GROOVY NOODLES
THE ELM TREASON NEWSLETTER NUMBER 126
JANUARY 5, 2024
TREASON NOODLES
– A wonderful holiday season is over. Bobby is back at work. Andy is still in Texas, but has effectively shifted ELM TREASON operations south for the immediate future. (This even includes all “Rhyme and Treason” free CD promotional shipments. They’re coming out of Texas, too), No date has been set for Andy’s return.
– FINALLY!!! For those of you who ordered the limited edition vintage 70s style two-tone ELM TREASON t-shirts during the BLACK FRIDAY/CYBER MONDAY promotions, GOOD NEWS is HERE! The shirts have arrived from the manufacturer (two weeks late) and will begin shipping over the next few days!!! THANK YOU for your amazing patience!
OTHER NOODLES
– The creators of an AI-powered Elvis Presley avatar announced that virtual performance shows will commence in London this year, with dates in Las Vegas, Berlin and Tokyo to follow.
– Rage Against the Machine “will not be touring or playing live again,” says drummer Brad Wilk in a new statement posted on Wednesday, January 3rd.
– Bruce Kulick has left Grand Funk Railroad after 23 years. He played his final concert with the group on December 14th in Marietta, Ohio.
– Heart played their first concert since 2019 when they took the stage at Southern California’s Yaamava’ Resort & Casino on Wednesday, December 27th.
– Tom Smothers of the famous Smothers Brothers comedy duo died on December 27th at age 86.
Your Answer Is…
Hi, Treasonites!
Welcome to the first installment of “YOUR ANSWER IS” of 2024.
This’ll be a fun one. Whether your teenage years were in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s or (beyond), we’d love to hear from you.
This one can have many answers, but try to answer on instinct. The FIRST thing that pops into your head.
Someone approaches you and asks, “What song… or band… or artist BEST brings you back to your teenage years?”
Your immediate answer is…
Another Year Gone
Birthdays over the past week…
Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones had birthday number 78 on Wednesday
Celebrating his 65th birthday last Sunday was Paul Westerberg, lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for The Replacements.
Last Sunday, Andy Summers, guitarist for The Police, was 82.
Thursday was R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe’s 64th birthday
Stephen Stills of Buffalo Springfield, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, was 78 on Wednesday
Happy 78th birthday to American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, and author Patti Smith
Turning 77 last Saturday was Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra and The Traveling Wilburys
Burton Cummings, lead singer and keyboardist for The Guess Who, celebrated birthday number 77 last Sunday.
Scott Ian, guitarist and backing vocalist for Anthrax, was 61 last Sunday
Tom Hamilton, bass player for Aerosmith, turned 73 last Sunday
Rock Stars Who Used to Teach
Elm Treason’s own Bobby Steel is an elementary school music teacher during daytime hours.
We thought it’s be cool to honor those rock stars who themselves used to teach.
Sting (english)
Sheryl Crow (elementary school music)
Roberta Flack (middle school music)
Mark Knopfler (english)
Kris Kristofferson (literature)
Gene Simmons (6th grade teacher)
Dennis DeYoung (middle school music)
Bryan Ferry (art and ceramics)
Brian May (math)
Art Garfunkel (math)
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It’s the second single from our latest album “WITHOUT A TRIBE.”
Go ahead and “LOCK AND LOAD.”
14 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Chris Cornell tweets that Soundgarden, split since 1997, are getting back together.
25 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
George Harrison is nearly killed when the mentally disturbed Michael Abram breaks into his home and stabs him in the chest. Harrison’s wife, Olivia, saves her husband by attacking Abram with a poker and a table lamp. George suffers a collapsed lung, but survives.
39 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley have a daughter, Alexa Ray, her name a tribute to Ray Charles. She becomes a singer like her dad.
39 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Rick Nelson dies in a plane crash at age 45. A child star on The Ozzie and Harriet Show, he became a teen idol as a singer, charting 36 hits on the Top 40.
40 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen loses an arm when he crashes his Corvette. He continues with the band, using computer aids and relying more on his feet.
46 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
The Runaways play their final show at Cow Palace, near San Francisco. The all-female hard-rock band have been through several line-up changes, but are finally torn apart through conflict between Joan Jett, who wants to take the band in a glam-rock direction, and Lita Ford who wishes to stay in the hard-rock genre. The band formally split the following April.
49 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham officially join Fleetwood Mac, bringing with them the songs “Rhiannon” and “Landslide.”
51 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
AC/DC makes their live debut at the Chequers Bar in Sydney, Australia.
51 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Journey makes their live debut at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.
65 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Johnny Cash plays one of his first jailhouse shows when he performs at San Quentin prison in San Rafael, California. Among those in the captive audience is Merle Haggard, who is serving time for burglary.
82 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Frank Sinatra performs as a solo act for the first time, playing to a crowd of screaming teenage girls at the Paramount Theater in New York City.
84 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
W2XDG in New York becomes the first licensed FM station and begins broadcasting from the Empire State Building.
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Indeed
An Event in Georgia
THIS is Elm Treason
Sure Can
Life
Truth
More?
In the Spotlight, too?
That Socks
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Elton John
That man is a major part of a lot of peoples memories.
So many songs of his bring me (Andy) back to the days of my childhood.
That would have to be the Beach Boys.
There are a couple of songs of theirs that I admire greatly in terms of songwriting. I dig a lot of their tunes, obviously, but the two songs I always kind of secretly wished I had written…
In my room
Don’t worry baby
Outstanding.
Moody Blues
Excellent.
Any particular tune? Or album?
Anything from BTO. They were my “go to” band
Digging that very much, Rich.
I (Andy) was a little boy when they were big. My mom really loved them.
My favorite song of theirs when I was a boy was… Let it ride.
Aerosmith – first concert at MSG in 1976
How cool is that?
You got to see Aerosmith in their prime at Madison Square Garden.
Scrumptious.
Led Zeppelin…
The ultimate cool, Michael.
Elton John – specifically Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. Also, honorable mention, (and not in a good way) Smoke on the Water – played repeatedly by the garage band two houses away all summer long.
I with you on Captain Fantastic.
I (Andy) have many many treasured memories of being a little boy and listening to Elton John with my mom.
I particularly have vivid recollections of watching the 45 spin while crocodile rock played
My mother and I would sing the “na….na-na-na-na-na” part together.
Good times.
“Back in Black” or any of the songs from that AC/DC album 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
The memories that I (Andy) have associated with that album just cannot be shared here with any degree of decency.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, a big album of youth!
Many, but Silk Degrees by Boz Skaggs just popped into my head.
A very interesting and unique choice, Bill.
Nice.
It would have to be my sisters 45 and 78’s records she was ten years older than me, I guess that was the start of my love of music, I remember listening to doctor doctor my baby’s sick come and see her come and see her by the Easybeats.They say don’t go to Wolverton Mountain and what about Ooh Eee ooh arr Ting tang walla walla bing bang them songs are just classic’s.LOL
As a boy, I (Andy) had such an affinity for what they now call, novelty records…
Purple people eater
Alley Oop
Songs like that.
Love it. Thanks, Ellen!
The Beatles’ Revolver. And Rubber Soul. That’s when they began to rock and captured me!
I remember those days…
Us being kids…
A generation too late, to be sure… but the Beatles were new to us.
Man, talk about obsession!
Great stuff.
Many groups…mainly Grand Funk, Uriah Heep, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple.
That right there is a muster of kickass rock ‘n’ roll.
Outstanding, Mark.
Great days, indeed.
Larry Fast’s Synergy: Electronic Realization for Rock Orchestra in 1975. This, and Walter (Wendy) Carlos’s Switched on Bach made me fall in love with electronic music.
I absolutely love it!
So very cool, Bob.
I dig electronic music, but Bobby is such an aficionado when it comes to that style and genre.
Dig it!
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band – Live Bullet
Hi Lisa! Andy here.
My mom, back in the day, was such a huge Bob Seger fan.
I don’t think it can be overstated.
She saw him live several times.
And his albums from “night moves” forward through “against the wind” were played constantly in my house. I know every syllable of everyone of those records. Thanks to her.
Poison open up and say ahh and bon Jovi slippery when wet
I (Andy) remember when those records were brand new.
Holy crap.
In the circles where I traveled, they were played a lot!
Thanks, Vic!
Alice Cooper Group`s Love It To Death. When it came out I was not 18, but was looking forward to it coming and getting out on my own. Now at 67, that album takes me back to my mindset in that time period. Many other bands too, but this one band and album sum it up the best………
Great to hear from you, Rick. Andy here.
I love Alice Cooper. I have six of his albums on vinyl.
But it’s my wife who adores Alice Cooper on a level that is beyond my scope.
Don’t get me wrong… I dig him very much. Love him, in fact. I know those records in and out. But my wife is still in love with him. One of her childhood heroes.
Appreciate hearing from you.
The Beatles
It’s funny… I (Andy) I am not of the generation when the Beatles conquered the world.
But a huge chunk of my teenage years was spent listening to, absorbing, and obsessing over the Beatles.
They made me want to write and play probably more than anyone else.
So, in a way, I’m right there with you…
Michael Jackson album “Off The Wall”, then Captain & Tenille album “Love Will Keep Us Together”, the first two I received. Then “Cecelia” by Simon & Garfunkel, the first 45 I bought.
In my (Andy’s) house, top 40 radio was played quite a bit – every bit As much as records and tapes were.
So, songs that were radio hits in the 70s and early 80s are so part of my DNA. To this day.
I love those songs. I love that era. It’s what shaped me musically.
Foreigner Double Vision
Hi Ron! Andy here.
I remember when that record was big.
I was still a kid. But all the big kids.- the cool kids – played that album.
My mom too.
She loved Lou’s voice.
Great edition of Groovy Noodles. I love the section on teachers turned musicians. A couple that I didn’t know about.
Hey Ron! Thanks for the Seriously cool comment.
So pleased you dig this issue of the noodles.
It’s awesome to have you out there. I appreciate you being part of the family.
I’m gonna go with AC/DC because I wasn’t allowed to listen to them but did anyway 😉
For me (Andy) the first AC/DC album that blew my head off as a kid was “back in black”
As I got older, I fell in love with the Bon Scott era. And to this day, that’s my favorite era of AC/DC.
I’m gonna go with AC/DC, because I wasn’t allowed to listen to them but did anyway (my independence emerges). Still love them!
Hair of the Dog
Killer!
That’s the kind of rock ‘n’ roll that gets the blood flowing.
Love it, Kelly. Thank you.
Genesis Trick of the Tail. Still love it. 💜
Fantastic record. Through and through.
A lot of good ones out there but probably the most played was Pink Floyd, dark side of the Moon
Oh this is kind of tough, 1976- 1982? So much going on musically and so many influences…radio, friends, roller skating and I myself went off the grid and found an indy/college like radio stationso if I think about cruising around with my friends, my mind goes to Bat out of Hell, Meatloaf; The Cars first album, Max Webster and I, robot , Alan Parsonsbut my own personal journey had me listening to Bowie Bowie BowieLOL and early Ian Hunter, Tom Robinson and Ian Drury and the Blockheads
Iggy and the stooges Raw Power