GROOVY NOODLES

THE ELM TREASON NEWSLETTER NUMBER 115

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

TREASON NOODLES

Andy and Bobby will be shooting their second music video from their new album “WITHOUT A TRIBE” this weekend. As always, Andy’s brother, Chris, will be the videographer and director. 

Which song?

Stay tuned.

OTHER NOODLES

Roger Waters continues to release previews of his remake of THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON by Pink Floyd. This week, “Speak to Me/Breathe” were dropped.

Foghat has a new song and video for a song called “She’s a Little Bit of Everything.”

– This week, Ozzy Osbourne said he’d refuse any future surgery after the one he was currently facing because he can’t undergo any more time under the knife.

Randy Bachman says that he has revived his band Bachman-Turner Overdive for a run of fall performances, beginning Friday, September 22nd in West Springfield, Massachusetts. As of now, there are six scheduled dates.

Yes kicked off their “Classic Tales of Yes” U.S. tour on Tuesday, September 19th with an intimate fan club show in Lititz, Pennsylvania.

– Six rare Beatles tapes are currently up for auction at Gotta Have Rock and Roll. The tapes, dubbed “The Beatles Derek Taylor Never-Before-Heard Collection of Lost Beatles Recordings,” contain several unreleased songs, rehearsal recordings and interviews by the members. According to the auction page, the tapes are expected to fetch between $300,000 and $500,000.

– Board of directors at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame voted very quickly to remove ‘Rolling Stone‘ founder Jann Wenner this week in the wake of his inflammatory remarks about female and black artists.

Kix played their farewell show at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland on Sunday, September 17th.

Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson and Steve Vai will reunite for their first G3 tour in over 25 years in early 2024.

AC/DC singer Brian Johnson has co-written a new song with Jackyl’s Jesse James Dupree. “Never Gets Old” will appear on Dupree’s upcoming solo album, “Breathing Fire.”

 

You Say: Best of the Gents

Hello Treasonites!

We’re sticking with the Y chromosome for this week’s “YOU SAY.”

Crooners, Rockers, Balladeers, Yodellers… whatever your style, whatever the era, we want to know which DUDE vocalist is your fave.

Someone comes up to you and asks, “Hey, who is your favorite male singer?”

You say….

 

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Patricia Rose

Luther VanDross! Such a smooth voice

Peggy McChesney

Brian Johnson

Michael Patterson

Paul Rodgers…

shelley stewart

Y indeed, I canna do itLOL…Paul Rogers of Bad Company and Burton Cummings of The Guess Who have voices like melted chocolate…but then there is Elvis, velvet…and what about Freddie and Robert Plant!! Sorry guys I just cannot pick, nope nope nope…I am going to blame jet lag on the fact that I cannot make a decision!Love ya guys. Cheers

Vincent Peteroy

Robert Plant
Geddy Lee
Chris Cornell
Steve Perry
James Hetfield
Scott Weiland
Dave Grohl
Joshua Homme
Geoff Tate
Ronnie James Dio
Ozzy Ozbourne
Lou Graham
Jon Anderson
Sting 🐝

Sorry so many… I may have missed some….🤣

BillBoys

So tough to name one.
Some of my favorites

McCartney
Don Felder
Freddie Mercury
Paul Rodgers
Billy Joel
Pete Ham
Andy and Bobby
Donald Fagen
Harry Nilsson
Sinatra
Harry Connick Junior
Dean Martin
Tom Petty
Steven Tyler
Billy Gibbons
Tyler Childers

BillBoys

Robert Plant
David Clayton Thomas

Katie

He’s not my favorite male artist, but I love hearing Harry Connick Jr. sing.

BillBoys

Me too. Hypnotic voice. True crooner.

Ellen Hakala

Man, O man that is so hard and I cannot just pick one so here goes sorry Andy…Towns Van Zant, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson and Ray Bonneville and Solomon Burke plus all the others..

Bob Seabock

Frank Sinatra

Cindy Findlater

i am a bit all over the place on this one(and pretty much everything). i have always been a sonatra girl, though for sheer power pavarotti always sent a shiver up my spine. oh and tom petty had a fun sound too

Kimberly Brook

Bowie

Vic

Dave waneless from sven gall is putting on a great performance onbthier New single one gun

David Foulk

William Topley has a great voice

Another Year Gone

Some birthdays we did not mention on our Facebook page…

Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers had birthday number 71 on Tuesday

 

Singer-songwriter Richard Marx had his 60th birthday on Saturday

Turning 75 last Saturday was Rock drummer Kenney Jones of The Small Faces and The Who

Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers celebrated his 31st birthday last Saturday

Singer, actor and former teen idol Frankie Avalon had his 83rd birthday on Monday

 

Don Felder, Eagles lead guitarist, was 76 on Thursday

Ben Shepherd, bass player for Soundgarden, turned 55 on Wednesday

 

Music Memes

Memes about music are incredibly popular across social media.

They touch upon what music means to all of us and how it affects us. Indeed, we post our share of these types of memes as well, both on our socials and here in GROOVY NOODLES.

We’ve decided to share a gallery of the memes that have collected the most favorable responses from Elm Treason fans over the past two years.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Bobby and Andy during the video shoot for “TOO SWEET,” September 2017

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Elm Treason’s new single, “UP TO ME” from the album “WITHOUT A TRIBE.”

grapes underneath a sneaker… just because

13 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Leonard Skinner, the namesake of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies of Alzheimer’s disease at age 77. As a gym teacher at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida, he sent Ronnie Van Zant to the principal’s office because his hair was too long.

 

15 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Rick Wright (keyboardist for Pink Floyd) dies of cancer in London, England, at age 65

 

17 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

65-year-old Bob Dylan becomes the oldest person to top Billboard’s Albums chart when Modern Times goes to #1

25 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Marilyn Manson release their third album, Mechanical Animals. Target, Walmart and some other retailers refuse to stock it because of the cover, which depicts the group’s frontman in naked female form.

 

27 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Jack Gillis marries Meg White. He takes her last name, and the couple forms The White Stripes. They tell reporters they are brother and sister, which goes over until a reporter for the Detroit Free Press uncovers their marriage license in 2001.

40 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Kiss make their first public appearance without their trademark make-up when they show up on MTV to promote their new album – and single – “Lick It Up.”

 

46 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Marc Bolan of T. Rex dies in a car accident at age 29

 
 

53 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

After eight straight years, The Beatles are finally knocked from their perch as England’s top act in the Melody Maker fan poll… by Led Zeppelin

 

54 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

John Lennon leaves The Beatles but agrees to not make an official announcement. The recording of “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” marks the last time all four Beatles were together in the same studio

56 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Keith Moon of The Who rigs his bass drum to explode at the end of “My Generation” during the group’s appearance on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, but he doesn’t realize that the stage crew has already set the charge. The resulting explosion cuts Moon’s leg, singes Pete Townshend’s hair, and startles fellow guests Bette Davis and Mickey Rooney.

92 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

RCA Victor unveils its new invention, the 33 1/3 rpm long-playing or “LP” record, at the Savoy Plaza Hotel in New York. However, the company badly overprices the record players themselves, leading the new format to lie dormant for years until Columbia revives it in 1948.

Cordially

Faithfully

Perpetually

Mercifully

Still does

AC DC in produce

Just Sayin’

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