Static Live Magazine January 2020

Photographs pages 8-12 © Jack
Mitchell, used with permission and
courtesy of the Jack Mitchell Estate
and Getty Images
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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
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
31 Supper Club - Beartoe 6pm
Grind/Kona - Jay Paski 6pm
Outriggers - Laree App 5pm
Traders - Marty McCarrick 8pm
Thursday, January 9, 2020
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
Friday, January 10, 2020
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
Saturday, January 11, 2020
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
Sunday, January 12, 2020
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
Monday, January 13, 2020
Grind/Kona - Bradford Buckley 6pm
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Grind/Kona - The Evening Muze 6pm
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
31 Supper Club - The Evening Muze 6pm
Grind/Kona - Chuck Morel 6pm
Outriggers - Laree App 5pm
Traders - Bradford Buckley 8pm
Thursday, January 16, 2020
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
Friday, January 17, 2020
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
Saturday, January 18, 2020
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
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Bounty Bar - Davey Leatherwood 7pm
Chase’s - Sean Holcomb 10:00am
Crabby’s Oceanside - Aaron Lightnin’ 12pm
Outriggers - Warren Beck Duo 2pm
Yellow Dog Eats - Brody Mullikin 1pm
Monday, January 20, 2020
Grind/Kona - Jeff White 6pm
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Grind/Kona - Warren Beck 7pm
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
31 Supper Club - Beartoe 6pm
Grind/Kona - Down River Duo 6pm
Outriggers - Laree App 5pm
Traders - Hall Brothers 8pm
Thursday, January 23, 2020
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
Friday, January 24, 2020
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
Saturday, January 25, 2020
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
Sunday, January 26, 2020
Bounty Bar - Jimmy Z 7pm
Chase’s - Sean Holcomb 10:00am
Crabby’s Oceanside - Warren Beck 12pm
Outriggers - Down River Duo 2pm
Yellow Dog Eats - Chuck Morel 1pm
Monday, January 27, 2020
Grind/Kona - Davey Leatherwood 6pm
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Grind/Kona - Rasta Bayers 6pm
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
31 Supper Club - Joe Young Trio 6pm
Grind/Kona - Austin Miller 6pm
Outriggers - Laree App 5pm
The Garage - Are Friends Electric
Traders - Jimmy C - 8pm
Thursday, January 30, 2020
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
Friday, January 31, 2020
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
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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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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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3 BOOMERS/ WARREN BECK
4 BOOMERS/JAY PASKI
8 MARTY MC CARRICK
10 POP CULTURE POETS/
ACOUSTIC INFERNO
11 POP CULTURE POETS/
ETC
15 BRADFORD BUCKLEY
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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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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10. What musician holds the record for most Top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart? Elvis Presley
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January 4 - Potlikkers 6pm
January 5 - Jay Paski 1pm
January 9 - Seth Pause 6pm
January 10 - Billy Dean 6pm
January 11 - The Transfers 6pm
January 12 - Hannah Wilson 1pm
January 16 - Warren Beck 6pm
January 17 - Nate Utley 6pm
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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Happy New Year to all of you Metalheads! In case you missed an issue, here are Jeff Watson’s “New School”
and Chris Rajotte’s “Old School” metal album picks for 2019:
NEW SCHOOL
Von Nacht
“Von Nacht”
Bane “Esoteric
Formulae”
Perpetual Warfare
“Earthliens”
Krisiun “Scourge
of the Enthroned”
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”