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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:59
Benefit for Jim "JR" Richley June 30th At The Sly Fox
J.R. JAM - A benefit for drummer Jim 'JR' Richley will be held Sunday June 30 at the Sly Fox in North Olmsted, from 5-11pm. Featuring sets by WISH YOU WERE HERE, SUGAR MAGNOLIA, RUN AVRIL RUN, JUKEBOX HEROES, and jams by musical friends of JR, the benefit will help pay for major medical expenses from 9 recent surgeries to treat Necrotizing Fascitis.
Donation is $20, includes food & music, plus 50/50 raffle.
Online donations at http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/keep-jr-rocking-/60133
Jim ‘JR’ Richley is a full-time drummer based in Youngstown who has played with many artists both regional and national, including Glass Harp, Gloria Estefan, Bill “The Sauce Boss” Wharton, Esto Jazz, TieDye Harvest, ekoostik hookah, and others. Currently he is the driving force for The Gary Markasky Project, Run Avril Run, and Sugar Magnolia.
Recently JR was stricken with Necrotizing Fascitis, an often-fatal disease that is driven by flesh-eating bacteria, and spent several months in the hospital while undergoing a total of 9 surgeries. He is currently on the road to recovery and working towards a return to full-time gigging. Massive medical expenses have accumulated and ongoing living expenses continue to prevail. A strong network of musicians & friends in Northeast Ohio are rallying together to help a friend in need.
All bands have musical ties with JR. Wish You Were Here, Sugar Magnolia, Run Avril Run, and Jukebox Heroes are among Cleveland’s top bands that are donating their efforts. There will also be special segments where JR's "Musical Friends" will be jamming, either with their existing bands, or with players from JR’s circle of musicians. Ergo the title of the benefit - JR JAM !
JR will be there and playing with both Avril and Sugar Mags.
Goal: To raise revenue for JR thru an event that draws people for admission & the raffle; and to celebrate the friendship & musical bond that many of us share with JR and each other.
All funds go directly to Jim Richley.
A limited number of "JR Richley May 31 Benefit" T-shirts will be available for sale, with all proceeds to JR.
Fans who attend the Acoustic Side Of The Moon show at the Sly Fox on Saturday June 29 will receive a $5 discount voucher, good for $5 off the admission to Sunday’s benefit, which will be donated to Jim Richley by Eroc Music Inc.
Sponsors: Eroc Music Inc., After The Gig, Audio One, Bill Witwer Graphic Design, & The Fairview Tavern.
Online donations at http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/keep-jr-rocking-/6013
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Friday, 14 June 2013 13:58
Richie Furay At Kent Stage June 21st
Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Richie Furay is coming to the Kent Stage on June 21st at 8:00pm. Furay is best known as a founding member of the great bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin and also Poco with Jim Messina, Rusty Young, George Grantham and Randy Meisner. Don’t miss out on hearing one of the best.
Go to www.thekentstage.com for tickets
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Thursday, 16 May 2013 07:47
Kevin Costner & Modern West At Kent Stage June 22nd
The Kent Stage is proud to present country rock band, Kevin Costner & Modern West on Sat. June 22 at 8pm. The concert will coincide with the filming of Draft Day in various locations in Northeast Ohio. Costner stars in Draft Day as a fictional GM of the Cleveland Browns. The concert is a fundraiser for The Kent Stage. Tickets will go onsale Friday at 11am exclusively at www.kentstage.org and 877-987-6487.
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Tuesday, 26 March 2013 17:49
CD Review: Robbing Mary - El Otro Lado by Bear
Robbing Mary
EL OTRO LADO
I have to admit I totally missed this cd when it dropped in late 2011. I mean the band, Robbing Mary, wasn’t even on my radar but my how things have changed. I was recently invited to a benefit function a few weeks ago and I saw the entertainment they had playing was a band called Robbing Mary. I asked an intern if we had anything from them and sure enough awhile ago someone had sent us a couple of links to some of their songs so I took a listen. I just sat at my desk listening and wondering how did I miss these guys.
The band has been around for 10 years and are based out of Cleveland which made the fact I missed on them sting a little bit more. The band is longtime Clevelanders Dan Mills (vocals/guitar), Jennifer Vilimonovic (vocals/violin), Steve Keefe (bass/guitar), Rom Cullers (vocals/guitar) and Wil Jones (drums) and the best way to describe their sound is too imagine if you could take The Byrds and combine them with Buffalo Springfield then throw in some Jackson Browne and Stevie Nicks for good measure. That’s the hints of sound you get when you listen to them. They describe themselves as an indie/rock/alt-country band but to me I hear the influences of that sixties California country rock infused in them but who knows indie/rock/alt-country would also be a good description of those bands like The Byrds.
El Otro Lado is their first release and right out of the gate it starts off strong with what I feel are the best two tracks on it, “Glad To Be” and “Lower A Line”. “Glad To Be” is sung by Dan Mills and is a throwback to that California country rock I was talking about. It’s one of those songs you can’t get out of your head. It’s got a catchy riff throughout and Mills vocals wrap the lyrics around it perfectly with some great harmonizing from Jennifer Vilimonovic on the chorus. “Lower The Line” features Rom Cullers on vocals and if you closed your eyes you would think Jackson Browne was singing. Again the song features great harmonies, strong lyrics and very tight instrumentation. Some of the other highlights on the album is “Plastic Flowers”, “The Mo-Kan Line”, “Tell Me” and “Roll Over Daisy” but all of the 15 tracks are strong, there really isn’t a weak song on it. Mills’s vocals are featured on eleven of the tracks and Cullers has the other four.
When you listen to El Otro Lado it is really hard to put it into just one category like country, rock, or indie. It fits comfortably in all of them. I compared Robbing Mary to some real heavyweights like Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds, and Jackson Browne because when you listen to them you hear elements of all of them in their music but I can also compare them to some of their contemporaries like Scars On 45, Arcade Fire and The Head and Heart and they hold their own if not outshining some of these newer bands.
If you don’t believe me, give them a listen then tell me if I’m wrong. I personally can’t wait for their next release.
For more info on the band and where to catch them live go to www.robbingmary.com
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Wednesday, 06 March 2013 08:27
CD Review: Blue Sky Riders - Finally Home
Blue Sky Riders
FINALLY HOME
The term "supergroup" is thrown around very loosely these days. In the most general terms, most people associate that term with a collection of "name" players. By name, we generally mean famous. Certainly, if a band was formed featuring Mick Jagger, Joe Perry, John Paul Jones and Neil Peart, that would qualify in the broadest terms as a "supergroup". That said though, peripheral fame is all relative, while a collection of unquestioned talent that has had tremendous success in the music industry should also be considered as a "supergroup". For many reasons, Blue Sky Riders are a musical supergroup. They do have a very name player in Kenny Loggins, but probably more impressively they have a unheralded in public yet legendary songwriter in Country Music Hall Of Famer Gary Burr, and a tremendous, well heard songwriter who's written massive hits for other artists in Georgia Middleman gracing this group.
Saturday, 09 February 2013 09:49
CD Review: Newsted - Metal
Newsted
METAL
He was the "metal" in Metallica for years and years. He added credibility to a pretty much dead band like Voivod, as well as finances so they could produce a couple of fine albums along the way. Hell, he was the creative force behid Flotsam & Jetsam; a band that I love but clearly wasn't the same after DOOMSDAY FOR THE DECEIVER when he left. And yet, with all his heralded accomplishments, Jason Newsted somehow finds himself at a crossroads where he has to come out and prove himself and his metal merits once again. Newsted told me last month that he keeps the mindset always that he's only as good as his next record, no matter what the past has proven. Clearly, this is one guy that could rest on his laurels and his mountain of money and do whatever he wants. With all that said though, he returns with a simply smoldering EP that's as strong as anything he's done in the past.
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Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:26
CD Review: Soundgarden - King Animal
Soundgarden
KING ANIMAL
Soundgarden were one of those grunge bands that really just "got" it. Unlike bands like Nirvana who put their desolate life imagery in front of their music, Soundgarden was always musical first, attitude second. Without question, vocalist Chris Cornell portrayed a lot of pain and passion in his soul, but he also was quickly regarded as one of the best vocalists of the era. While they were always pretty good musically, they were a band though that was erratic at best in the live setting. I saw the band at least 12 times, and I'd say they were 50/50 good to bad live. They played masterfully at the greatest concert of my lifetime (Day On The Green '91 with Faith No More, Queensryche and Metallica), and they played absolutely horribly at times (most notable - Lollapalooza tour). Still, even when they went away, their albums BAD MOTERFINGER. SUPERUNKNOWN and DOWN FROM THE UPSIDE have stayed in fairly recent rotation in my iPod.
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Thursday, 27 December 2012 09:36
CD Review: Aerosmith - Music From Another Dimension
Aerosmith
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION
I think I waited just long enough to review this album. My initial reaction to MUSIC FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION was one of absolute hatred. Once again, as Aerosmith has done for me every single time since PUMP, they claimed their album to be something that it just didn't live up to. This time, it was six months of claims that they were returning to their roots and writing a new ROCKS or TOYS IN THE ATTIC. What they delivered was, once again, a lot closer to GET A GRIP or NINE LIVES. It was certainly disappointing, as Aerosmith is much like Metallica in my book - a band who's music I actually WANT to like, but far too often don't.
Wednesday, 26 December 2012 10:51
Bruce Hornsby Brings "Obscure Pandemonium" And Favorites To The Kent Stage By Matt Wardlaw
“The great thing about being a musician is that you don’t really have to grow up. So I’ve used that as my license to not really grow up and still just screw around a lot.”
It’s a light hearted statement from Bruce Hornsby, but during the course of our conversation, it’s been crystal clear that in fact, the 58-year-old singer-songwriter takes what he does very seriously, although there’s often a relaxed tone in the way he presents himself.
His “license” to stay forever young came by way of a successful radio hit which he describes modestly but perhaps very accurately as a “fluke.” (Although with a respectable slate of radio hits, we’d say that he did pretty well, riding the wave of that fluke.)
“‘The Way It Is’ is hardly the formula for pop success. A song about racism with not one, but two improvised piano solos, I mean, that’s just not what the radio has ever been about. It was just a fluke, a wonderful accident, as I’ve called it for years.”
Tuesday, 11 December 2012 18:07
Congratulations To Rush, Heart And Albert King
Congratulation to Albert King, Heart and Rush for being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
I didn't even know they were announcing the Rock Hall inductees today until the my phone started ringing and the text started flowing in from different news sources and music sites asking me for a quote of what I thought about the new crop of inductees. When the first person that got thru read the list to me, the first quote I gave was "You got to be f___ing kidding me." Look these news and music people reached out to me because it is long been known of what I think of the Rock Hall and it's policies (and I am a good quote). It's been documented here for years. It's a joke... Look they are pretty predicable. They inducted their one blues artist (King), their one rap artist (Public Enemy), their one obscure artist (Randy Newman) they have to have each year then they satisfy one of their biggest vocal critical fan base (Rush) so they could put in of all things a disco queen (Donna Summer) and then they actually got one right with Heart.
Look Heart, Rush and Albert King all deserve to be there and that is why I congratulate them. The rest....C'mon that really is a joke.
Like the great philosopher (and Rock Hall inductee) David Gilmour once said "If you liked Disco, then you really didn't like Rock And Roll"
Nuff said
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Poster Of The Week
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Blue Oyster Cult/Uriah Heep 1976 Cleveland Concert Poster
In what was billed as a Heavy Metal New Years, Blue Oyster Cult headlined on December 31, 1976 at the Richfield Coliseum. Also on the bill was Uriah Heep and opening act Point Blank.
The Richfield Coliseum was an arena located in Richfield Township located roughly halfway between Cleveland and Akron Ohio. It hosted many concerts, with its first event being a concert by Frank Sinatra in 1974 and the last being a concert by Roger Daltry in 1994, which was also the last official event at the arena.
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