GROOVY NOODLES
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.
Birthdays This Past Week
Some birthdays we did not mention on our Facebook page…
Ron Wood, of the Faces and Rolling Stones, celebrated 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.
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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.
Wow. OUTSTANDING.
I (Andy) remember listening to Alan Sherman records as a small boy.
And it’s funny…. I just heard the JOLLY GREEN GIANT on Sirius/XM this past weekend. Talk about a coincidence. Love it.
Solid Advice = Uptown Q-Tip of the week.
LoLoL Uptown Q-tip for that persistent musical ear worm ????
I (Andy) can’t help but love that phrase: Uptown Q-Tip. I must find something to do with it in some context.
Yep… I (Andy) think it is mandatory now to have a specific spot in the newsletter called the UPTOWN Q-TIP of the week… Has to be.
Sensational thinking, Al. Will use it starting June 17th.
Deliciously clever.
Actually, it was, “Committed to the rhythm.” But, “Addicted” works as well.
I (Andy) still LOVE that phrase for a t-shirt… or something in some context.
Ozzy Osbourne / Speak of the devil
Got it used for 5 Canadian dollars.
Hi Martin! Yes, I (Andy) remember buying that one myself. I wish I could remember what I spent, but it was about three years or so after it came out. 1986 maybe? I think it was around $7.99 in US dollars.
Don’t know why but it was Cher’s Gypsy, Tramps, & Thieves (cassette) but vinyl it was a Bill Cosby record
Hey Alvin!
You’re the first to comment on this thread to say the first music he or she bought was on cassette. VERY VERY cool.
I (Andy) am not a huge fan of Cher, but I have always loved the sound of that song. Terrific chords and a very good arrangement, to be sure.
Fist record album I bought with my allowance was Mark Lindsay “Silverbird”.
Hi Katie! I am not familiar with that album too much. VERY COOL it would be your first.
Besides the many given and borrowed cassettes and records…
RUSH – Grace Under Pressure
1984, on vinyl
Still have it
What a time…..
Hard to believe there was a time when so much GREAT music was new.. with so much more great music lurking around the corner. Man, oh man….What a time, indeed.
I was working in my parents’ grocery store/gas station and I bought Tom Petty and the Heart Breaker Damn the Torpedoes on vinyl
REALLY????
That is all kinds of cool, Shelley. LOVE that record. It still gets a ton of play today in the Roman household.
First album I bought with my own money (babysitting) was AC/DC BACK IN BLACK.
NICE!
Talk about an EXPLOSIVE beginning to your music-buying life!
Hell of a kick-off.
Just received your 2 cd’s
Sounds awesome…thanks hope you keep it going strong…love “grins of nothing”
Hi Brian! SO VERY VERY GOOD to hear from you.
So very very happy to hear that the music has found its way home to you. 🙂 Thank you for the monumentally positive words. IT does our hearts so very good to know the music is connecting with you.
GRINS OF NOTHING is, indeed, one of the songs we are most proud of. It has a vintage vibe to it, no doubt, but there’s something about it we think (and hope) is accessible to many. It has a kind of funky soul to it. Chunky, you might say. Thank you for the encouragement.
Please let us know which other tracks you come to enjoy as you get to know the music. We love to hear from friends and fans.
REALLY appreciate your support, Brian!
???? 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!
Wow! Elm Treason was the first album you bought? I (Andy) am speechless, ALice. Completely speechless.
Thank you so much. We wish YOU the very very best as well.
Led zeppelin iv in the early 80’s album
45 my sharona by the knack
Yeah, I didn’t start buying music with my own money in earnest until the 80s… the first Zep album I bought on vinyl was IV!
I bought a 45 or two when I had allowance money as a little kid in the Late 70s… and yes, one of them was MY SHARONA!
It was a 45 of the Archie’s when I was 8 years old
SUGAR SUGAR! That was my (Andy’s) first favorite song. I was barely two…but I could sing it through!
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…
Mail order Beatles?? That sounds so very cool to me (Andy).
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
LOVE that moral, Shelley. It applies across the board. 🙂
Sounds like he was trying to work his way into your heart. It isn’t an easy thing to do. 40 years later, the memory is as precious as ever!
My first record purchase was Rock and Roll Over by Kiss in 1977. I think I paid $3.99.
Not a bad way to begin your music purchasing career, Eric!
My first album was CDB Million Mile Reflections. Still love listening to it.
Very cool, Ronald.
Don’t you just love music that STILL sounds good after all these years? Outstanding!