GROOVY NOODLES
THE ELM TREASON NEWSLETTER NUMBER 64
JULY 8, 2022
ELM TREASON LATEST
This week, Elm Treason’s very own Bobby Steel – the Music-Meister, the Fret-Slayer, the Drum King, co-founder and avocado connoisseur – celebrates his birthday (Sunday, July 9th).
Let’s everyone wish Mr. Steel a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOBBY!
– AN UPDATE – Andy’s daughter, Chantelle, and her husband, Michael – for those who did not know – had their first child (Oliver Michael Ribisi) on Friday, July 1st at 3:59am in Seguin, Texas
Your Input: ASKING QUESTIONS
Sometimes songs can ask questions. (Often times, they supply no answers — and why should they?)
For this week’s “YOUR INPUT” offering, name your favorite song (or two) that asks a question in the title.
Some examples include:
– “Have You Ever Seen the Rain? ” (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
– “Do You Wanna Touch Me? ” (Joan Jett and the Blackhearts)
– “Where Did Our Love Go?” (The Supremes)
Whatcha got, people?
Hit that comments section…hard! It’s all yours! Have fun with it!
Birthdays This Past Week
Some birthdays we did not mention on our Facebook page…
John Waite, lead vocalist, bass guitarist of The Babys and lead vocalist of Bad English, turned 70 on Tuesday.
Kirk Pengilly, saxophonist and guitarist for INXS, had his 64th birthday on Tuesday.
Stephen Pearcy, former frontman of Ratt, was 65 last Sunday.
Dave Parsons, bassist for Bush, turned 57 last Saturday.
Mark White, bassist for the Spin Doctors, turned 60 Thursday..
Last Friday, Dan Aykroyd – aka Elwood Blues of the Blues Brothers – celebrated his 70th birthday.
Some of our favorite MUSIC BIOPICS!
Amadeus (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Freddie Mercury)
Coal Miner’s Daughter (Loretta Lynn)
Ray (Ray Charles)
What’s Love Got to Do With It (Tina Turner)
The Runaways (The Runaways)
Walk the Line (Johnny Cash)
Nowhere Boy (John Lennon)
The Dirt (Motley Crue).
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Bobby and Andy in downtown New Braunfels, TX, April 2022
7 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
For the first time ever, Rush make the cover of Rolling Stone. It only took the magazine four decades…
17 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Pink Floyd perform “Comfortably Numb” at the Live 8 London concert, re-forming with band members Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright for the first time since 1981. It’s the last time the four play together.
25 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Organized by Sarah McLachlan, the all-female Lilith Fair tour kicks off. The lineup includes Jewel, Suzanne Vega and Paula Cole, with Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow and Fiona Apple joining on subsequent stops.
26 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Alice in Chains play their last show with lead singer Layne Staley in Kansas City.
28 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Forrest Gump hits theaters. Aside from becoming the top-grossing film of the year in North America and winning multiple Academy Awards, the movie spawns a hit soundtrack with songs from Elvis Presley, Three Dog Night, The Doors, The Byrds, The Mamas & the Papas, Buffalo Springfield, and more.
37 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox. A new generation gets a lesson in Chuck Berry from the famous “Johnny B. Goode” scene…
42 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
In West Berlin, Led Zeppelin play their last concert with drummer John Bonham, who dies in September.
50 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
How times have changed – David Bowie performs “Starman” on Top Of The Pops, causing an uproar by singing with his arm coquettishly draped around the shoulder of guitarist Mick Ronson – a move that makes him as a household name overnight.
52 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Casey Kasem debuts the radio show American Top 40. The #1 song is “Mama Told Me (Not to Come)” by Three Dog Night. He hosts the show until 2004, when Ryan Seacrest takes over.
65 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Paul McCartney and John Lennon meet for the first time at the Village Fete in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton, where Lennon’s group, the Quarrymen, are performing.
Another Funny
Absolutely
Time Travel Speculation
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Happy Birthday Bobby, Live long and Rock On! Congratulations to you Chantelle, Michael, & Grandpa Andy; On the Beautiful new born. May peace be with everyone of you always. 🙂
Greetings Alice! How are you? Always a joy to hear from you.
Daddy, Mommy and Baby are doing FANTASTIC! What a joy. 🙂
Happy Birthday Bobby! 😁✌️
Thanks so very much, Daniel. TRULY appreciate it!
For the question….is you or ain’t you my baby? 🙂 And happy birthday, Bobby!
LOVE that song… from music’s golden era. I (Andy) have that song on three different playlists. It just HITS the spot, doesn’t it?
Thanks for the birthday greeting, Laura! Rock onward!
A scathing answer to Paul McCartney’s “Too Many People’” is John Lennon’s “How Do You Sleep.” I love songs with emotion, even if it’s anger, and you can taste the anger in this song.
Happy Birthday Bobby and, again, congrats to Andy and family. Nothing like being a Grand.
How Do You Sleep has SUCH a marvelous groove. I LOVE the arrangement…Smoky, Nasty, Dark…and yet mellow…. GREAT SONG, Bill.
I love the arrangement too. The lyrics are among John’s best and then you are not disappointed because the music is as good as the lyrics. And like you said the music is nasty and dark and in your face like the lyrics
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted – Jimmy Ruffin. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOBBY! 🎂🎉🎈Congratulations on the birth of Oliver! 🧸🎊❤
GREAT song, Katie. 🙂 Singing it now as I (Andy) type this.
Appreciate the HAPPY BIRTHDAY wish very much…
And OLIVER is a GEM! 🙂
🎉Happy Birthday Bobby!🎉
Thank you so much, Lisa!
Happy birthday, Bobby! Yay for baby Oliver! And “Who let the dogs out?” Baha Men 🙂
Lots of celebratory highlights this week. 🙂 Sometimes, you just need to pop a cork and let the good times roll.
The thing is… we STILL haven’t found out who let the dogs out… We’ve been asking for a while.
Happy Birthday Bobby, Do you think my Tractors Sexy?
You bet I (Andy) do!
Oh wait… never mind.
😉
Thanks much for the birthday wish, Alvin!
Happy birthday (too many will kill you), Congrats on the grandchild (SiL related to Giovanni?), and in answer to the Credence question, rain on a sunny day, according to an old wive’s tale, means the devil is spanking his wife. (No idea on the origin of that one.)
And a song title question I’ve asked my wife is, “If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?”
One of my (Andy’s) favorite interrogative statements… ever… but I can only ask it of one person, of course…
Thanks so much for the well wishes, David. Rock Pop (as I will be called) is digging it much… and Momma and Daddy are doing great!
I (Andy) must be honest and say I have never heard that legendary line… VERY interesting… and who is to say it isn’t true?
Congratulations on the grandchild you look like a happy Grandpa, happy birthday to you Bobby, I have grandchild number seven on the way any day now. Never realized how much Jennifer Aniston and Iggy Pop resemble one another LMAO
WOW! CONGRATS on grandchild number SEVEN!
May he or she be healthy, happy and drenched in love (as well as music).
Mazel Tov, as my (Andy’s) grandma used to say. 🙂
Who Do You Love?
Who Are You?
What Are We Fighting For?
Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?
Nice foursome there.
At present, I (Andy) have no answer for the final three.
The first one, I am much better with.
Happy Birthday Bobby have a good one….If you leave me can I come too Mental as Anything …..What are they doin’ in Heaven Kevin, Kieran and Fats…Where’s my everything? Ron Sexsmith..
REALLY dig your selections. A little off the beaten path. Eclectic. Fantastic.
Always love hearing from you, Ellen.
Happy Birthday Bobby and Congratulations Andy and family! What wonderful celebrations! So much to be thank-FULL for! Be safe, healthy and happy!
You are too kind, Carolyn. Thanks for all the well-wishes.
Indeed, these are good days!
Congratulations Andy to your daughter and son-in-law! You look very joyful with your grandson.
Happy birthday Bobby!
BTW….”Do you want to know a secret?”
Thank you, Mark…
Allow me (Andy) to follow up with another question… “Do you promise not to tell?”
Thanks everyone for the Birthday wishes. It means a lot to me. Congratulations to my brother Andy on the birth of his first grandson (and my great-nephew)Grandma Amy and to Chantelle & Michael on the birth of their son, Oliver. He’s a beautiful baby, and I can’t wait to meet him.
As for a song that asks a question i have Where’s My Thing? by Rush (of course).
Oliver keeps asking… “When is Uncle Bobby coming to Texas? I can’t drive yet, so…”
He’s already asking questions…
Happy Birthday, brother!
Happy birthday Bobby and congratulations on becoming a father! Two of my favourite songs that are questions in the title is Moody Blues ‘Question’ (not in the title but lots in the song) and the Bellamy Brothers ‘If I Said You Had Beautiful Body (Would You Hold it Against Me).
Love both of those songs, Raymond. The latter’s title is one of my (Andy’s) all-time favorites… Almost a daddy-joke kind of title. I mean that in a positive way, of course.
Appreciate all the good wishes, man.
HUGELY appreciated!
Hey I know it’s not Friday but this just popped into my head a question for you being a child from the 60s, well that’s me anyway, who is the first band you saw using wireless microphones and sending units for their electric guitars and such?
Hey, David! Wow. Great question….
I (Andy) would have to think about it… Maybe the Sammy Hagar version of Van Halen???
Very interesting question.
Wheels are turning, thinking back…
Happy Birthday Bobby
Appreciate the birthday wish, Glenn! Rock on!
Peace frog – The Doors
For Crying Out Loud – Meat Loaf
Terrific songs, William. Thank you much!
Can’t you hear me knockin’, Rolling stones; What’s so funny about peace love and understanding, Nick Lowe; War, what is it good for, Edwin Starr
Inquisitive winners! Thanks, Shelley!
How Can I Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?
Who Stole the Kishka?
Who Wrote the Book of Love?
What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body?
Hey Charles! I dig that list.
It would be nice to get actual answers to some of those interrogative statements, no?
Until then, we speculate…
LOL.
Thank you, man!
Happy birthday, Bobby! And congratulations on your precious gift from heaven (Oliver)
Song: What Kind of Fool am I? (Sammy Davis Jr), ‘How Long Has This Been Going On’ (Ace); “Where is the Love?” (Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack
Thank you so much, Leo! Awesome to hear from you!
Yes, Oliver is a treasure. RockPop is doing his best to expose him to the finer things in life… Of course, he has to be able to hold his head up and learn to eat off a spoon before he can really appreciate what I (Andy) am sharing with him… But I keep at it.
🙂
Rock on, Leo!