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Jersey Lily
FRIDAY: Combo Deluxe - always good, the unstoppable L.Mc. -8-12.
SATURDAY: Little Larry - Excellent R&B and Motown - 8-12.
Coyote Joe’s
SATURDAY: The Cheektones - excellent listening & dancing-7-10:30.
Pinon Pines
SATURDAY: Not Quite Dead - 80's metal ---8-12
SUNDAY: The King Gypsy Caravan - soul, r&b, & funk -Great Dancing!--2-7
Hooligans
FRIDAY/SATURDAY: KARMA - Good Classic Rock, Lady singer on keyboard --8:30
Bird Cage
FRIDAY/SATURDAY: Smoot Mahooty - good Listening - 9:30
Matt's
FRIDAY/SATURDAY: Southbound - a pretty "far" country/rock band---9:00
Lyzzards
SATURDAY: The Market - Ethnic Alternitive-- 9:30
Raven Cafe:
FRIDAY: SHRI - the lady sings good blues-the guy sings sings fair folk--8
Spirit Room:
SATURDAY/SUNDAY: Combo Deluxe - always good, the unstoppable L.Mc.-2-6
10/12 LOUNGE [CLARKDALE]:
SATURDAY: JJ and midnight blue--8
SUNDAY: RETROS -- 5
THIS WEEK IN MUSIC HISTORY:
It was on this day in 1882 that the "1812 Overture" debuted in Moscow. Pyotor Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the piece to commemorate Russia's defense in 1812 at the Battle of Borodino against Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The piece debuted at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. The "1812 Overture" includes 16 cannon shots, which are written into the piece along with all the other orchestral instruments.
The piece is 15 minutes long, and it begins with a Russian Orthodox hymn and moves through traditional and military themes to convey the distress of the Russian people at the invading French. But even though it is a piece about Russia and France, it's now a popular choice for patriotic American festivals. This tradition began in 1935 when Chicago's Grant Park Orchestra performed it for the Fourth of July. Now the Boston Pops Orchestra plays it every year for their huge July 4th celebrations. It's played every July 4th on the Capitol Lawn in Washington, D.C., and the United States Army Band performs the piece every August.
1906, the first Victrola phonograph, with wind-up drive and its own horn, is marketed by Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey, for $200
1938, one of the most-covered standards ever, "Ain't Misbehavin'" by Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, and Andy Razaf is recorded by Waller, a master of stride piano …
1939, MGM releases The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland … the song "Over the Rainbow" will win the Oscar for best original song and later be covered by Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Placido Domingo, Sarah Vaughan, Tommy Emmanuel, Norah Jones, Buckethead, and ukulele player Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, who sang a harmonized melody …
1965, The Turtles’ cover of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe” enters the Top 40, becoming an important milestone in the emerging genre called folk-rock …
1967, Are You Experienced, the first album from The Jimi Hendrix Experience is unleashed in the United States … the cover shows a trio of frizzy-haired psychedelic dandies staring back at you in a distorted fisheye lens image … the liner notes offer the caution: "Be forewarned. Used to be an experience meant making you a bit older. This one makes you wider … Hendrix breaks the world into interesting fragments. Then reassembles it. You hear with new ears after being Experienced."
… The Beatles take a break from touring and recording to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Wales … the lads will later become disenchanted with the roly-poly Indian guru … while seeking their inner light, Beatles manager Brian Epstein dies in his London home from a mixture of alcohol and barbiturates …
1968, … The Beatles new single is the first on their new Apple label … the B-side is "Revolution," a rockin' electric version of an acoustic song The Beatles had recorded for the The White Album … the A-side "Hey Jude," features Paul pounding away at the old Johanna and shouting ad libs throughout the four minutes of na-na-na chorusing …
1969, the movie Alice's Restaurant, based on the 18-minute, mostly autobiographical Arlo Guthrie recording of the same name, is released … Arlo Guthrie plays himself … Officer Obie is played by himself, William Obanhein, of Stockbridge, Massachusetts …
1970, Duane Allman begins sessions as a member of Derek & The Dominos … Eric Clapton praises Allman as the catalyst in a double-album project, Layla, And Other Assorted Love Songs, that is completed in only 10 days …
1971, Who's Next from The Who hits the record racks in the UK … many consider it not only their finest album, with first-rate songwriting, performances, and sound, it's also named as one of the best albums of all time … the album cover shows the band just after having apparently relieved themselves on a concrete monolith in the middle of a slag heap … photographer Ethan Russell later revealed rainwater was used as a substitute when some band members couldn't summon up enough pee …
1975, Queen begins recording "Bohemian Rhapsody" at Rockfield Studio One in Monmouth, Wales … altogether, five studios will be used, making it one of the most expensive singles ever … the 30-second opera portion takes three weeks to record with 180 overdubbed voices … the vocal harmony parts are duplicated so many times the original vocal parts are eight generations down … the original 24-track tape becomes so worn it has to be copied to a fresh tape …
1987, the movie Dirty Dancing is released … its soundtrack album is a bestseller, yielding what will become a karaoke classic, "(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life" …
1990, the world of rock and modern blues takes a big hit when Stevie Ray Vaughan is killed in a Wisconsin helicopter crash that also takes the lives of three members of Eric Clapton's entourage …
A Nevada court exonerates heavy metal band Judas Priest in a $6.2 million civil suit filed by the parents of two youths who shot themselves allegedly as a result of listening to the band's records …
1995, singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett loses control of his plane on takeoff from Nantucket, Massachusetts … it flips and splashes down in the cold North Atlantic but Buffett is able to swim to safety …
2001, 200 fans are ejected from the Charlotte, North Carolina, Ozzfest for alcohol and drug use … the show started at around 10 a.m. and the first group of partied-out attendees is ushered out just after noon, proving Ozzy Osbourne fans are not into pacing themselves …
2004, Queen becomes the first band to have a rock album legally released in Iran … the album is a compilation of the band's hits and includes an insert with lyrics and production notes … Queen's vocalist Freddie Mercury was of Iranian extraction …
2005, Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, dies from a brain tumor at the age of 71 … in 1964 he demonstrated his first synthesizer that used a keyboard and controller … by 1971, his company, Moog Music was producing the MiniMoog Model D, one of the first portable synths that soon will be a standard part of the keyboard array of artists such as Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman …
2006, … in an interview with Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan disses modern recording methods saying, "I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really." … responding to the question of illegal music downloads, he says, "Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway. You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them. There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like … static." …
2007, now you can call him "Dr. May" … Queen guitarist Brian May earns his PhD in astronomy from London's Imperial College … May handed in his 48,000-word doctoral thesis, "Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud," earlier in the month—36 years after he started it—and then took a three-hour oral exam … May already has two honorary doctorates …
The Stones wrap their Bigger Bang tour having grossed $558 million, eclipsing the record formerly held by U2's 2005 Vertigo tour that brought in a paltry $389 million … commenting on the end of the long-running tour, Mick Jagger acknowledges, "I’m sort of glad it’s done. I need to do some resting"…
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