From the Publisher’s Notebook The stupidity never stops annoying me. I’m driving around town listening to my favorite radio station KZ 106 when a public ad comes on to remind me to wear my seatbelt (click it or ticket) or I will be given a ticket. Yet, how many ties have I passed a school bus
Three things no one knows about c. Donald Trump has asked me to me. be his V.P. a. I’m on Hillary’s State Department Life is a dream. email list. ‘Till next time. b. I was given drugs and booze by - Paul E. Burke Sr. Bill Cosby.
Security) – you get the message. I decided to get a quote from Walmart. They advertise low prices and all that bull. Well guess what? They were the exact same price as Walgreen. Don’t be fooled by their ad campaign. Check around. This has
full o f k i d s ? proven The bus is to be true basically metal on other things box. It has no airbag, in their store. seatbelts, etc. It has hard metal seat backs an bare metal. – no real Spent 25 minutes the other day safety features. looking for a location of a street in Chattanooga. Sine NONE of the We put our kids ages six to 18 in buildings had a number on them it these things and think nothing of was a pain. Why can’t local govit, yet if I’m careful in my car which ernment and te mayor pass a simhas airbags, safety steering ple law that would really be of help columns and padded dash without to the people? Make all buildings my belt on I will get a ticket. This is post their street number. I guess another case of the rules and regu- since it makes sense it’s not imporlations from the idiots in charge – tant. really. I can’t believe that a foreign comI just had a mild medical problem pany is now in charge of writing that required me to get new scripts parking tickets in Chattanooga. filled. I, like you have to watch my What he …? spending (old, retired, Social ENIGMA
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Dear Rocco, I did something recently I never ever thought would ever happen. I had sex with my gay bestie. What does this mean? Is he still gay? Am I gay? Is there something wrong with me or us? LJ
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Rocco is a common sense, tell-itlike-it-is, no-nonsense kind of guy offering real advice on any subject put before him. Why pay thousands of dollars on a high-priced therapist when he’ll straighten you out for free. If you’d like advice Deeaa rr LLJJ,, D from Rocco e-mail him at goaskrocTThh eerr ee iiss pprroobbaabbllyy aa ll oott w w rroonngg w wiitthh co@yahoo.com or drop him a line tthh ee ttw woo ooff yyoouu.. TThhee w woorrll dd ss eeee m mss ttoo at Ask Rocco c/o Enigma P.O. Box Dear Rocco, w iitthh ss eexx.. LLoovvee ii ss aann 825 Chattanooga, TN 37401. Ever since social media I am all of ccoonnffuu ssee ll oovv ee w moottii oonn w whheerr eeaa ss ssee xx ii ss aa pphhyyss iiccaall a sudden getting “friend” requests eem from people I went to high school who either used to ignore me or gave me grief. Since I left school I founded a moderately popular business that has garnered a lot of attention in it’s particular field and my services are in high demand. Some I have accepted and some I have ignored. I have even had one of them ask me about a job. What’s your take? KP
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ARIES (Mar. 21- April 20) Major job changes or opportunities to get ahead professionally are apparent. Think hard before going into business with friends or family. You may find that romance will unfold through business connections. Don't reveal anything about your personal life to those who may use such information against you.
of family members and consider the you in a much higher earning brackfeelings of your mate. et. Unreliable people will be negative about your ideas. You will meet Your luckiest events this month will some interesting people if you at occur on a Tuesday. tend promotional functions.
TAURUS (Apr. 21- may 21) Extend an invitation to clients you enjoy spending time with. Your ability to stand out in a crowd will bring you the recognition you desire. You may want to get involved in some kind of creative group. Enlist the aid
Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Saturday.
GEMINI (May 22-June 21) Don't be too quick to let friends and relatives know what you're up to. You need to do more things that you enjoy. Take advantage of the opporYour luckiest events this month will tunities that present themselves. occur on a Saturday. Now is a good time to ask for favors.
CANCER (June 22-July 22) Make sure you concentrate if operating machinery or vehicles. You can make career changes that may put
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nerves. Listen to the advice given by others. Consider starting a small business on the side. Look for a marketable gimmick.
Your luckiest events this month will Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Thursday. occur on a Saturday. SAGITTARIUS LEO (Nov. 23 -Dec. 21) (July 23-Aug 22) You must refrain from overspending Stick to your work and avoid emo- on entertainment. Your magnetic, tional confrontations. Social events outgoing personality will capture should be the highlight of your day. hearts. You can persuade even the Your accomplishments could exceed toughest opponents to think your your expectations if you mix a little way. Think twice before you agree to business with pleasure. Don't turn take on any new projects. down an invitation or a challenge that could enhance your chances of Your luckiest events this month will meeting someone special. You will occur on a Monday. be encouraged to get involved in a moneymaking venture. CAPRICORN (Dec 22.- Jan. 20) Your luckiest events this month will Stabilize your own position by lockoccur on a Wednesday. ing up your savings. Be precise in your communications to avoid any VIRGO misunderstandings and arguments. (Aug. 23 -Sept. 23) Insincere gestures of friendliness Entertainment should include the may be misleading. Draw up conwhole family or a lot of your friends. tracts regarding your personal situaYour ability to come up with good tion. solutions for problems related to work will no doubt help you in get- Your luckiest events this month will ting a promotion. Opportunities for occur on a Thursday. new romantic encounters will unfold through the social events you attend. AQUARIUS You can become obsessed with (Jan. 21 -Feb. 19) detail and must be sure to divide Don't overspend on entertainment, your time appropriately. on children, or make poor investments. Secret enemies will be eager Your luckiest events this month will to spread rumors about you. It's time occur on a Thursday. to make professional changes. Sign up for tours or courses that will LIBRA enlighten you. (Sept. 24 -Oct. 23) You can accomplish a great deal. You Your luckiest events this month will must act quickly. You should check occur on a Friday. out prestigious clubs or groups that have a cause you believe in. Be PISCES primed to use your intellect in order (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) to get what you want. Changes in your home may be alarming at first. You can learn valuYour luckiest events this month will able information if you listen and occur on a Friday. observe what others are doing and saying. Kick your shoes off and SCORPIO relax. Don't take sides if you wish to (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) remain on good terms with both parBe prepared to take care of the ties. issues at hand. This is not the best day to visit relatives who get on your Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday.
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Third (Or Fourth) Parties I’ve been proclaiming this closer to the party’s alleged ...On the Democratic side, talk political cycle as the begin- “core values.” As Trump’s sup- of a Bernie Sanders thirdning of the end of our corrupt posed pivot towards a “more party run has been part of the “two-party” system for months now. I’m certainly not alone in this. But we all might be looking too far into the future. This zany political season could spawn at least one additional party... and perhaps two... ...As you might expect, this season’s biggest “outsider” candidates have triggered the third- and fourth-party speculation. Donald J. Trump began the 2015-16 Republican primary season as a sideshow, but eliminated 16 other GOP presidential hopefuls to become the party’s presumptive nominee. Disgruntled establishment pachyderms have long been threatening to draft a third-party candidate
Democratic National Committee’s chosen one, while Sanders was an elected independent Senator from Vermont who snuck into the donkey party’s kegger without knowing the secret handshake. He’s done better in the primaries than he expected, but seems doomed to a respectable second-place finish and an impact on the party platform. (Unless that FBI investigation into Clinton’s “damned emails” actually leads to an indictment or an insurmountable credibility gap.) There is no love lost between Bernie and the DNC. presidential” public persona discussion from the jump. He doesn’t owe the DNC a seems inexorably delayed, Hillary Clinton was the thing, but he wouldn’t want to names of potential supporters and third-party candidates have begun to surface. More on that later..
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be known as the guy who handed Trump the presidency either. If there was a thirdparty conservative challenge to the billionaire political hobbyist, it might be easier to talk Sanders into a fourthparty run on the liberal side.... ...Speaking of Trump and a potential third-party candidate who might appeal to disgruntled Republicans, Bill Kristol has begun tossing out the name of conservative Tennessee attorney David French as a potential independent candidate. Kristol – editor of The Weekly Standard, frequent neocon television “talking head,” and former chief of staff to William Bennett (education chief for President Ronald Reagan) – has been at the forefront of the #nevertrump
Star recipient and Operation Iraqi Freedom vet is a U.S. Army Reserve major whose Weekly Standard columns have been particularly scathing toward the Manhattan real estate devel...For his part, French seems oper. We’ll see if we know willing to ponder the possibil- more about David French by ity of an independent run this time next week... against Trump, despite not making a formal comment on ...Any potential third-(or Kristol’s suggestion. (The fourth-)party run by Sanders Weekly Standard editor was would depend on a lot of facon a business trip to Israel tors. Some Democratic insidearly in the week and also ers are lobbying for the made no formal statement on removal of shamelessly biased a potential French run.) DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Kristol initially tried to recruit Schultz, who has shafted more well-known Republicans Bernie’s efforts both overtly such as 2012 nominee Mitt and covertly. If the DNC boots Romney and Nebraska Senator DWS, it would help placate Ben Sasse, but didn’t have any Sanders and his supporters a luck. French, a Columbia, good bit. Give Bernie a real Tennessee, resident, was right seat at the table while the under his nose. The Bronze party platform is assembled movement and his recommendation of French has led to a flurry of Trumpisms against both the media maven and his hopeful presidential Volunteer...
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and everyone calms down a bit. As I mentioned last week, if Ms. Clinton picks Sanders as her running mate, even the #bernieorbust crowd would have a hard time complaining... ...If I were a betting man, I’d put the odds of a conservative third-party push at about 5050 and the odds of a liberal third-party effort about 20-80 percent against. Sanders’ impact on the U.S. electoral system will outlive this campaign. The jury is still out on French or a yet-unnamed other conservative third-party candidate, but the Trump campaign has already had lasting effects on the Republican party...
– Mark Bedford
Politely holding a door open for a police officer has landed a Massachusetts man in jail. Authorities say Kayvon Mavaddat was at the Natick Mall when he held the door for the leaving officer. That officer thought Mavaddat looked familiar, and went to check his cruiser’s computer. The officer found there were three warrants out for his arrest. The officer returned to the mall and arrested Mavaddat. 28-year-old Mavaddat was held without bail at his arraignment when his probation officer told the judge he routinely skips court dates, court-ordered
drug tests and fails to pay proba- them she was a police officer with a license to carry. Police arrested tion fees. Allen but were not able to find the A Massachusetts woman is facing taser. She is charged with impercharges after police say she pre- sonating a police officer and tended to be a police officer and assault and battery with a dangertased a man in a road rage inci- ous weapon. dent. Police received a report from a man and his girlfriend saying Police in South Carolina arrested Shunae Allen, 35, was “riding their 58-year-old Grady Carson after he bumper and honking her horn walked into Carolina Title Loans while frantically flashing her office in Spartanburg to secure a lights.” Allen allegedly followed the loan against his vehicle. According couple as they pulled over into a to its web site, the loan company parking lot. Witnesses told police provides “fast cash to deal with an they saw Allen and the man argu- unexpected expense” and charges ing. The man told police Allen interest rates that begin at 96 perapproached their car, opened the cent. But that didn’t deter Carson. front passenger door where he was A Carolina Title Loans employee seated and tased him before telling told police that Carson—who was
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pacing as he filled out paperwork— told her he “needed the money to purchase meth.” Since her manager was at another store, the worker “faxed a help letter” to the second employee, who contacted police. When officers arrived at the loan business, Carson was handcuffed and a search of his pockets turned up “a glass container with a off white rock like substance inside.” Carson, cops noted, “stated it was cocaine but he was not going to smoke it because he did meth.” Carson was charged with narcotics possession and booked into the county jail.
There is minimum-security, and then there is why bother? Alaska State Troopers said a man who escaped from a minimum-security facility returned three hours later with an SUV to pick up some of his fellow inmates. Troopers said in a dispatch that Joshua Yaska, 20, was seen riding a bicycle away from Fairbanks’ North Star Center correctional facility about 1:05 a.m. Investigators said Yaska returned about 4:20 a.m. with an Isuzu SUV, which he used to transport an undisclosed number of his fellow inmates away from the facility. The halfway house holds up to 143 minimum-security inmates and staff are instructed not to physically restrain the inmates from leaving the building. Yaska was being housed at the North Star Center while awaiting trail for charges of misdemeanor theft and making a false report. Yaska remained on the loose as of Monday. A mother was arrested after her child fell unconscious when she sat on his head for one hour. In any other circumstance this would be nothing more than a kinky fetish story, but police in Georgia said the victim was the woman’s own 2year-old. 36-year-old Susan Elizabeth Kelley is accused of placing a towel on the seat of a wooden dining room chair before she put the child’s head on it. She then proceeded to sit on the child’s head with her full body weight for about one hour. She allegedly told authorities that she did so to get the child to be submissive. Again; she’s been watching too much fetish porn in the Internets. When the boy became unconscious, he was taken to a hospital. Doctors called police after seeing the boy with redness on the head, chest and back. He is expected to make a full recovery. They may not be the most practical, but Chileans definitely have a flair for the dramatic. This was demonstrated by one Chilean man who tried to commit suicide by lion. How do you do that? Well, first you have to find some lions. Any reasonable sized zoo will do. This particular man, Franco Luis Ferrada Roman, decided he had better be naked for this adventure, too. “We believe that this person entered as a visitor and paid for his ticket,” zoo director Alejandra Montalva said. “Later he trespassed into an area where the public are not normally allowed and we
understand that he forced the roof of the lion’s enclosure,” she said. “It was from there that he jumped, took off his clothes and started to attract the lions.” Once inside the lions began “playing” with him. Whether they were trying to kill him or not, they ended up mauling him badly. As there were no quick acting tranquilizers available at the time of the incident, zoo officials intervened and shot the lions dead in order to save the man’s life. Roman suvived but is in grave condition. Montalva told local media that she was “deeply affected” by the deaths of the two adult lions, one male and one female. Many on social media agreed with her, and expressed outrage that the lions were killed because of the selfish act of one man. What is it about climbing down a chimney that makes crazy people want to take their clothes off? Carrie Sapp said she was working the next morning at the Carroll Redemption Center in Carroll, Iowa when she heard a man yell for help from the chimney. She said the man tried to explain, “I was playing hide-and-seek with my cousin. Don’t call the cops.” But the police were called, as was the fire department, which eventually managed to free the soot-covered, naked man. Firefighters initially planned to use a rope to pull Jordan Kajewski from the chimney, but eventually opted to hammer a hole in it and pulled him out. Though naked, the 29-year-old Kajewski had his clothes with him. “This was definitely a first for the Carroll Fire Department,” Fire Chief Greg Schreck said. Kajewski was charged with trespassing. A television reporter was arrested on a charge of public urination or defecation after allegedly being seen defecating on a homeowner’s property, according to police in Arizona. The Goodyear Police Department said that they have arrested CBS reporter Jonathan Lowe, after being accused of pulling down his pants and defecating on a lawn that did not belong to him. According to the police investigation, while Lowe was reporting about a man who killed a dog in the neighborhood, he went onto a lawn and defecated. A passerby noticed what Lowe was doing and called the police. The officers approached Lowe, who told him that he had to do defecate and could not hold it in. ENIGMA
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SICK OF STUPID COULDN’T COME AT A BETTER TIME. WHEN OUR COUNTRY IS IN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL TURMOIL SUCH AS THIS, A REASONABLE VOICE IS NEEDED. IT HELPS IF THAT VOICE IS ALSO REALLY REALLY FUNNY. THE SOUTH IS CHANGING AND THE REST OF THE WORLD’S PERCEPTION OF THE SOUTH IS CHANGING TOO. WE WANT TO BE PART OF THAT. MANY PEOPLE WANT TO LUMP ALL SOUTHERNERS INTO THE SAME STEREOTYPE. THERE IS A LOT MORE TO THE SOUTH AND PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THAT. FORWARD THINKING, CONSCIOUS SOUTHERNERS NEED TO HAVE A VOICE. THEY DON’T! NOT IN MEDIA, AT ALL, MUCH LESS IN COMEDY. WE’RE HERE TO CHANGE THAT.
JUNE 24&25
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FF O OXX && H HO OU UN ND D (Chattanooga) DJ Exphacter RREE VVEE LLRRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) Buckethead CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY AA TTLLAAN N TTAA (Atlanta) Matthew Sweet VVEERRIIZZ O ON NW WIIRREE LLEESSSS AAM MPPH HII TTH H EEA ATT RREE A ATT EE N NCC O ORREE PPAARRK K (Alpharetta, GA) Ellie Goulding IIRRO ON N CC IITT YY (Birmingham) The Chris Robinson Brotherhood SSA ATT U URRN N (Birmingham) Built to Spill
FFRRIID DA AYY JJ uunnee 33 TTH H EE CCO OM MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Felipe Esparza SSK KYY ZZO OO O (Chattanooga) DJ Zane RRA AW W (Chattanooga) DJ Barnaby TTH H EE CCO OM MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Gary Conrad MIILLLLEE RR PPLLA M AZZA A (Chattanooga) “Nightfall Concert Series” Nick Lutsko, High Meadows Communion MEE M M MO ORRIIA ALL A AU UD D IITTO O RRIIU UM M (Chattanooga) Sister Hazel CCII TTYY W WIIN N EERRYY A ATT LLA AN NTT A A (Atlanta) Peter Wolf EEXXIITT //II N N (Nashville) Buckethead AVVO A ON ND DA ALLEE BBRREE W WIIN NG G CC O OM M PPA AN NYY (Birmingham) Mel & the Party Hats LLIIN NN N PPA ARRK K (Birmingham) “Steel City Jazz Festival” Morris Day & The Time, Boney James, Sax In The City with Marion Meadows & Paul Taylor, Mindi Abair, Marcus Anderson, Jeff Lorber
SSA ATTU U RRD DA AYY JJ uu nnee 44 TTH H EE CCO OM MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Felipe
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Esparza SSK KYYZZ O OO O (Chattanooga) DJ Zane TTH H EE CC O OM M EED D YY CCAATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Gary Conrad RREE VVEELLRRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) The Wrong Way BRAINERD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (Chattanooga) Josh Gilbert Band SSO OU UTT H H EERRN NG GRRO OU UN ND D AAM MPPH H IITT H HEE AATTRREE (Fayetteville, GA) The Drifters, The Tams, The Coasters CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY AATTLL AAN NTT AA (Atlanta) 10,000 Maniacs IIN NFFIIN N IITT EE EE N NEE RRG GYY CC EEN NTT EERR (Atlanta) Dolly Parton CCA AN ND DLLEERR PPAARRK K (Atlanta) “Candler Park Music & Food Festival” The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, The Revivalists, Yonder Mountain String Band, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Great Peacock, Webster HO H OW W EELLLL PPAARRK K (Atlanta) “Virginia Highlands Summerfest” Donna Hopkins, Liz Brasher, Southern Culture On The Skids, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY N NAASSH H VVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Peter Wolf MAARRAATT H M HO OM MM MU U SSIICC W WO O RRK KSS (Nashville) “Farm Rock Nashville” Vince Neil, Kix, Steelheart, Vixen, John Corabi, Ted Poley, Killer Dwarfs, Faster Pussycat LLIIN NN N PPAARRK K (Birmingham) “Steel City Jazz Festival” Maze Feat. Frankie Beverly, David Sanborn, Rick Braun, Kirk Whalum, Norman Brown, Ken Ford, Jazz Funk Soul with Jeff Lorber, Everette Harp & Chuck Loeb, Maysa, Ben Tankard, Kyle Turner, Michael Ward, Althea Rene, Latrese Bush
SSU UN ND DA AYY JJuu nnee 55 SSK KYYZZ O OO O (Chattanooga) DJ Zane TTH H EE CC O OM M EED D YY CCAATT CC H H (Chattanooga) Gary Conrad HO H ON N EESSTT PPIIN N TT (Chattanooga) The Red Rogues BBJJ CCCC CC O ON N CCEE RRTT H HAALLLL (Birmingham) Harry Connick Jr. SSYYM M PPH HO ON NYY H HAALL LL (Atlanta) Cyndi Lauper HEELL LL AATT TTH H H EE M MAASSQ QU UEERRAAD D EE (Atlanta) Eve 6 BBIIJJ O OU U TTH H EEAATT RREE (Knoxville) The Chris Robinson Brotherhood OPPEEN O N CC H HO O RRD DM MU USSIICC (Knoxville) James McCartney, 3 Mile Smile
MO M ON ND DA AYY JJ uunnee 66 TTRREE M MO ON N TT TTAAVVEE RRN N (Chattanooga) Trivia Night TTH H EE O O FFFFIICC EE (Chattanooga) SpeakEasy
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TT RREEM MO ON N TT TT AAVVEERRN N (Chattanooga) Open Mic w/ Mike McDade JJ ..JJ ..’’SS BBO OH HEE M MIIAA (Chattanooga) Scroll Downers EE XXIITT// IIN N (Nashville) Lacuna Coil, Stitched Up Heart, 9 Electric, Painted Wives D && LLIIN 33RRD ND D SSLLEE YY (Nashville) Rhonda Vincent, Daryle Singletary
WEED W DN NEE SSD D AAYY JJuu nnee 88 RRAAW W (Chattanooga) Open Jam LLA AK K EEW WO OO OD D AAM MPPH H IITTH H EEA ATT RREE (Atlanta) Journey, Doobie Brothers, Dave Mason WAARR M W MEEM MO ORRIIAALL AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) The Turtles feat. Flo & Eddie, Chuck Negron, Mark Lindsay, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, The Cowsills, The Spencer Davis Group EE XXIITT// IIN N (Nashville) Stryper TT H HEE IIN N TTEE RRN NAATT IIO ON N AALL (Knoxville) B.o.B.
UPPCC O U OM M IIN NG G EEVVEEN NTTSS TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Josh Phillips June 9 PPH H IILLIIPPSS AARREE N NAA (Atlanta) Selena Gomez June 9 N IISSSSAAN N N SSTT AAD DIIU UM M (Nashville) Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Rascal Flatts, Kelsea Ballerini, Olivia Lane June 9 TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Josh Phillips June 10 RREE VVEE LLRRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) The Breakfast Club June 10 BBA ARRK KIIN NG G LLEE G GSS TTH H EEAATT EERR (Chattanooga) Hackensaw Boys June 10 N IISSSSAAN N N SSTT AAD DIIU UM M (Nashville) Carrie Underwood, Eric Church, Hank Williams Jr., Chris Stapleton, Sam Hunt June 10 BBO ON NN NAARRO OO O (Manchester, TN) LCD Soundsystem, Tame Impala, M83, Zed’s Dead, J. Cole, Halsey, Lucius, Chvches, Brett Dennen June 10 RRIIVVEERRBBEE N ND D FFEESS TTIIVVAALL (Chattanooga) Stooges Brass Band, Thomas Rhett, Mechanic, The Mantras, Peewee Moore, ZZ Ward, Chris Lane, Charlie The Head June 10 JJ ..JJ ..’’SS BBO OH HEE M MIIAA (Chattanooga) Brave Baby, Buffalo Rodeo June 10 CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY AA TTLLAAN N TTAA (Atlanta) Shawn Mullins June 10 TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Josh Phillips June 11 RRIIVVEERRBBEE N ND D FFEESS TTIIVVAALL (Chattanooga) Heart, Ambrosia, Get The Led Out - American Led Zeppelin, Husky Burnette, Courtney Holder June 11 RREE VVEE LLRRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) Davey Smith & the Pearl Snap Preachers June 11
SSTT O ON N EE M M TTN N PPAARRK K (Stone Mounain, GA) Vertical Horizon June 11 VVEERRIIZZ O ON NW WIIRREELLEE SSSS AAM M PPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE AATT EEN N CCO O RREE PPAARRK K (Alpharetta, GA) Keith Urban, Brett Eldredge, Maren Morris June 11 RRO OSS W WEELLLL CCU U LLTTU U RRAALL AARRTT SS CC EEN N TTEE RR (Roswell, GA) Edwin McCain June 11 CC H HAASSTT AAIIN N PPAARRK K (Atlanta) Harry Connick Jr. June 11 PPH HII LLIIPPSS AARREEN N AA (Atlanta) R. Kelly June 11 TT H HEE W WAARREEH HO OU U SSEE (Clarksville, TN) Insane Clown Posse June 11 NII SSSSAAN N N SS TTAAD D IIU UM M (Nashville) Blake Shelton, Florida Georgia Line, Cole Swindell, Chris Young June 11 GRRAAN G ND DO O LLEE O OPPRRYY H HO OU USSEE (Nashville) Charley Pride June 11 BBO ON NN NAARRO OO O (Manchester, TN) Pearl Jame, Ellie Goulding, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, Lamb of God, Haim, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Sam Hunt, Clutch, Band of Horses, Two Door Cinema, Grace Potter June 11 BBA ACC K K PPO ORRCC H HO ON N TTH H EE CCRREE EEK K (Knoxville) Delbert McClinton June 11 LLA AK KEE VVII EEW WD D IISSTT RRIICCTT (Birmingham) “Slicefest” The Revivalists, The Soul Rebels, Keller Williams, The Weeks, Vallejo, Break Science, Magnolias June 11 IIRRO ON N CC IITT YY (Birmingham) The Velcro Pygmies June 11 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Josh Phillips June 12 RRIIVVEERRBBEEN ND D FF EESSTT IIVVAALL (Chattanooga) Trampled By Turtles, Davy Knowles, The Peterson Brothers, Firefall, Seth Stainback & Roosterfoot June 12 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH HEEM M IIAA (Chattanooga) Purple, Step Sisters June 12 ALLYY SS RRO A O BBII N NSSO ON N SSTT EE PPH HEEN N SS PPEE RRFFO ORRM M IIN NG G ARRTT SS CC EEN A NTT EERR (Birmingham) Kristin Chenoweth June 12 BBJJCC CC CCO ON NCC EERRTT H H AALLLL (Birmingham) “Weird Al” Yankovic June 12 TT H HEE IIN NTT EERRN N AATTII O ON N AALL (Knoxville) Insane Clown Posse June 12 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Harry Connick Jr. June 12 NII SSSSAAN N N SS TTAAD D IIU UM M (Nashville) Luke Bryan, Keith Urban, Little Big Town, Eldredge, Thomas Rhett June 12 CC IITT YY W WII N NEERRYY N N AASSH HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Atlanta Rhythm Section June 12 WAALLK W KO OFF FFAAM MEE PPAARRK K (Nashville) Crowder, Mark Wills, Jack Ingram, Mickey Guyton, Julie Roberts, Keith Anderson, JT Hodges, Margo Price, Big Smo, Andy Griggs June 12 RRIIVVEERRFFRRO ON NTT SSTT AAG G EE (Nashville) “CMA Music Festival” LoCash, Old Dominion, Tyler Farr, Phil Vassar, Cam, Granger Smith, Jon Pardi, Parmalee, Kellie Pickler, Darryl Worley June 12 BBO ON NN NAARRO OO O (Manchester, TN) Dead & Company, Ween, Lord Huron, Third Eye Blind, Death Cab For Cutie, Lettuce, Father John Misty, Jason Isbell, X Ambassadors, Steep Canyon Rangers, Sara Watkins, Civil Twilight June 12 TT H HEE TTAABBEE RRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) Frank Turner, Gogol Bordello June 12 RRIIVVEERRBBEEN ND D FF EESSTT IIVVAALL (Chattanooga) Jarekus Singleton, Mr. Sipp June 13 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Harry Connick Jr. June 13 FFO OO OBBAARR (Nashville) The Bumpin’ Uglies June 13
CCO O BBBB EEN N EERRG G YY PPEE RRFFO O RRM M IIN NG GA ARRTT SS CC EEN N TTEE RR (Atlanta) “Happy Together Tour” The Turtles feat. “Flo & Eddie, Chuck Negron, Mark Lindsay, Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, The Cowsills, The Spencer Davis Group June 13 RRIIVVEERRBBEEN ND D FFEE SSTT IIVVA ALL (Chattanooga) For King & Country, Building 429, I Am They, Hawk Nelson June 14 BBRRIID DG G EESSTT O ON N EE A ARREE N NA A (Nashville) Louis C.K. June 14 RRIIVVEERRBBEEN ND D FFEE SSTT IIVVA ALL (Chattanooga) Blackberry Smoke, The Trongone Band, Brett Eldredge, Turkuaz, Major And The Monbacks, Smith, The Fairview Union June 15 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH H EEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Open Mic Comedy, Boy Named Banjo, High Meadows Communion June 15 TTEE N NN N EESSSSEE EE PPEE RRFFO O RRM MIIN NG GA ARRTT SS CC EEN N TTEE RR (Nashville) Jane Lynch June 15 TTEE N NN N EESSSSEE EE TT H H EEA ATT RREE (Knoxville) Harry Connick Jr. June 15 BBIIJJO OU U TT H HEE A ATTRREE (Knoxville) Built to Spill June 15 OPPEE N O N CC H HO O RRD DM MU USSIICC (Knoxville) Stump Tail Dolly, Bohannons, Ryan Sheley June 15 HEE LLLL A H ATT TT H HEE M MA ASSQ QU UEE RRA AD DEE (Atlanta) Fishbone June 15 TTH H EE CCO OM MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) L.A Hardy “Black Dad” June 16 RRIIVVEERRBBEEN ND D FFEE SSTT IIVVA ALL (Chattanooga) Umphrey’s McGee, The Bird Dogs -The Everly Brothers Experience, Flow Tribe, Salt-N-Pepa, Misfit Toys, Edward David Anderson, Opposite Box, Major And The Monbacks June 16 AA A ARRO ON N ’’SS A AM MPPH HII TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Atlanta) Weezer, Panic! At the Disco, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness June 16 PPU URRG GA ATT O O RRYY A ATT TT H H EE M MA ASSQ QU U EERRA AD DEE (Atlanta) Pity Sex June 16 CCII TTYY W WIIN N EERRYY A ATT LLA AN NTT A A (Atlanta) Todd Snider June 16 TTU U SSCC A ALLO OO O SSA AA AM M PPH H IITT H HEE A ATTRREE (Tuscaloosa, AL) Darius Rucker, Dan + Shay, Michael Ray June 16 TTH H EE CCO OM MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) L.A Hardy “Black Dad” June 17 RRIIVVEERRBBEEN ND D FFEE SSTT IIVVA ALL (Chattanooga) REO Speedwagon, Fishbone, Shovels & Rope, Roger Alan Wade, Johnny Neel, Shack Band, Jim Lauderdale June 17 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH H EEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Winterhymn, Yesterday’s Saints, Khaotika June 17 RREEVVEELLRRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) Hank & the Cupcakes June 17 HA H ARRRRA AH H ’’SS CCH H EERRO OK KEEEE CCA ASS IIN NO O (Cherokee) Aaron Lewis June 17 CCII TTYY W WIIN N EERRYY A ATT LLA AN NTT A A (Atlanta) Todd Snider June 17 GRRA G AN ND DO O LLEE O O PPRRYY H HO OU USSEE (Nashville) Lorrie Morgan June 17 TTH H EE CCO OM MEED D YY CCA ATT CC H H (Chattanooga) L.A Hardy “Black Dad” June 18 RRIIVVEERRBBEEN ND D FFEE SSTT IIVVA ALL (Chattanooga) Delta Deep, Shack Band, Mules, Kelsey’s Woods, The Congress June 18 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH H EEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Hivelords, Choking, Red Necklace June 18 RREEVVEELLRRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) Joey Winslett Band June 18 SSO OU U TTH H EERRN NG GRRO OU UN ND DA AM M PPH HIITT H HEE AATT RREE (Fayetteville, GA) Atlanta Rhythm Section, Pure Prairie League June 18 FFO O XX TTH H EEA ATT RREE (Atlanta) Brit Floyd June 18
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BBU U CCK KH H EEAAD D TT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Lake Street Dive, The Line Bellow June 18 CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY AATTLL AAN NTT AA (Atlanta) Todd Snider June 18 SSM MIITT H H’’ SS O O LLD DEE BBAARR (Atlanta) Nathan Angelo June 18 RRII VVEE RRFFRRO ON N TT PPAARRK K (Nashville) Freddie Jackson June 18 EEXXIITT //IIN N (Nashville) Peter Bjorn And John June 18 VVEE RRIIZZO ON NW WIIRREE LLEESSSS AAM MPPH H IITT H HEEAATT RREE AATT EEN NCC O ORREE PPAARRK K (Alpharetta, GA) Lynyrd Skynyrd June 18 TTH H EE CC O OM M EED D YY CCAATT CC H H (Chattanooga) L.A Hardy “Black Dad” June 19 JJ..JJ..’’SS BBO OH H EEM MIIAA (Chattanooga) Rock Europa, Super Shaker, I Can Japan June 19 RRYY M MAA N N AAU UD D IITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) “Ringo and His All-Star Band”, Ringo Starr, Todd Rundgren, Gregg Rolie, Steve Lukather, Richard Page, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette June 19 FFO OXX TT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) “Weird Al” Yankovic June 19 CCH H AASSTT AAIIN N PPAARRK K (Atlanta) Kenny Rogers, Linda Davis June 19 TTRRA ACC K K 2299 (Chattanooga) Silversun Pickups, Bear Hands June 20 SSCCH H EERRM M EERRH HO O RRN N SS YYM M PPH HO ON NYY CC EEN NTT EE RR (Nashville) Huey Lewis and the News June 20 EEXXIITT //IIN N (Nashville) Pere Ubu June 20 JJ..JJ..’’SS BBO OH H EEM MIIAA (Chattanooga) Continental June 21 BBRRIID DG GEE SSTT O ON NEE AARREEN N AA (Nashville) Selena Gomez June 21 TTH H EE IIN N TT EERRN NAATT IIO ON NAALL (Knoxville) Every Time I Die, Bad Dudes, Creatures In Secret, Fault
Lines (TN) June 21 TT H HEE M MII LLLL AAN ND DM MIIN N EE (Knoxville) Silversun Pickups, Bear Hands June 21 RREE VVEE LLRRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) Kishi Bashi, Tall Tall Trees June 22 JJ ..JJ ..’’SS BBO OH HEE M MIIAA (Chattanooga) Open Mic Comedy, Mea Culpa June 22 VVEERRIIZZ O ON NW WIIRREE LLEESSSS AAM MPPH HII TTH H EEA ATT RREE A ATT EE N NCC O ORREE PPAARRK K (Alpharetta, GA) “Taste Of Chaos” Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday, Saosin, The Early November June 22 PPIILLO O TT LLIIG GH H TT (Knoxville) Pere Ubu June 22 TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) Sick Of Stupid Comedy Tour June 23 JJ ..JJ ..’’SS BBO OH HEE M MIIAA (Chattanooga) In the Making June 23 SSCC H H EERRM MEE RRH HO O RRN N SSYY M MPPH HO ON N YY CCEE N NTT EERR (Nashville) “Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration featuring Warren Haynes” Warren Haynes June 23 TT H HEE BBAASSEEM M EEN N TT EEAASSTT (Nashville) The Dexateens June 23 BBA ARRLLEE YY’’ SS TT AAPPRRO OO OM M (Knoxville) Dylan LeBlanc June 23 TT H HEE LLO O FFTT (Atlanta) B.o.B. June 23 TT H HEE CC O OM M EED DYY CC AATT CCH H (Chattanooga) James Gregory June 24 M IILLLLEERR PPLL AAZZAA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall M Concert Series” Hope Country, Jessee Jungkurth & the Patron Haints June 24 TT IIVVO OLLII TTH H EEAATT RREE (Chattanooga) John Prine, Amanda Shires June 24 RREE VVEE LLRRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) Appetite for Destruction June 24 WO W O RRK KPPLLAAYY TT H HEEAATT RREE (Birmingham) Cowboy Mouth June 24 TT EEN NN NEE SSSSEEEE TT H HEE AATTRREE (Knoxville) Gregg
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Allman, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band June 24 IIRRO ON N CC IITT YY (Birmingham) Old Crow Medicine Show June 24 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) James Gregory June 25 RREEVVEELL RRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) The Velcro Pygmies June 25 CC A ARRLL BBLLAACC K K CC H HEE VVYY W WO OO OD D AAM MPPH H IITT H HEE A ATTRREE ATT FFO A ON NTT AAN NEE LL (Whites Creek, TN) Gregg Allman, Shovels & Rope, Brothers Osborne, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, Clare Dunn, Andrea Davidson, Gabriel Kelley June 25 TT U URRN NEE RR FFIIEE LLD D (Atlanta) Flo Rida June 25 MU M U SSIICC RRO OO OM M AATT SSM M IITT H H’’ SS O O LLD DEE BBAARR (Atlanta) John Prine June 25 TT H HEE CCO OM MEE D DYY CC AATTCC H H (Chattanooga) Rodney Alan Wiggins and Friends June 26 LLA AK KEE W WO OO OD D AAM M PPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) The Cure, The Twilight Sad June 26 CC H HAASSTT AAIIN N PPAARRK K (Atlanta) Steely Dan, Steve Winwood June 26 CC A ARRLL BBLLAACC K K CC H HEE VVYY W WO OO OD D AAM MPPH H IITT H HEE A ATTRREE ATT FFO A ON NTT AAN NEE LL (Whites Creek, TN) Bob Dylan June 26 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH HEEM M IIAA (Chattanooga) Richie Ramone, Tuff Tits June 27 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH HEEM M IIAA (Chattanooga) Pumpkinseeds, Ben Ricketts June 28 BBRRIID DG G EESSTT O ON NEE AARREE N NAA (Nashville) Justin Bieber June 27 VVEERRIIZZ O ON NW WIIRREELLEE SSSS AAM M PPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE AATT EEN N CCO O RREE PPAARRK K (Alpharetta, GA) Barenaked Ladies, OMD, Howard Jones June 28 BBRRIID DG G EESSTT O ON NEE AARREE N NAA (Nashville) Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Of Mice & Men June 28 PPH HII LLIIPPSS AARREEN N AA (Atlanta) Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas June 29
LLA AK KEEW WO OO OD DA AM M PPH HIITT H HEE A ATTRREE (Atlanta) Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Of Mice & Men June 29 CCII TTYY W WIIN N EERRYY N NA ASS H HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Ani DiFranco June 29 TTEE N NN N EESSSSEE EE SS TTA ATT EE FFA AIIRRG G RRO OU UN ND DSS (Nashville) “Van’s Warped Tour” June 29 IIRRO ON N CCII TTYY (Birmingham) In this Moment, Hellyeah, Shaman’s Harvest, Sunflower Dead June 29 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH H EEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) Nihlist Cheerleader June 30 SSCC H HEERRM M EERRH HO ORRN N SSYY M MPPH HO ON NYY CC EEN N TTEE RR (Nashville) Jason Alexander June 30 CCII TTYY W WIIN N EERRYY N NA ASS H HVVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Ani DiFranco June 30 LLA AK KEEW WO OO OD DA AM M PPH HIITT H HEE A ATTRREE (Atlanta) Vans Warped Tour June 30 TTH H EE TTA ABBEERRN NA ACCLL EE (Atlanta) Sublime with Rome June 30 CCII TTYY W WIIN N EERRYY A ATT LLA AN NTT A A (Atlanta) Nellie McKay June 30 HA H ARRRRA AH H ’’SS CCH H EERRO OK KEEEE CCA ASS IIN NO O (Cherokee) Toby Keith June 30 MIILLLLEE RR PPLLA M AZZA A (Chattanooga) “Nightfall Concert Series” Nikki Lane, TJG & the 423’s July 1 JJ..JJ..’’ SS BBO OH H EEM M IIA A (Chattanooga) The Queers July 1 RREEVVEELLRRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) Matt Stephens Project July 1 TTA ALL LLA AD DEE G GA A SSPPEE EED DW WA AYY (Talladega, AL) “Dega Jam” Dwight Yoakam, John Anderson, Lee Brice, Billy Currington, Sara Evans July 1 TTH H EE TTA ABBEERRN NA ACCLL EE (Atlanta) Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds July 1
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CCH H AASSTT AAIIN N PPAARRK K (Atlanta) Joe Walsh, Bad Company July 1 RREE VVEELLRRYY RRO OO OM M (Chattanooga) Scarlett Love Conspiracy July 2 WO W OLLFF CCRREE EEK K AA M MPPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) En Vogue July 2 PPH H IILLIIPPSS AARREE N NAA (Atlanta) Nicky Jam July 2 TTA ALLLLAAD D EEG G AA SSPPEE EED DW WAAYY (Talladega, AL) “Dega Jam” Hank Williams Jr., Lee Brice, Aaron Lewis July 2 RRYY M MAA N N AAU UD D IITT O ORRIIU UM M (Nashville) Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds July 2 TTH H EE IIN N TT EERRN NAATT IIO ON NAALL (Knoxville) Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, DJ Zone, Homeboy Sandman, DJ Sosa July 2 TTRRA ACC K K 2299 (Chattanooga) Ani DiFranco July 3 TTA ALLLLAAD D EEG G AA SSPPEE EED DW WAAYY (Talladega, AL) “Dega Jam” The Swon Brothers, Kip Moore, Lee Brice, Tyler Farr, Martina McBride July 3 CCA ARRLL BBLLAACC K K CC H H EEVVYY W WO OO OD D AAM M PPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE ATT FF O A ON N TTAAN N EELL (Whites Creek, TN) Joe Walsh, Bad Company July 3 TTH H EE W WAARREE H HO OU USSEE (Clarksville, TN) Scott Stapp July 3 CCH H AASSTT AAIIN N PPAARRK K (Atlanta) String Cheese Incident July 3 TTH H EE LLO O FFTT (Atlanta) Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, DJ Zone, Homeboy Sandman, DJ Sosa July 3 CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY AATTLL AAN NTT AA (Atlanta) Don McLean July 3 CCH H AASSTT AAIIN N PPAARRK K (Atlanta) String Cheese Incident July 4 ASSCCEE N A ND D AAM MPPH H IITTH H EEAATT RREE (Nashville) Sheryl Crow July 4 CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY N NAASSH H VVIILLLLEE (Nashville) Don McLean July 4
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AASSCC EE N ND D AAM MPPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE (Nashville) Barenaked Ladies, OMD, Howard Jones July 5 ASSCC EE N A ND D AAM MPPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE (Nashville) Duran Duran, Chic Feat. Nile Rodgers July 6 CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY AA TTLLAAN N TTAA (Atlanta) Leon Russell July 7 M IILLLLEERR PPLL AAZZAA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall M Concert Series” P.J. Morton, Courtney Reid July 8 SSCC H H EERRM MEE RRH HO O RRN N SSYY M MPPH HO ON N YY CCEE N NTT EERR (Nashville) LeAnn Rimes July 8 CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY AA TTLLAAN N TTAA (Atlanta) Leon Russell July 8 TT H HEE IIN N TTEE RRN NAATT IIO ON N AALL (Knoxville) Bone Thugs-N-Harmony July 8 TT IIVVO OLLII TTH H EEAATT RREE (Chattanooga) “Weird Al” Yankovic July 9 JJ ..JJ ..’’SS BBO OH HEE M MIIAA (Chattanooga) Daikaiju, Kansas Bible Company July 9 EE D DD DII EE’’ SS AATT TTIICC (Atlanta) Col. Bruce Hampton July 9 N IISSSSAAN N N SSTT AAD DIIU UM M (Nashville) Guns N’ Roses July 9 CC H HAASS TTAAIIN N PPAARRK K (Atlanta) Brand New, Modest Mouse July 10 CC IITT YY W WIIN NEE RRYY AA TTLLAAN N TTAA (Atlanta) Shawn Mullins July 10 CC H HAASS TTAAIIN N PPAARRK K (Atlanta) Flight of the Conchords July 12 ASSCC EE N A ND D AAM MPPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE (Nashville) Weezer, Panic! At the Disco, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness July 13 M IILLLLEERR PPLL AAZZAA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall M Concert Series”, M IILLLLEERR PPLL AAZZAA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall M Concert Series” Israel Nash, Operation Song
July 15 LLA AK KEE W WO OO OD D AAM M PPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Dierks Bentley, Randy Houser, Tucker Beathard July 15 CC IITTYY W WII N NEERRYY AATT LLAAN N TTAA (Atlanta) Dave Barnes July 15 FFRREE D DRRIICC K K BBRRO OW WN N JJRR.. AAM M PPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE (Peachtree City, GA) Steve Miller Band July 15 VVEERRIIZZ O ON NW WIIRREELLEE SSSS AAM M PPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE AATT EEN N CCO O RREE PPAARRK K (Alpharetta, GA) “I Love he “90s” Salt-N-Pepa, Biz Markie, Kid N Play, All-4-One, Coolio, Tone Loc, Rob Base, Young M.C. July 16 CC H HAASSTT AAIIN N PPAARRK K (Atlanta) Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Melissa Etheridge July 16 ATT LLAAN A NTT AA BBO O TTAAN N IICC AALL G GAARRD D EEN N (Atlanta) Indigo Girls July 16 TT H HEE M MAASSQ QU UEE RRAAD D EE (Atlanta) Zakk Wilde, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, Jared James Nichols July 16 CC H HAASSTT AAIIN N PPAARRK K (Atlanta) Josh Groban, Sarah McLachlin July 17 FFO O XX TT H HEE AATTRREE (Atlanta) Shawn Mendes, James TW July 17 SSLLO O SSSS FF U URRN NAACC EESS (Birmingham) “Sloss Music & Arts Festival” Ray Lamonagne, The Flaming Lips, Fitz & the Tantrums July 17 ASSCC EEN A ND D AAM M PPH HIITT H HEE AATT RREE (Nashville) Brand New, Modest Mouse July 19 CC A AN NN N EERRYY BBAALLLLRRO OO OM M (Nashville) The Wombats July 19 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) 98 Degrees, O-Town, Ryan Cabrera, Dream July 19 TT H HEE M MIILLLL && M MIIN N EE (Knoxville) Garbage July 19 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Garbage July 20
SSA ATT U URRN N (Birmingham) Digable Planets July 20 CCA ARRLL BBLLA ACCK K CCH H EEVVYY W WO OO OD DA AM MPPH H IITTH H EEAATT RREE ATT FFO A ON N TT A AN NEELL (Whites Creek, TN) Awolnation, Death From Above 1979, Irontom July 21 EEXXIITT //II N N (Nashville) Digable Planets July 21 ZZYY D DEECC O O (Birmingham) The Devil Wears Prada July 21 TTU U SSCC A ALLO OO O SSA AA AM M PPH HIITT H HEE A ATTRREE (Tuscaloosa, AL) 98 Degrees, O-Town, Ryan Cabrera, July 21 MIILLLLEE RR PPLLA M AZZA A (Chattanooga) “Nightfall Concert Series” Nora Jane Souther July 22 OA O AK KM MO OU UN NTT A AIIN NA AM MPPH H IITTH H EEA ATT RREE (Pelham, AL) 5 Seconds Of Summer July 22 LLA AK KEEW WO OO OD DA AM M PPH HIITT H HEE A ATTRREE (Atlanta) Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Kevin Gates, Jhene Aiko, Casey Veggies, DJ Drama July 22 TTEE RRM MIIN NA ALL W WEESS TT (Atlanta) Swans, Okkyung Lee July 22 HEE LLLL A H ATT TT H HEE M MA ASSQ QU UEE RRA AD DEE (Atlanta) Digable Planets July 22 TTH H EE TTA ABBEERRN NA ACCLL EE (Atlanta) Garbage July 22 BBRRIID DG G EESSTT O ON N EE A ARREE N NA A (Nashville) 5 Seconds Of Summer July 23 OA O AK KM MO OU UN NTT A AIIN NA AM MPPH H IITTH H EEA ATT RREE (Pelham, AL) Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Kevin Gates, Jhene Aiko, Casey Veggies, DJ Drama July 23 LLA AK KEEW WO OO OD DA AM M PPH HIITT H HEE A ATTRREE (Atlanta) 5 Seconds Of Summer July 24 SSYY M MPPH HO ON NYY H HA ALLLL (Atlanta) Ted Nugent July 24 EED DD DIIEE’’ SS A ATT TT IICC (Atlanta) Ari Hest July 24 CCH HA ASSTT A AIIN N PPA ARRK K (Atlanta) Counting Crowes, Rob Thomas July 25 SSCC H HEERRM M EERRH HO ORRN N SSYY M MPPH HO ON NYY CC EEN N TTEE RR (Nashville) Culture Club July 26
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CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY AATTLL AAN NTT AA (Atlanta) Emerson Hart, David Ryan Harris July 26 THE INTERNATIONAL (Knoxville) “Summer Slaughter Tour” Cannibal Corpse, Nile, After The Burial, Suffocation, Carnifex, Krisiun, Revocation, Slaughter To Prevail July 26 ASSCCEE N A ND D AAM MPPH H IITTH H EEAATT RREE (Nashville) Journey, Dave Mason July 27 GEEO G O RRG GIIAA D DO OM M EE (Atlanta) Guns N’ Roses July 27 ASSCCEE N A ND D AAM MPPH H IITTH H EEAATT RREE (Nashville) Phillip Phillips, Matt Nathanson, A Grat Big World July 28 CCIITT YY W WIIN N EERRYY AATTLL AAN NTT AA (Atlanta) Cracker July 28 MIILLLLLLEE RR PPLLAAZZAA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall M Concert Series” Liz Vice, Dr. B & the Ease July 29 HAARRRRAAH H H’’ SS CC H HEE RRO OK KEE EE CC AASSIIN NO O (Cherokee) Aaron Lewis July 29 ASSCCEE N A ND D AAM MPPH H IITTH H EEAATT RREE (Nashville) Ray LaMontagne July 29 SSCCH H EERRM M EERRH HO O RRN N SS YYM M PPH HO ON NYY CC EEN NTT EE RR (Nashville) Dwight Yoakum July 29 TTH H EE TT AABBEERRN N AACCLLEE (Atlanta) 311 July 29 ATTLLAAN A N TT AA BBO OTT AAN NIICC AALL G G AARRD DEE N N (Atlanta) case/lang/veirs, Andy Shauf July 29 EED DD D IIEE’’ SS AATT TT IICC (Atlanta) Angie Aparo July 29 PPH H IILLIIPPSS AARREE N NAA (Atlanta) Julion Alvarez July 29 TTH H EE EE AARRLL (Atlanta) Pylon July 29 VVEE RRIIZZO ON NW WIIRREE LLEESSSS AAM MPPH H IITT H HEEAATT RREE AATT EEN NCC O ORREE PPAARRK K (Alpharetta, GA) Gwen Stefani, Eve July 29 MEEM M MO ORRIIAALL AAU UD DIITT O O RRIIU UM M (Chattanooga) Maxwell July 30 FFO OXX TT H H EEAATT RREE (Atlanta) Ray LaMontagne July 30
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WO W O LLFF CCRREE EEK KAAM MPPH H IITT H HEE A ATTRREE (Atlanta) Freddie Jackson July 30 TT H HEE TT AABBEERRN NAACC LLEE (Atlanta) 311 July 30 M AARRAATTH M HO ON NM MU U SSIICC W WO ORRK KSS (Nashville) 311, Floralorix July 31 LLA AK K EEW WO OO OD D AAM MPPH H IITTH H EEA ATT RREE (Atlanta) Public Enemy, Ice-T, Naughty By Nature, Mobb Deep, Furious Five (Grandmaster Melle Mel, Scorpio, Rahiem, Kid Creole, Kurtis Blow), EPMD, Kurtis Blow, The Sugarhill Gang July 31 RRYY M MAAN N AAU UD D IITTO O RRIIU UM M (Nashville) Brian Ferry August 2 CC O OBBBB EE N NEE RRG G YY CCEE N NTT EERR (Atlanta) Peter Frampton August 2 LLA AK K EEW WO OO OD D AAM MPPH H IITTH H EEA ATT RREE (Atlanta) Blink182, A Day To Remember, -American Rejects August 2 CC H HAASS TTAAIIN N PPAARRK K (Atlanta) Buddy Guy August 2 ASSCC EE N A ND D AAM MPPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE (Nashville) Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy August 3 ASSCC EE N A ND D AAM MPPH HIITT H H EEAATT RREE (Nashville) “Carnival of Madness” Shinedown, Halestorm, Black Stone Cherry, Whiskey Myers August 4 CC H HAASS TTAAIIN N PPAARRK K (Atlanta) Meghan Trainor, Hailee Steinfeld August 4 M IILLLLLLEERR PPLLAAZZAA (Chattanooga) “Nightfall M Concert Series” Firekid, Ogya August 5 CC H HAASS TTAAIIN N PPAARRK K (Atlanta) Little River Band August 5 IIN N FFIIN N IITTEE EEN N EERRG G YY CCEE N NTT EERR (Atlanta) Twenty One Pilots August 6 VVEERRIIZZ O ON NW WIIRREE LLEESSSS AAM MPPH HII TTH H EEA ATT RREE A ATT EE N NCC O ORREE PPAARRK K (Alpharetta, GA) Boston August 6
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The Killing of Harambe - Don’t Animal Lives Matter?
cized for this decision. I am going to wade in with my criticism. Now I must admit I do not have all the facts. I have not seen all the video of the event. I am an admitted animal lover and would consider myself a conservative animal rights activist. I was a SWAT Sniper and in that position was offered a strange and to me revolting off duty job. I was to be posted near the arena during circus performances with a high-powered rifle. The job was to shoot any elephant that “went rogue”. I declined the job. I was unsettled by the thought The zoo is being widely criti- of this duty. I felt sorry for the \In case you haven’t been watching the news lately or surfing the news if you get your news off the internet there was a recent incident at the Cincinnati zoo where a small child somehow fell into a moat around the gorilla enclosure there. A seventeenyear-old silverback gorilla named Harambe quickly grabbed the child and dragged the child several yards through the moat waters. After approximately TEN minutes the decision was made to execute Harambe. He was shot and killed.
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captive elephants. So that being said upfront I do have some thoughts and opinions and questions on this killing. My first question is why after ten minutes was the gorilla shot? Was there a sudden change in his demeanor or actions that led zoo personnel to react? To myself and other people I’ve talked to plus people commenting on the video it looked as if the gorilla was in a protective posture. I saw a press conference by zoo personnel but didn’t see this addressed. If there was a change was it caused by the crowd reaction? The snippet of video I saw had a people screaming and yelling in the background. This area should have been cleared of nonessential personnel immediately. My years of SWAT / Hostage negotiation training tells me this. The next question, which I’m sure some people would rate as what should be the first question, is why wasn’t the gorilla tranquilized? Zoo spokespersons have stated that zoo personnel felt like the tranquilizer would take too long to take effect. I
recently watched a video of a lion being tranquilized back in the 1980’s and the tranquilizer worked pretty quickly. I’m sure there have been developments made in delivery systems and the actual drugs used in this procedure that it would’ve been worth a try. Then there is the question of how the child got into the area. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the child’s family sue the zoo for the “trauma” inflicted on the child. What was the mother of the child doing when this child crawled through an opening and fell into the moat? The zoo needs to address this issue but maybe if children are going to be taken into dangerous areas they may need to be tethered to the adult.
are similarities also. Thankfully this child lived but an intelligent endangered animal lost his life through no fault of his own. Obviously any enclosure where there are wild animals in zoo environments should be constructed so that no one can fall or jump in and nothing can be thrown in. If this takes overlapping plastic or lexan barriers then so be it. There is even the question of if these animals should be kept in captivity.
While I am not placing Harambe’s life above the child’s I still think this was a sad death which through prevention on both the part of the child’s mother and the zoo’s could have been prevented. Sadly as usual we humans have to learn from our mistakes which often have tragic results.
Zoos and wildlife viewing areas should run drills to In memory of Harambe practice where people have intentionally or accidentally - Mark Haskins come into contact with the
I personally think the mother should be charged with something. However, it has been reported that Cincinnati Police have stated there will be no charges. Recently here in this area a child got his mother’s handgun while inside her vehicle and shot and killed himself. She was criminally charged. Sure there are some differences but there
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animals or for escapes. Hopefully this tragic incident will cause places like this to continually evaluate their security and emergency procedures.
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Steps to Belhaven Belhaven University is a liberal arts university dedicated to excellence in adult higher education. BU was founded in 1883 in Jackson, Mississippi. About 1200 traditional students study at our main campus in Jackson. Belhaven has established several adult and graduate studies campuses throughout the southeast, including Chattanooga and Dalton. The Chattanooga and Dalton campuses provide a convenient and affordable way for working adults to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees. Here’s why attending Belhaven works for busy, working adults: Students attend class only one
evening a week from 6:00 – of textbooks. Our students are (Chattanooga or Dalton) not saddled with exorbitant text10:00. book costs. Discuss your goals Students are enrolled in one class at a time. This allows them to add Degree and certificate programs Submit an application school to their already busy lives. are also offered online. Request transcripts of previous To learn more about Belhaven academic work Belhaven students may earn credUniversity, please contact our it for college-level learning that’s taken place through life experi- downtown Chattanooga campus Walk you through the financial ences, professional education, (423-265-7784) or visit us at chat- aid process tanooga.belhaven.edu. and military training. Review your customized graduaBelhaven’s enrollment process is tion plan Significant tuition discounts are quick and user-friendly: available for students currently Schedule your courses serving in the military as well as Call an enrollment manager (423for veterans and their spouses. 265-7784). This person will facili- Ed Pickel, Director of tate the following steps: Admission and Student services Financial aid is available for for Belhaven’s Chattanooga and those who qualify. Our competiSchedule a campus visit Dalton campuses tive tuition rates include the use
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This is Cracker’s Soul Cracker is an American alternative rock band led by singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. The band is best known for its gold-selling 1993 album, Kerosene Hat, which includes the hit songs “Low” and “Euro-Trash Girl.” It’s hard to believe the band has been around a quarter of a century. Many of us cut our teeth on college radio to Lowery’s previous band Camper Van Beethoven and their infamous first single “Take the Skinheads Bowling” which helped cement Lowery as one of rock’s cynical with comic overtone lyricists. Combined with the welcoming warmth of Hickman’s guitar tones it’s no surprise they became radio favorites whose fan base has achieved cult status. Lowery took a break between lecturing at UGA on the business of music and touring this summer with Cracker to catch up. on consensus. In theory it looks good on paper and stuff like that. CC rraacckk eerr hhaass bbee eenn aarr oouunndd aa llm moosstt 2255 But nothing gets done and there’s yyee aarrss aa nndd 33 00 yyeeaa rrss ss iinnccee CC aam mppeerr too many band meetings. So the VVaann BBeeee tthhoovvee nn.. II rree m mee m mbbee rr w whh ee nn first things we did was make it our yyoouu w weerr ee aa ppaarr tt ooff tthh aatt.. TT hhaa tt jjuu ss tt band. If you want to play with us, play with us. If you don’t, it’s totalggooeess ttoo sshhoow w yyoouu hh oow w oolldd II aam m.. ly cool. We resolved to never, ever (laughs) Yeah, 31 years since talk anyone into going on tour. If Camper Van Beethoven’s first you want to be here, be here, if album, or coming up on 31 years. you don’t, don’t. That’s kind of how that works. And that’s why it’s That’s pretty cool, right? lasted 25 years. We set up to do DD eeffiinnii tteell yy.. II aa ccttuuaall llyy ggoott ttoo ssee ee tthhee the Berkeley to Bakersfield album. ttoouurr w whh ee nn yyoouu ttooookk bbootthh bbaa nnddss oouu tt The Berkeley album was what most people call the original lineup, or ttooggeetthheerr oorr iiggiinnaa llll yy.. the first lineup most people saw with Michael Urbano and Davey Oh, cool that’s great. Faragher and the Bakersfield record was done in Athens, GA. DD iidd yyoouu eevvee rr tthhiinnkk 2255 yyeeaa rrss llaa tteerr yyoouu gguuyyss w woouull dd ss ttii llll bbee rroollll ii nngg We had one disc we called “Berkeley” and the other “Athens”, aall oonngg?? but it made sense to call it Well, probably not. The history of Berkeley to Bakersfield with the most bands don’t last that long. I country thing being “Bakersfield”. think it’s kind of a surprise. The We did the “Bakersfield” thing with way the band was set up was so me all these guys from Athens and that and Johnny [Hickman] could be like allow us to have a different sound, the two owners of the band. different kind of strengths, but Nobody else could really be in the since then we’ve been playing basiband. We would just sort of have cally with the “Bakersfield” lineup hired people. Both of us had expe- with all these guys from Athens. riences in when we were in large It’s cool, man. bands where everybody did things ENIGMA
They all sound the same. Did you see that YouTube video where somebody cut together six country songs and they were basically all on the charts in one year? Have you seen that?
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I always play that for my class because we always talk about objectivity and subjectivity. How can you tell if it’s good and blah, blah, blah. But you can tell what objectively what sounds the same, which is contriving. (laughs) Here’s the thing – we have kind of a mixed bucket with Cracker. We used to have individual ownership of radio stations spread all across the country. You would have individual music directors and programmers in each market making their choices to what they thought the audience wanted to hear. You had a lot more diversity and stuff. And then we had this mass consolidation. That was bad for a quirky band like Cracker in some ways. But in another way, though if you were in another band, especially like Cracker which could cross three or four radio formats – rock, classic rock, alternative rock, what have you. We’re played more on
the radio now that we have since the summer of ’94, which you could say is the peak of our experience. We’re played more on the radio now. We’re current on rock tracks. There are at least five of them getting played regularly. It’s bad for the diversity of radio but it’s good for us. People know our music.
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DD oo yyoouu tthhii nnkk ppeeooppllee hhaavvee ppiicckk eedd uupp oonn yyoouurr w w oorr ddppll aayy?? OO nnee ooff m myy ffaavv oorr iittee tthhii nnggss aabboouutt ll iiss ttee nniinngg ttoo yyoouurr m muuss iicc iiss tthh ee ssee nnss ee ooff hh uum moorr.. IItt’’ss nnoott ccyy nniiccii ssm m bbuutt yyoouu aarree m maakk -ii nngg ppooiinnttee dd jj aabbss aa tt ddiiffffee rree nntt tthhiinnggss aa nndd ggooii nngg oovv eerr eevvee rryybbooddyy ’’ss hheeaa dd.. II’’vvee ss aaiidd iitt bbee ffoorree:: yy oouurr w wrr iittii nngg rr eem miinnddss m mee ooff RRaa yy D D aavviiee ss ooff tthhee KKii nnkkss .. I think it’s a real challenge to do in a rock band because, a lot of times, people don’t really listen to lyrics in a rock band; it’s just words in the chorus and stuff like that. I’ve been doing that since the Camper Van Beethoven days. I just think…
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llooyyaall ffaann bbaa ssee .. OOff ccoouurrss ee yyoouurr ffaann you know, if you read a book by an bbaa ss ee hhaass aa nnii cckk nnaam mee ll ii kk ee tthhee author, authors don’t always tell the story in a matter-of-fact way: DDeeaa dd’’ss oorr W Wii ddeess pprr eeaadd PPaannii cc’’ss.. this happened and this happened Yeah, they call themselves and then this happened. They’ll use “crumbs”. It started out at a pri- humor or they’ll misdirect or they vate party we played down in the will use the unreliable narrator, panhandle. I think really a bunch where they’re not telling you the of crumbs threw a party. (laughs) truth but you read between the We came down there and played lines, right? All of these are techbasically at somebody’s house. niques you use in a narrative voice There was a lot of that stuff going when you’re writing poetry or ficaround. Of course we’re still out tion or even if you’re the director of a movie or a screenplay writer playing the theaters and clubs.
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or something else like that. But, for some reason, in music it’s unusual. So, really all I’m doing is using what tools other authors have used to tell stories. The majority of our songs aren’t funny or sarcastic at all but I guess, because sometimes I use that voice, people tend to think of us that way.
TT hhee rree ’’ss aa lloott ttoo yy oouurr m muuss iicc.. IIff yyoouu llii ss ttee nn ttoo tthhee llyyrr iiccss ,, iitt iiss oobbvvii oouuss llyy wee llll w w wrr iitttteenn ccoom mppaarr eedd ttoo w whhaatt’’ss oonn tthhee rr aaddiioo oorr uuss eedd ttoo bbee oonn tthhee rraa ddiioo.. SSoom mee ooff tthh ee ss ttuu ffff ii ss ss oo m mii nndd nnuum mbbii nngg tthh aatt ii tt’’ss aa nn iinnss uull tt ttoo tthh ee ii nntteell ll ii ggeenncc ee.. IItt’’ss ll iikk ee rr eeaa ddiinngg SShhaakk eessppee aarree ccoom mppaarr eedd ttoo rr eeaaddii nngg aa ss iill llyy ccoom miicc bbooookk – – aanndd tthhaa tt’’ss nnoott ttoo ppiicckk oonn ccoom mii cc bbooookk ss,, jj uuss tt ssoom mee ooff tthhee bbaa dd ccoom mii cc bbooookkss II ’’vvee ss eeee nn oovveerr tthhee yyeeaa rrss .. IItt’’ss aa ttoottaall llyy ddii ffffeerr -eenntt llee vveell ooff ii nnttee llll iiggee nnccee ..”” Thanks, man. You’re known for witty and all that. Has your sense of humor got you in trouble off-stage? Um, sure. (laughs) California isn’t just all nice. People think of California and don’t realize it’s also a very rural state. People are always surprised by this but I remember one time me and Johnny and the engineer that we were using to record an album went to basically a redneck bar after we finished recording. The engineer’s
from Austria, right? He’s wearing leather pants. He’s really punk rock. And we’re standing at the bar at this redneck bar and finally these two dudes… you know, there’s no one in there except for these other two dudes talking to the bartender, right? It’s not a politically correct story but it’s pretty fucking funny. We got to talking to these two guys and, after a while, one of them goes, ‘Hey, can we ask you a question?’ We’re like, ‘Yeah, sure. What?’ The guy says, ‘Are you guys gay?’ And before I could even think about it, I go, ‘No, but what did you have in
mind?’ The bartender just about fell off his stool laughing, but those other guys were ready to kick our asses after that. It was pretty funny.
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What’s going on right now is we are in an industrial transition. Songwriters and performers’ music is consumed more now that it has at any given time before. People consume more music than they ever have. They listen to more music than they ever have, but the percentage of revenue that is flowing through to performers and songwriters is smaller than it has ever been. It’s an industrial transition and it’s not going to change unless people actually stand up and do something about it, you know? When they struck against the railroad, railroad strikers struck to get better pay. That’s actually all I can say about that stuff. I can’t actually talk specifically about any of that right now.”
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Dave Mason Dave Mason is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic. Over the course of his career, Mason has played and recorded with many notable pop and rock musicians, including Paul McCartney, George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Steve Winwood, Fleetwood Mac, Delaney Bramlett, and Cass Elliot. One of Mason’s best known songs is “Feelin’ Alright”, recorded by Traffic in 1968 and later by many other performers, including Joe Cocker, whose version of the song was a hit in 1969.
For Traffic, he also wrote “Hole in My Shoe”, a psychedelic pop song that became a hit in its own right. “We Just Disagree”, Mason’s 1977 solo US hit, written by Jim Krueger, has become a staple of US Classic Hits and Adult Contemporary radio playlists. Mason remains busy these days as he embarks on tour this summer with Journey and the Doobie Brothers.
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“Well, I’ve done some covers in my career: ‘Bring It on Home’, ‘Take It to the Limit’, ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?’ I have some tapes at home in my studio that I work on and there’s some covers on those. I’m working on some blues stuff at home. Things that have influenced me. Eddy Cochran stuff. So, I’ve done covers and I still do. W iitt hh ttoodd aayy ’’ss m W m ooddeerrnn tteecc hhnnoolloo -gg yy,, m muussiiccaall aarrttiissttss hhaavvee ggrreeaatteerr cc oonnttrroo ll oovveerr tt hheeiirr m m uussiicc aanndd whhaatt tt hheeyy cc aann ddoo w w wiitthh iitt bbuutt ddoo yy oouu tt hhiinnkk tthh eeyy ttaakkee oonn ttoooo m uucchh aanndd ttaakkee aaw m waayy ffrroom m tt hhee aacctt uuaall cc rreeaattiioonn ooff tthhee m m uussiicc ??
Right. I mean, great stuff was cut on two-tracks. ‘Sgt. Pepper’, Traffic’s first album … that’s just four-track. It doesn’t really matter. It’s all about the song and the performance. It ain’t Well … at this point, you obvi- about the equipment. ously can say “I wish I knew then what I know now. YYoo uu w weerree ppaarrtt ooff tthhee ttaaiill--eenndd ooff tthh ee BBrriittiisshh IInnvv aassiioonn .. W Whhaatt ddoo RRiigghhtt.. yy oouu tthhiinnkk iiss AA m meerriiccaa’’ss ff aasscc iinn aa-ttiioonn w wiitthh tt hhee BBrriittiisshh,, bb eecc aauussee iitt …but it didn’t go that way. sseeeem mss w wee hhaavv ee aa rreeaall aaffffiinniittyy When you’re young, though, you ffoo rr BBrriittiisshh aarrttiissttss?? D Deepp eennddiinngg have boundless energy and oo nn tthhee ggeennrree,, w wee ssoom m eettiim m eess you’re wide open to trying all oo vveerrllooookk oo uurr oow wnn aarrtt iissttss hh eerree.. W hhaatt ddoo yy oouu tthhiinnkk iiss oouurr ffaasscc ii-kinds of different things. So, W you really haven’t reached any nn aatt iioo nn w wiitthh tthhee BBrriittss?? comfort level yet. (laughs) “All we did was take ENIGMA
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American music and sell it back to Americans. I mean, we just learned it … all of contemporary music comes from this country: blues, gospel, jazz, country – it’s all from here. We just learned from what was coming out of here and put our own little twist on it probably and came up with some good stuff. Back when there was actually radio and DJs and back when there was actually somebody there, back in that time, we were all looking for something that was different instead of music that was the same, just more of the same stuff, which tends to be somewhat the way things are at the moment in some ways. So we were always looking for different stuff that SOUNDED different.
ing that now. Whhaatt’’ss iitt lliikkee ppllaayyiinngg aa ddoouubbllee-W nneecckkeedd gguuiittaarr?? II’’m m ffaasscc iinnaatteedd bb yy yyoo uu gguuyy ss tthhaatt ccaann aacctt uuaallllyy ddoo tthhaatt.. OOff cc oouurrssee,, II cc aann ’’tt pp llaayy gguuii-ttaarr aatt aallll,, ssoo II’’ m m lloosstt aannyy w waayyss.. Weellll,, II nn eevveerr uu sseedd oo nnee oo nnssttaaggee W ssoo … … II m meeaann,, II hhaadd aann aacc oouussttiicc
this point – it’s playing live ‘cause that’s all that’s left. That’s mostly what’s left, just playing live. If I have some new material or CD, that’s basically where you can find it is at the concerts. And that’s basically the only place you’re going to hear anything new is at the concert. So, from that aspect, it’s
depends on the song, on how you treat the song, you know? It could be rock; it could be a ballad; it could be reggae; it could be bluesy … so it depends a lot on the song.
YYoo uu’’vvee bbeeeenn dd ooiinngg tthhee TT rraaffff iicc JJaam m ffoo rr aa ccoouupp llee ooff yy eeaarrss nnoow w.. IIss tthheerree aa ssoonn gg iinn yyoouu rr rreeppeerr-ttoo iirree tthhaatt yy oouu m moo sstt lloooo kk ffoo rr-waarrdd ttoo pp llaayy iinn gg?? w I look forward to playing them all. That’s why they’re in the set. That’s why I do them. I wouldn’t put anything in there where I was like,’Ehhh.” I wouldn’t want to get up onstage and do that. W hhaatt kkeeeeppss yyoo uu m W m oottiivv aatt eedd ttoo kkeeeepp gg ooiinngg hheerree iinn 2200 1166?? It’s what I do.” (laughs) “It’s what I do and I can still do it. So, you know, why not? I’m not a golf freak and I’m not really into nothing else. It’s just what I do. Like you say, as long as I can still do it, I will keep doing it.
YYoouu ’’rree ssttiillll w wrriittiinngg ssoonngg ss ttoodd aayy .. HHoow w ddiiffffeerreenntt iiss yy oouurr ssoo nngg w wrriitt -iinngg ttooddaayy pprroocceessss ccoo m mppaarreedd ttoo eeaarrllyy iinn yyoo uurr ccaarreeeerr?? I really don’t write that much anymore because I’m not driven to make new product, frankly, because the things aren’t there anymore to promote new product. Everybody’s ripping everything off the internet, for a start, but the other big thing is that there’s no radio anymore. There’s no DJs, there’s no national radio format. ‘Hey, here’s the latest Dave Mason record. Check it out!’ It’s not there. It’s gone. So, bottom line, oonnee w wiitthh aa ttw weellvv ee--ssttrriinngg nneecckk at this point, it’s just not finan- aanndd aa ssiixx --ssttrriinngg nn eecc kk bbuu tt II nneevveerr ppeerrssoonnaallllyy uusseedd oo nnee.. TT hheeyy’’rree cially feasible. ccuum m bbeerrssoo m mee bbuu tt yyoo uu ccaann ggeett BBeessiiddeess ssoo nnggw wrriittiinngg,, yyoo uu’’rree w weellll aarroo uunndd iitt.. kknnoo w wnn ffoorr yyoo uurr gg uuiittaarr w woorrkk.. IIss tthheerree aa gg uuiittaarr iinn ppaarrttiiccuullaarr tthhaatt W Whhaatt dd oo yyoo uu tthhiinnkk iiss tthhee m m oosstt yy oouu eennjjoo yy pp llaayy iinn gg m m oorree tthhaann iim m ppoorrttaann tt tt hhiinn gg ffoorr aa m m uussiicc iiaann :: ootthheerrss?? ppllaayy iinngg lliivvee oorr rreecc oorrddiinngg tt hheeiirr muussiicc?? W m Whhiicc hh sshh oouulldd bbee tthhee I have a custom Telecaster that ggrreeaatteerr pp rriioorriittyy ?? I’ve been using mostly and I just customized a Strat and I’m play- Person: “Well, the priority – at ENIGMA
DDoo yy oouu lliisstteenn ttoo aa lloo tt ooff m m uussiicc whheenn yy oouu’’rree nnoo tt ppeerrff oorrm w miinngg oorr ddoo yyoo uu ssttaayy aaw waayy ffrroom mm muu ssiicc ?? No, no, I don’t.”
LL aasstt qq uueesstt iioo nn :: w whh aatt aadd vviicc ee woouu lldd tthhee 22001166 D w Daavvee M Maassoonn gg iivv ee aa tteeeenn aagg eedd DDaavv ee M M aassoo nn?? God, it’s just a wing and a prayer. You just got to stick to it if you’re in this music thing … I mean, I’ve met a lot of talented people that just come and go and I’ve been lucky, I guess. I YYoouu’’vv ee ppllaayyeedd m maannyy dd iiff ffeerreenn tt have no formal training, so … ggeennrreess ooff m m uussiicc .. IIss tthheerree aannyy other than just go at it and do ggeennrree tt hhaatt yy oouu hhaavvee aa pp aarrttiiccuu llaarr what it takes to do what you aaffff iinn iitt yy ffoo rr?? need to do. You got to have a passion for it. I love blues. I’m not an out-andout blues player but I incorpo- - Dave Weinthal rate it into things and then it not really any different for me than it’s been since I’ve been doing this. I’ve always played live.
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Styx Remain Blue Collar Men Styx is a rock band plain and simple. If there ever was a doubt Tommy Shaw and James “JY” Young left no doubt recently at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park recently. It wasn’t always the case however. I’ve been a fan of the band since I was a kid as were the capacity house that was chock full of like-minded baby boomers. All their early stuff rocked with its guitar-driven sound and synthesizers and then they seemed to change a little with the times or go astray from what brought them initial fame as they “progressed” so to speak.
rock band with longer compositions and different stories being told. It was like there was a give and take between Shaw and the band’s lead singer and keyboard player Dennis DeYoung. My firs memories of DeYoung were video footage of him from the late eighties with this huge head of hair and a moustache that would have made Freddie Mercury either mad, jealous or proud depending on your perspective.
Songs of angst and struggles like “Blue Collar Man” and “Fooling Yourself” were all over the radio. Then came Paradise Theater. It wasn’t The band went through an era your typical rock album. The were they changed more from a stories in the lyrics almost rock band to more of a prog seemed mythical and not about ENIGMA
the reality of the day. But I loved it just like Grand Illusion. I remember being like a kid at a candy store going to buy the album knowing I was going to be the first one in my school with it. But there was added incentive to buy the album compared to the eight-track or cassette – it had an etched hologram on side B. It was a hologram of the band’s name and logo. To me this was the equivalent of getting a box of cereal with a prize inside.
understand. I remember the anticipation for the show to begin and then sitting through an 11-minute movie before the part music/part theatrical event took place. It wasn’t my cup of tea to be honest I was just wanting to hear “Mr. Roboto” live after seeing the video dozens of times a week literally on MTV. That, for me pretty much ended my listening experience of Styx until a few years ago when the song was featured in the second season finale of the NBC action/comedy Chuck. Truth be told, the show used the song better in this episode than the band did back in the day.
Then came Kilroy Was Here right as MTV was at its nadir. Everybody in the world knows “Mr. Roboto” by heart even the most casual Styx listener. I remember seeing the tour. It was over-the-top and the Kilroy also ended Styx or at album was too conceptual for a least the classic lineup we had young kid like myself to truly become accustomed to since
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ting tribute and I believe Mr. Bowie was smiling down from the heavens. Mr. Shaw is one of the most gifted musicians who has ever graced our planet. Styx put on a huge production with a beautiful stage design and lighting. The sound and acoustics at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre are always great but it was especially good this night. Attention to every detail was apparent. 1976 and Grand Illusion. Shaw kept busy with Damn Yankees who were a great rock band for a short time. DeYoung left the band after tensions between him and Shaw hit an epic peak. However despite his departure the damage was done despite the band going back more towards their rock roots.
for the band as it peaked at Styx S etlist S number nine in 1981. The Grand Illusion Tommy Shaw is a huge talent Too Much Time on My Hands and sings and plays guitar Fooling Yourself (The Angry effortlessly. He makes it looks Young Man) so easy. Tommy’s lead guitar Lady solos pour out so much feeling Lorelei and emotion. As much as I Man in the Wilderness enjoy hearing Dennis DeYoung Miss America (The original singer who is no Space Oddity (David Bowie However as with any genera- longer in the band), Tommy cover) tion there is revival. Show, Shaw and Lawrence Gowan do Crystal Ball Young and company came back not miss a step covering all the Lights into everyone’s psyche with some thanks to Chuck and other song placements and a revival took place a little over five years ago that included a tour playing Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight in their entirety. The crowd on hand got to hear the Shaw, JY and original bassist Chuck Panozzo rock out to classics. It was a treat to have Panozzo there as he relegated himself to a part-timer after becoming HIV-positive. The set list was filled with a mix of Shaw and DeYoung penned tune with an equal mix. And as you should expect there was no “Mr. Roboto” in site but a few songs from Paradise Theater including “Too Much Tie On my Hands” that Shaw not only wrote but was the original vocalist. It was also his only top ten song written
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Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) Keyboard Solo In between songs Tommy Shaw (Hoedown / 1999 / Changes) brought out his acoustic guitar Come Sail Away and played a tribute to David Bowie with his rendition of EEnn ccoorree:: “Space Oddity”. The crowd Rockin’ the Paradise loved it and sang every word Renegade along with him. It was awesome to hear so many people singing - Chris Eason along like a choir. It was a fitENIGMA
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1. Avett Brothers 2. Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals 3. The Revivalists 4. Red Hot Chili Peppers 5. Radiohead 6. Mudcrutch 7. Joe Bonamassa 8. Fitz & the Tantrums 9. Elle King 10. Garbage 11. Grace Potter 12. Michael Franti & Spearhead 13. The Monkees 14. The Lumineers 15. Rich Robinson 16. Mayor Hawthorne 17. The Stone Roses 18. Andrew Bird 19. Car Seat Headrest 20. Lukas Graham
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Paul Simon Remains More Than A One Trick Pony Paul Simon is 74? Jeeez! That Stranger to Stranger will be The set infused predominately makes me feel old. Seems like released the first week of of songs most were aware of. only yesterday I was singing June. Only two songs from the new along with friends to songs album made the set list like “Mrs. Robinson” and “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”. Heck I remember being introduced to his music on MTV with the semi-comical video for “You Can Call Me Al” featuring Chevy Chase who was still pretty hot after hits like “Caddyshack” and “Fletch”. But alas it is 2016 and that one video is now 30 years old. Where does the time fly? Simon has been a part of pop culture and po p music than most of you have been alive from his days with Art Garfunkel to the days of songs like “Kodachrome” and the monumental album “Graceland”. Not content to rest on his laurels Simon, who doesn’t tour as frequently as in the past and definitely not as much as his former partner, from time to time we are graced by his presence. Simon recently performed at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta in part to promote his latest album
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That being said, the show at the Fox was more a run down memory lane than the artist trying to run new songs by you as was the case for years by every artist that was ever played on the radio. Radio no longer factors in – and that can be a good thing depending on where you stand on the issue. And with purse strings tight fans these days want more bang fro their buck and quite honestly want to hear the songs they like instead of being introduced to new stuff. And like a true champion Simon delivered. ENIGMA
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PPaauull SS iim moo nn SSeett LLiisstt Proof (Instrumental - Band Only) The Boy in the Bubble 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover Dazzling Blue That Was Your Mother Rewrite Honky Tonk (Bill Doggett cover) Slip Slidin’ Away Mother and Child Reunion Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard Spirit Voices The Obvious Child El Condor Pasa (Simon & Garfunkel song) (snippet) Duncan Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel song) The Werewolf The Cool, Cool River Diamonds on the Soles of Her towards the end of the set and Shoes in the first of three encores. You Can Call Me Al Simon’s career spans an unbelievable six decades and while EEnnccoo rree:: his vocals seemed a little Wristband tired, more so than usual that Late in the Evening is to be expected when you Still Crazy After All These are his age. Despite his vocals Years not being as powerful compared to his last visit to town EEnnccoo rree 22:: they still struck a chord with The Boxer the crowd on songs like (Simon & Garfunkel song) “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” and “Homeward EEnnccoo rree 33:: Bound” they also displayed America playfulness on songs like “50 (Simon & Garfunkel song) Ways to Leave Your Lover” and “You Can Call Me Al”. Any time - Chris Eason
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THIS MONTH IN ROCK HISTORY 11995577 Sam Cooke records “You Send Me” at Radio Recorders Studio in Los Angeles. The song will rise to the top of the US chart next December and become the first of Cooke’s 29 Billboard Top 40 hits. The song reached #29 in the UK. Buddy Holly records “Peggy Sue”, which will go on to reach #3 on the Billboard chart and #6 in the UK. In real life, she was Peggy Sue Gerron, the girlfriend of Crickets drummer Jerry Allison. The song was initially titled “Cindy Lou” after Buddy’s niece, but Allison convinced Buddy to change the title just before the recording session. Allison and Gerron were later married.
an unusual name and a unique sound, had the top tune in the UK with “In The Summertime”. It went on to become the best selling UK single of the year, spending seven weeks at #1 and was a hit in 26 other countries including the US, where it would rise to #3 in midAugust.
The sponsors of the original Woodstock Festival announce that they lost more than $1.2 million on the actual concert. They would because “people in fancy dress eventually profit from the sale of aren’t allowed.” the Woodstock sound track and related memorabilia. 11996688 Simon And Garfunkel reached the A band called Smile changes their top of the US charts with “Mrs. name to Queen and performs for Robinson”, which was featured in the first time using that name. the soundtrack of the film The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman 11 997711 and Ann Bancroft. The song went Carole King was having a very on to win a Grammy Award for the good week. Her single “It’s Too Best Contemporary Pop Late” sat on top of Billboard’s sinPerformance by a Vocal Duo or gles chart and she received a Gold Group. album for “Tapestry”. The LP,
24-year-old Merrilee Rush enters the Billboard Top 40 for the first and only time with “Angel Of The Morning”, which will reach #7. Juice Newton would take the same song to #4 in 1981. “Angel of the Morning” was written by Chip 11 996622 Taylor (James Wesley Voight), the After an unsuccessful audition for younger brother of the actor Jon Decca Records, The Beatles per- Voight and the uncle of actress form for producer George Martin Angelina Jolie. at EMI Records in London. Martin 11996699 was later quoted as saying “They were pretty awful. I understand Rod Stewart, lead singer of the Jeff why other record companies Beck Group, signs a solo recording turned them down,” but signed contract with Mercury Records. them to a contract the following 11 997700 month. John, Paul, George and Pete Best were each paid 7.10 The Beatles had their last original single, “The Long and Winding pounds ($12.07) for the session. Road” hit number 1 in the US. Since 11 996655 then, they’ve reached the top of Herman’s Hermits were awarded the charts with re-releases of “Got their first Gold record for “Mrs. to Get You Into My Life” and “Back Brown You’ve Got A Lovely in the USSR” (1976), “The Beatles’ Daughter”. The song was originally Movie Medley” (1982), “Twist and an album cut that got so much air Shout” (1986, included in the play in the US, MGM Records movies Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Back to School), “Baby It’s released it as a single. You” and “Free As a Bird” (both 11 996677 1995) and “Real Love” (1996). Jimi Hendrix is denied entry to London’s Botanical Gardens Mungo Jerry, a British band with ENIGMA
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released four months earlier, was the number one album in the US for 15 weeks and would stay on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart for 292 weeks. 11 997722 Smokey Robinson appears in concert for the last time with The Miracles in Washington, DC. After enjoying 27 Billboard Top 40 hits with the group, Robinson would go on to have nine more as a solo artist while The Miracles would have just two without him. 11 997733 While Billboard listed it at #4, Cashbox magazine said that Three Dog Night’s version of “Shambala” was the hottest selling single in the country. A simultaneous release by B.W. Stevenson was also a hit on the US Country charts. 23-year-old B.W. Stevenson records “My Maria”, which will
the Billboard Hot 200 album chart when her self-titled CD reaches the top. At the same time, her single “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” led the Hot 100 singles George Harrison’s “Give Me Love” list. knocks Paul McCartney’s “My Love” out of the number one spot 11998899 on both the Billboard Pop chart The Doobie Brothers reformed and the Cash Box Best Sellers list. their original hit making line-up George’s song reached #8 in the and hit the concert trail to promote the newly released, “Cycles” UK. album. The first single from the 11997755 album, “The Doctor”, made it into Guitarist Ron Wood joins The the US Top 10, while the follow-up, Rolling Stones on tour for first “Need a Little Taste of Love” time, replacing Mick Taylor as The reached number 45. Other memStones kick off their latest tour of bers of the group performed live the US in Baton Rouge Louisiana. vocals on songs previously sung by Michael McDonald, who wasn’t Jefferson Starship’s LP “Red invited to re-join the group. Octopus” was released. The album, 11999900 marking the return of singer Marty Balin, went to number one in the Actor Gary Busey, who played US and became the band’s biggest Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story, pays $237,419 for one of seller. Holly’s acoustic guitars at an aucDavid Bowie’s “Fame” is released. tion at Sotheby’s in New York. The It will become his first and only guitar came in a tooled leather number one hit in the US and case made by Holly himself. reach #17 in the UK. The decline of the music industry 11997777 was never more evident than Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten was when MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch slashed on his face and hands by This” topped the Billboard R&B knife-wielding youths on a London chart. By simply talking over Rick street. They objected to the James’ 1981 hit, “Super Freak”, Pistols’ anti-monarchist song “God Hammer (real name: Stanley Kirk Save the Queen”. The next day, Burrell) would go on to win another member of the Pistols, Grammy Awards for Best Rhythm & Paul Cook, was beaten by a gang Blues Song as well as Best Rap Solo armed with iron pipes. Performance. reach #9 in the US later in the year. Although his real first name was Louis, he used the initials B.W., which stood for Buck Wheat.
Fleetwood Mac score their only Billboard number one hit with “Dreams”, which made #24 in the UK. Over the next dozen years, they would reach the US Top 40 thirteen more times.
11999911 Eddie Kendricks is arrested at the funeral of fellow Temptations member David Ruffin for non-payment of nearly $30,000 in child support.
Marvel Comics issues the first of two comic books based on the costumed characters of the group KISS. The popular rumor of the day was that red ink was mixed with small amounts of blood from each group member. This however, turned out to be a hoax.
22000022 57-year-old John Entwistle, bassist for The Who, was found dead of an apparent heart attack in a Las Vegas hotel room. Nicknamed “Thunderfingers”, he was voted the greatest bassist of all time in a Rolling Stone reader’s poll In 2011.
as a foreign language after admitting that he was unsure of the meaning of ‘shizzle my nizzle’ and ‘mish mish man’. The court battle was over a copyright issue between the Ant’ill Mob and the Heartless Crew, who had used the lyrics on a remix. 22000044 Ray Charles passed away at the age of 73. During his 45 year career, Ray appeared on the US Pop charts 77 times, with 33 of those songs making the Top 40. He became the first artist to have an album on Billboard’s Hot 200 for six decades in a row. 22000066 Billy Preston, the keyboardist who had a series of hit singles in the 1970s, including “Will It Go ‘Round In Circles” and “Nothing From Nothing”, passed away at the age of 59. Billy was the only backing musician to ever be credited on a Beatles single when his name appeared on “Get Back”.
Pete Quaife, the original bassist for The Kinks, died of kidney failure at the age of 66. Quaife played on such early hits as “You Really Got Me”, “All Day and All of the Night” and “Tired of Waiting for You” before leaving the group in 1969. He was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with the rest of the original band in 1990. 220011 11 Clarence Clemons, the burly sax player who helped develop Bruce Springsteen’s early sound, died just six days after suffering a stroke at his Florida home. He was 69.
22001133 Bobby “Blue” Bland, who placed three songs on the Billboard Top 40, including 1962’s “Turn On Your 22000088 Culture Club frontman Boy George Love Light”, passed away at the was denied entry into the United age of 83. States by US authorities who cited looming legal issues overseas. 22001155 George was arrested in 2007 after Chris Squire, bassist and coa 28-year-old male escort from founder of Yes, lost his battle with Norway accused the singer of false leukemia at the age of 67. imprisonment and assault. Deen Castronovo, drummer for Journey, was jailed after being 220011 00 62-year-old Gregg Allman under- charged with having sexual interwent a successful liver transplant course “by forcible compulsion” operation at the Mayo Clinic in between June 8 and June 14. He Jacksonville, Florida. Allman had faced felony charges of assault, begun a series of treatments for sexual abuse and unlawful use of a Hepatitis C, but chronic damage of dangerous weapon. his liver led doctors to recom-
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mend a transplant. In a statement to the press, Allman said “I changed my ways years ago, but we can’t turn back time. Every day is a gift.”
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