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Alan Lewis, Editor

Our Corner of the Rock 'n' Roll Life

August 8, 2009
Issue 2009:339
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We've got Thrills, chills, Dirty Water
: : : What more do you need?
When the big beat hits ya
Comin' from your transistor
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When the big beat hits ya...

"Boston Lullaby," Dudick/Naihersey.
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BRATTLEBORO, VT, August 8 - With any luck, you spent the present week listening
to music. We spent the week talking with police officers, supermarket customer
card issuers, lawyers, bankers, and various customer service workers whose "and
other duties as assigned" leave them precious little time to provide actual
customer service.

A lot of the news e-mails we received this week carried new tellings of news
stories we copied weeks and even months ago, with very little if any updating.
At the same time, all of the highlights in this week's Newbury Comics new
releases list repeated entries from last week's announcement.

Maybe this is the new millennium's version of summer reruns.

We still wound up with a decent number of news items to post here.
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STEVEN TYLER OF AEROSMITH

We are very sorry to hear of the tumble Aerosmith's Steven Tyler took, as we
understand it falling off-stage while trying to entertain the audience during a
down moment in a concert. Maybe it's true that no good deed goes unpunished.

We have been with Aerosmith, to one degree or another, since the band's early
days in southern New Hampshire; and we offer hearty wishes of "Get well soon!"
to this deservedly legendary Mr. T.

YAHOO MUSIC NEWS HEADLINE
Friday Evening

Aerosmith guitarist: Tyler broke shoulder in fall
AP – Fri Aug 7, 8:00 pm ET
File - Vocalist Steven Tyler of the rock band Aerosmith performs... AP

CHICAGO - Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler has a broken shoulder and stitches
in his head after falling from the stage during a South Dakota concert, and the
band plans to discuss what that means for the future of its current tour,
guitarist Joe Perry said Friday.

LOOKING AT THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THIS STORY . . is a stretch, but breaking one's
shoulder and getting stitches in one's head certainly beats breaking one's head
and getting stitches in one's shoulder. Serious falls sometimes go even worse
than this one. Steven Tyler will mend and be as good as new. Not everyone who
takes a hard fall is so lucky.
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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

If I remember right, all of these "new releases" were on Newbury Comics' list
last week. I am including them here because this is what we've got.

New CD Releases Available Tuesday, August 4th

CHARLES, RAY - Great Ray Charles (3 CD) - $7.99

CURTIS, CATIE - Hello Stranger - $13.88
<> This record includes Catie Curtis' interpretation of Don White's "Be 16 With
Me," and he has spoken highly of her version.

DUKE & THE KING - Nothing Gold Can Stay - $9.99
MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD - Radiolarians III - $11.88
MODEST MOUSE - No One's First, And You're Next - $8.99
MONK, THELONIOUS - Great Thelonious Monk - $13.99
REED, JIMMY - Bossman: Best & Rarest Of Jimmy Reed - $7.99

VARIOUS ARTISTS - BOSTON GETS A GRIP - Tribute To Aerosmith - $14.99
<> It is totally surprising that we have received no publicity at all on "Boston
Gets a Grip." We noted it here some weeks ago entirely on the strength of
reference to the album in an Alizon Lissance mailing.

YAMES, YIM (MY MOURNING JACKET) - Tribute To George Harrison - $5.99

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featured dvd new release Available Tuesday, August 4th

090808_EvntHrizonHarvard Beats Yale: 29-29
$17.99 DVD

SOURCE: Newbury Comics, "August 3 Newbury Comics New Releases and More," August
3, 2009.

:: catie curtis, duke and the king, medeski martin and wood, thelonious monk,
jimmy reed, don white, yim yames; bossman: best and rarest of jimmy reed;
radiolarians iii, radiolarians 3; be sixteen with me ::
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W B C N - F M
A Sad Farewell

Should be interesting 4 days coming up

<> Tomorrow morning (August 8) at 9:50am WBCN 104.1FM will kick off the 4-day
long retrospective on its 41 years as Boston's rock music institution. The
station has released a list of guest scheduled to appear during its goodbye
party. Among the highlights, Howard Stern who ruled Boston's morning drive from
1996 to 2005 is scheduled to link up live during Monday(8/10)'s morning drive.

WBCN's press alert is below :

WBCN RETROSPECTIVE – 4 DAY FAREWLL TO THE ROCK OF BOSTON

Tune in for the four-day farewell to WBCN 104.1FM, beginning this Saturday
morning at 9:50 a.m. with a presentation of a classic "Mattress Mishegas" hosted
by Charles Laquidara and Co."Mattress Mishegas" will kick off four days of
recollections, rare concert replays and past members of WBCN calling-in and
stopping by the studio.

Below is a partial list of what to expect:

Visits by Charles Laquidara, Ken Shelton, Howard Stern, Billy West, Steven
Clean, Albert O, Bradley Jay, James Montgomery, Sam Kopper, Mississippi Fats,
Ray Repien Original WBCN General Manager, Maxanne Satori, Shred, Mark Hamilton,
Bill Abbate, Dickie Barrett of the Mighty Bosstones, Greg Hawkes of the Cars,
Robin Young, Carter Alan, Oedipus, Jerry Goodwin, Steven Nelson, Nik Carter,
Tami Heide, Cha-Chi Loprete, Jay Leno, Steven Strick, Tony Berardini and many
more!

Hear such memorable events as Maxanne Satori interviewing Bruce Springsteen in
1973, Carter Alan interviewing U2 in 1983, and many celebrity visits including
Bill Murray with Ken Shelton and many, many more!!

Beginning Saturday, August 8 at 10am, we kick off a four day farewell to 104.1
WBCN.

On Thursday, August 13, BCN moves to 98.5-2FM.

SOURCE: Mike Andrade, "Four Day Farewell to 104.1 WBCN," August 7, 2009.

:: sam kopper, charles laquidara, mississippi fats, mississippi harold wilson,
steve nelson, oedipus, maxanne sartori ::

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THE LIGHTS OUT
At Ralph's Diner
Worcester, Massachusetts
Saturday, August 8, 2009

<> The Lights Out crew has a show at "Ralph's Diner in Worcester on Saturday the
8th. A great rock institution of wormtown, Ralph's promises cheap beer and
burgers (and a second story load-in for us, but we do it because it always
sounds great in there and they know how to rock at Ralph's). Noah from
playgroundboston.com says 'The Lights Out consistently deliver a killer show,'
and we fully intend to keep provin' that dude right, as best we can. Come on
and be a part of it with us!"

This is the way the band's mailing set out the details:

: : : "WORCESTER, MA | RALPH'S CHADWICK DINER | SAT 8/8 at 9:00 p.m."

SOURCE: The Lights Out, "Be in the TLO Video," August 4, 2009.

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JOHN COSTER
At Bistro 186
Northampton, Massachusetts
Friday, August 14, 2009

<> New songs and some wild old tunes

John Coster: Guitar Harmonica Vocals
Caroline Clifford, AKA on Keys
Also Appearing: Surprise Visitors

Bistro 186 • 186 Main Street • Northampton
Friday • August 14 • 8:00 PM

No cover - beer, wine, and food available

http://www.myspace.com/johngcoster

SOURCE: John Coster, "John Coster Gig With 'Caroline Clifford,'" August 7, 2009.

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MARBLEHEAD UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH BENEFIT
At the Me & Thee Coffeehouse
Unitarian Universalist Church
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Saturday, August 15, 2009

**Roll Over, Beethoven!**

<> **/An evening of your favorite Fab Four tunes to benefit the Unitarian
Universalist Church of Marblehead and to further music education at local
schools/**

Saturday, August 15, 7:30 pm
**at the Me&Thee Coffeehouse
Unitarian Universalist Church
28 Mugford St., Marblehead**

**/featuring/**

Greg Greenway

and

Tim Mann and Greg Allison

Melissa Greener, Nels Andrews, A. J. Roach

Kirsten and Dave, Pesky J. Nixon, Lin Sprague

**Buy your tickets online at

http://www.uumarblehead.org/Benefit.shtml

or at the door**

Please come out on Saturday, August 15 to support the church and to bring music
to local schools this coming year. Please come and support all these wonderful
musicians who are donating their talent and their valuable time on a "gig night"
to help us out.

*Tickets* ($20/adult, $5/children and $45/family) are available

http://www.uumarblehead.org/Benefit.shtml

now.

Refreshments will be served throughout the evening.

SOURCE: Info At MeAndThee Dot Org, "Beatles Benefit Concert on Saturday, August
15," August 7, 2009.

:: me and thee coffeehouse ::

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DAVE CARTER MEMORIAL WRITER'S ROUNDUP
Club Passim
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sunday, August 16, 2009

<> "Come celebrate Dave Carter's songwriting (and his August birthday) at the
annual (but first East Coast) Dave Carter Memorial Writer's Round-up on Sunday,
August 16 at Club Passim. Brush up on your Dave Carter tunes because, between
sets by the brilliant Richard Shindell and Grammy-winning songwriter Gretchen
Peters, audience members will be drawn from a hat and invited on stage to play
their favorite DC song. The concert is always a benefit; this year, the dough
goes to the Passim School of Music. ... Frogs admitted for free."

SOURCE: Tracy Grammer, "Tracy Grammer Music August 2009 Newsletter," August 2,
2009.

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MOVE THE MUSE FESTIVAL
Campanelli Stadium
Brockton, Massachusetts
Saturday, August 22, 2009
12:00pm - 12:00am
[Which I certainly take to mean Noon to Midnight - Ed.]

Move the Muse Fest

Girlyman / David Jacobs-Strain / Eliza Gilkyson / The Paper Raincoat / The
Kennedys / Natalia Zuckerman / Jacob Johnson / Trina Hamlin / Lisa Martin /
Vicki Genfan / and more!

Campanelli Stadium
1 Feinberg Way
Brockton, Massachusetts

<> 1st Annual Move the Muse Fest day-long music event featuring a fabulous line
up of national, regional and local musicians. Events include raffles to raise
money for breast cancer. Info at

http://www.movethemusefest.com/

SOURCE: RedLionRecords At AOL Dot Com, "Lisa Martin Music News August 2009,"
August 7, 2009.

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GUITAR HERO: VAN HALEN

<> Joystiq is reporting the following tracks for Guitar Hero: Van Halen, as well
as a release date of December 22.

Van Halen tracks:

* "Ain't Talkin Bout Love"
* "And The Cradle Will Rock"
* "Atomic Punk"
* "Beautiful Girls"
* "Cathedral" (solo)
* "Dance The Night Away"
* "Eruption" (solo)
* "Everybody Wants Some"
* "Feel Your Love Tonight"
* "Hang 'Em High"
* "Hear About It Later"
* "Hot For Teacher"
* "Ice Cream Man"
* "I'm The One"
* "Jamie's Cryin"
* "Jump"
* "Little Guitars"
* "Loss Of Control"
* "Mean Street"
* "Panama"
* "Pretty Woman"
* "Romeo Delight"
* "Running With The Devil"
* "So This Is Love"
* "Somebody Get Me A Doctor"
* "Spanish Fly" (solo)
* "Unchained"
* "You Really Got Me"

Not to mention these other songs:

* Alter Bridge - "Come To Life"
* Billy Idol - "White Wedding"
* blink-182 - "First Date"
* Deep Purple - "Space Truckin"
* Foo Fighters - "Best Of You"
* Foreigner - "Double Vision"
* Fountains of Wayne - "Stacy's Mom"
* Jimmy Eat World - "Pain"
* Judas Priest - "Painkiller"
* Killswitch Engage - "The End Of Heartache"
* Lenny Kravitz - "Rock And Roll Is Dead"
* Queen - "I Want It All"
* Queens of the Stone Age - "Sick, Sick, Sick"
* Tenacious D - "Master Exploder"
* The Clash - "Safe European Home"
* The Offspring - "Pretty Fly For A White Guy"
* Third Eye Blind - "Semi-Charmed Life"
* Weezer - "Dope Nose"
* Yellowcard - "The Takedown"

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT . . other examples, but I did notice that this list includes
the New England-connected bands, Fountains of Wayne and Killswitch Engage, two
acts I would never try to fit into the same pigeonhole. - Ed.

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<> A good number of our e-mail correspondents really liked this 1997 Boston
various artists Van Halen tribute album:

Various Artists
"Everybody Wants Some! A Loose Interpretation
of the Musical Genius of Van Halen"
(CD, CherryDisc Records CH 5794-2, 1997)

Fun stuff.

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ROCK BAND DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT
For the Coming Week

SOME CLASSIC CLASSIC-ROCK RECORDINGS . . are included among this week's Rock
Band downloadable content. Personally, I would have gone for "Somebody To Love"
by The Jefferson Airplane instead of that band's "White Rabbit," but this may
not be an occasion for such nitpicking. There's some great material here. - Ed.

Hey gang,

<> Here's the DLC that will be available next week! A little old, a little new,
a few live tracks and a few tracks from a band that exists only as a cartoon!
Enjoy!

Tracks available on Xbox 360 (Aug. 11) and Playstation 3 (Aug. 13):

Gorillaz "Clint Eastwood"
Gorillaz "Feel Good Inc."
Gorillaz "Re-Hash"
Janis Joplin "Piece of My Heart"
The Band "Chest Fever (LIVE)"
Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit"
The Who "Magic Bus (Live at Leeds)"

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as part of the "Gorillaz Pack 01" or
as individual tracks on Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 systems.

Price:
$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track
$5.49, £2.49 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for "Gorillaz Pack
01"
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LISA MARTIN
Big News

<> "Just Plain Folks Music Awards: - As you know from my last newsletter, my
song, 'Good Love Is Hard To Find,' has made it to the final round of the awards.
Over 50,000 songs were submitted in this category alone so I am very pleased to
have made it to the final 20. ["Wildly ecstatic" might be more fitting. - Ed.]
I will be heading to Nashville and will perform at BB Kings Blues Club in
downtown Nashville on Friday, August 28th. ... The awards will be on August 29
at the Wild Horse Saloon and though I won't be performing that night, I will be
in attendance awaiting the judges decision. Wish me luck!"

SOURCE: RedLionRecords At AOL Dot Com, "Lisa Martin Music News August 2009,"
August 7, 2009.
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PASTICHE
ARC 2009

<> Last issue I talked a little about the latest Pastiche release. I have since
added that recording to our new record catalog. Here are details:

Pastiche
"ARC" (CD, LowBudget Records LBCD64, 2009)
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MIKE AND RUTHY
Michael Merenda and Ruth Ungar Merenda

<> "Last weekend was a blast. We celebrated Mike's birthday by opening for
Billy Bragg, then we played an un-amplified show at a 94 year-old music hall in
the woods and finished up on Sunday at the Newport Folk Festival finale with
Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Balfa Toujours, and many
more! We sure are feeling good after that!"

SOURCE: Mike and Ruthy, "August 2009," August 5, 2009.
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STAIND
Will the Cycle Be Unbroken

<> One of the very last things I did before starting final work on this
newsletter issue was to look up the western Massachusetts metal band, Staind, in
our public library's hardcopy All Music Guide. Much to my surprise, the latest
Staind record release AMG listed was 2001's "Break the Cycle." If you know what
has become of this group since "Break the Cycle," please e-mail us by way of

: : : FredRemainsLost At Yahoo Dot Com

only convert this into an all-lowercase conventional e-mail address.

The last relevant things I remember seeing in print had to do with some shows
Staind member Aaron Lewis was giving under his own name. That was a number of
years back. Since that time, I seem to have lost track of this outfit.

:: nems query, nemsquery ::
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GREGORY DOUGLASS HOLIDAY EP
"What Songs Should I Sing?" He Asks

<> "What holiday songs – traditional or obscure – would you like to hear on your
Gregory Douglass Holiday EP? Please email with your picks and I'll narrow them
down to the top 5 or so:

: : : gregory at gregorydouglass dot com

(Please note that his last name is spelled with two S's on the end.)

SOURCE: Gregory Douglass, "Gregory Douglass News," August 1, 2009.
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COACHMEN
1960s Connecticut Band
A Query
Second Try

<> If you know about a 1960s Connecticut band called The Coachmen and you are
willing to share your information, please e-mail us by way of

: : : FredRemainsLost At Yahoo Dot Com

only convert this into an all-lowercase conventional e-mail address.

These particular Coachmen flourished from the early 60s to about 1967 or 1968
and played contemporary covers (not sure, one way or the other, about original
material) through the areas of Fairfield County Connecticut and Westchester/
White Plains, New York.

We would greatly appreciate whatever information you could send our way.

:: nems query, nemsquery ::
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THE VILLAGE GREEN
1960s Maine Rock Band
A Repeat Query

<> We have a correspondent who is looking for information about the late-1960s
Maine rock band, The Village Green. This group, according to the inquiry we
received, played a Bar Harbor, Maine club, The Casino, and according to my own
recollection also played the Lucerne country club.

If you could help our correspondent in his quest for information, please e-mail
us by way of

: : : FredRemainsLost At Yahoo Dot Com

but first convert this into a conventional, all-lowercase e-mail address.

:: nems query, nemsquery ::
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HADLEY, MASSACHUSETTS
Happy 350th Birthday!

Do you remember when Hadley, Massachusetts was first founded? Gee, time went by
fast. I can hardly remember any of the first three hundred of those three
hundred fifty years.

We were sent the following celebratory message from the members of Rani Arbo and
Daisy Mayhem:

<> Aug 22 Hadley, MA: 350th Anniversary Celebration: 350 years! Can you believe
it? They'll be celebrating all summer with farm tours, polka parties and more."

http://www.hadley350.org

SOURCE: Daisy Mayhem, "Daisy Mayhem August News," August 5, 2009.
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YAHOO MUSIC NEWS HEADLINE
Friday Afternoon

Founder of punk's Mink DeVille dies at 58
AP – Fri Aug 7, 4:43 pm ET
FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2002 file photo, U.S. singer Willy DeVille... AP

NEW YORK - Willy DeVille, who founded the punk group Mink DeVille and was known
for his blend of R&B, blues, Dixieland and traditional French Cajun ballads, has
died, his publicist said Friday. He was 58.

ONE OF OUR E-MAIL CORRESPONDENTS . . attended a really early concert by The
Cars, with Mink DeVille, at The Rat in Boston's Kenmore Square. He spoke of
this show as simply fantastic. - Ed.
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YAHOO MUSIC NEWS HEADLINE
Thursday Evening

Hark! Bob Dylan Christmas album coming
Reuters – Thu Aug 6, 10:38 pm ET
Rock musician Bob Dylan performs at the Wiltern Theatre in Los... Reuters

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Bob Dylan is set to release an album of Christmas songs
this holiday season, according to the Web site BullyPulpit.com.

I GUESS . . Dylan can't let Gregory Douglass get ahead of him on this holiday
record thing. - Ed.
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show listings would be of no interest at all to the great majority of our
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We make exceptions when show listings are part of an item of more general
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