THE SEQUEL: THEY FOUND HITLER'S BRAIN!

 WE HAVE IT, RICHIE, THE SEQUEL

Mysterious brain found wrapped in foil on Lake Michigan beach, police say

THEY FOUND HITLER'S BRAIN https://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-brain-found-wrapped-foil-134051157.html

Senda stopped and picked it up.

“Curiosity got to me, so I popped it open and it looked like a chicken breast — kind of. It took a little bit for it to really (register) what was going on,” he told WITI.

Senda said the object appeared to be a brain, according to the outlet.

Warning: the photos below are graphic.

DUG MCCORMACK - CLUB BOHEMIA ARTIST OF THE MONTH

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 THE CLUB BOHEMIA ARTIST OF 

THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER

DUG MCCORMACK

Club Bohemia: Dug, you are quite active on the scene, what are you doing with all the clubs coming to a grinding halt during Covid 19?

DM: Well, I have been working since this all started and began recording a collection of songs/pieces at home and having some friends collaborate on them with me. It started as a fleshing out songs for Square Ape, we finished our first EP in February, had our first show, and released it 3/30/20,  

( https://squareape.bandcamp.com/album/process ) 

 and then as the current situation intensified, I started focusing on ideas that had been shelved, or sitting around way too long. That process ended up with lots of playing and creating new songs and things of that nature. I am in the final stages of mixing now and hope to release it before the end of 2020.  I have also been doing LIVE ART every Thursday night at 6pm on my Dug McCormack Art facebook page. ( https://www.facebook.com/DugMcCormackArt )
The artistic side of my brain has not been functioning as well the last 6 months, so I have been using the LIVE ART nights to try and shake things loose, and also "perform" a bit for folks. People can make donations and suggest things for me to create while they watch. I split donations 4 ways, 25% - the Black Lives Matter Movement, I usually choose a different city based on that weeks news, 25% to the Greater Boston Food Bank, 25 % to a Local Club and Their Staff, and 25% for art supplies.

 I also use this LIVE platform to get others to support clubs by donating to GoFundMe campaigns and buying any merch they may have. Lots of places have Tshirts for sale, O'Briens, ONCE, Charlies Kitchen, Great Scott, Midway Cafe, all have merch for sale to help the clubs and the staff. Another big way to help is to support promoters like Greyskull Booking and TinyOak Booking have merch for sale to help them get through these ODD times.  JUST FIND THE PEOPLE YOU MISS THE MOST FROM THE MUSIC SCENE AND SUPPORT THEM.

CB:The last post on the Psychic Dog site is Dec 24 2018, what's going on with Kevin and Dug and Psyhchic Dog?
https://www.facebook.com/PSYCHICDOG/


DM:   Psychic Dog had our last show at ONCE Sept of 2018.
I formed an MK III version with Kevin on drums and my brother Mike on bass and we recorded a 9 minute "prog" song for a compilation for our friends in Lazertuth, that should see the light of day in 2021.
(https://lazertuth.bandcamp.com/)

CB:You still have MySpace up on your Facebook page.  How is MySpace for musicians these days>

DM: That link is up there from when I started on fecebook back in 2010, I'm sure it's good for a laugh!

CB:   Guitar / Tall Person at Pony Snot and Guitarmouthkeys at Baluchitherium or on your Facebook page.  How many bands are you
in and can you tell us about these groups ?

DM:  At the moment none...... HAR HAR HAR.  I am in 3-1/2 bands at the moment. 
Pony Snot is a Rock band with my friend Britta, who sings and writes all the words, and I write the music and play guitar. We have been together for 2 years. Britta just turned 8, and we are currently in talks on releasing our first recordings with a major label.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEASELPUSS!!!!!
Baluchitherium is a country rock and blues band that Iplay keys, guitar, and sing in with some stellar musicians and pals, 2 of which happen to be my brothers.
It's good time music about themes as old as time, drinking, heartache, and cheese.
We released our first record last year at Club Bohemia
 https://baluchitherium.bandcamp.com/album/lost-glasses-empty-love
Square Ape is a dumb rock band with some extra wank added in. I wanted to play loud and fast dumb stuff with more guitar, so I asked Kevin from Psychic Dog to join in and got the magical John from BlissfullWizard, Death Is The Dream, Band Without Hands, and countless other bands to hop on bass.
We recorded an EP last November at Chillhouse Studio, played our first show in February and a week later the country was shut down. Never got that second show, but released our EP on 3/30/20
 https://squareape.bandcamp.com/album/process             https://blissfulwizard.bandcamp.com/releases
I sometimes play bass in the garage rock band SHAKE, great people making great sounds, and always a good time thrashing about.
And of course I have my "solo" stuff that goes all over the place
https://dugmccormack.bandcamp.com/album/back-out

CB:  When did you first get into playing music?

DM: We had an old piano that I would clunk around on growing up and then borrowed a neighbors guitar, THANKS LINDA, but really became focused on music around 15. I started as a bass player in a 90s cover band and started writing my own music around 1998. I love the blues and moved onto playing in blues rock bands and then just started "making it up" as I went along, which is what I still enjoy about music to this day.

CB: What was the first record you ever bought and do you still like it today?

DM:  First tape I bought - "The Real Thing" - Faith No More 
        First CD I bought - "The Downward Spiral" - Nine Inch Nails
        First Record I bought - "Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes" - Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery
All of these albums are still in heavy rotation.

CB:  Many clubs are on the verge of closing, Bull Run and Thunder Road, across from each other in Somerville, C Note in Hull, will this make it
harder for your bands to perform AND, just as important, will bands survive COVID if the club scene doesn't?

DM: Music will always find a way.
I just hope that those club owners being smashed in the face with debt and destruction right now can find a way to make it through with their health and hopefully their business.  The music community is one of the most supportive communities you could hope to be a part of, and a lot of people outside the scene take it for granted, most folks LIVE IN the music scene, these are the ones hit the hardest. These are the folks that open the club EVERY NIGHT, Book the bands, Serve the drinks, clean up the bathroom, make sure you are safe, Close down the club and DO IT AGAIN TOMORROW.  Most of your friends work at 3 different clubs, busting their ass for your enjoyment. 

I feel that the government local and national/ international has done a great disservice by leaving the clubs, staff, sound engineers, promoters, servers, bar backs, coat checkers, just left holding the bag.
Clubs are being closed, dreams are being shuttered, and there seems to be no plan for these folks whose livelihoods have been squashed and put on indefinite hold.

Most folks take the arts for granted and just assume they will always be there, that is definitely not the case.  

ALL MUSIC LOVERS should head here and show your support
https://www.saveourstages.com/

CB: Will the way music is performed and marketed change with the pandemic, and maybe just as essential, with musicians performing live on Facebook and other internet sites, is it already reshaping?

DM: The arts always have to be evolving. 
If it isn't fast and free, folks aren't interested. 

With technology in just the last 10 years, music has had to roll with the punches with the artists being taken advantage of at each turn. Major streaming platforms pay fractions of pennies on the play, and most sites to sell your music take a cut as well.
Live streaming will stay popular and whatever comes next will be good until someone figures out a way to better monetize it and milk the fuck out of it

CB: How many records have you released?'



DM:  maybe 10 ?


CB: How many tracks have you appeared on?

DM: 69

CB: Anything else you'd like to say to Club Bohemia?


DM: THANKS MICKEY.
Thank You for always being kind and supportive of whatever we brought down to Club Bohemia. You opened your space to us and we treated it like our own home. You played our records before bands when we weren't even playing. You always had a bit of musical knowledge to share and I always loved loading in early to shoot the shit or hear you play guitar, and of course  just hanging out in the back.  You are a genuine music lover and that is something that can never be beat, thanks for giving so many of us a place to start out, and a place where we could be ourselves.  Love ya dude.

Thanks for the opportunity Joe, Be Well my friend.

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In Memory of Ogo...a doggy I never met...from 1984

 In memory of Ogo this was the doggy of my best friend and his friend Jack. They are both gone but I found the doggy photo tonight, dated December 1984. They lived in Greece before I met my friend in 1995. Ogo had a good life I was told. Of course Ogo did. We would phone Jack in Thailand and say hello before his passing. 

 Here is to Ogo - 

probably the doggy's first time ever on the internet.

I don't talk much about my personal life...but finding this photo while organizing, I felt compelled to publish a doggy that meant so much to two gentlemen, too wonderful guys.

Interview with DAVE SCHWENSEN / THE BEATLES IN CLEVELAND / 9-7-2020

 

DAVE SCHWENSEN / 

THE BEATLES IN CLEVELAND / 9-7-2020

  

Interview conducted by Joe Viglione

A little Q & A for the Sunny page! 

Q:David, how many years has the book Beatles in Cleveland been out?  

A)It came out in April 2007. I was writing two books at the same time, the other being “Comedy FAQs And Answers.” I’d say I’m better known as a “behind the scenes guy” in the comedy industry because of my work in New York and Los Angeles.

    The comedy book deal was through my literary agent with a NYC publisher so was on a deadline for that one. The pressure was on – ha!

    “The Beatles In Cleveland” was mainly for myself – as a Beatles fan – and I could take my time and have fun with it.  So, the comedian interviews I did for the “FAQs” book were researched and pre-scheduled. The “Cleveland” book was more relaxed for me to do. I’d do one interview and it seemed that person would lead me to another. I’ve often said, that book pretty much wrote itself.

Q:Each year that goes by, is there renewed interest as more of the younger crowed find Beatles' history intriguing? 

A – Definitely and I see it for myself quite often. Since the book came out, I’ve put together a presentation that I’ve done for schools, libraries, LifeLong Learners and festivals. Now, not so much with the LifeLong Learners who are mostly first generation Beatles fans, I’ve been very pleasantly surprised at how many really young – and I’m talking maybe nine or ten years old through high school and college – fans show up at my programs. Quite a few are wearing Beatles t-shirts and come over for a signed book when I’m finished. I always tell them their mom and dad were even too young to be around when the Beatles were together!!!

    Also, some of the first generation fans will attend my programs and bring their grandkids with them. They want them to understand the excitement of Beatlemania and what was going on in the 1960s. I’ve always tried to deliver that feeling to my programs.

    Of course, it helps that my “day job” is a as a comedy coach – working with standup comedians and humorous speakers – so I’ve had plenty of experience on stage and know the value of humor in presentations. And in case some fans aren’t aware of this, another attraction of the Beatles other than their music and hair, was humor. They were the gap between “The Goon Show” and “Monty Python” in England. If you don’t believe me, watch “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help!” These are both comedy movies with a great pop music soundtrack.

Q:Have people written you new information on Cleveland's Beatles show or have you found more information to possibly update the book?

A. - Yes, yes and YES! Again, I’ve done a lot of live presentations – and now quite a few online as webinars (also for my book “The Beatles At Shea Stadium”) and fans have sent me rare photos and their stories about the Cleveland shows.

    In the years since the book was released I’ve also continued to interview people that were with them, such as Art Schreiber, the famed journalist who reported on their 1964 North American tour, and Bill Briggs who was a member of The Remains and opened all the shows for the Beatles on their final 1966 tour. The Remains also backed up Bobby Hebb on stage at all the shows. Again, as a Beatles fan if someone has a story about the Cleveland or Shea Stadium shows, I excited to hear it.

    Since my most recent book, “Something To Laugh About” was released on August 31 this year, I’ve turned my attention to an “Author’s Edit” updated version of “The Beatles In Cleveland.”

   It will keep all the interviews from the original release (including Bobby Hebb) but will go deeper with the new interviews and lots of new photos. Okay, the photos aren’t exactly “new” since the camera work was done at the 1964 and 1966 “riotous” concerts (remember – the police stopped both shows!) but for fans they will seem new. I don’t think they’ve been previously published anywhere else before.

Q:We know you spoke with Bobby Hebb for your book, any other artists or people involved talk to you for The Beatles in Cleveland?

A. – I mentioned two important additions above. The new interviews include promoters, fans and others that aren’t household pop music names. But their stories are fab!

Q:Did you get to talk to Trini Lopez about opening for the Beatles in Paris when you researched the 1966 book and the Shea Stadium book?

A – No, I didn’t have a hammer… Okay – sorry! I’m a comedy coach and I can’t help myself. Sometimes the humor works and other times… well, you are now a witness to the “other times.”

Q:Do both books complement each other or are they two separate stories?

A. – “The Beatles At Shea Stadium” is a very separate story.

    A lot of people don’t know the seeds for that famous concert were being planted in 1962. Ringo had just taken over from Pete Best and… well, you’d have to read it to learn more.

    But in one way they were connected. The Shea Stadium concert was the true beginning of “stadium rock” as we know it today. Elvis did a few before going into the army, but nothing like The Beatles in 1965. Because they drew 55,600 fans to Shea – with no advertising – it was expected they would do the same at every venue during the 1966 North American tour.

    The only reason Cleveland got a show in 1966 was because the original site – Louisville, Kentucky – didn’t have any place to put that many fans. Cleveland had a stadium that sat over 80,000 – so a change was made. That was a direct result of what happened at Shea. But because of John Lennon’s comments about Christianity and a few other factors, they didn’t need that many seats.

Q:With Barry Tashian's Ticket to Ride and your Beatles in Cleveland we have documented information on the 1966 tour...any other books that you recommend on that final Beatles tour?  

A – I know there are some out there and I wouldn’t want to miss anyone by not mentioning them. I’ve met some very cool Beatles authors over the years, and all have a lot to say about the subjects they’ve focused on. For me it’s the two books I’ve written – but I’d lose in Beatles trivial pursuit on topics other than those two books.

    I would say Ivor Davis and Chuck Gunderson have put together fab books about the Beatles North American tours. I relied a lot on Barry’s book and made sure I had a copy and it was in front of me when I interviewed him.

    Bobby Hebb had mentioned this story to me earlier, but Barry’s book was the proof I needed about The Beatles stopping in my hometown in Vermilion, Ohio on Saturday, August 13, 1966 while driving from Detroit to Cleveland. Haven’t heard that one? It’s in my book… ha!

Q:Anything You would like to add? Thanks, David

A. Here’s a story – experience – with Bobby Hebb that I’ve never forgotten and talk about when someone asks me about writing “The Beatles In Cleveland.” In fact, I was also a newspaper entertainment journalist for years and I can’t image too many other celebrities doing this…

  Bobby and I did his interview for the book over the phone. I’ve done it that way for most of my books – and recorded the conversations. Then I can transcribe and edit for the book or my newspaper column.

  Bobby and I had a great conversation. He was super nice, informative and a lot of fun to talk with. Plus, it was Bobby Hebb!! Yeah, I consider myself to be a “classic rocker,” “Sunny” is a classic song – and I had seen Bobby perform at the 1966 Beatles concert. If someone had told me then that I would someday actually talk with Bobby Hebb… well, I would have never imagined it.

  Anyway, when we finished our conversation I couldn’t wait to listen back. But there was NOTHING on the tape! It was blank!!

  In my excitement about talking to Bobby, I had forgotten to hit “record.”

  I was pretty sick about this and couldn’t believe I had lost the opportunity for Bobby Hebb to be in my book. But instead of letting it get me down – I reacted immediately. It had only been a couple minutes since we hung up, so I called him back.

  Now – again, I’ve interviewed quite a few celebrities. There are some that act like they’re doing you a big favor giving you a short amount of their “precious” time and others that are fun about it. I thought Bobby would be fun – or at least okay with my dilemma – and I was right.

  He answered his phone, I explained what happened (my “duh” moment of not hitting record) and we did the entire interview again! In fact, I’m sure I thought this one was even better because I was already familiar with what he told me before and we could go a little deeper.

  I’ve never forgotten that. I was a Bobby Hebb fan from 1966 – and even more so forty years later.

Rolling Stones "All The Rage," "Criss Cross" and 3 mixes of "Scarlet" - all the bonus tracks on Goat's Head Soup Reissue

 “That’s like a very Rolling Stones rock track," he said. "That wasn’t finished, it didn’t have a finished vocal or many lyrics, [so] I had to finish that one. But the guitar parts, I think, were all done. Might have added percussion, but that’s what you would have done anyway – [added] a bit more maracas and stuff afterwards.”

"[I]t’s in that mold,” Keith Richards added when informed of its similarity to "Brown Sugar." “Certain songs seem to be either closely related, or cousins of one another. I’d forgotten about it until I heard it again, but yeah, it does come off to me, now you mention it, [as being] in the ‘Brown Sugar’ mold.”

The other two unearthed tracks on the Goats Head Soup reissue are "Criss Cross" and the Jimmy Page-fueled "Scarlet." Earlier in the week, Jagger revealed that, when the idea of including them was posed to him, he thought, “'They’re all terrible!' That’s always my initial reaction, ‘They’re all useless!’ I mean, actually, I always liked the songs, but they weren’t finished.”

By the time he heard them cleaned up, however, the singer realized that "these three songs are all up there with the rest of the songs on this record.”

Read More: Hear the Rolling Stones' Newly Unearthed 'All the Rage' | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/rolling-stones-all-the-rage-video/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

Criss Cross and Scarlet to post

Mickey Bliss Podcast with Kids Like You And Me Sept 1, 2020

SPOTIFY PODCAST  MICKEY BLISS INTERVIEW 

 https://open.spotify.com/episode/3cNWOtV0W18VI7wWuRfePp?si=lBbuIdFlSRO7y7AZIJGf6A&utm_source=Facebook_SimpleMusicStories&utm_medium=sms&fbclid=IwAR0lKrhrTfq931-iYWxoyxwoWXZTsFH6Vk2s_RBH7o2nzaQuxH0O3EvESLc

The Pour House Changes Hands

 

1. Boston

The Pour House, popular pub in Boston, to change ownership after 34 years in business due to financial woes of COVID-19 pandemic

Updated 8:00 AM; Today 7:52 AM

https://www.masslive.com/boston/2020/09/the-pour-house-popular-pub-in-boston-to-change-ownership-after-34-years-in-business-due-to-financial-woes-of-covid-19-pandemic.html

Goats Head Soup 2020 Produced by Medford's own JIMMY MILLER Part 1

 

GOATS HEAD SOUP 2020, PART 1
REVIEW BY JOE VIGLIONE

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 THESOMERVILLENEWSWEEKLY LEAVE A COMMENT

Photos:
Tape box with engineer Rob Fraboni’s handwriting
Jimmy Miller in Los Angeles by Meredith Day
Rob Fraboni at the console

The Golden Age of the Rolling Stones is what I call the Jimmy Miller/Mick Taylor period …and the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World lived up to their name. This is the Stones when they’re not competing with the Beatles. You see, after Let it Be and Abbey Road the Beatles got firmly into their solo albums phase while the Stones kept crunching along with the magic that they liked to spin. Exile on Main Street and Goat’s Head Soup, the latter being re-released with bonus tracks first week of September 2020, were just about the conclusion of their “golden era” with producer Jimmy Miller and guitarist Mick Taylor. Taylor stayed on for “It’s Only Rock & Roll” but the band was changing again and things would be vastly different.

The radio friendly pop/blues material with Taylor is a major shift from that which “Dandelion,” “She’s a Rainbow” and “Under My Thumb” offered music lovers. Those three melodic songs are all vital, transcendent masterpieces, as were the Brian Jones/Keith Richards blues based compositions from the earlier days. And as the hardcore Stones fans knew, more songs were recorded for each album than saw the light of day. The quality of the outtakes? As one fan writes on YouTube “some bands would kill to have a song like the ones that the Stones discarded.”

“Fast Talking, Slow Walking” is one of the Jimmy Miller productions from Kingston Jamaica as is “You Should Have Seen Her xxx” and both are brilliant compositions. Like the dude said, some bands would kill to get ahold of stuff this good. But those two songs are not on the new four disc set. That kind of tells me that they’ll box up yet another with the original mixes we all know and love along with more gems for some mammoth sixty year anniversary come the years 2032/2033.

Goats Head Soup actual master including some penmanship from engineer Rob Fraboni

An intriguing bit of marketing by one of the smartest music business executives on the planet, Mick Jagger, is three different versions of “Scarlet,” which appears to be a post-Jimmy Miller production.
One features young actor Paul Mescal dancing around in a video to the album track. It’s all in good fun and does what Mick wants: keeps the Stones contemporary, even with a track almost 50 years of age. The others are clever remixes – one entitled “Scarlet – feat. Jimmy Page [The Killers & Jacques Lu Cont] while yet another is the “War on Drugs Remix.” Keep in mind that this is one of three bonus tracks, and Mick Jagger and Co. are just putting it out there for free on YouTube beating potential bootleggers at their own game. Let’s face it, YouTube is a giant radio station, and as “Angie” and “Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)” were free on the airwaves for you to cassette tape back in the day, the Stones’ goal is to get you to know the song. It is brilliant marketing by a veteran group. They take it one step further by releasing simultaneously another outtake, “Criss Cross” with the Miller/Fraboni team that brought you the aforementioned “Heartbreaker.”
“Scarlet” was recorded around the time of Goat’s Head Soup in Ronnie Wood’s house, 1973 ish, Mick Jagger talks about it in a recent interview: “… and Jimmy Page turned up for some reason and various other musicians. We ran through this amongst other things, someone said Ginger Baker on drums…Jimmy Page remembered everything, it wasn’t Ginger Baker…”he’s very sweet and he remembered the whole thing.” Page himself turns up on the same interview on the BBC and stated “Yes, some things I do remember, especially if it is something special, and this was. From scratch, and the following day putting the guitar solos on. More recently Mick got in contact and sent me the finished version. It is cool, it always was, my memory’s clear because it was very special.

Jagger talks to Radio 2 on the Breakfast Show

When it comes to the Stones this writer can “Ramble On,” Mr. Page…so let us consider this part one of what could be a three or more part series on this amazing new release.

Heartbreaker
Produced by Jimmy Miller
Engineered by Rob Fraboni

Rob Fraboni engineered the session at the L.A. Recorder and I asked Rob on the phone if he felt, as I did, that this composition was out of character for the Stones? Rob’s opinion was the opposite of mine, that it was very much in character for Mick and Keith and the boys. To this writer and a bit of a Stones historian – my first roundtable interview as features editor of my high school newspaper was the Maysles Brothers when they were promoting the film Gimme Shelter – felt the lyrics were a far cry from “Dandelion,” “Brown Sugar,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” et.al. And for a cool band like the Stones, their song about heroin had a more uptempo rock and roll sound than the Velvet Underground plunging through the dark recesses of “Sister Ray” on White Light/White Heat.

Even the actual title of Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) is a dramatic departure from “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and “Sympathy for the Devil,” however the instrumental is simply amazing. So, musically, Mr. Fraboni is right, the tracks – guitar, bass, drums, horns – pure Rolling Stones. Mick Taylor the perfect complement to Keith Richards. The instrumental is included on this new release, Goats Head Soup 2020.

That being said, the live rendition of Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) London Sept 9, 1973 at Wembley Stadium is outrageously wonderful. Five minutes and five seconds of guitar magic https://youtu.be/r6bbnKBVIws Find that gem on YouTube.

“Silver Train” on the album is like Stevie Wonder giving Beck, Bogert and Appice the song “Superstitious” to put out first. The legendary Johnny Winter got to release “Silver Train” from Goat’s Head Soup before the Rolling Stones rendition and – if you think about it – a terrific marketing strategy again from the Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the world. The Winter version features my good friend, the late Moogy Klingman on piano. The energy level is remarkable under boy genius producer Rick Derringer…and it is simply an amazing piano from Klingman … and it isn’t musical sacrilege to say that Winter’s version eclipse’s the Stones themselves with this gem of a take.
What many people do not know is that the late Jimmy Miller lived in Medford in the apartments directly behind Kappy’s Liquors and Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn’s office. Part II will explore more of Goat’s Head Soup, the album, and some of Jimmy’s escapades here in the Medford/Somerville/Malden area.

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Working on a new Top 10, Top 40... "Cover Me I'm Going for Milk" by John Powhida with Willie Loco Alexander

 

"Melania" by John Powhida has the voice of Melania sounding like Yoko Ono saying "The greatest privilege on planet earth."   Haven't figured out if this is anti-Trump or pro-Donald, but the music is fascinating and reminds me of when Willie Loco Alexander wrote "Blues for Vanessa" when she was the hot name in the 1980s.

  MELANIA 

https://youtu.be/i9iDkDisLHE

John Powhida on Bandcamp

https://johnpowhidainternationalairport.bandcamp.com/

"Cover Me I'm Going for Milk" does have el Loco on electric piano solo and fills along with Peter Moore on synth strings.  It too has political implications ...interesting Video shot and edited by Amanda Nichols with animation and special effects by Amanda Nichols ... very cool with waves of dreamy, mellow moody instrumentation.

From the full length "Airport Life" J-Po: vocals, electric piano and bass guitar Willie Alexander: electric piano solo and fills Peter Moore: synth strings George Hall- guitar Tony Goddess: ace tone rhythm ace Mixed by Derek Demulling at Mixtree Audio Produced by John Powhida Engineered by Tony Goddess and Jen Morrison at Bang A Song, Gloucester, MA

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Stars Above - CD Review

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 Sweet Sorrow CD from Stars Above Stars Above emerged from West Lynn, Massachusetts with a powerful sound, tight groove and smart, concise songs that stick in your head. Take “Sweet, Sweet Sorrow.” The pounding quick rhythms alongside spitfire vocals “Stumble through today…no such thing as sweet, sweet sorrow” propel this frantic post-Nirvana slice of regret over a romantic break-up. The music reflects the desperation with the trio in unison displaying relentless angst. “Some February Day” has melodic guitar reflecting the throbbing basslines, the same tempo as “Sweet Sweet Sorrow” talking about a love affair from two years ago, and the fateful consequence. “Used To Be” could be a militant British punk band from the late 1970s with more clarity in the mix, probably due to Lemonheads engineer/producer Tom Hamilton. Very good stuff. review by Joe Viglione

The second half of Sweet Sorrow by Stars Above (James Morrill – guitars, vocals, bassist Jones Harrington, drummer Andrew Greeley).

4. Some February Day

5. Sweet Sorrow

6. Used to Be

http://www.tmrzoo.com/2014/61449/cd-review-sweet-sorrow-bostons-stars

Hear the band on REVERB NATION https://www.reverbnation.com/starsabove?fbclid=IwAR1Gc1qxvHyQPL6LX-4idnzEzoKD10_YIU5lDglyUsgzRv1Mfy0WPXz4FlA

Artist Bio

Stars Above is a band from the North Shore of Boston, originally a solo project (COAA) started by James Morrill. After the disintegration of his former band Pure Impact, James started recording songs on his own and with fellow Pure Impact guitarist/singer Ian Clark. These songs would be posted on James' MySpace page. Eventually, James called upon bassist Jones Harrington and drummer Andrew Greeley to start playing the songs. They played one show under the COAA moniker and then, not wanting to consider it a solo project, changed their name to Stars Above. There first show as Stars Above was May 10, 2010 @ Charlies Kitchen w/ Johnny Earthquake Band, With A Bullet, and Lesser Evils. Around this time they recorded a self released 4 song demo at Ian's home studio. After the Charlies Kitchen show, Jones left the band and was temporarily replaced by Ian. Ian filled in for a few shows but couldn't commit to the band because of his duties with his other bands. James then found Steve Heddon through Craigslist to fill in on bass. Coincidentally Steve was from the same area and knew much of the same people that James and Andrew knew. Stars Above continued to play the Boston/Cambridge circuit, playing shows at clubs like the MIddle East, T.T. the Bears, the Midway, O'Briens, All Asia, Tavern At the End of the World and others. They also performed a live set and were interviewed on Unregularradio's "The Boston Local Music Show" Sometime after this Steve disappeared and Jones rejoined the band on bass.
Since then, Stars Above have continued to play shows at places like The Rosebud, My House Lounge, Dodge Street, McGanns Pub, etc. They recently began recording an E.P. with local producer Tom Hamilton (producer of Jerry's Kids and The Lemonheads first three records) and are still in the process of finishing it up. They also just did a live set on Unregularradio's local marijuana reform show "the Boston Pot Report".

Currently, Stars Above are finishing up there first studio E.P. w/ local producer of Jerrys Kids and the Lemonheads, Tom Hamilton. They continue to play show's are trying to solidify their line-up.

...the rest has yet to be written.

For booking, contact, hate mail, whatever- email Starsaboveband@yahoo.com

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