Static Live Magazine January 2020

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Oh My Goddess 

Hail to (To Hell With) Turd Music 

Jack Mitchell’s Beautiful World of Black 

and White 

On the Block - Watching Juliet, Naked 

Musical Innuendos 

A Day in the Life of a Gigging Musician 

Texting Cobain by Hank Harrison 

Static Live Event Calendar 

Behind the Mic: Riggs 

Rocktails 

2020: Year of the Visionary 

Stacks Be Gone 

Runway Chronicles 

Coming Attractions 

Snap It 

Metal Compost 

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Oh My Goddess 

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“Unimpressed!” 

“Mutant Gods...” 

“Good, Great!” 

“It was well done!” 

“I fart on this record!” 

“Perfectly Awful!” 

“Kiss My Ass” 

“GODAWFUL” 

HAIL TO ( TO HELL WITH) TURD MUSIC 

by Rick de Yampert 

No doubt you’ve been inundated with 

critics’ year-end lists of 2019’s best 

music. But what about all the shit 

music out there? Where is Leonard 

Pinth-Garnell when you need him? 

Leonard, you may recall, was the Dan 

Aykroyd character on “Saturday Night 

Live” who celebrated – celebrated! – 

incredibly bad theater, opera, art and 

music. 

When I was the pop music critic 

for 23 years at the Daytona Beach 

newspaper and for a time at The 

Tennessean in Nashville, I became a 

Leonard only when forced to do so. 

My fellow reporters had cream-puff 

jobs like venturing into the vortex of 

hurricane winds or dodging bullets 

while covering a thug’s standoff with 

police. Me, I had to review Michael 

Bolton’s concert in the mid-1990s at 

the Ocean Center in Daytona. I was, 

ahem, unimpressed. So I reported 

that Mr. Bolton’s voice sounded like 

he had “gargled with sand” and that 

his stage presence and rapport with 

his fans were “as stiff as a Vladimir 

Lenin statue.” 

When my review ran in the paper, 

I was able to handle the 1,323 earbusting 

phone calls and 786 poisonpen 

letters from irate, middle-aged, 

female concert-goers who had 

fantasized they were going 

to be able to reward a 

backstage blowjob to the 

Rottweiler-voiced singer. 

But I winced when my 

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mother-in-law (at that time) reviewed 

my review by telling me: “That’s not 

very nice.” I felt a deluge of guilt 

and shame for having shitted on 

one of her idols, for doing what all 

negative reviews do to the fans of any 

performance, music recording, film 

or book being pilloried: A negative 

review not only says a supposed 

artistic creation is a turd – said review 

also implies any fan who enjoys and 

esteems said creation is a tastelacking 

dumb-ass for liking the artist 

and/or the work in the first place. 

The shame from my mom-in-law’s 

dart slimed me for . . . oh, about 7.2 

seconds, then it was back to writing 

CD and concert reviews however I 

was struck by them: good, great or 

yak shit. 

Pinth-Garnell-ish negative reviews 

are a strange beast. 

“We enjoy a bad review more than 

a good one,” reads the book jacket 

blurb of Laura Ward’s compilation 

“Bad Press: The Worst Critical 

Reviews Ever.” Except, of course, 

when a Leonard goes after an artist 

that you personally believe is God. 

Then you want to plant your size 12 

boot up the pompous critic’s size 9 

asshole. 

The music section of Ward’s 2002 

book leans heavily on decades-old 

and even centuries-old slams of 

classical music, but it does include 

an assessment of a rock band by 

conservative political commentator 

William F. Buckley Jr.: “The Beatles 

are not merely awful. I would consider 

it sacrilegious to say anything less 

than that they are godawful.” Like 

Timothy Leary, I believe the Beatles 

are mutant gods, but ol’ Bill’s 

dismissal didn’t rankle me. As a 

reviewer, he’s really shitty. That’s all 

the game you got, Bill? Proclaiming 

an artist is “godawful”? 

Of course, turnabout is fair play, as 

when Michael Bolton lambasted us 

critics during a press conference: 

“You take a bunch of no-talent 

chimpanzees and you give them a 

bucket of paint, they’ll destroy any 

Rembrandt or van Gogh around. The 

critics that are insensitive and rude 

can kiss my ass.” 

In an interview with Rolling Stone 

in 1994, Greg Dulli of the Afghan 

Whigs touted the greatest negative 

review ever written – and it was of 

his own band! “I love the mean stuff,” 

Dulli said. “If it’s well done, I really 

enjoy it.” He then cited a critic in 

“this little fanzine” who “completely 

disemboweled our record. The last 

sentence of the review was ‘I fart on 

this record.’ I must have laughed for a 

week every time I would think of that 

line.” 

Damn, I wish I had penned that 

review. 

Here’s to the Leonard Pinth-Garnells 

of the music world.

We may be used to selfies now, but it’s Robert 

Cornelius’ 1839 image that lays claim to being the first 

self-portrait. Taken in Philadelphia, Cornelius sat for 

a little over one minute before covering the lens. It’s 

hard to imagine how many pictures are taken around 

the world these days in the same one minute’s time. 

The fascination with the human face has been around 

since we first recognized ourselves in a reflection of 

a pool of water, or perhaps a blurred vision of oneself 

on a shiny rock. For thousands of years, man has 

rendered some form of the human face in drawings 

and paintings, creating selfies before the term even 

existed. Modern mirrors may have originated in the 

19th century, but mirrors, in general, have actually 

been around for much longer. According to a 2006 

review by vision scientist Dr. Jay Enoch in the journal 

Optometry and Vision Science, people in Anatolia 

(modern-day Turkey) manufactured the first mirrors 

out of the ground and polished obsidian (volcanic 

glass) about 8,000 years ago. So basically, this shows 

that human beings are incredibly vain and pictures 

That being said, there are a limited few whose eyes 

behind the lens can be recognized as much as this 

month’s featured artist. He’s part of a select few 

trusted by literally everyone famous in the world to 

take some of their most intimate pictures during what 

were sometimes vulnerable situations. His iconic 

photos prove that it takes not only a camera but a 

person with a vision behind the lens to truly create 

works of art in photographs. While Jack Mitchell has 

taken thousands of colored pictures, it’s his legacy of 

black and white photography that has inspired and 

shown the world just how beautiful people can be in 

photography’s simplest form. The lighting and angles 

had to be just right to capture the perfect shadows 

and nuances within each face, with the final result 

being almost like looking into the soul of the subject 

or perhaps seeing the hardships and prosperity that 

make a person great or famous. Back then it wasn’t 

just a simple selfie. It was a way to share one’s 

lifestyle and grace. Here’s a little more about Jack 

Mitchell and why his work will live on forever in the 

beautiful world of black and white. 

JACK MITCHELL’S 

BEAUTIFUL WORLD of BLACK and WHITE 

Jack Mitchell was born in Key West on September 

13, 1925, and grew up in New Smyrna Beach. He 

became interested in photography as a young 

teenager and his father bought him an expensive 

camera when he was 14 (expensive for the time - 

$54 during the depression). Jack took the camera 

to a War Bond rally in Daytona Beach in 1942 to 

snap a picture of Hollywood star Veronica Lake, 

whose signature look was to wear her hair down over 

one eye. Young Mitchell asked her to pull her hair 

up, which she laughingly did and he later sold the 

photograph to the Daytona Beach Observer 

and became the youngest person in the 

history of the publication to be granted a 

By The Reluctant Genius 

press card at age 16. 

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Mitchell was a photographer in Italy for the Army 

at the end of WWII. In 1949 he was invited to a 

dance center in Massachusetts, which led him to his 

specialty of capturing complex motion (specifically, 

dance). He moved to New York City in 1950 and 

soon made a reputation photographing modern 

dance troupes. In the 1960s, the New York Times 

became aware of his work and began giving 

him assignments to photograph artists 

and performers. Jack photographed John 

Lennon and Yoko Ono just days before 

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Lennon’s murder. He was also skilled in portraits and 

worked mostly, but not entirely, in black and white. 

Mitchell officially retired in 1995, after building an 

archive of over 5,000 photography sessions with a 

vast array of major artists and performers. In 2009, 

he had an accident at his home which cracked several 

of his vertebrae; after which, he was unable to stand 

up straight and experienced constant back pain. 

While he was still recovering his long time partner, 

Bob Pavlik, died under anesthesia during surgery for 

an abdominal infection. 

His inability to stand or walk normally left him unable 

to work in the darkroom and hesitant to be seen in 

public. He spent his last years working on two books 

showcasing his work. He died at his home in New 

Smyrna Beach on November 7, 2013 

* Photographs © Jack Mitchell, used with 

permission and courtesy of the Jack 

Mitchell Estate and Getty Images 

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On the Block 

One interesting “side effect” of insomnia is having 

time to explore the seemingly endless library of 

movies, documentaries, TV series, etc … that is 

available to almost everyone these days. I stumbled 

upon a movie recently 

called “Juliet, Naked”. 

It’s a 2018 film based 

on a book of the same 

title written by Nick 

Hornby. Basically, the 

main character, Annie, 

is in an unfulfilling 

relationship with a 

man named Duncan. 

Duncan is obsessed 

with an obscure 

musician named Tucker 

Crowe who has not 

released any music in 

25 years, and Duncan operates a website dedicated 

to Crowe. Duncan receives a package in the mail 

one day containing an album called “Juliet, Naked”; 

recordings of the acoustic demo versions of the songs 

on Crowe’s hit album “Juliet”. Annie writes a negative 

review of the album on Duncan’s website. I’ll only 

give a small spoiler – Tucker Crowe himself contacts 

Annie about the review and the plot thickens from 

there. I enjoyed watching it, and I started thinking 

about some of the fictional music movies I’ve seen, 

but many of my friends had never even heard of 

them. If you’re searching for something new on your 

streaming device on a rainy Saturday afternoon, give 

one of these a try: 

Rock My World – a 2002 

film about a fictional 

American rock band who 

retreat to England after 

the disappearance of 

their leader/bass player. 

They replace him with a 

new bass player, Natalie 

(Alicia Silverstone) and 

want to come up with a 

new sound, so they rent 

a mansion 

owned by 

Lord and Lady 

Foxley (Peter 

O’Toole and 

By Jenny McLain 

Joan 

Watching “Juliet, Naked” 

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Plowright) who are desperate for money and 

even pose as the butler and the cook during the 

band’s stay. I have watched this movie several times, 

because it just makes me laugh. 

That Thing You Do – a 

1996 film written and 

directed by Tom Hanks 

about a small town band 

from Pennsylvania who 

hit it big for a little while 

as a “one hit wonder”. 

You’ll see the familiar 

faces of Ethan Embry, 

Charlize Theron, Liv 

Tyler, Giovannii Ribisi, 

Steve Zahn, Chris Isaak 

and Tom Everett Scott 

in the cast. It’s fun to 

watch a movie with some 

(well, a lot of) clichés and if you think about it enough, 

a lot of parallels between The Wonders and The 

Beatles. I know - a lot of people have actually heard 

of and/or have seen this one. But if you haven’t, you 

will be glad it was on this list. 

Streets of Fire – a 1984 film 

starring Diane Lane and 

Michael Paré. Paré plays 

the part of a mercenary 

hired to rescue his exgirlfriend 

(Lane), a singer 

who has been kidnapped 

by a motorcycle gang. Rick 

Moranis plays the singer’s 

current boyfriend, who hired 

the ex-boyfriend for the job. 

The acting in this movie is 

so bad, it’s good. The plot is 

thin and the sets ridiculous; 

Amy Madigan is a tag-along tough girl who wants 

a cut of the reward. Go ahead - get a bottle of your 

favorite liquor and make a shot game out of watching 

it! If you’re in a snarky mood, it’s even better! 

Of course, there are too many fictional music movies 

to name; you’ve seen Blues Brothers, Almost 

Famous, Tommy, This is Spinal Tap, School of Rock, 

etc, etc. But give one of these a try and let me know 

what you think!

Musical Innuendos 

Hi, guys! I’m back just in time for the New Year. 

2020 has some major things in store, especially for 

musician Faith Hannon. 2020 means the release of 

her new EP “Lie” which will include her previously 

released “Toxic” and “Bittersweet”. In December we 

had Faith in our studio to shoot and to catch up. She’s 

one of our favorite artists to photograph at Lunar 

Studio. 

By Samantha Tribble 

Photos by Stephen Holvik of Lunar Studio 

Recently she’s been playing with Dan Lunde and 

Andrea Martins at venues such as The Hardrock 

Hotel and The Ormond Garage. She just turned 18 

and can now play until midnight! Faith has been in the 

studio as well trying new techniques with auto-tune 

and instrumental and vocal reverb. We talked a bit 

about where her recent inspiration is coming from. 

While she said Clairo has been a major theme for 

her, she keeps a long list in her room that she adds to 

frequently. 

Next year Faith will be attending UCF to major in 

Marketing. We know she’ll succeed in her goals to 

become more of an entrepreneur and to gain insight 

into how to market herself to wider audiences. Until 

then, Faith will be working on her album to potentially 

release it on October 16th, 2020 (her 3 year 

anniversary of going solo!). 

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You can find Faith Hannon’s music on most 

music platforms such as iTunes and Spotify.

IMAGINE 

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IMAGINE you are getting 

ready for a huge concert. The 

lights are up and the crowd is 

pouring in, your guitar is tuned up 

and your voice is warmed up. The 

music is no problem since you know 

the material well - you’re not even 

nervous, After all, you have been 

a pro for years. Then you catch a 

glimpse of yourself in the mirror. You 

remember the bouncer stopped you 

on the way in to ask who you were, 

but never questioned the rest of the 

band. Bing Ding Ding the bell goes 

off - you DON’T look the part! 

I discovered Gandhi was a lawyer 

who only got into the robes later in 

life. Turns out a public image wasn’t 

so ‘real’ after all. 

This was me as a young guitar 

slinger trying to keep it ‘real’. Soon 

it dawned on me that I had to get 

my clothes and image together but 

I had no idea how and began to 

study. I tried to reconcile the outfits 

that Elvis or Prince would wear with 

the Grunge movement or the Earthy 

look of college radio stars. Then 

I found out that Hendrix wore a 

hairpiece and Nirvana had a clothier 

who pre-stained and tore the outfits. 

Once I was willing to surrender 

my comfort zone clothes (no shirt, 

shorts, and flops) when in public, 

my look immediately improved. 

Then I realized that on stage, 

comfort was not the goal at all! 

See, I’m a musician and I live by 

my ears. It’s all about melody and 

groove in my limited world. Great 

for me but the general public is 

much more VISUAL. I think around 

70%-80% are visually oriented. 

It was imperative for my now 40- 

year career to approach something 

outside of my natural talents - 

fashion and public image. 

I started by considering shoes. 

Shoes being one of the easiest ways 

to stand out. Bright colored kicks 

with an unassuming outfit can even 

work. I avoid regular walking shoes. 

I keep in mind that I’ll be under 

bright lights and dancing around 

on unfamiliar stages. Good fit and 

long lasting quality are what I go 

for. Cool boots with a heel for height 

advantage, brand new neon white 

sneaks or shiny leather are all good 

choices. 

Next, I think of my shirt. Any loud 

shirt can make you stand out but it’s 

better to ask someone with fashion 

sense to tell you which colors work 

better for your skin tone. Beware that 

these may NOT be your personal 

favorite colors. The point is to flatter 

and frame you for the public, not 

stroke your ego. Seek advice on 

where you need help. Build up a 

collection for various scenarios and 

add to it regularly. This is one of the 

most costly areas because I need 

a lot, and good shirts don’t come 

cheap. When selecting, I ponder the 

venue as well. The pimp suit I wear 

at the big shows won’t work at my 

coffee house gigs. 

If you are going for a relaxed look, 

make sure it is very flattering - if 

A Day 

in the 

Life 

of a 

Gigging 

Musician 

not outright sexy. You want to be 

approachable but not bland. I prefer 

to look like I’m a musician with some 

fashion pop. It’s good to be noticed 

when you are about to perform. A 

high collar and pompous hat can add 

lots of flair. Fancy clothes tend to get 

you noticed online and by the media, 

which results in more bookings 

since money follows attention. You 

can develop a signature look like 

your favorite stars or be seasonally 

eclectic. Just be sure to get noticed 

by the 70%-80% who think with their 

eyes. Video killed the radio star after 

all. 

by Adam Floyd 

When I close my eyes sound comes 

pouring in. Symphonies and pop 

songs, some well known and others 

composed in my head on the spot. 

I’m making up a song as I type this 

article. It’s to the rhythm of a creaky 

ceiling fan and cars going by on my 

street. Music is in the blood but I 

have some sound advice for those 

who want to attempt a musical performance 

career: You need to develop 

your wardrobe so you can become 

the rock star that people IMAGINE. 

IMAGINEoneself 

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“It is a wise father that knows his own 

child” (The Merchant of Venice 2.2.73) 

Hey! Kurt, are you listening? It’s me, your 

father-in-law; you know, the old dude who figured he 

could help. But then you died. Kurt, you are a stupid 

ass, a genius and a typical rock star pulled along by 

your dick. You are also a political firebrand, and you 

are the father of my third granddaughter. Sorry, there 

are two others. 

I loved you even though we never met. When you 

died, I cried for two weeks, but so did everybody else, 

except your widow… well, she cried, but only for the 

cameras. We never had a chance to meet, did we? 

Your music coaxed millions of young people into 

direct action, and you were uncompromising in that 

pursuit. You weren’t 100% sure about your politics, 

but you had a vision. You rejected unearned wealth 

and abstract power. You made chumps out of people 

who don’t like being embarrassed by kids from the 

sticks. We have a lot in common. Like me, you didn’t 

trust big shots. For this, you were assassinated 

Potheads and junkies don’t usually hang around 

together. That’s why your music was so hard for me 

to grasp at first… but you weren’t always on smack 

when you wrote your songs or played your music, so I 

listened and finally, I heard it. You were a savant, like 

Mozart. You felt smart, but in our post-punk world it 

takes time—to “come out.” At first, you wrote music 

for sixteen-year-olds prancing around in slightly beat 

Land Rovers and the Hondas they inherited from their 

folks. They listened, they danced and moshed and got 

stoned, but only a few heard your deeper mantra. 

About two months before you died I discovered 

that Linda Carroll, née Lou Linda Risi (Courtney’s 

mother) was going to write a book for Doubleday 

and that she found her biological mother 

in Brooklyn, who turned out to be the late 

Paula Fox. Great-grandma Fox was, by 

the way, a genius and a highly decorated 

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TEXTING COBAIN 

author of several best sellers. 

When you married Courtney, 

and especially when Frances 

was born, I thought, “Oh boy, 

my son-in-law is a savant 

too; now we have a whole 

family of gifted people.” I was 

delusional with hope, but so 

what? It was a hopeful vision. 

That was my state of mind 

when you died. Then reality 

struck, then silence. You have 

a really big DNA-linked family 

now. I mean step-relatives and 

half-brethren and so forth, but 

still real family; you know, the 

ones who tolerate your bullshit 

because they are your family. 

In 2008 I found my lost 

biological son, thanks to 

Facebook, so my heart goes 

out to Courtney. I know how 

she must have felt knowing 

her grandmother was a major 

genius and not Italian. I feel 

the same about my son, who 

turned up with one of the most 

amazing jobs anyone can 

have, a really nice wife and 4 

kids. Funny how that works. 

One day you are looking at 

old age and the next day you 

pop up with five grandchildren 

waiting for Christmas. 

I have been around mock stars 

and rock stars for most of my 

adult life. I had no choice. My 

college chums all became 

rock stars, and my kid felt it 

was her destiny to follow the 

trend. So, when you came 

along, I had tools with which 

to judge you fair and square 

just by observing you in the 

media, I could tell you valued 

money about as much as you 

valued Monopoly tokens. It 

was a game, a boring game. 

To you, money was the chump 

change of life—you needed it 

to do good things, but it had 

an ugly side and you saw that 

too. Just remember, kicking 

money to the curb is OK, as long 

as you live in a cave. I could tell 

you saw the greedy people at the 

altar of power and fame, and to 

them, both things flow from the 

same rusty pipe. But you were a 

public figure, a real star, and an 

easy target. 

Big shots worship money, to them 

it’s GOD. But if you were here, 

if I knew your current address, I 

would tell you to be careful when 

you show disdain for the money 

god, the one Ginsberg called 

Moloch. Remember, Burroughs 

was born into money so he didn’t 

give a shit about it either and it 

was Burroughs who told your fans 

that you were the next Beatnik 

king, a real poetic blue-blood. Not 

your wife dude, not your wife; she 

was jealous of you, although she 

was a blue-blood of a different 

kind. Sadly, she blew that heritage 

when you died. 

That’s where you went off the 

track—you not only disdained 

money; you found it empty and 

shallow. You wrote poetry and 

music and made videos about 

the corruption of power. Like a 

post-industrialist painter and the 

muralists of the WPA, you joined a 

union of mad hatters and drooling 

dogs, flightless vultures that had 

no use for precocious children and 

wunderkinder unless they could 

earn big money. 

Just remember; kicking money 

to the curb is OK, as long as you 

live in a cave. But you signed a 

contract with mongrels on a bone 

and you bought houses - Kurt, 

booby! You projected images 

that continue to grab people, and 

in this society, if you do that, you 

get a big target pasted on your 

back. In the warlike world of 21st 

Century America, you have to beat 

the shit out of your opponent and 

scribble at the same time. It isn’t 

good enough to get published 

or put out albums; you have to 

cripple the other guy. America 

doesn’t want pansy poets 

anymore; they want Sunday 

Punchers like Norman Mailer and 

Jack Kerouac; tough machismo 

boys who can write things down 

in blood, other people’s blood, 

Truman Capote notwithstanding. 

Kurt, you were a true warrior 

poet until you saw a deeper truth. 

You realized Hollywood was just 

stupid! That’s when somebody 

decided you needed a short 

course in murder. You were 

assassinated, plain and simple. 

Whomever it was got away with 

it a quarter-century ago, but 

they made mistakes; ghoulish 

errors left behind like crumbs in a 

Hansel and Gretel tale. 

Your “suicide note” was not a 

good-bye-cruel-world letter. It 

was a note to your fans saying 

you needed to go into hiding, that 

a succubus was stalking you. 

This letter was addressed to an 

imaginary friend from childhood, 

an elfin figure named Boddah. 

Because that’s the world you 

lived in. From the beginning, 

slushing through crash pads in 

Olympia, you didn’t care much 

about anything—a classic beat 

existentialist. But as you grew 

into your fame suit, you realized 

you could do good things. You 

turned against your mongrel 

masters and you amassed a 

huge following of independent 

fans. Hell, even me. So, from a 

strictly reactionary perspective, 

you had to be neutralized, just 

like the Kennedys, Martin Luther 

King, and John Lennon. You 

are the greatest rock star of 

your generation and you will be 

respected forever. 

By Hank Harrison 

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2020 

January 

20 

Wednesday, January 1, 2020 

31 Supper Club - Cesar Romero 6pm 

Grind/Kona - Are Friends Electric 6pm 

Outriggers - Laree App 5pm 

Thursday, January 2, 2020 

31 Supper Club - Warren Beck 6pm 

Bounty Bar - Seth Pause 7pm 

Grind/Kona - The Click 7:30pm 

Outriggers - Cory Shenk 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Marty McCarrick 6pm 

Friday, January 3, 2020 

31 Supper Club - Brent Clowers 7pm 

Bounty Bar - Hannah Wilson 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Adam’s Edge 

5pm 

Grind/Kona - Psycoustic 7pm 

NSB Brewing - Down River Duo 6pm 

Outriggers - The Transfers 6pm 

The Garage - Big Beat 

Traders - Boomers 9pm 

Traders - Warren Beck 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - The Evening Muze 

6pm 

Saturday, January 4, 2020 

31 Supper Club - Billy Dean Trio 7pm 

Bounty Bar - Warren Beck 7pm 

Chase’s - Down River Duo 4pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Jonny Odis 12pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - The Vibe 4pm 

Grind/Kona - Jimmy Z 7pm 

NSB Brewing - Are Friends Electric 6pm 

Outriggers - Big Beat 6pm 

Tortugas - The Cyclones 6pm 

Traders - Boomers 9pm 

Traders - Jay Paski 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Pot Likkers 6pm 

Sunday, January 5, 2020 

Bounty Bar - The Evening Muze 7pm 

Chase’s - Rasta Bayers 10am 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Beartoe 12pm 

Outriggers - Billy Dean 2pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Jay Paski 1pm 

Monday, January 6, 2020 

31 Supper Club - Jonny Odis (Private 

Party) 

Tuesday, January 7, 2020 

Grind/Kona - The Transfers 6pm 


31 Supper Club - Beartoe 6pm 

Grind/Kona - Jay Paski 6pm 


Traders - Marty McCarrick 8pm 


31 Supper Club - Peter Alden Elvis 

Tribute 6pm 

Bounty Bar - Jay Paski 7pm 

Grind/Kona - The Cyclones 7:30pm 

Outriggers - The Vibe 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Seth Pause 6pm 


31 Supper Club - Faith Hannon Trio 7pm 

Bounty Bar - Jimmy Z 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Are Friends Electric 

5pm 

Grind/Kona - Ian Opalinski 7pm 

NSB Brewing - 6pm 

Outriggers - Tripp Tide 6pm 

The Garage - Brent Clowers 

Traders - Acoustic Inferno 6pm 

Traders - Pop Culture Poets 9pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Billy Dean 6pm 


31 Supper Club - Armando Diaz 7pm 

Bounty Bar - Ian Opalinski 7pm 

Chase’s - Eddy Davis 4pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Billy Dean 4pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Jimmy Z 12pm 

Grind/Kona - TBA 7pm 

NSB Brewing - Bradford Buckley 6pm 

NSB Brewing - The Vibe 6pm 

Outriggers - Bradford Buckley 6pm 

Tortugas - Are Friends Electric 6pm 

Traders - Etc 6pm 

Traders - Pop Culture Poets 9pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - The Transfers 6pm 


Bounty Bar - Bradford Buckley 7pm 

Chase’s - Sean Holcomb 10:00am 

Crabby’s Oceanside - The Cyclones Duo 

12pm 

Outriggers - Are Friends Electric 2pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Hannah Wilson 1pm 


Grind/Kona - Bradford Buckley 6pm 


Grind/Kona - The Evening Muze 6pm 


31 Supper Club - The Evening Muze 6pm 

Grind/Kona - Chuck Morel 6pm 


Traders - Bradford Buckley 8pm 


31 Supper Club - Leesah Stiles (Bette 

Midler Tribute) 6pm 

Bounty Bar - Hannah Wilson 7pm 

Grind/Kona - Beartoe 7:30pm 

Outriggers - Corey Shenk pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Warren Beck 6pm 


31 Supper Club - The Transfers 7pm 

Bounty Bar - Brent Clowers 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Seth Pause 5pm 

Grind/Kona - Eddy Davis 7pm 

NSB Brewing - Chuck Wiggins 6pm 

Outriggers - Jimmy Z 6pm 

The Garage - 5 Time Shag 

Traders - Kings County 9pm 

Traders - Psycoustic 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Nate Utley 6pm 


31 Supper Club - Mark Raisch 7pm 

Bounty Bar - Austin Miller 7pm 

Chase’s - Smyrna Erb 4pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - The Evening Muze 

12pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Tripp Tide 4pm 

Grind/Kona - The Vibe 7pm 

NSB Brewing - The Evening Muze 6pm 

Outriggers - Potlikkers 6pm 

Tortugas - Shameful 6pm 

Traders - Eddy Davis 6pm 

Traders - Kings County 9pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Ian Opalinski 6pm 


Bounty Bar - Davey Leatherwood 7pm 


Crabby’s Oceanside - Aaron Lightnin’ 12pm 

Outriggers - Warren Beck Duo 2pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Brody Mullikin 1pm 


Grind/Kona - Jeff White 6pm 


Grind/Kona - Warren Beck 7pm 


31 Supper Club - Beartoe 6pm 

Grind/Kona - Down River Duo 6pm 


Traders - Hall Brothers 8pm 


31 Supper Club - Big Beat 6pm 

Bounty Bar - Jay Paski 7pm 

Grind/Kona - TBA 7pm 

Outriggers - The Cyclones 5pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Jimmy Z 6pm 


31 Supper Club - Dana Kamide Band 7pm 

Bounty Bar - Warren Beck 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - The Transfers 12pm 

Grind/Kona - Adam’s Edge 7pm 

NSB Brewing - Dustin Stock 6pm 

Outriggers - The Evening Muze 6pm 

The Garage - Jimmy Z 

Traders - The Cyclones 9pm 

Traders - The Vibe 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Gina Cuchetti 6pm 


31 Supper Club - Felix Deneau 7pm 

Bounty Bar - Ian Opalinski 7pm 

Chase’s - Big Beat 4pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Ian Opalinski 12pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Marty McCarrick 

4pm 

Grind/Kona - Bradford Buckley Band 7pm 

NSB Brewing - Hall Brothers 6pm 

Outriggers - TBA 6pm 

Tortugas - Eddy Davis 6pm 

Traders - Etc 2:30pm 

Traders - Orlando Trainwreck 9pm 

Traders - Warren Beck 6:30pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Rasta Bayers 6pm 


Bounty Bar - Jimmy Z 7pm 


Crabby’s Oceanside - Warren Beck 12pm 

Outriggers - Down River Duo 2pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Chuck Morel 1pm 


Grind/Kona - Davey Leatherwood 6pm 


Grind/Kona - Rasta Bayers 6pm 


31 Supper Club - Joe Young Trio 6pm 

Grind/Kona - Austin Miller 6pm 


The Garage - Are Friends Electric 

Traders - Jimmy C - 8pm 


31 Supper Club - Warren Beck 6pm 

Bounty Bar - Chuck Wiggins 7pm 

Grind/Kona - 5 Time Shag 7:30pm 

Outriggers - Corey Shenk 5pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Claire Vandiver 6pm 


31 Supper Club - Jonny Odis 7pm 

Bounty Bar - TBA 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Chuck Wiggins 

4pm 

Grind/Kona - Cory Worsley 7pm 

NSB Brewing - Jimmy Z 6pm 

Outriggers - Austin Miller 6pm 

The Garage - Ian Opalinski 

Traders - Drew Halverson 6pm 

Traders - The Accuzed 9pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Brent Clowers 6pm 21 

Community Events

Mic:Riggs 

Behind the Howdy, 2020! Glad we all made it to this side 

of a new decade. It seemed like a good time for 

personal reflection and renewed goals. Then 

I remembered goals suck, so I just decided to 

reflect on the power of music. I love music so 

much that a single song can change the course 

of a day, good or bad. And certainly, all of us 

“Broken” - SEETHER with 

AMY LEE 

As the story goes, singer 

Shaun Morgan and Amy Lee 

of Evanescence were dating 

when this song landed on 

“The Punisher” soundtrack 

and subsequently Seether’s 

2nd album. It’s a great codependent 

relationship song 

and the combined vocals 

and string arrangement 

make this a turbo-powered track that knocks the wind 

out of me. They later had a very public breakup and 

wrote pissy songs about each other but damn, they 

left a great footprint with this song. 

“The Fire” - REV THEORY 

This band knows how to 

rip some great hard rock 

tracks but they found a 

sweet spot with this tune. 

It is lyrically a tale of the 

final embers of a failed 

relationship. Powerful instrumentation and killer 

vocal; this song hooks me hard. If you are trying to 

salvage something with a significant other, print these 

lyrics out and tape ‘em on their car window. It’s worth 

a shot. 

“Hey, Johnny Park!” 

- FOO FIGHTERS 

Man, Dave Grohl has compiled 

a lotta hooks in his career. This 

one snags me like a damn 

marlin… power and emotion 

tucked into a tight 4 minutes and 

some change. 

95.7 the Hog, Daytona Beach 

Riggs 

have a pool of tunes that we’ve carried through 

the years that yank on our emotions more than 

others. Perhaps not simply sad songs or break-up 

ballads, but just compositions of any genre that 

trigger center-of-your-chest feelings. So on the 

back end of holiday depression, let’s dig in - and 

hopefully, you’ll discover some you like too! 

“Break In” 

- HALESTORM 

Get it on their 2012 LP 

The Strange Case Of… 

If a song could kick 

my ass, this may be a 

contender. Lzzy Hale 

drops a vocal here that 

is equal parts tender 

fireside hugs and 

vicious uppercuts to the 

feelings box. This tune 

is the perfect blend of 

associable lyrics and a virtuoso vocal experience. 

“Put your lighters in the air and lead me back home”. 

“Damn, you leave me defenseless”... Come on! AND 

she plays piano on it. Too much! Awesome. 

“Little Girl’s Eyes” 

- LENNY KRAVITZ 

Find this one on his LP 5. 

This song is very stripped 

down and it poked at 

my feels BEFORE I had 

a daughter of my own. 

Now that she’s hit double 

digits, I can barely even 

listen to it without it 

getting REALLY dusty in 

here. It’s a beautiful lyric 

and if you have a daughter, spin it and try not to cry. 

“Nutshell” 

- ALICE IN CHAINS 

Haunting. Just brilliantly 

fucking haunting. 

“Big Skies, Black 

Rainbows” - VERBENA 

This tune from the INTO 

THE PINK album is the 

final track on the record. 

Dave Grohl produced the 

shit out of this amazing 

album and this song has a 

bookend link with the LP’s 

first track. You will get eerie chills from the Cobainlike 

vocals and dissident guitar strumming of frontman 

Scott Bondy and the female harmony vocals are a 

perfect complement to the mood of the tune. Love it. 

“Hurt” - Not the Trent 

Reznor / Nine Inch Nails 

song that certainly is way 

off my emotional palate. 

No, this is a stinger from 

Christina Aguilera. This 

dynamic track, I assume, is 

a conversation with a loved 

one that has passed away. 

But I don’t want to know 

the real story behind it. 

Just hearing her incredible 

range of whispered emotion 

and stomach-stirring powerfully belted notes and 

lines, it kicks a lump in my throat every time. What a 

voice. And what a song. 

“Wings Of Time” - TOTO 

I am a day-one fan of this 

band. And while I like 

their rockin’ stuff more, 

Steve Lukather & Co. can 

grind some emotion. “Out 

Of Love” is a beauty by 

them, but this ethereal 

track is packed with lyrical power and it delivers lush 

and layered vocal harmonies. And Luke’s soakingwet 

liquidy guitar tone and emotive playing are 

captivating. And at a stout 7 ½ minutes, ‘ya get more 

vibes for your buck. 

“Brand New Start” 

- ALTER BRIDGE 

Look, there just isn’t a 

vocalist out there today 

who can do what Myles 

Kennedy does. And he 

sings with a silkiness that 

stimulates your auditory nerves and makes your brain 

happy. It’s just science. LOVE this combo of power 

and almost making me weep. 

“Call Me” 

- SHINEDOWN 

The final track on 

their “The Sound 

Of Madness” album 

(which is crammed 

full of greatness), the 

song brings it home like a walk-off home run. Brent 

Smith crushes this goodbye tune with stellar vocal 

power and the simple instrumentation underneath 

gives the stage to perfectly matched harmonies from 

Zach Myers. I have listened to this tune a thousand 

times and I still get all clinched up as soon as the 

piano opens the song. I like it so much, I’ll even 

occasionally stop singing along to enjoy the original. 

Perfection. 

GARY MOORE 

Ah, so many times has a 

Gary Moore song forced 

me to swallow the lump in 

my throat. The late Irish 

guitar legend sings with 

as much raw emotion as 

he rips on guitar. And 

his songwriting pinpoints 

exposed feelings and 

attacks them with musical 

medicine. “Empty Rooms” 

is a must for your “Am I Sad Enough?” test as is 

“Crying In The Shadows” and, of course, there are 

a slew of songs after his turn from rock to blues, like 

“Separate Ways” and of course “Still Got The Blues 

(For You)”. But nothing trips the tear-jerk wire more 

than his take on the epic instrumental “The Loner”. 

I truly believe that he actually made his guitar cry 

while squeezing out these emotive notes. If you have 

feelings in your body, take a cool 6 minutes out of 

your day and pop on the headphones and let Doctor 

Gary treat your ills. 

OK, I will leave those there for now though I have 

many more heart-wrenchers in my lil’ music array. 

I hope that you can take some of them in and feel 

the same. 

Cheers! RIGGS 

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The Morning HOG / 95.7 The HOG, 

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Joan Jett was born 

Joan Marie Larkin on 

September 22, 1958. 

Jett got her first 

guitar at the age of 14 She 

took some guitar lessons, 

but soon quit because the 

instructor kept trying to teach 

her folk songs. 

Rocktails 

with Chez Rocker 

Jett is best known for her 

work as the frontwoman of 

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, 

and for earlier founding 

and performing with the 

Runaways, who recorded 

and released the hit song 

“Cherry Bomb”. 

She has three albums that 

have been certified Platinum 

or Gold, and has been a 

feminist icon throughout 

her career. She has been 

described as the Queen 

of Rock ‘n Roll and the 

Godmother of Punk. In 2015, 

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts 

were inducted into the Rock 

and Roll Hall of Fame. 

In her book “The Cocktail: 

200 Fabulous Drinks”, 

author Jane Rocca included 

a cocktail named the Joan 

Jett so I’m going to stick with 

that. Simple but delicious. 

The Joan Jett 

4 oz dark rum 

4 oz cola 

2 squeezed lime wedges 

Over ice in a large glass 

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4 BOOMERS/JAY PASKI 

8 MARTY MC CARRICK 

10 POP CULTURE POETS/ 

ACOUSTIC INFERNO 

11 POP CULTURE POETS/ 

ETC 

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17 KINGS COUNTY/ 

PSYCOUSTIC 

18 KINGS COUNTY/ 

EDDY DAVIS 

22 THE HALL BROTHERS 

24 THE CYCLONES/ THE VIBE 

25 ORLANDO TRAINWRECK/ 

ETC/WARREN BECK 

29 JIMMY C 

31 THE ACCUZED/ 

DREW HAVERLSON 

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2020: 

Year of the 

Visionary 

By Candice Beu 

Fredrick Franck opens his famous book “The Zen of Seeing” 

with this: 

“We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, 

television tubes.... our looking is perfected every day but we 

see less and less. When on the other hand I do see - suddenly I 

am all eyes, I forget this ME, I am liberated from it and dive into the 

reality of what confronts me, become part of it, participate in it.” 

When I first started studying drawing back in college, this 

unconventional book came highly recommended by my professor. 

It spoke to me as a still life artist but on a deeper level it opened my 

truer eyes. I saw that it was possible to become not only an artist 

of a particular set medium, but of life itself. This new way of seeing 

introduced to me by Franck had a way of subtly shifting my spiritual 

outlook while also enriching my creative output beyond what it had 

ever been before. Its meditative practices and curious exercises 

deepened my work as a visual artist, and over time I found this had 

an effect on me as a lyricist, a filmmaker and even as a performer. 

In his book, Franck talks about seeing in a way that enables one to 

capture the essence of an image rather than just copying what is 

already known. He speaks of accessing the visionary within, versus 

becoming a mere copycat. In his zen-like manner he teaches how 

to unveil the extraordinary within the ordinary to find that everything 

is in fact exceptional in its own right. He reminds us that we know 

nothing until we become an experience of it, sans labels. If you have 

ever wondered what separates the mediocre from the greats, it is 

this: you cannot categorize or define what makes them so. They are 

anomalous. They are an experience unto themselves; an electric, 

sublime, inexplicable, lightning in a bottle experience. When you 

encounter something like that, it can change you indefinitely. This is 

the way of the visionary. This is their gift to us. They present to us a 

reflection of the possibility of our own greatness. 

When we “look” at something our computing brains automatically 

ignite our pattern recognition and give us a desire to name things for 

filing and retrieval purposes. But when we deliberately pause that 

function, change gears to “see” with a witnessing overview and an 

in-sight-full focus, we can see beyond form and connect the dots 

in new ways on multidimensional levels. This allows us to enmesh 

our “knowns” with the “unknowns” of our inner visions, connecting 

them contextually to the whole of whatever it is we are creatively 

investigating. This is perfect for mining fresh perspectives, and often 

leads to visionary inventiveness. Kids do this instinctually almost 

all the time. By adulthood, we have almost completely been trained 

out of this habit and away from indulging in our imaginations. From 

childhood on, most of us are taught to look but not see, hear but not 

truly listen, talk but not deliberately speak. Many of us can turn into 

self conscious onlookers instead, trying to “fit in”, embarrassed by 

ours and others’ idiosyncrasies. As such onlookers, we tend to box 

ourselves away from our innate creative intuition and close ourselves 

off from our unique individuality. We become “subjects” putting our 

attention on “objects” so that we can quickly judge and slap labels on 

each other. This has a tendency to narrow our perspectives instead 

of broadening them. The problems come in when then we think we 

“know” what everything “is” already. If we repeatedly hit this ceiling 

of “knowing”, our cognitive blocks start to take over the machinery, 

leaving little room for new growth, authentic expressions 

or artistic interpretations to spark our imaginations towards 

reaching new heights. For anyone who is seeking the 

emergence of their own unique artistic vision, it is so 

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important to keep this in mind. To open one’s heartmind 

beyond our concrete belief systems is to lift the veil that 

covers our insight like a heavy, sleep-laden eyelid. Once 

awakened, our creative resources can become more 

available to us through that of our personal inner vision. It is 

at this point of access, the nexus where emotions, thoughts 

and visions meet, in which inspiration can flow towards 

us and new ideas arise. An unobstructed dreamer’s eye 

coupled with an iron will is most necessary to take what 

was once imperceptible and drag it into the perceivable 

future of our own manifested reality. To be it, you must first 

see it. This is the visionary’s main job. 

As potential visionaries going into this year of 2020 we 

have to ask ourselves: What doesn’t yet exist that I wish 

to see in this world? How do I bring that from a thought 

form into a live sensory experience? What experiences do 

I wish to impart to an audience using my unique voice and 

vision? How will I be the procurer of inspiration for myself 

and others in the present and for future generations to 

come? You may want to start by delving into what it means 

to have a creative vision. Well, an artistic vision refers to 

an artist’s way of seeing. Writing, Art, Music and Dance, for 

instance, often reflect the artist’s views, how and what they 

believe and ultimately showcases who they are. An artist 

may develop their vision over long spans or be struck by 

genius in an instance, but this is rare. Much like learning to 

walk and talk, an artist’s style and skills are often cultivated 

by many influences as they grow into themselves over 

time. Eventually, if one stays true to oneself, the artist can 

become living art in action. Don’t be mistaken, however; 

image is not vision. There is a slight but distinctive 

difference. Creating an image is often a stylized projection 

of how we would like to be seen by the world, while vision is 

how we choose to see and interpret the world through our 

own lens as we express our inner essence. In this manner, 

we show rather than tell. Image and imagery does have its 

place. It’s an important part of the whole, but it is not nearly 

the whole package. Vision is more akin to voice. They go 

hand in hand. Voice is the way in which you communicate 

your art. For instance; to be your own original musical 

artist you have to be able to stand on your own talents and 

merits, displaying an authentic vision and communicating 

it in a unique voice, showing itself in the execution of your 

production, instrumentation, arrangement, lyrics, sound, 

style, name and marketing. This is why introspection and 

clarity of vision are so relevant for those wishing to tap 

into their visionary capabilities. For a visionary, the way of 

seeing is a way of knowing and then expressing. 

My sisters and I found out pretty early on in the music 

industry that when you neglect to really stand firm in your 

own knowing and and let “them” tell you who you are, you 

become part of their vision and not your own. Not a fun 

place to be when you wish to grow beyond their view of 

you. We came to understand that the true visionaries are 

those brave souls who make a difference for 

themselves and others by taking chances. They 

take charge of their situation, make bold moves 

and are often rewarded for their courageous acts 

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of artistry and unique perspectives. Their vision springs 

from a foundation of confidence, self worth and self trust. 

They see differently and therefore are seen differently. They 

understand it’s about the act of creation itself, unfolding and 

revealing the deeper aspects of the self, not about pleasing 

people’s appetites. They know how to get in the zone. They 

teeter on a leading edge of existence, operating from within 

the vortex of an ever evolving creation. They are tapped 

in, tuned in and turned on and their magnetism becomes 

infectious; their light so bright it reels others in. So, how 

magnetic are you? How infectious? How bright? Can 

you stand out on a crowded stage, in that sea of striving 

humanity? What innovative contributions are you bringing 

to the table? It’s time to ask yourself. 

I’m dubbing 2020 the year of the Visionary. For those 

who want to make a difference in their little corner of the 

world, I encourage you to get off your butts, into the eye of 

whatever life storm you face and seek visual acuity therein. 

Here are 10 of my New Year declarations to do so for 

myself: 

I declare: 

To segment my time and hone in with clarity on new 

ways to achieve my daily visionary goals. 

To be an exceptional, inspiring and unforgettable 

experience for my audience on the page, on the stage 

and in all my relationships. 

To see the ordinary become extraordinary through 

my own personal lens. 

To become an artist whose medium is life itself. 

To remember that what is inside and outside of me 

are inseparable. 

To express what is most worth expressing; the 

inexpressible. 

To harmoniously balance my raw humanity with my 

spiritual and creative nature. 

To be thankful, kind, loving, vulnerable and limitless 

in my capacity for compassion and forgiveness, while 

still maintaining my personal boundaries. 

To listen better, be more aware of how I communicate 

and make more room for silence in my day. 

To be brave enough to see and be seen 

To listen better, be more aware of how I communicate 

and make more room for silence in my day. 

To be brave enough to see and be seen. 

May we each become the visionary artists of our own lives, 

the seers of our most unimaginable goals and dreams and 

the connectors to the endless eye that views ourselves, 

each other and the world around us more clearly in the 

coming year. Happy New Year to All!

CROSSWORDPUZZLE 

Across 

1. What R&B girl group is Lisa Lopez from? 

5. What is the first name of the rapper Juice World? 

7. Which of U2’s songs includes the lyrics: 

“Have you come to raise the dead”? 

8. How many members make up the rock band, 

Pink Floyd? 

9. What decade is the hit single “Doo Wop 

(that thing)” by Lauryn Hill from? 

12. How many guitar players did the rock band 

Foo Fighters have? 

13. What is the first name of 1920s singer was 

known as the “Empress of the Blues”? 

16. What pop singer is known as “The Material Girl”? 

17. What is the last name of the Beatles member 

who had dyslexia? 

18. What instrument is carved into Jimi Hendrix’s 

tombstone? 

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Down 

2. What American singer is referred to as the 

“Goddess of Pop”? 

3. Which pop star played 27 different instruments 

on their debut album For You? 

4. What American rapper holds the record for most 

words in a hit single? 

6. What town did the rock band Radiohead from? 

8. What is the oldest surviving musical instrument? 

10. What country does the rock band The Hives 

come from? 

11. What was Linkin Park’s original band name? 

14. What county is the singer The Weeknd originally 

from? 

15. What is the first name of the lead singer of 

Imagine Dragons? 

17. Which pop artist wrote the 2017 hit single 

“Truth Hurts”? 

Answers on page 35 

1. What is Halsey’s birth name? 

2. U2’s song, “Angel of Harem” was written about what jazz singer? 

3. What is the title of Britney Spears’ first hit single? 

4. What was the Don McLean’s reason behind the writing the song “American Pie”? 

5. Which American rapper wrote the 2007 song “Buy You a Drank”? 

6. What is Snoop Dogg’s birth name? 

7. Which of Nicki Minaj’s albums did “Anaconda” feature on? 

8. What 1985 charity single sold over 20 million copies? 

9. What 1960s musical does Ariana Grande sample from on her hit song “7 rings”? 

10. What musician holds the record for most Top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart? 

Answers on page 35 

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Over the past few years I have noticed a steady 

decline in sales of large amplifiers. It seems every day 

someone will ask for a small amp that they can use 

on stage, and these days there are many choices out 

there; some amps aren’t even amps at all. There are 

still bands using large amps, like local guitarist Brian 

Magner, but they are few and far between. 

So, what happened to the days of Jimi Hendrix playing 

through a mass of Marshall stacks? Well, in the ‘60s 

clubs supported bands and had huge stages for them to 

play on. Bands would show up with giant Vox amps or 

stacks of Park, Orange or Marshalls. There was always 

plenty of room on the stages to accommodate the large 

amps. 

In the mid ‘70s combos started popping back up on 

stages but big amps still ruled. Rock bands favored the 

big amps but many of the Top-40 bands would play in 

night clubs located in hotels and most of them did not 

have big stages, so the guitar players would have to play 

through smaller amps. Then the ‘80s happened. 

In the ‘80s, bigger was better. Big hair and big stacks. 

Bands would lug huge PA systems, huge light shows 

and huge stacks. Even if a club did not have a big 

enough stage to accommodate all the equipment, the 

bands would find a way to set up all their gear. When I 

was on the road, the band I was playing with had a gig 

with the band Stranger and they put their whole PA on 

one side of the room just so they would have enough 

room on the stage for the late Ronnie Garvin’s four 

Peavey stacks. At that point, even I was playing 

through a Hi-Watt stack and loved it. All the 

bands from the Cult to Judas Priest had stages 

full of massive stacks and that made every 

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Stacks 

Be 

GoneBy Randy 

Pepper 

guitar player want one. There were some exceptions, 

like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robben Ford, who played 

through Dumble and Fender combos. But stacks still 

ruled the stage. 

Since the mid ‘90s there has been a slow decline in 

guitarists using large amps. Bands like Pearl Jam and 

Nirvana were using half stacks and Fender combos on 

stage and to record with. That brought a whole new 

breed of guitar player looking for combos. The ‘90s also 

brought in the era of rack preamps like the Digitech GPS 

2101 and Rocktron Piranha that sold quite well during 

this time. You would hook them into a power amp and 

hook it up to stereo 4/12 cabinet and you had a lush 

stereo sound. 

Since that time, you see very few stacks or even half 

stacks on local stages. You will still see them with some 

major metal bands but many of them are just for show. 

Crashrocket Guitarist Brian Magner told me by phone 

that he doesn’t even use a head; his sound comes 

from a SansAmp 1.1 which is a tube amp emulator and 

hooks into a Crown power amp; he does not even mic 

the cabinet, so the sound you hear when you see them 

is straight out of the SansAmp. May players, including 

myself, have have switched to the digital type amps like 

the Kemper Profiler, Bias FX, Line 6 Helix or Fractal 

AX8. None of these require an amp or speakers at all. 

Why are so many guitarists going to small amps? With 

so many clubs treating bands as an afterthought, often 

just putting the band in a corner, there is no room to put 

a big stack. Also, many of the musicians playing clubs 

are over 35 and their backs are not so good anymore. 

There is nothing wrong, however, with playing Kemper 

or a small combo; what really matters is how it sounds 

and in most cases, it sounds just fine. Back in the ‘50s, 

nobody ever told Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry their little 

amps sounded like crap. 

Randy Pepper is a freelance guitarist for hire and 

the owner of the Guitar Attic in Holly Hill. 

Photo credit” Karen Romano Adams 

Runway Chronicles 

South Beach, Miami, is different. It’s different 

than small-town New Smyrna, where I had 

only just set up my office. It’s even different 

than other metropoles that might emphasize 

business and productivity over fashion and art. But 

most importantly, it was a different time - 1993, to be 

exact. There were no cell phones and there was no 

Instagram, but how I wish I could have taken a selfie 

at this moment. 

My first trip to visit the top three worldrenowned 

modeling agencies started off 

perfectly with picturesque South Florida 

weather along Ocean Drive. My newest 

hopeful model, with golden hair bobbing 

to his shoulders, had paced a block 

ahead of us. But he was waving as if to 

say, “Quick! Catch up!” Weaving through 

the patches of tourists and locals, I 

noticed a confused look on his face. He 

was surrounded by three large, imposing 

men. I tried to assess the situation, 

but I was still unsure of what to expect 

when I caught up. I approached, and 

the wall of bodyguards parted to reveal 

a small man with a silver bowl cut and a 

striking leather jacket. A leather jacket, 

in Miami? With smooth confidence, the 

icon reached out his hand and greeted 

me: “I’m Gianni Versace, are you the 

agent to this model?” 

My small-town Deland born model may 

not have understood the importance 

of this spontaneous stop-sign casting 

call. My mind was screaming, but my 

sensibilities instructed me to extend my 

arm to his and meet his smooth confidence with my 

own. Perhaps it was more of a bluff than anything 

else. “Pleasure to meet you,” I said. “I’m Christine 

Harris”. He, with matter-of-fact delivery, stated that he 

wanted to use my model in an upcoming campaign 

and runway show. What an opportunity for my new 

model and my newly opened agency! Could this really 

be happening? 

Maybe the memory is stronger than any selfie I could 

have taken. I relive it quite often when new models 

and families come to my office and ask how I got my 

start in this whirlwind of an industry. Once the ball 

gets rolling, everything happens so quickly. There is 

no way to expect who you might meet on the streets 

of South Beach. 

I like to imagine that this was the beginning of 

Premiere. The office may have been rented and 

furnished by me a few months before, but without 

successful faces and connections, it wasn’t anything 

more than just that: an office. This was when Premiere 

Model Management, built by me, a New Smyrna local 

and Florida State graduate, became my dream career. 

It’s been a very exciting and rewarding 26 years, and I 

have so many inspiring, extravagant, and motivational 

adventures I can’t wait to share! And every single one 

is rooted in our little Florida town. 

My best, Christine 

Premiere Model Management 

137 Canal St. New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168 

386-427-8829 

By Christine Harris 

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CROSSWORD 

PUZZLE answers 

JANUARY 25, 2020 

Beachside Tavern 

New Smyrna Beach 

Eric Hutchinson is an American 

singer-songwriter who plays soulful pop music. 

He is best known for his songs “Rock & Roll”, 

“OK, It’s Alright with Me”, “Watching You Watch 

Him”, and “Tell the World”. Hutchinson was 

named an AOL “About to Pop” artist, Yahoo! 

Who’s Next Artist, MSN “One to Watch” 

Artist and a “VH1 You Oughta Know” Artist. 

Hutchinson also wrote and performed the theme 

song for ESPN’s Fantasy Focus podcast. 

Eric’s newest album, Before and After, is being 

released one track at a time to members of 

Patreon. This album was experimental in nature 

and has Eric working with different musicians, 

creating a different and jazzier sound. This 

album includes multiple tracks written for and 

about his wife, Jill, and their daughter Zelda. 

Eric’s upcoming tour will include venues in 

Florida and you can catch him at Beachside 

Tavern in New Smyrna Beach on January 25th. 

1. What is Halsey’s birth name? Ashley Frangipane 

answers 

2. U2’s song, “Angel of Harem” was written about what jazz singer? Billy Holiday 

3. What is the title of Britney Spears’ first hit single? Baby One More Time 

4. What was the Dom McLean’s reason behind the writing the song “American Pie”? Buddy Holly’s death 

5. Which American rapper wrote the 2007 song “Buy You a Drank”? T-pain 

6. What is Snoop Dogg’s birth name? Calvin Broadus 

7. Which of Nicki Minaj’s albums did “Anaconda” feature on? The Pinkprint 

8. What 1985 charity single sold over 20 million copies? We Are The World 

9. What 1960s musical does Ariana Grande sample from on her hit song “7 rings”? Sound of Music 

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January 16 - Warren Beck 6pm 

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January 18 - Ian Opalinski 6pm 

January 19 - Brody Mullikin 6pm 

January 23 - Jimmy Z 6pm 

January 24 - Rasta Bayers 6pm 

January 25 - Gina Cuchetti 6pm 

January 26 - Chuck Morel 1pm 

January 30 - Claire Vandiver 6pm 

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NEW SCHOOL 

Von Nacht 

“Von Nacht” 

Bane “Esoteric 

Formulae” 

Perpetual Warfare 

“Earthliens” 

Krisiun “Scourge 

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Die Apokalyptischen 

“Reiter-Licht” 

Psycroptic “As the 

Kingdom Drowns” 

VLTMUS “Something 

Wicked Marches In” 

Amon Amarth 

“Berzerker” 

Cloak 

“To Venomous Depths” 

Candlemass 

“The Door to Doom” 

OLD SCHOOL 

Grip Inc. “Power of 

Inner Strength” 

Hipocrisy “Penetralia” 

Flotsam and Jetsam 

“Doomsday for the Deceiver” 

Lethal 

“Programmed” 

Cerebral Fix 

“Tower of Spite” 

Prongs 

“Beg to Differ” 

G/Z/R 

“Plastic Planet” 

Unleashed “Where No 

Life Dwells” 

Xentrix “Shattered 

Existence” 

Live Sex & Death “The 

Silent Majority”

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