My Life in Roger Daltrey’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” Shirt

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Jun 062011
 

One of the great byproducts of live gathering of Townspeople is the new topics for discussion that develop. Not all Townspeople type as quickly as others or have the ability to type out their observations on a given subject during the blog’s peak periods. In the presence of any combinaton of you, few rock insights and wisecracks are left unexpressed. At Saturady night’s Sausages for Sammy gathering my close, personal friend Townsman chickenfrank shared a few insights on a video that we were watching that quickly entered my mental notebook. Here’s the video that was projecting onto the wall of my garage:

As a yardful of Townspeople nodded along to this ultimate display of rock’s Power & Glory, chickenfrank, seated to my right, made the following key observation:

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Today in Death: Martin Rushent and Andrew Gold Join the Ranks of Great Men

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Jun 062011
 

Sad to read, just now, that producer Martin Rushent is dead at 63. He’s a musical figure whose name I’ve jotted down on yellow sticky notes as someone to attempt contacting for a Rock Town Hall interview: Buzzcocks, Generation X, The Stranglers, and—I’d forgotten about this until just now—Human League‘s Dare, possibly the only ’80s synth-pop band capable of turning out a few songs that I liked! (Speaking of Buzzcocks and Gen X, stay tuned for a coming thread/tournament centered on a brief discussion around those bands at our recent Sausagefest!)

Andrew Gold also died, also in his early 60s. I first heard him as the man behind the soft-rock anthem “What a Lonely Boy.” Prior to his solo career he was a key contributor to Linda Rondstadt‘s big ’70s albums. He would later strike paydirt writing and performing the theme songs to television sitcoms. Then, with money in the bank, didn’t he release some pseudo-’60s psych albums under a pseudonym and become a hero of the Audities power pop crowd? Or am I thinking of someone else? I do not recall Wax, an ’80s band he formed with 10 cc’s Graham Gouldman that seemed intent on showing Tears for Fears who was boss. Dig the trick Gold pulls at the end of his sax solo!

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Rock Town Hall’s Saturday Night Shut-In: Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda-Been Classic Rock

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Jun 042011
 

Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!

In this evening’s edition of Saturday Night Shut-In, in the hour leading up to tonight’s Sausages for Sammy Extravaganza and Classic Rock Psychic Rock Block Event, Mr. Moderator plays a mix of Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda-Been Classic Rock contenders! At the end of this episode he will reveal the identity of our latest Mystery Guest!

These are songs you almost certainly are not going to hear during tonight’s 20-minute rock block on a Classic Rock Station to be announced. Crack open a cold one, fire up your grill, and listen along, won’t you?

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[Note: The Rock Town Hall feed will enable you to easily download Saturday Night Shut-In episodes to your digital music player. In fact, you can even set your iTunes to search for an automatic download of each week’s podcast.]

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INITIAL DETAILS RELEASED ON TONIGHT’S SAUSAGES FOR SAMMY CLASSIC ROCK BLOCK PSYCHIC EVENT!

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Jun 042011
 

Following is the first significant batch of information you will need to follow along for tonight’s Sausages for Sammy Classic Rock Block Psychic Event! Later tonight, shortly before the 20-minute rock block airs, you will be provided with a link to our Top-Secret Classic Rock Station’s streaming web broadcast. Final details will be announced closer to airtime to prevent against requests.

The PayPal link for contributing to our Sausages for Sammy Fundraiser will close at 12:00 noon. From that point forward only last-minute predictions made in person at this evening’s fundraiser will be accepted. Thank you for your participation and contributions.

A full listing of predicted artists/songs competing for airplay in tonight’s 20-minute Classic Rock Block on a Classic Rock station to be announced follows the jump. But first…INITIAL DETAILS ON TONIGHT’S SPECIFIED 20-MINUTE CLASSIC ROCK BLOCK AND LIVE STREAMING INFORMATION ON OUR TOP-SECRET CLASSIC ROCK STATION!

Date: Saturday, June 4, 2011 (ie, tonight!)

Time: 8:58 pm EST (or whenever music begins following commercial break)

Classic Rock Station: To be announced at 8:30 pm EST

Link to station’s live stream: To be provided at 8:30 pm EST

If you’re not in my backyard while we listen live, tune in and listen along with us! LIVE BLOGGING is encouraged, but excuse our greasy fingers.

Following the jump, the artists and songs in play (as of June 3, 11:59 pm) for tonight’s historic, charitable event!

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Who Is the Cougar Town of Rock?

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Jun 032011
 

Cougar Town!

I heard a great story about TV’s Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence (also creator of Scrubs and Spin City) on Howard Stern yesterday. He wants to change the name of his 3-year-old show because he thinks that name turns so many people off (both men and women) and has kept it from being as successful as it could/should be.

He has a Twitter campaign to create a new name for this show and added a questionnaire asking, “Are you embarrassed to admit you like Cougar Town because of the name?” He plans to go to his network with this data and request that they change the name of his show for the 2011-2012 TV season.

Sucky rock band names are all over rock radio (esp. College Rock radio) but you never see a band dump their name once they get to the big leagues.

Is there a band that you can not admit to liking because of their name?

Is there a band that you never gave a chance due to their name? (and that later you ended up liking?)

Feel free to come up with a new name for said band and we may just campaign for a name change on their behalf.

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Mystery Date

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Jun 032011
 

Another Mystery Date…so soon? Yes, it ties into tomorrow night’s pre-sausagefest episode of Saturday Night Shut-In.

Let’s review the ground rules here. The Mystery Date song is not necessarily something I believe to be good. So feel free to rip it or praise it. Rather the song is something of interest due to the artist, influences, time period… Your job is to decipher as much as you can about the artist without research. Who do you think it is? Or, Who do you think it sounds like? When do you think it was recorded? Etc…

If you know who it is, don’t spoil it for the rest. Anyone who knows it can play the “mockcarr option.” (And I’ve got a hunch at least one of you know this one.) This option is for those of you who just can’t hold your tongue and must let everyone know just how in-the-know you are by calling it. So if you know who it is and want everyone else to know that you know, email Mr. Moderator at mrmoderator [at] rocktownhall [dot] com. If correct we will post how brilliant you are in the Comments section.

The real test of strength though is to guess as close as possible without knowing. Ready, steady, go!

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