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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced Archives will be the world’s most compre- scruffy blue-jeaned busker into a brocaded Donovan continued to record and tour its inductees for 2012 on December 7th. hensive repository of written and audio-visual hippie traveler on Trans Love Airways. As a sporadically. During the 1990s, Rick Rubin The inductees are: materials relating to the history of rock and folkie on the road with Gypsy Dave, Donovan (after working with Johnny Cash) produced roll. became a Dylanesque visual presence on the Donovan’s Sutras. The 2008 documentary Performer Category: The 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame BBC’s Ready Steady Go! starting in 1964, and fi lm, Sunshine Superman: The Journey Of · Beastie Boys performer inductees were chosen by more than released several classics: “Catch The Wind,” Donovan is an essential overview of his · Donovan 500 voters of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame “Colours,” Buffy Ste.-Marie’s “Universal career. · Guns N’ Roses Foundation. Artists are eligible for inclusion Soldier,” “To Try For The Sun” and · Laura Nyro in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25 years more. Donovan ignited the psychedelic GUNS ‘N ROSES · Red Hot Chili Peppers after the release of their fi rst recording. revolution virtually single-handedly when the Guns N’ Roses may have began as just · The Small Faces/The Faces Induction Ceremony Presenters, the iconic single “Sunshine Superman” was another long-haired band trying to make it on HBO airdate and additional details about the released that summer of ’66. His heady fusion the L.A. Sunset Strip club scene, but when Early Infl uence: week of events will be announced at a later of folk, blues and jazz expanded to include they unleashed their debut LP Appetite For · Freddie King date. Indian music and the TM (transcendental Destruction on the world in 1987 they All inductees are ultimately represented meditation) movement. Donovan was at the instantly established themselves as one the Ahmet Ertegun (nonperformer) Award: in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Mu- center of the Beatles’ fabled pilgrimage to the most dynamic and explosive hard rock bands · Don Kirshner seum in Cleveland, Ohio. Through approaches Maharishi’s ashram in early ’68 (where, it is in history. In many ways, they became the as creative and diverse as the music itself, the said, he taught guitar fi nger-picking tech- Rolling Stones for a new generation. While The Award for Musical Excellence: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum tells niques to John and Paul). Donovan’s fi nal Top their peers produced glossy songs that · Cosimo Matassa the story of rock music with its exhibits, edu- 40 hit with Most was “Goo Goo Barabajagal romanticized the party atmosphere of · Tom Dowd cation programs and Library and Archives. (Love Is Hot)” in the summer ’69, backed by mid-1980s Los Angeles, frontman Axl Rose, · Glyn Johns the Jeff Beck Group. In the ’70s and ’80s, guitarist Slash, drummer Steven Adler, About the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ~Continued on Page 14 The 27th annual Rock and Roll Hall Inductees: of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place Performer Category: on Saturday, April 14, 2012 in Cleveland and premiere on HBO in early May. The 2012 BEASTIE BOYS ceremony will again be open to the public, as At different times over the past three it was – for the fi rst time in the event’s history decades, the Beastie Boys have been shaven- – at the 2009 Inductions in Cleveland. head punks, hip-hop bad boys, Seventies-funk “We are pleased to announce this year’s students, political activists and style icons. Hall of Fame inductees, who represent the Most important: they have had one of the broad spectrum of artists that defi ne rock and richest, most important careers in hip-hop and roll,” said Joel Peresman, President and CEO rock, introducing rap to a huge new audience of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Founda- and then pushing the frontiers of what a hip- tion. “We are also thrilled this year to again hop group could do. Their 1986 debut album be partnered with HBO, who presented the Licensed To Ill – a supremely bratty, hard- Hall of Fame’s 25th Anniversary Concerts.” punching, pitch-perfect mix of rap and hard “Our previous collaboration with the rock – was hip-hop’s fi rst number one album, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was a landmark and remains near the top of the Billboard television event,” said Michael Lombardo, catalog charts to this day. The single “(You president, HBO Programming. “We are Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!),” delighted to team up with the Hall of Fame became a teenage party anthem of the 1980’s. again for what should be a memorable eve- In the 1990’s, they came full circle musically, ning.” picking up their instruments and bringing Leading up to the April 14 ceremony, back hardcore punk and funk into their music the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will host repertoire. Along the way, they’ve kept more than a week of special events, including experimenting with what a hip-hop band can the grand opening of the Rock and Roll Hall be becoming the most politically active group of Fame’s new Library and Archives, tours of of their generation with the Tibetan Freedom the newly-redesigned Museum interior space, Concerts. the unveiling of a major new exhibition, the Rock My Soul gospel tribute, a free concert DONOVAN for Cleveland and a special series of educa- The fi rst British folk troubadour who tion programs designed to teach students truly captured the imaginations of early across the nation about the history and impact Beatles-era fans on both sides of the Atlantic, of rock and roll. Once open, the Library and Donovan Leitch made the transition from a
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Ingredients 1 cup mild olive oil 1/4 cup champagne vinegar 1/2 cup champagne Salt and freshly ground pepper Pinch sugar, optional
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R.I P. sona onstage, and Sumlin’s guitar snarled fl air, this was the place to go. The music, the Hubert Sumlin right back. His jagged, unpredictable guitar energy, the crowds…….. The laughs and the 1931 – 2011 style, on cuts like “Smokestack Lightning”, drinks were fl owing and the Cajun-inspired “Spoonful” and “Red Rooster”, was food was bon manje ! Hubert Sumlin, the his signature sound. The two made But times have been tough, and guitarist who put the staggering music together, but they many issues have led to the demise of this match and the gasoline sometimes battled off the bandstand, popular establishment. Parking, construction to Howlin’ Wolf’s fi re, too, with equal intensity. They black- and the downturn of the economy were all and inspired rock guitar ened each other’s eye, and knocked contributing factors. As owner Steve Zambo- players like Jimmy Page, out teeth, but they always made up to rsky put it, “the place just ran out of steam.” Robbie Robertson and play the music. The restaurant closed its doors for the last time Eric Clapton, passed When Wolf died in1976, on Sunday, December 5th, and the place will away on Sunday, De- Sumlin dropped out of the music be missed by many. cember 4th, in Wayne, scene for awhile, deeply affected. Fat Fish Blue, at 21 Prospect Ave. at New Jersey. He was But he went on to tour extensively in Ontario Street, was originally an abandoned eighty years old and died the U.S., Europe and Japan over the Goodyear Tire store, attached to the former of heart failure. Sumlin next thirty-odd years. He continued May Company department store. “I thought, was the last of the great to produce albums, and was inducted ‘you know, put a wall here, some windows Delta bluesmen, born in into the Blues Foundation Hall of there, and this could be a really neat space,’“ the Mississippi Delta and raised in Arkansas. Fame in 2008. says Zamborsky. “It was so cool to turn this He burst onto the Chicago blues scene with Hubert Sumlin earned four Grammy, into a great destination for food and live mu- Howlin’ Wolf in 1953 and the two shared a nominations, most recently in 2010 for Kenny sic. How much fun is that?” He transformed productive, though volatile working relation- Wayne Shepherd’s Live! In Chicago, and pre- it into a popular spot, known for the spicy ship for twenty-three years, until Wolf’s death viously for Tribute to Howlin’ Wolf with Hen- cuisine, and for its blues, jazz and rock scene. in 1976. ry Gray, Calvin Jones, Sam Lay, and Colin Legendary bluesman Robert Lockwood Jr. Sumlin’s eerie guitar was the perfect Linden (1999), Legends with Pinetop Perkins had a regular Wednesday night gig there until counterpart to Howlin’ Wolf’s moan and (2000) and for his solo project About Them his death in 2006. growl. The Wolf had a hypermacho per- Shoes, which featured performances by Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Levon Helm, David It will now be converted into the Tilted Johansen and James Cotton (2005). Kilt, a Celtic-themed sports bars, with burg- Though Sumlin never achieved a ers, beer and female servers. “Kilt Girls,” clad fraction of the fame of his celebrated former in short, snug plaid skirts and cropped tops, boss, but he was nonetheless one of the most are the big attractions at the rapidly growing infl uential guitarists ever, revered by fellow chain of restaurants, founded in Las Vegas in blues musicians all over the world. As testa- 2003. The location is directly adjacent to the ment to this, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger upcoming Horseshoe Casino. insisted on picking up the tab for the funeral While I’m sure that doesn’t sound too expenses of their guitar hero, honoring him bad to some readers, it’s a bit of a sad day in for the inspiration. Hubert Sumlin had a Cleveland. A little bit of southern fl air that was sound that other players tried to emulate, but unique to this area will be no more. No more none could achieve. “He can be imitated, but laissez les bon temps roulez at Fat Fish Blue! never duplicated.” Best Blues Albums of 2011 Fat Fish Blue There was a wealth of stellar blues Closed After Thirteen Years music released in 2011, and everyone has For the last thirteen years Fat Fish Blue their own ideas about what the blues really was a popular Southern style watering and is, and where the borderlines between blues, eating hole. If you wanted that New Orleans jazz, roots, rock, and soul music actually fall. I 8 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 December 21, 2011 - January 11, 2012 have compiled a list of outstanding 2011 blues guests join Winter in trading licks while releases, one that I’m sure will not satisfy honoring Winter’s idols, including Sonny *ROI$YH*HQHYD2Q7KH/DNH¬ everyone, but I feel it is a fair representation Landreth, Vince of the best of this ambiguous genre: Gill, Warren 7KXUVGD\V¬2SHQ0LF-DPVSP Haynes, John 'HF¬ Jeff Beck – Rock-n-Roll Party Honoring Les Popper, Jimmy %UDG3HWKHO Paul Vivino, Derek RI7KH/RVW6KHHS%DQG It’s tough to Trucks, Susan make a live Tedeschi, John )ULGD\V¬.DUDRNH¬ SP recording that Medeski and +RVWHGE\6WHSKDQLH &KLS matches the Johnny’s brother perfection Edgar Winter. 1HZ
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His note emphasizes the deliber- about a fortyish man who looks like Adrian. ate, self-willed character of his act. But He tries to get the diary, an artifact from a To give a sense of the beginning of A Tony more or less blames Veronica. He departed avatar of truth and wisdom, which Sense of an Ending, I’ll speak of an exchange, thinks that Adrian would not have acted artifact—he hopes—embodies the truth he appearing in its pages, between a student as he did if he had been involved with seeks. This is a quest story in which the quest and a history master at a London second- any other woman. At this stage, a reader itself, not the ever-elusive Grail, gives up ary school. According to a certain school may be inclined to agree. As narrator, whatever truth its hero fi nds. of thought, says the student, you can’t say Tony has spoken of the slippery charac- The older Tony has acquired the Adri- anything for certain about any historical event ter of time and memory. But his relat- anic virtue of seriousness, but what he—or Ju- except “something happened.” The master’s ing of past events has an immediacy to lian Barnes—is working with by now has less response is mildly amusing and not at all it; one tends to accept his versions of to do with seriousness-versus-unseriousness serious. But the student was being serious them. This is to change. than with the imbalance between truth and indeed. The spirit of his comments in the After telling of the fi nal breakup, one’s means of fi nding it. Those means would exchange presides over this story, or maybe I Tony speaks briefl y of his next few include memory, a thing unreliable and often should say it haunts it. You can’t be sure that decades— marriage, a daughter, self-serving. Tony’s memory is all of that, but a fundamentally serious student won’t instruct divorce. And then, in what is now it’s also unpredictable—it lays down some a less-serious master, but that is the least of the recent past, he fi nds out that revelatory cards very late in the game. Truth is the matter. It is not guaranteed that a river Veronica’s mother has left him some far bigger than Tony’s understanding of it. But won’t reverse itself, and the history that one money, and—get this—Adrian’s he eventually discovers some very interesting has actually seen, tasted and lived is the most diary. But it seems that Veronica things about his own behavior, Adrian’s last uncertain of all. has the diary, and does not plan to days, and the overlapping repercussions of After gradu- The scholar of the “something happened” give it up. She does give Tony a tantalizingly both. ation Tony gets into a university, where he persuasion is Adrian Finn, a new guy at the cryptic fragment of it, along with a copy of Publisher - Alfred A. Knopf acquires a girlfriend, one Veronica Ford. There school when he and the history master have a hateful letter, in Tony’s hand, which he has Release – October, 2011 163 pages is a coolness, maybe even a certain snootiness their exchange. The masters are impressed no memory of writing. And Adrian’s words— about her. She looks askance at Tony’s rock with him, as are the fi rst-person narrator and “something happened,” i.e., you can’t be sure LPs and doesn’t allow what in their time and his two best friends, fellow students of Finn’s. of much else—are now made fl esh, as it were. place is called “full sex.” (The older Tony I would say they accept him into their group, From here on, a reader likely won’t go along explains that, yes, it was the sixties, but that but it’s truer to say that he accepts them. He with Tony’s version of his history, or the ver- for most people the sixties weren’t as free becomes the philosopher of the group. He sion he’s had until recently, because it doesn’t and easy as people nowadays think.) 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Once again, the year end has arrived at an alarming rate, and I am left wondering land their home, at some point in their lives. ingly endless list of highly respected musi- how it is that days, which sometimes seem As I prepare each issue of this article, I cians around the world. Perhaps none more quite long, can turn into weeks and months refer to several different sources before decid- highly regarded than Paul Simon, whom Had- that pass so very, very quickly. ing which artists or events to feature. While dad has performed and recorded with since It is usually around the holidays that I doing this research, I can always be assured 1998. Once, in 2004 at a concert in Rome, he Face Value become somewhat refl ective, maybe even that I will fi nd something exciting happen- accompanied Simon at a performance in front slightly philosophical, as I look back over the ing at Nighttown on Cedar Rd. in Cleveland of a crowd of over 600,000. Unimaginable! for the Holidays year and try to decide if things have moved Heights. There are many native Clevelanders Jamey also accompanied Paul Simon’s perfor- in a positive direction. One way or another, I who have gained national recognition in the mances at the Grammys and at Paul’s hall of will usually come to the conclusion that yes, $LC "?=YJG jazz realm and I know that I can count on my fame induction. 2B?5CH?LS;N1JLCHA&CFF it was indeed, a good year; maybe tough at friends at Jim Wadsworth productions to bring The Art of Jazz is still alive and well times, but good nonetheless. If ever I fi nd my- them home to the Nighttown stage. in America, and is very much a part of our $LC "?=YJG;G self to be in doubt, I will always fi nd a way to On December 27th and 28th, just such history and culture here in Cleveland as well. .;L;>CM?'MF;H>1;FIIHY#O=FC> put a positive spin on the worst of situations, an event will take place. Native-Clevelander, We are very fortunate to have someone like so that I may celebrate another successful master percussionist and world-class per- Jamey Haddad right here at home, sharing his year. Like the song says, “accent…tuate the former / educator, Jamey Haddad returns to knowledge and experiences with Cleveland 1;N (;HYJG+C>HCABN positive, elim…inate the negative. Cleveland, from touring with Paul Simon, for area youth. 0?>&;QE%LCFF?Y!IH=IL> For the most part, this past year has been 2 Holiday shows. Featuring: Mark Soskin – To witness the performance of this world fi lled with good experiences, shared with piano; Billy Drewes – saxophone; and Kip renown artist on December 27th or 28th, in the Be sure to visit us on you tube at good friends, and I am truly grateful for both. Reed - electric bass. intimate, personal setting of the music room at www.youtube.com/user/ I feel, as always, blessed by the presence of In addition to his tenure as an interna- Nighttown, visit nighttowncleveland.com , for FaceValueBand good health, close family and good friends. I tional performer, Haddad has invented and ticket and show information. To learn more For full schedule, check website will, as always, not dwell upon the negative patented several percussion instruments. He about the life of Jamey Haddad and his travels, DonPerrySaxman.com events that may have taken place because to is an author and lecturer and is considered check out jameyhaddadmusic.com do so would gain absolutely nothing. My one an authority on musical cultures and their www.facevaluemusic.com regret, as always, is that I was unable to spend rhythmic base. Currently he is an instructor just a little more time with those who left this at the Berklee School of Music, The New Eng- world behind in 2011. Those that I knew well land Conservatory, Oberlin College and the and held dear, as well as those whom I wish Cleveland Institute of Music. I could have known better. But as my dear Among his many accomplishments, friend Samuel Nappi, (1927-2011), always Jamey is the recipient of 3 National Endow- said, “What’a ya gonna do, Ehh?” I miss you ments for the Arts, Performance Grants and a Amigo. Your presence made this world, and Fulbright Fellowship. He can also be heard my life, much richer. on more than 170 recordings and routinely has As I begin this, my 5th year as author of articles published internationally, relating to the “What About Jazz” column, I the experi- refl ect gratefully upon the opportu- ences of the nities that have come along with the contempo- task. I have been fortunate enough rary world to meet a wealth of talent from the musician. Cleveland area and beyond; artists A for- who have dedicated their lives to mer Berklee the study and performance of jazz student and many who also work diligently himself, to pass the art form along to future Haddad can generations. I am grateful for the currently be chance to witness their performanc- heard on the es as well as conversing with these recently re- gifted musicians. leased album Penning this column has “Esperanza”, also brought to my attention, an by prodigy entire world of musicians whose Esperanza accomplishments are simply mind- Spauld- blowing, yet their work remains ing, who largely unnoticed because they studied under have gained recognition via the pop Haddad at scene. Many, if not most of the art- Berklee, and ists who have been featured in this also “stole column were completely unknown the show” to me just a few years ago. Another last year at especially interesting fact is just how many the Grammy Awards. accomplished artists have considered Cleve- Jamey Haddad has worked with a seem- December 21, 2011 - January 11, 2012 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 13 ~Continued from Page 5 prodigy John Frusciante and drummer Chad “You’ve Got To Love Her With A Feeling” rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin and bassist Duff Smith – broke through with 1991’s BloodSug- and “The Stumble” are part of the DNA of McKagan wrote about the gritty realities of arSexMagik, a multi-platinum fusion of metal modern electric blues. Born in Texas, young the scene, most memorably on their master- and rap that was pivotal in bringing modern Freddie arrived in Chicago with his family in piece “Welcome To The Jungle.” The massive black street culture and music to the Nirvana 1950, a perfect moment to start learning from 7KH&RROHVW single “Sweet Child O’ Mine” showed their generation. The Chili Peppers’ hits have run Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers gentler side, while “Mr. Brownstone” was a the melodic and emotional gamut from the and all of the legendary post-war bluesmen. 0XVLF6WRUH brilliant cautionary tale about the dangers of fi erce hip hop of BloodSugar’s “Give It Away” Over the next ten years, as the First Great heroin. In 1991, inspired by Queen and Elton and the 1992 Number Two ballad “Under The blues revival took shape, Freddie developed a String Prices John, they released the highly ambitious Use Bridge,” one of the best pop songs ever style all his own. In 1961, he miraculously Your Illusion albums on the same day. Epic written about the grip of addiction, to the charted six R&B Top 30 hits on the King/ Lowest in Town! singles “November Rain” and “Civil War” heavy riffi ng of “Scar Tissue” and the Federal label that were heard from coast-to- proved how quickly the band had evolved in a gorgeous melancholy of “Otherside” on coast and were profoundly infl uential on both In-Store Repairs few short years, and they were soon packing 1999’s Californication. The Chili Peppers’ sides of the Atlantic. Freddie King thrived on stadiums all across the globe. When the tour 2006 two-CD set, Stadium Arcadium, went rock, jazz and blues scenes and at festivals Over 50 Years of wrapped in late 1993, the band paid tribute to right to Number One, an ambitious collection starting in the late ’60s and ’70s, even getting their 1970s hard rock, punk and glam heroes that added Sixties-pop harmonies, blazing name-checked by Grand Funk Railroad on Musical Experience by recording an album of covers called The psychedelia and progressive-rock dynamics to “We’re An American Band” (“Up all night Spaghetti Incident. their heavy California soul. After their longest with Freddie King/ I got to tell you, poker’s Karaoke Equipment hiatus ever, the Chili Peppers returned in the his thing”). Right up through his death, all too Lighting Products LAURA NYRO summer of 2011 with a new album, I’m With soon at age 42, Freddie infl uenced Stevie Ray Yorkville Amps Bronx-born singer, songwriter and You (which debuted at Number One in 17 and Jimmie Vaughan, and the next generation Guitars & Bases pianist Laura Nyro (1947-1997) was still a countries), and a new tour that will take them of disciples who would take electric blues into teenager in 1966 when she recorded her debut through 2013. the ’80s, ’90s and beyond. WE BUY USED GEAR album, and Peter, Paul & Mary cut “And When I Die.” At age 19, Laura played the THE SMALL FACES/THE FACES Ahmet Ertegun (nonperformer) Award: Lessons: Guitar, Bass, Banjo 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, which brought Founded in London in 1965, the Small Mandoline & Piano her to the attention of fi rst-time manager Faces were two great bands in one: visionary DON KIRSHNER David Geffen. He led her to Columbia, mods who were creative peers and commercial Don Kirshner’s career spanned the 1493 Mentor Ave. Laura’s record label for the next 25 years, equals of the Beatles, the Who and the Rolling heyday of New York’s Brill Building, which Painesville Commons Shopping Center starting with 1968’s iconic Eli And The Stones, then reborn in the early Seventies with was the ground zero of pop songwriting in the Thirteenth Confession. Other artists scored hit a shortened name and a thrilling inventive 1950s and 60s, included a pivotal role in 440.352.8986 hard-rock sound. 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Dec. 31 followed with “Eli’s Coming.” Laura’s 1971 Sixties soul-infl ected pop and English changed his name to Bobby Darin and went on LP with Labelle, Gonna Take A Miracle, an psychedelic romanticism. Marriott’s Cockney- to a successful recording career. In 1958, CELEBRATE NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH US AT entire program of R&B covers, produced in Otis Redding wail was a profound infl uence Kirshner embarked upon a new partnership, THE LODGE AT GENEVA ON-THE-LAKE! Philadelphia by Gamble & Huff, remains a on heavy-rock singers like Led Zeppelin’s founding Aldon Music with musician Al Robert Plant. When Marriott quit in early Nevin. Aldon was a songwriting factory, FOUR COURSE DINNER WITH WINE SERVICE, classic four decades later. 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By La”) while conquering America with boozy- 1972, Kirshner was concentrating on his FOR MORE DETAILS/RESERVATIONS. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS brother showmanship. The Faces broke up in television career. That year he became Formed in the sin-and-glamour capital 1975 when Stewart went solo full-time and executive producer on ABC’s live-music Fri. Jan. 13 of America – Hollywood, California – in 1983, Wood joined the Stones. (Lane died in 1997.) show, In Concert. In 1973, he debuted Don the Red Hot Chili Peppers are one of the most But in their exuberance and pioneering spirit, Kirshner’s Rock Concert. The show hosted SPECTATORS SPORTS GRILLE fl amboyant, commercially successful and the Small Faces and the Faces have always performances by a who’s who of rock (WILLOUGHBY HILLS musically infl uential bands of rock’s last been one band: brilliant, unprecedented and as luminaries, including the Rolling Stones, the infl uential as ever. Eagles, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, 9:00pm-1:00am quarter century. Singer Anthony Kiedis, bassist Michael Balzary a/k/a Flea, guitarist Blondie, the Ramones and the Allman Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons were Early Infl uence: Brothers, among many others. Don Kirsh- Sat. Jan. 14 high school pals who combined their passions ner’s Rock Concert was broadcast until 1982, for Jimi Hendrix, Seventies R&B and hardcore FREDDIE KING and Kirshner retired, fi rst to New Jersey, then STARLITE LOUNGE punk with sexual exuberance and local Guitarists ranging from Eric Clapton and Boca Raton, Florida, where he died of heart GENEVA 9:00PM-1:00AM skateboard culture, immediately becoming Mike Bloomfi eld, to Peter Green, Jeff Beck failure on January 17, 2011. famous for their outrageous (often near-naked) and Carlos Santana have all acknowledged VISIT OUR WEB SITE FOR MORE live shows and incendiary jamming. 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Christmas has come early for quite a Big Eddy line to expand few cities across the country this year. The in 2012 Brewers Association reports that more than Beer afi cionados, wine enthusi- 50 breweries in over 20 states have opened in asts, home brewers and other taste- the past two months, which means a boost for adventurers are about to get a hearty their local economies. Visit brewersassocia- helping of Big Eddy brews from tion.org the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company. Leinenku- gel’s released Big Eddy Russian Imperial Stout on a limited basis in 2010, and now the Big Eddy family is expanding. In 2012, Big Eddy fans can look North Dakota, South Dakota, Georgia, New forward to three brand-new Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington robust brews in this craft series: D.C., Virginia, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky, a Double India Pale Ale, a Bal- Texas, and Arizona. The stout, which is 9.5 tic Porter and a Scotch Ale. percent ABV, will be available in four-pack Inspired by the Big Eddy Spring, the bottles and on draft for a limited time. lifeline of the Leinenkugel’s brewery in Leinenkugel’s will share more details about Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Cans Chippewa Falls, Wis. since 1867, the Big the three new Big Eddy Series beers Facebook Hit Production Eddy brand offers beer drinkers complex, yet in early 2012. As not to cause false alarm – the beer is balanced fl avors beyond the mainstream. The not in the cans yet but it will be. For Sierra Russian Imperial Stout, available November to Nevada lovers who prefer the portability and January, is a deep mahogany brew featuring 11 other advantages of cans keep your eyes on different malts, espresso and mocha character the store shelves. It has a deep amber color and fi nishing with toffee and molasses notes. and an exceptionally full-bodied, complex Big Eddy Russian Imperial Stout ages character. Generous quantities of premium well and is reminiscent of the 18th century Cascade hops give the Pale Ale its fragrant Russian Imperial Stout style that contained bouquet and spicy fl avor. It is the brewery’s extra malts and hops to act as preservatives fl agship beer. The canned version of Sierra during long voyages from England to Russia, Nevada Pale Ale is expected to be released where it was served in the royal court. Brewed next month. with 11 different malts including Munich, Carmel, Chocolate, classic Pale and Pale Ale, this Russian Imperial Stout provides a rich, dry character, perfectly balancing Big Eddy’s hoppy assertiveness. Warrior, Summit and Glacier hops create a bold tribute to the characteristic intensity of the fl avor. Big Eddy Russian Imperial Stout will be available in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Indi- ana, Kentucky, Iowa,
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December 21, 2011 - January 11, 2012 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 17 8th ANNUAL HOLIDAY REVIVAL” SHOW RETURNS TO HOUSE OF BLUES Little Fish Records announced that Carlos Jones had the opportunity to perform By Monday, Ghetto Wisdom, Mifune, and Carlos Jones & The P.L.U.S. Band (aka The at this year’s Easter Egg Roll at the White Robin Stone. To make the story even bet- Peace, Love, Unity Syn- House in Washington, ter, the Outlaws I&I, led by singer Butch dicate) will be bringing D.C. with his brother Buchanon, has revamped their lineup over 7ED $EC s the “Holiday Revival” Norman Jones and the course of the year, to now include former Debonne Vineyards show back to the The the Rhythm Child First Light members Chopper (guitar, bass), House of Blues on Network, where he Gino Long (guitar, bass), Ed Marthey (key- 4HURS $EC s Monday, December 26th met President Barack boards), and Rod Reisman (drums). While Old Mill Winery at 8:00 p.m. This is an Obama and his wife First Light disbanded in 1998 when Jones "Acoustic Thursday" all ages show. Opening Michele. The Hessler left to pursue his solo career, the remaining will be Outlaws I&I, Street Fair in May had band members each went their own way until &RI $EC s featuring four former the largest crowd on the group reunited for the 10 year anniver- Pipers III, Broadview Hts. members of First Light. record, as the PLUS sary of their breakup in 2008. Apparently, This year’s Band performed right they all got the itch to play together again, 4HURS $EC s show once again returns after the legendary so when Butchie B fi rst added Gino Long on Old Mill Winery the day after Christmas American Reggae guitar, it didn’t take long for the rest of the "Acoustic Thursday" and caps off another pioneers, I-Tal – who guys to fall in line. They’ve been rehearsing busy year for Carlos reunited for this and playing out together since this summer, Sat, Dec. 31 Jones & the PLUS event. Then at the and are poised to claim their spot on the local Vermilion Amvets Band. Their exposure at Midwest Reggae Fes- reggae scene. the Marley in the Moun- tival in August, sev- The House of Blues is located at 308 Euclid &RI *AN s tains Festival in Sun eral Jamaican groups Avenue Cleveland 216-523-BLUE (2583). The Winery at Spring Hill Valley, Idaho back in had to cancel out due Tickets are $10 advance $12 day of show. check out February for the second to visa problems, and www.tomtoddmusic.com straight year, helped to the PLUS Band ended LITTLE FISH RECORDS (LFR) is a Cleve- for more information & pictures increase their fan base up headlining the land-based record label committed to present- on the west coast. Then Festival on Saturday ing the fi nest local and regional sounds within night to approximately a wide variety of musical genres, including 5,000 people. The group’s latest release, a Reggae, World, Americana, Blues, Folk, Jazz, 4-song EP titled and Rock. Little Fish OPEN DAILY 7am-1am! FEATURING “Positive Vibra- Records is a division Open at 7am for Breakfast and tions”, is picking of Cross Track Music, cooking until 11pm, fryer may be available later. DAILY up airplay on local Inc., a full-service Most items available for take-out, too! SPECIALS radio as well as provider of artist Happy Hour 1-9pm Internet and Satel- services, including 95¢ Canned Beer & Well drinks EVERY DAY! lite radio stations management, promo- around the country tions, distribution, DJ/KARAOKE EVERY FRI. & SAT. 8PM-12:30AM which feature reg- bookings, publishing, THANK YOU for taking care of our five Christmas families! gae music. Carlos and foreign licens- We are closed Christmas Day. We look forward to seeing you on the 26th! Jones continues to ing. LFR’s website add new fans, espe- littlefi shrecords.com DJ/Karaoke, Champaigne cially younger fans hosts and sells its Toast, Hats, Noise-Makers, who are turning on “Cleveland Clas- to the reggae beat sics” comprehensive Pork & Saurkraut ... and message. His collection of music All the Great energetic perfor- by Cleveland-based Sat. Dec. 31st New Year's Eve Stuff! mances continue to artists from the 60’s be both entertaining to present. and inspiring. Photo-of-the-Month Contest For the sec- ALL PHOTOS Submit photos from High Tide or High Tide Events. GO ON OUR ond year in a row WEBSITE! Monthly winner gets a gift certificate for A DOZEN WINGS! the Holiday Revival Drop off a memory stick, cd, most camera memory cards or email to [email protected]! show will have a www.HighTideTavern.com reggae band opener. Facebook & [email protected] Previous openers have included groups like 5504 Lake Road s On the Strip s Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio s (440) 466-7990 the The Latin Crew, Prayer Warriors, Broke 18 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 December 21, 2011 - January 11, 2012 JUST FOR LAUGHS LOST SHEEP BAND With Steve Guy about Christmas in America is the bit of ignorance that always seems to come from the world of Hollywood and/or music. This year’s award I have already decided has been given to the writers of the hit Fox television show “Glee” and their Christ- Sat Dec 31st mas episode. The last song performed in the show was a rendition of my absolute Special favorite holiday ignorant classic “Do They Know It’s Christmas” by Band-Aid. This New Year’s Eve song was originally done by a large group Performance by of musicians ranging from Boy George to Brad, Jeff, Bono back in the 1980s as a way for us to take notice of what was going on in Africa. Jimmy & Nick However, the humor comes when dissecting the lyrics of which are supposed to bring us at The Winery Good Chidings education, but instead show a lack of it by at Spring Hill and Jeer the celebrities involved. My favorite line? “And there won’t be snow in Africa this 6 to 9pm It’s that time again, where we all Christmastime…” which leads us to believe www.lostsheepband.com prepare to end one calendar year and begin that it snows all over the continent of yet another. For some, it’s a chance to Africa as a whole each and every other year cleanse them of a year in which they did not despite the fact that most of the continent see their brighter days and rejoice in their has ridiculously warm temperatures and rarely reaches even close to the temperature proverbial rebirth and fresh start of a new NO EVENT year. For others, it’s the bittersweet fi nal needed for precipitation to turn to snow! In a close second place is, “do they know it’s TOO BIG OR embrace of a year that captured so many SMALL! fond memories. For most though, it’s all Christmastime at all?” which also has its about the parties. own ignorance due to the fact that much of at Prior to ringing in the New Year, we the continent isn’t even Christian. So no, must fi rst overcome that obstacle known as they don’t know, nor do I think they care. Bilicic’s Busy Mart “the holidays” (the all encompassing term I honestly never thought these lines could for Christmas, Hanukkah, etc.). For me, be outdone, until I happened to catch this Call us or Stop in for all your Christmas is a bit of a pain in the backside, episode of Glee. Special Event & Party Needs! “Sandusky style.” I come from a divorced At the end of the episode, the cast family that only now is starting to un- heads down to a homeless shelter and helps Tents Tables Chairs Keg Coolers serve food and provide the less fortunate derstand that I have to spend most of my Authorized Dealer Christmas Eve/Christmas Day traveling just with some holiday cheer. That actually to appease everyone’s wish that I attend the sends a great message to the viewers, until holiday functions. The “rhythmic slap, slap, they of course decided to sing the aforemen- slapping” heard for me every year is that tioned song. While standing in a room full Hand Crafted Wax Chips, Shaped Like Leaves and Flowers of nagging and complaining that I haven’t of homeless people who can’t afford to eat, !VAILABLE IN A 7IDE 6ARIETY OF &RAGRANCES AND !SSORTED "URNERS /NE OUNCE "OX #OVERS SQ FT FOR (OURS IN THE spent enough time at each separate family the cast sings, “Feed the world.” I’m going "URNER OR 9EARS IN A $ISH &OR $IRECT $ROP 3HIPMENTS function. I complain, but at the end of the to let that sink in for a moment. Let me ,OG ON TO WWW"ILICICS3CENTCHIPS$IRECTCOM day, I do enjoy seeing everyone I get to see, help, they want homeless people, who they are feeding, to feed the world, despite the it’s my third favorite part of the forthcom- 2T ) s (ARPERSFIELD ing weeks. fact they can’t feed themselves. What is it the kids are saying these days? SMH (which Phone: 440.466.9111 My second favorite part of the forth- Fax: 440.466.7222 ~Continued on Page 20 coming weeks and absolute favorite part /PEN -ON 3AT AM PM s 3UN AM PM December 21, 2011 - January 11, 2012 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 19 ~Continued from Page 19 clad as she is on Halloween as the “slutty apparently stands for, shaking my head). nurse.” You see it every year; women go Thankfully, we’ve got the New Year out in groups and proclaim, “This New Year to look forward to. I don’t think I’ve ever is all about the ladies, we don’t need men!” made a resolution, but I will start this year. Yet, by the end of the night each member I now offi cially declare to continue to not of that group (with possible exception to make a resolution. Now that’s over with, the ugly one, but beauty is in the eye of the let’s talk about my favorite parts. Firstly, drunk guy on New Year’s) ends up fi nding you may not realize it, but this is a holiday a sucker to plant her overly-priced-Maybel- MON.- FRI 10:30am-7pm full of skankaliciousness that can only be line-Cherry red-covered lips on. HAPPY HOUR $/-%34)#3 7%,, $2).+3 matched by Halloween. If Halloween gives The other enjoyment of the New girls a reason to dress downright trashy, Year’s celebration is of course those who $).% ). $ then New Year’s Eve gives them a reason to party a bit too hard and don’t quite make it /.,9 3 Cheeseburger & Fries! MONDAYS act upon those feelings. to midnight or barely make it passed. This Each year, the majority of the female has never been illustrated better or more ¢ $).% ). gender dresses up to head out for New humorously for me than my celebration TUES. & THURS. 30 A WING /.,9 Year’s Eve and it doesn’t even matter what last year in Columbus. Seated across from the weather is like where they live. All where I was standing at the bar was a group females want one thing at the stroke of of folks in a booth. Now, clearly, they had Musician’s Night 9pm midnight though – the New Year’s Midnight been drinking all night as the table was full WEDS. Kiss. It’s as if this kiss is the glass slip- of buckets that previously had bottles of with Ted Riser! per that Cinderella left behind at midnight beer on ice. These buckets would ulti- and will somehow lead them to a lifetime mately come in handy. As the clock struck of happiness they are pursuing even if it’s midnight, I toasted to my friends and drank, THUR. DJ NIGHT! not with the guy they kissed. To be certain then glanced over at Miss Didn’t Quite this goal is reached, well, let’s put it this Make It To 2011. She was a young lady that $7.00 Buckets way, just because a girl is wearing a dress we noticed throughout the night who could doesn’t exactly mean she isn’t as scantily be barely walk each time she left for the of Beer WEEKENDS restroom and at one point fl ashed the crowd while she was on the dance fl oor. By on the Weds. Dec. 21 - Christmas Party dance fl oor, I simply mean, she attempted to dance and then crashed to the dance fl oor. As we rang in 2011 her lucky boyfriend was Hosted by Ted Riser c 306 not receiving a kiss, but instead was holding LOUNGE her hair and one of the many beer buckets & Fri. Dec. 23 - The Nick Zuber Band as she vomited in his lap. As my friends and I looked on, we toasted to the young lad Sat. Dec. 24 - Closed - Merry Christmas! and agreed that she should probably marry that guy. You see ladies, it’s not always a Fri. Dec. 30 - The Burnt River Band kiss at midnight that helps you fi nd Prince Charming, but sometimes it’s vomiting in his lap as he holds a bucket for you. Home of the Hoover From myself, to everyone else, cheers to a Sat. Dec. 31 - New Year’s Eve Party safe and joyous ending to 2011 and begin- 2 HAPPY HOURS! ning to 2012. 7:30-10:30am ***You can follow Steve on Facebook Hosted by TIME MACHINE (Steve Guy) or Twitter @TheSteveGuy & 4-6:30pm Need some advice? Steve loves to give Daily Specials his kind of advice (not intended to cause Fri. Jan. 6 - Time Machine /PEN $AYS s AM AM the need for or replace medical attention). Full Kitchen Menu Email questions to [email protected] Sat. 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By Harvey Wasserman I’d loved so long ago, we found a young the one I’d sent up. My week in his bookstore changed my life. It writer from Florida encamped as I’d been George apologized for being indis- Never doubt that simple acts of generosity proved that the fantasy of a Bohemian coun- when we marched through the wine-soaked posed. But he was glad I’d enjoyed my and solidarity can change lives---and the ter-culture could actually be sustained, and streets, shouting epithets against the Viet- stay. And, since I’d continued to write all world. that it was at least as good as billed by those nam War, then retreating to the bookstore these years, I was welcome to stay again---any perennial romantics to drink and smoke time. George Whitman and his Shakespeare & who are always being and bask together Wow! I cannot describe the feeling that Company bookstore have been uniquely pow- dismissed as “unre- in the intoxicating, note gave me. Especially as I looked at the erful living proof of that. And his daughter alistic dreamers.” At self-proclaimed bril- wide-eyed responses of my daughter and has guaranteed it will continue. Shakespeare & Com- liance of our youthful our young friend. In an instant, their lives Nestled into the Left Bank of the Seine, pany, the dream was rebellion. changed, as mine had so long ago. a stones throw from the magnifi cent Notre real…and as good as George was George Whitman passed away this week, Dame Cathedral, George’s bookstore has been it gets. All these years napping on the third at age 98. But his is a life that will truly never a beacon of Bohemian/hippie/humanist/leftist later, Woody Allen’s fl oor, but I could send stop giving. writing and romance for decades. Midnight in Paris up a note. So thank you, George, for enhancing the Its spiritual roots stretch back to the great delightfully captures So I wrote one Dream and making it real. Thank you, Sylvia, literary lights of the ex-pat 1920s---Heming- (though without the profusely thanking for keeping it alive. way and Fitzgerald, Joyce and Stein. In politics) the joy of its him for putting me And thank you, Shakespeare & Company, George’s 1950s era, that also meant Kerouac, spirit. up, and for keeping for reminding us all that there really is at our Ginsberg, Corso and more. So much genius And it contin- the faith through all core a spirit of generous, joyous grace that passed through the place its walls seem to ues. Not long ago I these decades of trial makes life worth living, and that need never glow. brought to Paris my and chaos, tears and die. George Whitman was known for letting teenaged daughter joy, disappointment budding young writers crash for weeks at a Julie. With Max and victory. HARVEY WASSERMAN’S HISTORY OF time. In the summer of 1967, I was one of Schneider, son of the Having made THE UNITED STATES was published fi ve them. Based on hippie urban legend, I sought great green energy expert Mycle, we paid sure that Max and Julie were suffi ciently in- years after his stay at Shakespeare & Com- the place out and asked if I could sleep on a our respects to Notre Dame, then found the spired, we were just making our way out when pany. He’s been writing and living that dream couch upstairs. bookstore. a note came back, scribbled on the backside of ever since. Eyeing me suspiciously, George asked if I’d stopped by in the early 1990s and I was a writer. I said I’d been a college editor, found the place in serious disrepair. I wasn’t and had aspirations. optimistic about this return visit. He said OK….I could have a week on the But to my great joy, the place literally mattress. shone. George’s daughter Sylvia runs it It was pure joy. Raised in the Midwest, with fi rmness and grace. It is bustling with just out of the University of Michigan, at the business, beautifully appointed, and offers a age of 21, I got to hang out in Paris, sur- timeless blend of off-beat rebellion and good rounded by the spirits of the century’s greatest bookselling---what George has called “the writers, thinkers, rebels. Nightly sessions of business of life.” It is a solid independent en- intellectual fervor followed days of wandering terprise of the kind that is tragically disappear- free through the vibrating streets of that gor- ing throughout the US---but in this case with geous, dazzling city. a legendary past being carefully preserved and George consciously followed in the enhanced. footsteps of another Whitman (no relation) With Julie and Max by my side, I told Syl- who transformed the literary world of his via that I’d stayed upstairs more than 40 years day---and far beyond. Generous, eclectic and ago, and wanted to thank her for her father’s eccentric, George shared Walt’s occasionally life-changing hospitality. fi erce New England temperament, making him She suggested I thank George myself. both fascinating and formidable. Venturing up the narrow, tiled staircase December 21, 2011 - January 11, 2012 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 21 If You Can Dream It, I Can Build It.
Custom Designs By Luthier Patrick Podpadec Guitars Basses Move over Thanksgiving here comes has a very high gloss nitrocellulose fi nish and dollars. The guitar is really not a bad instru- Acoustic Christmas! I have to say that this year I’m the biggest sound that I may have ever heard. ment (other than the plastic bridge held on Electric really starting to feel the holiday spirit. Do It’s always nice to see and even work on other from underneath with about 4 wood screws). Mandolins you remember back when we were little kids, handmade guitars. On this guitar I had to What amazes me is that they still hold their Double Necks Harp Guitars how fun the holidays were? That warm fuzzy replace the bone nut because of a pesky string value at about 500.00 in today’s market, prob-
Major Repairs feeling that you get around this time. (Maybe buzz. This is not a refl ection on his workman- ably due to the name “Gibson” more than any- Fast, Reliable Turnover Reliable Fast, for Working Musicians Working for Restorations “The Dreamcaster” it’s the eggnog, ship; it is just something thing else. I chose to replace the bridge with Custom built Refinishing for Brian Henke I don’t know). that can happen to any a real nice piece of Brazilian Rosewood. I’m Refretting Anyway before I guitar in time. The hard sure the customer will appreciate the new tone Intonation Adjustments go much further I wire strings sometimes the wood bridge will add to the sound of his Acoustic Pickup Installs would like to extend can cut a deeper grove guitar. Along with a new bone nut the guitar is WINTER SPECIAL a very gracious into the bone nut caus- a real player now! $ 00 Merry Christmas ing the string to buzz off It seems as though I have had a rash of 10 OFF to everyone in the fi rst fret in the open banjos in the shop lately. I’m currently work- ANY REPAIR With mention of “eyeshot” of this position. Sometimes this ing on three of them .Two of them are restora- this ad. article. May all of can be fi xed with a little tions of “tenor” banjo’s and another is a 5 your holiday wishes bone dust and superglue, string. The tenor banjo’s have a unique history Patrick Podpadec come true and let’s but I like to replace the behind them. They were hugely popular in Luthier all please take the nut for a more perma- the early 1900’s up until about the Great De- 440.474-2141 time to share a little nent repair. pression. Gibson, along with countless other [email protected] Christmas spirit to Another repair this manufacturers, made them by the thousands to everyone a little week was replacing a accommodate the ragtime music of the roaring www.wood-n-strings.net less fortune than bridge and nut on a mid twenties. So many of them have been lost in ourselves. the attics or This time of have been year usually takes destroyed its toll on me and this year is no exception. 60’s by time and I have been putting in many extra hours at Gibson are becom- my shop to try to fi nish the many repairs and B-25N ing sort of other musical projects that need to be fi nished (the N hard to fi nd before Christmas. I’m hoping Santa will send stands (in good some of his elves down to help me out . for working Just to remind everyone again, I am still Natural order). The offering gift certifi cates till Jan 31(for all of fi nish Quality ones you late shoppers) for $50.00 ($75.00 value) opposed still bring Sat. January 14th for any repair or service that I offer through to a in a very Wood-n-Strings. This includes a full setup on “sun- good price, The Wing Warehouse guitars, mandolins, basses, etc. burst” so when 9:00 til Midnight I have had the pleasure to see a couple fi nish) you fi nd one of really good instruments in the past few In the please don’t weeks. One was a handmade guitar built by 60’s throw it in Sat. February 11th a man named TeddyWorkman (guitarsbytw. Gibson the garbage. com) he is from West Virginia and builds a manu- There are (OOLEY (OUSE s -ENTOR very fi ne guitar. Teddy is a big bluegrass lover factured still a lot of 9:30 til Midnight and his main focus is on the big D shaped a line of affordable guitars for the masses. It collector’s out there that will be glad to have Martin style guitars that makes bluegrass was a simple solid mahogany guitar, ladder the piece of history. music sound like ‘bluegrass’ music. You braced with plastic binding and a 10” radius Well it’s time for another chapter to Sat. March 10th know, that big “bottom end” when the guitar rosewood fi ngerboard. It was a well built gui- close and another one to begin. Please check players are playing that bass runnin Travis tar that sold for about $85.00 brand new. The out more articles and pictures on my website The Wing Warehouse style pickin! He uses nothing but the highest only thing wrong was that to save cost they in- and don’t forget to sign up for my newslet- 9:00 til Midnight quality materials and his craftsmanship is im- stalled a plastic bridge on them. This is about ter on Liam Guitar’s Facebook page. Happy peccable. The volume that his guitars put out the 5th bridge like that I have had to replace Holidays! is very impressive. He uses a forward shifted and I’m sure it won’t be the last. That is why Abbey Rodeo is now on Facebook! X-brace pattern that I believe contributes a lot when I become famous and have a huge guitar Thanks Again! to this fact. I’m always impressed with other factory I won’t make such a lame decisions Patrick from Wood-n-Strings/Liam Guitars www.Abbeyrodeo.com luthier’s fi nish on their guitars. Mr. Workman like that just to save a few or make few extra 22 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 December 21, 2011 - January 11, 2012 Follow us on Facebook
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines authority ever wants its subjects to and that is what you will be when you can’t help it.” Oscar Wilde through the underground. There is no better recipe for success than to garner attention from the self-righteous with the exception of Happy Holidays, dear NCV readers. sipping a Christmas Ale this holiday season not asking for it, which is what Miller, unam- Here we are again, the end of another one. We and realizing that it was once considered a biguously, has done. made it, thank God. As a token of gratitude to criminal act. Okrent’s sprawling work breaks The hypocrisy in America’s reaction you all, your assigned correspondent would down how the 13-year “Great Experiment,” to “Tropic of Cancer” is laughable, and, in like to give a gift by way of this list of gems. deemed “noble in motive,” and “far-reaching fact, obscene itself. Miller, describing and Throughout the year I read many books, some in purpose,” begot rebellion, government rhapsodizing, like D.H. Lawrence and others, To Our Fans Far And Wide, of which are featured in this magazine, and interference and rampant criminality, and how the genitalia certainly is as bad as oppressing I would like to share some others that jolted a nation ultimately fought for its right to party millions of African-Americans and basically Have A Safe And me, creatively, humanly. Intellectual, richly with the Eighteenth Amendment’s eventual ignoring an origination that started by wiping imaginative, detailed and fun, these treasures repeal. out countless indigenous cultures. Slavery, Merry Christmas! will be returned to repeatedly; they breed -Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller: One the Trail of Tears, etc. versus Miller’s writing excitement. Enjoy. of the most unique writers of this time or about sex. 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Southern lit at its best. chronicles Miller in Paris during and that would be all the Blending The Traditional Ways -Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck: In an the ‘30s as a writer “down on difference he would ever interview in the summer of 2010, Jonathan his luck,” with all the charac- With The Modern! need. He does the impos- Franzen said he was in the process of “reread- ters and escapades he comes to We Are Not Your Normal sible and the greatest, ing everything by Steinbeck.” Not a bad move know. A fabulous blend of truth Coffee & Tea Shop or Health Store. which is to accept life and for any writer or reader. This classic of fi ction and fi ction, “Tropic of Cancer” believe that one’s destiny follows two itinerant farmhands, the cautious seemed almost evil in the eyes Featuring Hot & Iced is all choice, not chance. 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December 21, 2011 - January 11, 2012 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 23 ZAC BROWN BAND SCORES ANOTHER CHART TOPPER Night, which slipped to third. Aldean stayed Zac Brown Band has another number 1 On Heels.” Rascal Flatts was up 3 to 21 with at 24, up 3, with Didn’t I. McCreery moved second with Tattoos on This Town. Rascal song on its hands as Keep In Mind is at the top “Nothing Like This.” “Hemingway’s Whis- up 3 to 25 with The Trouble With Girls. Faith Flatts featuring Natasha Bedingfi eld jumped of the Billboard Country Songs chart for the key” from Kenny Chesney was up 3 to 22. Hill’s Come Home moved up 3 to 26, as did from eighth to fourth. David Nail moved from week ending Dec. 24. Scott McCreery moved Blake Shelton’s “Loaded” The Best of Blake the 27th spot song Like My Dog by Billy seven to fi ve with Let It Rain. back to fi rst on the Shelton” moved Currington. Swift was the greatest gainer - up Eric Church was sixth, up four, with Country Albums from 33 to 27. 9 - with Ours. Craig Morgan closed out the top Drink in My Hand. Luke Bryan also was up Chart with “Clear “Icon: Josh Turner” 30, up 3, with This Ole Boy. four, to seventh, with I Don’t Want This Night As Day,” switch- jumped from 45 to The top four spots on the bluegrass chart to End. You from Chris Young also was up ing spots with Lady 34. Hunter Hayes’ remained the same. “The Goat Rodeo Ses- four to ninth. Chesney was at 11, up 3, with Antebellum’s “Own self-titled debut sions” by Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Reality. Martina McBride was at 12 with I’m the Night,” which was at 37, up 3. Meyer and Chris Thile was fi rst, “Paper Gonna Love You Through It, up 3, Keith Ur- fell to second. Thompson Square’s Airplane by Alison Krauss & Union Station ban was up 4 to 13 with You Gonna Fly. Brad “My Kinda self-titled debut was second; “An Appalachian Christmas” by Mark Paisley’s Camoufl age went from 19 to 15. Party” from Jason at 38, up 11. Darius O’Connor third, and “Rare Bird Alert” by Keith’s Red Solo Cup was up 4 to 17, while Aldean was third on Rice was at 39, up Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers Justin Moore inched up 3 to 19 with Bait a the albums chart. 4 with “Charleston, fourth. “Why Can’t We” by The Isaacs was Hook, and George Strait 4 to 19 with Love’s “Speak Now: World SC 1966.” Trace Ad- fi fth. Gonna Make It Alright. Tour Live CD/ kins rounded out the On the overall top 200, McCreery was The rest of the top 30 had many chart DVD” from Taylor top 40 with “Proud 13th, Lady A 15th, Aldean 26th, Swift 30th climbers. Sara Evans was at 22, up 3, with My Swift was fourth and Toby Keith’s “Clancy’s to Be Here,” up 6. and Keith 34th. Tavern” was up from eight to fi ve. Zac Brown Band took over the song Heart Can’t Tell You No. Jake Owen was 23, Pistols Annies were up 4 to 13 with “Hell chart from Lady Antebellum’s We Owned the up 3, with Alone With You. James Wesley was HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL! Join Joe “Pigskin” Pete & Coach Brad Ellis for Live Coverage of the Best in High School Basketball! 1;N(;HNBY University School at Lakeside also Listen Live www.espn970wfun.com Rebroadcast at 11:00pm ESPN 970 WFUN!
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Dec. 31 Garry Marshall (Penny’s older brother) is something of an icon in the business and and it sure as !KRON /HIO &IRST .IGHT s $4 !KRON s 4"! knows a lot of people, most of which wound hell is raunchy. up in this fi lm. I’m not even going to mention Actually raunchy 4HURS *AN s 0- them all but I’ll make a general point. might be too kind; /N 4AP s -ONTROSE No two hour script can do justice to all the let’s use vulgar. In the characters in such a large ensemble especially fi rst two minutes I said to &RI *AN s 0- with writing as weak as this. None of the ac- myself this is on track to be "ARBARINOS tors have time to bring whatever talents they one of the year’s worst. I possess to the screen in so many short and in- can’t remember the exact 3AT *AN s 0- terlocking scenes. That killed Stallone’s THE quote but it was almost if /N 4AP s 3TOW EXPENDABLES and has taken its toll here. not exactly “Fat guys eat It’s basically a conglomerate of vignettes the best pussy.” Now as Sat. Jan. 14 all centered around the ball drop in the big a fat guy I almost fi led 4HE 3NACK "AR s #ROOKSVILLE WEEK apple on New Year’s Eve. People are trying a discrimination suit www.westsidesteve.com to rekindle lost love or fi nd new passion or against the theater but I repair strained relationships or break out of a guessed Eric Holder is rut or die with dignity or even have a baby at busy with the campaign the stroke of midnight. Honestly any of these so… could have been more interesting with a little Anyway believe more time. Unfortunately this script seems it or not, it’s as if it was written in a hurry and by a high downhill from school lit class. there. Don’t Fortunately the clichés and shopworn plot worry it’s not just twists all seem to come together at the end and us rotund Ameri- salvage the movie. cans but Negros Oh, it’s still not very good but as it rolled on women, gays, the grade (IMO) and trudged up the ladder body builders, from a D- to a solid coke dealers, and a C host of others who might be pissed off by the stereotyp- The Sitter ing. But that’s not 20th Century Fox R 81 min what makes THE Jonah Hill. Dude what are you thinking? SITTER such a big You just got a plum from the big boys for the piece of garbage it’s role in MONEYBALL and you follow up with the complete dearth delinquent. On a mission to this??? of humor. score some coke for his slutty paramour he OK maybe this one was in the can fi rst, I Hill is “Noah” (probably offensive to the ark and the kids get mixed up with an apparently can accept that, but look unless you want to building community) a lazy loser who lives homosexual drug kingpin and his entourage of replace Stuart Pankin on those shoe insole with his divorced mother and is madly in love musclemen. I didn’t like any of the characters infomercials it’d be a good idea to steer clear with a fl oozie who takes him for the sucker and actively hated a few. of this kind of crap. Sure a job’s a job and I he is. There wasn’t even one gross out chuckle. This can’t imagine turning down any starring role When his mom actually gets a chance for a but this one is truly awful friends. date Noah reluctantly volunteers to babysit one really sucks. There were only two new fl icks out before three screwy kids. A teen boy struggling to F+ deadline and THE SITTER is one. Even I come out of the closet, a preteen girl who didn’t suspect just how miserable it would be. wants to be the next Parris Hilton, and a You’ve seen the trailers right? It’s supposed to stunningly unpleasant Hispanic juvenile 26 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 December 21, 2011 - January 11, 2012 assed attempts to show the observatory powers Sherlock Holmes - of the famed sleuth. A Game of Shadows Fans of the books may have wondered if Hol- mes’ obsession with his nemesis Dr. Moriarty Warner Brothers PG13 129 min might have been paranoia but not here. He’s OK I admit I’m a bit of a traditionalist. embroiled in some sinister plot to stir up a Some hard rules: world war and reap the profi ts of the military Lex Luthor cannot wear a wig. industrial complex. No guesswork involved. Batman can’t fl y. It’s not a very interesting case and recap of Neither Mr. Phelps nor Pat Chambers would vague clues at the end is underwhelming. sell out their friends. Even the potential cliffhanger (actually found Sherlock Holmes is most certainly an eccen- in the Doyle writing) is wasted. It’s noisy tric genius but he is not Jackie Chan, Steven and frenetic and probably won’t appeal to the Seagal or Chuck Norris. afi cionado but it might be fun for the rest. The last one is my biggest gripe concern- ing both of the Holmes fi lms starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. Look I understand C that there are a lot of young moviegoers who may not be fans or even aware of the Arthur WSS Conan Doyle books. Those that are should Email [email protected] be aware that once more great liberties have been taken with the tradition. Personally I don’t mind a little riffi ng on the character as in THE SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION and I don’t particularly mind the current portrayal of Holmes and Watson as kind of a 19th century Oscar and Felix but this story, while incorpo- rating some of the lynchpins of the original is far too action thriller oriented for my taste. While the boys from Baker Street were cer- tainly no weaklings the scuffl ing is rare. Here there’s a noisy brawl or gunfi ght every few minutes. Worse yet there are only a few half December 21, 2011 - January 11, 2012 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 27 ~Continued from Page 14 TOM DOWD a single musical sound. His ears were always and Jimmy Page. Johns’ most recent work Tom Dowd (1925-2002) was a scientist open, and in later years he helped to create is as mixer, engineer and producer of Ryan COSIMO MATASSA who deeply loved soulful, funky music. His the signature sound of the Allman Brothers, Adams’ 2011 album, Ashes and Fire. New Orleans R&B historian Jeff attention to sonic detail, embrace of new Cream, Dusty Springfi eld, Rod Stewart, Bette Hannusch has written that “Virtually every technology, and love of music gained him Midler, Chicago, and the James Gang. Tickets have sold out to the 27th Annual R&B record made in New Orleans between the trust of rock and roll’s biggest stars who Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Cer- the late 40s and early 70s was engineered by asked him to record their greatest albums. GLYN JOHNS emony on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at Public Cosimo Matassa, and recorded in one of his After completing high school he worked at Engineer and producer Glyn Johns was Hall in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Both four studios.” As the owner of J&M Recording Columbia University in the Physics Depart- born in Epsom, England, on February 15, ticket allotments for the member presale on Studios in the city’s French Quarter, Matassa ment where he conducted research on nuclear 1942. He began his career as a performer, December 16 and the public on-sale on De- recorded the music that helped give birth to power and became a technician in the now fronting the band the Presidents during the cember 17 have been exhausted. Tickets and rock and roll. Fats Domino, Dave Bar- infamous Manhattan Project. His dreams of early 1960s. He became an apprentice to the scheduling for other Induction 2012 Events in tholomew, Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Smiley becoming a nuclear physicist research special- producer Shel Talmy, who worked with the Cleveland will be announced soon. Lewis, Professor Longhair, Roy Brown and ist were sidetracked when he began using his Who and the Kinks. By 1965, Johns was en- Fans that were not able to purchase tick- countless others created magic at J&M. engineering knowledge to work as a freelancer gineering Rolling Stones’ recording sessions, ets to the Induction Ceremony may still have Matassa opened the J&M Record Shop in for various New York record labels. In 1954 including 1967’s Their Satanic Majesties Re- other opportunities to see the show or partici- 1945, and installed recording equipment in the he was brought in as a staff engineer and quest and 1968’s Beggars Banquet. In addi- pate in other Induction Celebration events. Ten back of the store. There were no recording producer at Atlantic Records. “Tom’s con- tion to his work with the Stones, he engineered days of events will lead up to the ceremony studios in the city at the time, and J&M tributions to the development and evolution albums for Traffi c, Procol Harum, Spooky including a free Concert for Cleveland (artists became a gathering place for musicians. of Atlantic Records was inestimable,” said Tooth, and more 1968 alone. Also in 1968, he TBA), a free Rock My Soul gospel tribute, the Matassa sought to capture rather than shape Jerry Wexler, “you couldn’t quantify it, it was found the time to engineer and produce the grand opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of the city’s thriving R&B scene: “I always tried just enormous.” Dowd was responsible for Steve Miller Band’s album Sailor. By 1971, Fame’s Library and Archives, the opening of to capture the dynamics of a live performance. embracing a number of technological innova- Johns had hit his stride as a producer, with a new featured exhibit and much more. There These guys were doing these songs on their tions at Atlantic including the use of stereo Who’s Next by the Who, the Rolling Stones’ will be many opportunities to be involved in gigs and that was the sound that I was trying and eight-track recording machines. He tried Sticky Fingers and the Faces’ A Nod Is as the excitement of Induction 2012. to get. We didn’t have any gimmicks—no to fi nd ways to capture the spirit and visceral Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse to his credit. overdubbing, no reverb—nothing. Those guys energy of musical performance and reproduce He produced the Eagles’ fi rst three albums MORE: For additional chances to see the played with a lot of excitement; and I felt if I it on record. At Atlantic he recorded, and and is arguably responsible for creating that 2012 Induction Ceremony live, fans can couldn’t put it in the groove, people weren’t occasionally produced, artists such as Big group’s distinct Southern California sound. become Members, sign up for the Rock Hall’s going to move.” Record labels like DeLuxe, Joe Turner, Ruth Brown, LaVern Baker, Ray Johns’ production and engineering throughout e-newsletter on rockhall.com, “Like” the Mu- Atlantic, Chess, Imperial, King and Specialty Charles, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, the Seventies included work with the Band, seum’s Facebook page and follow @rock_hall lined up to record at J&M. Aretha Franklin, Solomon Burke, Wilson Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton and on Twitter. More announcements will be made Pickett, and Otis Redding – to name just a few. many others. In the Eighties, Johns worked as in the coming weeks! 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December 21, 2011 - January 11, 2012 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 29 Mayan Party Time! I learned something new from Jimmy The Geek who told me that a guy, we’ll call Time to investigate… Carlos, explained that the Spanish way to say Jesus is “Hay-SOOS” and it was derived from The Mayan calendar marks the end of the days when the Greeks called out to the a 5,126-year cycle around 12-21-2012. In god Zeus. They’d say “Hey Zeus” when they the Mayan calendar, the long calendar count wanted Gods attention! begins in 3,114 BC and is divided into roughly Now that is purely original, wish I’d 394-year periods called Baktuns. Mayans held thought of that one, Hee-Hee-Hee! the number 13 sacred and the 13th Baktun For those of you who are offended by the ends next year. above statement, all I got to say is; how dare Okay… but that’s not a good enough you be offended by my offensive offensive- excuse to let loose this holiday season… yet! ness! It is not my fault if you are offended by Hmm… every other doomsday predic- my offensiveness, in fact I am offended that tion has obviously come and gone without you are offended and you should be ashamed the earth blowing up, and a just as happened of your offensive self! then a whole slew of carpetbaggers are already Alrighty then… if you recall I ended my cashing in with 2012 survival kits, “Doomsday last article with “if you take any stock in the 2012” T-shirts and a “Complete Idiots Guide Mayan calendar crap then this will be your to 2012”, I need one of those! last holiday season before the earth blows Catastrophic predictions include a polar up…” this got me to thinkin! shift, the impact of a great meteor or aster- Thoughts of doom and gloom sparked oid, earthquakes, the reduction of the earth’s my curiosity and caused an electrical storm in magnetic fi eld, the extinction of many species, my deep… cavernous… mind! And if I had or global annihilation brought on by man’s re- any hair it would have been standing on end lentless greed triggering war and destruction! from all the static electricity that was being Of course none of these predictions are generated! based on archeology, anthropology, or even as- So get this… if interpretations of the tronomy and as it turns out the Mayans never Mayan calendar are correct, the earth will said anything about the end of the world or be all blowed up next December 21rst thus anything about a great change in the universe totally ruining Christmas! on that date, there is no prophecy for 2012; it’s just a deceptive marketing ploy. “Oh my HeyZeus! What should I do?” Who cares let’s PARTY NOW ANYWAYS! Like 173 Super Balls bouncing around in a dryer my thoughts of really partying ~ Snarp it up this holiday season, since it www.foggyblogg.com will be the last, started to gain some momentum! 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