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Vol. 18 - Issue 2 • February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018

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1. Winery Guide 2. Ice Wine Festival 3. Lake Erie Folk Festival 4. Interview with Joe Satriani 5. Movie Reviews Oscar Nomines

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Vandy Linhart [email protected] Etsy shop - offthewoodenspool 4 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 North Coast Voice WINE COUNTRY EVENT Ice Wine Festival Saturday, March 3rd, 10th, 17th • Noon - 5p.m. Over three weekends in March, the region joins together to celebrate a unique Entertainment all Weekend! Vproduct of the cold temperatures in the Grand River Valley wine region-ice wine. Friday & Saturday: 7-10p • Sunday: 2-5p Th e Wineries of the Grand River Valley welcome you to our 14th Annual Ice Wine Festival. Participating wineries include: Debonné Vineyards, Ferrante Winery & Kitchen Open! Ristorante, Grand River Cellars Winery and Restaurant, Laurello Vineyards, & St. Wed. & Thur. Noon-7p • Fri. & Sat. Noon-11p • Sun. Noon-7p Joseph Vineyards. Patrons will visit each of the participating wineries and sample their Ice Wine February along with a complimentary appetizer. Many of the wineries will also have a featured 9 Hampshire Moon event including ice carving, jewelry shows, dog sledding & much more. Cost is $6 at 10 Knight Shift Band each winery, which includes wine samples, an ice wine glass at each winery, appetizer 11 Jim Ales and special events. (Bring in a canned food item to help support our local food banks 16 & 17 FOG - Four Old Guys and receive $1 off per person.) Call 440-466-3485 for more information. 18 Ageless Band Appetizer Menu & Events include: 23 Rhythm Connection DEBONNE VINEYARDS 24 Nia Covington • APPETIZER: Peach Cobbler topped with Ice Wine Whipped Cream 25 Valerie Marini • Sled Dog Demonstration all day March • Raspberry Ice Wine Truffl e Making Demonstration 1 pm & 3 pm 2 Tommy Chris • Raspberry Ice Wine Truffl es (additional fee) 3 Take II • Fire & Ice Mule (additional fee) 4 Knight Shift Band • Live music Friday night and Saturday afternoon 834 South County Line Rd. • Winter Glow Progressive Dinner- each Friday evening prior to festival Harpersfield, Ohio 44041 • Friday, March 2nd-https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winter-glow-progressive- 216-973-2711 dinner-1-tickets-42134660905 www.bennyvinourbanwinery.com • Friday, March 9th- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winter-glow-progressive- dinner-2-tickets-42210672257 • Friday, March 16th- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winter-glow-progressive- dinner-3-tickets-42211542861 • Run & Ice Wine-Sunday, March 4th-4 mile run between Debonne Vineyards & Grand River Cellars. Details & register at https://runandicewine.racedirector.com/ FERRANTE WINERY & RISTORANTE • APPETIZER: Gorgonzola Prosciutto Mac & cheese. • Ice Wine Bellini (additional fee) • Images in Ice sculpting demonstration at 1 pm on March 3rd. • Live music Friday & Saturday evenings. • Take a picture with our giant ice wine bottle. • Ice Wine Pairing Dinner off ered all three weekends. No Reservations Necessary. Go to www.ferrantewinery.com for more information. GRAND RIVER CELLARS WINERY & RESTAURANT • APPETIZER: Jumbo meatball topped with an apricot glaze • Ice Carving at 12 p.m. • Delightful Soy Candles featuring Ice Wine Candles • Ice Wine Marshmallow Roast All Day (small additional fee) • Ice Wine Martini's (additional fee) • Winter Glow Progressive Dinner - each Friday evening. Call 440-298-9838 or www.gran- drivercellars.com for menu or more information on the dinner or to make reservations. • Live music Friday and Saturday evenings from 7:30-10:30. • Run & Ice Wine-Sunday, March 4th-4 mile run between Debonne Vineyards & Grand River Cellars. Details & register at https://runandicewine.racedirector.com/ LAURELLO VINEYARDS • APPETIZER: Cannoli dip with dark chocolate chips and waffl e cone bits • Featuring Beach Glass Jewelry by Rita Burns. • Watch a video of ice wine harvest and pressing. ST. JOSEPH VINEYARDS • APPETIZER: Almond snowfl ake pastry with pear preserve a' la mode • Kryz's Maple Syrup • Featuring Premier Jewelry North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 5 North Coast Voice 403 S. Broadway • Geneva 440.466.5560 www.theoldmillwinery.com COOKING WITH WINE Gift Certificates make great CELEBRATING gifts! Feb. 14 & 16th & 17th VALENTINEÕ S Special Menu & Wine Desserts! DAY Reservations always a good idea!! Mushroom and Red Wine Meatloaf Sautéed mary leaves Vmushrooms 12 - 14 soda crackers (such as sal- && RESTAURANTRESTAURANT PASTA SUNDAY and onions, tines), crushed into oat-sized pieces IS BACK! then deglazing (about 1/2 cup) Fri & Sat: 7:30-10:30 • Sunday Open Mic 4:30-7:30 ONLY Includes Garlic Bread 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce $ 99 With purchase of beverage. the pan with Fri, Feb 9: Incahootz 2 Dine-in only, please. red wine gives 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pep- Sat, Feb 10: Lost Sheep Band Meatballs/Sausage 99¢/ea. this recipe a per ENJOY PASTA WHILE LISTENING TO OPEN MIC! punch of concentrated fl avor. Th e addi- 2 lbs ground beef (15 to 20 percent fat Sun, Feb 11: Open mic w/Mitch Larson PASTA SUNDAY CONTINUES THRU MARCH! tion of fresh thyme and rosemary, plus content) Fri, Feb 16: Castaways fontina cheese kicks up the savory. 1 cup shredded fontina cheese (about Beer of Month: Great Lakes Burning River $2.50 Ingredients: 3 ounces) Sat, Feb 17: Loose Tooth Band Burger of Month: Whiskey BBQ $10.99 3 tablespoons unsalted butter Instructions Sun, Feb 18: Open mic w/Tom Todd Pizza of Month: Chicken Parmesan $8.99 1 small yellow onion, small dice Heat the oven to 375°F and arrange a rack in the middle. Line a rimmed bak- Fri, Feb 23: Route 86 8 ounces cremini or baby Portobello Enjoy new weekday specials... mushrooms, stems trimmed, cut into ing sheet with aluminum foil and set it Sat, Feb 24: Ernest T Band $ medium dice aside. 8 meals under 8 2 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt Melt the butter in a large frying pan Sun, Feb 25: Open mic w/Cat Lilly over medium-high heat. Add the onions, Acoustic Thursday Returns in Spring! 1 medium garlic clove, minced Fri, Mar 2: High Horse 3/4 cup dry red wine mushrooms, and 1/2 teaspoon of the Winery Hours: CLOSED MONDAY • Tues-Thurs: 3-9 pm 2 large eggs salt and season with pepper. Cook, Sat, Mar 3: Stone River Band Fri: 3-Midnight • Sat: Noon-Midnight • Sun: Noon-9 pm Kitchen Hours CLOSED MONDAY • Tues-Thurs: 4-8 pm 1 1/2 teaspoons fi nely chopped fresh stirring occasionally, until the onions Sun, Mar 4: Open mic w/ Lyle Heath Fri: 4-10 pm • Sat: Noon-10 pm • Sun: Noon-8 pm thyme leaves have softened and are slightly browned 1 teaspoon fi nely chopped fresh rose- and any liquid from the mushrooms has

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6 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 North Coast Voice evaporated, about 8 to 10 minutes. Add the garlic and cook about 30 seconds. Increase the heat to high, add the wine, scrape up any brown bits from the bot- tom of the pan, and simmer until the wine has almost completely evaporated, about 3 to 4 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the thyme and rosemary. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl and set it aside to cool Chocolate Red Wine slightly. Meanwhile, place the eggs in a Fondue small bowl and whisk to break them up. 1 cup heavy cream Add the cracker crumbs, Worcestershire 1-1/2 teaspoons instant espresso sauce, measured pepper, and remaining powder 2 teaspoons of salt and stir. Add the 12 ounces dark or milk chocolate chips meat to the cooled vegetable mixture, 2 Tablespoons Chamborcin or Caber- breaking it up with your hands. Add net wine the egg-cracker mixture and the cheese. 2 teaspoons vanilla extract Using clean hands, mix everything Dippers: Marshmallows, Pound Cake, until evenly combined (don’t squeeze Bananas, Pretzels, Dried Pineapple, or overwork the mixture). Transfer to Strawberries, Raspberries, Graham the center of the prepared baking sheet. Crackers, or even shortbread cookies. Using your hands, form it into a 9-by- Combine cream and espresso powder 5-inch loaf. Bake until an instant-read over medium heat; bring to a simmer. thermometer inserted into the center Add chocolate chips and stir constantly registers 160°F to 165°F, about 50 min- until chocolate melts. Stir in the wine utes. Transfer the baking sheet to a wire and vanilla extract. rack and let sit 10 minutes before slicing Pour the chocolate sauce into a fondue the meatloaf. pot or a small slow cooker to keep warm. Makes: 4 to 6 servings. Use skewers to dip accompaniments into the chocolate.

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f Sun. 12-5 f get on our list!!! f North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 7 North Coast Voice In 2007, the band began to produce their own albums employing phrase samples and loops along with multiple electronic eff ects on guitar, bass and WHAT ABOUT JAZZ? drums. Ben Ellman, saxophonist and harmonica player, often distorts his in- ■■■ By Don Perry struments to the degree that they sound similar to an electric guitar. Building upon their signature sound New Orleans based Funk/Jam Band Galactic and by continuously working with an V esteemed list of all-star collaborators, V with special guest Lettuce Galactic continues to amass a world- House of Blues on Sunday, February 25th wide audience via recording and touring themselves enamored globally and now has 11 albums to their Face Value Duo: of the local funk scene, credit, including their latest release and inspired by such “Into the Deep.” Sat. Feb. 10th • 6-9:30 legendary acts as Th e Galactic has been exploring their Ferrante Meters, Dirty Dozen seemingly endless musical possibilities Brass Band and Profes- over 20 years now. Th ey have consis- sor Longhair. tently pushed artistic boundaries in the Sat. Feb. 17th • 2-5:00 Raines and Mercurio studio and on the road, approaching soon teamed with noted their music with open ears and drawing Hundley Cellars New Orleans drummer inspiration as much from the sounds Stanton Moore, saxo- bubbling up from their city’s streets as phonist Ben Ellman, they do from each other. Th eir latest Face Value Band: Hammond organist album features collaborations with art- Rich Vogel, and vocalist ists whom they’ve connected with over Sat. Mar. 2nd • 7:30-10:30 GALACTIC the past 2 decades, including Macy Gray, Originally formed in 1994 (under Th eryl de Clouet. Drawing from a wide range of infl uences, including rock, funk, Mavis Staples, Brushy One String and Grand River Cellars the name Galactic Prophylactic) when Charm Taylor. guitarist Jeff Raines and bassist Robert jazz, hip hop and electronic, Galactic released their fi rst album “Coolin’ Off ” Show time is 7:00 pm. Sunday, @facevaluemusic Mercurio, childhood friends from affl u- February 25th at House of Blues. Visit ent Chevy Chase, Maryland, moved to in 1996, which led to an intense tour schedule of nearly 200 gigs per year, for www.houseofblues/cleveland for ticket New Orleans to attend college at Tulane information or www.galacticfunk.com to and Loyola Universities. Th e two found the next ten years. I’d Love to help learn more about the band. Deitch, Ryan developing new material and testing Zoidis on sax it out live as they toured. “We’ve all with your insurance! and partial- noticed that our music goes into a lot member of diff erent directions onstage, and we Rashawn wanted to capture that in a way that we Ross on never really have before,” says bass- trumpet. ist Erick Coomes, who names classic Th r o u g h psychedelia and ‘90s hip-hop among Auto Home Business Life the 90s, Lettuce’s key inspirations on Crush. “It’s We Offer the mainly by defi nitely more wide-open in terms of LETTUCE word of style, but it still stays true to the funk.” Personal Service Summer 1992…Boston, Massachu- mouth, Lettuce began developing strong In recent years, Lettuce have watched You’ve Missed Lately setts…Berklee School of Music. A group followings in New York City, San Fran- their fan base expand as they’ve hit big- AUTO • HOME of teenagers brought together by com- cisco, Chicago, and Tokyo. Th e group ger and bigger stages and earned their mon infl uences including Herbie Han- released their fi rst CD, “Outta Here” in name as a can’t-miss festival act. “Some BUSINESS • LIFE cock, Earth, Wind and Fire, and Tower 2002, followed by their “Live in Tokyo” of these shows we’ve played over the of Power. Th e group jammed all summer album recorded at the Bluenote, in 2003. past couple years have been so amazing, TREEN long and then went their separate way. For more than two decades, Lettuce it’s like you go home a diff erent person,” Fall 1994…the group reconvened as have brought a new vitality to classic says Coomes. INSURANCE undergrads at Berklee and attempted funk, matching their smooth and soulful In 2016 Lettuce released “Mt. Crush- 1484 State Route 46 N. • Suite 8 to play at various Boston jazz clubs, grooves with a hip-hop-inspired urgency more” their 7th album, including 2 Jefferson, Ohio 44047 walking in and asking the club owners and mastery of beat. On their fourth stu- live albums and the group’s popularity and other musicians if they would "let us dio album “Crush”, they deepened that continues to fl ourish. Check out www. (440) 576-5926 play", giving birth to the name Lettuce. sound by channeling the sonic freedom lettucefunk.com. Th e members of Lettuce consist of gui- and infectious energy of their incendiary Who got the funk? Cleveland’s House tarists Eric Krasno and Adam "Shmee- live show. of Blues! Sunday, February 25th 7:00 ans" Smirnoff , keyboardist Nigel Hall, Th e follow-up to 2012’s Fly, Crush fi rst pm. Don’t miss it. Scott Treen Erick Coomes on bass, drummer Adam came to life on the road, with the band 8 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 North Coast Voice

Sat. Feb. 10 Luisa's BLUESVILLE 5:30-8:30 ■■■ By Cat Lilly back to the Wed. Feb. 14 • 7-10 Nick Moss Band blues.” Dublin Down Cleveland VBeachland Ballroom March 9th Moss Valentine's Day Jam A conversation with guitarist and proved that Blues Society blues afi cionado, Nick Moss, is never point on dull. Th e 16-time Blues Music Award his 2016 Sat. Feb. 17 release, VISIT OUR nominee is one of the top draws on the Dublin Down w/ Dick Dana blues circuit and one of the most excit- From the WEBSITE ing, dynamic performers working today. Root to the And work he does. He and his band play Fruit (Blue Sun. Feb. 25 • 4:30-7:30 FOR ALL venues, clubs and festivals worldwide Bella label). and maintain not only a grueling tour “From the Old Mill Winery • Open Mic THE LATEST schedule, but an active recording sched- Root to the Fruit was really born out HAPPENINGS ule as well. Nick is a gifted storyteller, a of the concept that American music is songwriter that takes his craft seriously connected by the blues and each genera- IN CLEVELAND and a musician with a daunting work tion adds something new to the mix. I BLUES! ethic. He is a walking encyclopedia of made the decision a couple of years ago blues and music knowledge, and his to do a double record, sort of a concept deep understanding of the genre shines album, as my band was learning some Cat NEW on his latest release, Th e High Cost of traditional blues tunes for our shows,” Low Living. says Moss. “Th e guys in my band, true to Lilly MEMBERS Alligator Records has set a Friday, form, were adding something new to the March 9, 2018 release date for Th e High blues mix. Part of the growth I want to For Bookings call WELCOME!

Cost Of Low Living, the blistering label showcase with From the Root to the Fruit 440-466-4623 or 440-417-4199 www.clevelandblues.org debut by Th e Nick Moss Band featuring wasn't only my own development as a Dennis Gruenling. Th e album is a tour band leader, but the incredible musician- de force of the classic Chicago blues en- ship of the people I play with. Nightly, semble sound that world class guitarist/ the people I am on stage with simply vocalist Moss and master harmonicist/ amaze me.” vocalist Gruenling know, live and love. Recently, Moss and former bandmate Th e High Cost Of Low Living is no Michael Ledbetter (a distant relative of recycling of old songs. Moss wrote eight Lead Belly) were invited to play a tribute memorable new originals and Gruenling event for Lead Belly at Carnegie Hall. wrote two, all deeply rooted in the blues “I heard Lead Belly songs when I was a tradition with a touch of old school rock child,” says Moss. “My Grandmother, of ‘n’ roll. Produced by guitarist Kid Ander- Austrian and German decent, played har- sen and Moss and recorded at Rancho de monica and sang “Good Night Irene” to Rhythm in Elgin, Illinois, the album is a me when I was little. She learned those joyous sonic blast of pure blues power. songs when she was growing up during “For the past six years, I've branched the 1920's and 1930's, which is evidence into more modern and progressive of how the blues seeped into culture and styles of blues. It's been an education became popular music.” Ledbetter has to explore and develop songs for us to been with Th e Nick Moss Band for fi ve take on the road,” he explains. “Our years and contributed half the songs on audiences expect the unexpected and From the Root to the Fruit, an accomplish- in order to give it to them night after ment Moss encouraged and is proud of. night, I devote myself to learning more “Th e more traditional blues record of about the music I play. So while mod- the double disc set is a little looser,” says ern and progressive blues has been an Moss. “Th ere's a little bit of 40's and 50's element to explore and incorporate into jump blues, 60's and 70's style blues, our shows, everything we do is based on Texas style, Chicago, and uptown blues. traditional blues. Blues is fi rst and fore- Th e second CD encompasses a more most an American African art form and progressive look at the blues; it's more is America's gift to the world. Whether modern and experimental. It's blues with or not people realize it or acknowledge a soul and garage punk sound with some it, the root of all popular music goes Continued on page 10 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 9 North Coast Voice Continued from page 9 & TRAILS LEAD TO THE Rolling Stones blues tossed in for good Upcoming East Side Blues S ATM GRAND RIVER Mastercard VISA measure.” D NETWORK ® Harpersfield Vineyards A MANOR “People are always debating the blues; Fri., 2/16 - Blues Chronicles (7-10) what it is and what is not and should not Acoustic/electric trio/quartet offers OPEN 1153 Mechanicsville Rd. be. There are purists who believe true a style that includes Delta, Piedmont, DAILY Geneva • 440-466-9229 blues cannot be played by people with INCLUDING Memphis and Chicago blues. Influences: www.grandrivermanor.com long hair wearing holey jeans and tee B B King, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, ALL RO HOLIDAYS! shirts,” says Moss. “To me, a pure ap- John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed. Person- proach to the blues has more to do with nel: Reese Black Germany - vocals and V the emotion the music evokes and the harmonica, Al Moses – guitar, Nick Nacho Thursday! heart of the player; what someone looks Marino – bass, Paul “OB” O’Brien – like says very little about their musical drums. Blues Chronicles was formed in Beef or Barbacoa Nachos & Taco Specials heart.” Cleveland, Ohio in 2011, and takes pride Moss tells the moving story of his little in preserving the old sound while adding daughter's heart moment as she listened a modern twist. TUESDAY WING NIGHT to Ella Fitzgerald: “When my daughter Performing as a duo, Reese and Al won 50¢JUMBO WINGS & 55¢ BONELESS WINGS was a toddler, she was sitting in her car the Cleveland Blues Society's Blues Chal- seat and I had Ella Fitzgerald playing lenge. They represented Cleveland in the OPEN MIC WITH JIMMY ALES • 7PM on the sound system. I noticed she was 2016 International Blues Challenge in very animated in the back seat. She was Memphis, Tennessee. singing along and moving her arms and After winning the Northeast Ohio Blues FRIDAYS AT 8 then she just started staring forward. “I Association's blues challenge as an electric said, 'Honey what's wrong?' And she said, quartet, they represented NEOBA at the QUEEN OF HEARTS DRAWING 'Daddy, why does my heart hurt?'” 2017 International Blues Challenge. “And that is really it, isn't it? 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Face-melting guitar Among their numerous awards: Free solos that rise above the crowded field Times Best Band in Jazz, Swing catego- EVERY TUESDAY, 7-10 of pretenders, and a versatile band that ries. 2009 winner of Cleveland Blues brilliantly delivers unparalleled impro- Challenge, selected to represent Cleve- visational jams to packed houses night land in Memphis for the International Grand River Manor after night, city after city. This should be Blues Challenge. a CD release show worth catching!!! Grand River Cellars Cleveland Blues Society Sat, 2/17 & Sat, 3/3 - Blues DeVille (7-10) OPEN MIC • Wing Night Nothing like some hot blues to warm Rhythm, rockin', roots music - the Amer- the soul on a cold wintry night! Cleve- ican kind. From B.B. King to Fats Domino land Blues Society offers some relief - with a little Johnny Cash thrown in the from the winter doldrums on the second middle! American Roots, Blues, Old R&B, Monday of every month. This month the Swing, & Country, even a little Zydeco. Sun. Feb. 11, 2-5 CBS blues jam will be held on Monday, The Blues DeVille Band has been a part March 12th, at Kurt’s Hideaway (9010 of the Northeast Ohio music scene for over Benny Vino Garfield Blvd Cleveland, 44125) and will 20 years, dedicated to playing the music be hosted by the Sam Hopper Band, a from New Orleans to Chicago and all the seasoned group of professionals who juke joints in between. A thousand gigs Sat. Feb. 24, 3:30-7:30 specialize in smooth grooves. and two CDs later they are still having a The CBS April jam will be on Monday, blast and making “good time music.” Bring Debonne Vineyards 4/9 at Union House, 2713 Brook Park your dance shoes to this one – this band Road, Cleveland, 44134 and will be is a favorite with the swing dance circuit – Jim Ales hosted by the Bluescasters, who enjoyed they know how to get you out of your seat a lengthy stint as the house band for Fat & out on the dance floor! Sun. Mar. 4, 2:30-5:30 Fish Blue in downtown Cleveland. Jams Blues Deville are: "The Doughboy" Denny Acoustic Fun! start at 7:30 and go until 11:30. Come Mangan – Vocals, Harp, Accordian, Laura Winery at Spring Hill to play or just to listen - and lose those Lee – Vocals, Bobby Hoffmann – Guitar winter blues! & Vocals, Jim Flynn – Electric Bass, Jack Call me at (440) 417-2475 or find me on Facebook Flynn – Drums 10 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 North Coast Voice 4618 Main Avenue • Ashtabula 440-992-3013 • www.dublindown.pub WHAT’S ON THE SHELF Hours: Kitchen open Mon-Sat 11am-10pm ■■■ By Alan Cliffe Bar open til 11 Mon-Thurs & Midnite Fri & Sat Closed Sunday. Review of Did It! From Yippie to Yuppie: Dublin Down VJerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary Presents: St. Valentine’s Author Pat Th omas WEDNESDAYS...Open Mic Night... Day Sweetheart Pat Th omas's Did It!, the fi rst major bi- tion, owes some- It’s HOT, HOT, HOT with local talent ography of Jerry Rubin, carries the inevi- thing to Rubin. hosted by Mike Brown! 7-10pm Special! table subtitle of From Yippie to Yuppie. Th e title is in- Th e diff erence embodied in the change spired by Rubin's 2/10: Rhythm Connection Band 7-10pm Dinner from the one to the other was a large one. 1970 book Do It!, 2/17: Cat Lilly 7-10pm From revolutionary aspirations to getting and the design is 2/24: Chuck & Gary Duo from for Two rich within the system one had hoped to reminiscent of it. ‘Just Like That’ 7-10pm overthrow is as large a diff erence as that With a mash-up 3/3: St Patty’s Day Mug Painting 2-4pm Just $39.95!! of diff erent fonts between the sixties and the eighties, and $15 includes Mug & Appetizers. it is hard to think of two decades more and print sizes, Includes choice diff erent. At the same time, it is just a abundant photographs and occasional St. Patty’s Day Drink Special For Best Mug! diff erence of one vowel. Th e story Th omas drawings, it's as if Rubin's paperback 3/10: Irish Karaoke Competition 7-10pm of steak or tells is one of both rupture and continuity memoir has given birth to, or sired, a Be Sure To Like Our Facebook Page For More Info! salmon or shrimp in Rubin's life and person. He has tried, coff ee-table book, part biography and part Thinking as anyone seeking to understand Rubin graphic novel, or graphic history. Th omas scampi over pasta, St. Patrick’s Day? must, to do justice to both. was given access to Rubin's archives and plus desserts & Rubin once wrote that the Yippie idea he interviewed many people. His research The fun starts with of fun was overthrowing the government. has been thorough. A good portion of his breakfast at 9am, enjoy our Irish a bottle of our An interesting idea, certainly a novel text consists of transcribed interviews menu all day, plus dance & sing one. Another thing about revolution, fun with Rubin's friends, political associates, along to live Irish Music!!! house wine! or not, is that it requires commitment, co-conspirators, friends of friends, ex-lov- which Rubin never denied. Of course ers, an ex-wife. Th omas's own narration the Yippies, and the movement of which is that of a man from a later generation, they were part, did not pull off a political but old enough to have been aware of the revolution. But Rubin seems to have held Yippies by the early seventies. onto his sense of fun, if that fun-sense Th e requisite background information of his is understood as a thing bound up is here: Russian-Jewish roots on both with a habit of whole-hearted commit- sides of the family, Rubin's piano-playing, ment. Th e objects of that commitment bibliophilic mother's side middle class, if would change repeatedly over the course not altogether secure in that status; his of his life. But the habit of it seems never father blue-collar, not exactly what his to have left him. mother's family wanted for her. Young To anyone who knows much about Jerry arrived on Bastille Day of 1938. Rubin-radical organizer in the sixties, An appropriate birthday for a future afi cionado of est and other disciplines of revolutionary, as Th omas mentions. Or the personal in the seventies, big-money maybe not, for his notions of revolution maven in the eighties-the thought might owed little to European models of it. It is have come that he spent his life going worth noting that the product of a family whichever way the cultural winds were whose class background was somewhat blowing. Which could have some truth mixed conceived of revolution in terms of in it, but going by the story Th omas tells, generational/cultural confl ict rather than it does not really do Rubin justice. You class. Th is was so even at the height of his could conclude from this book that Rubin radicalism, when many of his peers, unlike tended to see changes in the zeitgeist him, were going in a Marxist direction. coming before most people did. You could Speaking of generations, Rubin was a also get the idea that the correspond- favored fi rstborn son, and for nine years ing turns his life took had more to do an only child. From early on he seems to with active choice than with bending to have had a kind of driven self-confi dence prevailing winds. Here and there he might often found in such people. He became a have had a hand in the feel or direction of reporter, then an editor-by some accounts those winds. an exacting one-while still in high school Th e feel of this book, if not its direc- Continued on page 12 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 11 North Coast Voice Continued from page 11 the early seventies. The politico-cultural Join Cougar 93.7 in Cincinnati. He got bored with journal- insurgency to which they had devoted ism after a few years, but a certain feel for their lives was over, or at best it was in a Sun. Feb. 18, 2018 mass media and the newsworthy, for how sadly weakened state. Not to mention its events might be spun as they are made seeming failure, circa '71-72, to stop the known, seems to have informed most of Vietnam War. I think here of returning his later endeavors. war veterans who find peacetime civilian Mentor After college in Ohio and after quit- life incredibly boring. ting the Cincinnati Post, there were stops Thomas tells of that early-seventies in Europe, Israel, Cuba, and Berkeley. quandary with nuance and understand- Bridal Fair As Thomas tells it, Rubin heard radical ing. If this book has one central idea, it is politics calling while living in Israel with that Rubin, whatever you might think of his younger brother in 1962-3, becom- some of his later choices, handled it well- Holiday Inn, Route 306 Mentor ing sympathetic to the Palestinians and certainly better than, say, Abbie Hoffman. encountering Marxist theory by way of an Or maybe there are two central ideas here: Presented in part by Israeli Communist friend. Cuba and then Thomas and many of his sources empha- the University of California at Berkeley size that Rubin-never mind the humor Absolutely Unbelievable were next, and it was at Berkeley, around of the Yippie approach to politics-was 1964, that Rubin as a public figure and always serious about whatever he was up Entertainment radical activist was born. to, and strongly committed to it, whether From that part of his story on, Thomas it was taking on the U.S. war machine or $5 Pre-Sale tickets reiterates, expands on, and interprets peddling nutritional drinks. I might have matters that are already of public record, liked to see more of a sense from Thomas Grand Prize known at least in a general way to people that the latter activity does not measure who have been paying attention these up to the former, but I understand that 6 night/7 day trip to Jamaica! past few decades. It's all here: the Berkeley staying politically active once a formative Free Speech Movement; anti-Vietnam political era has passed is not always a War organizing, also at Berkeley, during good option. TO LISTEN LIVE AND WATCH OUR LIVE COUGAR CAM which a then-unknown Rubin enlisted the To speak of measuring up: the quality likes of Norman Mailer and Dick Gregory of Thomas's research is one thing. The WWW.COUGAR937.COM to speak in front of twenty or thirty quality of his prose is another. It's not thousand people; a Berkeley mayoral run bad overall, but this book could have in which he came in second out of four; done with another round or two of copy the idea, which seems to have come to editing. The journalist in Rubin would Rubin, Stew Albert, and Abbie Hoffman probably not appreciate phrases such as around the same time, of politicizing the “...with whom they'd marched with” or hippies; the Pentagon demonstration the occasional sloppiness with dates and of 1967, during the lead-up to which he timelines. first met Hoffman; the founding of the On November 14, 1994, Jerry Ru- Yippies; the Chicago police riot during bin was tossed in the air by a car while the Democratic convention of 1968 and jaywalking on a Los Angeles street. There the conspiracy trial that followed; Rubin were eight lanes of traffic, but as the and Hoffman's passing association with woman with him at the time tells it, he John and Yoko; eventual burnout in the didn't want to wait. Two weeks later he early seventies. There followed a period was dead at fifty-six. His funeral was well- of relative obscurity, during which Rubin attended by friends, family, and journal- appeared as himself in a television skit ists. gently lampooning the sixties radicalism It turned out that Rubin had cancer and for which he was then remembered; soon would not have lived long anyway. He had after that he declared that est, one of the been interested in life extension by way more cultish of the many therapies he of diet, supplements, and exercise, but so tried, was “the acid of the 1970s.” Around much for that. The tale Thomas tells is of the turn of the eighties he got rich, as he a man like other men, bound to be tossed had wanted to do for a while. He may or around by history, biology, and perhaps may not have said that money was the the odd Volkswagen. But as for history, long hair of the eighties. Rubin was also a man-albeit a flawed one- Through all of this, Thomas's take on with the audacity and the skills to try to Rubin, like that of most of his sources, is affect its workings for the better. For that basically supportive if not uncritical. For he deserves a measure of respect, and a this reader, the poignancy in Rubin's tale, place between hard covers. Twenty-two and a place where I most appreciate Thom- years after Rubin's death it's occurred to as's work, lies in the quandary Rubin and me that this book was overdue. many of his peers found themselves in in Fantagraphics Books 2017, 253 pages 12 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 North Coast Voice

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Continued from page 13 blast. Looking forward to hooking up of Daryl Hall and John Oates’ HoagieN- again. Believe me, this will be even more ation Festival, taking place Saturday, spectacular." May 26 in their hometown of Phila- For tickets and additional information, delphia at the Festival Pier. Th e annual visit www.livenation.com celebration of food, music and culture To follow Def Leppard www.defl ep- will include tour mates Train as well as pard.com and Journey www.journeymu- special guests Fitz and the Tantrums, sic.com Tommy Conwell and the Young Rum- blers, and more to be announced. Th ere will also be a pre-party Friday, May 25 bands, and an arsenal of their hits such at the Fillmore Philadelphia, complete as “Pour Some Sugar on Me,” “Lights,” with live music and an exclusive culinary Journey & Def Leppard “Photograph,” “Don’t Stop Believin’,” experience. Full festival details at www. “Rock of Ages” and “Faithfully.” HoagieNation.com. Set Colossal Co-Head- Neal Schon said, “Th ese co-headlining Daryl Hall & John Oates are the Journey/Def Leppard dates will be epic NUMBER-ONE SELLING DUO in music lining North American classic rock shows. So many hits. It will history, according to the R.I.A.A. Th e Tour be great to see you all, friends!” duo from Philadelphia has scored six May 28 Quicken Loans Arena Said Joe Elliott, “Th is tour is going to #1 singles, including “Rich Girl” (also Tickets On Sale Now be a blast! We’ve toured together before #1 R&B), “Kiss on My List,” “Private Promising to be the Tour of the Year, and it was massive. Th is time it’s going to Eyes,” “I Can’t Go For Th at (No Can Do)" two of the world’s greatest rock bands – be even bigger and better!” (also #1 R&B), “Maneater” and “Out of JOURNEY and DEF LEPPARD are team- Jonathan Cain added, “We are all anx- Touch” from their six consecutive multi- ing up for a massive co-headlining North ious to share our sound with the world Daryl Hall & John platinum albums—’76’s Bigger Th an American tour composed of both sta- again and, along with Def Leppard, we Oates and Train co- Both of Us, ’80’s Voices, ’81’s Private dium and arena concerts, half the shows are part of a world-class package to the Eyes, ‘82’s H2O, ‘83’s Rock N Soul, Part I being closed by Journey and half by Def rock stage that spans decades and repre- headline North Ameri- and ‘84’s Big Bam Boom. Leppard. Th e tour, promoted by Live sents a multi-platinum legacy.” In 2003, Daryl and John were induct- can Summer Tour ed into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In Nation, kicks off May 21st in Hartford, Added Rick Savage of Def Leppard, May 22 Quicken Loans Arena 2008, they were honored with the Icon Connecticut, and will feature complete "12 years ago we embarked on a US tour Tickets for the tour are on sale Now sets and all-new production from both with Journey and it was an absolute Kicking off May 1 in Sacramento, CA Award during BMI’s 56th annual Pop and wrapping August 11 in Seattle, WA. Awards. In 2014, Daryl and John were Produced by Live Nation, the extensive inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall trek will make over 35 stops across the of Fame. And, in 2016, the Hollywood U.S. and Canada including Chicago, Chamber of Commerce honored Daryl Philadelphia, Toronto, New York, Nash- Hall & John Oates with a star on the ville, Los Angeles and more. Th is marks Hollywood Walk of Fame. the fi rst time legendary duo Daryl Hall & Train is a multi-GRAMMY and Bill- John Oates will tour together with fellow board award-winning band from San award winning hitmakers, Train. Fans Francisco, CA that has had 14 songs on can expect full sets from both Daryl Hall Billboard’s Hot 100 list since the release & John Oates and Train, followed by a of their debut self-titled album – hits show stopping joint set. include “Drops Of Jupiter,” “Hey, Soul Daryl Hall said of the summer outing, Sister” “Drive By” and “Play Th at Song.” "Th is is going to be a tour fi lled with fun Th ey've sold more than 10 million as well as great music. I love Train, and albums worldwide, more than 30 million have a close relationship with Pat Mona- tracks, amassed over a billion streams han, going back to our ‘Live From Daryl’s with multiple platinum/gold citations, House’ show together.” and dozens of other honors. Last year, “Looking forward to an amazing tour the band released their 8th studio al- with our buddies from Train and seeing bum, a girl a bottle a boat, via Columbia all our fans around the country in 2018," Records spawning the lead single, “Play added John Oates. Th at Song,” which went platinum in 4 “I’ve known Daryl Hall and John Oates countries including the US, hit Top 5 on for a few years now and after being their the US iTunes chart, Top 10 at Hot AC fan my entire life, we now get to tour radio, charted at Adult Top 40 and holds with them and spend time with legends almost 70 Million streams on Spotify in the world of music. Th is will be a alone. career highlight for all of us in Train and To purchase tickets visit www.livena- a show that you won’t want to miss,” said tion.com Pat Monahan. Th e 2018 tour also marks the return Continued on page 29 14 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 North Coast Voice Exciting Lineup at Lake Erie Folk Fest, Feb. 24 A celebration of traditional music and dance from diverse cultures Corn Potato Ten String Duo Strings

Tam Tam Magic Th e Shore Cultural Centre and Northeast Ohio Heritage Music Association (NEOHMA) have booked exciting artists and planned a rich off ering of hands-on workshops and activi- ties for the 3rd Annual Lake Erie Folk Fest (LEFF) scheduled for Saturday, February 24 at the Shore Cultural Centre in downtown Euclid, Ohio beginning at 1 pm. Th e roots based music festival has received enthusiastic reviews since its launch in 2016. Th e evening concert starting at 7:30 pm will feature an incredible lineup that includes; rockin’ folk-fusion band from Prince Edward Island, Ten Strings And A Goat Skin, African dance and drumming from Tam Tam Magic, traditional American music from newgrass duo Aaron Jonah Lewis and Lindsay McCaw of the Corn Potato String Band; Also performing at the evening concert will be former “Th e Voice” contestant and Wakeman, Ohio native, Emily Keener. Keener is returning after her exciting ap- pearance at last year's LEFF, and Fantja na vasi – a Slovenian a capella singing group. Th e Lake Erie Folk Fest will be held at Shore Cultural Centre, 291 E. 222nd St., Euclid OH 44123. All this talent will be on stage for the amazing price of $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Tickets are on sale online at www.lakeeriefolkfest.com – get yours today! From 1 - 6 pm LEFF features FREE workshops, demonstrations, jam sessions, mini- concerts and also activities for young people - there will be something for all ages! Some of the artists featured will be the Corn Potato String Band, providing live music for square dancing, a drum workshop with Tam Tam Magic, Cajun dancing with Th e Cajun Pals, and mini concerts by Tom Evanchuck, Sands & Hearn and Ballinloch. Th e free, daytime activities will take place throughout the Shore building, once home to Shore High School built in 1913. Th e venue is now on the Registry of National Historic Places. In addition, LEFF will present a daytime school program on Friday, Feb. 23 at 10 am featuring the bilingual Canadian trio, Ten Strings And A Goat Skin. If you are an edu- cator or have a connection with 6-12th grade students, please consider attending. Th e program will be fun and informative for all students, but French and music students will fi nd it particularly captivating. Food will be available from 12 noon until 7:30 pm in the Culinary Bistro on the ground fl oor of the Shore Cultural Centre. Th e Bistro is both a working restaurant and classroom for students enrolled in the Euclid Culinary Arts Program run by Chef Dan- iel Esquivel, former executive chef at the Chagrin Valley Country Club. Th is festival is a collaboration of the North East Ohio Musical Heritage Association, producer of the annual Blue Sky Folk Festival in Kirtland, and the Shore Cultural Cen- tre, a former high school turned innovative arts center in downtown Euclid. Our intent is to bring two communities together in a late-winter cross-pollination of the arts: Euclid's diverse artistic community, and the Northeast Ohio folk music com- munity. For more information please contact festival director Laura Lewis, lakeerie- [email protected], or call Shore Cultural Centre, 216-289-8578. Founded in 2014, Th e Northeast Ohio Musical Heritage Association provides venues and opportunities for the performance, sustenance and preservation of folk music in Northeast Ohio through events such as the Blue Sky Folk Festival and Lake Erie Folk Fest. NEOHMA is a volunteer organization that depends on community support. Visit neomha.org/support/donate to fi nd out how you can help. North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 15 North Coast Voice

so nice. Th ere’s not a whole lot of singing on the tour, so we get to play fi ve or six NOW WE’RE TALKIN shows a week, so when a day off comes everyone pretty much collapses in their ■■■ By Pete Roche hotel rooms. It’s cold, but it’s a beautiful day in Denver right now. 2055 Lake Ave. • Ashtabula Satriani discusses inspiration, newest release VOICE: Phil Collen is the new part 440-992-6552 andV 2018 G3 Tour of the G3 equation this time out. What EVERY THURSDAY: does he bring to the overall vibe and LADIES NIGHT Joe Satriani may be the most chemistry of the whole production? FREE JUKEBOX 8-10pm $6 Wings & Domestic Buckets 5 for $10 accomplished rock guitarist of the J.S: He brings the new blood, you

FIESTA FRIDAYS!! (dine-in only) modern era, creatively and com- know? He’s got a great band as well. It’s $1.25 tacos, $2 nachos & cheese mercially. He’s sold over 10 million been very exciting to get to work with Sunday, Monday,Entertainment Tuesday & Thursday copies of groundbreaking albums him more. We did a G4 Experience Camp Buckets of domestic beer like Surfi ng With the Alien (1987), together last August. Th at was the fi rst Flying in a Blue Dream (1989), and time I really worked with him, and I got FEB. 24 DJ Chris Bucci 9:30-1:30am Crystal Planet (1998). He gave to see how deep his musicianship was, guitar lessons to such well-known and what a well-rounded performer and Saturday hotshots as Kirk Hammett (Metal- wonderful person he is. He’s like a sun, Sat. Feb. 10th Mar. 17th lica), Alex Skolnick (Testament), with this sunshine radiating from him. and Larry LaLonde (Primus), and At the camp he had folks enraptured. Valentine’s Day St. Patrick’s Party with DJ contributed to recordings by such He has so much experience that’s so Day Party diverse artists as shock rocker unique and diff erent from mine, being 4-8p Dinner Specials Alice Cooper, heavy metal jokers that he’s in a band that plays stadiums 8:30pm Valentine 9-1am Spinal Tap, and jazz great Pat Mar- and arenas and has however many tens trivia/prizes tino. He’s been nominated for a of millions of albums they’ve sold. But DJ 9:30-1:30am Grammy a whopping fi f t e e n times. Photos by Joseph Cultice the experience Phil can give students is But “Satch” still shows no signs of Shepherd, and Yngwie Malmsteen. Open daily until 2:30am remarkable. And the big surprise was Kitchen Open Sun-Mon 5pm-9pm slowing down. Fast-forward twenty-two years. that—if you let him—he can shred like Wed-Thur 7am-9pm • Fri-Sat 7am-12am Th e Long Island native relocated to Satriani’s sixteenth studio eff ort, crazy! It’s something you never expected Berkeley, California in the late ‘70s and What Happens Next, infi ltrated the upper from him because it’s not always heard gigged in new wave trio Th e Squares be- ranks of Billboard’s album charts upon on the Def Leppard records. But Phil has MITCH LARSON fore cutting his fi rst EP—an eponymous, its January 12 release. Now Joe’s hitting that ability to step out and be a monster. adventurous recording he sold out of the the road again with the latest iteration He’s one of the best band players, too. trunk of his car—and debut LP Not of of G3—with costars Phil Collen (Def You know it right away when he starts Th is Earth (Relativity, 1986). Positions as Leppard) and John Petrucci (Dream playing rhythm guitar and singing. You lead guitarist for “Jeopardy” songwriter Th eater). hear it and you’re like, ‘Oh my God! Greg Kihn (Love and Rock and Roll) and Th ey play the Hard Rock in Northfi eld, Th at’s Def Leppard right there!’ He’s got slithery Rolling Stones singer Mick Jag- Ohio on February 22. that voice, and he sings, and night after ger helped Joe pay the bills until S u r fi n g What Happens Next fi nds Satriani night it’s something to behold. He’s so took the world by storm. eschewing his otherworldly alter-ego in comfortable improvising. He stands Even the humble guitar hero was sur- favor of a more soulful sound. Sure, new right between me and John, and we try prised by the accolades. songs like “Energy,” “Cherry Blossoms,” to outfox each other—with the best of In an era already teeming with bouf- and “Super Bad Ass” boast some of Joe’s intentions—and he’s right there with fant, spandex-adorned stunt guitarists famous fretboard acrobatics. But the us making us think twice about stuff ! So with hypersonic fi ngers, S u r fi n g ’ s liquid master shredder has turned down his I’m having the time of my life with these stratospheric stage persona…and dialed Sunday, licks, wicked whammy-bar dives, and guys. Th ey’re a lot of fun to play with. wah-wah swells distinguished Satriani up pure passion. Bassist Glenn Hughes VOICE: Who is in your backing band February 11th from the average Joes (pun intended). (Deep Purple) and drummer Chad Smith this time out? Th ese songs were powerful, too, jam- (Red Hot Chili Peppers) supplied the J.S: Bryan Beller’s on bass guitar Old Mill packed with rugged rhythms and memo- buoyant beats needed to help Satch dig and Mike Keneally is playing guitar and rable melodies: S u r fi n g wasn’t just some deeper than he has in years. keyboards, and the new guy is drummer Winery self-indulgent showcase for Satriani’s We phoned Satriani last week to Joe Travers. Actually, I hired Joe fi rst, 4:30 - 7:30 virtuosic chops. discuss the new album, the G3 guitar thinking I’d get all-new band members, By the mid-‘90s Satriani had gradu- extravaganza, and the future of instru- but then I hired Bryan and Mike back, ated to Epic Records, traveled with mental rock in world overrun by reality because those three have a long history Deep Purple (“Highway Star,” “Smoke show singers and bubblegum pop. of playing together. Like fi fteen or twen- On the Water”), and masterminded the VOICE: Hello, Joe! Your itinerary sug- ty years. So it’s more like I joined the fi rst of many guitar-centric “G3” pack- gests you’re between shows in Tucson Mike Keneally band [laughs]! But they’re 216-513-0529 for bookings age tours—whose rotating roster has and Denver. letting me play a lot of lead guitar! Joe’s Facebook.com/MitchLarsonAcousticMusic included such guests as Eric Johnson, JOE SATRIANI: I’ve got one of those a very unique drummer. He provides a Steve Vai, Robert Fripp, Kenny Wayne weird things called a day off [laughs]! It’s really fat sound and groove, but at the 16 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 North Coast Voice same time he’s got was almost like a little boogie with an old-style country swing— that technical thing kid’s dream: ‘Wouldn’t because the guitar solo is done to this CLYDE HILL that a lot of drum- it be great if I could country swing. I had no idea how a drum- mers I’ve had—like get Chad and Glenn mer would do that, but I knew it had to CREATIVE WORKS Vinnie Colaiuta or together for this?’ do with the beginning of the song, and Marco Minnemann And suddenly there how he’d have to do this rhythmic fore- have. Joe’s got that it was [laughs]! Every shadowing. And he fi gured out a way to big rock sound and day of it in the studio smooth those edges and combine those feel that appeals to was crazy-great! two elements. All of us felt the same way, NOW AT my old roots, and VOICE: Last in that once he’d solved that riddle— MADISON'S taps the kind of mu- time we talked, that timing puzzle—we had to elevate sic I grew up listen- you described how the boogie to a new place and honor our WHIT & WHIMSY ing to. Th ose shared Shockwave Supernova boogie forefathers! UNIQUE GIFTABLES roots help us bond was almost like an VOICE: Your instrumental songs onstage. alter-ego that comes always allow the listener to get his or her VOICE: You out of you on stage. own mental image of what the song’s worked with Chad in He’s fl ashy, shows off narrative might be. “Th under High on Chickenfoot [super- a bit, and plays guitar the Mountain” sounds very mystical, as Unique ceramic creations group with Sammy with his teeth. But for if Native Americans are in the middle of 764 South County Line Road Hagar and Michael What Happens Next it a religious ritual. Harpersfield Anthony], so it’s not a huge surprise sounds like you deliberately reeled him in J.S: I wanted to pull together some that he plays drums on the new record. and went for a purer sound. elements of intensity that would be (440) 645-9029 But how’d you bring Glenn Hughes into J.S: I think it was something that was inside somebody’s spirit when they feel By appointment only the mix? needed, something I had to go through. compelled to go on like, a pilgrimage text, call, or FB msg. J.S: I was traveling through Europe Although it was more of a returning, a to seek knowledge. Like, there’s this toward the end of the Shockwave tour breaking free away from this shell that I’d moment in their lives where they’re and going through a creative crisis. I was built up over time. But it was interesting going through a cathartic process and INSPIRED BY NATURE. trying to break out of who I was at that when I came out of it, and I realized that getting an understanding of what to do INTERPRETED THRU moment and do something completely this really was who I’d been all along, and next. And that’s a refl ection of the entire IMAGINATION. that was in the future, but at the same that I just hadn’t perceived it properly. record. What happens next? Th at’s what time connected with my essential past. Th e weirdest part was that once this new I kept asking myself. And in a twist of One of the things that stuck in my mind tour started, I come out onstage, and by fate, I was playing around online with an was a gig Chickenfoot had done a few the second song I’m on my knees playing iTunes program where I’d put in these months before in Lake Tahoe. I had so with my teeth again [laughs]! But I’ve silly questions like, ‘Should I change my LOST SHEEP BAND much fun playing with Chad, and having come to terms with it! I’ve realized it’s name?’ or ‘What should I have for lunch?’ Sammy at the front of the stage, and me not so much of a persona as I thought. It And the computer responses were either just playing rhythm guitar in back by really is part of me! very funny, or very profound. One of the Chad. I thought, ‘Th is is rock and roll!’ VOICE: “Headrush” strikes me as translations came back that I was para- And I wondered, well how can I get more one of your hyper-boogies, like “Satch phrasing about thunder in the moun- of that? How can I capitalize on how Boogie.” tains symbolizing how great change was much that feels so right to me? I started J.S: It’s funny in a way, because every coming, but only with great struggle and to think maybe Chad would do an album time you do a boogie you’re celebrating courage, and that the truth would be with me, but most likely wouldn’t. But every boogie song that came before it. revealed, and that it would be a worth- what if I found a bass player who was re- You go back a hundred years, and every while journey. I thought that was perfect, ally exciting to him, a bassist he’d really boogie has an arrangement that makes because that’s what I was trying to do! So Sat. Feb. 10 love to do it with? And I thought of all it a boogie. Th ere’s a low-end riff that I went back to that song, and I did that these great rock bass players, and Glenn gets repeated, and the riff might take the hammer-on, pull-off technique and knew Old Mill was at the top of the list. Lots of people place of the melody. And there might be it should have those elements I always can’t help but say he’s the voice of rock, an ensemble-type thing, like in the swing think of when I think of journeys like Winery but to me he’s also the bass of rock. And era, where the horns play something be- that. And that brought me to the Native it was so obvious, because they’re good tween the melody and the riff . But they Americans, who’ve been here for tens of 7:30-10:30 friends and they’ve done records togeth- didn’t really call it a r i ff until the electric thousands of years. Th ey’re the original er. So it was actually a very short text guitar came along and it started getting inhabitants and knew this land before we to Chad—who was on tour in Europe more aggressive, like a ZZ Top-style boo- built all these buildings and roads. And Sat. Mar. 3 somewhere—where I proposed, ‘You gie. So whenever I do a boogie now I like also to my experience as a young kid, go- and Glenn and me, we do this instru- to tip my hat to all those old guys who ing to these Indian villages as a kid with Deer’s mental album with all rock and soul, no invented this musical form…and yet I try my parents as part of my education as an progressive stuff . Could you do it?’ And to make it a little diff erent. When I sent American. I remembered always having Leap he responded right away, ‘Yes, here’s that boogie demo to the guys the drums a connection to the ritual and ceremony, Glenn’s number! Call him right away!’ So I had on there were very simple, and I and how I suppose their spirituality is 7:30-10:30 two weeks after the Shockwave tour I’m told Chad that his job would be to fi gure based on that connection with Mother in L.A. working on this new record. It out how to combine a full-tilt heavy rock Continued on Page 18 www.lostsheepband.com North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 17 North Coast Voice

Continued from Page 17 cats do—and prowls around with Nature, and following her advice. Does the other cats?’ It was this mo- that make sense [laughs]? So there’s this ment of comedy where the robot guitar player traveling to the top of this cat tries to sound like a cat and mountain while all the villagers are look- communicate with the others, ing up at him. Th ey’re afraid, and there’s but the sounds are ephemeral and all this thunder and lightning, but they distorted. It’s a common theme know he’s seeking the ultimate knowl- in my songs where it’s science edge. It’s a crazy fantasy, but that’s part fi ction—even if it is happening for real now—but there’s this V of what I was thinking about [laughs]! VOICE: “Catbot” made me wonder if humorous side, and sometimes you have a cat or dog at home. it has to do with what I believe is J.S: I wish, but no! Ever since I read I, a leap in consciousness. I’m still Robot when I was young I always thought wondering whether or not we’d I’d grow up and have my own robot, and even recognize it. Artifi cial intel- it would be the coolest thing ever. But ligence at some point may reach a level like, ‘Why not have both?’ So I waited, here it’s 2018 and I don’t have one, and where we don’t recognize it, and thus and eventually we got to the last few there are no fl ying cars! I’d been reading can’t observe it. hours of working on the song, and I an article about how in Japan they’re VOICE: Th ere’s a great moment in the overdubbed a newer, cleaner version of really taking to these new robot pets, the new Blade Runner movie where one char- the Hendrix-y guitar. When we listened robot dogs and cats. Th ey’re developing acter asks another if his pet dog is real back, we had one of those votes where strong relationships to them. So I was or fake. Th e other character responds, you look around the room and it’s, just thinking about that, and I fi gured ‘I don’t know. Why don’t you ask the ‘Th umbs-up to keep the strings, thumbs- that if these things get increasingly dog?’ Which got me thinking. Robot or down they go!’ And there were more enhanced with artifi cial intelligence…we organic, that dog is as real as it perceives thumbs down [laughs]. We got rid of the always talk about how they interact with itself to be. And when that happens, the strings, so what was left was just that humans. So I thought, ‘What if they tried lines are blurred. Curtis Mayfi eld / Jimi Hendrix thing. to interact with the animals they’d been J.S: I love that stuff . Philip K. Dick, VOICE: Which makes me wonder, if built to look like? What if the owner of yeah. I still read his books because Jimi Hendrix were alive today and you the robot cat left the door open, and the they’re still so fresh. Like Blade Runner. invited him on a G3 tour, what songs robot cat goes out at night—like most Just amazing. would you want him to play? VOICE: Th e closing track, “Forever J.S: Oh, it’d be his choice [laughs]! and Ever,” has a very cool Jimi Hendrix- He’d pick. But I think he would be the sounding intro. Was that deliberate key element of it, so that the encore jam thing? would be all based on Hendrix. Like, J.S: Oh, completely! Th e odd thing “Voodoo Chile” would be the jam. But about that was that for the entire length you never know with players. Sometimes of working on the song, that part wasn’t they want to do something that they there. Th ere were these arpeggios. I never do in their own show, or their own started writing the song using more of band’s show. Th ey come in and go, ‘Oh, an Eddie Van Halen-styled part with I’ll try this!’ Th ey break from their own distortion and delay and muted pick- thing and just surprise you. But man, I ing. Th at got the composition rolling, dunno….that’s a great question! I’ll have but I knew at some point I couldn’t just to think about that now! copy Eddie—I’d have to come up with VOICE: When and where can we something else! So I put in an orchestra expect to see the documentary your son with simple strings. And right before I fi lmed on the last tour? fi nished the demo and sent it to the guys J.S: In the U.S. it’ll be on AXS TV in I thought, ‘What if they don’t like the March, I think is when it hits the sched- strings? What would be the contrarian ule. I know we’ve already signed deals in view?’ Well, instead of doot-doot-doot Brazil and Latin America for combina- eighth notes playing these muted arpeg- tions of terrestrial and digital stream- gios, what if I just did something soulful, ing. Every day it gets a bit wider. Th at’s like Jimi Hendrix? I thought, ‘Okay, I’ll what we’re working on now. So yeah, I’m just put something on there really quick.’ excited about that. I think people will So I improvised it, and then sent it to love the look and feel of the fi lm. My son everybody. When we got to the studio did a remarkable job fi nding the hidden it was really funny because everyone stories on tour. It’s crazy, because tours was like, ‘I hate those pizzicato strings! are crazy, you know? I don’t know how Get rid of those!’ My co-producer kind he did it, but he did a beautiful job, and of liked them, and said to hang on to I’m excited to get it in front of all the them for a while. Chad and Glenn were eyeballs out there!

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that one. Th e video’s cool, too. Th at was shot in L.A. at an old BEFORE THE CONCERT bowling alley, from like the 1920s or something. You see ■■■ By Pete Roche those lanes and the machines, the way they work. You see that close up of me, and the Richie Ramone is ready to hit and run for 2018 pin-loading machine is spin- V ning. Very cool. Interview about life with the Ramones, and his upcoming tour VOICE: Which drummers Richie appeared on three Ramones corded? inspired you when you were studio albums and performed over 500 R.R: Th at was in L.A. We recorded at growing up? shows with the iconic NYC punk band Red Bull Studios in Los Angeles. We got R.R: My favorites are Buddy between 1983 and 1987. Perhaps more a week in there, then I mixed it and did Rich and John Bonham. If importantly, he contributed new songs some overdubs with Paul Roessler, who years ago. Our tour manager in Sweden… you take the two of them, you to the Ramones canon (and sang a has a studio there also and is really cool. whenever I wanted something, he’d say, have the speed, you have the feel…. Bud- couple, too)—a feat unmatched by any Paul was in 45 Grave. He’s a big deal in ‘I fi x this!’ He never said, ‘I’ll fi x it’ or ‘I’ll dy Rich never really played rock and roll. of the band’s other stickmen. the punk scene, you know? take care of it.’ He’d say, ‘I fi x this.’ One He tried on some of his things. But as a Ramones cofounders Joey (vocals), VOICE: Right. You’re from New day I was in like a 7-11 and said I’m look- soloist and everything else—the speed— Johnny (guitar), and Dee Dee (bass) Jersey—do you stay in L.A. now? ing for a certain thing, whatever it was. he was incredible. And John Bonham all passed away as the ‘90s acquiesced R.R: Yes. After Th e Ramones I came And the girl behind the counter said, ‘I is kind of like, the ultimate drummer. to the End of the Century (to quote an out here, then moved back two or three fi x this!’ I almost fell to the fl oor laugh- He taught me so much as a kid, how he album title). Original drummer Tommy times. Now I’m out here steadily since, ing.Th at’s when I knew I had to write the works that bass drum to his stuff . He’s Ramone died in 2014, leaving Richie, gosh…since 2009 I’ve been here. I’m song. But I don’t talk about Sweden or so fl uid. A good drummer is one who can Marky (drums), and C.J. (bass) as the a native now [laughs]! You know, I’m anything, see. Th at’s how the song de- play by himself, and you can listen back band’s sole surviving alumni. sick of the snow belt. You can’t beat veloped lyrically. But I didn’t talk about for a minute, and you can hear that beat. Richie (who wrote such songs as the weather. I’m sitting outside right the tour manager in Sweden. It’s more You should feel it, you know? “Somebody Put Something In My now, and it’s a gorgeous 77 degrees. Th e about us and the band, and if you have a VOICE: You did a drum arrangement Drink,” “I’m Not Jesus,” and “I Know people aren’t the same as the East Coast. problem, ‘I fi x it’ for you, you know? It’s of parts from West Side Story with an or- Better Now” for albums like Too Tough It’s harder to fi nd two friends who’d nice to see the audience sing along with Continued on Page 20 To Die, Animal Boy, and Halfway to take a bullet for you. But I have enough Sanity) is still making loud, fast, tough friends! I’m choosy about friends. But it’s music today, having formed his own all good! band to create his solo debut Entitled in VOICE: I listen to the title track, and 2013. Th e frenetic, muscly follow-up - there’s a part of the chorus where you Cellophane - arrived last year. invite people to ‘Unwrap me!’ Is that like, Now Ramones’ former speed-demon an indictment of the over-commodifi ca- is heading out for a series of concert tion of music these days? dates in the Midwest. We rang the hard- R.R: It’s funny you say that, because hitting musician last week to discuss his it can be about that. People ask what the solo work, his punk rock roots, and Th e song is about, but I’ll tell you, I can write Ramones’ lasting legacy. a song and have it mean three diff er- VOICE: Tell us a bit about the Hit and ent things to three diff erent people. So Run 2018 tour. I don’t like to spoil that. My own vision R.R: We doing a twelve-show run of it is like being on the road night after here. I have a new guitar player named night. It becomes kind of tough, and I Steve Haley. He’s from Philadelphia. It’s feel like I’m all wrapped up. But you pull me and Ben Reagan and Clare Misstake up to the club and the kids are calling on bass. Ben plays rhythm guitar and your name, so you bust out and give ‘em drums, because I play drums but also a good show. But it does have diff erent front the band. I move back and forth a meanings for diff erent things, so I don’t bit in the show. To sing and play drums get hung up on that part. To me, lyri- a whole show is…I dunno. We move cally, unless it’s spelled out like a country the drums up as close as we can, but song—I went down to the store—I think it there’s always a little bit of distance. So can be subject to however people want to we make it so I can get out front for a interpret it. It’s not so much what I say while. Our show is basically Ramones as it is what you think you heard me say, classics and songs from my two albums. you know? We do songs I wrote for Th e Ramones VOICE: Another standout is ‘I Fix back in the day. It’s a good high-energy Th is.’ Are you a problem-solver? What’s show! going on there? VOICE: Where was Cellophane re- R.R: Well, that song came about two North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 19 North Coast Voice

Continued from Page 19 arrangements that way. So I want to do scends time like that? I love to play the B-markets anyway, the that in the future, but right now I’m hav- R.R: Yeah, there are fans from six- towns that all the other bands skip. I’m ing fun with these albums I’m doing now! teen to sixty, you know? It spans like playing lots of small towns on this tour. VOICE: What was the toughest thing four generations now. And it’s a more Th e people are into it, and they thank about touring with Th e Ramones? male-dominated audience. I’d say 85% you for coming to their smaller cities. R.R: Th e toughest thing? I dunno…. I male to 15% female. We draw the boys; And we’re in a position where we can don’t think there was anything too tough it’s a rough show [laughs]! Th ere’s a bit do that, because we’ll pull in a couple except missing friends back home, you of banging around—but it’s a fun show! hundred people. So it works out playing know? When I was touring with Th e Back in the day we were always jealous the smaller venues. I enjoy it. It’s not Ramones I was still a baby, in my twen- because the hair metal bands in the ‘80s purely rock and roll-dominated out there ties! So every moment was exciting, all had all the hot girls going to their shows, anymore. It’s more computer music… the places we went. Th e road isn’t fun for and Th e Ramones really didn’t have that. VOICE: Sure, lots of bubble-gum mu- anybody, really. It’s not a vacation like Th ere was a small percentage. Minimal! sic, lots of auto-tuned dance music…. chestra. Did you ever get around to doing people might think. It’s a lot of work, We used to joke about that. At the metal R.R: Yeah! Th at’s where it at, and the James Bond drum suite you planned? and traveling can exhaust you. But to be shows it was as many girls as guys, if not that’s okay with me. But it’s important R.R: I haven’t gotten to that yet. I took part of a band like that, you have plenty more. It was the opposite. for people to still come out and listen a break and came back from doing that of good times. Nowadays you read about VOICE: We’ll be catching you at Th e to live music. Th at’s slowing down a bit. orchestra thing. I did like six shows in all the fi ghting and stuff , but I came in at Winchester in Cleveland / Lakewood. But come out and listen, because live two diff erent spots. It was killer, and I a good time. I was new blood, fi ve or six Any fond memories of playing around we don’t play to any tracks. It’s diff er- loved it! It was a big undertaking. It was years younger than them. So I gave ‘em here? ent every night; there’s nothing exact. an eighteen-minute suite. I wanted to new life at a time when the last record or R.R: Cleveland rocks! I can’t remember Th ere’s no background stuff going on. do a whole other one and have it be like, two had been kind of sleepy. So I came any specifi c places we played. But I’ve Some nights it’s faster, some nights it’s the second half. I was thinking of doing in for Too Tough to Die, and Tommy was been there a few times in the last fi ve or slower [laughs]! Some nights it’s all f@ James Bond, because you’ve got all those back with Ed Stasium, and they did a six years. Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo. cked up [laughs]. Th at’s what live music cool theme songs from all those years. really raw record. It got Th e Ramones’ Cleveland’s always been good to me. I is. Sometimes the P.A. blows up and shit West Side Story is perfect because it’s the career motivated again. It was kind of a think some of these towns took a big hit like that! We try to keep the price cheap, same situation where you don’t need the big deal. I loved every moment of it, you with the economy, and it was sad to see. too, because we want people to come singer singing the melody. It’s all about know? It was cool. I think it was in Toledo where the main out. It’s important that people don’t give teenage rebellion, where James Bond VOICE: Th e Ramones’ music continues parts were messed up, and I really felt up on live music. is all cars and women. But the songs to draw new fans. Even my kids know for the people there. I don’t know if it https://www.ticketfl y.com/ are so identifi able, so you can make ‘em who Th e Ramones are. Is it cool knowing was from the car industry or what. But event/1626037-richie-ramone-lake- really drummy! You can make your own you were part of something that tran- they’re slowly getting it together again. wood/

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rent three billboards on a little-used road (Vicky Krieps) and his sister Cyril (Lesley leading to town, calling out the police Manville), two women who enable his and their inability to solve the crime. quirky, to put it mildly, life. When I say MOVIE REVIEWS Th is, of course, produces strong reac- quirky I actually mean boorish, arrogant, ■■■ By Westside Steve Simmons tions from her friends, family, and other obnoxious, and cruel, even though the members of the community. man is a brilliant designer. He's also one A downside of any fi lm version of an Immersed in a personal life tragedy of of the most unpleasant people anyone historical account is that we already his own, the chief becomes the unex- would want to meet. Sister Cyril, Th e V know what happens and it takes special pected catalyst but I won’t tell you why. I Iron Lady, keeps his career on track. skill to make the story interesting. When can tell you there’s no happy ending per She seems reasonably unaff ected by it comes to special skill, there’s probably se but a conclusion, though bittersweet, his behavior but Alma is not nearly so no living director any better than Steven we can live with. strong. As the fi lm slogs along we wonder Spielberg. It’s not that I cared so much Th ree Billboards incorporates some how she will ever survive long in this about the story, but I was impressed fi ne acting and some of the best charac- relationship, and then she learns which that Spielberg was able to wring as much ter development I’ve seen for a while. I’ve mushrooms are poisonous and which are tension and drama out of the material as never been a huge Harrelson fan but he’s not. You might guess she plans to kill the he did. And “yes,” part of that refl ects on perfectly cast in this situation, earning SOB but her intentions are much more Th e Post two of America’s most iconic actors and a him a Best Supporting Actor nomination. subtle. I will let you fi nd out what those DreamWorks / Fox|PG13|116 min fi ne supporting cast. Th ere’s a temptation to see this one as might be, but it involves a plot device Do you remember THE VERDICT B a little too politically correct, but I don’t that gives this fi lm the tiny bit of interest starring Paul Newman? An arrogant WSS agree. I think everyone comes to terms it has. Granted, it is exquisitely crafted doctor’s mistake kills a young woman with their demons as best they can, and and Lewis, as always, turns in a per- and he orders the medical records to nobody is spared self-awareness in the fect performance. Still, no matter how be falsifi ed to shield him from account- end. perfectly assembled, it was impossible to ability. His unscrupulous attorney pays A enjoy. For that reason I tip my hat to the off the newspapers to publish glowing WSS creative process but just can’t recom- stories about the embattled physician in mend the end product. order to taint public opinion. D With newspapers currently under fi re WSS for allegedly biased reporting, I think the producers of THE POST want to Continued on page 22 remind us of days gone by when report- ers and editors with printing presses, Th ree Billboards outside notepads and typewriters fought to bring the truth to the American public. Ebbing Missouri THE POST harkens back to the very Fox Searchlight|R|115 min beginnings of the Washington Post Some of the fi lms in this issue have [actually, Th e Post was founded in 1877] been around for awhile because, unlike when Th e Washington Post played most movies with Oscar buzz, they were Rocky to the New York Times’ Apollo released earlier in the year. THREE BILL- Phantom Th read Focus Features|R|130 min Creed, eventually taking out the Nixon BOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI Paul Th omas Anderson is possibly a White House. Richard Nixon is depicted is one that slipped under my radar but genius and has made some stunning and in two ways in the movies - either the has offi cially entered the fray with a Best Westside Steve incredibly off beat fi lms, many of which paranoid and misunderstood President Picture nomination. are among my favorites. His old man, or, as here, the Prince of Darkness. Baby Among the reasons the Academy Sat. Feb. 24 Ernie Anderson (“Ghoulardi"), was one Boomers will remember the Vietnam selects fi lms for the Best Picture category of my childhood heroes, the host of a Halfway to Summer Celebration! War as a very important part of their is a story that’s out of the ordinary, and slightly avant garde kids television show lives, not only because of the secrecy this one hardly fi ts into any broad genre The Erie Yacht Club • Erie back in the 60s. Daniel Day-Lewis I be- and subterfuge but for the fact there and has almost no typical characters. lieve to be one of a handful of truly great was still a draft and one could actually Mildred Hayes (another excellent actors living today. March 2018 be sent there. We know the entire ordeal performance from Frances McDormand) Th at being said, I found the exqui- stunk, all the way from the Truman is emotionally devastated when her Plan ahead for Irishness! sitely-crafted Best Picture nominated through the Kennedy and the Johnson daughter is raped and murdered after the PHANTOM THREAD as devoid of any Friday 2 • 8:30 PM • Sully's Irish Pub Administrations, but here Nixon will two of them had an argument, which led kind of entertainment value as any fi lm take the brunt of Ben Bradlee’s wrath. to the daughter walking alone to a party. Saturday 3 • 8:30 PM • Firehouse Grill I’ve seen in many years. Although originally published by the As with so many random murders, the Th e story, written and directed by An- Saturday 24 • 10:00 PM • Mullarkey’s Irish Pub New York Times, documents revealing killer is never found and Mildred blames derson, involves the world of high fash- Check Westside Steve Simmons on Facebook for changes. duplicity during the build-up of the War Chief Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) ion in post-war 1950s England and, more winds up in the hands of the Washing- and the police department. His offi cers, To purchase Westside Steve Simmons specifi cally, the preeminent designer newest CD A Pirates Life visit ton Post. 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Continued from page 21 have wound up direct-to-video other- gave his innocence to a man who saw it the conclusion was that no abuse ever oc- wise. I was hard-pressed to fi gure out as little more than a fl ing. curred. Th at’s disappointing because WON- why, but if it makes sense to you let Beyond the simply uncomfortable, DER WHEEL deserved more attention this me know. You can fi nd director Jordan there are at least two or three scenes year and his upcoming fi lm, RAINY DAY Peele’s rants on the subject online, if you which cross the line into the truly IN NEW YORK, might never make it to care, but the movie is still crap. disgusting. I will only describe them in the theaters. Also, no love for WONDER C- the abstract. First, I probably wouldn’t WOMAN, one of the best of the genre? WSS want to kiss Jennifer Aniston right after I’ve also heard complaints that Tom Hanks she puked, if you get my drift. And the didn’t get a nomination for Best Actor but V second one, well, just Google the name of frankly I don’t think he did anything that the movie along with ‘the peach scene’. he hasn’t done a dozen times before. Still, (Point of clarifi cation as you read one of that almost always works. Get Out the online descriptions, Hammer does Because of our publishing schedule, my Universal|R|103 min not eat the entire peach but sticks his predictions will be in the next issue but, be- Spoiler alert fi ngers in it and licks them off .) cause of deadlines, I will write them before Nearly every year there’s a fi lm that At the end of the fi lm Mr. Perlman con- we go to press. Th at means there’s no way I makes me shake my head wondering why soles his heartbroken son by telling him can hedge my bets! Right now if it were up a second-rate production makes its way what a beautiful experience it was and to me I would lean toward THE SHAPE OF into the nominations for Best Picture. how he wishes he would have done the WATER or THREE BILLBOARDS. Th is year’s WTF selection is a cheap little Call Me By Your Name same. Again, I ask you to imagine if that Just a recap of the Best Picture nomina- horror pic called GET OUT. Yes, it’s been Sony Pictures classics|R|133 min were someone’s virginal teenage daughter. tions: out for a few months but I’m sure the Considering the fi restorm we’ve just Still it’s hard to assign a letter grade 1.THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBB- nomination will breathe new life into it been through concerning an adult and to a fi lm like this. Director Luca Guadag- ING, MISSOURI. before the Oscars. When I say “horror a teenager dating, one would think the nino certainly aimed to make a beautiful Great acting, great character develop- movie,” it’s not in the tradition of the old almost graphic story of a grown man’s fi lm that would shock and off end the au- ment, and an off beat story that allows all Universal classic monster fi lms, but more two month sexual relationship with a dience, and he’s accomplished that. Aside of the fl awed people to fi nd a measure of along the lines of second tier studios like 17 year old boy would be met by serious from that I didn’t enjoy it and found it redemption. Allied, that produced INVASION OF THE opposition. boring and cruel instead of romantic. 2. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME. BODY SNATCHERS, a fi lm sharing a Well, that’s the exact plot of critical In this particular instance, a D grade A disturbing study of a sexual relation- common thread with this one. favorite Academy Award nominee CALL leaves it up to you. I can’t recommend ship between a grown man and a teenage Chris and Rose (Daniel Kaluuya and ME BY YOUR NAME. Now, instead of the fi lm but your mileage may diff er. boy. Th e hypocrisy of the Academy is stag- Allison Williams) have been dating long pitchforks and torches, the Academy D gering in this instance. enough that it’s time for that big step, and critics are positively swooning. As WSS 3. THE SHAPE OF WATER namely meeting the folks. Th is thought for myself, I have absolutely no problem It’s hard to accurately describe this won- makes Chris a little nervous because the with the gay community, and the fact Oscar’s 2018 derfully emotional and engaging story of a folks live in an affl uent all-white suburb that it’s a homosexual love story has Hollywood has always refl ected the at- mute woman and a sea monster. and he’s black. As it turns out Mom and nothing to do with my opinion of the titude of America, from the patriotic fi lms 4. DUNKIRK Dad go positively over the top with their fi lm, beyond the stunning hypocrisy. of the 40s through the Sexual Revolution Rather slow-moving story about the he- eff usive praise of “his people.” It’s not Th e setting, an idyllic 17th century and anti-heroes of the 60s and 70s and so roic rescue that took place in World War II. long before the reason for this outpour- villa in the north of Italy, surrounded by forth. I can’t remember a more divided and 5. DARKEST HOUR ing of love by the family and the commu- natural beauty, is truly breathtaking. In- bitter country as we currently live in and, Yet another World War II epic from the nity is discovered. secure teenager Elio Perlman (Timothee unfortunately, that’s refl ected in the Oscar same period as DUNKIRK but focusing on Dad is actually a mad doctor who has Chalamet) lives there with his mother nominations. I respect the rights of people the irascible and iconic Winston Churchill. a method of transplanting the brain of and archaeologist father when Oliver to have opinions diff ering from my own Absolutely great performance by Gary older or physically disabled bidders into (Armie Hammer), an adult doctoral stu- but, because I’ve always seen the Oscars as Oldman. the bodies of healthy young victims. Th e dent, moves in to intern for dad. Th ere’s the highest form of praise for outstanding 6. PHANTOM THREAD plot itself seems like an Outer Limits an obvious attraction between Oliver and acting, great stories, and excellent produc- Th ough exquisitely crafted this Daniel reject, the actors barely worthy of the B the teenager and before long the two of tion, I fear those standards have increas- Day-Lewis and Paul Th omas Anderson list, and the entire production straight them are involved in a full-blown sexual ingly taken a backseat to political and social fi lm has almost no entertainment value off the bargain rack. aff air, lasting the duration of the fi lm. activism whatsoever. So, you may wonder, how does a fl ick Now, when I say that’s the plot of the Of the snubs this year, I feel sorry for 7. LADY BIRD more suited to a Saturday afternoon Big fi lm, that is solely the plot - two hours James Franco, who turned in one of the A pleasant but run-of-the-mill Coming Chuck and Little John show get nomi- of fl irting, kissing, stroking and, uh, best performances of the year and de- of Age fi lm, this time from a teenage girl’s nated for an Academy Award? beyond. I assume this would be a little served a Best Actor nomination for THE point of view. Well if you remember the protests led uncomfortable for any straight person DISASTER ARTIST, while the nomination 8. THE POST by Will Smith that not enough African- but let’s be honest, I don’t think I’d enjoy of Daniel Kaluuya is an absolute embarrass- Probably made to draw attention away Americans were nominated (here’s a watching two straight people of any age ment. I’m also disappointed in Hollywood’s from accusations of the modern-day hint, Will, it’s not racism, your movies do this for two hours. At the end of the treatment of Woody Allen. Th e fact is that Washington Post’s bias, but regardless, how just suck) so the Academy now thinks fi lm, Oliver returns home to marry his Soon-Yi was 21 when they began their could Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and they need to bend over backward for fi ancée and later calls the Perlman family relationship and they have been married Meryl Streep possibly make a bad fi lm? minority entrants. Honestly, this one with the news. Elio is naturally devas- ever since. Also, the accusation by daughter Comments? [email protected] wouldn’t have been any better or worse tated by the betrayal when he realizes he Dylan Farrow was fully investigated and WSS regardless of race but probably would 22 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 North Coast Voice

Americana. Now I’m writing with loops and working on diff erent CD RELEASE structures. It’s challenging, but for me it’s also exciting to take things ■■■ By Pete Roche in a new direction. VOICE: I under- stand a lot of the re- Sherman Ewing discusses creative process cord stems from the Vbehind grief process from Come and Meet Me when you mother Indie rocker (and professional dog- ing like the gun at the back of your head passed. Th ere’s two walker) Sherman Ewing decided to take to get you to fi nish the songs and have songs dedicated to a few chances when tracking his fourth to perform them at the end of the week. her. Did the music studio album, Come and Meet Me, last I took three successive workshops with help the healing winter. Tony, and from that I got…I was pleased process? Produced by Anthony Krizan (Lenny with the songs I was coming up with. Th e S.E: Songwrit- Kravitz) and mastered by Greg Calbi guy who produced the record is a good ing’s always been (Patti Smith, Paul Simon), the new disc friend of mine, and plays guitar when we cathartic for me. / download fi nds the Minnesota native play out is Anthony Krizan. He’ll be com- With “Shine,” it was venturing outside his usual acoustic ing on tour with me. He’s played with a special song for folk-parameters into the realms of clas- the Spin Doctors. He and I got together me because it kind sic rock and R&B. Ewing’s pure, sweet and polished up a couple of the songs of…I read a book vocals are underscored by electric (and and also wrote one or two together, and I once called Songwriters on Songwriting, going through a lot personally anyway, slide) guitars, robust base, piano and felt like I had a nice set, and I got excited and I think it was Bruce Springsteen so I decided to move home and help out organ, and mischievous harmonica. A to go into the studio. So in about a two who said that writer’s block is often just with her, and I basically watched her sense of community—of being part week period I got together with these a case of what you’re trying to say being slowly die this tortuous death from can- of a larger whole—imbues tracks like guys—I’m very blessed to have played too painful to be said. My mom passed cer. It was excruciating. Th ere are a few “Everything is Beautiful,” “Bring Us with these guys on the record and on when I was pretty young. I was brought moments in peoples’ lives that dictate Together,” and “Hollywood,” giving the the road with me. Th ere’s Jeff Lipstein up in a family where the religion didn’t the course, that cause major turns and album a sense of celebration of the here- on drums, Brett Bass on bass, Anthony allow you to go to doctors. And I was and-now. Krizan on guitar, Rob Clores on keys. Continued on page 24 But some of the music was written for We went in and knocked out the basic Ewing’s mother, whose illness and death tracks. Th ere were a couple songs—one put the New York resident through an in particular called “Tombstone”—where emotional wringer…but whose life les- I didn’t even have lyrics. I went traveling sons gave him a newfound appreciation last summer; I went over to Tanzania for everything life has to off er. “Come and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro—this Back Now” and “Shine” address the whole Africa trek—and when I came back profound grief everyone suff ers upon the plan was to release the record. But I losing a loved one. Yet they also capture hadn’t fi nished the damn lyrics! So I was the joy and beauty of shared time with like, ‘I’m sure it’ll happen in Africa!’ But those individuals while fi nding one’s it didn’t. Th en I thought it would come way through life. together on the plane and it didn’t. And Ewing is taking the new tunes on then at the last second the story in the the road this spring, so we rang him to song just kind of fell out of the sky. At talk about the writing and recording of that point the race was on to wrap up the Come and Meet Me and discuss how the mixing and mastering. It just seemed to creative process got him back on his feet get pretty rushed. And we felt it didn’t again. make sense to put it out in November VOICE: Hey, Sherman! Tell us a bit when all the holiday releases were com- about the new album. When was it ing out. So we pushed it to now, and recorded, and who’d you have with you we’ve put together some tour dates, and in the band? I’m pleased with how it all came out. SHERMAN EWING: We recorded VOICE: You can hear the excitement “Shine” at the beginning of last year… in the songs. Some of them sound folky around a year ago now. I’d been writ- and Americana, but there’s rock, blues… ing songs for about six months. I took even a quasi-reggae tune on there. Lots a workshop with this guy in New York of styles. called Tony Conniff . Th ey forced you S.E: Th at was what I was hoping for to write a song a week. And my issue’s when I started putting the record to- never been about the writing, but fi nish- gether. It moved into a new direction for ing the songs [laughs]! So there’s noth- me. I think my earlier records are sort of North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 23 North Coast Voice

Continued from page 23 not a churchgoing kind of guy, and I your other job. How’d you get started twists, and that was one of them. I spent don’t profess to have any spiritual path walking dogs? Apparently it’s a pretty a long time trying to resolve it. Over the I feel the need to impress on anybody big venture for you now. You sing about course of the next few years I tried to else—but I do have that sense that there it in “Everything Is Beautiful.” come to terms with it. I remember my is goodness in the world, and that people S.E: “Everything Is Beautiful,” yeah. mom saying—one of the last things— working together can do a lot. So that’s Walking the dogs! My neighbor needed was when I was going to Columbia. There it [laughs]! I kind of went on a tangent help with her dog. She broke her ankle, was a pressure to go to law school or Wall there, but that’s it! and as a kid my job was to work as an Street. And I just didn’t want to do that. VOICE: Other songs on the album are assistant to a dog trainer. After school V It was like I was walking in a world that very bright and upbeat and have a sense and in summers I worked as an assistant wasn’t gonna work for me, but I felt like I of community and positivity. trainer. So this lady knew I loved dogs, had to. But one of the last things she said S.E: Yeah. Until very recently I had and I said I’d help her out first thing in was, ‘Do whatever you want to do, but do this thing where it’s like, ‘Can I please the morning and last thing at night. it the best you can.’ She’d been a painter, write a song that’s not so depressing And literally during the first couple days but she stopped when she had kids. But and sad?’ [Laughs] But again, this does walking this dog—Toby—I ran into a couple years before she died she was seem to be a step in the right direction. this artist from Ireland who was a dog- able to start again, and that was a happy Although that last track, “For a Day,” is a walker. She was moving back to Ireland time for her. There’s a really great quote song about someone on death row. and said, ‘I don’t know what to do with by Marianne Williamson [from her book VOICE: Who are some of your influ- my customers. They’re disappointed that Return to Love: Reflections on the Prin- ences? What made you pick up the guitar I’m leaving. Can I give them your num- ciples of a Course in Miracles] that has to in the first place? ber?’ That’s when I decided I wouldn’t do with the whole thing. It’s so amazing, S.E: My first rock ‘n’ roll hero was go to grad school. I’d be a dog-walker! It and it ties in to “Shine.” It goes, ‘Our Elton John. When I was young I was wasn’t a popular decision with my dad, deepest fear is not that we are inad- put in an English boarding school. I was who’d shelled out a lot for Columbia. equate. Our deepest fear is that we are ten, and it was right around the time But I got pretty busy pretty quickly, and powerful beyond measure. It is our light, all those punk rockers got big. Like, The I really enjoyed it. I spend time with not our darkness, that most frightens Sex Pistols and Boomtown Rats and the dogs during the day and spend time us. We are all meant to shine, as children The Stranglers. We’d listen to them at doing music at night. What could be do. We were born to make manifest the school, we’d buy the singles—I still have better? Necessity is the mother of inven- glory of God that is within us.’ And I’m the original “God Save the Queen”—and tion, I guess. Because I wasn’t taking off we’d play the 45s on these little record work at all, and my girlfriend said for me players with the speakers turned out the to take some time off—or she was out windows to piss off the teachers [laughs]! of there! So I hired some help. Now the Then I came back and listened to a lot company is called Club Pet NYC. Twenty of what is now considered classic rock. years later, we’re pretty much all over Lots of Neil Young, Cat Stevens, and Jim Manhattan. We got so busy at first that I Croce. Those great singer / songwrit- didn’t know what we’d do, but it worked ers from back then; I think that’s where out really well. I have a wonderful team some of my influences come from. Later, of people, and I have dogs staying at my it was John Hyatt. His music just spoke house all the time. And I still get to play to me. The Talking Heads and The Clash, music at night. too. It’s like a journey. More recently it’s VOICE: The ideal is to make a living Band of Horses and Beach House. I listen doing what you love to do. to a lot of that stuff, too. S.E: Yeah [laughs]! Because that’s VOICE: You’re from Minnesota. What what you do! One thing that always oc- brought you to New York in the first curs to me—this goes back to “Shine”— place? is that we were tapped by New York S.E: When I came to New York I went Magazine as one of the best businesses. to Columbia. So I came for college. That’s We have some clients who used to be when I started playing in bands. I had a in the White House, some high-profile band called Sherman & The Bureaucrats, types and stuff. So it goes back to…I just and the drummer’s name was John ‘JoJo’ love dogs, man! I love spending time Herman, who is now playing keys with with the dogs, and it’s so easy to do a Widespread Panic. He’s been with them job if you love what you do. You go back a while. In fact, my first release party for to the whole thing about how people Come and Meet Me is on March 13 at think that it’s not an option. But that’s Rockwood Music Hall in New York, and not necessarily true. It is an option, you he’ll be sitting in on that. And the next know? Sometimes you don’t feel like you night we’re playing in D.C., and then Pan- can stay between the white lines! The ic plays. So that’s the kickoff for the tour. truth is you can do anything you want VOICE: I wanted to talk a little about to do.

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My mind was fl oored. Remember earlier! If you do not use the product then how do TALKING SHOP you know you would support the product? I then asked if they ever used the gear at ■■■ By Mike Edgerly all and he said simply, no. So this gear was given and accepted strictly on the word Endorsements “free”. Basically, “Oh it’s free! Sure I will use VOk, so we are going to dive back into the parties. Th e company endorsing should be it!” I am not here to judge a person’s deci- V world of endorsements. I am going to speak aware, if they are not, the whole point in sion on why they chose an endorsement, personally here about an incident that hap- endorsing an artist. but I am going to throw a stone. When I pened recently with a company about en- I stumbled across an artist that was support the product, I show that I use it. dorsement. In truth I approached the com- endorsed around the same time as me and So to have been off ered a deal that in my pany with my appreciation on their great learned that instead of paying for this gear, eyes was inadequate for what I off er! No. product. After a very long conversation it they received it free. When looking into So I asked the question of why I was not seemed a great idea for them to endorse the situation I found out that this artist given free gear? Again, I was fl oored. Here me. Me loving the product, I jumped on played 100 shows a year to my 250. Most is what took place in the conversation. “I board and we began to discuss what would of the gigs this artist played were at bowl- love their music and wanted to represent be expected on both sides. Th ere was a ing alleys and free shows. Some festivals the artist.” Th e owner said. I was happy discount for the item, not free, and I agreed were peppered in here and there. When to hear that and my stomach settled and to these terms. Th ere were some signed speaking with the artist, they voluntarily my respect restored. Th en it was quickly contracts and then production notes began cheered about the free gear. Let me explain stripped away with what followed. “She's to exchange hands to personalize this piece something here. Th e idea of an endorse- cute, a girl, man", therefore will sell said of gear for my looping act. Several weeks ment is to get the gear in front of as many product because she’s young and hot is the into this adventure I had received multiple people as possible that would buy this gear. assumption I assumed. I sat speechless. I Facebook requests from other artists on Th e representation of the artist tells their did not expect to hear this out of his mouth the roster and like any other business fam- fans or other musicians in their circle, even though the industry is piled high with ily we all exchanged pics and excitement “check this gear out”. An example of this is sexist behavior. To hear it as if I was sup- with new gear. In this part of the conver- my endorsement with SIT Strings. I only posed to accept and understand as to why sation I am going to give advice to both use SIT and I fully express this with any I received a lesser deal, made my ears red musician. I also post their logo on my post- and my temper fl are. I took a breath and ers and gear where it would be benefi cial. thanked him for his time. All my endorsements get this treatment. It is important as an artist and as the en- Th ese endorsers look at my shows, where dorser to put yourself in each other’s shoes. I traveled, and with who I associate with I have endorsements that are free and oth- therefore seeing it advantageous to work ers that are at a discount. I am blessed with with me. So you could imagine what was each one and appreciate what they do for going through my head when I heard this me and allowing me to represent a product info. I did not approach the artist with my I really love. When I was given this explana- troubles because that isn't professional in tion I lost faith in the owner, the product, any way. And actually the reason behind and what it stands for. Th is product now the free gear may be explained and valid is out of my setup. It is on a shelf in my through the company, if they chose to studio and not used, even at practice. Th e share why. So I took up my grievance with owner has reached out several times about the rep, who was also the owner. Th e ex- when we should start production and I planation I got fl oored me. It is important have been trying to fi nd a way to approach that I note here that professionalism across them with an explanation on what the the board is so important in this industry. next move may be. I will not be disrespect- It is a small business in truth and word gets ful and yet I will tell them why I will not around quickly within the fi eld no matter endorse their product to anyone anymore. how small the company, or big. Th ey all talk So I will stay to my word, professional and and know someone within the industry. So straight forward, but with respect. I hope let’s talk about what happened. It's class this example reaches you and helps you time folks. Professionalism 101. with what you should expect from these So when I came forward with my situa- companies. Remember, an endorsement is tion I was very easy going into the conver- a two way street. You are there to help each sation. I also didn't beat around the bush; other. I would have taken this gear at a dis- the key word throughout the rest of this count without a complaint. I believed in the article is professionalism. Th e owner heard product. It is still a good product, but I will me out and then explained to me that this not represent a company with this type of artist did not have a product at all from belief and reasoning behind their product the company and so they sent a free one. endorsement.

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what we’d do, or how we’d add guitars— that’s what we used to pay off the second if we’d be doing what the orchestra was music video and buy our gear and cos- PRE-CONCERT RUNDOWN doing, or if we’d write our own parts. tumes and the lights for the live shows. Th ere wasn’t this whole big idea of a big ■■■ By Pete Roche I believe it was a year and a couple days spectacle. Th at all just kind of came out from the fi rst video to the fi rst live show. of, ‘Wouldn’t it be ridiculous, wouldn’t it It happened pretty quickly. We’re all still be hilarious?’ Because the new movie was kind of recovering! just coming out, and we started talking VOICE: Classical music can be so much V ideas and costumes and green screens. more technically demanding than rock VOICE: By ‘new movie’ you mean Th e music. How do you delegate the musical Force Awakens, right? parts? Which guitarist plays what bits? C.K: Right! And truth be told, Grant C.K: Well, it’s weird that the parts sort and I had a number of ideas of random of make themselves apparent. Th e lower things in the past, and I just kind of sections of the orchestra lend themselves assumed this would be one of those well to rhythm guitar stuff , and the things. Something that would fall by the high stuff becomes the lead guitars. And wayside. I think it was me who suggested there’s the main and counter-melodies to maybe re-create what the orchestra going on. As Vader I’ll do the main stuff . did, since there’s so much going on Our other guitarist—C.J.—he does the Galactic Empire gives glimpse into their universe anyway that adding more guitar parts counter-melodies. He’s the best guitarist Show comes to Beachland Ballroom February 15th might make it muddy. So Grant—who in the band, full disclosure! He’s the fast- has perfect pitch—he was able to just est. I couldn’t do that stuff to save my A long time ago in multiplexes not citing, challenging music listen to the orchestra bar- life! Mike, our rhythm guitar player, he’ll so far away, George Lucas reimagined for the masses. by-bar and pick out every handle the bottom end. And the bassist, a classic tale of heroes and villains, of Galactic Empire plays individual piece that was Carson, he’ll follow Mike. A lot of people princesses and Palpatines, of good ver- the Beachland Ballroom being played. He’s insane! when we fi rst launched the video, there’s sus evil…in outer space. in Cleveland on February So he did that for the ‘Main all these metal elitists—there’s a lot of But the Star Wars saga wouldn’t have 15. Visit their website for Th eme’ and the ‘Imperial elitism in the metal community—they been as joyful a sensory overload with- additional tour dates—or March.’ We decided to do a were quick to criticize how like, ‘Th is isn’t out John Williams’ majestic score. Th e to order the record. video to coincide with the Star Wars musical themes—including VOICE: Hi, Chris! I new movie, and the goal Continued on page 28 the main titles, character themes, and wasn’t sure if I should ad- again was to get a million iconic “Imperial March”—underscored dress you in character as views. We thought it had all the action and drama, and rank Vader…or just as Chris. the potential, and it did—it among the most recognizable sound- CHRIS “DARK VADER” KELLY: When surpassed our wildest imagination. We tracks in motion picture history. we do written interviews we let people got the million hits in like the fi rst eight Now—with Star Wars: Th e Last Jedi do things in character and ask leading hours. Th at fi rst video on You Tube and still in theatres—Galactic Empire is giv- questions because it’s easier to formulate Facebook is in the neighborhood of ten ing Williams’ signature cinema salvos a responses that way. But on the phone or or twelve million views now. It snow- heavy metal makeover. in person it’s harder to do that stuff off - balled from there. We were stoked but Named for Darth Vader’s dastardly the-cuff [laughs]! we also just kind of fi gured that was it. dictatorship, the band is comprised of VOICE: So tell us how Galactic Empire We’d put out this viral video, and it was fi ve head-banging sci-fi afi cionados with started. awesome, but we didn’t think about any- an overabundance of rock and roll acu- C.K: A few years ago our drummer thing beyond that until we started get- men. Th e quintet covered the Star Wars Grant McFarland (‘Boba Sett’) wrote a ting comments from people. Stuff like, opening theme in costume as a gag back drum part to go along with the London ‘Th is should be a show!’ Before the band in 2015…but now the guys are taking Symphony Orchestra’s rendition of the was a real band we were contacted by a the show on the road behind their epon- ‘Imperial March.’ He and I recorded couple T.V. channels to perform on their ymous fi rst album, whose fi st-pumping that at his studio, and he fi lmed it and red carpet Oscars coverage. So our fi rst program boasts shred-tastic renditions put it on You Tube. His goal was to get show was on live television. We weren’t of your favorite Hoth hits, Dagobah dit- a million views. You fi gure if it’s Star even in the costumes. We just had on ties, and Coruscant classics. Wars-related, it’d help. It was just him like, black Sith robes! We were poolside We spoke with Galactic Empire’s Chris playing drums with the orchestra. He at the Roosevelt Hotel with these palm Kelly about their recent studio eff ort got like 300,000 views. Not bad. So that trees in the background [laughs]! It was and forthcoming “I’ve Got a Bad Feeling came and went. A year or so later he weird. But yeah, those things happened, About Th is” co-headline tour with the gave me a call when I was at work one and that’s when it turned into this thing fast-food freaks in Mac Sabbath. Kelly— day and said he and his partner—our where we realized people might want to who portrays “Dark Vader”—says it’s bass player, Carson—were thinking of pay for it, so we brainstormed how to not always easy riffi ng on behalf of His adding guitars to that drum arrangement take it to that level where there was a live Emperor’s Secret Service. But it’s a fun, and doing something more with it. We show. communal adventure that combines fi gured maybe we could make another We launched a Kickstarter and raised magical, familiar movie visuals with ex- video out of it. We didn’t know exactly sixty-something-thousand dollars, and North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 27 North Coast Voice Continued from page 27 more obvious Star Wars music—like cool, throwing breakdowns into John ‘Imperial March’—on the first record, Williams!’ But we didn’t. We added drum will you dip into deeper tracks and sequel parts to accentuate rhythmic things. But / prequel music for any follow-up? what we play is exactly what the orches- C.K: Oh, yeah! We just finished guitars tra played. John Williams just happens for the new record. I believe we only have to write stuff that really lends itself to to record the drums now, which is kind heavy metal! But it is daunting, because of backwards. Usually you do drums first. the mind of a classical composer isn’t But he demoed the stuff with electronic at all like the mind of a rock and roller! instrumentation, so we go off that—we Rock and roll is all power chords and played our parts off the demos. But yes, roots and fifths. So it was overwhelming we’ve got the whole second album for to have to learn the stuff. We’re better release sometime in the spring. We don’t with it now because we’ve been doing it, have a release day yet, but that’s our goal. but starting off was kind of a nightmare Same record label. It’s certainly heavier, to get it all down [laughs]! and I think a lot of the prog-metal fans VOICE: What kind of challenges come will be pretty interested in it if they give from playing in costumes? It can’t be it a shot! It’s deeper cuts, but there are easy. also some main character themes from C.K: Costumes in any capacity will some of the new movies and the pre- present their own set of challenges. The quels, and from the original trilogy—the costumes in the music videos are not the stuff we hadn’t touched. But yes, we hit ones we wear live. We don’t receive any on a lot of the iconic stuff with the first revenue or income from the music videos one. But the band is kind of go, go, go because we want to get more views on all the time. We’re not on the road as them, so we use the movie-accurate frequently as other working bands. Some costumes in them. The Star Wars imagery people think when a band isn’t on the is all the intellectual property of Disney, road, they’re just having time off. But our and they’re very protective of their I.T. phones are blowing up all the time with As soon as Disney took over the fran- conversations with our manager. We chise, Family Guy couldn’t do anything respond to emails and Facebook things. with it. And if Family Guy can’t use it, There’s always something going on. Now then neither can we [laughs]! we have to build another helmet, because VOICE: You want to avoid any ‘Impe- we introduced Kylo Ren into the lineup. rial entanglements’ with Disney! VOICE: Yes, I saw that the ‘Shadow C.K: [Laughs] Not only that, but Ranger’ meets his demise in the new the original costumes—the movie video. costumes—are terrible to play in. They’re C.K: [Laughs] Yeah! It’s still C.J. It’s heavy, they’re hot, they’re difficult to still the same guy playing guitar. But move in, and it’s difficult to see. It’s not there had been talk of bringing in other possible to play in them. Especially with characters. And the stuff that C.J. plays gloves. We don’t wear gloves live. We is so crazy and so good, that I felt like… got comments from people, ‘There’s no especially as a black stormtrooper [TIE way you play in those gloves!’ Well, of fighter pilot]—people who aren’t as course not—it’s a music video! So live familiar with the movies would be like, we have like, parody costumes. You can ‘Aren’t you Darth Vader?’ So I was like, tell who they’re supposed to be. It’s not ‘We should give him Kylo.’ Because Kylo Darth Vader, it’s Dark Vader. Things like is now a recognizable character, and that. Not only are they redesigned so people will pay more attention to him that they’re not infringing on anything, and the crazy stuff he’s doing. But yeah, they’re designed so that we can actually there’s always stuff going on. We’ll finish move in them and play a full show. It’s the new record, then the U.S. tour, and still more difficult than playing in regular then we’ll be back in Europe. So our 2018 street clothes. You have to get used to is pretty much scheduled out completely! how you look out of the masks, and you VOICE: Looking forward to it, and to have to be creative with it. Half the time the show. Thanks for the talk! I’m not looking out the eye visors in my C.K: Awesome! Cool. Sounds good, helmet, I’m looking out the mouth part, man! Thanks for having me. the vent [laughs]! We’ve been on the VOICE: May the force be with you… road enough so that we’ve gotten used to even if you’re a dirty rotten Sith lord! how the costumes work. But it was a big C.K: [Laughs] You as well! Have a good adjustment. one. VOICE: Given that you covered the 28 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | February 7, 2018 - March 7, 2018 North Coast Voice

Continued from page 14 sion of "Break My Heart Sweetly." Three LAUGH OR CRY of Moreland's songs have been featured Can you find the hidden words? They may be The Kent Stage on the "Sons of Anarchy" TV show. horizontal, vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards. Reserved seats are $35. The show Celebrating 16th begins at 8 p.m., with doors opening at BAWL, BEAM, Anniversary Weekend 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale now at kent- BLUBBER, James McMurtry & John Moreland stage.org Where you can also view the BRAY, added for Americana Night March 22nd full calendar of concerts. Tickets also CACHINNATE, The Kent Stage is celebrating its 16th available by phone at 877-987-6487. CHORTLE, CRY, year in 2018, and has just announced an GIGGLE, GRIN, addition to its powerhouse anniversary GUFFAW, weekend. Texas-born singer-songwriters Contra Dance James McMurtry & John Moreland will HOWL, perform an evening of brilliant Ameri- Saturdays LAUGH, ROAR, Troy Township Contra Dance is held at cana at The Kent Stage on Thursday, SCREAM, the Troy Community House (13950 Main March 22. The big weekend already SCREECH, Market Road aka Route 422; Burton, includes Dixie Dregs on March 23, The Ohio 44021) every first Saturday of the SHRIEK, Zombies on March 24 and Ricky Skaggs month (October through June). This SIMPER, & Kentucky Thunder on March 25. dance is lively and friendly. No need for SMILE, SMIRK, Longtime fans know James Mc- prior dance experience. Each Contra SNICKER, Murtry's vibrant vignettes have turned Dance, throughout the evening, is taught SNIFFLE, heads for more than a quarter-century. through simple instruction by dance His critically successful first album Too SNIVEL, caller Paul Balliet. With LIVE MUSIC Long in the Wasteland (1989), which SNORT, by the band "Mr. Haney"! This is a great was produced by John Mellencamp, SNUFFLE, SOB, family friendly event that you will look marked the beginning of a series of TITTER, WAIL, forward to every first Saturday of the acclaimed projects. In 1996, McMurtry W E E P, month (October through June). received a Grammy nomination for his Introductory dance lesson, by Will WHIMPER, tune "Where'd You Hide the Body," pro- Craig, starts at 6:30 p.m. and the Contra YAWL. duced by Canton's Don Dixon. Dance is from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. McMurtry's long career features a Admission is $10 per adult, $5 per youth, host of high watermarks. Songs detail- $25 per family and children under six ing the lives of everyday people pierce years are free. For more information listeners' hearts with sharp sociopoliti- contact Will Craig by calling (216) 316- cal commentary. "James McMurtry may 0068 or E-mailing [email protected]. be the truest, fiercest songwriter of his Investigate North Eastern Ohio’s Contra generation," said Stephen King. He is Dance culture, history and schedule by now on tour opening for Jason Isbell visiting www.neohiocontradance.org and the 400 Unit. "James McMurtry is one of my very few favorite songwriters on Earth," Isbell said, "and these days he's working at the top of his game." John Moreland began writing and singing songs in his early teens, and soon thereafter played in local bands. He cites Steve Earle as a huge influence on his writing. Moreland's early records were stripped down affairs, emphasiz- ing his church upbringing, elegant voice and acoustic guitar. His career, which for years was completely a DIY operation, continued to grow over the years, to the point where he could no longer handle it alone. Last year Moreland released his seventh album, Big Bad Luv, his first with a full band. Moreland made his network TV debut in 2016 on "Late Night with Stephen Colbert," performing an emotional ver-

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From the Deep, Cavernous Mind of SNARP FARKLE VD RULES! You will have your mind twisted just Would this suggest then that love is for a teensy tiny bit by the time you’re done sale on Valentine’s Day? And if you don’t reading this article! You’re welcome! have enough money you won’t get lucky I guess we can say that February is and you won’t be loved? Sounds like the Love month since Valentine’s Day is what would happen if you were caught purposely placed in the very heart of the visiting a brothel and broke! HaHaHa! month… as a target for the “Weaponized Valentine's Day, like most other Flying Naked Baby” perhaps? Except for holidays, is rooted in ancient drunken leap years Valentine’s Day is thirteen pagan rituals and can be traced back days from the beginning of the month to an ancient pagan holiday in which and thirteen days from the end of the men stripped themselves naked, armed month, right smack dab in the center! with whips, and ran through the streets I know that you are thinking I made a spanking young women in hopes of mistake because 13+13+1=27 days and increasing their fertility! that there are 28 days in February and Uhh… ok… that’s really strange! you would be correct except you must Another thing is in my own little have forgotten about the VD RULE! And world, where everybody loves me, I that rule is that Valentine’s Day starts at found written in the “Ancient Manu- noon on the 13th and ends at noon on script of Snarpology” on page DUH 27, the 15th where showering of gifts must when a guy thinks he knows and under- ensue! It’s one of those “unwritten” rules stands the “Relationship Rules”, then he that you are just supposed to know! No is in real friggen trouble! Relationship really! Rules are not written by the male gender, What I fi nd odd about this is the they’re not meant for him to understand, number 13 as it is associated with being but to give him a SAFE place that she unlucky, so here is this one good day sur- can’t blame him for anything! Except rounded by 27 days of bad luck! How- for Valentine’s Day, if you forget the VD ever, if fl owers are given before noon on RULE there’s no place you can hide! the thirteenth, one could still get lucky Now keep in mind that this is all part before VD offi cially starts! of the REAL world and we all know how Although depending on how stupid stupid that is! But you can be fooled into (Answers on page 29) one was since the last Valentine’s Day, it thinking that you are n-n-n-normal and may also take any combination of; fl ow- be fooled for years, but if you break the ers, a meal at an expensive restaurant, a VD rules… life will never be the same! box of chocolates, expensive jewelry, and ~ Snarp or a new car to get lucky, but then again www.snarpfarkle.com this could be true for any day of the year!

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