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Ignored 63: Forever GoneIn Uncategorized on July 5, 2015 at 4:25 pm
I used an iPhone to have a chat with Nick Smash, author of the new(ish) Toronto post-punk memorandum Alone and Gone.
Crammed with photos and accounts of GTA musical weirdness from 1979-1983, this book gives a seldom-seen peek at what New Wave and post-punk looked like for Toronto concert goers three decades ago. Don Pyle's book covering 1976-1980 is also great BTW.
The scene birthed the Rheostatics, Fifth Column and a slew of other acts lost to history. Nick has done his best to bring them back.
Here are some words…
Cam: First question: when did you have the initial idea to write this book? What were the seeds?
Nick: The story started when my brother put on the Toronto Calling exhibition here in Toronto in 2010. I started writing some thoughts about those days and it just kind of organically snowballed.
Cam: What kind of crowds did those exhibits attract? Assume a mix of people from the original scene and "curious newcomers"?
Nick: There were great cross section of familiar faces, many I hadn't seen in 30 years and quite a few 'youngsters'. it was great to see an interest spanning the generations. I think Rick Winkle from the Vital Sines was at there, Dave Howard from the Dave Howard Singers was there plus the lead singer from the Curse was there.
Cam: I know the collection starts in 1978. Was that when you and your brudda Simon starting going to show or rather, when you started taking your camera to shows?
Nick: The Clash at the Rex Danforth Theatre here in Toronto that we really started taking photos. Before that, I was working at Music World on Yonge Street and was enjoying all the free tickets to gigs at Maple Leaf Gardens. Simon was still in school then. He 'borrowed' my ID to see the Ramones at the El Mocambo in February 1979 and that changed his life. Not sure if working at music world changed mine all that much!
Cam: Did venues have a "no cameras" policy in those days? If so, how did you sneak your camera in? What were you shooting with?
Nick: As as "no cameras" are concerned, we would just show up with the camera at the door, look a bit pathetic, sad and broke.. and hey presto! Some of the photos in the early days, we would have to sit there for two or three hours so we didn't lose that fantastic angle. The camera itself was our father's bashed-up old Canon. Manual focus exposure. A nightmare to use.
Cam: How may shots did you have from that initial Clash show? Assume the room couldn't have been that large?
Nick: Actually, it was probably 2000 capacity. The Rex was an old cinema. We have the better part of 36 exposures I think from that show. The best ones are in the book. As you might imagine, it was chaos down the front so taking photos was a challenging concept.
Cam: How quickly did you get the photos developed after the show? For "the youths", the idea of having to be choosy with your snapshots would be completely foreign. What did you initially do with the photos once you got them developed?
Nick: We processed and printed everything in the basement at home a day or two after each gig. Because film and chemicals were expensive, we would jam sometimes two or three gigs on one roll of 36 exposure film. Sometimes, we knew in advance that a band had a great live show so we would stock up with a couple of rolls of film. Once we had prints some would go into my fanzine, Smash It Up. Some we would sell at The Record Peddler. Eventually, some we nailed up on the walls of The Edge.
Cam: Who were your allies in the scene? Assume you were friendly with the Garys if you're nailing stuff to their walls? Did you ever get special access or credentials to take photos?
Nick: All the staff at The Edge were really helpful and supportive. We never had any special passes or credentials as they weren't needed at this point. i think the Garys and the bands were just grateful somebody was there showing an interest and wanting to take photos.
Cam: What were some of the more interesting rooms you shot at? Locations that people mightn't even know as concert venues these days?
Nick: There is a shortlist of venues which only lasted a short while. The Exile On Main Street, 100 Bond Street, The Dash Bhagat Temple, The Beverley Tavern, The Cabana Room, Larry's Hideaway…all gone now. they were all good places to shoot bands as the audience was always right up close to the stage. The bigger venues like The Concert Hall, The Music Hall were always really full of course and made it more of a challenge to get some good images. Sometimes you struck gold and were allowed by the Promoters (usually the Garys) complete access to the stage and the band.
Cam: Switching gears to local bands, who were some of your favourite Toronto outfits of that era? Artists we may have heard of and artists, we may have not.
Nick: I loved Tyranna, Drastic Measures, the Points. I did like Teenage Head but thought they had become more of an established rock band by this time. You can only do so many gigs at the Knob Hill Hotel before you become tired and boring. Oooh controversy!!! The Secrets album, I thought was one of the best from this time. The, of course, there was a whole new generation of bands from 1980: Diners Club, Vital Sines, Breeding Ground, Rent Boys, Youth Youth Youth, Fifth Column; all incredibly exciting and FUN!
Cam: Breeding Ground were kinda dark, gloomy, goth-y when they started out, no? one band there's very little on the Internet about, from what i can see.
Nick Breeding Ground were very Bauhaus in the early days which yes, might have been a bit forced and self conscious. They matured really quickly though and evolved into a band that would have fit nicely between U2 and Love And Rockets…in 1985. The Canadian music business just kind of ignored them hoping they would go away. They should have come from somewhere else.
Cam: What were some of your early memories of Fifth Column? Certainly a band whose influence is still playing out today, directly or indirectly.
Nick: Fifth Column were a sparkling jab and a shot of brave boldness. I remember they threw everybody off the scent. They were punk but they weren't; they were different and odd. Their off-kilter beats and wayward way of playing their instruments really inspired a lot of us to try different things and bring a different attitude to what we were trying to do. Their presence was huge. Caroline Azar and GB Jones' Hide tapes sounded good then and sound even better now.
Cam: For the era you covered in the book, did bands like Teenage Head and the Diodes already seem like a different generation… that first wave of punk?
Nick: Those bands seemed to be over really as far as we were concerned. They got caught up in the major label machinery and were chewed up. We, of course, thought differently and thought we could do better.
Cam: Who was the most surprising "big band" you got access to?
Nick: Probably the Stranglers.
Cam: What kind of access did you have to the Stranglers? they seemed kinda… surly.
Nick: The Stranglers had a scary reputation and I had managed to get myself on the stage lurking behind Jet Black's drum kit. I was petrified that JJ would see me and beat the shit out of me. But I'm still here and the results of that night you can see in the book.
Cam: So between 1983 and the 2010 photo exhibit, what happened to these photos? Where were they stored, displayed, etc?
Nick: The photos sat around and gathered lots of dust for 30 years. Simon's son Rudy thought they would look great as huge posters in a gallery. The result was again, our Toronto Calling show at Steam Whistle Brewery in 2010.
Cam: Did you guys continue taking photos post-1983? And do you still to go shows today? What are you listening to these days?
Nick: We both continued to take photos just not of a lot of bands. All through the 1980s and 1990s, I went to loads of gigs and ended up working for Island records in the UK. I listen to everything as it's my job (I run my own PR company in London) but I find it's really tough to stay loyal to any one band as the competition for my attention is overwhelming. My fave current bands? Nadine Shah, Warpaint, Godspeed You Black Emperor…and I'm sure there's loads of other really good things but there's just not enough time in the day.
Visit the Alone and Gone website to make arrangements to get your own copy of the book.
Ignored 54: Do you like Blue Rodeo?In Uncategorized on March 12, 2015 at 12:53 am
I talk to my high school pal Adam about Blue Rodeo, Neil Young dying (again), Oasis (a few times), everything and nothing.
Cam: Morbid question: of any active living musician, who will you be the most upset for when they die?
Adam: Funny you ask, as I was commenting to a buddy that Van Morrison feels like the guy to go now that Joe Cocker is gone. That'll be sad. I love Van and fell in love to Astral Weeks. Paul, without question. Dylan, Simon, Bobby and Phil. Springsteen will outlive us all. It's hard to imagine the legends of rock passing. It's interesting for us to have grown up during the baby boomers 40s. We saw their second acts and revered their first. The 1960s, the British Invasion, the Summer of Love and then 1972. All these things were within the same recent memory as August and Everything After (or Nevermind) is to us now. So rock had always been around. George dying devastated me. So did Jerry dying.
C: Astral Weeks is fantastic. Consistently one of my Top 10 faves. Yeah, Van is pretty enigmatic, at least in terms of his public persona. Which he barely has if he's not touring. Neil Young dying is going to be brutal. That seems like it could be very personal to Canadians in our demo: an artist that we loved, our parents loved, a Canadian, somebody who was equally at home jamming with Booker T and the MGs, the Band or Sonic Youth. A total legend: both "Neil Young: the performer" and "Neil Young: the concept". It's crazy Jerry was only 53 when he died. Considering McCartney, Brian Wilson, etc. are now in their 70s.
A: Forgot Neil. Yes. Harvest for our parents. Harvest Moon for us. BTW, that Barrie concert had nobody I wanted to see. On the plus side, the thing at Fort York looks super awesome.
C: Ya, I wouldn't mind seeing Kendrick Lamar, Danny Brown and I guess Modest Mouse but nothing grabs me. it's a very contemporary line-up so I kinda give them credit for not copping out and having AC/DC headline, a la Coachella. i think we discussed it before… i find these massive outdoor concerts are more akin to "camping" than "music event"…. the bands seem almost secondary to the experience. Do you like Blue Rodeo?
A: "Lost Together" was our wedding song, and I saw them at the big Simon & Garfunkel l show at the SkyDome back in…94? Also saw them once at the Gardens, I think. 5 Days in June was a tremendous album to hit for us at that age. It was everywhere at camp, and "5 Days in May" had a fantastic video that felt a lot like "Lovers in a Dangerous Time". That is my favorite Toronto 1990s thing ever, my favorite BNL song, one of the greatest covers of all-time, and a video about youthful love. Holding hands and running away from the camera in black and white still makes me feel 18. "Diamond Mine" is also a great song too. They hit such a creative peak back then that they got to coast on being Blue Rodeo after that. Everything sounds the same, but I've got no gripe with them, just not any interest for anything past their greatest hits, which I like a lot. Sometimes, I love it.
C: Ya, from 1988-1993, they were in a rare place: massively popular/stadium worthy but making music that was pretty innovative and seemed very contemporary even though in other ways, it was very old. At that time, comparisons to the Band seemed farfetched but maybe not that far off? Again, it's crazy that a song like "5 Days in May" was something that little kids listened to and enjoyed and watched the video for on MuchMusic. For anybody who loved them in that 1988-1993, they still seem like superstars even if they've been on commercial autopilot for the last 20 years (assumedly… I haven't really been paying attention although I saw them at the Amphitheatre 2-3 times during that stretch). It seems they could've been marketed differently and been a positioned in the Wilco/Son Volt/Whiskeytown ilk or gone ina slightly different direction and been in the Widespread Panic/String Cheese conversation? Instead, they were kind of just a notch below the Tragically Hip commercially.
A: Heard some stuff off their last album that was good. Or was that Cuddy? Have been rewatching The Last Waltz on the topic of the Band. Wondered about best or biggest bands with multiple singers. Ricky, Richard, Levon. How cool it is when the song goes to the guy who sings it best?
C: I guess the Beatles introduced the "multiple singers" model? Hate to say… I automatically think of the Eagles and afro-era Don Henley behind the kit. In more recent times, I think Sloan really nailed this model. Maybe part of the reason they're now a quarter century in. Another band where I haven't paid attention to the last 4-5 albums but I have little doubt of their continued quality.
A: I thought about it with the Eagles too as I was reading the Simmons eagles history recap in the Grantland quarterly. Obviously the Beatles. I met the bass player from Sloan, the one I recognize, and asked him about the baseline on "Money City Maniacs" being the same chord trough the entire verse until the chorus. Like "Tomorrow Never Knows"! He was appreciative. We were with our kids at Centreville on the island.
C: Good call. I still get a bit starstruck when I see musicians in public. It's very humanizing. Some recent sightings: Damian from Fucked Up with his kids at the ROM, Ron Sexsmith walking down College, Stephen from Lowest on the Low on the subway a bunch of times. The thing that I find funny about the Eagles in retrospect: they were essentially devoid of any humour or fun. That was a VERY serious band.
A: Very serious band. I liked the Eagles. At least their greatest hits. Just learned "Hotel California" on the ukulele. So much fun to play and sing/scat the dueling guitar solo.
C: I like the Eagles too. I think the "seriousness" was a 1970s thing. It's when whoever decided that rock music wasn't just for kids anymore. It was OK for 45 year-olds to listen to the Eagles, James Taylor et all. These were seriously artists who (apparently) had something to say. I like the Carly Simon song "Anticipation". Here's a good question: who are the most tense bands of all-times? Artists where the acrimony on-stage was really obvious. I'd say (at times) the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac and the Pixies all belonged in the top three. I feel like I've seen some Van Morrison performance where he seems like he'd rather be anywhere else than on-stage.
A: Carly was great. And the cover of that album? Man. That is a good question. Knee jerk answers. In no particular order: the Beatles in that picture with Yoko there. The Beatles in that scene filming Let It Be when George says (do your best George), "Tell me what you want me to play and I'll play it". Oasis. The Eagles. The Wonders, from that Tom Hanks movie.
C: Oasis. Yes, good one! I think the Kinks used to brawl on-stage too. So there's that…. I could be imagining it but I feel like the last 3-4 years, there's been a certain demo that is yearning for Oasis and they truly are cementing themselves as one of the most beloved bands of the last 25 years. I think people took them for granted a bit. I was in Scotland last summer and this really hit home when I saw a rowdy bunch of 20-somethings collectively slurring their way through a karaoke version of "Wonderwall". I don't think it's even that great a song but it somehow has infiltrated multiple generations. People LOVE it. Although maybe just in that setting, since it does lend itself well to karaoke (not many lyrics, fairly short, everybody has heard it 10,000 times).
A: I think "Wonderwall" is one of the greatest pop songs of all-time. Certainly of the decade. I had this experience last summer when I was five weeks into working seven days a week and I was burning out. I was walking, exhausted through a Loblaws in the west end. "Wonderwall" comes on. I start singing to myself. It gets to the chorus and after singing, "You gonna be the one that saves me". I burst into tears and say aloud, "That's not a good sign". The point I turn to as a mild breakdown last summer. I love that song. "1979" came out at the same time. Great song, too. The sound on the Morning Glory album is bollocks. What would Liam say? I also love watching Noel sing "Don't Look Back in Anger". Perfect song for his voice. At the time, I thought some of their stuff was totally and completely derivative of the Beatles (see "All Around the World", "… Anger" opening chords, every Beatles reference etc). Noel just gave an interview that Alan Cross linked to. I still do Oasis binges through seven songs. I was way too into the Dead's Mars Hotel (and DMB) at the time to be into Oasis.
C: "1979" is indeed great and a really strange, unique single. Nothing really like it and certainly very dissimilar to anything in the Pumpkins discography. It's probably hard to quantify but why do you like "Wonderwall" so much? What is the broad appeal? I think it's totally fine but a bit boring and the vocals are slightly nasally, even by Oasis standards. I do like "Don't Look Back in Anger". Just the huge production values and drama of it. Very out of step with 1995 or whenever that came out. I always admired Oasis' ambition, even when the quality of songs didn't really match up. Plus Noel is probably Top 3 best musician interviews ever. I could listen to that guy talk for hours. Zero filter when he's in the right mood.
A: I like the chords. I like the guitar intro. I kinda like it nasally on that one. I love the way the drums come in after "back beat the word is on the street". I love the baseline. I love the stings beefing up the baseline in the chorus. love the chorus. Maybe the right time of my life at 18. Probably feels like a Beatles song. A piece of magic. It's also one of those songs perfect to sing alone to. Words you'll just know by heart. Oh, also I love "Live Forever". Learned how to play it on the uke. Great fun.
C: Yup, fucking love that song too! Never acknowledged your BNL "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" comment but seriously, that might be my favourite cover version of all-time. As a 14-year old kid growing up on the Toronto city limits, that video perfectly captured the banality, boredom and humour of suburban Toronto perfectly. Such a tasteful, pitch-perfect performance for a band that was really young and unestablished at the time. I think too many people write them off as a joke band but at their finest, there was a lot to like with BNL. I really like the song "Jane" as well from their "difficult" second album.
A: I remember hearing million dollars in the big A&A on Yonge Street with Marc and us laughing about the real green dress that's cruel. The era of that tape. Good call on why the video is so pitch perfect. The apartment looks just like my late grandmothers at York Mills and Leslie, but wasn't. And the power lines reminded me of the ones down by Finch. Which they were just in Scarborough. It definitely captured suburban Toronto. Though their neighborhood was postwar bungalows. I saw Paige in withrow once.
C: His coke bust is still likely in my Top 5 pieces of most shocking pieces of "music news" that I've ever heard. I don't really know anything about those guys personally but that ordeal no doubt blindsided a lot of casual fans. In summary, drugs are horrible. It is telling that while Nirvana and Pearl Jam were blowing up stateside, Canada's hottest new "modern rock" bands were the Barenaked Ladies and the Crash Test Dummies. The Odds were really solid as well. Supposedly there was a piece on CNN around that time that suggested that Canadian was in the midst of a "silly rock" revolution during that era, throwing names like Corky and the Juice Pigs and (for some reason) the Rheostatics into the mix.I could totally be imagining that last part but I think I read that somewhere.
A: Interesting. And that (Steven Page's) life blew up and the band broke up. That still doesn't register for me.
C: I love the song "Try" by Blue Rodeo so much. Such an incredibly self-assured song from a debut album. Not an easy feat to pull off.
A: Oh man. Yes.
Ignored 30: SwervesIn Uncategorized on March 17, 2014 at 2:10 pm
The latest chapter in my on-going dialogue with @dradam. We use a Rolling Stone article about Bob Dylan in the 1980s as basis for a discussion of what happens when artists reach middle age. Also discussed: Geddy Lee driving around North York and Thornhill.
Cam: You read this? http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/humbled-in-the-eighties-jonathan-lethem-defends-dylans-lost-decade-20140314
Adam: Reading now
Adam: Interesting. there are a few highlight songs for sure, but it's the Wilburys and Oh Mercy where he starts "amazingness" again.
Cam: It seemed like Neil Young and Elvis Costello (and maybe Tom Petty?) had a similar trajectory. Kinda hit-or-miss for the decade before ending the 1980s strong with Freedom, Spike and Full Moon Fever, respectively. At least from a dual critical/commercial sense. Although Spike may be a piece of (junk) in hindsight. Never heard it.
Adam: I've often thought about certain artist's awkward years between their zenith or creative peak, and the time when they hopefully get to tour into perpetuity milking their catalogue, playing classic albums in their entirety, and letting their fans pass them onto the next generation of fans. But while Springsteen appears to be the golden god (or "Boss", to be more accurate) at this point, he too went through a kind of awkward phase in the early 1990s when he disbanded the E Street Band, released two albums at once (when one would really have sufficed) and floated around with a moustache and goatee. He was doing songs for Jerry Mcgwaire (sic) and teasing the would be E Street Reunion with "Murder Incorporated". But whenever I see any footage from Springsteen plugged, I can't help but cringe (not just because he's got a non-Clarence on the horn). Tunnel of Love followed BITUSA and was already Bruce trying to move away from what everyone seemed to want him to be. While at the time Tunnel was unfairly maligned for not eclipsing the incredible success and six singles from the previous album. The thing here is that Bruce was in control. he needed the break and took it. Then, cue the reunion tour and suddenly sparks are flying on E Street again. Elton John seemed to avoid this awkwardness though I'd argue there was a weird patch in the very late 1980s/early 1990s. While his star power and The Lion King vaulted him again, his album The One always seemed to me to be the ugly duckling (read: it sucked). It wasn't 'til Songs from the West Coast that he put out an album again that was worth listening to, and that one certainly was. As one of those icons, his quality never really fell off completely despite the mountains of coke he was doing and most of Too Low for Zero. Yet his flat hat phase produced "I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues" and "I'm Still Standing" (though he apparently has no recollection of filming the latter video). Billy Joel didn't hit his awkward gap till after River of Dreams I guess, and then just stopped creating new music. But he first hit in the 1970s, so the 1980s were still his latter wheelhouse. Same with Bruce. and Elton too. But look at the Band. they were THE Band. The biggest thing around, cresting, arguably with The Last Waltz. Then, Robbie broke up the Band (guess you only get one chance in life to play a song that goes like…but I digress), and they limped along through the 1980s doing non-Robbie tours, and dealing with their own demons (Rickie and Richard specifically, who didn't make it out). I thought a lot about that during Levon's victory lap at the end of his life. You go from superstar, to no longer hip enough for the kids you were playing to who got married and had kids and didn't have time to devote themselves to your music anymore. If you were versatile, you bided your time to your next album. If you were a "one trick pony", not so much. For some of the rock icons, their dry spell was short. Paul Simon's Hearts and Bones was his first commercial flop. Then, he hit his jackpot with Graceland. Important to remember that these guys did not all start out at the same time. Bob, then Simon & Garfunkel came up in the folk boom of the early-to-mid 1960s. Paul Simon hit his solo success during the 1970s, had one bust, then had the huge comeback of Graceland and Rhythm of the Saints. Dylan had his first comeback in the 1970s with Blood on the Tracks, I believe. He'd already long changed his early image and after his bike accident, he became reclusive. Then, he hit big again with Blood and Desire and then toured with the Band. So Dylan's 1980s, which started in 1979 with Slow Train and then Infidels, was a transition time for Bob. He also lost his direction, I think, and (maybe) was into drugs in the early 1980s, as most were. The problem with those albums is that they feel lazy. There's not much on Empire Burlesque or Shot of Love or Knocked Out Loaded that I can even recall. Then, he gets with Lanois and makes his comeback on Oh Mercy before shitting out Under the Red Sky and Good As I Been to You. Both forgettable. That takes him to the early 1990s. He has his pericarditis scare and comes back for his encore with Time Out of Mind and his whole new career begins again. It's quite amazing really. I think we all need to wander in the wilderness at some point and I can't imagine it's different with artists. Back to Levon: it made me sad to think that while he got to do those rambles and be everyone's loveable musician grandfather, Richard Manuel and Ricky Danko couldn't have toughed it out. They went from rock gods to playing in clubs. That must be hard to deal with. The 1980s sucked until the people who grew up in the 1980s hit their 30s and then felt nostalgic. Same with the 1990s and beyond. "Golden oldies" referred to the initial rock-and-roll pioneers by the 1960s. Nobody cared for a while until you see all these reunion videos from the early 1980s. The Everly Brothers at Royal Albert Hall for one. 1983 seemed like that awkward phase for the Grateful Dead. Not 1977-1980 anymore, not yet the big comeback of the "stadium Dead" and the "Touch of Grey" momentum or Jerry's coma. Also, that's when Jerry was sliding down the Persian heroin dragon slide and the music isn't what it was from the height of a few years earlier. In short, different acts hit that awkward phase for different reasons. Nobody can be amazing all the time and your fans are fickle. Just ask U2 how long it took them to get back the fans after Pop.
Cam: These… these are thoughts!
Cam: Bruce… Tunnel of Love was definitely maligned at the time. Ostensibly, it flopped. However, what could he have done to commercially to follow-up Born in the USA? There was really nowhere to go but down. It was his break-up album but I dunno…. "Brilliant Disguise" stands up pretty well, "Tunnel of Love" is a good song caked in 1980s production, "One Step Up" is still a bummer. Not a bad album by any stretch. I think his true WTF was "Streets of Philadelphia" which isn't a bad song per se but also, it's a clear attempt to stay current. Y'know, brooding over (ahem) "hip-hop beats".
Cam: Elton… I think he kind of avoided (an awkward phase) because his descent (ascent?) into pure adult contempo was pretty gradual through the late 1970s. I think he kinda of got a pass because there weren't huge expectations on him, even based on his prime 1970s output. He was glammy but he'd never be Bowie. He did the singer/songwriter thing but he wasn't Lennon or even Paul Simon. He was just consistently massive and nobody really gave a (darn). At least amongst snobs? So he starts doing songs for Disney cartoons… nobody really cared. From what I can tell, Elton purists aren't very vocal or defensive.
Cam: Billy Joel… Similar arch to Elton although I think he tried to convey the "serious artist" card more (i.e. lots of press shots where he looked sad or contemplative). Therefore, crap like "We Didn't Start the Fire" and "River of Dreams" seem laughably corny in retrospect (and at the time). It was never cool to like Billy Joel but I think even non-Billy Joel fans held him to a higher standard (artistically) than Elton John. He never dressed up like Donald Duck and played Dodger Stadium in a sequent baseball uniform. But Billy did have massive cornball moments in the early 1980s (i.e. the video for "Uptown Girl") that somehow seemed less disposable than Elton John's efforts of that era, even though the songs were probably worse. Give me "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" any day. Chuck Klosterman wrote a good essay on Billy Joel that talks about his positioning in rock music lore (or lack thereof). Companion piece.
Cam: The Band… Do big fans even consider their 1980s albums "real" Band efforts? I know zero about these, aside from the fact there is (I think) an angry cartoon pig on one of the covers. As a pretty casual fan, I can't really imagine Rick Danko even existing post-Waltz. I do remember Levon getting trotted out at Bonnaroo and elsewhere in his final years but sadly, in a "holy shit, that guy's still alive" fashion. And all the while, Robbie tried to shoehorn himself into the video era. You do realize from maybe 1984 to 1988, Robbie Robertson and Lou Reed were kind of running parallel in their efforts to fit into the MTV era? And now both seem MASSIVELY dated output-wise in the process. All that stuff… I'm kinda just talking out of my ass because I really don't have a full sense of how these guys were received by fans/non-fans at the time. I was a toddler while this was going down As the first CompletelyIgnored.com essay points out (and the entire MO for the blog really), unless you literally lived through this stuff, it's tougher to piece together the true arch from an ascent/descent perspective and have it resonate in a truly authentic (and less theoretical) fashion. To your point, these cycle repeat and always will with any artist that has legs career-wise. A few more recent examples of the "awkward phase"… Sonic Youth (Dirty… which I maintain is still a really solid album), Dinosaur Jr (Where You Been…. very similar quality- and sonic-wise to the previous two… kind of a "three strikes, you're out" jag for those who were still pining for another version of Bug), Mogwai (Rock Action… way shorter and less epic than previous efforts… Happy Music for Happy People might be my overall favourite but really, they just don't make bad albums ever…. they're never mind-blowingly amazing but they're always good/very good)
Cam: I think the best modern parallel to the original "Dylan in the 1980s" theme is Beck. His first two widely-available albums (Mellow Gold and Odelay) were completely locked-in to a mid-1990s aesthetics, as much as Dylan was with his 1960s output (assumedly). Beck kinda retreated and messed around for a bit to close out the 1990s (Mutations) and then unloaded his real divisive moment (Midnight Vultures) maybe six years into his career. Everything since has been reasonably well-received and from the reviews I've read about his new album Morning Phase (which is great), they feel eerily similar to whatever was written about Neil's Freedom or maybe Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind. In short, if you can last deep into a career and keep a reasonable amount of acclaim, your latter day output will definitely be graded on a curve. And in fairness, if you can keep people's interest 10 or 15 or 25 albums in, that is SERIOUSLY impressive. Here is a related question: is it even fathomable that a current artist could stay relevant for 50 years like Dylan, Neil, Leonard Cohen have? It's almost like talking about another pitcher winning 300 games and how unlikely that seems. Clayton Kershaw is arguably the most impressive (stuff-wise) lefthanded pitcher since Randy Johnson. He just turned 26 and he ONLY has 77 wins. And yet two Cy Youngs! Beck seems like a candidate and he's got a good pace going now 20 years in. But could he seriously keep making well received albums for the next 30 years?!? Until 2044?!? Again, I can't even wrap my head around the possibility. In the pop realm, this is even more unlikely. Sadly, I just watched the video of Lady GaGa getting barfed on by a dancer at SXSW. This is one of the biggest pop stars in the world and she's resorting to little stunts like this that are clearly geared towards the YouTube crowd. One would think (hope?) that Madonna or Michael Jackson would never have stooped to this level of attention grabbing… and they were/are massive ego-maniacs!
Adam: Where to begin. "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" is one of my favorite songs of all-time. I love the song to death, I love the video, it makes me emotional that song. Must be something about the chord progression combined with tremendous lyrics ("…laughing like children / living like lovers / rolling like thunder / under the covers") and "… I simply love you more than I love life itself". In WWII era England? Kills me every time. Also on my short list are "Amoreena", "Bad Side of the Moon (live from 10-11-70)" then wonderfully covered and made famous by April Wine. Talk about an under appreciated band! Most of Madman Across the Water kills. "Holiday Inn" is a great road song that should've been in Almost Famous. There's also a great live version of "Daniel" with a nice pulsing piano and a really nice energy that is better live than the flute-y feel of the studio track. I've got a soft spot for "Nikita" too. Too much music! I forgot about "Streets of Philadelphia". I heard that during the commercial break before the Oscars performance of that tune, someone called out "Rosalita"! I love Tunnel of Love. Same time as Nothing Like the Sun by Sting. I'd call Desert Rose his awkward phase but he weathered the storm. I love the sound of Tunnel of Love. Very 1980s in a good way. "One Step Up" had a great lyric: "… check the furnace / she wasn't burnin'". "Brilliant Disguise" is the song I'd hold a sign up for at a Springsteen show if I didn't hate doing that. Held a "Jungleland" sign at the (Sky)Dome first row when he came by but he wasn't playing it that night. The video for it is directed by Jonanthan Demme (I think) and is a live performance on a long, slow zoom in shot in black-and-white. "Tougher Than the Rest" has a kick-ass harp solo to finish it out. Kind of like the piano outro on "Racing in the Street". I judge Bruce's awkward years by his facial hair. You know what I mean?
Adam: Also, thought I'd mention that I introduced the kids to "We Didn't Start the Fire" this week and they loved it. I actually remember hearing it for the first time on a Sunday night "new music" spot on CHUM-FM, I think. Grade 7. They played the verse that starts "… Buddy Holly / Ben Hur / space monkey mafia". They also played a part from Jive Bunny and the Mastermixer's "Swing the Mood". I purchased cassette singles of both I believe, though I had the storefront CD I think. "Swing the Mood" is just essentially this: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Hooked On Classics Parts 1. Which although is nostalgic to hear, not nearly as perpetually listenable as this: Walter Murphy – A Fifth Of Beethoven [HQ]
Cam: Here we go… I totally forgot about "Tell Her About It". A total craptastic piece of 1980s cheese and something that reminds me for 98.1 CHFI and accordingly, sitting in a dentist office. I hadn't really thought about him trying to update doo wop (or thought about him much at all) but that totally is him trying to bring the Frankie Valli approach into the 1980s. I guess the modern equivalent might be…. parts of Bruno Mars? It does seem like a bit of a swerve considering he was positioned as "singer/songwriter" before and then shifted to a modified "song-and-dance man". Amazingly in retrospect, he got his most early traction on "modern" MTV by aping a style of music that was more than 20 years old at the time. Having Christie Brinkley mincing about in there no doubt helped. I actually kind of like "Allentown" although it seems a bit too jovial for an "issues" song. Songs about labour that don't sound like Pete Seeger or Billy Bragg are often weird/clunky but BJ pulls no punches considering how the song starts: "… well, we're living here in Allentown / and they're closing all the factories down". I like the Wikipedia page talks about the then-mayor's reaction to the tune. It seems a bit invasive considering he didn't grow up in Pennsylvania but is more coherent (rightly or wrongly) than the Rheostatics' "Horses" and more sympathetic (though less awesome) than Rush's "Working Man". "Allentown" totally sounds like BJ trying to write a Randy Newman song, right? File under "what would Randy Newman do". Complete WTF on the video. Considering the song is supposedly about the plight of the working class, the clip is massively campy and really inconsistent with the tone of the song. I guess the TV show Fame was big in-and-around the time of that song? It's like a musical theatre version of what working in a factory would be like with BJ dressed like a slightly more handsome Emmett Kelly.
Cam: "A Fifth of Beethoven" is a textbook novelty song but could it be argued that this was the first mash-up? Is Girl Talk an "evolutionary Walter Murphy" as our friend Bill Simmons would say? This perhaps rivals Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock" as the most unlikely merging of the era that somehow works. I'd love for somebody to write a definitive piece (maybe they already have) on electronic music from, I dunno, 1974-1982 but not delineate between disco, Kraurock, early hip-hop, Top 40, Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, music for video games, etc. It's sad hope deeply music gets segmented. I know next-to-nothing about disco but I think it's always been unfairly pushed to the margins (in a critical sense) and never really given its just due on how much it impacted Top 40 in the 1980s and beyond. There is a really solid BBC documentary on Nile Rogers that is worth a look. He's obviously not even an electronic artist per se but I think it does a really nice job of fixating on delving into the genesis of Chic and showing how his POV morphed through his work with David Bowie, Duran Duran, INXS, Madonna. Obviously, he's getting a broad revisit/rediscovery because of his work with Daft Punk. I like his "it's all just music; deal with it" approach. His set at Glastonbury 2013 is really awesome too–it's almost like something you'd see on a cruise ship and completely unironic, sincere and celebratory. I'm curious that you put Eddie Vedder on your "built to last" list with Beck and Jeff Tweedy. I think Pearl Jam is completely fine but for yourself, for somebody who never "did" grunge", was there a moment when you came around on PJ or EV specifically? I kinda feel like Snoop Dogg is going to be on that list too. Hip-hop is too young to even begin to speculate but "Big Snoop" has had incredible lasting power. I've always thought there are only two musicians who'd be equally at home on Sesame Street and in a pornographic film: Snoop and Gene Simmons. There's gotta be some cache there.
Adam: We're all in hyper-focused niches of consuming what we already like. I'm amused through-out these discussions about how you'll start talking about vitally essential "alt-rock" artists and I'm thinking "Oh, I think I've heard that name once". There is clearly a lot of crossover of mainstream stuff but our divergent tastes (and the obsessive way we get into those things) is cool. It's why I like the Sam Dunn movies Global Metal and Metal: A Headbanger's Journey despite not liking metal on any level and it sounding like noise. I dig that there are tribes who come together loving it, dress in their outfits (their black is my "carefully selected, just the right amount of cool" Dead shirt). and they're as happy as they could be in their music, moving their bodies, along with 30,000 others. Just as Trading Places once taught us, there is a place for both nature AND nurture (I mean, look how quickly Valentine figured out the pork bellies market). Certain frequencies of music just sound good to me. Why? Definitely what I was raised on but I never liked the hard Pearl Jam or Blues Traveler stuff (and not for lack of exposure or trying). I like the part in the Rush movie where Trey Parker (or Matt- the curly haired one) is talking about how you pick who you like in high school: "Well, this is the smart band and I fancy myself a smart kid. This is what I'm about". The hippie thing just felt right for me. It still does.
Cam: Did you see the The Story of Anvil? Both that and the Rush doc are great in that "you don't even have to like the music" kind of way. More importantly, it's pretty cool to see the roots of those bands in North York, very close to our beloved Thornhill. Those guys and their families really remind me of a lot of people I knew growing up. Plus it was pretty sweet to see Geddy Lee drive past that plaza where Newtonbrook Bowlerama is located in the back of a Lincoln.
Adam: I loved (the Rush doc). My fifth grade teacher was his first cousin. Everyone had a Geddy story. I sat behind him at a Leafs' game once. His kids played ball at Bishop's Cross. Jordan sat next to him once and kept talking about "Xanadu", trying I get his attention. They were going into Pancer's Deli in the movie. I had the good pleasure of bumping into Sam Dunn at the airport a few years back as I was listening to "Far Cry", one of the few later-era Rush songs on my iPod because it was the song through the final credits of the doc. So I'm sitting listening to the song from the movie and this long-haired guy walks past me. I "nerded" out a little on him. Gushed over both movies and how cool I thought it was that I didn't get the music but I got the experience of the music. He was very nice. Talked about on-going projects with Iron Maiden and Alice Cooper. Asked him how cool it just be to be working for your heros. He was in the affirmative.


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Mimi's father has died unexpectedly, leaving Mimi and her mother to cope with their antique bric-a-brac shop by themselves. The book opens on the day of the funeral and Mimi has a terrible bout of the flu. This was really a remarkable way to deal with such a desperately sad situation; Mimi floats in and out of reality, fever burning, and is cared for by her imaginary friend, Ableth the blue pirate slave. It made her grief and confusion so easy to understand.
'These are the last moments of my father, I told Ableth.
Pardon me, my queen of the blue, but they aren't, he said. You've got him in your head and heart and always will.'
Mimi and her mum aren't totally by themselves – there are the slightly mad aunties Ann and Marita who try their best at advice and consolation, enigmatic people from the antiques-buying world and Fergus the boy from the fruit and veg shop who are there in the background for when the seas are rough – and they do get a bit rough.
I love that Bateson acknowledges that things like having skinny jeans like everybody else are still important to young people, even when they are grieving. Mimi is a lovely, sweet and mature character who loves all things piratical and who reminded me of Martine Murray's Cedar B Hartley with her quirky thoughts. The old antique shop took on qualities of a pirate ship and Mimi, her mum, Ableth and the rest of the gang bucketed and swayed and splashed through their troubles - until hopefully reaching the calm after the storm.
Girls (mostly girls, though some boys may enjoy this book too) from eight or nine years of age will very much enjoy this book and though it is sad, it would be great to read aloud as a family.

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What is a book contract?
A book contract is the legally binding agreement between an author and their book publisher, which goes into minute detail about who owns the rights to what, highlighting what is expected from both parties during and after the book production, whilst mentioning how much money the author will receive in royalties.
What should a book publishing contract include?
- The physical aspects of the books development, this should include information on any editing which may be required, the formatting and layout of the book, whether any aspects should be tweaked by the author to improve the quality of the piece, as well as delivery dates of when the author's manuscript is scheduled to be delivered.
- Issues regarding the assignment of the authors copyright along with outlining the publisher's rights to publish the book and how it is to be distributed into the book market.
- The financial aspects need to be discussed, including the amount of royalties the author will receive from the sale of books and a breakdown of the cost of everything involved in the production of the book. The breakdown should include: how much it is for printing, the cost of editing/proofreading, the fee for marketing the book and go into detail about what kind of marketing plan there is for the book.
All of these aspects may seem like they are things that your publisher handles, but as the author you have every right to know the process your book is going to undertake, the legal aspects and more crucially what your rights are. In any sort of relationship trust is key, so when you are looking for a publishing company who can help you with your book production, find out who they are and make sure that this publisher is the right one for you. Why not do a little research before you contact them, check out their website, check out their reviews on Amazon and take a look at what other sort of publications they have dealt with in the past.
Recently more stories have emerged regarding publishers who say they can help you publish your book: you are given a contract to sign and then you pay the amount specified for the production of the book, once this is complete you are unable to contact them or find out where they have moved to, or determine how many copies or your book they have sold, and you have no idea what to do or what your rights are. So, please take your time, research all the possibilities and make sure you know your rights, because even though it may take a little while you will eventually find your perfect publisher.


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Space Art Drawing & Art was established in 1999 with aims to provide a suitable learning environment, building dedicated educators and providing opportunities for people of different ages including children, teenagers and even adults to be exposed to this world of creativity, imagination and pleasure called, art.
In our centre, the instructor to conduct observation on learners' level of learning and their improvement. Quality control is a vital point in art in which both art instructors and learners must go through in order to maintain the standard of art skills and protecting intellectual talent. In fact, we emphasize that teaching and learning are essential to each other as they interact and providing effective feedbacks to each other for the betterment of art.
1999年创办了"红豆宇。教育。艺术。文化。企业", 以提供舒适的的美术环境, 专业水准的教师, 和开办适合不同年龄的美术课程为宗旨。在我们学院, 我们有美术老师会根据学生的美术程度来教导课程。 我们除了让学生学习到画画的基础, 我们也会让学生自由发挥他们的创意, 以天马行空的方式,以达到左右脑分析事物, 全脑并用的功能。


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Creating Purposeful Campus Culture with Keynotes for Student Orientation, Conferences, and Leadership Events.
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Teachers and students were asking me where I found him and that he was one of the best speakers we had at the school this year! One of the best parts for me was to look out into the crowd and feel the smiles and positive energy that was growing throughout the room!Priya Mystry
Juan Bendana has been considered the most engaging & energetic youth motivational speaker in Canada. He is an award-winning presenter who is incredibly entertaining, hilarious and creates real results in the lives of the people he works with. As a result, he has spoken to thousands of youth and adult audiences with a message of Leadership, Overcoming Challenges, & Confidence. Juan speaks across Canada and the United States helping people realize that anyone can make an impact. He started his first company at Age 19 and became a Best-Selling author at 21. He is also a snowboard instructor, sushi addict, and can also recite every word of the Lion King.
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Have you ever noticed how some people almost literally wish their lives away, complain and grumble about their days, yet never seem to do anything about them?
How about times when you see a really gutted person who was down in the rut only to emerge a better and more improved person the next time you hear about them?
For a long time, I was pretty comfortable in my life. I was pretty much living a sheltered life, well-fed and cared for by my parents whose only wish was for me to finish my education. I did, and I did pretty well in school as well.
Yet, when I came out to the working society, the game changed.
What worked in school did not apply at work and the culture surrounding it. Studying hard and being hard-working does not really mean much, nor do we get school holidays like before. Deadlines and tasks were a given yet, promotions depended on our superiors.
I was comfortable yet in a way, discontented with what I have and had achieved all along. I had no direction in life.
My only thought when I finished school was to get a job that pay well so I could live on my own income and not have my parents send me any more of their hard earned money.
I found a job, stayed for two years, got promoted but had no real responsibilities still, learned something about management, learned to deal with clients a little yet massively scared of them. Then I went on to learn about management and took up a different role, learned that I was getting no promotion after four years and decided that was it. All the efforts I've put in to my schooling, diploma and degree just so that I could get better career, and ended up being told that I was too ambitious?
I was not spending more waiting and wasting my time there.
And THAT was the Game Changer for me.
Waiting For Change?
Have you ever noticed how some people would almost literally wish their lives away, complain and grumble about their days, yet never seem to do anything about them? How about times when you see a really gutted person who was down in the rut only to emerge a better person the next time you hear about them?
Many times, the only Big Change happen when we decide that was the last straw, that we want to change and be better because we are tired of all the constant unhappiness, boredom and discontentment gnawing at us.
Somehow we know we want to live better and achieve more, but we don't really how or what to do.
Or Be the Change Yourself?
So I took it step by step. I read up a lot and followed a number of successful people. I learned about their lives and their stories. I looked out for inspirational persons around me.
One of them is my mother. She is always thinking of ways to improve our lives, she had little education but she is a confident and bold businesswoman who never fear a challenge.
I get my motivation from my own achievements, like a fuel that burns itself. For instance, once I made a milestone or finished a project, I would congratulate myself and give myself a break or time off (Travel!), and come back for more!
Once I got down to business, decided that I had enough of my past life, I then made a list of goals, mapped out where I see myself in ten years and just did it anyway.
And, change began to happen FOR me. I have gained so much more today even though this past ten years have just been a learning experience for me.
Can you imagine this happening to your life?
Lifestyle (A)
You wake up tired and late because you have slept late last night, wash up and rushed out of the house without having breakfast, get caught in jam and already your day felt like a bad one. Then, you head to the little space of square or rectangular cube where you spend the next 8 – 10 hours in front of the screen. You gossip about the latest in pantry. You knock off not knowing what you have completed, and have dinner outside, shopped, went home late and decided to take a brief shower. Then, you head to bed after midnight, or perhaps indulge in a few hours of social media scrolling. Rinse and repeat the next day for the next ten years. That's on weekdays.On weekends, or rather Friday nights, you get ready for a night of booze and party. Spent Saturday curing your hangover and felt like your weekend has just started on Sunday only to realise that you have to get back to work the next day!
Is this kind of life you want? Or would you prefer the lifestyle below?
Lifestyle (B)
Waking up before the alarm, head on to shower and get ready with ample time to grab a toast and milk. Sit for five minutes to enjoy the silence before you head out and because you left home early, you avoided the traffic jam and arrived the office earlier than the rest. As you settle down, you make yourself a coffee and plan your day ahead. As the day started getting busier, you would have already completed part of your to-do list when others were just coming in. You take a five minutes break and enjoy your lunch time away from the desk. You knock off on time and head home for your routine hour long workout, then you enjoy your dinner with your family and do something you love for the next few hours to wind down before you turn in for the day. On weekends, you spend your morning waking early, spend some time in silence with yourself and make time to catch up with your friends over brunch and get outdoors for some active lifestyle, do what you love and want to try out, and spend Sunday reviewing and preparing your plan for the next week.


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Title of Bulletin Board: Family Fitness Calendar
Category: Fitness
Suggested Grade Level: 1-8
Materials: Google images, Microsoft Publisher, folder
I decided to make family fitness calendars to help bring fitness into the New Year. Each day has a new task. For example: Turn the radio on and dance for 10 minutes. Students put an �X� through the day they completed. Weekends are makeup days. Parents/caregivers sign the calendar and the student returns it at the end of the month. I make it a fun class vs. class competition. I also ask questions on the back of the calendar. For example: What was your favorite activity/exercise?
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1864 launches an epic premiere in Denmark
13th October 2014
The incendiary new Danish show 1864, which dramatises the Second Schleswig War between the Kingdom of Denmark and the German Confederation, celebrated an outstanding 1.7 million viewers for its premiere that aired on the leading Danish public broadcasting channel DR1.
The brand new war series boasts a strong cast with faces from the political drama Borgen Søren Malling, Pilou Asbæk, Sidse Babett Knudsen, in addition to up-and-coming Norwegian star Jakob Oftebro (Kon-Tiki, Max Manusand Victoria). 1864 is written and directed by international filmmaker Ole Bornedal, who is known for his original Danish horror thriller Nightwatch (1994) and has made an impact with English-language audiences for the shot-for-shot Hollywood remake of Nightwatch in 1998, as well as the supernatural chiller Possession (2012).
In 1864, Bornedal goes back to his roots to present a love triangle: brothers Laust and Peter fall in love with Inge at the centre of a chaotic and tempestuous period in Nordic history as they volunteer to fight and serve their country
Producers Peter Bose and Jonas Allen from Miso Films, behind Those Who Kill, Dicte and Varg Veum, share their passion for the new televisual treat by saying: "1864 is a magnificent piece of Danish history, art and craftsmanship. Producing this epic drama has been challenging and mind blowing, and we are extremely proud that so many viewers have embraced the series."
The production value for the show is exemplified by its high budget of €23 million; the most expensive Danish programme to be commissioned, so it is no wonder that the Svensk Filmindustri has hailed 1864 as the "outstanding TV premiere in Denmark." However, with the positive audience figures who tuned in for the first episode and international broadcasters such as the BBC and ARTE (in France and Germany) taking an interest, the forecast for this ground-breaking spectacle is set to be a sure-fire success.


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Tresnita Ivy has been driving a big rig for the past nine years.
"I've hauled electronic equipment. I've hauled perishable foods. I've done scrap metals. So, I pretty much can do anything," said Ivy, owner, Pure Attitude Logistics.
Recently, she purchased her own truck to go into business for herself. But shortly after, orders slowed down. She needed $7000 to stay afloat.
"Accion helped me get through the slow period to be able to keep my truck, first of all, and to be able to keep going," said Ivy.
Accion, accionchicago.org, is a micro-lender based in the Pilsen neighborhood that makes loans for as little as $200 to as much as $25,000 to people who usually wouldn't qualify through a bank.
"Primarily, we work with low to moderate income individuals and neighborhoods as well. Folks who are un-bankable. So for lack of credit history or poor credit or lack of business experience," said Mary Fran Riley, Accion.
The non-profit recently got an influx of cash --- $800,000 from a federal stimulus grant and $750,000 from the city of Chicago,proceeds from the lease of the skyway. The group hopes this money will help create jobs.
"For every loan that we make, we create an average of 3.4 jobs. So people employ their family members. They employ somebody in the community," said Riley.
"I am not the most viable candidate because I didn't have any type of business credit," said Mary Mertens, owner, Ticche $ Bea.
Mertens plans to employ eight people soon. Her company, Ticche and Bea makes specialty pillows and baby bedding. She borrowed nearly $8,000 to cover the cost of a booth at a fair in Daley Plaza. Sales soared, marking a turning point for her business. In May, Mertens will be opening a permanent kiosk in Navy Pier.
"With just a little bit of money, you're able to grow. You're able to make more money, pay more people. It kind of snowballs," said Mertens.
At around 13-percent, the interest rates on Accion's loans are a little higher than a bank's but less than a credit card. Unlike banks, they allow borrowers to put up the non-traditional collateral like a personal car or restaurant cooler.


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Listening to music that I was re-introduced to by a new friend. Why'd it take someone 1981 miles away to get me to listen to a local band?? Thanks new friend.
Some things can't be fixed and never will be fixed. You live with them or you don't. I live with them.
The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
-Paul Simon
Friday, November 14, 2008
3 comments:
- Caricature Girl said...
There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
~Leonard Cohen
- November 16, 2008 at 11:34:00 AM EST
- Tad Barney said...
Thanks. :)
Not sure if I changed this entry to include the Paul Smion quote before or after your comment. Regardless, I appreciate the positive approach.
- November 16, 2008 at 5:41:00 PM EST
- Caricature Girl said...
probably at exactly the same time...
- November 16, 2008 at 5:55:00 PM EST
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Free Dirt | Friday Sept 11, 2015 | 7PM
about the show - from the producer
Come down to Karma at 7pm this Friday, and laugh and drink and smoke and laugh some more! What we do have: Half-Price Drinks! Tons of Laughs! A Rip-Roaring Good Time!What we DONT have: Covers. Drink minimums. Perpetual reminders of mortality.
The choice is clear. When the drudgery of the week is over, come down to Karma and grab a fist full of Free Dirt!
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FREE and NO drink minimum - half priced drinks, so please support the venue!
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'Ambitious Vision' & 'Hard Work' to Grow Investment -Carlos Lopes
Foreign investment (FDI) flows have grown exponentially since the turn of the millennium and countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco are leading the exponential growth, writes Dr. Carlos Lopes, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Africa: Harnessing Foreign Direct Investment - Calos Lopes Blog
Economic Commission for Africa, 22 October 2015
Dubbed the new investment frontier, Africa's attractiveness is becoming more visible to large corporations, institutions and investors. Read more »
Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa
Africa: Preparing Africa for the Next Trade Negotiations - Calos Lopes Blog
Economic Commission for Africa, 7 October 2015
The deadlock in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) so called Doha Development Round negotiations remains firmly in place. Negotiators seem unable to meet deadline after deadline… Read more »
Africa: Can Trade Boost Industrialisation in Africa?
Economic Commission for Africa, 1 October 2015
The 2015 Economic Report on Africa produced by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will form the basis for discussions on trade during a Working Session at the 2015 World… Read more »
Africa: 'New, Proud Africa' at Addis Confab - ECA's Carlos Lopes
allAfrica, 15 July 2015
For four days, government, business and organizational representatives are gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss how to fund the future for "people and the planet". The… Read more »
In view of the upcoming biennial WTO Ministerial Conference (MC10) due to be held in Nairobi in mid-December, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Afric Read more »
With Africa enjoying an average growth rate of about 4% in 2013, compared with 3% for the global economy, as well as high rates of return for investors, the continent is attracting ... Read more »
A mythical figure of African history, the Moroccan Ibn Battuta, on a visit to Somalia in 1331., was "surprised by Mogadishu's prosperity" and wrote a lengthy description of the the ... Read more »


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YONKERS, N.Y. – Here are some of the top events in Yonkers this weekend. For more things to do in and around the city, see our expanded events calendar.
Friday, Jan. 11
New Era Animae Club : 3:15 p.m. Teens are invited to the New Era Anime Club, where they can discuss and read Manga, watch and talk about anime, draw, debate and answer trivia questions. Yonkers Riverfront Library, 1 Larkin Center.
Saturday, Jan. 12
Superfly: The Jimmy Snuka Story : 1 p.m. Barnes & Noble will welcome author and WWE superstar Jimmy Snuka. Meet the man known as Superfly as he visits the Central Park Avenue store with co-author Jon Chattman, signing copies of their book, "Superfly: The Jimmy Snuka Story." Central Plaza, Barnes and Noble, 2614 Central Park Ave.
Sunday, Jan. 13
Story Circle: Drawing and Storytelling : The Hudson River Museum's Story Circle event continues as puppeteer Rolande Duprey tells two of Aesop's Fables inspired and interpreted by the artist Jerry Pinkney. Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Ave.
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Coney Island Reopening
Due to the forecasted snowstorm last weekend, Coney Island's opening was postponed to March 27th at 11 a.m. The annual blessing of the rides will take place at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park, and in celebration of its 96th season, there will be free rides for the first 96 riders. The Cyclone will also be offering free rides to the first 100 riders. Visitors can see the Coney Island History Project for free for the entire season.
New at the Coney Island Boardwalk is a massive amphitheater for indoor entertainment, which will be open just in time for this summer's concert season. Formerly known as The Child's Restaurant, the amphitheater includes 5,000 seats and 40,000 sqft of open space, perfect for picnics and lounging.
On March 25th and 26th, this beer festival is offering unlimited samples of 150 different kinds of rare and seasonal brews, ciders, and meads from 75 different breweries. The tour also includes craft beer seminars led by Sense Lab and others. General admission tickets get you 2.5 hours of sample tasting, access to unlimited brews and the Craft Concierge Center. A VIP ticket gets you an extra hour of all of this! Make your way to the Lexington Avenue Armory on Friday night or Saturday afternoon for the largest selection of hand-crafted beers in the city.
It's hard not get lost in the aromas of this free two-week floral exhibition, this year themed "America the Beautiful." Located in the ground floor of Macy's Herald Square, witness floor-to-ceiling greenery everyday at 10 a.m. until April 3rd. Take your flower visit to the next level by visiting Macy's mobile site for a guided audio tour, which tells the story of the flora from the enchanting southeast to the majestic rockies.
New York International Car Show
Located at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, the international car show is open from March 25th to April 3rd. Featuring the latest in automotive technology, the show will showcase more than four floors and nearly 1,000 of the newest latest designs and concepts. This is the first and most popular car show to date, for ticket prices you won't believe. Opening day ceremonies begin at 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 26th, and wheelchairs and strollers are available for those who need them. Photos and videos are encouraged and there are plenty of eating options available at the various restaurants in the Javits food courts.


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services organisation, Old Mutual. At Pick 'n Pay, he started on the trainee management programme and moved into Human Resources, where he headed up the compensation and talent management practices. Before he left Pick 'n Pay, I was the Director in charge of Group Human Resources and Strategic Planning function. He took up the position of head of Human Resources and Strategic Planning for Old Mutual South Africa in 1999 and in 2006, was transferred to London to head up Human Resources, Communications, Strategy, Corporate Responsibility and Marketing and Brand.
Currently, he is the Managing Director of The Katale Partnership, a boutique management consultancy, which assists its clients in defining, aligning, articulating and implementing strategy, with particular emphasis on the influence of leadership on organisational effectiveness.
He has served on the US Presidential Council for Global HIV/AIDS, was on the Board of the Higher Education Qualifications Committee reporting to the Minister of Education (South Africa), and was a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing.
He has worked in South Africa, the UK, the USA, China, Slovenia, Serbia, France and Australia.
He holds an honours degree in Psychology and a Licentiate in music and is a concert organist.
He is married to an academic (socio-linguistics) and has two university-going daughters.
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Brooklyn's first Whole Foods, on 3rd Ave. and 3rd St., is under preparations for their grand opening on Dec. 17.
Brooklyn's first Whole Foods has finally arrived — and there's a whole lot to love even though it's adjacent to one of the filthiest waterways in the nation.
The gourmet grocery chain's long-awaited — and sometimes controversial — Gowanus outpost is set to officially open at the corner of Third St. and Third Ave. right next to the fetid Gowanus Canal on Tuesday after more than eight years in the making.
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Charles Ventre, the charcuterie supplier at the new Gowanus Whole Foods, prepares the meats for opening day.
The 56,000-sqare-foot market was delayed so long by snags in the approval process, site remediation and construction that the upscale grocery giant had ample time to make the store shine, said spokesman Michael Sinatra.
"This is something special," said Sinatra. "We really wanted Brooklyn to feel like this was their store."
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The megastore even has a vinyl section with records and jewelry for sale.
In addition to the 20,000 square-foot, glass-enclosed roof greenhouse that will supply veggines and greens to the store's produce selection, and the rooftop beer hall and restaurant that overlooks the smelly inlet, there will be an in-house ramen chef, a pizza station with a wood-fired oven, a made-to-order juice bar, and a knife-sharping station.
The store will also carry a slew of products made by Brooklyn businesses exclusively for the market, including a line of frozen pizzas from Bushwick pizza joint Roberta's and vegan ice cream by Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream.
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Employee Sharif Ali stocked slivered almonds at the new grocery store in preparation for the grand opening.
Records and reclaimed vinyl jewelry made by Brooklyn-based designer Wrecords by Monkey will also be for sale in the vinyl section (yes, there is one) that's adorned with exposed records.
The organic market with its 240-car parking lot is certainly a sign of redevelopment in the historically-industrial, gritty neighborhood, but not all neighbors are happy about that.
"They are igniting a real estate gold rush," said Gowanus record producer Martin Bisi, 52. "The property value explosion that Whole Foods is unleashing guarantees that Gowanus won't be a destination for artists and arts organizations in the years to come."
Gowanus Whole Foods, 214 Third St. at Third Ave. in Gowanus, www.wholefoodsmarket.com, (718) 907-3622. Grand opening on Dec. 17., at 8:30 a.m.


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M·A·C Cosmetics Director of Artist Relations and M·A·C Pro Membership
Being an avid music fan, Monique Boyer moved to Hollywood in 1991 with a dream of working in the music business. After an education in record engineering and working in radio promotion, she discovered another passion: makeup artistry. Luckily, her work these days for M·A·C Cosmetics allows her to experience the best of both industries. As the trendsetting brand's Director of Artist Relations and M·A·C Pro Membership, she provides product support and education in the areas of music, editorial, theatre, performing arts, and television.
For the past ten years, Monique has directed makeup support for many of the biggest names in music including Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Marilyn Manson, Sia, Missy Elliot, Steven Tyler, Janet Jackson, The Cure, Gwen Stefani, Tori Amos, Motley Crue, Heart, Kelly Clarkson, and Wynonna Judd. She's seen the music industry from every angle through her work to support music television (including shows like American Idol, The Voice and Nashville), music festivals, and an extensive array of awards shows and ceremonies, including the Grammy Awards, the MTV Video Music Awards, MusiCares Person of the Year, ASCAP's Women Behind the Music, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Monique is thrilled not only to be immersed in the world of music, but to work with and honor the extraordinary women who have helped build it.
Marketing Communications Manager for Roland Corporation U.S.
Music and marketing make the world go round for Rebecca Eaddy, Marketing Communications Manager for Roland Corporation U.S., a world-renowned manufacturer and distributor of electronic musical instruments. It's been nearly 20 years since Rebecca's career as a marketing strategist began at CBS Radio and nearly 30 since she first fell in love with music, thanks to one of her childhood idols, Martha Quinn, and '80s-era MTV. Little did she know then that she'd be meeting and working on campaigns featuring some of those very same musical icons later in life, or working for Roland, whose instruments helped define multiple musical genres born in that same era.
The musical instruments industry has been Rebecca's career home for more than a decade. As a member of the Paul Reed Smith Guitars marketing team from 2006 to 2011 and as a member of the Roland and BOSS marketing team for nearly six years now, Rebecca has contributed to campaigns reaching millions of musicians in the U.S. and around the world.
Guitar legend
Singer. Songwriter. Guitarist. Trailblazer. Icon. Guitar Player Certified Guitar Legend 2014 award winner. Lita Ford is all of those and so much more. From teenager playing lead guitar in the groundbreaking band, The Runaways, to Top 10, GRAMMY nominated solo artist, her career trajectory has been one of never settling, never compromising, and always staying true to herself.
2016 has been particularly busy and productive for Ford. In February, she published her long-awaited autobiography, Living Like A Runaway. In April, she released Time Capsule, a compilation of previously unreleased songs from the 1980s that she discovered in a collection of analog tapes in her home. She also spent that month on the road with Halestorm, and saw the release of her longtime friend Ace Frehley's new album, Origins Vol. 1, which features Ford singing and playing guitar on their cover of The Troggs' "Wild Thing."
As always, Ford and her band — guitarist Patrick Kennison, bassist Marty O'Brien, and drummer Bobby Rock — are touring relentlessly. Ford is also writing and recording a new album with Gary Hoey, who produced 2012's Living Like A Runaway.
Director of artist relations at PRS Guitars
Beverly Fowler is the Director of Artist Relations for Paul Reed Smith Guitars, Limited Partnership, a manufacturer of high-end musical instruments and equipment in Stevensville, Maryland. Bev has worked in a variety of positions with increasing responsibilities within the business since 2002 including Executive Assistant to the President, Event Manager and Artist Relations. In her current position as Director of Artist Relations, Bev's main focus is on expanding and maintaining brand equity within the community of accomplished and emerging artists and musicians. PRS Guitars employs about 250 people who skillfully produce around 950 electric guitars each month. Bev lives in Stevensville, Maryland with her husband and two children.
On-air radio personality for 104.3 MYfm in Los Angeles
Lisa Foxx is an on-air radio personality who can be heard on 104.3 MYfm in Los Angeles and their sister station, Star 101.3 in San Francisco, on the iHeartRadio network. For the past 25 years, she's been the voice of many top stations up and down the California coast, starting in college, and rising to fame in the '90s in LA where she and Ryan Seacrest tore up the afternoon airwaves on Star 98.7. When not in the studio or freelancing in talent/booking and music supervising, Lisa can be found at one of the restaurants on Sunset Blvd. in which she's a partner, at a Dodgers or Kings game, exercising, doing charity work, and listening to a very eclectic mix of her favorite music, including Maroon 5, U2, Journey, '80s hair bands, Hall & Oates, Katy Perry and many others.
Conductor of Music Programs for A Place Called Home
An alumna of Berklee College of Music, Charyn has been recognized for designing vibrant programming and resources to support youth through the arts. Charyn is founder of Project MuszEd and serves as Conductor of Music Programs for A Place Called Home in South Los Angeles. As the very first partner of the Berklee City Music Network, Charyn has sent over 35 students to Berklee's summer program and has had over a dozen attend the college on scholarship. Charyn's students are known for their ground-shaking performances, having opened or performed with The Black Eyed Peas, Diana Ross and Macy Gray among others. Some of her students are now performing with top acts such as Smokey Robinson and Aloe Blacc…the list goes on.
Charyn toured as keyboardist for the iconic R&B legend Barry White and has performed with MC Hammer, The Cranberries, Jonathan Butler, Al B. Sure!, Doc Powell and Luciano Pavarotti among others. Charyn is active on several boards and supports a variety of arts initiatives.
Founder of Soundgirls and monitor engineer for Pearl Jam
Hailing from Los Angeles, Karrie has spent the last 20 plus years as the monitor engineer for Pearl Jam. In 2013 she co-founded Soundgirls, an organization dedicated to inspire and empower the next generation of women in audio.
Karrie started out doing sound for punk bands in Los Angeles in 1986 under the tutelage of Dave Rat of Rat Sound, where she spent twenty years helping to establish the company. She was able to gain an immense amount of hands-on experience and technical knowledge at Rat, which eventually led to her becoming the monitor engineer for The Red Hot Chili Peppers from 1990-2000. She first met and started working with Pearl Jam when they opened for RHCP on their 1991-1992 Blood Sugar Sex Magic Tour. She has also worked with Sonic Youth, Fugazi, and Neil Young.
She shares, "I entered the world of live audio over 27 years ago. Back then I was a novelty, you did not see a woman behind the mixing board let alone unloading a truck full of sound equipment. At that time I felt like I was breaking down doors for other women and we would eventually see women on sound crews all over the country. Sadly, 27 years later women in live audio are still a rare occurrence. Women have made inroads in lighting, production, road managing, management, why not in audio? SoundGirls.Org seeks to answer this question and proves that women can and do succeed in professional audio."
Owner and founder of Musical Innovations in Greenville, SC
Tracy Leenman has had over 20 years' experience in the music industry and over 45 years as a music educator. The owner and founder of Musical Innovations in Greenville, SC, she holds her bachelors and masters degrees in music education from Syracuse University (NY) and has done additional coursework towards a Ph.D. at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY). She has taught in private and public schools at the elementary through college levels; most recently, she developed the Music Business department at Newberry College (SC) and served as Adjunct Instructor there from 2013-2015.
Since its inception in 2009, Musical Innovations has won numerous awards, including being named to NAMM's Top 100 Dealers four times in a row; and to the US Chamber of Commerce 2016 Top 100 Small Businesses in America (Small Business, Dream Big! Award). The company was named NAMM's Dealer of the Year in 2015, and also won Best Customer Service that same year. Tracy has twice won the SC Music Educators Friend of Music Business Award (2009 and 2013), the Phi Mu Alpha (Theta Chapter) Outstanding Contributor Award (2006), the KEYS Program Keeping the Beat Music Advocacy Award (2009), and the print music industry's Sandy Feldstein Service Award (2015). She contributes frequently to music industry and music education magazines, does clinics and teacher in-services around the country on a wide variety of topics, and is a regular presenter in the NAMM Idea Center.
Tracy and her husband, Koas, an architect, have six children, nineteen grandchildren, and are expecting their first great-grandchild any day now. In 1987, Tracy was named SC Mother of the Year by the SC Mothers of Twins Club.
Lead singer of multi-award winning rock band Garbage
Shirley Manson is a singer, songwriter, musician and actress. Best known as the lead singer of the alternative, multi-award winning rock band Garbage, she has gained attention for her forthright style, rebellious attitude, and distinctive voice. The band's debut album, the eponymously titled Garbage, was released in August 1995. The band has since gone on to sell over 17 million records during the course of their 21 years together. They released their sixth studio album, Strange Little Birds, in June 2016 to universal critical acclaim and have garnered similar reviews for their live shows while supporting the record with a mammoth year-long world tour. She continues to be an outspoken advocate for human and animal rights and gender equality.
A&R for Walt Disney Records/Hollywood Records/Disney Music Group
Dani Markman has been A&R for Walt Disney Records/Hollywood Records/Disney Music Group for over 20 years. Prior to that, she was a professional opera singer, performing with opera companies around the country, especially Boston Opera and Pittsburgh Opera. Over the years, she has A&R'd almost every genre of music possible. She has been involved with every soundtrack that comes out of the Disney studio.
A lover of all music, Ms. Markman has worked in almost every genre of music: Country (Best of Country Sing the Best of Disney), Adult Contemporary (Michael Crawford Sings Disney), Tween Pop (Disneymania Series), Alternative (Muppets: The Green Album), Rock (Nightmare Revisited, Avengers Assemble), EDM (DConstructed), Jazz (Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat), etc.
In her long career, Ms. Markman has truly enjoyed working with and mentoring artists, writers, producers, and musicians of every age. Helping them define who they are as artists and working with them to craft their careers is perhaps one of her greatest joys. Her current projects include Sabrina Carpenter's album EVOLution and Jordan Fisher's self titled EP as well as his upcoming debut album, releasing in 2017.
Four time Grammy Award-winning composer, bassist and vocalist
Four time Grammy Award winner Esperanza Spalding has, in the past decade of her illustrious career (which also involves having performed at the Oscars, the Grammys, the Nobel Prize ceremony, and several times at the White House), continually and brilliantly married genres, pushed boundaries, and created groundbreaking work. By anyone's measure, Spalding's accomplishments at 31 years of age have already eclipsed those of artists half a century older, yet it's blatantly obvious that her artistic journey is a lifelong one that we've just begun to collectively comprehend.
Spalding is, as a composer, bassist and vocalist, expansive, iterative, shape-shifting, open, and progressively innovative. A voracious and magnetic performer, she is attentively studious towards what the process of playing live – whether sharing a stage with her own revolving ensembles, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Janelle Monae or Prince – presents to the structure of a song. That channeled energy runs through her recorded catalog of seven collaborative and five solo albums.
She graduated from Berklee College of Music, and at age 20, Spalding became the prestigious school's youngest-ever instructor. Through her groundbreaking albums, she is still teaching those who listen.
Iconic lead singer of The Ronettes
Only a few artists in history have been capable of defining an entire era in pop
music. Ronnie Spector is one of those artists: the embodiment of the heart, soul, and passion of female rock and roll in the 1960s. Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes, were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in March 2007.
Beginning in 1963, Ronnie Spector—as lead singer of the ultimate girl group, The Ronettes—recorded a long string of classic pop hits: powerful, poignant teen anthems like the Grammy Award-winning "Walking in the Rain," "Do I Love You," "Baby I Love You," "The Best Part of Breaking Up," "I Can Hear Music," and the international Number One smash "Be My Baby." These records are among the best-loved and most-emulated recordings in the history of rock and roll. Ronnie celebrated her 55th year in the recording industry with the release of her British Invasion inspired collection of covers English Heart, and followed it up with a performance at the venerable Glastonbury Festival. The style, look, and sound of Ronnie Spector continue to serve as an inspiration and role model for generations.
President of Los Angeles Women in Music (LAWIM)
Serving the L.A. music community at large since 1988, Leanne has advanced countless careers and professional relationships in the industry, and is a strong advocate for issues concerning women in music. A true leader and visionary, she has been at the forefront of progressive change through the organizations and institutions she has served, most notably as President of Los Angeles Women in Music. LAWIM has been supporting and empowering women for 30 years.
CEO of LEANNE SUMMERS ENTERTAINMENT, LLC and All Things Voice!, Leanne is a professional singer, much sought after vocal coach, producer and clinician with over 40 years on stage and behind the scenes. Over the years, she has worked with Grammy®-nominated vocalists and Emmy®-winning actors. Most recently she completed a season in the studio with another of Showtime Network's critically acclaimed and award-winning series, Ray Donovan. A summa cum laude graduate of Berklee College of Music, Leanne established the first Alumni Chapter in Los Angeles and served as its president for 11 years, garnering her a seat on the Board of Trustees as the first alumni representative.
CHRISTINE DEVINE was named as one of the top 50 women changing Los Angeles by Los Angeles Magazine. The 16-time Emmy-winning FOX 11 news anchor can be seen at 5 and 10 p.m. on KTTV, where's she's covered the biggest stories in LA, from earthquakes, to riots, to elections. Devine also hosts the FOX 11 "Wednesdays Child" adoption segment, which has helped more than 500 foster children find permanent families since its inception in 1995. Devine is also heavily plugged into the music scene, and in her free time, she mentors several young singers and artists. Devine has also directed music videos, written songs, and executive produced R&B and pop music. She is also married to musician, bassist/vocalist Sean McNabb (Quiet Riot, Dokken, Lynch Mob).
The past fifteen years have brought Daisy Rock Girl Guitars Founder and President TISH CIRAVOLO museum inductions, awards, motivational speeches to millions of girls, billions of media impressions touting the girl guitar revolution, the world's first girl guitar/bass instructional books/CDs/DVDs, and appearances in Guitar Hero/Band Hero games. Ciravolo has also propelled the girls' rock empowerment message far beyond the music industry through licensing partnerships—on top of rocking stages all over the country in her punk rock band, Sassafrass and most importantly, being a mother of two.
Back for their second year, the She Rocks Awards house band ROCK SUGAH is comprised of Divinity Roxx (Beyoncé) on bass, Kat Dyson (Prince, Sting) on guitar, Benita Lewis (Chaka Khan) on drums, and Lynette Williams (Will.i.am, Cee-lo) on keyboard.
BRANDY ROBINSON, winner of the #SaveAGuitar and She Rocks Awards contest, will open the show. Robinson has released two albums on her indie record label, GuitarMama Records, and has a third album underway. She's been touring the U.S. for the past 10 years as both a solo artist and with a full band, showcasing her poetic lyrics, funky guitar riffs and powerful, soulful voice.
The She Rocks Awards will also celebrate the launch of a new compilation of female guitar players, She Rocks, Vol. 1. Releasing on January 20, 2017 on Steve Vai's Favored Nations Entertainment label, this collection of kick-ass guitar goddesses is produced by author and former Guitar World editor, Brad Tolinski. Showcasing eleven female guitarists, each a virtuoso in her own right, the compilation features Orianthi, Yasi Hofer, Kat Dyson, Sarah Longfield, Lita Ford, Jennifer Batten, Nita Strauss, Steph Paynes, Nili Brosh, Gretchen Menn, and Yvette Young. Performers from the album will appear at the She Rocks Awards. Find out more at http://www.favorednations.com/artists/sherocksvol1/.


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PINTO John P. Sr, of West Milford, formerly of Hackensack, died on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at the age of 83 years. Prior to his retirement in 1981, John worked for the City of Hackensack Fire Department for 32 years, where he ultimately reached the rank of Deputy Fire Chief. After his retirement from the Fire Department, John continued working at the G. Thomas Gentile Funeral Home of Hackensack for 22 years. He was a Navy Veteran of World War II. He was a member of the I.A.F.F, a member and Past Grand Knight of Trinity Council # 747, the Bishop O'Connor General Assembly 4th Degree of Hackensack, the Showtime Group at Bergen Catholic High School, and a member of the Jet Set Club of West Milford. He was a parishioner of Queen of Peace R.C. Church in Hewitt and St. Francis R.C. Church in Hackensack, where he was a member of their Holy Name Society. Beloved husband of Frances (nee Carlo) and the late Ida (nee Blondina) (1987). Loving father of John P. Pinto Jr. and his wife Linda, Andrea Bernson, Gina Schlegel and her husband Joe, Larry Carlo and his wife Sandy, Linda Wilson and her husband Bob, Joann Erkal and her husband Al and John Carlo and his wife Maureen. Cherished grandfather of Aria, Joseph, John Francis, Thomas, Nicole, Deniz, Ronee, Ceyda, Shannen, Samantha and Anthony. Adored great-grandfather of Kai. Dearest brother of the late Ralph Pinto and Joseph Pinto. John is also survived by many nieces, nephews and many other close relatives and friends.
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