GROOVY NOODLES
THE ELM TREASON NEWSLETTER NUMBER 131
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
TREASON NOODLES
BRAND NEW “OLD” ELM TREASON MUSIC IS HERE!
ON CD!
Yep, new ELM TREASON music! … but not really
THE CAP TANGO SESSIONS
A three-song EP on Compact Disc featuring the very first songs Andy and Bobby ever worked on together… before the were ELM TREASON. Newly discovered session files (thought long lost) have been remixed and remastered and offered for the very first time… ever!
Comes with a Sticker and a button!
Seriously… as of this publication, we have something like 12 CDs left. This may be the first time we have ever sold out ANYTHING!
OTHER NOODLES
– Neil Young and Crazy Horse will hit the road later this year, launching the “Love Earth” Tour on April 24 in San Diego.
– Robert Plant and Alison Krauss will hit the road this year, launching a two-month run of North American shows in June, the “Can’t Let Go” Tour. Their first concert will take place June 2 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
– Santana will return to the road this summer with Counting Crows on the “Oneness” Tour. The shows start on June 14 in Hollywood, Florida and will run through September 2nd when the tour wraps up in Phoenix.
– Pearl Jam has announced 2024 tour dates. It will begin May 4 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The band will then make their way through several U.S. locations before taking the tour overseas to the U.K. and Europe. They’ll return to the States in August, followed by a run of Australian shows scheduled for November.
– Bret Michaels will be back this year with “Parti-Gras 2.0,” a five-act tour package that kicks off July 12 in Noblesville, Indiana, and plays six dates during July and August. Joining the Poison frontman will be former Foreigner lead singer Lou Gramm, ex-Eagles guitarist Don Felder and Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider.
– AC/DC has announced that they will tour Europe this summer with a brand-new lineup. The 21-date “Power Up” tour will kick off May 17 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany and is scheduled to conclude on Aug. 17 in Dublin, Ireland. According to the band, drummer Phil Rudd and bassist Cliff Williams will not be performing at these dates. Lead guitarist Angus Young, singer Brian Johnson and rhythm guitarist Stevie Young will be joined by Matt Laug on drums and former Jane’s Addiction bassist Chris Chaney.
– The 2024 nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have been announced. This year’s list includes: Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Eric B. & Rakim, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Jane’s Addiction, Kool & the Gang, Lenny Kravitz, Oasis, Sinead O’Connor, Ozzy Osbourne, Sade and A Tribe Called Quest.
Your Answer Is…
Hi, Treasonites!
Okay, whether or not you generally dig love songs (and for the most part, the boys of Elm Treason are AT BEST supremely indifferent to them), most people have a song or two in the “romantic” or “amorous” realm they really like.
Now, whether it goes back to your “hang out” and “make out” days of youth, or you have a special song today that touches the heart, we want to know what YOUR LOVE SONG is.
As an example… Andy and Amy’s wedding song was “Never My Love” by the Association. It is STILL their song.
So, if someone asks you: “If you had to pick one, what love song do you actually like a lot…or even love?”
Your answer is:
Another Year Gone
Birthdays over the past week…
Al Campbell, lead singer for UB40, celebrated birthday number 65 on Thursday
Last Sunday, singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow was 62.
Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty had his 52nd birthday on Wednesday
Celebrating his 74th birthday on Tuesday was Peter Gabriel, original lead singer for Genesis
Happy 85th birthday to singer Roberta Flack. (Last Saturday)
Turning 82 last Friday was legendary singer-songwriter, Carole King.
On Thursday, Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd turned 48.
Henry Rollins, frontman for Black Flag, was 63 on Tuesday.
Steve Hackett, guitarist for Genesis, celebrated his 74th birthday on Monday.
Blues guitarist Gary Clark, Jr. was 40 on Thursday
On Monday, singer-songwriter Michael McDonald turned 72.
HEARTBREAKS, HEARTACHES
Seeing as this last week saw another VALENTINES DAY come and go, we thought it might be interesting to take a look at heartbreak and heartache.
Here are 10 tunes on the subject.
As always, we know there are more (we leave some out ON PURPOSE) so if you know one we neglected, feel free to hit the comments section.
BEE GEES – HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART
DEF LEPPARD – BRINGING ON THE HEARTBREAK
ELVIS PRESLEY – HEARTBREAK HOTEL
NEIL YOUNG – ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART
PAT BENATAR – HEARTBREAKER
LED ZEPPELIN – HEARTBREAKER
EAGLES – HEARTACHE TONIGHT
BONNIE TYLER – IT’S A HEARTACHE
WINGER – HEADED FOR A HEARTBREAK
ELMORE JAMES – MY BLEEDING HEART
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Way way back during sessions for our first album – Staten Island, NY – February, 2013
A close-up of a standard white six-sided die between the black dots
Our latest video
“Lock and Load” with the second single from our latest album “WITHOUT A TRIBE.”
7 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Tom Petty is honored as Person of the Year at the MusiCares gala, held two days before the Grammy Awards. “Twenty years ago I’d have been way too cynical to do this, but I’m 66 now and I feel ya,” he says in his speech.
12 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Whitney Houston is found dead in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles, where she was slated to perform at Clive Davis’ annual Pre-Grammy party later that night.
18 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
The gravesite of AC/DC singer Bon Scott in Fremantle Cemetery in Western Australia is classified with a heritage listing.
23 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
After being booted from the “reunion” lineup of the Eagles, guitarist Don Felder files a lawsuit against the group.
27 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Soundgarden play the Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii, their last show until 2010.
32 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Lead singer Vince Neil, who had been pursuing IndyCar racing, is booted from Mötley Crüe. “Race car driving has become a priority in Neil’s life,” the band’s management says in a statement. “His band mates felt he didn’t share their determination and passion for music.” Neil returns to the fold in 1997.
43 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Riding the (permanent) wave of their previous album, Rush release Moving Pictures. Featuring “Tom Sawyer,” “Limelight” and “YYZ,” it becomes the best-selling album in the Rush discography. “The Camera Eye” is the last 10-minute-long song Rush ever record in the studio.
46 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Van Halen release their self-titled debut album. The lead single is a cover of the Kinks classic “You Really Got Me.”
53 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Carole King releases her seminal album Tapestry.
54 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Black Sabbath release their self-titled debut album, which not coincidentally, comes out on Friday the 13th.
55 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Rolling Stone’s front cover features an article on “groupies” – introducing a new term to the popular lexicon.
56 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Rolling Stone magazine offers free roach clips to new subscribers.
60 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show, making their first live US TV appearance.
66 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Ratings show that ABC’s American Bandstand is now America’s top-rated daytime television program, with an average of 8,400,000 viewers per day.
ELM TREASON’S LATEST ALBUM
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THE 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.”
You’ll Never Find… Truer Words
I Need a Hero
It’s Impossible for Us to Agree More
The Gap
Is Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride
Yet Another Funny
Well, maybe not EVERYONE’S hero..
Truth
Shinin’ Stars
Appropriate
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“Some People Never Know”. By Wings!
I (Andy) know it well. I actually have every wings album on vinyl.
C.T.A ” I love you more today than yesterday ” ✌️🌺😎
Very nice. My (Andy’s) wife really likes that song.
Thank you, Pablo!
Bless the Broken Road done originally by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was our wedding song in 2014. Also The Wedding Song by Paul Stookey; that gives me chills since I was a small child in the 1970s.
I (Andy) just listened to both tracks before commenting here.
Very nice, Jenn.
Really appreciate you participating. Tugging on the heart strings, indeed.
EZPZ Nothing else matters, Metallica and The Power of Love, Frankie goes to Hollywood…honourable mention to Moondance, Van Morrison and Something about the way you look tonight, Your song, Elton JOhn. Andy, that is a wonderful song that you and Amy had for your first dance! Although I have lost faith in RRHOF…Go Lenny!!! I must run now as I have your newest cd sitting in my shopping cart and what! There are only 12 left, Right on guys but I must have mine!
I (Andy) I am digging all of your choices there, Shelley. I especially have an affinity for the Elton John song. I dig the lyrics very much. Always have.
And thanks for making our CD a part of your world.
It means a lot!
I think we are down to three left!
Just Because by Ray Charles has become my husband’s and my song over the years, although we also danced to Never My Love at our wedding in 1979.
I (Andy) thoroughly and completely love Ray Charles doing “just because.“
Outstanding choice.
Our wedding theme song was Patsy Cline’s “Crazy”. Still appropriate.
Oh, I (Andy) love this pick for so many reasons.
🤣🤣
After All These Years
The Paul Simon song?
I Should’ve Known Better & If I Fell are beautiful love songs
And of course This Is Not a Love Song by PIL is my favorite 🙂
Outstanding, brother. Just outstanding.
Can’t do one…sorry…or even 10…so many great love songs. But 3 come to mind immediately – “Waiting For a Girl Like You” Foreigner, “You Are So Beautiful” Joe Cocker, and, one that really resonates with me, “Without You” Elm Treason.
So, I (Andy) am reading your comment, nodding my head in agreement… And then you threw me for a loop.
Wow.
Thank you, Michael.
And Elm Treason, love song… It just doesn’t happen too often… But it means a lot that you choose it.
Funny thing is… My wife would definitely agree.
Thank you, brother.
how could I forget the legendary love song of them all
Satellite by the Sex Pistols
that’s my kinda love song. 😀
Nothing in the world says, “let’s cuddle up and throw some marble book ends at the TV set” like that one.
A Guy Clark song Magnolia Wind sung by Emmylou and John Prine and a John Prine song called In Spite of Ourselves sung by John Prine and Iris Dement.
Ain’t nothing you can do by the Commitments. Broken Hearted People sung by Ron Sexsmith and not sure if its heartbreak but Roy Buchanan doing When a Guitar Plays the Blues.
I actually know the song “in spite of ourselves” quite well. Just a marvelous choice, Ellen.
Well done.
When I was going to Jr. High YMCA dances in the mid/late 60s it might have been Special Angel by Bobby Helms. It was the song I waited for to ask the girls to slow dance ! But today , and ever since about 1970, when I 1st heard it, it would be Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young. When I heard this, I knew it was my destiny. However all the red haired girls I went out with turned into disaster. Went out with lots of girls, and was attracted to, who were dark haired and dark complected with American Indian blood(I think it was a Cher thing !). I even married one, but it was very short lived. All the while, Cinnamon Girl was still circlin` my head. Then I met my now wife in 1981 and I knew my destiny was real. She is a red haired Irish girl/woman, and I would not be here today, if I had not met and stayed with her ! So in my case, the song led me to the woman, rather than the other way around.
I (Andy) think what I love most about your picks is that they are so different, with such different vibes… And yet, they are both love songs.
I like the fact that you didn’t, instinctively, just fall back on a ballad, or a soft piece of music.
Cinnamon girl is definitely not an air supply type of love song.
Thank you, Rick. Well done.
Midnight Blue from ELO’s Discovery.
Excellent.
Great song.
In response to your list of heartbreak songs, a couple of my favourites are from way back, Diary from Bread and much more recent, Nothing Breaks Like a Heart from Miley Cyrus.
I (Andy) know them both. Stellar.
I actually do dig the Miley Cyrus tune.
My wedding song,was “love of a lifetime”, by Firehouse
Babe STYX
” In My Life ” ( Beatles / John Lennon )… I think it works for any kind of love. It always makes me think of loved one’s who are gone when I hear it. Such a good tune.
Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. My boyfriend of nine years picked it for us. It’s a beautiful song that is relevant to so many people and relationships. I listen to it over and over. I never tire of listening to it. I only wish he could remember why he picked it as he struggles these days. It brings tears to my eyes. I have very fond memories, every time I hear it. 💜💜💜
“Never Enough” The Cure, oldest daughters mother failed to see the humor 😆