I hate to start out with bad news, but since you’re such a fan of great music, you should know:
You’ll have to Bop yourself
That’s right, kids (I mean kidz), your favorite show of the summer is no more. Here’z hoping you get over it. I mean, you can still see Hoobastank.
They are playing “the old Annie’s” (a.k.a. Riverfront Live) tomorrow night, along with Everclear, Living Colour and Wheatus. The old Annie’s also has Phil Vassar on Friday and Hyryder on Saturday (all are indoor shows).
Take me to a different part of the river… and a different river
But enough about Riverfront Live, and there’s no need to even discuss Riverbend. Instead let’s focus on another river perspective: RiversEdge. It’s an outdoor amphitheater in Hamilton! Ohio. And this Friday, they have a great double bill of S.G. Goodman and Aaron Lee Tasjan. Not familiar with them? Check out their latest releases below.
Do not sleep on this show… because it starts at the old-person-friendly time of 7 p.m. And even better, general admission on the lawn is FREE!
Yours truly will be there (weather permitting – fingers crossed), along with list members Todd Butler and Todd Quincy (who is part of the RiversEdge committee). It’s always a good time with a Todd or two.
High five!
Come join us, won’t you? If you can’t make Friday’s show, RiversEdge has a few more ace shows up their sleeve. Wait, check that, it’s Hamilton, so they are probably in a sleeveless Harley shirt…
Well, the tattoo is a sleeve of sorts…
Anyhoo, Arlo McKinley plays RiversEdge next Friday, July 23rd, The North Mississippi Allstars are there on August 7th, The Infamous Stringdusters & Sierra Hull play on August 21st, and JJ Grey and Mofro are booked for September 3rd. (Other than the JJ Grey gig, lawn admission is free.)
Speaking of gratuitous shows (of the non-Hoobastank variety), I need to profusely apologize to you for not alerting you to the recent freebie shows at Fountain Square. Cracker was there on July 3rd (several list members were in attendance, including at least 50% of The Cereal Killers), and Red Wanting Blue played there on July 9th (list members Whit and Barb Gardner were there). Needless to say, list member Dan “The Reds are in in to win it” Lewis was not pleased with my recent lack of concert communication, as witnessed by his email to me on June 29th:
Sorry to let you down, Dan. The full list of Fountain Square Friday and Saturday gigs is here…. I highly recommend the Brett Dennan gig on August 6th. And I know you’re a big fan of The Mavericks (Taft on 9/24) and Todd Rundgren (Icon on 10/30), so please make a note of those dates. By the way, have you considered a corporate partnership with Warren Beatty?
Other gigs in the near future
The Casey Campbell Band plays a freebie at Washington Park this Thursday night, and the Reverend Horton Heat & Hackensaw Boys are at Southgate on Sunday, July 25th.
Venting my spleen
How is it that the Cincinnati area has two brand new indoor/outdoor venues opening when every friggin’ band in America is jonesing to tour, yet we still cannot manage to book more than a handful of decent shows? Case in point – Phoebe Bridgers is playing the PromoWest venues in Pittsburgh and Columbus on consecutive nights, yet is NOT playing the PromoWest venue in Newport… she’s also playing Indy and Louisville, so our Bermuda Triangle status remains in full effect.
Notable Names in the News
List member Gil Kaufman made the New York Post… but not Page Six. He’s quoted in this article about how MTV stopped playing music and jumped the shark.
“I have two teenage kids, and they know that I worked for MTV, but they’ve never seen MTV,” said Kaufman, who, after working at the network for 15-plus years, is now a senior contributing writer at Billboard. “They wouldn’t even know where to look for it.”
“Survival happened. We’re certainly not whole,” McCabe said.” But we owe people money. Survival costs a lot of money. Then there are repairs that need to happen. These are both old buildings. A year and a half without maintenance shows up.”
Author and college professor Robin James is a self-described “philosopher of popular music.” She grew up in West Chester, Ohio listening to 97X and is writing a book about the station and the community that formed around it. She’s also going to give a talk about the Modern Rock 500 at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame once we get through the pandemic phase. In this episode, Robin gives us an update on when the book will be published… and turns the tables by interviewing Dave and Damian for that book.
Robin James, the coolest college professor ever!
We first chatted with Robin a year ago, on Episode 34. If you missed that show, it’s well worth a listen.
On her blog, here’s how Robin summarizes the 97X book project:
The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the fight for true independence. (Under contract with UNC Press). This is a book about the philosophy behind former modern rock radio station 97X FM/woxy.com. The station and its programming was driven by the idea that true independence is possible only when practiced with and for other people. The book argues that this idea of independence is what we need to fight the 21st century corporate mainstream, which is driven by the false idea that real independence is being left to fend for yourself.
Here’s a link to the draft version of “What was the Modern Rock 500?” – the talk Robin will be giving at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The date for that presentation is still TBD due to pandemic restrictions, but we’ll let you know when it’s happening.
My dad didn’t like music, and I didn’t have older siblings, so the Modern Rock 500 was the curriculum I used to educate myself about cool music and its history.
Robin James
Rumblings from the Big Bush mailbag
Hey guys,
I’ve been a big fan of the show. For years I’ve enjoyed listening to a playlist created from an old Modern Rock 500, and every year I think, I should contact some of the old radio guys and see what would be on the list today. I always think of this leading up to Memorial Day weekend. It would be great if you could get some of the old crew together and make an updated list.
Keep up the good work! – Nick Frisch
That’s a great idea, Nick! Unfortunately, it’s also a rather daunting task, and we have our hands full with the podcast (and our day jobs). We tried to strong-arm longtime 97X PD Phil Manning into creating an updated MR500, but to no avail. If anyone has any suggestions, we’re all ears.
In the interim, the Cincinnati-based online radio station Inhailer recently counted down their Top 500 Albums of All Time, and you’ll find plenty of 97X artists on that list. Former woxy.com DJ Luann Gibbs (a.k.a. “Miss Kitty” – we chatted with her on Episode 43) does weekend shifts on Inhailer, and Taylor Fox, who was quite active on the 97X message boards, is the Program Director and hosts the morning show Tuesdays thru Thursdays, so the station is a kindred spirit of 97X/woxy.com. They play a great mix of music, including a healthy dose of local bands, and have specialty shows on weekends and in the evening. Check it out!
This post on The Cincy Vinyl Trail website also has a nice tribute to the Modern Rock 500.
Traditionally, Memorial Day weekend has always been the unofficial beginning of summer. Schools close, pools open, we honor fallen heroes and the Taste of Cincinnati takes center stage. Memorial Day weekend of years gone by also brought us the 500. No, not the Indy 500, that’s still running. To die-hard music fans, it was the 97X Modern Rock 500. The start of every summer the radio would be tuned to 97.7.
Mark Abuzzahab (who just went by “Mark” on air… we can’t imagine why) was at 97X for a year and change (Jul ’98-Sept. ’99) at the dawn of the streaming era. He then served as music director at several other cool stations all over the map (Vermont, Boulder, Austin, Dallas) and still programs music and promotes cool artists today. We chat with Mark about his 97X memories, his current gigs and how he protected our ears from bad “alternative” music.
Mark still has a going-away present that reminds him of the good time he had at 97X (see what we did there?)
After he left 97X, Mark went to a station in Burlington, Vermont, and eventually recruited fellow 97X alum Rictile to work the morning show there.
Mark now works with VuHaus, the non-profit company that provides content for the Live Sessions on NPR Music.
VuHaus (pronounced “View House”) is a non-profit, digital music video service that introduces emerging and established artists to new audiences. VuHaus aggregates live performance videos, and live stream sessions from leading “Music Discovery” public radio stations from markets across the U.S. With unique local video channels including nationally curated playlists, local market playlists, and custom playlists from artists and tastemakers, VuHaus gives fans a unique window into the country’s most vibrant music scenes.
VuHaus is a collaboration of the country’s leading public radio music stations: KCRW in Los Angeles, KEXP in Seattle, WFUV in New York, WXPN in Philly, KUTX in Austin, The Bridge in Kansas City, KXT in Dallas, opbmusic in Portland, Mountain Stage in West Virginia, KDHX in St. Louis, Live from the Fort from Vermont and WGBH Boston.
Mark also works with Custom Channels, a company that creates custom music mixes for businesses. So you’ve probably heard his handiwork at restaurants, stores and fitness centers.
Steve Leeds has had a long and illustrious (dare we say even Gump-like) career in the music business. Terrestrial radio (Murray the K!). Major labels (Led Zeppelin!). Indie promotions (Joan Jett!). MTV (Adam Sandler!). Today he’s a VP of Talent for Sirius XM and a college professor. If it’s happening, Steve was — and still is — involved. Steve shares his memories of working with 97X (and getting lost leaving…) and what stations like 97X meant to emerging artists.
Check out Steve’s bio – it’s a who’s who of music. Steve’s blog also covers the latest twists and trends in the music biz, from someone who truly has been there and done that.
In our interview, Steve mentioned the 97X Cookbook (featuring “Dave’s Sensational Seven-Layer Salad”). Here he is holding his copy during our chat.
Here’s Steve interviewing the co-authors of the book I Want My MTV: the Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution.
And here are a couple of clips featuring artist promos for U68, a New York-area TV station that Steve programmed with music content.
Here’s a podcast featuring Steve talking about the music biz.
“The Lovely & Talented Elizabeth Cannon™” started working at Riverbend Music Center (Cincinnati’s 20,000-person capacity outdoor concert amphitheater) as an usher when she was 16… and wound up staying there for nearly 15 years. For most of her tenure, she managed Riverbend’s marketing, working closely with local radio and TV stations and record labels on media buys, ad scripts, promotions (ticket giveaways, meet-and-greets), artist interviews, and more. As a 97X listener in high school and a Miami U. grad, she always had a special place in her heart for the tiny modern rock station in Oxford… and the feeling was mutual.
Elizabeth fills us in on her behind-the-scenes work at Riverbend… including why a mullet man was making a sick kid’s heart achy-breaky, and who was cool and who was a tool in CS&N (and sometimes Y).
Elizabeth said 97X was a key reason that Riverbend was able to book up-and-coming acts, because the record labels always wanted to know if there was a local radio station playing those artists. Without 97X, concerts like Lollapalooza, Lilith Fair and H.O.R.D.E. might’ve bypassed this market.
Kneeling: Damian and Rictile. Standing L to R: Steve Baker, Linda Balogh, Jae Forman, Julie Maxwell, Doug Balogh, Phil Manning, salesperson Joe Throckmorton, Brian Ewing, Dave Tellmann and salesman Chris Adryan rocking the sweet fannypack. Sitting on car: Laura KimJulie Maxwell applies a temporary tattoo at a Riverbend show. Jae Forman (left) and Dave Tellmann (right) on the infamous butt coolers at Riverbend.
Doug and Linda Balogh bought 97.7 FM in Oxford, Ohio in July of 1981, adjusted the format to modern rock in September of 1983, and spent 23 years giving their heart and soul to a “mom and pop” radio station. 97X’s signal was tiny, but its impact was mighty, and Doug and Linda guided it every step of the way. In the first of a multi-part interview, Dave and Damian talk to Doug and Linda about why they got into the radio game in the first place, and the station’s formative early years.
Doug & Linda from the Cincinnati Enquirer’s Enquirer Magazine article published June 2, 1985
In our interview, Doug mentions the significance of a cover story about 97X in June 2, 1985 edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer‘s Sunday magazine. Thanks to 97X superfan (and Episode 25 guest) Mark Griffin, you can read the entire article here — complete with 1985 ads!
World-famous cover model Danny Crash (a.k.a. Dan Reed)
Mark Griffin’s heartfelt tribute to 97X can be found on his blog. We highly recommend it.)
Unlike corporate-owned commercial stations where music is chewing gum and DJs’ on-air personalities range from vapid to outrageous, family-owned WOXY drew in people devoted to the best in new music.
Mark Griffin in his blog post about 97X – linked above
Ad for 97X’s move from High Street in uptown Oxford to 5120 College Corner Pike.
In the mid-80s, Terrence Burke came to Cincinnati from Boston, where he was weaned on a steady diet of Beantown’s finest alternative/indie/college rock stations. He quickly discovered 97X and was hooked. After a few years back in Boston, he returned to Cincinnati in 1993 and was so enamored with how the Cincinnati/Dayton music community had blossomed that he published a ‘zine about it called Screed. (He made several appearances on 97X’s Local Lixx during this time.) Terry also hosted a show at WAIF and worked at CD World, so he was fully immersed in the music scene. After his father passed away suddenly in 2001, Terrence decided to pursue his life’s calling of bringing joy to kids via his Wump Mucket Puppets shows. Terry’s a DIY guy to the core, and it was a real treat to catch up with him.
Here’s Terry joining 97X DJ Dan Cromer on the Local Lixx show on January 18th, 1996 -this episode features songs from Brainiac, Throneberry, The Wolverton Brothers and Stitch.
Local Lixx on 97X, Jan. 18, 1996 with host Dan Cromer and guest Terry BurkeTerry at Screed Zine world headquarters97X ad in ScreedTerry and Shawn Riggs, co-workers at CD World. Check out the new release board in the background. Terry on the air at WAIF-FM. He hosted Dr. 13’s Audio Lab and also appeared on the local music show Kindred Sanction
Terry with Carol Spinney (puppeteer for Big Bird and other Sesame Street characters)
Here’s a profile of Terrence and Wump Mucket Puppets on PBS.
Brian Ewing spent the early to mid-90s on the air at 97X, including three full years doing the overnight shift, which surely must be a record for “the cave.” During that same time, he was also playing in the local band Messerly & Ewing, so music ruled his life. We talk to Brian about his 97X days, including party patio drunks, open mike nights, long-distance tea-brewing, and rocking the vote.
Phil Manning, Damian and Brian “Rock the Vote” Ewing at the 97X 10th Anniversary Show at Bogart’s.
After leaving 97X, Brian still performed as part of Messerly & Ewing. They won the 97Xposure band contest in 2002, and continued to release new music and play gigs through 2014. Here’s their 2011 release on Bandcamp:
And here’s Messerly & Ewing performing live in July 2009 with their full band, featuring MPMF co-founders Sean Rhiney (bass) and Bill Donabedian (drums).
Brian on stage at an Earth Day eventMesserly & Ewing & Woman with Feather BoaMesserly & Ewing performing live on the Fox19 Morning ShowTakin’ it to the streets…Midpoint Music Festival 2009Brian when we chatted via Google Meet last month
If we’re being pragmatic during this pandemic, I suppose the only thing we should ask the Jolly Old Elf for is good health. But as fans of live music, we sure do miss concerts.
Pernice Brothers last album “Spread the Feeling” was fantastic!
Hey, at least we can still hunker down in our own private Idaho bunker and curl up with a good book… about music. Jeff Tweedy has a new one out. Bob Mehr’s book about the Replacements (Trouble Boys) is top-notch. Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry, Chrissie Hynde, Chris Frantz (Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club), Bob Mould, Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), John Doe (X), Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses), Viv Albertine (The Slits), Kathy Valentine (Go-Gos)… they’ve all written their musical/life story. Patti Smith’s books aren’t really about music, but they’re great. I’ve read a metric ton (or is that tonne?) of these tomes, and the only one I wouldn’t recommend is Mark Lanegan’s Sing Backwards and Weep — unless you think you’d enjoy 400 pages of him describing the various and sundry ways he tried to score drugs and/or got dope-sick. (Spoiler alert: pants-pooping is involved… multiple times.)
Oh sure, any hipster worth his/her fedora/cutoff mom jeans can cite chapter and verse of the Pitchfork list. But what about the favorites of this august group, the music cognoscenti of Cincinnati? (Also known as “the people who used to get a weekly spam email from some Damian dude.”) Kudos to “This Week in Live Music” (remember that?) list member Dan “The Reds are going to win it all in 2021!” Lewis for getting the (base)ball rolling on favorite albums of annus horribilis that was 2020. The good news is that the music wasn’t as horribilis as the annus. (That’s not nearly as dirty as it sounds!) Dan’s list is below, along with one from Dan’s way cooler son Cullen, and Dan’s way lamer friend (c’est moi). Note: if you really want to go down the “best of” rabbit hole, the Album of the Year site features links to dozens of year-end lists from all the usual suspects*. If you’d prefer a very succinct summary instead of a labor-intensive litany, list member Kevin Sullivan has you covered:
Short, sweet… and correct!
*For an unusual suspect (a Finnish guy with a predilection for folk/Americana music) with a very good list, check out One Chord to Another – HT to list member Rico for tipping us off to this site, which also features a nice weekly playlist of new tunes.
If you’d like to weigh in with your own “favorites of 2020” list, send it my way via email and I’ll create a Google Doc with everyone’s choices.
Is it live or is it Memorex?
Live gigs are in short supply, but every artist and their brother (this means you, Jim Belushi) has hopped on the livestream bandwagon. Most are now paid-ticket gigs, and several have taken a page from the Ticketmaster “charge ’em as much as you can” playbook with “front row” seats (basically a better camera angle, and sometimes a chance to have an awkward Zoom group chat with the artist before or after the show). A few shows are fundraisers — like this Facebook show from The Connells (love them!) that raised money for the National Independent Venue Association and the staff at the legendary Cat’s Cradle club in North Carolina. Very few virtual gigs are completely free – so let’s give it up for the local band Wussy, whose members have done a brilliant livestream show (on Facebook) nearly every Friday night for nine friggin’ months, and rarely, if ever, mention their tip jar. Ditto for Rob Fetters and his 23 “Fetters is Cheap” shows. [BTW, my ol’ radio pal Dave Tellmann and I have interviewed Rob Fetters, Mark Messerly from Wussy, John Curley from the Afghan Whigs, Dan McCabe (MOTR, Woodward Theater) and many more local luminaries on our “97X Rumblings from the Big Bush” podcast. If you’ve got two “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” worth of time to kill (each episode is ~20 minutes) why not give it a spin?]
Now for the sad interlude
We’ve lost a lot of great artists this year – John Prine, Neil Peart, Little Richard, Bill Withers, Adam Schlesinger, et al. And now Rita Houston, the legendary DJ and music director for WFUV in New York, has passed away after a six year battle with cancer. She turned on so many folks to so many great artists over the years, championing emerging artists on her station. The music was an eclectic mix of songs — the common denominator was Rita’s impeccable taste.
“Rita was the very first person to play my music on the radio. The only reason that matters is that it’s so important for a young person to know that someone they look up to believes in them. For me, she was that person.”
This is about the only way I can tolerate traditional Xmas music:
Lou Barlow covering Kacey Musgraves (with choreography by Lou’s daughter) is super-sweet, but not in a hyperglycemic way like Grandma’s Christmas fudge.
And finally, this gem of a video comes courtesy of list member Rob Ervin, who describes it thusly:
The ascots, the flared pants, the hair, the smiles, the choreography, the synth, the SG, the Tele, the big padded amps, the P bass, the abandoned drum kit. Please watch this on a device that you can crank the hell up. It has changed my life. This is a spiritual experience. Bethesda North is bursting at the seams with Covid patients, yet in the pharmacy we stay on our toes by playing this over and over and over. Actually, I’ve never been less popular with my co-workers since I discovered this song. They are weak and can not hang with the raw power of Crazy Horses.
Oh yeah, Mormons rock!
Putting a pretty bow on it
As Dickens wrote in A Christmas Carol, “2020 sucks! Hard!” (Wait, maybe that was some graffiti I saw on an overpass… I get those confused a lot.)
But 2021 will be better – or your money back!
All the best to you and yours during this holiday season, and best wishes for a fun 2021!
2020 Favorites
Dan “the Man” Lewis:
1-3 (cant choose my fave)
Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to Italy
The Mavericks – En Espanol
4) Dehd Flower of Devotion (thanks for hipping me, Cullen)
5) Drive By Truckers The New OK
6) The James Hunter Six Whatever It Takes
7) Car Seat Head Rest Making a Door Less Open
8) Khruangbin Moedehai (love that guitar sound)
9) Nick Lowe Walkabout
10) The Ar-Kaics Ar-Kaics Volume 1
Also liked:
Arlo McKinley Die Midwestern (Cincy Boy)
FC Fontaines Hero (I didn’t think it was close to their last one)
Kevin Morby Sundowner
Fleet Foxes Love Can I Believe You and Sunblind
Cut Worms Nobody Lives here Anymore
Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy (still has the lyric thing going on)
Chris Stapleton Starting Over like You should probably leave
Sturgill Simpson like both of the Bluegrass albums
Songs
Dawes IT Didn’t Fix Me
Westerman Confirmation
Cameo Rolling Blackouts
Nicole Atkins Captain
Day Wave Starting again
Honorable mention:
Futurebirds Teamwork listed as my fave from 2019 but the full album wasn’t released until Feb 2020 so will list again. Give it a shot.
Cullen “Son of The Man” Lewis
1.) 2nd Grade – Hit to Hit (Favorite of the year, an incredible debut that reminds me of Guided by Voices, Teenage Fanclub etc.)
2.) Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Sideways to New Italy
3.) Kiwi Jr. – Football Money (Another amazing debut – was independent but signed to Sub Pop after the success of this record. Pavement reincarnate)
4.) Dehd – Flower of Devotion
5.) The Strokes – The New Abnormal (An incredible return to form)
6.) Pinegrove – Marigold
7.) Pure X – Pure X
8.) Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
9.) Touche Amore – Lament
10.) Nation of Language – Introduction, Presence
Honorable mentions: Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud, Jon Mckiel – Bobby Joe Hope, Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song, Tennis – Swimmer, Empty Country – Empty Country, The KIllers – Imploding the Mirage
Songs:
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Cars in Space (3 guitars that go from 0-60 MPH from beginning to end. Nothing better!)
Dehd – Desire (Album opener of the year)
Caribou – Home
Kiwi Jr. – Murder in the Cathedral
2nd Grade – Velodrome
Waxahatchee – Can’t Do Much
Jeff Tweedy – Love is the King
The 1975 – If You’re too Shy Let Me Know
The KIllers – My Own Souls Warning
Pure X – Middle America
Damian “Barely a Man” D.
Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud
Lucinda Williams – Good Souls, Better Angels
2nd Grade – Hit to Hit
dehd – Flower of Devotion
Pillow Queens – In Waiting (HT to list member Dave Purcell for this one)
Kiwi Jr. – Kiwi Jr.
Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison
Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
Deep Sea Diver – Impossible Weight
Fenne Lily – Breach
Bob Mould – Blue Hearts
Frances Quinlan – Likewise
Honorable mention: Teddy Thompson – Heartbreaker Please, Sunshine Boys – Work and Love, Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, Beabadoobee – Fake Flowers, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band- Letter to You, Jason Isbell – Reunions, DBT – both releases, X – Alphabetland, Pretenders – Hate for Sale, Chris Stapleton – Starting Over
Dorsie Fyffe worked at 97X from 1993 to 1998, eventually winding up as Music Director (nominated by Billboard Magazine for “Music Director of the Year”) and afternoon host. During that same era, he led the local band Johnny Smoke, and lived with Tim Taylor, lead singer of Brainiac, and Dave Doughman of Swearing at Motorists. Since then, much like Johnny Cash, he’s “been everywhere, man” – San Francisco, Seattle, Kansas City, Austin, Los Angeles. But he’s still rockin’. We chat with Dorsie about his 97X days and his new Cincinnati-via-Northern California band Beverly Hills Supper Club.
This photo of Dorsie at 97X sums up the inimitable Dorsie vibe quite nicely:
Dorsie’s new band Beverly Hills Supper Club features Cincinnati-based members including Billy Catfish.
You can check out BHSC’s music on all the major streaming services. Here’s their artist link on Spotify and here’s their latest release:
https://youtu.be/1IMi-XhJ3UA
Lydia Loveless loves Dorsie
Dorsie in Lawrence, KS circa 2013. Pants courtesy of the Herb Tarlek Collection.
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