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Hooligans
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: Big Daddy D & The Dynamites. The "Band" with some Great New Tunes. - 8:30 p.m.
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Matt's Saloon
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: Mac Daddy. Great rock and country - you won't hear Billy Joel played anywhere else on the Row!! - 9:00 p.m.
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Jersey Lily
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: Combo Deluxe. Lorrie and the boys. - 8:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.
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Bird Cage
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: Hard Road. Straight ahead drivin' R & R. - 9:30 p.m.
SUNDAY: Back Stage Crew. UPbeat 70's, 80's, 90's from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m.
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Pinon Pines
FRIDAY: Leather and Lace Show. Special dancers and contests 7:00 p.m.
SATURDAY: Major Lingo. They're finally back, $5 cover. 8:00 p.m. to 12 a.m.
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Coyote Joe’s
SATURDAY: JNG band CD release party with some of the Cheektones. 7:00 to 10:30 p.m.
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November Music History:
1908, Columbia runs an ad in The Saturday Evening Post touting their new two-sided records …
1956, "Love Me Tender" is the first single to enter the pop charts at #1 … Elvis’ slow dance tune also appears on the Country and Western and R&B charts …
1958, Tommy Facenda, a backup vocalist for Gene Vincent, charts with a single called "High School U.S.A." … the tune is released in 28 versions, each name-dropping a different major high school across the country … the combined sales get the single to #28 on the pop chart …
1961, 20-year-old Bob Dylan records his eponymous debut album accompanied only by his guitar and harmonica … studio cost is a whopping $400 … filling out the studio’s tax reporting form, he lists his name as "Blind Boy Grunt" … … meanwhile in Britain, the Beatles join forces with Gerry & The Pacemakers for a one-off show … the combined group is billed as The Beatmakers …
1962, the artist known as Little Stevie Wonder makes his first recording … Steveland Morris Judkins’ first single sinks without a trace but the accolades are not far away … this same week James Brown records a live show in the face of objections from his record label—an in-concert soul album has never been done before … Live at the Apollo turns out to be among the Godfather of Soul’s most brilliant performances and the album goes on to sell millions …
1964, a London band known as the High Numbers is rejected after an audition with EMI … formerly known as The Who, the four young rockers have recently come under the influence of manager Pete Meaden,… in the coming months they’ll assume their old name and ride the magic bus to fame …
1966, The Beach Boys’ "Good Vibrations" charts for the first time on its way to #1 … the single is the result of six months work and 17 sessions in four different studios at a then-unprecedented cost of $16,000 …
1969, The Who start a six-night stand at New York’s Fillmore East in support of Tommy …
1973, John Lennon files suit against the U.S. government alleging that the FBI tapped his phone in an effort to deport him …
1974, soul singer Al Green is seriously burned when a disturbed girlfriend tosses a pot of boiling grits on him … the incident results in Green becoming a minister and leaving secular music behind … it will be 2003 before he releases another non-religious record …
1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd fans take a gut shot this week when they learn that band members Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and Ronnie Van Zant have died along with three members of their entourage in a plane crash in a swamp near Gillsburg, Mississippi …
1978, Sid Vicious attempts to off himself at New York’s Rikers Island jail, where he’s awaiting trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen … the bad Pistol will get out and OD before he can be tried for the crime… this same week, the bad Rolling Stone, Keith Richards, receives a suspended one-year sentence after pleading guilty to heroin possession in Toronto … he’s also ordered to play a charity concert for the blind …
1986, … this week also marks the first time ever that three femme popsters hold down the first three positions on the pop chart … in order they are: Janet Jackson with her "When I Think of You," "Typical Male" by Tina Turner, and Cyndi Lauper with "True Colors" …
1988, Fantasy Records, after more than a decade of rancorous relations with John Fogerty, files a suit claiming he plagiarized his own song, "Run Through the Jungle," during the composition of "The Old Man Down the Road" … it will be 1995 before the court finally rules that Fantasy is fantasizing …
1992, long before her career as a writer of children’s books, Madonna releases Sex—a steel-bound book of erotic photos of herself and other beautiful people that sells out the first run of a half million copies in no time … she also releases her album Erotica this week … it will sell over two million copies … COMPARE That to THIS: country singer Lynn Anderson is sprung from a Nashville jail after doing two days for contempt of court … the sentence stemmed from cursing at her former husband in front of their teenage children …
1998, the publisher of Alice Cooper’s "Eighteen" files suit against Cooper’s primary makeup rock emulators KISS, claiming they ripped off his song "Eighteen" for their song, "Dreamin’" … Cooper has nothing to do with it and hasn’t even heard the KISS tune … asked about the outcome years later, Cooper says, "I think we all forgot to show up at court. Paul Stanley bought me a cheeseburger to make up for the whole thing" …
2001, VH1 hosts its Concert for New York, which raises over $30 million for victims of 9/11 with performances by such heavy hitters as The Who, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Elton John, and Bon Jovi …
2004, crusading New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announces an investigation of payola practices in the music business … EMI, Warner Music Group, Sony-BMG, and Universal all receive subpoenas demanding that they produce communications with independent record promoters, the middlemen paid by record companies to get airplay … before it’s all over, the labels will fork over large cash fines … also this week, "singer" Ashlee Simpson gets busted for lip syncing during a performance on Saturday Night Live … her drummer mistakenly cues up a backing track for the same song the band had played earlier in the evening, catching Ashlee off guard … the real fun begins when a prerecorded vocal track begins to play, revealing that the earlier song had been lip synced … the track is quickly faded, but Ashlee is busted, and after dancing an awkward, vaudevillian jig, she exits stage right … the band continues to play along to the first song as the network cuts to a commercial …
2005, … after taking heat over its copy-protection system that buried software deep in Window’s-based computers, making them susceptible to viruses, Sony BMG announces it will stop embedding the software on its CDs while seeking another approach to piracy prevention …
2006, Sheryl Crow administers payback to John Mayer by walking onstage mid-set in a Jessica Simpson-inspired bikini … the rocker is rumored to have had a fling with Simpson … a night earlier Mayer had disrupted Crow’s set by hitting the stage in a bear costume … the pair are touring together and are obviously having a lot of fun …
2007, Ron Wood’s autobiography, Ronnie: The Autobiography, is released … in it he candidly addresses the demons he has faced, tells about the time he pulled a .44 Magnum on Keith Richards, and recounts salacious tales from life on the road with The Rolling Stones, Kid Rock is busted for misdemeanor battery following a scuffle in a Waffle House outside Atlanta … the Kid got into it with a male customer who engaged in a verbal exchange with one of the women in Rock’s entourage … he’s released on $1,000 bail after spending the night in lockup … on a more positive note, Graham Nash, Jackson Browne, and David Crosby sing a rousing rendition of CSN’s “Teach Your Children†and other peace-oriented songs at the Pray for Peace concert held in Washington D.C.’s National Cathedral
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