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INSIDE: Winery Guide Vintage Ohio August, 3rd & 4th Great Lakes Medieval Faire! July 14 – Aug. 19th Painesville Party in the Park, July 13th – 15th Interviews - Colin Dussault, Marion Ross & Allen Ravenstine The Amphicar Celina Swim-In Entertainment, Dining & Leisure Connection Read online at www.northcoastvoice.com North Coast Voice OLD FIREHOUSE

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It’s the perfect spot to sit back Sat. 7/14 Just Like That 5-8pm Fri. 8/10 Flannel Planet 7-10pm Sat. 7/21 Rhythm Connection 5-8pm and enjoy your favorite KV Sat. 8/11 Melissa Harvey 5-8pm Fri. 7/27 Forsythe Special 7-10pm wine or cool off with one of Sat. 7/28 Simply Us 5-8pm Fri. 8/17 Rhythm Connection 7-10pm our popular wine slushies. Fri. 8/3 Wicked Vinyl 7-10pm Sat. 8/18 Face Value Duo 5-8pm Please follow us on Facebook! Estate Vineyards & Award-Winning Wines OHIO WINE COUNTRY WINERY GUIDE 2 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 North Coast Voice Picking your favorite wine at Vintage Ohio - Produced by Ohio Wine Producers Association Wineries helping you fi nd one you will love By Donniella Winchell THE REASON WINE LOVERS AT- Vinotype but because of life experiences, TEND VINTAGE OHIO IS TO HAVE have learned to not only tolerate, but FUN AND SIP SOME GOOD WINE. enjoy nearly every wine style. So a part of the mission of the With that in mind, a little about how festival is to encourage wine lovers of dry and sweet wines are made. all stripes to fi nd the wine they most Drinking ‘dry’ wines does not mean a enjoy. And, since everyone's palate glass will be lined with cotton balls. Dry, is diff erent, some folks like very dry when it comes to wine, simply means the And A Little Brew, too wines, others like it quite sweet and absence of sweetness. When winegrapes most will try wines in between. To help are picked, there are various levels of visitors better enjoy the wines they natural sugar in the fruit. Depending on select on Festival Field, this year we are what the winemaker is seeking in the fi n- encouraging more dry wines and have ished wine, the grapes are harvested at created posters noting the sweetness a specifi c ‘brix’ or sweetness level. Yeast level of all of the wines poured in each is added and fermentation begins. Th e of our wineries' tents. yeast cells ‘eat’ the sugar and convert it Th e posters will be displaying a slid- into alcohol while emitting a little carbon ing scale for the wines, noting them as dioxide. Th e result is a wine with 10% to 'dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet or sweet' to about 12% alcohol and something less encourage exploration and guide every- than 1 brix of sweetness by volume. A one's palate to the most pleasing wines ‘dry’ wine. for their tastebuds. Sweetness is pretty obvious. However, Th e idea came from an interesting the range varies greatly from wine to book called “Why you like the wines wine and from vintage to vintage. Some- you like” by researcher and Master of times the winemaker will add sugar to Wine, Tim Hanni. He shares why some sweeten his less expensive wines. Some- people love sweet and over the years times he uses a reserve juice technique their palates become more attuned where fresh, naturally sweet grape juice to very dry wines. Using four basic is micro fi ltered and added back to fi n- categories, he explains that some folks ished wines. In some wines, the level of are physiologically geared to sweet sweetness is almost imperceptible [most wines and likely spend their entire life people begin to notice when a little less August 3rd & 4th, 2018 ● 1-10pm Each Day ONLY enjoying sweets. Hypersensitive than 1% sugar is present. A typical glass Vinotypes have many, many tastebuds of orange juice has a 7 brix sweetness Lake Metroparks Farmpark • 8800 Euclid Chardon Rd. so like light, fragrant wines that are low level.] On the other hand our luscious re- Kirtland, OH • 440-466-4417 • VisitVintageOhio.com alcohol with a hint of sweetness. Bold gional ice wines are rich, viscous and may reds are often just too much for them. have more than 30 brix of residual sugar 2 Stages of Great Live Music: Sensitive Vinotypes make up the bulk because of the natural concentration of the wine consuming public and enjoy of fl avors in grapes that have hung on Friday, August 3 Saturday, August 4 the widest range of styles, from quite the vines for weeks past the traditional dry to sweet including both reds and harvest season. STAGE 1 STAGE 1 whites. Tolerant Vinotypes have the So depending on one's Vinotype, there 2:00 - 4:00 Don Perry Duo 2:00 - 4:00 Forecast fewest tastebuds whose palates looks will be lovely wines that will satisfy every 4:30 - 6:45 Mason District 4:45 - 6:45 Miles Beyond for intense stimuli. Th ey tend to like palate at Vintage Ohio, the region's old- 7:15 - 9:30 Andy’s Last Band 7:30 - 9:45 The Attraxxion big, high alcohol wines, often reds with est and most iconic outdoor wine event. lots of tannin. Th en there are the Con- For additional information: dwinchell@ STAGE 2 STAGE 2 fl icted Vinotypes. Often they started OhioWines.org 1:30 - 3:45 Larry Smith 1:30 - 3:45 Stan Miller out as a Sensitive or Hypersensitive 4:25 - 6:40 Yachtly Crue 4:25 - 6:40 Horns and Things 7:20 - 9:35 Discovery Band 7:20 - 9:35 Aretifex

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North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 3 North Coast Voice July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 • VOLUME 18 • ISSUE 7 •••••••••••••••••••••••••• • • • TA K E II • • • We would like to thank all of our sponsors and • CONTENTS • • Playing 50-60-70's • encourage our readers to patronize the fine • Favorites and Much More • businesses appearing in the North Coast VOICE. • • VINTAGE OHIO WINE 3 THE AMPHICAR CELINA • • Publisher •••••••••••••••••••••••• Fri. July 13th • 6-10 p.m. LCS Communications INTERVIEW WITH SWIM-IN 19 Trumbull County Fairgrounds ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Editor Sat. July 14th • 6:30-9:30 p.m COLIN DUSSAULT 8 DVD REVIEW 20 Green Eagle Winery Cortland, Ohio Sage Satori ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• [email protected] Eric Clapton, Life in 12 Bars Sun. July 15th • 2-5 p.m ON THE BEAT 12 Benny Vino Winery Advertising & Marketing ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Thur. July 19 • 6-8 p.m. Hunter MOVIES 21 Champion Assisted Living Concert Sales/Social Media/Events & Promotions GREAT LAKES public invited 440-813-3336 Jurassic World, Gotti, Ocean’s 8, ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• MEDIEVAL FAIRE 14 Fri. July 20th • 5:30-9:30 p.m. [email protected] American Animals Luisa’s Mexican Restaurant Trenda Jones ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Sat. July 21 • 7-10 p.m. Mentor, Willoughby, Chardon area NOW WE’RE TALKING 17 Little Paws Winery Lake Milton NEW READS 23 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Staff Writers Marion Ross Fri. July 27 • 7-10 p.m. Sage Satori • Cat Lilly Buccia Winery Conneaut, Ohio STAY IN TUNE 25 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Snarp Farkle • Don Perry Sat. July 28th • 79 p.m. Patrick Podpadec • Helen Marketti CD REVIEW 18 Goddess Winehouse Saybrook ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Big Country – Why the Long Face NOW WE’RE TALKING 27 Sun. July 29th • 2-5:30 p.m. Film Editor Spring Hill Westside Steve Interview with keyboardist, Allen For booking call Ellie Contributing Writers Ravenstine 330-770-5613 Chad Felton • Patti Ann Dooms Pete Roche • Bob More www.takeii.com Tom Todd • Donniella Winchell Trenda Jones • Alan Cliffe Circulation Manager LOST SHEEP BAND James Alexander Outdoor Circulation Bob Covert • Dan Gestwicki Flea Market Trenda Jones • Jim Ales & Craft Show RAIN OR SHINE Every Saturday Fri July 13 • 8-12 Pickled Pepper 9am to 5pm.

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Fri. July 13 • 7:30-10:30 Interview with Colin Dussault - Old Mill Winery A Song For Our Children Stand Up, Speak Up Just w/ Swamp Rattlers LIKE Thur. July 26 • 7-9:00 (A song against “Weapons of Class Destruction”) Madison Village Concert By Helen Marketti w/ Swamp Rattlers That! Cleveland area musician Colin Sat. July 28 • "Tunes for Tails" Dussault has written a song for the at Luisa's Mexican Grill! children in our lives who may wonder ACOUSTIC POWER TRIO! Benefit for Humane Society 2-5pm. Upstairs in Cantina 5:30-8:30. if it will be a safe day at school. Gone July 22 • 4-8 are the days where we went to school Sun. July 29 • 8-Midnight and never gave a thought that an ac- Old Firehouse Winery Firehouse Winery w/ Swamp Rattlers tive shooter could storm the building. Wed. August 1 • 7-9:00 Unfortunately, in today’s world, it is July 14th • 5-8 Painesville Concert in the Park something that must be considered Kosicek Vineyards w/ Swamp Rattlers regardless of city, school, or grade Sun. August 5 • 4-7 level. What began as a poem Colin Deer's Leap w/ Dick Dana has turned into a song expressing the July 15 • 5-8 emotions parents and their children Driftwood Pointe face as the school day begins and ends. A collective effort came together when friend Alex Bevan and asked if he Aug. 5 & 12 • 4-8 Colin asked other Cleveland musicians might be interested in tweaking it and Old Firehouse Winery and students to lend a hand for this add his brilliance. He instantly replied worthwhile project. In this Q and A, in the affirmative and within a few Colin shares his thoughts as to how days had emailed a demo! For bookings call Scott Cat 440-812-3772 this song transpired. NCV: Had this been a song that may Lilly NCV: Please share how this project have been percolating prior with other Featuring: Scott Treen, got started: tragic events in our country? For Bookings call Chuck Ditri & Gary Slovensky CD: The song came about in the af- CD: I think the idea had been germi- 440-466-4623 or 440-417-4199 termath of the Parkland, Florida school nating within me for some time. One shootings. I woke up in the middle cannot help but be affected by the way of the night after viewing the news the nation has turned from a peace- reports of yet another school shoot- ful and unified nation to a country Richmond Trolley, Limousine & Transportation ing. I was broken hearted and very sad of bickering and warring political over the way our children's youth and factions. Left vs. Right, Conservative innocence had been destroyed by gun vs. Liberal, Republican vs. Democrat, violence AGAIN! gun owner vs. parent, etc. It really has I have an 11-year-old daughter (10 at affected me. I am very disheartened the time of the Parkland shooting) and with what we have become as a nation. it really hit home. I really was upset The stripping away of voter’s rights, Leave the Driving to Us! and saddened by the fact that she and the partisan politics, the current Affordable and Trustworthy • Diverse Fleet of Vehicles other children her age have to live “President,” the negativity, the school Jolly Trolley, White Stretch Limousine, Limousine Party Bus, through this. shootings - all have led to this song. Additionally, when the Parkland stu- NCV: No student should ever have Wheelchair Accessible Van, and other vans to accommodate parties dents marched and were met with re- to attend school wondering what will from small to large, simple to elaborate. sistance and negative reactions, it blew happen that day or any day. What do CUSTOMIZE YOUR TRIP! Our professional, chauffeurs will take the utmost care of my mind. How could these victims be you think can be done or should be • Wine Hops you and your party throughout your trip. Just relax and victimized all over again by “adults” done? I know there is never an exact • Proms leave the driving to us. Our punctual pick-up and drop-off with an agenda that contradicts the answer and no one magic formula. • Weddings service is available early morning to mid-night or even later. • Sporting Events simple premise of keeping kids safe. 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It became clear that it would rights as citizens above the rights of a service yet, give us a try for any event and ENJOY the ride! be a poem for all the children who have person who wants to own a weapon. had their lives and sense of peace shat- Furthermore, there is no reason why 2423 Deerfield Dr. • Ashtabula • 440-964-9403 tered. an individual should own, have access www.richmondtrolleyandlimo.com Once written, I emailed it to my to, or possess high-powered automatic 8 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 North Coast Voice or semi automatic guns and military Alex Bevan: When Colin first con- grade weapons with high volume clips tacted me, the song was still a poem. and magazines with capabilities to I thought it was powerful and emo- mow down hundreds of victims at a tional. I thought it was heartfelt in the time. The time for debate has long wake of the Parkland, Florida shoot- passed. I have a child who attends a ings. What made the poem even more public school. She and I are afraid ev- powerful is that Colin was speaking as ery day for her safety. That is disgust- a father. I have known Colin for quite ing and unforgivable. I see politicians some time. He asked me to put the and groups with money and special poem to music. So I sat down, worked interests continuing to allow this to on it, changed a couple of things, but happen to our kids. it was Colin who did all the heavy lift- NCV: Your song sends a message. It ing for this project. I turned it into a leaves the listener with thought pro- campfire song. I envisioned it as not a voking words. I like how you brought protest song but something that was in youth of all ages to participate all-inclusive, where everyone agreed. as well. Did any of them share their thoughts with you about being afraid to attend school? Finally, I like that it is CD: Several kids thanked us. Several mentioned how they do “the drills” a “Cleveland song.” at school. They expressed their fears. The artists who It was very inspirational the way the “kids choir” came to be. It started with contributed are my my daughter and her best friend Au- drey and her brother Max. From there friends and colleagues it became clear that we needed more voices. We needed THEIR voices. This and we have been out was for THEM - the kids. here plying our craft I put the word out through social media that we needed kids to sing, and playing our ages 5 to 18, and before we knew it, Friday 4:00 - 12:00 we had over 35 kids whose parents music for decades. We Saturday 2:00 - 12:00 agreed to bring them to the studio. Sunday 2:00 - Dark It really did run itself. I was simply all respect and love one holding the wheel gently as the song another. steered itself to where it wanted to Beach Bar & Grill! go. 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KENDALL STAUFFER & FRIENDS ...... 8:00 The first group I thought of was Sat, Aug 4 ...... ERNEST T. BAND ...... 8:00 dened by the rash of violence and the March For Our Lives. However, I re- Sun, Aug 5 ... JERRY GRUSELL...... 2:00...... SUSAN HAGAN ...... 5:00 way our society has been ripped apart ceived no replies from them. I actually by politics, greed, etc… I know they ran into this with several groups. 6827 Lake Road West • Geneva • 440-466-9127 were all eager to lend their voices for I was somewhat surprised at their 2-1/2 miles west of Rt. 534 and Geneva State Park positive change. Continued on page 10 Corner of County Line Rd. and Lake Road West. North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 9 North Coast Voice Continued from page 9 rated, divided, split, and torn in two & TRAILS LEAD TO THE lack of response, but undaunted, I because of divisive political issues, par- S ATM GRAND RIVER Mastercard VISA D NETWORK ® continued to research and reach out. tisan politics and ideals. Th e fact we all A MANOR Finally, I was able to elicit a reply joined as one voice really restored my OPEN from Molly Crowe, a Volunteer Local faith in humanity, the creative process, DAILY 1153 Mechanicsville Rd. Chapter Leader for Moms Demand Ac- and the arts. I feel as if for a brief mo- INCLUDING Geneva • 440-466-9229 HOLIDAYS! tion For Gun Sense in America. After a ment, we were all one in the same and www.grandrivermanor.com few email exchanges and a 45-minute ALL RO we did something, said something, phone call, we agreed that I would and created something that is positive, EVERY FRIDAY send profi ts and proceeds from this loving, and needed. It really is my way song to that group. of telling my daughter and all children FLYING PIG NCV: Do you play this song at all of that I am proud of them and I am BBQ Thursday! ENTERTAINMENT your shows? How has it been received? embarrassed about how we have failed WITH DJ ROB CD: Yes, we are performing the song them. We have failed to protect them. Ribs, Chicken & Pulled Pork at our shows. Obviously, we have to We have failed as grownups. We have 8pm be careful as to when we do it, but at fallen way short of where we need some point in every performance the to be in terms of laws and common band and I reach a comfort level where sense. Th at is some of what this song TUESDAY WING NIGHT the audience and I (we) are connected is about. ¢ ¢ and know each other a little bit. At Finally, I like that it is a “Cleveland 50 JUMBO WINGS & 55 BONELESS WINGS that point, I explain the genesis of the song.” Th e artists who contributed are OPEN MIC WITH JIMMY ALES • 7PM song and we perform it. It has been my friends and colleagues and we have met with great applause, some tears, a been out here plying our craft and FRIDAYS AT 8pm....QUEEN OF HEARTS DRAWING few standing ovations and has resulted playing our music for decades. We all in sales of the CD single. Of course, we respect and love one another. Th e fact 100% WINNINGS IF PRESENT! then do a “happy” fun song immedi- we added John Adams (the drummer PARTY ROOM AVAILABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS! ately after to get the party back. But I from centerfi eld at the Indians games) like that we can incorporate a “protest to the ensemble was so cool. He is a FOOD & DRINK Watch the Tribe games on Our Big Screens! SPECIALS! song” into the show. A song with a dear friend. And with him and all of message. From time to time, I can feel the others, it is a Cleveland project. I it hitting a vein and really connecting would have liked to have had Dorothy with a room. Fuldheim, but she is gone, Superhost NCV: Is there anything else you never called back, and Barnaby was too Grand River Manor wanted to mention or discuss? expensive! But sans those three, it is a CD: Th e artists who donated their Cleveland eff ort and is something I am EVERY TUESDAY time all deserve mention. Of course, very, very proud creating with the help Alex Bevan, who took my poem and of my friends. Wing Night Live! gave it melody and structure; Walkin’ Note: In addition to the above Cane who lent his great guitar playing mentioned artist Colin was joined OPEN MIC, 7-10 along with Alex, Chris Keff er who re- by many other Cleveland musicians corded and engineered it, and Michael for solo lines and harmonies. e Thurs. July 12, 5-8 Stanley, who lent his voice to the song. following artist contributed their I am such a huge fan of both Alex and Hundley Cellars time: Rachel Brown, Becky Boyd, Michael and it is a thrill and an honor Chris Allen, or Platter, Anne E. to think they lent their voices, time DeChant, Jim Tigue, Eroc Sosinski, Sun. July 22, 4:30-7:30 and talent to something that I co- Rich Spina, Kristine Jackson, and Old Mill Winery Open Mic wrote and produced. Furthermore, the more than 35 northeast Ohio school- other musicians who answered my call children who brought this composi- when asked deserve credit as well. I Sat. July 28, 3:20-3:50 tion to life. e song was recorded, did not start out thinking I would have mixed, and mastered over the course Luisa's - Tunes for Tails all of these voices on the song. It just of  ve sessions (April 5, 10, 11, 14, drove itself in that direction. 25, and 29), at Magnetic North Sun. Aug. 5, 2:30-5:30 Th e one thing it shows is that we are Recording Studios in Beachwood, by Jim Ales Winery at Spring Hill all of the same mindset in that we are Chris Ke er. tired of witnessing what we are wit- “A Song for Our Children” song and Acoustic Fun! nessing. We used our voices and our video can be viewed and purchased at Sat. Aug. 11, 6-7 talent to do and say something about www.songforourchildren.com All pro- Driftwood Point - Benefit - it. I really feel isolated and depressed ceeds donated to organizations that over the way we, as a nation, a society support March For Our Lives causes. 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Ohio Celtic Festival Celebrates 20 Years VOf Irish Festival Fun On August 10th, 11th and 12th, Th e LochErie, No Strangers Here , Crawley Ohio Celtic Festival will transform the and Hopper and more. Lake County Fairgrounds into a Celtic What Celtic festival would be com- island of music and fun for the whole plete without an array of Bag Pipe Bands family. Th is year is the 20th anniversary and Irish dancers? Th is festival is no of the festival and features an impres- exception. Th e Black Sheep, the East Side sive line-up of more than 150 musicians, Irish American Club, the Red Hackles singers, bagpipe bands, dancers and and West Side Irish American Club will other entertainers from across the US, all be represented. Performing through- Ireland and around the world. out the weekend will be Ohio’s World Th e festival has something for every- Champion Murphy’s School of Irish one, including Celtic merchants selling Dance, Leneghan Irish Dancers, Brady hand-crafted jewelry, pottery and em- Campbell School of Dance and O’Malley broidered fashions. Kids have their own Irish Dance Academy. area with shows, activities and magic Th e Lake County Fairgrounds is lo- shows. Th ere’s a shop for Irish pastries cated at 1301 Mentor Avenue in Paines- and coff ee when you’re looking for a ville, OH. Event hours are Friday 5:00 respite. For those looking for something pm – 11:30 pm, Saturday 12 pm - 11:30 a little stronger, there will be Irish whis- pm, and Sunday 12 pm - 8:30 pm. Mass key tasting workshops throughout the will be celebrated at 10:30 am on Sunday weekend where one can learn about the morning. General admission is $12 at history and crafting process of making the gate.. Kids under age 12 are admitted Irish whiskey. free with a paying adult. Advance sale Th is year’s festival features one of the packages are available online at www. 2018 Lakefront most exciting musical line-ups to date. ohiocelticfest.com FREE Th e park will pulse all weekend long with For updates, entertainment schedules Summer Concert Series Celtic rock music by Off Kilter, Th e Feni- and additional information visit the Concerts ans and Th e American Rogues. Return- offi cial website at www.ohiocelticfest. Every Tuesday Geneva Township Park ing due to popular demand will be Th e com and follow the Ohio Celtic Festival at 7pm Gothard Sisters, Next Generation Leahy, on Facebook. Geneva-on-the-Lake Ciaran Sheehan and Emmet O’Hanlon. Th e Ohio Celtic Festival is presented Along with national and international by Our Heritage, Our Home, Inc. a Lake acts, the Northeast Ohio Irish music County Ohio 501c3 nonprofi t organiza- scene will be well-represented with New tion whose mission is to preserve and Barleycorn, Brigid Cross, Mary’s Lane, promote Celtic culture and traditions. The Magic Buttons Earn a July 17...... The Magic Buttons 44th Harpersfi eld Beef Roast July 20 – 22 T‐Shirt Th e Harperfi eld Volunteer Fire Department 50/50 drawing as well. at 4 July 24...... Erie Heights Brass Ensemble will host their 44th annual Beef Roast Festival Friday - Th e Cruise-In Crooners will per- GOTL Strip the Friday through Sunday July 20 – 22. Th e form 50s and 60s songs from 5:00 – 7:30 and Crawls! July 31...... The Madison Band event is held at the Fireman's Community Th e H2O band will begin at 8:00 pm. 1 The Lake Erie Lost Sheep Band Recreation Center just west of Rt. 534 on Saturday - Food booths open at noon and Monster Crawl Aug 7...... Larry, Daryl, Daryl & Sheryl Memorial Day Cork-Cold Springs Road. game booths at 5:00 pm. thru Labor Day Th e festival opens Friday at 5:00 pm. In Th e Hobos will kick off the music with 2 Kidz Krawl Aug 14 ...... Linda Fundis addition to the ever popular roast beef sand- polkas in the beverage pavilion at 6:00 and Memorial Day thru Labor Day wiches many other food and beverage options the Light of Day Band will take center stage 3 Thunder on Aug 21 ...... The Blues Project 2018 are available. at 8:00. the Strip Th ere will be games of chance for adults Sunday – activities begin at noon. Acoustic Thunder Week, Aug 28 ...... Dennis Ford Sept. 7-10, 2017 such as card games and a large area to enter- duo Melissa & Mitch will perform at 3:00. Th e Blues Project 4 Halloween tain children. Raffl e tickets for some great Frank Morovsik Polka Band take the stage at Monster Crawl September & Sponsored by the Geneva-on-the-Lake Visitors Bureau prizes will be sold throughout the weekend 6:00pm and will entertain until the fi reworks October www.VisitGenevaontheLake.com • 440-466-8600 with prizes awarded daily and there will be as close out the festival at 10:00. 12 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 North Coast Voice Th ere is no admission fee and parking is maintain the Community Center building and FREE. All proceeds from the festival are used grounds. OPEN DAILY 7am-2:30am to purchase fi re fi ghting equipment and to Open at 7am for Breakfast and cooking until 1:00am! P.C.I.C.’s Painesville Party In Th e Park Coming Most items available for take-out, too! July 13, 14 and 15 Happy Hour M-TH 1pm-7pm Th e Painesville Community Improvement LOCAL TAVERN. Th e ticket price includes $1.50 Domestic Bottles & Well Shots Corporation is hosting its 38th annual week- 4 adult drink tickets,7 tastings from Doc (Holidays Excluded) end long, all free music festival, PARTY IN Howard Distillery and small plates from the THE PARK! Once again, Party In Th e Park will Local Tavern. DJ/VJ/KARAOKE be held on the square in Veterans Memorial Stop by in the afternoon with the little ones Every Friday & Saturday starting @ 8pm Park showcasing our beautiful historic town. at our Community Stage. Magicians, Jungle Or Immediately After The Band Until 2:00am Lots great things going on in our City! Terry, Dr. Insecta, face painting, dancing, Yoga Party In Th e Park will open Friday at 11am. with BRANCHES OF WELLNESS and much MON: Half Price on Select Appetizers Bring your appetites and be thirsty, my more! Also patrolling the park in 2018 will be Daily Food TUE: Wing Night friends! You’ll be able to enjoy your favorite two mounted police offi cers and our local po- WED: 2 Tiders or Hot Dogs & Onion Rings or Fries foods, snacks and adult beverages till mid- lice force distributing “kid swag” from a grant Specials! THUR: Taco Night $5 night all three nights. New to the food vendor provided by PCIC. Lunch Sandwich line-up this year is Slyman’s Deli! Party In Th e Park also has one of the Special Th is free music festival features approxi- greatest KIDS ZONES anywhere. Th e giant MONTH OF JULY M-F 11:30-1:30 mately 30 diff erent music acts of various infl atables and interactive games are open the genres. Many of your favorite musicians both entire weekend and free to all. We will also be local and regional will be playing. Th e quality featuring cars and drivers from the all new Collecting School Supplies and variety of music at this festival is unsur- Painesville Speedway. passed in North East Ohio. Th is is our second Painesville Community Improvement THROUGH AUGUST 15th year with the jumbo TV screen to the right of Corporation (PCIC) is a 501c-3 non-profi t FOR OUR LOCAL the main stage and our third year with the TV corporation whose members are volunteers. screen behind the live performers. PCIC and has been instrumental in provid- ELEMENTARY For the ultimate experience go to our web- ing economic and community grants and SCHOOL. BRING site: www.painesvilleimprovement.com and sponsorships to help the City of Painesville, purchase VIP tickets! A fenced in area with local businesses, schools and other non-profi t IN A SCHOOL tables & chairs and private restrooms with a organizations. PCIC will be hosting a 50/50 washing station. It’s located near the stage. raffl e this year in place of the Chinese auction DONATION AND Th is year our VIP co-host is Painesville’s own and donations are accepted. RECEIVE A BEVERAGE. Th e O'Jays and Livingston Taylor to perform at Cain Park Christmas in July Party...July 21st! Iconic R&B group Th e O'Jays will take the stage of the Evans Amphitheater at Cain Park Great Lakes on Friday, July 27 at 8:00 pm. Members of On Tap while the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Th e Offi cial R&B Music Hall of Fame, Th e O'Jays are Christmas Ale it lasts! touring history, a connection to an era and a sounds that formed the soundtrack for the lives of several generations. Tickets for this event are $100/75/65/40 July 21 • 8-Midnight in advance and $103/78/68/43 day of show. Th ey can be purchased at Ticketmaster.com Larry, Daryl, (800-653-8000) or the Cain Park ticket offi ce (216-371-3000). Cain Park is located at 14591 originally consisting of Eddie Levelrt, Walter Superior Road in Cleveland Heights. Williams, William Powell, Babby Massey, and Daryl & Sheryl Th e Free Parking Shuttle Service is available Bill Isles. In 1963, the band took the name for this concert. Th e shuttle runs 7-8pm (it "Th e O'Jays" in tribute to Cleveland radio disc VisitGenevaOnTheLake.com does not run during the concert) and up to jockey Eddie O'Jay. Several members have Check Out... & VisitAshtabulaCounty.com for upcoming events one hour after the concert ends. Th ose inter- changed, but the core, original lead singers, SEND US AN EMAIL TO RECEIVE OUR MAILINGS! ested should park at Cleveland Heights City Eddie Levert and Walter Williams, continue to Hall (40 Severance Circle). front the group. Eddie Levert Sr., Walter Wil- Two Facebook Pages: HighTide Tavern and Betty's HighTide Fun Th e O’Jays are still hitting the road with the liams Sr. and Eric Nolan Grant, who joined the Email: [email protected] same electrifying energy they’ve had for over group in 1995, continue to thrill fans today. 5504 Lake Road • On the Strip 50 years. As teenagers in Canton, Ohio, Wal- Th e O'Jays concert at Cain Park is sup- Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio • (440) 466-7990 ter Williams and Eddie Levert formed a band Continued on page 26 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 13 North Coast Voice

Complete Family & Cosmetic Dentistry Come Discover the Treasures! It’s time for the 26th Annual Great Lakes Medieval Faire! Weekends only, July 14th through Aug. 17th. Open 11am - 7pm, rain or shine! It’s Never Too Late By Sage Satori To Have a Great Smile! Th e village of Avaloch comes to life once Undoubtedly the most popular attrac- again as 2018 marks the 26th year of fan- tion is the wide variety of abundant and tasy and fun. Take a walk back in time and continuous entertainment on the many immerse yourself in the music and enchant- stages throughout the land which are all Preventative Services: Hygiene Therapy ment of the 13th Century in all its glory. included in the price of admission. In addi- Periodontal Screenings & Maintenance | Oral Cancer Screening Minstrels and Troubadours stroll through tion to the national acts, some local talent the shire and take stage at the extraordinary is included in the schedule for the music Technology: CEREC – One visit crowns outdoor pubs. Over 100 skilled Artisans stages each year. Every weekend will have Cosmetic Dentistry: Porcelain Crowns and Veneers | Implants | Teeth Whitening from all over the country display their guests for that particular theme in addition wares; swords, mugs, candles, jewelry, and to the regular shows. Th ere will always be Other Procedures: Root Canal Therapy | Dentures | Tooth Colored Fillings kilts, are among the off erings. Feast upon something diff erent going on so don’t miss Extractions | Infections | Trauma | Denture Repairs the wide selection of foods that are off ered a weekend; buy a season pass! in Avaloch, including roasted chicken din- General Information Financing: ners, prime rib sandwiches, pasta dishes, Join the Opening Gate Ceremony, every We accept Cash, Check, Visa, MasterCard, and Discover and delicious royal pastries fi t for a King. day at 10:45am outside the front gate. Financing available through third party options such as Care Credit Th e village is comfortably shaded within Parking at the Faire is Free! Th ose display- Fortney Dental Group 183 acres of forest, bright banners and fl ags ing handicap tags on their car will receive adorn the pathways that take you along special parking near the gate. Wheelchair 299 South Broadway • Geneva, OH 44041 your journey. Th ere are games to test your accessible wash facilities are available. Th e skill, free interactive children’s activities, GLMF is wheelchair and stroller accessible. 440-466-2721 and so much more. Th e Faire off ers Medieval Wedding Hours by appointment including evenings & Saturdays • Serving Ashtabula, Lake and Geauga Counties Each year the Faire grows and improves Packages,Ticket Agent Outlet Opportuni- www.fortneydental.com while most of the favorites remain such as; ties, and Child and Adult Medieval Birthday Fairie Forest, Th e Human Combat Chess Packages. So, for a great alternative to the NEW PATIENTS & EMERGENCIES WELCOME Match, Th e Washing Well Wenches, Johnny usual summer activities, don't just go any- Phoenix, and of course Axel the Sot! Th e where... GO MEDIEVAL! Village Merchants are far too numerous Tickets are available online and at the to mention but you’ll fi nd; wood, leather, gate, call for info regarding ticket outlets. fi ber, and metal artisans, period costumes Th e Great Lakes Medieval Faire is com- Back by popular demand... for those who desire to totally engage mitted to family entertainment and helping themselves in this journey, bath and body make great memories to follow you home. potions, jewelry galore, works of glass, and See the ad on page 15 for themed weekends, Cougars ornamental shops. directions and more info. Axel the Sot returns to Great Lakes Medieval & Cocktails! Faire with new book release! Axel’s new book, A Toast!, is everything auditions, classes, the Join JJ Axel in a handy portable version (well, fi rst show, and leaving maybe not everything). Th is Big collection home on the road trip of Jokes – Toasts – Limericks – Memoirs, to Colorado in his and even a CD of all original songs defi nite- Yugo. Th ere are many July 19th • 7-9pm ly delivers something for everyone. Even if stories moving through you skip over the naughty stuff , (who does the years and you’ll that?) there’s plenty more to take in and want to read them all. Harry Buffalo perhaps even take to a party! Th e CD contains 15 Mentor Avenue on the Mentor/Pville border! Chauvinistic and uncouth, yes, but if original songs. Some you’ve grown to love Axel the Sot over the are familiar fun ditties Try to Win Concert & years then this compilation will be enter- used in Axel’s shows and there are tracks taining and appreciated. where the songs actually are insightful and Atlas Movie tickets! Scott Hendricks is the man behind the serious, yes, you read that right. Th e song quirky and wayward comedic minstrel. If at “Back to the Sea” is well written, refl ective Mentor Avenue on the Mentor/Pville border! all curious about the inspiration behind his and has a catchy chorus. PRIZES EVERY 30 MINUTES! career then take the journey through his Pick up a copy at one of the Axel the memoirs section of the book. Th e adven- Sot shows as you roam about the Shire at TO LISTEN LIVE AND WATCH OUR LIVE COUGAR CAM tures began with his fi rst visit to a Renais- the Great Lakes Medieval Faire, like and sance Festival in Texas where the fi rst spark message him on Facebook, or email him WWW.COUGAR937.COM was illuminated; then moving on through [email protected] 14 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 North Coast Voice Discover Phoenix Productions Presents the Treasures Great Lakes edieval Faire Summerfest Saturdays & Sundays, July 14th through August 19th, 2018 We're open 11am - 7pm, rain or shine! The Great Lakes Medieval Faire is a shaded, 13th century family fun theme park filled with fine continuous entertainment, juried crafts and artisans, rides and interactive games, and foods fit for a King. $2.00 JULY 14-15: Roman Rampage: Don your Toga or come as your favorite Gladiator to kick-off our OFF AT THE GATE Opening Weekend Toga Party! WEARING A TOGA! JULY 21-22: World Music, Foodes & Jubilee: Enjoy Majestic Music, Fun Dance & Exotic Foodes! JULY 28-29: A Tyme Travel Steam Punk Adventure: Travel through Tyme for a Treasured Shopping Adventure. Bring Your Pup! AUGUST 4-5: Pirates Invasion: Mermaids, Pirates & Crusty Things Attack our Village! AUGUST 11-12: Celtic Celebration: High Spirited Fun & Music. Foodes & Antics of the Emerald Isle. $8.00 AUGUST 18-19: Champions & Heros: Become your favorite Super Hero, Call or order On-Line to Save! OFF Feats of Strength & Games of Skill! Support our Veterans Weekend AT THE GATE WITH MILITARY I.D. LIVE MERMAIDS • GLASS BLOWING • PIRATE SHIP BLACKSMITHS • DEMONSTRATING CRAFTERS • GAMES Located 7 miles South of I-90 on State Route 534. For GPS or apps use 3033 State Route 534, Rock Creek, Ohio, 44084 440-474-4280 • www.medievalfaire.com North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 15 North Coast Voice V

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The Porch Rockers NOW WE’RE TALKIN Band ■■■ By Helen Marketti

My Days, Happy and Otherwise and so is Henry Winkler. All of us have VDuring the 1970s, television audi- remained close. We were close on the set ences saw several TV moms taking care as well which carried over years later.” of their families. Some recognizable My Days, Happy and Otherwise pres- characters include Carol Brady, Edith ents a unique approach as each of her Bunker, Louise Jeff erson, Florida Evans, former costars, her adult children, and and of course, Mrs. C. (aka Mrs. Cun- her personal assistant all contributed a ningham). Marion Ross played the role chapter. Th ey each described what it was Fri . July 20 ...... Ferrante Winery of Mrs. C on the ABC sitcom HAPPY like being around Marion, working with Sat. Aug 4...... Ferrante Winery DAYS for the entire run of the show, her, their thoughts about her writing a book, and so forth. “I thought it would Wed. Aug 8 ...... Debonne Vineyards eleven years. Fri. Aug 10 ...... Ferrante Winery In her memoir, My Days, Happy and be a good idea for everyone to participate Otherwise (Kensington Books, 2018), since they are a part of my life.” Sun. Aug 12...... Hundley Cellars Marion shares heartfelt stories of her When she was 60, Marion found love Sat. Aug 18 ...... Driftwood Point life and career. Th e book is hard to put again and married her second husband, Paul. “It was a wonderful and loving Sun. Aug 19...... Debonne Vineyards down as she takes the reader on a jour- Sat. Aug 25 ...... Painesville BPOE ney we all feel a part of. During a tele- relationship. Sometimes things happen phone conversation, Marion discussed when you are not looking.” Sat. Sept 1 ...... Debonne Vineyards her passion for wanting to be an actress. Readers will enjoy Marion’s book as Fri. Sept 7...... Ferrante Winery She was born in Minnesota and, early her stories unfold with some tears and on, she felt she was destined for great great joys. We can identify with some of For bookings, call the journey of her life, as she encourages accomplishments and recognition. “I 440.339.1069 or 440.339.9482 was thirteen years old when I decided everyone to follow their dreams. I was going be an actress. I knew it was something I wanted to do and I stuck Over a career spanning 60 years, with that dream my entire life,” she ex- Marion secured many roles in television plains. “My mother always told me that and fi lm. She worked with Hollywood I could be whatever I wanted. I had an icons like Clark Gable, Tony Curtis, Cary older sister and a younger brother. My Grant, and Jimmy Stewart. She has been brother had many health issues. I fell in in the company of Lauren Bacall, Hum- Please join us for an extended vacation or just spend a the middle so I think that powered my phrey Bogart and Noel Coward. While weekend in the northeastern most portion of the state! tremendous drive to be somebody. By her resume is lengthy and full of experi- the time I was 21, I was under contract ence, it was not until she was in her late July 14: D-Day Museum Open House • North Coast D-Day with Paramount Studios. Now, I will forties that she secured her most famous Museum • 851 Harbor Street 440-224-0717 • Noon-5 soon be 90 years old and when I look and recognizable role as Mrs. C on HAP- WWII displays, re-enactors, vehicles, entertainment & more! back, I think my gosh, I really did it!” PY DAYS. For a while, Marion thought July 20 - 22 thru July 27 - 29: "Charlotte's Web" 7:30 pm Marion’s life was not an easy road. she had missed the boat on her career. Arlene's Broadway on Buffalo • 236 Buffalo St. 440-599-PLAY During her early days, trying to break “I had started out so strong when I was into the industry and keep her career fi rst under contract with Paramount and July 21: 4-7 pm • Annual Barbeque • Monroe Township Fire moving forward, she got married at a then after the years had passed I began Department • 4095 Center Rd 440-224-1259 or 440-594-2018 young age. Her fi rst husband Effi e was to wonder if perhaps it was now too late. July 28: 4-8 pm Pasta Night at Conneaut Human Resources Center an alcoholic. His role was passive and My mother encouraged me to keep go- 327 Mill St. 440-593-5273 unmotivated. “Back then, there wasn’t ing, to keep moving forward.” July 27: 8-10 pm Conneaut Sandbar Full Moon Educational a name for alcoholism. It was accepted ABC picked up HAPPY DAYS after its Paddle • Ashtabula YMCA • Conneaut Sand Bar, behavior. Th ere were no labels. I went pilot. 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blend of were making all those plans for?” harmony and Th e disc follows with the typical but eff ective heritage had valentines to both imagined paramours (“One in led many to a Million,” “Send You”) and actual humanity at CD REVIEW believe they’d large (“Message of Love”); refl ections on personal ■■■ By Pete Roche be the next triumphs and private travails (“I’m Not Ashamed,” U2—a global “Wildland in My Heart”); and sundry entries (“Sail phenom- Into Nothing,” “God’s Great Mistake,” “Post Nuclear Big Country – Why the Long Face enon with an Talking Blues”) that couple the Dunfermline four- or family members knew his whereabouts when endearing, piece’s penchant for outdoor themes (nature, V4-CD Deluxe Edition ear-catching freedom, adventure) and affi nity for its signature he took his own life in December 2001. Suddenly, Sometimes life throws so many curveballs at you many of Adamson’s early lyrics seemed not only in- worldview. Scottish sound, into upbeat, zeitgeist-sensitive that you can’t tell which direction is up. Big Country trospective or insightful, but hauntingly prescient: Instead, zingers. front man Stuart Adamson knew that better than “Th e tank is empty, a wheel came off . How can Big Country continued battling to break into the Disc Two is jam-packed with bonus tracks includ- most. someone fi nd me if no one knows I’m lost?” mainstream in the U.S., as Ireland’s U2 had done ing single edits of “Dreamer” and “Ashamed,” early “I need a guidebook, get me a map!” he sang on Fortunately, Adamson left behind a treasure with War and Unforgettable Fire, and struggled to / alternate takes of “One in a Million,” and acoustic the group’s overlooked 1995 album Why the Long trove of catchy, clever, Celtic-steeped rock ‘n’ roll stay relevant in the ’90s while leapfrogging from versions of old standbys “In a Big Country” and “All Face. “Not even Indiana Jones could deal with that!” tunes scattered across eight outstanding studio one obscure label to another. Go Together.” Th ere’s also a bunch of extra songs Personal demons plagued Adamson throughout albums and as many live, in-concert sets and best-of “One could defi nitely make the case that the that didn’t make the album but might’ve popped his adult life, from his tenure in late ’70s punk compilations. Big Country’s stellar 1983 debut, Th e band didn’t fi t in with current fashions,” writes up on the band’s Rarities series later, like “Crazy band Th e Skids, to his Big Country stardom in the Crossing, benefi tted from a deluxe reissue in 2012, Svein Borge Hjorthaug in Cherry Red’s updated Times,” “Ice Cream Smile,” and “Bianca.” Th is is also early ’80s, and country-fl avored collaboration with and several other albums (1986’s Th e Seer, 1988’s Long Face liner notes. “As Big Country entered its where fans will fi nd working versions recorded by Nashville pal Marcus Hummus (as the Raphaels) Peace in Our Time) received similar makeovers over second decade as a band, Britain was swept off its Adamson, Butler, and company at House in the in 2000. And that doesn’t even account for all the the years on various labels. Now the British archival feet by the new Britpop movement, with bands like Woods studio in Surrey (“Hardly a Mountain,” “Can external problems (social, political, and otherwise) enthusiasts at Cherry Red Records are giving Why Blur, Oasis, Suede, and Pulp now leading the charge. You Feel the Winter”). out in the world, which Adamson thoughtfully— the Long Face a well-deserved re-master treatment. In America, the wave of bands collectively referred Disc Th ree is a digitally-retouched edition of the brilliantly—worked into some of Big Country’s best Adamson and his Big Country brethren were to as Grunge had taken a similar foothold.” in-concert Eclectic album released by Castle Com- tunes (“Peace in Our Time,” “Remembrance Day,” already swimming upstream by the time Why the Suffi ce to say, Long Face didn’t broaden Big munications in the year following Long Face’s origi- “One Great Th ing,” “Driving to Damascus,” “East of Long Face came out in June of ’95. Mercury / Poly- Country’s audience as intended. Following a similar nal release. Recorded live at Dingwall’s in London Eden”). gram dropped the quartet when Th e Seer (though fate as Th e Seer seven years prior, the disc—packed in late March of ’96, and long since out-of-print, the Compounded by a longstanding alcohol problem, critically acclaimed) failed to produce the commer- with muscular, melodic guitars and bold, book- album shines with a mix of old and then-new Big Adamson’s issues caught up with him at the turn of cial results heralded by lead-off single “Look Away.” smart verses—sated core fans but didn’t yield any Country classics (“River of Hope,” “Where the Rose the century. He disappeared, and not even friends It was an ignominious blow to a band whose unique radio hits or MTV mainstays like “In a Big Country” is Sown”), all rendered before an elated audience. and “Fields of Fire.” Th e album’s underperformance Also on the menu here is an assortment of choice on the charts never really warranted its being cover songs that speak to the band’s early infl uences overlooked by listeners (who by now had latched on (Th e Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby,” Bruce Springsteen’s to Nirvana, Dave Matthews, and Pearl Jam) or its “I’m On Fire,” Neil Young’s “Hey Hey My My,” CCR’s dismissal in the annals of rock history. “Down on the Corner”). Th e smoldering set, with Th at injustice is precisely what makes Cherry bassist Tony Butler and drummer Mark Brzezicki Red’s reassessment so crucial. Handsomely packed underpinning the guitar hysteria with glorious in a sturdy yellow clamshell case, instead of the grooves, also features guest spots by British vocalist original powder blue sleeve, with another photoge- / actor Bobby Valentino, rocker Steve Harley (of nic Doberman on front, the 4CD Why the Long Face Cockney Rebel), and American soul singer Kym 2018 includes not only the remastered ’95 album, Mazelle. but three extra CD’s worth of bonus Big Country Th e Long Face prototype is represented by Disc tracks, demos, covers, and in-concert cuts from that Four: Th is is where collectors and curators will dis- era (1994-1996). cover working versions of the tunes that would be Disc One contains the album proper—fourteen polished up later for the fi nal version of the album. tracks of sparkling guitar (clean and crunchily Workshopped at various locations in Scotland and distorted), robust rhythms, and intelligent lyr- England (Audiocraft, Riverside, Chapel, HITW), this ics about love, regret, and hope, all anointed by missing-link record presents some of Adamson’s another serving of the same hardy, anthem-like best ideas in stripped-down format. But mostly refrains that made Big Country famous. Opener the program is dominated by near-fi nished “jam” “You Dreamer” rides high on a bagpipe-esque versions of “Dreamer,” “Message,” “Ashamed,” guitar riff and rugged, dirty power chords (courtesy and other stand-outs that sound—unlike most Adamson and Bruce Watson) before introducing demos or garage versions—almost as concise in Stuart’s vignette of forgotten souls in corner stores performance and as crystalline in production as the (where “prescription junkies” “watch the window fi nished Long Face LP. fi ll with fl ies”). It’s an electrifying ode to shattered So if you know Stuart Adamson and Big Country dreams that ponders a plethora of what-ifs and only by their earliest “essential” hits, now’s as good what-might-have-been…yet—in true Big Country a time as any to revisit the well and get acclimated form—keeps positive rather than giving up the with the group’s strong, inspirational, and sorely- ghost to adversity. overlooked middle catalog. And there’s never been “Is this the way that you believed your life was a better opportunity to take those fi rst steps than gonna turn out?” muses Adamson, quite possibly with this respectfully-rendered Long Face deluxe about himself. “Is this the better world that you box. 18 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 North Coast Voice Th e Amphicar Celina Swim-In by James Onysko Open 7-Days-A-Week! Born in the Fifties, but coming of age in the Sixties, it was a blessed time to be a Baby Boomer. I grew up in a professional household … my Dad, a Our 12th lawyer via the benefi ts of the GI Bill … and Mom, an expert homemaker who kept it all together. As Season! budding teenagers, we listened to Motown and Th e FOOD COURT Beatles; didn't yet know about Bach or Beethoven (except for Chuck Berry's "Roll Over" tune; and Geneva-on-the-Lake went on family excursions to nearby Niagara Falls. Sometimes our "staycations" would include Euclid Beach Park along the near eastern city shores of Lake Erie. Being a native Clevelander, we all were drawn to whatever part of the lake and crooked river we could claim as our own … anywhere along the sprawling, urban decay of it all. And there were watercraft, of course. You were the lucky teenager Photos by Barb Golomb Roasted Corn-on-the Cob who could try out his or her sea legs on the big lake 25,000 vehicles. Slightly more than 4000 Amphi- up reservoir system for the Erie Canal … its shallow Corn Dogs • Sausage • Pulled Pork in a family or friend's summer plaything. And dur- cars were made; and an estimated 500 still exist contours perfect for splashing around. Immediately ing the season, we were as exuberant as a buoyant … most of these in the United States where it was following the Celina Swim-In, some Amphicar own- Hot Dogs • Fresh Cut French Fries boat. exported by its Berlin-based manufacturer. About ers will trek northward for an also-annual Swim-In Hamburgers • Nachos Boating is an expensive proposition; and a 100 are to be found in Europe, and are highly prized based out of Port Clinton, Ohio, until Tuesday, strictly, warm-weather hobby in our area. But on by like-minded enthusiasts. Th e Amphicar ceased July 31, exploring some of the Lake Erie Islands Cheese-on-a-Stick • Cheese Cakes the near westside where I grew up, there was a production in 1968; not by its inherent design via these iconic treasures. So it’s a full week of curious, small vehicle (with fi ns!) driving around problems; but by a change in U.S.laws bankrupting Amphicar "pooling", if you will … pun intended. And the neighborhood all the time. I later learned it was the German company. It had something to do with I've been made a promise to fulfi ll a teenage dream an Amphicar 770. By the fl ip of a switch, this land its very nature. Was this a car or a boat? In the end, of trying out my sea legs in one of these still-sea- vehicle would transform into an amphibious one many were given to employees in lieu of severance worthy rarities - thanks to the IAOC. - able to go 7 knots in the water; and 70 miles per LOCATED ON THE STRIP pay. For more information, please visit www.amphi- GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE RESORT hour on terra fi rma - hence, the numbers attached Th e genius of this amphibious-land vehicle car.com. to Amphicar. However, I never saw one launch or sprung from the mind of Hans Trippel, a German "swim" until years later on YouTube. Th e owner of auto designer. Th e famous gull-wing doors of Mer- this particular Amphicar lost it in a fi re; and I never cedes-Benz sports cars were also of his design. Trip- had the possibility to ride in it. pel experimented with these types of amphibious Th ere were many challenges in possessing an vehicles during the 1930s; and he would later build Amphicar, a dual-purpose hybrid .. the fi rst and several hundred for military use by the Wehrmacht only one of its kind to be mass-produced. One during World War II. However, the competing VW problem was that the water-tight seals were in Schimmwagen or "swim wagon", was deemed more need of constant, continued maintenance based on successful, and was given the military contract for frequency of use. Besides the joy of bobbing on wa- the overall German war eff ort. Trippel's only contri- tery surfaces, it was not really good at being a car, bution to the decades-later Amphicar Company was either. Amphicar owners like to joke: "It's a boat building the prototype. Th e United States had its on land, and a car in the water!". Jim Golumb, an own version for dual-purpose use during the war. Amphicar owner since 2009, says: "Amphicar prob- Th ese amphibious vehicles still exist as present- lems? One could write a book. First, they were not day water buses taking people in Pittsburgh, for very good cars or very good boats. Th ey were slow example, on Just Ducky tours … trolling the historic in the water (only about 7 MPH), and were not sights of town before splashing into the Th ree Riv- the greatest handling on the road due to the short ers. In fact, my partner and I were married on one; wheel base. Th ey were prone to rust; because if but that is another story! you didn't dry out the insides, the water would sit Fast forward to the present-day International in the bottom … especially along the rear fenders. Amphicar Owners' Club or IAOC. From their Almost ALL Amphicars have this issue. Th e engine website, it says: "Th e IAOC is truly an international compartment gets very hot; since the muffl er is lo- club. Th ere are members from several countries cated in the same compartment as the engine. And and all walks of life. It’s been proven time and again there are a lot of complaints about vapor lock and that there are no boundaries when it comes to stalling". And then there was the expense. It cost Amphicars. Th is isn’t something to own if you don’t around the same as a Corvette, with an advertised like talking to strangers!" However, ownership is sticker price of $3,400 without options. not required to be a member. Later this month, July Th e Amphicar was fi rst introduced at the New 26-29, 2018, there will be an observance of the 50th York Auto Show in 1961, and went into produc- year since the Amphicar ceased production, taking tion targeting U.S. customers the next year, selling place in Celina, Ohio. Th e "Celina Swim-In" takes between 1962 and 1967, during the time when advantage of the nearby, hand-dug, man-made I fi rst saw it. It never met its planned output of Grand Lake at St. Mary's, which was built as a back- North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 19 North Coast Voice DVD REVIEW ■■■ By Pete Roche

Eric Clapton AC-30 amp for Marshall stacks), enlists Sadly, Clapton fans know what’s in VLife in 12 Bars with John Mayall & Th e Bluesbreakers store for their hero, and what “it” brings in 1965, and allies with Jack Bruce and is the diametrical opposite of peace and It’s an argument dating back to Th e Ginger Baker in psychedelic power trio happiness. Indeed, it’s all one can do Rolling Stones’ fi rst years as an ac- Cream in 1966. to stay put and watch, misty-eyed and tive band: You can teach white English We learn of Clapton’s kinships with lump-throated, as the next (and worst) boys how to play the blues, but you George Harrison and Jimi Hendrix, and tidal wave of tragedy rolls in. Blindsided can’t make ‘em feel it. If you hadn’t how each informed both his outlook by the sudden accidental death of 4-year lived the hard knocks life of a Southern and introspection. He obsessed over old Conor (from whom he receives a sharecropper or Chicago busker, what Harrison’s young wife, Pattie Boyd, and postdated letter in the mail), Eric grap- emotions could you possibly bring to the lamented when Hendrix died early: ples with sobriety and fi nds salvation music? “I wasn’t sad that he died,” we hear in in song: He composes the tender “Tears Eric Clapton never had a problem a Clapton voiceover. “I was mad that he in Heaven” for his boy…and opens the convincing the world (or his African- didn’t take me with him.” Crossroads treatment facility in Antigua American blues mentors) that his pas- Hooked on heroin, Eric bounces (by auctioning 100 guitars) for others sion for blues was authentic. Th e guitar through Blind Faith (with Steve Win- struggling with addiction. In 1992 he god never suff ered the indignities of wood) and pitches in on Harrison’s All earns a Grammy for the acoustic-pow- poverty or racial prejudice as a child, but Th ings Must Pass debut, before pouring ered Unplugged, which features “Tears” he was certainly no stranger to rejec- his heart out (over Pattie) on Derek and a reworked “Layla.” tion, alienation, and isolation. Young & Th e Dominos’ Layla and Other Love Th e documentary hopscotches over “Ric” was a loner who never really fi t in Songs, with Allman Brothers slide guitar- subsequent releases like From the at school in Surrey, and who preferred ist Duane Allman and organ ace Bobby Cradle, Pilgrim, and Reptile—and omits listening to Muddy Waters on the Uncle Whitlock. Old footage and home movie other later projects (like the Cream Mac radio show to hanging out with reels take us behind the scenes at the reunion)—but the satisfying conclusion other boys. Kid Clapton’s general sense Bars, she examines the three-time Rock Th underbird Hotel and Criteria Studios (with a touching thank-you from B.B. that something was “off ” was confi rmed and Roll Hall of Famer’s turbulent career in Miami, where producer Tom Dowd King) sees a clean-and-sober, Pattie-free at age nine, when he discovered that the in a deeply moving documentary that and record exec Ahmet Ertegun marvel Clapton enjoying salvation with his wife woman he’d thought of as his estranged cuts to the quick of Eric’s very essence. over Clapton’s Majnun-inspired master- Melia, an older daughter (Ruth), and a older sister was his true biological Th e resulting portrait of the artist piece. batch of younger children. mother. Kindly “parents” Jack and Rose takes nothing away from Clapton’s leg- Discouraged by Layla’s sluggish sales, If Life in 12 Bars isn’t the quintessen- Clapp were actually his grandparents. acy as a multigenerational guitar hero. rejected by Boyd (who wouldn’t leave tial Clapton documentary (it certainly “My whole life had been a lie,” the But it does reveal other facets of the six- Harrison), and out of his mind on drugs, qualifi es), it is an insightful, astute, guitarist would refl ect decades later. stringer’s personality that tend toward Eric sequesters himself at Hurtwood Es- emotionally-charged survey of the Clapton re-encountered Patricia Clap- the dark, morose, unlikeable…even piti- tate to wallow in the “pink cotton wool” Stratocaster-slinger’s decades-long war ton (and her Canadian soldier husband) ful. Turns out the now-retired guitar god of addiction. with his personal demons. It’s almost as during a visit to Germany at age fi f- was every bit as human as the rest of us, Th e fi lm bypasses Clapton’s time with if Eric is on the therapist’s couch, talk- teen…only to be shunted and dismissed was always as prone to heartache as the Delaney and Bonnie in order to cut to ing through his obsessions and addic- again. His personality was stifl ed and next guy, and was plagued by feelings of the quick of his solo career: Intervention tions. Th e psychological dissection is far smothered, and he was forced to get a doubt, despair, and disconnect well into helps Eric quit heroin and ready himself more fascinating than another paint-by- haircut to keep the peace. Meanwhile, his forties and fi fties. for a world tour…but on the road he numbers celebrity portrait or fret-board Eric’s stepbrother demolished his acous- Named for the most common chord replaces drugs with rampant drinking. tutorial. tic guitar. progression in blues music, Zanuck’s Zanuck cycles through the making of Ume / Universal will issue the “It was so cruel,” agreed Rose Clapp. biopic traces Clapton’s musical arc ‘70s and ‘80s albums like No Reason to soundtrack to the fi lm in 2-CD / digital Traumatic as it was, Clapton’s mis- from his childhood—when he listened Cry, Slowhand, Money and Cigarettes, format, with a 4-LP vinyl version to fol- taken sense of identity merely laid the to Muddy Waters on the Uncle Mac Behind the Sun, and August, in order to low this month. Th e wealth of material groundwork for what would become radio show—to his tenure with pianist keep with the compelling narrative of includes studio, demo, and live versions a life steeped in the blues. Academy Ben Palmer in Th e Roosters, and his Clapton’s downward spiral. Th e alcohol of Clapton / Cream / Blind Faith gems Award-winning director Lili Fini Zanuck, Crawdaddy Club residency with Th e consumption only worsens as the “Won- “After Midnight,” “I Shot the Sheriff ,” wife of late movie producer Richard Yardbirds. He rubbed elbows with Th e derful Tonight” singer shuffl es women “In the Presence of the Lord,” “White “Dick” Zanuck, recognized, when they Beatles at a Hammersmith Christmas in and out of his life (and embarrasses Room,” “Bell Bottom Blues,” plus pe- collaborated on the Rush soundtrack, concert, but absconded from the “For himself repeatedly in concert), and it’s ripheral tracks by George Harrison (“My that Clapton’s creativity and genius— Your Love” group when they went pop. not until he marries Italian model Lory Sweet Lord”), Muddy Waters (“My Life and proclivity for self-destruction—was Viewers are treated to heaps of archival del Santo and fathers a son, Conor, that is Ruined”), Big Billy Broonzy (“Backwa- underpinned by constant loss and long- footage as Eric trades his Fender Tele- he fi nds the strength to put down the ter Blues”), and more. ing. Now, with Eric Clapton: Life in 12 caster for a Gibson Les Paul (and his Vox bottle and, in his own words, “grow up.” 20 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 North Coast Voice

criminals; they’re just college kids who get swept up in a fi asco. MOVIE REVIEWS Th e hook, and a clever and daring one it is, portrays a pretty unusual burglary. ■■■ By Westside Steve Simmons Spencer (Barry Keoghan) and Warren (Evan Peters) are childhood friends and just garden-variety mugs until the writers now college students, who fi nd that a rare Westside Steve V get done turning them into heroes and book (John James Audubon’s “Birds of villains. Th at never really happens here. America”) is on display in the Transylva- Friday, July 13 • 8:00 PM Oh, the real John Gotti was a beloved nia College library, and worth millions of On Tap • Cuyahoga Falls fi gure but this fi lm does a mediocre job of dollars. Keep in mind that this is a college July 16, 17, 18 & 19 • Daily 2-4 and 8-11 actually conveying that street-level empa- library, not Fort Knox, and security isn’t The Keys • Put-in-Bay thy. Th ey could have added a few scenes much more than a basic camera system Sat. July 21 • 4:30 PM of Gotti helping out his neighbors, like the and a middle-aged librarian. Th is is a crime Old Firehouse Winery • GOTL young Vito Corleone did. Th ey also could that would be a snap for the Mission Sat. July 28 • 8:00 PM have written in some backstory leading Impossible team but remember, these are Easy Street Band up to the death of Paul Castellano, but kids, and not particularly smart ones at Columbia Woods Park • Norton, Ohio it didn’t happen and the audience never that. Still, the planning is intriguing and Sun. July. 29 • 5 PM • On Tap • Medina really cares. And even though we know includes a few logical steps - mapping August 3, 4 & 5 • Daily 2-4 and 8-11 Sammy betrayed him, it's barely featured out the building, checking the times the The Keys • Put-in-Bay Gotti in the fi lm. All the rest of the Mafi a drop- library will have the least traffi c, fi nding Vertical Entertainment|R|110 min Thur Aug. 9 • 7 PM • On Tap • Medina in components are kind of cheaply written out how to unlock the glass case once You know me, I love gangster movies like a cheap paint-by-numbers kit. inside, deciding whether to wear disguises Sat. Aug. 11 • 4:30 PM (Mafi a movies as opposed to Gangsta About the only surprise here is the and, if so, what kind, fi guring out a way Old Firehouse Winery • GOTL fl icks) and I’m always intrigued by ersatz government’s persecution of John Gotti’s to neutralize the librarian with a mini- Check Westside Steve Simmons on Facebook for changes. biographies, like Th e Godfather, or alleg- son, who was eventually exonerated. To purchase Westside Steve Simmons mum of violence, deciding where to place newest CD A Pirates Life visit edly real ones, as we have here in Gotti, Th ere is plenty of human interest in the the getaway car and, fi nally, determining www.cdbaby.com/artist/westsidestevesimmons starring John Travolta. I have to admit story that the producers unfortunately how to fence the invaluable book once it’s I’m up and down about Travolta. In the left on the fl oor or didn’t bother with in stolen. www.westsidesteve.com right spots - Pulp Fiction, Saturday Night the fi rst place. All of these are good ideas. Unfortunate- Fever, Welcome Back Kotter - I think he’s D + ly, not all of them are executed properly. been pretty cool. Other fi lms, including WSS Probably the most important thing to Battlefi eld Earth, have been horrible, have thought about is who the hell is go- but it’s hard to say he’s any worse than ing to buy this book once you have it in anything in that one. Here I think he’s a your possession, but we can’t really tell if little too well known to be absorbed and a meeting with crooked European inter- transformed in a role like John Gotti. Th e mediaries ever took place. Th ese guys have opening credits don’t help very much as probably never done anything more daring they rely heavily on old newspaper and than skipping class, so the biggest threat TV footage of the Dapper Don himself, to this caper is simple panic. serving to remind us of the diff erence Because the fi lm is based on true events, in looks. Th at might not be so bad if the we already know they don’t get away with New York accent didn’t bring Vinnie Bar- it, but it becomes more interesting as we barino immediately to mind. Don’t get watch the plot unfold, before it comes me wrong, I’m not blaming Travolta for American Animals crashing to an end. I didn’t fi nd any of the the fact that this fi lm kind of sucks, but Orchard|R|116 min. characters all that charismatic. Heck, the in my opinion he’s just a bit too familiar. Just for the record, here’s your spoiler real participants, who had short cameos in Speaking of too familiar, that’s another alert. Read at your own risk. the fi lm, seem like they could have played downfall of the fi lm; that we pretty much Th is is another crime drama/thriller the parts themselves. And while it wasn’t know everything that’s going to happen. kind of thing, not completely dissimilar a great deal of fun, it was surprisingly If you are a fan of La Cosa Nostra at all, from the basic framework of this issue’s suspenseful the entire way through. It's you know some of the side stories, like Ocean’s 8, but with a decidedly Indie look nerve-racking to know that, at any second, the guy who hit and killed his kid in an and feel and, oh yes, based on a true story somebody is going to mess up. I have to automobile accident, and what happened (or so they claim). It’s now playing in lim- give these relative unknowns a lot of credit to him, and we know that Sammy the ited release as opposed to a week or so ago for keeping the tension steady. Apparently, Bull was his right hand man who ratted when it was playing in extremely limited so did the folks at the Sundance Film him out. And we know he died of cancer release. Th is is another of those period Festival, whose attention led to American in prison. Another problem? Th ese guys pieces, and the period is the mid-2000s, Animals getting any screen time at all. aren’t really as interesting as they’ve been which can make one feel old. B- fi ctionalized in stories such as Th e God- So like I said, this is a heist movie. How- WSS father. Unfortunately, most criminals are ever, the thieves aren’t really dangerous Continued on page 22 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 21 North Coast Voice

Continued from page 21 things fall short. I was hoping that Steven Public opinion is divided between letting enough that the producers decided to keep Spielberg might shine his brilliant light them die, and fi nding a way to save them. the franchise alive, but not well enough for on the plot but as executive producer, I'm Meanwhile the old geezer who set this most of the stars to come back. So close afraid he only used the position to delegate whole thing in motion is nearing extinction your eyes and think Ghostbusters with authority. Don’t misunderstand me, this is himself. He has unwittingly entrusted his dames. Who ya gonna call? not a bad movie, but despite the great look- empire to a greedy scumbag he believes will Apparently, you call Sandra Bullock. ing giant lizards, it’s pretty much the same be the one to carry on his legacy. She’s Debbie Ocean, the kid sister of old, uh, stuff . But wait, there’s more. Bryce Dallas How- Danny Ocean from the previous versions You know the drill. Many years ago ard and Chris Pratt are Claire and Owen, of the franchise. After convincing the pa- some mad scientist fi gured out a way to a pair of star-crossed soulmates, on board role board she wants nothing more than to V screw around with DNA from prehistoric to assist with relocating the animals to a lead a quiet life on the straight and narrow remains, mix it with some other modern- new home. Of course the military guy is in path (she’s been locked up for some kind day creatures and, voila, we have the return cahoots with the little weasel and has other of con game), it quickly becomes appar- of the dinosaurs. We know, especially in ideas. He has a plan to sell the prehistoric ent that “once a crook, always a crook.” Hollywood, what happens when there is creatures to the highest bidders, i.e., other She immediately gets wrapped up in some a massive scientifi c breakthrough: either evil military guys. From here on there are a convoluted scheme to steal some really ex- Jurassic World: Fallen some ne’er do well tries to make a lot of lot of CGI creatures chasing a lot of people, pensive diamonds, somewhere in the ball- Kingdom money, and/or the military wants to turn a lot of face-to-face encounters, and an park of 150 million samoleans. Even after Universal|PG-13|130 min whatever it is into a weapon. Frankly, both awful lot of good old-fashioned monster receiving a cryptic note from the brother For the most part, I fi nd fi lms that are hooks have probably been used since real movie screaming. Hopefully this won’t be (hey, wait a minute isn’t he dead???), packed to the gills with stunning computer dinosaurs roamed the Earth. much of a spoiler to you but, as always, a warning her that crime doesn’t pay, she’s graphics and plenty of action to be just a Let’s recap: First time out, the fat guy lot of the villains wind up eaten alive. And determined to try to pull it off anyway. She little bit boring. Th e reason? Producers of- wanted to steal the embryos and sell them good for them. Other subplots, including and her weasel ex-boyfriend put together ten have their minds on a spectacular pro- to a rival dinosaur park but inadvertently the romance between Claire and Owen and an impressive team of con women and the duction and tend to overlook the dialogue disabled the security. Uh oh. I think this the old geezer’s granddaughter, never really game is on. I’m not blaming anyone for in the script. To be honest, I was a little is the fi fth in the series and, for better or get off the ground but the movie is basi- this but there are fewer women stars to worried about this one because I’ve seen worse, the more things change the more cally an action romp. If that’s what you’re choose from in Hollywood than there are plenty of Jurassic movies. For me, unless they stay the same. Th is time the surviving expecting you won’t be disappointed. Oh, men, so the cast, while quirky enough, isn’t they can fold in some human interest and dinosaurs were put on their own little is- and they’ve brought Jeff Goldblum back quite as impressive as the original. Perhaps showcase a few charismatic people, these land where there’s a volcano about to erupt, for a cameo just for the heck of it. Also, the that’s a guy thing and women will see it returning the creatures to extinction. little blue raptor, or whatever she is, the otherwise. If so, I apologize. one with the enhanced brain and cognitive Ocean’s 8 follows a predictable frame- abilities, survives, so you know there’s a work for this genre, spending a great deal sequel in the works. of time making plans, setting those plans C+ into motion, and completing the crime. WSS One, two, three. It’s reasonably clever if slightly slow, but when it all comes to- gether, just by looking at your watch, you know there’s more to come. So we know the fi lm is longer than 60 minutes and we know there has to be something else weird on the way so, as Paul Harvey says, “here’s the rest of the story.” I won’t tell you just exactly how everything unfolds but we re- ally are expecting a left turn before things get better. In love stories when the two participants heartbreakingly split up at Ocean’s 8 the very end of the fi lm you know there’s Warner Brothers|PG-13|110 min a damn good chance that sooner or later Okay gang, right off the bat, let’s somebody’s going to turn around, violins straighten this out. Th e number after the will play etc., and in Ocean’s 8 I was pretty word “Ocean’s” isn’t the number of the sure that no matter how it looked, the bad sequel, but the number of stars involved guys weren’t going to prevail, nor were the in the heist. Th e original was an ensemble good guys. fl ick with Sinatra, Dino, Sammy, Peter Again, I realize I may be damning with Lawford, Joey Bishop, the whole Rat Pack, faint praise but it was merely entertaining with Angie Dickinson and some other enough for a lukewarm recommendation. cool people. In 2001, George Clooney and Even though it’s the weakest of the mod- a handful of not quite so cool stars did a ern era Ocean’s trilogy, it’s still not bad, remake, which was relatively entertain- especially if you are a fan of heist movies. ing and successful enough to proceed to C+ Ocean’s 12. Well, I guess Ocean’s 12 did well WSS

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He is Norah Jones, Joan Armatrading, Sheryl Crow joined by special guest and Cleveland native, and the Indigo Girls, and has played venues Anne E. DeChant. ranging from the Clinton White House to such Tickets for this event are $23/18 advance storied listening rooms as Nashville's Bluebird and $26/21 day of show. Th ey can be pur- Cafe, the Evening Muse in Charlotte, Music chased at Ticketmaster.com (800-653-8000) Box Supper Club in Cleveland, Kimbro's in or the Cain Park ticket offi ce (216-371-3000). Franklin, TN, and Frog Pond in Silver Hill, AL. Cain Park is located at 14591 Superior Road in Th e Livingston Taylor concert at Cain Park is Cleveland Heights. supported by WKSU, WCPN, and oWOW. 2018 Th e Free Parking Shuttle Service is available Cain Park season sponsors include the City for this concert. 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In 1901, Dudley S. Humphrey With Northcoast Euclid Beach Park was one of the most assumed ownership of the park, operating prominent amusement parks in Cleveland, it until it closed on September 28, 1969. Women! and the memories created there were so Under the Humphrey family’s ownership, strong, stories about the Park live on today. Euclid Beach Park thrived with the installa- In 2014, the Western Reserve Historical tion of the Euclid Beach Park Grand Carou- Society (WRHS), Cleveland Carousel Society sel, the Flying Turns ride, the famous Euclid and Euclid Beach Park Now partnered with Beach Bath House, and so much more. the community to restore the beloved Today, the iconic Euclid Beach Park archway 1910 Euclid Beach Park Grand Carousel to and the remnants of a swimming pool are operating condition. Th ough Euclid Beach all that remain on the site. 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Wright used both talent and technol- ALLEN RAVENSTINE: A lot ogy to season and spice such progres- changed, and I don’t know how much sive rock masterpieces as “Fragile” and of anything stayed the same! Pharaoh’s “Close to the Edge” by Yes, “Tarkus” Bee was an electronic series of pieces, and “Pictures at an Exhibition” by and I was just really getting my feet Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and “Dark again with regards to working, because Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd. Some I hadn’t been doing anything for a very of their skill was natural, and some long time. I got a call asking if I would nurtured…but the gents were all keenly be involved in a documentary about in-the-know when it came to advances people who used to play analog synthe- in electronic instrumentation (Moog, sizers. minimoog, Mellotron, Birotron, etc.). VOICE: I Dream of Wires. But the Brits weren’t the only ones RAVENSTINE: Yes! So I agreed to tinkering with state-of-the-art musical this, and I went to Toronto. Th e fi lm- toys in the ‘70s. Even before he joined ing was done in a studio, and some Cleveland’s seminal art-rock outfi t EMLs were there, and Robert Wheeler Pere Ubu, Allen Ravenstine was hand- came along—they wanted him in it, too. I said, “If there’s a chance for us to crafting oscillators in garages and attics to music after 30 years of fl ying on a with likeminded pal Robert Bensick. lark (avian pun intended), when a docu- Continued on page 28 “You know, you can get all those boxes mentary fi lmmaker interviewed him for in one big box,” a friend told him one a fl ick (I Dream of Wires) about analog day. “Th ey call it a synthesizer.” synths. Ravenstine had been referred to Enter the ElectroComp EML-200, the director Robert Fantinatto by Ubu alum analog noise-making machine Raven- Robert Wheeler, with whom he went on stine used to produce the atmospheric to produce two discs’ (Farm Report and pastiches and music concrete on his City Desk) worth of impromptu synth- (recently-unearthed) experimental epic jams. Th e collaboration rekindled his “Terminal Drive” and early Ubu cut love for weaving aural tapestries with “30 Seconds Over Tokyo.” Th e plug- instruments that many of today’s musi- and-socket front panel of the device cians would consider obsolete. looks quaint by today’s touchscreen Now Ravenstine has returned with standards—but the EML’s otherworldly Waiting for the Bomb. Released on June sounds retain their exotic, evocative 29 on Recommended Records, the power to this day. 18-track manifesto fi nds Ubu’s former Ravenstine was into gadgets more mad scientist blending his signature than guitars when Gerald Ford was soundbites (whirrs, wails, bleeps) with in offi ce, but he signed on with David the comparatively conventional timbres Th omas and Peter Laughner anyway. of piano (William Blakeney), percussion From 1978 to 1988 he contributed to (Joe Sorbara), and horns (Bob Doidge). such now-renowned Pere Ubu releases Th e result is an immersive 66-minutes as Th e Modern Dance (1978), Dub Hous- listening experience that hypnotizes ing (1978), Th e Art of Walking (1980), and haunts. and Song of the Bailing Man (1982). And And that snarky-sounding title? Well, when he decided he’d said all he could Cold War kid Ravenstine assures us his within the context of the groundbreak- New Frontier adolescence hasn’t soured ing ensemble, he got his wings and his outlook: If the lyric-less Waiting for took leave. the Bomb is about anything, it’s resil- Literally: He became a commercial ience…not resignation. airline pilot. We phoned Allen last week at his Th e semi-retired Ravenstine returned Murray Hill (NYC) home to discuss his North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 27 North Coast Voice Continued from page 27 records here!” But I when the Cold War was a very real was no internal wiring; they wanted play together, that’d be cool, wanted to mix them thing. Fear of the bomb was a very real the kids to fi gure how one thing related because we never have.” So we and have them run thing. Th e neighborhood I lived in was to another by having to plug things in. did, and it got recorded. Th e together. So we quite near a Nike missile site. So I was Th ey came up with a panel that had guy who did the recording— worked together very conscious of things like the bomb everything outlined on it, so you knew who supervised this thing, the and came up with and the Iron Curtain and Radio-Free which box connected with which. So audio part—was William Blak- a running order. Europe. It was all very much a part of I bought an EML-200, which was this eney—who sent me a moog So that’s how it life, this idea that at any minute there thing they’d come up with. And I got theremin as a gift the follow- happened. Th ere could be a fl ash of light, and you’d have some tape recorders and just made ing Christmas. And I think, are going to be to run for the fallout shelter. Th at was noise. Th is was a period where I wasn’t “Alright, this is weird! How do people who hear very real, and there were ads for back- working, so I had time to fi ddle with I say thank you for this?” And this record and yard bomb shelters! But what happens these things. I’d go at it every morning it seemed like the best way to think, “Th ere’s too is, like, if you live in New York City and like it was a job, and just make these thank him would be to make much melody” or they fl y airplanes into buildings, you tapes! something with it. So I took whatever, because persist. You continue to live. You don’t VOICE: How’d you go from fulltime some of that stuff —I prob- they want it to be just decide that it’s all for nothing or musician to airline pilot? ably didn’t use everything— weirder, like in Ubu. that you’re going to give up. You don’t RAVENSTINE: I was one of those and did a record. I asked Bill if he’d be So I’ll win some and just sit on a rock and wait for every- classic kids, a plane modeler. My willing to produce it, because he’d had lose some, but I have to do what makes thing to blow up. You persist in trying fi rst airplane fl ight was in 1955 on training in that area as an engineer and me happy, and what makes me happy is to have a life. You seek love and happi- a Lockheed Constellation, fl ying out audio guy. He does his thing, and we some mix of the abstract and the “clas- ness, in spite of that…darkness. of Cleveland down to Miami with agreed about some stuff and disagreed sical” musical stuff . In other words, the VOICE: Th at specter. my grandparents. We’d go down to about some stuff , but in the end I felt stuff people would recognize as “music,” RAVENSTINE: Th ank you! Specter Florida in the wintertime. I’d fl y in he made it better than it was. We ended unlike Pharaoh’s Bee, which is mostly is the word. So this thing never ends, these planes, and there had never been up with a series of recordings that… I stuff some people wouldn’t call music! right? Being someone born in the a hijacking, and my grandfather would fi nally had an idea of how it all might fi t VOICE: Can you discuss the conno- 1950s, the world has been a dangerous tell the fl ight attendant, “Th is kid loves together. I wanted it to be things that tation—or implications of—the album place the entire time I’ve been alive. It’s airplanes. Can you get him up to the had melodic elements to them, and also title? It gives a sense of “We’re on the been one weird thing after another! Yet cockpit?” And I’d always get up in the have things that are more abstract. And Eve of Destruction,” but I’m guessing we go on. So whatever the “bomb” is for cockpit! I’d be in awe of all that stuff . I wanted it all on one record. Because there’s more to do with it, thematically. you, whether it’s cancer or somebody as- So yeah, I always wanted to be a pilot. I initially Bill said, “I think you have two RAVENSTINE: I grew up in the ‘50s saulted you or whatever terrible thing, just didn’t think I was smart enough to it’s not the end. do it! But there came a point in my life VOICE: How did you start out tinker- where I thought, “If you’re ever going to ing with synths? do this, you’d better get going!” So I got RAVENSTINE: I was just fooling a pilot’s license and fl ew around in little around with electronic gizmos and planes, then I got to instruct—because stereo systems, just making noise. And that was a way to fl y and not have to a friend of mine had fi gured out how pay for it! I really enjoyed teaching, and to rewire a fuzz tone so that it was an it led to me having a job as a corporate oscillator. pilot. Th en that got me to a place where VOICE: Robert Bensick? I realized if I wanted to make a living RAVENSTINE: Exactly. We’d sit at it, I had to fl y for an airline. Because around and plug these things into a most of the time, getting a corporate jet stereo and fool around. It was just is a perk for someone. It’s a debit—not entertainment. But he thought we could a credit—to the company. So that was do a show, and there was an art gallery kind of the path. in Cleveland. We organized it so that VOICE: Do you suppose you’re just we could have lights with it, and did subconsciously drawn to control panels this show. I wasn’t that interested in with knobs and dials and keys and live performance, but I did it. Th en we buttons, whether they’re on a modular parted company, and I kept these boxes. synth or an airplane console? Some I’d fi ddle around with them, and I had connection there, maybe, between these bits wired together, and someone synths and cockpits? said, “You know, there’s this thing that RAVENSTINE: Th at’s funny. No- has all these things built into one box. body’s ever asked me that before. I It’s called a synthesizer.” Somewhere don’t know what to tell you [laughs]. I came upon EML, Electronic Music I don’t know. Maybe! In the old days Laboratories in Connecticut. Th ey’d when they had three pilots up front, been hired by the state to design—it one was an engineer. And the engi- was pretty forward-thinking—to design neer’s panel did bear some resemblance a unit to put in schools to teach elemen- to that. I think I just I loved the idea tary-aged kids the concept of electronic of fl ying, and the view and the skill music. Th ey wanted a thing where there involved. I still love it 28 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | July 11, 2018 - August 8, 2018 North Coast Voice Continued from page 29 EXPLORERS Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal, Lake Erie Monster Crawl at Geneva-on-the- vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards. 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From the Deep, Cavernous Mind of SNARP FARKLE De-Schmuck Yourself!

Okay... I'm coming out of the closet... I'm their tube! I have to shake my head to get my going to admit to something that will forever mind back, it's crazy! baffl e the minds of all mankind! It happens in stores too, wherever there's Well maybe just the 0.0000000000002 a television on, you're automatically drawn percent of mankind that actually read my to it like it's a braincell magnet sucking more articles, and maybe some cats that fi nd my brain cells as you walk by. It feels like a toilet articles at the bottom of their litter box. Th at's bowl plunger being used on your forehead why they dig like that ya know, it's not to bury that sounds a lot like “slepoozeshmuck, their poo but to fi nd my next article. No really slepoozeshmuck!” Turn the corner and cats love me! there's another one... slepoozeshmuck, Anyways... here it goes... slepoozeshmuck “AHHHH NO MORE... NO I Don't... Watch... Television… MORE PLEASE!” Heck they have them hang- …Or Text And Drive! ing from the ceiling in WallyWorld! I know... I know... it's really weird and hard Just try to talk to someone who's watching to believe that a grown man in the Twenty television or texting, what's that... you have? First Century doesn't watch television or text And you see nothing wrong with that whole while driving. After all it's just not American experience? Well then my friend you've been to not be “glued to the tube” for hours upon slepoozeshmucked too many times and need hours upon hours upon hours or run off the de-schmucked before it's too late. road trying to steer with your knees while Lucky for you I have the “Mind Control texting! DeShmucking Manual” right here in front of What kind of sicko is it that doesn't want me. Okay here's what you do... don't watch to text and drive, or be constantly bombarded television or text for 9 days, by the tenth day with biased news propaganda and mesmerized you will experience the shakes, but that will by Tampon commercials? Who in their right soon pass, then you'll start to think clearly mind would purposely avoid being told how to and see what it's like to have a mind OUT OF think, what to buy, where to go, when to text CONTROL... like mine! or what pills to take to have sex after 60! And to insure total de-shmucking to last I can't help it; I just hate commercials and fi ve years or more... CUT THE CABLE, FLUSH all the propaganda news shows that try to THE PHONE! Flushing the phone works as it convince me that individualism is wrong. A was tested by my favorite Grandawta! (Answers on page 29) Utopian society doesn't exist, has never been If you don't watch television, you are un- achieved and will never become a reality. Wait informed; if you do watch television, you are a moment while I text that to someone… oh misinformed. - Snarp Twain poop, I’m not driving so I can’t! Please send all hate mail to snarpfarkle@ Television is MIND CONTROL! I haven't gmail.com and be sure to place my article face had cable in years, and whenever I visit fam- up in the litter box to keep Kitty happy! ily and friends it's really stupid fun to catch ~ Snarp myself automatically turning my attention to www.snarpfarkle.com

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