New England Music Scrapbook Newsletter
Alan Lewis, Editor

Our Corner of the Rock 'n' Roll Life

June 13, 2009
Issue 2009:331
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BRATTLEBORO, VT, June 13 - With Geocities, our Web host, going out of the
Web-hosting business later this year, we diverted some time from work on this
newsletter to a little longer-term planning. I have since toiled as fast as I
can to compile as much news into this newsletter issue as possible. A lot that
appears here is of terrific interest to me. Here's hoping it works equally well
for many of you.
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READ WHAT INTERESTS YOU, scroll right past whatever doesn't.
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RECORD RELEASES THIS WEEK
Listed by Newbury Comics, Excerpted by Us

RECORD RELEASES WERE RUNNING . . really great for a few weeks, but now they may
be in a small slump. We are back to veteran acts and reissues commercially
carrying the ball. This is not a bad thing, in and of itself; but development
of new acts is necessary, too, to keep the music regenerating. The most recent
record releases have not demonstrated a lot of regeneration. Anyway, here is
what we noticed this week.

New CD Releases Available Tuesday, June 9th

ANASTASIO, TREY/HART, DON-Time Turns Elastic-$9.99
BLACK EYED PEAS-E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies)-$9.99
CAKE-Motorcade Of Generosity-$7.99
GRIFFITH, NANCI-Loving Kind-$9.99
GUNS'N'ROSES-Chinese Democracy-$14.99
IRON MAIDEN-Flight 666 Soundtrack (2 CD)-$14.99
MIIKE SNOW-Miike Snow-$9.99
MORRISSEY-Maladjusted (Expanded Edition)-$17.99
ROLLING STONES-Undercover (Remastered)-$9.99
ROLLING STONES-Some Girls (Remastered)-$9.99
ROLLING STONES-Emotional Rescue (Remastered)-$9.99
ROLLING STONES-Tattoo You (Remastered)-$9.99
SONIC YOUTH-Eternal-$9.99
U2-Magnificent (Remixes)-$8.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS-2009 WARPED TOUR-$5.99

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featured dvd new release Available Tuesday, June 9th

060908_woodstock_boxGran Torino
$19.99 DVD

SOURCE: Newbury Comics, "June 8 Newbury Comics Coupons and New Releases," June
8, 2009.

THIS BRINGS US . . once again to the far end of Memory Lane. - Ed.

:: trey anastasio, nanci griffith, guns 'n roses, guns n roses, don hart ::
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PRESS RELEASES THIS WEEK

<> Boston Harbor Rock and Blues Cruise Schedule - Announcement.

<> "White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-by-Day" (book) by Richie
Unterberger now available. This announcement ought to be of serious interest to
many of our readers.
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GARY SHANE AND THE DETOUR
Tonight, Saturday, June 13, 2009
Club Bohemia at the Cantab

<> "On behalf of my old compatriot, Gary Shane...

"I'd like to alert you to an upcoming gig featuring the headliner act Gary and
his current Detour line-up performing this Saturday night June 13th at the Club
Bohemia at The Cantab. Also appearing will be Third Rail and the Brigands."

SOURCE: Ron Erickson, "Gary Shane and the Detour, June 13, 2009 Gig," Friday,
June 12, 2009.

Duly noted.

ACTUALLY I HAD MEANT . . to include Gary Shane and the Detour's single,
"Johnny's Coaltrain," among the examples of what various folks might suggest as
essential record releases. This was a major and widely admired local hit around
Boston, and it ought to be famed far beyond the bounds of New England. As the
great Chuck Berry once sang, "It's a rockin' little record." - Ed.

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LONESOME BROTHERS TONIGHT!
and
RAY MASON CD RELEASE IN A WEEK
The Countdown

Vermonters and road-warrior musicians have been speaking well of The Langdon
Street Cafe in Montpelier, Vermont for a long time. (We thank Gabe of the
Vermont/New Hampshire group, 35th Parallel, for tipping us to it.) But the
place has notched up in importance since the closing of Bradford's The Middle
Earth. Western Mass.'s Lonesome Brothers love to play Langdon Street, and they
are there tonight.

North of the stateline
Up Montpelier way...

<> Saturday June 13 - Lonesome Brothers @ Langdon Street Cafe, 4 Langdon St.,
Montpelier, VT (802) 223-8667.

http://www.langdonstreetcafe.com/

With very special guest Abby Jenne! 9 p.m.

Then Lonesome Ray Mason is back in his Massachusetts base to launch his own best
CD yet.

Ray Mason
"Like Bugs Chewing on Paper"
(CD, Captivating Music CM-9163, 2009)

<> Saturday June 20 - Ray Mason (solo) at Mocha Maya's Coffee House & Espresso
Bar, 47 Bridge St., Shelburne Falls, MA (413) 625-6292.

http://www.mochamayas.com/

CD release party for Ray's new disc Like Bugs Chewing On Paper! No cover (tips
appreciated). 8 p.m.

THERE IS JUST NO GOING WRONG . . with an album named after paper-eating insects,
and Ray Mason and producer Jim Weeks have not wasted this valuable opportunity.
Mason has an established sound around these parts; but these days his vocals are
caught just a little better, and Weeks has artfully fiddled with the
arrangements. The result is the old Ray Mason shaking hands with the new Ray
Mason, spicing his silvery tunes with his legendary six-string Silvertone.

The "Like Bugs" jewel box and booklet come with nice amusement park
illustrations.

Once in an e-mail, Mason said something pretty close to "I don't make CDs: I
make albums." He will need nothing more than "Like Bugs Chewing on Paper" to
prove his point. This is an ALBUM, 1966-style. It hangs together very nicely.
"Like Bugs Chewing on Paper" just finished playing here at the ol' New England
Music Scrapbook Newsletter Ranch, and it was a foot-tapper and really good from
start to finish. He's got what by all rights ought to be his biggest seller,
and we've got some new favorite Ray Mason songs. Several cuts, no doubt,
deserve to be singled out. But until I've had a chance to play this disc more
times, it is the last few tunes to play that are most firmly in mind. And it
does seem to me that people who have been with Mason for a number of years are
going to like "Ceiling." Those same folks are going to love "Like Bugs Chewing
on Paper."

SOURCE: Show details are from Ray Mason, "RM and LB," June 8, 2009.

http://www.raymason.com/

CEILING: This song may cause flashbacks to Mason's great "When the Ceiling
Shakes Hands With the Floor," which appears on the Ray Mason Band's "Idiot
Wisdom" album. - Ed.

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JEDDO STARS
Rockin' in Cambridge

<> The band, The Jeddo Stars, includes former members of The Charms. This
outfit has a couple upcoming shows in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Here are
details they sent:

Jeddo Stars,
Sunday, 6/14
@ TT The Bears
Cambridge, MA
9:00 pm
w/ Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
doors at 8:00 pm

Sunday, 6/21
@ The Middle East
Cambridge, MA
DAYTIME All ages
2:00 pm
Benefit for Students for a Free Tibet, featuring Hope Roth (CD Release), Eddie
Japan, VulGarrity, Jeddo Stars, plus special guests - All Ages $10 (min.
donation) - NOTE: 1pm Doors

SOURCE: JeddoStars, "Sunday: Jeddo Stars at TT the Bears With Natalie Portman's
Shaved Head," Friday, June 12, 2009.

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ROBIN LANE AND JOHNNY ANGEL
Thursday, June 18, 2009
At the Plough and Stars
Cambridge, Massachusetts

<> "[O]n Thursday, June 18, Robin is playing an acoustic duo set with
Johnny Angel at The Plough & Stars in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Angeline is
also on the bill."

SOURCE: Robin Lane List Manager, "The Robin Lane Mailing List," June 4, 2009.

WHEN ROBIN LANE SANG . . "Send Me an Angel" (one of my favorites) with Robin
Lane and the Chartbusters, it is hard to imagine she had Boston rocker Johnny
Angel in mind. But here he is, there she is, and this ought to be an intriguing
show at Cambridge's Plough & Stars. - Ed.

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GREGORY DOUGLASS
Oh, Brave New World!

BEYOND ALL DOUBT . . the most amazing news item we received this week came from
Vermont singer-songwriter Gregory Douglass. Here is an excerpt from his latest
newsletter:

BRAVE NEW WORLD – THE MUSICAL

Now that the "Battler" spring tour is complete I am dedicating my summer months
to an incredibly exciting new project! I have been commissioned to compose the
music for a musical version of Aldous Huxley's classic novel, "Brave New World."

The opportunity was presented to me by my dear friends Paul Amadio & Donita
Coburn-Amadio who were faculty at my old high school, Brewster Academy, when I
initially met them. They were both huge advocates of music and theater at
Brewster Academy and have since become a second family to me. They currently
reside in Ojai, CA where Paul is positioned as the head of the Besant Hill
School of Happy Valley – a liberal arts private school founded in 1946 by
Franklin Lacey who was responsible for co-writing the story line in "The Music
Man" with collaborator Meredith Wilson. Lacey was good friends with Aldous
Huxley and really believed in Lacey's intentions for the school so he granted
him the exclusive rights to one day turn "Brave New World" into a musical.
Before Lacey's death, he bequeathed the rights to the school and as head of the
school and a passionate advocate for the arts, Paul Amadio is trying to bring
the musical to fruition.

My job is to compose the musical numbers to go along with a script recently
written by Peter Fox, an accomplished actor in the television and theater world.
Once the project is complete, we will be pitching it to whomever might be able
to bring it to life on stage! I will keep you posted on any updates.

[Please do.]

SOURCE: Gregory Douglass, "Gregory Douglass News :: June 8, 2009," Monday, June
8, 2009.

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NEW ENGLAND ESSENTIAL RECORDINGS
Invitation to Take Part

<> While working on my cataloguing project, I am making a list of New England
music record releases that seem to me to be essential listening matter: records
of great beauty, artistic expression, skilled performance, emotional power,
historic significance, or just plain must-hear music.

It seems to me it could be fun to gather and compile diverse ideas of various
other people who are interested in this topic.

If you would like to participate in this endeavor, please suggest one record and
let us know if it would be okay to attribute this suggestion to you by name
(first and last, though I would certainly make an exception for a person who is
quite well known by just one name or, for that matter, by a stage name). It is
doubtful we will be posting any anonymous recommendations, but I could not
totally rule out just yet that there might be an occasion.

At the moment, the slate is clean. Here are some fairly diverse suggestions
that it would be easy to IMAGINE someone or other making:

Cars
"The Cars"
(Eponymous, highly successful debut album)

Russell Chudnofsky
"Skypaint: A Pop Opera"
(Boston rock opera/pop opera soundtrack)

Eilen Jewell
"Sea of Tears"
(New album, only the second release by Eilen Jewell Band)
[I have not heard this record, but it certainly is reported to be charting well.
- Ed.]

Patty Larkin
"Watch the Sky"
(Latest album - a classic - by a veteran artist)

Neats
"6"
(Beloved track on various artists EP)

Phish
Live DVD
(There must be several candidates, though I personally could not name a specific
title)

Various Artists
"Greetings From Area Code 207 Vol. 7"
(All Maine artists - latest in an amazing compilation series)

"Respond"
(Highly acclaimed various artists collection, very heavy on New England acts)

Recordings need not necessarily be really old. Suggestions of recent releases
and new acts would be fine. An essential recording could have been issued by an
emerging artist or could have come out this month.

If we get many suggestions, it is my hope that a decent percentage of them will
stray from the best known and most obvious recordings. A record only needs to
be truly essential in your view. It does not need to be the MOST essential. We
certainly do not need dozens of people all recommending the same Aerosmith, J.
Geils, or Phish titles.

To make a suggestion, please e-mail it to us at

FredRemainsLost At Yahoo Dot Com

name the artist and the record, make sure your own name is included with your
suggestion, and use Essential Record for your subject line. If your
recommendation is something other than an album, please explain what it is. An
EP? Soundtrack cut? Concert videocassette? We may not necessarily know.

If we get enough suggestions, I will compile and post them here. (If we get only
a few responses, never fear: I have a Plan B.) I would also probably circulate
the list, while it is still in progress, to possible participants, in a belief
that looking through an incomplete list might help some folks organize their
thinking or might in some way inspire ideas. It may not occur to a person, for
instance, to name a music video, until they see a suggestion of, say, the "Girl
With the Curious Hand" video by Digney Fignus.

We crave your knowledge and thoughts. Please send us an essential record
release suggestion.

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GUITAR HERO: VAN HALEN

The following was found attributed to IGN.

It is not always perfectly clear where material for posting ends and a personal
message begins. But I am terrifically out of time and went with a quick guess.

<> Here's a reported list of confirmed songs for Guitar Hero: VH (So far, as
in not complete):

Confirmed songs (14/47 songs ; Updated 06/03)

Van Halen songs (9/25 songs)

Van Halen - "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" (1978, "Van Halen")
Van Halen - "Cathedral" (1982, "Diver Down")
Van Halen - "Eruption" (1978, "Van Halen")
Van Halen - "Hot For Teacher" (1984, "1984")
Van Halen - "Jump" (1984, "1984")
Van Halen - "Little Guitars" (1982, "Diver Down")
Van Halen - "Panama" (1984, "1984")
Van Halen - "Spanish Fly (1979, "Van Halen II")
Van Halen - "You Really Got Me" (1978, "Van Halen")

Other songs (5/19)

Judas Priest - "Painkiller" (1990)
Queen - "I Want it All" (1989)
Tenacious D - "Master Exploder" (2006)
Third Eye Blind - "Semi-Charmed Life" (1997)
Weezer - "Dope Nose" (2002)

blink-182 - ????
Foo Fighters - ????
The Offspring - ????
Queens of The Stone Age - ????

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May not be sourced from IGN.

The title of the e-mail comes from a band spin-off game getting one of my
most-wanted Queen songs, which also probably means it will never (or not in the
near future) be DLC for the main series.

I thought I'd also note that "Painkiller" and "Master Exploder" are both tracks
that have been in the Rock Band series, which lessens the appeal of the list to
me (Though Tenacious D is unappealing, period). "You Really Got Me" was in the
Guitar Hero series, but was a cover "As Made Famous By Van Halen." A master
would still technically be a treat. "Hot For Teacher" appears in Guitar Hero:
World Tour....

SOURCE: Stephen Lewis, E-Mail Message, June 11, 2009.
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SARAH BORGES
Twice Nominated

<> "Sarah Borges is nominated for a 2009 Americana Music Award in the New and
Emerging Artist category....

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"The Boston Phoenix has nominated Sarah Borges for Best Local Female
Vocalist...."

SOURCE: Sarah Borges, "Vote for Sarah Borges ... and Other News," Thursday, June
11, 2009.
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SOUND OF VERMONT
A New-to-Me 1975 Anthology

<> My cataloguing project has turned up a very large number of great-looking
compilations, many of which appear not to have circulated at all widely. An
easy majority of these are collections by various Boston performers. But just
to be different, I am citing here a case in point from Vermont.

Various Artists
"The Chittenden Trust Co.
Presents the Sound of Vermont"
(LP, Earth Audio Techniques, 1975)

I take "The Chittenden Trust Co." to be a reference to what is commonly called
the Chittenden Bank, though I have not researched the question.

Earth Audio Techniques is, or at least was, a recording studio. As far as I am
aware, it was not also a record label. Nonetheless, I am posting information
here as I found it in my favorite database for this sort of research. This is
very literal work.
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LINQ
"Life Goes On"
And Its Phantom Single

<> We received an inquiry about the single from the latest Linq album.

Linq
"Life Goes On"
(CD, www.LinqMusic.com, 2009)

We understand there is not an actual single, but we may have an idea what our
correspondent means. A western Massachusetts radio station has featured Linq's
"Route 32 Blues" - a good one - and "George Orwell Where Are You?" - a song we
have talked up - has been made into a video. So it seems to me that either of
these songs or even both could easily be taken for a single, similar to the
sense of the old days of vinyl records.

The credits of "Life Goes On" are interesting in that I only recognized the name
of one musician, famed June Millington. The name, Madeloni, in the credits also
looks quite suspicious. We have been assured by our high-priced surname
consultant that there are very few Madelonis in these United States, and we
imagine a familial connection to western New England music journalist Dave
Madeloni.

The latest album by Debra Cowan, also out of Massachusetts, by contrast involves
supporting musicians almost all of whom we have followed for years.

Debra Cowan
"Fond Desire Farewell"
(CD, Falling Mountain Music FM 1054, 2009)

Each recording - Linq's and Debra Cowan's - produced very fine results, coming
from apparently quite different starting points.
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ALAN WILLIAMS
Resurfaced in Our Mailbox

<> A recently-arrived CD, among those I am most looking forward to hearing, is
"Bound" by Birdsong at Morning, an Alan Williams band.

Williams' old Portland, Maine trio, Knots and Crosses, had a great thing going,
until a record deal went nuts. But through two wonderful full-length albums -
two of my favorite records by anyone from anywhere ever - Knots and Crosses gave
us a lot of stellar music.

The talents of Alan Williams and Carol Noonan were enough different that
shifting between their songs, on the original Knots and Crosses albums, created
not so much tension and release as alternating forms of tension.

All I can say is, it worked.

Can't wait to hear what Alan Williams is up to these days.
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CATIE CURTIS
Covering Don White's
"Be Sixteen With Me"

<> "The delightful and extraordinarily talented Catie Curtis has recorded a
dandy version of my song, 'Be 16 With Me,' on her soon to be released CD on
Compass Records called 'Hello Stranger.' Thanks Catie! More info here:

http://catiecurtis.com/

SOURCE: Don At Don White Dot Net, "Newsletter," June 4, 2009.

Catie Curtis
"Hello Stranger" (CD, Compass Records, 2009)

I DON'T KNOW EITHER WAY, OR ANY WAY, . . how often Don White songs are covered.
But I first became aware of his music via a really fine interpretation of his
work by Massachusetts/Connecticut singer-songwriter Maria Sangiolo. - Ed.
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YAHOO MUSIC NEWS HEADLINE
Friday Night

Mourners belt out blues to honor Koko Taylor
at AP – Fri Jun 12, 11:28 pm ET
Miss Peaches sings a tribute as hundreds of mourners come to...

CHICAGO - Hundreds of mourners honored Chicago blues icon Koko Taylor at her
funeral Friday by singing her signature song "Wang Dang Doodle" and remembering
why she was known as the "Queen of the Blues."
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YAHOO MUSIC NEWS HEADLINE
Friday Evening

"Loving" ends writer's block for Griffith
at Reuters – Fri Jun 12, 6:55 pm ET

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Before recording her first album of all-new
material since 2005, Nanci Griffith suffered a serious case of writer's block.
"The direction the country was going in broke my heart," the Grammy
Award-winning singer-songwriter recalls. "I didn't want to write."
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YAHOO MUSIC NEWS HEADLINE
Friday Evening

Q&A: Guitarist Satriani finds Chickenfoot "liberating"
at Reuters – Fri Jun 12, 6:34 pm ET

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani hasn't commented much on his
legal tangle with Coldplay, but he has plenty to say about his new band,
Chickenfoot. The latest in a line of supergroups to pop up recently, the act
features former Van Halen vocalist Sammy Hagar and bassist Michael Anthony and
Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith.
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Yahoo's "music" news headlines this week were more accurately about "celebrity"
news. These three headlines are among the few major exceptions.
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[Press Release
ROCK AND BLUES CRUISE SCHEDULE ANNOUNCEMENT
Sunday, June 7, 2009]

THE ECLECTIC NATURE . . of the bookings for these Rock and Blues Cruises ought
to be a real attention getter. Here is the original press release.

We have since received an update, but I am severely out of time. For the most
up-to-date information, a visit to www.rockandbluescruise.com would be a great
idea. - Ed.

http://www.rockandbluescruise.com/

ROCK AND BLUES CONCERT CRUISES SAIL BOSTON HARBOR

Spend your summer nights on the ocean listening to live music!

Boston, MA –The Rock and Blues Concert Cruises return to Boston Harbor this
summer. Cruise favorites The Ryan Montbleau Band, Alternate Routes, Entrain,
Ellis Paul and Beatlejuice are back! Along with these much loved acts, bands
like Adam Ezra Group and Virginia Coalition are ready to take to the water and
put on performances sure to rock the boat. During the five day Sail Boston 2009
celebration of Tall Ships, passengers will have the opportunity to view the
majestic ships during concert cruises with Bellevue Cadillac and Lez Zeppelin.
Rock and Blues Concert Cruises leave from Boston Harbor Cruises at Long Wharf.
Tickets are on sale at www.RockandBluesCruise.com. All shows are 21+.

The season kicks off June 20 with The Honky Tonk Blues Cruise, a singular
opportunity to get immersed in first rate Americana music while sailing the
harbor. The Honky Tonk Blues Cruise will feature Girls Guns and Glory, Boston's
premier purveyors of down-home roots music, along with Brooklyn's top
alternative band Yarn and the Josh Grider Trio, often called Austin's answer to
Jack Johnson. This is hipster twang - a hayride on the harbor. Hats and boots
are not required.

The full summer schedule is:

June 20, 8:00pm Honky Tonk Blues Cruise
with Girls Guns and Glory, Josh Grider Trio, and Yarn

June 27, 5:30pm and 9:30pm The Ryan Montbleau Band with Caravan of
Thieves

July 10, 8:00pm Bellevue Cadillac Tall
Ships Party

July 11, 8:00pm Lez Zeppelin Tall Ships
Party

July 18, 8:00pm Booty Vortex

July 24, 8:00pm Alternate Routes with
Civil Twilight

July 25, 8:00pm The Brew

July 31, 8:00pm Will Dailey with Gypsy
Tailwind

August 7, 8:00pm Entrain

August 8, 8:30pm Adam Ezra Group

August 14, 8:00pm Ellis Paul Band

August 21, 8:00pm Enter the Haggis with Hot
Day at the Zoo

August 22, 8:00pm Beatlejuice

August 27, 8:00pm Virginia Coalition

Additional cruises will be announced soon.

Rock and Blues Concert Cruise Pre-Parties

Pre-Parties will be taking place again at The Landing, Boston's only fully
outdoor patio bar located right on the Wharf. Cruise goers have the option to
enjoy a refreshing drink at the Landing before

boarding the boat. The pre-parties are sponsored by Samuel Adams, Coors Lite,
Miller Lite, Presidente, Red Bull and Triple 8 Vodka.

Other Summer Cruise Options

Rock and Blues Concert Cruises are not the only way to enjoy a summer night out
on Boston Harbor. Margarita's Mystery Cruise is a murder mystery dinner cruise,
where you'll have a "license to fill" your night with a "murder in paradise".
Enjoy a great "Buffet" while solving the murder. The Mystery Cruises begin
Saturday June 13th and run every Saturday until September 26th (except July
11th). Cruises board at 7:00pm, depart at 7:30pm and return at approximately
10:00pm. Tickets are available 781-784-7469 (SHOW) or
http://www.mysterycafe.com

From July 8th to the 12th, Boston will once again host the world's Tall Ship
fleet as part of Sail Boston 2009. The event will begin with the Grand Parade
of Sail, where narrated cruises will be given for a unique glance back into
history. As the official tour boat operator for Sail Boston 2009, Boston Harbor
Cruises tours and dinner cruises will get you up close to these grand vessels as
they return to Boston for the first time since 2000. For more information visit:
http://bostonharborcruises.com.

Tickets for Rock and Blues Concert Cruises are available online at
www.rockandbluescruise.com . Cruises leave from the Boston Harbor Cruise
terminal at Long Wharf (located between the New England Aquarium and the Long
Wharf Marriott Hotel.) Boats board a half hour before departure time and
ticket holders must be 21+. Discounted parking is available at the
International Place garage across from the Boston Harbor Hotel and just a short
walk from Long Wharf. The Rock and Blues Cruises are accessible by public
transportation, taking the MBTA Blue Line to the Aquarium stop.

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[Press Release
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
VELVET UNDERGROUND NEW BOOK
"White Light/White Heat:
The Velvet Underground Day-by-Day"
By Richie Unterberger
Now Available]

***WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND DAY-BY-DAY NOW AVAILABLE***

Richie Unterberger's White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day
is by far the most comprehensive book on the Velvet Underground ever published.
The 368-page, 8 1/2" X 11"-sized book details the group's recording sessions,
record releases, concerts, press reviews, and other major events shaping their
career with both thorough detail and critical insight. Drawing on about 100
interviews and exhaustive research through documents and recordings rarely or
never accessed, it unearths stories that have seldom been told, and eyewitness
accounts that have seldom seen print, from figures ranging from band members to
managers, producers, record executives, journalists, concert promoters, and
fans. The July issue of MOJO magazine hails it as "an impressive means to
reflect on the conundrum of what could be the ultimate cult band...detailed and
anecdote-packed."

Though White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day has plenty of
information about what happened when, it's not just a reference book. This
chronologically sequenced overview of the band's life and times also offers
weaves a wealth of passionate analysis and musical description into the
research. The result is not just a document of their perpetually fascinating
performances, hirings, and firings, but also insight into the creation of their
music-the aspect of the Velvet Underground's legacy, after all, that's by far
the most enduring.
White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day includes not only
basic nuts-and-bolts facts, but also many behind-the-scenes stories as to how
their songs were written and recorded; how their strikingly original stage shows
were devised; how the band were perceived by reviewers at the time of their
1965-70 heyday, not just in retrospect; and how the group as a whole underwent a
most improbable, incessantly unpredictable evolution from the most avant-garde
of bohemian origins into a highly accessible, yet still boldly creative, rock
band by the time Lou Reed left the group he'd co-founded with John Cale in early
1965.
While the bulk of White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day
documents the period from 1965 to 1970 in which Lou Reed was the group's chief
singer and songwriter, it also offers in-depth coverage of the individual
members' surprisingly extensive (if mightily obscure) pre-1965 activities; the
solo or non-VU projects in which they were involved between 1965 and 1970, which
were numerous and often quite intimately related to what the group themselves
were doing; and the ways in which the band's legacy was both influential and
expanded upon after 1970, not only via the numerous releases of unissued Velvets
material, but also through how the stature of their achievements grew and grew
with a wealth of posthumous honors and tributes. Along the way, many unreleased
concert and studio recordings are vividly described; many obscure and unlikely
concerts delineated; and many myths that have grown up around this most
legendary of all cult bands untangled and dissected.

White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day also features more
than 100 illustrations, including reproductions of rarely or never seen photos,
concert posters, contracts, letters, and other assorted documents and
memorabilia. It's the ultimate history of the band that did more than any other
to break down barriers between rock music and the avant-garde, incorporating
electronic innovations, experimental instrumentation and improvisation, and
lyrics detailing the realities of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll with greater skill
and daring than anyone else.

Richie Unterberger is the author of the acclaimed Unknown Legends of
Rock'n'Roll (Backbeat Books, 1998) and Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers:
Overlooked Innovators & Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock (Backbeat Books,
2000), both of which contained in-depth profiles of the most interesting
overlooked cult rock artists of all time, in all cases including first-hand
interview material with the artists themselves and/or their close associates. He
is also author of the two-part history of 1960s folk-rock, Turn! Turn! Turn!:
The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution (Backbeat Books, 2002) and it sequel Eight Miles
High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock (Backbeat Books,
2003). His book The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film won a 2007 Association
for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound
Research in the "Best Research in Recorded Rock Music" category.

For additional information regarding White Light/White Heat: The Velvet
Underground Day-By-Day, or to send questions or comments about the book, email
Richie Unterberger at richie@.... You can also visit his
website at www.richieunterberger.com/vu.html to view sample excerpts of chapters
from the book; lists and commentary of interest to Velvet Underground fans; and
updates on his current and future projects.
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