GROOVY NOODLES
THE ELM TREASON NEWSLETTER NUMBER 112
august 25, 2023
TREASON NOODLES
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OTHER NOODLES
– Dave Stewart has revealed that his Eurythmics bandmate, Annie Lennox, is done with touring. “I love performing these songs,” Stewart wrote on social media. “I spent 1,000’s of hours crafting them in the studio and had the best partner in Annie but she has said she won’t be touring anymore which I totally understand.”
– Former Foreigner singer Lou Gramm says the band’s exclusion from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is unfair. “It’s a personal vendetta between the gentleman who owns Rolling Stone and Mick [Jones, co-founding guitarist]. It’s very juvenile, the whole thing, and I don’t think it’s gonna get any better. I think it’s gonna stay that way. I think we’re being made an example of.”
– Ringo Starr has announced a new EP titled “Rewind Forward,” which he’ll release on Oct. 13. The former Beatle will preview the four-song set with the title track on Friday, August 25th.
– Bob Dylan has announced new North American tour dates. This new leg of Dylan’s “Rough and Rowdy Ways” tour will begin on Oct. 1 in Kansas City with dates scheduled through the end of the month, including two Canadian cities, Toronto and Montreal.
– Devo announced they are retiring from the road. Two of the band’s co-founders, Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale, recently spoke with The Guardian about how time and varying opinions on creative direction have played a role in the decision. “You’ve got a body of work informed by a whole manifesto and philosophy. Do you let go and move on to the next thing? You want change, otherwise you’re stale, but you don’t want to be contrived.” The band is currently performing their farewell tour.
– A new documentary about Carlos Santana will make its debut this fall. “Carlos: The Santana Journey” Global Premiere will appear in theaters on Sept. 23, Sept. 24 and Sept. 27.
– Dolly Parton has released a cover of the Beatles’ “Let It Be,” featuring Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. It also includes Mick Fleetwood and Peter Frampton.
– Talking Heads co-founder and principal songwriter David Byrne this past week expressed his regrets over how the band fell apart and admitted he could have personally handled the split better.
You Say: Complete the Sentence…
Hello Treasonites!
We’ve not done a “complete the sentence” edition of “You Say” in a mighty long time.
This one’s simple.
Someone comes up to you and asks you to finish this sentence, “Without music…”
You say….
Another Year Gone
Some birthdays we did not mention on our Facebook page…
John Deacon, bassist for Queen, had birthday number 72 last Saturday
Bangles drummer Debbi Peterson was 62 on Tuesday
Country singer Lee Ann Womack turned 57 last Saturday
System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian celebrated his 56th birthday on Monday
Deep Purple lead singer Ian Gillan was 78 last Saturday
Happy 53rd birthday to Fred Durst, lead singer of Limp Bizkit (last Sunday)
Remember These?
We’d be willing to bet that most of us here have taken the Columbia House train to “instant music collection.” Most of us probably still owe them money.
Some Pics From Latest Photo Shoot
A couple of weekends ago, the boys in the band were in Pennsylvania to shoot two music videos and take part in a photo shoot. Here are some of the outdoor shots. (Photographer: Chris Roman)
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
The latest photo shoot, Lehigh Valley, PA – August, 2023
A single plum floating in perfume served in a man’s hat… just because
2 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Thirty years after appearing as a baby grasping for a dollar bill on Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover, Spencer Elden sues the band and others associated with the photo shoot, claiming it caused him “extreme and permanent emotional distress.”
5 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
The RIAA certifies the Eagles Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 at 38 million units, making it the best-selling album of all-time in America, besting Michael Jackson’s Thriller by 5 million (another Eagles album, Hotel California, is third with 26 million). Worldwide, Thriller is by far the biggest selling album.
16 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Brian May of Queen gets a degree from London’s Imperial College. It’s not one of those honorary degrees either – he earned a PhD in astrophysics. He would have gotten it sooner, but he was busy being a rock star.
28 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Microsoft launches the Windows 95 operating system. The start-up music is composed by Brian Eno, a pioneer in ambient music who in 1978 released an album designed to soothe travelers at airports (Ambient 1: Music for Airports).
46 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Elvis Presley’s funeral is held at Graceland, where 150 guests are invited inside and about 75,000 fans pay their respects outside.
53 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Lou Reed plays his last gig with The Velvet Underground at the club Max’s Kansas City in New York. His father brings him home to Long Island and puts him to work in his accounting firm, where he stays for two years before signing a solo deal.
54 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
The Beatles participate in their final photo shoot, which is held on the lawn of John Lennon’s home at Tittenhurst Park in Sunninghill, England. Photos from the session are used on the front and back covers of their Hey Jude compilation album.
55 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
In the middle of recording “Back In The U.S.S.R.,” Beatles drummer Ringo Starr gets frustrated, leaves the session, and takes a vacation to Sardinia. Paul McCartney takes his place on drums to complete the track. When Ringo returns, he’s welcomed back with flowers on his drum kit.
57 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Jim Morrison is a no-show for The Doors set at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles. They play the first set without him, then get him at his apartment, where he is tripping on acid. When they play “The End,” he improvises Oedipal lyrics: Father… I want to kill you Mother… I want to f–k you This gets them fired, but provides the final lyric that goes into the song when they record it for their first album.
86 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
The first FM (frequency modulation) radio station in the US, Boston’s WGTR (now WAAF), is granted its construction permit by the FCC.
103 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
In Detroit, what will become WWJ (950 AM) becomes the first radio station in America to start broadcasting. It was called 8MK back then. It began nightly trial broadcasts on August 20, 1920, in order to check if the equipment was ready for regular service. However, because the station was still unpublicized, the original audience consisted only of a small number of interested local amateur radio enthusiasts.
141 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” debuts in Moscow.
Great Advice
As True As it Gets
Always
This is My Life
Truth
Hell Yes
We Know it Well
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“Without music” There is only darkness, despair, and supreme torture and eternal damnation and no commercial jingles.
..or TV theme songs.
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i just sing to myself – i think it makes others appreciate having music playing really loud more lol
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That made me (Andy) laugh for real.
Without music, people would have to listen to me playing drums unaccompanied – and no-one wants that…
I (Andy) shouldn’t laugh… but it’s a great comment.
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Thanks, Fil!
Without music?! Get away from me…couldn’t even imagine…
Amen to THAT.
Without music… pain would not be lessened by being shared, and joy would not be multiplied by being shared (a paraphrase of a line from Spider Robinson’s “Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon” book series). Also, I’d have to whistle badly off tune random noises, instead of badly whistling the song stuck in my head.
Thank you, Curtis.
The trick, I (Andy) suppose, would be to LISTEN in tune, if possible.
Without music it is just too horrible to comprehend so I won’t go there but when the world is silent that pretty much is the end, I reckon. To wake up without the morning chorus of the sound of beautiful bird songs would just make me cry.
To contemplate such a thing is to contemplate immeasurable emptiness.
Without music life would have a big hole in it that could never be filled. Your soul would be searching for that something that it would never find….Music completes oneself.
Yep!
Well stated.
Without music, life would be too quiet and boring. Sorry, that’s as philosophical as I get.
But it’s true…. VERY true. 🙂
Without music…the world would be emotionally constipated😫🎶😌
LOVE IT, Tim!
Absolutely love it!
WITHOUT MUSIC: I wouldn’t have made it through the damn-panic (2020-21)
Without music “the world is flat!”