GROOVY NOODLES
THE ELM TREASON NEWSLETTER NUMBER 96
MARCH 24, 2023
TREASON NOODLES
– “WITHOUT A TRIBE” UPDATE — As many of you already know, our next studio album, due out later this year (probably early Summer), is nearing completion. (FINALLY!) There will be 13 tracks on the new record. Here’s the BIG NEWS: We have signed off on 9 final mixes! Four more to go!
– Thanks for all of your patience during the “GROOVY NOODLES” hiatus. So much was going on that it just wasn’t possible to do the newsletter and keep up with everything else. Our last newsletter was one month ago today. We move forward with our weekly excursion into escapism.
OTHER NOODLES
– Depeche Mode‘s 15th album, Memento Mori, has been released as of Friday, March 24th.
– Peter Gabriel has added 13 new shows to this year’s tour, including dates in Dallas, Austin, Pittsburgh and Denver. General on-sale tickets will be available on Friday, March 24.
– Neal Schon has announced that he will release “Journey Through Time,” a career-spanning live concert featuring Journey classics and deep cuts, on May 19.
– Vinnie Vincent will premiere his long-awaited new album “Judgment Day (Guitarmageddon Pt. 1)” at a listening party in Nashville on May 19 and 20. For $500, fans will get to hear “Judgment Day” at Starstruck Entertainment Studio and are also invited to jam with the former Kiss guitarist.
– Mick Slattery, the original guitarist and co-founder of Hawkwind, died this week at age 77.
– Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen said he was “focusing on healing” after being attacked earlier this week outside his Fort Lauderdale hotel on March 12. He was allegedly ambushed by 19 year-old Max Edward Hartley and knocked to the ground while having a cigarette. A police report indicated that Allen hit “his head on the ground causing injury” as a result of the assault.
– Former Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor will be heard on the band’s next album, which is slated to come out later this year.
– Robert Smith, lead singer of The Cure, has expressed his tremendous distaste towards Ticketmaster – and it seems to have had an effect, as the company is now reportedly going to give partial refunds to fans who purchased tickets to the Cure’s upcoming North American tour. “After further conversation, Ticketmaster have agreed with us that many of the fees being charged are unduly high, and as a gesture of goodwill have offered a $10 per ticket refund to all verified fan accounts for lowest ticket price transactions and a $5 per ticket refund to all verified fan accounts for all other ticket price transactions, for all Cure shows at all venues.”
You Say: Seasons
Hello Treasonites!
This past week marked the first day of Spring for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. Meanwhile, autumn has already begun in Australia and New Zealand.
We thought it’d be fun to talk about songs that mention a season in its title or is a predominant theme in its lyric.
“Hazy Shade of Winter” by Simon and Garfunkel comes to mind, for instance. “The Boys of Summer” by Don Henley is another.
Someone comes up to you and asks you what your favorite “season” song is, you say…
Birthdays This Past Week
Some birthdays we did not mention on our Facebook page…
Happy 79th birthday to John Sebastian of the Lovin’ Spoonful (Last Friday)
On Tuesday, Roger Hodgson of Supertramp, turned 73
On Monday, Blues rocker Jimmie Vaughan of the Fabulous Thunderbirds turned 72
Singer Chaka Khan turned 70 on Thursday
Celebrating his 57th birthday last Saturday was Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell
Guitarist George Benson celebrated birthday number 80 on Wednesday
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber had his 75th birthday on Wednesday
Turning 44 last Saturday was Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine
10 Cool Vintage Electronics Ads
Safe to say, these items aren’t used as much as they used to be. While some of these things do still have a niche audience (turntables, for instance), others are hardly used at all.
Some of you may still use one or more of these… and if you do, VERY COOL.
Portable AM/FM Radio
Answering Machine
The Texas Instruments T1 Home Computer
Video Recorder
Cordless Phone
Boom Box
Sony Walkman
Turntable
Clock Radio
Magnavox Color TV
Groovy Noodles Extra: From the Pen of Bobby Steel
This week, Bobby picks up the pen and talks about band names.
Specifically, he digs deep into his own past and reminisces about the nomenclature of his various PRE-TREASON incarnations.
He also answers a few pertinent questions…
Can you open up for yourself a gig? Is Hindi the best language to use when scouring for band names? Is Elm Treason Bobby’s first venture into the acoustic-based realm?
It’s a pretty fun journey.
Check it out –> HERE <—
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Air guitar in Texas- Summer, 2021
A BACKWARDS LETTER “U” … BECAUSE WHY NOT?
22 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Seven Pearl Jam bootleg albums from their North American tour debut in the Billboard 200 albums chart, breaking the record for most appearances on the chart in a single week that the band established the previous year, when five bootlegs from their European tour landed on the chart.
31 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Billy Ray Cyrus releases “Achy Breaky Heart.” It becomes his signature song and starts a line-dancing craze throughout the US.
32 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Eric Clapton’s 4-year-old son, Conor, dies after falling out of a window at his mother’s apartment. Clapton later writes “Tears In Heaven” about Conor
33 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Andrew Wood, lead singer of Mother Love Bone, dies of a heroin overdose at age 24. Members of the band go on to form Pearl Jam
38 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Billy Joel marries the “Uptown Girl” Christie Brinkley. They remain married for nine years
39 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Van Halen’s 1984 rises to #2 on the US albums chart, held off by Michael Jackson’s Thriller, which has already topped the tally for 31 weeks. 1984 stays one spot behind Thriller for two more weeks before dropping down. Perhaps it would have hit #1 if Eddie Van Halen hadn’t done the guitar solo on “Beat It.”
65 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
The first “Greatest Hits” compilation is released, and it’s by Johnny Mathis. It’s a huge hit, and the format catches on quickly. The Mathis album stays in the Billboard 200 album chart for over nine years, a record not broken until Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon.
104 YEARS AGO THIS PAST WEEK
Jazz music plays throughout New Orleans after a serial killer threatens to murder anyone not listening to it
Keep it to yourself
Dig it
Serendipity
Another Funny
Rock on!
Payback
Sure is…
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I love this Groovy Noodles. The ads, the “Years ago this past week” is fantastic. Sure brings back memories for me. Always enjoy the birthdays. Just thinking about John Sebastian this past week and forgot he was with the Lovin’ Spoonful. Good luck on your next album! Yes I still say that . . . .
What a wonderful comment, Lisa. So supportive, so encouraging!
We LOVE that you love this edition of GROOVY NOODLES.
Summer Wind
Sinatra
Loved the newsletter, always read it!
One of my (Andy’s) all time favorites.
…from across the sea.
California Dreamin’
On a winter’s day….
Turn, Turn, Turn by the Byrds
“There is a season… and a time to every purpose…”
One of my favorite Eddie Cochran songs Summertime Blues and Gillian Welch’s Summer Evening just love that song.
Eddie Cochran, the underrated, unsung early hero of rock and roll. Died so young.
One of my favorite songs has a season in the title: Summer, Highland Falls, Billy Joel. It has brilliant philosophical lyrics.
I always think of Wasted time by Eagles when I think of seasons to denote the passage of time. The bridge: “The Autumn leaves have got you thinkin’ about the first time that you fell. You didn’t love the boy too much, you just loved the boy too well.”
Love it.
I love reading the extras. This week was no exception. Thanks Bobby.
Is there a meaning to E PLURIBUS ULNUS? .
It’s a play on E PLURIBUS UNUM (From many, one)
In short, “From Many (Elms), one Elm.”
“Forever Autumn” – Justin Hayward
Sweet.
Thanks, Fil!
Lef Zeppelin The Rain Song, Aerosmith Seasons of Wither.
Love ’em both, David…. particularly THE RAIN SONG. Gorgeous.
I’m surprised no one has commented on how huge Bobby is now. Look how he dwarfs that guitar in the pic.
Bom Bom Boom, Hell! Fee Fie Fo Fum!
Couldn’t have said it any better!
We always wonder how much attention people actually pay to the content in GROOVY NOODLES.
winter solstace, tea party; summer breeze, seals and croft…honourable mentions: sunny days, lighthouse and California Dreaming, Mamas and Papas