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Garth Brooks, the artist briefly formerly known as Chris Gaines (don’ ask me) pretty much melted the internet when it was announced he as performing in Knoxville at Neyland Stadium as part of his sadium tour. He’ll be performing on November 16. Good luck finding a ticket.
Five Finger Death Punch, one of the most influential bands in heavy metal in the last decade have decided to grace us with their presence. Since the release of “Way of the Fist” 11 years ago they’ve piled up tons of gold records as well as drawn huge crowds at festivals here and abroad. They make a stop at McKenzie Arena on November 23.
Comic and television personality Kathleen Madigan brings her unique sense of humor to Chattanooga as she makes a stop at Walker Theatre on November 21. The comedy veteran who starred in herown HBO Half-Hour Special as well as Comdy Central Presents was often seen on the Tonight Show with Jay Leon and David Letterman. For more info go to tivolichattanooga.org.
Proving the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree, Shooter Jennings (yep, you guessed it by his last name) carries on the torche of Outlaw country since coming on the music scene in 2005. Jennings will bring his style of Outlaw country to Songbirds for a show Sunday, Noember 10. For ticket availability go to songbirds.rocks.
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more people, especially young and troubled kids, are lashing out against anyone or anything they can catch at a disadvantage: children or animals, religious icons or racial differences. Why are these kids doing this? TW
Dear Rocco, I am currently involved with a woman and love her very much. Recently I have started having feelings for her best friend. What do I do? BW
ran into him at a school function. I still love him, Rocco. I want to try to get back with him. My friends think I am crazy, they think I deserve better. But I love him. Please help me. JV
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DDeeaa rr TTW W,, IItt iiss bbee ccaauussee oouurr ssooccii eettyy tteeaacchheess ppee ooppll ee ttoo bbee rr eess ppoonnss iibbllee ffoorr tthheeiirr aaccttiioonnss.. IIff ppeeooppllee w w eerr ee yyoouu ccoouu lldd ppuutt hhaall ff tthhee ll aaw w ffii rrm mss oouutt ooff bbuu ss ii-nnee ssss .. W Whh aatt w w ee hh aavvee nnoow w ii ss aa ccuu ll-ttuurr ee ooff vv iiccttii m mhh oooodd aanndd ffii nnggeerr ppooii nnttii nngg.. AAdddd ttoo tthhee ccoonncceerr tteedd aattttaacckk oonn rreell iiggii oonn –– m moorree ssppeeccii ffii-ccaa llll yy CC hhrrii ssttiiaa nniittyy.. W W ee nnee eedd ttoo bbrr iinngg bbaacckk aaccccoouunnttaabbiill iittyy.. Dear Rocco, I have a boss that I just cannot stand! He was just recently made my boss and we just do not get along. I have been with the company much longer but he acts like he knows everything! He is always giving me more work than I can handle and even complains to other workers about me. I can’t go to HIS boss because they seem like best buddies. I would quit, but I am just a few months from getting an
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excellent raise and some new benefits that I have been promised. If I left I would have to start all over at a new job at much less pay. What can I do? HL
DD eeaarr HHLL,, SSttaanndd uupp ffoorr yyoouurrss eell ff aa nndd ccoonnffrroonntt hhiim m w wiitthh oouu tt bbeeii nngg hh ooss ttiill ee.. YYoouu nnee eedd ttoo ccll eeaarr tthhee aaiirr aanndd ppuutt eevvee rr.. TT eell ll yyoouurr bboossss yyoouurr ffeeeell iinnggss aanndd tthhaatt yyoouu w waanntt ttoo w woorrkk tthhii nnggss oouu tt bbeeccaa uuss ee yyoouu lloovvee yyoouurr jjoobb aanndd hhaavvee aa lloott iinnvv eessttee dd iinn ii tt.. UU nnllee ssss hhee’’ss aa ttoottaall ttooooll hhee sshhoouulldd bbee w wii llll -ii nngg ttoo w woorrkk w wii tthh yyoouu,, pprroovvii ddii nngg yyoouu’’rree aa vv aalluuaabbll ee aass ssee tt ttoo tthhee ccoom m-ppaannyy.. IIff aa llll eell ssee ffaaiill ss ss ttaarr tt llooookkii nngg ffoorr aa nnootthheerr jjoobb.. IItt’’ss aa w woorr kkee rrss ’’ maarr kkee tt aa nndd yyoouu ccaann ffiinndd aa jjoobb m ss oom mee w whh eerr ee yyoouu ccaa nn bbee aa pppprr eeccii aatt-ee dd.. Rocco is a common sense, tell-itlike-it-is, no-nonsense kind of guy offering real advice on any subject put before him. Why pay thousands of dollars on a high-priced therapist when he’ll straighten you out for free. If you’d like advice from Rocco e-mail him at goaskrocco@yahoo.com.
ARIES (Mar. 21- April 20) Set a limit, or you’ll wind up on a tight budget. Travel will be favorable. This is probably causing upset and confusion on the home front. Don’t hold back.
(July 23-Aug 22) You can make personal changes that will enhance your appearance and bring about greater social activity. They won’t get away with it. You may think gifts will win their heart, but it could add stress from lack of funds. You must conYour luckiest events this month sider yourself for a change. will occur on a Wednesday. Your luckiest events this month TAURUS will occur on a Saturday. (Apr. 21- May 21) Try to concentrate on research and VIRGO acquiring information that will be (Aug. 23 -Sept. 23) of value in your chosen field. Try Do not give your heart to someone not to overreact to the loss. Don’t who may not live up to your stanbe too eager to cut those who have dards. Try to make arrangements disappointed you from your life. with close friends or relatives to Don’t delay; go to your physician or spend a few days away. You will dentist and get to the bottom of the probably have to defend your discomfort. mate. You may find yourself in an emotional fix if you interfere in Your luckiest events this month other people’s problems. will occur on a Wednesday. Your luckiest events this month GEMINI will occur on a Tuesday. (May 22-June 21) You will learn valuable information LIBRA if you travel this month. You can (Sept. 24 -Oct. 23) prosper if you in vest in property Nothing can be resolved if you or mutual funds. You will take on don’t want to talk about it. Don’t too much if you aren’t careful. get so wrapped up in being rich Stick to basics. Don’t confront the that you overlook the fact that situation if you don’t feel you can your plan may not be as solid as keep your cool. you thought. Travel for business or pleasure will be enlightening. Try Your luckiest events this month to do your job and then leave. will occur on a Friday. Your luckiest events this month CANCER will occur on a Tuesday. (June 22-July 22) Love can be yours if you get out SCORPIO and about. Don’t lend or borrow (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) money or belongings. You may as You will have the discipline to well work on projects that will make changes you feel are necesallow you to make progress. sary. You may find that others do Proceed with caution if operating not do things the way you want; equipment or vehicles. however, if the job gets done, let it pass. Don’t make promises that you Your luckiest events this month can’t possibly keep. You may feel a will occur on a Tuesday. need to make changes to your legal documents. LEO ENIGMA
Your luckiest events this month AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 -Feb. 19) will occur on a Wednesday. You may find yourself interested in more than one person. Problems SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 -Dec. 21) with your partner could be reachProblems with in-laws may cause ing a high level of concern. This friction in your personal relation- could be a serious relationship. ship. Unexpected bills may set you Your lover may be annoyed if you back. You can get a lot done if you have been flirtatious or not attenget your hands on the right equip- tive to their needs. ment. Be an observer before getYour luckiest events this month ting involved. will occur on a Monday. Your luckiest events this month PISCES will occur on a Tuesday. (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) CAPRICORN Lack of cash might be partly to blame for the problems at home. (Dec 22.- Jan. 20) Don’t allow someone to do a job Lovers will be less than accommothat was designated specifically for dating, and decisions regarding you. Keep the promises you’ve personal direction a necessity. made or you can expect to be in Hidden matters are likely to surthe doghouse. Investments may not face. You will have problems with be as lucrative as you thought. You coworkers if you are too extreme will find good buys and you will lift about doing things perfectly. your spirits. Your luckiest events this month Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Saturday. will occur on a Monday.
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All’s Fair in Love, War and Law Practice (At Least on the Defense Side) Recently on a Sunday morning I answered a knock on my front door. I looked out to see a young woman who smiled at me pleasantly. My dogs were barking furiously so I told her to hold on and I went out my kitchen door and then through the garage. I approached her on my sidewalk and she advised me her name and that she was a private investigator working on “The Kaiser Case”. I immediately knew who she was referring to but I still did not comprehend why she was here. I knew she was referring to Marlon Kaiser who had cold-bloodedly murdered Hamilton County Deputy Sheriff Donald Bond in September, 2001. I had been a police officer for the Chattanooga Police Department and on the Special Weapons And Tactics Team at the time of the tragedy. The SWAT team had been called out when it was determined Deputy Bonds’ assassin had been located in a house not far from the murder scene. I was deployed as a sniper and observed the killer carry something to the railing of a back
deck and watched him drop it over of alternate theory about what the deck rail. happened and that as I understood it his defense team was trying to What he had dropped was Deputy file another appeal. I asked the Bonds’ body armor and his duty young lady and her accomplice for pistol. I had testified at the murder identification. They produced
trial. I realized that was why this some. At that point I told her “This person was attempting to interview is Sunday morning and you show Hey, it wasn’t the first time I’ve me but did not understand why. up at my house.” I felt this was very been the target of a defense attorShe explained there was some type
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unprofessional or at least improper. I told them that they should have realized that as a 30 year police officer that I would not discus the case without either the approval of or with someone from the D.A.’s (District Attorney’s) office present. I told them “He should be gone”, referring to the killer. She replied, “He’s on Death Row.” I quickly told her, “He hasn’t been executed”. She looked a little dumbfounded at that point. I then told her they needed to get in their van and get out of my driveway. They quickly complied but it did get me upset. I put a post on Facebook about the incident to warn other people who were involved. I remember the days when people respected Sunday did not disturb people on business matters. I really thought the attempt to interview me was handled unprofessionally and improper ethically.
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ney committing what I considered an unethical act. I was sitting in the “police peanut gallery”, which is over to the side of the courtroom so police officers do not have to sit with defendants and their supporters and family members. I was reading a magazine waiting for my case to be called when an officer came over and advised me that a defense attorney was taking our victim outside the courtroom. This person was an employee of a fast food restaurant that had been robbed with the employee being placed at gunpoint. I had seen that the attorney leaving with the victim but thought nothing of it as this attorney had been working for the District Attorney’s office. He told me this attorney was now doing defense work. I jumped up and practically flew out of the courtroom scanning the outside area for my victim. When I spotted her I told her this attorney was representing the robber and that she did not have to talk to him if she did not want to. She told me she did not wish to and I had her return to the courtroom. This attorney was not happy. I did not care about his feelings. I knew my victim did not know who she was talking to or that she did not have to talk to him. I felt the way he handled this was very improper. When I returned to the courtroom my victim related she only knew that this person was an attorney and she did not know he was representing the defense or that she was not required to talk to him. Alas, just as I thought. This attorney was upset I had interfered. He tried to get me back by referring to some obscure legal decision or precedent where the preliminary hearing was held at the scene of the crime. The judge did not agree and the hearing was held there in the courtroom and his guilty client’s case was bound over to the grand jury. The robber later received prison time. Ah, some days it was really fun to be a detective.
the police. This classified as a robbery so a detective was summoned. The victim said she wanted to prosecute so I procured warrants for the now ex-boyfriend. Ah, never underestimate love. This no good ex-boyfriend contacted my victim from the jail and convinced her to take him back. They had even gotten married. The defense attorney, who seemed to not like me for unknown reasons, was practically drooling as she related this information to me. She inferred she might file a complaint against me as she claimed I had unduly influenced her client’s now wife. I told her we would be proceeding with the hearing. She seemed astonished. I told the D.A. what the situation was but let him in on my ace in the hole. When the case was called the defense attorney told the judge my victim did not want to prosecute that day but that I had intimidated her into prosecuting. The judge didn’t look happy. I told the judge to examine the paperwork and with the affidavit there was an agreement to prosecute signed by the victim declaring she wanted to prosecute of her own free will, without intimidation or words to that effect. I related to the judge that I had read the agreement to the victim and explained it just in case she did not read well or understand the agreement - all in front of a witness. I got to turn and grin at my accusing defense attorney. I was really mad she had attacked my credibility. Now I felt vindicated. The judge was really not happy now. He gave the nonprosecuting “victim” ten days in the workhouse. I always felt the defense attorney should have been given some type of censure but I was happy enough that I had got the best of her. Lesson learned: read all the paperwork on a case. Don’t jump to conclusions and make accusations without doing some checking. Lawyers aren’t supposed to ask questions they don’t already know the answe.
On another day in court I was approached by a defense attorney before the hearing. She told me she was asking for the charges to be dropped against her client as I had coerced the victim into prosecuting. I was not happy. This was a case where a girlfriend had been robbed of her belongings by her no good boyfriend, assaulted then left on the side of Brainerd Road in thin clothes and no shoes. This during cold, rainy weather. A passerby had seen her get dumped on the side of the road and called
Another day in a civil proceeding a former judge tried to claim that I had told an administrative board that his client had a felony conviction. This would have prevented the client from obtaining a beer permit. I had told the board the person had been ”charged” with a felony. Any attorney knows there is a difference between being “charged” with a crime and being convicted. Charges are sometimes dismissed, reduced or the person is acquitted of the charges. This former judge began grandstanding ENIGMA
and inferred to the Board that I had said his client had a felony conviction on his record. This “attorney” claimed the police department had just gotten a “million dollar computer system” and that I should have used that to check the record. Two problems with that: The police department had never gotten any such system and the other is that when my office did background checks they could only do a very limited one as this was not for a criminal investigation. You would think a former judge would know that. Perhaps he did but just wanted to make it appear I had committed some type of impropriety. Why I would do this was never asked. This “attorney” basically accused me of perjury even though this was not a court and I had not been sworn in. Again you would think a former judge would know that. He had some of the Board going along with his malarkey. I was not happy he got these ‘free swings” at me and I really had no recourse. Sorry but when I had to deal with this person after that it was with a really “cold shoulder”. Sometimes I did get a little “payback” with an aggressive or unfair defense attorney. We had an offi-
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cer struck by a vehicle. In our search for the suspect I had seen the defendant driving the vehicle. His being behind the wheel of the vehicle was being disputed by his attorney. I had just testified I had seen the defendant driving the suspect vehicle. The defense attorney very dramatically turned toward the audience in the courtroom and asked” You mean here in front of God and everyone you saw this man driving?” I paused then took a step toward the attorney and in a very theatrical voice I replied, “Here in front of God and everyone ….” As I had stepped forward the attorney had shrunk back as if he thought I was coming after him. The gallery erupted in laughter. I noticed the judge was trying to contain a chuckle. The attorney, now flustered, looked at the judge and asked “your Honor?” The judge replied, “Well, you asked him”. Hey, you win some and you lose some but I always tried to play fair. I didn’t think the defense always did. But, hey that’s my opinion. Thanks, Mark Haskins
An English woman who was expecting to be on her honeymoon is instead enjoying an impromptu American vacation after her former fiance attempted to fake his own suicide to get out of marrying her. “I’m a terrible, awful person,” Tucker Blandford, the 23-year-old former groom to be, admitted to the Daily Mail. Blandford met his former fiancee, Alex Lanchester, also 23, when Lanchester was studying abroad as a film student visiting the University of
Connecticut. The two quickly became close and started dating. When Lenchester’s time in the U.S. ended, Blandford proposed to her. As Lenchester planned for their wedding, Blandford grew increasingly uncomfortable with the longdistance relationship. Unable to face the pressure of committing to Lenchester or breaking up with her, Blandford concocted a plan to fake his own suicide. Pretending to be his father, Blandford called Lenchester and delivered the news that he suffered from depression and had jumped into the path of a moving car. The grim ruse quickly
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unraveled when Lenchester phoned Blandford’s mother to offer her condolences. “He has shattered my trust and I’m not sure I’ll ever be in a relationship again,” Lanchester said. “All I ever did was love him ... I’ve cried until I felt numb but now I’m just really angry. I’ll be spending our would-be wedding day making new memories without him. He’s a liar and a coward.” A pet cafe in China where the owner has dyed dogs to look like pandas is drawing controversy. The Chinese “panda” cafe features dogs
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of the Chow Chow breed, the BBC reported. The dogs’ fur has been dyed black and white to resemble giant panda cubs. Local television footage showed six animals that resemble the endangered species. The cafe’s owner, identified by his surname Huang, has downplayed the issue of dyeing the fur of the animals. “While they look adorable, dyeing the pets this way can easily hurt them,” said one commenter online. “Why did he have to treat the dogs like that?” The panda is a protected species in
traffic violations. Public Safety Chief Bob Ritchie said the safe was about 8 feet tall and about 2 feet deep and was used to hold medications. Ritchie said investigators A Swansboro, N.C. man has been think Mullins was trying to get conarrested and accused of stealing a trolled substances in the safe. safe from a drug store. But this guy is no Danny Ocean. Police said 22- A Texas teen was able to hide out year-old Ryan James Mullins was in a Walmart in Corsicana for more dragging the safe when he was than half-a-week without anyone caught after an early-morning forcing him to roll-back or roll-out. break-in at the store. At 7:30 a.m. The 14-year-old was able to spend a Swansboro police officer pulled four days in the Walmart without out in front of Mullins and saw in being detected after building himhis rear view mirror that there was self two hiding spaces. He put one something swinging behind in the baby aisle and the other Mullins’ vehicle. The police officer hide-out was behind stacks of pulled over to let Mullins pass, paper towels and toilet paper. “You because why wouldn’t you pass a never expect that you’re at police car when you are dragging a Walmart and someone has been safe behind your vehicle, then saw living there for four days. That’s the safe being dragged. The officer crazy,” Walmart customer Myrna immediately pulled Mullins over. Aguilar told CBS 11 News. The boy Mullins is charged with safecrack- was able survive off of food he ing, breaking and entering, larceny stole from the store and guzzle after breaking and entering, pos- juice via a hole he cracked in the session of stolen goods, trafficking back wall of the drink aisle. He of opium or heroin and several even had a makeshift bed and a China. The animals are occasionally gifted to foreign countries as part of China’s diplomatic initiatives.
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fish from the pet department. In order to avoid being noticed when he was in plain sight, the boy would change his clothes periodically. He also wore diapers to avoid using the restroom at the store. Trash eventually led to the boy being discovered, but he was released into the custody of relatives and Walmart does not plan on filing charges.
ilar experience, have a similar response. Be a little nervous and excited and that is probably what happened in this case,” zoo curator Jeff Stafford told 27 News. Hall was cited for harassment of zoo animals, an offense that carries a fine of $686. Things could have been much worse for Hall because giraffes are capable of delivering blows that can kill lions.
A 24-year-old woman who “loves giraffes” was kicked in the face after she entered the giraffe enclosure at the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, Wis. Amanda Hall climbed into the exhibit so she could get up close and personal with a 2-year-old giraffe named Wally. The 12-foot-tall animal first licked Hall and then he booted her in the face. Hall sustained non-life threatening injuries and Wally was not harmed. “Imagine if that animal came into your house, how would you feel about that? You would probably be nervous and excited, so an animal is going to have a sim-
A woman is facing charges after deputies say she broke into an occupied home in Iredell County, N.C. The break-in happened at a home in Union Grove. The homeowner told deputies a woman, identified as 34-year-old Sara Noel Davis, broke into his home and began cursing at him. The homeowner said Davis then walked past him and took a roll of toilet paper from his home. When deputies got to the scene, they found Davis standing in the victim’s driveway. She was arrested and charged with felony breaking and entering and felony larceny after breaking and
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entering. Davis was then taken Howard, 26, an NICU nurse, and before a magistrate and issued a twin sister Tara Drinkard were $7,500 bond. both on the delivery team at Piedmont Athens Regional Medical An Ohio woman claimed that a Center in Athens when Addison dream about “filleting a fish” led to and Emma Williams were born via her slit her husband’s throat while C-section. The hospital said the he slept at their home. Judy Jones delivery marked the first time the was charged with attempted mur- twin nurses had worked in the der and aggravated assault after delivery room together, although she allegedly nearly killed her hus- they have both assisted in multiple band by cutting his throat from births. “I was excited to go to a ear-to-ear. It’s believed that the delivery with my sister but it didn’t husband would have died if Jones’ really cross my mind — we’re twins 16-year-old daughter had not called and they’re twins,” Howard report911 immediately and summoned ed. Parents Brannan and Rebecca emergency help. The couple’s Williams said they were excited daughter reportedly told investiga- their twin girls were ushered into tors that her mother had been the world by twin nurses. “[Tara planning the covert attack for and Tori] have become our about a year. “He’s got stitches friends,” Brannan Williams said. “I from almost (ear to ear) so we just look forward to letting the girls have to wait for it to go through know about this one day, and the court system,” Abdalla said. hopefully they’ll get to meet them and keep carrying this thing on.” A pair of identical twins were given an appropriate welcome into the Paranormal investigators in the UK world when their delivery team discovered something particularly included a pair of identical twin unusual in the Haunted Objects nurses at a Georgia hospital. Tori Museum in South Yorkshire.
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Apparently this museum is in possession of a possessed doll. The doll named Scarlet was donated to the museum a year ago and in that time has been quite chatty. The investigators attempted to record it and were not disappointed. Using special digital recorders during the interview, the museum’s curator, Linzi Sheeran, asked the doll: “Is that your real name?” To which a voice clearly replied: “You’re fucked.” Linzi says Scarlet loves to blurt swear words. When the doll was asked: “Who are you more scared of?” It sounds like Scarlet replies: “Linzi.” The doll also appears to love attention. As the investigators were preparing to leave doors started slamming and their equipment went haywire. “It was like she was throwing a supernatural tantrum.” This is what adoption story nightmares are made of. An Indiana couple accused of abandoning their adopted daughter and moving to Canada has pleaded not guilty to child neglect charges. They say the
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8-year-old girl, who is from Ukraine, tried to kill them, and that is the least bizarre claim they made. Michael and Kristine Barnett claim the 8-year-old daughter they adopted is actually an adult with a rare form of dwarfism. In an interview Michael said the girl, Natalia, tried to hurt him and Kristine and kill them multiple times. He said doctors told them the girl is a “sociopath” and a “con artist.” Michael said Natalia would do things like place clear thumbtacks on the stairs face up so they would step on them. He claimed the girl also tried to poison Kristine by putting Pine-Sol in her coffee mug and then tried to push her into an electric fence. The couple divorced in 2014, four years after adopting the girl. A doctor examined the girl in 2010 and deemed her 8 years old. The couple had the girl’s age changed to 22 before leaving for Canada. The girl, who’s now either 16 or 30 years old, has not responded to media requests for comment.
Give Yourself A Little Grace How different would your life look if you gave yourself half as much Grace as you give others? Have you ever considered the fact that you don’t give yourself enough Grace? We are living in a world that is full of not enough. The consequence of that though, is we stop trying. We shut down. Or worse, we begin to diminish the qualities that make us unique. Simply put, we quit letting our own light shine. Stop. We need all the lights we can get. Otherwise, we will end up living in a dark world. How scary will that be? Numero uno - you need to love yourself enough to fight for what you want. I am not saying go out and be ugly to other humans. What I am saying is, you need to adjust your eyes and focus on your own life and your own goals. Yes, you have made mistakes in the past. Probably terrible mistakes, but who hasn’t? Those moments do not control your future... unless you allow them to. Forgive yourself and move on. Don’t allow yourself to drown in your own self-pity. Grace, people. Why can we give Grace to others, yet when it comes to yourself it is like all of a sudden there is a shortage? Wake up, people, there is no shortage. Here is the reality of your situation... You are one-of-a-kind. You are priceless. Absolutely, unapologetically, unique. No one on this planet can ever be you! Many can mimic, but no one will succeed. Quit worrying about what others think about you. That’s not your problem. I know that is hard, we
all want to be liked. Quit fearing the outcome of every situation. Heck, I can’t count how many hours I have wasted spending energy on problems that never happen. #tonsofhours - Did you
to play out.
some love, kindness, and grace.
The best gift you can give your future self is to work on you. Figure out what it is that you need in order to believe that you are
From our family to your family this Thanksgiving Season, I hope and pray that you have the best Thanksgiving ever! My favorite holiday ever - Family, Friends, Food and Football. No other expectations. It is all about the food. I am grateful for the time we get to hang together and pray that my words bless you! The Bones-Maren Morris
- Michelle
know a study shows that 80 percent of those problems never happen? Can you even imagine the obstacles you could conquer if you quit holding yourself back? Quit allowing fear to control your mind. Nike hit the nail on the head with ‘Just Do It’. Quit doubting your ability to accomplish things. Give yourself a little grace when things don’t work out as you planned. You are worth every ounce of grace you need.
worthy. Learn to love yourself as much as you love others. Start planting some seeds in your heart and mind so that by the time you are ready to change your seeds are ready to bloom. After a long drought, it takes a long time to rehydrate the ground with the right nutrients plants need in order to bloom to their fullest potential. Fill in the cracks with
I have done a lot of personal development over the months and the topic that keeps popping up is, my life starts and ends with me. No one else makes decisions about my life. All I mean by that is, every decision I make is mine to make. If I choose to sit back and watch others work their tails off while I play, that’s on me. If I am too scared to approach someone and talk to them, that’s on me. No one else. My life, my choice. Quit blaming others for outcomes you created or allowed ENIGMA
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Michelle is a mom, wife, pharmacy tech, and an oil enthusiast. In a search for a simpler life, Michelle, along with her husband Curtis, has recently added ‘entrepreneur’ to her resume. Haman’s Homestead was created with the desire to share a simpler approach to all things life has to offer. Follow Michelle’s oil journey in her blog at www.HamansHomestead.com. She can also be reached at hamanshomestead@gmail.com.
Getting A Word in Edgewise with
Jason Mewes It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since Kevin Smith turned Hollywood upside down; first with Clerks and then a series of mostly comic adventures. Two characters that had bit parts in the early moves were two shady characters know as Jay and Silent Bob, portrayed by Jason Mewes and Smith, himself. The two characters are a couple of local pot dealers with Jay an obnoxious over the top persona while Silent Bob lives up to his name and rarely talks communicating through facial gestures hand gestures. Clerks was followed
by Mallrats, Chasing Amy in Smith’s View Askewniverse and in each movie Jay and Silent Bob got a little more screen time acting as comic relief in and of themselves. Jay and Silent Bob were Generation X’s version of Cheech and Chong, a hilarious comic duo totally in sync with each other most of the time. It all culminated with 2001’s Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back that saw Mewes and Smith take center stage in the film and proved to be one of the best buddy road movies reminiscent of the old Bob Hope Bing Crosby adventures
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from the golden age of movies. Fast forward to 2019 with the exception of Clerks II we haven’t heard much from Jay and Silent Bob. The recently released Jay and Silent Bob Reboot sees the dynamic duo at it again as they lampoon pop culture and trends much like the original. To make matter even better, Smith and Mewes have taken to the road themselves traveling to different cities for a showing of the movie and animated discussion with the movie’s two stars. Mewes, the over the top linguist took time from his never-ending road trip to talk all things Jay ad Silent Bob.
DDiidd yyoouu eevveerr tt hhiinnkk w whh eenn yyoouu weerree ddoo iinngg CClleerrkkss yyoouu’’ dd bbee w ddoo iinngg aallll tt hheessee eeaarrllyy m moo rrnniinn gg iinntt eerrvviieew wss?? (laughs) No way. Not after Clerks or Mallrats. I still went back home to Minnesota and did construction and delivered pizza and stuff. Clerks we did, a bunch of us were friends and after Kevin sold it they gave us a little bit of money, but it wasn’t a whole lot. And then Mallrats after taxes and stuff wasn’t that much. And then Chasing Amy I was only one day on there. So, three movies in the span of four years; maybe after taxes I cleared like ten grand or something, so I still had to work and everything. People really didn’t start saying stuff. After Mallrats came out on DVD, it really wasn’t until then that people on the street were like, “Hey, aren’t you in that movie Mallrats?” – and stuff like that. I definitely did not think after Clerks, but even all the way up to Dogma that people started
knowing the characters and It’s just a weird thing to say, talking about the characters in but when the girl cut my hair the movies and all that stuff. really short, she cut my hair really tight around my ears, YYoouu w w eerree jjuusstt aa tteeeenn w whh eenn which made my face look CClleerrkkss w waass ff iillm meedd.. D Diidd yyoo uu weird. And after I figured out tthhiinn kk aatt ssoo m mee pp ooiinn tt tt hhiiss ccoo uulldd what was wrong – because I bbee aa ff uullll--ttiim mee ggiigg ffoo rr yyoouu?? can’t grow sideburns. So when she cut tight and short around Not really. I had done four of my ears I looked really weird. Kevin’s movies and two inde- Now you know, honestly as I’m pendent movies; Vulgar and older now if we weren’t doing Drawing Flies. I was like, this movie – we’re supposed to “Well, I’ve done six movies – be doing Clerks III and that maybe I can do this as a liv- was the first mention of us ing.” It was a while before that playing the characters again a: I’d be doing interviews and which was about two and a b: That I’d be doing this for a half years ago maybe – maybe three. Right around that time living. was when I started thinking II rreeaadd aann eeaarrllyy iinn tteerrvviieew ww wiitthh about cutting my hair. I talked yyoo uu.. OOnn ee ooff tt hhee tthh iinngg ss yyoo uurr to my wife about it, Kevin. But cchh aarraacc tteerr iiss ffaam moo uuss ffoo rr iiss yyoo uurr he’s like, “Please don’t cut it. I lloonn gg hhaaiirr.. YYoo uu w weerree aasskkeedd iiff really want to do another View yyoo uu w woo uulldd eevveerr ccuu tt yyoouu rr hh aaiirr.. Askview movie and I’m going YYoouu aannss w weerreedd tt hhaatt yyoouu w woo uulldd to try and do Clerks. And then iiff tthhee pprriicc ee iiss rriigghh tt aanndd tt hhee rriigghhtt rroollee.. YY oouu’’ vvee ssiinn ccee cc uutt yyoo uurr hhaaiirr.. W Weerree tthheerree aannyy eem moo ttiioo nnaall ttiieess tthh ee ffiirrsstt tt iim mee yyoo uu cc uutt ooffff yyoouurr lloo nngg hhaaiirr?? Yeah. A hundred percent. The first time I cut it off it was right after Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back. I had to cut my hair because I went to rehab, actually. They made you cut your hair. I didn’t have a choice. I was a little concerned since it had been so many years with me having long hair. I was just more worried and concerned about, “Oh my gosh, I don’t know what I’m going to look like with short hair. I was a little concerned about that. It was more so how I was going to look and everything. It’s all weird not having my long hair and I felt that I looked way different – especially the first time I cut it. ENIGMA
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we were in motion to doing Clerks and then Clerks fell through because Jeff Anderson didn’t want to do it. I’m not sure why, but for some reason he didn’t want to do it. Then Mallrats was going to happen. He said, “Still don’t cut your hair because we’re gonna do Jay and Silent Bob and Mallrats. Universal didn’t want us to do Mallrats. And Kevin says, “Why are we fighting? We don’t own the rights to Mallrats and Jeff didn’t want to do Clerks but you and I both want to do a movie and we own the rights to Jay and Silent Bob. Let’s do Jay and Silent Bob. I have a great idea for a story for Jay and Silent Bob Reboot”, which is what he started writing. So yeah, the first time was a little weird, but now I got it short and I like it short. I’m ready to get back
to short hair now. It’s funny, because even my kid doesn’t want me to cut my hair now. She’s four and a half years old. I said, “Logan I’m going to cut my hair.” And she said, “No! I want your hair long.” She likes that her hair and my hair are long. It’s funny I’m now hesitant because she doesn’t want me to cut my hair.
nitely think then back then people when my agent was like, “Does he still have long hair?” And then they put me on these auditions and meetings with directors and stuff. It was always this slapsticky stoner character. And that was all the roles I was getting offered – which is fine, but at the same time there’s not enough movies out there to
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keep me going. I started getting worried in the beginning. I got offered to do a different character; a more serious role in a movie called K-11 and then another movie called The Last Godfather were I played a mobster. It was a comedy but I played a mobster. In the beginning, definitely being sin-
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gled out as a stoner/slapstick character, but the cool thing is over the years people are starting to see me and offer me the opportunities. Not so much now.
n’t debate anything with me. He just wanted to let me do what I was going to do and you could actually see him be a part of that. It was nice. It was cool that he really got into it for me. He just let me do Maaddnneessss IInn tt hhee M M Meetthh oodd w waass what I wanted to do and that yyoo uu rr dd iirreecc ttoo rraall dd eebb uutt .. II was really nice. nnoo ttiicceedd K Keevviinn w waass iinn tthh ee m moovviiee wiitt hh yyoouu.. W w Whhaatt w w aass iitt lliikkee ggeett -- IInn JJaayy aanndd SSiilleenntt BBoo bb SStt rriikk ee ttiinngg ttoo bbooss ss hhiim m aarroo uunn dd ffoo rr aa BB aacc kk yyoo uu gguu yyss hh aadd aann aadd vveerr -ssaa rriiaall rreellaatt iioonn sshh iipp w w iitthh tthh ee iinn tteerrnn eett.. SS iinncc ee tt hhaatt ttiim mee ssoo cciiaall meeddiiaa w m waass bb oorrnn .. H Hoow w ddoo JJaayy aann dd SSiilleenn tt BBoo bb rreeaacctt//iinn tteerraacctt wiitt hh ssoocc iiaall m w meedd iiaa?? When you see the movie it’s super clever. The whole script is throwback to all the other movies - A. B - bringing in social media, emojis and everything that is wrong with Millennials and the whole social media. Kevin utilized everything of this day and age that you can. I don’t want to give away spoilers, but he’s literally thrown in a little of everything – social media, emojis – anything you could think of. He throws a little bit of all that in it.
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with you. This day and age the comic book animated movies that come out – the TV shows that come out – all the CW shows: again don’t get me wrong I know some shows are not as strong as the other ones. 25 years ago when I got into comics, I was a comic book fan and I went to ComicCons and the only people there were straight up comic book nerds, if you will. Now it’s like everyone knows the comic book universe. It’s awesome to see where movies have gone with the technology. You go to Comic-Con now there are people from all walks of life and ages and everything. No lie. When we used to go to Cons it was very typical, “Hey man, have you seen Batman #6?” Now it’s like 25-year-old beautiful men and women. It’s just
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that scene and steals the scene, but then Ben plays Holden and he’s awesome in that scene – Jason Lee and everybody. Kevin is able to take each person and able to use their strengths whether he’s using them as characters from the older movies that people are going to love to see again or somebody new like Chris Hemsworth that talks about Thor and this and that. It’s awesome.
LLee tt m mee aasskk yyoo uu aabb oouu tt BBll uunnttm maann aanndd CChh rroo nniicc .. OOuutt ssiiddee oo ff tt hhoossee ttw woo cchhaarraacc -tteerrss hh aavvee tthh eerree bbeeeenn aann yy cc oom miicc bboo ookk hheerroo m moo vviieess tthhaatt dd iissaapp -ppoo iinn tteedd yyoo uu?? Never. No comic book movies can disappoint to be honest ENIGMA
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awesome, man. For me it’s awesome that they have it and are willing to spend money to try to make Legends of Tomorrow, Flash, Arrow – all that stuff is so amazing to me. Almost every day of the week you can watch a different comic book show. Teen Titans - Batwoman just came out. Watchman. It’s awesome stuff. I guess the answer is a straight no. There can’t be a disappointing comic book hero movie or TV show because for me I just love that they’re taking the time to do such.
- Dave Weinthal Jay and Silent Bob’s Reboot Roadshow makes a stop for two shows Friday, November 15 at Walker Theatre.
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the Lovemakers CC IITTYY W WII NNEERRYY AATT LLAANN TTAA (Atlanta) Edwin McCain TT HHEE BBAASSEEM M EEN NTT EE A ASSTT (Nashville) King’s X TT HHEE BBAASSEEM M EEN NTT (Nashville) Emily Hackett RRYY M MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Zach Williams TT HHEE CCOO W WA AN N (Nashville) Dreamers CC IITT YY W WII N NEERRYY N NA ASSH HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Leo Kottke SSAATT UURRNN (Birmingham) Dan Deacon
MOONNDDAAYY NNoovveem M mbbeerr 44 TT RREEM MO ON NTT TT AAVVEERRNN (Chattanooga) Trivia Night SSKKYY ZZOO OO (Chattanooga) Karaoke SSOO NNGG BBII RRDD SS SSOO UUTT HH (Chattanooga) Blues Open Jam WA W AN ND DEERRLLII N NG GEE RR BBRREEW WIIN NG G CCO OM MPPA AN N YY (Chattanooga) Trivia Night JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBOO HHEEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Lacing, Wolves Asleep, All Your Sisters ZZYY DDEE CCOO (Birmingham) Torche Eye Flys SSM M IITTH H ’’SS O OLLD D EE BBA ARR (Atlanta) Trashcan Sinatras VVAARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY HHOO UUSSEE (Atlanta) Angel Olsen, Vagabon JJAAM M EESS K K .. PPO OLLK K TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Nashville) Frank Turner CC IITT YY W WII N NEERRYY N NA ASSH HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Edwin McCain TT HHEE TTAABBEE RRNNAACC LLEE (Atlanta) King Diamond CC OOCC AA CC OOLLAA RROO XXYY (Atlanta) Kevin Gates VVAARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY HHOO UUSSEE (Atlanta) Angel Olsen, Vagabon MU M U SSIICC RRO OO OM M@ @ SSM MIITT H H’’ SS O O LLD DEE BBA ARR (Atlanta) Trashcan Sinatras RRYY M MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Elvis Costello & The Imposters EEXXIITT // IINN (Nashville) GWAR, Toxic Holocaust, Sacred Reich, Against the Grain CC IITT YY W WII N NEERRYY N NA ASSH HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Edwin McCain MEE RRCCYY LLO M OU UN NG GEE (Nashville) Yoke Lore JJAAM M EESS K K .. PPO OLLK K TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Nashville) Frank Turner D& 33RRD & LLIINNDD SSLLEEYY (Nashville) The Time Jumpers DDRRKKM M TTTT RR (Nashville) Devon Welsh
TT U UEESSDDAA YY NNoovveem mbbeerr 55 TT RREEM MOO NNTT TT AAVVEERRNN (Chattanooga) Open Mic w/ Mike McDade SSKKYY ZZOO OO (Chattanooga) Karaoke JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBOO HHEEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Ona, Mo Lowda CC OOCC AA CC OOLLAA RROO XXYY (Atlanta) Elvis Costello & The Imposters VVAARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY HHOO UUSSEE (Atlanta) Frank Turner AATT LLAANNTT AA RROO OOM M@ @ SSM MII TTH H ’’SS O OLLD D EE BBA ARR (Atlanta) Missy Flapjack, Nathan Nelson, Monty Esworthy BBUUCC KKHHEE AADD TT HH EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Jidenna TT EERRM MII N NA ALL W WEE SSTT (Atlanta) Chelsea Wolfe TT HHEE BBAAKKEERRYY (Atlanta) Devon Welsh 33RRDD && LLIINNDD SSLLEEYY (Nashville) Webb Wilder EEXXIITT // IINN (Nashville) The Devil Wears Prada, Norma Jean, Gideon TT HHEE BBAASSEEM M EEN NTT EE A ASSTT (Nashville) The Mayday Parade CC IITT YY W WII N NEERRYY N NA ASSH HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Jana Kramer, Michael Caussin
TTHH EE CCOO BBRRAA NNAASSHH VVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Jonathan Bree, Bobby Peppermint, Big Other TTHH EE LLYYRRIICC TT HHEE AATT RREE (Birmingham) Leo Kottke
W EEDDNNEESSDDAAYY NNoovveem W mbbeerr 66 SSKKYY ZZOOOO (Chattanooga) Karaoke WA W AN ND D EERRLLIIN N GG BBRREE W WIINNGG CC OOM M PPAA NNYY (Chattanooga) Open Mic TTHH EE CCOO M MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Open Mic JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBOOHH EEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Open Mic Comedy TTII VVOO LLII TT HHEE AATT RREE (Chattanooga) Toby Mac RRYYM MA AN NA AU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Shovels & Rope, Hayes Carll MEE RRCC YY LLO M OU UN NG G EE (Nashville) Chelsea Wolfe, Ioanna Gika MA M ARRA ATT H HO ON NM MU USSIICC W WO O RRK KSS (Nashville) Mini Ladd 33RRDD && LLII NNDDSS LLEEYY (Nashville) Rachel Loy TTHH EE RROO W W (Nashville) Misterwives TTHH EE CC OO W WA AN N (Nashville) Misterwives JJAAM MEE SS K K.. PPO O LLK K TT H HEE A ATT EERR (Nashville) TeNihisi Coates EEXXIITT //II NN (Nashville) Alex Cameron TTHH EE EE NNDD (Nashville) Icon For Hire TTHH EE BBAASS EEM MEE N NTT EEA ASS TT (Nashville) The Japanese House TTEE RRM MIIN NA ALL W WEESS TT (Atlanta) Polo & Pan SSAATT UURRNN (Birmingham) Allison Moorer TTHH EE LL OOFFTT (Atlanta) Lil Tecca TTHH EE EE AARRLL (Atlanta) Southern Culture on The Skids EEDD DDIIEE’’ SS AATT TT IICC (Atlanta) Nora Jane Struthers 552299 (Atlanta) Iron Kingdom SSAATT UURRNN (Birmingham) Allison Moorer
TT H HUU RRSSDDAAYY NNoovveem mbbeerr 77 SSKKYY ZZOOOO (Chattanooga) DJ Zane WA W AN ND D EERRLLIIN N GGEE RR BBRREEW WIINN GG CC OOM M PPAANNYY (Chattanooga) Danimal’s Hanging Brains Halloween Party TTHH EE PPAALL M MSS (Chattanooga) DJ Keith, Jimmy Harris TTHH EE CCOO M MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Killer Beaz SSOONN GGBBIIRRDD SS SSOO UUTT HH (Chattanooga) The Twotakes, Seven Year Witch JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBOOHH EEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Tunnel Vision, Dream Collective SSAATT UURRNN (Birmingham) Southern Culture on the Skids IIRROONN CCII TTYY (Birmingham) The Marcus King Band OOPPEE NN CC HHOO RRDD M MU USSIICC (Knoxville) Karla Bonoff TTEE NNNN EESSSSEE EE TT HH EEAATT RREE (Knoxville) Emmylou Harris TTEE RRM MIIN NA ALL W WEE SSTT ((Atlanta) MisterWives, Foreign Air BBUUCC KKHHEE AADD TT HHEE AATT RREE (Atlanta) Scarypoolparty TTHH EE BBAASS EEM MEE N NTT (Nashville) The Steepwater Band CCAANN NNEE RRYY BBAALLLL RROO OOM M (Nashville) Josh Abbott Band TTHH EE BBAASS EEM MEE N NTT EEA ASS TT (Nashville) Hiss Golden Messenger JJAAM MEE SS K K.. PPO O LLK K TT H HEE A ATT EERR (Nashville) Sasha Velour
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U PPCC OOM U MIINNGG EEVVEENNTT SS WA W AN ND DEE RRLLIIN NG G EERR BBRREE W WIINNGG CC OOM M PPAANNYY (Chattanooga) West King String Band November 8 TTHH EE CC OOM M EED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Killer Beaz November 8 SSOONN GGBBIIRRDDSS NNOO RRTTHH (Chattanooga) Track 145 November 8 SSOONN GGBBIIRRDDSS SSOOUU TTHH (Chattanooga) Stoned Cold Fox, The Afternooners November 8 HHII--FF II CC LLYYDD EE’’ SS (Chattanooga) The Get Right Band November 8 JJ..JJ..’’SS BBOOHH EEM MIIA A (Chattanooga) Side Affect, Magnificent Lions, Safari Room November 8 CCOO CCAA CCOO LLAA RROOXXYY (Atlanta) Judah & The Lion November 8 BBUU CCKKHH EEAADD TT HHEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Joshua Radin, The Weepies November 8 TTHH EE TT AABBEERRNN AACCLLEE (Atlanta) Thievery Corporation November 8 SSYYM M PPH HO ON NYY H HA ALL LL (Atlanta) Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly Dream Tour November 8 TTHH EE LLOO FFTT (Atlanta) Sinead Harnett November 8 CCOO NNCC EERRTT HHAA LLLL AATT BBJJCC CC (Birmingham) KC & the Sunshine Band November 8 IIRROONN CCIITT YY (Birmingham) Mason Ramsey November 8 SSAATTUU RRNN (Birmingham) Mike Doughty November 8 AALLAABBAA M MA A TT H HEE A ATTRREE (Birmingham) The Raconteurs November 8 DDRRUUIIDD CC IITTYY M MU USSIICC H HA ALLLL (Birmingham) Frank Foster November 8 TTEE NNNNEE SSSSEE EE TT HHEE AATTRREE (Knoxville) Ryan Bingham, Jamestown Revival November 8 EEXXIITT //IINN (Nashville) Com Truise November 8 TTHH EE CC OOW WA AN N (Nashville) Charlotte Lawrence November 8 33RRDD && LLIINN DDSSLLEE YY (Nashville) Erin Enderlin November 8 MA M ARRA ATT H HO ON NM MU USSIICC W WO O RRK KSS (Nashville) Simple Plan, We The Kings, State Champs November 8 NNAASSHH VVIILL LLEE M MU UN NII CCIIPPA ALL A AU UD DII TTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Schoolboy Q, Nav November 8 TTHH EE 55 SS PPOOTT (Nashville) Timothy Eerie, Crumbsnatchers, Microwave Mounmtain, Peppermint Boys November 8 WA W AN ND DEE RRLLIIN NG G EERR BBRREE W WIIN NG G CC O OM M PPA AN NYY (Chattanooga) Tyler Martelli, LVNDR, Warner MC Extravaganza November 9 TTHH NNEE CCOO M MEE D DYY CC A ATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Killer Beaz November 9 SSOONN GGBBIIRRDDSS SSOOUU TTHH (Chattanooga) Rubik’s Groove, Neon Queen November 9 HHII--FF II CC LLYYDD EE’’ SS (Chattanooga) Backwater Still November 9 JJ..JJ..’’SS BBOOHH EEM MIIA A (Chattanooga) One Timers, Lewis and Clark, Hanna Juanita and the Hardlines, Horse Thieves November 9 WA W ALLK KEERR TT H H EEA ATT RREE (Chattanooga) Ryan Bingham November 9 SSTTAATT EE FFAARRM MA A RREE N NA A (Atlanta) The Black Keys, Modest Mouse, Shannon and the Clams November 9 TTHH EE TT AABBEERRNN AACCLLEE (Atlanta) Dane Cook November 9 CCOO CCAA CCOO LLAA RROOXXYY (Atlanta) Schoolboy Q November 9 EEDDDD IIEE’’ SS AATT TT IICC (Atlanta) Kris Allen November 9 HHIIGG HH W WA ATT TT (Nashville) Southern Culture on
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the Skids November 9 VVEENN KKM MAANN ’’SS (Atlanta) Blair Crimmins and The Hookers November 9 JJ AAM MEESS K K.. PPO OLLK K TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Nashville) Joshua Radin November 9 CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY N NA ASSH H VVIILL LLEE (Nashville) Heather McDonald November 9 SSAATT UURRNN (Birmingham) Com Truise November 9 SSOO NNGG BBIIRRDDSS SS OOUUTT HH (Chattanooga) Shooter Jennings, Hellhound Glory November 10 TT HHEE CC OOM M EED DYY CC A ATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Chris Killian, Greg Behrens, Mikah Wyman Stuible November 10 PPIILLOO TT LLIIGGHH TT (Knoxville) Southern Culture on the Skids November 10 MA M ARRA ATTH HO ON NM MU U SSIICC W WO ORRK KSS (Nashville) X Ambassadors November 10 RRYY M MA AN NA AU UD D IITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Nick Offerman November 10 CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY N NA ASSH H VVIILL LLEE (Nashville) Craig Morgan November 10 TT HHEE BBAASSEEM M EEN N TT EEA ASSTT (Nashville) Rising Appalachia November 10 TT HHEE TT AABBEERRNNAACC LLEE (Atlanta) King Princess November 10 HH EELLLL AATT TTHH EE M MA ASSQ QU U EERRA AD DEE (Atlanta) This Will Destroy You November 10 SSOO NNGG BBIIRRDDSS SS OOUUTT HH (Chattanooga) AJ Ghent, Rick Rushing November 11 RRYY M MA AN NA AU UD D IITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Ryan Bingham, Jamestown Revival November 11 MA M ARRA ATTH HO ON NM MU U SSIICC W WO ORRK KSS (Nashville) Kim Petras November 11 CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY N NA ASSH H VVIILL LLEE (Nashville) Kandace Springs, Francies James Carter Oran Trio November 11 TT EERRM M IIN NA ALL W W EESSTT (Atlanta) TR/ST November 11 SSOO NNGG BBIIRRDDSS SS OOUUTT HH (Chattanooga) Jimmy Herring and The 5 of 7 November 12 JJ ..JJ ..’’SS BBOO HHEE M MIIA A (Chattanooga) Ringo Deathstar, Blushing, GMO. Sharia Law, Lacing November 12
VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) Peter Hook & The Light November 12 BBU UCC K KH HEE AAD D TT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) The New Pornographers November 12 CC EEN NTT EE RR SSTT AAG GEE (Atlanta) The Band Perry, Phangs November 12 CC O OBBBB EE N NEERRG G YY PPEERRFFO O RRM MIIN NG G AARRTT SS CC EEN N TT EERR (Atlanta) The Doobie Brothers November 12 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Kim Petras November 12 IIN N FFIIN NII TTEE EEN N EERRG GYY CC EEN N TT EERR (Duluth, GA) AJR November 12 TT H HEE LLYY RRIICC TT H H EEAATT RREE (Birmingham) Gregory Alan Isakov November 12 CC A AN NN N EERRYY BBAALLLLRRO OO OM M (Nashville) Static-X, DevilDriver, Wednesday 13, Dope November 12 TT H HEE CCO OW WAAN N (Nashville) Filter, Silver Snakes November 12 TT H HEE BBAASSEEM M EEN NTT EE AASSTT (Nashville) Allah-Las November 12 SSO ON NG G BBII RRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Gaelic Storm November 13 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DTT O O RRII U UM M (Nashville) Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin November 13 CC IITT YY W WII N NEERRYY N N AASSH HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Mindy Smith November 13 TT H HEE BBAASSEEM M EEN NTT EE AASSTT (Nashville) Jimmy Herring November 13 EED DD DIIEE ’’SS AATTTT IICC (Atlanta) Robyn Hitchcock November 13 VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) Dinosaur Jr. November 13 BBU UCC K KH HEE AAD D TT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Tiffany Young November 13 TT H HEE M MAASSQ QU UEE RRAAD D EE (Atlanta) Cursive, The Appleseed Cast, Cloud Nothings November 13 EED DD DIIEE ’’SS AATTTT IICC (Atlanta) Robyn Hitchcock November 13 IIRRO ON N CC IITT YY (Birmingham) Big K.R.I.T. November 13 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Josh Phillips November 14 SSO ON NG G BBII RRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) King Harris November 14 WAALLK W KEE RR TT H HEEAATT RREE (Chattanooga) Corey Smith November 14 TT EEN NN NEESS SSEEEE TTH H EEAATT RREE (Knoxville) Randy Houser, Paul Cauthen November 14 O PPEE N O N CC H HO ORRD DM MU USSII CC (Knoxville) Jimbo Mathus’ Incinerator November 14 SSTT A ATT EE FFAARRM M AARREEN N AA (Atlanta) Hillsong Worship, Casting Crowns, Elevation Worship November 14 SSM M IITTH H ’’SS O OLLD D EE BBAARR (Atlanta) John 5, Reverend Jack, Jared James Nichols November 14 VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) Sister Hazel November 14 TT H HEE M MAASSQ QU UEE RRAAD D EE (Atlanta) Bumpin Uglies, Little Stranger November 14 ALLAABBAAM A MAA TTH H EEAATT RREE (Birmingham) Kip Moore November 14 SSCC H HEE RRM MEERRH HO ORRM M SSYY M MPPH HO ON N YY CC EEN N TT EERR (Nashville) India.Aire November 14 EEXXIITT // IIN N (Nashville) Tiny Moving Parts November 14 CC A AN NN N EERRYY BBAALLLLRRO OO OM M (Nashville) The Band Perry, Phangs November 14 FFRRA AN NK KLLIIN N TTH H EEAATT RREE (Franklin, TN) JD Souther November 14 SSO ON NG G BBII RRD D SS N NO ORRTT H H (Chattanooga) Matt Mayes & John Meyer November 15 SSO ON NG G BBII RRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) The
Weeks, The Minks, Lenox Hills November 15 WA W AN ND D EERRLLIIN NG GEE RR BBRREEW WIIN NG G CC O OM M PPAAN NYY (Chattanooga) Jack N Stripes November 15 TTH H EE CCO OM MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Josh Phillips November 15 HII-- FFII CC LLYY D H DEE ’’SS (Chattanooga) The Stolen Faces November 15 WA W ALLK KEE RR TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Chattanooga) “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot Roadshow” November 15 TTII VVO O LLII TT H HEE A ATT RREE (Chattanooga) Goo Goo Dolls, Beach Slang November 15 TTEE N NN N EESSSSEE EE TT H H EEA ATT RREE (Knoxville) Toby Mac November 15 BBIIJJO OU U TT H HEE A ATTRREE (Knoxville) Kip Moore, Devin Dawson November 15 HA H ARRRRA AH H ’’SS CCH H EERRO OK KEEEE CCA ASS IIN NO O (Cherokee, NC) REO Speedwagon, Levon November 15 CCA AN NN NEE RRYY BBA ALLLL RRO OO OM M (Nashville) Dinosaur Jr. November 15 MA M ARRA ATT H HO ON NM MU USSIICC W WO O RRK KSS (Nashville) Matt and Kim November 15 NA N ASSH H VVIILLLLEE M MU UN N IICC IIPPA ALL A AU UD D IITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Scarface, 8Ball & MJG, Mystikal, E-40, DJ Quik, Bun B November 15 SSCC H HEERRM M EERRH HO ORRM M SSYY M MPPH HO ON NYY CC EEN N TTEE RR (Nashville) India.Aire November 15 D && LLII N 33RRD ND DSS LLEEYY (Nashville) Jimmy Hall, Jack Pearson November 15 TTH H EE TTA ABBEERRN NA ACCLL EE (Atlanta) Gryfinn November 15 MEE RRCC EE D M DEESS BBEEN NZZ SSTT A AD DIIU UM M (Atlanta) Keith Urban, Blake Shelton, Cale Dodds, Sugarland, Sam Hunt, Judah & the Lion November 15 CCII TTYY W WIIN N EERRYY A ATT LLA AN NTT A A (Atlanta) Corey Smith November 15 IIN NFF IIN NIITT EE EEN NEE RRG GYY CC EEN N TTEE RR (Duluth, GA) SuperM November 15 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS N NO O RRTTH H (Chattanooga) Scott Miller November 16 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Back N Black November 16 WA W AN ND D EERRLLIIN NG GEE RR BBRREEW WIIN NG G CC O OM M PPAAN NYY (Chattanooga) Waymores, Flat Top Boxers November 16 TTH H EE CCO OM MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Josh Phillips November 16 HII-- FFII CC LLYY D H DEE ’’SS (Chattanooga) The Bitteroots November 16 MEE M M MO ORRIIA ALL A AU UD D IITTO O RRIIU UM M (Chattanooga) Jeff Dunham November 16 TTII VVO O LLII TT H HEE A ATT RREE (Chattanooga) Toby Mac November 16 TTH H EE CC A AVVEERRN N SS (Pelham, TN) Dailey & Vincent November 16 BBU UCC K KH HEE A AD D TT H HEE A ATT RREE (Atlanta) Mary Chapin Carpenter & Shawn Colvin November 16 VVA ARRII EETT YY PPLL A AYYH HO OU U SSEE (Atlanta) Matt and Kim November 16 CCII TTYY W WIIN N EERRYY A ATT LLA AN NTT A A (Atlanta) Jon Hiatt November 16 CCEE N NTT EERR SS TTA AG G EE (Atlanta) “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot Roadshow” November 16 MIILLLL TTO M OW WN NM MU USSII CC H HA ALLLL (Bremen, GA) Tanya Tucker November 16 SSCC H HEERRM M EERRH HO ORRN N SSYY M MPPH HO ON NYY CC EEN N TTEE RR (Nashville) Johnny Mathis November 16 TTH H EE CC O OW WA AN N (Nashville) Vintage Trouble November 16 TTEE N NN N EESSSSEE EE TT H H EEA ATT RREE (Knoxville) Goo Goo Dolls, Beach Slang November 16 NEE YYLLA N AN ND D SS TTA AD D IIU UM M (Knoxville) Garth Brooks November 16 TTH H EE CCO OM MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Josh Phillips November 17
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TTH H EE M M IILLLL && M M IIN NEE (Knoxville) Blue October November 17 BBRRIID DG GEE SSTT O ON NEE AARREEN N AA (Nashville) Hillsong Worship, Casting Crowns, Elevation Worship November 17 TTH H EE BBAASSEE M MEE N NTT EEAASSTT (Nashville) John 5, Reverend Jack, Jared James Nichols November 17 TTH H EE CC O OW WAAN N (Nashville) Sum 41 November 17 CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY N NAASSH H VVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Corey Smith November 17 JJEEM M IISSO ON N CC O ON N CCEE RRTT H H AALLLL (Birmingham) Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin November 17 VVA ARRIIEE TTYY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USS EE (Atlanta) William Elliott Whitmore November 17 CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY AATTLL AAN NTT AA (Atlanta) Sawyer Fredericks November 17 CCO O CCAA CCO O LLAA RRO OXXYY (Atlanta) Judah & the Lion November 18 BBU U CCK KH H EEAAD D TT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Beirut November 18 RRYY M MAA N N AAU UD D IITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Doobie Brothers November 18 CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY N NAASSH H VVIILLLLEE (Nashville) The Flatlanders November 18 VVA ARRIIEE TTYY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USS EE (Atlanta) The Pineapple Thief November 19 TTH H EE TT AABBEERRN N AACCLLEE (Atlanta) Conan Gray November 19 SSTTA ATT EE FFAARRM M AARREE N NAA (Atlanta) Ariana Grande November 19 EED DD D IIEE’’ SS AATT TT IICC (Atlanta) Baylee Littrell November 19 TTEE RRM MIIN NAALL W WEESSTT (Atlanta) Skizzy Mars November 19 IIN NFFIIN N IITT EE EE N NEE RRG G YY AARREEN N AA (Duluth, GA) Jonas Brothers November 19 NAASSH N H VVIILL LLEE M MU UN NII CCIIPPAALL AAU UD DII TTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Lana Del Ray November 19 TTH H EE CC O OM M EED D YY CCAATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Open Mic Night November 20 CCO ON NCC EERRTT H HAA LLLL AATT BBJJCC CC (Birmingham) Joe Bonamassa November 20 RRYY M MAA N N AAU UD D IITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Slyvan Esso, Flock of Dimes November 20 CCA AN NN NEERRYY BBAALLLLRRO OO OM M (Nashville) Willow Smith Jaden Smith November 20 TTH H EE BBAASSEE M MEEN N TT (Nashville) Josiah Johnson November 20 RRYY M MAA N N AAU UD D IITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Sylvan Esso, Flock of Dimes November 20 CCO O CCAA CCO O LLAA RRO OXXYY (Atlanta) Brockhampton, Slowthai November 20 TTH H EE CC O OM M EED D YY CCAATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Landry November 21 WAALLK W KEERR TT H H EEAATT RREE (Chattanooga) Kathleen Madigan November 21 FFO OXX TT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) The Avett Brothers November 21 IIN NFFIIN N IITT EE EE N NEE RRG GYY CC EEN NTT EERR (Duluth, GA) A Day to Remember November 21 BBIIJJ O OU U TTH H EEAATT RREE (Knoxville) Sam Quinn November 21 SSA ATTU U RRN N (Birmingham) Caspa November 21 CCA AN NN NEERRYY BBAALLLLRRO OO OM M (Nashville) Casey Donahew Band November 21 MEERRCC YY LLO M OU UN NG G EE (Nashville) Augustana November 21 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD DSS SSO OU U TTH H (Chattanooga) Confederate Railroad November 22 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD DSS N NO O RRTT H H (Chattanooga) Monday Night Social November 22 WAAN W ND DEE RRLLIIN NG G EERR BBRREE W WIIN NG G CC O OM M PPAAN NYY (Chattanooga) Sistren November 22 TTH H EE CC O OM M EED D YY CCAATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Landry
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November 22 H II--FFII CCLL YYD H D EE’’ SS (Chattanooga) Rock Daddy November 22 TT IIVVO OLLII TTH H EEAATT RREE (Chattanooga) Kenny G November 22 IIN N FFIIN N IITTEE EEN N EERRG G YY CCEE N NTT EERR (Duluth, GA) Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, Ashley McBryde, Maren Morris November 22 FF O OXX TT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) The Avett Brothers November 22 BBU UCC K KH H EEAAD D TTH H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) As I Lay Dying, Emmure, After the Burial November 22 TT H HEE TT AABBEERRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Willow Smith, Jaden Smith November 22 M AAD M DLLIIFF EE SSTT AAG G EE && SS TTU UD DIIO O (Woodstock, GA) Molly Hatchet November 22 N AASSH N HVVIILLLLEE M MU UN NIICC IIPPAALL A AU UD DIITT O O RRII U UM M (Nashville) A Day To Remember November 22 TT H HEE BBAASSEEM M EEN N TT EEAASSTT (Nashville) Ben Kweller November 22 CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY N N AASSH H VVIILL LLEE (Nashville) John Hiatt, Colin Elmore November 22 H AARRRRAAH H H’’ SS CC H HEE RRO OK KEE EE CC A ASSIIN NO O (Cherokee, NC) Chevelle, Convey November 22 TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Landry November 23 SSO ON NG G BBIIRRD DSS N NO ORRTT H H (Chattanooga) Erick Baker, Olivia DaPonte November 23 SSO ON NG G BBIIRRD DSS SS O OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Journey to the Heart November 23 WAAN W ND DEE RRLLIIN NG G EERR BBRREEW W IIN NG G CCO OM MPPA AN N YY (Chattanooga) The Foothiills November 23 TT H HEE SSIIG GN NAALL (Chattanooga) Abbey Road Live November 23 H II--FFII CCLL YYD H D EE’’ SS (Chattanooga) Sullivan Band November 23 JJ ..JJ ..’’SS BBO OH HEE M MIIAA (Chattanooga) Ashley & the X’s, Wasted Riffs, ET November 23 M CCK M KEE N NZZ IIEE AARREE N NAA (Chattanooga) Five Finger Death Punch, Three Days Grace, Bad Wolves, Fire From The Gods November 23 WAALLK W K EERR TT H HEE AATTRREE (Chattanooga) Heather McMahan November 23 TT H HEE CC AAVVEE RRN NSS (Pelham, TN) Del McCoury Band, The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys November 23 TT H HEE BBAASSEEM M EEN N TT EEAASSTT (Nashville) Liza Anne November 23 CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY N N AASSH H VVIILL LLEE (Nashville) Musiq Soulchild November 23 IIRRO ON N CC IITT YY (Birmingham) Sister Hazel November 23 ALLAABBAAM A M AA TT H HEEAATT RREE (Birmingham) Bobby Bones & the Raging Idiots November 23 SSA ATT U URRN N (Birmingham) White Denim November 23 FF O OXX TT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Travis Tritt, The Charlie Daniels Band November 23 TT H HEE TT AABBEERRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Highly Suspect November 23 TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Dave Miller, Matt Harris, Swayyvo November 24 FF O OXX TT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Manheim Steamroller November 24 CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY N N AASSH H VVIILL LLEE (Nashville) The McCrary Sisters, Amy Black, Nicki Bluhm November 24 TT H HEE BBAASSEEM M EEN N TT EEAASSTT (Nashville) Sasha Sloan November 25 FF O OXX TT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Sara Bareilles November 26 SSA ATT U URRN N (Birmingham) New Found Glory, Hawthorne Heights, Free Throw, Jetty Bones November 26 WIILL D W DH HO O RRSSEE SSAALLO OO ON N (Nashville) Tracy
Lawrence, Halfway to Hazard, Rhett Akins, Clay Walker, Justin Moore November 26 HII --FFII CCLLYY D H DEE ’’SS (Chattanooga) Lenox Hills November 27 CC O OCC AA CC O OLLAA RRO O XXYY (Atlanta) Gesaffelstein November 27 SSYY M MPPH HO ON N YY H H AALLLL (Atlanta) Bela Fleck & the Flecktones November 27 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Incubus, LeButcherettes November 27 CC IITT YY W WII N NEERRYY N N AASSH HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Jimbo Mathus’ Incinerator November 27 SSO ON NG G BBII RRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Departure November 29 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Janet Smith November 29 HII --FFII CCLLYY D H DEE ’’SS (Chattanooga) Convertibull November 29 CC O OCC AA CC O OLLAA RRO O XXYY (Atlanta) Collective Soul November 29 AIISSLLEE 55 (Atlanta) Kursa November 29 A BBU UCC K KH HEE AAD D TT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Xavier Omär November 29 SSTT A ATT EE FFAARRM M AARREEN N AA (Atlanta) Jeffery Osborne, Stephanie Mills, Montell Jordan, The Whispers, Ralph Tresvant, Freddie Jackson, Donnell Jones November 29 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Blackberry Smoke November 29 D && LLIIN 33RRD ND D SSLLEEYY (Nashville) Radney Foster November 29 TT H HO OM MPPSSO ON N--BBO O LLIIN NG G AARREEN N AA (Knoxville) Five Finger Death Punch, Three Days Grace, Bad Wolves, Fire From The Gods November 29 SSO ON NG G BBII RRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Main Squeeze November 30 WAAN W ND DEERRLLII N NG GEE RR BBRREEW WIIN NG G CCO OM MPPAAN N YY (Chattanooga) Gino Fanelli & the Jalopy Brothers TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Janet Smith November 30 TT H HEE SSIIG GN N AALL (Chattanooga) YFN Lucci, Tangeray Major November 30 HII --FFII CCLLYY D H DEE ’’SS (Chattanooga) The Lix November 30 TT H HEE CCAAVVEE RRN N SS (Pelham, TN) The Annie Moses Band November 30 VVA ARRIIEETT YY PPLLAAYY H HO OU USSEE (Atlanta) Shawn Mullins November 30 BBU UCC K KH HEE AAD D TT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Mother’s Finest November 30 CC O OBBBB EE N NEERRG G YY PPEERRFFO O RRM MIIN NG G AARRTT SS CC EEN N TT EERR (Atlanta) Will Downing November 30 TT EERRM MII N NAALL W WEE SSTT (Atlanta) American Aquarium November 30 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Blackberry Smoke November 30 NAASS H N HVVIILLLLEE M MU UN NIICC IIPPAALL AAU UD DIITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Lizzo, Chelsea Cutler, Lovelytheband, Jon Bellion, Louis Tomlinson November 30 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Janet Smith December 1 TT H HEE SSIIG GN N AALL (Chattanooga) Jackyl December 1 CC O OCC AA CC O OLLAA RRO O XXYY (Atlanta) DaBaby, Stunna 4 Vegas December 1 SSCC H HEE RRM MEERRH HO ORRN N SSYY M MPPH HO ON N YY CC EE N NTT EERR (Nashville) The Drifters, The Coasters, The Platters December 1 D && LLIIN 33RRD ND D SSLLEEYY (Nashville) Keb’ Mo’ December 1 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Brian Setzer Orchestra December 2 CC O OCC AA CC O OLLAA RRO O XXYY (Atlanta) Of Monsters And
Men December 2 VVA ARRII EETT YY PPLL A AYYH HO OU U SSEE (Atlanta) Pete Yorn December 2 TTII VVO O LLII TT H HEE A ATT RREE (Chattanooga) Chris Tomlin December 3 CCO O BBBB EEN N EERRG G YY PPEE RRFFO O RRM M IIN NG GA ARRTT SS CC EEN N TTEE RR (Atlanta) Brian Setzer Orchestra December 3 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS N NO O RRTTH H (Chattanooga) Jeff Coffin, Keith Carlock, Nir Felder, Felix Pastorius December 4 CCO O BBBB EEN N EERRG G YY PPEE RRFFO O RRM M IIN NG GA ARRTT SS CC EEN N TTEE RR (Atlanta) Julie Andrews December 4 TTEE RRM MIIN NA ALL W WEESS TT (Atlanta) RiFF RAFF December 4 BBRRIID DG G EESSTT O ON N EE A ARREE N NA A (Nashville) TransSiberian Orchestra December 4 TTH H EE CCO OM MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Dave Scott December 5 WA W ALLK KEE RR TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Chattanooga) Regina Carter December 5 BBRRIID DG G EESSTT O ON N EE A ARREE N NA A (Nashville) Ariana Grande December 5 TTH H EE EE N ND D (Nashville) Agnostic Front, Slapshot December 5 BBIIJJO OU U TT H HEE A ATTRREE (Knoxville) The Marcus King Band, Aaron Lee Tasjan December 5 SSA ATT U URRN N (Birmingham) Bayside, Capstan December 5 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS SSO OU UTT H H (Chattanooga) Electric Avenue December 6 SSO ON NG GBBIIRRD D SS N NO O RRTTH H (Chattanooga) Albert Cummings Band December 6 WA W AN ND D EERRLLIIN NG GEE RR BBRREEW WIIN NG G CC O OM M PPAAN NYY (Chattanooga) Maradean, The Afternooners December 6 TTH H EE CCO OM MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Dave Scott December 6 WA W ALLK KEE RR TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Chattanooga) Colter Wall December 6 TTH H EE TTA ABBEERRN NA ACCLL EE (Atlanta) Madeon December 6 PPU URRG GA ATT O O RRYY A ATT TT H H EE M MA ASSQ QU U EERRA AD DEE (Atlanta) Agnostic Front, Slapshot December 6 BBU UCC K KH HEE A AD D TT H HEE A ATT RREE (Atlanta) Riley Green, Travis Denning December 6 CCO O CC A A CCO O LLA A RRO O XXYY (Atlanta) Playboi Carti December 6 EED DD DIIEE’’ SS A ATT TT IICC (Atlanta) Grant-Lee Phillips December 6 NTTEERR (Duluth, GA) IIN NFF IIN NIITT EE EEN NEE RRG GYY CC EEN
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Get Off My Lawn tice?
Did anyone know the UT marching band was here in October? They used to play at the park at Market Street and MLK - that was before it became a cow pasture. They were here and played at AT&T Stadium did anyone know? We have many, many fine eating establishments downtown. They pay rent, electric bills, sales taxes, etc. Recently the city had an event at the cow pasture (Market &MLK) where they allowed mobile food trucks to sell their wares (lunch). Tell me, is that fair to the places that are paying all of the above expenses? Taking the food out of their mouths (pun)?
driving in traffic. How about writ- most of the time it’s just cheaper or ing them some tickets? easier. Resist!
Want to say thumbs up t the Defoor brothers for the first-class event Please - no more UTC football (car show) they had for charity. games on Thursday nights. Probably one of the stupidest deciWhy did they change the red lights sions the athletics department or downtown? We all know to walk whoever made ever - the pavilion on green and stop on red - always 90 percent empty, crowd very low. been that way - now it’s stick fig- Stupid. ures and hands - people are paying no attention and walk in front of Since I turned 80 years old I’m seecars. ing – or understanding – how screwed up a lot of things are Bike lanes - everywhere you look, becoming. If you believe - resist no bikes in them. Bike riders still change, Change isn’t always better,
Well, the hoodlums have managed to help close another nightclub/bar. When is this lawlessness going to stop? Why doesn’t the school board and superintendent really address lawlessness in the schools? In some schools teachers are having a problem teaching because of the thugs. Have you heard that some teachers are attacked and then the school system keeps it quiet? There should be a time limit on the time construction companies can close or block streets. There is one job in front of Hotel Patten that has been going on forever. Where do they take all the political polls? They all seem to be antiTrump. I know a lot of people and I only know four who are antiTrump. Where are all these anti people (except California the po-po state or New York. When is Hillary going to face jusENIGMA
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Can’t understand why a musician would want to be in a tribute band - you’ll never make it playing other people’s music all the time. Be an artist not a hack - take a chance and express your talent, or continue to play for a paycheck and never do anything else. Remember when I told you that Riverbend was set up to be taken over by a new group? Given what happened - this is a good move. Old
group was stale and going through huge. the motions. Why are businesses held responsiBring back the Strut. ble for things that go on outside in public - that seems to be the police What happened to the Epstein department’s job. Where were they investigation? I guess the rich and if the outside of a place is known famous will get away with this for having problems? The business scandal. can’t manage the outside. I want to know what representatives in Washington had sexual allegations dropped or swept under the carpet with payoffs with our tax dollars. I don’t care if the are Republicans or Democrats.
Where do people go dancing or listening to music? Al the clubs are being shut down. Remember Billy Hull’s Lions Den, Paul Gray’s Playlate Club, Michael’s, Tiki Hut? No murders, no huge fights, just good fun.
Would you want one of your loved ones killed in Syria? It’s not our Throw gang members families out business. of public housing. USA should always and I mean Put ROTC back in public schools on always be in our minds and hearts. a larger scale.
act like you are surprised you did People who want to make this a socialist country don’t have a clue what you were supposed to do. what that really means - it’s never Get the women sports interviewers worked and never will. off the field at halftime - what a joke. That’s a man’s job—you heard Put the National Guard on the me right—get the women off the southside of Chicago—it’s a war field, that’s a man’s job. Sometimes zone. we carry equality too far. I’m glad we don’t have any young 2Why are the networks lying about men in Syria this week - not our President Trump—yes they are war or our business, don’t let it lying. See one report that Trump come another Vietnam, what did has 52 percent plus positive rating, that prove? the next day another network says Why do we need eight cylinder gas Trump has negative rating. guzzler cars?” Four cylinders can The chicken plant isn’t going any- get you there just as fast in today’s where, so take a deep breath traffic. before you rent or buy. You could make a million dollars if Does anyone care what Robert De you could figure out were the missNiro thinks? He needs to band with ing socks go when you wash them. Jane Fonda (Hanoi Jane). Until Next Time, Paul Burke Sr. Television programs still suck.
Parking Nazis need to be disband- Football players need to quit acting ed - that’s a city government job. like idols when they make a good play. Running around waving their More and more apartments and arms, etc., makes them look like You have to give UT credit, at least condos being built. When the bot- jerks. That’s what you’re trained to they showed up. tom falls out, the backlash will be do, execute the play properly. You
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Jazz genre’s “It Girl”, Robin Grant returns with a new release that sees her stepping into a slightly different territory than before. The “Good Girl” chanteuse changes things up a bit with her new release, Off Label, yet doesn’t stray too far from her wheelhouse.
Strong, soaring vocals and music accompaniment are reminiscent of a bygone era, full of sass, talent and painting a cinemascape in one’s mind that evokes some of the greatest vocalists of the last century.
there is an aggression in the new songs that give her a more of an edge without alienating her loyal fan base and in turn invites more people to come along for the melodic ride.
the release of Off Label with a performance on Sunday, November 17 at Songbirds Guitar Museum’s North Stage.
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Squeeze Open their Songbook The ‘80s were a great time to grow up even without internet and cell phones. One of the greatest things about times besides economic prosperity was new music. What has become nicknamed as “corporate” rock where everything seemed on a certain style, schedule and whatnot, had given way to punk, post-punk and new wave. My generation literally witnessed the second “British Invasion”. Most of us were too young or not quite born yet to remember The Beatles, Rolling Stones The Kinks and The Who, even though they were or are on our current playlist, we took to bands like Durand Duran, ABC, Def Leppard, Eurythmics, The Fixx, Madness, Modern English – you name it. We enjoyed a new British invasion. Instead of Ed Sullivan to introduce us to the new wave (the
music style as well) we had this thing called Music Television or MTV. I know I’ve harped on about MTV in the past but the original
bands we heard of others were one hit wonders like Romeo Void and The Members (“Working Girl”). Many of the bands that were hits
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network showed music videos on MTV had their only exposure to around the clock. To fill time they American audiences thanks to MTV. had to use a lot of material. Some Some like myself would whet our appetite for new music on MTV and often head to the mall to the Record Bar or venture out a bit and hit either Cat’s or Paradise Records (the latter was beside the Ankars in Brainerd and eventually replaced by Cat’s before it moved across from Eastgate Mall). Local record store chains around here were really cool back in the day. They often employed various musicians – someone the rise, others burned out or too cool for their own good. Often the staff would choose what albums we heard in the store while we shopped. Unless corporate gave an order to play something really mainstream to boost and encourages sales like Michel Jackson or Styx, it was left to the staff. They would go out of their way to play bands and albums I had not heard of at the time like Devo, B2-5s, The Alarm – you name it. More often than not most of these albums weren’t found in the regular section. Instead you had to go to the “import section”. There, my best friend Chuck and I would go through the stacks of vinyl (usually) and it opened up a new world to us, not to mention looking at all the unique album cover art. The albums often came enclosed in ENIGMA
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heavy plastic outer wrap and there would be an orange or other brightly colors sticker that read “Import”. Sometimes we recognized artists but some of the singles or albums were ones we had never heard before. One of those bands I discovered through the import section and then MTV was Squeeze. I remember seeing the video for “Black Coffee in Bed” and being struck by the melody and with a song structure and harmonies that reminded me of The Beatles. Add to that singer Glenn Tilbrook looked like a young John Lennon. I was quickly enamored. I think KZ106 had played “Tempted” a year earlier, but that’s about where my research ended on the band. “Black Coffee” never really took off locally and local radio was flooded with band like Def Leppard, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Thompson Twins for example with the latter two mentioned one hit wonders to most except me. This began my musical snobbery. As college went along one of my cooler fraternity brothers who like obscure bands and turned me on to a bunch had a cassette of Singles - 45s and Under, a compilation of Squeeze’s early work that was successful only marginal at best. By the time MTV introduced me to Squeeze the band was going through their first breakup – one of three or four to date. Being from around here Squeeze came nowhere near here to my knowledge and being a poor college kid I couldn’t afford the road trip or even a dependable vehicle to make the venture – let alone find someone willing to go. The Babylon and On was released and I got excited briefly as two songs charted and more than one fraternity brother had the cassette and/or CD. Still no dependable transportation and the follow up Frank did not keep the band’s momentum going in the states. Putting out a new album every couple of years with no radio promotion despite positive reviews. The
band went of hiatus again in 1998 and would be over 12 years before Tilbrook and his songwriting partner and bandmate Chris Difford would pick up the Squeeze moniker again. During the hiatus Tilbrook and Difford had marginally successful solo releases and I got to see Glenn in concert many times. Like many in the audience I patiently waited, listening to his new material and eventually the material by his new band, The Fluffers, but I quietly hoped and prayed he would humor me and do a Squeeze song. He always did and that made the wait worthwhile, not that his solo material wasn’t good, I wanted to hear Squeeze live and this was the closest I figured I would ever get. And then things changed suddenly earlier this year.
Tilbrook and Difford were often called their generation’s Lennon and McCartney. Before I read any press on them that was my impression listening to their songs except without the proper fanfare. In actuality I actually like their songs better than most of The Beatles. There is more of an emotional connect because they are of my era and quite frankly heads and shoulders above other ‘80s bands that have sold a ton more records plus Squeeze as a band had much better chemistry between the two with no known personal issues between band members. Plus they fit perfectly inside my wheelhouse of a band with great music that everyone that hears them loves but rarely if ever chart. One day I’ll ©Dave Weinthal make a list of my favorite bands so see Money but I foolishly passed. you can shake your head at, and He was supposed to play the these guys are in the top five. “Round House”, now McKenzie Arena back in the days back when There was a great buzz going “Shakin’” was all over the radio and through the crowd. Everyone was maybe, “Take Me Out Tonight” but smiling and no one minded the full for some reason the show was can- house. Then the lights went down celled. That was happening a lot and Squeeze took the stage comback in the day at the arena. Of plete with two percussionists and course now we’re lucky if one one keyboard player and another show a year comes to McKenzie. who split time between keyboards But I digress. Not only did I get to and guitar. The band started the see Squeeze at a sold out at The night with “Footprints” off of Tabernacle, the show was the last Babylon On and On followed by one of the North American tour. “Big Beng” off 1985’s Cosi Fan Tutti
I received an email that Squeeze was going on a world tour called “The Difford and Tilbrook Songbook” tour as the two principals surrounded by the current lineup with a few adjustments since reforming seven years ago to play songs from not only Squeeze catalog but also solo material from Tibrook and Difford, thus the name of the tour.
1. New Pornographers 2. Avett Brothers 3. Sleater-Kinney 4. The Head And the Heart 5. Cage the Elephant 6. The Highwaywomen 7. Soak 8. Grace Potter 9. Beck 10. Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors 11. Jenny Lewis 12. Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real 13. Wilco 14. Christone Kingfish Ingram 15. The Black Keys 16. Vampire Weekend 17. Pixies 18. G. Love (w/ Keb’ Mo’) 19. Jocelyn & Chris Arndt 20. Criminal Hygiene
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Leading into the show it had been a rough week for me. The music ©Dave Weinthal nerd that I was, I was still spinning from the deaths of Eddie Money and Rick Ocasek of The Cars, two Frutti, the band’s comeback album bands I never got to cross off my Filtering into the venue I saw faces after their first hiatus in 1982. It bucket list. I had a few chances to of all ages. That made sense. was obvious during “Hourglass” ENIGMA
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1. Coldplay 2. Rodrigo Y Gabriela 3. Chvches
this was no ordinary show. The crowd from the floor to the balcony started to sway in unison and before you knew it became a crowd sing-along never more obvious than during “Tempted”. By far the band’s most popular song. The song started acoustically with Tibrook front and center as the rest of the band watched. Tilbrook needed no help because everyone in the house was already singing along and harmonizing. When Tilbrook came to the lyrics, “I’m at the car park, the airport; the baggage carousel” Difford answered with the bass parts (“(The people keep on grindin’)” and “(It’s no story I could tell)”) you could hear a pin drop with everyone mesmerized. One by one each member started playing along to the grand finale that saw a few thousand people singing along at the top of their lungs.
Following “Tempted” the band played a couple of favorites off Argybargy, “Another Nail in My Heart” and “If I Didn’t Love You” that were sandwiched around “Goodbye Girl” off of 1978’s Cool For Cats. After taking a very short break the band came back for an encore and played “Take Me I’m Yours” and the aforementioned song that introduced many in the MTV generation to the band, “Black Coffee in Bed” – another sing along whether it was the initial intention of the band or not. Sqquu eeee zzee SSee tli st S Footprints Play Video Big Beng Hourglass Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) Up the Junction King George Street
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It wasn’t long after that and to be honest just before this moment I started to tear up. Personally for the first time on a long time I was in a moment of true ecstasy. I was witnessed one of my favorite bands (top five) perform songs I love (many of which I sand along to – good tings it was loud and everyone else was as well). Not only that everyone around me was in the same great mood – a rarity. There is no greater joy in the world than that moment – at least to me. Then I became sad. This may not only be the last time I get to see the band in concert, but also perhaps maybe ever. After all, Squeeze has been around for 45 years, so how much longer do they really want to keep doing it? Reality makes me sad at times.
Play Video Annie Get Your Gun Slaughtered, Gutted and Heartbroken The Day I Get Home Someone Else’s Heart Is That Love Third Rail Cool for Cats Love’s Crashing Waves (Difford & Tilbrook cover) Tempted Another Nail in My Heart Goodbye Girl If I Didn’t Love You Ennccoore: E Take Me I’m Yours Black Coffee in Bed
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Adam Ant’s Antics Prove He’s No Goodie Two Shoes When you get to see one of your favorite artists it’s too easy to come up a cheesy title for the review like, “Adam Ant Stands and Delivers” or “Vive le Ant” (which I think I used last time). But what is even more exciting is when after all these years they continue to not disappoint but also leave you with
before, they are now. Both have not left me alone since the show, but I don’t mind though, I did invite them and needless to say Adam Ant delivered. I am a rock god – or at least write about them.
get stronger and somehow younger. It’s hard to believe he is just shy of Social Security and after some health drama that caused him to be out of the spotlight for many years before releasing Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar in Marrying Adam Ant played before a packed The Gunner’s Daughter, he continhouse at Symphony Hall in Atlanta. ues to wow and amaze. There is no doubt this is Adam Ant on stage. I
music in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s all had a shorter shelf life, thus the reinvention with Wonderful in 1995 to a more adult and acoustic side to Adam Ant no one really saw before. Rock and rool tends to go through cycles and genres more than any other kind of popular music. ©Dave Weinthal
sometimes wonder if this is the best revenge for him since I often think about (for some strange reason) why the original Ants left him (persuaded by Malcolm McLaren) to join Bow Wow Wow fronted by then teen strumpet Annabella Lwin. Lwin and was is considered now Bow Wow Wow have found themselves relegated to ‘80s tour packages played to half filled venues while Adam continues to headline tours and sell them out.
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lasting memories.
With each tour since his comeback in 2012 he has been playing increasingly larger venues. Each time he packs it out. There was plenty of reason for the crowd and the need for a larger hall. This was the “Friend of Foe” tour. Ant played his first solo album (without the Ants) Friend or Foe in its entirety and then gave those familiar with more than his MTV hits a musical history lesson.
I’ve been fortunate to see Adam Ant in concert for over 25 years and like the proverbial fine wine (another cliché) he continues to get better with age. On this foray I brought a couple of my friends to see the show with me. It didn’t take much persuading. While they both wanted to go, I wasn’t sure how big a fan they were or if they just wanted to go because I footed the bill. If they weren’t fans With each tour Adam Ant seems to ENIGMA
Everything was there. Ant’s style, dance moves, peering eyes, cockney accent when he spoke to the crowd and an almost sexual innuendo if you will. Many of the song titles in his catalog are of a sexual or fetish nature, even the more innocent ones like “Strip” and “Beat My Guest” for example. What was really at the forefront is that unmistakable swagger and bravado only Adam Ant has. Many have tried to duplicate it – Prince for example, but with a lesser degree of success. The only reason Prince surpassed Ant in popularity is because of his musical style. R&B and soul and music from that genre that cross over have more staying power where post-punk, new wave and new romantic – all fads in
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If you don’t think Prince did not borrow directly from Adam Ant look at his outfit (Ant created the dandy military Victorian era look in his early videos and look at Prince and his purple coat-inspired long coat. The hair is even the same at least early on and the way the two move across the stage – for all intents and purposes Prince was a black Adam Ant with the exception he was the better guitar player. Both great musicians whose careers overlapped with mutual admiration and not jealousy (Ant had a song called “Vanity” on one of his albums written about Prince muse and lead singer of Vanity 6.
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The crowd looked a little uncomfortable in their seats. Adam Ant is not a sit down show. I think it was a culture shock for many of the patrons of Woodruff Arts Center used to more sedate stuff coming from the stage. Only a week earlier I was there to see Vanessa Williams in concert and there were a number of gowns, black ties and even tuxedos there. Nothing as formal this night although I did see a few guys and a girl or two dress like Ant from the “Kings of the Wild Frontier” era. One usher and I had a good laugh about it because we were at both shows comparing the crowds. After playing Friend or Foe in it’s entirety (yes, it was played in order) featuring probably his only album with three charting singles; “Goody Two Shoes”, (who even the most lame person knows), the title track, and one of my favorites, “Desperate But Not Serious” Ant gave a music history lessons. The rest of the show consisted primarily of Adam and the Ants songs like, Kings of the “Wild Frontier”, “Stand and Deliver”, “Cartrouble” for example. He played no material after 1985 with only two other solo
songs in his set, “Strip” and “Vive le Rock” as well as playing “Red Scab” as part of his encore. “Red Scab” was the B-side of “Goodie Two Shoes”.
said, “Look! I’ve got his moves down!” Indeed he did. Bill already asked me when he’s coming back on tour because he wants to go again. Me too.
After the show I was in the lobby of A Addaa m m AAnntt SSeettllii sstt the theater with my friends and I “Friend or Foe” asked my friend Bill, who I invited Friend or Foe
to come how he liked the show. Just to give you some reference, Bill is former military and still looks like a senior officer – haircut and all. When I asked, he started sing “Goody Two Shoes” and began swaying his hips like Adam Ant and
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Lie Made of Money Cajun Twisters Try This for Sighs Man Called Marco Dog Eat Dog (Adam and the Ants song) Kick! (Adam and the Ants song) Vive le Rock Antmusic (Adam and the Ants song) Zerox (Adam and the Ants song) Cartrouble (Adam and the Ants song) Ants Invasion (Adam and the Ants song) Prince Charming (Adam and the Ants song) Strip Lady/Fall In (Adam and the Ants song) Kings of the Wild Frontier (Adam and the Ants song) Beat My Guest (Adam and the Ants song) Stand and Deliver (Adam and the Ants song)
EEnnccoorree :: Press Darlings (Adam and the Ants song) Red Scab Physical (You’re So) (Adam and the Ants song) - Dave Weinthal
THIS MONTH IN ROCK HISTORY 11995577 Sun Records releases “Great Balls of Fire” by Jerry Lee Lewis. It will be his biggest hit, reaching number two on the Billboard Pop chart, number three on the R&B list and number one on the Country And Western chart. The single sold a million copies during its first ten days of release and would go on to sell over five million copies worldwide. 11 995599 Billboard magazine reports the payola scandal “will substantially damage the careers of at least twenty-five DJs.” Alan Freed is quoted as saying that his career has gone “down the drain.” 11996600 After Brenda Lee had turned it down for being “too Country”, Patsy Cline records “I Fall To Pieces” for Decca Records in Nashville. The song will enter the US charts the following summer and rise to #12. “Are You Lonesome Tonight”, a ballad that was written in 1926 and first recorded by Al Jolson, became Elvis Presley’s 14th number one hit in the US. Billboard magazine reported that five answer records to “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” had been released. Four of them were different versions of the same song entitled “Yes, I’m Lonesome Tonight.” The fifth was the standard “Oh How I Miss You Tonight”.
With the Twist craze sweeping across North America, Billboard reports that WOR-TV, New York, has shot a series of one and five minute Twist lessons with Chubby Checker, to be shown hourly every day.
a photo of John Lennon from his Dolenz say they will keep the Monkees act going. It would be fifmovie, How I Won The War. teen years before the original four 11 996699 would play together live again. “Suspicious Minds” reaches the top of the Billboard chart, becoming Simon and Garfunkel’s first TV speElvis Presley’s 17th and final US cial airs, but their sponsor, AT&T, number one hit during his lifetime. backs out when they learn that the Elvis had recorded it in a 4 AM to 7 duo plan to show footage of Bobby AM session last January, with the Kennedy’s funeral march and clips eighth take being the keeper. The of the Vietnam War. song climbed to #2 in the UK. 11997711 Janis Joplin is arrested at her con- Cher scored her first solo US numcert in Tampa, Florida and charged ber one hit with “Gypsys, Tramps with using “vulgar and indecent and Thieves”, a song that reached language”. The incident began #4 in the UK. It had been four years when a policeman with a bullhorn since she last appeared on the ordered people in the audience to Billboard singles chart with “You sit down and Joplin responded, Better Sit Down, Kids”. “Don’t fuck with those people! Hey, Mister, what’re you so uptight 11 997733 about? Did you buy a five dollar The De Franco Family enjoyed ticket?” When police backstage their biggest hit when “Heartbeat instructed Joplin to tell the audi- It’s a Lovebeat” topped out at #3 on ence to take their seats, she the Billboard chart. replied, “I’m not telling them shit.” 11 997744 After being arrested in her dressing room, Joplin was released on The Eagles’ “Best Of My Love” is bond and all charges were eventu- released. It will become the first of ally dropped. their five US number one singles.
11 996622 The Beatles re-record “Please Please Me” at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios. Under the direction of producer George Martin, who told the band that their original ballad version was “too bloody boring for words,” the song is re-arranged to an up-tempo rocker which would rise to #2 in the UK and #3 in the The Monkees make their final live US. appearance at a show in Oakland, California. Mike Nesmith 11 996633 announces plans for a new band, John Weightman, the Headmaster while Davy Jones and Mickey of a Surrey Grammar School, banned all students from having Beatle haircuts. In announcing his decision he said “This ridiculous style brings out the worst in boys physically. It makes them look like morons.” 11 996644 24-year-old Tom Jones records “It’s Not Unusual” for Britain’s Decca Records. The song, originally offered to, but turned down by Sandie Shaw, will become Jones’ breakthrough hit, reaching #1 in the UK and #10 in the US. 11996666 The Monkees’ debut album started a 13 week run at the top of the Billboard album chart, selling over 3 million copies in three months.
Paul McCartney and Pete Best are 11 996677 deported from West Germany after being arrested on suspicion of The first issue of the Rock and Roll arson. The hotel room they were magazine Rolling Stone, which staying in mysteriously caught fire. included a free roach clip with every subscription, is published in 11 996611 San Francisco. The cover featured ENIGMA
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11997766 After Elvis had invited him, Jerry Lee Lewis shows up at Presley’s Gracland mansion just before three o’clock in the morning, driv-
ing a brand new Lincoln Continental, which he accidently rams into the famous front gates with the wrought-iron music notes. Elvis’ cousin, Harold Loyd, who was manning the gates, didn’t recognize Jerry Lee and called the police. The press later reported that The Killer was waving a pistol in the air, demanding to see Elvis. It was a story that tour guides at Graceland told for years, but Jerry Lee emphatically denied. “I really didn’t mean to do nothin’ to harm Elvis. He was my friend. I was his.” The two never saw each other again. 11 9988 11 A concert by The Allman Brothers Band and The Grateful Dead, scheduled at the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Florida, is canceled because only 10,000 of 60,000 tickets have been sold. When the two groups played together in New York eight years ago, they drew over 600,000.
11999900 Milli Vanilli producer Frank Farian admits to reporters that Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus never sang a note on the “Milli Vanilli” album. The duo eventually returned their Best New Artist Grammy.
another.” The news came as a shock to the world, despite Harrison’s much-chronicled cancer treatments. Speaking outside his home in St John’s Wood, north west London, Paul McCartney said: ‘I am devastated and very, very sad’. Ringo Starr, speaking from Vancouver, Canada said: ‘We will 11999911 Carter Cornelius of The Cornelius miss George for his sense of love, Brothers And Sister Rose died of a his sense of music and his sense of heart attack at the age of 43. Their laughter.’ biggest hits were “Treat Her Like A 22000055 Lady” (#3 in 1971) and “Too Late To Turn Back Now” (#2 in 1972). Link Wray, the electric guitar innovator who is often credited as the Moon and Dweezil Zappa father of the power chord, died at announce that their father Frank his home in Copenhagen of natural has prostate cancer. The disease causes. He was 76. His 1959 instruwould take his life on December mental, “Rumble” was banned by 4th, 1993, just days before his 53rd many US radio stations, even birthday. thought it had no lyrics what so ever. 45-year-old Freddie Mercury, lead 22001155 singer of Queen, died of bronchopneumonia induced by HIV, at his 77-year-old Allen Toussaint died home in London, England, only after suffering a heart attack folone day after publicly acknowledg- lowing a concert he performed in ing he had the disease. Spain. The legendary New Orleans pianist, songwriter, producer and KISS drummer Eric Carr died of a performer penned or produced cerebral hemorrhage while hospi- such classics as “Working in a Coal talized for cancer. He was 41.
11998833 Tom Evens of Badfinger died at the age of 36. Like his band mate Pete Ham, Evens also hanged himself. Paul McCartney had chosen Evens 11 999955 to sing lead on the band’s 1970, #7 hit, “Come And Get It”. The Rolling Stones become the first act to broadcast a concert 11 9988 44 over the Internet. After a judge rules that he shot in self defense, The Reverend Marvin 11999966 Gay Sr. is given only five years pro- Tiny Tim, who reached #17 in the US bation for killing his son, Marvin in 1968 with “Tip-Toe Thru’ The Gaye. (Marvin added an “e” to his Tulips”, suffered a heart attack on stage name) Ironically, it was stage and later died in a Marvin Jr. who had given his father Minneapolis hospital. He was 63. the .38 revolver used in the killing. 11 999977 “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, a Michael Hutchence, the 37-year-old song written by Bob Geldof and lead singer of INXS, was found Midge Ure, was recorded in dead in his room at the RitzLondon, England by an all-star cast Carlton hotel in Double Bay, of British artists that included Paul Sydney. The New South Wales Young, Sting, Phil Collins, members coroner determined that of U2 and many others. The tune Hutchence’s death was the result quickly became a best seller and of suicide, although some who raised a ton of money for famine were close to him believe he may relief in Ethiopia. have died from autoerotic asphyxiation. 11 9988 66 After “More Than A Feeling” 22000011 reached number five (1976) and Beatles’ guitarist George Harrison “Don’t Look Back” made it to num- passed away at the age of 58, while ber four (1978), Boston finally resting at a friend’s home in Los scored their first and only number Angeles. His last words were one single with “Amanda”. reported to have been, “Love one ENIGMA
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Mine”, “Mother-In-Law”, “Lady Marmalade”, “Play Something Sweet” and “Southern Nights”. 220011 66 Leon Russell died in his sleep at his home in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 74. During his career he placed eight songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including “Tight Rope” (#11 in 1972) and “Lady Blue” (#14 in 1975). As a studio musician, he played on hit records by Gary Lewis And The Playboys, Bobby “Boris” Pickett, Herb Alpert, The Ronettes, The Crystals, Darlene Love, Brian Hyland, Dorsey Burnette, Glen Campbell and many others. 22001177 David Cassidy, the lead singer of the TV band The Partridge Family died of multiple organ failure at the age of 67. Along with achieving seven Billboard Top 40 hits with the group, including the chart topping “I Think I Love You” in 1970, Cassidy would also score five more as a solo artist.