Static Live Magazine January 2021

Rocktails 

Billion $ Boy Band 

We Made IT! 

On The Block

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STUDIOS 

DREAM. CREATE. 

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Pg 40 

10 Milllion $ Boy Band 

14 On the Block 

18 Mud Rooster’s Blues 

28 Events Calendar 

30 Cannabis Chronicles 

35 What’s In Your 

Phone? 

38 Musician’s Cookbook 

44 We MADE IT! 

50 Rare Earth Reviews 

52 Spritual Renaissance 

Manifesto 

53 Crossword & Trivia 

Answers 

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Pg 25 

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Oh My Goddess... 

PEYTON 

NICOLE 

I’m an early 2021 High school graduate going to college to be a 

Veterinary Technician. I’m a waitress that loves anything to do 

with modeling and animals, and when you put them all together 

I’m at my happiest. 

I’ve done photoshoots with my dog, runway shows and this 

past October I was in my first music video, which was a blast! 

Hopefully, I’ll have more opportunities to do other videos as well. 

Thanks, Static Live for letting me be part of your magazine this 

month. 

Photo Credit: Marinas Photograghy 

Bank Robbery....Pandemic Style 

The Haight-Ashbury experience in San 

Francisco had, by 1975, become a Pandemic 

of its own, but, to the denizens of the rockand-roll 

world, the actors in that play, the 

Haight-Ashbury lingered on. 

The earthquake of 1906 levelled the city into 

ashes and its resurrection is deeply ingrained 

in all native San Franciscans. In 1906, 

everybody went and lived in the park in tents . 

. . like the hippies. 

In a very real sense, native San Franciscans 

live with the knowledge of earthquakes and 

destruction as a daily epidemic, so seeing 

someone walk into a bank wearing a medical 

mask wouldn’t seem too bizarre but one case 

stands out. 

Photo Credit:San Fransico Chronicle/1906 

By Hank Harrison 

Photo Credit: earthquakes.usgs.gov/Tent City 

In 1975, a guerrilla crime wave, 

especially bank robberies, swept 

America in the wake of the media 

violence perpetuated by the kidnapping 

of Citizen Kane’s granddaughter - 

Aka Patty Hearst. The rock-and-roll 

crowd, of all people, were accused, 

by lifted brow and distended nostril, of 

instigating violence and this included 

the Grateful Dead and the other Frisco 

based Rockers.

Photo Credit: CBS.news 

Patty Hearst 

The Dead Heads thought this was a bad 

rap but the media acted as a smoke screen. 

Certain numbers of ecstatic fans and overzealous 

enthusiasts 

have gone to great lengths to demonstrate 

their commitment to the cause; they tried to 

beckon to the musicians through the clouds of 

media:--We hear you, we hear you!” to show 

that they understood about living on the edge, 

waiting for the next quake . . . and about civil 

disobedience. But this was San Francisco no 

one thought it would spread world-wide. 

The most classic of disobedient incidents 

came when a man, named Cat Olsen, 

entered a bank in Greenwich Village and 

held a number of hostages at bay, armed 

with nothing more than a revolver, a portable 

radio, two hits of blotter acid and five “joints”. 

Naturally, the police, when they finally arrived 

on the scene, asked this rather dishevelled 

man wearing bright floral-patterned shirt, 

sneakers. and an army jacket, what his 

demands might be. He replied, not cash or 

bullion, not power, not any of the normal 

things a bank might demand… instead good 

old Cat wanted only to hear three consecutive 

hours of Grateful Dead music played on the 

AM radio with an additional thirty minutes 

allocated to he, himself, for his message. 

He would talk only to a certain disc jockey 

he considered righteous, and this same DJ 

would spin DEAD music as part of these 

heroic demands. It seemed a stupid, even 

surreal, demand like a Banksy wall painting, 

yet, the whole thing was a coup d’etat, 

because the demands were met. The disc 

jockey was contacted, and a number of 

Grateful Dead tunes were played on the 

radio, at the end of which our friend raved for 

more than thirty minutes about how wonderful 

Jerry Garcia was, and how important the 

music of the Grateful Dead was, and how Phil 

Lesh is a genius and how much he missed 

Pig Pen, and everybody should listen to 

the Grateful Dead, the greatest rock group 

on EARTH. Now that’s what anyone would 

call “strength of commitment,” and in some 

ways Cat Olsen is a hero, even though he is 

probably still on Rikers Island. 

Civil disobedience is nothing new. Lenny 

Bruce once said, “I’m a nut, elect me,” and I 

can’t help but remember Marty Balin standing 

on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl virtually 

inciting people to riot, because they would 

not be allowed to the gig; or remembering the 

New Jersey police cars being served flambe 

outside the stadium where the Grateful Dead 

played, even though there were empty seats, 

and even though the Dead asked the police 

to allow the people in FREE, the police would 

not allow anything free. This brings up the 

hysteria and the philosophy that surrounds 

the concept of a free concert and what we 

now are facing in the Echovirus pandemic. 

It seems that the word FREE has become 

a swear word in a country where everything 

is supposed to be FREE. Since we were 

kids, weeping at the half-mast for FDR, or 

screaming at the stampede over VJ Day, 

amid clouds of ration coupon confetti, we 

have heard the phrase: “It’s a FREE country!” 

Yet, a FREE concert cannot be given without 

serious and complex political ramifications. 

Likewise, wearing a mask has become 

something of a political statement; a symbol 

of free speech, or the lack thereof, depending 

on your point of view. 

There came a time when all the greater good 

and evil were on our asses to do benefits. 

They missed the point of the whole Haight- 

Ashbury experience. The object was to 

do free gigs, for no money . . . just good 

ol’ plain free gigs. It should be added that 

the Charlatans, the Dead, the Airplane, 

Quicksilver, and Big Brother all did hundreds 

of free gigs . . . they were the marching 

bands for a populist revolution, not a Marxist 

revolution. They loved freedom, and thrived 

on it, but to the minions of the old culture, the 

free gigs had to be stopped. 

Today, in our buggy Pandemic, the urban 

war always seems to flare up around civil 

rights and racism, but I assure you FREE 

gigs weren’t always mellow. You couldn’t 

convince just anybody to set up a free gig. It’s 

as if the promoters were saying: “Fun ain’t no 

fun, let’s get the bread.” As the revolutionary 

confrontations escalated into fiery pep rallies, 

the bands grew not a little afraid of their own 

power. The family units were serpentine 

but as the juggernaut of musicians—naked 

and exposed to political intrigues—lurched 

forward, the family support seemed to wane. 

At one point, the late and beloved Paul 

Kantner of Jefferson Starship had a scenario 

involving the takeover of Golden Gate 

Park, with every exit guarded. In Kantner’s 

scenario, every tunnel would be full of 

supplies. If there was to be a battle, then we 

would have the battle on a real battle-ground, 

a real turf. Speedway Meadows, Stow Lake, 

the Polo Field. If we won that turf, we’d have 

the City by the balls. We did anyway. But it 

was fun to make it more dramatic … wearing 

a mask is not fun anymore … people are 

dying for real … this isn’t a FREE concert it’s 

Germ Warfare. 

*A link to online FREE (or almost free) Concerts. 

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/ 

pop/9335531/coronavirus-quarantine-musicevents-online-streams

BTS 

By Reluctant Genius 

At this point all of us have heard the term “Boy 

Band” and when mentioned in conversation, 

several examples will generally pop into your head 

immediately. There’s actually a history behind such 

bands and it’s not quite what you may have guessed. 

The earliest forerunner of boy band music began 

in the late 19th century as a cappella barbershop 

quartets. They were usually a group of males and 

sang in four-part harmony. Barbershop quartets were 

popular into the earlier part of the 20th century. A 

revival of the male vocal group took 

place in the late 1940s 

and 1950s with the use 

of doo-wop music. 

Doo-wop bands sang 

about topics such as 

love and other themes 

used in pop music. 

Although generally 

described as a rock band, 

the highest-selling band 

in history, The Beatles, 

are considered by a 

number of journalists as 

“the first” or “the original” 

boy band, “before anyone 

had thought of the term.” 

Believe it or not The Bee 

Gees come in a close 

second, as they had hit 

after hit in the ‘70s. 

Although the term “boy 

band” was not commonly 

used yet, the earliest 

predecessors of this 

format were groups such 

as the Jackson 5 and the 

Osmonds, which helped 

form the template for boy 

bands. The Jackson 5 

and the Osmonds, which 

helped form the template 

for boy bands. The Jackson 

5 were a siblings group 

that 

established many musical conventions that boy bands 

follow and they created perhaps the biggest pop star 

ever, Michael Jackson. Their music featured close 

harmonies from soul music and catchy pop hooks 

influenced as they were by Motown and acts like the 

Supremes. 

Later on a Boston based group New Edition was 

formed in 1978 and reached their height of popularity 

in the 1980s, meaning they are often credited for 

starting the boy-band trend, even though the term 

“boy band” did not exist until the 1990s. Maurice 

Starr was influenced by New Edition and popularized 

it with his proteges New Kids on the Block, the first 

commercially successful modern boy band, who 

formed in 1984 and found international success in 

1988. 

The ‘90s of course saw the rise and most likely was 

the biggest decade for boy bands with acts like Boys 

ll men, Backstreet Boys, NSYC, O Town and several 

others including Menudo which believe it or not has 

been around since 1977; but it was lead singer Ricky 

Martin that truly put them on the map. 

The list goes on when it comes to this phenomenon 

and it has generated billions and billions of dollars 

over the years. 

This month’s cover is no exception and in fact 

they may be the first billion dollar boy band all by 

themselves. BTS was formed in 2010 and debuted in 

2013 and the rest is teenage screaming girl history. 

Here’s a little more about perhaps the biggest boy 

band ever and what makes them such........ 

BTS, or Bangtan Boys, is a seven member group from 

South Korea. Their name comes from the Korean 

Bangtan Sonyeondan, which means “Bulletproof 

Scouts”. Their names are Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, 

Jimin, V and Jungkook. They co-write and coproduce 

much of their own work, which carries social 

commentary and focuses on a journey towards 

individualism and loving yourself. In 2017, BTS 

announced their name would also stand for “Beyond 

the Scene” as part of their new band identity. 

BTS became the first Korean group to top the US 

Billboard 200 with their third studio album “Love 

Yourself: Tear. They became the fastest group since 

The Beatles to have four number one albums in the 

US, and did it within two years. 

During their Love Yourself 

Tour, they became the first 

Asian and non-English 

speaking act to headline 

and sell out Wembley 

Stadium and they broke 

the record for the single 

highest-grossing show in 

Rose Bowl Stadium 

history. They were featured 

on Time Magazine’s i 

international cover as 

“Next Generation Leaders” 

and were named on the 

magazine’s 25 most 

influential people on the 

Internet (2017-2019) and the 

100 most influential people i 

in the world (2019), calling 

them the “Princes of Pop”. 

As of 2019, they were 

worth more than $4.65 billion 

to South Korea’s economy 

each year. Following the 

establishment of their antiviolence 

campaign Love 

Myself in partnership with 

UNICEF, BTS addressed 

the United Nations 73rd 

and 75th General Assemblies 

and became the youngest 

recipients of the Order of 

Cultural Merit from 

the President of South Korea 

due to their contributions in 

spreading Korean culture..

BOY BAND 

TRIVIA 

1. In what year did the Backstreet Boys 

release their debut album? 

2. Which boy band released the album 

“Hangin Tough” in 1988? 

3. Ste McNally is associated with which 

band? 

4. Before his successful solo career, 

Justin Timberlake was a member of which 

boy band? 

5. A1’s single “Make it Good” made it to 

which position on the UK charts? 

6. This boy band sings “Love Should Be a 

Crime”? 

7. What are the first names of the 

members of Human Nature? 

8. This boy band released “What I Go to 

School For”. 

9. Which actress appeared in the Lyte 

Funky Ones video for their hit “Girl on 

TV”? 

10. Upside Down were reinvented using 

what new name?

On The Block 

By Jenny McLain 

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Each December, 25 films are added to the National 

Film Registry. December of 2020 marked the 800th title 

being added to the list. As I was doing some research, 

I learned that the voting starts from “square one” each 

year and previously considered movies are just like any 

other - previous nominations and voting are not factored 

in. 

As explained in the FAQ section of their 

website: 

What is the National Film Registry? 

It is a list of films deemed “culturally, 

historically or aesthetically 

significant” that are recommended 

for preservation by those holding 

the best elements for that film, be it 

motion picture studios, the Library of 

Congress and other archives, or filmmakers. These 

films are not selected as the ‘best’ American films of 

all time, but rather as works of enduring importance 

to American culture. They reflect who we are as a 

people and as a nation. 

I was excited to see how many “music” movies were on 

the list this year, and especially excited that “The Blues 

Brothers”, “Shrek”, “A Clockwork Orange” and “Grease” 

were on the list. Below is a list of all movies added in 

2020, along with the year each was released. 

1927 The Battle of the Century 

1980 The Blues Brothers 

1918 Bread 

1999 Buena Vista Social Club 

1943 Cabin in the Sky 

1971 A Clockwork Orange 

2008 The Dark Knight 

1994 The Devil Never Sleeps 

2010 Freedom Riders 

1978 Grease 

1993-2001 The Ground 

2008 The Hurt Locker 

1982 Illusions 

1993 The Joy Luck Club 

1914 Kid Auto Races at Venice 

1963 Lilies of the Field 

1982 Losing Ground 

1955 The Man with the 

Golden Arm 

2006 Mauna Kea: 

Temple Under Siege 

1950 Outrage 

2001 Shrek 

1913 Suspense 

1971 Sweet Sweetback’s 

Baadasssss Song 

1973 Wattstax 

1929 With Car and Camera Around 

the World 

Live Music - January 2021 

1st - David Dequasie 5pm 

2nd - Heather Craig 5pm 

8th - Jarrid George 5pm 

9th - Jessie Abbey 5pm 

15th - Beartoe 5pm 

16th - Rasta Bayers 5pm 

22nd - Griffin Sinclair 5pm 

23rd - Chuck Morel 5pm 

29th - Brent Clowers 5pm 

30th - Hannah Wilson 5pm 

Happy Hour 5pm-8pm

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MUD ROOSTER’S BLUES 

By David Dequasie 

Some time ago, back in the ‘80s, I was on a gig 

playing a night of jazz standards with another 

guitarist.We were getting near 

the end of the last set when he 

said, ‘Let’s play some blues’. 

Great, I thought, I’ll feel more 

in my element. As I began 

to groove on what could 

have been a Jimmy 

Reed tune, I could tell 

that this was not what 

my partner had in 

mind. We got through 

the number feeling 

less than triumphant 

and then he opened the 

book of jazz charts and 

said ‘This is more like 

what I meant’ pointing 

to the chord changes 

on ‘Straight, no 

Chaser’. 

Although I had been out of music college for 

a couple of years, I was still green on applying 

much of what I had learned there. In this article, 

I’d like to talk about some of the wonderfully 

clever and creative variations of blues chord 

progressions that are found within jazz. Much 

of this information will most likely be like taking 

a math class that you never wanted, but if 

anything, it will give you an insight to the 

madness that goes on inside of the head of 

a musician while playing, and this isn’t 

even the part about the physical 

aspects of playing an instrument. 

Using a traditional 3 chord, 

12 bar blues form as our 

foundation, the first, fourth, 

and fifth ( I, IV, V) chords in the key usually 

land in the following measures: One through 

four are the I chord, bars five and six are the 

IV chord, bars seven and eight are the I chord, 

the next four bars are V, IV, I, and V. We’ll call 

these changes the ‘Target Points’. In between 

the target points is where the beginnings of jazz 

was born. All sorts of colorful chord changes can 

be inserted there. For example, on ‘Straight, no 

Chaser’ bar 8 has the II and V chords from key of 

the following chord 

in bar 9 which is C minor, and in this case, the C 

minor is a substitute for the IV chord. There are 

countless jazz compositions that take this type of 

approach to harmony. Now let’s examine a piece 

that ignores the target points once it gets to the 

6th measure of the 12 bar form with 

the Miles Davis tune ‘Solar’. Starting off on C 

minor and morphing to F Major in the 5th bar, the 

progression then goes on an unexpected journey 

through two more keys. E flat in bar 9 and D 

flat in bar 11 before going to the target V ( G ) 

in bar 12. The new keys of E flat and D flat are 

simply whole step movements after F with II V’s 

preceding each new key. Keep in mind that when 

improvising, a musician has to know the 

individual notes of each chord as they 

are played and turn them into melodies 

for the listener. Playing jazz certainly 

means a lifetime’s worth of study. 

Ok, for all of the non musicians 

out there who have made it to 

the end of this page, 

congratulations! You may have 

the curiosity that it takes to learn 

to play an instrument. The 

musicians reading this know that 

much crucial info is needed to fully 

understand this mess and I highly 

recommend getting with a music teacher 

if this stuff seems puzzling. At the very 

least, just remember that a lot of jazz is 

just blues with a little more seasoning 

thrown in. 

Vlogging World Order 

By Randy Pepper 

During 

the 

lockdown 

I started 

Looking into 

Vlogging. So, 

what is Vlogging? 

Well, we all know 

what blogging is; 

blogging has become 

very popular with many 

podcasts and many 

other social media outlets. 

Vlogging is the same thing, 

just with video. It’s a fun way 

to capture your day and maybe 

share a tip or two with someone that 

doesn’t know how to do something. 

I did my first Vlog about a company 

called Plylox, a clip that is designed to hold 

boards onto a window during a hurricane and 

are easy to remove 

and put up. That video has gained over 

23,000 views. But most of my videos are 

about theme parks. 

There 

are 

thousands 

of people 

Vlogging on 

YouTube and 

some actually make 

a very good living just 

making videos of what 

they like to do during the 

day. There are guys like 

Adam the Woo who grew up 

in St. Cloud, Florida and played 

bass in a local punk band and 

realized he really didn’t Like doing a 

day job. He discovered that his videos 

were getting quite a bit of attention and 

now he has over 500 subscribers to his 

channel. That also means he is making a 

living from his channel by becoming monetized 

and now he doesn’t have to work a day job. Most 

of Adam the Woo’s videos are about historical and 

fun places that he travels to. In one of his videos, he 

was checking out the Hanging Tree in Laredo, Texas 

when another part-time Vlogger and full time rockstar 

and the owner of the National Wrestling Alliance, Billy 

Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins was also checking 

out the Hanging Tree. They started talking and ended 

up eating lunch together. 

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of music 

channels on there where people are sharing their 

passion for musical instruments. Like Pete Thorn, 

who shows you different guitars, amps and pedals 

and gives his review. Troglys Guitars does unboxings 

of guitars that he either gets off of eBay, or Reverb 

or some of the manufacturers will send him stuff and 

he’ll give a review of them. The funny thing about 

these guys and many others is that they have a big 

influence on what people buy and don’t buy - or in 

Adam the Woo’s case where people visit and where 

they don’t visit. 

Randy Pepper is the owner of the guitar attic and is a freelance guitar player for hire. Find him on YouTube and 

subscribe to his channel The Guitar Attic 

This just proves that you can be anything you want 

to be. If you want to be a movie star, make a movie 

and put it up on YouTube. If you want to be a rockstar, 

make a video and put it up on YouTube. You can do 

anything you want to do if you just take the time to do 

it. My advice is just go for it and have fun doing it.

The Joshua 

Light Show 

Last month we were honored to share some of 

the work of renowned artist Joshua White. His 

work is not only the beginning of the history of 

the rock and roll light show; it also has inspired 

many others moving forward. In fact, many 

musical acts these days are known just as 

much for their music as they are for the lighting 

production that comes with the live concert. 

Obviously with technology comes a major 

change in what can be done with today’s 

shows being “light years” ahead of what was 

done back in the 1960s. Here’s some more 

amazing images and history of Joshua, as well 

as other work from new artists who Mr. White 

has passed his glorious ideas along to. 

This is Curtis Godino and a close 

collaborator Lily Rogers 2019 

Today, the structure of the Joshua Light 

Show differs little from the original of 

almost 45 years ago. At the time, it was 

Janis Joplin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix and 

The Grateful Dead for example, whose 

jams were driven by the psychedelic 

slipstream of so-called “liquid lights” 

– projections of permutating colored 

oils that conjured magical morphing 

shapes. White’s appointment as light 

show resident at concerts in New York’s 

legendary Fillmore East was followed by 

engagements in Woodstock, Carnegie 

Hall and the Lincoln Center. In early 

2000, the renaissance of the legendary 

light show finally began, launched this 

time in the art world. White has worked 

on exhibitions for the Tate Liverpool, the 

Centre Pompidou, the Whitney Museum, 

MOCA and other venues. He also began 

to team up with other artists, to add 

more complexity to the show and further 

develop the basic analog ideas using 

digital techniques. 

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These are images of the first major performance residency of Joshua Light Show at Abrons 

Art Center in New York in 2008. I’m not sure who the bands were. This was a turning point for 

JLS. An artist and entrepreneur named Nick Hallet joined us and changed the whole level of 

exposure for the light show. After this we only worked with important artists, no more oldies 

connection and most important, the medium moved from psychedelic to an actual art. 

“As a general note, most light show artists, 

myself included will drop pants to perform in a 

dome.” 

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The material extravagance of the Joshua 

Light Show effortlessly breaks with the now 

common understanding of the laptop VJ as 

a behind-the-scenes player. The Joshua 

Light Show team installs a system of 

original devices weighing tons, which 

would by far tower over even the 

technology parks still used by electronic 

music’s remaining 

analog-synth fetishists. 

This photo is from 

1967. Bill Graham 

was invited to stage 

a week of 

The San Francisco 

Scene in Toronto 

featuring Jefferson 

Airplane and The 

Grateful Dead. 

The light show 

is Glenn McKay 

& Jerry Abrams 

Headlights. My 

discotheque lighting 

company 

in NY were hired 

to supervise the 

production and 

do the lighting 

(basically calling 

follow spots). 

It was here in 

Toronto in August 

that I first saw the 

music and a rear 

projected light show 

which 

inspired me. 

Actually I was 

hooked. By 

December of 

the same year, 

Joshua Light Show 

gave our first 

performance 

at a theater on Long 

Island. I was 25 

years old. 

This is Steve Pavlovski of Liquid Light Lab seen 

here at Art Basel 2018 performing on an 

inflatable dome. Steve is easy to reach 

stevepavlovski@hotmail.com 

This is my wife Briged Smith performing a 

blow plate in 2017. Blow plates are one of 

our standards. You float colored oil on clear 

water and gently move it around with air. 

Steve is a perfect 

example of a 

dedicated light artist 

in his forties. He is 

very good at mixing 

techniques. 

Drippy Eye Productions, late 2018. 

L-R Jin Lee, Chaz Lord, Curtis Godino

All images and information was given with written consent by The Joshua Light Show 

The Joshua Light Show 

present is made up of 

Joshua White, Alyson 

Denny, Curtis Godino, 

Nick Hallett, Seth Kirby, 

Ana Matronic, Brock 

Monroe, Gary Panter, 

Doug Pope, Nica Ross, 

Briged Smith, Bec 

Stupak, Jeff Cook, and 

George Stadnik. 

Me (Joshua WHite) and Nick 

Motley Crue’s all too honest 

autobiography, 

The Dirt, is not just crazy stories of 

drink, drugs and debauchery. One of the 

revelations that truly was shocking is from 

the band’s darker and more sinister days. 

Rumor has it that Nikki Sixx and Tommy 

Lee, on at least one occasion, injected 

pure Jack Daniel’s into their veins after 

running out of drugs. 

Don’t bother to ask why. 

If you must ask. Drugs are bad. 

When questioned further the guys 

shrugged it off as if it was just another day 

and crazy story in the life of a rock star. 

Here’s how it’s 

done 

Not recommend for anyone, EVER 

Motley 

Crue’s 

Dr. Feel 

Good 

R 

OC 

K 

TAILS 

www.JoshuaLightShow.com 

Facebook.com/The-Joshua- 

Light-Show 

Ingredients: 20cc of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee 

Whiskey 

Chilled if possible for a better effect, obviously 

A splash of rubbing alcohol if you’re a true 

Pussy otherwise use the whiskey as an 

antiseptic and go for it. 

Directions: Take a deep breath grit your teeth 

and brace yourself to feel uncomfortable 

Draw whiskey into a syringe. Expel air from 

the death tube. Tie off your one remaining 

good vein with a belt, tie or rubber tubing. 

Make sure there are no air bubbles and inject 

good ole Jack whiskey intravenously. Of 

course, the drink wouldn’t be complete unless 

you jump in your favorite color Ferrari then 

drive fast and take a huge risk. After all, only 

the good die young so there must have been 

lots and lots of good rock stars in the past. 

By Dr. Peppar Spraed 

This is The Pig Light Show circa 1970. The leader was Marc Rubinstein (second from right). 

Marc was in high school when we performed at Fillmore East. I mentored him and eventually 

Pig Lights became the house show at the Fillmore. This is probably their program photo from 

1971. Marc lives in Florida and still performs Pig Light Show today. If you want more 

informationor names, he can easily be contacted through Facebook.

JANUARY 2021 

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Friday, January 1, 2021 

31 Supper Club - Big Beat 8pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - The Transfers 4pm 

Grind/Kona - Jay Paski 7pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - David Dequasie 5pm 

Saturday, January 2, 2021 

31 Supper Club - Dana Kamide Band 8pm 

Bounty Bar - Jay Paski 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Jonny Odis 12pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Griffin Sinclair 5pm 

Flagler Tavern - Jeff White 5pm 

Grind/Kona - Brent Clowers 7pm 

Ormond Garage - Chuck Morel 6pm 

Tortugas - The Cyclones 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Heather Craig 5pm 

Sunday, January 3, 2021 

Bounty Bar - Griffin Sinclair 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Rasta Bayers 12pm 

Flagler Tavern - Aaron Lightnin’ 5pm 

Monday, January 4, 2021 

Bounty Bar - The Evening Muze 7pm 

Flagler Tavern - Chuck Morel 5pm 

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 

Bounty Bar - Brent Clowers 7pm 

Grind/Kona - Heather Craig 6pm 

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 

Bounty Bar - Ian Opalinski 7pm 

Grind/Kona - Jeff White 6pm 

Ormond Garage - Are Friends Electric 6pm 

Thursday, January 7, 2021 

31 Supper Club - Armando Diaz 6pm 

Bounty Bar - Jessie Abbey 7pm 

Flagler Tavern - Reed Foley 9pm 

Flagler Tavern - The Evening Muze 5pm 

Grind/Kona - The Click 7pm 


31 Supper Club - Brent Clowers 8pm 

Bounty Bar - Claire Vandiver 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Chuck Morel 4pm 

Grind/Kona - Bradford Buckley 7pm 

Ormond Garage - Psycoustic 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Jarrid George 5pm 


31 Supper Club - Cesar Frazier 8pm 

Bounty Bar - David Dequasie 7pm 

Chase’s - Jarrid George 2pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Heather Craig 12pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Brent Clowers 5pm 


Grind/Kona - The Cyclones 7pm 

Ormond Garage - Beartoe 6pm 

Tortugas - Cain 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Jessie Abbey 5pm 


Bounty Bar - The Transfers 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Jeff White 12pm 

Flagler Tavern - Griffin Sinclair 5pm 


Bounty Bar - Linda Long 7pm 


Bounty Bar - Chuck Morel 7pm 

Grind/Kona - Rasta Bayers 6pm 


Bounty Bar - Bradford Buckley 7pm 

Grind/Kona - Are Friends Electric 6pm 

Ormond Garage - The Cyclones 6pm 


31 Supper Club - The Transfers 6pm 

Bounty Bar - Jarrid George 7pm 


Flagler Tavern - The Cyclones 5pm 

Grind/Kona - Paradoxxx 7pm 



Bounty Bar - Hannah Wilson 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - The Evening Muze 

4pm 

Grind/Kona - Jessie Abbey 7pm 

Ormond Garage - Ian Opalinski 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Beartoe 5pm 


31 Supper Club - Trevor Bystrom 8pm 

Bounty Bar - Jonny Odis 7pm 

Chase’s - Smyrna Erb 2pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Claire Vandiver 

12pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Hannah Wilson 5pm 


Grind/Kona - Nate Utley 7pm 

Ormond Garage - The Evening Muze 6pm 

Tortugas - Beartoe 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Rasta Bayers 5pm 


Bounty Bar - Rasta Bayers 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Ian Opalinski 12pm 

Flagler Tavern - Trevor Bystrom 5pm 


Bounty Bar - Jessie Abbey 7pm 

Flagler Tavern - Chuck Morel 5pm 


Bounty Bar - Jay Paski 7pm 

Grind/Kona - Chuck Morel 6pm 


Bounty Bar - Ian Opalinski 7pm 

Grind/Kona - Bradford Buckley 6pm 

Ormond Garage - Jeff White 6pm 


31 Supper Club - Velvet 45 6pm 

Bounty Bar - Jeff White 7pm 

Flagler Tavern - Randy Williams 5pm 


Flagler Tavern - Robert Keele 5pm 

Grind/Kona - The Transfers 7pm 


31 Supper Club - Mud Rooster 8pm 

Bounty Bar - Bradford Buckley 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Jay Paski 4pm 

Grind/Kona - Cory Worsley Duo 7pm 

Ormond Garage - Heather Craig 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Griffin Sinclair 5pm 



Bounty Bar - Griffin Sinclair 7pm 

Chase’s - Bobby James 2pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - The Cyclones 12pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - David Dequasie 5pm 

Grind/Kona - Smyrna Erb 7pm 

Ormond Garage - The Transfers 6pm 

Tortugas - Love Bomb 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Chuck Morel 5pm 


Bounty Bar - The Evening Muze 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Jarrid George 12pm 

Flagler Tavern - Jay Paski 5pm 


Bounty Bar - Nate Utley 7pm 

Flagler Tavern - Griffin Sinclair 5pm 


Bounty Bar - Chuck Morel 7pm 

Grind/Kona - The Evening Muze 6pm 


Bounty Bar - Brent Clowers 7pm 

Grind/Kona - David James 6pm 

Ormond Garage - The Cyclones 6pm 


31 Supper Club - Beartoe 6pm 

Bounty Bar - Hannah Wilson 7pm 


Flagler Tavern - The Cyclones 5pm 

Grind/Kona - Beartoe 7pm 


31 Supper Club - The Evening Muze 8pm 

Bounty Bar - David James 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Bradford Buckley 4pm 

Grind/Kona - Hannah Wilson 7pm 

Ormond Garage - Ian Opalinski 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Brent Clowers 5pm 


31 Supper Club - The Evening Muze 8pm 

Bounty Bar - David Dequasie 7pm 

Chase’s - Jay Paski 2pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Jessie Abbey 12pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - Marty McCarrick 5pm 


Grind/Kona - Casey Picou 7pm 

Ormond Garage - Brent Clowers 6pm 

Yellow Dog Eats - Hannah Wilson 5pm 


Bounty Bar - The Transfers 7pm 

Crabby’s Oceanside - David Jones 12pm 

Flagler Tavern - Ian Opalinski 5pm 

Community Events 

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~ work is love made visible - Kahil Gibran ~ 

Cannabis Chronicles 

By John Kent 

Steve Job’s prophetic 2005 Stanford 

commencement speech on doing what you love 

struck my chord. And as Kahil Gibran’s poem 

prose on love compassed me north - “when 

it beckons you, follow it” - the purpose is just 

that. There are so many other means to eat, 

make a living etc, but to do what I love - that’s 

the gift in it of its own nature of life and time. 

For those who come across this plant in neverending 

and beautiful ways, she keeps opening 

perspective widening our minds-eye through 

a balance of service, opportunity, peace and 

well-being. Especially in these unprecedented 

pandemic times I can’t help but connect with 

time and health being our most precious assets. 

This - within our societal impasse of time, 

economic asphyxiation, political corruption, 

predatory profiteering, unemployment and a 

rise in conscious capitalism, cannabis stands 

front and center with 45+ recreational & medical 

states having better evolved for positive change. 

While on the daily hunt for flower and non-flower 

products we all within the industry add to the 

stepping stones of these formidable cannabis 

years. 

I study process, trying to be a student sponge 

- how a facility functions, is it clean? What 

hardware, nutrients, remedial tactics are 

visible? What would they admit to? Who’s the 

day to day team and what’s their backstory? Who 

are the owners? What technologies are utilized 

to elicit efficiencies? What’s their competitive 

strategic advantage? What are the nuanced 

affiliates and network connections, how and why 

did that come about? What’s the vision scope? 

What’s the production capacity and constraints? 

What price points are on offer? What holes can 

be filled regarding pain points and bottlenecks 

through working together? 

Are there any identifiable synergies 

that we may mutually benefit from? So 

many questions run through my mind 

and then some. 

We look into who’s shopping with us on the daily 

consumer side and try to best predict trends. We 

work hard at creating and providing value with the 

product first and price second. We achieve this 

with passion, people, and relationships. 

Cannabis at the product level can’t be faked 

because of our body’s biology and so when we’re 

distributing employee samples that feedback 

is critical in giving voice to some of the most 

influential leaders interfacing with everyone we 

operate to serve - you all. There are many “firms” 

in our industry that buy and procure products 

through some catalog without interfacing with 

their vendors’ products or operational process. 

Candidly, those types of “firms” tend to lag in 

value and lack integrity serving the cannabis 

consumer market. 

“A well-developed individual is the anecdote to 

the tyranny of society and biology” - JP 

Balance - ‘Homeostasis’ - is what this plant 

brings. To ourselves, to others around us, and to 

local economies at large. 

I couldn’t imagine what Vegas would be 

without Cannabis as an industry 

contributing $70+ million taxable dollars a 

month within a Covid19 depressed market 

nearing 30% unemployment with casino 

shutdowns, 800,000 monthly convention 

comers eliminated and a partial tourist 

market supporting 20,000 Nevada Cannabis 

jobs. Nevada, like the rest of America and 

the world, is enduring a social-cultural 

evolution whether imposed or birthed from 

these confronting times. It seems Cannabis 

has been the biggest winner through 2020. 

It’s helped people reduce anxiety, reduce 

stress, improve health ailments, and allowed 

masses to work, eat, thrive, and get healthy. 

With Thanksgiving spirit of gratitude in mind - 

thank you, Mary Jane. 

John Kent 

Torus Family Consulting 

www.dreamcbd.com 

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31

The Secret of the Ancient Blood Brotherhood of Guy Guitarists 

By Rick de Yampert 

I vividly remember the first time a girlfriend caught me cheating on her. During 

my college days at the University of Alabama, Lori walked in as I was caressing 

Taka’s blonde, curvy body. We were, as the saying goes, making beautiful music 

together. Well, sort of beautiful – I wasn’t a virgin, but I was still a neophyte. 

“You look like you’re making love to your guitar,” Lori said. I wasn’t sure if the 

casual tone of her voice was some sort of Trojan horse trickery – maybe her 

carefree demeanor was a ploy designed to make me drop my guard and further 

reveal my deepest feelings for Taka. 

Never mind that Lori herself had gifted me the gorgeous Takamine 12-string 

guitar that I had nicknamed Taka and that I now cherished so much. I felt like 

the proverbial deer caught in headlights. Busted. Caught during an intimate 

encounter with my new favorite guitar, having shamelessly abandoned Maude, 

my Gibson Marauder electric, and Abbie, my red Applause acoustic, for my new 

love. 

Flash forward to 2021: Lori long ago exited my life, but my love affair with Taka 

continues, and Maude and Abbie and I have patched things up too. 

Most of us guy guitarists give our guitars female names. As for what female 

guitarists call their instruments, or if they even do so, you will have to ask 

one of them. And the erotic element we guys impart to our guitars is playfully 

exaggerated. Well, sort of. OK, true confession: It’s not exaggerated at all. 

Sorry, Lori. I’m a cad. 

True confession No.2: When a guy takes up guitar, making music is a 

secondary goal. His main goal, which is served by that secondary goal, is to 

impress babes and therefore entice them to bed. So, there you have it, ladies: 

At great peril to myself, I have revealed this deepest secret of the Ancient Blood 

Brotherhood of Guy Guitarists. You’re welcome. 

I naturally thought about my affairs with . . . er, my love of guitars when I 

checked out the exhibit “Medieval to Metal: The Art & Evolution of the GUITAR,” 

which runs through Jan. 10 at the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona 

Beach. The exhibit, put together by the National GUITAR Museum in New 

York, covers the history, design, artistry and cultural influence of the guitar, and 

features 40 instruments, though some of the more supposed ancient ones are 

actually reproductions. 

Photos of Jimmy Page, George Harrison, Eddie Van Halen and other guitarists 

by ace photog Neil Zlozower are also part of the exhibit. So too are vinyl album 

covers that feature a guitar image in their design, such as Bruce Springsteen’s 

“Born to Run,” some dude named Jimmy Bryant with his guitar-shaped hot rod 

on the cover of “The Fastest Guitar in the Country,” and right-wing nut job 

Ted Nugent and his guitar-as-shotgun fantasy on the cover of “Weekend 

Warriors.” (What personal anatomical deficiency are you trying to 

compensate for, eh Ted?) 

The exhibit’s text panels let us know that some primitive Johnny B. 

Goode was rocking out on an oud, a Mesopotamian forerunner of the 

guitar, circa 3000 B.C., and my guess is that this dude’s devotion to his axe was 

also likely pissing off his jealous girlfriend, too. (“Axe,” by the way, is guitarist 

slang for guitar.) 

The exhibit includes one sad, very pathetic artifact: a Tonika EGS-650, an early 

1970s Soviet production-line guitar that looks like it was welded together from 

leftover Sputnik parts – after the satellite had crashed back down to earth. No 

wonder Russian rockers were not getting laid in the ’70s: The Tonika looked 

about as cool as watching Sergei the overweight auto mechanic repair your 

car’s carburetor during an attack of beer farts. 

The accompanying text tells the Tonika story: “Unwilling to copy Western 

designs – or import American guitars -- the Russians designed their guitars 

completely from scratch . . . . The end result was typical of product development 

in communist Russia at the time – cheap industrial-strength construction with 

little attention to design details. The wood for the body was little better than 

plywood, and simple military-style electronics were used.” The guitar “was 

reviled by musicians for its crude design, lack of playability and poor tone.” 

At the other end of the spectrum were such sci-fi, Frankenstein-ish beasties 

from the 1970s as the Teisco/Kimberly Apollo Greenburst and the Godwin Guitar 

Organ -- contraptions with more knobs, switches and wiring than, well, an Apollo 

moon rocket. 

“Teisco produced some of the most inexpensive guitars in the world during the 

1960s and ’70s, and flooded the market with them,” a text panel says. “Despite 

their cheap price, Teisco guitars were loaded up with as many features as the 

company could cram onto the surface of the instrument. The company felt that 

more of everything was better when it came to guitars: more buttons, more 

switches, more pickups and more gleaming ornamentation.” 

When the creators of the Godwin Guitar Organ emerged from the lab with their 

prototype, designed to make organ sounds playable on a guitar, you know they 

were excitedly thinking “This is the shit!” Instead, with its 19 switches and 13 

knobs – “the most ever applied to a guitar body,” the text panel notes – their 

freak show was a turd whose complex electronics kept going on the fritz at the 

slightest jolt to the guitar’s body. 

But the universe has a sense of humor: The shittiest-sounding guitars often are 

also the coolest-looking guitars, and I’m convinced that any wanna-be rock star 

who strapped on a Teisco or Godwin became a chick magnet and scored with a 

lot of groupies. 

For you purists who insist that guitars must be playable so that musicians can 

create beautiful or ass-scorching music on them – well, OK, that’s kind of cool 

too.

What’s IN Your Phone? 

Florida based drummer Billy Dean mans the conductor 

seat for the GRAMMY nominated, Roots 

Music powerhouse Victor Wainwright & The Train. 

Dean has lended his propulsive, powerhouse style 

of drumming to Victor Wainwright’s band since 

2010. In that time span the “Chunk of Funk” has 

helped the unit grow into an internationally recognized 

roots freight train, playing over 1,000 gigs 

spanning all corners of the United States, Canada, 

England, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, 

Poland, Central America and the Caribbean 

. 

Cracked 

iPhone 8 

Plus 

Number of 

Contacts: 

587 

Billy Dean 

Billy’s artistry can be heard on the band’s 2018 

release Victor Wainwright and the Train, an album 

that represents a stylistic fusion of R&B, Arena 

Anthems, Jam Band, and Punk with roots Rock-n- 

Roll, Boogie Woogie, Soul and Blues. Victor Wainwright 

and the Train reached number one on the 

Billboard Blues charts and was ultimately nominated 

for a 2019 GRAMMY award for Best Contemporary 

Blues Album. 

In addition to drum duties Billy contributed as a 

songwriter on Victor Wainwright and the Train’s 

upcoming album, set to be released on Ruf Records 

in 2020. 

When he’s not on the road Billy is an active percussion 

educator and arranger in the Central Florida 

marching band scene. In 2012-13 he served as 

battery arranger and caption head for WGI Finalist 

Ancient City Ensemble. Billy continues to share 

his passion and knowledge with many students in 

middle and high school. 

Most Used Social Media 

App: 

Instagram- 

@BillyDeanDrums 

Number of unread emails 

11,661 (Yes, really!) 

Most-listened-to Artist 

The Ruff Pack 

Most-recent car-service ride 

UBER 

Battery % at which you feel compelled to 

charge your phone 

None 

Outgoing voice Message 

Automated AT&T response 

Essential travel app 

WAZE 

Does Your screensaver have a meaning 

It’s my daughter at 2 months old wearing a shirt 

that says “Holy Sh*t, I’m Out!” 

Can you live without your phone 

During the pandemic, yes. When touring is an 

option, no, unfortunately. It’s too useful a tool 

when away from home!

OPENING 

SOON! 

203 S Atlantic Ave. New Smyrna, FL 32169

BY 

MUSICIAN’S COOKBOOK 

“THE” CHILI 

Happy New Year! Did you have a 

wonderful Holiday? Was it filled 

with laughter, cheer, and tons of 

food? I hope the answer is YES 

to all of those. The time has come 

to prepare yourselves for an awesome 

2021. Many of us dream up 

New Year’s resolutions involving 

healthy lifestyles and this recipe 

fits that narrative perfectly. Let’s 

make some amazingly tasty and 

healthy Chili. Side Note: Read 

about my Thai Chicken Pizza in 

last week’s Static Live article! 

Chili… one of the most debated 

recipes ever. Just last week, there 

was a Chili cook off happening 

in my town. Everyone says they 

have the best method and ingredients, 

but I promise you right now 

that this one will win your heart as 

soon as you taste it. Besides the 

fantastic ingredients, this recipe 

is very low calorie. Clocking in at 

about 260 calories per serving, 

this Chili will fill you up and help 

you stay on track with your 2021 

healthy lifestyle goals. 

Invest in some quality Tupperware. 

This Chili recipe yields about ten 

servings so you will need good 

storage options. Pyrex and anchor 

glass leftover containers are the 

best and they come in a variety of 

sizes and shapes. They hold up 

extremely well and can be refrigerated 

or frozen over and over again 

and then microwaved. Let’s be 

honest, it’s much nicer to eat your 

leftovers out of glass as well. 

Ingredients: 

Tbsp Cooking Oil 

1 lb. Lean Ground Turkey 

1 Large Red Onion (Diced) 

3 Jalapenos (Diced) 

3 Thai Red Peppers (Diced) 

4 Fresh Cloves Garlic 

2 ½ Tbsp Chili Powder 

1 Tsp Ground Cumin 

2 Bell Peppers (Chopped) 

29 oz Canned Crushed Tomatoes 

19 oz Kidney Beans (Drained & Rinsed) 

19 oz Black Beans (Drained & Rinsed) 

1 Cup Quinoa 

2 Cups Water 

1 Bouillon Cube – chicken or vegetable 

1 Tbsp Tomato Paste 

1 Tbsp Brown Sugar 

Pinch of Salt 

Pinch of Pepper 

It all starts with a large chili pot. I prefer nonstick 

but large stainless is fine too! Turn the burner on to 

medium and add oil to the pot. While this is heating, 

chop your onions into very small diced pieces. Next, 

mince 4 cloves of fresh garlic. Minced jarred garlic 

is fine too but if you have a garlic press (3 dollars at 

IKEA… a great thing to have for life), you will respect 

and enjoy the taste of fresh garlic. Saute the onions 

first for a few minutes, then introduce the garlic, 

then add the 1 lb of lean ground turkey. NEVER let 

the garlic burn. Mix these up and allow the meat 

to brown properly. Do your best to mash the meat 

into smaller pieces. I find that ground turkey stays 

in bigger pieces unless you take the time to mash it 

into smaller pieces. Add 1 Tbsp of chili powder while 

meat is browning (Save the other 1 ½ Tbsp for later). 

I usually use a strong rubber spatula for this entire 

cooking method until the end when I use a ladle to 

dish it out. 

Let’s talk about the quinoa. Use a small sauce pot 

with a tight lid. Measure one cup of quinoa and add 

it to two cups of boiling water with a bouillon cube. 

Once boiling, let simmer with lid for 15 minutes. 

Careful so this does not burn. 

Now for the easy part! Simply add the rest of the 

ingredients and stir very well. Once the quinoa is 

cooked, add that to the mix too! Now, set the burner 

LOW and allow this to simmer, uncovered, for 1 

hour. BOOOOOM, you’ve successfully made “THE” 

CHILI. 

Watch my full cooking video for this recipe on my 

Facebook page “Ian Opalinski Music” or follow the 

link: facebook.com/ianopalinskimusic

My Eye for Taking Pictures 

By Les Kippel 

Photo Credit: Les Kippel (All) 

My days of Photography started while I was 

in college. I got a 35 mm camera and started 

taking pictures! The college Literary magazine 

was always looking for ‘artsy’ stuff... and 

somehow, my pictures of a hand holding a 

cigar, and a night time street in Brooklyn New 

York with snow falling was perfect for them! 

All these years later, and thousands of photos, 

I realize I had an eye for taking pictures! 

My favorite all time 

Photo. - and who are 

they? Frank Wakefield 

and Peter Rowan. Early 

1970’s era photo... Oh 

so Country !! 

Here are a few.. I’ll try to come up with 

some interesting photos for future issues 

of the Greatest Florida Magazine around... 

STATIC LIVE! 

Jorma Kaukonen, 

Central Park, NYC, 

probably 1971 

Who hasn’t taken a picture out of a 

plane? Just so fine when you catch it! 

Oh! what an ugly 

face!!!!! Mick 

Jagger... NYC, 

Madison Square 

Garden!! 

Buddy Cage Showing his Sweet 

Side with a kiss on Jerry Garcia. 

Buddy was Jerry Garcia’s 

replacement in the New Riders 

of the Purple Sage

A Day in the Life of a Gigging Musician 

By Adam Floyd 

We are now 

LIVE MUSIC 

CREATE your own sound by blending the tones 

of the instruments and amplifier. It’s easy to 

get the basics from a book or video but the 

experience is the best teacher. You can start ‘flat’ 

with all the tone knobs set to zero, then add or 

remove frequencies a touch at a time to get it just 

right. There are many approaches to adjusting 

the tone. Some players use the ‘smiley’ face 

E.Q. with the treble and bass nudged up and 

the mid-range curtailed. Others twist the knobs 

wildly while ignoring the numbers and listen for 

an ideal sound. I’ve seen techie boys use fancy 

white noise generators, only to be outdone by old 

hippies who walk around the venue to actually 

LISTEN to how it sounds. All the tech toys in the 

world won’t buy you an ear. 

Balancing and tweaking the sound system is a 

good way to exercise your creativity but in music 

nothing compares to writing and performing 

your own songs. Call yourself a composer or 

a songwriter, you are in control when it’s your 

baby. There are many copy-cat musicians, who 

only play cover songs. We see them at the gig. 

Exhausted and jaded, they can hardly wait till it’s 

over so they can be done with it. This is no way 

to treat MUSIC. As an ARTIST it is important to 

challenge your audience. 

In the realm of music this reveals in not always 

giving them what they want. It’s good to play all 

original shows or at least mix in a healthy dose of 

your own music. It helps generate interest in you 

and can dramatically affect music sales and your 

income in general. 

Get a jump on your songwriting chops. Try out 

new tunes on bandmates by dedicating a portion 

of rehearsal time to new songs. It’s also good 

to do a thorough study of music theory and 

literature. You can be an instant expert with a 

few internet searches or get a degree in poetry. 

There are seminars and magazines and contests 

and opportunities galore if you just search them 

out. Almost any effort will pay off immensely and 

help you grow as an artist. It beats ending up 

uninspired and dated, cranking out covers like a 

human jukebox. 

Enjoy a great life and use your experiences to 

inform your songwriting. Go to the children’s ward 

in the hospital. Volunteer at the old folks home or 

homeless shelter. Get out of familiar surroundings 

to broaden your horizons. Climb a mountain 

and go snorkeling. We sing as a reaction to life. 

Remember that like music, the life you live is the 

one you CREATE 

open 

Drink Specials 

Daily!

WE MADE IT 

By Candice Beu 

Congratulations, you made it to Jumanji level 2021. Now 

what? Shall we reflect upon what we’ve come through 

together? Nah. It’s a lot. Maybe too much for some. Lets just 

say 2020 has given us a run for our money. It’s been an eye 

opener of a year to say the least. Our world has indelibly 

changed, our relationships affected. We have lost people 

we love, both physically, emotionally and on social media. 

We have reconnected and gotten closer with some. We 

have created our own germ circles, our own social etiquette 

rules and security-theater rituals in order to cope with all 

that Covid has brought us. Over the course of a year we’ve 

become couch activists, political and social commentators 

and expert germ specialists. We’ve spent more energy 

readjusting our masks and more money stockpiling toilet 

paper and groceries than we may care to look at. Though 

some may be immune to Covid, no one is free of its ripple 

effect. We have all been in the trenches, to differing degrees, 

separately yet together. Just give yourself and others a 

break this next year, cause shit’s been weird. 

So now what? What to do in 2021? I don’t have any 

concrete answers, just some practical suggestions: Keep 

finding the better solutions. Be proactive. Be kinder. Be 

more quick to forgive self and others. Choose compassion 

over defensiveness, gentleness over harshness and healing 

a bond over breaking it. Let go more and control less. 

Listen more, speak less. Learn more, assume less. Do 

your best. Breathe. Go outside. Be with family and friends 

when you can. Have more laughs together. Sing together. 

Dance together. Take walks. Be present. Be available. Be 

of service. Be aware how our behaviors and actions affect 

others. Mind your mouth. Mind your commentary. Mind your 

business. Put political and/or religious divisiveness aside 

for a while and let’s reconnect to our shared humanity and 

spirituality. Self regulate. Be response-able. Know what’s 

our responsibility and what isn’t. Don’t cross lines. Respect 

others. Create and promote healthy boundaries. Break any 

unhealthy loops we’ve gotten into. Go slow. Show up. Act. 

Support yours and others’ growth. Determine to have an 

attitude of gratitude. Flash a smile, even if it’s under 

a mask. Make music. Make art. Make love. Make 

your little corner of the world a little nicer to be in. 

And if you feel led to, go ahead and share that masked, 

side-hug with those you’ve missed, it’s been too long 

My husband reminded me recently that 

“Nothing is further away than a moment ago.” 

We can’t undo what has been done. We can’t 

rewind time and do it differently. 

That’s not how it works. 

All we can do is accept 

what is, use our past 

experience and 

awareness to 

make better 

decisions 

and keep 

consciously 

moving 

forward 

with an 

appreciation 

for it all, 

the 

seemingly 

good and 

bad alike. 

Life is fragile so we must 

handle it with care at all 

times and seize the 

moments as they come. 

You never know 

when “the last 

time” of 

anything is, so 

cherish it all. 

Cherish the 

bedtime routine, 

story time, the 

drive to school, 

the daily tasks, 

the cuddle 

on the couch, 

the Zoom with 

a colleague, 

the phone call 

with a parent, 

the dinner with 

siblings, the drinks 

with friends, the 

sing-a-long with 

strangers, the visit to 

the adult care facility 

... whatever creates 

your day, 

whatever you are 

lucky enough to 

experience, remember 

to see the 

extraordinary in 

the ordinary. 

without them. 

45

WE MADE IT 

Don’t waste a single second on the distracting, brainwashing, 

bullying bullshit that actively floods our social media and news 

outlets. Replace the news-noise with good background music. 

Turn it off and tune inward. Release the need for conspiracy 

mindedness, the need to be right, the need to attack others by 

trusting life to work itself out instead. We can all work together. 

We can choose love and compassion over fear and hate any 

time we want to. We can choose relativism over absolutism, 

compromise over disputes, open mindedness over 

defensiveness. It’s our choice. We may not be able to control 

the world at large but we can control our own backyard. We 

can control our inner reactions and responses. We mustn’t 

try to keep managing the unmanageable or change anything 

or anyone through force and manipulation, just become the 

change we want to see in the world. There is no “try” anyway, 

only “do”... and we do by doing. That’s what my inner-Yoda 

tells me at least. We have to be willing to drop extreme 

thinking, tribalized viewpoints and generic generalizations that 

leave zero room for the complexities and nuances of real life, 

real situations, real people. Humanity is more complicated 

than that. If we can develop an understanding that allows for 

this, then maybe we will be better off in 2021 than we think. 

Only time will tell. 

I read a meme the other day that said “Plot Twist: 2020 

has actually been the best year of your life. You’ve faced 

challenge after challenge, you’ve adapted, you’ve overcome. 

2020 has forced you to grow exponentially. Don’t take it 

for granted.” If we can acknowledge this (by reframing our 

experiences and expectations) we may come out of this year 

and into the next a little stronger, a bit softer, and a whole 

lot wiser. Just make today count and basically don’t be an 

asshole. I think that is one New Years resolution most of 

us can get firmly behind (pun intended). Declare with me if 

you will: “I,_(name here)_, make the active decision not to 

be an asshole in 2021.” (And that starts with not buying up 

all the toilet paper y’all!) Personally, in my family, we make 

it a practice to ask ourselves as often as necessary: “Am I 

the asshole here?” We all are at some point and it’s better 

to acknowledge it sooner than later, make the necessary 

apologies, and move forward from there. If you have the 

self awareness and humility to say “yes, I’m the asshole this 

time. I am acting like an ass”, then you can change course 

quickly to the non-asshole behavioral approach to life and 

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1. The words of a song 

2. This American heavy metal band released 

the album “Eternal Black Dawn” in 2003 

3. Frequent setting for karaoke 

5. Another name for “half step” 

6. Mouth organ 

8. Their first studio album in 10 years, The 

Cranberries released this album in 2012 

9. This singer owned Graceland 

10. ‘60s rebel singer Bob 

13. Drum or dance 

14. A song that tells a story 

17. Barbershop quartet specialty 

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4. English rock band The Police put this in a 

bottle 1979 

Making great music since 1999 

7. Squeeze box 

10. A funeral or mourning song 

11. The process of changing from one key to 

another 

12. A mandolin is a type of this 

14. Cymbals are made of this 

15. Sing softly 

16. A song chosen as a signal of a country 

18. Title of the final studio album of Talking 

Heads, released in 1988 

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There is something liberating about 

listening to music and being able 

to pinpoint the exact moment in 

time you heard that song, and more 

importantly, the way it made you feel. 

Recently, I was sitting in my garage 

having a conversation about Steven 

Tyler. I think we were watching “Be 

Cool”, a movie I would have never 

even watched without a nudge from 

this unbelievably loud metal band 

front man who also happens to be the 

man I love and the writer of this page, 

and who occasionally lets me borrow 

his platform. Funny thing is, during 

this conversation about “Be Cool” I 

found myself wishing I could go back 

to riding around in my candy-apple red 

Jeep Wrangler in Miami in the 1990s, 

listening to Aerosmith’s “Get a Grip” 

without a care in the world, and sitting 

in front of my ancient TV watching Liv 

Tyler and Alicia Silverstone be their 

free and beautiful selves in his videos 

on MTV. I think my man may have 

wished for this as well, judging by the 

look on his face when he speaks of 

these videos. I can’t say I blame him. 

This brings me to the muse I write 

about today, Bebe Buell, who I first 

saw in Creem Magazine sometime in 

the 1980s when my idiot guy friends 

had her photos plastered on their 

walls like the little freaks they were. 

For those of you who have never 

seen this woman, Bebe Beull was 

the most stunning woman I had ever 

seen at that age. She was, to me, not 

just a mere groupie, she was a rock 

n’ roll goddess, and she fascinated 

me. Model, singer with her own band, 

muse, and lover of all things rock n’ 

ByTHE MUSE 

roll, she was easy to be in awe of. 

Featured in High Times Greats, and 

dubbed Playboy’s Miss November 

1974, Bebe was no mere groupie, 

she was connected (for lack of a 

better word) to artists such as David 

Bowie, Joey Ramone, Iggy Pop, 

Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Jimmy 

Page, Todd Rundgren and Elvis 

Costello, among others. None was 

as legendary as her time spent 

with Steven Tyler in 1976. Though 

short-lived, this tryst led to the 

gorgeous gift that is Liv Tyler. Liv 

was raised by Rundgren until she 

attended an Aerosmith concert 

at age 11 and according to Bebe, 

immediately knew that the front 

man was her dad. That must have 

been so weird, right? 

Cameron Crowe, a director who 

met Bebe in 1975, and was a 

close and personal friend of Joey 

Ramone, used her as to create 

the role of groupie, Penny Lane, in 

his film Almost Famous. Similar to 

Penny Lane, Bebe in real life hated 

being called a groupie and truly 

considered herself to be a creative 

inspiration for the rock stars in her 

life. She is said to joke that she 

inspired so many songs that she 

could “release a box set.” I’m not 

sure that she herself knows them 

all. 

So, the next time you sit to watch 

Almost Famous, or even Be Cool, 

give some props to Penny Lane. 

She may have been a groupie in 

denial, but she did some really cool 

stuff with some really rad people. 

- “Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel 

may be you.” ……Steven Tyler

AND TRIVIA 

answers 

1. 1996 

2. New Kids on the Block 

3. BBMak 

4.’N Sync 

5. 11 

6. O-Town 

7. Toby, Michael, Phil, Andrew 

8. Busted 

9. Jennifer Love Hewitt 

10. Orange, Orange 

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