Snarky Puppy Skate U @ The Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH - 2016.05.09
VIDEO: Behind the Scenes at Rock Hall Library & Archives Grand Opening
Another video exclusive.
Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
collaborates with
Cuyahoga Community College
to open the new
Rock 'n' Roll Library and Archives
only in Cleveland!
When a song really moves us, it lives in a special place in our hearts and our brains. We go to that place over and over to cherish and be nurtured by its magic. We wonder about the life of the artist, or the story behind the song, or the roots of the musical style. That's why there's a Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and Museum - to indulge our sense of wonder, to seek insight, to understanding the power, and to share these thoughts and feelings with others. Some people said that a museum for rock 'n' roll would take the life out of it, but that didn't happen. Some say that teaching and studying rock 'n' roll removes it from its natural habitat, waters it down, drains its vitality. But that doesn't stop people from teaching it, or studying it.
Well, now, for those who just can't get enough, for those who need to know MORE, who need to know EVERYTHING about their favorite song, or band, or genre, there's a place where you can really get lost in the recesses of your musical curiosity. The new Rock 'n' Roll Library and Archives is open for business, and it's free. It's a reference library on the campus of Tri-C downtown where you can read anything and everything ever published about all the roots and branches of our most popular musical forms. At least that's the goal; the project is new and growing fast. They already have more books about doo-wop and jazz and punkabilly and hip hop and metal and slave field chants than you could read in a lifetime.
But there's more: buried in a secret climate-controlled cave high above the library are... the archives. Here live thousands and thousands of original documents from the history of recorded music. The collection is growing so fast it will take years to catalog and organize. It's a labor of love and professionalism, and it's open to the public. If you ask nicely you, too, may be able to see and read original lyric sheets, recording contracts and love letters of your favorite artists. There are mint pressings of the rarest of albums. Original periodicals, from Downbeat to Tiger Beat. Fanzines from the personal collections of writers like Ben Fong-Torres and Greg Shaw. Correspondance between artists and their record companies. Contact sheets from the first photo session with Talking Heads (they look like children)!
The importance of studying primary source material is obvious to any historian. The details, even its essence, of any story are changed by its telling and retelling, especially in the mass media age. To get to the truth, you need to get as close to the original source as you can. That's scholarship, but it's also a heart-stopping treat for any music fan who stumbles across an unexpected letter, a revealing photograph, or an original news article with an unvarnished nugget of first-hand observation.
Right now the archive collection is growing so fast that most of it is sorted not by subject, but simply by the name of whoever donated it. Cassettes, wax masters, vinyl, notes, photographs, grocery-store receipts... where does it end? How much ephemera does it take to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about this fleeting, invisble art form we call music? These are questions to be addressed by the dedicated staff of the archives, but the beneficiaries of all of this effort are you and me. You don't have to be an academic to wonder about Amy Winehouse's first piano lessons or Carl Perkin's fight for his right to party. Drink deep my friends. Your inner music junkie is going to love it.
-Jordan Davis
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Denny Laine of Wings & Amber Brooke Taylor
Some video clips from the show...
Amber Brooke Taylor Opens & Sings with Denny Laine
(Wings with Paul McCartney Band On The Run, Live And Let Die
& The Moody Blues Go Now)
Bootsy Collins P Funk Medley june 21 2012 Chicago nunupics.com
Bootsy does the pfunk medley june 21 2012 chicago cubby bear.
Bootsy Collins June 22, 2012 Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue Theatre Ahh.The Name Is Bootsy, Baby } Bootsy? (Whats the . Bootsy does the pfunk medley june .
Bootsy Collins & the Funk Unity Band, Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland Ohio, April 06, 2012.
Bear Creek Music & Art Festival 2013: Bootsy Collins & The Funk Unity Band P-Funk Medley: Mothership Connection~Dr. Funkenstein~P-Funk~Swing Down .
I've Given Up On You // Real Friends @ The Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH
I've Given Up On You by Real Friends, live at The Agora Ballroom on March 8, 2014 during The Greatest Generation Tour.
Photoshoppe Hackers - A Threat to History
Help Ban Photoshoppe
Tab Benoit, Night Train, live at the Rialto Theater, Tucson, 09/18/2012
This was the second song Tab played...on the first song he broke a string on his favorite telecaster, an on this one he blew a fuse in his amp!! You will see a guy in the background messing with the amp and again at the end of the song.
Tab Benoit in Tucson, Arizona Sept 18, 2012 at the Rialto Theater. The sound and video is not great in these clips...it was standing room only and people were dancing, moving, and walking in front of the camera. The venue is a small renovated old style movie theater with a concrete floor. There is just no way to do an amateur recording without a lot of distortion...but the sound was great in person, Tab puts his soul into his art, and he loved the intimate venue. So, it is more about getting to see Tab and all the energy he has in a live performance. I have seen a lot of blues performers live and he is in the top 4....just amazing
Teabagger Throws First Punch.flv
I'd Rather Go Blind covered by The Moxies
The Moxies cover I'd Rather Go Blind at Musica in Akron, originally performed by Etta James.
Glen Schwartz
Glen Schwartz plays hooples.
Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jimbo Mathus, The Rev Peyton Taft
Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jimbo Mathus And The Rev Peyton Performing Jesse James At Taft Theater, Cincinnati, Oh, 2013 March 30. The Reverend Peyton's Big Band Extravaganza. 3-30-13 Taft Theater Ballroom. Great show with lots of energy.
Tab Benoit - Night Train
Tab Benoit - live at the Levitt Shell Memphis, TN 6-12-2012
NRBQ - Nature's Gonna Pay You Back - Cleveland 10-29-17
10-29-17 Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio
Kris Allen. Alright With Me. Watseka
Wateska Theater. Watseks, Illinois. 2.8.14
Slim Cessna's Auto Club ~ U.S. TOUR ~ AUG/SEP 2018
Slim Cessna's Auto Club ~ on tour in the United States from August 23 through September 16...!
08/23 • Red Rocks Amphitheatre • Morrison, Colorado (in support of Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats)
08/25 • The Riot Room • Kansas City MO
08/26 • Racoon Motel • Davenport IA
08/27 • Vaudeville Mews • Des Moines IA
08/28 • Off Broadway • Saint Louis MO (w/ KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS)
08/29 • HI-FI • Indianapolis IN (w/ KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS)
08/30 • PJ’s Lager House • Detroit MI (w/ KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS)
08/31 • MOTR • Cincinnati OH (w/ KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS)
09/01 • Muddy Roots Festival • Cookeville TN (SCAC set)
09/02 • Muddy Roots Festival • Cookeville TN (DBUK set)
09/04 • Hill Country LIVE • Washington DC (w/ KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS)
09/05 • Boot & Saddle • Philadelphia PA (w/ KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS)
09/06 • Brooklyn Bazaar • Brooklyn NY (w/ KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS)
09/07 • Cafe Nine • New Haven CT (w/ KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS)
09/08 • BSP Kingston • Kingston NY (w/ KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS)
09/09 • Alchemy • Providence RI (w/ KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS)
09/11 • Club Cafe • Pittsburgh PA
09/12 • Beachland Ballroom & Tavern • Cleveland OH
09/13 • Mac’s Bar • Lansing MI
09/14 • Tip Top Deluxe Bar & Grill • Grand Rapids MI
09/15 • Beat Kitchen • Chicago IL
09/16 • The Lift • Dubuque IA
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Music: Commandment 1 from the album 'The Commandments According To SCAC' - available on SCACUNINCORPORATED Records in the United States, and on Glitterhouse Records in Europe.
Band photographs by Gary Isaacs - GaryIsaacs.com
Hands photograph/album covers by Heather Reynolds - Crowned.org
Booking Todd Cote at LeafyGreen.com
Double Helix. Planet Earth with Jerry Casale
Jerry Casale of DEVO joins Francis Lau and Zane Boyd of Double Helix for an epic rendition of Planet Earth at DEVOTIONAL 2018 at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland on July 28th 2018--which is also Jerry's Birthday!
Thanks to Jerry and everyone at Devotional for making this show possible! Please check out 3 O'Clock Rock and all of our amazing bands!
Video: Michael Rizzi and Billy Ribak
Editing: Brett Stillo
Photography: Patric Carver
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - on the road with Brand New
We gave The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die a camera and told them to film whatever they wanted to while out on the road with Brand New this fall. Here's the results. You can catch them on their upcoming dates below:
w/ The Front Bottoms
10/15/2013 - Montreal, OC @ Petit Olympia
10/16/2013 - Ottawa, ON @ Babylon
10/17/2013 - Toronto, ON @ Hard Luck Bar
10/18/2013 - St Catherines, ON @ Mansion House
10/19/2013 - Rochester, NY Club @ Water Street Music Hall
w/ Daylight
10/23/2013 - Oneonta, NY @ SUNY Oneonta Hunt Union Waterfront
10/24/2013 - Morgantown, WV @ 123 Pleasant Street
10/25/2013 - Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
10/26/2013 - Lancaster, PA @ Lizard Lounge
w/ The Menzingers
10/27/2013 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Toby Fest w/ Daylight
10/28/2013 - Charlotte, NC @ Milestone Club
w/ LVL UP
10/29/2013 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
10/30/2013 - Atlanta, GA @ Under The Couch
10/31/2013 - Gainesville FL @ The Fest
w/ Caspian & 65daysofstatic
11/05/2013 Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
11/06/2013 OFF
11/07/2013 State College, PA @ Penn State (alone)
11/08/2013 Pontiac, MI - The Pike Room
11/09/2013 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen
11/10/2013 Omaha, NE - TBA (alone)
11/11/2013 Denver, CO - Marquis Theatre
11/12/2013 Salt Lake City, UT - Bar Deluxe
11/14/2013 San Francisco, CA - Bottom Of The Hill
11/15/2013 Los Angeles, CA - Roxy Theatre
11/16/2013 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar
11/17/2013 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom
11/18/2013 El Paso, TX - The Spot
11/19/2013 Austin, TX - Red 7
11/20/2013 Dallas, TX - Club Dada
11/21/2013 Memphis - TBA (alone)
11/22/2013 Nashville, TN - The High Watt
11/23/2013 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
11/24/2013 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
11/25/2013 Washington, DC - The Rock & Roll Hotel
11/26/2013 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
Welshly Arms NIGHT PROWLER Tour de Compadres
Welshly Arms performs Night Prowler at the Tour de Compadres 2016 at Bon Secours Wellness Area, Greenville, SC
Lost State of Franklin--Clint Eastwood
The opening track from their 2007 release, Quarter To Lonely, performed with some assistance from the audience (and at one point with lead singer Scott descending into the audience) at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland on Friday, November 6, 2009.
Lost State of Franklin--Clint Eastwood
The first track from their fine cd, Quarter to Lonely, performed here at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland on Saturday, December 6, 2008, opening for Seven Nations.