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THE ELM TREASON NEWSLETTER NUMBER 59

JUNE 3, 2022

ELM TREASON NEWS

TIDBITS —

– Mixing, mixing, mixing for the new album… Plus some mixing…. peppered with some mixing. Did we mention mixing? BRAND NEW ELM TREASON MUSIC! Woo hoo!

– We will have updated info on our album cover contest next week (for the aforementioned new record we are mixing). In short, we are extending the deadline to Friday, July 22nd. We’ll have all the deets next week. Stay tuned. (Updated prizes too).

– New recording equipment will be arriving in BOTH Andy’s and Bobby’s respective recording studios this coming week. We’ll give you an equipment list update next week (for those who dig geeking out on that stuff).

– We are working on two new t-shirt and merch items we hope to have ready for y’all (Texas is starting to rub off) very soon … New designs for our “Play Loud/Listen Louder” phrase… as well as an idea that comes from one of our best supporters and friends: “Addicted to the rhythm.” We love that phrase.

– Our private Facebook Group has hit 82 members. Thank you, all!

Fun Input: First Time you DROPPED COIN

We’ve touched upon this subject before, but not here with our newsletter family… besides, this is one of our favorite subjects: The first music we ever bought with OUR OWN MONEY.

Whether you bought vinyl, tapes, CD or downloads, we want to know what the first song or album you paid for with YOUR OWN MONEY was.

Whether you got the bread from your allowance, a summer job, birthday money, found cash in the sofa cushions, whatever.. let us know!

Hit that comments sections. We’d LOVE to hear from you.

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seawhacks

My first album was Alan Sherman – For Swingin’ Livers Only. As for the first 45, I believe it was The Jolly Green Giant by the Kingsmen. I still have both, and thousands more.

Al Seger

Solid Advice = Uptown Q-Tip of the week.

Last edited 1 year ago by Al Seger
Nancy Norris

LoLoL Uptown Q-tip for that persistent musical ear worm 🤣

Al Seger

Actually, it was, “Committed to the rhythm.” But, “Addicted” works as well.

Martin

Ozzy Osbourne / Speak of the devil
Got it used for 5 Canadian dollars.

Last edited 1 year ago by Martin
Alvin Schultz

Don’t know why but it was Cher’s Gypsy, Tramps, & Thieves (cassette) but vinyl it was a Bill Cosby record

Katie

Fist record album I bought with my allowance was Mark Lindsay “Silverbird”.

Vincent Peteroy

Besides the many given and borrowed cassettes and records…
RUSH – Grace Under Pressure
1984, on vinyl
Still have it
What a time…..

Shelley Briley

I was working in my parents’ grocery store/gas station and I bought Tom Petty and the Heart Breaker Damn the Torpedoes on vinyl

Carolyn Frances Munson

First album I bought with my own money (babysitting) was AC/DC BACK IN BLACK.

Brian

Just received your 2 cd’s
Sounds awesome…thanks hope you keep it going strong…love “grins of nothing”

Alice Sullivan

😁 Letter Rip dudes! My first Album was yours. I laughed my head off on your anagrams. I am wishing you all the very best my music friends. May peace always be with you. Cheers!

JMatthew

Led zeppelin iv in the early 80’s album
45 my sharona by the knack

Last edited 1 year ago by JMatthew
David

It was a 45 of the Archie’s when I was 8 years old

Ellen Hakala

That is so long ago I think the dinosaurs were around….I think it was a readers digest record box set of the Beatles mail order but going to a record shop maybe a Sonny Terry and Brownie Mcghee…

Shelley Stewart

Great news about the ‘play loud…t shirt as I was going to buy it with my last order which just received and I also wanted that one but it was not there? No biggy I will girab one when I buy next tunes! I am so embarassed that I honestly do not remember what music I first boughtbut I have a very vivid memory of a special gift…at that time a bit of a bribeLOL It was 1972 and I was 9 years old and I loved the song, Last Song by Edward Bearand I did not like that my mom had a boyfriend and I guess that was evident, so he bought me the 45 and my mom explained that he needed new shoes to be a postman but he bought me this record with money he really did not have! He has been my stepdad for over 40 years but he really is my ‘dad’and one of the best men that I know. The moral of the story is that I guess that you can always win me over with musicLOL

Eric Fetha

My first record purchase was Rock and Roll Over by Kiss in 1977. I think I paid $3.99.

Ronald Swanson

My first album was CDB Million Mile Reflections. Still love listening to it.

Birthdays This Past Week

Some birthdays we did not mention on our Facebook page…

Ron Wood, of the Faces and Rolling Stonescelebrated his 75th birthday on Thursday.

Bangles bassist Michael Steele had her 67th birthday on Thursday.

Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees turned 65 last Friday.

The great Gladys Knight turned 78 last Saturday.

Lead singer for Spandau Ballet Tony Hadley was 62 on Sunday.

Crowded House front man Neil Finn turned 64 last Friday.

Composer extraordinaire (as well as lead singer for Oingo Boingo) Danny Elfman celebrated birthday number 69 on Sunday.

The legendary Pat Boone turned 88 on Wednesday.

In case you HAVEN’T seen this….

We’re fortunate in that people still ask us all the time about the band’s name. “What the HELL is Elm Treason?”

This is a video we made a while ago, but it covers the topic succinctly and thoroughly. It’s funny.

And it’s only 90 seconds. Check it!

Sometimes you just gotta JUMP!

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Holy crap, is it ACTUALLY possible that this picture was taken over 9 years ago? Yep. March, 2013

5 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Gregg Allman of The Allman Brothers Band dies after a battle with cancer. He was 69.

8 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

The trustee for Randy California of the band SPIRIT (who died in 1997) sues Led Zeppelin, claiming a song California composed called “Taurus” was stolen for the intro to “Stairway To Heaven.” Led Zeppelin prevails in 2020.

14 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

A fire at Universal Studios destroys thousands of master tapes controlled by Universal Music Group, including recordings by Joni Mitchell, Elton John, B.B. King, Neil Diamond, Nirvana and Eminem. The loss is extensive.

23 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Napster, a file-sharing service that lets users download songs for free, goes online. It shuts down two years later (in 2001) amid a cavalcade of lawsuits, but not before it forever changes the music industry, which sees a steep decline in sales of physical music.

 

46 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes The Who as the “World’s Loudest Rock Band” when their show in London measures 126 decibels. Guinness later stops certifying the record. No need to glorify hearing loss, they say.

 

61 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK

Jimi Hendrix enlists in the Army and is stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, as a member of the 101st Airborne Division. He signs up for three years. He is honorably discharged a little over a year later. 

Another Funny

We may be safe on this score…

Solid Advice

More Sage Advice

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?

Hit this link:  

JOIN THE UPTOWN Q GROUP!

CONTACT US

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

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