Definitely NSFW

 

no comment :-)

Caught these guys live last year. Saintseneca from good old Columbus OH-IO.

 

http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/14-bands-to-watch-in-2016/Content?oid=4686892

 

Incomplete, IMNSHO.  No hard rock/metal bands, that's still a genre that draws people out around here.

http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/14-bands-to-watch-in-2016/Content?oid=4686892

 

Incomplete, IMNSHO.  No hard rock/metal bands, that's still a genre that draws people out around here.

 

Okay, I find it odd that two bands on this cited "Offspring and Bad Religion" as influences. But the glaring sin was the inclusion of a COVER ACT on this list.

 

Therefore, it cannot possibly be taken seriously.

 

Though I'll say that Cities and Coasts and Archie and the Bunkers have been great to work with. And the chicks from Village Bicycle are super cool.

http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/14-bands-to-watch-in-2016/Content?oid=4686892

 

Incomplete, IMNSHO.  No hard rock/metal bands, that's still a genre that draws people out around here.

 

Okay, I find it odd that two bands on this cited "Offspring and Bad Religion" as influences. But the glaring sin was the inclusion of a COVER ACT on this list.

 

Therefore, it cannot possibly be taken seriously.

 

Though I'll say that Cities and Coasts and Archie and the Bunkers have been great to work with. And the chicks from Village Bicycle are super cool.

 

I noticed that and thought likewise.  Though if they do originals as well it's more or less okay.

 

I scrolled through hoping to see Bound By Fate (just signed, for what that's worth in the era of the 'net and self-burned CDs) or Julia Roberts' Global Warming, but I'm biased lol

What do you mean no one ever heard of this famous band from Painesville?  :wave:

 

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Hard+Road

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5IKTKi06oM

 

^ That's pretty rad!!!!!

All Them Witches is based in Nashville. My good buddy Robby is the drummer. For the most part he still lives in Columbus. 

 

Lady Gaga was accompanied at the Super Bowl by Alex Smith, a guy I went to high school with in Cincinnati.  I remember that he and I both auditioned as Freshman for the piano seat in the school's jazz band, but were beaten out by a guy named Bobby Friel.  That guy joined the swim team or track team or something and did not attempt to defend his title sophomore year, and that's when Alex Smith made that band.  Meanwhile I stopped taking piano lessons.  Alex Smith hung out with 2-3 guys at the high school who were all really into jazz and who were all better players at their respective instruments than he was at piano.  He still wasn't a very strong player when we graduated but obviously kept going.  I haven't talked to him in 20 years so I don't know how he eventually ended up playing with Lady Gaga, but there he was.  Guys like me went in the complete opposite direction, toward punk rock and tacky Frank Zappa-inspired party music. 

 

As for this commentary, I have no idea what this guy is talking about.  I just thought it was a typical boring, forced performance by an American Idol-era pop star.  It looks like they're just trying to gussy her up like they did with Christina Aguilara(sp?) ten years ago. 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/07/lady-gaga-s-fabulous-super-gay-super-bowl-national-anthem.html

 

Lady Gaga was accompanied at the Super Bowl by Alex Smith, a guy I went to high school with in Cincinnati.  I remember that he and I both auditioned as Freshman for the piano seat in the school's jazz band, but were beaten out by a guy named Bobby Friel.  That guy joined the swim team or track team or something and did not attempt to defend his title sophomore year, and that's when Alex Smith made that band.  Meanwhile I stopped taking piano lessons.  Alex Smith hung out with 2-3 guys at the high school who were all really into jazz and who were all better players at their respective instruments than he was at piano.  He still wasn't a very strong player when we graduated but obviously kept going.  I haven't talked to him in 20 years so I don't know how he eventually ended up playing with Lady Gaga, but there he was.  Guys like me went in the complete opposite direction, toward punk rock and tacky Frank Zappa-inspired party music. 

 

As for this commentary, I have no idea what this guy is talking about.  I just thought it was a typical boring, forced performance by an American Idol-era pop star.  It looks like they're just trying to gussy her up like they did with Christina Aguilara(sp?) ten years ago. 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/07/lady-gaga-s-fabulous-super-gay-super-bowl-national-anthem.html

 

Since she is trying to go mainstream (she's a hell of a singer and quite attractive when not trying to shock) she may have sought him out.

They're just trying to turn her into a general-purpose diva.  Yawn. 

Okay here is a story describing the unlikely pairing of some random guy I went to high school with Lady Gaga:

 

http://www.lohud.com/story/life/2016/02/09/lady-gaga-super-bowl/80013826/

 

So it looks like this Brian Newman character went to CCM at the same time as Alex Smith, they stayed acquainted, and somehow this guy knew Lady Gaga before she was famous. 

Coldest beer store in America. Right on St. Clair baby.

 

 

I'm not a country music fan generally. But you've got to love the story of Dwight Yoakam. Raised in Cbus, he was essentially seen as unmarketable by the country music industry in Nashville. So he moved to L.A. and cut his teeth playing with anyone who would share a bill including punk bands. Guys gone on to sell 25 million records. So much for not being marketable!

 

Here's a new song from my band (NSFW lyrics):

 

Cincinnati native Aaron Lavigne says Call your Mom this Mother's Day:

 

hey, check out my hometown kids performing "My Shot" from Hamilton (I think Lin-Manuel Miranda has an entire cast and chorus lined up for his next production). Click the facebook video and fast forward to 2:20. Unfortunately it stops short seconds from its conclusion :x , but who sez Painesville doesn't got talent? lol

 

 

Now available at Target and Walmart.coms, iTunes, etc.

 

The scraggle bearded base player is junior sibling

 

New Afghan Whigs dropped yesterday with tour dates. 

 

https://www.subpop.com/artists/the_afghan_whigs

 

Cleveland Native Earl St. Clair Reintroduces Himself With His 'My Name Is Earl' EP

by Lawrence Neil  March 08, 2017 at 4:47 PM

 

http://m.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2017/03/08/cleveland-native-earl-st-clair-reintroduces-himself-with-his-my-name-is-earl-ep

Has anyone heard of Rachel Brown and the Beatnik Playboys? They're kind of an old-style blues group based in Cleveland and performed in P'ville Party in the Park over the weekend. Probably not everyone's cup of tea here, I know :roll:, but they're absolutely fantastic (doing Ray Charles's "Lonely Avenue.") (Just ignore the car dealership ads. It's part of the indignity of playing this event lol)

 

Now available at Target and Walmart.coms, iTunes, etc.

 

The scraggle bearded base player is junior sibling

 

 

That's your junior sibling on the far left? Is he an Icelandic Powerlifter?!  :laugh:

Now available at Target and Walmart.coms, iTunes, etc.

 

The scraggle bearded base player is junior sibling

 

 

That's your junior sibling on the far left? Is he an Icelandic Powerlifter?!  :laugh:

 

Far right.  Blurry in the video still. 

He's playing with a guy named Rick Ray as well now, and I commented it's odd to see him in a band where he doesn't look like the adult supervision.

 

I always thought this song was by CCR or something, but I found out last week it's by a band called Pure Prarie League from Columbus. My mom said her friend's sister used to follow the band around to various venues around Cbus in the late 70s.

^ here I always thought they were a Cincy band. Did not realize they formed in Columbus. I think one of the members is from Cincy so that may be where I got that from

Someone told me one guy was from New Richmond.

One of the newest songs from Painesville's Los K-Bros

 

 

I had a chance run-in tonight with a woman who claimed she used to be Chaka Khan's roommate and sang on the dance song "I've Got the Power".  I thought she was making it up until I came home and looked her up.  Her name is Penny Ford and she is from Cincinnati:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Ford

 

 

I remember when she was on Judge Mathis suing her producer / lover.

My friends dad was the engineer on this gem...Cleveland's own, The Dazz Band.

 

 

 

My friends dad was the engineer on this gem...Cleveland's own, The Dazz Band.

 

I loved this song as a kid so asked for the 45 for my birthday.  My parents ended up with "Whip It" by Devo, which couldn't be more of an opposite song/genre, but certainly was a closer-fit to their white-middle class suburban musical tastes!  ;D

My friends dad was the engineer on this gem...Cleveland's own, The Dazz Band.

 

I loved this song as a kid so asked for the 45 for my birthday.  My parents ended up with "Whip It" by Devo, which couldn't be more of an opposite song/genre, but certainly was a closer-fit to their white-middle class suburban musical tastes!  ;D

 

Way to keep the thread on topic haha.

Any other Whip songs by Ohio bands?

Any other Whip songs by Ohio bands?

 

Maybe in the future?

Any other Whip songs by Ohio bands?

 

This guy covering Little Whip looks like he's from Cleveland:

 

 

Confirmation in Rolling Stone ahead of the Rock Hall induction:  Ric Ocasek is indeed a Maple Heights alumni and unless he graduated from high school at the age of 14, some years vanished from his official bio:

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-cars-ric-ocasek-on-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-w514016

Confirmation in Rolling Stone ahead of the Rock Hall induction:  Ric Ocasek is indeed a Maple Heights alumni and unless he graduated from high school at the age of 14, some years vanished from his official bio:

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-cars-ric-ocasek-on-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-w514016

 

I always considered the Cars a Cleveland band, by virtue of Ric and Ben. I also wonder if they would have had the same success if they hadn't moved east to Boston. My initial thought is no. As great as Cleveland's history is with rock music, you generally had to leave town to "make it." 

Confirmation in Rolling Stone ahead of the Rock Hall induction:  Ric Ocasek is indeed a Maple Heights alumni and unless he graduated from high school at the age of 14, some years vanished from his official bio:

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-cars-ric-ocasek-on-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-w514016

 

I always considered the Cars a Cleveland band, by virtue of Ric and Ben. I also wonder if they would have had the same success if they hadn't moved east to Boston. My initial thought is no. As great as Cleveland's history is with rock music, you generally had to leave town to "make it." 

 

The irony is that's because Cleveland was a big predictor market, a band from elsewhere that clicked here was likely to click nationally.  But we also supported local bands for being local, and the record companies couldn't tell the difference so they discounted it.  A Cleveland band also had to break somewhere else.

 

When they were breaking out, they were known as having a Cleveland connection because of Ben, and that gave them a local boost.    Ric's background was intentionally vague and I've heard rumors that his entire pre 1970 or so background was fabricated by a PR firm that thought his career would do better if he wasn't 30 yet.  Which says more about the industry at the time than him or the band.

 

No one at Maple seemed to know about him when I was going there, which was as they were breaking out.  It would have been a big deal had we known.  They probably wouldn't have done any better regionally, but there was a sort of competition over which HS had the biggest rock star as an alumni.  It was probably us and we had no clue lol.

^ that’s so strange to cloud a musicians bio, but I get it. They can’t get away with that anymore. Actually something similar went on with Rascal Flatts. Their bio used to avoid any mention of Ohio whatsoever. Not country enough? Ha.

No one at Maple seemed to know about him when I was going there, which was as they were breaking out.  It would have been a big deal had we known.  They probably wouldn't have done any better regionally, but there was a sort of competition over which HS had the biggest rock star as an alumni.  It was probably us and we had no clue lol.[/color]

 

I went to the same grade school as Carmen Electra, but she was about 5 years older than us.  I remember somebody on my baseball team claiming that she was a)from Cincinnati and b)had been the babysitter of some kid on his street and we all told him to SHUT UP DID NOT HAPPEN.  Then years later when her one-hit wonder thing with Prince was forgotten and she started dating Dennis Rodman it became better-known.

 

It's funny how mysterious everything used to be.  That's a big part of what gave musicians their power.  Now you look at some new musician's facebook page and there they are at their 2013 high school graduation with their Aunt Judy. 

 

^ that’s so strange to cloud a musicians bio, but I get it. They can’t get away with that anymore. Actually something similar went on with Rascal Flatts. Their bio used to avoid any mention of Ohio whatsoever. Not country enough? Ha.

 

Ocasek's Wikipedia bio just changed from 1949 to 1944, of course anyone could have done that.

In honor of Mothers Day, this tribute to mothers everywhere by Athens' Heroes of History:

This is my Cleveland playlist from iTunes with musicians from Northeast Ohio, songs about Northeast Ohio or both...

 

Sincerely 3:12 The Moonglows 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Moonglows R&B/Soul 0

Backstabbers 3:07 The O'Jays Carlito's Way (Music from the Motion Picture) Soundtrack 0 2

All By Myself 4:33 Eric Carmen Eric Carmen: The Definitive Collection (Remastered) Pop 0

Funk #49 3:54 James Gang Funk #49 Rock 0

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 6:29 Gordon Lightfoot Summertime Dream Singer/Songwriter 0 1

Beautiful World 3:34 Devo Greatest Hits Alternative 0

My City Was Gone 5:25 Pretenders Learning to Crawl (Expanded & Remastered) Rock 0

Let It Whip 4:47 Dazz Band 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Dazz Band R&B/Soul 0

Drive 3:58 The Cars Complete Greatest Hits Rock 0 1

Down In It 3:46 Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine Alternative 0 1

Darkness Darkness 3:34 Michael Stanley The Ghost Poets Rock 0

Angel Eyes 2:32 Jim Brickman Jim Brickman: Greatest Hits New Age 0

Cleveland Rocks 2:33 The Presidents of the United States of America Pure Frosting Pop 0 1

Cleveland 4:10 Jewel This Way Pop 0 1

C-Town 5:05 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony featuring Twista Strength & Loyalty (Bonus Track Version) Hip-Hop/Rap 0

Official 3:56 Raz B Official R&B/Soul 0

Day 'n' Nite 3:41 Kid Cudi Man On the Moon: The End of Day Hip-Hop/Rap 0

Cleveland (feat. Dubo) 4:05 Machine Gun Kelly Cleveland (feat. Dubo) Hip-Hop/Rap 0

Sun Doesn't Rise 3:14 Mushroomhead XIII Alternative 0 2

Power Trip 2:48 Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason Rock 0

Cleveland 4:07 The Bone Chimes In the Muck Alternative 0

Shine 8:04 Cleveland Atlas House 0 1

Cleveland 3:46 Algiers The Underside of Power Alternative 0 1

 

^ that’s so strange to cloud a musicians bio, but I get it. They can’t get away with that anymore. Actually something similar went on with Rascal Flatts. Their bio used to avoid any mention of Ohio whatsoever. Not country enough? Ha.

 

i think dwight yoakum used to pull that too. not sure if he was born, but i always heard he was totally raised in columbus. he avoided that. country and hip hop acts really try play up their stereotypes. and here we have rock guys trying to get away with shaving years off. its all kind of humorous.

I remember Yokam being on Letterman and saying he grew up off of Morse Road. Letterdude spent a lot of time in Columbus due to being (still is?) a part owner of the Rahal team -- hence the grilling. Local lore states he played at the now-burned-down Stagecoach on 23 in South Bloomfield a lot in the '70s. There's a Family Dollar there now.

 

Also, most people didn't really know how old Dio was until he died. People were able to dig up records that he appeared on from 1957. He was already 41 when Rainbow in the Dark came out.

 

^That was pretty bad. 

 

^^Everybody from Cincinnati since 98 Degrees has managed to avoid any association with their city of origin. Walk the Moon, The National, The Greenhornes, etc. 

 

A "Cincinnati" band hasn't been known as such since the Afghan Whigs sort-of broke back around 1993.

 

Yeah, that's one of the reasons I roll my eyes at the fact that The National is trying to have a "homecoming" now. As soon as they achieved any kind of success, they were off to Brooklyn, and I remember listening to an interview a few years ago where they were not speaking highly of Cincinnati. But now they want to come back and be hometown heroes.

 

On the other hand, the Heartless Bastards always talked about being a Cincinnati band even after they moved to Austin. One time after they played on the Late Show, Letterman said that the band was from Austin, and Erica actually corrected him and said, "No, we're from Cincinnati."

I remember Yokam being on Letterman and saying he grew up off of Morse Road. Letterdude spent a lot of time in Columbus due to being (still is?) a part owner of the Rahal team -- hence the grilling. Local lore states he played at the now-burned-down Stagecoach on 23 in South Bloomfield a lot in the '70s. There's a Family Dollar there now.

 

 

that was later. rahal didn't partner with letterman until 1996. prior to that yoakum used to distance himself from columbus and he had an exaggerated drawl, etc. i remember this because of cols people talking about it, it bugged them, and i am sure i read something in the local media about it. i found a mention about all that a recent bio of yoakum as well:

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=FX8MgXMwyW8C&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=DWIGHT+YOAKAM+DOWNPLAYS+COLUMBUS&source=bl&ots=vVDIR73rEL&sig=ITSI4HonAYMlui78eypa-ugRiWU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd9PTznIXbAhWlxFkKHSvJBqEQ6AEIVDAF#v=onepage&q=DWIGHT%20YOAKAM%20DOWNPLAYS%20COLUMBUS&f=false

 

no doubt he eventually loosened up about his life because who cares and as others have said you cant hide it so easily anymore. its just another interesting case of somebody who was media savvy for the time, made himself into what he wanted to be and gave the fans what they wanted to hear. he's like the rick ross of columbus.

^^Everybody from Cincinnati since 98 Degrees has managed to avoid any association with their city of origin. Walk the Moon, The National, The Greenhornes, etc. 

 

What made people willing to "admit" they were from Seattle in the 90s? Was it because they wanted to be associated with the "birthplace" of a particular genere kind of like Detroit or Nashville? Does Cincinnati's relative lack of a nationally-recognized "sound" cause people to claim they're from somewhere cooler, or is it typical Midwest insecurity? Obviously there's a certain level of marketing attached to it.