GROOVY NOODLES
THE ELM TREASON NEWSLETTER NO. 47
MARCH 11, 2022
Elm Treason News Wire…
ITEM 1 – Thanks to your overwhelming positive feedback, we have decided… YES, we WILL be creating a private Facebook Group! (insert fanfare) We so appreciate your encouragement and input on this. With an invite-only Facebook group, people will not miss anything we post… and our interactions can be far more personalized. Plus there will be lots more exclusive stuff to share. We will keep you posted!
ITEM 2 – For the foreseeable future (a few months), Andy will be in Texas with family. One of his daughters is getting married on the 19th… and another is having a baby in a few months. Andy’s wife will have it no other way. Case closed.
Bobby will hold down the fort in New York.
ITEM 3 – Meanwhile work on the band’s next studio album will continue as much as possible – particularly with artwork, mixing and mastering. Most of it has been recorded already.
(In an exclusive GROOVY NOODLES tidbit, the working title of the album (so far) is “Going Yesterday.”)
Your Input – Let’s do it the OTHER WAY
We loved your responses last week for “Name a Song by your favorite band or artist that you do not like.”
This week, we’ll go the opposite way. We think it’ll be just as much fun..
Name a song you LOOOOOVE by a band or artist you otherwise don’t really care for.
This’ll be good.
Have at it! No judgments. Hit that COMMENTS section!
Birthdays This Past Week
Birthdays we didn’t mention on our Facebook page.
Mickey Dolenz turned 77 on Tuesday.
Guitar legend Robin Trower celebrated birthday number 77 this past Wednesday.
Eddy Grant was rockin’ on Electric Avenue for birthday number 74 this past saturday.
Peter Wolf lead singer for the J. Geils Band celebrated his 76th birthday on Monday.
Edie Brickell celebrated birthday 56 on Thursday.
Carrie Underwood had her 39th birthday on Thursday.
Mark Lindsay from Paul Revere and the Raiders had his 80th birthday on Wednesday.
Jeff Ament, bassist for Pearl Jam, turned 59 on Thursday
A Few More Bad Jokes
- Who’s most likely to be struck by lightning in an orchestra? The conductor.
- Which musicians are the most relaxed teachers? Trombone players, because they let everything slide.
- Why is the fish always first chair? Because he knows his scales.
- Why do thieves always rob instrument stores? They want the lute.
- Why are electric guitar players the nicest members of a rock band? They always practice random axe of kindness.
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Andy and Bobby in the park, Lehigh Valley, PA TX – July 2017
2 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
An appellate court upholds a 2016 ruling that Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven” did not infringe on the Spirit song “Taurus,” bringing an end to the lawsuit that was filed in 2014.
11 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr dies of a prescription drug overdose at age 44.
20 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
The Osbournes, which chronicles the domestic life of heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne and his family, premieres on MTV. In its first season, it becomes the network’s most-viewed series.
31 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Seattle band Mookie Blaylock announce they are changing their name to PEARL JAM after watching Neil Young jam on stage a few weeks earlier.
34 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Andy Gibb, younger brother of the Bee Gees, dies of heart failure. He was only 30.
40 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
The Go-Go’s “Beauty and the Beat” albums hits #1 in America, making them the first all-girl band with a chart topping album.
69 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
America learns of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s death when Air Force Staff Sergeant Johnny Cash intercepts a coded message from Russia. Cash was a Morse Code operator.
71 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Rock guitar distortion is invented when Willie Kizart plays “Rocket 88” using an amp that was damaged when it fell out of the van transporting him and the other members of Ike Turner’s band to their recording session in Memphis.
ANOTHER FUNNY
No small feet…
FUNNY… BUT TRUE
This one will work with ANY decade’s music… whatever connects with you.
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Exited for you Andy. Family is so important.
I’m indifferent to anything by Brittany Spears except one song that I love very much. “Toxic.”
Thanks, Bill.
In retrospect, Amy and I are fortunate we started so young… We’re still rocking hard, active and in great health, so being a grandparent (which sounded REAL SCARY for a while there) doesn’t seem so “old” to us right now.
We are digging it much!
Rock on, brother!
Not a fan of the Ramones. I know! I know! Might get a lot of flak for that. But I do love ‘Sedated’. It was my party song and can’t hear it now without going totally bonkers party mode. Which makes everyone around me want me to be to sedated. ????
No flack from this end. 🙂 We dig what we dig.. and I (Andy) agree with you… that song is a hardcore PARTY song if ever there was one.
Rock on, Victoria!
Congrats to both milestones! ????????
And honestly, I have too many “faves by artist” to list! But Lenny by SRV, Into The Mystic by Van Morrison, Kiss by Prince, and a wayback Perfidia by anyone LoL
I LOVE Into the Mystic!
..but not a Van Morrison fan overall?
Thank you, Nancy.
Milestones abound lately!
Let me (Andy) see if I can pick one off the top….. I’m not a huge fan of BECK, but I dig the song “Loser.”
First of all Andy that is exciting news another wedding and the new baby and your other daughter got married on my birthday so I guess in one way or another your family and I will be celebrating on that day!
My brain seems to be back in full swing so this week’s question is a no brainer, Ripples by Genesis!
Last weeks question a band or singer that you really love but don’t like a song, Blue Highway by Billy Idol. And to revisit one hit wonders sorry but I must get it off my chest, Cath by The Bluebells and The Hooters, And we Danced!
Working title for the new album is giving me a retro maybe cover song vibe?
Hey Shelley!
The working title is not really a nod to any cover versions.. rather, about attitudes and traditions… Sometimes, you just feel like “Going Yesterday.” Not that anyone wants to live in the past or that everything before today is better than today (because that is untrue)… but sometimes, you just want to slip back into a better feeling time… sometimes you just feel like “Going Yesterday.”
Love your choices, by the way.
It is always great to get your input on music.
Always.
Thank you, sister!
I’m not a Dire Straights fan, but I do like that song, So far away from me, a lot.
Nice song, indeed. Good choice, Mark.
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Not a fan of Bruce, but I love Candy’s room, and the river. Don’t really care about Styx, but crystal ball,and suite madam blue, are the bomb!!
Nice picks, Joe. I (Andy) prefer Styx far more than Springsteen. I know it’s sacrilege in the Northeast, but I’ve never been a Bruce fan myself. I guess if I had to pick one from him, it’d be Tenth Avenue Freeze Out…. if I had to pick one.
Interesting…..
Rolling Stones- Jumping Jack Flash
For me (Andy), that is one of the best rock and roll records ever recorded. Just the sound and the arrangement always get me going. Thank you, brother.
I know this will probably freak some out but I’ve never been a big fan of Pink Floyd but I always liked their first record ( See Emily Play). My opinion the best song they ever did.
No freak outs here, brother. If everyone liked the same things, this’d be a MIGHTY MIGHTY boring planet, wouldn’t it?
Great song, brother.
Rock Star
Otherwise can’t stand Nickleback
Hey, John. I (Andy) actually know quite a few people who feel the EXACT same way about that song and that band.
Thanks, man.