| Disposable Nation
In my teenage years, I was pretty handy with cars. Being decidedly working-class, we Jowerses favored used cars, somewhere between two and 10 years old. I did my own tune-ups, replaced my own rusted-out exhaust systems, stripped wrecked cars for parts and put those parts on my own cars. On any given day, I could fix just about any given car problem and get to where I wanted to go. But I felt the winds of change one day when my daddy, Jabo Jowers, pulled into the driveway with a lightly used 1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire. Jabo opened the hood like men did in those days when they wanted to show off a car. “Look here, boy," he said. “They tell me this thing's got a turbocharger." I looked into the cramped little engine compartment, which had tubes and wires crammed together so tight that there was no room for human hands or Craftsman wrenches.
Frampton comes alive with Pops at Riverbend
When Cincinnati Pops trumpeter Doug Lindsay started to play the "talkbox" melody in Peter Frampton's "Show Me the Way" Saturday night, the Riverbend crowd objected. "You're playing it very well, but not here," Frampton said, grinning, as he took over with his twangy talkbox. It was a gentle gag, but it pointed out that the Pops was mostly superfluous in the rock 'n' roll icon's orchestral debut. This was a Frampton lovefest. The thousands who watched clapped, danced and sang along with '70s hits from the best-selling live album of all time, "Frampton Comes Alive!" .
New Black Label Society Album Details
NEW YORK (RoadRunner Records) - New endorsement deals, scoring for ESPN, and an up-coming headlining tour prepare Zakk for world domination! Legendary Grammy winning guitarist Zakk Wylde and his band Black Label Society (BLS) are preparing to release their new studio album Shot To Hell on September 12th. Produced by Zakk and executive produced by Michael Beinhorn (Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers) this latest offering is his 8th album since becoming Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist and co-songwriter 20 years ago. Shot to Hell is the first BLS release for Roadrunner and follows the band's success of selling nearly 2 million albums in the U.S. to date. Currently headlining the second stage at Ozzfest, BLS will announce a US headlining tour shortly. The buzz is already starting to build dramatically as the September 12th release date approaches.
Jim Beal: Well-traveled Big Soy happy to see local fans
With July 4 falling on a Tuesday, it's not really a holiday weekend, but it's not really not a holiday weekend either. There are plenty of live-music happenings designed to keep your sparklers lit. Big Soy's back Big Soy, the alt-rock/folk-punk, etc. trio of John Edds (guitar, vocals, lyrics), Adam White (drums) and Joseph Caceres (bass), is back from a tour of England and Scotland and cranking up the local gigs. "It's really great to be back in front of the home crowd," White said. "We can relax, play for our friends and go home at night. In the U.K., we stayed with people we didn't know. Sometimes it was great. Sometimes it was a little weird." Hot on the heels of the release of the group's "Part of You" disc, the follow-up to the debut, "Putting the ___in___," Big Soy headed for Britain to do eight gigs in 14 days.
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