Paul McCartney Ticket Giveaway!

Today's the day on The Jammin' Jukebox for the Paul McCartney ticket giveaway. You can win a pair of tickets to the July 24th Comerica Park show! All you have to do is listen from 4-6 pm and be the ninth caller when you hear the Beatles song "Let it Be."
Good luck and I'm looking forward to giving you a ticket to ride!

Paul McCartney Ticket Giveaway!

Hello again to everyone on blogger and my blog.
I host a college radio show called The Jukebox Power Hour. Well, I'm very excited because I was one of two DJ's chosen to give away a pair of tickets for Sir Paul!

If there are any fans here from Michigan, specifically around the Metro Detroit area you definately have a chance to win!
Our radio station is out of Oakland University, near the Auburn Hills, MI. area. You can listen to my show this Wednesday to find out how to win and next Wednesday (July 20th), I'm giving away the tickets early on in the show.
My show's from 4-5 pm. If you live near the area, you can listen on the FM dial at 88.3 fm or you can listen online at WXOU.ORG!
I'm so excited and I would love to give somebody a ticket to ride to see Sir. Paul at Comerica Park July 24th!
Here's the number for the station: 248-370-4274
Oh, and my show plays classic rock/hard rock/oldies/Indie.
My facebook group page is located at: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/5047569247?ap=1

Wanda Jackson is a BAMF!

Just wanted to share this video from David Letterman. Not only does Wanda Jackson still have it, Jack White is excellent as is their band. I'm a little upset that the White Stripes broke up, but this is the BEST thing Jack has done since. I'm so glad that he looked up Wanda Jackson and saved another legend. It reminds me of what Elton John did for Leon Russell.
First of all, Wanda Jackson may look like your grandma, but she still has an amazing voice and could whoop some butt. They don't call her the Queen of Rockabilly for nothing. I think it's great Rockabilly's coming back because of her and others like Imelda May. It was a big, popular form of music in the Fifties and died by the Sixties.
Wanda not only did a great cover of 'Shakin' all over,' she rocked it doing Amy Winehouse and Bob Dylan!
I really want this album but it's only available in vinyl so I'll just have to settle for listening to the old stuff and youtube videos.
Wanda Jackson is an amazing artist and I'm so glad that she still has that distinct voice and drawl.

You say goodbye and I say Hello!

Hello all. It's been a few weeks since I last updated. I started college classes again and my radio show so I've been quite busy!
I realized something though about this blog. I was going to be posting my show and podcasts on here but the server that I use doesn't give me a whole lot of space so I have to constantly update it to a few files at a time. This doesn't give me the option of posting my show on here.
I've tried other websites like soundcloud and ayos ishare which are good for posting a file every once in a while.
I'm going to start using this blog for my personal use more so. As you can tell, I'm a huge Beatles fan and love all kinds of music.
I've got this photo that my brother has that he found online of John Lennon. It looks like someone took it in his home. It looks to be around the same time that John and Cyn were getting divorced. I just love how laid back John is and I was wondering what magazine/newspaper that was he's reading?

Dean Fertita-Local Detroit musician

I'm always on the hunt for stuff about music and this musician was featured in the Oakland Press.
Dean Fertita has a new cd coming out but what really stuck out to me is that he's played for other groups and he's in the Dead Weather.
Article:
Turning 40 in September was semi-traumatic for Detroit rocker Dean Fertita.

“Y’know, I tried not to think about it as much as possible,” he says, although friends did throw him a party in Nashville and the members of one of his bands, the Dead Weather, gave him a Kiss pinball machine.

And as he looks back from his new chronological loft, Fertita can certainly feel like he’s accomplished much to this point in his life.

In addition to the Dead Weather he’s also in the ranks of Queens of the Stone Age, playing guitar and keyboards for both bands. And this comes after the Royal Oak native’s long tenure leading the Waxwings and a stint as a utility player for the Raconteurs.

Now comes his first solo project — kind of. Hello=Fire is both the title of Fertita’s new album and also the name of the collective that made it, including fellow Detroiter and Raconteurs member Brendan Benson, QOTSA compatriots Troy Van Leeuwen, Joey Castillo and Michael Schuman, and the Afghan Whigs’ Michael Horrigan. It’s unquestionably Fertita’s domain, however, though he acknowledges the Hello=Fire moniker confuses the issue a bit.

“It’s been explained to me that (using my own name) would probably be a wise approach,” acknowledges Fertita, who keeps a home in Ferndale though he’s frequently in Nashville or Los Angeles — or on the road. “But for me, just as a fan of music, I always gravitated towards a band idea. I like the interaction with other people in writing and performing.

“So it just felt natural to give this some kind of name other than my own.”

Hello=Fire, Fertita says, came from a phrase he’d written down as a child. “I thought it was interesting,” he explains. “I liked the idea of an action equals a consequence, that a command equals action. Something stayed with me about it.

“I originally intended it just to be an album title, but the more we lived with it, the more it seemed to fit with the group of songs and the whole way we made this (album).”

Fertita says the beginnings of “Hello=Fire” date back nearly two years, when he was working with Benson at the latter’s East Grand Studio near Detroit’s Belle Isle. “He and I would just help each other with songs we were working on,” Fertita recalls. “He had a studio in his house, so that’s really where the record started.

“Four or five of (the songs) were done in a day, or two days. It was really a spontaneous record. I didn’t really know what I was doing; was I planning on putting them out as an album or was I just finishing songs? It was really kind of a strange way to write and record.”

Fertita took his time figuring out what the purpose was, however, choosing instead to work on the songs whenever he had a chance, jumping into recording studios in Los Angeles, Nashville and even London, primarily while touring with QOTSA.

“I was lucky to be able to do most of the recording with guys that I’ve been playing with for a while,” Fertita notes. “Whoever was around and felt like going in the studio for a day and making some music, that’s who played on the record. There wasn’t anything pre-conceived about it. I didn’t really have a chance to think about, ‘Oh, we want to sound like this’ or anything. It was a really simplified approach.

“I was surprised at the end of the whole thing it sounded as cohesive as it did.”

The album’s dozen tracks — including the opening “Certain Circles,” which has been getting some radio play since the album came out — share a psychedelic, garage rock flavor that’s certainly of a piece with what Fertita has done in his other bands. But he feels like their effect on what he’s done here is minimal.

“A lot of it was done before I even started playing with Queens or Dead Weather,” Fertita explains. “As a matter of fact, most of it was. There were three songs, I think, that I did while still on tour with Queens, and that was before the Dead Weather, so there wasn’t a whole lot of time for that stuff to sink in on this.”

Fertita has played one concert, in Los Angeles, as Hello=Fire but is determined to do more this year, most likely during breaks from QOTSA’s recording and touring schedule. He’s also hoping to release more material next year as Hello=Fire and planned to spend some time during the holidays working on songs.

“I’m always working on things,” says Fertita, who also re-recorded a Waxwings song, “Different Plane,” for a cancer care TV commercial and would like to update more of that band’s material. “I’ve just kind of been demoing while I’m home and moving ahead as if I’m finishing another Hello=Fire record. A few of them might wind up somewhere else down the line, but one way or another I will get some new music out there.”

A DEAN FERTITA DISCOGRAPHY
With the Waxwings: “Low to the Ground,” 2000; “Shadows of the Waxwings,” 2002; “Let’s Make Our Descent,” 2004
With Queens Of The Stone Age: “Era Vulgaris,” 2007
With the Raconteurs: “Consolers of the Lonely,” 2008
With the Dead Weather: “Horehound” and “Live at Third Man Records West,” 2009; “Sea of Cowards,” 2010
With Karen O & the Kids: “Where the Wild Things Are,” 2009

The Who: The Kids are Alright

So in addition to scanning all those Beatle pictures, I got excited and started scanning some Who stuff.
In anticipation of my dvd, "The Amazing Journey: The story of the Who," I decided to put up some pictures from The Who: The Kids are alright.
I actuallly found the original album and as a bonus, found this great book with lots of pictures in it from the later film version.
I just picked a bunch of my favorites and I cut off a couple of pics so sorry about that!

Does anybody know what's on Pete's shirt?

Could this possibly be when the Who toured shortly as the High Numbers?

Really nice one of Pete!

I like that one of the Who in the record shop.

The Who recording. Little known fact that John played the french horn.

A Who explosion of course!

That picture of Keith walking what appears to be a stuffed toy dog makes me laugh!

Also, Wholigans there's still time to enter the Who's live in your living room contest until January 9th. The first place winner will get an autographed guitar signed by Pete. Second place winners will get an autographed 'Live at leeds...40th anniv' cd by Roger and a subscription to the Who.com.
Link:http://www.fender.com/blog/enter-the-whos-live-in-your-living-room-contest/

It was a very Beatley day!

This morning when I woke up, my mom handed me some comics from our local newspaper and I thought they were really cute and was amazed at the coincidence that there were two of them in the same Sunday paper section.

I also went a little crazy with our scanner and scanned a few pictures that stuck out to me from my new Beatles picture book from Chris, "Images of the Beatles."

Paul and Ringo during the 'Let it Be' sessions

Interesting photo from the Rolling Stone's "Rock n' Roll Circus." John and Yoko are in this picture with little Julian and the Stones Brian Jones.

The book said that this was Paul around the time he composed 'Yesterday.' I thought it was fun that they mentioned the scrambled eggs bit and thought of Paul and Jimmy Fallon!

I liked this view of the crowd from the stage!

The Beatles drinking coke's in Paris, France.

I've seen this photo before but never the full size image...I love Cynthia's shoes and I like the teacup stashed under the airport chair.

I also later found out that today is Sir George Martin's 83rd birthday! Now, Sir George was the Beatles producer and another one that is called the 'fifth' Beatle. Here's a really cool interview from Youtube in which Sir George talks about the classic 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and really breaks it down. It's so interesting!

Mick Jagger slays a dragon!

On New Year Eve, I spent a quiet night at home with my boyfriend. While flipping through the channels waiting for the ball to drop, we came across a Rolling Stones concert on PBS.
We were both excited, especially since the Stones are one of Chris's favorite bands (I'm more of a Beatles girl).
It was the Rolling Stones live from Wembley stadium in the early 90's. I thought it was well done, even with a very strange psychedllic video montage.
My favorite part was when a giant inflatable dragon appeared and Mick attempted to 'slay' the dragon! It was all sorts of strange.
I've also got to say that the Stones are so skinny here, they stayed the same size as they were back in the sixties.
I also thought that Keith was on his game that night and his guitar solos were impressive. Keith was also wearing these awesome pants which were women's I suspect. You can find them now! They're part of the skinny jean/jegging trend.

It was a teenage wedding and the old folks wished them well.....

I am a big fan of Chuck Berry's. It only happened recently when I went back and actually payed attention to the pioneers of the 1950's and Chuck stuck out to me. I also play guitar and most guitar players strive to play like him and 'Johnny B. Goode' is a song that most learn first.
Well, I heard this morning that Chuck passed out at one of his concerts. The man is 84 and still tours! He ended up being okay but that is still pretty scary. I wouldn't want to lose Chuck Berry since I want to see him someday. It would be awesome to see him duckwalk live!
Plus, my uncle Kevin got a guitar when he was young and it was a replica of Chuck Berry's, cherry red and all.
I thought of the worst and can breathe a sigh of relief. It reminds me of the hoax that went out that B.B. King died.
Enjoy this awesome video with Chuck Berry featuring Bruce Springsteen and the E. Street Band.

The Doors members break on through and slam pardon

A couple of months ago, I found out that Jim Morrison was possibly going to be pardoned from an alleged incident that happened at a concert in Miami, Florida. At the time, Jim was into performance art and supposedly tried to expose himself onstage.
The pardon passed a whopping 41 years later and Morrison isn't even alive to enjoy it. He passed away awaiting trial in Paris, France in 1971.
I came across this article, in which Morrison's band members are upset about the whole pardon, thinking that the whole thing was a big joke and misunderstanding in the first place. They believe that Morrison should've been issued an apology rather than a pardon, which I do believe makes it seem like he really did do it.
Article:
JIM MORRISON's THE DOORS bandmates have criticised officials in Florida for granting the singer a pardon 41 years after he was accused of indecency at a concert in Miami - insisting an apology would be "more appropriate".

The late music icon was handed a six-month jail term and a $500 (£333) fine after he was convicted of drunkenly exposing himself on stage at a show in 1969. He was in the process of appealing the sentence when he died in Paris, France in 1971.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist recently launched a campaign to have the offence wiped from state records and Morrison was granted a pardon by members of a Clemency Board earlier this month (Dec10).

Morrison's bandmates Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore have now spoken out about the move, insisting the pardon is bittersweet because their late pal should never have been charged in the first place.

A statement from the trio reads, "We don't feel Jim needs to be pardoned for anything... Whatever took place that night ended with The Doors sharing beers and laughter in the dressing room with the Miami police, who acted as security at the venue that evening. No arrests were made... Four days later, warrants were issued in Miami for the arrest of Morrison on trumped-up charges of indecency, public obscenity, and general rock-and-roll revelry. Every city The Doors were booked into cancelled their engagement.

"A circus of fire-and-brimstone 'decency' rallies, grand jury investigations and apocalyptic editorials followed... The charges against him were largely an opportunity for grandstanding by ambitious politicians - not to mention an affront to free speech and a massive waste of time and taxpayer dollars.

"Four decades after the fact, with Jim an icon for multiple generations - and those who railed against him now a laughingstock - Florida has seen fit to issue a pardon.

"If the State of Florida and the City of Miami want to make amends for the travesty of Jim Morrison's arrest and prosecution 40 years after the fact, an apology would be more appropriate - and expunging the whole sorry matter from the record."

Johnny's in the basement mixin' up the medicine...

To all Bob Dylan fans, I just found out that there is a contest currently going on until Januaray 20th. After that, one entry will be picked in Febuarary. The big prize is a trip to SXSW!
It's the Bob Dylan Remix Project by Sony.
You can remix up to four verses of the classic, "Subterranean Homesick Blues."
There are pieces of audio to choose from featuring Bob, the Ting-Tings, and other fans/bands. Plus, you can remix your own track and upload it as well. The entry with the most votes/views wins!
Link: http://www.remix-project.com/Make