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THE ELM TREASON NEWSLETTER NUMBER 58

MAY 27, 2022

This Memorial day weekend, the boys in the band remember those who have given their lives so that we might do what we do in freedom. You are not forgotten. You are forever honored.

ELM TREASON NEWS

So, for all of you ELM TREASON music fans, we could really use your input on something.

Here goes!

As you may or may not know, we have been saying for several weeks now that our next album (due out in the early Fall) will be called “GOING YESTERDAY.” 

We have explained here (and in our newsletter), why we were going with this title. Along with thematic reasons, “GOING YESTERDAY” is also the title of one of the album’s tracks.

You probably also know that we have launched an album cover artwork contest for the “GOING YESTERDAY” record.

However, being artists – ever fickle, ever dissatisfied, ever-questioning, sometimes annoying –  over the past several days, we have been discussing, at length, the possibility of a different title that seems – on closer inspection – to be more representative of the overall arching theme of many of the tunes. 

(And as with “GOING YESTERDAY,” there is a song on the album with the new title we are contemplating).

The title we’ve now been tossing around is “UP TO ME.”

We still love the title “GOING YESTERDAY,” and it still may very well be what we go with. Like we said, we have an album cover contest ongoing based on that title underway. 

But “UP TO ME” really seems to be a better fit in some ways.

GOING YESTERDAY” was alluding to that desire we all have now and again to  check out and temporarily revert back to an easier time. As someone might say, “I’m GOIN’ FISHIN” … or “I’m GOING ROGUE,” we were saying, “We’re GOIN’ YESTERDAY !”

This new title idea, “UP TO ME,” touches on something more personal and more empowering – as if to say, “I can’t keep complaining about things and relying on phonies to tell me what’s up and how to think. I need to do my due diligence. I have to rely on me. It’s “up to me.”

This is a theme that also seems to permeate the album in different ways.

So, we ask you – even those who may have already started working on your album cover contest entries (which we will STILL accept, of course) – which title do you dig better?

GOING YESTERDAY“?

UP TO ME“?

We’ve also posed this question to the people in our private FACEBOOK group.

And if we do change the title, we will extend the album cover contest to allow those who have started something to have enough time to start over or make adjustments.

We really want you to be a part of the album’s creation process, so please hit that comments section and help us out! THANK YOU!

Fun Input: Best Band Name?

So, rather than just a band popularity contest (pretty boring), how about this….

What band name – whether you dig the band or not – is the best? The coolest? The most clever?

For instance… we’ve had people tell us they don’t care for our music, but love our band name. (We’d rather have it the other way around, of course…)

We may not be Dead Heads, but we agree that the NAME “Grateful Dead” is just sensational.

What do you think? (And please… limit yourself to your favorite  two or three examples at most).

Have at it! Hit that comments section… and thank you!

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Bill Boys

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Bill Boys

The the

David

I like the name dead Kennedy’s, also big Head Todd and the monsters, David Letterman said that guy’s got a really huge head 🤣🤣🤣

David

Forgot to mention, you guys come up with some really funny things, I appreciate that, laughter and music, good medicine boys

Daniel

AC/DC

Katie

Well, Bill Boys beat me. I have always thought Toad the Wet Sprocket was the coolest band name. Now I have to come up with another… How about Sopwith Camel.

Bill Boys

Came up with a great runner up, though.

Michael Pruchnicki

Although I don’t care much for their music, I think “Five Finger Death Punch” is an awesome name for a band.
As far as the new album name goes, when you posted it on the private page, I wasn’t sure how I felt about it. After some thought, and a few glasses of Bulliett bourbon, I think I like “Up to Me”. The phrase, “If it was up to me” was, at one point, something I would say to my plumbing customers, a lot.👍

Barb Hill

Led Zeppelin and Guns and roses

Laura

I don’t know why, but I always loved Death Cab for Cutie.

Al Seger

Iggy and the Stooges, Black Sabbath, Yes, Mothers of Invention.

Phil

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (Art students for you)

Iron Maiden tribute band called 667 The Neighbour of the Beast

Wet Leg – Indie band from the Isle of Wight

Vincent Peteroy

So so many…..
Elm Treason !!

Shelley Stewart

Toad the Wet Sprocket; Frigid Pink My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult; Flogging Miolly

Ellen Hakala

Eagles of Death Metal and Salty Dog plus maybe The Wailing jennys…

Michael Seright

Too many to pick but it’s got to come down to at least The Beatles.
love your letter by the way

Lisa

I’ve always thought Koffin Kats and Mad Sin were clever names.

William

The Doors, The Grateful Dead and the Dead Kennedys

David Nelson

I like the names “Iron Maiden” (as well as the band) and “Slipknot.”

Shirley Mason

So does this album cover need to be done on a computer or can it be free hand?
Loving the news letters.

Birthdays This Past Week

Some birthdays we did not mention on our Facebook page…

Lyricist Extraoridinaire – writing partner of Elton John – Bernie Taupin celebrated his 72nd birthday last Sunday.

Black Crowes’ guitarist Rich Robinson had his 53rd birthday on  Tuesday.

Cher turned 76 last Friday.

Smiths front man Morrisey turned 63 on Sunday.

Radiohead drummer Phil Selway, Jr. was 53 on Tuesday.

Singer, songwriter Jewel Kilcher turned 48 on Monday.

Country music legend Hank Williams, Jr. celebrated birthday number 73 on Thursday.

Saluting Drummers Who Sing!

Bangin’ out them beats, layin’ down the vocals.

Singing drummers are a very special breed!

Karen Carpenter,  Phil Collins, Don Henley,  Levon Helms,  Sheila E,  Ringo Starr, Kelly Keagy,  Don Brewer.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

In studio jam session – April 2019

5 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Chris Cornell is laid to rest at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles next to Johnny Ramone. Mourners at the funeral service include Dave Navarro, Tom Morello, Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Courtney Love and his Soundgarden bandmates Matt Cameron and Kim Thayil. 

5 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

At the Palladium in London, The Cranberries play their last show with lead singer Dolores O’Riordan. She will die of cancer in early, 2018.

9 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek dies at age 74. 

28 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Michael Jackson marries Lisa Marie Presley. They’d divorce 20 months later.

 

43 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Members of Genesis give the fans a thrill by manning the box office and selling their own tickets to the upcoming show at the Roxy in Los Angeles.

 

43 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Elton John becomes the first western act to tour the U.S.S.R. when he plays the first of eight concerts at a show in Leningrad.

 

53 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Janis Joplin appears on the cover of Newsweek with the headline, “Janis Joplin: Rebirth of Blues.”

 

62 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

The Everly Brothers’ “Cathy’s Clown” becomes the first song to top both the USA and UK singles charts at the same time.

96 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

The great Miles Davis is born.

From the “Cool Pic” File

One of our favorite pics ever – good friends,  Alice Cooper and Groucho Marx

Irrefutable Truth 4899

Another Funny

OUR FACEBOOK GROUP

If you haven’t done so already, and you are on FACEBOOK, why not consider joining our private FACEBOOK GROUP “The Uptown Q?”

It’s far more intimate than our “regular” Facebook page. It allows us to interact with you guys FAR MORE than we can on the regular page. Plus, you won’t miss our posts that get lost in the all-powerful algorithm of Facebook.

We will be posting more behind-the-scenes band stuff,  exclusive previews, performances available nowhere else… plus all the stuff that people dig about our regular page.

If you join, grab a free WELCOME PACK… and don’t forget to watch the introductory video at the top of the page.

Interested?

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CONTACT US

Want to contact us directly with a guaranteed direct response via email? —> andy@elmtreason.com

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