Johnny Hallyday, legendary singer from across the pond or the Elvis of France passed away from cancer at age 74 on Tuesday. Unknown in America but the French loved him http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05/entertainment/johnny-hallyday-obit/index.html
Could it be that the fired Todd Graham might be the Pac 12 coach of the year? We don't know but on Monday Arizona State introduced Herman Edwards as his replacement. Which sparked a lot of uproar from the ASU faithful. This could either be Ray Anderson's achieving moment or it might be his Mike Riley, a out of left field pick that, in Nebraska's case undid them and that AD and Riley are now history. The Cornhuskers have hired home town boy Scott Frost from UCF to turn their fortunes around, and this might be their last time to get any sort of return to the golden days of the Mighty Corn dominating the Big 8 years ago. They might have better luck staying in that Big 8 or Big 12 and keep the Oklahoma rivalry going. If anybody can turn around the Nebraska program Scott Frost is your man. As for Herman Edwards, it seems like a good idea hiring an ex NFL coach, even if Herm's record isn't all that great. But I still think Todd Graham didn't need to be fired since he compiled a 7-5 record and beat Oregon and Washington and got ASU to a bowl game, the Sun Bowl in El Paso this year.
This weekend, Ohio State beat Wisconsin 27-21 for the Big Ten Championship but in the final four Alabama won out. Of course the Big Ten Haters (Paul Finebaum in particular) mentioned that it was good that no big ten team would be in the final four, since none of them were worthy as the SEC the Almighty conference, that in a perfect world the final four would be all SEC teams. In some ways Wisconsin played the role that Iowa did two seasons ago, finished the Big Ten regular season undefeated and then lose out to Ohio State, which the Big Ten Haters told everybody I told you so and that the best Big Ten team would finished fourth in the SEC. Ohio State's undoing was the 55-24 blowout in Iowa City, that big blot on their record for the season and no matter how much they blew out the other teams and won the Championship, the world shrugged and gave the reason why it OSU wasn't worthy, one bad game in Iowa City. Basically Wisconsin had to win Saturday to get any sort of credit, like Iowa they didn't win in 2015 and therefore they were not worthy of a final spot. Everybody goes a bowl game, Ohio State plays USC, Wisconsin get Miami at the Orange Bowl which is a Miami home game anyway and Michigan gets the new year's game with South Carolina. For myself Iowa's bowl game was that 55-24 Blowout of Ohio State, but they'll be at Yankee Stadium for the Pinstripe Bowl against Boston College. Iowa better win that one.
Final vote tab for the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame by you the voter.
Bon Jovi
Moody Blues
Dire Straits
The Cars
Judas Priest
Which means Bon Jovi will be one inductees on 12/13/17. Guess We'll return to see who gets in and we can talk about it then.
Till then.
Record Review:
Rolling Stones-On Air (Single Disc Version-ABKCO/Polydor 2017)
Amazing how over 50 years ago, The Stones were singing the praises of Chess Records, Don Covay and Arthur Alexander but I would have loved to have I Wanna Be Your Man on the single disc rather than the double. Then again I found the single at Wally World. There's still a sort of innocence sound here but some of this doesn't work very well (Cops And Robbers for one). But it's cool to hear how Satisfaction sounds to the BBC Faithful or the rousing version of The Last Time although both versions won't make you miss the originals. While the BBC recordings really don't do the songs much justice (they didn't do much favors for The Kinks, or Beatles or The Who for that matter), I still find this one of the missing pieces restored to the legacy of The Rolling Stones. Even if it's soul or blues covers.
Grade B+
Sue Ellen-Mild Red (Self Released 2017)
Sue is one of our local jammers that plays from time to time at Whittier but during the summer she got together with Bryce Janey (The Janeys, Blue Band) to record a 14 song album, mostly covers but a couple of neat originals. Her voice is somewhat Joni Mitchell but she brings a element of surprise to U2's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and Souvenirs (with Carl Meiners) a John Prine comp. Janey adds a bit of lead guitar to counter Sue Ellen's vocals. She knows good covers (Soulshine, And It Stoned Me, Midnight Rider) but she shines on her originals, including Four Brown Eyes and Campfire Camaraderie, which could be about...let's see Whittier on jam night, or Stone City for that matter.
Grade B+
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