I continue to write of my latest adventures in my band's blogspot site to document the songs and the feeling of how I felt. While The Record World Blog hasn't completely shut down, I haven't found much time to really comment on the things out there. Somehow people think this is a porn site, judging by the 12 views of a certain blogspot that promotes getting popped in the pooper. To which I don't not approve of that so called site that shall remain nameless. Despite the lack of recent content except the forty five finds, this still averages about 2200 per month per views. It seems the porn crowd are getting their singles sites mixed up. This is about records and not find a fuck buddy dot com. The Singles Going Steady name was taken from the Buzzcocks 1979 best of. To which I'm sure the porn faithful are going to be disappointed by their results that's it's not a place to hook up, unless they have a record collection you can pore through, and maybe if there's a connection, go from there.
I didn't participate in the World Naked Bike Ride of last month. Three times was enough for me. Judging by what I've heard the turnout was less than last year but the St Louis, Chicago had 2,000 of them running through the city butt naked on bikes. Problem with the WNBR is that it falls on our busy week at work and then Father's day is the next day. I'm sure the 11th installment of WNBR Madison will take place on the same weekend. For clean family fun, you could do worse.
Confederate Railroad has been around for 3 decades. Their classic years was on Atlantic and while their Greatest Hits is the route to go, their first remains my go to album. All of a sudden, in this P.C. world, the Duqoin County Fair in Illinois announced that The Railroad will not be playing since Confederate is now a dirty word and even this liberal minded person finds that to be ridiculous. It's bad enough that Illinois folks now have to dig deeper into their pocket to pay the 19 cent gas tax increase and cigarette tax as well. You can quit smoking but you can't stop driving. I'm due to return to that state on the next Quad Cities River Bandits trip to see the aftermath, but outside of that, unless I want to pick up some marijuana or cannibus oil. But I find it dumb for them to forbid a country band with the same damn name for years to play at their local county fair.
While Woodstock 50 continues to spin its wheel on where to play, other venues are prepping up the 50th anniversary at the local areas. My good friend Jim Jacobmeyer decided to put together one at Lowe Park in Marion on Aug 20 to which local acts Zoot And Newt, The Beaker Brothers, Winterland and the band that I sat in with in January-March The Boy Scout Hippies will be the acts that will play a 40 minute set. Like Woodstock a chance of rain will be in the air. Last week, Jim announced that Neil Young would finish up the evening after talking to somebody from MoTown Records that said Neil would be there. A big red flag since 1) Lookout Management is Neil's management team (Eliot Roberts recently passed away but Lookout Management keeps an eye on things) and 2) Neil never recorded for MoTown nor Motown tho' the Myna Birds, recorded a demo for them (Rick James was leader, Neil might have had something to do with that). After the Sanctuary announced that, I had to look up Neil's website to see if Neil was really coming, I had doubts right off the bat and they were confirm when there was nothing mentioned of the Lowe Park show. Finally, Lookout management confirmed what we all knew, Neil wasn't coming and he wasn't going to play for a bunch of well respected musicians for 20 dollars. Add another zero and they'll talk. By no means, that Neil should be blamed from the acts of a scammer, who has now disappeared into the night and probably will surface somewhere down the line to take advantage of another naive non profit place with more bullshit. The way life has become in the age of social media. Hell, I would have gone if Neil was coming but even when Jim told me about this, I couldn't believe it. Alas, he had to take on criticism which I hope doesn't come back and bite him on the ass.
To those who just wanted to see Neil and not the other bands, you are the blame of not supporting the local acts. These folks worked long and hard to get to even play at this venue. I took exception at one person who didn't want to waste his time and money on the others and told him to stay home and listen to Live Rust then. Even if he did make it, he probably would stare at his smart phone all night and not pay attention. In the meantime, Neil's latest archive release Tuscaloosa is his 1973 show with the Stray Gators and Neil has always had a profound hatred of Time Fades Away, a better album then he might expect.
Woodstock Revisited will be held on August 20 at Lowe Park in Marion.
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