Recalling how legendary Tommy Conwell hit those Cheap Trick high notes at the end of "Surrender" with Buzz Zeemer.
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Showing posts with label Cheap Trick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cheap Trick. Show all posts
Sunday, September 1, 2024
Cheap Trick's Surrender - Buzz Zeemer
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Hershey Concert Doused - July 1988 Article
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Hershey Concert Doused
Patriot-News Co.
24 July 1988
Rain is usually good for plants, but for rock singer Robert Plant, it might have put him on the Stairway to Heaven.
Rainstorms are no place for electric guitars, microphones and amplifiers.
Plant, former lead singer of Led Zeppelin, was scheduled to perform outdoors last night at Hershey Stadium. A heavy downpour in the late afternoon and early evening forced postponement of the concert until 2 p.m. today.
Mike Brandon, a spokesman for Electric Factory Concerts, said the heavy rain would have made the concert unsafe for both Plant and his band, as well as the audience. "Robert Plant appreciates everyone's understanding," Brandon said.
He said gates at the stadium will open at noon, and tickets will be sold at the door.
Some 13,000 tickets had been sold for the show, which also features Cheap Trick and Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers. An estimated 10,000 ticketholders made it to the stadium before turning back.
Promoters announced the postponement about 10 minutes before opening act Conwell and his band were scheduled to go on.
Traffic was backed up through Hershey as concertgoers arriving at the stadium were forced to turn around upon hearing of the cancellation. "Our main worry was safety," said Hersheypark spokeswoman Kim Schaller. She said it appeared the rain would not let up.
Plant, whose plane had circled fogbound Harrisburg International Airport several times before landing, did not want to play if the fans would have to stand out in the rain the entire time, Schaller said.
The well-soaked fans had mixed reactions to the rescheduling.
"At least this way, we don't have to stand in the downpour," said Sheila Albert of State College, who planned to stay in the area and attend the show today.
Tracey Barish, a 16-year-old Harrisburg resident, expressed displeasure while walking barefoot through the stadium parking lot.
"We're already soaking wet, and it doesn't matter to us if we get any wetter," she said.
Only a 30 percent chance of rain is predicted for today.
Patriot-News Co.
24 July 1988
Rain is usually good for plants, but for rock singer Robert Plant, it might have put him on the Stairway to Heaven.
Rainstorms are no place for electric guitars, microphones and amplifiers.
Plant, former lead singer of Led Zeppelin, was scheduled to perform outdoors last night at Hershey Stadium. A heavy downpour in the late afternoon and early evening forced postponement of the concert until 2 p.m. today.
Mike Brandon, a spokesman for Electric Factory Concerts, said the heavy rain would have made the concert unsafe for both Plant and his band, as well as the audience. "Robert Plant appreciates everyone's understanding," Brandon said.
He said gates at the stadium will open at noon, and tickets will be sold at the door.
Some 13,000 tickets had been sold for the show, which also features Cheap Trick and Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers. An estimated 10,000 ticketholders made it to the stadium before turning back.
Promoters announced the postponement about 10 minutes before opening act Conwell and his band were scheduled to go on.
Traffic was backed up through Hershey as concertgoers arriving at the stadium were forced to turn around upon hearing of the cancellation. "Our main worry was safety," said Hersheypark spokeswoman Kim Schaller. She said it appeared the rain would not let up.
Plant, whose plane had circled fogbound Harrisburg International Airport several times before landing, did not want to play if the fans would have to stand out in the rain the entire time, Schaller said.
The well-soaked fans had mixed reactions to the rescheduling.
"At least this way, we don't have to stand in the downpour," said Sheila Albert of State College, who planned to stay in the area and attend the show today.
Tracey Barish, a 16-year-old Harrisburg resident, expressed displeasure while walking barefoot through the stadium parking lot.
"We're already soaking wet, and it doesn't matter to us if we get any wetter," she said.
Only a 30 percent chance of rain is predicted for today.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Connected: Or How We Should All Just Mind Our Own Business and Listen to Cheap Trick
The following is a research article for my grad student program at UT-Dallas in Emerging Media and Communications. The research speaks on the influence of others on activities and their actions around us. I made it fun and talked about Cheap Trick.
In the case of the book "Connected," by Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD and James H. Fowler, PhD, it appears that we, the people, at least scientifically speaking, cannot help but be influenced by the people surrounding us and the activities of people that flurry around us. For Chapter One’s [In the Thick of It] grim description of a series of family-connected murders in the Mediterranean, I even drew out a graph to keep up with the connections of who went after who and why.
In the study of network science and theory, Christakis and Fowler take on what seems an almost common sense approach to their revelations, which makes the book an easy read. I was even curious about some of the research items that were on the jacket cover. For example, “You will never date your ex-partner’s current partner’s ex.”
For some reason, I was thinking that singer Shania Twain had actually broken some unwritten human code, because she recently completed that task (divorcing her ex-husband and then marrying that same ex-husband's best friend) – but the authors brought this question (p.99) about in the context of high school relationships, not multi-million dollar celebrities in their 40's.
As such, the study of network science and theory takes a simple question, and attempts to answer with, again, results that seem to be common sense answers. For example, take the question that I saw on Twitter the other day:
So the way that we listen to music now...is it the same way that we used to listen to music and DOES that kind of activity (older kids influencing younger kids) even happen anymore?
I think it’s a legitimate question. Kids used to have turntables in their rooms and big 12” x 12” works of art [that held the LP] to look at while listening to their favorite bands play their favorite song, lyrics usually included with the LP cover sheet. Younger brothers and sisters and the friends of the younger brothers and sisters would sneak into that bedroom and find albums that they were not listening to or had never heard of, exposing them to a different music style or band that they never would have heard about on their own. A pre-teen might hear The Doors for the first time, and because they were so much younger than the teenager, would be even that much more influenced by the experience of hearing this band's music.
Today, everyone is rockin’ the earbuds. Not many people I know buy CD’s. And although there has been a slight resurgence in discovering music on LP’s and people enjoying the experience of hearing music on a turntable. In Dallas, Half-Price Books usually has a good stream of young adults checking out their LP section most weekends. It seems like the music experience, aside from attending a concert or commenting on the latest episode of American Idol on Twitter, has trending towards becoming a solitary experience.
And because there seems to be such an over-saturation of the market, in terms of avenues and modes of availability in which you can access different types and styles of music (streaming, iTunes, used CDs, SoundCloud, bootleg) -- and not just 'The Hits' -- the way that young kids are even exposed to new (or even old) bands changes every day. The authors might agree.
Therefore, I think that Connected can shed light on a lot of questions such as:
In the study of network science and theory, Christakis and Fowler take on what seems an almost common sense approach to their revelations, which makes the book an easy read. I was even curious about some of the research items that were on the jacket cover. For example, “You will never date your ex-partner’s current partner’s ex.”
For some reason, I was thinking that singer Shania Twain had actually broken some unwritten human code, because she recently completed that task (divorcing her ex-husband and then marrying that same ex-husband's best friend) – but the authors brought this question (p.99) about in the context of high school relationships, not multi-million dollar celebrities in their 40's.
As such, the study of network science and theory takes a simple question, and attempts to answer with, again, results that seem to be common sense answers. For example, take the question that I saw on Twitter the other day:
@hearitlive A buddies older brother turned me on to Cheap Trick when I was 9 - i thought he was pretty cool. Does that still happen?
So the way that we listen to music now...is it the same way that we used to listen to music and DOES that kind of activity (older kids influencing younger kids) even happen anymore?
I think it’s a legitimate question. Kids used to have turntables in their rooms and big 12” x 12” works of art [that held the LP] to look at while listening to their favorite bands play their favorite song, lyrics usually included with the LP cover sheet. Younger brothers and sisters and the friends of the younger brothers and sisters would sneak into that bedroom and find albums that they were not listening to or had never heard of, exposing them to a different music style or band that they never would have heard about on their own. A pre-teen might hear The Doors for the first time, and because they were so much younger than the teenager, would be even that much more influenced by the experience of hearing this band's music.
Today, everyone is rockin’ the earbuds. Not many people I know buy CD’s. And although there has been a slight resurgence in discovering music on LP’s and people enjoying the experience of hearing music on a turntable. In Dallas, Half-Price Books usually has a good stream of young adults checking out their LP section most weekends. It seems like the music experience, aside from attending a concert or commenting on the latest episode of American Idol on Twitter, has trending towards becoming a solitary experience.
And because there seems to be such an over-saturation of the market, in terms of avenues and modes of availability in which you can access different types and styles of music (streaming, iTunes, used CDs, SoundCloud, bootleg) -- and not just 'The Hits' -- the way that young kids are even exposed to new (or even old) bands changes every day. The authors might agree.
Therefore, I think that Connected can shed light on a lot of questions such as:
- Why certain musical acts don’t get into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame?
- How diseases and/or contagions spread through certain communities and not others?
Connected was written in 2009 and already some statistics have changed. For example, the average user on Facebook now has 130 friends, not 110.
This number is still below of what the author's discuss as Dunbar's theory (p. 248) - 150 being the the limit as to which humans have the ability to recognize, monitor and assess other people within their network without being overwhelmed by not knowing who is who, friendly vs. hostile, etc.
One interesting aspect of of this theory is that modern armies have remained small even to this day, "...suggest[ing] that communication is not the crucial factor. More important is the human mind's ability to track social relationships, to form mental network maps that track who is connected to whom and how strong or weak, cooperative or aggressive, those relationships are."
As the authors discuss the Internet and its impact on social relationships, they discuss how e-mail was the earliest versions of our online social networking ability. And just as e-mail was condensed so that one e-mail address came to represent one identity, so too will we soon have one profile that "allows one to traverse many virtual worlds and social networks." (p.274) However, we may be required to share our friends on Facebook, but I can still choose to participate minimally.
As the number of our online social circle grows past what we can truly feel comfortable controlling, will people begin to segment their interests into different personalities and/or profiles? How much will this compartmentalization change the value structure of the identity represented?
This number is still below of what the author's discuss as Dunbar's theory (p. 248) - 150 being the the limit as to which humans have the ability to recognize, monitor and assess other people within their network without being overwhelmed by not knowing who is who, friendly vs. hostile, etc.
One interesting aspect of of this theory is that modern armies have remained small even to this day, "...suggest[ing] that communication is not the crucial factor. More important is the human mind's ability to track social relationships, to form mental network maps that track who is connected to whom and how strong or weak, cooperative or aggressive, those relationships are."
As the authors discuss the Internet and its impact on social relationships, they discuss how e-mail was the earliest versions of our online social networking ability. And just as e-mail was condensed so that one e-mail address came to represent one identity, so too will we soon have one profile that "allows one to traverse many virtual worlds and social networks." (p.274) However, we may be required to share our friends on Facebook, but I can still choose to participate minimally.
As the number of our online social circle grows past what we can truly feel comfortable controlling, will people begin to segment their interests into different personalities and/or profiles? How much will this compartmentalization change the value structure of the identity represented?
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Downed - Buzz Zeemer [live]
Buzz Zeemer performs a cover of Cheap Trick's "Downed" live at Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia, 1996.
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