GROOVY NOODLES
THE ELM TREASON WEEKLY E-ZINE
JUNE 28, 2024
THIS WEEK: Queen raking in billions… Fleetwood Mac a thing of the past…AI vocals are here…more
MUSIC NOODLES
– The Eagles have extended their recently confirmed residency at the immersive Sphere in Las Vegas. They’ll now appear for a total of 16 concerts over eight weekends in September through December.
– John 5 took to social media to refute allegations that he mimed his guitar parts onstage with Motley Crue. One video asserted that he was not playing during “Wild Side.”
– Peter Frampton has announced a new run of tour dates leading up to his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction in October. The “Positively Thankful” Tour will launch on September 8 in North Charleston, South Carolina, and run through September 23 in Northfield, Ohio.
– Filmmaker Martyn Atkins has filed a lawsuit against Warner Music‘s production branch over their use of some allegedly stolen footage in a 2021 documentary about Tom Petty.
– Pete Townshend has announced the premiere of “Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet,” based on the Who’s classic 1973 album. The production will open in the U.K. in May 2025.
– The solo career of Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson will be celebrated with a new 10-disc vinyl box set “8314 Boxed,” due on August 23.
– The Scorpions are the latest rock band to get the biopic treatment, as the upcoming “Wind of Change” will tell the story of the German rockers’ rise to stardom.
Another Year Gone
Birthdays over the past week…
63 – Curt Smith, bassist, vocalist for Tears For Fears (June 24)
69 – Mick Jones, lead-guitarist, singer, songwriter and co-founder of The Clash (June 26)
71 – Singer-songwriter, actress Cindy Lauper (June 22)
74 – Joey Kramer, drummer for Aerosmith (June 21)
76 – Musician, singer, songwriter, record producer Todd Rundgren (June 22)
77 – Howard Kaylan, singer, songwriter, lead vocalist of the Turtles (June 22)
77 – Mick Fleetwood, drummer for Fleetwood Mac (June 24)
79 – Colin Blunstone, lead singer of the Zombies
80 – Singer, songwriter, musician, vocalist Ray Davies of the Kinks (June 21)
81 – Singer, songwriter, musician Carly Simon (June 25)
82 – Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys (June 27)
88 – Singer, songwriter, actor Kris Kristofferson (June 22)
Your Answer Is…
Greetings Treasonites!
With summertime in full swing here in the Northern Hemisphere, music is everywhere.
We love that.
Indeed, for so many of us, music is inexorably tied to summertime.
If someone were to ask you to “Name a song that says ‘SUMMERTIME’ to you?”
Your answer would be:
RELEASES OF NOTE THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
1958 – Nina Simone – Little Girl Blue
1979 – Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps
1979 – Charlie Daniels Band – The Devil Went Down to Georgia (single)
1991 – Stone Temple Pilots – Purple
2022 – Elvis (film)
LATEST TREASON NOODLES
– Next week, we have what we believe is the COOLEST INTERACTIVE promotion we have ever put together. Frankly, it may be one of the best FAN PARTICIPATION campaigns we’ve ever heard. Period. Stay tuned!
– The school year has ended in New York City for the best elementary school music teacher anywhere, Bobby Steel. Now, work continues on building his updated and upgraded home studio.
elm treason song of the week
“I GOTTA WRITE THIS DOWN” from the album “ACOUSTIC TREASON”
Because we are sharing the stripped-down, two-man version “I GOTTA WRITE THIS DOWN” from this week’s “TAKE ME BACK TUESDAY” in this issue, we thought we share the original studio recording from our second album.
Scrumptiously layered guitars (including some tasty harmonized riffing), Hammond organ, vintage-style background singing and (of course) 60s style hand-clapping make this song one the band’s most requested and streamed.
Compare Bobby’s organ solo on the studio version to the guitar version in the “TAKE ME BACK TUESDAY” video.
Enjoy, TREASONITES!
SONGS OF SUMMER
Here are ten songs that immediately come to mind to the boys in the band when we think of “summertime.” Obviously, there are LOTS more, so please feel free to offer your own suggestions in the COMMENTS section.
The Lovin’ Spoonful – Summer in the City
Alice Cooper – School’s Out
Bryan Adams – Summer of ’69
Beatles – Here Comes the Sun
Who – Summertime Blues
Don Henley – The Boys of Summer
Seals and Crofts – Summer Breeze
Beach Boys – California Girls
Chicago – Saturday in the Park
Mungo Jerry – In the Summertime
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Andy and Bobby in Bobby’s basement, way back in 2013
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Elm Treason, a metal band? Huh?
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Our latest video
“Lock and Load” with the second single from our latest album “WITHOUT A TRIBE.”
THIS WEEK’S “TAKE ME BACK TUESDAY” VIDEO
This week, on our main Facebook page, we posted this never-before-shared version of our song “I GOTTA WRITE THIS DOWN.” We used some awesome “demix” technology to enhance the vocals, and now we can bring this jam to you (From 2016).
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
6 YEARS AGO
Pantera drummer and co-founder Vinnie Paul dies at 54.
8 YEARS AGO
After a trial in which the three living members of Led Zeppelin testified, a jury rules that they are not guilty of plagiarizing the intro of “Stairway To Heaven” from the 1968 song “Taurus” by the band Spirit. In 2018, the case is sent back to trial on a technicality, but is upheld in a 2020 ruling.
15 YEARS AGO
50-year-old Michael Jackson is found dead in the Los Angeles mansion he is renting.
17 YEARS AGO
A cataclysmic moment in the history of music that no one who was alive when it happened will (or can) ever forget: The Spice Girls announce that they’re getting back together, with the five original Spices reuniting. A moment to remember.
32 YEARS AGO
Billy Joel graduates! He finally gets his high school diploma from Hicksville High School in Long Island, New York. He didn’t graduate with his class in 1967 because of a missed English credit.
54 YEARS AGO
The group Smile change their name to Queen and perform for the first time under that moniker.
55 YEARS AGO
After a long battle with drug and alcohol abuse, Judy Garland dies of an overdose at age 47.
59 YEARS AGO
The Kinks play a show in Springfield, Illinois, that they later learn was organized by John Wayne Gacy, who would become a notorious serial killer.
76 YEARS AGO
The Columbia label announces its new technological breakthrough, a “long-playing” vinyl phonograph record that can hold up to 23 minutes of music on a side.
ELM TREASON’S LATEST RECORD
Our latest record WITHOUT A TRIBE is getting some seriously awesome feedback from everywhere. We are STOKED! It is, we believe, our best work to date… and now it can be yours on CD, vinyl or digital formats. CLICK HERE to bring your copy home.
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.”
What? No cell phone?
Self Analysis
Willie Knew
Teamwork
Hell Yes
Ugggh
Spot on, Fred
We Feel That Look
So true
So, it’s not just me
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Janis Joplin’s. Summertime
A song that has been covered so many times by so many different artists… Timeless. A literal classic.
We love Janis’ version.
Heart of the sunrise
Yes!!!
(figuratively and literally)
Seasons in the Sun! Covered by Terry Jacks
I (Andy) was a little boy when this was on the radio. I do have memories of it coming through my mom’s little stereo system in the living room… As well as the radio on top of the refrigerator in the kitchen.
Strange how some songs are inexorably attached to specifically random memories.
Summer in the City by the Lovin Spoonful.
Love that keyboard part in the song.
“Summertime” by Mr. Quincy Jones!
Excellent, Andy.
Thanks for dropping a comment in!
Heat wave!
Hey Tom!
Which version of the song particularly connects with you here?
“Summer In The City” The Lovin Spoonful
The back of our necks are, indeed, getting dirty and gritty…
Saturday in the park-Chicago…
Eh Cumpari, ci vo sunari. Can you dig it?
I’ve got 3 songs at the top of my list…1) Sunny Afternoon (The Kinks), All Summer Long (Kid Rock), and Girls In Their Summer Clothes (Bruce Springsteen)
Of the three, I (Andy) simply adore the kinks song “sunny afternoon.“
To this day, one of my favorites to sing and to play
Hot in the City – Billy Idol
Firefly – Elm Treason
Wow.
You definitely threw me (Andy) for a loop on that one.
But in a very good way.
Never really thought about it… But yes, fireflies are forever connected to summer night… At least for us.
Thank you, Michael.
When lived in Brooklyn it was Summer in the City – Loving Spoonful. Lately it’s been Blue Cheer – Summertime Blues
Strangely, I (Andy) have always connected this song “Summer in the city” with New York.
Not sure why.
The song certainly can apply to people with dirty and gritty necks in Chicago or St. Louis… Or even Boise… Although I don’t think the sidewalks are nearly as crowded in mid- Idaho as they are in Midtown Manhattan.
Obviously, for me, being a Brooklyn boy, New York City would be the first metropolitan area to come to mind.
Thanks, Frank
2 way tie with these two. Each of these I`ve been listening to for over 50 years and each signals that It is summertime:
In The Summertime/Mungo Jerry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM
Schools Out/Alice Cooper Group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXFsWAkLoXQ
Summertime cannot be summertime without Mungo Jerry!
Let’s be honest…
The Young Rascals, Grooven,.Shows how old I am,.brings back some good summer time feelings.
Not old.
Experienced.
Cultivated.
Accomplished
Well-versed.
Learned.
Rich with memory.
Hot Fun in the Summertime and Under the Boardwalk
On a blanket with my baby is where I will be…
Outstanding.
Meatloaf, the entire Bat out of Hell album…It was the first stadium rock concert that I went to with friends and it played constantly at the beach and out of every car stereo, windows rolled down and people cruising up and down Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls Ah, to be 15 againLOL
Lakeside Park by Rush also also means that summer is soon to come as it celebrates May 24
I (Andy) remember all the big kids listening to that album when I was small.
The cool kids would be singing Paradise by the dashboard light…
We were trying to mimic them.
Thats a hard one because where I live and was born only has two seasons the wet and dry season, but I do love to bop along to Katrina and the Waves singing Walking on Sunshine and Summertime Blues by the late great Eddie Cochran
So underrated, Eddie Cochran was.
Almost forgotten…
Great voice. Terrific guitar player. Tragically young when he died.
Come on everybody… Twenty flight rock… a Rock ‘n’ roll Pioneer.
anything with a jimmy buffet beachy vibe
Indeed, my (Andy’s) wife would wholeheartedly agree. How can summertime even exist without Jimmy Buffett, she would ask.
Dancing Days by Led Zeppelin
Schools Out by Alice Cooper
Love them both, Siobhan!
Excellent summertime double shot.
California Girls – Van Halen or Beach Boys. Kokomo – Beach Boys
Feeling the UV rays hitting me (Andy) just reading those song titles.
Thanks, Mike.
So very many songs! Summertime Blues by Alan Jackson, Summertime by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry (all time fave, cuz it always cheers me up!), even Gershwin and Louis Armstrong! And I love Ella’s Fitzgerald’s version of Summertime! (These are just a few off the top of my head, and i know I’m missing so many… )
Beach Boys, Catch a Wave