GROOVY NOODLES
THE ELM TREASON WEEKLY E-ZINE
JULY 12, 2024
THIS WEEK: Hagar and Anthony on the road… Bon Jovi flop… lots more
MUSIC NOODLES
– Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony have assembled one hell of a band for this summer’s “Best of All Worlds” tour, which will celebrate their decade-long run together in Van Halen. In addition to Jason Bonham on drums, the duo has recruited guitar wizard Joe Satriani to tackle Eddie Van Halen‘s famous and challenging guitar parts. The tour kicks off Saturday July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
– Jon Bon Jovi‘s mother, Carol Bongiovi, died on Tuesday, July 9th at age 83, three days shy of her 84th birthday.
– Queens of the Stone Age have announced that they are canceling the remainder of their July tour dates. A post on the band’s social media accounts states that frontman Josh Homme “must return to the United States immediately for emergency surgery.” The nature of his injury or ailment is not specified, with the band noting “every effort was made to push through and play for you, but it is no longer an option to continue.”
– Duran Duran has announced tour dates for the fall. The concerts are built around the group’s annual Halloween show at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
– Rick Wakeman is extending his final one-man U.S. tour, with shows now set for October and November.
– Joe Egan, the creative partner of Gerry Rafferty in Stealers Wheel, died this past week at age 77.
– Tom Fowler, the bassist best known for playing with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention as well as Ray Charles, died this past week at 73.
– Bon Jovi’s new album “Forever” has set an unwanted chart record for the band. It debuted at No. 5 in its first week of release, but fell all the way out of the Billboard 200 album sales chart the following week. Unless it returns in the future, “Forever” will be the first Bon Jovi studio album to only last one week in the Top 200.
Another Year Gone
Birthdays over the past week…
49 – Jack White, lead singer and guitarist for The White Stripes (July 9)
54 – Musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer Beck (July 8)
65 – Jim Kerr, lead singer for Simple Minds (July 9)
74 – Singer, songwriter, actor Huey Lewis (July 5)
77 – Singer songwriter Arlo Guthrie (July 10)
84 – Ringo Starr, drummer for the Beatles (July 7)
Your Answer Is…
Greetings Treasonites!
This week’s question is meant to be a “don’t think about it” exercise. We’re hoping you’ll answer with the first thing that comes to mind.
Pure instinct. Pure reflexiveness.
You see this setup and are given free reign to blast any song through it without restriction. What is the first song you play?
Your answer is:
RELEASES OF NOTE THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
1964 – Them (with Van Morrison) – Gloria (single)
1964 – Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night (film) – (in UK)
1969 – David Bowie – Space Oddity (single)
1973 – Queen – Queen – (in UK)
1977 – Queen – We Are the Champions/We Will Rock You (single) – (in UK)
1979 – B-52s – The B-52s
1981 – Go-Go’s – Beauty and the Beat
1994 – Hootie and the Blowfish – Cracked Rear View
1994 – Forrest Gump (film)
2000 – Coldplay – Parachutes
LATEST TREASON NOODLES
– Bobby celebrated his birthday on Tuesday, July 9th.
– The band has been remiss in informing everyone who digs into GROOVY NOODLES every week that all Elm Treason albums (5 studio albums and one live performance album) are available to purchase in CD, Vinyl and Digital download formats. We get asked all the time, “Where can I buy ELM TREASON music?”
So, here is the link to our online shop’s music section: ELM TREASON MUSIC FOR SALE!
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elm treason song of the week
“THE OTHER SIDE OF GREY” from the album “THE VOICE OF TREASON”
From Elm Treason’s FOURTH studio album “THE VOICE OF TREASON,” the boys in the band hit it with a taste of folky rock… or maybe it’s rocky folk… drenched in signature Treasonous harmonies from start to end… here is “THE OTHER SIDE OF GREY.”
Not a war between the states, per se…. but rather, a battle of states.
Upbeat versus gloomy. Positive versus negative. Light versus dark.
These are actual places. Genuine destinations where we hide and reside… They each have their role, true, but we often seem to go out of our way to stay entangled in our greys.
It’s familiar. It’s comfortable. Perhaps too comfortable.
But beyond the clouds, we grab glimpses. Little patches of blue. And we must accept that it’s perfectly okay to aim for the blue once in a while. It exists. It’s real.
It breathes on the other side of grey.
AMERICAN BANDS OF THE 80s
Last week, we saluted some favorite Canadian bands and artists. This week, we are in a 1980s state of mind. Off the top of our heads, here are some fave American bands/groups from that era. We know we’ve left out a few – on purpose. Feel free to hit that comments section.
Metallica
Go-Go’s
Van Halen
Bon Jovi
ZZ Top
Motley Crue
Guns n Roses
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Aerosmith
Hall and Oates
REM
Journey
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Bobby doing his best Keith Moon, in studio – Summer, 2019
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
If you have a band with Bobby Steel handling lead guitar duties, why on earth would anyone else ever need to go near a guitar solo?
Well, sometimes… both Andy and Bobby each get a solo… within the same song!
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
On our main Facebook page this week, we shared this live performance of “My Special Friend” from our “Bare Tones” DVD/Bluray/CD. (The full studio version originally appears on our album “RHYME AND TREASON.”
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
1 YEAR AGO
Elton John wraps up his farewell tour with a show in Stockholm. The trek started in 2018 and played to over 6 million fans in 22 countries. It sets the mark for highest-grossing tour with over $900 million, a record broken months later by Taylor Swift’s Eras tour.
18 YEARS AGO
Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett dies at age 60.
27 YEARS AGO
Organized by Sarah McLachlan, the all-female Lilith Fair tour kicks off with a show in The Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington State. The lineup includes Jewel, Suzanne Vega and Paula Cole, with Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow and Fiona Apple joining on subsequent stops.
28 YEARS AGO
Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, is born. She is named after Dolly Parton because the scientist thought the country star was the person most synonymous with mammary glands.
29 YEARS AGO
29 – At Soldier Field in Chicago, the Grateful Dead play their last show with Jerry Garcia, who dies a month later.
44 YEARS AGO
In West Berlin, Led Zeppelin play their last concert with drummer John Bonham, who dies in September.
50 YEARS AGO
Rush sign a deal with Mercury Records, who are impressed by their debut album, a self-titled independent release with the track “Working Man.”
52 YEARS AGO
David Bowie performs “Starman” on Top Of The Pops, causing an uproar among the conservative British audience by singing with his arm coquettishly draped around the shoulder of guitarist Mick Ronson – a move that makes him as a household name overnight.
67 YEARS AGO
Paul McCartney and John Lennon meet for the first time at the Village Fete in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton, where Lennon’s group, the Quarrymen, are performing. When they meet again, Lennon asks McCartney to join his band.
69 YEARS AGO
Bill Haley & His Comets’ “Rock Around The Clock” becomes the first Rock song to hit #1 on the Billboard Pop chart, where it stays for eight weeks. The song was originally released as a the B-side of “Thirteen Women,” but became a massive hit after it appeared in the film Blackboard Jungle.
73 YEARS AGO
On WJW in Cleveland, Alan Freed broadcasts his first “Moondog House Rock and Roll Party,” marking the first radio show with the phrase “Rock and Roll” and giving Freed a claim on the origin of the term. More importantly, Freed plays R&B music, which introducing the sound to a new (and mostly white) audience.
77 YEARS AGO
New Mexico’s Roswell Daily Record reports an alien aircraft has crashed near a local ranch with the headline “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer In Roswell Region.” In the coming decades, extraterrestrials and flying saucers invade several songs, including David Bowie’s “Starman,” Megadeth’s “Hangar 18,” and Radiohead’s “Subterranean Homesick Alien.”
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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.”
Rule of Thumb
That Blows
Shaq-ing Up
Anything You Can Spare
Ummm… Hello?
Yahtzee!
Uggh…
Makes Sense
Same Here
Time is Weird
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Anything by AC DC. Playing everything through the PA system these days is wrong.
Any particular preference as to what era of AC/DC?
Bon Scott?
Brian Johnson?
Doesn’t matter?
Highway to Hell
That’ll get The neighbors up and hoofing!
Or at the very least, get the cops out to the house.
Iron Man by Black Sabbath.
I used to do that to my neighbors when I was in 9th grade. I would put the cassette in my sears portable player. I had a 100 watt guitar amp. I spliced a guitar cord to an earphone jack cord and let it rip for the whole neighborhood. Unfortunately in 1970 my neighbors did not want to hear that at any time, or at any leavel !
I wouldn’t have minded it.
We would have made excellent neighbors.
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Hades Pleads https://youtu.be/-8QAaoSDdGE?si=i8eanTFT66R45Wsz
Very nice, Tom.
I (Andy) was not familiar with that. I enjoyed giving it a spin. Thank you.
My song ” Guitar & Wine”
Why don’t you share a link to it here, if you have one.
Feel free.
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Toss up for me: “Flirting with Disaster,” Molly Hatchet, or “Peace, Love, and Loud Guitars,” Anthony Gomes.
Let’s make it a double shot!
The KLF: “What Time Is Love”
Very unique choice. Digging that vibe of electronica.
Highway Star – Deep Purple
Yep. That’ll work!
Magic bus. The Who
I want it. I want it. I want it.
You can’t have it.
My first thought was Hound Dog Taylor doing She’s Gone but I want to say a woman so let’s go with the amazing Suzi Quatro doing Rolling Stone.
Suzie just celebrated her birthday in June.
Vastly underrated.
Don’t Tell Me by Disturbed
Let’s see how good that system handles that jam.
Nice.
It’s a long way to the top if you want to R&R!! AC/DC. YAHOO
Those bagpipes will be shattering windows up on through the suburbs.
Far,far away on a lonely mountain top.
Or anything you The Who.
I can hear for miles and miles and miles…
Mississippi Queen – Mountain
The woofers will need a cigarette after that one.
Runnin’ with the Devil – Van Halen
Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin
Now that is a two-fer that will get the rain gutters across the neighborhood rattling.
Not sure why, but without thinking about it, “Out Go the Lights” Pat Travers popped into my head first…..given time to think about it, I would come up with different songs…but it is what it is..
The answers that pop up on instinct, without thought, reflexively, are often the most interesting.
Ready To Go by Repuplica
Greetings from my cruise in Alaska!
Enjoy that cruise, Katie.
Well-deserved!
Whipping Post
Some days, we all feel like we are dying.
Excellent.
Juke Box Hero.
That boy has got to stay on top.
April Wine I Like To Rock
Haven’t heard that one in a while…. Time to head to the turntable. 🙂
C. C. R.- Green River
Terrific tune, Steven.
Anything by PRINCE or SRV ????????
Scrumptious, Nancy. Simply delectable.
Rock You Like a Hurricane
Never gets old. Ever.