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300 musicians drum-struck at Woodstick in Kirkland
Hundreds of drummers gathered in Kirkland Sunday for the sixth annual Woodstick fundraiser.

By Ángel González

Seattle Times staff reporter



COURTNEY BLETHEN / THE SEATTLE TIMES

This year Woodstick was held simultaneously at eight different locations across America, including the gym at Juanita High School, where 300 drummers gathered. Each site had unique venues and its own celebrity drummers participating.
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Drummers rock the House at Woodstick
If a drum kit in the garage could be many a parent's nightmare, imagine 300 of them. All banging at the same beat — more or less — for the better part of two hours. That makes a lot of noise, but in this case, it was for a good cause.

This drumming extravaganza — called Woodstick 2008 by its organizers — gathered 300 amateur drummers Sunday at Juanita High School's gym in Kirkland. The money raised by the event — about $4,000, according to organizer David Cotant — will go to music education and to the University of Washington's research on hearing loss.

Three hundred drums are loud. But when played in sync, they produce a visceral, hypnotic sound like that of a marching army.

"It's quite a strong, powerful feeling when they're doing it together," said spectator Bill Lynes, of Everett, whose wife, Gail, participated in the event.

Drummers are surprisingly social. They gawked at each other's kits, taking pictures (talking was difficult because of the noise).

"They're pack animals," said Ben Goldberg, a musician who helped organize the event. "Guitarists would never do this."

Goldberg, who plays in a band called The Boinkers, won an award for the coolest drum set — an instrument he calls "Skittles" that has the colors of the rainbow. A drum collector and salesman, he's participated in all six annual Woodstick gatherings. "If it's goofy and ugly, I like it," he said.

The drummers followed the direction of Brad McDavid, UW Husky Marching Band director.

They ended the event with the rhythms of rock classics like The Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There" and Tom Petty's "Refugee." On the stage, a wall of 10 professional drummers, including main organizer Donn Bennett of Bennett Drums, and three guitarists led the crowd as if conducting a massive version of the video game "Rock Band." It took awhile for the crowd's energy to wind down: As the last song ended and the onstage band began packing up its instruments, some drummers kept rattling.

Pam Kludt, of Redmond, began playing four years ago after her younger son "started and quit."

"It's one of the hardest things I've ever done," she said of drumming.

Now Kludt has formed a domestic garage band with her guitar-playing husband.

For grown-ups, especially those intent on getting everything right on the first try, it's a challenge. "I've learned a lot about myself," she said.

Vince Gill comes through!

KIRO 7 Connects Fire Victim With Country Star

POSTED: 2:31 pm PDT August 27, 2008
UPDATED: 4:29 pm PDT August 27, 2008


BURIEN, Wash. -- The victim of an arson fire received an unexpected package Wednesday, complements of country music star Vince Gill.

Following an arson fire on June 29, victim John Miklosh told KIRO 7 reporter Chris Egert that he'd lost his cherished Vince Gill autographed guitar when his apartment and all of his possessions were destroyed.

Egert called Nashville, and Vince Gill's people came through with a new Taylor guitar signed by both Gill and his wife, singer Amy Grant.

Miklosh was amazed when he received the new instrument from Egert.

"I was so down when all this happened and I lost everything I had. Look at my place now, I'm back, good or better than I was, and it is because everybody cared," said Miklosh.

After the fire, Miklosh and several families were forced to move.

Two people were killed.

King County investigators later ruled the fire to be arson. No arrests have been made in the case.

BeckySue & her Big Rockin Daddies
Great Blues band I've had the pleasure of hearing 3 times now. Excellent article about them...........
http://www.weekendmusician.com/feature/feature.html

Isaac Hays
Dead at 65

Shaft

Boy band promoter ordered to repay victims $300 million


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Story Updated: Jul 16, 2008 at 2:15 PM PDT
By Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Lou Pearlman and federal authorities have finally agreed on how much the former boy band promoter swindled from banks and investors in a decades-long scam: a staggering $300 million.

That's how much creator of the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync will have to repay, at a minimum, for restitution on the fraud conviction for which he's serving a 25-year prison sentence.

U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharpe on Wednesday asked prosecutors and defense attorneys to amend court documents with the agreed amount.

It will be difficult for Pearlman to repay all the money while he is behind bars. Pearlman made millions in the record industry in the 1990s, but investigators have found that money and more seemingly gone with the collapse of his Ponzi scheme.

He's been allowed to manage - at arm's length - the few remaining music acts he still has. He could also offer wages from whatever job he gets in federal prison, ranging from 12 cents an hour to $1.15 an hour for top-scale factory work.

Attorneys from both sides, the FBI and FDIC determined Pearlman took $195 million from more than 1,000 people in an alleged savings program promising 6 percent to 10 percent returns, and $126.7 million in bogus loans from federally insured banks. Another $70 million was invested by people who thought they were buying shares in companies owned by Pearlman that mostly had no assets. About $95 million was returned to investors over the years, documents show.

But Pearlman's restitution could go up. Sharpe delayed judgment on prosecutors' request to tack on $124 million in interest payments to victims, saying he wanted to see Pearlman return some of the principal first.

"If they had not provided their money to Mr. Pearlman, they would have received interest or some return on their investment," Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Handberg argued in court.

Pearlman's attorney, former public defender Fletcher Peacock, said adding interest would only dissuade Pearlman from repaying any of his debt. Peacock also said it was unfair because the money was never invested.

"This is not a case of where Mr. Pearlman accrued an amount of interest and objected to giving that back to people," Peacock said. "This interest was fictional."

In May, Sharpe said he would shave a month off Pearlman's sentence for each $1 million he returned. So far, Handberg said, no additional money has been recovered.

A federally appointed trustee has found few assets to compensate victims, some of whom lost their life savings.

The judge has ordered that individual investors be repaid first, then banks. He wanted them punished for poorly judging Pearlman worthy of multimillion dollar loans, many secured with the same collateral.

While reserving judgment on interest, Sharpe said it was unfair to charge Pearlman the high rates he promised investors because it would reward their poor decisions.

"Since the time of the sentencing all you've gotten from the defendant is the smirk on his face," Sharpe told prosecutors. "So let's try to get some money first."

Sharpe remanded Pearlman to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which will transfer him to an undetermined facility. Pearlman had been at the Orange County jail, a few miles from his opulent former offices.

hahah :) Sometimes it worked out, sometimes it didn't.

As I've aged..I've often looked back on some of those 'missed opporutnites' that presented themselves that either I didn't really recognize, or was not willing to act on... A number of interesting ladies that crossed my path come to mind...

:)

Lucky you! LOL! Quite a few times I should have followed my hunches. Have to confess I had a Capitol S on my back and it didn't stand for Superman! LOL!

I've trusted them my whole life. They never let me down.

Isn't it amazing how you can just be randomly walking somewhere....grocery store, shopping mall...and SOMETHING about someone that passes just rubs you the wrong way???

and, to the opposite...how you can be in the same situation, yet someone passes and you become totally transfixed...knowing you know them, or knowing that they're someone you WANT to know.

it's cool :)

Remember that feeling if you can. Our hunches serve us will I have found out.

yup. He made his first fortune in the helicopter/shuttle biz in NY. THen got into the music biz. He was the $ behind the BackStreet Boys. They were SUCH great kids when I met them in '94. It was a thrill working with them, even though I was gone way before they hit the BIG BIG time. Hell..they were JUST getting started...rehearsing in an un-airconditioned warehouse in Florida.

But, they were HARD workers, and I enjoyed hanging out with them. Something about Perlman ALWAYS bugged the crap out of me, even tho I only had a few interactions with him. Ugh. Glad to see justice done..but I feel sorry for those he screwed.

WOW! Here you have a man that had marketing ability to make an honest living and not only did he scam people he did his friends and relatives. It always amazes me why these people don't get together and give him a Vegas send off. Oh will, just another fantasy of mine. LOL!

.one less scammer in the world..I met this guy back in '94 when I worked with BSB for a summer playing keys. ugh...He gave me the creeps.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080521/ap_en_mu/people_lou_pearlman

Look at this 6th grader rock....

<insert rimshot here>

tip your waitresses..try the veal.

:)

Three notes walk into a bar -- a G, an E flat, and a C. The
bartender looks up and says "We don't serve minors." So the E
flat leaves and the other two have a fifth between them. After
a few drinks, the G was out flat, and the experience was
diminished. Eventually, the C sobers up, sees one of his friends
missing, the other one passed out, and realizes to his horror that
he's under a rest.

He could play blind better then the majority of the ones who can see.

sad indeed..he was a mofo of a player.

This guy could play! 41 years old. Unreal. What a shame.


Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey dies
By The Associated Press


TORONTO — Blind rock and jazz musician Jeff Healey died Sunday after a lifelong battle against cancer. He was 41.

The Grammy-nominated guitarist rose to stardom as the leader of the Jeff Healey Band, a rock-oriented trio that gained international acclaim and platinum record sales with the 1988 album "See the Light." The album included the hit single "Angel Eyes."

Mr. Healey had battled cancer since age 1, when a rare form of retinal cancer known as Retinoblastoma claimed his eyesight. He taught himself to play guitar by laying the instrument across his lap.

His unique playing style, combined with his blues-oriented vocals, earned him a reputation as a teenage musical prodigy. He shared stages with George Harrison, B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

He is survived by his wife, Christie, and two children.

Buddy Miles, 60; drummer with Hendrix, voice of California raisins
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
February 28, 2008


Buddy Miles, the rock and R&B drummer, singer and songwriter whose eclectic career included stints playing with Jimi Hendrix and as the lead voice of the California Raisins, the animated clay figures that became an advertising phenomenon in the late 1980s, has died. He was 60.

Miles died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his home in Austin, Texas, according to an announcement on his website.

A massive man with a distinctive, sculpted afro, Miles hit his peak of popularity when he joined Hendrix and bassist Billy Cox to form Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, which the New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll called "the first black rock group." Miles had played with Hendrix on the guitarist's influential "Electric Ladyland" album released in 1968.

The Band of Gypsys made just one album, a live set recorded on New Year's Eve in 1969-70, and two of Miles' songs, "Them Changes" and "We Got to Live Together," were included on the album. He gave the recording a memorable drum riff on one of Hendrix's signature songs, "Machine Gun."

But, according to Miles, the Band of Gypsys association was brief and stormy. He told The Times in 1988 that Hendrix's management, not the guitarist himself, fired him within a month of the concert. He thought Hendrix's managers were leery of continuing with an all-black group.

"It had to be a racial thing," Miles told The Times. "I think it had to scare them because of the political aspect at the time."

Miles was born Sept. 5, 1947, in Omaha. He developed an interest in drums at an early age and by 12 was playing in his father's jazz combo. Within a couple of years he was in demand as a session player and a sideman, working with top-name R&B groups, including Ruby and the Romantics and the Delfonics. According to the Rolling Stone encyclopedia, he played on the session that produced the Jaynetts' 1963 hit "Sally Go Round the Roses."

While playing with Wilson Pickett in 1967, he was approached by guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who asked him to join the blues, rock and soul group Electric Flag. Miles played on three of the band's albums before forming his own group, the Buddy Miles Express, in 1968. Next came his association with Hendrix.

Over the years, Miles recorded two albums with Carlos Santana, one of which went platinum, and worked with other leading music figures, including Muddy Waters and John McLaughlin. He re-formed the Buddy Miles Express in the mid-1970s and had a hit with his song "Them Changes."

By the late 1970s, however, Miles' career came to a halt over convictions for grand theft and auto theft. He served time in the California Institution for Men at Chino and at San Quentin State Prison. He was incarcerated until 1985 and formed bands at both prisons.

After he was released, he sang with Santana's group and got the raisin gig while working on an album with the guitarist. The popular television commercials for the California Raisin Advisory Board featured a quartet of singing and dancing Claymation figures with Miles, as Buddy Raisin, doing the lead singing covering Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine."

The commercial's popularity spawned a million-selling offshoot album of remakes of rock and soul oldies, "The California Raisins Sing the Hit Songs."

Buddy Miles dies today.

I heard it on the grape vine

Quick Theme Changes

Jemi Hendrix

Writer of "Hot Rod Lincoln" moves to drag race in the sky
By The Associated Press

yeah...his abilities were simply amazing. pm me whenevah ")

Hey Dave,
Missed that piece of news. Yes, sad indeed. What a genius. Years ago when I was hanging out in the studio with Wayne Henderson (trombonist for Jazz Crusaders), I met Bobby Lyle. Another incredible key board player who Wayne helped bring up. Bobby said Oscar was his main inspiration. In particular his ability to play a different rhythm with his left hand and another with his right?! I'm probably not describing this correctly ,but I think you know what I mean.

Things are going great here bro. Will PM some more info later.

Safe travels to LA when the time comes.

Sad day..Oscar Peterson has passed :(

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22389614/

Awesome players!

Guitar WAR!

I saw him with Paco and Jean Luc Ponty n santiago, Chile in 1989 just after I graduated High School there...it was definitely an eyeopener

Cool
I have Al Dimeola records from way back

Al Dimeola

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-736728395367086428&q=al+dimeola&total=642&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Cool
Thanks

Thank you, Realperson. They were very nice, and because I knew nothing about classical guitar before I met you, I thought I'd listen to some other classical guitarists on youtube as well. I found this one interesting, and the pages of comments just as interesting....

Realperson (as opposed to a fake), since we have very recently become friends, I'm wondering if you have learned any songs since 1976 rolled around.

I learned that in HS 1976

I mean, come on now, you must have learned at least one new song since then. hehehe

another great classical done pluged in
Vivaldi 4 seasons
Bond

A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of a sudden he hears some music. No one is around, so he starts searching for the source.
He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827. Then he realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony and it is being played backward!



Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with him. By the time they arrive back at the grave, the music has changed. This
time it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it is being played backward.


Curious, the men agree to consult a music scholar. When they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is playing, again backward. The
expert notices that the symphonies are being played in the reverse order in which they were composed, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th.



By the next day the word has spread and a throng has gathered around the grave. They are all listening to the Second Symphony being played backward. Just then the graveyard's caretaker ambles up to the group. Someone in the crowd asks him if he has an explanation for the music. 'Oh, it's nothing to worry about' says the caretaker. 'He's just decomposing!'

absolutely JT is one of my favorite bands...actually I have modified Bouree into his, with a little of mine and of course Bach's

Bouree
Cool
I learned that in HS 1976
Have you see Jethro Tull and Jet atkins do Bouree?

Yeah I play classical...mostly original stuff though, but I do know some classics like Bouree and such

Anybody play calssical guitar here

Just learned this (thats not me)

I play mostly Baroque etc
but this is fun to play

I am anticipating this merger!

Zeppelin Station? Alison Krauss and Robert Plant team up
By JOHN GEROME

The Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Alison Krauss is a master at slipping into musical styles.

As a singer, musician and producer, the bluegrass star has worked with artists as diverse as Sting, Brad Paisley, James Taylor, Phish, Dolly Parton and Alan Jackson. Her latest project, with former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, might be her most ambitious yet.

Produced by T Bone Burnett and released last week, "Raising Sand" is a dark, whispery record that finds them interpreting the likes of Townes Van Zandt, the Everly Brothers, Mel Tillis and Tom Waits.

"I think of it as a window into some other world," she says of her collaborations. "You take away something by watching someone sing and watching them do something they were naturally born to do."

Plant, who still wears a shaggy mane of curls, says Krauss and Burnett set the tone for the new record.

"I think my vision was a little more lightweight," he says, sipping hot tea. "Alison wanted something more serious, with more color and shade."

What the record is not is yet another predictable duets album. Plant and Krauss harmonize over a dreamy, at times eerie, soundscape that's different from most anything they have done on their own. It's neither rock, nor bluegrass.

"The idea was to take them both out of their comfort zone. To take us all out of our comfort zones," says Burnett, who selected the musicians and most of the 13 songs, which includes a composition by Plant and Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page called "Please Read the Letter" from their 1998 album "Walking Into Clarksdale."

Both singers had to reach. Plant had to sing harmony — something he'd never done before. Krauss had to sing tunes that didn't always fit her lyrically.

"We were dealing with a lot of classic songs, and I didn't want to mess with that," she says. "That's why we didn't change the gender on some of the songs. We wanted to keep the integrity of the song. So I had to stretch to sing something that wasn't comfortable. It was a great experience."

Plant, 59, and Krauss, 36, have known each other a while, but the idea of making an album didn't really take hold until they sang together a few years back at a tribute concert for blues great Leadbelly.

When they finally went into the studio, Krauss recalls, "We had the idea that if we go in and it doesn't work, it doesn't work. No hard feelings."



As odd an alliance as it might seem at first, it's not that farfetched. Krauss is a fan of classic rock and pop tunes and has covered the Beatles, the Allman Brothers and Todd Rundgren on her records with her band Union Station. Plant has borrowed from American roots music throughout his career, particularly blues artists like Robert Johnson and Big Bill Broonzy.

"Once I heard the music of the Mississippi Delta, I was no longer English. I was a man of the world," Plant recalls.

A tour is in the works, but both are mum on details. During a recent taping for a January episode of the Country Music Television show "Crossroads" — their first public performance together outside of the Leadbelly tribute — they looked comfortable with each other but worlds apart on stage. While Krauss was low-key, almost withdrawn, Plant was animated and talkative.

Musically, they were in lockstep. Krauss even took lead vocals on the two Led Zeppelin numbers, "Black Dog" and "When the Levee Breaks."

Krauss, who has 20 Grammy awards — more than any female artist in history — says she learns by working with people like Plant, down to details like the way they stand when they sing.

"There are people I'd love to watch work. A lot of producers I'd love to watch work. String arrangers — why they chose to bring this in here," she says. "And there are a lot of things I'd love to ask musicians that they wouldn't necessarily be able to explain because it's so naturally who they are."

Plant also sees the collaboration as a chance to grow — a rare opportunity for a guy who's been doing this 40 years and who helped define the profile of a male rock star in the '70s. During the interview, as makeup artists, photographers and assistants scurried about, he remarked, "The music is one thing, but all this other stuff is something else altogether. I used to be in a group where we hardly did anything. We hardly ever played, and when we did, we got there late."

Nonetheless, he'll join the two other surviving members of Led Zeppelin — Page and bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones — for a Nov. 26 tribute concert for the late Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun. Jason Bonham, son of the late drummer John Bonham, will sit in on drums at the London show.

But don't look for a full-blown reunion tour or album. Plant is focused on the present.

"I think I was 19 when I started rehearsing for Led Zeppelin. I'm not the same guy now," he says. "To go back out of respect to complete the circle, to bring Jason Bonham into the picture, to make his mom smile, to make Ahmet's sweetheart feel good and to help all those kids in that charity is the right thing to do.

"But after that" he adds, "I'm hot-toeing it back to Ms. Krauss."

From the GD board...

Posted by: skeballlarry
In reply to: Phisherman who wrote msg# 1216 Date:10/2/2007 4:11:00 PM
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Off Topic >

Hello all. Grateful Dead concert here. Feel free to visit us at the Grateful Dead board on the link below Jerry. Enjoy...

Deer Creek Music Center
07/20/1994
http://www.setbreak.com/showplayer.php?showid=75442

I found Tom's to be far more interesting because of all the various acts he produced. He really was a musical genius and I think a lot of people don't realize how valuabe a great producer is.
I liked Moog because he was a squirrel. lol
I originally was intersted in Moog's movie because I was a big ELP fan and I knew Emerson played the Moog synth.
Though the movie was fascinating it did become tedious.
Btw PBS ran a grest doc on Les Paul about 6 weeks ago.
It was terrific.

both great videos. I met Tom a few years back. nice guy..Actually had the pleasure of having dinner with Bob Moog and some friends at NAMM the year before he passed away. Hell of a great guy.

Also look for a documentary about Tom Dowd.(It is even better than this movie).
There is another film named Moog after the synth creator. It is more interesting if you are in the technical end of things.

I usually see a lot of good things on PBS.
This was just a full fledge documentary.
I have a movie channel on Dish network that is called the documentary channel that I saw this on.