From the Publisher’s Notebook Losing to Addiction
The Day They Tore Old Dixie Down
One always hates to lose a loved one through an addiction prob- I’m getting sick and tired of all lem. the actions to destroy our southern heritage—the rebel flag, We have drug addiction and alco- memorials to fallen warriors, the hol addiction, and the only cure is removal of monuments — enough said to be self-control. One is enough, aren’t we taking this would think that with all the race crap a little too far? Leave research going on with the human history alone — live with our past body there has got to be a way to and learn from it. Don’t create short-circuit these impulses. I new hatred over things that haprecently lost a loved one because pened over 150 years ago. In of this. It’s not an easy thing to other words — get over it. endure, sometimes self peace and mental health comes first. And to go along with that, why is it racist or wrong to be patriotic? Of course, the one with the afflic- The Far Left and members of the tion blames everyone and every- Democratic Party have been havthing else for the problem. The ing a good ole time bashing trouble with that is the trouble Donald Trump for his nationalist has come on for years and years, views. All the president (and yes with the blame shifting yearly. he’s your president) is saying and It’s really sad when the entire doing is to love your country. family suffers for the loss of the Somehow that is spun around into real person inside the addiction… being called hate-speech. It’s not the kids whose mom couldn’t it’s patriotism. You can argue for come to their school plays or either side of the issue of immigames, the parties that were gration and what no one is telling marred by the actions of the per- you is that he’s not against immison, and the effects on one’s gration, but ILLEGAL immigration. looks and health. Of course, If it was good enough for my facial plastic surgery can help for ancestors and your ancestors to a while, but the affliction slowly go through the proper legal chantears that down, and when they nels to become LEGAL citizens, are in their 60s, their looks are why can’t those coming into the gone. country now illegally do the same thing? An old saying I used to One would hope someone in the hear was you can’t love someone government would look into this until you love someone yourself. and see if a medical cure can And that’s basically all Trump is work. saying. Goodbye, I’ll miss you.
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Across 1. “Leave it in” 5. Recessions 9. It’s a bust 14. Elwes of “Saw” 15. Simba’s friend 16. Sheepish, so to speak 17. Take ___ (fall slightly) 18. Crack container 19. Fortune 500 company, Fortune 500 company, Fortune 500 company... 20. The “See Who Can Get $5 First” challenge? 23. Lawn mower attachment 24. Use a plunger 28. Game Boy screen 31. Classroom no-no 35. Lemieux milieu 36. Alternatives in the “You Must Draw Poultry” class? 38. Monopoly card 39. Half-woman, half-bird creature 40. They Might Be Giants’ “___ Ng” 41. Part that dangles 42. Territory 43. Caption from a campaign barbecue photo-op? 45. Down with something 46. Lousy cars, slangily 47. Ave. crossers 48. Uncontrollable situation 50. “Family Guy” daughter 52. Newsman Rather saying “Phttphbphb!” as he left CBS? 59. Maker of the xB and tC 62. Home in an apiary 63. Elizabeth of “The Incredibles” 64. TV knife that cuts through a lead pipe 65. Deck quartet 66. Make a dramatic exit, doorwise 67. Utterly screwed 68. Word after oxygen or pup 69. Alma mater of Lewis Black and Ben Stein Down 1. Red Hot Chili Peppers track “___ Tissue”
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2. “There you have it!” 3. “Spamalot” creator Idle 4. Easygoing personality 5. “Free Your Mind” ladies 6. Night crawlers, often 7. Relative of “yada” 8. Two-for-one deal, say 9. Foreman’s forte 10. Bakery installations 11. The blue guy, to waiter Grover 12. She allowed “Across the Universe” to be performed at the Grammys 13. Tex-___ 21. Like Big Mouth Billy Basses and Velvet Elvises 22. Number before sechs 25. They’ll ruin a morning commute 26. Cat that preys on monkeys 27. Piano parts 28. Toast from the Middle East 29. Mirna’s smaller teammate in “The Amazing Race 5” 30. In an urgent way 32. Professor in the Harry Potter books 33. Tails’ video game pal 34. Ready to tear somebody a new one 37. Busy worker in Apr. 38. It may get burned at home 41. Racer Al or Al, Jr. 43. Game that spawned “The Urbz,” with “The” 44. Drink holder at some theaters 46. M&M variety 49. Perot, formally 51. “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” musical 53. Cool, in 1990s parlance 54. 2005 “American Idol” singer Bo 55. 3-3, say 56. “Breakadawn” singers ___ Soul 57. Section in some porn shops 58. License info 59. Slaughter’s rank 60. AFL partner 61. Go to hell ___ handbasket
with an open mind that there is a superior being in charge. And because there are so many miracles that take place after science and medicine (a science itself) that prove previously believed thesis to be wrong or not fall in line with what usually happens. We spend too much of our time trying to disagree with things we don’t understand instead of keeping an open mind and be willing to be open to some theories. Nothing is exact, nor should we care if it is or isn’t.
Dear Rocco, Why won’t anyone love me? For some reason people seem to run in the opposite direction when I come around or consider me bad luck. Even my own kids don’t want to be around me. No matter what kind of relationship I attempt they all seem to fail. Why? WR Dear WR, You need to take a close look at yourself. You seem to relish in the role of being the victim and hold yourself responsible for all your problems withot realizing you are not soley responsible for your suc cess and failure. It seems like you have a history of being around people that artificially keep you down and when things seem to go well you self-sabotage things because you are happier being unhappy or playing the victim. Instead of going into a new relationship with an open mind you subconsciously look for a way to sabotage it. I’m not sure why you kids are the way they are except maybe you wanted them to like you o much you smothered them and in doing so they turned against you – at least for now. Learn to love yourself. You might be surprised once you do that how things will start to fall in place. Dear Rocco, Why is my marriage failing? I love my wife, I really do, but she gets abusive at times and I’m not really sure why. This is not the first marriage for either of us and we’ve known each other a long time before we got married. I thought I
finally found my soulmate but when your soulmate screams at you and throws things at you and tells others you hit them – which I haven’t, what am I supposed to do? NT Dear NT, Grow a pair and get out. Make a clean break. The fact both of you have been married more than once tells me you are both emotionally immature and probably self-centered to a degree. Why did you marry your wife or any of your wives to begin with and at what point did things start to go down hill. You both are spoiled brats who are used to getting your way and when you don’t… well bad things can happen. You too are the same as an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. You’re both better off alone. Run.
Dear Rocco, I am 15. My best friend has a mother who is always on her case about everything she does. She is the youngest of three siblings. Her mom is always after her about boys calling, housecleaning, and other chores. Everyday I go over and help her with her chores because she is not permitted to go out. My friend makes it worse by yelling at her mother, forging her signature, and lie to her. How can I help them? EA
Rocco is a common sense, tell-itlike-it-is, no-nonsense kind of guy offering real advice on any subject put before him. Why pay thousands of dollars on a high-priced therapist when he’ll straighten you Dear EA, out for free. If you’d like advice Your friend is a spoiled brat. Being from Rocco e-mail him at goaskrocthe youngest her mom is probably co@yahoo.com. overcorrecting for the mistakes she
Dear Rocco, Do you believe in science? And if you do are an atheist or anti-religious? NB Dear NB, Faith or Christianity work hand in hand. Science is God’s way to fig ure out how and why things happen in this world. If you read scripture close, especially Genesis it’s easy to see a lot of how the planet has evolved to where it is now is explained. That being said there are many things that science can’t explain and more scientific thesis is based on speculation and theory; not cold hard facts. While science at times tries to play God, they are actually showing to those ENIGMA
made or feels she made with the two older siblings. You need to stay clear of family drama. It never ends good and your friend may decide to pick between the two of you. And if she chooses you over her mother you will ruin any chance of a cordial relationship you could have with her. At such a relatively young age there is no way to know how long the two of you will be close friends. Sure, you may stay friends forever but life happens. After high school there’s potentially college, getting a job and starting a family of your own. Despite your friendship you are not actual family except in spirit. And if you are the reason for the two to eventually becoming estranged; well that’s nothing I would want to be a part. After all, the two of you are teenagers.
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ARIES (Mar. 21- April 20) Move forward if you want to turn your life around. Check your project over carefully if you were not the only one contributing to the end result. Use your creative abilities to come up with new ideas and directions. You might be overly emotional concerning situations at work. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Monday.
if you are too pushy at work. Turn (June 22-July 22) things around, make sure that they Your partner will be emotionally do their share. unable to cope. Your partner will blow situations out of proportion. Your luckiest events this month Social events will be favorable. will occur on a Monday. Money problems will be difficult to deal with if you have a partner. GEMINI (May 22-June 21) Your luckiest events this month Too much too fast will be the atti- will occur on a Thursday. tude surrounding your home environment. Do things with your chil- LEO dren and avoid situations that (July 23-Aug 22) make you feel as if you’ve neglect- You can accomplish a lot if you ed the ones you love. Avoid fric- work out of your home this month. tion with your mate. If they’re too Do not get upset over trivial matdemanding, reconsider this union. ters. You may want to get involved in financial investments presented Your luckiest events this month to you. Lovers may prove unworthy will occur on a Sunday. of your affection.
TAURUS (Apr. 21- May 21) You may find yourself a bit frazzled if you allow someone to goad you into an unsavory debate. Stress coupled with diet will add to stomach problems. Tempers will mount CANCER
Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 -Dec. 21) Now is a good time to ask for favors. This is probably causing upset and confusion on the home front. If you go shopping, only take what you can afford to part with. Work on legitimate financial deals that may enable you to bring in some extra cash. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tuesday.
CAPRICORN (Dec 22.- Jan. 20) Taking on too much won’t help the situation. Those you live with may Your luckiest events this month be experiencing problems. Take will occur on a Friday. your time; do not make any decisions in haste. Make sure that you VIRGO get legal matters checked out thor(Aug. 23 -Sept. 23) oughly. You will have a little more energy than usual. Don’t offer to pay for Your luckiest events this month others. You should catch up on cor- will occur on a Friday. respondence. You will have no problem getting along with clients. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 -Feb. 19) Your luckiest events this month You will have a greater involvewill occur on a Wednesday. ment in groups; however, they may not be to your advantage. Don’t LIBRA forget to let your mate know how (Sept. 24 -Oct. 23) much you care. You will have some Call siblings or old friends to catch problems with children, but if you up on recent news. Family outings are patient you will win their or a quiet stroll through the park favor. Difficulties with your mate will lead to stimulating conversa- may lead to isolation. tion and a closer bond. You mustn’t make promises that you won’t be Your luckiest events this month able to keep. Sit back. will occur on a Saturday. Your luckiest events this month PISCES will occur on a Monday. (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) Show what a dedicated person you SCORPIO can be. Confusion is apparent and (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) you’ll need some sound advice if Don’t hold back; go with the flow you want to do the right thing. and take a bit of a chance. Family Avoid any over indulgences. Those responsibilities are escalating. Now who have been too demanding is a good time to ask for favors. should be put in their place or out Pleasure trips will be favorable and to pasture. bring about possible romance. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Saturday.
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Chattanooga Area Youth Soccer Teams & Tryouts The fees to join Chattanooga area select teams/clubs vary from lows of about $160 for half a year to a few hundred dollars per year to around $850 or more per year. Most teams will also have a uniforms fee, and some teams will have a monthly team fee in addition to the joining fees. Costs also vary with the levels of travel and number of tournaments teams go to, with gas, food, and sometimes hotel expenses, among other costs.
What is “select soccer”? Youth select soccer is for boy and girl players from 8 to 18 years old (U9-U19, the U stands for “under”) who have played soccer before (recreational soccer or school), and who want to play with teams at their level of ability on a more advanced level than recreational soccer, to further develop their soccer skills (mentally and/or physically). Most clubs and teams will have tryouts starting in midMay and early June. Players often sign a commitment agreement to a team in late June which lasts for about a year. Some teams will allow players to sign up later, in late fall or even late winter, if the team is not full at that time or expense), up to overnight–traveling tournament level teams (1needs to replace players. 300miles or up, higher team fees Select soccer in Chattanooga has and expense), with teams coming different levels of travel and in somewhere between these levexpense, from local competition els also— in the Chattanooga area (1-50 or so miles, least team fees there is a wide range of choices and expense) to traveling region- for players and families. ally for games (1-200 miles, moderate to higher team fees and There are three “divisions” in
Chattanooga select soccer teams and clubs have a wide range of price levels and team skill levels for players and their families. Contact the teams/clubs or visit Tennessee for select soccer, their websites for more informaDivisions 1, 2, and 3, with different tion to help find the team or club levels of competition rising from 3 which best suits your family’s to 1.
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Additionally, most clubs with the best interest of your player in mind will gladly accept your player and Commitment Letter well after June 19th if you need more time to consider your options.” Some information about trying out Below is information for and signing commitment letters, Chattanooga and Cleveland area from the Tennessee State Soccer youth select soccer teams and clubs. Association: youth soccer player(s), and if possible go to a tryout for more than one team/club to be sure to find the team that’s right for your player(s).
”Tennessee State Soccer Association (TSSA) encourages all soccer players considering LocalSelect and Travel-Select Soccer to carefully consider all of the options available to them from TSSA Member organizations in the Chattanooga area. Players are encouraged to tryout for more than one club and carefully weigh all offers received before signing a Commitment Letter. Resist pressure to sign Commitment Letters prior to June 19, 2017 for the 201718 seasonal year. However, regardless of when a Commitment Letter is signed, it is not binding and may be cancelled any time prior to June 19th, 2017 by returning the Commitment Letter to that club with a notation that the player has changed his/her mind.
CHATTANOOGA AREA Nomads Soccer - offers travel select for girls U12 -18. Tryouts for U12 – U13 Girls will begin Monday May 15th and go throughout May, U14 – U18 will begin Monday June 5th and go throughout June. Contact them through their website NomadsSoccerClub.org. or contact team manager Claire Kyzer at 423-653-0448 and also at facebook.com/nomadssoccer/ (Division 2 and 3) North River Soccer Association North River Soccer Association— U9-15 boys and girls, and “will set up older Teams, if there is enough interest.” Contact them through their website NorthRiverSoccer.com and at facebook.com/northriversocceras-
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sociation about tryouts and teams (Divisions 1, 2, 3 and Soccer being formed. Juniors) (Division 3) Premier Soccer Academy— U9-19 Boys and Girls teams, tryouts starting in May and June. Contact them through their website PedroKozakPremierSoccerAcadem y.com and phone (423)847-6565 (Divisions 1, 2 and Soccer Juniors) Redoubt Soccer Association— offers Select Academy teams for boys and girls U9-18. Contact them through their website RedoubtSoccer.com. Tryouts — U9-U13 : May 15 and May 18. The make-up date is May 22, all at 6:00 pm at Redoubt. U14 and up: June 5 and June 8. The make-up date is June 12, all at 6:00 pm at Redoubt. (Division 3 and Soccer Juniors) Signal Mountain Storm – offers local and travel select teams U9U16 boys and girls. Contact them through their website SignalMountainSoccer.com for club information and tryout dates.
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Chattanooga Football Club Academy (part of the Chattanooga Football Club) offers both Local Select and Travel Select teams U918 boys and girls. Contact them through their website ChattanoogaSoccer.com. Tryouts for U13s and younger (those born in or after 2005) will be on May 15, 16 and 18. For U14s and older (those born in 2004 or earlier), tryouts will be held June 5, 6 and 8. Tryout registration is at ChattanoogaSoccer.com/TRYOUTS (Divisions 1, 2, 3 and Soccer Juniors) CLEVELAND AREA Cleveland FC – offers travel and local Select teams for boys and girls U9 – U18. Tryouts for 20052009 Birth Years will be May 15-26, 2017, and for 2004 and Older Birth Years will be June 5-15. Visit their website for details at w w w . g r c s a f c . c o m (Divisions 1, 2, 3 and Soccer Juniors)
Two women invite the pizza boy into their apartment. No, it’s not the opening of a porno, but it does start out like one. Two women hatched a plan to rob a pizza delivery person because they wanted money to buy drugs, according to police in New Hampshire. Claremont police said that they have arrested 31-year-old Debra Pitt and 34-year-old Jennifer Tozzi, after being accused of inviting Daniel Tarajkowski into their apartment, where they stabbed him several times. According to the police investigation, the woman
called Domino’s Pizza and made an order. The women were not interested in the food, but in the money that the delivery person was carrying. When Tarajkowski arrived at the women’s apartment, Pitts invited him inside. Tarajkowski entered the apartment, where the women pulled out knives and asked for his wallet. When Tarajkowski refused to hand over his wallet, Pitts stabbed him several times. Tozzi then grabbed his wallet that contained $300. A neighbor who heard the commotion intervened and called the police. Pitts has been charged with armed robbery while Tozzi has been charged with conspiracy.
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Who would have thought you can’t trust a sex worker you found online! A prostitute who provided dominatrix services to men, is in trouble after recording a married client and sending the videos to his wife, according to police in Connecticut. The Connecticut State Police said that they have arrested 35-year-old Fatin Ann Ward after recording the 69-year-old man without his consent and threatening to send the videos to his children. According to the police investigation, Ward is a convicted sex offender and a registered sex offender after being convicted of a sex crime with a minor. The victim responded to an ad on a website
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where Ward called herself “Mistresses Teenie.” She promised dominatrix services, and the victim agreed to meet her at her home. Once at her home, the victim paid her $150 and had sex with the 5 feet 6 inches tall, 216-pound woman. Ward recorded him and then threatened to tell his wife about his love for black women unless he paid her more than $5,000. The victim paid her some of the money, but she still sent the videos to his wife. When Ward threatened to send the videos to the victim’s children, he called the police. Ward has been charged with second-
degree larceny, voyeurism with North campus in an event streamed malice and disseminating voyeuris- on Facebook Live. “There is no other human-manipulable cube tic materials. like this, to the best of our knowlFirefighters in Kansas said they edge,” a spokesperson for the responded to a local tree to rescue group said. “So to be very precise, a climbing cat — and the feline’s it is the world’s largest stationary, unlucky owner. The Shawnee human manipulable Rubik’s cube.” County Emergency “It took over my life, but it no Communications Center said the longer is a project,” Noel Perkins, a Topeka Fire Department was dis- professor of mechanical engineerpatched when a call came in about ing, who served as an advisor for 9:59 p.m. about a woman who the group said. “My dream for the became stuck in a tree while trying cube would be to bring joy and to rescue her cat. Firefighters inspiration to anyone who ever arrived to find the woman and cat uses it and solves it. If it does that, stranded on a branch about 16 feet there’s nothing I’d rather be behind up in the tree. They were bought at UM.” brought down safely. Fire Department Shift Commander Todd A British man who buys and Williams said firefighters occasion- restores old tanks made a surprisally are called to perform similar ing discovery in a former Iraqi rescues in the area. An Illinois Army tank — five gold bars worth woman ended up in a similar situa- about $1.4 million. Nick Mead, a tion in December when she collector and owner of Tanks A attempted to rescue her dog after Lot, a tank restoration business, the canine fell through the ice of a said he recently saw the Chinese frozen pond behind their home. Type 69 tank listed on eBay and he The woman and her dog both was able to barter it for a retired ended up needing to be plucked British Army truck and Abbot selfhowitzer. Todd out of the water by Aurora fire- propelled Chamberlain, one of Mead’s fighters. mechanics, was working on the A man who was in the mood for restoration when he found evisome fried chicken, broke into a dence that one of the fuel tanks woman’s home where he stole food might be filled with guns, a comand alcoholic beverages, according mon discovery with retired military to police in Florida. Police said tanks. Mead joined Chamberlain that they have arrested 34-year-old and started filming, a practice he Ronald Gregory Wesly, after being said is common when restorers caught by the homeowner frying think they might find illegal guns chicken and drinking vodka in her and want to make sure they have kitchen. According the police evidence of the discovery to show investigation, after homeowner police. The video shows the restorSamantha O’Neal went to work, ers reaching into the fuel tank and Wesly broke into her home, pulling out the foreign objects, opened the woman’s fridge and which turn out to be five gold bars took out chicken. He then used a weighing a total of about 70 frying pan to make himself fired pounds — $1.4 million in gold. Mead chicken. When O’Neal came home said the gold, which may have been around 9:00 p.m., she found Wesly stolen by the Iraqi Army during the frying chicken and drinking vodka. invasion of Kuwait and forgotten O’Neal told police that she picked inside the tank, was turned over to him up and threw him out of her police. It’s not yet clear what will home. She then called the police, eventually become of the discovwho found Wesly nearby and ery. arrested him. Wesly has been charged with one count each of A young woman suffered injuries resisting an officer, burglary and and was rushed to a hospital after falling from a bridge while taking petty theft. selfies, according to police in A group of students at the California. The Placer County University of Michigan’s Sheriff’s Office said that the Engineering program built what is woman, who was not identified, believed to be the largest hand- and a group of her friends from the solvable, stationary Rubik’s Cube. Sacramento area, were walking on The massive 1,500 pound puzzle the girders underneath the was unveiled at the university’s Foresthill Bridge. The woman took ENIGMA
a selfie and fell from the girders, landing on the trail approximately 60 feet below. She was rushed to the Sutter Roseville Medical Center, where she is being treated for broken bones. She is expected to survive. “The walkways under the Foresthill Bridge are closed for the protection of our residents and our community. Any trespassers
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found on the bridge will be cited. Be safe and tour the bridge from the sidewalks above. This young lady is very lucky to be alive and the consequences could have been worse for her, her friends and her family,” a spokesperson for the The Placer County Sheriff’s Office said.
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RYAN DAVIS IS A COMEDIAN WHOSE INTERNET SHOW HAS GENERATED MORE THAN 100 MILLION VIEWS IN 2016 ALONE. HIS VERSATILE COMEDY STYLE HAS ATTRACTED A DIVERSE AUDIENCE THAT SPANS ACROSS CONTINENTS. ALTHOUGH RYAN HAS SEEN AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF SUCCESS ON THE INTERNET, HE PRIDES HIMSELF ON HIS ABILITY TO DELIVER IN HIS LIVE STAND UP SHOWS. WITH SOLD OUT SHOWS ACROSS THE US, RYAN IS PROVING TO BE ONE OF COMEDY'S NEW RISING STARS.
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MONDAY May 1 TREMONT TAVERN (Chattanooga) Trivia Night THE OFFICE (Chattanooga) SpeakEasy J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Sinai Vessel, Decons REVELRY ROOM (Chattanooga) Kitchen Dwellers CITY WINERY NASHVILLE (Nashville) Dave Davies IRON CITY (Birmingham) Silversun Pickups THE INTERNATIONAL (Knoxville) Pierce the Veil, Sum 41, Emarosa, Chapel ZYDECO (Birmingham) Every Time I Die, ’68, Wage War
TUESDAY May 2 TREMONT TAVERN (Chattanooga) Open Mic w/ Mike McDade J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Red Necklace, Gunpowder Gray, Prayer Circle VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE AT ENCORE PARK (Alpharetta, GA) A Perfect Circle THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Coheed And Cambria, The Dear Hunter VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) The New Pornographers, Waxahatchee HELL AT THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) All That Remains PHILIPS ARENA (Atlanta) Chris Brown, Fabolous, O.T. Genasis, Kap G HELL AT THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) All That Remains, American Sin, As Animal Eat My Insides TUSCALOOSA AMPHITHEATRE (Tuscaloosa, AL) Def Leppard, Poison, Tesla ALABAMA THEATRE (Birmingham) Alice Cooper IRON CITY (Birmingham) In This Moment, Motionless In White, Avatar, Gemini Syndrome THE MILL & MINE (Knoxville) Chevelle, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Aeges NASHVILLE MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Lil Wayne MARATHON MUSIC WORKS (Nashville) Machine Gun Kelly RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers, Sam Bush
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WEDNESDAY May 3 RAW (Chattanooga) Open Jam J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Open Mic Comedy Free Kittens TRACK 29 (Chattanooga) Chevelle, Aeges, Dinosaur Pile Up LAKEWOOD AMPHITHEATRE (Atlanta) Def Leppard, Poison, Tesla TERMINAL WEST (Atlanta) Adrian Belew, Saul Zonana FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Soundgarden GEORGIA THEATRE (Athens, GA) Spoon, Tennis BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) A Perfect Circle MARATHON MUSIC WORKS (Nashville) Coheed And Cambria, The Dear Hunter May 3 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) “Love Letters: Thistle Farms Fundraiser” Reba, Jason Isbell, John Prine, Amanda Shires, Shemekia Copeland TUSCALOOSA AMPHITHEATRE (Tuscaloosa, AL) Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds May 3 THE MILL & MINE (Knoxville) Machine Gun Kelly
THURSDAY May 4 SKYZOO (Chattanooga) DJ Av THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Greg Morton J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Dexateens, Lew Card TRACK 29 (Chattanooga) Drive By Truckers REVELRY ROOM (Chattanooga) Every Time I Die, Wage War, ‘68 WAR MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Opeth, Gojira WORKPLAY THEATRE (Birmingham) Chris Knight SATURN (Birmingham) Hurray for the Riff Raff, Ron Gallo, Becca Mancari BJCC CONCERT HALL (Birmingham) Boston
FRIDAY May 5 SKYZOO (Chattanooga) DJ Av THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Greg Morton J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Cinco De Socro!!! TRACK 29 (Chattanooga) JJ Grey & Mofro MILLER PLAZA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall” San Rafael Band, Unprotected Rex ASCEND AMPHITHEATRE (Nashville) Bastille RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Pixies,
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Public Access T.V. NASHVILLE MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Boston CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK (Atlanta) “Shaky Beats” Griz, RL Grime, Bonobo, Alison Wonderland, Claude VonStroke, Snails, The Knocks, Party Favor, Boombox Cartel, Ganja White Night, Cry Wolf, Ekali, Said The Sky, Armnhmr THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Wale LAKEWOOD AMPHITHEATRE (Atlanta) Future, Migos, Tory Lanez, Kodak Black May 5 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE (Alpharetta, GA) Chris Stapleton, Brothers Osborne, Lucie Silvas DRUID CITY MUSIC HALL (Tuscaloosa, AL) Seether, Letters From The Fire, Kaleido WORKPLAY THEATRE (Birmingham) Brandy Clark, Charlie Worsham SLOSS FURNACES NAT’L HIST. LANDMARK (Birmingham) Death Cab for Cutie BARLEY’S TAPROOM (Knoxville) The Dexateens TENNESSEE THEATRE (Knoxville) Martina McBride
SATURDAY May 6 SKYZOO (Chattanooga) DJ Av THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Greg Morton PUCKETT’S (Chattanooga) Karianne Jean J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Brother Hawk, ET, Sean Lucy KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY (Knoxville) Blood Sweat & Tears THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals CENTER STAGE (Atlanta) Midnight Oil CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK (Atlanta) “Shaky Beats” Kaskade, Flosstradamus, Galantis, Gramatik, Flatbush Zombies, Slushii, Ephwurd, Mija, Pouya, Haywyre, Joyryde, Bad Royale , Young Bombs, CID, Kaiydo, Modern Measure, Lost Seekers, Illenium VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE AT ENCORE PARK (Alpharetta, GA) Chris Stapleton, Brothers Osborne, Lucie Silvas THE REVIVAL (Canton, GA) Fozzy ASCEND AMPHITHEATRE (Nashville) Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds HARRAH’S CHEROKEE CASINO (Cherokee) Poison TUSCALOOSA AMPHITHEATRE (Tuscaloosa, AL) Soundgarden KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY (Knoxville) Blood Sweat & Tears
SUNDAY May 7 SKYZOO (Chattanooga) DJ Av THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Greg Morton TIVOLI THEATRE (Chattanooga) Brian Wilson J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Comedy Buffet with Dave Stone TRACK 29 (Chattanooga) The Pretty Reckless, Them Evils SONGBIRDS GUITAR MUSEUM (Chattanooga) Tommy Emmanuel CENTER STAGE (Atlanta) SuicideGirls CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK (Atlanta)
“Shaky Beats” The Chainsmokers, Zeds Dead, Girl Talk, Getter, Little Dragon, Slander, Lost Kings, Rezz, Vanic, MuteMath, Loudpvck, Grandtheft, Mayhem (DJ), Echos, Wingtip, Mantis CITY WINERY NASHVILLE (Nashville) X
UPCOMING EVENTS J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Open Mic Comedy Free Kittens, Blonde Bones May 8 THE COCA COLA ROXY (Atlanta) Lil Wayne May 8 IRON CITY (Birmingham) Breaking Benjamin May 8 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Comedy Buffet w/ Dave Stone May 9 REVELRY ROOM (Chattanooga) John Kadlecik May 9 BJCC CONCERT HALL (Birmingham) Brian Wilson May 9 GRAND OLE OPRY HOUSE (Nashville) Terri Clark May 9 CITY WINERY ATLANTA (Atlanta) Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy May 9 40 WATT CLUB (Athens, GA) Shonen Knife May 9 THE MILL & MINE (Knoxville) Spoon May 9 THE CONCOURSE (Knoxville) Fozzy, Kyng, Sons Of Texas May 9 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Steve Winwood May 10 BJCC CONCERT HALL (Birmingham) Julianne Hough, Derek Hough May 10 COCA COLA ROXY THEATRE (Atlanta) Bush May 10 THE EARL (Atlanta) Shonen Knife May 10 TERMINAL WEST (Atlanta) Wavves May 10 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Frank Del Pizzo May 11 HEAVEN AT THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) The Damned May 11 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Julianne Hough, Derek Hough May 11 LAKEWOOD AMPHITHEATRE (Atlanta) Kings of Leon May 11 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Frank Del Pizzo May 12 MILLER PLAZA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall” The Suffers, The Power Players May 12 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE (Alpharetta, GA) Zac Brown Band May 12 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Ali Wong May 12 CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK (Atlanta) “Shaky Knees Music Festival” LCD Soundsystem, Cage The Elephant, Pixies, Portugal. The Man, Highly Suspect, Fidlar, Wolf Parade, The Growlers, Car Seat Headrest, Modern Baseball, Twin Peaks, Temples, Pup, Preoccupations, Pinegrove, Lo Moon, The London Souls, Margaret Glaspy, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Zipper Club, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes May 12 EDDIE’S ATTIC (Atlanta) Charlie Mars May 12 CENTER STAGE (Atlanta) X Ambassadors May 12 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Frank Del Pizzo May 13 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Waxfang, Nim Nims, Georgia Flood May 13 REVELRY ROOM (Chattanooga) J. Roddy Walston & the Business, Quaker City Night Hawks May 13 PHILIPS ARENA (Atlanta) The Weeknd May
13 CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK (Atlanta) “Shaky Knees Music Festival” The xx, Nick Murphy, X Ambassadors, Moon Taxi, Sylvan Esso, Dr. Dog, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Shovels & Rope, The Revivalists, Anderson East, Bishop Briggs, The Record Company, Lewis Del Mar, Run River North, Family And Friends, Fantastic Negrito, Mariachi El Bronx, Foreign Air, Mondo Cozmo, The Quaker City Night Hawks, Public Access T.V., Flagship May 13 TERMINAL WEST (Atlanta) Portugal the Man May 13 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Ryan Davis May 14 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE AT ENCORE PARK (Alpharetta, GA) Zac Brown Band May 13 ANDREW JACKSON HALL (Nashville) Alice Cooper May 14 CITY WINERY NASHVILLE (Nashville) Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy May 14 CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK (Atlanta) “Shaky Knees Music Festival” Phoenix, The Shins, Ryan Adams, Third Eye Blind, Bleachers, J. Roddy Walston And The Business, Saint Motel, Warpaint, Hamilton Leithauser, Cloud Nothings, Whitney, Pond, Fruit Bats, Arkells, Hoops, Con Brio, Ron Gallo, Great Peacock, Amythyst Kiah May 14 EDDIE’S ATTIC (Atlanta) The Secret Sisters May 14 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Phoenix, Whitney May 15 THE BASEMENT EAST (Nashville) J. Roddy Walston & the Business, The Quaker City Night Hawks May 15 HEAVEN AT THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) New Found Glory, Trash Boat May 15 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Caney Creek Co., Cherubim, Kindora May 16 TUSCALOOSA AMPHITHEATRE (Tuscaloosa, AL) John Legend, Gallant May 16 HELL AT THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) X May 16 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) “Jameson Irish Whiskey Presents: Georgia On My Mind” Rhett Akins, Ben Hayslip, Alaina, Chris Janson, Kip Moore, Michael Ray, T. Graham Brown, Drivin’ N’ Cryin’, Jimmy Hall May 16 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Open Mic Comedy Free Kittens May 17 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) New Kids on the Block, Paula Abdul, Boyz II Men May 17 NASHVILLE MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Korn, Ded May 17 EXIT/IN (Nashville) Com Truise, Clark, Roland Tings May 17 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Mastodon, Eagles of Death Metal, Russian Circles May 17 BJCC CONCERT HALL (Birmingham) Julianne Hough, Derek Hough May 17 TERMINAL WEST (Atlanta) Kiefer Sutherland May 17 EDDIE’S ATTIC (Atlanta) Kip Winger May 17 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Janet Williams May 18 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Blair Crimmins and the Hookers May 18 ASCEND AMPHITHEATRE (Nashville) John Legend, Gallant May 18 EXIT/IN (Nashville) New Found Glory, Trash
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Boat May 18 MERCY LOUNGE (Nashville) Biffy Clyro May 18 THE END (Nashville) Every Time I Die, ’68, Wage War May 18 MARATHON MUSIC WORKS (Nashville) Old 97’s May 18 CITY WINERY NASHVILLE (Nashville) Michael Martin Murphey May 18 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Korn, Animals As Leaders, Ded May 18 THE SQUARE ROOM (Knoxville) Kip Winger May 18 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Janet Williams May 19 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) BTB, Creature Comfort May 19 CLYDE’S (Chattanooga) Dead 27’s May 19 MILLER PLAZA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall” Monday Night Social, Drakeford May 19 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Little Big Town May 19 EXIT/IN (Nashville) Kiefer Sutherland May 19 ASCEND AMPHITHEATRE (Nashville) Alan Jackson, Lee Ann Womack May 19 CHASTAIN PARK (Atlanta) John Legend, Gallant May 19 BLIND WILLIE’S (Atlanta) Joe Louis Walker May 19 WOLF CREEK AMPHITHEATRE (Atlanta) “Funk Fest Atlanta” Erykah Badu. Ro James, Digable Planets May 19 IRON CITY (Birmingham) Old 97’s May 19 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Janet Williams May 20 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Elkmilk May 20 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Lionel Richie, Mariah Carey May 20 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Little Big Town May 20 12 TH & PORTER (Nashville) Adrian Belew, Saul Zonana May 20 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Mac DeMarco, Tonstartssbandht May 20 CITY WINERY ATLANTA (Atlanta) Brandy Clark, Charlie Worsham May 20 WOLF CREEK AMPHITHEATRE (Atlanta) “Funk Fest Atlanta” Bell Biv DeVoe, , SWV, En Vogue, Guy May 20 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) North Mississippi Allstars May 20 MARTIN MARIETTA FORSYTH QUARRY (Suwanee, GA) Dennis DeYoung May 20 TENNESSEE THEATRE (Knoxville) Old Crow Medicine Show May 20 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Janet Williams May 21 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Mudsex, Genki Genki Panic May 21 CITY WINERY ATLANTA (Atlanta) Richie Kotzen May 21 WOLF CREEK AMPHITHEATRE (Atlanta) “Funk Fest Atlanta” Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, Brandy, Joe May 21 TERMINAL WEST (Atlanta) Adrian Belew Power Trio May 21 HIGH WATT (Nashville) Elf Power, Tobin Sprout May 22 CITY WINERY NASHVILLE (Nashville) Richie Kotzen May 22 EXIT/IN (Nashville) Franz Ferdinand May 22 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Adventure Fight May 23
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HELL AT THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) Okilly Dokilly, Beatallica May 23 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Sigur Rós May 23 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Ninja Sex Party May 23 IRON CITY (Birmingham) Primus May 23 SATURN (Birmingham) The Black Lips May 23 GRAND OLE OPRY HOUSE (Nashville) Terri Clark May 23 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Maxwell, Common, Ledisi May 23 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) “Dylan Fest” Wynonna & The Big Noise, Elle King, Shakey Graves, Duane Eddy, Boz Scaggs, Valerie June, Hamilton Leithauser, Taxi, Richard Hawley, Shooter Jennings, Anderson East, Erika Wennerstrom, Butch Walker, Karen Elson, Langhorne Slim, The Weeks, Rayland Baxter, Danny Masterson, The Whigs, The Watson Twins, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, Paul Cauthen, Gil Landry, Lauren Shera, The Texas Gentlemen, Eric Pulido, Shelly Colvin, Odessa, John Paul White May 23 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Open Mic Comedy Free Kittens May 24 EDDIE’S ATTIC (Atlanta) Angie Aparo May 24 OAK MOUNTAIN AMPHITHEATRE (Pelham, AL) Train, O.A.R., Natasha Bedingfield May 24 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Daryl Hall & John Oates, Tears For Fears May 24 JAMES K. POLK THEATRE (Nashville) David Gray May 24 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) “Dylan Fest” Wynonna & The Big Noise, Elle King, Shakey Graves, Duane Eddy, Boz Scaggs, Valerie June, Hamilton Leithauser, Taxi, Richard Hawley, Shooter Jennings, Anderson East, Erika Wennerstrom, Butch Walker, Karen Elson, Langhorne Slim, The Weeks, Rayland Baxter, Danny Masterson, The Whigs, The Watson Twins, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, Paul Cauthen, Gil Landry, Lauren Shera, The Texas Gentlemen, Eric Pulido, Shelly Colvin, Odessa, John Paul White May 24 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Erik Knowles May 25 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Hollis Brown May 25 HARRAH’S CHEROKEE CASINO (Cherokee) Chris Rock May 25 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) David Gray May 25 LAUGHING SKULL LOUNGE (Atlanta) Greg Proops May 25 THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) Morbid Angel, Suffocation, , Withered May 25 THE BASEMENT EAST (Nashville) Robyn Hitchcock May 25 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Erik Knowles May 26 MILLER PLAZA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall” The Rad Trads, Jonny Monster Band May 26 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Chris Rock May 26 LAUGHING SKULL LOUNGE (Atlanta) Greg Proops May 26 HEAVEN AT THE MASQUERADE (Atlanta) Bayside, Say Anything, Hot Rod Circuit May 26 BOWL @ SUGAR HILL (Sugar Hill, GA) Collective Soul May 26 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Eric Church May 26
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MERCY LOUNGE (Nashville) 10 Years May 26 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Erik Knowles May 27 J.J.’S BOHEMIA (Chattanooga) Danimal Planet, The New Schematics May 27 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Chris Rock May 27 PIEDMONT PARK (Atlanta) “Atlanta Jazz Festival” Randy Weston, Harriet Tubman, Allan Harris, Regina Carter, Rene Marie, Moonchild, Nik West, Nicholas Payton, Little Tybee, Deva Mahal, Marquis Hill May 27 LAUGHING SKULL LOUNGE (Atlanta) Greg Proops May 27 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Eric Church May 27 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Erik Knowles May 28 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) Chris Rock May 28 PIEDMONT PARK (Atlanta) “Atlanta Jazz Festival” Freddy Cole, Kathleen Bertrand, Kemba Cofield, Julie Dexter, Russell Gunn May 28 LAUGHING SKULL LOUNGE (Atlanta) Greg Proops May 28 CITY WINERY NASHVILLE (Nashville) Freddie Jackson May 29 THE LOFT (Atlanta) Todd Rundgren May 30 TRACK 29 (Chattanooga) Flux Pavillion, Kayzo, Jaykode May 31 GRAND OLE OPRY HOUSE (Nashville) Julianne Hough, Derek Hough May 31 ASCEND AMPHITHEATRE (Nashville) Train, O.A.R., Natasha Bedingfield May 31 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Lake Street Dive, Sarah Jarosz May 31 THE FACTORY AT FRANKLIN (Franklin, TN) The Mastersons May 31 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE AT ENCORE PARK (Alpharetta, GA) Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds May 31 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Landry June 1 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Billy Currington June 1 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Landry June 2 MILLER PLAZA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall” JAKUBI, Trent Williams & the Menagerie June 2 LAKEWOOD AMPHITHEATRE (Atlanta) Train, O.A.R., Natasha Bedingfield June 2 CHASTAIN PARK (Atlanta) Paul Simon June 2 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) Blue October June 2 CANDLER PARK (Atlanta) “Candler Park Music & Food Festival” Railroad Earth, Matisyahu, Ripe, Chelsea Shag June 2 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) Blue October June 2 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Indigo Girls June 2 HARRAH’S CHEROKEE CASINO (Cherokee, NC) Kix, Skid Row June 2 SATURN (Nashville) Lake Street Dive June 2 HERITAGE PARK (Cullman, AL) “Rock The South” Luke Bryan, Cody Jinks June 2 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Landry June 3 ASCEND AMPHITHEATRE (Nashville) Muse, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Pvris June 3 RYMAN AUDITORIUM (Nashville) Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Indigo Girls June 3 CANDLER PARK (Atlanta) “Candler Park Music & Food Festival” Joe Russo’s Almost
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Dead, The Motet, Lake Street Dive, The Marcus King Band, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Webster June 3 HERITAGE PARK (Cullman, AL) “Rock The South” Muscadine Bloodline, Chris Janson, Sam Hunt June 3 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Landry June 4 TIVOLI THEATRE (Chattanooga) Toto June 4 MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM (Chattanooga) Maxwell, Ledisi, Leela James June 4 METRO TABERNACLE (Chattanooga) Jelly Roll June 4 CITY WINERY NASHVILLE (Nashville) Robben Ford June 5 LAKEWOOD AMPHITHEATRE (Atlanta) Muse, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Pvris June 6 BUCKHEAD THEATRE (Atlanta) Ann Wilson June 6 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Russ June 6 AVONDALE BREWING COMPANY (Birmingham) J. Cole June 6 IRON CITY (Birmingham) Glass Animals June 7 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Big Ed Kaylor June 8 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) The Avett Brothers June 8 FRANKLIN THEATRE (Franklin, TN) Roger McGuinn June 8 WILDHORSE SALOON (Nashville) “Concert For Love And Acceptance” Ty Herndon June 8 CMA FESTIVAL (Nashville) Miranda Lambert, Old Dominion, Adam Sanders, Alex Williams, Alyssa Micaela, The Bellamy Brothers, Brandon Ray, Brett Eldredge, Brian Callihan, Brothers Osborne, Casey Donahew Band, Chase Rice, Chris Janson, Cole Swindell, Colin Elmore, Confederate Railroad, Craig Wayne Boyd, Dallas Caroline, Daryle Singletary, Davisson Brothers Band, Dierks Bentley, Emerson Drive, Jessie Chris, Jessie Key, Jimmie Allen, Joe Nichols, Jon Pardi, Jordan Rager, Kane Brown, Tyndall, Kenny Foster, Kenny Rogers, Kristian Bush, Lanco, Livy Jeanne, LoCash, Lonestar, Love And Theft, Luke Bryan, Luke Pell, Mark Wills, Michael Ray, Runaway June, Sammy Arriaga, Smithfield, Sundance Head, Tracy Lawrence, Waterloo Revival, Zach Seabaugh June 8 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Big Ed Kaylor June 9 RIVERBEND FESTIVAL (Chattanooga) Boz Scagggs, Boy Named Banjo, High Valley, Jesse Kramer June 9 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) The Avett Brothers June 9 CHASTAIN PARK (Atlanta) The O’Jays June 9 CITY WINERY ATLANTA (Atlanta) The Subdudes June 9 THE LOFT (Atlanta) Austin Mahone June 9 BONNAROO (Manchester, TN) U2, Major Lazer, The xx, Big Gigantic, Glass Animals, Portugal the Man, Tove Lo, Cold War Kids, Kaleo, Russ June 9 CMA FESTIVAL (Nashville) Adam Craig, Blake Shelton, Bobby Bones & The Raging Idiots, Brooke Eden, Camille Rae, Carter Winter, Chris Bandi, Chris Lane, Colm Kirwan, Corey Smith, Dalton & The Sheriffs, Danielle Peck, Darryl Worley, Drew Baldridge, Eli Young Band, Eric Church, Filmore, Granger Smith, James Otto, Jana Kramer, Jo Smith, Josh Turner, Julia Cole,
Kelsea Ballerini, Lari White, Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Bros., Lauren Alaina, Lindsay Ell, Maggie Baugh, Megan and Liz, Mo Pitney, Native Run, Neal McCoy, Olivia Lane, Rascal Flatts, Ray Scott, Restless Road, Risa Binder, Ryan Griffin, Ryan Kinder, Sam Hunt, Steve Moakler, The Hootz, The Railers, The Swon Brothers, Trace Adkins, Trick Pony, Tristan McIntosh, Ty Herndon, Tyler Farr, Tyler Rich, Walker Hayes June 9 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Big Ed Kaylor June 10 RIVERBEND FESTIVAL (Chattanooga) Don Felder, Deacon Blues Band, The Vagabonds, The Joy Formidable June 10 ALYS ROBINSON STEPHENS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Birmingham) Jonny Lang June 10 FOX THEATRE (Atlanta) The Avett Brothers June 10 THE TABERNACLE (Atlanta) Ghost June 10 BUCKHEAD THEATRE (Atlanta) Banks June 10 BOWL @ SUGAR HILL (Sugar Hill, GA) Boz Scaggs June 10 BONNAROO (Manchester, TN) Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chance the Rapper, Flume, Cage the Elephant, Marshmello, The Head and the Heart, Future Islands, Tegan & Sara, Belly June 10 CMA FESTIVAL (Nashville) A Thousand Horses, Watson, Abby Anderson, Andy Griggs, Ashley Campbell, Bailey Bryan, Ben Gallaher, Brandy Clark, Brennley Brown, Brett Young, Cale Dodds, Cam, Carly Pearce, Chris Young, CJ Solar, Doug Supernaw, Drake White And The Big Fire, Fairground Saints, Florida Georgia Line, George Ducas, High Valley, Jackie Lee, Jacob Davis, James Robert Webb, John Anderson, John Berry, Kassi Ashton, Lady Antebellum, Maggie Rose, Maren Morris, Chesnutt, Mary Sarah, Meghan Patrick, Mila Mason, Mitchell Tenpenny, Morgan Wallen, Muscadine Bloodline, Rick Monroe, Russell Dickerson, Ryan Follese, Scott Stevens, Scotty McCreery, Sean McConnell, Shelly Fairchild, Sweet Tea Trio, Tara Thompson, Thomas Rhett, Trea Landon, Walker McGuire, Lillie Mae Rische, William Michael Morgan June 10 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Big Ed Kaylor June 11 RIVERBEND FESTIVAL (Chattanooga) Corey Smith, Old Dominion, Kaitlyn Baker, White Denim June 11 LAKEWOOD AMPHITHEATRE (Atlanta) Chance the Rappe June 11 COBB ENERGY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (Atlanta) Paul Shaffer June 11 INFINITE ENERGY CENTER (Duluth, GA) Daryl Hall & John Oates, Tears For Fears June 11 BONNAROO (Manchester, TN) The Weeknd, Lorde, Travis Scott, Crystal Castles, Umphrey’s McGee, Margo Price, Greensky Bluegrass June 11 CMA FESTIVAL (Nashville) Chris Stapleton, Adam Hambrick, Anna Vaus, Big Smo, Brad Paisley, Brandon Lay, Ratcliff, Canaan Smith, Chase Bryant, Clare Dunn, Collin Raye, Crooked King, Darius Rucker, Dorado, Dylan Schneider, Easton Corbin, Eric Paslay, Exile, Hailey Whitters, Haley Georgia, Home Free, Jamie Lynn Spears, Jamie O’Neal, Bates, Jillian Jacqueline, Jon
Langston, Julie Roberts, Kalie Shorr, Little Big Town, Little Texas, Lucas Hoge, Luke Combs, Maddie & Tae, Martin McDaniel, Michael Tyler, Morgan Evans, Natalie Stovall, Parmalee, Post Monroe, RaeLynn, Raquel Cole, Restless Heart, Collins, Ryan Beaver, Sarah Allison Turner, Scooter Brown Band, Shenandoah, Tracy Lawrence, Trent Harmon, Walker County June 11 RIVERBEND FESTIVAL (Chattanooga) Selwyn Birchwood June 12 THE BASEMENT EAST (Nashville) Mr. Big June 12 RIVERBEND FESTIVAL (Chattanooga) Jamie Grace, Crowder, Sidewalk Prophets, Finding Favour June 13 LAKEWOOD AMPHITHEATRE (Atlanta) Dead & Company June 13 BRIDGESTONE ARENA (Nashville) Iron Maiden, Ghost June 13 SCHHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) Ann Wilson June 13 RIVERBEND FESTIVAL (Chattanooga) George Thorogood & The Destroyers, Mother’s Finest , Chase Martin, Brett Young June 14 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Mia Jackson June 15 TIVOLI THEATRE (Chattanooga) Gladys Knight June 15 RIVERBEND FESTIVAL (Chattanooga) Morris Day And The Time, Cameo, The Purple Experience feat. The Dr. Matt Fink, Billy Joe Shaver, The Ragbirds, Chris Bandi, Whiskey Myers June 15 ASCEND AMPHITHEATRE (Nashville) Third Eye Blind, Silversun Pickups June 15 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE (Alpharetta, GA) Luke Bryan, Brett Eldredge, Lauren Alaina June 15 37 MAIN (Buford, GA) Matthew Sweet June 15 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Mia Jackson June 16 RIVERBEND FESTIVAL (Chattanooga) Toby Keith, The Yardbirds, Drew Sterchi, Jocelyn & Chris Arndt, Sullivan Band June 16 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE (Alpharetta, GA) Luke Bryan, Brett Eldredge, Lauren Alaina June 16 INFINITE ENERGY CENTER (Duluth, GA) Cedric the Entertainer, George Lopez June 16 VARIETY PLAYHOUSE (Atlanta) The Producers June 16 TENNESSEE THEATRE (Knoxville) Gladys Knight June 16 HARRAH’S CHEROKEE CASINO (Cherokee, NC) Huey Lewis And The News June 16 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Mia Jackson June 17 RIVERBEND FESTIVAL (Chattanooga) The Producers, The Last Bandoleros, Brother Hawk, Geneva, Here Come The Mummies June 17 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE (Alpharetta, GA) Luke Bryan, Brett Eldridge, Lauren Alaina June 17 EDDIE’S ATTIC (Atlanta) Col. Bruce Hampton June 17 CHASTAIN PARK (Atlanta) Gipsy Kings June 17 FRANKLIN THEATRE (Franklin, TN) Christopher Cross June 17 BJCC CONCERT HALL (Birmingham) Gladys Knight June 17 BIJOU THEATRE (Knoxville) Bruce Hornsby
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June 17 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) Mia Jackson June 18 EDDIE’S ATTIC (Atlanta) Francine Reed, Lilly Winwood June 18 CITY WINERY NASHVILLE (Nashville) Mickey Dolenz June 18 THE BASEMENT EAST (Nashville) Dick Gregory June 18 SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) Bruce Hornsby June 19 HUTTON & SMITH BREWING COMPANY (Chattanooga) Strung Like A Horse June 21 CHASTAIN PARK (Atlanta) Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie June 21 CARL BLACK CHEVY WOODS AMPHITHEATER AT FONTANEL (Whites Creek, TN) Collective Soul, Our Lady Peace, Tonic July 22 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) James Gregory June 23 MILLER PLAZA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall” Divinity Roxx, Over Easy June 23 SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER (Nashville) Johnny Mathis June 23 ASCEND AMPHITHEATER (Nashville) Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie June 23 VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE (Alpharetta, GA) Chicago, Doobie Brothers June 23 IRON CITY (Birmingham) Sister Hazel June 23 THE COMEDY CATCH (Chattanooga) James Gregory June 24 HUTTON & SMITH BREWING COMPANY (Chattanooga) Strung Like A Horse June 24 CHASTAIN PARK (Atlanta) Dispatch, Guster June 24 THE BASEMENT EAST (Nashville) Ron Funches June 24 CHASTAIN PARK (Atlanta) Sheryl Crow June 25 INFINITE ENERGY CENTER (Duluth, GA) Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, CNCO June 25 PUBLIC SQUARE PARK (Nashville) “Nashville Pride Festival” Ce Ce Peniston, Ty Herndon June 25 CHASTAIN PARK (Atlanta) John Mellencamp, Emmylou Harris, Carlene Carter, Lily & Madeleine June 27 TENNESSEE STATE FAIRGROUNDS (Nashville) “Vans Warped Tour” After The Burial, Andy Black, Bad Cop / Bad Cop, Barb Wire Dolls, Being As An Ocean, Blessthefall, Boston Manor, Candiria, Carnifex, CKY, Counterparts, Courage My Love, Creeper, Dance Gavin Dance, Emmure, Farewell Winters, Feeki, Fire From The Gods, Fit For A King, Gwar, Hands Like Houses, Hatebreed, Hawthorne Heights, Hundredth, I Prevail, Jule Vera, Knocked Loose, Memphis May Fire, Microwave, Movements, Neck Deep, New Years Day, Our Last Night, Silent Planet, Silverstein, Sonic Boom Six, Sworn In, Sylar, The Acacia Strain, The Adolescents, Alestorm, American Authors, Flag, , Bad Seed Rising, Beartooth, Bowling For Soup, Carousel Kings, Futuristic, Municipal Waste, Shout Never, Sammy Adams, Save Ferris, Sick Of It All, Stick To Your Guns, Strung Out, The Ataris, The Dukes, The Fantastic Plastics, Watsky, The Gospel Youth, The White Noise, Too Close To Touch, Trophy Eyes, Twilight Creeps, War On Women, Sarah And The Safe Word, William Control, Valient Thorr June 27
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Monday May 1 Sinai Vessel, Decons
Tuesday May 2
Red Necklace, Gunpowder Gray, Prayer Circle
Wednesday May 3
Open Mic Comedy Free Kittens
Thursday May 4 Dexateens, Lew Card
Friday May 5 Cinco De Socro!!!
Saturday May 6
Brother Hawk, ET, Sean Lucy
Tuesday May 7
Comedy Buffet with Dave Stone
Wednesday May 8
Open Mic Comedy Free Kittens, Blonde Bones
Saturday May 13 WAXFANG, Nim Nims, Georgia Flood
Tuesday May 16
Caney Creek Co., Cherubim, Kindora
Wednesday May 17 Open Mic Comedy Free Kittens
Thursday May 18
Blair Cimmins and the Hookers
Friday May 19 BTB, Creature Comfort
Saturday May 20 Elkmilk
Sunday May 21
Mudsex, Genki Genki Panic
Tuesday May 23 Adventure Fight
Wednesday May 24 Open Mic Comedy Free Kittens
Thursday May 25 Hollis Brown
Saturday May 27 Danimal Planet, The New Schematics
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Mark Holder and MPH, 20 Watt Tombstone, Maness Bros.
Friday June 2 Hank and Cupcakes
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The First 100 Days Call it an artificial measurement if you will, but Washington has always put a good bit of emphasis on a new president’s first 100 days in office. President Donald J. Trump was making bold predictions about his first 100 days until about the 50-day mark. Things were looking bad on a lot of fronts and there was no sign of improvement on the horizon... ...We really do need to recap. It gets confusing. You have to start with the fact that several members of the Trump campaign are under investigation for potentially improper communications with the Russians. Yes, those same Russians who tried to sabotage the Democratic National Committee and tilt the election for Trump. This kind of investigation is... here’s that word again... unprecedented. If a budding spy novelist has proposed such a thing to his publisher, he’d have been laughed out of the room...
ongoing campaign investigations... at least for a while. But the health care bill was yanked before a clearly-doomed House vote and Speaker Paul Ryan took most of the blame. Regardless, there was no big
he did was name the guy he was told to name. With clear majorities in the House and Senate, the Republicans ensured Gorsuch’s confirmation...
course and played golf on at least 13 occasions, according to The New York Times. The Times found that Obama spent no days at a golf course during his first three months. Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton also spent either no time or very little time golfing during their first 90 days — Bush made no trips to a golf course, while Clinton spent three days at courses... ...There are a lot of ways to measure success and failure. Thus far, Trump’s efforts to move the bar have had mixed results. As long as those investigations into his campaign’s connections to the Russians are hanging over his head, the president will continue to have record-low approval ratings...
legislative win on health care... ...Trump is also outshining his predecessor at golf. As a candi...Oh, remember that YUGE date, the billionaire political wall that candidate Trump hobbyist loved to criticize insisted would be a high prior- then-President Obama for his ity if he got elected? Well... it’s public golf outings. During his been booted out of the budget first three months in office, — Mark Bedford because the whole darned Trump spent 19 days at a golf thing might collapse under the weight of it. The Mexicans won’t have to pay for anything...
...Thus far, Trump’s big “win” ...A big legislative win on has been the appointment of health care would have moved Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme the spotlight away from the Court. But, let’s be honest. All
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Reminisces from the Range I have been teaching the Tennessee Handgun Permit class since 1996. That’s as long as some of my students have been alive. It has been a great experience as it combined two things I like, guns and teaching. I had been told a long time ago that I should be a teacher when I was instructing firearms classes with the Chattanooga Police Department and helping instruct during Special Weapons and Tactics schools given by the C.P.D Swat Team. I got started when a friend who was an instructor of the Tennessee Handgun permit class asked me to help him with some of the classes. I quickly began filling in for him and when he retired and moved away I began teaching the class several times a month. This was the almost perfect job. I got paid to teach people when they could legally use a firearm to defend themselves, safety with their firearms and how to shoot. The only thing better was if I been getting paid to shoot and I had a job doing that with SWAT.
holding the class up but told us she had developed Multiple Sclerosis and was losing the use of her legs. Everyone was very courteous and no one got in a hurry as we held the range doors and got her out One of my memorable stu- into a booth made to accomdents arrived via wheelchair. modate wheelchairs. She An accident had caused her again apologized for holding am writing about them. I am not going to mention their names. I know all of them would be too humble to tell their story in public or have me tell their story.
lower body paralysis. She was not letting this slow her down. She wheeled her chair in and up to the table and flashed a smile at me. She listened intently in class then the group went out onto the range. Unfortunately she let her thumb get behind the slide mechanism of the semiautomatic pistol she was firing. She received a pretty good cut or “slide-bite”. We got the bleeding stopped, got a BandAid on the wound and she insisted on finishing. She rolled out beaming a smile from ear to ear. Hey, some days I’d do this for free.
things up as she got situated to shoot. I assured her we were in no hurry. We started the qualification course and she started smoking it with her double action revolver. When she was through and received her 100 score she was beaming. Another day I got paid far more than money.
My job teaching the Handgun Permit class has brought me into contact with thousands of people over the years. Some of these stand out in my memory due to their resolve in being able to complete the class due to physical difficulties. Others I remember due to their personal heroism just Recently I had a lady in class getting to this point in their who had a stroller/wheelchair that she had to use to get into lives. the classroom and out onto None of these people know I the range. She apologized for ENIGMA
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A few years ago I had an elderly gentleman attend class. As members of “the Greatest Generation” in my experience always do he sat quietly, listened intently and took notes. I did not know how old this gentleman was. During a break I asked him what type of handgun he was going to use. He related that he was going to shoot a type of gun he had not fired in over 65 years, a .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol. He told me he had last fired one in 1945 when he had qualified with one in the Army prior to being shipped out to go overseas to fight the Japanese. The old veteran told me he was on a ship heading for the Japan when the first bomb was dropped. The war ended before he got over there. Later when we went out to fire the qualification course I watched as he grinned with each shot. He was all smiles as he surveyed the big holes in his target when he was through. I was so awed I forgot to note his name. Have you ever left your “job” felling really good? I did that night.
Another story involving a .45 , a vet and a coincidence occurred when my high school ROTC commander attended my class. I did not immediately recognize him but he had a distinctive and uncommon last name. I knew it was him and identified myself as one of his former Battalion. We caught up on old times and current. Later when the class went out to shoot he told me he was firing his grand father’s .45 from World War II. This man had helped train me in drill and ceremony in high school and now I was training him. The world is full of weird coincidences. I had another great experience in a permit class when the elderly mother of a former student attended my class. Her son had taken my class earlier and he was insistent that she take her Permit to Carry class from me. This was
one of the nicest ladies I ever had the pleasure of meeting. She was all smiles and her demeanor just radiated warmth. She was very attentive during the lecture. Unfortunately she had severe arthritis in her hands. I knew she was going to have problems pulling the trigger on the double action revolver she had brought to qualify with. I had her try a small semiautomatic pistol I had. She went on to qualify with it and eventually bought one just like it. She later sent me a note thanking me for my help and adding some other comments that I tried to not let give me a “swelled head”. I became good friends with her son and see him occasionally when he comes back into town from his out of town job. Sadly she passed away last year.
eran. A quiet, trim, clean-cut younger man hung around after his permit class. He related that he was a former Marine sniper. Apparently my being a former SWAT sniper had struck a familiar chord with this former Marine sniper. He told me that his slight limp was caused by the steel rod in his leg. I listened mesmerized as he told me about his team being ambushed and him losing friends from the ambush and later from suicide. I stood transfixed as he told of his several surgeries, long recuperation and depression due to survivor’s guilt . What can you say to that? Thank you just doesn’t seem to cut it. We stay in contact. He had a son about a year ago. We had lunch awhile back. He said someone had asked him if he had seen “American Sniper”. The last reminiscence I will He said he wanted to tell them recount involves another vet- “Hell I lived it”.
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I’m sure there are memorable experiences I’ve forgotten and I apologize to those people. I have another good story or two but I’m out of space. On days when I have people in class who I have to admonish to quit texting or who are not listening or otherwise rude I just try to remember the old vet, the young lady in the wheel chair, the lady with MS, a refugee from Cambodia, and the Sniper. Some days I really earn my pay. Some days I know the experience far outweighed the pay. Thanks to all my students through the years,
- Mark Haskins Background music while writing this article was Journey’s Greatest Hits and Toad The Wet Sprocket’s P.S. A Toad Retrospective.
Good Riddance The world is down one piece of garbage now. Former New England Patriots “star” tight end Aaron Hernandez was found hanged in his jail cell a little after three in the morning. A coward way out for a coward, but good riddance.
Hernandez was serving a life sentence for the murder of Odin Lloyd, an acquaintance who was dating his fiancé’s sister. Lloyd’s body was found a mile from Hernandez’s estate in February of 2013 and the New England Patriot star was arrested and charged with his murder in June of that year. Most recently Hernandez was acquitted of the murders of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in 2012 only a week ago at a trial that had all the makings of a good “Law & Order” episode as pictures were posted in the wire services of Hernandez blowing kisses to his four-year-old daughter who was eight months old when he was incarcerated. There was some initial shock over Hernandez’s original arrest but soon an avalanche fell into the public of a long history of violence,
criminal and gang activity as well end was involved with the 2007 as other illegal activities regarding unsolved shooting. the Patriots’ tight end. Before Hernandez was arrested On field Hernandez lived a and convicted for his part in the charmed life and those in football murder of Lloyd there was the doucircles from high school, college ble homicide indictment that he and the NFL until his conviction. A was not guilty of last week and only illegal possession of a gun and a 2013 shooting in June in Miami of Alexander S. Bradley who claimed the NFL star shot him while the two were riding together. In 2015 the Patriots tight end was indicted on witness intimidation involving the shooting. Bradley lost an eye in the shooting and refused to cooperate with police. He did file suit against Hernandez twice, the first dismissed for improper paperwork
standout player in high school who was already showing some off field bad behavior it was overlooked by then Florida Gators head coach Urban Meyer. Hernandez helped Meyer and the Gators win a National Title and looked the other way at his off field activities. Twice it was documented although both swept under the rug in 2007 when Hernandez attacked a bouncer at a club where the then 17-yearold was caught drinking underage and escorted out of the club. Not long after that five shots were fired into a car with three occupants at a stoplight seriously injuring two of them. The third that was uninjured described the assailant who fit Hernandez’s description. He refused to talk to police and no charges were filed. Following Hernandez’s part in the murder of Lloyd, Massachusetts’s police reached out to Gainesville police to determine whether the star tight ENIGMA
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filing and the second, attorneys for him filed for a postponement of the trial because it would be legally unfair to permit the lawsuit as they were already defending him for the murder of Lloyd. Ironically Hernandez died an innocent man. In Massachusetts since he had not exhausted all forms of appeal before his death despite serving a life term for first-degree murder, he was still technically innocent. Hernandez had a long history of violence dating back to his teens, which it was believed he was a gang member, although never officially confirmed. His tattoos and
mannerisms mirrored those of one – especially the violence. But time after time until that fateful night in 2013 law enforcement looked the other way. And it wasn’t until his arrest that revelations of his bad behavior and violence while at the University of Florida became exposed. Aaron Hernandez is a prime example of why I am no longer in love with the sport of football as I once was. As a kid I lived a breathed football. My father who played football aided this. One of my best memories of my dad is his teaching me how to throw a spiral in our back yard when I was two. Our weekends were spent together watching college football on Saturday afternoon with Keith Jackson and the NFL on Sundays. And then when I found out they even played a game on Monday night you would have thought I won the lottery. I lived and breathed the sport –
almost obsessively. I am still a big fan, but as I got into college it started to change. I noticed the behavior of the players not the same. As a kid football players were heroes and business leaders. Of course this was an era before social media when people led private lives when not in front of a camera or in a stadium. What little was known by some players I found out on the back of their trading card or an occasional biographical book that was sometimes available in grade school when we could buy books from some scholastic book company our teachers would hand out to us twice a semester to order recreational reading books. I bought every book about football and still have one in my bathroom to day about football stories of some historical NFL games. My favorite as a kid was “Griese/Csonka: Miami’s One-Two Punch” about the Dolphin’s quarterback and star running back and how they led the team to the famous undefeated
In college I noticed players getting away without going to class, getting free meals and getting away with petty crime and in one case a rape allegation. And it just wasn’t football it was basketball a well. I remember having class with one of the stars of our nationally ranked basketball team and he never took his headphones off in class. Our instructor had just handed back out our graded term papers and this guy turned around to me, pulled off his headphones and asked me what I got on the paper. I told him I got an “A”. He said he got a “C+” but would have gotten a higher grade if his tutor had handed in the paper on time.
lion dollar business beginning with youth leagues and of course the pro game. Before million dollar player contracts, billion dollar TV contracts, naming rights to stadiums and college sporting events sports like football, baseball, basketball, hockey – and so on and so forth were sports that followed particular seasons. In school youth sports schedules were based upon the calendar with football in the fall, basketball in the winter and baseball and track in the spring into the summer. Student athletes used to take part in all sports they felt compelled to play despite their ability – or lack thereof. Even the worst of the worst got a minute of playing tome or an at-bat.
And before I go off on football let me say it is still my favorite sport. I love the sport of football – not the business. And that’s the problem. Football is no longer a sport; it’s become a business – a megabillion dollar and soon to be a tril-
But everyone loves a winner and unfortunately winning encompasses reward and money. When you’re 12 years old you should try out a lot of things sports or otherwise. And even if your ability is not scout worthy you are partici-
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pating in not only a social or extracurricular activity you are getting a degree of exercise that was encouraged in schools until the last couple of decades. Anyone remember the President’s Council on Physical Fitness back in the day? To be a well-rounded individual schools not only provided education, they offered arts and physical fitness. But that is a bygone era as we live in an era of specialization.
That’s a lot of money for most who don’t even graduate college these days. And that’s the minimum. This for playing a game, a game a lot of children play but because the powers that be figured out how to monetize and monopolize it, it’s a biased business with all the fun of competition thrown out and replaced by bottom lines. Athletes used to become part of the community and towns they played in. Now it’s an old-fashioned statement to call someone a hometown hero. From high school, college and were they where drafted players became part of the community because they not only played there, they lived there. Once free agency began first in Major League Baseball in 1970 and late the NFL in 1993 players no longer became part of the town they played, instead they became hired hit men. Instead of being loyal to a team they went to work (or play) for whomever paid them the most. Loyalty and tradition were thrown out the window. When a player is now inducted into the Hall of Fame when they had played their career for one, maybe two for the last year or two of their career because of attrition, some have played for three or more teams and they must decide which team’s uniform, hat or logo they want emblazoned on their bust in the hall.
Even when I was still in grade school I soon saw fathers concentrate this son’s for one particular sport. I watched dads hang out at practices and “coach” from the sidelines. Instead of participating in each sport offered guys were soon playing only one sport year ‘round. At first thought was for a scholarship as collegiate sports started to become big time draws in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s to thoughts of turning pro.
One by one the parents, then the coaches attempted to program kids ning or throwing a football, swing- ing a bat or throwing a ball through gifted in a certain talent, be it runa hoop to concentrate on that sport and that sport alone. Besides teaching them fundamentals they soon worked on creating a supreme athlete with superior strength, endurance and skills for that one sport. A lot of pressure was being put on kids to achieve success in these sports to basically take the burden of supporting the family off the shoulders of the par- Sports and celebrity is a microcosm ents but into the futures of these of what’s wrong with this country. Past generations taught and touted student athletes. a work ethic. No longer. Everything today is specific specialIt wasn’t until the mid 1970s that ization, instant gratification with the NFL became a legitimate maximum reward for little or no career. Old school trading cards effort. Here’s s good example. would tell you what kind of jobs the NFL player held in the off-sea- Reality star and Dallas Mavericks son. Hall of Famer Alan Page was owner is more famous for being a an attorney. Place kicker Garo billionaire than how he became a Yepremian owned a tie shop. Back billionaire. People are more interin 1960 NFL Commissioner Buddy ested in what he does with his Bell spoke with the players and money and how they can emulate it told them playing football was not than how he initially earned it. All a career and don’t expect to live the talk about billionaire Warren off the salary. The average NFL Buffet is about his opinion and player was paid $12,000 a year back what he says to invest in instead of in 1960. In 2015 the NFL minimum how he created his wealth. Both salary for a rookie is $465,000. have bought into the ego gratificaENIGMA
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tion the media has given them and its easy for them to say you should do this or that, no one is explaining the how and why and responsibility involved. People are now told to just look at the bottom line. It’s like math. The purpose of math is not just numbers it’s esoterically a lot more. It’s problem solving, problem solving that can be applied without the use of a calculator but real life experiences. In other world real world applications and more than just numbers. We have become a society that is enthralled with celebrity. People these days will do anything to become famous and in some cases infamous. That is the only explanation for the genre of reality TV, the influence of social media and how people use these tools to further an agenda or go down in history and infamy in an attempt to go viral. With Facebook Live alone and apps like Periscope people are using these tools to record themselves doing a number of activities including now suicide and murder. For the rich and famous many look the other way or make excuses to excuse their behavior. In the most recent NFL draft there are a number of players with domestic violence charges and sports writers while not condoning the behavior, the only things they say about it is that it will probably drop their draft position – not hold them accountable but will only hurt them short term financially. Sports are notorious for looking the other way. Current NFL players like Adrian Peterson missed an entire year involving child abuse, recently retired NFL quarterback Michael Vick was sent to a federal penitentiary for bankrolling a dogfighting ring and was welcomed back with relatively open arms by the league and fans. People were more upset over Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the National Anthem than domestic violence charges. The only reason Ray Rice didn’t sign with another team had noting to do with the elevator tape
of him hitting his fiancé, but the fact he was at that age when most running backs begin to get shelved (late 20s/early 30s with rare exceptions like Peterson and Emmitt Smith). Greg Hardy’s domestic violence and weapons charges or his lack of remorse didn’t stop the Dallas Cowboys from signing him in 2015. Even Hall of Famers aren’t immune. We call know the infamous OJ Simpson murder trial, acquittal and aftermath. Let us not forget Hall of Fame quarterback was charged with domestic violence charges in 1996 for allegedly choking his wife. Many of these guys still have loyal fan bases that look the other way because they can play a sport that is really a child’s game. The NCAA and the NFL looked the other way on the bad person that Aaron Hernandez won. I have no respect for either anymore. Growing up as someone who loved the sport I still watch and am skeptical at the product on the field. It’s all about money and not sport or actually representing the town for which the team represents. And it’s ironic he played for the New England Patriots who despite their “dynasty” should be under a real investigation for all the many coincidences during Bill Belichick’s tenure as head coach. There are too many “gates” to list. Urban Meyer had all of Hernandez’s behavioral issues brushed under the rug and the Patriots used that behavior to draft him in a lower round than he should have. Ironically just before Hernandez was arrested for the murder of Lloyd he signed a $40 million extension. Not bad for lack of a better way to say it – a career criminal. The best news I’ve heard in a long time is Hernandez’s suicide. A coward way out. Finally a useless individual that got what he deserved. Good riddance.
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On May 6th Hits 96 Assistant Program Director and afternoon on-air personality Brad Steiner will hit an impressive milestone. The station’s annual “Running of the Chihuahuas” will celebrate their tenth running at First Tennessee
participating has grown immensely not only in popularity but size with over 100 pups participating to win the crown. “We may not be the Kentucky Derby yet... but this year is shaping up to be our biggest, ever,” says Steiner.
Steiner, a popular radio personality in town originated the event that today has been copied by many radio stations in other markets around the country. When the race starts, six dogs at a time compete to see who crosses the finish line first with each winner moving on to the next round of the competition. For the fifth year, Hits 96 is surrounding the race-site with big screen TV’s Hits 96’s Brad Steiner is the came up that will make for optimum with the annual “Running of the viewing of the Chihuahuas and Chihuahuas” that is now being copied by dozens of radio stations around the will determine race results country. when competition gets tight, as Pavilion. What began in 2008 it did in the 2014 and 2015 as a fun station promotion finale. Not only will the winwith a total of six Chihuahuas ning racer win their weight in ENIGMA
prizes, owners and spectators can win while enjoying showcase performances from artists like Aaron Carter, AJR and Maggie Lindemann and more. In addition to the races and music, Hits 96 will be providing a once-in-a-lifetime trip to one of the spectators of the race to attend V Festival in England August 18 and 19 with a stellar lineup that includes Jay Z, Pink, The Vamps and many more. The race, a parody in a way of the Kentucky Derby the same day was the top trending topic last year on Twitter with the exception of the Derby according to station manager Danny Howard. The event that features live music listeners to the station prior to the race has grown from its humble beginnings at the parking lot of the station to be the largest of its kind in
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the country. “This year we will induct the first round of racers in our Running of the Chihuahuas Hall Of Fame. It will be a special group of the most dedicated and successful racers in our storied history. That incredible athletic prowess will be on display for free on May 6th.” Registration is still open and available at www.hits96.com on a first come, first serve basis. Spectators and press are encouraged to participate, for free, starting at 1:00p at the First Tennessee Pavilion. Music begins at 2:00p and racing begins, tentatively, at 5:00p. 10th Annual Running of the Chihuahua Concert Lineup Aaron Carter AJR, Daniel Skey Maggie Lindemann Symon
STS9 - And the Beat Goes On Founded in Georgia in the late ‘90s, Sound Tribe Sector 9 (later STS9) quickly refined a style of dub-influenced, breakbeatinfused psychedelic music with a heavy emphasis on group improvisation, comparable to the work of jam band peers such as the Disco Biscuits and the New Deal. They enjoy a massive following wherever they perform including legendary shows at Denver’s Red Rocks, Bonnaroo as well as a usual annual five-night stand at The Tabernacle in their former hometown of Atlanta, GA. We recently caught up with drummer Zach Velmer.
different time zones.
a band like STS9?
You guys are southern boys that moved out west. Is there any thing about the south that you miss that you can’t walk out your door at home and get?
It’s pretty awesome, man. We definitely get to play music we all want to play, which is super exciting and we all feel incredibly grateful for that. Our influences are definitely from the A meat and three. For real. We south – the funk of James
With all your traveling how do you guys keep track of all the time zones you travel?
form but within that structure and form we leave it open for what we’re feeling in the moment, so there are certain things that have open sections and certain things that don’t have open sections, but as a band we have these sections we leave open for what’s going to happen in that particular moment. I would say it’s all over the map, but some different stuff and I think that what makes it very interesting and fresh for us which keeps it really fun because you never know what’s going to happen in the moment. We definitely have a blast doing it. How structured is the songwrit ing? Is it something where you have to sit down and orchestrate or something that comes about with the vibe in that moment?
I have people that keep that in order for me, my friend. (both laugh) Crazy. Yeah, definitely crazy catching up in all kinds of
should open up some meat and three joints in California and it would go off without a hitch. I’m surprised there aren’t many out there. Meat and threes are the original healthy eating really before fast food took over the landscape.
I can’t jut pinpoint what it is all the time. It’s an evolving, breathing entity and there’s no formula for how it happens. At Brown to the crunk of Outkast some points it happens when to that whole genre of what the an individual works on somesouth brings – from electronic to funk to hip hop to jazz and all that stuff; that’s definitely where are roots are from. So we kind of keep embracing that path I think.
Your music seems at times to be very improvisational. Am I get ting the right kind of vibe from Being a drummer everybody that? talks to the guitar player or the singer. What is it like being in We have a lot of structure and
Totally, totally.
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thing and it’s not finished and we all pitch in. There’s no rhyme or reason of how things get presented or worked on or finished. It’s what’s created this longevity. It’s an organism that’s evolving so it’s a really cool prospect of how we work together, finish it and work on something all together.
selves on the road or gotten in the studio with different vocalists and all that stuff. It’s always been how we wanted to share our art. You guys now call the west coast home as we were talking about earlier. What kind of influence has being on the west coast now had on you guys?
You guys do a lot of touring and traveled all over the world. I’ve been on the west coast as What is the benefit of being on long if not longer than I lived tour as much as you guys are? on the east coast so it’s kind of where we live now. I think to I think we’re able to get into be on the left coast it’s a little this kind of groove – it’s a prac- simpler – the nature, the mountice; like anything like if you tains, the ocean, the Redwoods workout every day, if you do – all that kind of plays into our yoga every day, if you meditate strongpoint to play our music; every day; if you have a prac- kind of finding our balance tice. Within what comes from with nature a little bit more. I that practice is new levels. think that’s kind of how it does, Being on the road and being on but I think in that, we travel tour you find these new levels around to a lot of cities so we of creativity and how you’re get out fix. It’s kind of a cool presenting your art to people. dichotomy of a melting pot and It’s definitely real fun. We all taking all the inspiration of enjoy it. being on the road or being at home or being in nature, or a A majority of your music is big city; from those experiences instrumental with very few that comes through our music vocal samplings used. When in different ways and I think you guys started was that ini- that’s pretty special and pretty tially how it all came together? cool. Yeah. All of our records and all of our music back to a little while ago had some type of vocals whether we sample that vocal, play it live or have somebody singing it’s always come from a vocal that we worked with. Even if we are a jam/instrumental band we work with different artists and collaborate. That’s kind of a cool thing we get to experience as well, but that’s always been a part of our thing dating back to our first records Artifact up to The Universe Inside. Most of our stuff has sampled Alan Watts and we’ve sampled our-
They push us; we push them.
I read where you and other members of the bands have a Oh man, it’s more exciting. We pretty large selection of shoes. definitely don’t feel like it’s been 20 years. We count it as Yeah, I like my shoes. (laughs) I the first 20. We definitely feel used to be a big collector and the best is ahead of us. There’s then I had a child. That kind of more to come. We’re more changed some things. (laughs) I inspired than ever to create do love shoes. I’m a collector. music and kinda keep sharing I love rare stuff. Alana’s what we’ve been working on in [Rocklin] the same. We’re all the studio, what we’re working kind of into that lifestyle. on together and what’s ahead. We’re more inspired than ever. You guys are about to celebrate We can take what we’ve done a 20th anniversary. That’s quite in the past and just keep applyan accomplishment for any ing it and keep creating. We’re band. not going to stop; it’s too much fun. It’s coming up. Yeah, thanks. - Dave Weinthal
You guys have developed massive following filling amphitheaters, festival grounds – just about every size venue imaginable. You’ve been able to become this kind of draw with out the traditional benefit of the radio. That’s a pretty impressive accomplishment. That’s how we’ve done it. That’s who we are. We’ve developed a grassroots kind of thing that we’ve done for 20 years. It’s pretty cool and like I said, our fans are amazing. We love our fans. We do this for them and for ourselves as well. ENIGMA
With that in the mind what are you guys looking forward to?
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Radiohead’s Not Fooling Around... spanning the years. Radiohead finished off the April Fool’s night with a series of eight (yes eight) encore songs as the enthusiastic crowd sang every word along with them in a chorus of thousands. What an incredible night of music it was. This show will go down as one for the history books. Radiohead Setlist: Daydreaming Thousands of music listeners packed into Atlanta’s Philips Arena for a stellar performance by legendary English band Radiohead. It was the
their headlining performance at Coachella. Frontman Thom Yorke started off the solid set with “Daydreaming” from their ninth studio album A Moon Shaped Pool. Yorke conducted the band into the piano driven song and warmed up the crowd for their catalog cornucopia of tunes that followed.
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Desert Island Disk Ful Stop Airbag My Iron Lung Separator All I Need Pyramid Song Street Spirit (Fade Out) Bloom I Might Be Wrong Myxomatosis Idioteque The Gloaming Subterranean Homesick Alien The Numbers House of Cards (tour debut; first since 2012)
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Encore: No Surprises Burn the Witch Paranoid Android Present Tense Everything in Its Right Place Encore 2: You and Whose Army? Bodysnatchers Encore 3: Karma Police
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Duran Duran - More Than Just Paper Gods
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There’s another one I can cross off my bucket list. I finally got to see Duran Duran in concert – and I wasn’t disappointed after all this time. I have been an unabashed fan of Duran Duran since the first time I saw “Hungry Like the Wolf” on MTV (back when it stood for Music Television). I never saw them until the other night because when they were leading the second “British Invasion” and dubbed the “Fab Five” I was a poor college kid without dependable transportation to travel the many hours it would have taken to drive to the concert back in the day. I finally got to see the band that I loved and still do. Duran Duran had a great influence on me as a kid, not only the music, but also the fashion and imagery in their videos and even live concerts (watch “The Reflex” live video for example) as well. Those that know me today may be surprised to know that I grew up loving fashion. Fashion, music and movies – not in that order as they rotated amongst themselves from time to time were what I grew up loving. Of course back in the day all three intertwined until grunge hit in the early ‘90s. I loved Hollywood (old Hollywood and old movies), great
rock and roll and dance music and because my mother for whom they invented the word fashionista I always had a love for dressing nice – until I pledged a fraternity during my third year of college. Duran Duran, ABC and bands like that during the initial New Romantic movement in music in the early ‘80s combined all three. The only problem is that I looked nothing like Simon, Nick, John or Martin Fry. I was a fat or chubby kid, but I dressed as best the part without dressing inappropriately for my size (which ironically now is considered skinny by many). I even had the hair to go with it. I dressed in tailored suits, skinny ties, had my hair done at a salon – even went to theatre events to broaden my artistic boundaries (back in the day I wanted to be an actor).
to clubs to listen to great dance music and check out the women that came into these clubs. Unlike today when it seems like dressing down is the standard, going to
I got introduced to MTV by my best friend Chuck who, because he lived in Fort Oglethorpe, had the music channel a year before it was offered where I lived, I would go over to his house after class and watch endless videos with him. He was kind of into style the way I was but he was more into the way I was into a degree, to attract women. We spent endless weekends going ENIGMA
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clubs back in the day was a time to look your best. And as the ‘80s rolled in and music met fashion via MTV style merchants like Duran Duran, ABC, David Bowie, Adam
Ant, Human League, Roxy Music and Talk Talk were all over the radio and now MTV. No one personified what was great about early MTV more than Duran Duran. From the intro to “Hungry Like the Wolf” I was hooked. And unlike rocks stars like the Stones, the Kinks, Ramones and Billy Squier these guys didn’t look like your typical rock star. They had actual sartorial style. Add to that a dance beat and I was hooked. I ran to the Record Bar to buy Rio and wore out the cassette. (Yes, this was a time before the CD or mp3.) They reissued the first album that had now iconic classics like “Planet Earth” and “Girls on Film”. I bought most of the albums and even the side projects. I had cassettes of Power Station and Arcadia. I really liked Arcadia’s album So Red the Rose that featured Simon, Nick and Roger. I have always loved Simon LeBon’s voice and part of that reason was because it was distinctive and what to me he represented; and that was style and attraction by the opposite
As time moved on Duran Duran has rolled with the times. Not content on being a nostalgia act or totally reinventing themselves over and over again like Bowie, Duran Duran updated their sound without totally changing it. The drums, keyboards, bass and vocals are always easy to identify and seem right for the time. In the mid to late ‘80s they went to a more polished rock sound and by the mid ‘90s they were one of the first bands to embrace ‘90s dance with songs like “Electric Barbarella” (my personal favorite). The one consistent with Duran Duran is that they were native to the dance floor, and despite my inability to do so; I still love(d) that kind of music. That continues to this day as the EDM crowd has embraced the band, making appearances at Ultra Music Fest continues with their most current album Paper Gods. Paper Gods feature collaborations with electronic artists such as Kiesza on “Last Night in the City” the current single, Mr Hudson and Janelle Monáe.
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bers minus Andy Taylor. But four out of five was good for me. I knew I was in the right place when I arrived as I saw a number of attractive women wearing white leather pants, high heels as if I was witnessing a Duran Duran video cutaway shot. The amphitheatre was packed and then things went black and then almost blinding bright lights flashed as Simon, Nick, John, Roger and now Dom took their places kicking off the night with the title track of the newest release “Paper Gods”. LeBon spoke
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to the fans briefly receiving a loud roar and then went into “Wild Boys”. The lights flashed, John and Dom danced across the stage as Simon turned his back to the audience and went towards the back of the stage. He turned, fist held high in the air as the crowd roared. The crowd was a mixed with both men and women equally represented. Like a lot of style icons or even James Bond, Duran Duran – at least to me were one of those bands women went crazy over and guys instead of being jealous or making
Andy Taylor’s place on lead guitar since 2006 looks very much the part and if you didn’t know who Andy was you wouldn’t have known he wasn’t an original member. It was as if none of them gained any weight this entire time and next year marks their 40th anniversary. It’s great to finally see a band you loved when you were young and not only not being disappointed but live up to the expectations you dreamed and still look the part. ©Dave Weinthal
fun of that, respected or to a degree wanted to be like the band. And with such infectious hooks, who wouldn’t. Next of course as “Hungry Like the Wolf”, the song that got it all started for the band and helped launch the second British Invasion.
A few things I noticed while at the show was some things do get better with age or seem almost timeless. Duran Duran exemplified stylish youth of the early ‘80s and onward when they first came around. 35 years later the band still looked great and without any obvious Throughout the night the band per- plastic surgery. LeBon always had formed songs from all eras of their existence with the exception of “Electric Barbarella” playing enough songs off of Paper Gods to promote without forgetting why people were there – songs like “Notorious” and “Come Undone”. One of the highlights of the night was “Planet Earth” that the band perfectly segued into “Space Oddity”, a tribute to David Bowie. LeBon’s vocals soared perfectly during “Oddity” and then the band gently returned to “Planet Earth”. The band finished their set with “Girls on Film” before coming out for a two-song encore. During the encore the band first played “Save a Prayer” that LeBon turned into an audience participation song. The charismatic lead singer then asked everyone to pull his or her smartphones out and turn on the “flashlight” app. The light went down and the night was lit up by literally thousands of lights in the audience. I’m guessing this has replaced the Bic lighter at concerts as a show of appreciation. The band then finished the night with a powerful, resounding version of “Rio” that very closely mirrored the original with the exception you knew it was actually being performed live. ENIGMA
Duran Duran Set List: Paper Gods The Wild Boys Hungry Like the Wolf A View to a Kill Last Night in the City Come Undone Notorious Pressure Off Planet Earth / Space Oddity (tribute to David Bowie)
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Ordinary World I Don’t Want Your Love White Lines (Don’t Do It) (Grandmaster Melle Mel cover) (Reach Up for the) Sunrise / New Moon on Monday Girls on Film
kind of a chubby face, and while he no longer looks 21, he doesn’t look his age or a lounge singer trying to look young. John Taylor moved about the stage, sharing the mic with LeBon from time to time and has that same wide grin he had in their first MTV video. Nick and Encore: Roger stayed in place without mov- Save a Prayer ing out of their locale and while Rio Roger is starting to show his age slightly, he’s doing so gracefully. - Dave Weinthal Dominic Brown, who has taken
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It’s All Fun & Games with The Flaming Lips It’s been a while since I’ve seen the Flaming Lips, but I knew I was in the right place. As I walked from my car to the venue I saw two cars unloading in parking lot on the way. The folks getting out of the cars wore costumes, had uniquely colored hair and styles and well as carnival-esque hats to boot.
massive crowd that varied in age with a lot of the audience now even being born when the Flaming Lips first hit the scene in 1983. Yep, it’s been that long. Feel old yet? If one didn’t know better they might think they were attending a Mardi Gras event with the costumes, painted
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Yep, they were going to see faces and curiosity seeker the Flaming Lips as well. around. As I entered the Tabernacle to witness the commotion the main floor of the venue was closed off. The floor was so crowded that security had to cut off the flow of traffic and you had to wait for someone to leave before another could enter because of fire code regulations one of the security staff informed me. I’ve seen a lot of shows here but this was only the second time I’ve seen it like this. The other time was when I saw A Perfect Circle back in 2010. Despite the
Despite having only one radio single in 34 years, the alternative hit “She Don’t Use Jelly”, the Flaming Lips in a strange way like the Grateful Dead during their heyday prove you don’t need radio to get and build a fan base and if you give the people what they want in a live show they will come. And boy did they.
Flaming Lips have few songs that one can sing along to. That’s not taking away from their music, which is psychedelic mood music with a twist of alternative thrown in. The songs they perform are to be listened to in their context and not sung along to. With their swirling sounds and leader Wayne Coyne as ringleader it’s not a concert you are attending, it’s performance art. Performance art that is addicting and fun to witness and participate. Isolating the music from the show (which I will do here in a minute), the music combines atmospheric rock, ambient sounds and ‘60s psychedelic rock that is best suited as background music. While it is actually pretty good on it’s own it does not deserved undivided attention like traditional songs. And while some people may find that offensive especially hardcore fans but most including myself are hard pressed to name more than one or two songs off the top of their head. But The Flaming Lips are no ordinary band; in fact they are more than a band. And that’s what I’m trying to get across meaning it as a compliment and not an insult.
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1. New Pornographers 2. Jocelyn & Chris Arndt 3. Weezer 4. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit 5. Father John Misty 6. Father John Misty 7. Spoon 8. Dan Auberbach 9. Lorde 10. Blondie 11. Delbert McClintoon & Self-Made Men 12. Muddy Magnolias 13. Goldfrapp 14. Thundercats 15. Conor Oberst 16. Cold War Kids 17. Flogging Molly 18.Ani DiFranco 19. Coco Hames 20. Car Seat Headrest
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it’s pretty good and has a cult following there’s more to Wayne Coyne and company than hitting a few notes. A Flaming Lips show is an audiovisual event that includes lights, props, “toys”, balloons, interaction between Coyne and the crowd as well as complete audience participation. Having attended more than may fair share of frat parties, theme parties, Mardi Gras events and New Year’s Eve events there’s nothing quite like a Flaming Lips show as was once again evidenced on this evening. And unlike some of those other parties this show was something I could recount without being embarrassed or guilty. One thing I will say is I’m glad I wasn’t responsible for cleanup after the show.
Unicorns” Coyne disappeared from the stage as the song began he soon appeared flying across the crowd on inflated wings before return-
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1 There Should Be Unicorns Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung
Space Oddity (David Bowie cover) Feeling Yourself Disintegrate The Castle Are You a Hypnotist?? The W.A.N.D. A Spoonful Weighs a Ton Encore: Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast Silver Trembling Hands She Don’t Use Jelly Encore 2: Waitin’ for a Superman (Wayne Coyne and Stephen Drozd on piano solo)
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ing to the stage. Later in the evening he flew across the crowd again this time in his what I call a hamster bubble that I’ve seen him before – usually at outdoor festival or arenas. It was impressive he was able to pull it off in a venue the size of the Tabernacle, but I should have As soon as the show began known better to underestiCoyne showered the crowd mate the bandleader. by confetti guns and explosions all over the place. Add The carnival atmosphere to that huge balloons that endured the entire show and were thrown into the audi- the three encores that conence and bounced around sisted predominately of like beach ball the entire material from 1999’s The Soft night – those that Coyne did- Bulletin and beyond with the n’t break. At times during exception of “She Don’t Use the hi-jinks going on Coyne Jelly” their only radio single would smile broadly, almost from 1993’s Transmissions breaking out into laughter from the Satellite Heart that and at other times a look the band performed as the came across his face as if he last song of their first was thinking, “What the hell encore, finishing the night with “Do You Realize??” off have I gotten myself into?” of 2002’s Yoshimi Battles the And of course the crowd Pink Robots. went wild especially when Coyne joined the party. The Flaming Lips Set List During “There Should Be Race for the Prize ENIGMA
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THIS MONTH IN ROCK HISTORY 1955 Leonard Chess signs Chuck Berry to a recording contract after he came highly recommended by Muddy Waters. Most of Berry’s hit records would be recorded for Chess between 1955 and 1966, including “Maybellene”, “Roll Over Beethoven”, “School Day”, “Rock And Roll Music”, “Sweet Little Sixteen”, Johnny B. Goode” and “No Particular Place to Go”. Police in Bridgeport, Connecticut cancel a dance at the Ritz ballroom featuring Fats Domino. Authorities say the cancellation is because they discovered that “Rock and Roll dances might be featured” and justify their action by citing “a recent near riot at the New Haven Arena” where Rock ‘n’ Roll dances were held. Chuck Berry recorded “Maybellene”, which would become his first hit record, reaching #5 on the US Pop chart and #1 on the R&B chart. In the heyday of Pat Boone, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and The McGuire Sisters, it was one of the few Rock ‘n’ Roll songs to get any radio air play that year. 1960 Billboard magazine reports that Berry Gordy Jr, a songwriter and publisher in Detroit, is working on his own record label after successfully producing a series of hit records. 1965
The Supremes release “Back In My Arms Again”, which will become their fifth consecutive US number one hit. The Byrds enter the Billboard Pop chart for the first time with their version of Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man”, which will climb to #1 by June.
eleven consecutive weeks by “Sgt. marijuana and for contributing to Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club the delinquency of minors in Band”. Bloomington, Minnesota. Balin’s hotel room was raided by police 1968 at 5:30am. They found Balin and The Beatles began recording what friends with several girls aged became known as the White between 12 to 17 years old. He is Album, a two disc set whose offi- sentenced to one year’s hard cial title was simply “The labor and a $100 fine. He appeals Beatles”. The first track they lay and ends up paying only the fine. down is “Revolution”. Ray Stevens achieved the first of 1969 his two Billboard number one Pete Townshend of The Who hits when “Everything Is spent a night in jail in New York Beautiful” reached the top. His City after being charged with second came almost exactly four assault. The group was perform- years later with “The Streak”. ing at the Fillmore East when a 1971 fire broke out at a supermarket next door. A plainclothes police- The Rolling Stones achieve the man leapt onto the stage to warn rare feat of having both the the crowd and Townshend, think- Number One LP (“Sticky Fingers”) ing the cop was a member of the and Number One single (“Brown audience, booted him off. Sugar”) in the US.
1966 The Beatles made their final live, 1970 Canada’s 5 Man Electrical Band paid appearance in the UK when Jefferson Airplane singer Marty enters the US charts with what they played a 15 minute set at the Balin is arrested for possession of would prove to be their biggest NME Poll Winners concert at Empire Pool, Wembley. Also appearing were The Spencer Davis Group, The Fortunes, Herman’s Hermits, Roy Orbison, Cliff Richard, The Rolling Stones, The Seekers, The Small Faces, Dusty Springfield, The Walker Brothers, The Who and The Yardbirds. The Fab Four were not filmed because a financial agreement could not be reached. 1967 The F.B.I. arrests The Beach Boys’ Carl Wilson on charges of avoiding the military draft and refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance. He is later released and joins the rest of the band in Ireland for a European tour. The Monkees’ third LP, “Headquarters” was released. It was their first album recorded primarily by the four members of the group and would reach #1 in the US for one week before being relegated to second place for ENIGMA
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hit and signature tune, “Signs”. parent’s phone number was 867The song is still a staple of oldies 5309. Many folks with that phone number had it changed to avoid radio in the US. prank calls. 1972 1983 Elton John’s “Rocket Man” is released. It will reach #6 in the US David Bowie topped the Billboard and #2 in the UK. In 2004, it was Hot 100 for the second time with ranked #242 on the list of Rolling “Let’s Dance”. It was also a #1 in Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All the UK. Time. 1988 1974 Billy Joel escapes punishment for Gordon Lightfoot is awarded a defamation charges brought Gold record for his LP “Sundown” against him by Jack Powers, on the strength of the title tune, whom he called a “creep” during which went to #1, and “Carefree an interview with Playboy magazine. The judge cited the 1st Highway” which climbed to #10. Amendment and dropped all 1977 charges. Led Zeppelin broke their own 1990 concert attendance record at a show in Michigan, when more Irish singer Sinead O’Connor than 76,000 fans saw their per- refuses to perform on NBC-TV’s Saturday Night Live after shock formance. comedian Andrew Dice Clay is Britain’s BBC announced a ban on named as host. Two years later, the Sex Pistols’ anti-royalist song O’Connor would do some shock“God Save The Queen”, saying it ing of her own when she ripped is ‘in gross bad taste’. The cover up a picture of the Pope on the of the single showed a picture of same show, sending her career The Queen with a safety pin into ruins. through her lip. Shops and pressing plant workers refused to han- Sammy Davis Jr. died of throat dle the record, but it still man- cancer at the age of 64. Davis was aged to reach #2 on the UK chart. a member of The Rat Pack, along with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, 1981 Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop “Bette Davis Eyes” by Kim Carnes and had several US Top 40 hits rocketed to the top spot on including “Something’s Gotta Billboard’s singles chart, where it Give”, “Love Me or Leave Me”, would remain for six weeks. “That Old Black Magic”, “The Carnes received a personal Candy Man” and his signature thank-you letter for the song tune, “I’ve Gotta Be Me”. from actress Bette Davis, saying that it had impressed her young Jim Henson, The Muppets creator who scored two US Top 30 hits grandson. with “Rubber Duckie” in 1970 and 1982 “Rainbow Connection” in 1979, After cracking the Billboard Top died of Streptococcal Toxic Shock 40 in 1980 with “Angel Say No”, Syndrome at the age of 53. the four man Rock group from 1991 San Francisco named Tommy Tutone reached #5 with “867-5309 Mariah Carey becomes the first / Jenny”. Lead singer Tommy artist since The Jackson 5 to have Heath said that he really does her first four chart singles top the know a girl named Jenny whose Billboard Hot 100 when “I Don’t ENIGMA
Wanna Cry” went to number one. their life savings. Many victims were Pearlman’s relatives, 1992 friends and retirees in their 70s Bette Midler is the only guest on or 80s who lost everything. A Johnny Carson’s final Tonight view of the behind-the-scenes life of The Backstreet Boys is Show. revealed in Gary James’ interview 2000 with A.J. Mclean’s mother, Denise The Artist Formerly Known As McLean Solis. Prince reverts back to the name 2009 Prince. Because his publishing contract expired December 31, 69-year-old music producer Phil 1999, Prince says his birth name Spector was sentenced to 19 years was emancipated from “long- to life in prison for the murder of term restrictive documents,” and 40 year old Lana Clarkson. The he could stop using the unpro- actress died of a gunshot to the nounceable symbol he used to mouth, fired from Spector’s gun identify himself when he was in the foyer of his castle-like committed to what he called home outside Los Angeles on February 3rd, 2003. The two had “undesirable relationships.” met just hours earlier at a 2002 Hollywood nightclub. Spector Songwriter Otis Blackwell died must now spend at least 19 years from a heart attack. Among his in prison before being eligible for hits were “All Shook Up”, “Return parole. If parole is denied, he will To Sender”, “Don’t Be Cruel”, spend the rest of his life behind “Great Balls Of Fire”, “Fever” and bars. “Handy Man”. Over the years, 2010 Blackwell’s songs have sold more Ronnie James Dio, the powerful than 185 million copies. voice for Elf, Rainbow, Black 2003 Sabbath, Dio and Heaven & Hell, 58-year-old Barry White suffered lost his battle with stomach cana stroke that affected his speech cer at the age of 67. and the right side of his body. He 2011 was forced to retire from public life and passed away on July 4th. Former Village People vocalist Victor Willis launched a $1.5 mil2008 lion lawsuit against his old band Lou Pearlman, the music mogul mates over back royalties. The who created the Backstreet Boys singer, who portrayed a policeand ‘N Sync, was sentenced to 25 man in the group, left the line-up years in federal prison over a in 1979. decades-long scam that bilked thousands of investors out of
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