Enigma Magazine August 2019 by Enigma Magazine

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HEY JEALOUSY

FOLK IMPLOSION

Gin Blossoms, a staple of ‘90s college and alternative radio continue to go strong with songs like “Hey Jealousy”, “Found Out About You” and more come to town on August 7 to play The Signal.

Folk-Pop multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Shannon McNeal combined her love of poetry and music early in life and has developed a knack for wrapping relevant life experiences into catchy lyrics. Shannon perfroms Saturday, August 10 at Hutton & Smith on MLK.

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PARTY LIKE IT’S 1999

For a great cause. The great Prince ribute act, Purple Persuasion will perform along with Sexy Beast, Mother Legacy, Dallas Walker and Marty Manus on Sunday August 25 beginning at 3pm at Songbirds south stage. Powerhouse trio, Roughwork playing their blend of funk, rock and blues The event is to raise moeny for the Chattanooga Food Bank and aid the will be playing a blistering show Wednesday, August 14 at The Palms. Be Homeless and their pets. for more information about the event go to songbirds.rocks and come out and help out and have a good time as well. sure to head on out there and support local music. ENIGMA

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Dear Rocco, Is the world coming to an end? ND

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Dear Rocco, I recently got intimate for the first time with a guy that I had been seeing for about a month. It was also my first time having sex with anyone. While I made it clear that I was inexperienced, I didn’t outright tell him that I was a virgin. Now I’m wondering if that was a bad decision. I personally didn’t feel the need to tell him beforehand. I didn’t want him to feel pressured or for him to think that I had been waiting for “the one.” Realistically, I just haven’t dated many guys and hadn’t found anyone that I liked enough to have sex with. Should I bring it up to him? Should I wait to see if he asks about my past? VK

Dear Rocco, I go to college and live with my best friend. She’s not from here. I Googled her parents recently (for fully innocent reasons). I knew they were wealthier than my middle-class family, but I had no idea they were so rich. It was shocking. My friend is humble considering her wealth. Still, she has immense privilege and connections that I don’t. I’m also rethinking our decision to split checks. I think I need to raise her family wealth. What do you think? RB

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my kitchen, but after a few days, I decided they don’t really match my aesthetic so I put them up on eBay. Turns out they’re pretty valuable. I ended up getting $500 for them and have been feeling guilty about it since. Do I owe my neighbors a cut? VW

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Rocco is a common sense, tell-itlike-it-is, no-nonsense kind of guy offering real advice on any subject put before him. Why pay thousands of dollars on a high-priced therapist when he’ll straighten you Dear Rocco, out for free. If you’d like advice The other day, my neighbors put a from Rocco e-mail him at goaskroccouple of matching vintage chairs co@yahoo.com. out on the curb. I snagged them for

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ARIES (Mar. 21- April 20) Try to deal with it quickly; don’t dwell on past regrets. Be careful when dealing with investments. Make plans to do the things you enjoy. If you’re willing to cut loose you will find yourself in the midst of an exciting encounter.

LEO (July 23-Aug 22) Eliminate situations that are no longer to your advantage. Colleagues may try to undermine you when talking to superiors. Do not overspend on entertainment. You could find that children will be a handful. You may attract attention if you get out socially.

Your luckiest events this month Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Wednesday. will occur on a Tuesday.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 -Dec. 21) Put your efforts into making constructive improvements to your environment and to your state of mind. Too much talk will lead to disputes. You could be tempted to Your luckiest events this month overspend on unnecessary items. will occur on a Friday. Your luckiest events this month Get together with friends who like will occur on a Wednesday. to participate in indoor sports. TAURUS (Apr. 21- May 21) VIRGO Your luckiest events this month Romance can develop; however, it (Aug. 23 -Sept. 23) will occur on a Wednesday. will most probably be short-lived. Secret affairs will come back to Job changes are in order. Go for haunt you. Overexertion and negli- CAPRICORN interviews or send out resumes. gence will be your worst enemies. (Dec 22.- Jan. 20) You may find it difficult to commu- You can get phenomenal returns if Try not to let relatives or friends nicate with someone at work. Trips you present your ideas to those cause any friction with your mate. will be favorable for business as who can back your interests. Get Your need to obtain additional well as pleasure. back down to earth and to basics. details will lead you into strange topics of conversation. Broaden Your luckiest events this month Your luckiest events this month your horizons and look into prowill occur on a Friday. will occur on a Sunday. grams that will teach you awareness and relaxation. You will have GEMINI LIBRA a productive day if you organize (May 22-June 21) (Sept. 24 -Oct. 23) yourself well at work. Proceed with caution if operating Take a long look at your present equipment or vehicles. You may be direction and consider your prothe recipient of false information. fessional options. Be cautious of You can form new partnerships, making any residential changes but don’t move too quickly; things this month. Empty promises will may not be as they appear. Home cause confusion. You can meet improvement projects will go well someone who will become very if you delegate work to all your dear to you if you get out and family members. socialize.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 -Feb. 19) Your ability to visualize will help you convince others of the possibilities. You can enjoy your involvement in organizations that make charitable contributions. Don’t believe everything you hear. Not everyone will be pleased with your plans. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Thursday. PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) Do something together and you’ll be surprised how sweet a deal you can make. Relatives will be cordial. Try to spend time with those having similar interests. Get involved in sports groups or hobbies that attract you.

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Your luckiest events this month Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday. will occur on a Sunday.

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CANCER (June 22-July 22) You may have difficulties with foreigners. You can get your point across if you don’t beat around the bush. Try not to overspend on friends or family. You are best to keep your money tied up in a safe and secure place.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) You can learn from those who have had similar experiences. Attempt to face key issues with lovers or problems could escalate. You may not see your situation clearly. Your partner may not understand your mood swings but if you are willing to communicate, a lot of grief can Your luckiest events this month be avoided. will occur on a Saturday. ENIGMA

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Goodbye Mayberry: Changes in the American Family Dynamic I was recently sent a clip via inter- the Sheriff that he felt like his son have to worry about receiving cornet from the Andy Griffith Show. This clip came from an episode where a young boy had been warned by Barney the Deputy about riding his bicycle on the sidewalk. On the third offense he had been brought in to the jailhouse and his bike was impounded. The boy was unrepentant and eventually basically said he wanted his father to go to jail instead of his bike being impounded. The father realized that the son cared more for a bike than the father’s freedom and announced he would sell the bike. Andy Taylor, the sheriff, then advised the father of the miscreant that there is a woodshed out back of the jail and the viewer is left to assume that the boy is taken out there to receive a spanking.

ent might even threaten the law enforcement officer with a lawsuit or at least a complaint.

Teachers are also not getting the respect by children or the backing by parents that they used to. I know of one incident where a substitute teacher was threatened by a student’s parent after the teacher had taken the child to the principal’s office due to a behavior issue. In another case a child manufactured a story wherein the child was pushed by a substitute teacher. This after the teacher had verbally told him to cease some continuing disruptive behavior. The child apparently felt embarrassed by being upbraided and went home claiming he had been pushed by the substitute. A parent complained to the school administraBoy, have times changed. Now I was being unfairly punished. I am poral punishment. In fact the par- tion. Although the teacher vehehave a feeling the parent might tell almost positive the child would not

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mently denied the allegation the powers that be decided that it would be better if that teacher did not teach at that school anymore. Thus to me the little juvenile delinquent learned how to get his way at a very young age. If you ever watched “The Andy Griffith Show” or “Leave It to Beaver” things were portrayed way different back then. Usually the family had a father and mother with two or three children - basically the nuclear family of the day. Shows with one parent made for drama like “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” and “Family Affair”. If a TV family did not have a father and mother it was usually because of a death of the spouse. Single parents due to divorce or, God forbid, an unwed mother, were not approved for television. People had an expectation of what the nuclear family was and generally it was the two parents with children unit. As I was growing up in the 1960’s and 1970’s divorces seemed to be rare. I cannot recall any of my grade school classmates coming from a “broken home”. In high school I knew of no unwed (now termed “single” mothers. If the children committed some social infraction it was dealt with by their parents usually as a moral or ethical lesson. Then for several reasons the family unit seemed to be changing. Parents got divorced. Girls had babies without the infant being secretly adopted out. Single moms kept their babies and raised them.

and in many of those cases it appeared that the parent wanted to be more of a “cool parent” than a real parent to the child or children. They were no enforcing rules or imposing discipline that they should have been. I had several parents tell me “I don’t want to be the bad guy” when it appeared that discipline was needed and warranted. This lack of parental assertion of discipline seems to be rampant often due to “broken families” . Technology is another factor that I believe is definitely affecting the interaction of families. Now instead of voice contact parents and children often make contact via text or other electronic means.

heat by being left in the back of the car. This is exacerbated by parents being distracted by their phone. Whether its text, tweet, Snap Cheat (that’s what I call it) or some other form of electronic form of communication, its occupying the parent so they are not communicating with the child/children. I recently had a car pass me as we were leaving a red light. The child was in the car seat in the back with some type of “e” device in front of them while the father was driving and texting (illegal now by the way). I wager there will be little to no interaction between parent and child on that trip. Sadly that will be a normal status for that and many other families. In another incident my girlfriend was incensed that a mother in a restaurant was busy looking at her phone while her baby was in a high chair with an electronic toy. There was no interaction between the two. Again a norm for many “families”? I fear so.

As babies children are given “devices” to amuse themselves. On even short car trips now the child is usually put in the back seat in a car seat. There is no face to face front seat communication. On a trip back in the 90’s I had to keep I don’t have any scientific facts or a two-year-old occupied as we studies to support my theories drove back from out West. She was in a car seat but looking forward. We could point out things and somehow we stumbled on a game where I held up my hand and she would go “pow” while I dropped a finger or thumb with each imaginary shot. This game kept her amused for hours. Her Dad was a policeman, crack shot and avid gun collector so that may have influenced how that game came up.

I proposed my theory to a friend Too often the father was not in the that now children will no longer be picture. Frequently the child exposed to the right arm of their lacked a male figure in their life. mother suddenly springing in front of them if she has to suddenly hit Due to many divorces the children the brakes. This is a phenomenon were moved back and forth that most every 50’s, 60’s and 70’s between parents. Sometimes the era child has experienced when parents did not want to lose the riding in a vehicle with their mothfavor of their child or children so er. I think the placement of car they did not parent as they should seats in the backseat due to airbags have. I began my career in law is increasing the divide between enforcement in the early 80s and parent and child. Technology while in my patrol days I frequently helping to protect the child is causanswered custody dispute calls or ing a disassociation. I believe this child transfer calls. I would see as look at the rising number of behavior issues in many children child injuries and deaths due to ENIGMA

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about some of the reasons for the disconnect between parents and their children being caused by electronics. I think some of it is obvious. Just look around and observe people’s behavior. The proof is right there in front of you. Society’s mores and entertainment are greatly influencing the family also causing some “disconnect”. Perhaps the changing structure of the American family (single parent, grandparent as parent, same sex parents, etc.) is causing some lack of interaction Oh, that families could be together for dinner engaging in conversation without everybody having their face in an electronic device. Then after dinner everybody could watch family programming with a moral or positive message and no profanity or hidden political or social agenda. The days of Mayberry and the Cleavers are long over. I’m glad I got to experience them.

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A driver accidentally slammed on the gas while leaving a New Jersey car wash and plunged into a nearby river. The Hackensack Fire Department shared surveillance camera footage showing the 2002 Mercedes SUV leaving the car wash, abruptly speeding up and plunging over an embankment into the Hackensack River. The department said the

driver, a 64-year-old woman, and a passenger, the driver’s daughter, were able to exit the vehicle and get back to shore with the help of a bystander. The pair were taken to a local hospital without serious injuries. “Unfortunately, there’s no rules that say there has to be a guardrail there,” Hackensack Fire Captain Justin Derevyanik told local news. “That’s up to the property owner. But right now, we’re lucky that everybody got out.”

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In a Facebook post the Stuart Police Department in Florida said a lunchtime fist fight had broken out at a Five Guys eatery. “Three juvenile males and two adult males were charged with affray and processed at the Martin County Jail,” the department said. Under Florida law, affray is a first degree misdemeanor charge resulting from two or more people fighting in a public place, disturbing the peace. Police were called at about

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12:30 p.m. A woman who witnessed the incident told authorities that one of the males was “talking s—-” to another, a cup was thrown, and a door to the restaurant was slammed in someone’s face before an “all out brawl” broke out, according to an arrest report. A French inventor stole the show at Bastille Day celebra-

a toddler to a beer case instead of a car seat was charged with failing to properly secure a child, police said. The 22-year-old driver was pulled over around 2:30 a.m. in the village of Atwood. Ontario Provincial Police officers say a 2-year-old child was also in the car, sitting on a 30-can case of beer. The Wellington North driver, who was not unidentified in order to protect the child’s privacy, had allegedly put the case on the seat of his car and strapped the child to it. In Ontario, any child weighing less than 80 pounds, standing less than four feet, nine inches tall and under age eight must be secured in some form of booster or child seat... apparently the words ‘some NEW Summer 19A driver in form’ does not include 30Canada who allegedly strapped packs. The toddler was not tions in Paris when he flew over the Champs-Elysees on a flying board of his own invention. Franky Zapata drew attention during the military parade Sunday when he took to his “flyboard” device and zoomed above the proceedings. Footage of Zapata, who was holding a rifle to demonstrate the potential military applications of his invention, was tweeted by President Emmuel Macron, who called the flyboard “modern and innovative.” Zapata, a former jet ski champion, has demonstrated previous versions of his flyboard in the past, but Sunday marked his first appearance during an official military event.

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injured. A Colorado veterinarian said dogs in the Aspen area are being brought in with marijuana toxicity after getting high from eating human poop at trails and campgrounds. Dr. Scott Dolginow, owner of Valley Emergency Pet Care in Basalt, said between three and 10 dogs are brought in each week with marijuana toxicity, and 70 to 80 percent of the dog owners said they do not know where the pets found cannabis. “But they say they were out on a trail or camping,” Dolginow told The Aspen Times. “I can’t believe that the owners are lying.” He said the canines could be getting their highs from eating human poop tainted with THC, the psychoactive ingredient in mari-

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juana. The veterinarian said the human feces can contain enough of the chemical to get a dog high. “Most dogs will eat human feces given the opportunity,” Dolginow said. Dolginow said he has personally seen human feces abandoned next to trails on multiple occasions at Hunter Creek. Marijuana toxicity in dogs has been on the rise since states began legalizing recreational use of the plant, with the Pet Poison Helpline reporting a 448 percent increase in cases over the past six years. Veterinarians said dogs suffering from the condition typically suffer nausea and disorientation. Dolginow said the treatment is typically to keep the dog calm and hydrated until the THC naturally passes through the canine’s system.

The desire to have a selfie as a souvenir from running with the bulls in Spain turned into a near-death experience an American lawyer says he’ll never forget. A charging bull ran over and gored San Francisco resident Jaime Alvarez in the neck during the first run of this year’s San Fermin festival in Pamplona. “The joy and the excitement of being in the bullring quickly turned into a scare, into real fear for my life,” Alvarez, 46, said at a regional hospital where he was recovering from surgery. Doctors told Alvarez the bull’s horn went deep into his neck and fractured part of a cheekbone. That it didn’t hit the jugular vein or major arteries was described to the injured patient as “beyond miraculous.” Alvarez said he climbed onto a fence for safe-

ty and only returned to the arena to shoot a short video when he thought that the danger had passed. He wanted “a 5-second video scene to say ‘Here I am, I did it.’” That’s when the stray bull came at him running fast. “The impact was unlike anything I’ve ever felt. It was like being hit by a car or a truck,” Alvarez said. The selfie, on the other hand, turned out fantastic. After her boyfriend said he was too tired to have sex, a Florida Woman allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife and slashed him multiple times on the arm and shoulder, according to a criminal complaint. A sheriff’s deputy reported that Jennifer Lee Chapman, 37, and the 36-year-old victim “got into a verbal argument over defendant wanting to have sex and

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the victim did not because he was too tired.” After Chapman grabbed a knife and cut her arm, the couple began grappling on the kitchen floor. When they briefly separated, Chapman allegedly “cut victim’s left arm and shoulder area multiple times.” She also head-butted and punched her boyfriend in the face, police report. Chapman was arrested in connection with the incident. She was charged with aggravated battery. Chapman is also facing a probation violation charge in connection with her guilty plea last year for illegally possessing marijuana, crystal meth, and the antidepressant Xanax.

“blue inflatable pool on the roof with two juveniles inside of the pool.” Officers made contact with the driver, 49year-old Jennifer A. Janus Yeager, who said she had her daughters ride inside of the empty pool to “hold it down on their drive home.” Police learned Yeager drove into town to inflate the pool at a friends’ house. Yeager was arrested and charged with two counts of Endangering the Health or Life of a Child and two counts of Reckless Conduct. Police said she was also cited for failure to secure a passenger of the age of 8 and under the age of 16. She was transported to the Dixon Police Department where she was processed and released According police in Dixon, IL after posting bond. It was not officers were alerted and later reported whether she finally observed an Audi Q5 driving got the pool home or not. west on Illinois Route 2 with a

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You Will Never Measure Up You are never gonna measure up! I know that sounds a little harsh. But hey, sometimes the truth hurts. Might as well accept it here and now. There is a catch - you have an opportunity to measure up. It is actually a pretty simple. You need to stop using everyone else’s measuring stick and find your own! Let me say that again - quit using the same measuring stick as everyone else.

one else’s. Which leaves us feeling Sometimes we never leave the empty, lost, and totally off the dock because we have such little radar. faith in the things we can not see. Sometimes we get caught up in the The exciting news is, you were wind because we need to learn to never meant to measure up to any lean on and trust the people on our one else’s standards of what your ship. Sometimes we drift close to life should look like. The harder the shore because we are afraid we you try to measure up to what will lose the light in the Lighthouse. other people think your life should Heaven forbid we stay in the dark. be or look like, the further out you go. It is like being on your own My point is we all struggle with our voyage. own insecurities. Therefore the ‘Cause I am gonna let you in on a measuring stick for you and I will secret. When you were created, If you are out here trying to please you came with your very own measuring stick. A measuring stick that only you can use. Where do you find your own stick? You’re are gonna need to look high and low to find it. The fastest way to get back on course, is to stop looking left and right and push forward. It will not be easy. It may not even be straight. But it will be worth it.

all your money on materialistic crap to fit in, you are always gonna be broke. As long as you lie to yourself about who you are, you will always be lost. As you long as continue to follow others, you will never lead. This world needs a whole lot more leaders and less followers. If you never learn how to read your compass, you will always stay lost, and you can never captain your ship - your ship of life, joy and happiness. Friend, your captain’s hat is up for the taking. It belongs on your head. Added bonus, your hat will only fit on your head! Be brave enough to step up, grab what is your, and steer forward. We are going old school this month: Song: Amazing – Aerosmith

- Michelle Haman For some people, me included, the fog that is in front of us is so thick you can’t see what you need to see. You need to chill, reset, check and adjust your compass. In the process of floating through life, checking off to-do lists and such, we have lost the purpose of living. We are constantly rushing from one moment to the next. Not even enjoying the moment in front of us (thick fog). We think the more things we accomplish the better we are. Makes us more important, I suppose. Sadly we are missing the most important events in our lives. Moments that we will never get back. The nights sitting under the stars just chatting it up. Running from one sunset to the next not even seeing the beauty each night endless jars of lightening bugs, evenings where we just sit, and do nothing else but be together. Those are the marks on your measuring stick you need to account for. Most often those are the times no one else knows about. Those are the special moments you keep close to your heart. The moment you quit treating your life like it is a destination, instead of the journey it was meant to be, you can find peace. Instead, we just compare our journey to every-

your parents, never gonna happen. If you are trying to please your spouse, even if you have the same ideas or goals, there is the opportunity for leaks. Are you trying to make your kids happy, now that’s a joke. How about that boss or coworker of yours? Are they demanding you to give more? There will always be weak links. In the scheme of life people make us feel that nothing is ever enough. What about your friends? Can you show up in a ragged mess and still be loved? Are you brave enough to hang your dirty laundry out on the line in front of them? Or does the fear of being compared to the others have you sinking down? Stop making yourself small in order to make others feel better about themselves. Friend, you are only responsible for your ship.

be different. As long as you continue to focus your attention on being like the person beside you, that you admire, or “follow” you will become the Titanic. You might can fake what you have in your heart and mind for a bit, but trust me the real you will come out and there will be no life boats around. As long as you continue to spend

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Michelle is a mom, wife, certified pharmacy tech, and an oil enthusiast. In a search for a simpler life, Michelle, along with her husband Curtis, has recently added ‘entrepreneur’ to her resume. Haman’s Homestead was created with the desire to share a simpler approach to all things life has to offer. Follow Michelle’s oil journey in her blog at www.HamansHomestead.com. She can also be reached at hamanshomestead@gmail.com.

Get Off My Lawn ing the UTC football games? Still looking for a craft beer that tastes good. Any suggestions? The recent Mueller report and the follow up TV program starring Mr. Mueller shows that we, the citizens of the U.S.A. are idiots allowing ourselves to be ruled by big idiots.

Why are there no public restrooms downtown? Do the homeless use the streets and alleys?

were homeless , hungry and Patten Parkway alone. Look no place to sleep? at the mess you made at MLK and Market (the cow pasI am so sick of political cor- ture). rectness. The secret of getting old is Old age can be boring. doing all the wrong things the right way. How many restaurants does Germantown Road need? Until Next Time,

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When is our government (Congress and Senate) going to get off Trump’s ass and get to work for our citizens? Homeless still don’t have a place to live or enough to eat so let’s worry about illegal aliens having a place to live and food to eat – plus medial care. Who is going to live in all these condos and apartments they are building in Chattanooga? Why are the idiots (the squad) still in the government? One should be deported (she is the one who married her brother to get in the country). One is just a plain idiot. Her former job was a bartender. Give her her old job back. The other two are just crude, nasty people. Are the Parking Nazis going to write parking tickets durENIGMA

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YOU MAKE LOVIN FUN Gene Lovin Reminds Us Why Radio Is Still Relevant

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The Buggles famously sand, Truth be told, radio killed the management killed the radio prior before the Internet when “Video Killed the Radio Star”. radio star. Truth be told, radio station. news broke it told us what happened. It alerted us when trafNot so far in the distant past fic was bad and let us know of there was a mythical oasis impending bad weather. called a radio station. They had funny little call letters and At the helm of these radio stathey were there day and night. tions were the golden voices They kept us occupied while we behind the microphone called worked, traveled, studied or the deejay – short for disc killed time. When we were jockey. You see before mp3s sad, the music consoled us. music physically came on vinyl When we were happy or cele- records, CDs and other platbrated an achievement it was forms – hence the name disc there. As we road tripped it jockey. Their voices were part was our soundtrack. In the day of our world for hours a day – ENIGMA

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usually in four-hour shifts. Unlike our TV gods who we only saw for a half hour at a time, these deejays spent an afternoon, evening and even overnight when we needed them. They were the calming voice when we were upset. They would take our phone calls and play songs we requested to put us in the mood or keep the mood going. Often we had an equally emotional tied to the disc jockey as we did the song. Most songs last only three minutes, whereas the deejay was there for hours a day. They were the magical Oz behind the curtain that orchestrated our emotions at time and always seemed to be there when others weren’t.

realized they could cut expenses and increase profits by using technology that allowed them to do a thing called voice tracking. They would get a voice talent to prerecord breaks between songs that made it sound like they were actually on the air live and a computer would play these breaks between an automated programmed music totally eliminating the need for a live deejay. Many radio stations over the years have actually had no live talent. Station owners would refer to their station as the “station in the closet” – basically a computer with all the music, traffic, weather and voice announcements. There was no longer any interaction with the voice on the radio. Radio ruled the world until the Any contest had listeners call mid ‘90s when radio stations into a 1-800 number and not a

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local one. Everything was out- For the most part lost in everysourced. thing was that collective name and voice. I realize we are in Around the turn of the century the 21st Century, but radio once satellite radio came out and meant a lot to many of us and truly segmented radio into dif- still does. Today many stations ferent categories. If you only are only “live” middays with a liked classic rock that was all syndicated morning show, a you had to listen to. ‘80s? syndicated evening show and There was a channel for that. voice tracking overnight. Men Country? Yep. Indie? Yep and women once known as even that. Clear Channel tried radio personalities were marto bring that to terrestrial radio ginalized. However before the – referring to local radio. technology that ruined a great Instead of getting to hear institution the fact most pereverything under the sun on sonalities weren’t paid like the one radio station the listener gods we thought they were. often surfed channels. Loyalty One day your favorite deejay is was a thing of the past. Radio playing your favorite songs and stations that once had a 20 the next they’re gone. They share of the market (two out of either go to another station in ten radios being tuned to the the market or an entirely difstation) were at a share of 10 or ferent city. The primary cause below. if money – either the station doesn’t want to pay enough or

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the personality got a better offer. Most even to this day will send off what is referred to as a “sound check” to see what is out there hoping to better themselves. It’s an electric resume with the difference more than coworkers know they are gone a loyal group of listeners that in some markets means tens of thousands of people.

has spanned over six decades as a radio personality with stints in markets in Atlanta, Birmingham, Florida but most know him for his work behind the microphone in has adopted hometown of Chattanooga.

everyone who listens to or for Chattanooga area were tuned that matter love Lovin. into the station. In the ‘70s they found themselves in a dogThe course that Lovin’s career fight at times with WGOW AM, has taken mirrors that of what then a Top 40 station as well. I’ve already written. In Then the bottom dropped out Chattanooga alone he’s done a as FM took over popular radio tour of duty with most of the when WSKZ, better known as In spite of all the changes in radio groups in town playing KZ106 came on the air and AM radio Lovin has managed to just about every format there is radio almost overnight became stay above the fray. Listening out there. While many have an afterthought.

Despite the fact that the business of radio has pretty much ruined their business model there are few and unfortunately far between examples of what makes radio great and still worth listening to. I realize this is a long roundabout way to get to the subject of this article, yet here we are. On Saturday, August 3 at a ceremony in Murfreesboro, TN Gene Lovin will be inducted into the Tennessee Broadcasters Hall of Fame. The Atlanta area native got his start almost literally as a kid to have a very respectable career that

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to him on the radio it is obvious he loves what he does. That love is contagious to the listener who in turn loves Gene. You might say his last name fits him perfectly as

come and gone in the market or moved on to TV or a marketing job Lovin continues to thrive and today despite decades of accomplishments and being on the radio he has perhaps become even more relevant in recent years. A little over a year ago radio station WFLI was purchased by Evan Stone and Marshall Bandy and theoretically returned the station to it’s old glory. In 1961 WFLI 1070 AM came on the air as the first Top 40 station in the Chattanooga market where it was beast. After its first ratings book the station held a 20 share of the market, something it held for the most part until FM took over the market in 1978. In the late ‘60s legendary local jock Tommy Jett’s drive time show garnered a 70 share of the market, meaning seven out of every ten radios in the

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WFLI launched a FM signal now known as WJTT (Power 94) but WSKZ got the jump on them and was unable to compete. WFLI changed their format to country briefly before switching to a religious format that remained until the spring of 2018 when the station was about to go silent. Stone and Bandy bought the station and converted the station to its original format, Top 40 with the caveat that it was classic Top 40, playing the songs from their original run from 1961 to fall of 1980 when they switched to country with an occasional song from 1981 making into the playlist. The station’s building was converted into the National Top 40 Radio Museum and Hall of Fame. The station was restored to its old glory complete with era appropriate furnishings including the radio control and productions rooms complete with the equipment from circa 1970 complete with turntables, cart machines and a control board that looks like something out of an old movie – all in perfect working condition. The only modern additions are computers and software that have the station’s music catalog marrying vintage and modern technology well. The new owners wanted to broadcast live from the museum and picked Lovin to be not

only the voice, but also the face Lovin I have gone to the radio of WFLI. station and sat in as he broadcasts live every weekday from It’s during the past year that I 2-7pm and I regret waiting as really started to get to knowing long as I did to meet him. He’s Gene Lovin. Having lived here kind of like that cool uncle that most of my life I have been a your parents trust and once radio/music fan my entire life. they leave he gets that twinkle I intently listen to the music, in his eye and you know you’re listen to what the deejay has to going to have fun. The man say, judging it if it’s clever, with the strong, distinctive appropriate or not. As I’ve said voice has a demeanor opposite earlier many a deejay have of what you hear on the radio. been there for me over the Humble to a fault he is quick to years through good and bad compliment others in his line and at times seemed to know of work and those around him magically what I needed to and acts embarrassed at times hear next on the radio. Gene when deserved praise is Lovin is one of those names I heaped upon him including the heard countless times and induction into the Tennessee often on different frequencies. Broadcasters Hall of Fame. I knew who he was – at least on the radio and now I have Over the last year not only has been able to put a face to a Gene Lovin become the voice voice I have heard for decades. of WFLI (his second stint with Over the years I have met many the station – the first many a radio personality only to hav- years ago) he’s become the ing my bubble burst when I dis- face. Many joke about being covered they were nothing like the hardest working man or I imagined. They always tell woman in show business. Gene you that you should never meet actually is. Besides being on your idols because they will the air he has made multiple disappoint. While Gene Lovin’s appearances at station promoname was one I was familiar it tions and a Goodwill ambassawasn’t until he was introduced dor for the station and museum at a press conference for WFLI including helping a random that I got to meet him. Since sales person close a deal by that time he has proven that simply giving his approval to old adage wrong for me. the potential advertiser. He can be found picking up station Upon meeting Gene I thought swag for giveaways all the he was a fireplug looking life a while making sure everyone at life-sized Fred Flintstone with WFLI is happy and often asks if sandy hair and minus the he can do anything to help. “Yabba Dabba Doo”, although if he yelled that out I wouldn’t And while I was familiar with have been surprised. Who I the name Gene Lovin, I never met was a humble, almost self- realized what his presence effacing man who isn’t given meant to many and quite the credit he deserves. On frankly since I’ve been getting August 3 he’ll finally get the to know him mean even myself. accolades that are too long in On many occasions when I coming. Since meeting Gene stopped by the station random ENIGMA

people have showed up to see the station. Many are excited and thankful it’s back to it’s old format playing the music they grew up on. The next thing I hear is, “Is Gene here? Can I see him?” You would think Elvis was in the building. It wasn’t until a few months ago when I went to lunch with an old friend and said, “Yeah, I was talking to Gene Lovin the other day…” My friend interrupted me and said, “YOU know Gene Lovin?” Yeah, I said, I talk with him all the time and sometimes even sit in with him when he’s on the air. My friend’s eyes got big and he said, “WOW!” I never knew. Neither did Gene until I told him. I knew I was hanging out with someone special who means more to more people that he realizes. Gene is almost

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embarrassed by the attention. He shouldn’t be. He should relish in it. Besides being a genuinely good person the one thing I notice about Gene Lovin is he actually enjoys what he does. Gene’s love of music, being on the radio personality is addictive and humbling to everyone around him and myself to witness. We should all love what we do and be as good as it as Gene Lovin is. I’m happy that I have gotten to write this now so Gene could actually read it instead of being a eulogy as I’ve written over the years for other local radio and TV personalities. Long live Gene Lovin and thank you my friend.

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W EED W DN NEESSD DA AYY A Auugguu sstt 77 SSK KYY ZZO OO O (Chattanooga) Karaoke WAAN W ND DEERRLLII N NG G BBRREE W WIIN NG G CC O OM M PPAAN NYY (Chattanooga) Open Mic JJ..JJ’’ SS BBO OH HEE M MIIAA (Chattanooga) Comedy Open Mic TT H HEE PPAALLM MSS (Chattanooga) DJ Keith, Jimmy Harris, Eric and Eric SSO ON NG G BBII RRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Dirty Honey TT H HEE SSIIG GN N AALL (Chattanooga) Gin Blossoms

RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Ringo & His All Starr Band CCII TTYY W WIIN N EERRYY N NA ASS H HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Squirrel Nut Zippers TTH H EE BBA ASS EEM MEE N NTT EEA ASS TT (Nashville) Black Joe Lewis CCII TTYY W WIIN N EERRYY A ATT LLA AN NTT A A (Atlanta) David Cook TTH H EE M MA ASSQ QU UEERRA AD D EE (Atlanta) Author & Punisher KN K NO O XXVVIILLLLEE CCIIVVIICC CC O OLLIISS EEU UM M (Knoxville) Vince Gill

U PPCCO U OM MIIN NG G EEVVEEN NTT SS TTH H EE CCO OM MEE D DYY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Mutzie August 8 TTH H EE SS IIG GN NA ALL (Chattanooga) Get The Led Out August 8 ASSCC EEN A ND DA AM MPPH H IITT H HEE A ATTRREE (Nashville) Heart, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Elle King August 8 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Ringo & His All Starr Band August 8 CCA AN NN NEE RRYY BBA ALLLL RRO OO OM M (Nashville) Scott Stapp August 8 TTH H EE EE N ND D (Nashville) Acacia Strain, Chamber, Kublai Khan August 8 SSA ATT U URRN N (Birmingham) Kyle Craft August 8 4400 W WA ATT TT CCLLU U BB (Athens, GA) Black Flag, The Linecutters August 8 TTEE RRM MIIN NA ALL W WEESS TT (Atlanta) Black Joe Lewis August 8 OLLD O D SSM MO OK KYY BBA ARRN N (Knoxville) David Nail August 8 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Christone “Kingfish” Ingram August 9 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS N NO O RRTTH H (Chattanooga) Paul Childers August 9 TTH H EE CCO OM MEE D DYY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Mutzie August 9 TTH H EE SS IIG GN NA ALL (Chattanooga) Frank Foster, Kyle Daniel August 9 HII-- FFII CC LLYY D H DEE ’’SS (Chattanooga) Joe Finkle & the 7/10 Splits August 9 MIILLLLEE RR PPLLA M AZZA A (Chattanooga) “Nightfall” Front Country, Slim Pickins August 9 TTU U SSCC A ALLO OO O SSA AA AM M PPH H IITT H HEE A ATTEE RR (Tuscaloosa, AL) Dierks Bentley, Jon Pardi August 9 SSA ATT U URRN N (Birmingham) Here Come the Mummies August 9 TTU U SSCC A ALLO OO O SSA AA AM M PPH H IITT H HEE A ATTEE RR (Tuscaloosa, AL) Dierks Bentley, Jon Pardi, Tenille Townes August 9 ASSCC EEN A ND DA AM MPPIITT H H EEA ATT RREE (Nashville) Ben Folds, Violent Femmes August 9 TTH H EE CCO ON NCC O OU U RRSS EE (Knoxville) The Acacia Strain, Kublai Khan, Chamber August 9 TTH H EE SSH HEE D DA ATT SSM MO OK KYY M MO OU UN N TT A AIIN NH H AARRLLEEYY DA D AVVIID DSSO ON N (Maryville, TN) Jack Russell’s Great White August 9 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) A Tribute to Soda Stereo August 10 TTH H EE CCO OM MEE D DYY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Mutzie August 10 HII-- FFII CC LLYY D H DEE ’’SS (Chattanooga) Josiah & the Greater Good August 10 TTII VVO O LLII TT H HEE A ATT RREE (Chattanooga) 1964 August 10 HU H U TTTT O ON N && SSM M IITT H H (Chattanooga) Shannon McNeal August 10 TTH H EE PPA ALL M MSS (Chattanooga) “Coconut Room” no Big Deal August 10 TTH H EE CC A AVVEERRN N SS (Pelham, TN) Papdosio August 10

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CCEE LLLLA ARRIISS AAM M PPH HIITT H HEE AATT RREE AATT LLAAK KEE W WO OO OD D (Atlanta) Thomas Rhett, Dustin Lynch, Russell Dickerson, Rhett Akins August 10 VVA ARRIIEE TTYY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USS EE (Atlanta) Godspeed You Black Emperor August 10 SSU UW WAAN N EEEE CCIITT YY PPAARRK K (Suwanee, GA) The Smithereens August 10 IIRRO ON N CCIITT YY (Birmingham) The Claypool Lennon Delirium, Uni August 10 TTH H EE SSH H EED D AATT SSM MO OK KYY M MO OU UN N TTAAII N NH H AARRLLEEYY DAAVVIID D DSSO ON N (Maryville, TN) Ray Wylie Hubbard August 10 TTH H EE CC O OM M EED D YY CCAATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Mutzie August 11 SSTTA ATT EE FFAARRM M AARREE N NAA (Atlanta) John Mayer August 11 AM A MEERRIISS BBAAN NK K AAM M PPH HIITT H HEE AATT RREE (Alpharetta, GA) Peter Frampton, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience August 11 RRYY M MAA N N AAU UD D IITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Herbie Hancock August 11 KN K NO O XXVVIILL LLEE CC IIVVIICC CCO O LLIISSEE U UM M (Knoxville) The Raconteurs August 11 JJ..JJ..’’SS BBO OH H EEM MIIAA (Chattanooga)Black Magic Flower Power, Silver Tongue August 12 FFO OXX TT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Jill Scott August 12 SSTTA ATT EE FFAARRM M AARREE N NAA (Atlanta) Jonas Brothers, Jordan McGraw August 12 TTH H EE TT AABBEERRN N AACCLLEE (Atlanta) Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators August 12 JJ..JJ..’’SS BBO OH H EEM MIIAA (Chattanooga) Faux Bois August 13 MAARRAATT H M HO ON NM MU USSIICC W WO O RRK KSS (Nashville) UB40 August 13 CCA AN NN NEERRYY BBAALLLLRRO OO OM M (Nashville) Grace VanderWall August 13 HIIG H GH HW WAATT TT (Nashville) Thunderpussy, Holis Brown August 13 BBU U CCK KH H EEAAD D TT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Imfact August 13 JJ..JJ..’’SS BBO OH H EEM MIIAA (Chattanooga) You Bred Raptors, Fable Cry, Genki Genki Panic, Et Cetera August 14 TTH H EE PPAALLM M SS (Chattanooga) Rough Work August 14 SSTTA ATT EE FFAARRM M AARREE N NAA (Atlanta) Khalid, Clairo August 14 EED DD D IIEE’’ SS AATT TT IICC (Atlanta) Chely Wright August 14 BBIIJJ O OU U TTH H EEAATT RREE (Knoxville) Jon Anderson August 14 JJ..JJ..’’SS BBO OH H EEM MIIAA (Chattanooga) Oweda, The Racks, Elijah Jones & the Tenderness August 15 TTH H EE CC O OM M EED D YY CCAATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Rod Man August 15 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD DSS SSO OU U TTH H (Chattanooga) 3rd Annual Museum Hop August 15 BBRRIID DG GEE SSTT O ON NEE AARREEN N AA (Nashville) Queen + Adam Lambert August 15 TTH H EE TT AABBEERRN N AACCLLEE (Atlanta) Bryan Ferry August 15 BBU U CCK KH H EEAAD D TT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) UB40 August 15 AM A MEERRIISS BBAAN NK K AAM M PPH HIITT H HEE AATT RREE (Alpharetta, GA) Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Chevelle, Diamante, Dorothy August 15 PPU U BBLLIICC SSQ QU U AARREE PPAARRK K (Nashville) “Live On the Green” Gary Clark Jr., The Strumbellas, Yola August 15 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD DSS N NO O RRTT H H (Chattanooga) Joe Robinson August 16 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD DSS SSO OU U TTH H (Chattanooga) Rubiks Groove August 16 TTH H EE CC O OM M EED D YY CCAATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Rod

AUGUST 2019

Man August 16 H II--FFII CCLL YYD H D EE’’ SS (Chattanooga) Legacy August 16 M IILLLLEERR PPLL AAZZAA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall” M YARN, Josh Driver Band August 16 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD D IITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Melissa Etheridge August 16 SSCC H H EERRM MEE RRH HO O RRN N SSYY M MPPH HO ON N YY CCEE N NTT EERR (Nashville) Stephanie Mills, Will Downing August 16 TT H HEE CC O OW WAAN N (Nashville) Norma Jean, Afterlife, Fit For A King August 16 TT H HEE RRO OW W (Nashville) Fit For A King, Norma Jean, Currents, Left Behind August 16 CC O OCC AA CC O OLL AA RRO OXXYY (Atlanta) 21 Savage, DaBaby August 16 BBU UCC K KH H EEAAD D TTH H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Muscadine Bloodline August 16 VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) Ace Frehley August 16 PPU U RRG G AATT O ORRYY @ @ TT H HEE M MA ASS Q QU UEE RRA AD DEE (Atlanta) Shawn James, New Reveille August 16 H AARRRRAAH H H’’ SS CC H HEE RRO OK KEE EE CC A ASSIIN NO O (Cherokee, NC) Cole Swindell August 16 SSO ON NG G BBIIRRD DSS N NO ORRTT H H (Chattanooga) Sistren August 17 SSO ON NG G BBIIRRD DSS SS O OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) “Woodstock 50th Anniversary” The Pool, Oweda, Jess Goggans Band, Pauld Childers August 17 TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Rod Man August 17 H II--FFII CCLL YYD H D EE’’ SS (Chattanooga) Voodoo Slim August 17 HU H UTT TTO ON N && SSM MIITT H H (Chattanooga) Trevor Clark and the Current Situation August 17 TT H HEE CC AAVVEE RRN NSS (Pelham, TN) The Steeldrivers August 17 M AABBLLEE H M HO OU U SSEE BBAARRN N EESS A AM M PPH HIITT H H EEA ATT RREE (Mableton, GA) Jeffery Osborne, Jody Watley August 17 FF RREED DRRIICC K K BBRRO OW WN N JJ RR.. A AM MPPH H IITTH H EEA ATT RREE (Peachtree City, GA) Chris Botti August 17

CC O OCC AA CC O OLLAA RRO O XXYY (Atlanta) Social Distortion, Flogging Molly, Le Butcherettes August 17 TT H HEE SSH HEE D D AA TT SS M MO OK K YY M MO OU UN NTT AAIIN NH HAARRLLEE YY DAAVVIID D D SSO ON N (Maryville, TN) Parker Milsap August 17 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Bryan Ferry August 17 FFRRA AN NK KLLIIN N TTH H EEAATT RREE (Franklin, TN) Herman’s Hermits featuring Peter Noone August 17 HII SSTTO H O RRIICC BBRRU USSH H YY M MO OU UN NTT AAIIN N SSTT AATTEE PPEEN N II-TT EEN NTT AARRYY (Petros, TN) Ace Frehley August 17 O AAK O KM MO OU UN NTT AAIIN N AAM MPPH H IITT H HEE AATTRREE (Pelham, AL) Thomas Rhett, Dustin Lynch, Russell Dickerson August 17 BBRRIID DG G EESSTT O ON NEE AARREE N NAA (Nashville) Iron Maiden, The Raven Age August 19 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Brittany Howard August 19 AM A MEE RRIISS BBAAN NK K AAM MPPH H IITT H HEEAATT RREE (Alpharetta, GA) Heart, Brandi Carlile, Elle King August 19 EED DD DIIEE ’’SS AATTTT IICC (Atlanta) The Iguanas August 19 BBU UCC K KH HEE AAD D TT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Gavin DeGraw August 20 EED DD DIIEE ’’SS AATTTT IICC (Atlanta) John Sebastian August 20 CC A AD DEE N NCC EE BBAAN NK K AAM MPPH H IITT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Live, Bush August 20 O AAK O KM MO OU UN NTT AAIIN N AAM MPPH H IITT H HEE AATTRREE (Pelham, AL) Heart, Brandi Carlile, Ella King August 20 TT H HEE PPAALLM MSS (Chattanooga) Zach Dallas August 21 SSTT A ATT EE FFAARRM M AARREEN N AA (Atlanta) Backstreet Boys August 21 EED DD DIIEE ’’SS AATTTT IICC (Atlanta) Mother’s Finest August 21 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) The Raconteurs August 21 AM A MEE RRIISS BBAAN NK K AAM MPPH H IITT H HEEAATT RREE (Alpharetta, GA) Smashing Pumpkins, AFI, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds August 21 O AAK O KM MO OU UN NTT AAIIN N AAM MPPH H IITT H HEE AATTRREE (Pelham, AL) Why Don’t We August 21 BBIIJJO OU U TT H HEE AATT RREE (Knoxville) Lianne La Havas August 21 SSO ON NG G BBII RRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Molly Tuttle August 22 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Jen Kober August 22 TT H HEE SSIIG GN N AALL (Chattanooga) Umphrey’s McGee August 22 SSTT A ATT EE FFAARRM M AARREEN N AA (Atlanta) Queen + Adam Lambert August 22 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) The Raconteurs August 22 CC A AD DEE N NCC EE BBAAN NK K AAM MPPH H IITT H HEEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Bob James, Marcus Miller, David Sanborn August 22 CC IITTYY W WII N NEERRYY AATT LLAAN N TTAA (Atlanta) Marcia Ball August 22 VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) Pedro the Lion, Mewithoutyou August 22 TT U USSCC AALLO OO OSSAA AAM M PPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE (Tuscaloosa, AL) Penatonix August 22 AVVO A ON ND DAALLEE BBRREEW WIIN NG G CC O OM MPPAAN NYY (Birmingham) Gavin DeGraw August 22 SSA ATT U URRN N (Birmingham) The Bird and The Bee August 22 EEXXIITT // IIN N (Nashville) Tanya Tucker August 22 PPU UBBLLIICC SSQ QU UAARREE PPAARRK K (Nashville) “Live On the Green” Johnnyswim, Amanda Shires, Mat Kearney August 22 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Jen

Kober August 23 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Rumours, Running Down A Dream August 23 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS N NO O RRTTH H (Chattanooga) Striking Matches August 23 HII-- FFII CC LLYY D H DEE ’’SS (Chattanooga) Monday Night Social August 23 MIILLLLEE RR PPLLA M AZZA A (Chattanooga) “Nightfall” The Happy Fits, Spinster August 23 BBU UCC K KH HEE A AD D TT H HEE A ATT RREE (Atlanta) The Molly Ringwalds August 23 VVA ARRII EETT YY PPLL A AYYH HO OU U SSEE (Atlanta) The Dirty Guv’nahs August 23 EED DD DIIEE’’ SS A ATT TT IICC (Atlanta) Mike Farris August 23 AM A MEE RRII SS BBA AN NK KA AM MPPH HII TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Alpharetta, GA) Brad Paisley August 23 AVVO A ON ND DA ALLEE BBRREE W WIIN NG G CC O OM M PPA AN NYY (Nashville) Aaron Lewis August 23 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Widespread Panic August 23 CCA AN NN NEE RRYY BBA ALLLL RRO OO OM M (Nashville) Mewithoutyou, Pedro the Lion August 23 TTH H EE CCO OM MEE D DYY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Jen Kober August 24 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Over Easy August 24 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS N NO O RRTTH H (Chattanooga Dirry Dozen Brass Band, Smooth Hound Smith, Over Easy August 24 HII-- FFII CC LLYY D H DEE ’’SS (Chattanooga) Sullivan Band August 24 HU H U TTTT O ON N && SSM M IITT H H (Chattanooga) Tryezz August 24 TTH H EE PPA ALL M MSS (Chattanooga) “Coconut Room” Deep Fried Allstars August 24 TTH H EE CC A AVVEERRN N SS (Pelham, TN) Rhonda Vincent August 24 IIN NFF IIN NIITT EE EEN NEE RRG GYY CC EEN N TTEE RR (Duluth, GA) Marco Antonio Solis August 24 CCO O CC A A CCO O LLA A RRO O XXYY (Atlanta) Aaron Lewis August 24 FFO O XX TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Atlanta) The Rivalists, Anderson East August 24 CCEE LLLLA ARRIISS A AM MPPH HIITT H H EEA ATT RREE (Atlanta) 2 Chainz August 24 CCO O BBBB EEN N EERRG G YY PPEE RRFFO O RRM M IIN NG GA ARRTT SS CC EEN N TTEE RR (Atlanta) Googoosh August 24 CCA AD D EEN N CCEE BBA AN NK KA AM MPPH HII TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Atlanta) Yacht Rock Review August 24 VVA ARRII EETT YY PPLL A AYYH HO OU U SSEE (Atlanta) The Dirty Guv’nahs August 24 TTH H EE SSH HEE D DA ATT SSM MO OK KYY M MO OU UN N TT A AIIN NH H AARRLLEEYY DA D AVVIID DSSO ON N (Maryville, TN) Colt Ford August 24 AVVO A ON ND DA ALLEE BBRREE W WIIN NG G CC O OM M PPA AN NYY (Birmingham) The Molly Ringwalds August 24 TTU U SSCC A ALLO OO O SSA AA AM M PPH H IITT H HEE A ATTEE RR (Tuscaloosa, AL) Mary J. Blige, Nas August 24 SSA ATT U URRN N (Birmingham) Mewithoutyou, Pedro the Lion August 24 TTH H EE BBA ASS EEM MEE N NTT EEA ASS TT (Nashville) M Ward August 24 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Widespread Panic August 24 ASSCC EEN A ND DA AM MPPH H IITT H HEE A ATTEE RR (Nashville) Judah & the Lion August 24 TTH H EE CCO OM MEE D DYY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Jen Kober August 25 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Dragon Fly Affect Purple Masquerade, Sexy Beast, Dallas Walker, Marty Manus August 25 TTH H EE SS IIG GN NA ALL (Chattanooga) Pedro the Lion, Mewithoutyou August 25 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville)

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AUGUST

Widespread Panic August 25 BBRRIID DG GEE SSTT O ON NEE AARREEN N AA (Nashville) Backstreet Boys August 26 CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY AATTLL AAN NTT AA (Atlanta) Vertical Horizon August 26 CCEE LLLLA AIIRRIISS AAM M PPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Mary J. Blige, Nas August 26 FFO OXX TT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Vampire Weekend August 27 BBU U CCK KH H EEAAD D TT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Mon Laferte August 27 OAAK O KM MO OU UN NTT AAIIN N AAM M PPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE (Pelham, AL) Beck, Cage The Elephant August 27 CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY N NAASSH H VVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Valerie June August 27 TTH H EE PPAALLM M SS (Chattanooga) Ricky Cole Band August 28 BBIIJJ O OU U TTH H EEAATT RREE (Knoxville) Valerie June August 28 ASSCCEE N A ND D AAM MPPH H IITTH H EEAATT EERR (Nashville) The Revivalists, Anderson East August 28 TTH H EE CC O OM M EED D YY CCAATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Tony Tone and friends August 29 RRYY M MAA N N AAU UD D IITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) The Raconteurs August 29 IIRRO ON N CCIITT YY (Nashville) Buckcherry August 29 MEERRCC YY LLO M OU UN NG G EE (Nashville) Sebastian Bach August 29 PPU U BBLLIICC SSQ QU U AARREE PPAARRK K (Nashville) “Live On the Green” yacht Rock Review, O.A.R., Maggie Rose, The Daybreaks, American Authors August 29 BBU U CCK KH H EEAAD D TT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) The Adicts August 29 CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY AATTLL AAN NTT AA (Atlanta) Arrested Development August 29 JJ..JJ..’’SS BBO OH H EEM MIIAA (Chattanooga) Hebbe, Vibe Emissions, Mistah August 30 TTH H EE CC O OM M EED D YY CCAATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Erik Griffin August 30 MIILLLLEE RR PPLLAAZZAA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall” The M True Loves, Dr. B & the Ease August 30 HII--FF II CC LLYYD H D EE’’ SS (Chattanooga) Convertibull August 30 TTH H EE CC AAVVEERRN NSS (Pelham, TN) Hot Tuna, Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley August 30 RRYY M MAA N N AAU UD D IITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) The Raconteurs August 30 CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY N NAASSH H VVIILLLLEE (Nashville) The Box Tops August 30 PPU U BBLLIICC SSQ QU U AARREE PPAARRK K (Nashville) “Live On The Green” Robert Randolph and the Family Band, The Brummies, Guster, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Erin Rae August 30 MEERRCC YY LLO M OU UN NG G EE (Nashville) Steve’n’Seagulls August 30 CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY AATTLL AAN NTT AA (Atlanta) Arrested Development August 30 VVA ARRIIEE TTYY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USS EE (Atlanta) Grandmaster Flash August 30 CCA AD D EEN NCC EE BBAAN NK K AAM M PPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Charlie Wilson August 30 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD DSS N NO O RRTT H H (Chattanooga) Eric Gales Band August 31 WAAN W ND DEE RRLLIIN NG G EERR BBRREE W WIIN NG G CC O OM M PPAAN NYY (Chattanooga) Steel Blossoms August 31 TTH H EE CC O OM M EED D YY CCAATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Erik Griffin August 31 TTH H EE CC AAVVEERRN NSS (Pelham, TN) Matthew West August 31 CCEE LLLLA AIIRRIISS AAM M PPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE AATT LLAAK K EEW WO OO OD D (Atlanta) Florida Georgia Line August 31 VVA ARRIIEE TTYY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USS EE (Atlanta) Hot Tuna August 31 BBLLII N ND DW WIILLLLIIEE ’’SS (Atlanta) Selwyn Birchwood

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August 31 MA M ABBLLEE H HO OU U SSEE BBAARRN N EESS A AM M PPH HIITT H H EEA ATT RREE (Mableton, GA) The Whispers, Ruben Studdard August 31 TT H HEE SSH H EED D AATT SSM MO OK KYY M MO OU UN NTT A AIIN NH HA ARRLLEE YY D AAVVIID D D SSO ON N (Maryville, TN) Kentucky Headhunters August 31 EE XXIITT// IIN N (Nashville) 10 Years August 31 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD D IITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) The Raconteurs August 31 PPU U BBLLII CC SS Q QU UAARREE PPAARRK K (Nashville) “Live On The Green” Grace Potter, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Jukebox the Ghost, Todd Snider, Creature Comfort August 31 TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Erik Griffin September 1 SSU UN N TT RRU USSTT PPAARRK K (Atlanta) Steve Aoki September 1 TT H HEE M MAASS Q QU UEE RRAAD DEE (Atlanta) Boris September 1 M AABBLLEE H M HO OU U SSEE BBAARRN N EESS A AM M PPH HIITT H H EEA ATT RREE (Mableton, GA) Cameo, Glenn Jones, Midnight Star September 1 EE XXIITT// IIN N (Nashville) Mac Sabbath, Okilly Dokilly, Playboy Manbaby September 1 PPU U BBLLII CC SS Q QU UAARREE PPAARRK K (Nashville) “Live On the Green” Airpark, Liz Cooper & the Stampede, Steve Earle, Smooth Hound Smith September 1 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD D IITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Mark Knopfler September 3 CC A AN NN N EERRYY BBAALLLLRRO OO OM M (Nashville) Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark September 3 AM A M EERRIISS BBAAN NK K AAM MPPH H IITT H HEE A ATTRREE (Alpharetta, GA) Slipknot, Volbeat, Gojira, Behemoth September 3 WAAN W ND DEE RRLLIIN NG G EERR BBRREEW W IIN NG G CCO OM MPPA AN N YY (Chattanooga) Marbin September 4 LLEE G GAACC YY AARREEN N AA (Birmingham) Backstreet Boys September 4 IIRRO ON N CC IITT YY (Birmingham) The Band Camino September 4 TT H HEE M MAASS Q QU UEE RRAAD DEE (Atlanta) The Alarm, Jay Aston’s Gene Loves Jezebel, Modern English September 4 VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) Dirty Projectors, Deerhunter September 4 CC A AD DEE N NCC EE BBAAN NK K AAM MPPH H IITT H HEE A ATTRREE (Atlanta) Mark Knopler September 4 BBRRIID DG GEESS TTO ON NEE AARREEN N AA (Nashville) CHRIS BROWN September 4 SSO ON NG G BBIIRRD DSS SS O OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) The Dirty Doors September 5 TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Jeff “D” September 5 M AARRAATTH M HO ON NM MU U SSIICC W WO ORRK KSS (Nashville) The Band Camino September 5 SSO ON NG G BBIIRRD DSS SS O OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) The Breakfast Club September 6 TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Jeff “D” September 6 CC A AD DEE N NCC EE BBAAN NK K AAM MPPH H IITT H HEE A ATTRREE (Atlanta) The Gipsey Kings September 6 CC O OCC AA CC O OLL AA RRO OXXYY (Atlanta) Babymetal September 6 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD D IITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Mandolin Orange, Bonny Light Horsemen September 6 TT H HEE BBAASSEEM M EEN N TT EEAASSTT (Nashville) The Hold Steady September 6 O AAK O KM MO OU UN N TTAAII N N AAM M PPH HIITT H HEE A ATT RREE (Pelham, AL) Hootie & the Blowfish, Barenaked Ladies September 6 SSO ON NG G BBIIRRD DSS SS O OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) The Dirty Doors September 7 TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Jeff “D”

September 7 TT H HEE SSIIG GN N AALL (Chattanooga) Whiskey Myers September 7 HAA RRRRAAH H H ’’SS CCH H EERRO OK KEEEE CC AASSIIN NO O (Cherokee, NC) 3 Doors Down, Clay Walker September 7 TT H HEE SSH HEE D D AA TT SS M MO OK K YY M MO OU UN NTT AAIIN NH HAARRLLEE YY DAAVVIID D D SSO ON N (Maryville, TN) David Allan Coe September 7 WO W O LLFF CC RREEEE K K AAM MPPH H IITT H HEE AATTEE RR (Atlanta) The Jacksons September 7 CC A AD DEE N NCC EE BBAAN NK K AAM MPPH H IITT H HEEAATT RREE (Atlanta) The B-52s September 7 CC EEN N TTEE N NN NII AALL O OLL YYM M PPIICC PPAARRK K (Atlanta) Usher, DMX, Wu-Tang Clan, T-Pain, Rick Ross, Pharrell Williams, Gucci Mane, Ari Lennox, Chronixx, Koffee, Musiq Soulchild, Queen Naija, Rae Sremmurd, Raphael Saadiq, Summer Walker, Teyana Taylor, Tory Lanez, Trina, Trick Daddy, Wizkid September 7 ALLAABBAAM A MAA TTH H EEAATT RREE (Birmingham) Sadie Robertson September 7 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Mandolin Orange, Bonny Light Horsemen September 7 BBRRIID DG G EESSTT O ON NEE AARREE N NAA (Nashville) Hootie & the Blowfish, Barenaked Ladies September 7 SSO ON NG G BBII RRD D SS N NO ORRTT H H (Chattanooga) Tommy Emmanuel, Logan Ledger September 8 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Jeff “D” September 8 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Dwight Yoakam September 8 LLEE G GAACC YY AARREE N NAA (Birmingham) JoJo Siwa September 8 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Dwight Yoakam September 9 SSO ON NG G BBII RRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Hinder, Red, Hour Late September 10 TT IIVVO OLLII TT H H EEAATT RREE (Chattanooga) Dwight Yoakam September 10 BBRRIID DG G EESSTT O ON NEE AARREE N NAA (Nashville) Jonas Brothers, Bebe Rexha, Jordan McGraw September 10 BBU UCC K KH HEE AAD D TT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Burna Boy September 10 SSYY M MPPH HO ON N YY H H AALLLL (Atlanta) Paul Anka September 10 SSO ON NG G BBII RRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Eoto September 11 SSYY M MPPH HO ON N YY H H AALLLL (Atlanta) Buddy Guy September 11 CC O ON N CCEE RRTT H H AALLLL AATT BBJJ CCCC (Birmingham) Gary Allan September 12 SSA ATT U URRN N (Birmingham) Flow Tribe September 12 IIRRO ON N CC IITT YY (Birmingham) Buddy Guy September 12 ASSCC EEN A ND D AAM M PPH HIITT H HEE AATT EERR (Nashville) Lenny Kravitz September 12 TT H HEE M MIILLLL && M MIIN N EE (Knoxville) Drive-By Truckers September 12 SSO ON NG G BBII RRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) The Velcro Pygmies September 13 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Michael Costa September 13 TT H HEE CCAAVVEE RRN N SS (Pelham, TN) Lettuce September 13 FFO O XX TT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Drive-By Truckers, Chris Robinson September 13 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) The Mavericks September 13 SSO ON NG G BBII RRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Jerry Douglas and The Earls Of Leicester

September 14 TTH H EE CCO OM MEE D DYY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Michael Kosta September 14 TTII VVO O LLII TT H HEE A ATT RREE (Chattanooga) The Righteous Brothers September 14 AM A MEE RRII SS BBA AN NK KA AM MPPH HII TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Alpharetta, GA) Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cody Jinks September 14 PPIIEED DM MO ON N TT PPA ARRK K (Atlanta) “Music Midtown” Travis Scott, Billie Eilish, Cardi B., Panic At the Disco September 14 EED DD DIIEE’’ SS A ATT TT IICC (Atlanta) Sonia Leigh September 14 SSA ATT U URRN N (Birmingham) Jenny Lewis, The Watson Twins September 14 TTH H EE SSTTA ATT IIO ON N (Knoxville) Bonnie Bishop September 14 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, Birdtalker September 14 SSCC H HEERRM M EERRH HO ORRN N SSYY M MPPH HO ON NYY CC EEN N TTEE RR (Nashville) The Righteous Brothers (Bill Medley and Bucky Heard) September 15 MEE RRCC YY LLO M OU UN NG G EE (Nashville) Sigrid September 15 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Tash Sultana, The Teskey Brothers September 15 CCII TTYY W WIIN N EERRYY A ATT LLA AN NTT A A (Atlanta) Jackopierce September 15 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) The Growlers September 17 BBIIJJO OU U TT H HEE A ATTRREE (Knoxville) Dweezil Zappa September 17 MEE RRCC YY LLO M OU UN NG G EE (Nashville) Snow Tha Product September 17 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Ruston Kelly, Donovan Woods September 18 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS N NO O RRTTH H (Chattanooga) Popa Chubby September 18 SSTT A ATTEE FFA ARRM MA ARREEN NA A (Atlanta) The Who September 18 SSM MIITT H H ’’SS O O LLD D EE BBA ARR (Atlanta) Shonen Knife September 18 TTEE N NN N EESSSSEE EE PPEE RRFFO O RRM MIIN NG GA ARRTT SS CC EEN N TTEE RR (Nashville) Dweezil Zappa September 18 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Snarky Puppy September 18 4400 W WA ATT TT CCLLU U BB (Athens, GA) Matthew Sweet September 18 TTH H EE CCO OM MEE D DYY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Dale Jones September 19 WA W ALLK KEE RR TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Chattanooga) Drive-By Truckers, Jimbo Mathus September 19 BBIIJJO OU U TT H HEE A ATTRREE (Knoxville) Ruston Kelly, Donovan Woods September 19 IIRRO ON N CCII TTYY (Birmingham) Whitey Morgan September 19 CCII TTYY W WIIN N EERRYY A ATT LLA AN NTT A A (Atlanta) Matthew Sweet September 19 ATTLL A A AN NTT A AM MO O TT O ORR SSPPEE EED DW WA AYY (Hampton, GA) “Imagine Festival” September 19 TTH H EE CCO OM MEE D DYY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Dale Jones September 20 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS N NO O RRTTH H (Chattanooga) Matt Heckler, Casper Allen September 20 GRRA G AN ND DO O LLEE O O PPRRYY H HO OU USSEE (Nashville) The Oak Ridge Boys September 20 TTEE N NN N EESSSSEE EE PPEE RRFFO O RRM MIIN NG GA ARRTT SS CC EEN N TTEE RR (Nashville) Paula Poundstone September 20 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Marina September 20 MEE RRCC YY LLO M OU UN NG G EE (Nashville) Matthew Sweet September 20 CCII TTYY W WIIN N EERRYY N NA ASS H HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Bruce Cockburn September 20

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Best Ten Songs of Famous Musical Offspring Although her famous husband was murdered nearly forty years ago, John Lennon’s widow has continued to help keep his memory as relevant as his music to this day. Yoko Ono celebrated her 86th birthday earlier this year, inspiring her long time fans and friends to reflect on her impact on the music world. She was just one of few women to be married to a member of The Beatles, and certainly the most well-known of those wives. She is also one of the few recording artists who had a child follow in her footsteps, as only a handful of those have appeared in the history of music. Her son Sean Lennon has established an impressive music career, be of as an artist or a producer or a promoter. His debut album, Into the Sun, received critical acclaim and continues to influence the music of many millennial bands. Here are ten other artists whose parents had great careers in the

music world, identified with their His dad gained immortality through “It Never Rains In Southern best songs. California,” and two and a half Some Velvet Morning by Nancy decades later his son’s band recorded the first great guitar rock Sinatra album of the 21st century. The daughter of the most famous members of the Rat Pack scored a Out of the Game by Rufus hit with this eccentric number, one Wainwright of the many duets she performed Martha the sister has become a with songwriter Lee Hazelwood. popular musician as well, but the Say You’re Wrong by Julian Lennon older son was the first to follow his dad Loudon into a career of makSean’s stepbrother reached the Top ing songs as gorgeous as this title Ten with “Too Late For Goodbyes” track. and the title track from his debut album Valotte, but this lesser This Will Be by Natalie Cole known tune is the true gem from Thanks to technology the daughter that record. was able to record a duet with her Family Tradition by Hank Williams, famous father nearly thirty years after Nat King Cole had passed Jr. away. Musical autobiography would be an appropriate label for this classic, I’ve Been Delivered by Jakob Dylan taking a humorous look at some of and the Wallflowers the clan’s vices. “One Headlight” and “Three Last Nite by Albert Hammond, Jr Merlenas” from Bringing Down the Horse were much bigger hits, but it and the Strokes.

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is on this catchy introspective cut from Breach when the son most resembles his father lyrically. She’s So High by Tai Bachman His dad was half of the reason for Bachman Turner Overdrive and “Takin’ Care of Business”, but the younger generation is much more familiar with this huge hit from the Nineties. Seven Year Ache by Rosanne Cash Daddy sang bass about a boy named Sue, but the daughter found stardom through this title track from her second album. Berkeley Girl by Harper Simon Paul’s son on this tune flexes some of the same songwriting muscle that made his dad part of the most famous duo in pop music history.

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Get Off My Couch much either – or at least their attitude. He actually pulled one over for running a red light at a busy intersection downtown. He told the offending cyclist that he wasn’t above the law and had to stop at a red light like everyone else. Good for him. You don’t have to be as old as Paul Burke to be angry about everything. Just look around you – there are tons of things to piss someone off.

The best way to get rid of someone is to loan them money. This BID thing is a joke as is a lot of the downtown settlement. Downtown in a city is a place of commerce not for everyone to live. Quit trying to turn it into a suburb. If you want to live in a suburb atmosphere love in a suburb or otherwise expect the early and late noise, pollution, traffic, etc. be. If you want to live conveniently to your business why don’t you ride your bike to work instead of living there? There are plenty of bike lanes for you commute no one uses.

doing leave the human-interest the school system you need to stories to special shows/infomer- show me exactly what it is being cials, magazines, websites, etc. spent on and not just administrative fees. With all the boom in quality concerts in the city why aren’t there Why can’t or don’t parents raise more concert reviews posted. TFP their children? It’s not the responused to be good back in the day sibility of the schools, neighbors or especially when all the great con- even community to do so. You certs were at the “Round House” to brought that life into this world so review them. you need to be accountable to and for them. Speaking of which, why doesn’t McKenzie Arena book any more If it’s your body, you’re choice why concerts? are my tax dollars expected to pay for that choice? UTC has a “beach volleyball” team? Where are the home matches? Gordon Lightfoot got rescheduled for October 8 at the Tivoli. Glad to If gold is really as valuable as they see despite some health shortfalls say why are so many people willing he’s still going strong at 80. to sell it for cash? If something is of value aren’t you inclined to keep One of my guilty pleasures is lookit? ing at all the event pictures in Chatter. One thing is for sure – Baseball remains a dying sport there is a lot of Botox out there. I unfortunately. The Atlanta Braves bet some of these broads still can are living proof. The new SunTrust wipe that smile off their face. park is two-thirds the size of Turner Field – and still isn’t a sell- I miss the good old days when gay meant happy, queer meant strange out every game. and fag was British slang for a cigI’m tired of people who pay no arette. taxes telling me mine should be Until next time… raised.

Why is this town so turnaround happy? The latest one on Mountain Creek Road is a fiasco. It’s not even centered properly and a truck literally cannot fit their load around it, so I’m guessing they just drive over them. I’ve thought about it myself. Did they have extra concrete from another city assignment and decided, “Hey, this looks like a good idea”? Are they too cheap to put up stop signs or dare I say a red light if it is so badly Where exactly is the shore on the needed? North Shore? The only thing good about the bike lanes downtown is that it got rid of How can we still call ourselves the most of those metered parking “Scenic City” when all the overdespaces where you had to back your veloping along the river and other car into it. People in Chattanooga unincorporated has made it imposaren’t very good at driving forward sible to see any of the natural wonand you wanted them to back into ders of Chattanooga without actu- If you want to raise my taxes for Not Paul Burke a space downtown? It figures the ally owning them? engineer back in the day that came up with that ideas wore an eye Congratulations to WFLI’s Gene patch. He has not business of driv- Lovin for his induction into the ing let along telling us how to park. Broadcaster’s Hall of Fame. Good people actually still get rewarded Speaking of cyclists, I never met a at times. bigger bunch of self-serving, pompous jerks. They think they Why do we need to be told the actually own the road and have weather three or four different convinced the “powers-that-be” times during a broadcast? Does it they do as they now have designat- change that often in 30 minutes? ed bike lanes all over town. I still It’s not like the forecasts are ever run into them on the road (not lit- complete accurate. And why is the erally). On one occasion I had one 11 o’clock news five minutes longer. cyclist look over his shoulder and It’s not like there is enough news give me a smug look and then move to fill up 20, let along 30 or 35 minfurther towards the center of the utes. It’s supposed to be news, not lane instead of moving closer to fluff time or pimp our advertiser the shoulder so I could safely pass. time. On the latter that is why they Fortunately I have a pal in law are supposed to advertise. Unless enforcement who doesn’t like them it is truly news of what they are Wednesdays at 5pm est. on wawl.org

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The Best of New Wave, Post Modern Classics and Other Odd Stuff

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NKOTB Still Hanging Tough With Help From A Few Friends alternative. Back in the day the time as vocal groups were origlatter was known as “college inal boy bands. A boy band or rock”. vocal group sings but they don’t play an instrument. They either It wasn’t until show time that I have a backing band or sing and realized I was an old school boy dance choreographed numbers band aficionado. No, I’m not to prerecorded music (tracks). talking about ‘80s and ‘90s boy Yep, your parents and grandbands that is what most people parents were most likely fans of think of when they hear the a “boy band” back in the day. term, but way back. You might be surprised to find out you Once I took that into considerawere one as well. tion, I softened my stance on

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I never thought I would be typing this, but I have now seen New Kids On the Block (NKOTB) on their last two tours. I’m not sure if I should be ashamed or admit a growing admiration for this part of pop culture. I’ll admit the first time it was out of curiosity. This time I can’t answer. What I did witness was the phenomenon of NKOTB that continues after 30 years.

remember when my little brother at the fraternity was forced to take his tween little sister during the glory days when they came to town. I gave him immortal hell. He sighed deeply and we played pool until it was time for to escort his little sister to the show. I don’t think he’s ever lived it down.

I was never into the boy band stuff – or at least I thought. I It’s easy to give NKOTB. I know live good ole fashioned rock I did until recently. I still and roll, new wave, punk and

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What is a boy band? Of course it is a band of boys (young men). They sing and dance choreographed numbers all in harmony. Sound familiar yet? Since the beginning of popular music there have been “boy bands”, although the term wasn’t readily used until NKOTB, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC – you get the idea took over the radio as well as MTV (back when there was such a thing). The Impression, Four Tops, The Spinners, The Miracles and The Jackson 5, who were referred to at the ENIGMA

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NKOTB and the groups that followed. That doesn’t mean I’m a big fan, but I respect what they do more. There is also the phenomenon around them that I didn’t understand. But then again our parents didn’t understand The Beatles, The Monkees or even Duran Duran and the way young girls acted whenever they came to their town to perform either on TV or concert. This year it was the Mixtape Tour. There was a bunch of people with NKOTB. Talk about your ‘80s overdose, Tiffany,

with perfectly choreographed ation was Salt-N-Pepa playing a steps, tight harmonies as well as trio of their biggest hits finishconfetti guns and flamethrow- ing with “Push It” (of course). ©Dave Weinthal

ers that had the crowd screaming and singing along. The New Kids aren’t exactly that as they range in age now from 46 to AARP range. And while they don’t look new, they had an energy and pep to their step that any kid would be envious of. After a few numbers like “My Favorite Girl” and “You Got It (The Right Stuff)” Tiffany

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Debbie Gibson, Salt-N-Pepa and Naughty By Nature joined the Kids. NKOTB were the main attraction (obviously). They opened and hosted the support acts playing between the other artists, as it was cassette heaven for the majority female crowd in attendance.

Naughty By Nature also received a lot of attention as well for their trio of songs. NKOTB also included a medley of ‘80s classics from artists such as Bon Jovi, Cyndi Lauper, Whitney Houston and more. The night finished with a tune called “80s Baby” as NKOTB were joined on stage by Gibson, Tiffany, Salt-NPepa, and Naughty By Nature to

Donnie Wahlberg, Joey McIntyre, Jordan and Jonathan Knight and Danny Wood began the night on an elevated stage before being lowered and then the party and dancing began – not only NKOTB, but the crowd as well. It was a visual extravaganza

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came out for a number and was followed by Gibson, who performed a medley of some of her songs. With multiple stages NKOTB got in the mix with the crowd adding a thrill to the packed house that often included a couple opportunities for the crows to join in on a singalong or two.

join in on the song paying homage to the era.

Almost rivaling them in appreci-

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And while I never got appeal initially of NKOTB or boy bands in general, I’ve come to appreciate them and what they do as well as what they mean to their fans. It was a night of good clean fun.

Gary Pihl’s Alliance Has Fire And Grace Gary Pihl is one busy man. The longtime guitarist for Boston since the Third Stage album of course was also known as part of Sammy Hagar’s band during the singer’s best era of solo material before taking over for David Lee Roth in Van Halen. Having toured with Boston, Tom Scholz knew what he had to do and recruited Pihl for Boston. Jumping on the opportunity, Scholz brought him into the fold where he never looked back. After joining Boston the other members that now included Pihl were told by their leader that tours were between albums that took quite some time so everyone was encouraged to find side projects. Pihl along with former Hagar bandmates Alan Fitzgerald and David Lauser as well as Robert Berry known for his work with Carl Palmer and Keith Emerson. In their collective “spare time” they have put out five albums, their most recent Fire And Grace that came out the last week of May. Pihl took a break to talk about Alliance’s new album and talking gear with Boston’s founder Tom Scholz.

AAll lliiaa nnccee ii ss aa ggrreeaa tt nnaam mee ffoorr yyoouurr pprroojj eecctt.. IItt iiss aa ccooll llee ccttii vvee eeffffoorrtt aa nndd eevv eerryy oonnee ii nn tthhee bbaanndd kk nnoow wss eeaa cchh ootthhee rr pprr iioorr ttoo ccoom miinngg ttooggee tthhee rr.. UUnnttii ll nnoow w,, ee aacchh ooff yyoouu w w eerree nn’’tt tthh ee maaii nn ffooccuuss ooff yyoouu rr ootthh eerr bbaannddss m yyoouu’’rree kk nnoow w nn.. Yeah. I’ll give you a little background. Dave Lauser and I were in Sammy’s (Hagar) band together, who of course was in Montrose and Alan Fitzgerald – again, played in Montrose and was also in Sammy Hagar’s band. In ’85 Sammy gets an offer he can’t refuse – joining Van Halen. We, actually at that time, Sammy said you’re such a great

band, you should just find another singer, plug him in and keep going. To that end, the record label Geffen put us in contact with Robert Berry. He had worked with

with Tom. After a couple of weeks Tom had said, “Gee, why don’t you move back here. We’ll finish this album, go on tour and see what happens.” I’ve been in the band

Carl Palmer and Keith Emerson, also Steve Howe from Yes. As it happened, one of the tours we had done with Sammy was to open up for Boston. So I got to know the guys. Tom Scholz of Boston heard I was leaving the band and he called me and said, “Why don’t you come and help me finish the Third Stage album? There’s one more song to be recorded.” At that point that was all he was offering – just to play on the track. I left from our last gig with Sammy, which was Farm Aid I in Champagne, Illinois and flew directly to Boston to work

ever since. After that Third Stage album Tom said, “It’s going to take a number of years to make the next Boston album, so if anybody has any side projects you want to do now is the time.” So I called up Dave Lauser and Alan Fitzgerald and said, “Hey let’s put something together.” Dave remembered Robert Berry. We called him up and the four of us got together down in Sammy’s recording studio and jammed on our ideas. Robert seemed like the brother we never had. That’s how the band was formed.

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December People. YY oouu gguuyyss hhaavv ee aa ggrr eeaatt cchhee m miiss ttrryy oonn tthhee ccoouuppll ee ooff ddii ffffeerr eenntt aall bbuum mss II’’vvee AAccttuuaa llll yy II’’m m vveerr yy ffaam miill iiaarr w wiitthh iitt.. llii ss ttee nneedd ttoo.. II nnoottii ccee w wii tthh tthhee nneew w oonnee,, FFii rree AAnndd GG rraaccee yyoouu gguuyyss aa rree Oh you are? ddoow wnn ttoo aa tthh rreeee --ppii eeccee .. YYee ss.. Yes. Alan, alias “Fitz” had been on the road with Van Halen and Bruce Good. We play holiday songs in Springsteen, Dan Fogelberg and I the style of other classic rock guess I can’t remember all the bands. Again, it was Robert’s idea bands he’s played with. (both and so we’ve been able to do that. laugh) He said, “I’m taking some Again it’s one more space where time off. You guys go ahead.” Of we get to perform together. Every course Robert’s such a fantastic song is like by a different band. musician – he plays everything (laughs) It keeps us on our toes. well besides bass, guitar, keys, drums and of course he’s a terrific II tt kk ee eeppss eevv eerr yytthh ii nngg llii vv eell yy aanndd singer. We said, well we can try to ffrreess hh.. find a guy and keep going. Robert said I’ll try to play the parts I think And the reason we do this is every Fitz would play with this.” If we do show is a benefit for a local food some gigs I would like to try to get back usually. Fitz out of retirement to do some w eessoom mee.. II rree aall iizz ee A All llii aannccee shows with us. We’ll have to wait TThh aatt’’ss aaw and see on that one. I’m glad you ssttaa rrtteedd ooffff aa ss aa ss iiddee pprroojjee cctt.. W Waa ss Allll iiaa nnccee m mee aanntt ttoo bbee aa ssttuu ddiioo bbaa nndd picked up on the interaction A between us because we’ve known oorr aa ll iivvee bbaanndd?? II nnoottii ccee yyoouu gguu yyss each other and played together hhaa vvee oonnll yy ppllaa yyeedd aa hh aannddffuu ll ooff ggii ggss after quite a while and we trust oovveerr tthh ee 33 00--ppll uu ss yyee aarrss yyoouu’’vv ee bbee eenn each other. We all just want to aarroouu nndd.. make the song better. For instance, the title track “Fire And It was really designed as a side Grace” I had a guitar riff I did and project. At the time Boston only Dave had a cool drum groove and toured when we had a new album. Robert said, “I’ve got some lyrics For instance, it had been eight that will fit with that”. We were at years between the second and his recording studio. We hit the third album. Tom had kind of record button and then started warned us it was going to be a few playing and we wrote that four- years before the next Boston album minute song in four minutes. It and therefore the next Boston tour. just all fell together. And that’s the And that was exactly right. It took beauty of being in a band working six years for that one to come out. with guys you know and just going Even though I thought of Alliance as a side project, well I had six for it. years. As Andy Warhol had said, TT hhrr eeee ooff yyoouu w wee rree w w iitthh SSaa m mm myy you’re sometimes entitled to only HH aaggaarr w wii tthh RRoobbee rrtt ccoom mii nngg iinn aass 15 minutes of fame. I figured vvooccaall iiss tt.. W W aass ii tt ee aass yy ttoo ggeett iinn ssyy nncc Alliance could have a six-year wii tthh eeaa cchh ootthhee rr?? w career between the next Boston tour. Robert just fit with us perfectly. moorr ee tthh aann aa m muu ssii cciiaa nn.. YY oouu We have the same influences. Like YYoouu ’’rree m wee aarr m muu ll ttiippllee hh aattss hh aavvii nngg yyoouu rr the same sort of bands and styles, w wnn ssttuu ddiioo ee aarrll yy oonn eevvee nn rree ccoorrddiinngg so he fit in right away. He actually oow also played with Sammy and Dave ddeem mooss ffoorr w whh aa tt bbee ccaa m mee N N iigghh tt H oow w ddoo yyoouu ss w w iittcc hh in Cabo San Lucas. Of course RRaanngg eerr .. H weeee nn tthh ee aarr ttiiss tt hh aatt aanndd tthh ee Sammy has his club down there, so bbee ttw weeaa rr he jammed with Sammy and Dave eennggii nnee eerr //pprroodduuccee rr hh aatt yyoouu w maayy nnoott aall w waayy ss bbee w w eellccoom meedd down there. Robert and David tthhaa tt m jammed together. The other thing, bbee ccaauu ssee yyoouu m maayy nnoott bbee iinn cchh aarr ggee I’m not even sure you know, but ooff tthh ee aaccttuu aall pprroodduu ccttiioonn?? the three of us are in anther band with a couple of other guys called I was always one of those guys that ENIGMA

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had a soldering iron when things would break for the band. “Hey Gary, see if you can fix this thing.” Maybe just a guitar cord or something like that, so I was always interested in the technical side of things. I eventually bought some recording equipment when I was in Sammy’s band and put together my first home studio then. You’re right. Alan Fitzgerald was in Sammy’s band with me and then left the band to start Night Ranger and he was looking for an inexpensive studio to record the stuff. (laughs) Of course I didn’t charge him anything. I was just glad to help out the band. They recorded a bunch of demos in my living room. One of them was “Sister Christian”. And I always like the band and thought they had great songs and great players. They’re still around, too. I was used to thinking technically about stuff and I was interested in the sounds that you’re making and of course how to record them as well. To me it was all kind of the same thing about getting the sound. And to that degree, again, when I was the opening act for Boston – Sammy

spare bass amp. So there’s Jeff, he’s going to plug into this bass amp and my buddy was, Oh my god, that’s going to be horrible – a guitar player plugging into a bass amp!” He said Jeff plugged in and it sounded exactly the same as his guitar amp. It was the player – not the equipment. It was the player.

DD iidd yyoouu ffiinndd yyoouurr ssee llff bbeeii nngg hhaa rrddeerr oonn yyoouurrss eell ff w whheenn yyoouu’’rree llii sstteennii nngg ttoo yyoouurr ddee m mooss aanndd ttrr aacckk ss bbeeii nngg nnoott oonnllyy aann ee nnggiinneeee rr,, bbuutt aa llss oo tthhee ttaall -ee nntt?? Oh yeah, because I’m listening for both things. If they sound right – not only if I like the sound myself, but how does it fit into the track with the rest of the instruments. Again – is there too much treble, too much distortion? How does it fit with everything else? That’s the producer’s side coming out too. and I opened for them. Tom Scholz, of course was an electronics genius and I’d be asking him about his gear and how he got his sounds. Maybe I was bugging him. “Hey, how what’s this? How does this work? What’s this thing over

here?” He was nice enough to tell me what he was doing. When he started his own electronics company called Rockman, he actually had me demonstrate some of the products at a trade show for him. We kind of kept in touch that way. We always had that in mind. For Fire And Grace, this new Alliance album I wanted my own guitar sound. I loved the Boston guitar sound – but that’s for Boston. I didn’t want to sound like I played guitar in Sammy’s band because that was that sound. So I built my own tube guitar amp to use on this album. Nobody in the world can sound like that because there’s only one of those amps - it was mine. (laughs) Whh aatt’’ss ccooooll ii ss II’’vvee ll iiss tteenneedd ttoo FFiirr ee W AAnndd GGrr aaccee ,, II’’vvee ooff ccoouurr ssee ll iiss tteenneedd ttoo BBoossttoonn aanndd ee vveenn yyoouurr SSaam mm myy HHaaggaa rr ssttuuffff,, bbuutt II ccaann ddii ssttiinnccttii vveell yy ttee llll yy oouurr gguuiittaarr ppll aayyii nngg.. W W hhee nn II hhee aarr AAll llii aannccee II kknnoow w ee xxaaccttll yy w whh oo’’ss ppll aayyii nngg w w hhee nn II hhee aarr ii tt.. Thank you so much. That’s the highest compliment I could ever ask for. I certainly want my own style, my own sound. That reminds me: I had a buddy go see The Faces way back in the day with Jeff Beck and Ron Wood was playing bass. He said that during the show Jeff’s amp broke down like they used to in the days. And so there was a

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W hh aatt iiss iitt ll iikk ee w W w oorrkk iinngg w wii tthh TT oom m SScchhoollzz ?? YYoouu gguuyyss hhaavvee aa nnootthheerr bbuussii nneessss ,, GG eeaa rrhheeaaddss .. YYoouu’’rree bbootthh ee nnggiinneeee rr gguuyyss ssoo bbootthh ooff yy oouu hhaavvee tthhee ll eefftt aanndd rr iigghhtt ssii ddee ooff tthhee bbrr aaii nn w oorr kkii nngg aatt tthh ee ss aam w mee ttiim mee.. Tom is the greatest to work for. When they put that list of “100 Greatest Guitar Players Of All Time” he’s on there, and he’s also on the list of “100 Greatest Keyboard Players”. There’s nobody else in the world on both of those lists. When you throw in top 100 rock songs “More Than A Feeling” and something else comes up on there. He designed the amplifiers they used on stage. He’s really special. It’s been really great working with him all these years. That first track that I played on back in the Third Stage album I was

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real nervous. Of course in his studio and I’m thinking he’s going to stand over me like a hawk, watching what I’m doing, I was a little intimidated. But when it came time to record it, the studio was in his house and so he said, “You know how to record. You’ve got recording gear. You know what you’re doing here. Just use this truck here. I’m going to go have a sandwich for lunch – you just record the thing”. He just left the room. I assume he was pretty smart thinking, “You know I don’t want to make this guy nervous about it”. Go ahead and do it on your own he laughed and left. I recorded my part. But I’ve certainly recorded other stuff when he was in the room. He’s of course very knowledgeable around the studio as you would imagine and make things go quickly and smoothly, so it’s always a pleasure to work with him.

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ccaam mee uupp w wii tthh ss oonnggss oorr hhaa dd yyoouu DDeeccee m mbbee rr PPee ooppll ee II’’m m gguueess ss iinngg iiss bbee eenn w woorrkk iinngg oonn ss ttuuffff oovveerr tthhee pprr eettttyy m muucchh aa ll iivvee pprroojj eecctt ss eeee iinngg yyeeaa rrss aa nndd ffii nnaa llll yy ffoouunndd tthhee ttii m mee ttoo tthhaatt ii ss ssee aass oonnaa ll tthhee oorree ttii ccaall llyy.. rree ccoorr dd tthheem m?? Definitely seasonal. Nobody wants That’s basically it. We had been to hear Christmas songs in January. working on stuff over the years (both laugh) We do typically half a and unlike other project bands you dozen, ten shows during the season can email your tracks back and although since Robert has a recordforth around the world. We only ing studio we have recorded CDs want to record stuff when we’re and songs at these shows as well – there together so we get that inner again, the profits going towards play between members. We would charity that we’re supporting. It’s just have a day or two here and nice being able to do it. there over the last ten years and then finally last December we had W Whh aatt ddoo yyoouu gguu yyss ppllaann ttoo ddoo w wiitthh w aall bbuum m?? W W iill ll tthhee rree bbee aann done some December People tthh ee nneew maall ll ttoouu rr ?? shows, so we were all in California ooppppoorrttuu nniittyy ttoo ss oo aa ss m together. And we said look, we’ve got half a dozen songs recorded We’re hoping to. We would love to and each of s had more ideas and do more gigs. I think one of the so we said last finish it up. Now is best things for us to do is festivals a good time, so we had a week or where there are ten or 20 bands so to do it and finished it up. As I over a couple of days. The audisaid, we wrote “Fire And Grace” on ence goes knowing they are going the spot and ha some other ideas to see bands they never heard of on how we could make it all hap- before – because we’re not really pen while we’re all together at the well known as Alliance. I think that would be a great place for us. same time. Again, the audience would be receptive and they might connect us from our other bands as well. BBee iinngg tthhee ggeeaarr hhee aadd tthhaatt yyoouu aa rree ,, whhaa tt hh aass bbee eenn yyoouurr ttaakkee oonn aall ll tthh ee w ttee cchhnnooll ooggyy tthhaatt hhaass ttaa kkee nn oovvee rr tthhee muu ssii cc bbuuss iinnee ssss ssii nnccee yyoouu ggoott ssttaa rrtt-m eedd ii nn tthhee ll aattee ‘‘6600ss ??

said, gee, if he can do it maybe we can do it too. In my mind that was the beginning of home recording. Equipment managers started to cater to that to make less expensive gear – or semi-pro gear. Now these days you can record an album on your laptop computer. It’s crazy how easy and inexpensive it is today compared to back in the day.

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TT hheerree ’’ss nnoo ll oonnggeerr aannyy qquuaallii ttyy ccoonn-ttrr ooll aatt ttii m meess iitt ss eeee m mss ll iikk ee.. BBeeffoorree tthheerr ee w weerr ee vvee rryy ffeew w bbaannddss oonn aa ll aabbeell aa nndd nnoow w eevv eerryy oonnee hh aass tthhee iirr oow wnn ll aabbeell aa nndd ee vveerr yytthhii nngg iiss aa llll oovvee rr tthhee ii nntteerr nneett –– w whh eetthhee rr yyoouu ll iikk ee ii tt oorr nnoott,, w w hhii cchh ccaa nn bbee ggoooodd ffoorr ss oom mee bbaannddss aanndd aarr ttii ssttss tthh aatt ggoott ddiiss ccoovveerr eedd tthhaa tt w waa yy.. Yeah, it’s hard to say of course. There was the whole issue of downloading songs, file sharing and all that stuff that has completely changed the record industry. Things are definitely different.

HH oow w ddoo yyoouu ffee eell yyoouu hhaavv ee cchhaa nnggeedd aa ss aa m muussii cciiaa nn oovveerr tthhee yyeeaarr ss?? DD oo yyoouu ffee eell ll iikk ee yyoouu ddrraaw w tthhee ssaa m mee ii nnssppiirr aattii oonn ffrroom mw w hhaa tt ggoo yy oouu ggooii nngg ii nniittii aall llyy?? DD oo yyoouu kkee eepp uupp oonn muu ssii cc oorr ll iiffee ssttyyll ee?? It’s amazing how the technology ttrr eennddss eeii tthhee rr ii nn m has changed. Again, a good example of that is Tom Scholz’s first I hope I’ve gotten better as a guitar Boston album he recorded in his player over the years. (laughs) I’ve basement. At that time you had to always been a guy that liked to lisgo to a professional recording stu- ten to a lot of different styles. dio where equipment was very When I’m in the car for instance I’ll expensive to make a record. Tom push all the buttons and listen to was a smart guy and he was work- everything – classical to country to ing at Polaroid and made some jazz, hip-hop – everything. I enjoy amount of money and bought his listening to all kinds of stuff. own recording gear and recorded People sometimes ask me, “What’s it in his basement. That was com- your favorite current band?” I’ll pletely unknown at the time and say I don’t know – whatever’s on people just didn’t do that. In fact, the radio. I have to ask my kids when the record company heard what it is because I’ll hear some his song they said, well, you can’t song and ask who that is. “That’s just record this in a basement. You so and so dad.” They know I don’t have to go in a real studio and know the names of all of the bands rerecord this. Of course Tom said, that I really enjoy listening to. “no, no, no. This is the sound. This is it right here. I’m not going to - Dave Weinthal rerecord it”. Again, that was the biggest selling debut album ever and so other people saw this and ENIGMA

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THIS MONTH IN ROCK HISTORY 1199 5566 Look magazine reported that Elvis Presley records have grossed over $6 million and that the singer receives over 3,000 fan letters a week.

car accident, was “too tasteless and vulgar.” A rival record company felt differently and recorded a cover version by a singer named Ricky Valance, which went to number one on the British chart. In the US, Peterson’s verElvis Presley’s double sided hit “Don’t sion reached number seven on the Be Cruel” / “Hound Dog” is released. Billboard Pop chart. The disc will rocket to #1 on the 119966 22 Billboard chart where it would stay for 11 weeks, a record that would not be Aretha Franklin made her professional broken until 1992’s smash “End of the TV debut on American Bandstand. Road” by Boyz II Men. By the end of the year, Presley’s hit would sell over A flood of new releases hit the 4 million copies. Billboard Hot 100 chart, that will go on to be hit records, including Mary 119955 77 Wells’ “You Beat Me to the Punch”, Ray The Everly Brothers make their second Stevens’ “Ahab the Arab”, Johnny appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show Tillotson’s “Send Me the Pillow That and perform their upcoming release, You Dream On”, The Marvelettes’ “Wake Up Little Susie”, a song which “Beechwood 4-5789”, The Contours’ would be banned from some radio sta- “Do You Love Me”, The Beach Boys’ tions because it was about two “Surfin’ Safari”, Booker T and the MGs’ teenagers who accidentally fell asleep “Green Onions” and Tony Bennett’s “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”. together. 1199 5588 119966 33 Johnny Cash left his first record label, The Beatles appear on the US record Sun, to sign a major-label contract charts for the first time as “From Me with Columbia, where he would To You” debuts at #116. remain for the next 26 years. Stevie Wonder became the first artist Elvis Presley’s “Hard Headed Woman” ever to score a US #1 album and single becomes the first Rock ‘n’ Roll single in the same week. Wonder was at the to earn the RIAA designation of Gold top of the LP chart with “Little Stevie Record. By 2002, he will have sold over Wonder / The 12 Year Old Genius” and 100 million records. had the #1 single with “Fingertips part 2”, which was also the first ever live Bill Haley tries to follow his #22 hit, recording to lead the hit parade. “Skinny Minnie” with a musically and thematically almost identical song 1964 called “Lean Jean”. Unfortunately, the “House of the Rising Sun” by The record buying public wasn’t as inter- Animals is released in America. ested and the tune peaks at #67 during Although the band would put 14 songs its one week stay on the Billboard Top in the Top 40, this will be their only US 100. number one. It was reported that the song was recorded in just one take 11996600 and the band was actually in the studio 16-year-old Bryan Hyland’s novelty for less than ten minutes. tune, “Itsy Bitsy, Teenie Weenie, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” topped the 30-year-old Johnny Burnette drowns Billboard Hot 100 and the Cash Box after being knocked unconscious by a Best Sellers list. Songwriter Paul Vance cruiser’s collision with his fishing boat said he got the inspiration for the song at Clear Lake, California. His version of when he saw his two-year-old daugh- “You’re Sixteen” was a US Top Twenty ter at the beach in a tiny little swim- hit in 1961. suit. The record reached #8 in the UK. 119966 55 England’s Decca Records scrapped After several minor hits, Sonny And 25,000 copies of Ray Peterson’s “Tell Cher topped both the Billboard Hot 100 Laura I Lover Her” because they felt and the Cashbox Best Sellers chart the song, which recounts the last with “I Got You Babe”. The record thoughts of a teenager dying from a would also lead the UK chart two ENIGMA

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weeks later and become a Top Ten hit was completed in less than ten minin nine other countries. utes. For you photo buffs, Macmillan used a Hasselblad camera with a 50mm The McCoys’ “Hang On Sloopy” is wide-angle lens, aperture f22, at 1/500 released. It will enter the Hot 100 of a second. three weeks later and top the chart by 11 997711 the first week of October. Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May” is released 11 996666 in the US where it will reach #1 and John Lennon’s comment that The become his first Billboard chart hit. Beatles were “more popular than Jesus Rod would later remark: “I cannot see Christ” was re-printed in an American how the single is such a hit. It has no teen magazine called Datebook and melody.” was widely reported in North America. 119977 22 The statement, made to London Evening Standard journalist Maureen Brian Cole, an original member of The Cleave several months earlier, caused Association, died of a heroin overdose a public outcry in the US and led to at the age of 28. He played bass on the mass destruction of Beatle records. hits “Windy”, “Cherish” and “Never My Thirty five radio stations banned all Love”. Beatles songs and even the Ku Klux 119977 33 Klan made threats against the group. What Lennon actually said was Four months after it had won an “Christianity will go. It will go. It will Academy Award, “The Morning After”, vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue the love theme from the movie The about that, I’m right and I will be Poseidon Adventure, topped the proved right. We’re more popular than Billboard chart. Although many perJesus Christ now; I don’t know which formers were considered, the song’s will go first, rock ‘n roll or writers, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his chose an unknown singer named disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s Maureen McGovern, who was working them twisting it that ruins it for me.” as a secretary at the time. The song was not a hit in the UK. 11 996688 119977 55 “Hey Jude” / “Revolution” becomes the first Beatles’ single to be released on The Eagles enjoy the second of their their own Apple Records. five Billboard #1 hits with “One Of These Nights”, as the album of the 11 996699 same name led the Hot 200 Albums While a policeman held up traffic, the chart. The single, which featured Don cover photo for The Beatles’ “Abbey Felder’s classic guitar solo, reached #23 Road” album is taken, showing the Fab in the UK. Four striding across a zebra crossing 11997766 outside Abbey Road studios in London. Six shots were captured by photogra- Cliff Richard’s biggest US hit, “Devil pher Iain Macmillan, and the session Woman” entered the Billboard Top 40

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where it would reach #6. A huge star in over. his native UK, Richard achieved nine 119988 55 US Top 40 entries, including “We Don’t Talk Anymore” (#7 in 1979} and Michael Jackson outbids Paul “Dreaming” (#10 in 1980). McCartney for the entire ATV music publishing catalogue, which includes 1977 most of the Lennon/McCartney song42-year-old Elvis Presley was found book. Jackson paid 47.5 million US doldead at his Graceland mansion. lars for the company, in an act that Presley’s girlfriend, Ginger Alden will permanently sour the friendship awoke in the afternoon and noticed between the two stars. that he was not in bed and found him 11998866 lying on the floor of the bathroom. Efforts to resuscitate him were unsuc- Chicago’s former bassist Peter Cetera cessful and at 3:30 p.m. he was pro- reached the top of the Billboard Pop nounced dead. After an examination it chart with his first solo effort, “Glory was revealed that Presley’s body con- Of Love”. The song, featured in the film tained butabarbital, codeine, mor- The Karate Kid II, went to #3 in the UK. phine, pentobarbital, Placidyl, Quaalude, Valium and Valmid. It had David Crosby of Crosby, Stills And Nash been five years since the King had a US as well as The Byrds, is released from Top Ten hit with the number 2 song, prison after serving three years for “Burning Love”. His last US number 1 drug and weapons possession. His conwas 1969’s “Suspicious Minds”. He left viction would be overturned by a an estate valued at 4.9 million dollars, Texas appeals court in November 1987. which by 1993 had grown to over 50 million. In his last conversation with Ray Parker Jr. had Billboard’s number Ginger Alden, he told her “I’m going to one song with “Ghostbusters”. Huey the bathroom to read.” When she cau- Lewis would later launch a successful tioned him not to fall asleep in there, plagiarism suit, claiming the song was his final words were, “Okay, I won’t.” a rip-off of his “I Want a New Drug”. 11998800 After a five year hiatus, John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin recording their album “Double Fantasy” at New York’s Hit Factory Studio. The LP would go to number one in the US after its release in November, less than a month before Lennon was gunned down outside his New York apartment. “Double Fantasy” received the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. 11998811 Joey Scarbury led the Cashbox Best Sellers chart with “Theme From The Greatest American Hero”. Although follow-up hits eluded him, he would go on to find songwriting success in 1990 when he co-wrote The Oak Ridge Boys’ #1 Country hit, “No Matter How High”. 1199 8822 Marshall Crenshaw’s “Someday Someway” enters the Billboard Hot 100 where it will peak at #36. The song was included in the soundtrack to the film Night Shift, which helped launch the careers of actors Michael Keaton and Shelley Long.

22 001100 use of the song, which Microsoft detractors were quick to point out, The Beach Boys’ publishing company, contains the lyrics “You make a grown Rondor Music, was threatening to file man cry.” a lawsuit against Katy Perry for using the lyrics to the band’s classic song, Sterling Morrison, a founding member “California Girls” on her new song of of the Velvet Underground died of can- the same name. A spokesman said cer at his home in New York, one day “Using the words or melody in a new after his 53rd birthday. song taken from an original work is not appropriate under any circum11999977 stances, particularly from one as well On the 20th anniversary of Elvis known and iconic as ‘California Girls’.” Presley’s death, over 30,000 fans 2200 1177 descended on Memphis, Tennessee for a 10 minute mourning, circling his Country/Pop superstar Glen Campbell grave. A poll found that almost a third passed away at the age of 81. During of the fans were keeping an eye out his career he enjoyed 21 Billboard Top for him in the crowd. 40 hits, 75 more on the Country chart, hosted his own TV show, appeared in 2200 0044 several movies and was presented with Pop star Laura Branigan died in her a Grammy Lifetime Achievement sleep at her home in East Quogue, New Award. York after suffering a brain aneurysm. 22 001166 She was 52 years old. Branigan was one of the world’s biggest female Pop stars Ringo Starr became the first Beatle to of the ‘80s with hits like “Gloria” (#2), become a great grandfather when his “Solitaire” (#7), “How Am I Supposed To granddaughter, Tatia Starkey gave Live Without You” (#12) and “Self birth to Stone Zakamo Low. Tatia is the Control” (#4). daughter of Ringo’s son Zak Starkey.

2009 A Federal jury ruled that a 25-year-old Although they were nearly 20 years Boston University graduate student old, six Monkees albums that had been must pay $675,000 to four music comre-released, re-entered Billboard’s Hot panies for illegally downloading and 200 LP chart. distributing more than two dozen songs. The man said that he would file 119988 77 for bankruptcy protection. David Martin, bass player with Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs, died of a heart attack at the age of 50. Martin was a founding member of the band and co-wrote their 1965, #2 hit “Wooly Bully”. After leaving The Pharaohs in 1966 over management conflicts, he returned to Dallas and opened a television and video repair store. An L.A. judge throws out a lawsuit against Ozzy Osbourne that had been filed by the parents of a teenager who committed suicide while listening to Ozzy’s song, “Suicide Solution”. 11 999911 Singer Rick James, who scored a 1981 hit with “Super Freak”, pleads innocent to charges he imprisoned, tortured and sexually assaulted his 21year-old girlfriend, Tanya Hijazi in his California home. He would be arrested again in 1992 for similar charges and in 1994 was sentenced to five years and four months for cocaine use and assaulting two women. After serving two years, he was released from prison and continued his career.

11 998833 The Ramones’ lead guitarist Johnny Ramone, (real name: John Cummings) undergoes emergency surgery to remove blood clots from his brain following a fight with Seth Micklaw of the 119999 33 Punk band Sub Zero Construction. Ramone picked a fight after seeing his The Late Show with David Letterman girlfriend, Cynthia Whitney with premieres on CBS, with Billy Joel as the Micklaw. The brief scrap ended with first musical guest. Ramone receiving kicks to the head with steel capped boots. 1995 Microsoft’s Windows 95 was released 1199 8844 using a commercial featuring The Prince started a 24 week run at the top Rolling Stones song “Start Me Up” (a of the Billboard Hot 200 chart with his reference to the Start button). sixth album, “Purple Rain”. The RIAA Microsoft paid Mick Jagger and Keith lists it as having gone Platinum 13 times Richards twelve million pounds for the ENIGMA

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22 001188 Aretha Franklin, “The Queen Of Soul”, passed away at the age of 76. During her career she amassed twenty Billboard R&B chart toppers, forty-five Billboard Top 40 hits and won eighteen Grammy Awards. In 1987, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.