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REDEEMER OF SOULS Judas Priest was one of the most influential heavy metal bands of the '70s, spearheading the New Wave of British Heavy Metal late in the decade. Decked out in leather and chains, the band fused the gothic doom of Black Sabbath with the riffs and speed of Led Zeppelin, as well as adding a vicious two-lead guitar attack; in doing so, they set the pace for much popular heavy metal from 1975 until 1985, as well as laying the groundwork for the speed and death metal of the '80s. Still relevant today Judas Priest comes to Atlanta Tuesday to the Arena at Gwinnett Cener with special guest Steel Panther,

IN THE MIDDLE Once a trailblazing name in the mid-'90s emocore scene, Jimmy Eat World eventually found a larger audience by embracing a blend of alternative rock and power pop that targeted the heart as well as the head.

"The Middle," landed Jimmy Eat World a spot on the pop/rock map.

Featuring a video filled with scantily clad teenagers, the song also enjoyed heavy exposure on MTV, where a younger audience latched onto the band's summery appeal. A year after its release, Jimmy Eat World was still a fixture on the Billboard charts and modern rock radio. Jimmy Eat World performs Thursday at Track 29 in Chattanooga.

WE GOT THE BEAT Rock icon and cult favorite Paul Collins got his start with Peter Case and Jack Lee in 1974. Their band The Nerves toured with The Ramones and recorded a song called “Hanging On The Telephone.” The song would later become a hit when covered by Deborah Harry and Blondie on the Parallel Lines album. Paul Collins formed The Beat in 1979, recruiting members of various rock bands including Steven Huff, Larry Whitman and Michael Ruiz. The result was The Beat, a high energy rock group in the style of The Ramones, Blondie and The Dictators. As the story goes, Collins was awarded a record deal with CBS thanks to his friend Eddie Money and Bill Graham Management. The Beat toured extensively with top acts like The Jam, Pere Ubu, The Police, Eddie Money, The Plimsouls and Huey Lewis. The Beat became Paul Collins’ Beat when a ska band from UK began using The Beat as their moniker. Paul Collins’ Beat continues coninues to tour today playing some of the greatest power pop songs around. They will be in Chattanooga, TN Wednesday night where they will play Slugo’s North.

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Luther Radio just isn’t what it used to be.

It never will after Monday. Luther Massingil passed away early Monday morning, or Luther as he was affectionately known by generation upon generation of radio listeners in the Tennessee valley.

Before there were singularly named media personalities like “Cher”, “Madonna” or “Adele”, there was Luther, an original.

Luther was an iconic radio personality, perhaps one of the first to cross over into thrthen fledgling television market.

Everyone around the Chattanooga, TN area know who Luther. You can’t help but know Luther. He took to the airwaves in 1940 and would be on the air right now if he was still alive. I had even heard he had gotten dressed the morning of his passing to get ready to come to the station to get work done.

Luther is in the history books as being the only radio broadcaster who was on air when Pearl Harbor and 9/11 took place at the same radio station.

For generations of us he was like a kind, nice all-knowing uncle.

Generation after generation of kids and their parents turned on the radio winter mornings if weather was inclement hoping to hear his golden voice hopefully announce that school was closed.

If you lost your beloved pet, you called Luther. I remember one of my mother’s parents say, “Call Luther, if anyone can find them it’s him.” And sure enough more times than not he did (with the help of his tens of thousands of loyal listeners).

Luther is the original and only true hometown hero. In media as a general rule of thumb markets like Chattanooga are destinations on the way up or down the media food chain. Luther had many offers to go elsewhere instead deciding to remain loyal to the station and city that made him a literal household word. If you didn’t know who Luther was – and everybody did, you would mistake him for just your average every day Joe. Humble, kind and full of humor and life as well as a devoted family man there was no ego

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when it came to being who he was.

And in an industry that like to eat itself he was without a doubt the only broadcaster no one ever talked bad about or tried to gossip about. He was each and everyone’s cool uncle in the business and out. With egos all around flying in every direction Luther always stood the course and was looked up to by everyone in the industry. It didn’t matter if they were a deejay of a soft rock station or a heavy metal station all radio personalities in his market looked not only up to Luther but to him for approval.

Luther proved adept at quieting the wildest of beasts and egos in radio media. Former talk radio host, the late Parker Smith was a typical brat. I remember being at Smith’s station one afternoon watching him throw a temper tantrum in the studio until he was red in the face. As soon as Luther walked by Smith straightened up and would from time to time follow him around seeking his approval. Most would be put off

by Smith’s behavior, especially taking into consideration their age

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difference, but not Luther. He had a calming effect on even the most obnoxious of beasts. In fact until his departure from the station, Smith would take time to hang out and joke around with Luther. They had an almost father/son relationship at the radio station, something Smith really needed in his life.

Having been on the air 74 years Luther actually outlived many of his listeners. Many were born, reared and died all during his tenure of WDEF radio and TV. Many of us grew up listening to his glowing voice. Unfortunately no one else will. And despite out life choices and lifestyles we all had an admiration for the man. He was a quiet unassuming man who I don’t know was aware of his influence and impact he’s had on millions of people. I’m not sure he even cared. He was doing what he loved surrounded by people who not only loved but respected him as well. We should all be that lucky.

Rest in peace Luther and thank you.

- Dave Weinthal

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MONEY MANAGEMENT

WHAT ARE YOUR OPTIONS FOR BAD CREDIT DEBT LOANS? Those ready to get out of debt or to make their budget more manageable have probably considered a debt loan. This basically takes your current loans and combines them into one more manageable loan. While it may not necessarily make your payments lower each month, at least your money is going to one place and may have a clearer end date rather than various debts that never seem to go away.

It's a great way for those with bad credit to help improve their finances and get their budget back on track. This is a great way to get your debts paid off and work towards becoming debtfree. So what are the options for bad credit debt loans?

Hoow H w ttoo QQuuaall iiffyy Most people with bad credit fear they will not be approved for future loans. When the car breaks down and it's time to get a new loan or your family is expanding and you are in need of a bigger home, it's stressful to worry about getting approved for that loan.

The same applies for those that simply want to get their debt

under control and need a debt loan to do so. Sometimes even helping yourself can be difficult to achieve because you are trying to get approved for another loan with your bad credit situation.

Here is what you need to know.

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Those that get approved for their loans should beware, typically bad credit debt loans comes with higher interest. While this means it may take longer to pay off the loan and the loan may cost you more in the end, at least you are getting out of debt and getting approved for something. While the loan will have a longer term, you can always work to pay it off sooner if your income increases in the future.

Improve your Credit Score

While most people go through a bank to get a loan, you can always go through a debt company. Banks and credit unions typically have stricter criteria when someone applies for a loan and One thing to keep in mind, you usually only approve higher cred- can work on improving your credit applicants. it score before applying for a loan. This means regularly moniIf you are turned down by the toring your score to make sure its bank, look into a debt company. improving and not taking any They are set up to help those with hits. Making all your payments on worse credit get the loan they time will help your score. Another need. Do your research as there way to improve your score is to are many companies out there pay down debt including any past that are not trustworthy. due debts and credit cards. Avoid opening any new accounts during Make sure you are working with a this time. legitimate company and you do not fall for a scam. You don't OOtthhee rr OOppttiioonnss want a company that doesn't review your financial situation, If you can't find a good debt loan, offers you government money to try a debt management plan or a erase your debt or tries to charge debt settlement company. Debt management plans are offered by you up-front fees.

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debt relief services designed to help you pay down your debt within five years. You may get a lower interest rate through them than you're currently paying to your existing creditors.

Debt settlement means you'll make monthly payments to a debt settlement provider. The payments go to an escrow account, while the provider works with your creditors for a lower settlement on the remaining outstanding debt you owe.

Once an agreement is made, they'll take the funds you've deposited and pay the creditors.

This is a good step to avoid bankruptcy, for those not able to afford their current monthly payments, and looking to get out of debt.

Rather than filing for a bankruptcy, which will be on your record for up to 10 years, there are ways to better manage your debt. Try a debt loan through a bank or other lender, debt settlement or a debt management plan.

- Steven Gressley

ARIES (Mar. 21- April 20) You can make excellent investments if you are in the right place at the right time. You can make money if you put your savings into conservative investments. Trips will be more than adventurous.

TAURUS (Apr. 21- May 21) Minor accidents are likely if you take risks. Your emotional partner will push all the right buttons today. Compromising could be on the agenda today.

GEMINI (May 22-June 21) You will be in the mood for entertainment. Rethink your motives and make the necessary changes to yourself. Verbal abuse may lead

to walkouts; don't make any rash You should get out and meet some statements you may regret later. of those clients that you only speak to on the phone. You can CANCER make a difference if you're willing (June 22-July 22) to stand up and be counted. Plan You could pick up valuable knowl- your day carefully. edge through conversations with experienced individuals. Do not LIBRA blow situations out of proportion. (Sept. 24 -Oct. 23) Don't confide in anyone for the You may find travel to be most time being. rewarding. Minor health problems will flare up if you don't take care LEO of yourself. Do something that will (July 23-Aug 22) be stimulating and creative.

Although upsetting, changes in your domestic situation will be SCORPIO favorable. Minor health problems (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) could result through exhaustion. You will be subject to pushy indiProblems with skin, bones, or viduals if you get involved in teeth may mess up your schedule. uncertain organizations. Romance could develop through social VIRGO activities or short trips. Be careful (Aug. 23 -Sept. 23) of disclosing personal information.

today. Get help to finish a project if you need it.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22.- Jan. 20) Look closely at motives and honesty in your personal encounters.

You may be more emotional than usual. Plan a trip to the country or take a drive to the beach.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 -Feb. 19) Take time to deal with legal documents and the affairs of people who you may be indebted to.

Opportunities for advancement at work are apparent. Try to be reasonable.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) Don't let your emotions take over.

You could be disillusioned if you let relative in on your emotional SAGITTARIUS thoughts. Social functions will (Nov. 23 -Dec. 21) bring you in touch with new Changes at home will be neces- lovers. sary. Don't make any drastic changes or begin new projects

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Political Gumbo Colder weather always inspires me to whip up another batch of political gumbo. Time to mix up some various topics and see how it all stews together… …In last week’s “Ebola in America” column, I wrote about how Republicans were anxiously calling for the appointment of an “Ebola czar” to manage national policy on responding to the virus. (This despite the fact that President Obama’s nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murtha, has been waiting for a confirmation vote since last November. Murtha’s twitter comment about guns being a “health risk”) drew the ire of the National Rifle Association and ensuing opposition from NRAbacked lawmakers.) Obama named Ron Clain, former chief of staff to Vice Presidents Al

Gore and Joe Biden, as “Ebola Response Coordinator” recently.

The Republicans were quick to criticize the fact that Clain is not a trained medical professional, but organizational skill is most critical in outlining a national strategy to combat Ebola. It’s all politics. The GOP will criticize any Obama appointment or nomination as the November congressional and senatorial elections draw near.. …Meanwhile, in neighboring Alabama, House Speaker Mike Hubbard was arrested Monday on 23 felony ethics charges.

Hubbard, a Republican, was charged with “soliciting or receiving items of value from a lobbyist or principal,” using his office at Alabama Repulican Party chairman for personal gain, voting for legisla-

tion despite a conflict of interest, and collecting a fee in exchange for his lobbying services. The felony indictment alleges that Hubbard solicited favors from former Alabama Governor Bob Riley, as well as numerous other businessmen and political operatives.

If convicted, Hubbard, 52, could face between two and 20 years in prison, in addiction to fines of as much as $30,000 for each of the 23 counts. Hubbard naturally claimed the indictment was the result of a “political witch hunt.”

Sorry, Mike. It looks like the pitchforks are justified this time around… ...Here in Chattanooga, Republican Congressman Chuck Fleischmann faces a seemingly feeble challenge from Democrat Mary Headrick in the Third District. Fleischmann has held his seat since 2011 and survived a strong primary challenge from Weston Wamp. Headrick is a medical doctor, former computer analyst/programmer at Oak Ridge National Lab and cum laude math grad from the University of Tennessee. What she isn’t… is a well-funded and experienced campaigner.

Fleischmann should cruise to another term thanks to the ongoing disarray in our state’s Democratic party…

20 states that require photo identification in order to vote.

(Fourteen states require nonphoto IDs.) Supporters of the law say photo IDs reduce voter fraud, which is statistically a non-issue. (A study earlier this year found 31 credible cases of fraud in a sample of one billion votes cast.) Requiring identifications like drivers licenses tends to disenfranchise lower income voters, who are less likely to have applied for and received them… …Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissenting opinion was rather strong. “The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters,” wrote Ginsburg. “Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.” Low-income voters, particularly black and Hispanic ones, are much less likely to vote for Republicans.

Supporting voter ID laws is an effective way to keep them away from the polls. Despite Ginsburg’s protest, Texas’ law remains in place and a de facto “poll tax” still exists in the Lone Star State…

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TAIYUAN, China (UPI) - A Chinese man donned a cartoon bear costume to conceal his identity when he claimed an $87 million lottery jackpot. The man dressed in the yellow bear suit Monday morning when he visited the Shanxi province facility to collect his $85 million winnings, the third-largest jackpot in the history of the Shanxi lottery, and he kept the costume on when he spoke to the media. The mystery

winner said he spends $3,200 to $4,900 on lottery tickets each year. He said he plans to donate some of his winnings to charity.

The man is not the first in China to don a costume to keep his identity a secret when claiming a lottery prize — a person dressed as Mickey Mouse collected a $65 million jackpot in August.

PLYMOUTH, England (UPI) British police said they responded with snare poles and riot shields to a call that turned out

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to be about an inflatable toy crocodile. Devon and Cornwall Police said a Plymouth, England, woman called authorities for help shortly after noon Wednesday to report spotting a 3-foot crocodile in her garden.

Officers responded with snare poles, nets and riot shields while a team of wildlife experts from Dartmoor Zoo were called to assist. The officers became suspicious when they threw water on the animal and it failed to move. “The beast turned out to

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be an inflatable toy crocodile.

Police have apprehended the crocodile,” a police spokesman said. The spokesman said police do not know how the toy ended up in the woman’s garden.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. - Konrad Peters, 28 is accused of being involved in three separate instances involving dildos. In one instance two girls told police that a black car would

drive past the alley they were walking down and slow down as it drove by them. At one point, the car stopped about 100 feet in front of them. The driver of the vehicle opened the driver side door and placed an unknown object on the ground. The driver then shut the door and proceeded to drive past the girls. The two girls inspected and found it to be a “giant purple dildo” and told the police the man who put it there was sitting there staring at them from his car. Other reports had a similar MO. A search warrant revealed “33 dildos and multiple sex toys.” So apparently he was going for volume. Peters was arrested and is accused of exposing children to harmful materials.

EDINBURGH, Scotland (UPI) Daniela Liverani, of Edinburgh, Scotland, came home from a trip to Vietnam with an unpleasant souvenir up her nose. The 24year-old backpacker suffered frequent nosebleeds after a motorcycle accident, and assumed that a dark protrusion sticking out of her nostril was congealed blood. “When I was in the shower, he would come right out as far as my bottom lip and I could see him sticking out the bottom of my nose,” Liverani told The Daily Mail on Sunday.

“So when that happened, I

jumped out of the shower to look really closely in the mirror and I saw ridges on him. That’s when I realized he was an animal.” Liverani rushed to the hospital, where doctors spent half an hour pulling a three-inch leech out of her nose. “It was agony — whenever the doctor grabbed him, I could feel the leech tugging at the inside of my nose,” she said. A doctor told Liverani that the leech — which she could have picked up while swimming in Vietnam — might have eventually made its way into her brain.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (UPI) - Police in Minnesota arrested a zombie Santa Claus accused of drunkenly wandering into a home and frightening two teenage residents. St. Paul police spokesman Sgt. Paul Paulos said officers responded to a 911 call about 9:45 p.m. Saturday about a drunk man dressed in a Santa suit and zombie makeup wandering into a home. Brock Quinn Johnson, a senior at nearby University of St. Thomas, was cited for trespassing and taken to the police’s detoxification center. Police said the student had vomited on himself and fallen asleep on a couch in the home. Police said Johnson did not know where he was when he was woken up by officers. The home is located

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about six blocks from the university.

Homeowner Tom Sullivan said his 14-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter were home at the time of the incident.

The boy called 911 and ran for help from neighbors, while the girl locked herself in a bathroom and called her parents to come home. “The police did a nice job of calming them down and explaining the individual meant no harm,” Sullivan told the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

“Fortunately, it had a happy ending, and no one will ever think of Santa the same way. If you’re going to have a break-in, this is the best kind — someone who means no harm and was looking for a place to sleep.” It was not known Monday whether Johnson had been attending his school’s homecoming celebrations earlier Saturday evening.

There was also a “Zombie Pub Crawl” event Saturday in Minneapolis that set a Guinness World Record, with 15,500 participants dressed in zombie makeup.

ST. LOUIS, MO - A family was driven from their suburban St. Louis home when the spiders started oozing from the walls.

Brian and Susan Trost bought the $450,000 home overlooking two golf holes at Whitmoor Country Club and soon after-

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ward started seeing brown recluse spiders everywhere.

Once when showering, Susan dodged a spider as it fell from the ceiling and washed down the drain. She told a St. Louis television station the spiders “started bleeding out of the walls,” and at least two pest control companies were unable to eradicate the infestation. The couple filed a claim in with their insurance company and a lawsuit against the home’s previous owners for not disclosing the brown recluse problem. At a civil trial in St. Charles County University of Kansas biology professor Jamel Sandidge estimated there were between 4,500 and 6,000 spiders in the home.

The jury awarded the couple slightly more than $472,000, but the former owners declared bankruptcy, the insurance company still didn’t pay anything and the couple moved out two years ago. The home, now owned by the Federal National Mortgage Association, was covered with nine tarps this week and workers filled it with a gas that permeated the walls to kill the spiders and their eggs.

“There’ll be nothing alive in there after this,” said Tim McCarthy, president of the company hired to fix the problem once and for all.

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This week’s calendar covers events from Thursday, October 23, through Wednesday, October 29. We would be happy to publish your free listing in future Billboards, space permitting.

Simply mail us the information so that we have it 7 days before the publication date. A photograph may be sent with the announcement. Send information to: Calendar Editor, Enigma, P.O. Box 825, Chattanooga, TN 37401 or e-mail to calendar@enigmaonline.com. All dates subject to change without notice.

TTH HU U RRSSD DA AYY O Occtt oobbee rr 22 33 TTH HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CCAATTCCH H (Chattanooga) Janet Williams BBU UD D ’’SS (Chattanooga) DJ Hammer TTRREEM MO ON N TT TTAAVVEE RRN N (Chattanooga) Songwriters Showcase CCA AM MPP H HO OU USS EE (Chattanooga) Open Mic ARRII’’ SS H A H AARRBBO O RR LLII G GH H TTSS (Chattanooga) Keyz Brown RRH HYYTTH HM M && BBRREE W WSS (Chattanooga) Drake White & the Big Fire, Sonia Leigh JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH H EEM M IIAA (Chattanooga) Jon Wayne & the Pain TTRRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) Jimmy Eat World TTH HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACCLLEE (Atlanta) Ne-Yo ZZYYD D EECCO O (Birmingham) El-P, Killer Mike

FFRRIID DA AYY O Occttoobbee rr 22 44 TTH HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CCAATTCCH H (Chattanooga) Janet Williams RRA AW W (Chattanooga) DJ Reggie Reg RRH HYYTTH HM M && BBRREE W WSS (Chattanooga) Erick Baker, Amber Fults TTH HEE CCAAM M PP H HO OU U SSEE (Chattanooga) Dinner And A Suit CCA AM MBBRRII D DG G EE SSQ QU UAARREE (Ooltewah, TN) Convertibull RRYYM MAAN N AAU UD DII TTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires MEE RRCCYY LLO M OU UN NG GEE (Nashville) Guided by Voices TTH HEE EEN ND D (Nashville) Jeff The Brotherhood HEE AAVVEE N H N AA TT TTH HEE M M AASSQ QU UEE RRAAD D EE (Atlanta) Bombay Bicycle Club, Milo Greene TTH HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACCLLEE (Atlanta) Capital Cities, Night Terrors of 1927 VVA ARRIIEE TTYY PPLLAAYYH HO OU U SSEE (Atlanta) Junior Brown CCEEN N TTEE RR SS TTAA G GEE (Atlanta) Cowboy Mouth, Ben Miller Band IIRRO ON N CCIITTYY (Birmingham) Yonder Mountain String Band

SSA ATTU U RRD DA AYY O Occttoobbeerr 2255 TTH HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CCAATTCCH H (Chattanooga) Janet Williams

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RRH HYYTTH HM M && BBRREEW W SS (Chattanooga) Dank Sinatra, Backup Planet, Masseuse BBA A RRTT’’SS LLAAK KEE SSH HO O RREE (Chattanooga) DJ E RRA AW W (Chattanooga) DJ Reggie Reg RRIIA ALLTTO O CCEEN N TTEERR (Atlanta) Los Lobos TTEE RRM M IIN NAALL W WEE SSTT (Atlanta) Of Montreal, Pillar Point VVA A RRIIEETTYY PPLL AAYYH HO OU USS EE (Atlanta) Paul Thorn BBU U CCK KH H EEAAD D TTH H EEAATTRREE (Atlanta) American Authors, The Mowgli’s, Oh Honey CCO O BBBB EE N NEE RRG G YY PPEERR FFO O RRM MII N NG G AARRTTSS CCEEN N TTEE RR (Atlanta) Festival of Praise 2014 feat. Fred Hammond and Donnie McClurkin 112200 TTA AVVEERR N N (Marietta, GA) Shenandoah JJA AM M EESS K K.. PPO O LLK K TTH HEE AATTRREE (Nashville) Richard Marx RRYYM M AAN N AAU UD DIITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Jason Isbell, St. Paul & the Broken Bones CCA AN NN N EERRYY BBAALL LLRRO OO OM M (Nashville) Lake Street Dive FFRRA AN NK KLLIIN N TTH H EEAATTRREE (Franklin, TN) NRBQ TTH H EE CCO ON N CCO OU U RRSSEE (Knoxville) Twiztid

SSU UN ND DA AYY O Occttoobbeerr 22 66 TTH H EE CCO OM M EED D YY CCAATTCCH H (Chattanooga) Janet Williams SSK KYYZZO OO O (Chattanooga) DJ Exphacter RRYYM M AAN N AAU UD DIITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson SSYYM MPPH HO ON NYY H H AALLLL (Atlanta) Susan Boyle BBU U CCK KH H EEAAD D TTH H EEAATTRREE (Atlanta) Justin Hayward WO W O RRK KPPLLAAYY TTH H EEAA TTRR EE (Birmingham) Jimmy Eat World

MO M ON ND DA AYY O Occtt oobbeerr 2277 RRAA W W (Chattanooga) DJ Spicolli TTRREE M MO ON N TT TTAAVVEERRN N (Chattanooga) Trivia Night TTH H EE O OFF FFIICCEE (Chattanooga) SpeakEasy FFO O XX && H HO OU UN ND D (Chattanooga) DJ Exphacter TTEE RRM M IIN NAALL W WEE SSTT (Atlanta) Trigger Hippy

TTU U EESSD DA AYY O Occttoobbeerr 22 88 RRH HYYTTH HM M && BBRREEW W SS (Chattanooga) Uptown Big Band RRA AW W (Chattanooga) DJ Spicolli TTRREE M MO ON N TT TTAAVVEERRN N (Chattanooga) Open Mic w/ Mike McDade SSO OU U TTH HSS IID DEE TTAAVVEE RRN N (Chattanooga) Troy Underwood TTRRA A CCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) The Chris Robinson Brotherhood ARREEN A N AA @ @G GW W IIN NN NEE TTTT CCEE N N TTEE RR (Atlanta) Judas Priest, Steel Panther TTH H EE M MAA SSQ QU U EERR AAD DEE (Atlanta) Yellowcard,

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RRAAW W (Chattanooga) Open Jam w/ Jonathan Wimpee and friends LLA A SS M M AARRG G AARRIITTAA’’ SS (Chattanooga) Priscilla & Little Rickee ARRII ’’SS H A H AARRBBO ORR LLIIG GH HTTSS (Chattanooga) Keyz Brown TTH H EE TTAAVVEE RRN N (Soddy-Daisy) Roberts & Sims RRH H YYTTH HM M && BBRR EEW WSS (Chattanooga) Drew Sterchi & Blues Tribe SS LLU UG GG GO O’’ SS N NO O RRTTH H (Chattanooga) The Paul Collins Beat, Future Virgins TTRRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) STS9 RRYYM M AAN N AAU UD D IITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) First Aid Kit, Samantha Crain H IIG H GH HW WAATTTT (Nashville) Rubblebucket, Landlady TTH H EE EE N ND D (Nashville) For All Those Sleeping, Capture the Crown, Ice Nine Kills, Palisades, Myka Relocate, Youth In Revolt M AARRAATTH M HO ON NM MU USS IICC W WO O RRK KSS (Nashville) Beats Antique, Shpongle, Emancipator, Lafa Taylor CCA AN NN NEE RRYY BBAALLLL RRO OO OM M (Nashville) Bleachers, Wild Cub TTEE RRM MIIN N AALL W WEE SSTT (Atlanta) Hurray for the Riff Raff BBU U CCK KH HEE AAD D TTH HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Lake Street Dive

UPPCC O U OM M IIN NG G EEVVEEN NTTSS TTIIVVO O LLII TTH H EE AATTRREE (Chattanooga) Kevin James October 30 TTRRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) Yonder Mountain String Band October 30 TTH HO OM M PPSSO ON N --BBO O LLIIN NG G AARREEN NA A (Knoxville) Eric Church, Dwight Yoakum, Halestorm October 30 TTH H EE TTAA BBEERRN N AACCLLEE (Atlanta) Jason Derulo, Wallpaper, Becky G October 30 552299 (Atlanta) The Paul Collins Beat October 30 CCEE N NTTEE RR SSTTAAG G EE (Atlanta) Wiz Khalifa October 30 TTRRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) Moon Taxi October 31 TTIIVVO O LLII TTH H EE AATTRREE (Chattanooga) Ray LaMontagne, The Belle Brigade October 31 BBA ARRK K IIN NG G LL EEG G SS TTH H EEAA TTEE RR (Chattanooga) White Reaper, SoCro October 31 TTH H EE M MAASS Q QU U EERRAAD D EE (Atlanta) Issues, I Killed The Prom Queen, Ghost Town, Marmozets, Nightmares October 31 BBA ARRLL EEYY’’ SS TTAAPPRRO OO OM M (Knoxville) The Delta Saints October 31 VVA ARRII EETTYY PPLLAA YYH HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) First Aid Kit, Samantha Crain November 1 552299 (Atlanta) Screaming Females Pujol November 1 CCEE N NTTEE RR SSTTAAG G EE (Atlanta) Wiz Khalifa October 31 RRYYM M AAN N AAU UD D IITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Martina McBride November 1

CCIITTYY W WII N NEE RRYY N NAA SSH HVVII LLLLEE (Nashville) Mike Doughty November 1 G RRAAN G ND DO O LLEE O O PPRRYY H HO OU U SSEE (Nashville) Nikki Lane November 1 TTRRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) Thousand Foot Krutch, We As Human, Righteous Vendetta November 2 TTH HEE M M AASSQ QU UEE RRA AD D EE (Atlanta) Joey Bada$$ November 2 BBU UCCK KH HEE AAD D TTH HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Death From Above 1979 November 3 CCA AN NN NEE RRYY BBAALLLLRR O OO OM M (Nashville) The New Pornographers, The Pains of Being Pure At heart November 4 M AARRAATTH M HO ON NM MU USSII CC W WO O RRK KSS (Nashville) Death From Above 1979 November 4 IIRRO ON N CCIITTYY (Birmingham) Neon Trees, Fictionist November 4 TTH HEE IIN N TTEERR N NAATTIIO ON N AALL (Knoxville) Sevendust, A.Z. November 4 TTRRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) Neon Trees, Fictionist November 5 FFII N NEE AARRTTSS CCEE N N TTEE RR AA TT U UTTCC (Chattanooga) Dave Mason November 5 D && LL IIN 33RRD ND D SSLLEE YY (Nashville) Rachel Yamagata November 5 H IIG H GH HW W AATTTT (Nashville) Har Mar Superstar, Pizza Underground November 5 VVIIN N YYLL (Atlanta) Meat Puppets, Cass McCombs November 5 TTH HEE M M AASSQ QU UEE RRA AD D EE (Atlanta) The English Beat November 5 SSM M IITTH H ’’SS O OLL D DEE BBAARR (Atlanta) Maria Muldaur November 5 TTEEN NN N EESSSS EEEE TTH HEE AATTRREE (Knoxville) Gov’t Mule November 5 TTEERRM M IIN N AALL W W EESS TT (Atlanta) Matisyahu, Radical Something November 5 BBIIJJ O OU U TTH HEE AATTRREE (Knoxville) Lake Street Dive November 5 CCIITTYY W WII N NEE RRYY N NAA SSH HVVII LLLLEE (Nashville) Howie Gelb, Grant Lee Phillips November 5 TTRRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) O.A.R., Andy Grammer November 6 WO W O RRK KPPLL AAYY TTH HEE AATTRREE (Birmingham) Rachel Yamagata November 6 M AARRK M K CC.. SS M MIITTH H CCO ON NCCEE RRTT H H AALLLL (Huntsville) Loretta Lynn November 6 BBU UCCK KH HEE AAD D TTH HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) The New Pornographers, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart November 6 AIISS LLEE 55 (Atlanta) Cunninlynguist, J-Live A November 6 M AARRAATTH M HO ON NM MU USSII CC W WO O RRK KSS (Nashville) Mastodon November 6 TTEEN NN N EESSSS EEEE TTH HEE AATTRREE (Knoxville) Neon Trees November 6 TTRRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) Kansas November 7 TTH HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAA CCLL EE (Atlanta) Mastodon November 7 VVA ARRIIEE TTYY PPLLAAYYH HO OU U SSEE (Atlanta) Ian Hunter November 7 BBIIJJ O OU U TTH HEE AATTRREE (Knoxville) Robin Trower, Kevin Abernathy November 7 ZZYYD D EECCO O (Birmingham) Foxy Shazam, Masked Intruder, Sycamour November 7 TTRRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) Robin Trower November 8 EE D DD D IIEE’’ SS AATTTTII CC (Atlanta) Chris Smither November 8 VVA ARRIIEE TTYY PPLLAAYYH HO OU U SSEE (Atlanta) The Horrors November 8

TTH HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACCLLEE (Atlanta) Primus November 8 TTH HEE LLO O FFTT (Atlanta) Melvins November 8 FFO O XX TTH H EEAATTRREE (Atlanta) Aretha Franklin November 8 BBIIJJO OU U TTH HEE AATTRREE (Knoxville) Dave Mason November 9 SSYYM MPP H HO ON NYY H H AALL LL (Atlanta) Rufus Wainwright November 9 TTH HEE EEAA RRLL (Atlanta) Rev. Horton Heat November 9 BBRRIID DG GEE SSTTO ON NEE AARREE N NAA (Nashville) James Taylor November 9 D && LLIIN 33RRD ND D SSLLEE YY (Nashville) Jeff Coffin and the Mu’ Tet November 9 TTH HEE LLO O FFTT (Atlanta) Yelle November 10 TTH HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACCLLEE (Atlanta) Interpol November 10 CCIITTYY W WIIN N EERRYY N NAASS H HVVIILL LLEE (Nashville) John Oates November 10 RRYYM MAAN N AAU UD DII TTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Chrissie Hynde November 10 IIRRO ON N CCIITTYY (Birmingham) John Butler Trio November 10 TTRRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) Halestorm November 11 TTEERRM M IIN N AALL W W EESSTT (Atlanta) Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. November 11 MAA RRAATTH M HO ON NM MU U SSIICC W WO ORRK K SS (Nashville) Interpol November 11 CCA AN NN N EERRYY BBAALLLLRRO OO OM M (Nashville) Noah Gundersen November 11 ZZYYD D EECCO O (Birmingham) Mayday Parade, Tonight Alive, Major League, Pvris November 11 RRYYM MAAN N AAU UD DII TTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Straight No Chaser November 12 RRO OCCK K EETTO OW WN N (Nashville) Issues, I Killed the Prom Queen, Ghost Town, Marmozets, Nightmares November 12 FFO O XX TTH H EEAATTRREE (Atlanta) Lynyrd Skynyrd, Trace Adkins, Alabama, Gregg Allman, The Charlie Daniels Band, Peter Frampton, Warren Haynes, Jamey Johnson, Moe, Gov’t Mule, Aaron Lewis, Robert Randolph, Blackberry Smoke, Cheap Trick, Donnie Van Zandt November 12 IIN N TTEE RRN N AATTIIO ON N AALL (Knoxville) Halestorm November 12 1111TTH H FFRRAA M MEE AATT M M AAD D IISSO ON N BBO OW W LLIIN NG G CCEE N N -TTEE RR (Madison, AL) Puddle of Mudd November 12 BBJJCCCC A ARREE N NAA (Birmingham) James Taylor November 12 TTH HEE M M EELLTTIIN NG G PPO O IIN N TT (Athens, GA) Aaron Carter November 13 CCEEN N TTEE RR SS TTAA G GEE (Atlanta) Eric Hutchinson, Tristan Prettyman, Nick Howard November 13 CCIITTYY W WIIN N EERRYY N NAASS H HVVIILL LLEE (Nashville) Daniel Lanois, Brian Blade November 13 RRYYM MAAN N AAU UD DII TTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) John Butler Trio November 13 FFO O XX TTH H EEAATTRREE (Atlanta) Straight No Chaser November 14 TTH HEE LLO O FFTT (Atlanta) Aaron Carter November 14 BBU UCCK KH H EEAA D D TTH H EE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Jenny Lewis, Waxahatchee November 14 CCEEN N TTEE RR SS TTAA G GEE (Atlanta) Guided By Voices November 14 SSYYM MPP H HO ON NYY H H AALL LL (Atlanta) Mary Chapin

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Carpenter November 14 CCII TTYY W W IIN N EERRYY N N AASSH H VVIILLLL EE (Nashville) Sinead O’Connor November 14 KN K NO O XXVVIILLLL EE CCO O LLIISS EEU UM M (Knoxville) Little Big Town, Brett Edredge, Brothers Osborne November 14 SSO OU UN ND D && PPAAG G EE (Birmingham) Charlie Mars November 14 IIRRO ON NH HO O RRSSEE CCAAFFÉÉ (Birmingham) Puddle of Mudd November 14 ALLAABBAAM A M AA TTH H EEAATTRREE (Birmingham) St. Paul & the Broken Bones November 14 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH H EEM M IIAA (Chattanooga) Marina Orchestra, Glowing Bordis, Jordan Hallquist November 15 ALLAABBAAM A M AA TTH H EEAATTRREE (Birmingham) Straight No Chaser November 15 RRO OCCK KEE TTO OW WN N (Nashville) Aaron Carter November 15 CCII TTYY W W IIN N EERRYY N N AASSH H VVIILLLL EE (Nashville) Sinead O’Connor November 15 TTH H EE W WAARREE H HO OU U SSEE (Clarksville, TN) Puddle of Mudd November 15 SSM MII TTH H ’’ SS O O LLD D EE BBAA RR (Atlanta) Stroke 9 November 15 FFO O XX TTH HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Little Big Town, Brett Edredge, Brothers Osborne November 15 DRRU D UN NK KEE N NU UN N IICCO O RRN N (Atlanta) Alvvays November 15 TTEE RRM M IIN NAALL W WEE SSTT (Atlanta) We Were Promised Jetpacks November 16 TTH H EE M MAA SSQ QU U EERR AAD DEE (Atlanta) Attila, Crown the Empire, Like Moths to Flames, Sworn In November 16 RREED D LLIIG GH H TT CCAAFFÉÉ (Atlanta) Patty Larkin November 16 VVA A RRIIEETTYY PPLL AAYYH HO OU USS EE (Atlanta) Bebel Gilberto November 16 AN A NTTH H EEM M (Nashville) B.o.B., Kevin Gates November 16 BBO O TTTTLLEE TTRREE EE (Birmingham) Alvvays November 16 MAARRAATTH M HO ON NM MU U SSIICC W WO O RRK K SS (Nashville) Dillon Francis November 17 HEE AAVVEEN H N AATT TTH H EE M MAA SSQ QU UEE RRAAD DEE (Atlanta) Breathe Carolina, Candyland, Flinch, Dotcom November 17 BBII JJO OU U TTH H EEAA TTRR EE (Knoxville) Leon Russell November 17 CCII TTYY W W IIN N EERRYY N N AASSH H VVIILLLL EE (Nashville) Leon Russell November 18 CCA AN NN N EERRYY BBAALL LLRRO OO OM M (Nashville) Pepper, The Movement, New Beat Fund November 18 IIRRO ON N CCIITTYY (Birmingham) Method Man, Redman, BReal, Mick Jenkins November 19 BBO O TTTTLLEE TTRREE EE (Birmingham) Southern Culture on the Skids November 19 CCII TTYY W W IIN N EERRYY N N AASSH H VVIILLLL EE (Nashville) Leon Russell November 19 RRYYM M AAN N AAU UD DIITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Phillip Phillips November 19 JJU UPPII TTEERR O ON N TTH HEE SS TTRRII PP (Tuscaloosa) Aaron Carter November 19 IIM MPPRRO O VV CCO OM MEE D DYY CCLL U UBB (Atlanta) Dave Koechner November 20 TTH H EE SSTTAARR BBAARR (Atlanta) Southern Culture on the Skids November 20 CCII TTYY W W IIN N EERRYY N N AASSH H VVIILLLL EE (Nashville) David Grisman Sextet November 21 BBRR IID DG G EE SSTTO ON N EE AARREEN N AA (Nashville) Slipknot,

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JANET WILLIAMS

THE TENNESSEE TRAMP IS A LOCAL FAVORITE HERE IN CHATTANOOGA. JANET DOESN'T HOLD ANYTHING BACK ABOUT HER VIEWS ON MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, MEN, AND WOMEN. SHE TAKES HER COMEDY TO THE EDGE AND OVER THE TOP. SHE'S NOT JUST THE TENNESSEE TRAMP, SHE'S A FAVORITE OF THE TROOPS.SHE HAS TRAVELED TO JAPAN, KOREA, GERMANY AND SEVERAL OTHER COUNTRIES THAT WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.

OCT 30 -NOVEMBER 2

BIG EDDIE CAYLOR

FEATURED AND CO WROTE CLEDUS T JUDD'S VIDEO "DOUBLE D CUPS" AND "HONEYMOON." ED ALSO HAD A MAJOR ROLE IN AN INDEPENDENT MOVIE ENTITTLE "ACCIDENTAL MISIONARY". BIG ED IS SOUTHERN TO THE BONE, AND COUNTRY AS CORNBREAD. BEING FROM OOLTEWAH, TENNESSEE MAKES HIM AN EXPERT ON HOMETOWN VIEWS AND VALUES. HIS TRUE STORIES ABOUT MARRIAGE AND BEING A DAD WILL MAKE YOU SCREAM. FAMILY SECRETS AND SKELETONS HAVE ENTERTAINED CROWDS FOR YEARS. BIG ED PUTS ON A BIG SHOW THAT YOU WON'T SOON FORGET. HE IS OUTRAGEOUS, ORIGINAL AND OFF THE CHART ...

NOVEMBER 6-8

KILLER BEAZ

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Korn, King 810 November 21 TTH H EE SS TTA ARR BBA ARR (Atlanta) Southern Culture on the Skids November 21 IIM M PPRRO OVV CCO OM MEE D D YY CCLLU UBB (Atlanta) Dave Koechner November 21 SSM M IITTH H ’’SS O OLLD D EE BBAARR (Atlanta) Gangstagrass, Megan Jean & the KFB November 21 TTH H EE 11 2200 TTA AVVEE RRN N (Marietta, GA) Waynestatic, Powerman 5000, American Head Charge November 21 TTH H EE CCO ON N CCO OU U RRSSEE (Knoxville) Diarrhea Planet November 21 JJ..JJ ..’’SS BBO OH HEE M M IIA A (Chattanooga) Diarrhea Planet November 22 FFO OXX TTH HEE A ATTRREE (Atlanta) Mannheim Steamroller November 22 TTH H EE TTA A BBEERRN NA ACCLLEE (Atlanta) Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Exodus November 22 CCEEN N TTEE RR SSTTA AG G EE (Atlanta) Anberlin November 22 IIM M PPRRO OVV CCO OM MEE D D YY CCLLU UBB (Atlanta) Dave Koechner November 22 BBLLII N ND DW WII LLLLIIEE ’’ SS (Atlanta) The Nighthawks November 22 PPH H IILLLL IIPPSS A ARREEN N AA (Atlanta) Stevie Wonder November 22 CCIITTYY W W IIN NEE RRYY N N AASSH H VVIILL LLEE (Nashville) David Grisman Sextet November 22 SSCCRRU U FFFF YY CCIITTYY H H AALLLL (Knoxville) Gangstagrass, Megan Jean & the KFB November 22 H && PPO 1122TTH ORRTTEE RR (Nashville) Adrian Belew, Saul Zonana November 22 CCIITTYY W W IIN NEE RRYY N N AASSH H VVIILL LLEE (Nashville) Rhett Miller November 23 WO W ORRK K PPLLA AYY TTH H EE AATTRREE (Birmingham) Kill the Noise, Botnek, Two Fresh November 23 IIRRO ON N CCIITTYY (Birmingham) Better Than Ezra November 23 H AARRRRA H AH H ’’ SS CCH H EE RRO OK K EEEE EE VVEEN N TT CCEE N NTTEE RR (Cherokee) Scotty McCreery, Daniel Bradberry November 22

TTRRA ACCK K 22 99 (Chattanooga) Kill the Noise, Botnek, Two Fresh November 24 RRYYM MAA N N AAU UD D IITTO ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) The Charlie Daniels Band November 24 AN A N TTH H EE M M (Nashville) Kill the Noise, Botnek, Two Fresh November 25 D && LL IIN 33RRD ND D SSLL EEYY (Nashville) Bonnie “Prince” Billy November 24 GEE M G M TTH H EEAATTRREE (Calhoun, GA) The Tams November 26 TTH HEE M M AASSQ QU U EERRAA D DEE (Atlanta) Relient K, Blondfire November 26 SSYYM M PPH HO ON N YY H H AALLLL (Atlanta) Melissa Etheridge November 26 IIN N TTEE RRN N AATTIIO ON NAA LL (Knoxville) Kill the Noise, Botnek, Two Fresh November 26 IIRRO ON N CCIITTYY (Birmingham) Sevendust, A.Z. November 26 TTRRA ACCK K 22 99 (Chattanooga) The 1975 November 28 TTH HEE TTAABBEE RRN N AACCLLEE (Atlanta) Blackberry Smoke November 28 TTEERRM M IIN N AALL W WEE SSTT (Atlanta) K Theory, Watch the Duck November 28 TTH HEE AARR EEN N AA AA TT G GW W IIN NN NEE TTTT CCEE N NTTEE RR (Atlanta) Brantley Gilbert, Tyler Farr, Chase Bryant November 28 HEE AAVVEE N H N AATT TTH H EE M MAA SSQ QU UEE RRAAD D EE (Atlanta) Every Time I Die, The Ghost Inside, Architects, Hundredth, Backtrack November 28 TTH HEE BBU U CCK KH H EEAA D D TTH H EE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Moon Taxi, Cosby Sweater November 28 TTH HEE LLO OFF TT (Atlanta) Augustana, Scars on 45 November 28 BBO OU UTTW WEE LLLL AAU UD DIITTO ORRIIU UM M (Birmingham) Casting Crowns, Mandisa, Sidewalk Prophets November 28 TTH HEE TTAABBEE RRN N AACCLLEE (Atlanta) The 1975 November 29 VVA ARRIIEE TTYY PPLLAA YYH HO OU USS EE (Atlanta) Shawn Mullins November 29 TTH HEE EE AARRLL (Atlanta) Cracker November 29

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CCA AN NN N EERR YY BBA ALLLLRR O OO OM M (Nashville) The Dirty Guvnahs November 29 CCII TTYY W WIIN N EE RRYY N NA A SSH H VVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Dave Davies November 30 TTH H EE EEA A RRLL (Atlanta) Cracker November 30 EEXXIITT//IIN N (Nashville) Gwar, Corrosion of Conformity, American Sharks December 2 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD D IITTO ORR IIU UM M (Nashville) Amy Grant, Vince Gill December 3 EED DD DII EE’’ SS A A TTTTII CC (Atlanta) Stephen Kellogg December 3 TTH H EE TTA ABBEE RRN NA A CCLL EE (Atlanta) Black Veil Brides, Falling In Reverse, Set It Off December 3 TTH H EE M MA ASSQ QU UEE RRA AD D EE (Atlanta) 3Ball MTY, Los Rakas, Modern Baseball, Knuckle Puck, Crying, Somos, Hostage Calm December 3 TTEE N NN NEE SSSSEE EE TTH HEE A ATTRREE (Knoxville) Jim Brickman December 3 TTH H EE G G EEM M TTH H EEA A TTRR EE (Calhoun, GA) Howie Day December 4 TTEE RRM M IIN NA ALL W W EESS TT (Atlanta) Adrian Belew, Saul Zonana December 4 TTH H EE TTA ABBEE RRN NA A CCLL EE (Atlanta) Common, Jay Electronica December 4 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD D IITTO ORR IIU UM M (Nashville) Amy Grant, Vince Gill December 4 SSCCH HEE RRM M EERRH HO ORRN N SSYYM M PPH HO ON N YY CCEE N NTTEE RR (Nashville) Michael W. Smith December 4 IIM MPP RRO OVV CCO OM M EED D YY CCLLU U BB (Atlanta) Paul Reiser December 5 CCO OBBBB EE N N EERRG G YY PPEE RRFF O ORR M MIIN NG GA ARRTTSS CCEEN N TTEE RR (Atlanta) Brian Setzer Orchestra December 5 TTH H EE EEA A RRLL (Atlanta) Nashville Pussy, Valient Thor, Against the Grain December 5 TTH H EE M MA ASSQ QU UEE RRA AD D EE (Atlanta) Obituary, Massacre, Rivers of Nihil December 5 TTH H EE TTA ABBEE RRN NA A CCLL EE (Atlanta) Hoodie Allen, Chiddy Bang, Taylor Bennett December 5 SSCCH HEE RRM M EERRH HO ORRN N SSYYM M PPH HO ON N YY CCEE N NTTEE RR

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(Nashville) The Manhattan Transfer December 5 BBRRII D DG G EE SSTTO ON N EE A ARREE N NA A (Nashville) Brantley Gilbert, Chase Bryant, Tyler Farr December 5 CCIITTYY W W IIN N EERRYY N NA ASS H HVVII LLLLEE (Nashville) Jackopierce December 5 CCO OU UN N TTRRYY TTO ON NII TTEE TTH H EE A ATTRREE (Pigeon Forge, TN) Ronnie Milsap December 5 G EE M G M TTH H EE A ATTRREE (Calhoun, GA) Mandy Barnett December 6 IIM M PPRRO OVV CCO OM M EED D YY CCLLU U BB (Atlanta) Paul Reiser December 6 BBU U CCK KH H EEA AD D TTH H EE A ATTRREE (Atlanta) Skinny Puppy, VNV Nation, Haujobb, Youth Code December 6 H EE A H AVVEEN NA ATT TTH HEE M MA ASSQ QU U EERRA AD DEE (Atlanta) Gwar, Corrosion of Conformity, American Sharks December 6 TTH H EE A ARREE N NA AA ATT G GW WII N NN N EE TTTT CCEE N N TTEERR (Atlanta) Hunter Hayes, Dan + Shay, The Railers December 6 CCIITTYY W W IIN N EERRYY N NA ASS H HVVII LLLLEE (Nashville) Sonny Landreth, Cindy Cashdollar December 7 CCEE N NTTEE RR SSTTA AG GEE (Atlanta) Circa Survive, Title Fight December 7 TTH H EE M MA A SSQ QU UEE RRA AD D EE (Atlanta) Misfits December 7 KN K NO OXXVVIILL LLEE CCO OLL IISSEE IIU UM M (Knoxville) Diamond Rio December 7 SS YYM M PPH HO ON NYY H HA ALL LL (Atlanta) Diana Krall December 8 M EEM M MO ORRIIA ALL A AU UD DII TTO ORRII U UM M (Chattanooga) Joe Bonamassa December 9 SS YYM M PPH HO ON NYY H HA ALL LL (Atlanta) Medeski, Scofield Martin and Wood December 9 PPH H IILL IIPPSS A ARREEN NA A (Atlanta) Usher December 9 CCIITTYY W W IIN N EERRYY N NA ASS H HVVII LLLLEE (Nashville) Living Colour December 9 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DII TTO ORRII U UM M (Nashville) Amy Grant, Vince Gill December 10 TTH HO OM MPPSS O ON N -- BBO OLL IIN NG GA A RREEN NA A (Knoxville) Trans-Siberain Orchestra December 10 ARR EEN A NA A@ @G GW WIIN NN N EETTTT CCEE N NTTEE RR (Atlanta) Eric Church, Dwight Yaokum, Halestorm December 11 PPH H IILL IIPPSS A ARREEN NA A (Atlanta) The Black Keys, St. Vincent December 11 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DII TTO ORRII U UM M (Nashville) Amy Grant, Vince Gill December 11 JJ A AM M EESS K K.. PPO OLLK K TTH H EEA A TTEE RR (Nashville) Trace Adkins December 11 TTRRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) Hard Working Americans December 12 CCIITTYY W W IIN N EERRYY N NA ASS H HVVII LLLLEE (Nashville) Rich Robinson December 12 CCA AN NN N EERRYY BBA A LLLLRRO OO OM M (Nashville) Relient K, Blondfire December 12 JJ A AM M EESS K K.. PPO OLLK K TTH H EEA A TTEE RR (Nashville) Trace Adkins December 12 RRH H YYTTH HM M && BBRREE W WSS (Chattanooga) Rich Robinson December 13 BBJJ CCCC A ARREE N NA A (Birmingham) Eric Church, Dwight Yaokum, Halestorm December 13 TTH H EE TTA ABBEERR N NA ACCLL EE (Atlanta) Tyler the Creator December 13 TTH H EE M MA A SSQ QU UEE RRA AD D EE (Atlanta) Fozzy, Texas Hippie Coalition, Shaman’s Harvest December 13 TTH H EE TTA ABBEERR N NA ACCLL EE (Atlanta) Opeth, In

Flames, Red Fang December 15 TTRRA ACCK K 2299 (Chattanooga) Trampled By Turtles, Nikki Lane December 17 PPH H IILLII PPSS A A RREEN N AA (Atlanta) Fleetwood Mac December 17 SSYYM M PPH HO ON N YY H H AALLLL (Atlanta) Trace Adkins December 17 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITTO ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Amy Grant, Vince Gill December 17 M AARRA M ATTH HO ON NM MU U SSIICC W WO ORRK KSS (Nashville) Steel Panther December 17 IIRRO ON N CCIITTYY (Birmingham) Blue October December 18 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITTO ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Amy Grant, Vince Gill December 18 TTH H EE TTA A BBEERRN NA ACCLLEE (Atlanta) Trampled By Turtles, Nikki Lane December 18 BBRRIID DG G EESS TTO ON N EE AARREE N NAA (Nashville) Justin Timberlake December 19 IIRRO ON N CCIITTYY (Birmingham) Trampled By Turtles, Nikki Lane December 19 TTH H EE A A RREEN NA AA ATT G GW WIIN NN N EETTTT CCEE N NTTEE RR (Atlanta) Calvin Harris, T.I., Fallout Boy, Jessie J December 19 ARREE N A NA A@ @G GW W IIN NN NEE TTTT CCEEN N TTEE RR (Atlanta) Justin Timberlake December 20 TTH H EE TTA A BBEERRN NA ACCLLEE (Atlanta) Flosstradamus, GTA, Two-9 December 20 CCA AN NN NEE RRYY BBA ALL LLRRO OO OM M (Nashville) Augustana, Scars on 45 December 20 TTH H EE II N NTTEE RRN NA ATTIIO ON NAALL (Knoxville) Adrian Belew December 20 TTH H EE TTA A BBEERRN NA ACCLLEE (Atlanta) Ben Howard January 21 TTEEN NN N EESS SSEE EE TTH H EE AATTRREE (Knoxville) Mannheim Steamroller December 22 BBRRIID DG G EESS TTO ON N EE AARREE N NAA (Nashville) Bassnectar December 31 WAA RR M W M EEM MO ORRIIAALL AAU UD DIITTO ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Moon Taxi December 31 DO D OW WN NTTO OW WN NN N AASS H HVVIILL LLEE (Nashville) Lady Antebellum December 31 PPH H IILLII PPSS A A RREEN N AA (Atlanta) Keith Sweat, Dru

Hill, The Isley Brothers, Jeffery Osborne December 31 BBIIJJO OU U TTH H EEAATTRREE (Knoxville) Steep Canyon Rangers January 7 EED DD D IIEE’’ SS AATTTTIICC (Atlanta) Johnette Naplitano January 11 SSCCH H EERRM M EE RRH HO ORRN N SS YYM M PPH HO ON NYY CCEE N N TTEE RR (Nashville) Kenny Rogers January 15-17 TTH HEE TTAABBEE RRN N AACCLLEE (Atlanta) Billy Idol January 22 MEE RRCCYY LLO M OU UN NG G EE (Nashville) Of Montreal, Nedelle Torio January 23 RRH H YYTTH HM M && BBRR EEW W SS (Chattanooga) Of Montreal, Nedelle Torio January 24 VVA ARRIIEE TTYY PPLLAA YYH HO OU USS EE (Atlanta) Antibalas, Zap Mama January 27 CCIITTYY W WII N NEE RRYY N N AASSH H VVIILLLL EE (Nashville) Jeff Daniels January 27 BBRRIID DG GEE SSTTO ON N EE AA RREEN N AA (Nashville) Jack White January 28 TTIIVVO OLLII TTH H EEAA TTRREE (Chattanooga) Ron White January 31 RRYYM MAA N N AAU UD D IITTO ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) John Mellencamp, Carlene Carter January 28 FFEE RRSSTT CCEE N NTTEE RR (Atlanta) Arlo Guthrie January 31 FFO OXX TTH H EE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Jerry Seinfield February 6 TTH HEE 1122 00 TTAAVVEE RRN N (Marietta, GA) Shooter Jennings With Waymore’s Outlaws February 7 CCU ULLTTU U RRAALL CCEEN N TTEERR (Roswell, GA) Ruthie Foster February 7 WIILL D W DH HO ORRSSEE SSAA LLO OO ON N (Nashville) Rick Springfield February 13 FFO OXX TTH H EE AATTRREE (Atlanta) John Mellencamp, Carlene Carter February 13 VVO ON N BBRRAA U UN N CCEE N NTTEE RR (Huntsville) Brian Regan February 14 WAARR M W MEE M MO ORR IIAALL AAU UD D IITTO ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Dr. John February 17 CCIITTYY W WII N NEE RRYY N N AASSH H VVIILLLL EE (Nashville) Arlo Guthrie February 17/18

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PPH HII LLIIPPSS A ARREE N NA A (Atlanta) Maroon 5, Magic!, Rozzi Crane February 19 SSCCH HEE RRM M EERRH HO ORRN N SSYYM M PPH HO ON N YY CCEE N NTTEE RR (Nashville) Styx February 19-21 EED DD DII EE’’ SS A A TTTTII CC (Atlanta) John Hammond February 22 TTH H EE TTA ABBEE RRN NA A CCLL EE (Atlanta) Pierce the Veil, Sleeping With Sirens February 22 BBRRIID DG GEE SSTTO ON NEE A ARR EEN NA A (Nashville) Maroon 5, Magic!, Rozzi Crane February 22 TTH HO OM MPP SSO ON N-- BBO OLLIIN NG GA ARREE N NA A (Knoxville) Fleetwood Mac March 8 VVA A RRIIEE TTYY PPLLA AYYH HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) Hozier, George Ezra March 10 BBJJCCCC CCO ON NCCEE RRTT H HA ALLLL (Birmingham) John Mellencamp, Carlene Carter March 12 TTH H EE TTA ABBEE RRN NA A CCLL EE (Atlanta) Hozier March 13 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD D IITTO ORR IIU UM M (Nashville) Hozier March 14 SSCCH HEE RRM M EERRH HO ORRN N SSYYM M PPH HO ON N YY CCEE N NTTEE RR (Nashville) Vienna Boys Choir March 15 CCEE N N TTEE RR SS TTA AG GEE (Atlanta) Joshua Radin March 16 SSCCH HEE RRM M EERRH HO ORRN N SSYYM M PPH HO ON N YY CCEE N NTTEE RR (Nashville) Boyz II Men March 19-21 PPH HII LLIIPPSS A ARREE N NA A (Atlanta) Ariana Grande, Rixton March 24 TTEE N NN NEE SSSSEE EE TTH HEE A ATTRREE (Knoxville) Brian Regan March 26 SSYYM MPPH HO ON N YY H HA A LLLL (Atlanta) Jane Lynch March 28 FFO OXX TTH H EEA A TTRREE (Atlanta) Brian Regan March 28 RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD D IITTO ORR IIU UM M (Nashville) Brian Regan March 29 SSCCH HEE RRM M EERRH HO ORRN N SSYYM M PPH HO ON N YY CCEE N NTTEE RR (Nashville) Bernadette Peters April 9-11 BBJJCCCC CCO ON NCCEE RRTT H HA ALLLL (Birmingham) Roberta Flack April 18 SSYYM MPPH HO ON N YY H HA A LLLL (Atlanta) Diana Krall

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April 19 TTH H EE A ARREE N NA AA ATT G GW WII N NN N EE TTTT CCEE N N TTEERR (Atlanta) The Who April 23 SS CCH H EE RRM M EERRH HO ORRN N SSYYM M PPH HO ON N YY CCEEN N TTEE RR (Nashville) Kenny G May 7-9 VVEE RRIIZZ O ON NW W IIRREE LLEE SSSS A AM MPP H HIITTH H EE A ATTRREE (Atlanta) ZZ Top, Jeff Beck May 10 IIRR O ON N CCIITTYY (Birmingham) Kamelot, Dragonforce May 21 AA A A RRO ON NSS A AM M PPH H IITTH HEE A ATTRREE (Atlanta) 5 Seconds of Summer August 5

CCO ON NTTIIN NU UII N NG G LL O OO OK KO OU U TT M MO OU UN NTTA AII N N CCIITTYY H HA ALLLL (Lookout Mtn., GA) “Market Above the Clouds” First Saturday of each month.

FF IIRRSSTT CCEE N N TTEEN NA ARRYY U UN N IITTEED DM M EETTH HO OD DII SSTT CCH HU URRCCH H (Chattanooga) Singles One Mondays @ 6 PM G RREE A G ATTEERR CCH HA A TTTTA AN NO OO OG GA AA ASSPP IIEESS (Chattanooga) Third Tuesday of each month, 6-8 pm D EEVVEE LLO D OPPM M EEN N TT RREE SSO OU U RRCCEE BBU U IILL D DIIN NG G (Chattanooga) Chattanooga Alliance for Animals First Wednesday of the month M IILLLL EERR M M MO OTTLLEE TTEE CCH HN N IICCA ALL CCO OLL LLEE G GEE (Chattanooga) CHEO Complimentary Health Education Organization Chapter Meeting Third Sunday 2-4 PM TTH H EE CCH HA A TTTTA AN NO OO OG GA AN N Breakfast Education & Networking Workshop Second Wednesday of the month BBRRA AD DFF O ORR D DH HEE A ALLTTH H CCEE N NTTEE RR (Chattanooga) Free Parent Support Meeting Thursdays 5-6pm TTH H EE EELL K KSS LL O OD DG G EE (Cleveland) Joe Collins Tuesdays LL A ASS M MA ARRG GA ARRII TTA A ’’SS (Cleveland) Collins Brothers Band Thursdays

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loves, two wonderful children and a flourishing career. As perfect as everything appears from the outJohn Wick An ex-hitman comes out of retire- side, Zoe is still drawn to temptament to track down the gangsters tions she cannot escape or resist.

As she pursues a secretive life, Zoe that took everything from him. finds herself risking it all when she heads down a perilous path she Ouija PG-13 A group of friends must confront may not survive. their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day ancient spirit board.

PG Follows young Alexander through NO N OW W SSH HO OW WIIN NG G the mishaps of a terrible day for Keanu Reeves in Summit Entertainment’s “John Wick”.

Addicted R his family after he wishes they all defend his village.

Successful businesswoman Zoe would experience the same trou- Annabelle R John Form has found the perfect Reynard appears to have attained bles he does. gift for his expectant wife, Mia—a The Boxtrolls PG it all - the dream husband she beautiful, rare vintage doll in a Cheesebridge is a posh Victorianpure white wedding dress. But era town obsessed with wealth, Mia’s delight with Annabelle does- class and the stinkiest of fine n’t last long. On one horrific night, cheeses. Beneath its charming cobtheir home is invaded by members blestone streets dwell the of a satanic cult, who violently Boxtrolls, foul monsters who crawl attack the couple. Spilled blood out of the sewers at night and steal and terror are not all they leave what the townspeople hold most behind. The cultists have conjured dear: their children and their an entity so malevolent that noth- cheeses. At least, that’s the legend residents have always believed. In ing they did will compare to truth, the Boxtrolls are an underground cavern-dwelling communiThe Best of Me When a mutual friend dies, former ty of quirky and lovable oddballs high school sweethearts Dawson who wear recycled cardboard Cole and Amanda Collier find boxes the way turtles wear their themselves back in their home- shells. The Boxtrolls have raised an town for the first time in 20 years. orphaned human boy, Eggs, since Amanda has moved on with a fam- infancy as one of their dumpsterily of her own, but Dawson never diving and mechanical junk-colgot over his one true love. Their lecting own. When the Boxtrolls old relationship is rekindled, but are targeted by villainous pest the forces that drove them away in exterminator Archibald Snatcher, the first place are still there and who is bent on eradicating them as violence and heartbreak are the his ticket to Cheesebridge society, the kindhearted band of tinkerers only possible outcomes. must turn to their adopted charge and adventurous rich girl Winnie The Book of Life PG THE BOOK OF LIFE, a vibrant fanta- to bridge two worlds amidst the sy-adventure, tells the legend of winds of change - and cheese.

Manolo, a conflicted hero and dreamer who sets off on an epic Dracula Untold PG-13 quest through magical, mythical The year is 1462, and Transylvania and wondrous worlds in order to has enjoyed a prolonged period of rescue his one true love and peace under the just and fair rule ENIGMA

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of the battle-weary Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, and his beloved and brave wife, Mirena. Together, they have brokered peace for their country and ensured its people are well-protected, especially from the powerful Ottoman Empire-an everexpanding scourge that has its sights on global domination. But when Sultan Mehmed II demands 1,000 of Wallachia’s boys-including Vlad’s own son, Ingeras be torn from their parents’ homes and forced to become child soldiers in his army, Vlad must decide: do the same as his father before him and give up his son to the sultan, or seek the help of a monster to defeat the Turks but ultimately doom his soul to a life of servitude. Vlad journeys to Broken Tooth Mountain, where he encounters a foul demon and enters into a Faustian bargain-one that gives the prince the strength of 100 men, the speed of a falling star and enough power to crush his enemies. However, he will be inflicted with an insatiable thirst to drink human blood. If by the end of three days Vlad manages to resist, he will return to his former self, and perhaps in that time manage to save his people. Though should he drink, he will be forced to dwell in the darkness for the rest of his days, feeding only on the blood of humans and destroying all that he holds dear.

ger startling consequences for her and all who love her, leading her to question whether the truth is sometimes better left forgotten.

whelming odds in their heroic Dashner. attempts to strike at the heart of C OMI N G SOON Nazi Germany.

Gone Girl R GONE GIRL – directed by David Fincher and based upon the global bestseller by Gillian Flynn – unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick’s portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

Before You Go To Sleep R Due to a catastrophic accident in her mid-twenties, Christine, now a forty-seven-year-old writer, is incapable of forming and maintaining new memories for more than a day. Trapped in an existence in which she wakes every day believing herself to be single and with a whole lifetime of choice ahead of her she discovers instead that she lives with her husband, Ben, with most decisions already made. Through her meetings with a doctor who is helping her to recover her memory, Christine’s story begins to emerge, setting in motion a series of events that trig-

Nightcrawler R Lou Bloom, an ambitious young man desperate for work, discovers the world of L.A. crime journalism.

When Lou learns of a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles his way into the dangerous realm of night crawling, where a police siren wail means a possible windfall, and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Nina, a local TV news veteran, Lou blurs the line between observer and participant.

The Judge R Big city lawyer Hank Palmer, who returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town’s judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.

Left Behind PG-13 In the blink of an eye, the biblical Rapture strikes the world. Millions of people disappear in an instant as terror and chaos spread around the world and darkness enfolds the planet. Airline pilot Ray Steele is in the air at that moment and struggles to save the lives of the passengers that remain on his flight, as the world below loses its ability to help his plane to safety.

Running out of fuel, his equipment failing, his crew panicking, Ray must guide the plane with the help of GWN reporter, Buck Williams who takes over the role of co-pilot in the face of the crisis. On the ground, Ray’s daughter Chloe frantically searches for her mother and young brother in the chaos and destruction. Based on the novel of the same name by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.

The Equalizer R McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

The Maze Runner PG-13 When Thomas wakes up trapped in Fury R a massive maze with a group of April, 1945. As the Allies make their other boys, he has no memory of final push in the European the outside world other than Theatre, a battle-hardened army strange dreams about a mysterious sergeant named Wardaddy com- organization known as W.C.K.D. mands a Sherman tank and her Only by piecing together fragments five-man crew on a deadly mission of his past with clues he discovers behind enemy lines. Outnumbered in the maze can Thomas hope to and outgunned, and with a rookie uncover his true purpose and a soldier thrust into their platoon, way to escape. Based upon the Wardaddy and his men face over- best-selling novel by James ENIGMA

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Stones would never appear on his their final performance at Liverpool University. show again, but later relented.

11 996655 The Byrds’ “Turn! Turn! Turn!” is released in the US, where it will become their second #1 and final Top Ten entry. The song, with the exception of the last line, I swear it’s not too late, was adapted entirely from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible and put to music by Pete Seeger in 1959.

11 9955 77 and harmonica. The recording is “Jailhouse Rock” becomes Elvis done in one day and productions Presley’s ninth Billboard chart topper costs were held to $400. in the last year and a half.

James Brown’s appearance at the 1199 5588 Apollo Theatre in New York was Brenda Lee records “Rockin’ Around recorded for a live album called “Live The Christmas Tree”. The song will be At the Apollo”. The LP would go on to released as a single but will fail to sell over a million copies and earn a chart in either 1958 or 1959. When it reputation for being one of the finest was re-released in 1960 it rose to #14 concert albums ever made. It was and has since become a Christmas ranked at #24 in Rolling Stone magastandard, being ranked at #4 in the zine’s 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Top 10 All Time Christmas Songs.

119966 33 Peter, Paul And Mary had the two best selling albums in the US with “In the Wind” and “Peter, Paul and Mary”. Since then, they have put nine more L.P.s on Billboard’s Top 25 album list, although their only number one single was the John Denver written “Leaving On A Jet Plane” in 11 996600 Neil Sedaka records “Calendar Girl”, 1969. which will reach #4 in the US and #8 in the UK early the following year.

119966 44 The Who, then known as the High Frank Sinatra had the #1 LP in the US Numbers, audition for the British with “Nice ‘n’ Easy”, which will spend record label, EMI, who turned them nine weeks at the top of the Billboard down. stereo album chart.

J. Frank Wilson is injured and Sonley Roush, the producer of his hit song 11996611 Dion DiMucci continued his hit streak “Last Kiss” is killed in a head-on car after leaving The Belmonts when crash in Lima, Ohio. Their record was “Runaround Sue” went to number still in the US Top Ten at the time. one in the US. It reached #11 in the UK. Although he married a girl named In one of Rock and Roll’s most ironic Sue, Dion said he was thinking about tragedies, the man who replaced a girl named Roberta when he wrote Buddy Holly as the lead singer of The the song.

Crickets, 21-year-old David Box, was killed when the Cessna Skyhawk 172 he had chartered, crashed and 1199 6622 The Four Seasons’ “Big Girls Don’t burned, killing all on board. Box Cry” is released. It will become their joined the group in early 1960, but second consecutive Billboard #1 hit, left for a solo career a year later. spending five weeks at the top.

When the teenagers in the audience “The Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” kept screaming after The Rolling Pickett, reached the top of Stones finished their first song, Ed Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart. This Sullivan was forced to shout “Quiet!” novelty song, which was recorded in multiple times before he could introless than two hours, has now become duce the next act. When the band an annual favorite. closed the show with “Time Is On My Side”, Sullivan exclaimed “Come on, Bob Dylan records his first album, let them hear it!”, which caused such “Bob Dylan”, for Columbia Records. an uproar, Ed’s short conversation The LP featured the 20-year-old with Mick Jagger was completely singer accompanied only by his guitar inaudible. Sullivan vowed that The Buddy Holly was at the Pythian Temple Studios in New York for the last time, taping “It Doesn’t Matter Any More”, “Raining In My Heart”, “Moondreams”, and “True Love Ways”. Holly would be killed in a plane crash on February 3rd, 1959.

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1199 6666 The Yardbirds arrive in New York for their first US tour with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page on lead guitars. After two shows, Beck developed acute tonsillitis and quit the group. He would go on to form The Jeff Beck Group that gave Rod Stewart his first major exposure.

The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” made its debut on the US singles chart. It was a song that Brian Wilson and Mike Love wrote and Brian spent six months working on. The tracks were recorded in seventeen different sessions in four Los Angeles studios, at a cost of over sixteen thousand dollars. The recording engineer would later say that the last take sounded exactly like the first, six months earlier. The record would reach number one on December 10th, 1966 and be nominated for Song Of The Year at The Grammy Awards, but lost to “Winchester Cathedral” by The New Vaudeville Band.

According to Cashbox magazine, ?

And The Mysterians had the best selling tune in America with “96 Tears”.

The song has since been ranked #210 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The Supremes became the first female group to have a number one album on the US chart when the LP “Supremes A-Go-Go” reached the top.

It knocked The Beatles’ “Revolver” from the head of the list.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience record “Hey Joe” at De Lane Lea Studios in London, England. The song will become his first UK chart entry, rising to #6.

11996677 Jose Feliciano records his version of “Light My Fire”, which will reach #3 in the US in 1968.

1199 6688 18-year-old Peter Frampton meets Steve Marriott at a Small Faces show in London. After striking up a friendship, the two start planning a new group which will emerge as Humble Pie next April.

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119966 99 Paul McCartney publicly denies rumors that he is dead. The most recent of many “clues” of this Death Hoax was the fact that he was the only barefoot Beatle on the newly released “Abby Road” LP cover. The story was actually started as a prank

by Fred La Bour, a sports and arts writer for the student paper, The Michigan Daily at the University of Michigan.

11 997700 In a speech to a White House radio broadcasters conference, US President Richard Nixon appeals for Rock lyrics to be screened and those promoting drug use to be banned.

11 997711 Joan Baez received a Gold record for “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”. It turned out to be her biggest hit, peaking at #3 in the US and #6 in the UK. 119977 22 Seventeen years after having hits with some of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s most memorable classics, Chuck Berry had his first US number one record with “My Ding-a-Ling”, a silly novelty song centered on grade-school level, private parts jokes. The tune also went to the top of the UK chart. It was recorded live at Coventry Lanchester Polytechnic in England as part of the

119977 88 Lanchester Arts Festival, for which Berry turned up an hour and a half Punk rocker Sid Vicious, bassist for late. the Sex Pistols, attempts suicide while awaiting murder charges at 119977 33 New York’s Rikers Island Detention The Rolling Stones had the number Center. Vicious was charged with the one song in the US with “Angie”. It killing of his girlfriend Nancy made #5 in the UK. It is often report- Spungen. On February 2nd, 1979, he ed that the song was written about succeeded in taking his own life.

David Bowie’s wife at the time, the 119977 99 former Angela Barnett, but many reliable sources say that the song is real- Herb Alpert, who lead his Tijuana ly about Anita Pallenberg, the long- Brass on 17 instrumental chart hits in time love of Rolling Stones guitarist the mid 1960s, reached number one Keith Richards. in the US with a dance tune called “Rise”. It made #13 in the UK. Next Art Garfunkel is awarded a Gold Spring, the song will win a Grammy album for his first solo L.P. “Angel Award for Best Pop Instrumental Clare”. It is his highest charting solo Performance. album, peaking at number 5 and con11 998800 tains his only Top 10 hit in the US, “All I Know” which peaked at number 9. The British government presented Paul McCartney with a rhodium-plat11 997744 ed medallion for being named “The Billy Preston went to the top of the best selling songwriter and recording US singles chart with “Nothing From artist in history”, by The Guinness Nothing”, the singer’s second and Book of Records. Since 1962, final number one.

McCartney wrote or co-wrote 43 million-selling songs and sold over 100 English Folk singer Nick Drake died million records. from an overdose of a prescribed antidepressant at the age of 26. “Woman In Love” becomes Barbra Between 1969 and 1972 he had record- Streisand’s fifth US number one sined three modestly selling albums gle. The song, written by The Bee which would find a new audience by Gees’ Barry and Robin Gibb, was the early 1980s and would be fre- taken from the multi-Platinum selling quently cited by other artists as being album “Guilty”. a major influence.

119988 55 1199 7766 A group called a-ha became the first Drummer Keith Moon plays his final Norwegian band to top the Billboard show with The Who. He would leave Hot 100 when “Take on Me” went to the band and enter a drug and alco- number one. The song would reach hol program shortly after. On number two in the UK in November.

September 7, 1978, Moon died of an overdose of a sedative Heminevrin A television special called The Carl that had been prescribed to prevent Perkins and Friends Show, marked seizures induced by alcohol with- the 30th anniversary of the song drawal.

“Blue Suede Shoes”. The event featured Carl Perkins, the song’s writer, Chicago’s “If You Leave Me Now” hit along with Dave Edmunds, Eric number one in America, on its way to Clapton, George Harrison and Ringo becoming their biggest selling record. Starr.

It also topped the UK chart. At next 11 998866 spring’s Grammy Awards, the song would win for Best Pop Vocal For the first time in the history of the Performance By a Duo, Group or Billboard Hot 100, the top three spots Chorus and was also named Record of were held by female solo acts. Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” held down the the Year. #1 position, followed by Tina Turner’s 119977 77 “Typical Male” at #2 and Janet Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jackson’s “When I Think Of You” at #3.

Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, his 119999 22 sister Cassie Gaines (one of three backing singers) and manager Dean Elton John files a $35 million lawsuit Kilpatrick were killed in a plane against a reporter for the TV tabloid crash en route from Greenville, South show Hard Copy, who stated that Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. John moved to Atlanta to be near an The remaining members, Gary AIDS treatment center. Elton’s Rossington, Allen Collins, Billy Powell lawyers say he moved to Atlanta and Leon Wilkeson were seriously because he enjoys the area. injured, but all recovered. The band was finished for ten years, until the Members of Boyz II Men receive survivors invited Ronnie’s younger awards for having the longest runbrother Johnny to join them in a ning #1 song of the Rock era. “End Of the Road” broke Elvis’ record of 11 reunion concert. weeks, previously held by “Don’t Be ENIGMA

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wife, fearing ridicule in the press.

Roger Miller, who rose to fame in the mid 1960’s with hits like “King Of The Road” and “Dang Me” died of lung cancer at the age of 56 . In a two year span between 1965 and 1966, he won eleven Grammy Awards.

2200 1100 Elton John described today’s songwriters as “pretty awful”, Pop music as “uninspiring” and talent shows like American Idol as “boring” in an interview with Britain’s Radio Times magazine.

11 999955 Def Leppard pulled off one of the greatest publicity stunts ever when they played three concerts on three different continents in the same day.

The band played in Tangiers (Africa) in the morning, London (Europe) in the afternoon and finally in Vancouver, Canada, (North America) in the evening.

22 001111 Michael Jackson topped Forbes Magazine’s list of the top-earning deceased celebrities with $170 million in earnings over the past year. Elvis Presley placed second with $55 million. John Lennon tied for fifth with $12 million and George Harrison tied for 13th with $6 million.

1199 9966 Sales figures were released that showed that The Beatles sold 6,000,000 albums from their back catalog and a combined total of 13,000,000 copies of “The Beatles Anthology 1” and “The Beatles Anthology 2”. A poll revealed that 41% of sales were to teenagers who were not even born when The Beatles split up in 1970.

22 00 1122 Forbes magazine reported that Elizabeth Taylor, who died in 2011 at 79 years old, topped their list of highest-earning dead celebrities by earning $210 million in the past year.

Michael Jackson, who took in more than any living artist in the past 12 months, was second with $145 million.

Elvis Presley ranked #3 with $55 million in earnings, Peanuts creator Charles Shulz earned $37 million and Bob Marley $17 million.

11999977 Glen Buxton, the original lead gui2200 1133 tarist for Alice Cooper, died of natural causes at the age of 49.

Producer Quincy Jones filed a $10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit in 1199 9988 connection with Michael Jackson A federal district judge in St. Louis projects released by Sony Music denies a motion that would have per- Entertainment after the singer’s mitted the Fort Zumwalt high school death. The suit alleged that master marching band to play a banned all- recordings that Jones worked on music segment of ‘60s songs that were edited and remixed so as to includes Jefferson Airplane’s “White deprive him of back-end profits.

Rabbit”. The school superintendent had banned the song because he felt it promoted the drug culture.

1199 9999 Thirty years after making his initial US chart appearance with a song called “Jingo”, Carlos Santana had his first number one hit with “Smooth”.

The track, which features the vocals of Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, would stay at the top for twelve weeks and remained in the top ten for a record setting 30 weeks.

2200 0055 A UK company called Prudential announced the results of a survey which claimed that the average person will spend about 21,000 Pounds ($42,000) on music during their lifetime. The amount included money spent on recordings, playback equipment and concerts. Music enthusiasts were likely to spend more than double the average.

22 0000 99 Former KISS drummer Peter Criss revealed that he had been diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2007.

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A eerroossm miitt hh’’ss JJ ooeeyy …A K rraam K m eerr has set the record straight about the health scare that forced him to miss a few shows this summer. After TMZ reported that the drummer was planning to undergo heart surgery, the band released a statement in August saying K K rraa m meerr “had no history of heart problems” and that he was having “a minor medical procedure.”

KKrraa m meerr was recently the guest on the Eddie Trunk podcast, in which the drummer reiterated that he had never experienced previous heart problems but confessed that he underwent an angioplasty and had two stents added (via UltimateClassicRock.com).

KKrraa m meerr noted that it was “strictly a hereditary thing. There’s a family history, and I was the victim. But no more.” …Even if you were too young to watch “Saturday Night Live” in 1992, you’ve probably heard the story about how SSiinneeaa dd OO’’CCoo nnnnoorr ripped up a photo of PPoo ppee JJoohhnn PPaa uull IIII during her performance. The Irish singer/songwriter claims that a

few bigwigs at Dick Clark Productions thought it would be a brilliant idea for PPooppee FFrraann cciiss O’’CCoonnnnoorr at the to introduce O American Music Awards.

O’Connor explained the whole story in a blog post that was composed of more than 1,600 words. Apparently, the AMAs passed on the concept because the Pope never responded to Dick Clark Productions’ pitch.

The story goes that “three stooges” from Dick Clark Productions attempted to get in touch with the Pope solely via his Twitter account. “Since naturally their idea was not only disrespectful to the pope and to millions of catholics (The idea he ought [to] consider lowering his feet into the disgusting world of show business and celebrity at all! Never mind with SSii nneeaa dd OO’’CCoo nnnnoo rr) they didn’t get a response and consequently I’m now not doing the show,” OO’’CCoonnnnor wrote. …Announcing its first new studio album in 10 years, SSlleeaa tteerr-- KKiinnnneeyy has locked down February-March gigs. The road trip launches in Spokane, Wash., with destinations including Boise, Boston, Chicago, and

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Pittsburgh. No Cities To Love is the name of the new long player featuring that famous SSll eeaatteerr-KKiinnnneeyy core made up of CCoorriinn TTuucc kkeerr and CCaarrrriiee BBrroow wnn sstteeii nn on vocals/guitar with drummer JJaanneett W Weeii ssss keeping the beat.

Clandestinely recorded at San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone Recordings earlier this year, the disc was produced by JJoo nn GGoo ooddm maa nnssoonn, who helmed the K ii nnnn eeyy LPs. last four SSll eeaa tteerr--K Expect No Cities To Love to drop Jan 19-20 on SubPop. …At 69, BBoobb SSeeggeerr says he’s ready to hit the road again: He’s scaled back smoking and bicycles 10 miles a day as part of a workout routine. “I think I’m in pretty good shape,” SSeeggeerr said in a phone interview, noting that a colonoscopy from a few years ago was clean and he just had a checkup for his tour to promote Ride Out, the album released last week and his first since 2006.

The 25-city tour begins Nov. 19 in Saginaw, Michigan, and continues into next year. SSeeggeerr isn’t saying whether he’ll continue touring beyond that, though he definitely plans to continue creating music: “I just take it tour by tour.”

ee of the Gyeonggi Institute of Science and Technology Promotion, was found dead at around 7 a.m. in Seongnam, the city south of Seoul where Friday’s accident occurred, said city spokesman K Kii m m N Naa m m--jjuunn.

The site of his death was not far from where 16 people watching a performance by 4Minute, a girls band that is popular across Asia, were killed when the ventilation grate they were standing on collapsed. Eleven other people were seriously injured. It was believed that the man, who was questioned by police Friday night over the accident, leaped from the top of a 10-story building, police inspector PPaa rrkk JJeeoonngg -jjuu said.

U22 singer BBoonnoo says …U his ever-present sunglasses aren’t a rock-star affectation – he has suffered from glaucoma for 20 years. The condition – a buildup of pressure that can damage the optic nerve – can make the eyes sensitive to light.

BBoonn oo told the BBC’s “Graham Norton Show” that he had the condition, but “I have good treatments and I am going to be …A South Korean man fine.” He said people would now involved in planning an outdoor think of him as “poor old blind pop concert where 16 people BBoonnoo .” were killed after falling through …Fans attending the 72a ventilation grate was found hour metal extravaganza known dead Saturday in an apparent as Knotfest might see a familiar suicide, officials said, as doctors face walking around the San treated eight others facing lifethreatening injuries from the Manuel Amphitheater in Devore, disaster. The man, 37, an employ- Calif., near San Bernardino Oct. 24-26. Baseball pitching legend

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RRaa nnddyy JJoohhnn ssoo nn will be snapping photos for RollingStone.com.

Johnson, who majored in photojournalism while a student at the University Of So. California, has built an impressive portfolio that includes images of NASCAR and X Games. A veteran of seven USO tours, JJoohhnnssoonn’’ss post-MLB photography career was recently featured on ESPN’s “E:60.” …O O..AA ..RR.. , RRaa nnddyy HHoouusseerr All KK ooooppeerr have joined the and A LLyy nnyyrrdd SS kkyy nnyy rrdd Tribute Concert happening Nov. 12 at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre. The addition of Kooooppeerr is especially rock vet K noteworthy considering he is credited with discovering the band. The man who, as a session musician, improvised the organ riff on BBoobb D Dyyll aa nn’’ ss “Like A Rolling Stone,” also played on LLyy nnyy rrdd SS kkyynn yy rrdd hits “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Freebird” and “Saturday Night Special.” The Fox may need a bigger stage by the time Nov. 12 rolls around.

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SStteevvee LLuukkaatthheerr and it all adds up to one incredibly special evening. The concert will be filmed for distribution across several platforms.

He also suggested that the song’s success hurt his reputation and credibility as it painted the singer as an “insanely serious person”. “I have a couple of over-emotional miserable songs …LLeedd ZZ eeppppeell ii nn’’ss efforts that I’m known for,” BBll uunntt conto have a court case centering tinued. “But I think it’s turned around claims the band plagia- that corner now.” rized their song ‘Stairway To Heaven’ dismissed have been …BBrryy aann CCrraa nn sstt oonn has rejected by a judge in America. spoken out about the proposed The case was brought against the move to ban Breaking Bad action M aall ooffii yy figures from sale. A concerned band by lawyer FF rraanncc iiss M stating that his client – the late mother in Florida has petitioned RRaa nnddyy CCaalliiffoorrnniiaa , who played the store chain Toys R Us to guitar in SSppiirrii tt – should be given remove the dolls from sale. a writing credit on the track According to the BBC, SSuussaa nn ‘Stairway To Heaven’ as it resem- SScchhrriivv jjeerr has called for the toy bles SSppii rrii tt’’ss 1968 song ‘Taurus’. retailer to stop selling the action The two bands toured together figures in store and online, in 1968 and 1969. Billboard because they are a “dangerous reports that the lawyer working deviation from their family for LLeedd ZZeeppppeellii nn challenged the friendly values”. She argues the suit Monday saying Pennsylvania figures, some of which come courts had no jurisdiction in the with “a detachable sack of cash and a bag of meth” are not suitmatter. able to be sold alongside “Barbie …JJaam m eess BB lluunntt has apol- dolls and Disney characters”. In ogized for writing his hit single response to SScc hhrrii vvjjeerr’’ ss camCCrraa nnssttoo nn tweeted: ‘You’re Beautiful’, labeling the paign, track as “annoying”. ‘You’re “‘Florida mom petitions against Beautiful’ featured on the Toys ‘R Us over Breaking Bad singer’s 2004 debut Back To action figures.’ I’m so mad, I’m Bedlam, reaching Number One in burning my Florida mom action the UK and US and selling figure in protest.” Since the peti625,000 copies in the United tion received press attention, Kingdom alone. Now, speaking Toys R Us appears to have to Hello!, BBlluunn tt said: “[It] was removed the Breaking Bad dolls force-fed down people’s throats from sale on their US website. and it became annoying, and They were priced at $17.99. Toys then people start to associate R Us have stated that the the artist with the same word.” Breaking Bad toy packaging “clearly notes that the items are intended for ages 15 and up”.

SScchhrriivv jjeerr’’ss petition has received over 5,000 signatures of support so far.

If you know any truths, halftruths or outright lies about the music and club scene send it to Sissy Vance c/o rumoursmill@enigmaonline.com.

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1. Tweedy 2. Shovels & Rope 3. Leonard Cohen 4. Shakey Graves 5. U2 6. Lucinda Williams 7. AC/DC 8. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 9. Jenny Lewis 10. Cracker 11. Counting Crows 12. Weezer 13. Joe Bonamassa 14. TV On The Radio 15. Pink Floyd 16. Lake Street Dive 17. Elle King 18. Bush 19. Fall Out Boy 20. Ziggy Marley

ADVENTURE PICKS 1. Foo Fighters 2. Ani DiFranco 3. David Bowie

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Jesse McCartney Former Dream Street member and Disney star Jesse McCartney came to Chattanooga, TN recently for a radio station promotion with Top 40 station Hits96. The 27-year-old pop star and actor was greeted by a couple hundred screaming females between the ages of 17 and 24 in Rhythm and Brews. With a new album released recently McCartney hung around for a brief acoustic set to showcase songs off the new album “In Technicolor”. As performing four songs he hung out briefly for a meet and greet before leaving.

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Julian Casablancas + The Voidz Julian Casablancas + the Voidz took the stage Monday at Track 29 in Chattanooga and put on a show that was mildly surprising. Those expecting to hear the same polished rock tunes of his band The Strokes and his first solo album where thrown for a loop.

music sounded kind of like a cosmic disco. Singer Andrea Estella’s dreamy, almost sleepy vocal style and manner on stage was reminiscent of a lot of the dreamscape female artists who took over alternative radio in the early ‘90s. They were a sharp – actually smooth buffer between Continue and The Voidz.

Literally avoiding the spotlight as there was virtually no lights on stage except for some colored strobes at times all coming from behind the stage, Casablancas pitched an interesting silhouette that was as enigmatic as the music of his newest side project The Voidz.

Often Casablancas’ vocals were inaudible blending in with guitar distortion and heavy percussion. The band as a whole are each very talented. The music was at best experimental bordering on noise slowing down and then picking up to a fever pitch to a more indie rock sound.

J ulian C asabancas + T he Voidz J Set Lis t S Human Sadness Business Dog Where No Eagles Fly Father Electricity Xerox River of Brakelights (Julian Casablancas song)

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World” and “I’ll Try Anything Once”) and one song off his first solo album, “River of Brakelights”.

Nintendo Blood M.utually A.ssured D.estruction DJ/electronic artist, Johan Von Bronx Continue. Quite frankly not many people paid attention Ennccoorree:: E to his odd electronic taste on I’ll Try Anything Once music. Fiddling around with (The Strokes cover) a laptop and an electronic Take Me in Your Army gizmo his set came to an end (Leg Debut) after about six “songs”.

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Atlanta’s Downward Spiral Continues

And so the downward spiral continues. The Atlanta Falcons lost their fourth consecutive game Sunday 29-7 to the Baltimore Ravens. Since taking a 20-10 lead early in the third quarter against the New York Giants three weeks ago the “high-powered” Atlanta offense has scored a total of 20 points.

Not that any quarter has been that good to the Falcons so far this season but through seven games so far the Atlanta offense has managed a grand total of 17 points – counting the seven they scored Sunday. That is an average of three points a game.

Hardly a way to finish off a

team, wouldn’t you say?

Against the Ravens Atlanta had their worst offensive outing with only 254 yards. A far cry from the 2012 team that averaged almost 30 points a game. The much-maligned defense is not the fault for this either. The defense did their best to keep the impotent Falcon offense that only managed 16 first downs by playing inspired ball really. It was almost representative of a by-gone era for Atlanta. The much criticized defense forced three turnovers – two interceptions of Joe Flacco and a fumble recovery and just missed out on a third INT. ENIGMA

promise is Antone Smith and With the defense showing some he’s approaching his peak years signs of life what has happened (mid to late 20s) and is still a to the high-powered and hand- novelty and not used effectively. somely paid offense? Steven Jackson “led” Atlanta rushers The main issue with the running with 22 yards on eight carries. game is blocking schemes, howThat comes to a whopping 2.75 ever. In spite of a “perfect yards a carry. What a worth- world” scenario most teams are while investment. I’m not mad not well balanced. They are at Jackson. He was a great run- either run or pass heavy. Each ner back in the day. He’s just not one requires a specific skill set where money needed to be from the offensive line. Rarely spent. Actually the running do they overlap with the same game started to go downhill for consistency. The Falcons are a Atlanta when Dirk Koetter took passing offense. Matt Ryan is over the offense. It became easily a top five quarterback. pass-friendly, which was actual- What is needed from the runly a welcome change. To be ning game is to keep defenses a honest the only back with any little more honest and quite lit-

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erally give the receivers a play off from time to time to quit running full blazes on every play so as to reserve a little energy for down the stretch. Also, killing some clock would be nice as well to give your muchmaligned defense a breather as well.

really been spoiled since Dimitroff and Smith were hired.

Atlanta fans have a short memory. As someone who remembers the Falcons back in the Norm Van Brocklin days (yes, I’m that old), winning wasn’t really an option. Winning for Atlanta was

thing the pre Smith and Dimitroff had going for them was a good offensive line and relevant running backs. Vick was and still is a joke as an NFL quarterback. I argued with guys in the dining room at the Georgia Dome until I was blue in

“Coming in the game we knew they had a very good defense.

Their front seven is outstanding.

We just didn’t do a great job making plays. We had some opportunities, but we didn’t make the plays we needed to make. When you’re facing defense like that you need to take advantage of your chances,” said Ryan.

But when you can’t open holes or protect the quarterback what can you do? Ryan has looked like a piñata the last month. The Ravens sacked Atlanta’s QB five times Sunday, pushed, rushed and hurled him about. He started the season completing close to 80 percent of his passes and that has dropped off as his line has dropped off the roster and onto IR. Last year and this year’s main issue with the line and team in general is to keep the players in uniform and not on a gurney.

Patchwork doesn’t begin to describe the line.

“There are no excuses. You can talk about losing players, but everybody loses players. It’s got to be the ‘next man up’ mentality. The next guy up has to step in and do the job. We have to step up and make those plays,” said Smith.

People are already calling for Mike Smith’s head and that of Thomas Dimitroff, but truth be told it’s not them knocking their players out of action. People have been spoiled since Arthur Blank bought the team from the Smith family in 2002. They have

moved back into the shadows of their goalposts. Two pushes backward later and Ryan was sacked for a safety making the score 22-7.

The Ravens with under two minutes to play added insult to injury as Joe Flacco sent a ball sky high to the left corner. It could not have been thrown more perfectly as it was thrown in the only place it could have been caught. 39 yard touchdown pass to Torrey Smith and so the final was 29-7. Not much of a game. The last touchdowns seemed like kind of a cheap shot.

“I don’t have any objections.

(Head coach) John (Harbaugh) coaches his football team. Their defense tried to stop us, and our defense tried to stop them. They called a play, we didn’t stop them, and that’s the end of it.

That’s the bottom line. Our job is to stop the opponent, and we didn’t do it. It doesn’t matter what the situation is or the score, that’s what our job is,” said Smith about the last touchdown.

finishing at .500. In 1973 they flirted with success at 9-5 and it wasn’t until the late ‘70s they sniffed their first playoff appearance. Until Smith and Dimitroff arrived the Falcons NEVER had consecutive winning seasons. They had five in a row until last season.

Sure we all want to win the Super Bowl or at least go, but so do about 31 other teams the last time I counted. What Smith and Dimitroff bring to the team is maturity and level headed decision making – not coaches leaving tickets for Elvis at will call.

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the face for years and sure enough, I was vindicated.

“Right now we are behind the eight ball, and all kinds of things That being said, the Falcons can happen. We have the right were an oxymoron against the people in the locker room, the Ravens. They were never really right leaders and the right in it and yet somehow they were coaches to turn this around. As never quite out until the final ugly as it is at 2-5 we’re still in minutes. An impotent offense the mix in our definition, we just put no points on the board have to get better,” said Ryan. through three quarters. When they finally did they were only The Falcons are technically trailing by two scores with home this week although they’ll under six minutes left. To be playing “across the pond”. everyone’s surprise they didn’t Atlanta will “host” the Detroit try an onside kick instead kick- Lions Sunday in London. Kickoff ing deep. The defense bended is scheduled for 9:30am and will but they didn’t break forcing a be aired on Fox. Baltimore punt. A holding call on the return negated a good - Dave Weinthal return (not great) by Devin Hester.

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Time Runs Out On The Titans

Let’s hear it for the backup quarterback. Everyone loves the backup. Now Kirk Cousins knows what RG3 has been feeling for the last two seasons.

The Tennessee Titans lost as time expired to the Washington Redskins 19-17 Sunday.

Cousins, who was a fan favorite as RG3 struggled after injury after injury has seen his luck falter as well. So bad so he was replaced by journeyman QB Colt McCoy. McCoy, to his defense was never really given

a chance at Cleveland with along the left sideline. Garcon either a real head coach or shook off a defender and offensive coordinator. sprinted up the sideline 70 yards for the score.

Jay Gruden’s move paid off nicely, however. Trailing 10-6 McCoy completed his first six at the half to the Titans the passes and finished the game 11Redskins first year coach made of-12 for 128 yards. His counterhis move. The quarterback part, Charlie Whitehurst, startposition in Washington seems ing his third straight game for to be more of a revolving door the Titans was more pedestrian policy than anything. McCoy, throwing for a grand total of who hasn’t started a game in 160 yards with the benefit of over two years completed his playing the entire game comfirst pass. It was impressive, pared to McCoy’s half. however. He hit Pierre Garcon ENIGMA

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“I don’t know what was going through our heads as far as that. It’s just a new quarterback in the game. We talk about his strengths and weaknesses. We know he’s a mobile quarterback, but other than that I don’t think we were thinking about anything else other than trying to execute our defense being able to make plays and get off the field,” said Titans cornerback Jason McCourty.

That being said, lack of execution on offense, costly penal-

Penalties Sunday bit the Titans’ attempt to seal a victory.

Getting the ball with a little over five minutes to play a procedure call se the Titans back 10 yards to begin the series with a first-and-29. Being the offensive juggernaut the Titans have been this season they were forced to kick, giving McCoy and the Redskins plenty of time to mount a game winning drive.

“We had that first penalty in that last drive trying to close it out. We just weren’t able to move the ball on the ground at the end of the game. [We] just gotta go back and look at film and try to work on some things to get better at,” said Titans running back Bishop Sankey.

McCoy led the Redskins down to the Titans 29 with 43 seconds to go. On third down McCourty was flagged for pass interference on the Tennessee three.

With three seconds on the clock Kai Forthbath connected from 22 yards out for the win 19-17.

ties cost the Titans a chance for a second win in a row as they dropped their fifth of six.

“Losses… They suck. You don’t like it. I’m not worried about their team and what they are doing. I’m worried about what we are doing. We made too many mistakes today on the football field and we almost overcame it. That’s what you have to do, but we didn’t get that done today,” said Titans coach Ken Whisenhunt.

Neither team was an offensive juggernaut as the Titans were outgained by the Redskins 351 to 236. First downs were close

with the Redskins getting 16 and the Titans 14. 30 first downs total in a game – that just goes to prove how brutal this game was to watch.

Titans brass must be scratching their head. Whisenhunt is supposedly an offensive genius someone with multiple Super Bowl rings and appearances as a coordinator and head coach.

He seemingly revitalized the Kansas City offense in one season last year before being hired away by Tennessee. Seemed like a good move, but to be quite honest, no Tennessee team has ever been known as

an offensive threat. Even Steve McNair’s best days as a QB was with the Ravens. The Titans have always been a defense first, run mentality. It’s been quite boring and for the most part quite mediocre. There was one Super Bowl appearance, but people seem to forget Tennessee was a Wild Card team that finished 9-7. If it wasn’t for the “Music City Miracle” I wouldn’t even be writing these sentences. There were flashes of brilliance after that season like a 12-4 or 13-3 record, but mediocrity of .500, give a game or two otherwise.

“It is very frustrating. It is just one of those days. We felt coming in that we were able to move the ball up and down on the [Washington] Redskins but we didn’t do that today. We had too many mistakes on offense and it really cost us. We know we should’ve a whole lot more points up on the board but we didn’t. We are 2-5 and we have one next weekend, gotta keep working,” said Titan wide receiver Derek Hagan.

The Titans return home Sunday to LP Field where they will host divisional foe Houston. Kickoff is scheduled for 1pm and will be aired on CBS.

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Cowboys Cut Giants Down to Size

On the surface, the Dallas Cowboys first inter conference game against arch rivals, the New York Giants, appeared to be just that. Both teams were riding impressive win streaks into this contest, with visiting quarterback Eli Manning sporting an unprecedented 4-1 record in the monolithic Cowboy Stadium since it opened in 2008.

impressive edifice over the mediocre years the Cowboys have resided there, has been renamed AT&T Stadium. The current occupants look nothing like their counterparts of old, and proved it once again with a resounding 31-21 victory over their bitter foes for Dallas’s sixth consecutive win.

one’s mind. Fans throughout the stadium, particularly the visitors in Royal Blue, knew exactly what was at stake. Murray was attempting to break a record set by the immortal Jim Brown of six consecutive games to start the season with a 100 or more rushing yards. It had stood for 56 years. Establishing a new mark – and continuing it as well – was There was a lot riding on this not only important to Murray, But that was yesterday. Today particular Cowboys game. but the Cowboys unheralded Jerry World, or the Death Star Running back DeMarco Murray’s offensive line as well. which locals have dubbed the date with destiny was on everyENIGMA

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This game started out as expected – a bruising affair between bitter division rivals. A scrum match began immediately after the opening kickoff as referees had to separate players on the field. Dallas struck first in the opening quarter to take a 7-0 lead on the arm of quarterback Tony Romo and the legs of Murray. Once again, the Cowboy offensive formula of run first, mix in some throws and just eat up the clock worked to perfection. Romo engineered an 11-play

just over a minute left in the contest, he connected from 49 yards out to end the contest.

Manning found out, just as the rest of the NFL has now discovered, this isn’t your typical Dallas team. The 6-1 Cowboys are off to their best start in seven years.

CCoow wbbooyy N Nootteess – Last week, running back Joseph Randall made headlines when he was arrested for shoplifting a bottle of cologne and underwear at a Dillard’s department store. He didn’t dodge any media questions and admitted to his crime, calling it the stupidest thing he had ever done. The Cowboys fined him $29,500 for his lack of judgment.

drive, six-minute drive that ended with a 15-yard toss to a wide open Gavin Escobar for the QB’s 12th touchdown pass of the season. It also extended his team record to 35 regular season games with at least one TD thrown for a score.

The second quarter was a different story. Mistakes by the Cowboys would lead to Giant points. The Dallas defense has defied the doom and gloom expectations that started the season to become a solid unit.

Along the way, however, the secondary has had suffered from some momentary lapses of reason and it has cost them dearly.

It happened again on the Giants ensuing drive after the Cowboy score. With the Giants going for it on a fourth and one, instead of running, Eli Manning threw into double coverage. He got the desired result – a penalty called against the secondary for a first down. The error eventually led to a 9-yard touchdown reception

by Odell Beckham Jr. and a tie score. On Dallas’ next possession, Tony Romo threw his sixth interception of the year when receiver Dez Bryant fell down on his route as the ball was in the air. Giant safety Prince Amukamara easily caught the pass and returned it 38 yards to the Cowboys 27. On the very next play, Eli Manning found receiver Daniel Fells along the sideline, and he side-stepped his way into the end zone for the go ahead score. It didn’t last long. Romo led the team down the field on what is now becoming a typical time-consuming scoring drive for this team – 80 yards, 10 plays, 5:36. A scrambling Romo ended the drive as he bought Terrance Williams enough time to break free in the end zone for an 18yard reception to tie the score at half. It would be his only reception of the game.

Going into the third quarter, all eyes were on Murray. The former Sooner running back appeared to have slightly sprained his left foot on a 21yard scamper in the second quarter as he quietly amassed 73 yards on the ground heading into the locker room. Instead of returning to the run, however, the Cowboys finally unveiled the Dez Bryant Show. The first act saw the receiver haul in a routine sideline pass, put on a nifty spin move and move the ball for a 44-yard gain. He followed that up with a 17-yard reception to the Giants 26. Romo then threw an absolutely perfect 26-yard scoring pass to Gavin Escobar between two defenders.

DeMarco Murray finally set the NFL mark by going over the 100yard mark to start the fourth quarter. Overall, the running back would gain 128 yards on the day. The Dallas defense stepped as well when cornerback Barry Church forced Giant tight end Larry Donnell to fumble that linebacker Justin Durant recovENIGMA

TToonn yy RRoom moo w waa ss 9-9 and 166 yards in the second half despite the fact he needed a painkiller shot to deal with his sore ribs and ankle suffered last week against Seattle. His current streak of 35 games with a touchdown reception is second to Peyton Manning’s stretch of 46 consecutive games.

ered. On third down from the Giants 27, Romo saw a blitz coming and quickly audibled at the line. He threw a dart to Dez Bryant who caught the ball at the seven yard line and almost scored when he stretched his body into the end zone. His knee touched down at the one.

Murray carried it in from there D Deezz BBrryyaa nntt dd iiddnn ’’tt score a touchto give the Cowboys a 28-14 lead. down, but his nine receptions for 151 set the Cowboys up for Eli Manning is probably the only their final two touchdowns and quarterback in the NFL that’s field goal. He was held to two totally comfortable playing on receptions and 15 yards in the the Cowboys home field. He led first half. Tight end Gavin New York to a score in just Escobar and wide receiver under four minutes to make this Terrance Williams only caught a one possession game for the four passes between them. Three Giants with 5:28 seconds left to of those receptions were for play. In the past, that would have touchdowns. been plenty of time for him to orchestrate a comeback against SSpp eeaa kkiinn gg oo ff tthhee Cowboy defense, Dallas. What he discovered, last year when Eli Manning and however, was an undeniable company came to town, he threw truth. This isn’t a typical Cowboy for 450 yards and four touchteam. The Cowboy offense con- downs. This year, he was limited trolled the ball with deadly effi- 248. The Giants were without ciency – they were 9 of 14 on their best receiver, Victor Cruz, third down conversions – as the and running back Rashad moved the ball downfield to set Jennings because of injuries. up a field goal for their deadly efficient kicker, Dan Bailey. With - David Huff

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