Wednesday Music Digest

LOVE in Dallas

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/travel/lvca/stories/DN-vegaslove_0914tra.ART.State.Edition1.273fbba.html

Report from the 3rd Annual Aloha Tower Ukulele Fest

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080914/BREAKING01/80914075/-1/LOCALNEWSFRONT

Sir Paul will defy death threats and play in Israel:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/16/mccartney.refuses.to.cancel.gig

Music review-another side of Bob Dylan

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/15/133542.php

A doctor who treated George Harrison leaves a big mess in New York

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/09/15/2008-09-15_staten_island_hosp_to_repay_89m_in_fraud.html

And why these rock star deaths are depressing

http://gawker.com/5050049/why-these-rockstar-deaths-are-depressing

The Sons Head to NH

from Richard Savastano of Kikenei Productions:

"An Evening of Aloha with the Makaha Sons and Friends, presented by Cinnamon Rainbows Surf Company will return to the Meehan Center for the Performing Arts at the Cooperative Middle School in Stratham/Exeter, NH on Saturday, September 20 at 7PM.

The night of music will include hula performances by Hui Na Kawaiuaili and Kealo Koko, with musical performances by Margo Reola, Barry Kimokeo, three time Grammy Award Winner Daniel Ho and the Makaha Sons."

Flags On The 48

(Mt. Jackson, from MWM Observatory)

Starting on September 11, 2002, an intrepid group of hikers began to honor the memory of the victims of 9/11 by flying American flags from the summit of the major peaks over 4,000' tall here in New Hampshire's White Mountains. In 2004, for the first time, all 48 peaks were summited and "flagged" on the same day.

This past Thursday, they set out again, and the weather was perfect (except for the summit of Mt. Adams, of course!). Click on the post title to get to the home page of the 48 folks, and then click on the gallery link. Since it's only been a few days since 9/11, some of the images haven't been posted yet.

News From Mt. Washington

(PD photo from Wikimedia)

The weekend before last, the Mt. Washington Cog Railway dedicated their brand-new diesel locomotive! For the preceding 139 years, all of the locos on "The Cog" were coal fired (except for the original loco, Old Peppersass, which burned wood and is still on display at the Base Station).

This new loco is named "Wajo Nanatasis", which is Abenaki for "Mountain Hummingbird". It burns biodiesel, and is not just cleaner, but faster-the round trip now takes 2 hours instead of 3.

Click on the post title for more info, including a few pictures of the old-timer locos, one of which has also been modified to burn biodiesel.

CD Review: "Reddhead"

Here's a review of the new CD by Texas guitar giant Redd Volkaert, whom I saw (and photographed) a few weeks ago at Lowell...

Tuesday Music Digest

Woody Guthrie: original folk music

http://www.sundaymercury.net/entertainment-news/pop-music-news/cd-reviews/2008/09/15/woody-guthrie-original-folk-music-66331-21820068/

Carlos Santana sighting-

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-santana_0915gl.ART.State.Edition1.26f6add.html

5 "essential" rock movies:

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/09/15/five-essential-rock-movies-from-the-toronto-film-fest-guitar-gods-zaire-74-doc-and-more/

Chris Botti plays with the Boston Pops

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gFyTuTgoVSfW7DZ5Xt1raslxiuwQD937ECQ83

Festival Miami 2008

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/festival-miami-2008-celebrates-destination/story.aspx?guid=%7B7CD3C529-7656-4E5F-BADC-B30CBEB27463%7D&dist=hppr

And "coastal cowboys" Down Under...

http://www.echo.net.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=980&Itemid=542

Gate: Washed Away by Ike?

"Hurricane Katrina chased bluesman Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown from his adopted home in New Orleans to his hometown here on the Texas Gulf Coast, where he died in exile. Now, another hurricane has disturbed his rest.

The 1982 Grammy Award winner's casket was one of dozens belched up by the ground when gulf and rain waters from Hurricane Ike flooded Hollywood Cemetery, an all-black burial ground on the west side of this city on the Sabine River....The top of Brown's vault had popped off, and his bronze casket had floated away. But three jars of Bama grape jelly remained by his aluminum marker, no doubt left by a fan of his instrumental classic "Grape Jelly."

The New NYC "Hot Spot"

"It is a place rich with history and surprises: Over here are the cannons at Fort Jay that date to the Civil War, and over there, the Coast Guard may be gone but its blue street signs remain."

Kailua Throws a Party

Recap of this past weekend's street party...

Kailua Old-Timers to Talk Story

"Before urbanization and tract homes, and before the population moved closer to the beach, Kailua's center was at the entrance to Maunawili Valley, where stores prospered and farmers worked."

Click the post title-the story includes a nice early picture of Matsuda's store, which gave way to the Castle Medical Center in 1960.

RIP Pink Floyd's Richard Wright

"Founding Pink Floyd member Richard Wright has died at the age of 65. The keyboardist’s spokesman told the BBC Wright had been battling cancer for some time."

Monday Music Digest

Music review of one of the early Them albums

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/14/105234.php

The lost Beatles album:

http://www.whatgoeson.com/news/the-beatles/200809131429/haymans-green-the-lost-beatles-album.html

A review of the new CD by former Kaua'i resident Taj Mahal:

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/14/204557.php

Jazz music with strings attached-

http://www.jazz.com/jazz-blog/2008/9/14/jazz-with-strings-attached

Key player-Dave Brubeck

http://www.montereyherald.com/entertainment/ci_10462301

And a review of Terence Blanchard's recent set at Tanglewood...

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=30520

Off the Air!

The remains of Hurricane Ike blew thru here this morning, and I do mean "blow". High winds blew numerous trees and tree limbs down, and all sorts of people statewide lost their power, including us folks here on Saddle Hill. The wind has died down, and the lights are now back on.

I took advantage of the blackout to do some electrical wiring repair work! Saved me having to shut off the power myself...

Kidnapped Gorilla Back in Maine

Seamore, the mechanical gorilla kidnapped from Maine over the Labor Day weekend and later found abandoned in Vermont, returns home.

A Real Estate "Kamaaina"

The story of "Aloha Bob", who's been selling real estate in Hawai'i and California since the 1950s.

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

All of the NASCAR folks are here in NH this weekend for the Sylvania 300, which will take place later Sunday afternoon. Luckily the rain has exited but the track will still be slick.

I snapped this view of Junior Earnhardt's traveling hootnenanny on Thursday in Tilton.

Blurred Out

51 sites Google Maps won't show you.

New Books from Hawai'i

Including a new history of Kaua'i...

Sunday Music Digest

Sighted: a true American music original, John Prine:

http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/09/13/john_prine

A salute to Patsy Cline-

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080913/ENT/809130319/1056

"Live Music Nation" in Jamaica

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080914/ent/ent5.html

Midnight's children in the Big Easy:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2008/09/14/midnights_children

And a chat with dobro-man Jerry Douglas

http://www.nashvillescene.com/2008-09-11/music/gliding-on/

Happy Mel Day

An appreciation of today's birthday boy, Mel Torme

"[G]iven the breadth of his talents, he might have been a bandleader since, in addition to singing, he was also a drummer good enough to have gotten offers to go on the road as early as his teens, a songwriter responsible for one of the perennial Christmas standards, and an arranger who wrote the charts for much of the music he performed.

Amazingly, this is still only a partial list of his accomplishments, which also included acting in more than a dozen feature films and on radio and television; hosting radio and TV shows; and writing television dramas, numerous articles for periodicals including Down Beat and The New York Times, and six published books of fiction, biography, and music criticism."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r5GuQf9Bk4

A Trip Down Abbey Road

"Ringo Starkey"?

Saturday Music Digest

Another report from Monterey Jazz:

http://www.mercurynews.com/eyeheadlines/ci_10449175

Hot Club of Cowtown pops the pond:

http://tiny.cc/OQEDq

Mood music by the sea:

http://www.dailypress.com/features/dp-tkt_beachblues_0912sep12,0,1885765.story

Another artiste using the ukulele

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/63259/dave-matthews-band-ingrid-michaelson/

And how to play the blues (guitar)

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=73919

Nick Danger Update

As mentioned a few days back, Shout! Factory will be releasing the epic "Box of Danger" box set in a couple of weeks, the best-to-date release of the classic Firesign Theatre material.

Late word in from Phil "Rocky Roccoco" Proctor is that the release will also include a 40 page book with rare pictures and (best of all!) fresh essays from the 4 or 5 crazy guys. "In character, of course."

"Circle Gets the Square!"

Probe is turning on the people, indeed.

His latest music fest (click post title)-assorted recordings by "Hollywood Squares" personalities. You'll find Charlie Weaver, Paul Lynde, and even George Gobel!

Beam Me Over, Scotty!

"Former NASA executive and physicist John Mankins captured solar energy from a mountain top in Maui and beamed it 92 miles to the main island of Hawaii.

Tonight at 10 pm EDT Discovery Channel will air an episode of Project Earth on the recent first-of-its-kind experiment. This long range demonstration of wireless power transmission was also a key step toward space-based solar power satellites. The team also beamed the power almost 100 times farther than NASA's major 1970's power transmission in the Mojave Desert in California."

Another George Harrison Axe Uncovered

George's gold-plated "banjolele", a cross between a banjo and a ukulele...

The Weather With Al!

New Hampshire Business Review talks with looney-toon gasbag meteorologist Al Kaprelian. Al talks weather, but also gabs about the Lowell Folk Festival, where he kindly posed for me about a month and a half ago...

A Visit to "The Rock"

Here's perhaps one of the best picture visits to Governors Island in New York harbor. The pics were taken in 2004.

New CD Release by The Shaggs

Semi-legendary girl group The Shaggs was formed here in New Hampshire in 1968. They only released one album, 1969's "Philosophy of the World". All four members were sisters, the Wiggins, from the tiny town of Fremont.

Skip ahead to 1980, when Terry Adams and Tommy Ardolino of NRBQ (bless 'em), both longtime Shaggs fans, convinced their label at the time, Rounder, to reissue the album. Rolling Stone called it the "comeback of the year". Two years later, the compilation "Shaggs Own Things" came out. The latter has just been released for the first time ever on CD, in Japan, and is now available thru the NRBQ website-click post title for details.

More on the strange history of the sisters here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shaggs

Governors Island Visitors Double in 2008

Up to over 100,000!

Shark Attack Survivor Tells His Story

Finicky shark?

Delta to Restore Aloha-land Flights

In October!

Friday Music Digest

VH1 kicks off a new music series looking at assorted US cities:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-11-2008/0004883291&EDATE=

David Lindley sighted-

http://blog.mlive.com/encorea2/2008/09/preview_david_lindley.html

"Festival New Orleans" hits London:

http://blog.nola.com/keithspera/2008/09/festival_new_orleans_brings_so.html

Hamburg Germany finally gets a memorial to The Beatles

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/231146,hamburg-gets-its-official-beatles-memorial-at-last.html

World Festival of Sacred Music

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-sacred14-2008sep14,0,2109920.story

And New Orleans JazzFest creator George Wein reflects...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/11/wein.newport.festival.ap/

Hikers Drown in Slot Canyon

Escalante Staircase area.

The Jazz Age Comes to Governors Island

A lawn and garden party...

9/11 Music Digest

Lots of jazz news today...

Vince Gill leads a tribute concert to "Time Jumper" steel guitarist John Hughley. We saw John and the Jumpers play at Lowell 3 years ago; sad to say he left the building in November of 2007.

http://www.gactv.com/gac/nw_headlines/article/0,3034,GAC_26063_5937462_,00.html

Searching for obscure jazz on vinyl

http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2008/9/11/music/1976898&sec=music

The 16th Isle of Man Jazz Fest kicks off:

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/what-where-when/16th-Isle-of-Man-Jazz.4481893.jp

And the first-ever Mano'a Jazz Fest in Hawai'i also starts:

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080911/GETPUBLISHED/80910073/-1/LOCALNEWSFRONT

And finally, REM's Peter Buck has his signature guitar stolen after a show in Scandinavia-bastards!

http://www.nme.com/news/rem/39617

Never Forget

Shark Attack

"A 40-year old windward Oahu resident was attacked by a shark today while surfing in Kaaawa."

Sugar Production to End on Kaua'i

Gay & Robinson will shift to growing crops for ethanol. They're located on the southwest side of the island and have been in the sugar business for 116 years.

Aerosmith Lawsuit Headed for Trial

This is a legal action taken by some fans after the band (which was founded here in New Hampshire, by the way) cancelled a show on Mau'i in 2007. The trial will start next May.

New 9/11 Memorial Design for NY City Announced

Includes a theatre and cafe...

Court Backs Ban on SuperFerry Protestors

But will the SF return to the Garden Isle?

Hawaiian Music Digest

Yet another in an occasional series:

Here's a preview of the free shows Kaua'i slack-keyer Cindy Combs will be doing at O'ahu public libraries; the presentation is called "Music From the Hawaiian Renaissance"...

http://starbulletin.com/2008/09/10/features/dakine.html

Another feature on century-old ukulele man Bill Taipia

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/article/63154/at-100-years-old-hes-found-a-tiny-musical-destiny/

And another ukulele master from the Islands, Roy Sakuma. Includes a video!

http://www.examiner.com/x-792-Achievement-Examiner~y2008m9d9-VIDEO--Having-Powerful-Mentors

09/10/08 Music Digest

Report from a Beatles convention:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8uAOH0BkXKMGzk6YAyTWuxsDS9Q

Indie music fans have low self-esteem?

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/39562

A bass guitar version of "Guitar Hero"

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/mad-catz-ships-first-ever-rock/story.aspx?guid=%7B93276154-8C0B-40FE-9901-F8A9503C8A1D%7D&dist=hppr

DVD review: John Mayall live!

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/09/080051.php

Pete Best Band starts US tour

http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809090304

And a Marsalis meets Duke Ellington...

http://newsblaze.com/story/20080909145312zzzz.nb/topstory.html

A Swim Around O'ahu

"It's a surface swim, to bring attention to garbage on the bottom of the ocean. Surfer Alec Cooke wants to be the first to swim around Oahu, outfitted with a mask, snorkel and fins."

Scary Flying Story

Searching the High Sierra for Steve Fossett's missing plane...

"How could this iconic aviator plummet from the sky without a trace? How could one of the largest and most intensive searches in modern history fail to yield results? The answer, experts say, is that a plane wreck is one of the hardest needles to find in a rugged haystack -- especially the Sierra."

Big Isle Lava Lake

Here's a famous 1924 picture of the Kileaua caldera erupting.

Background: Several months ago, a vent opened explosively in Halemaumau, the crater inside the caldera of Kileaua volcano. Halemaumau used to be famous (notably due to a description from Mark Twain) as the location of a lava lake, fairly easily accessible by visitors. The lava lake disappeared in 1924 during a series of explosive phreatic eruptions (steam and hot rock). The lake has appeared briefly since then, such as in 1967.

Click on the post title for a Quicktime movie showing the 2008 activity.

Latest updates here:

http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/kilaueastatus.php

Join Hands Moloka'i

A festival report from the Friendly Isle.

Another Ulupo Heaiau Cleanup

In Kailua...

Tuesday Music Digest

More on the King of Strings, Rickenbacker Guitars

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Style/236898/

Sighted: 1960s group The Swingin' Medallions

http://www.indexjournal.com/articles/2008/09/08/news/news15.txt

A musical tragedy in New Orleans:

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1220938846232350.xml&coll=1

Ganyau, a new jazz group from Africa, releases its debut:

http://www.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=224&cat=3

The US Postal Service issues a new Latin Jazz stamp-

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/us-postal-service-celebrates-latin/story.aspx?guid=%7B4EACF118-7822-4907-BA3A-70EE5804CC09%7D&dist=hppr

And the Blind Boys of Alabama go "Down By The Riverside"

http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/7893/117/

Encore For a Strad

"The e-mail came to Frank Almond from out of the blue. It said, basically: I have a Stradivarius violin. Want to see it? "

"New" Randall Hall Update

Those slabs of granite around each window are from the OLD Randall Hall!

Not Fade Away

"Erosion at Kailua Beach has reached startling proportions, revealing a 60-foot-long sand trap installed 30 years ago."

Out of the Park

The physics of hitting a home run...

Affordable Kaua'i

The Garden Isle on the cheap. But they missed one-free coffee samples at the Kaua'i Coffee Company Visitor Center!

Chicken to Go?

The Kaua'i Humane Society has started to charge $5 each to pick up feral chickens, which as anyone who's visited the Garden Isle knows are everywhere.

Monday Music Digest

A Beatles Festival in...Indonesia?http://old.thejakartapost.com/detailfeatures.asp?fileid=20080907.H01&irec=10

A look at BB King's new CD:

http://www.jazz.com/jazz-blog/2008/9/7/b-b-king-one-kind-favor

A birthplace of recorded jazz music-Richmond, Indiana!

http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080907/NEWS01/809070304/1008

A look at Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2008164973_langill08.html

Father-and-son guitar makers in Florida:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/seminole/orl-guitar0508sep05,0,3713972.story

And another appreciation of Jerry Reed-

http://www.theage.com.au/world/a-good-ol-boy-who-was-hot-when-he-was-hot-20080904-49wh.html

Hawai'i and Electric Cars

From Israel:

"With the automobile industry lobby, and US driving habits keeping doors to the US still firmly shut, cars running on alternative fuel sources are now looking for a backdoor entrance to that market. Among those currently looking for such on such an entrance is Project Better Place which is now in advanced negotiations with the state government of Hawaii on the adoption of its electric car and battery charging infrastructure."

O'ahu's Other Beaches

Beyond Waikiki....

Hornucopia!

An interesting music fest upcoming in Fran Sanfrisco...

Milky Way Road Trip

Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel (TWAN)

Explanation: In search of planets and the summer Milky Way, astronomer Tunç Tezel took an evening road trip. Last Saturday, after driving the winding road up Uludag, a mountain near Bursa, Turkey, he was rewarded by this beautiful skyview to the south. Near the center, bright planet Jupiter outshines the city lights below and the stars of the constellation Sagittarius. Above the mountain peaks, an arcing cloud bank seems to lead to the Milky Way's own cloudy apparition plunging into the distant horizon. In Turkish, Uludag means Great Mountain. Uludag was known in ancient times as the Mysian Olympus.

Beaches Open Again

No sharks found at Kailua...

A Clapton Guitar Solo

On Septermber 6, 1968 Eric Clapton recorded his guitar solo on The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".

Echoes of Monk

The Monk-Overton big-band

Kailua Beach Closed After Shark Sighting

And a possible body?

09/07/08 Music Digest

The next "Guitar Hero" will feature Smashing Pumpkins

http://chattahbox.com/entertainment/2008/09/03/new-smashing-pumpkins-single-gets-guitar-hero-release/

R.I.P. Hawaiian musician George Young

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080906/NEWS01/809060325/1001/LOCALNEWSFRONT

A "Blues Brother" from England? Meet "Seasick Steve"

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/blues-brother-seasick-steve-rides-the-wave-of-sudden-fame-919279.html

Preview of the upcoming Voodoo Music Experience in the Big Easy:

http://www.andpop.com/article/12382

Downtown music VS Uptown music?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/arts/music/07kozi.html?ref=music

And a review of a new performance DVD by Rahsaan Roland Kirk-

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/06/172901.php

Latest Wireless News

Some listener reports from Glenn Hauser (click post title for entire report).

Here are the latest loggings from a longtime shotwave listener.

Opie checks in:

BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, continues to lose audio during their English segment. Sept 2, at 1411 heard "That was the news from BBS", their usual EZL musical selection, weather forecast: rain tomorrow and cloudy, gives the national temperature, rechecked at 1433 to find only the BBS open carrier; Sept 3, audio stopped at 1421 (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

CHINA. 7225, Sichuan PBS-2, 1512-1516*, Sept 4, indigenous music with singing/chanting, fair, // 6060 (weak), not // to Sichuan PBS-1 on 9740 (under BBC) which continued on past 1516. Was nice to finally hear this in the clear, as pre-1500 there is always very heavy QRM from VOA (in Korean) (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA)

LAOS. 6130, Lao National Radio, Aug 22, typical 1200 format: indigenous music, gong/bell rung slowly seven times (7:00 PM Laos Standard Time), followed by anthem, fair, audio clip posted to DXLD yg files section: "Station Sounds" (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA)

TIBET. 6200, PBS-Lhasa, 1340-1404, Sept 6, for the first time since the Wenchuan earthquake of May 12, this frequency heard without the CNR-1 relay during this time period, // 4905 and 4920, all three frequencies had the same terrible audio problems, extremely muffled (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA)

Hanna!

Tropical Storm Hanna arrives in the Northeast! Click on post title for updates via WX Underground. Thanks to same for the radar cap.

Hawai'i Tall Ship Saved From Scuttling?

"She was due to be scuttled last week, plunged to the depths of the seas she has plied for 130 years.

For months the Falls of Clyde, one of just five surviving Scottish-built Tall Ships, has lain in her Hawaii berth under a death sentence.

Yesterday, campaigners won a stay of execution".

Below the Volcano

Hawai'i Magazine reports on the discovery of a lake of lava!

Cleaning Up Bellows Field

About 2 miles from where our family lived in Kailua, Bellows Field was one of the first airstrips attacked by the Japanese on December 7th. It's been dormant for years, and now its landfill is finally getting cleaned up.

"Hey Jude" Turns 40

It was 40 years ago this week that a 45 in a black sleeve was released.

Interesting factoid-much of "Hey Jude" was not recorded at Abbey Road, but instead at London's Trident Studios.

Saturday Music Digest

George Wein works to preserve the legacy of the Newport Festivals:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j0YollBR8Jcxpw9GI_2PQoh8aGbAD9304JG00

A fusion of two musics-Swedish and Hawaiian?

http://www.nola.com/sounds/t-p/index.ssf?/base//entertainment-0/122059218898330.xml&coll=1

Don't Shoot the Piano Player!

http://blog.kennebunkpost.com/2008/09/05/music-review-dont-shoot-the-piano-player-sept-5-2008.aspx

A preview of the National Women in Blues Fest

http://home.nestor.minsk.by/jazz/news/2008/09/0402.html

And another musical fusion-jazz meets Japanese rock!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080905.GUELPH05/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Music/

"New" Randall Hall Update

Thick as a brick! This is from a week ago; I will have a more recent shot shortly.

Coast Guard Chopper Crashes Off Honolulu

One crew member still missing...

UPDATE:

The early report I link to in the post title was incorrect. 3 Coasties dead, one missing.

Regnad Kcin!

The collected works of Nick Danger, "Box of Danger" is being released by SHOUT! Factory on September 30.

Friday Music Digest

The Real McCoy (Tyner, that is)

http://www.scmp.com/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=774b88868282c110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&s=Life&ss=Music

Larry Coryell sighting:

http://www.packetonline.com/articles/2008/09/03/time_off/entertainment_news/doc48bed2f5d33e3287473779.txt

A visit to Beale Street in Memphis

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-09-03-voa45.cfm

Bayou Boogie!

http://www.gazette.com/entertainment/says_40173___article.html/john_charles.html

And a new show about African musical madman Fela

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hzvHKIG1kGhQGx-WULReBUspvMLwD93075V81

September Sidebar

8 AM on Roxbury Road in the mystical "Chemung" section of Meredith NH; this section is what we here in NH call a "roller coaster road". Note the tree leaning right over the pathway; this is protected as this is a Designated Scenic Road.

There is in fact a real Roller Coaster Road in the adjoining city of Laconia, but all of the rollers and coasters are long gone...

Uke Till You Puke

Jake!!!

Studying the Oceans

"Artificial upwelling"?

Thursday Music Digest

A rock and roll auction

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2008/9/prweb1276804.htm

Drumming in N'Orleans

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080903/ENTERTAINMENT04/809040312

The latest Stupid Music news from Asleep at the Wheel:

http://www.theorion.com/home/news/2008/09/03/Entertainment/Asleep.At.The.Wheel.Takes.Fans.Down.Familiar.Road-3410472.shtml

DVD review of a Cannonball Adderly concert-

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/03/210813.php

And some Cuban roots music

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/03/NSP512K5L7.DTL

New Waterfall DVD

Filmed somewhere in the 50th state, with interesting music backing.

Morning On The Gaza Strip

About 5 miles due south from Saddle Hill as the crow flies is the Sanbornton hamlet of GAZA, not to be confused with the one in the Middle East.

Gaza is noted for two things-NH Route 127 either begins or ends here, with its other terminus way down in Merrimack County some 40 or so miles away.

But Gaza is best known as the earthquake capitol of New Hampshire. They had a 4.4 in 1984, which I remember well.

Click on post title for Gaza ground moving info.

O'ahu Home Sales Drop 33%

Auwe! The good news-median prices were only down slightly.

Mike and Mac and The White Cliffs of Dover

A Kailua father and daughter attempt to swim the English Channel, with mixed results.

Click on post title for the news report, and below for the official website of Mike and Mac.

http://www.mikenmacswim.org/

Ravi Shankar Starts European Farewell Tour

As George Harrison called him, "the godfather of world music".

"Love" in Montreal

The Beatles/Cirque de Soleil show is documented in a new film, soon to open in Montreal.

Cleaning Up Koke'e

The YMCA will be doing cleanup in the Kaua'i wilderness and is looking for volunteers...

Wednesday Music Digest

Wynton Marsalis moves jazz to "Higher Ground"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94198246

A look back at the "Rumble in the Jungle"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122039730415792753.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Another sighting of century-old Hawaiian ukulele legend Bill Taipia

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/ukulele-tapia-years-2143720-willy-one

NOISE ships musical instruments to the Big Easy:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=248&dept_id=462341&newsid=20101259&PAG=461&rfi=9

And a review of a new reissue-the Moody Blues live at the Isle of Wight!

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/09/02/101613.php

Hawai'i National Park Visitors Down 15%

"Overall, the biggest declines were seen at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park"

RIP Guitarist Jerry Reed

"Jerry Reed, country music’s howling virtuoso and a star of stage, studio and screen, has died. Born Jerry Reed Hubbard, Mr. Reed suffered from emphysema and was in hospice care. He was 71, and he leaves an unparalleled legacy of laughter and song.

By the time Mr. Reed came to popular attention as Burt Reynolds’ truck-driving sidekick “The Snowman” in the Hollywood trilogy Smokey and the Bandit, he was already a musical deity to the guitar players who admired the syncopated flurries he unleashed with a casual gleam. He was also a hit recording artist by that time, having topped the charts with “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot” and “Lord, Mr. Ford,’ and having written songs for Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Porter Wagoner, Brenda Lee and others. Then there was his work as session guitarist for Presley, Waylon Jennings, Bobby Bare and many others."

Tanglewood Jazz Festival Review

About 3 hours down the road from Saddle Hill in the Berkshires, Tanglewood paid tribute in music to New Orleans.

Honolulu Parade of Champions

The annual Labor Day parade...

Tuesday Music Digest

Yet another Air Guitar festival, this one in England

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/news/080826b.shtml

A sculptor in Texas wants to carve Bob Wills

http://www.grahamleader.com/news/get-news.asp?id=13370&catid=3&cpg=get-news.asp

Another guitar thief on the loose

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x1724957834/Man-steals-new-guitar-valued-at-1-200

New release from dobro master Jerry Douglas:

http://sentinelsource.com/articles/2008/08/30/entertainment/news/free/id_321220.txt

A record turnout at Blues by the Bay in California

http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_10355246

And a concert review from Chicago of Ornette Coleman

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/jazz/1138830,CST-FTR-jazz01web.article

Hurricane Gustav Update

Gustav made landfall in SE Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane, spawning numerous tornadoes from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana.

Throughout the day, television reporters trained their cameras on New Orleans flood walls and levees, while officials at the Army Corps of Engineers said they believed the barriers would not be breached. Later in the afternoon a private levee outside of New Orleans developed trouble.

Next up? Hanna, which could even end up way up here in New England!

The Fred Harvey Room

A look back at the guy who ran the early concessions at Arizona's Grand Canyon.

O'ahu Water Shortage

Residents asked to conserve water.

John Lennon: The Early Years

A new biopic...

GeesePeace

The latest geese-control technology...

Labor Day Music Digest

Lots of jazz festivals these days-this one is in Aspen

http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20080831/NEWS/808309983/1077/RECREATION02&parentprofile=-1

Speaking of jazz, meet the Dutch Master

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=30423

More on Rickenbacker guitars:

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_10347300

Review of some recent reissues-

http://www.redwoodcitydailynews.com/article/2008-8-29-cd-reviews

And friend Dave Gordon, a music recording engineer/producer in Vermont, has some tunes up from his recent Dog Days party!

http://www.windprod.com/dogdays_swansong.htm