GROOVY NOODLES
THE ELM TREASON WEEKLY E-ZINE
APRIL 12, 2024
MUSIC NOODLES
– Aerosmith has announced the rescheduled dates for their “Peace Out” farewell tour. The tour kicks off September 20 in Pittsburgh.
– Ozzy Osbourne and Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison will co-host a new internet show called “The Madhouse Chronicles” starting this month.
– Deep Purple and Yes will team up for a North American summer tour. It begins on August 14 in Hollywood, Florida, and concludes on September 8 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
– Blue Oyster Cult’s new album “Ghost Stories” will drop Friday, April 12th.
– John Fogerty has added another round of dates to his previously announced “Celebration Tour.” The new shows begin on June 2 in South Carolina.
– Little Feat will release an expanded version of their 1974 album “Feats Don’t Fail Me Now” on June 14. The three-CD set will include a remastered version of the original LP and discs dedicated to outtakes, rarities and live performances from the era.
– CJ Snare, lead singer of Firehouse, died last Friday at age 64.
– Michael Ward, former guitarist for the Wallflowers, died this past week at age 57.
– KISS has sold their music catalog and the rights to their name, image and likeness for a sum reported to exceed $300 million.
Another Year Gone
Birthdays over the past week…
77 – Yes guitarist Steve Howe (April 8).
58 – Mike McCready, founding member and lead guitarist of Pearl Jam. (April 5)
74 – Agnetha Faltskog of ABBA (April 5)
65 – Guitarist Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats (April 10)
62 – Izzy Stradlin, co-founder and guitarist of Guns N’ Roses (April 8)
61 – Singer-songwriter Julian Lennon (April 8)
76 – John Oates of Hall and Oates (April 7)
Your Answer Is…
Hi Treasonites!
Sometimes, a lyric hits home in a way that cannot be quantified.
This week, we’d love to hear which single line is the best you’ve ever heard. Not a whole song. Not a deliciously catchy chorus. Not a verse.
Just one line – even if it’s in a tune that you don’t necessarily love.
So, someone asks you: “What do you think is the best single line in a song?”
Your answer is:
RELEASES OF NOTE THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
1970 – Elton John – Elton John
1975 – Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic
1987 – Whitesnake – Whitesnake
1989 – The Cult – Sonic Temple
LATEST TREASON NOODLES
– Don’t miss this week’s installment of our “In The Beginning” Series (in this newsletter). If you’ve ever wondered about CONFLICT within the band, THIS WEEK’S INSTALLMENT is for YOU!
– Plans are in the works to start work on the band’s third music video from “WITHOUT A TRIBE.” (Which song??? Hmmmm…)
– To save time, we will answer and respond all questions and comments we received in our email inbox this week right here.
“Yes.” ….
“Yes.” ….
“I don’t remember.” …
“No.” ….
“That’s only a rumor.” ….
“Charges were never filed.” ….
“Talcum Powder, usually.” ….
and “Prove it!”
ROCK N ROLL (TEMPORARY) RETIREMENTS
It’s quite common for artists and bands to announce their retirement … and then down the road, rise again.
Here are a few big names that have dealt a “farewell” to fans and followers alike, only to return.
We know there are quite a few we’ve not included here (on purpose), so if you can add to the list, please feel free to do in the comments section.
Kiss: April 13, 2001 – Aug. 2, 2003
Elton John: Nov. 3, 1977 – Feb. 4, 1979
Ozzy Osbourne: Nov. 15, 1992 – June 9, 1995
Black Sabbath: Dec. 22, 1999 – April 7, 2001
Motley Crue: Dec. 31, 2015 – June 16, 2022
The Doobie Brothers: Sept. 11, 1982 – May 21, 1987
The Who: Dec. 17, 1982 – June 21, 1989
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK
In a random alley during “The Voice of Treason” photo shoot. 2018.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
When Elm Collide. That time when one Elm told the other to “GET THE FUNK OUT!”
Our latest video
“Lock and Load” with the second single from our latest album “WITHOUT A TRIBE.”
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
6 YEARS AGO
Fleetwood Mac announce that Lindsey Buckingham has been fired from the band and will be replaced with Mike Campbell and Neil Finn on their upcoming tour.
8 YEARS AGO
Steve Miller, notoriously averse to awards ceremonies, goes on a backstage rant when he is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He says the Hall is like “a private boys club,” and lets loose on the organizers. “It’s a bunch of jackasses and jerks and f–king gangsters and crooks.”
9 YEARS AGO
Don McLean’s original manuscript to his lyric for “American Pie” sells at auction for $1.2 million. Says McLean: “I thought it would be interesting as I reach age 70 to release this work product on the song ‘American Pie’ so that anyone who might be interested will learn that this song was not a parlor game.”
16 YEARS AGO
Bob Dylan gets an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture.” He’s the first rock musician to win the award.
22 YEARS AGO
Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley dies after overdosing on heroin and cocaine. The 34-year-old singer had fallen into addiction and lost most contact with the outside world. His body isn’t discovered until two weeks later, when police enter his apartment on April 19 after friends and associates report him missing.
24 YEARS AGO
In a Saturday Night Live skit where Blue Öyster Cult is recording “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” Christopher Walken demands more cowbell from Will Ferrell, who complies. A catch phrase is born.
30 YEARS AGO
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana kills himself with a shotgun at age 27. His body isn’t discovered until three days later when an electrician enters to install an alarm.
36 YEARS AGO
When the piano wire that keeps him safely suspended during his gallows stunt snaps, Alice Cooper nearly hangs himself for real on stage at Wembley Arena in London. He’s able to slip his chin over the rope to keep his neck from snapping until a roadie can rescue him.
39 YEARS AGO
Wham! become the first Western pop group to play in China when they perform at the Worker’s Gymnasium in Beijing. Footage from their trip appears in the video for their song “Freedom.”
41 YEARS AGO
Dave Mustaine is kicked out of Metallica because of his drug and alcohol addictions. Soon after, he forms Megadeth, which becomes one of the most successful metal bands of the era.
53 YEARS AGO
Chicago is the first American rock band to perform at Carnegie Hall.
54 YEARS AGO
Paul McCartney announces he is quitting the Beatles, although John Lennon did so privately the previous fall.
65 YEARS AGO
Buddy Holly’s glasses are found from the plane crash that killed him two months earlier in Iowa. They are turned in to police, where they stay until 1980, when a sheriff finds them and returns them to Holly’s widow.
68 YEARS AGO
The Capitol Tower, new home of Capitol Records, opens on the corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles. The 13-story building, which resembles a stack of records, houses three new recording studios where Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Linda Ronstadt, and many other stars will lay down tracks. The building becomes an LA landmark, with the red light at the top flashing “HOLLYWOOD” in Morse Code.
164 YEARS AGO
An anonymous vocalist sings “Au Clair De La Lune” to Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, who makes the first known and oldest surviving recording of the human voice.
ELM TREASON’S LATEST RECORD
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FIRST VIDEO FROM “WITHOUT A TRIBE”
We now have TWO music videos from our new album “WITHOUT A TRIBE.” Here is the first one, “UP TO ME.”
Robert Can Help
Yep
NO Argument Here
Practice Makes….. Um..
Ludwig’s Lines
Tis Life
No Consultants?
This is TOO funny
Truth
Legends
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Come down off the cross, we can use the wood
Form Tom Waits’s song – Come on up to the house
Excellent line.
Elm Treason uses similar imagery in our song “everything.”
“I’ve dressed her up, ive filled her cup, ive taken her from off the wood that binds
and made her seem like everything”
Seldom works out the way it does in the song …
(Grateful Dead – Scarlet Begonias)
Damn, ain’t that the truth?
Thanks, Dave.
The moon just went behind the clouds to hide its face and cry.
Deliciously poetic.
Hank knew.
It was Christmas in prison! …shot a man just to watch him die!
We got in trouble for quoting those lyrics on our Facebook page once.
There was no ambiguity in the fact that we were literally quoting them…
But Facebook decided we were violating community standards by promoting violence and hatred.
Oh, what a world, what a world…
Rock + Roll ain’t noise pollution
Truer words…
Thank you, Donald.
“Clouds come, blue away”
❤️❤️❤️❤️
What you gonna do?
Very moved. Very touched.
Thank you, Michael.
“Everything you need to know is sitting your record collection”
I (Andy) have loved that line ever since you brought it to my attention, Shelley!
It is so good.
I wish I would’ve written it.
“The less I seek my source for some definitive the closer I am to fine.” Indigo Girls
So good. So true.
Excellent.
Thanks, sister.
“I hope you had the time of your life.”
Good Riddance – Green Day
Kind of says it all, doesn’t it?
So many choices, but I always felt, “The whole damn world’s gonna be made of styrene” from C.W. McCall’s “Won’t Be No Country Music.”
Admittedly, I (Andy) am not familiar with that song.
But guess what I will be doing after I comment here…
Excellent words. Thank you, man.
Aerosmith: Seem she’ll go for nothin’
‘Cept for my big ten inch
LOL. Good one.
Written by Fred Weismantel.
Pretty raunchy for its time, 1952.
“Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then…”
—-from Bob Seger, “Against the Wind”
Wonderful song. Love that piano.
Elm Treason has a song called “I like it there.”
It’s on the album “acoustic Treason.”
Bobby plays some beautiful piano on that track. And while it is very much a Floyd Cramer vibe, There are some Runs that Bobby does that remind me of the piano in “against the wind.“
Happiness is a guitar & a glass of wine. Busking Betty’s original song. ” Guitar & Wine)
Very nice. And very hard to disagree with that.
Excellent.
Thanks, Betty!
If you believe in things you don’t understand, you suffer. Stevie Wonder
Great words.
And one of the chunkiest funniest grooves ever laid down.
It is impossible to sit still when that tune comes on
I really don’t mind if you sit this one out
Thick as a brick
Very nice!
Love that tune.
Thank you, Barry.
There’s still time to change the road you’re on!
Iconic!
But whatever you do… Don’t piss off the guy at guitar center by picking up a guitar and playing that one.
When evening falls so hard I will comfort you
Beautiful.
Definitely one of Paul’s best pieces.
Man, sometimes I feel like a woman!
Shania Twain, by chance?
I’ll give you everything I’ve Got for a little peace of mind.
Mic drop.
Hell to the yes.
I went home with the waitress the way I always do. How was I to know she was with the Russians too?
Definitely one of my favorite wordsmiths.
So underrated.
Thank you, Ira.
Warren will always get love here.
Yeah she’s walking back to me.
Pretty Women by Roy Orbison
What I love about that song is precisely the section you are talking about.
And As sacrilegious as this will be to say, I think Van Halen screwed the pooch when they missed doing this section precisely as Roy did it.
What makes it so good not only when he says “wait… What do I see?” He then asked the question “is she walking back to me?”…But the way he confirms the fact that she’s walking back to him… The way he sings that Follow up line “yeah, she’s walking back to me…”
It’s triumphant. His emotion is turning right there on that line…
It’s beautiful. For me, that’s what makes the song.
It’s the repeating of the line “walking back to me“ that, for me, makes it so great.
Tomorrow’s rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay…. (Fragile, Sting)
Outstanding, April. Great poetry.
Thank you so much.
Ps. Thank you for the’ POLICE’ meme! ????❤️????????
You are very welcome
Thanks for taking the time to dig into this week’s serving.
It’s my birthday today! So I get to post more lyrics…????❤️????????????
You could say I’d lost my belief in our politicians
They all seemed like game show hosts to me…
( if I ever lose my faith in you. STING)
A very, very happy birthday from the boys in the band, April.
Truly hope it was a good one.
And please feel free to comment as often as you’d like.
Ahh, her life was saved by rock ‘n’ roll……..Lou Reed/Rock N Roll
So was mine!
Lou Understood.
Some are born poets some dream until they die.
I (Andy)can’t imagine that there are any lyrics more true than this.
Nailed it.
Love it.
Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand, ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand…from Witch Hint by RUSH
Outstanding lyric.
My (Andy’s) partner-in-crime, Bobby, would wholeheartedly concur!
If you choose not to decide, you have still made a choice .
Free Will, baby!
The women I’ve known, I wouldn’t let tie my shoes.
Rod Stewart! Nice.
I’ve been so lonesome I made Hank Williams seem like a party of five.
I (Andy) had to look that one up. LOL.
Fred Eaglesmith.
Very good.
I know your mistakes and you know mine.
James Blunt, Monsters.
Excellent.
Thanks so much, Penny.