well, we for MSG with Gary and Graham—along could’ve made it so there were like, with on drums—and then three songs for each, but they did some Steve Mann popped out of nowhere. together! We have two or three like that. He’d written with Robin, so we got him I wrote a melody that they said was to play keyboards and guitar. Th at was fantastic and that they all wanted to Interview with Michael Schenker, now on tour the connection to the McAuley-Schen- sing on. Th at became “Warrior.” And it with new album, Resurrection ker era. all fi t perfectly! Everybody’s on there. I VOICE: So it evolved from the live couldn’t believe it. We had a lot of time German-born guitarist Michael appearances by some of the best MSG album in Tokyo. to get that ready and make it our fi rst Schenker played with older brother singers past and present. Heck, a couple MICHAEL SCHENKER: Yes! After single to kind of represent the album. Rudolf on the Scorpions’ debut album tracks (“Warrior,” “Heart and Soul”) I saw that beautiful Tokyo venue, I Th en we did the other song, where we (1974’s Lonesome Crow) and joined even have group harmonies round-robin decided to make a DVD of that show so have Kirk Hammett [Metallica] jamming UFO for Phenomenon…all while still refrains by all-star alums , people around the world could see the with me on guitar. Robin wrote the lyr- a teen He stayed on with the English , and Robin McAuley. potential of it on DVD instead of just ics for that, and that became the second quintet through 1978, leaving after Resurrection also boasts a bit o’ larynx watching us on their iPhones or You single, “Heart and Soul.” Today we also the promotional tour for Obsession lightning courtesy (Rain- Tube. Th en I thought about what to do release the third single, “Take Me to (although he does appear on UFO’s bow, Yngwie Malmsteen), who sang on next, and I thought about bringing the the Church.” Doogie sings on that one. 1979 double-live release Strangers in the album and tour. Festival lineup into the studio. Like, a But the album has a nice, wide range of the Night). All four singers will join Michael on family thing! I thought of it as a medi- pieces. Th e dawn of the ‘80s saw the rise of his 2018 North American Tour, which eval party, a crazy party with a big table. VOICE: It’s hard enough for a the , wherein stops at the Cleveland Agora next Fri- Doogie wrote “Take Me to the Church,” band to get two ex-singers together the titular virtuoso would—over day, March 16. Tickets (only $19.99) are and for the album cover this idea came for a project, much less three or the course of a dozen studio albums still available online. up of having us at the long table, which four. So this is a rare occurrence. (some issued under the tweaked MSG North Coast Voice spoke with the reminded me of Jesus Christ. MICHAEL SCHENKER: Yes! When moniker McAuley-Schenker Group)— “blonde bomber” by phone earlier this VOICE: Like the Last Supper, I called them, it was almost like they redefi ne the sound of heavy metal week to discuss Resurrection, the endur- which is also a song on the record. were all waiting for it [laughs]! It was guitar. Schenker also found time to cut ing legacy of MSG, and the forthcoming MICHAEL SCHENKER: Yes! And strange! It was like something that was an “unplugged” album, a couple covers Agora show. Schenker was so excited I thought, “Well, now this doesn’t fi t supposed to happen. My energy was all compilations, and the “super group” about the album release that we barely anymore!” It’s Michael Schenker Fest over the place. And this year, 2018, is release Contraband (with former mem- had to ask any questions; he was eager in the studio, but it’s turning into the the fortieth anniversary of when I re- bers of L.A. Guns and RATT). as ever to divulge the details. story of Jesus or something! So de- corded Strangers in the Night with UFO, Substance abuse and stage fright VOICE: Hi, Michael! Tell us how cided to go with a diff erent album title, which was voted one of the best live temporarily derailed Schenker’s career this multi-singer MSG lineup came and realized that the fi rst part of my albums of all time. So who knows? Next in the ‘90s, but the Flying-V fret board together for Resurrection. life—when I was seventeen—I made year I’ll celebrate my fi f t i e t h anniversary sorcerer returned with a vengeance. MICHAEL SCHENKER: Th ere wasn’t my musical contribution to the world of playing and recording, so maybe we Th e last MSG studio album—In the a master plan [laughs]! Th ere was just a and became a songwriter. Many people can get Klaus from the Scorpions! May- Midst of Beauty, dropped in 2008—but realization that this is the third part of copied what I did, and I never wanted be he’ll pop up and play a couple songs Michael returned in 2011 with a my life, and I thought it would be good to be famous like that. But it kind of in 2019! I just want to make sure that newly-christened band for Temple of to play my most popular music with happened by itself. When I was 23, I’d all this energy I have is used, and that Rock; their most recent off ering was all the original singers. Th e last time tasted a bit of success after Strangers in my developmental days with Scorpions 2015’s Spirit on a Mission. was with Doogie White. Really, this all the Night with UFO, and that’s when I and UFO are acknowledged in the songs So you’d think Schenker has nothing started in 2008. Th at’s when I started was able to say to myself, “I know what we play. Sometimes there’s more than left to prove. performing my most popular music it’s like up here now, so do I hold on meets the eye, and everything happens But the guitar hero is back with a re- again, but we’d kind of changed lineups. to this fame or experiment a little and the way it’s supposed to! vamped “Festival” lineup and powerful So the last record was with Doogie sing- focus on life?” And I made the decision http://agoracleveland.com/ new album in Resurrection (out today ing, and I thought it would be nice to to focus on music. I had a crazy level of www.michaelschenkerhimself.com on Nuclear Blast), which features key combine them all—to get all of them— creativity in me. I’d do all kinds of crazy

North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 27 North Coast Voice CD REVIEW ■■■ By Pete Roche Susan Surftone 2nd to One VFormer secret agent-turned-rocker Susan Yasinski is back with another exceptionally-polished EP on Acme Brothers Records. Better known as the guitar-slinging leader of beach band Susan & Th e Surftones, New York-born Yasinski latched on to music during her tweens in the 1960s. She quickly mastered songs by Elvis Presley, Th e Beatles, and other early rock ‘n’ rollers after taking up her six-string, and continued playing in bar bands while attending Boston College. Th ose rebellious tendencies carried over into adulthood: Surftone gigged at night while working for the FBI during the day-and ultimately traded her sidearm and badge when pressed to choose between law enforcement and music. Susan released several well-regarded ocean-faring albums with all-girl group Th e Surf- tones in the 1990s (Without a Word, Th underbeach, Bitchin’) before relocating to Portland, Oregon at the turn of the century. After settling in there, Surftone teamed with alt-rock ace producer Steve Kravac (Bad Religion, Blink-182, MXPX) on a string of slick solo al- bums Shore (2011), Too Far (2013), and Reckoning (2014). But Surftone’s been more focused on Eps and downloads in recent years. She contribut- ed key tracks to surf-punk compilations like Out of the Garage and Gnarly Wave, made her vocal debut on digital single “Little Bit Lied To” in 2016, and revisited Link Wray’s iconic instrumental “Rumble” on Th e Magician. Susan’s latest extended play, 2nd to One, fi nds the halfpipe guitar heroine leaning more turf than surf. Rather than serve up another Dick Dale / Ventures-inspired summer soundtrack, Yasinski takes a risk and steps inland for a batch of earnest Elvis covers whose jangly guitars and swaggering vocals salute rock pioneers like Buddy Holly, Bill Haley, Carl Rated #1 Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Surftone’s a master of eff ervescent, oceanic guitar tones, but here she’s less concerned With Northcoast with catching waves than with date nights, dancehalls, and ditties about break-ups and make-ups. 2nd to One swaps woodies and surf wax for deuce coupes and fuzzy dice, and the result is a rollicking, seven-selection salute to not only Presley, but also to ground- Women! breaking labels like Sun Records (Memphis) and Chess / Checker Records (Chicago) and their now-legendary catalogs. Th e Brent Rodgers-produced disc also spotlights Surftone’s progess as a vocalist: She Beat the Buzzer and You’ll Win! took some singing lessons with vocal coach Darlene Koldenhaven (who plays hot hon- kytonk piano on “One-Sided Love Aff air”). Susan’s breathy verses play well against the It’s the Cavs Half Court Challenge presented by bright, reverb ‘n’ chorus-stepped guitars of the Bill Monroe-written “Blue Moon of Ken- tucky,” and her infections and vibrato stand out on an updated version of the Rosemarie Kia of Streetsboro! McCoy / Charles Singleton gem “Trying to Get to You.” Doc Pomus’ miss-you-melody “A We’ll pick one contestant to see the Cavs take on the Toronto Raptors Mess of Blues” is resuscitated to terrifi c eff ect, and Elvis hit “Heartbreak Hotel” is given a feisty, female-fronted makeover. on Wednesday, March 21st! But Yasinski’s newfound confi dence on the mic doesn’t mean she skimps on six-string During the Game, You’ll take the court! acrobatics. Surftone channels Chuck Berry, Scotty and, Chet Atkins on instrumental zing- ers “Mystery Train” and “Reconsider Baby,” veering from slinky, locomotive licks (“Train”) Make a Lay-up, Free Throw, 3-Pointer & Half-Court Shot, to mirthful exchanges between bass-y guitar notes and bright, bendy leads (“Reconsider”). and you’ll win a New Optima valued at $25,000 from In addition to guitar and vocals, Surftone handles bass duties (and some stick work) Kia of Streetsboro! Signup now at Mix971FM.com! throughout. Drummer Brian Foxworth keeps time on all tracks save “Trying to Get to You,” which sees old pal Kravac sitting in on the kit. It’s the Cavs Half Court Challenge with Kia of Streetsboro, 2nd to One contains more country-fried “chicken pickin’” than wah-wah watered guitar, Liquid Night Club on West 6th in Cleveland and Mix 97.1 but Yasinski nonetheless capitalizes on the landlocked nature of the material by really slip- ping into character and taking ownership of the rootsy R&B sounds. Sure, the style is very vintage and the approach very retro-but Surftone’s respectful re-imaginings successfully capture the youthful bliss of the era of poodle skirts and pompadours. Th ese songs were Today's Best written (and recorded by Elvis) over a half-century ago, but Susan makes ‘em sound frisky and fresh as ever. 28 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 North Coast Voice

Continued from page 14 TAKE A BREAK Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal, Peter Asher & Albert Lee - Thursday, June 7th vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards. Eric Clapton has called the Grammy- Lee began his career as a touring musi- winning guitarist Albert Lee “the ultimate cian in the early sixties, and soon cata- CALM DOWN, virtuoso.” Influenced from their earliest pulted onto the stage with the likes of Joe CATNAP, CHILL OUT, days as musicians and performers by Cocker, Eric Clapton, and Emmylou Har- COMFORT, COOL OFF, great American artists like Buddy Holly ris. A 25-year run as music director of his DAYDREAM, DOZE, and The Everly Brothers, Asher and Lee beloved Everly Brothers coincided with EASE, FREEDOM, bring those influences to the fore in their studio and stage work with Vince Gill, HOLIDAY, LEAVE, shows together as an acoustic duo. Roseanne Cash, and Paul McCartney and LEISURE, Audiences came to know Asher via 10 (“The Concert for George”). LOOSEN UP, Top 40 hits with Peter & Gordon, whose Even with all this, he found the time LUXURIATE, PEACE, debut “A World Without Love” topped for more than 10 solo and band albums PICNIC, QUIETEN, the charts in the U.S., the U.K., and more under his own moniker. His numerous RECESS, RELAX, RE- than 30 other countries. His days as A & studio sessions have led to four Grammy LIEF, REPOSE, R Director for the Beatles’ Apple Records Award nominations and two awards. REPRIEVE, RESPITE, REST, made history, and he became a legend as Gold Circle tickets are $35 and reserved SABBATICAL, producer and manager of James Taylor, seats are $25. The show begins at 8 p.m., SERENITY, Linda Ronstadt and a host of others. He with doors opening at 7 p.m. SETTLE DOWN, remains the only artist manager to be Tickets for both shows are on sale now SIESTA, featured on the cover of Rolling Stone at www.kentstage.org where you can also SIMMER DOWN, magazine, and his studio work has led to view the full calendar of concerts. Tickets SIT BACK, SLACKEN, two Grammy Awards for “Producer of the also available by phone at 877-987-6487. SLEEP, SLUMBER, Year.” TAKE A BREAK, TAKE IT EASY, Blossom Music Center Sunday, May 27 @ 8 pm TIME OFF, TIME OUT, cial project just released titled Buried UNCOIL, UNWIND, Treasure. As Jimmy describes it: “Buried VACATION. Treasure is a unique collection of songs that I wrote in the early days of my career and recorded in Mobile and in Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Nashville. When we first found the tapes Band will perform at Blossom Music of Buried Treasure, I didn’t know that Center for one night only, Sunday, May it would turn out to be such a unique 27 at 8 pm, as part of Jimmy Buffett’s situation where I’d actually get to honor “Son Of A Son Of A Sailor” Tour 2018. and introduce the people who started Jimmy released his famous Son Of me out.” Buried Treasure, Volume 1 was A Son Of A Sailor LP in 1978, and sang recently released on Mailboat Records in the title track on Saturday Night Live standard and deluxe packaging. that year. The song was written about Tickets On Sale Now! Eight ticket limit his grandfather, James Delaney Buf- per customer. Tickets available at Ticket- fett, Sr., who was a huge influence on master.com. his life. This year is the record's 40th Charge by phone at (800) 745-3000. anniversary and in celebration of that, Ticket prices subject to applicable fees the summer tour is called Son Of A Son Of A Sailor. The record also includes the hit, “Cheeseburger In Paradise,” a Par- rothead favourite, as well as “Livingston Saturday Night” and “Cowboy in the Jungle.” The long-awaited Margaritaville musi- cal, "Escape to Margaritaville," had its world premiere in La Jolla, California, and has made pre-Broadway stops in New Orleans, Houston and Chicago. It will open on Broadway in New York at the Marquis Theatre on March 15, 2018. The original Broadway cast recording of the musical will be released in the spring. Jimmy has a new and very spe- North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | March 7, 2018 - April 11, 2018 29 North Coast Voice

From the Deep, Cavernous Mind of SNARP FARKLE Th inkaholic Ever since researching some articles online about stupid stuff for some inspiration, I’ve been thinking, thinking of going for some counseling and attending TA meetings. Some guy named Bill wrote an article about being a “Recovering Th inker” and I think Th inker's Anonymous might be just the thing I need! Sometimes I get so immersed in thought that I can’t think straight and we all know what thinking crooked can do to a person… make him write about stupid stuff ! I can’t say that I’ll ever really stop thinking though; after all I’ve been doing it ever since the whole womb embryo thing. Obviously I don’t remember all my embryonic thoughts but I do remember one thought as an embryo… “GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE!” Th e second embryonic thought I can remember was after waiting nine months to grow limbs and lungs and stuff so I could start kicking and making mummy dearest really un- comfortable, I grew fi ngernails and I was able to rip open my watery prison and squeeze out into the real world only to be hung upside down and smacked on the ass by a masked man! What the…? Had I known then what was to become of thinkers in the twenty fi rst century I may have chosen a diff erent path to follow, like becoming a politician, meteorologist or a court appointed lawyer; they don’t have to think or can be wrong all the time and still get paid! Whatever, by the time I was old enough to start school I was well on my way to becom- ing a ‘Closet Th inker’. I had to sneak around and hide to think for myself more and more each day! I soon realized I was more than just an ordinary thinker, I was thinking for myself all the time. I was fast becoming a heavy Th inkaholic, and with that I eventually came down with the Th inking Disease, ‘Th inkeritus’! Th inkeritus suff erers, as you may know, tend to think for themselves which leads to… ‘Asking Questions’. Th is is often misinterpreted as being obstinate or noncompliant, and so mistreatment of the Th inkaholic by trying to get them to stop thinking for themselves and asking questions usually results in them becoming… well obstinate and noncompli- ant! A Th inkaholic cannot just sit idly by and let some ‘ASSBAG’ tell them that it doesn’t matter WHY just do it anyways; this just causes the Th inkeritus suff erer to become ir- ritated because it gives him MORE to think about! For instance, when as a Th inkaholic I would be caught ‘thinking on the job’, my boss (Answers on page 29) would call me off to the side and say, “Snarp, your thinking on the job has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job and asking questions, I'll have to let you go." Th is, as you can imagine gave me even more to think about! Even though I knew that thinking while working isn't allowed, I couldn't stop myself if I wanted to, I’m a Th inkaholic, I’m addicted, I admit it! When my status as an intense thinker became more obvious, and I ran out of closets to think for myself in, I began to think for myself in the open, and because one thought always leads to another, I am what I am today: a major Th inkaholic! So I can’t wait for the day when I can walk into that door standing tall and say, “Hi… my name is Snarp… Snarp Farkle and I am a Th inkaholic and I suff er from type 2 Th inkeri- tus…. I think!” ~ Snarp www.snarparkle.com

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