La Bodeguita del Medio is a restaurant-bar in Havana, Cuba. La Bodeguita lays claim to being the birthplace of the Mojito cocktail, prepared in the bar since its opening in 1942, although this is disputed. It has been patronized by Salvador Allende, the poet Pablo Neruda, the artist Josignacio and many others. The rooms are full of curious objects, frames, photos, as well as the walls covered by signatures of famous or unknown customers, recounting the island's past.

In 1942, Angel Martínez bought out the small Bodega La Complaciente in Empedrado Street, in the old Havana district. He renamed the place Casa Martínez. Angel Martínez sold typical Cuban products and, from time to time, served dinner to the regulars. But mainly, the people who were found at the Casa Martínez, were there to have a drink with their friends, and savor a brand new cocktail called Mojito, made with rum, mint, sugar, lime and club soda.

In 1949, the cook Silvia Torres aka “la china” prepared the food. Very quickly, the Casa Martínez became the centre of Havana's cultural effervescence. Attracted by the bohemian charm of the place, writers, choreographers, musicians or journalists met there in a convivial ambiance. Encouraged by a need for restaurants in the Old Havana at the end of the 1950s, the place started to serve food to everyone.

On April 26, 1950, the name Bodeguita del Medio was officially adopted.

Among the first clients was Felito Ayon, a charismatic editor, who rubbed shoulders with the avant-garde of Havana, and put Casa Martínez on the map amongst his acquaintances. It is the way Felito Ayon used to indicate the location of the Bodeguita to his friends, that made popular the expression Bodeguita del Medio, that was to become its official name in 1950.

 

Pete's Tavern, located at 129 East 18th Street on the corner of Irving Place in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, is a pub food restaurant and one of several drinking establishments each claiming to be the oldest continuously operated tavern in the city.

The building that houses Pete's was built in 1829, and was originally the Portman Hotel; liquor may have been sold there as early as 1851 or 1852 – when it was a "grocery & grog" store – and the first official drinking establishment founded by 1864. It was bought in 1899 by Tom and John Healy, and became Healy's. During prohibition, when selling alcohol was illegal, the bar continued to operate disguised as a flower shop.

The writer O. Henry lived down the street at 55 Irving Place from 1903 to 1907, and Healy's appears in his short story "The Lost Blend" under the name "Kenealy's". Local legend also has it that he wrote his well-known story "The Gift of the Magi" in Healy's second booth from the front, but this appears to be apocryphal.

The present name dates to the purchase of the establishment by Peter Belles in 1926.

Although the tavern claims to be "an official historical landmark", it is neither a designated New York City landmark nor is it on the National Register of Historic Places. It does, however, lie within the Gramercy Park Historic District designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966.

Pete's Tavern has appeared in numerous films and television programs, including Seinfeld, Ragtime, Endless Love, Law & Order, Nurse Jackie, Spin City, Sex and the City, and The Blacklist. It has also been used as a location for television commercials and print advertisements.

 

McSorley's Old Ale House, generally known as McSorley's, is the oldest Irish saloon in New York City. Opened in the mid-19th century at 15 East 7th Street, in today's East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, it was one of the last of the "Men Only" pubs, admitting women only after legally being forced to do so in 1970. The aged artwork, newspaper articles covering the walls, sawdust floors, and the Irish waiters and bartenders give McSorley's an atmosphere reminiscent of "Olde New York". No piece of memorabilia has been removed from the walls since 1910, and there are many items of historical paraphernalia in the bar, such as Houdini's handcuffs, which are connected to the bar rail. There are also wishbones hanging above the bar; supposedly they were hung there by boys going off to World War I, to be removed when they returned, so the wishbones that are left are from those who never returned.

Two of McSorley's mottos are "Be Good or Be Gone", and "We were here before you were born". Prior to the 1970 ruling, the motto was "Good Ale, Raw Onions and No Ladies"; the raw onions can still be had as part of McSorley's cheese platter.

McSorley's is considered to be one of the longest continuously operating ale houses in the city due to the fact that during Prohibition it served a "near beer" with too little alcohol to be illegal. In 2005, New York magazine considered McSorley's to be one of New York City's "Top 5 Historic Bars".

When it opened, the saloon was originally called "The Old House at Home". McSorley's has long claimed that it opened its doors in 1854; however, historical research has shown that the site was a vacant lot from 1860 to 1861.

The evidence for the 1854 date was considerable, but second-hand. A document at the Museum of the City of New York from 1904, in founder John McSorley's hand, declares it was established in 1854, and a New York Tribune article from 1895 states it "has stood for 40 years. . . " a short distance from Cooper Union.[citation needed] A 1913 article in Harper's Weekly declares that "This famous saloon ... is sixty years old."

According to a 1995 New York Times "Streetscapes" article by Christopher Gray, the census taker who visited the Irish-born McSorley in 1880 recorded the year the founder of the pub first arrived in the United States as 1855, but immigration records show that he arrived on January 23, 1851, at the age of 18, accompanied by Mary McSorley, who was 16. When confronted with the fact that the 1880 census did not contain this entry, Gray corrected it to 1900 in his book published in 2003. John McSorley first appeared in city directories in 1862, and the building his bar occupies was built no earlier than 1858, according to city records.

McSorley's is included within the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, created by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2012. In the district's designation report, the building's date of construction is given as "c.1865", but it notes that indirect evidence may indicate that there was a small structure on the lot before that, since the value of the lot increased between 1848 and 1856, while that of surrounding lots did not, which may be explained by the existence of an unrecorded structure. By 1861 there was a two-story building on the lot, according to tax records, and by 1865 the present five-story one, but it is "unclear" if the former was extended upwards or a new building was constructed.

Founding owner John McSorley passed daily management to his son, William, around 1890, and died in 1910 at the age of 87. In 1936 William sold the property to Daniel O’Connell, a retired policeman and longtime customer. After O'Connell's death three years later, his daughter Dorothy O’Connell Kirwan assumed ownership. Upon her death in 1974 and that of her husband the following year, ownership passed briefly to their son Danny before the most recent proprietor, Matthew "Matty" Maher, who purchased the bar in 1977 and owned it until his death in January 2020. Maher's daughter Ann Pullman plans to keep it in the family.

Women were not allowed in McSorley's until August 10, 1970, after National Organization for Women attorneys Faith Seidenberg and Karen DeCrow filed a discrimination case against the bar in District Court and won. The two entered McSorley's in 1969, and were refused service, which was the basis for their lawsuit for discrimination. The case decision made the front page of The New York Times on June 26, 1970. The suit, Seidenberg v. McSorleys' Old Ale House (S.D.N.Y. 1970) established that, as a public place, the bar could not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution. The bar was then forced to admit women, but it did so "kicking and screaming". In 1970 Barbara Shaum became the bar's first female patron. With the ruling allowing women to be served, the bathroom became unisex. Sixteen years later, in 1986, a ladies room was installed.

2016 closure and reopening

Until 2011, McSorley's maintained a mouser cat within its premises until a law was passed ending the practice. In November 2016, the establishment was briefly closed by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene due to violations of health code. It reopened the next week.

In 2017, McSorley's added Feltman's of Coney Island Hot Dogs to their menu, the first time the menu was altered in over fifty years. Feltman's owner, Michael Quinn, was a long time employee at McSorley's, and during the late 19th century, Feltman's Restaurant at Coney Island was a popular destination for the McSorley family.

In January 2020 owner Matty Maher died.

Notable people who have visited McSorley's include Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, and Boss Tweed. Cultural icons such as Woody Guthrie, Hunter S. Thompson, Brendan Behan, Paul Blackburn, LeRoi Jones, Christopher Morley, Gilbert Sorrentino, and George Jean Nathan, frequented the tavern. Folk singer/guitarist Dave Van Ronk used photos of himself outside the doors for album covers, and Wavy Gravy read poetry there.[28] Dustin Hoffman was a patron.[29] In the early 1910s, anarchist Hippolyte Havel became a regular.

In his 1923 poem "i was sitting in mcsorley's", poet E. E. Cummings described McSorley's as "the ale which never lets you grow old". He also described the bar as "snug and evil". McSorley's was the focus of several articles by New Yorker author Joseph Mitchell. One collection of his stories was entitled McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (1943). According to Mitchell, the Ashcan school painters John Sloan, George Luks and Stuart Davis were all regulars. Between 1912 and 1930, Sloan did five paintings, of the saloon — “McSorley’s Bar,” “McSorley’s Back Room,” “McSorley’s at Home,” “McSorley’s Cats,” and “McSorley’s, Saturday Night.” The first of which hangs in The Detroit Institute of Arts. The bar has also been painted by Harry McCormick. and photographed by Berenice Abbott.

McSorley's most notable regular, however, was Cooper Union founder Peter Cooper who would regularly hold court in the back room. John McSorley instructed that his favorite chair be draped with a black cloth every April 4 following Cooper's 1883 death.

After the New York Rangers hockey team won the Stanley Cup in 1994, they took the cup to McSorley's and drank out of it; the resulting dent caused the NHL to take the trophy back for several days for repairs.

  

Fraunces Tavern is a museum and restaurant in New York City, situated at 54 Pearl Street at the corner of Broad Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. The location played a prominent role in history before, during, and after the American Revolution. At various points in its history, Fraunces Tavern served as a headquarters for George Washington, a venue for peace negotiations with the British, and housing federal offices in the Early Republic.

Fraunces Tavern has been owned since 1904 by Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York Inc., which carried out a major conjectural reconstruction, and claim it is Manhattan's oldest surviving building. The museum interprets the building and its history, along with varied exhibitions of art and artifacts. The tavern is a tourist site and a part of the American Whiskey Trail and the New York Freedom Trail. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a New York City designated landmark. In addition, the block on which Fraunces Tavern is located is a National Historic Landmark District and a New York City designated landmark district.

New York Mayor Stephanus van Cortlandt built his home in 1671 on the site, but retired to his manor on the Hudson River and gave the property in 1700 to his son-in-law, Etienne "Stephen" DeLancey, a French Huguenot who had married Van Cortlandt's daughter, Anne. The DeLancey family contended with the Livingston family for leadership of the Province of New York.

DeLancey built the current building as a house in 1719. The small yellow bricks used in its construction were imported from the Dutch Republic and the sizable mansion ranked highly in the province for its quality. His heirs sold the building in 1762 to Samuel Fraunces who converted the home into the popular tavern, first named the Queen's Head.

Before the American Revolution, the building was one of the meeting places of the secret society, the Sons of Liberty. During the tea crisis caused by the British Parliament's passage of the Tea Act 1773, the patriots forced a British naval captain who tried to bring tea to New York to give a public apology at the building. The patriots, disguised as American Indians (like those of the Boston Tea Party), then dumped the ship's tea cargo into New York Harbor.

In 1768, the New York Chamber of Commerce was founded by a meeting in the building.

In August 1775, Americans, principally the 'Hearts of Oak' – a student militia of Kings College, of which Alexander Hamilton was a member – took possession of cannons from the artillery battery at the southern point of Manhattan and fired on HMS Asia. The British Royal Navy ship retaliated by firing a 32-gun broadside on the city, sending a cannonball through the roof of the building.

When the war was all but won, the building was the site of "British-American Board of Inquiry" meetings, which negotiated to ensure to American leaders that no "American property" (meaning former slaves who were emancipated by the British for their military service) be allowed to leave with British troops. Led by Brigadier General Samuel Birch, board members reviewed the evidence and testimonies that were given by freed slaves every Wednesday from April to November 1783, and British representatives were successful in ensuring that almost all of the loyalist blacks of New York maintained their liberty and could be evacuated with the "Redcoats" when they left if so desired. Through this process, Birch created the Book of Negroes.

A week after British troops had evacuated New York on November 25, 1783, the tavern hosted an elaborate "turtle feast" dinner, on December 4, 1783, in the building's Long Room for U.S. Gen. George Washington during which he bade farewell to his officers of the Continental Army by saying "[w]ith a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable." After his farewell, he took each one of his officers by the hand for a personal word.

In January 1785, New York City became the seat of the Confederation Congress, the nation's central government under the "Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union." The departments of Foreign Affairs, Finance and War had their offices at Fraunces Tavern.

With the ratification of the United States Constitution in March 1789, the Confederation Congress's departments became federal departments, and New York City became the first official national capital. The inauguration of George Washington as first President of the United States took place in April 1789. Under the July 1789 Residence Act, Congress moved the national capital to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a 10-year period, while the permanent national capital was under construction in what is now Washington, D.C. The federal departments vacated their offices in the building and moved to Philadelphia in 1790.

The building operated throughout much of the 19th century, but suffered several serious fires beginning in 1832. Having been rebuilt several times, the structure's appearance was changed to the extent that the original building design is not known. The building was owned by Malvina Keteltas in the early 1800s. Ernst Buermeyer and his family leased part of the property in 1845 and ran a hotel called the Broad Street House at this location until 1860. After a disastrous fire in 1852, two stories were added, making the Tavern a total of five stories high. In 1890, the taproom was lowered to street level and the first floor exterior was remodeled, and its original timbers sold as souvenirs. The Manhattan local society of the National Society of the Children of the American Revolution is located at Fraunces Tavern. As of 2020, the Senior Society President is Ms. Elsye Richardson.

In 1900, the tavern was slated for demolition by its owners, who reportedly wanted to use the land for a parking lot. A number of organizations, most notably the Daughters of the American Revolution, worked to preserve it, and convinced New York state government leaders to use their power of eminent domain and designate the building as a park (which was the only clause of the municipal ordinances that could be used for protection, as laws were not envisioned at the time for the subject of "historic preservation", then in its infancy). The temporary designation was later rescinded when the property was acquired in 1904 by the Sons of the Revolution In the State of New York Inc., primarily with funds willed by Frederick Samuel Tallmadge, the grandson of Benjamin Tallmadge, George Washington's chief of intelligence during the Revolution (a plaque depicting Tallmadge is affixed to the building). An extensive reconstruction was completed in 1907 under the supervision of early historic preservation architect, William Mersereau. A guide book of the era called the tavern "the most famous building in New York".

Historian Randall Gabrielan wrote in 2000 that "Mersereau claimed his remodeling of Fraunces Tavern was faithful to the original, but the design was controversial in his time. There was no argument over removing the upper stories, which were known to have been added during the building's 19th Century commercial use, but adding the hipped roof was questioned. He used the Philipse Manor House in Yonkers, New York as a style guide and claimed to follow the roof line of the original, as found during construction, traced on the bricks of an adjoining building." Architects Norval White and Elliot Willensky wrote in 2000 that the building was "a highly conjectural reconstruction – not a restoration – based on 'typical' buildings of 'the period,' parts of remaining walls, and a lot of guesswork." Daniela Salazar at the website Untapped New York agrees, stating that the "reconstruction was extremely speculative, and resulted in an almost entirely new construction".

The building was declared a landmark in 1965 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and the surrounding city block bounded by Pearl Street, Water Street, Broad Street and Coenties Slip was included on November 14, 1978. The National Park Service added the surrounding city block to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on April 28, 1977, and the building was added to the NRHP on March 6, 2008.

Danny Guthrie

Пара интервью с вокалистом Felt.

 

• их главный хит Primitive Painters спродюсировал Робин Гатри из Cocteau Twins, и на бэк-вокале с его подачи там спела Elizabeth Fraser;

 

• сингл Primitive Painters попал на вершину UK Independent Singles Chart, чего не удалось достичь ни The Smiths, ни Cocteau Twins;

 

• когда песня взлетела в топы МакГи из Creation и Cherry Red решили снять видео на этот сингл, но МакГи (был на мели) не заплатил ребятам (Cherry и Creation изначально договаривали разделить расходы пополам), поэтому они смогли снять только полклипа (!), из-за этого Lawrence собирался уничтожить видео, к счастью копия была не только у него (группа как раз перешла из Cherry на Creation);

 

• Робин очень любил эту группу и старался им помочь по мере сил, но для сведения альбома они заставили их вокалиста (по имени Lawrence Hayward) подписать бумажку, что он никаким образом не будет вмешиваться в сведение записи, потому что были наслышаны о его характере, он очень страдал что не может повлиять;

 

• видео сняли спустя пару лет после выхода альбома, в доме Фила Кинга (в будущем басиста Lush и The Jesus and Mary Chain) в Hammersmith, он тогда играл в Felt; штатным басистом Felt был Marco Thomas, так что Phil King даже не отмечен ни на одной их пластинке, хотя и снялся в их самом популярном видео;

 

• Martin Duffy сыграл на клавишах на этой пластинке, когда ему было всего 18 (а пришёл он в группу вообще в 16 лет), после распада Felt он примкнет к Primal Scream (на днях скончался /RIP);

 

Felt discography

 

1982.01 — Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty (Cherry Red)

1984.02 — The Splendour of Fear (Cherry Red)

1984.10 — The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories (Cherry Red)

1985.09 — Ignite the Seven Cannons (Cherry Red) - Primitive Painters отсюда

1986.06 — Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death (Creation)

1986.09 — Forever Breathes the Lonely Word (Creation)

1987.06 — Poem of the River (Creation)

1988.05 — The Pictorial Jackson Review (Creation)

1988.07 — Train Above the City (Creation)

1989.11 — Me and a Monkey on the Moon (Creation)

 

compilation

 

1987.09 — Gold Mine Trash [Cherry Red]

1990.04 — Bubblegum Perfume [Creation]

1992.04 — Absolute Classic Masterpieces [Cherry Red]

1993.10 — Absolute Classic Masterpieces Vol. II [Creation]

1993.10 — Felt Box [Cherry Red]

2003.05 — Stains on a Decade [Cherry Red]

 

singles

 

1979 — Index

1981 — Something Sends Me to Sleep

1982 — My Face Is on Fire / Trails of Colour Dissolve

1983 — Penelope Tree

1984 — Mexican Bandits / The World Is as Soft as Lace

1984 — Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow

1985 — Primitive Painters

1986 — Ballad of the Band

1986 — Rain of Crystal Spires

1987 — The Final Resting of the Ark

1988 — Space Blues

 

• Уникальный саунд Felt — заслуга гитариста Maurice Deebank (Lawrence его друг детства) и он покинет группу сразу после альбома «Ignite the Seven Cannons», 1985, он говорил в другом интервью, что на первых альбомах учил всех играть на инструментах, там все самоучки кроме него (и даже после его ухода, они играли так как он их научил), Maurice признавал что Lawrence великий поэт, но они разошлись т.к. парни перестали слушать его советы по поводу саунда, плюс им вскружил голову успех Primitive Painters — Джон Пил и все остальные там подпрыгивали от радости когда её включали и они реально остановились в полушаге от глобальной популярности, но эта же песня стала их последним большим хитом;

 

Phil King играл в группах:

 

The Servants (1986)

Felt (1986-1987)

Apple Boutique (1987)

Hangman's Beautiful Daughters (1987)

Biff Bang Pow! (1988-1989)

See See Rider (1989-1992)

Lush (1992-1997, 2015-2016)

The Jesus & Mary Chain (1997-1998, 2017-)

(удивительно конечно, что я посмотрел живьём и Lush и JAMC хотя даже и не мечтал о таком!)

 

Felt одна из самых недооценённых британских групп, как и McCarthy.

 

...

 

An interview with Lawrence: “‘Primitive Painters’ was this great big statement, Felt were going to be massive.”

— Michael Bonner @ Uncut, 24.07.2015

www.uncut.co.uk/features/an-interview-with-lawrence-primi...

 

— Where were Felt just prior to Ignite the Seven Cannons?

— Honestly there’s so much. I don’t want to blab on and on. Originally I wanted to continue with John Leckie after The Strange Idols Pattern. He didn’t want to do it. I was writing these trademark pop songs at the time, short 3-minute things. Leckie said, “They’re all the same, they just seem to start and then stop, there’s no beginning.” Things like that. He was reluctant to get involved. But I said, “These are just a few rough demos that you’re listening to, the songs are nothing like that really. They’re quite expansive, there’s a lot going on.” But he wouldn’t give it a chance. So he passed on it anyway. We were trying to get Tom Verlaine as well.

 

— Did you approach Verlaine?

— We did, yeah. He said – oh God, his quote was classic – he said he didn’t want to get involved himself because he felt the guitars were playing all the way through the songs. That’s the gist of it. They would start and continue, like a long solo. The songs, they weren’t arranged. Like most would start and then continue all the way through the song. That’s a lot to do with me, because Maurice [Deebank] is such a great guitarist that I encouraged him to play from beginning to end, especially on my songs. That’s something Tom Verlaine picked up on. It was a good criticism, I suppose, in a way, if you were trying to write conventional songs. But we weren’t. At the beginning of this chat my point would be that these people didn’t give us a chance to see what could happen in the studio with this.

 

— How did Robin Guthrie become involved?

— Cocteau Twins had approached us to play with them live because we were Robin’s favourite band. We didn’t know them, they got in touch with us, and Robin said they were doing a small UK tour – well, for them it was a massive tour. It was 5 days on the trot I think, or 6 days. They took us with them in their mini bus and they paid for everything. They were very kind to us, and we became great friends on this tour. So, I thought, “Maybe I’ll ask Robin because he seems to know what he’s doing in the studio.” He wasn’t known as a producer then, he’d only produced Cocteau Twins. Now he’s known as more of a producer. I wanted to work with a musician. Robin liked us a lot, and he agreed to do it as long as I wasn’t at the mixing. I had to sign a contract to say that I wasn’t allowed to be at the mixing, because he thought my presence was too overpowering. There could only be one person mixing the record, and that would be him.

 

— Is that just how he works or was that about you personally?

— That was about me personally, absolutely. Because I was in control of every asset of the band. I had a comment on everything, even a shoelace, for example. I was in to everything, and I was completely obsessed. I think he thought, if he was going to produce, he’d want to produce it his way. He’d probably heard stories of me in the studio before anyway.

 

— What sort of stories?

— I don’t know, the usual. You always hear stories about people in the studio that are kind blown up out of all proportion. I don’t know what he could have heard, there are so many. He’d probably heard that it’s very hard to work with me. I signed this piece of paper anyway. There was a production contract and there was an extra contract for me to sign saying that I wouldn’t be there at the mixing. I can’t go into the whole thing, we’d need a whole book. But, what happened was, as we were recording the album, I was more and more reluctant to go along with this. I wasn’t sure that I shouldn’t be there. It got to the point where we had 11 days to record and five or six days to mix. We did it in Palladium studios in Edinburgh. Robin knew the engineer, the guy who owned it. Jon Turner I think his name was.

 

— Do you remember when this was?

— Let’s remember the weather… I reckon it was spring. It was coldish but there wasn’t any snow or rain. I’d say spring we did it. Definitely spring, yeah. Loads of Eighties bands went to Palladium, especially Scottish bands. Paul Haig and people.

 

— What was it like?

— It was residential which is the first time I’ve done that, and I didn’t like that at all, being away from my own surroundings, and sharing a room, we were all sharing a room. Like a dormitory it was.

 

— Who did you share with?

— I had my own room. I think that was part of it. I had to have my own room. I think we threw someone else in together, three of them together, so that I could have my own room. I think that was my one diva moment. It was awful for me, it was in the middle of nowhere. About a 45 minute bus ride into Edinburgh. It was awful, in a country lane, there was like a tiny little village down the lane. I got attacked by a dog, had to go to hospital. Like a wolf it was. It attacked me one day.

 

— Why did it attack you?

— I don’t know, just saw I was scared. It didn’t attack anybody else. I was on my own. Had to go to hospital. I hated it. And also I hated the food, and the whole day was geared up to “Is he going to eat or not tonight?” It’s all like that.

 

— What kind of food did they serve, if you don’t mind me asking?

— I can’t remember. But I didn’t eat anything. I didn’t like any meals, it was always a big deal. His wife was cooking the meals for us, of course, and you tend to be polite in those situations, but I couldn’t eat the food. Robin, he thought it was wonderful that all this was going on, and he’d make a big show of it to the wife, “He’s not eating it again, he doesn’t like your food.” All this kind of stuff. He’s quite the joker, Robin is. Everything’s based around a joke and japes with him. He sort of revelled in my idiosyncrasies.

 

— I want to talk more about Robin in a minute. But this is Duffy’s first record. How did he come into the picture?

— He joined late ‘84, straight from school. When we did Ignite… he was probably 16.

 

— How did you find him?

— I put an advert in Virgin for a guitarist. This was during one of the periods where Maurice left. This guy who worked there came up to me and said, “Look, you’re in Felt aren’t you? I know this great keyboard player.” That was Martin. I rang him and it was as simple as that. That was it really. Very lucky. I was thinking about a keyboard player anyway, because Maurice is so hard to replace. I got Martin in, we worked on all songs that were on Ignite the Seven Cannons – apart from “Primitive Painters” and Maurice’s solo song. In between then and starting the album, Maurice rejoined. He’d always leave, then he’d rejoin. Me and Gary [Ainge] would carry on on our own for a few months, and then we’d come to a low point, go round to Maurice’s house and beg him. We’d stay up all night with him and plead with him to come back. He took a lot of persuading, he wasn’t bothered about being in a group at all. So anyway, the next time we got Maurice back, Martin was with us. One of the reasons Maurice was quite happy to come back was the fact that we had a keyboard player. He thought it would be better for the arrangements.

 

— This was Maurice’s final record, though?

— Every record he came in and left really. That’s why he’s never in a lot of interviews, because he’d left straight after recording. But what happened this time was he’d got married to a girlfriend, and what should have been his honeymoon was spent recording Ignite the Seven Cannons. When we delivered him back to his flat in Birmingham, he got out the van and said “I’m finished now, yeah that’s it, I’m finished.” I knew he meant it that time. He left soon as we’d finished recording.

 

— When did you start writing “Primitive Painters”?

— When Maurice rejoined, he bought the music for “Primitive Painters”. It wasn’t like a fully formed song, it was like a cyclical riff. We arranged it together, and I put the verses in so it was a joint collaboration. But he wrote all the music to that and he brought his instrumental track, “Elegance of an Only Dream”. I wanted there to be lots of Maurice songs on that record. But he wasn’t interested, or he just found it too hard to work on his own, I think. When we wrote the songs together, we would sit opposite each other, parallel to each other, in my bedroom or flats that we subsequently got, and we’d just sit there and work on them. I’d play the chord sequence while he’d work out his guitar parts. I think he liked the camaraderie of that better than sitting on his own in a cold room trying to come up with songs, which I didn’t have a problem with. The poet in the garret was made for me. I was quite happy to be on my own composing and writing the words and writing the music, just waiting for fame. I was very prolific, but Maurice wasn’t. He wrote I think one on the first album, “I Worship The Sun”, and he wrote a song called “Spanish House” on the third album, and “Primitive Painters” and the “Elegance…” song. I was quite happy for him to present a whole album worth of stuff. We were partners and it didn’t matter who wrote what bits. We were songwriters’ together, joint songwriters. And of course, he came up with the best song, “Primitive Painters”.

 

— Where did the lyrics come in, do you have books of lyrics?

— I was sitting in my kitchen in Moseley doing it. The lyrics, I don’t know how they come about. That would’ve been the last song on Ignite the Seven Cannons, because I had all the others written. So that would’ve been the last lyric I wrote. I can’t say there was any special moment that made me come up with it.

 

— Can you explain the song?

— “Dragons blow fire, angels fly, Spirits wither in the air/It’s just me I can’t deny I’m neither here, there nor anywhere”. It’s about wanting to be in a select group. “Primitive painters are ships floating on an empty sea, gathering in galleries”. Imagine groups of really cool kids hanging out in galleries, not pubs. That was my sort of conception.

 

— Was that you?

— Yeah, that’s me. I’d always find myself in a gallery on my own, y’know.

 

— Can you talk us through how you worked on the song in the studio?

— We’d work them up in a practise room. There was no improvising going on, so we knew exactly what we were doing. Then we set up like a band in the studio. They were layered afterwards. They were very simple, very traditional big group concepts, just like everyone did. You’d set up live and you’d get the bass and the drums and the keyboards down, and the rhythm guitar, and you’d layer it from there, adding lead guitar and vocals afterwards. It’s quite boring, that aspect of it. But it was done really quickly because we didn’t have enough time to ponder, so we just did them all live.

 

— What was Robin like in the studio as a producer?

— While I was there, he was capturing it all with the engineer. He didn’t make any arrangement suggestions because it was all set in stone before we got there. I was very pedantic like that. But he put effects to tape, which is something you don’t do.

 

— Could you explain what you mean?

— You should record everything dry, and then you decide what effects to put on afterwards so you have the choice. That’s why that album sounds so impenetrable and dense because all the effects went down, so by the time of the mixing there was nothing to change. I suppose that was the way he recorded the Cocteau Twins. It was a massive mistake, and I’m sure he would never do that now. Over the years I’ve collected some of the master tapes and on the reissues that are coming out, I’ve tried to extract the Cocteau Twins from my record. You can’t really hear Maurice’s guitar leads. Okay, skip forward to the end of the mixing when I finally got my tape. I was horrified, I would never have made a record like that. I was like beside myself with anguish. The thing was in those days, you couldn’t remix an album. But Robin quite rightly said “Primitive Painters” has to be the single. He went on and on about it, and he went to Cherry Red and he told them, he persuaded everyone. I didn’t think it was a single, I thought it was too long. I went with him to a studio in London and we remixed it together. And that’s why that’s the best song, ‘cause I was there in that mixing. I went with him to Barry Blue’s studio in Camden. Remember that guy Barry Blue? He had some hits in the ‘70’s? He was like a teenybopper. His studio in Camden was by the Roundhouse. We spent an afternoon there and we remixed “Primitive Painters”. I think we should’ve done an EP with Robin; that would’ve been the best outcome. It would’ve been a different story. But, anyway, we were lumbered with a whole album. And it was 11 tracks as well. That’s something I could never get my head around because I like everything symmetrical. That hurt me a bit, straight away, before I’d even listened to it.

 

— How did Liz Fraser come to be on the record?

— Liz came with Robin to work on her own lyrics and songs and that, so she’d be upstairs in the bedroom, in their room, working on her lyrics. She had a bed full of books that she was poring though, reading and writing. Anyway, when we’d recorded “Primitive Painters” and we listened back, Robin said “I’ve got a good idea.” He ran upstairs and he said to Liz, “I want you to sing this song.” He just played her the end section. I wrote the lyrics out for her on a piece of paper, she went in, listened to it once on headphones, and then just improvised around it. It was as real as that. It was a remarkable moment. When you listen back to something like that, we knew we’d got it.

 

— It was on the cusp between the 7-inch culture of the late ‘70’s and the 12-inch culture of the Eighties.

— Yeah, I wanted it to be a stand alone release like Wild Swans’ “Revolutionary Spirit” and Joy Division’s “Atmosphere” which were 12-inches. “Atmosphere” was on 7-inch, but that was that French label so it didn’t count. Songs that were too big to hold on 7-inch, they were big. Cherry Red wanted to do a 7-inch edit of “Primitive Painters”, but I wouldn’t let them.

 

— Talking of Cherry Red, what was your relationship like with them at that point?

— Michael Alway was the A&R guy who signed us to Cherry Red. He formed a new label with Geoff Travis and they went to Warners and they started Blanco Y Negro. He always promised that he’d take us with him. He took most of the Cherry Red rock stuff, and he left us behind, because Warners just wouldn’t entertain the idea of having Felt. So we were on a label that we didn’t want to be on. But we all made friends and we had two albums left to deliver so we did Strange Idols Pattern, and then Ignite the Seven Cannons. I’d been speaking to Alan McGee at this point so I knew we were going to Creation after this last album. There was no animosity there, we were all friends and I’ve never fallen out with them, we’d been friends for years and it was just business.

 

— You made a video with Phil King a couple of years later. How did that come about?

— We were on Creation when we did it. What happened was, I don’t know why but it was mooted that we should do a video for “Primitive Painters”. It got half made. Cherry Red and Creation were meant to pay for it together, pay half each. Cherry Red came up with their half because they initiated the project, and McGee didn’t pay his half. So we did half a video with Phil’s friend Danny. What you see on YouTube is half a video. We were meant to do another half and join it together, have stuff superimposed over the top, have extra scenes. But all you can see really is me and Phil in Phil’s house in Hammersmith, just standing around. It’s ridiculous. I was so embarrassed when it leaked out. So we put it to bed, and it lay there until somebody scooped it up and put it on YouTube or leaked it on a VHS probably first, it was probably a leaked VHS first.

 

— Yeah, it’s got that slight tracking wobble you get every now and again on VHS…

— I should’ve been more attentive and got hold of it and cut it up or something. I was very meticulous about ‘there’s no extra tracks’ and things like that, no demos or extra tracks hanging around. But with this for some reason it went wrong. I can’t remember why it was resurrected I’d say about a year and a half later. Maybe together McGee and Cherry Red were going to do something.

 

— Where do you think now the song fits into your body of work? Is it a song you still feel proud of?

— Oh yeah, oh wow. It was great that we went back – at that time you never went back and revisited anything – and we spent an extra afternoon getting it right and perfecting it. It was this great big statement, Felt were going to be massive. I was prone to short pop songs. My thing was, I’m going to break in to the mainstream by doing a short pop song. I was totally off the mark. We nearly had a hit single with a six-minute track that was not a traditional pop song, let’s put it that way. I reckon that if it would’ve been in the ’90s, it would’ve been a Top 10 song – because the independent movement was ready to promote songs like that. In 1985, there was no apparatus for a song like that, to take it to the mainstream. Even The Smiths would only get to 23, and the Cocteaus would only get to 38. I’m really proud of the song, I’m really proud that Maurice got his moment. I’m proud of the fact the Cocteaus are on it. I suppose it was the high point of the first days of Felt wasn’t it?

 

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Trash ascetic. The minimally-monikered Lawrence - driving force behind Felt, Denim, and now Go-Kart Mozart - lives like a monk but dreams of pop stardom, drawing inspiration from the 'middle-of-the-road underground'

 

• The Guardian, 8 Jul 2005

www.theguardian.com/music/2005/jul/08/1

 

When the cult pop star Lawrence was 12, he saw a film of Gary Glitter disposing of his old life as Paul Gadd by putting all of his possessions on to a boat on the river Thames and floating them downstream. "I said to myself, 'I'm going to do that one day,'" says Lawrence, who began the process by disposing of his surname. "I'm going to put one life away in a box and start a new one."

 

Although he hasn't quite reached Glitter's levels of fame or infamy, Lawrence has succeeded in reinventing himself several times. For most of the 1980s, he was the sensitive leader of the influential indie band Felt. Then he re-emerged in the 1990s with Denim, whose wry wit and celebration of 1970s pop culture proved too far ahead of its time for commercial success. Now he is back with Go-Kart Mozart, and a roster of perfectly formed pop songs that he hopes will be recorded by some of the biggest stars of the day. He's setting his sights on Charlotte Church, but whether she will add Um Bongo (about the Rwanda genocide), and Transgressions (about a trend for spraying Lynx body lotion on to your tongue for a cheap high) to her repertoire remains to be seen.

 

"I got a letter from a fan the other day who said that I was the only true talent left, now that Stephen Duffy is writing for Robbie Williams," says Lawrence, who lives in near poverty in a featureless flat in Victoria. "But I'd love to write for Robbie Williams! I think I write hit singles anyway; it's just taken me a long time to master them because I'm a slow learner. I couldn't tie my own shoelaces until I was 12."

 

Lawrence manages the unlikely feat of existing as both pop star and monkish hermit. He eats as little as possible because he believes that creativity comes from being hungry - if pushed, he will admit to pigging out on the occasional sausage roll from a stall on Victoria station - yet he is in love with glamour. He likes the Norwegian singer Annie because "she's a gorgeous girl and I'm into beauty. I could never listen to that big fat oaf from Pop Idol [Michelle McManus] because she's over-indulged herself. My whole thing is about not doing things, about being as thin and as minimal as possible. Ideally I'd like to wear brown robes, eat a bowl of rice a day, and go into a trance as I stare at beautiful album covers."

 

Then there are the records. In the corridor of the tiny flat Lawrence has a shelving unit with his French pop and 1970s glam albums. He's heavily into what he calls the underground middle-of-the-road scene. He has two copies of his favourite ones in mint condition "just in case", and visitors are only allowed to touch them once they have donned special protective gloves. "I don't want fingerprints on the laminated covers," he explains. Asked about his prized albums, he presents the solo debut by the 1960s/70s Israeli pop star Abi and 1973's Aquashow by obscure glam rocker Elliot Murphy.

 

Lawrence plays an emotional version of David Bowie's Life on Mars by British choral group the King's Singers and follows it with 1973's Dee Doo Dah by the actress and singer Jane Birkin. "And get ready for this," he says, unsheathing a poster of Michel Polnareff depicting the flamboyant French star proudly displaying his bottom. The poster was banned in 1972 and Polnareff was fined 10 francs for every copy printed. "I go mad on Polnareff. In the 1970s, he moved to the penthouse suite of a hotel in Los Angeles and as far as I know he's still there."

 

His only other significant possession is a book collection, shelved under a durable polythene dust cover and containing true-life accounts by heroin addicts, a few cult novels like Hunger by Knut Hamsun and Ask the Dust by John Fante, and an entire set of the Skinhead novels; the violent pulp books written by Richard Allen in the early 1970s. "I would say that real accounts by junkies are my favourites, and I'm not into fiction. I have everything by Jack Kerouac but his novels are about real life anyway."

 

Lawrence does dream of riches, despite currently living as an ascetic. "I love prison cells - if I had the money I would definitely build one of those cement beds that extend from a wall - but I'd really love a circular penthouse flat in Mayfair," he says. "I have a jewel case full of hits ready for ransacking, but I'm also in the market for a rich wife. She can be late 20s to early 30s and if her dad's in Who's Who, that's a bonus."

 

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‘I’d rather be a tramp than reform my old bands’: Lawrence on life as British music’s greatest also-ran

 

• The Guardian, 27 Jul 2022

www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/27/lawrence-interview-...

 

His fans range from Charlie Brooker to Jarvis Cocker, yet the auteur behind Felt, Denim and Mozart Estate never found fame. He explains why it was all Princess Diana’s fault

 

The most uncompromising figure in British pop has an urgent question: “Do you need the loo?” This is Lawrence (no surnames, please), the mastermind responsible for the coruscating beauty of Felt, the knowing glam-rock of Denim and the bargain-bin ear-worms of Go-Kart Mozart, now renamed Mozart Estate. As we walk to his high-rise council flat in east London, I promise him that my bladder is empty. “Are you sure?” he persists in his Midlands lilt. “Do you want to try going in the cafe?” No one is allowed near his toilet. “A workman was round the other day, and he used it without asking. Oh God, it was ’orrible!”

 

Lawrence is wearing his trademark baseball cap with its blue plastic visor and a vintage-style blue Adidas jumper. His skin is pale and papery, his eyes small but vivid. He is 60 now and has been dreaming of pop stardom since he was a child. “I used to sit in the bath and pretend I was being interviewed: ‘So what’s it like to have your third No 1 on the trot?’”

 

Only one of his songs has ever charted: Denim’s It Fell Off the Back of a Lorry, straight in at No 79 in 1996. Summer Smash, a BBC Radio 1 single of the week, might have made good on its lyrics (“I think I’m gonna come / Straight in at No 1”) if its release in September 1997 had not been scrapped following a certain Parisian car crash. As Lawrence shows me around his ramshackle flat, which he has been decorating for the past 12 years or so, I spot a grotesquely bad portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales stowed in one corner. “My story is pinned to hers forever,” he says glumly.

 

We perch on wooden stools in the cluttered, dimly lit living room. Around us are piles of books and vinyl, assorted knick-knacks (feather duster, magnifying glass) and a mustard-coloured Togo chair – a rare extravagance – still in its plastic wrapping. The white blinds are pulled down; a leak has stained them urine-yellow like a child’s mattress. “I don’t think anyone’s had as much bad luck as me,” he says. “It just goes from one disaster to another.”

 

And yet Lawrence of Belgravia, the 2011 documentary about him which is now being released on Blu-ray, remains stubbornly inspiring. It’s the story of a born maverick who refuses either to abandon his dreams of success or lower his standards to make them a reality. “You see so many musicians reforming their old bands,” he says. “I can’t do that. You’ve got to move forward.” He knows what it’s like to be disappointed by your idols – “I couldn’t get over it in the 1980s when Lou Reed had a mullet” – and is determined never to sully his own legacy, no matter how much cash he is offered. “I’d rather be a tramp than reform Felt or play my old songs,” he says.

 

He has put his lack of money where his mouth is. “There came a point where I learned to live on nothing. I’d have two pence in my pocket, and I’d find a bench on the King’s Road hoping someone would sit next to me so I could ask for a cigarette. No one ever did because I looked so rough.”

 

Lawrence of Belgravia alludes to addiction issues and legal woes: we glimpse bottles of methadone and piles of court letters. At the start of the film, he is evicted from his previous flat. But it is still a fond and hopeful study of someone for whom fame – as symbolised by limousines, helicopters and Kate Moss – has never lost its allure. “It’s such a shame it hasn’t happened to me,” he says. “I’d love to try fame on for size, see what it’s like.” How close has he come? “There was a period in the 1990s when I could get a taxi. That was as good as it got. There’s a fame ladder and I’m near the bottom. I always have been, and I accept that.”

 

The documentary has helped a bit. “It’s a proper film, and that took me up a couple of rungs,” he says. “It legitimised me.” He has rarely wanted for respect: he counts Jarvis Cocker and Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch among his fans; Charlie Brooker chose Denim’s The New Potatoes, with its Pinky & Perky vocals, as one of his Desert Island Discs. He has also started being recognised in the street – “which shows you’re getting somewhere”. But he has a little grumble: “The people who come up to me are all listening to my stuff on Spotify. I tell them: ‘Buy a bloody record!’ Some of them haven’t got a turntable, so I say, ‘Put it on the wall.’”

 

His hard-luck story began when Felt failed to win favour with the DJ John Peel. “If you were an indie band in the 1980s, you couldn’t make it without Peel’s support,” he says. When Lawrence formed Denim in the early 1990s, he seemed ideally placed to ride the incipient Britpop wave. “Except I made one super error,” he points out. “I thought live music was over, so we didn’t play live at first.’” He believed it would add mystique if fans couldn’t see Denim in the flesh. “I wanted to be a cartoon band. But it turned out to be the beginning of the live boom. Indie suddenly went mainstream. I didn’t spot that coming.”

 

If the hard-gigging likes of Blur stole a march on Lawrence, it was another Damon Albarn outfit that pipped him to the post with the “cartoon band” idea. “I couldn’t believe it when Gorillaz happened,” he splutters. “I was like, ‘That’s what I wanted to do!’”

 

Soon after the Summer Smash debacle, Denim were dropped by EMI. “We had to go down to making records for nothing, getting favours from friends.” Go-Kart Mozart was intended as a stop-gap but the songs, many of them musically upbeat and lyrically harsh (When You’re Depressed, Relative Poverty, We’re Selfish and Lazy and Greedy), have kept on coming for more than two decades. The name-change to Mozart Estate reflects, says Lawrence, “the tougher times we live in”.

 

Even he was taken aback while checking the lyric sheet for the new Mozart Estate album Pop-Up, Ker-Ching and the Possibilities of Modern Shopping, which is to be released in January. “Every song has something ’orrible,” he says. One track features the line, “London is a dustbin full of human trash.” Another is called I Wanna Murder You. “I’m never going to get any PRS money for that,” he says. “Still, it’s very catchy. Breaks into a lovely chorus.”

 

It’s all too much for some people. When the first Go-Kart Mozart album came out, he received a call from Alan McGee, his Creation boss from the Felt days. “Alan said, ‘What’s this song Sailor Boy, then? Jean Genet going down on you? I don’t get it, Lawrence. I don’t get what the fuck you’re doing!’” He looks pleased as punch.

 

Paul Kelly, the director of Lawrence of Belgravia, thinks the singer is in a healthier and more optimistic state now than during the making of the film. Production took eight years, largely because Lawrence kept disappearing for months on end. “First I’d be frustrated, then I’d worry,” says Kelly. “When he finally turned up, he’d act as though nothing had happened. He has that disarming personality so you always forgive him. I think he had a fear that when we were finished, there’d be nothing else. He didn’t want to let the film go.”

 

These days, Lawrence has fingers in umpteen pies (Felt reissues, a limited-edition folder of collectible bits-and-pieces and a 10-inch EP, all ahead of the new album). He is bubbling with ideas: he wants to write a play for the Royal Court, collaborate with Charli XCX, be directed by Andrea Arnold. “Do you know her?” he asks hopefully. “I want to be in one of her films and write a song for it.”

 

His greatest enthusiasm is reserved for the larger-than-life-sized pink marble bust which the sculptor Corin Johnson is making of him: “He came up to me at a gig and said, ‘I’d like to do a statue of you.’” A month’s worth of sittings later – including one spent with straws in his nostrils while his head was encased in plaster of Paris – and it’s almost ready. Nick Cave, one of Lawrence’s heroes, has been working in the same yard on a ceramics project about the devil. “He keeps saying, ‘When are you going to bloody finish that?’”

 

Even on Lawrence’s rinky-dink, old-school mobile phone, which is no bigger than a Matchbox car, the pictures of the bust look imposing. A hood is yanked up over his baseball cap, sunglasses are clamped to his face, his expression is surly and defiant: it’s a literal monument to his artistic purity. “This should push me a few rungs up the fame ladder,” he says, marvelling at his marble doppelganger. I think he’s in love.

 

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📼 Felt - Primitive Painters [feat Elizabeth Fraser] (1985)

 

Producer: Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins)

 

video 1987 - Lawrence Hayward & Phil King (in Phil’s house in Hammersmith)

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bYHwXtX00E

The Los Angeles Angels were a Minor League Baseball team based in Los Angeles that played in the "near-major league" Pacific Coast League from 1903 through 1957. From 1903 through 1957, the Los Angeles Angels, a PCL team, were one of the mainstays of the Pacific Coast League, winning the PCL pennant 12 times. From 1903 through 1925, the team played at 15,000-seat Washington Park (also known as Chutes Park), just south of downtown Los Angeles. Both the team and the park were founded by James Furlong "Jim" Morley (1869–1940). During this time, the Angels (or Looloos or Seraphs as they were sometimes called), won pennants in 1903, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1916, 1918, and 1921.

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Ted Waring

Position: Catcher

Bats: Unknown • Throws: right

Height: 5' 9 1/2" - Weight: 160 lbs (from his 1942 U.S., World War II Draft Registration Card)

Born: September 29, 1885 in Prathersville, Boone County, Missouri

Died: July 29, 1962 (Aged 76) in Kansas City, MO

Buried: Fairview Cemetery, Kearney, MO

Full Name: Henry Claud Waring

Nicknames: Harry, Ted, "Tobasco Ted",

 

Waring served in the US Army during WWI. He was inducted at Ft. Logan, CO, on 4/22/1918. He served in Co F, 37th Infantry Regiment until his discharge, and was later a member of the American Legion.

 

"Harry" Waring, as he was usually known, was a catcher in the minor leagues from 1907 to 1917. His baseball card shows him as a player in the Pacific Coast League in 1910. Around 1916, they started calling him "Ted" Waring. He enlisted in 1918, but returned to baseball after the war ended. In 1921 he was the manager of the Independence Producers (Kansas). With a record that year of 103-38 (a .730 percentage), Waring led his team to the League Championship.

 

Waring played infrequently during the 1920-21 season. During a game on May 25 in Miami, OK, he suffered a badly broken leg when a runner slid into him at home plate.

 

During 1925-1926 Waring was a scout for the old Kansas City Blues. After he left his scouting job, Waring worked as a dispatcher for the Kansas City Police Department for about 4 years.

 

His obituary in The Sporting News, 8/11/1962, noted that he died at the VA Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. His obituary also records his first name as "Harry."

 

Link to his minor league stats - www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=waring...

 

Link to a postcard of Harry Waring - www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=161413&page=113

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(San Francisco Call, 8 February 1910) - PLAYERS ARE ON THEIR WAY HERE - Manager Danny Long of the San Francisco baseball team is rapidly rounding up his players, and by the end of next week he expects to have the contracts of nearly all of them in. Long yesterday received a contract from Harry Waring, who will be one of the new men on the local team this year. He mailed his contract from Kansas City, where he is at the present time, but he expects to come to the coast soon. Waring was purchased from the Guthrie team of the Western association at the end of last season by Charles Comiskey, manager of the White Sox team. Waring comes with a good record. He batted .297 last season, and is qualified to play either in the outfield or behind the bat. He has been turned over to Long by Comiskey.

 

(Oakland Tribune - Friday, February 25, 1910) - Danny Long and the San Francisco manager now has practically the entire squad signed up for the season of 1910. Miller coming out with the White Sox and will arrive here next Tuesday. Harry Waring, the new outfielder, who comes from Guthrie and played with Western League last year, turned up yesterday and was out In uniform for an hour or so.

 

(The San Francisco Call, June 02, 1910) - BIG CRASH COMES

IN STATE LEAGUE - San Francisco and Sacramento Clubs Are Dropped and Players Are Scattered - The San Francisco and Sacramento teams were dropped and it was unanimously agreed that the other four clubs, Stockton, San Jose, Fresno and Oakland will continue the season. Bakersfield will get Pltcher Meikle, infielder Mundorf and Pitcher Griffin of the Baby Seals. Catcher Waring, goes to Guthrie, Okla.

 

(Los Angeles Herald, June 22, 1910) - Waring looks like the best catcher seen in the Coast league In several years. He Is one of the best backstops any Coast league pitcher ever tossed to, pegs beautifully and accurately to the bases and stings the ball like he had some ginger In his makeup.

 

(Los Angeles Herald, 26 October 1910) - Harry Waring worked behind the bat for the Angels for the first time in many moons and showed up well. His throwing to bases was good, but he did not hit up to his usual standard, caused no doubt by his long absence from the game. Waring is a prime favorite with the fans, his popularity being attested by the "hand" given him when he donned tho mask and glove. His work with the local club has been consistent, and he would have been worked more frequently but for ill health. He is feeling right once more and has almost regained his old time pepper.

 

(Los Angeles Herald, 27 October 1910) - HARRY WARING, ANGEL CATCHER WHO FIGURED IN FAST TRIPLE PLAY - WARING IS BACK FOR FINAL RACE - Angel Catcher Has Been Handicapped by illness but He Has 'Come Back' - One of the Angel mainstays behind the bat next year will be Harry Waring, who has been working regular this week. Waring joined Los Angeles about the middle of this season, just after Orendorff had been put out of business by Jack Lively, who struck him in the head with a swift inshoot. Smith was the only catcher on the club at that time and Dillon, in looking around for someone to assist Hughey with the backstopplng, espied Waring, who was then with the Frisco State league club. As the State league was in danger of going under Waring jumped at the chance to become an Angel, and for several weeks worked in turn with Smith behind the timber. About a month ago Harry became ill and was sent to the springs to recuperate. He has regained his health and is now in first class shape for work. Waring intends to spend the winter catching for Palmer's San Diego Winter league club, and barring possible injuries, to which a catcher is always exposed, should return here in the spring fit and ready for the season's work.

 

One bright feature of the game was the first triple play of the season, pulled off by the Angels in the sixth inning, when things looked dark for Criger. Casey gained a life on a single to center and advanced to second on Kruger's perfect bunt to Hallinan. Ryan was next up and his play was to sacrifice. Ruddy's intention was all right, but the execution was bad. He popped a short fly between Criger and Waring, which either should have had, but did. Waring snapped the ball, however, to third, where Hallinan waited to come from second. Eddie tagged Pearl and shot the ball to second, where Kruger was toucher out by Delmas, Ryan being called out on an infield fly with first and second occupied. It was a pretty piece of work and earned well earned applause from the fans.

 

(another version of the triple play) - A freak triple play was pulled off at Los Angeles yesterday in the game between the Angels and Portland. It was in the sixth inning with Casey on second and Kruger on first that Ryan hit a pop-up infield fly. This put Ryan out the moment he hit it. Catcher Waring, of Los Angeles, failed to reach the fly in time to handle it, but got it on the bound, tossed to Hall in time to catch Casey as he came into third, and then the sphere was relayed to Delmas, and Kruger was tagged at second. Neither of these men were forced out, as Ryan went out immediately he hit the ball.

 

(Sacramento Union, 30 November 1910) - CLEVELAND GETS WARING. Cleveland (Ohio), Nov. 29 — President Somers of the Cleveland American club announced today the purchase of Catcher Waring from the Los Angeles club of the Pacific Coast league.

 

(Sporting Life - 21 January 1911) - The Cleveland Club has turned the Los Angeles recruit, catcher Waring, over to the Toledo Club, of the American Association.

 

(Sporting Life - 3 August 1912) - Catcher Waring, of Terre Haute, who assaulted a fan in the grand stand recently because said fan spoke to Waring's wife, has been sold to the Peoria Club, of the I. I. I. League.

 

(Sporting Life - 16 May 1914) - With Peoria,— Harry Waring, James Collins, Carl Stimpson, J. Russel Fountain.

 

(Sporting Life - 12 September 1914) - Catcher Harry Waring, of Peoria, is out for the rest of the season with an injured hand, throwing all the duty of backstopping on Arthur Yelle.

 

(Sporting Life - 5 June 1915) - Harry Waring, captain and first catcher of the Peoria Club, was released on May 26. Complaint was made by Secretary J. H. Farrell that Waring jumped a contract and played with the St. Louis Federal League Club in 1912. Farrell requested the Peoria Club to release the player and the club complied.

 

(Sporting Life - 3 July 1915) - The National Association ban on contract jumping players seems to have been hurdled by Harry Waring, who, after being discarded by Peoria because he was ineligible, has signed with Quincy.

 

(Sporting Life - 22 April 1916) - Ted Waring, catcher for Peoria in 1914 and a member of the Quincy team in 1915, has been appointed manager of the Hannibal, Mo., team by President Henry Reidel.

 

(Rock Island Argus, June 14, 1916) - Ted Waring, the peppery Mule manager, is a victim of malaria. The manager is in no condition to play, but with "Butch" Kerns out of the game, Ted is forced to respond to the call of duty.

 

(Sporting Life - 15 June 1916) - Manager Ted Waring, of the Hannibal Club, has released third baseman Joe Grodick to Quincy, as Al Bromwich, regular third baseman, has resumed his position after being out because of injuries.

 

(Sporting Life - 24 February 1917) - HANNIBAL, Mo., February 19. The services of Ted Waring, last season manager of the Hannibal I. I. I. League Club, on February 15, were sold to Dan O'Leary, manager of the Mason City Central Association Club, by Quincy. Waring, who is a catcher, was traded to Quincy a month ago for two players. Previous to his sale to Mason City he had been considered as possible manager at Quincy.

 

(The Chickasha Daily Express, May 06, 1920) - "Tobasco Ted" Stuff. Henryetta, May 6. Despite the fact that his club was leading the Hens by two runs In the second inning, "Tobasco" Ted Waring called his men off the field here yesterday, refused to allow them to play the game and Umpire Bill Setley promptly forfeited the game to Henryetta 9 to 0.

 

(The Chickasha Daily Express., May 10, 1920) - DISPUTED GAME IS AWARDED TO CHICKASHA TEAM - The Chickasha protest of the game played here April 26th which was won by Henryetta was allowed and the game ordered played over by the directors of the Western association in session Sunday. F. R. McGaha, owner of the local franchise, returned this morning from the directors meeting. As a result of the fray at Henryetta several days ago, Ted Waring, manager of the Enid Harvesters, was fined $100 and suspended ten days. Insubordination in connection with the same event, will cost each of the Enid players three days pay.

 

(The Chickasha Daily Express, July 02, 1920) - The reasons are that Enid is a good drawing card here, despite the fact, that Manager Ted Waring made a mighty bad impression on Chickasha fans by his eternal beefing and umpire riding when the Harvesters opened the season here. "Tobasco" Ted, they say, has been blamed to a certain extent by league officials and made to realize by his being called to the carpet that he is skating on thin ice as far as a permanent berth as manager of a W. A. team is concerned.

 

(The Daily Ardmoreite, / Ardmore, Okla. December 03, 1920) - Tulsa, Okla., Dec. 3. Ted Waring of Tulsa, has been signed to manage the Independence team of the Southwestern Baseball League for the 1921 season. Waring managed Enid, Western Association pennant winners this year.

 

(The Chickasha Daily Express, June 07, 1921) - The veteran Ned Pettigrew, former Chick and pilot of the locals during part of the 1920 season, is acting manager of the Independence club of tho Southwestern league. "Tobasco Ted" Waring, regular manager of the Producers, Is taking a lay-off on account of a broken leg.

 

Released 1985

RBA-183/A (US Release)

 

Side 1:

A1. Walk Right In (The Rooftop Singers)

A2. If I Had A Hammer (Trini Lopez)

A3. Michael (Row The Boat Ashore) (The Highwaymen)

A4. Tom Dooley (The Kingston Trio)

A5. California Dreaming (The Mamas & The Papas)

A6. Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (The Kingston Trio)

 

Side 2:

B1. Different Drum (Linda Ronstadt)

B2. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (Kenny Rogers And The First Edition)

B3. Both Sides Now (Judy Collins)

B4. Everybody's Talkin' (Nilsson)

B5. Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot)

B6. You're So Vain (Carly Simon)

 

Side 3:

C1. Blowin' In The Wind (The Kingston Trio)

C2. The M.T.A. (The Kingston Trio)

C3. Ruben James (Kenny Rogers And The First Edition)

C4. Ode To Billy Joe (Bobbie Gentry)

C5. Age (Jim Croce)

C6. I'm A Drifter (Bobby Goldsboro)

 

Side 4:

D1. 500 Miles Away From Home (Bobby Bare)

D2. A Worried Man (The Kingston Trio)

D3. It Ain't Me, Babe (The Turtles)

D4. Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind? (The Lovin' Spoonful)

D5. The Tijuana Jail (The Kingston Trio)

D6. Get Together (The Youngbloods)

 

Side 5:

E1. I Got You Babe (Sonny And Cher)

E2. Daydream (The Lovin' Spoonful)

E3. Never My Love (The Association)

E4. Elusive Butterfly (Bob Lind)

E5. Catch The Wind (Donovan)

E6. Let It Be Me (The Everly Brothers)

 

Side 6:

F1. Dedicated To The One I Love (The Mamas & The Papas)

F2. But You Know I Love You (Kenny Rogers And The First Edition)

F3. We'll Sing In The Sunshine (Gale Garnett)

F4. Angel Of The Morning (Merrilee Rush And The Turnabouts)

F5. By The Time I Get To Phoenix (Glen Campbell)

F6. Honey (Bobby Goldsboro)

 

Side 7:

G1. Mr. Bojangles (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

G2. All I Have To Do Is Dream (Glen Campbell And Bobbie Gentry)

G3. Make It With You (Bread)

G4. Fire And Rain (James Taylor)

G5. Something's Burning (Kenny Rogers And The First Edition)

 

Side 8:

H1. Help Me Make It Through The Night (Sammi Smith)

H2. Amazing Grace (Judy Collins)

H3. If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)

H4. If (Bread)

H5. That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be (Carly Simon)

 

Side 9:

I1. Baby I'm-A Want You (Bread)

I2. Woodstock (Matthews' Southern Comfort)

I3. You've Got A Friend (James Taylor)

I4. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Joan Baez)

I5. An American Trilogy (Mickey Newbury)

 

Side 10:

J1. Me And You And A Dog Named Boo (Lobo)

J2. Motorcycle Mama (Sailcat)

J3. I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (The New Seekers)

J4. Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues (Danny O'Keefe)

J5. A Horse With No Name (America)

J6. Diary (Bread)

 

Side 11:

K1. Guitar Man (Bread)

K2. Taxi (Harry Chapin)

K3. City Of New Orleans (Arlo Guthrie)

K4. I Need You (America)

K5. With Pen In Hand (Bobby Goldsboro)

 

Side 12:

L1. Haven't Got Time For The Pain (Carly Simon)

L2. Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Gordon Lightfoot)

L3. Lonely People (America)

L4. I'm A Woman (Maria Muldaur)

L5. Cat's In The Cradle (Harry Chapin)

L6. Dueling Banjos (Eric Weissberg And Steve Mandell)

 

Side 13:

M1. Let Your Love Flow (The Bellamy Brothers)

M2. I'd Really Love To See You Tonight (England Dan And John Ford Coley)

M3. Say You Love Me (Fleetwood Mac)

M4. Carefree Highway (Gordon Lightfoot)

M5. Torn Between Two Lovers (Mary MacGregor)

M6. Still The One (Orleans)

 

Side 14:

N1. Lotta Love (Nicolette Larson)

N2. It's A Heartache (Bonnie Tyler)

N3. Just When I Needed You Most (Randy Van Warmer)

N4. Blue Bayou (Linda Ronstadt)

N5. You Belong To Me (Carly Simon)

N6. An American Dream (The Dirt Band)

 

Album of the Day

6/25/17

The KOM League

Flash Report

For week of

July 26--August 1, 2015

 

The Flash Report and Flickr photo is found at this site: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/19377076223/ A second photo is included following the first one shown. Compare the two see how rosters changed. There will be a great deal of information, regarding those photos, added during the week covering this report. So, check early and often during that time period for updates.

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First pitch:

 

This report was prepared on July 25th which is a reminder that just five months from today it will be time once again for bad children to get chunks of coal in their stockings. It has jogged my memory regarding a few comments received recently, with respect to Flash Report articles. I’m sure the world will continue spinning even if I missed mentioning some of the items but I’m sure that the people sending the notes would think I’m sort of like the “Jolly Round Man” who puts coal in the stockings of the not so good children. So briefly, here goes:

 

1. A recent article contained the names of former KOM leaguers who made it to the big leagues. As I found out, Bill Virdon wasn’t the only future KOM leaguer who also played in the big leagues that Shirley dated. Here is her comment. “Did I ever tell you that I was in College with Bill Upton and his brother, Herb? I even had a "date" or two with Bill!! That would have been in 1948, 49, 50 or early 1951. Hope you locate the real Mr. Bowers! Bill is slowly regaining his strength. We are watching a lot of baseball (Pirates) on the TV, since Bill hasn't been feeling very well. And I'm learning to COOK again!! Take care. Blessings, Shirley V.

 

Ed reply:

 

Bill had another brother who played for the St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators, Tommy. He became a college math teacher in Arizona before his death. He was the person who told me about Bill (Upton). I finally made contact with Bill's widow who told me her husband showed the LA Dodgers the split finger before anyone in the big leagues was throwing it.

 

This was a follow-up note to Shirley Virdon. “Well, his older brother Herbert was Thomas Herbert Upton Jr. and he was the guy who played for the Browns and others. Thomas Herbert was three years older than Bill and they had an older sister by the name of Elaine. They were from Ester, MO as you know. Bill died in San Diego.

  

2. The article regarding Clifford Littledave caught the eye of my only known Canadian reader. Barry McMahon mentioned that Littledave’s manager at Bristol, VA in 1948, Ben Geraghty, was a former big leaguer, successful minor league manager and was also a survivor of the Spokane team’s bus crash in 1946. The most famous name affiliated with that crash was Jack Lohrke who had gotten off the bus at the last stop in order to report to the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League.

 

Ed reply:

 

Ben was happy to be anywhere in 1949 even Bristol, Va. That Appalachian league was a tough place to play and especially made worse by the bad roads. I'll never forget my first time in that area. My wife and I were headed to Charleston, WVA and were in the Hazard, KY area. All of the sudden I had a feeling there was no road and I was driving in a field. I saw a car coming and I flagged down the driver. I asked him where the road went and he said that I was on it. I asked him if it got better ahead and he said it only got worse. I could write a book about trying to get from Hazard, KY to Charleston. I still have nightmares about that experience.

 

3. Over a month ago a story in this forum alluded to the Ponca City Dodgers being detained by the Pittsburg, Kansas police for doing what most young boys do, flirt with young girls. Del Wichtendahl brought up the issue and it struck a responsive chord since I had heard various versions of it over the years. With a number of Ponca City Dodgers, from 1951 on my mailing list I shot off an e-mail to four of them. Knowing I’d get some great input on that story I waited a week, then two for responses that at best trickled in. Here is the response from the great Joe Stanka. “John, I have absolutely zero memory of that event, however, I have absolute zero about a lot of stiff like, what did you tell me your name is?”

 

Understanding that Stanka has been everywhere and done everything I excused him since his life has been filled with more important things. I then received this note from another big winning pitcher on that team, Dick Wiegand. Here is his response. “John, I may be losing my memory but I don't remember any such incident. I don't remember a Del Wichtendahl either. Are you sure this happened in 1951? No, I don't remember (Gordon) Meeres either. I did not have spring training that year and went directly to Ponca City from home. I really do not remember a lot of guys who were there for a short time. I am surprised that I didn't remember the Scherger and police incident. Thanks for the info though.”

 

At that point I was waiting on another member of that team, Jack Wolfe, to reply but I guess he missed reading that e-mail message and thus I struck out on that attempt at putting together the various viewpoints of the Ponca City ballplayers vs. the Pittsburg arm of the law.

 

My only recourse was to get back with Wichtendahl to let him know that he was probably the only person alive who recalled the post-game antics in Pittsburg. He wrote this note which will end this story, forever. “In my memory, the guys were all done eating and Scherger was left to pay the bill so we went back to the bus where we got arrested for hollering at some girls. The police came and marched all of us to the police station which was not that far away. Then Scherger came and got us out with no fine but a severe reprimand. Another day in the life a ball player.”

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Input regarding last week’s mention of Clifford Littledave

 

Last time this report convened there was quite a bit written about Clifford Littledave. I knew that Littledave’s path crossed that of Dick Getter during their rookie seasons in the New York Giant farm system. So, I wrote a note to Getter to see what he recalled. As it turns out he had some great comments. Here is his reply. ”John, Yes, I do have a slight remembrance of him. The reasons being, I just got out of high school, signed with the Giants. They sent me to Seaford. Being from the east I could not believe that I was seeing an Indian or rather playing ball with one. I also remember him as he was the first and only guy I ever saw that was able to throw right or left handed. I was amazed the day after I got there that this guy would pitch a game right handed and throw batting practice the next day left handed. I was only at Seaford for about 3 weeks. Playing a ball game (can't remember where) had gotten a base hit, bad slide, sprained my ankle, (very bad). A couple of days later I was released. Went home and then signed again by Cleveland the next spring finally ended up with the Giants again. I really did not have much association with him at all. The next year I was in Iola where another Cherokee Indian, Benny Leonard, was my best friend for years until he died from cancer. We would see him at least one time a year and saw him in Henryetta, Okla. the day he was on his way to Tulsa for his last treatment before he passed. We still miss him. Do you have any hats left from the reunions? If you do I want to buy one. This all brings back many memories, some good and some not so.” Dick Getter-Dallas, Texas.

 

Ed comment:

 

Did you notice that Getter asked about left over ball caps from the KOM reunions that ran for a dozen years from 1996 to 2008? Those caps are long gone but an idea hit me a few weeks ago regarding the 70th anniversary of the KOM league. I thought about having a special baseball cap produced for that event. Then, after thinking about it I thought, why bother. Purchasing those caps and having the design made and embroidered is fairly reasonable. The big headache is the packing and postage on those things. By the time you go through that process you have over $20 invested and no one wants to pay that much for such an item. So, if you don’t see 70th anniversary caps mentioned again you’ll know why. Oh, one other thing mitigates against producing those things. Everyone wants a different color and they are usually sold in lots of a dozen of the same color. Why did I even bring up the subject?

 

Later: As I sat at my computer I noticed some baseball caps with many logos from many sources. I looked closer and saw a “well-used” KOM reunion cap from 2003. I took a photo of it and sent it to Getter telling him it was his if he would accept a “brand new” old cap. He shot back a note to send it along. The postage on the thing was more expensive than the cap. A couple of days later I received a check in an amount that was 12 times more than the postage. I looked at the check and thought “I’d make up a dozen of those caps for that kind of wampum? Wampum may be a good term for what follows in a few of the stories in this report. Keep that in mind and see if you can make the connection.

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Conrad Noel Swensson’s “party.”

 

Here is the link to the video that Ercelle and Greg put together for Connie’s “party” on Sunday. We had a big crowd—79 if my count is correct—and all went well. Jackie E. Swensson

 

Ed comment:

 

Swensson passed away on June 25, 2015 in Denver. A celebration of his life was held on July 19 and some of the images of his life are found here. youtu.be/rkSzilr_Fdk There are some photos of his time with the Ponca City Dodgers. The single photos would be of him in either 1949 or 1950. The photo with him and two other guys represents him on the left, Don Keeter in the middle and Joe Stanek on the right. That trio of former Dodgers are now deceased.

 

Note:

 

Be careful not to confuse Joe Stanek with Joe Stanka. They were both on the 1950 Ponca City same roster for a while. That is the year Stanka shared his talents between the Duncan, Okla. Utts and the Ponca City Dodgers. Otto Utt ran a restaurant in Duncan as well as owning the team and liked himself so much he named the team in his honor. In news articles the roster players were called “Uttmen.” In verifying some of that material I came across an obituary for Otto Jr. who recently passed away. It really brought into focus how quickly the generations come and go. www.ardmoreite.com/article/20150625/NEWS/150629865/-1/news

The foregoing was shared for the benefit of the readers of this publication who had strong ties to the Sooner State league in the late 1940’s and early 50’s.

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Death of Paul Thomas

 

Not many people outside northeast Oklahoma would recognize the name of Paul Thomas. Most of the readers of this publication would most likely skim over the obituary unless a little background was shared. When writing my book about Mickey Mantle I stopped at a McDonald’s in Miami. I don’t recall how the person knew who I was but came over to introduce herself and to tell me of her father-in-law, Paul Thomas. She said that when Elvin “Mutt” Mantle passed away in 1952 he drove to Denver, Colorado to pick up the body and bring it back to Miami. She said that Paul did that as a favor to the family and didn’t charge them for the transport. At that time he was 28 years old. To say that he did it for publicity because it was the father of Mickey Mantle would be incorrect. Not many people knew a whole lot about the future Hall of Famer at that juncture in history. I’m quite aware that some sites on the Internet list Mutt’s death as being in Chicago but all I can say is “Don’t believe a whole lot of what you find on a lot of Internet sites.”

 

So, with that little bit of background I share the obituary of Paul Thomas.

 

William Paul Thomas, longtime funeral director and Picher, OK resident passed peacefully on Saturday, July 11, 2015 at his home in Miami, OK. He was 91.

 

Paul was born April 2, 1924 in North Century (Picher), OK to W.C. “Buss” and Rosa Belle (Brookshire) Thomas. He was raised in the Picher and Welch, OK area, graduating from Welch High School in 1943. He started to work for the Durnil Funeral Home in Picher at the age of 13 when he began his life career in the funeral business.

 

Paul served in the United States Navy during World War II as a Pharmacists Mate in Guam. After returning from World War II he married Wanda Fern Ingram on June 3, 1946 in Joplin, MO. Paul attended St. Louis College of Mortuary Science graduating in 1947 with honors. He and Wanda established Paul Thomas Funeral Home in Picher on December 14, 1948. In 1991 the Thomas family opened Paul Thomas Funeral Home in Miami and later Paul Thomas Funeral Home in Commerce in 2005.

 

Paul also owned and operated Paul Thomas Pecan Farm for many years. He was member of the First United Methodist Church in Picher, Miami Lodge No. 140 A.F.&A.M. for over 60 years, 32 degree Mason with Guthrie Scottish Rite Consistory in Guthrie, OK and Akdar Shrine Temple in Tulsa. He was a lifetime member of the I.O.O.F. Lodge No. 493 in Picher, the American Legion, the 40 et 8, Past Commander and Service Officer of the V.F.W. Post in Picher, Service Officer and member of the American Legion, past President of Miami Travel Club, longtime member of Picher Lions Club and a member of the Oklahoma Funeral Directors Association and National Funeral Directors Association for over 60 years.

 

Paul was preceded in death by his parents, his brother, Leon Thomas and sister, Dorothy Smith.

 

Survivors include his wife of 69 years, Wanda Thomas of the home, his son Paul Ingram Thomas and his wife Kari of Miami, OK, his grandchildren, Annamaria Thomas, Dalton Young, Austin Brown and Tyler Joe Brown. He is also survived by his brother Jim Thomas of Miami, OK , two sisters Lucille Ingram of Miami, OK , JoAnn Ackerman of McKinney, TX and his sister in law Pearl Miller of Albuquerque, NM.

 

Services will be Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at the First Christian Church in Miami. Pastor Leon Weece, The Rev. Mary Koppel, Rev. Geoff Buffalo, Rev. Charles Clevenger and Rev. Ray Clonts officiating. Interment will be in Welch Cemetery, Welch, OK with Native American Rites conducted by Kevin Dawes, Winston “Cap” Ulrey and Rannie McWatters and Military honors by the American Legion Post 140 Funeral Detail. Pallbearers will be Jimmie Bayliss, Jerry Bayliss, Danny Garner, Everett “Sonny” Green, Terry Heatherly, James Graves, Ron Sparkman and Johnny Sparkman. Honorary pallbearers will be Dabney Smith, Dabney Smith, Jr., Roger Ruth, Paul Kidd, Art Cousatte, Steve Brewer, Bill Crawford, Lloyd Stone, Tony Murray, Larry Linthicum, Bert Reeves, Sam Freeman and Cork Henry. The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 6 – 8 p.m. at the Paul Thomas Funeral Home Chapel in Miami. Services are in the care of Paul Thomas Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Miami.

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Robert B. White 1949 Miami Owls.

 

In featuring Clifford Littledave in recent weeks, in these reports, that brought to Wylie Pitts’ memory some other fellows from Northeast Oklahoma who were Native Americans. Two he mentioned in a recent e-mail were Bob and “Dutch” White.

 

Robert White was a name familiar to me as he had signed in mid-August of 1949.along with Elmer Peacock, when some of the Miami Owls threw in the towel and left the team in disgust. White and Peacock had a lot in common. They were the same age of 31 and both were Native Americans. White was a Seneca and Peacock a Wyandotte. I knew more about Peacock basically from a near death injury in his fourth game with Miami. He was beaned by another fellow Native American, Joe Mallott of Ketchum, OK who was pitching for Iola, KS in a game at Miami. I have told the story of Peacock many times. The greatest impact that incident had one me was the day I visited Peacock in Wyandotte and his wife came out to explain the sheer horror experienced by the family that evening.

 

However, this tale is dedicated to Robert White since I have never written much about his one month in the KOM league. He pitched, pinch hit and generally performed admirably in his only professional stint in baseball that had shown great promise 13 years earlier when he first tried out for Dutch Zwillings Kansas City Blues.

 

Like researching the life of many former players they are deceased and having been born in 1918 even all the children of White are deceased. Robert White had five brothers and one sister and each of their first names started with “R.” I suppose that was done so the parents could call “RW” one time and every child would respond.

 

Every story I attempt to tell has different twists and turns and this one fits into the “no place to turn” category. I located White and his seven children on a site called Find-A-Grave or other sources. I was impressed with the accomplishment of his children prior to their passing. I would say they were a family of which any parent could be proud and most likely they turned out the way they did due to good parents. The following URLs cover that to which I just alluded. Please take the time to click on each one. (As always, I don’t rely on a single site in writing an article. I checked out the White family through many sources.)

 

www.findagrave.com/cgi-Bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=329572...

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=62330927

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=95327731

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=119142577

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18629373

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=66203724

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=146851414

 

At this juncture I began looking for information on Robert and “Dutch” White in order to answer the question raised by Wylie Pitts “What ever happened to the White boys.”

 

March 17, 1936—Miami, OK News Record—

Robert White, 17-year-old Wyandotte youth, is making Manager Dutch Zwilling of the Kansas City Blues think awhile before turning him loose for further seasoning. White, a natural third sacker was impressive in his first drill with the American association club. His bat, swung powerfully from strong shoulders, connected with several line hits that pleased the Blues' manager. The Wyandotte (OK) youth, son of Mrs. Mandy (Amanda) White of Wyandotte, played third base last season for the Sycamore (OK) Indians, a team managed by Frank Rodgers. While playing at Seneca (MO), White was spotted by a scout. Today he stands a fine chance of breaking into professional baseball. White is tall and has long, powerful hands. His batting power is expected to give him extra consideration by baseball men.

 

Ruben White Sr. was the patriarch having been born in Kansas in 1866. He operated a truck farm in 1920 around Council House in Ottawa County, OK. By the time Robert came along his dad was 53 years of age. The elder White died prior to 1932 and Robert was being raised by his step-father, Edward Turkey. This appeared in the May 24, 1936 Miami paper. “Edward Turkey, 66-year-old member of the Seneca Indians, died in the Pawnee Indian hospital Saturday morning. He had lived in Wyandotte for many years and was well known there. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mandy Turkey; a sister, Mrs. Mary Logan of Wyandotte, and a brother, David Turkey of Trenton, N. J. He also had three adopted children. (The adoptees included Robert and “Dutch.”)

 

Amanda White-Turkey, had gone back to using the last name of her first husband, even before the second husband passed away, if you can believe the newspaper stories from March 17 and May 24th of 1936. Ah well, history is fraught with inaccuracies.

 

Baseball wasn’t the only sport played in that area. Softball was popular as well. In some of these newspaper clips are familiar names and those of later professional baseball significance will be noted.

 

July 22, 1937

 

The Miami All-Star softball club will meet the highly touted CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) team of Scammon, Kans., at College Field Friday night. Play will begin at 8:0O

p. m. Carl Williams, manager of the All-Stars announced a starting lineup today that will include six Commerce Mining Royalty stars, two from the Oklahoma Tire and Supply outfit and one each from Eagle-Picher and Commerce Merchants aggregations. The Scammon team, piloted by Joe Batten, has compiled an enviable record this season, it has been reported here. The team has won several engagements from clubs in the Pittsburg, Kas., district. Miami's probable starting lineup—K, Elliott, c; McGoyne, p; (Ed note: Jack McGoyne was the long time player and manager of the Tri-State Miners). Williams, lb; Bettega, 2b; N. Keithley, SB; Gibson, 3b; Sailing, SS; Haynes, If; Collins, cf, and Al Shaffer, rf. The utility list includes Roy Neal and Bob White of Oklahoma Tire & Supply, Bob Montgomery and Oscar Lee Young of Eagle- Picher, Obie Edwards of Commerce Royalty and J. Campbell of the Commerce Merchants

 

Ed comment:

 

Bob White, Bob Montgomery and Newton Keithley all saw action in the KOM league. Montgomery was with the Miami Owls in 1946 and 1949. He lived two houses north of Mickey Mantle’s mother-in-law, Reba Johnson, in Picher, Okla.. She told me the morning after her daughter, Merlyn, married Mantle that there was a sign in her front yard proclaiming “Mickey Mantle’s Mother-In-Law Lives Here.” When I asked her what she did her terse remark was “I took it down.” I asked her if she knew for sure who did it and she said that although she didn’t witness the sign’s posting she was sure only Montgomery would do such a thing.

 

Some baseball researchers have long wondered how a guy could win a league batting title and never play another inning thereafter. Newton A. Keithley was born in Carterville, MO on February 7, 1920 (he died February 13, 2005) and his father moved the family a short time later to northeast Oklahoma where he worked for the Eagle Picher Mining Company. The elder Keithley was involved in the unrest between the company and the miners union. It resulted in the worst rioting in the nation in 1935. A book written by George G. Suggs Jr. and published by the University of Oklahoma Press entitled “Union Busting in the Tri-State” is a good resource that documented the mayhem. For baseball historians that is the point in time when Elvin “Mutt” Mantle gathered up the family and moved from Spavinaw to Cardin, OK which was in the epi-center of the riots. If you care to do independent research you can Google Newt Keithley (the elder) and view all manner of court records on PDF files that details the legal cases arising from the riots.

 

Now back to baseball. The younger Keithley attended school in Picher and Miami and then wound up playing quarterback for the Univ. of Tulsa. After graduating from college he taught and coached high school sports in Miami. When school was out in 1946 he joined the Miami ball club at the urging of Guy Froman and also with what he thought was an offer from the Miami Baseball Club to be their general manager the next year. Well, that didn’t work out and Keithley looked for greener pastures and decided to head for Alvin, Texas. He was very successful in that town and knew Nolan Ryan before any scout or baseball executive did. The Keithleys were great friends of the Ryan family. Nolan learned to pitch and Keithley son, Gary, took up football and eventually was the back up quarterback to Jim Hart with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1973-75, playing only in 1973. You can check out Gary Keithley on this URL as I attempt to save some space. www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&am...

 

When Keithley was with the Cardinals his dad told me he traveled from Texas to see every Cardinal game. He recalled in our conversation his total disdain for Cardinal coach, Don Coryell. Hart was injured and Keithley was to start his first pro game against the New York Giants. Coryell had announced prior to the game that his quarterback wouldn’t be throwing any passes. Keithley’s first game as a starter featured only six passes.

 

There isn’t much of a purpose for me to delve any further into the Keithley matter when I have a statement from a man who knew the family very well. Jim Jones shared the following with me over a dozen years ago.

 

“To clarify an issue, the day that I went to Miami to talk with Guy Froman about playing for Miami, I stayed over for the game. My good friends Mickey Wood and Tony Bettega who I played with at Eagle-Picher Mining Co. actually played for Miami that night. I don't know what the contract situation was, but they played. (Ed note: If Wood and Bettega played for the Miami Owls that evening, in a regular season game, the roster players for the Miami Blues has to be adjusted. After 13 years I’ve not been able to document they played.)

 

N. A. Keithley was a very good friend. His father, Newt Keithley was a ground boss for the Eagle-Picher Mining Co, an older son Howard played football for Picher High School, graduating in 1935 and then he played for NEO Jr. College at Miami. Afterwards he played right field for the Eagle-Picher team.

 

N. A. lived and attended the Picher schools completing the 8th grade, his family moved to West of Miami (near Welch) and he attended Miami High School where he was an All-State Quarterback for coach Runt Ramsey and was also an outstanding basketball player.

 

After completing high school, he attended Oklahoma Military Academy at Claremore, OK ( a prep school for Tulsa U). In the summer he played second base for Eagle Picher (we always jokingly said that he played second so that he could cover ground near first base that Guy Froman could not reach. Ha!) He had a great career at Tulsa, alternating with Glenn Dobbs at quarterback, both made All Conference.

 

N. A. married Jeanette Christenson and after coaching a year at Miami High School, they moved to Alvin, Texas where they joined Jeanette's father in the John Deere implement business. They all became rich selling equipment to the rice farmers in the Alvin area I visited Howard and N. A. in 1971 and they had just opened a Saving & Loan Co and they made a lot more money.

 

I have been told by friends that N. A. retired several years ago and he has enjoyed wearing out the golf course, he developed glaucoma and has lost his sight, although he can see good enough to get around. Howard died several years ago.

 

Harve McKibben was a great athlete for Miami High School, our Picher Legion Team played them several times and Harve could really throw smoke. This is it for now! “

Jim Jones

 

Well, that is a brief look at some of the guys playing softball in Miami, Okla. in 1937. Now back to Robert B. White.

 

Thirteen years later August 12, 1949.

Owls Score Extra Inning Win over Bartlesville, 8-5 BARTLESVILLE, Aug. 12—(Special)—The, Miami Owl's last-ditch rally finally clicked last night as they pushed across three runs in the top of the tenth to take a hard-fought, 8-5 victory over the Bartlesville Pirates. And Bob White, Owl pitcher making his first appearance in a Miami uniform, received credit for the win after he went to the mound in relief of Jack Schaening in the tenth. White, a 31-year-old Indian whose home is in Tiff City, Mo., but who was born and raised around Wyandotte, was touched for only three hits and one run in 2 2/3 innings. Although he walked five, the new Owl chucker made a creditable opening performance as he pitched his way out of trouble with a blazing fast ball and a snaky curve. Deadlocked at 5-5 at the start of the tenth, the Flock pushed across the trio of runs on two walks, an error and a single by White. Catcher Earl Skaggs and shortstop Duane Melvin had both worked righthander Ed McLish, (Ed note: Younger brother of Calvin McLish—big leaguer) the last of four Buc pitchers, for passes. Joe Verbanic then cracked a sharp grounder to shortstop Cal Frazer, who let the ball get through him, allowing Skaggs to come across the plate. White drove in Melvin with a sharp single over second, moving Verbanic to third, arid the ruddy- complexioned second baseman tallied the final run when Jimmy Reaugh hit into a force play, nipping White at second. The new Indian hurler weakened in the tenth and loaded the bases on three straight walks. But then Melvin, in one of the prettiest fielding plays of the game, rushed over by second to field McLish's hard grounder, touched the bag for one out and threw quickly to Ike Robbins at first to complete the double play and hold the runner on third.

 

August 18, 1949

Tonight the Owls will try to strengthen their hold on their newly-earned spot when they take on the Carthage Cubs in a doubleheader out at Fairgrounds park. The first game is scheduled to get underway at 6:15 o'clock. Neither Lane nor Cub Manager Don Anderson were sure of their starting pitchers. Lane said that Bob Montgomery, former Commerce Merchant hurler, will start one of the tilts, probably the seven-inning game. Bob White, the Indian chucker from the Wyandotte hills, received credit for his second straight game, although he had to have help from Stephens, the Owls curve artist.

 

Using a fast ball and a change-up "knuckler," White was touched for six hits, including a triple by rookie Bill Courtney. The right- hander whiffed six Cubs and passed four. The big "pain in the neck" for the Owls—and White in particular —was Bill Hornsby, the son of the Cardinals' Rogers; "Big Rajah" Hornsby.' Following in his illustrious dad's basepaths, Hornsby slammed out three hard-line singles in four trips and only a brilliant stop by shortstop Duane Melvin stopped him from a fourth clean hit. The outfielder also batted in two runs. Carthage started out strong when they pushed across a pair of runs in the initial canto. After (Don) Schmitt reached first on a fielder's choice, (Hank) Paskiewicz was walked and Hornsby lined his first-hit of the game into right, plating Schmitt and moving Paskiewicz to third. Paskiewicz tallied on (Dean) Manns grounder. Another Cub tally was pushed across in the third. Courtney tripled high off the right center wall, but' was tagged out on a fielder's choice by Schmitt, who moved to second while the' play was going on. Paskiweicz grounded out but Hornsby singled hard again, this time into right center, scoring Schmitt. It seemed for a time that the Cubs weren't going to play dead for the Owls like they have in the past, but then in the seventh they finally decided to lose their 14th game of the season to the Flock. (Harry) Bright started the stretch-frame with a single through the hole, Melvin was passed and Joe Verbanic, in an attempted sacrifice, reached first safely when Cub pitcher George Erath fielded the bunt and then stood there holding the ball. White went down swinging for the first out, but Jimmy Reaugh looped a Texas Leaguer into short left to drive in Bright. With the bases still fully populated, Lane came to the plate and sent a 1-1 pitch bouncing off the center wall to quickly unload the sacks. Casey Wonka' flied to left, Ike Robbins walked and Skaggs lofted to left to end the canto. The Cubs came fighting back in the eighth and loaded the bases on an error by Bright of Paskiewicz's grounder, Hornsby's single and a base on balls to (Bob) Speake, with strikeouts by Schmitt and Manns sprinkled in between. That was all for White and Stephens went in.

 

INDEPENDENCE, Kas., Sept. 1, 1949—(Special)—

The Miami Owls closed their KOM season play with the first place Independence Yankees on a note of triumph when they nosed out the Yanks, 2-0, behind the effective chucking of Bob White here last night. (His third victory since joining Miami in August. Mantle went 1-3 against him and made an error which allowed two runs to score. Kenny Bennett took the loss. White fanned six and walked four and 1,313 people saw the game that lasted 2 hours and ten minutes.)

 

That concluded Bob White’s tenure in minor league baseball. In his time at Miami he beat Bartlesville, Carthage and Independence. He continued to play town team ball around Northeast Oklahoma for a number of years.

 

Note:

 

In writing about players from the region just discussed keep in mind that Commerce, Miami, Sycamore and Wyandotte in Oklahoma, Seneca along with Tiff City in Missouri and Baxter Springs, Columbus, Pittsburg and Parsons in Kansas were all within close proximity to each other. That is why so many outlaws from Jesse James, Cole Younger, Ma Barker, the Dalton Gang, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd et. al. hung out around there since if they committed a crime in a place like Joplin they could be in Oklahoma or Kansas within a matter of minutes where they would be immune from arrest.

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I think I’m done.

 

In times past this would have been a good take-off point for another few pages of “stuff.” If I were to have done so this time a great piece could have been written on “Native Americans in the KOM League.” And, there were many. The manager of an All-Native American KOM team would have been Guy Willis Froman. I never got to speak with him, having missed locating him by one month.

 

However, I did speak with his widow, Gertrude, in 1994, and what an interesting conversation it was. Her husband managed the 1946 Miami Blues and their 13-year old son, Bill, was the batboy. Bill was one of six sons, all of whom were great successes in the game of life. By virtue of Bill still being alive I cannot claim to be “The World’s Oldest Batboy.” I can’t even claim to be the “Oldest Living KOM Batboy.” In fact, I believe than Dan Dollison who carried the lumber for the 1949 Independence Yankees is also older than I am. There may be one or two more guys who may wish to inform me they were born prior to Thanksgiving Day in 1939. If so, I don’t mind being pushed further back in seniority.

 

But, back to Gertrude Froman. In our conversation, in 1994, she kept telling me of a house guest that showed up for frequent “short” visits that turned out to be much longer stays. Guy Froman was a close from of another Oklahoman and when the fellow was down on his luck, which was often, he went to Miami, OK to stay with the Froman’s. For many years Guy Froman was the Chief of the Peoria Tribe. digital.libraries.ou.edu/utils/getfile/collection/dorisdu...

 

Gertrude told me that one of the greatest laughs she and her husband ever had is when it was announced that Burt Lancaster would play the lead role in the life of their friend. So, if you are a young person go here to find out who their friend was. www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&am...

 

Of course, most of those of us over the three-score and ten plateau know it was Jim Thorpe.

 

A very good resource about Guy Willis Froman’s life can be found at this site replete with a great photo. books.google.com/books?id=72jgsHZv2oIC&pg=PA98&lp...

 

Stephen William Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, with lyrics that mostly span political or romantic themes. His music is heavily centred on bringing about change and involving the younger generation in activist causes.

Early life[edit]

Bragg was born in 1957 in Barking, Essex (which is now in Greater London)[2] to Dennis Frederick Austin Bragg, an assistant sales manager to a Barking cap maker and milliner, and his wife Marie Victoria D'Urso, who was of Italian descent.[3] Bragg's father died of lung cancer in 1976,[4] and his mother died in 2011.[5]

Bragg was educated at Northbury Junior School and Park Modern Secondary School (now part of Barking Abbey Secondary School[6]) in Barking. He failed his eleven-plus exam, effectively precluding him from going to university.[7] However he developed an interest in poetry at the age of twelve, when his English teacher chose him to read a poem he had written for a homework assignment on a local radio station.[8] He put his energies into learning and practising the guitar with his next-door neighbour, Philip Wigg (Wiggy); some of their influences were the Faces, Small Faces and the Rolling Stones. He was also exposed to folk and folk-rock music during his teenage years, citing Simon & Garfunkel and Bob Dylan as early influences on his songwriting.[8]

During the rise of punk rock and new wave in the late 1970s, Elvis Costello also served as an inspiration for Bragg.[9] He was also particularly influenced by the Clash, whom he'd seen play live in London in May 1977 on their White Riot Tour, and again at a Rock Against Racism carnival in April 1978, which he admits was the first time he really stepped into the world of music as it is used for political activism.[10] The experience of the gig and preceding march helped shape Bragg's left-wing politics, having previously "turned a blind eye" to casual racism.[10]

Career[edit]

Early career[edit]

In 1977 Bragg formed the punk rock/pub rock band Riff Raff with Wiggy. The band decamped to rural Oundle in Northamptonshire in 1978 to record a series of singles (the first on independent Chiswick Records) which did not receive wide exposure. After a period of gigging in Northamptonshire and London, they returned to Barking and split in 1980.[11] Taking a series of odd jobs including working at Guy Norris' record shop in Barking high street, Bragg became disillusioned with his stalled music career and in May 1981 joined the British Army as a recruit destined for the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars of the Royal Armoured Corps. After completing three months' basic training, he bought himself out for £175 and returned home.[12]

Bragg peroxided his hair to mark a new phase in his life and began performing frequent concerts and busking around London, playing solo with an electric guitar under the name Spy vs Spy (after the strip in Mad magazine).[13]

 

His demo tape initially got no response from the record industry, but by pretending to be a television repair man, he got into the office of Charisma Records' A&R man Peter Jenner.[14] Jenner liked the tape, but the company was near bankruptcy and had no budget to sign new artists. Bragg got an offer to record more demos for music publisher Chappell & Co., so Jenner agreed to release them as a record. Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy (credited to Billy Bragg) was released in July 1983 by Charisma's new imprint, Utility. Hearing DJ John Peel mention on-air that he was hungry, Bragg rushed to the BBC with a mushroom biryani, so Peel played a song from Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy albeit at the wrong speed (since the 12" LP was, unconventionally, cut to play at 45rpm). Peel insisted he would have played the song even without the biryani and later played it at the correct speed.[14]

Within months Charisma had been taken over by Virgin Records and Jenner, who had been made redundant, became Bragg's manager. Stiff Records' press officer Andy Macdonald – who was setting up his own record label, Go! Discs – received a copy of Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy. He made Virgin an offer and the album was re-released on Go! Discs in November 1983, at the fixed low price of £2.99.[15] Around this time, Andy Kershaw, an early supporter at Radio Aire in Leeds, was employed by Jenner as Bragg's tour manager. (He later became a BBC DJ and TV presenter, and he and Bragg appeared in an episode of the BBC TV programme Great Journeys in 1989, in which they travelled the Silver Road from Potosí, Bolivia, to the Pacific coast at Arica, Chile.)[16]

Though never released as a Bragg single, album track and live favourite "A New England", with an additional verse, became a Top 10 hit in the UK for Kirsty MacColl in January 1985. Since MacColl's early death, Bragg always sings the extra verse live in her honour.[17]

In 1984, he released Brewing Up with Billy Bragg, a mixture of political songs (e.g. "It Says Here") and songs of unrequited love (e.g. "The Saturday Boy"). This was followed in 1985 by Between the Wars, an EP of political songs that included a cover version of Leon Rosselson's "The World Turned Upside Down". The EP made the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart and earned Bragg an appearance on Top of the Pops, singing the title track. Bragg later collaborated with Rosselson on the song "Ballad of a Spycatcher".[18]

In the same year, he embarked on his first tour of North America, with Wiggy as tour manager, supporting Echo & the Bunnymen.[19] The tour began in Washington D.C. and ended in Los Angeles. On the same trip, in New York, Bragg unveiled his "Portastack",[20] a self-contained, mobile PA system weighing 35 lbs (designed for £500 by engineer Kenny Jones), the wearing of which became an archetypal image of the singer at that time. With it, he was able to busk outside the New Music Seminar, a record industry conference.[21]

Late 1980s and early 1990s[edit]

In 1986 Bragg released Talking with the Taxman About Poetry, which became his first Top 10 album. Its title is taken from a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky and a translated version of the poem was printed on the record's inner sleeve. Back to Basics is a 1987 collection of his first three releases: Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy, Brewing Up with Billy Bragg, and Between the Wars. He enjoyed his only Number 1 hit single in May 1988, a cover of the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home", a shared A-side with Wet Wet Wet's "With a Little Help from My Friends". Both were taken from a multi-artist re-recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band titled Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father coordinated by the NME in aid of the charity Childline. Wet Wet Wet's cover dominated radio airplay and its video was shown over three consecutive weeks on Top of the Pops; in week four, Bragg went on the programme to play his cover, with regular accompanist Cara Tivey on piano.[22]

Bragg released his fourth album, Workers Playtime, in September 1988. With this album, Bragg added a full backing band and accompaniment, including Tivey on piano, Danny Thompson on double bass and veteran Micky Waller on drums. Wiggy earned a co-production credit with Joe Boyd.[23]

In August 1989 Bragg took lead vocal on the ‘Levi Stubbs’ Tears’ sampling Norman Cook's UK top 40 hit "Won’t Talk About It", which was a double-A-side with "Blame It On the Bassline". The track was a bigger hit a year later with Lindy Layton replacing Bragg as lead vocal.[citation needed]

In May 1990 Bragg released the political mini-LP The Internationale on his and Jenner's own short-lived label Utility, which operated independently of Go! Discs, to which Bragg was still contracted. The songs were, in part, a return to his solo guitar style, but some featured more complicated arrangements and included a brass band. The album paid tribute to one of Bragg's influences with the song, "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night", which is an adapted version of Earl Robinson's song, "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", itself an adaptation of a poem by Alfred Hayes.[24] Though the album only reached Number 34 in the UK Charts, Bragg described it as "a reassertion of my rights as an individual ... and a childish two fingers [to Go! Discs boss Andy Macdonald, who'd recently signed a distribution deal with entertainment industry giant PolyGram]."[25]

His sixth studio album Don't Try This at Home was recorded in the shadow of the build-up to the Gulf War and subsequent ground war, inspiring the track "Rumours of War". Although there is social comment ("The Few", "North Sea Bubble"), it was intended as a more commercial pop album, released in September 1991. (Bragg called it "a very long-range attempt to convert the ball between the posts."[26]). The first single was the upbeat "Sexuality", which, despite an accessible video and a dance remix on the B-side, only reached Number 27 on the UK Singles Chart. Following overtures by rival label Chrysalis, Bragg and Jenner had been persuaded by Go! Discs' Andy and Juliet Macdonald to sign a four-album deal for a million pound advance; in return he would promote the album with singles and videos.[27] A more commercial sound and aggressive marketing had no appreciable effect on album sales, and after a grueling, 13-month world tour with a full band (the Red Stars, led by Wiggy), and a period of forced convalescence after appendicitis, Bragg left Go! Discs in summer 1992, paying back the remainder of his advance in return for all rights to his back catalogue.[28]

Late 1990s and 2000s[edit]

Bragg released the album William Bloke in 1996 after taking time off to help new partner Juliet Wills raise their son Jack. (There is a reference to him in the track "Brickbat": "Now you'll find me with the baby, in the bathroom.")[29] After the ambitious instrumentation of Don't Try This at Home, it was a simpler record, musically, more personal and even spiritual, lyrically (its title a pun on the name of 18th-century English poet William Blake, who is referenced in the song "Upfield").[30]

Around that time, Nora Guthrie (daughter of American folk artist Woody Guthrie) asked Bragg to set some of her father's unrecorded lyrics to music. The result was a collaboration with the band Wilco and Natalie Merchant (with whom Bragg had worked previously). They released the album Mermaid Avenue in 1998,[31] and Mermaid Avenue Vol. II in 2000.[32] The first album was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category. A third batch, Mermaid Avenue Vol III, and The Complete Sessions followed in 2012 to mark Woody Guthrie's centennial.[33] A rift with Wilco over mixing and sequencing the first album led to Bragg recruiting his own band, The Blokes, to promote the album live. The Blokes included keyboardist Ian McLagan, who had been a member of Bragg's boyhood heroes The Faces. The documentary film Man in the Sand depicts the roles of Nora Guthrie, Bragg, and Wilco in the creation of the Mermaid Avenue albums.[34]

A developing interest in English national identity, driven by the rise of the BNP and his own move from London to rural Dorset in 1999, informed his 2002 album England, Half-English (whose single, "Take Down The Union Jack" put him back on Top of the Pops in the Queen's Golden Jubilee year[35]) and his 2006 book The Progressive Patriot. The book expressed his view that English socialists can reclaim patriotism from the right wing. He draws on Victorian poet Rudyard Kipling for an inclusive sense of Englishness.[36] In 2007 Bragg moved closer to his English folk music roots by joining the WOMAD-inspired collective The Imagined Village, who recorded an album of updated versions of traditional English songs and dances and toured through that autumn.[37]

In December Bragg previewed tracks from his forthcoming album Mr. Love & Justice at a one-off evening of music and conversation to mark his 50th birthday at London's South Bank.[38] The album was released in March 2008, the second Bragg album to be named after a book by Colin MacInnes after England, Half-English.[39][40] The same year, during the NME Awards ceremony, Bragg sang a duet with British solo act Kate Nash. They mixed up two of their greatest hits, Nash playing "Foundations", and Bragg redoing "A New England".[41] Also in 2008, Bragg played a small role in Stuart Bamforth's film A13: Road Movie.[42]

In 2009, Bragg was invited by London's South Bank to write new lyrics for "Ode to Joy", the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (original libretto by Friedrich Schiller), since adopted as an international anthem of unity. The London Philharmonic Orchestra performed it at the Royal Festival Hall in front of the Queen and Bragg met her afterwards to earn "brownie points" with his mother, also in attendance.[43]

2010s[edit]

He was involved in the play Pressure Drop at the Wellcome Collection in London in April and May 2010. The production, written by Mick Gorden, and billed as "part play, part gig, part installation", featured new songs by Bragg. He performed during the play with his band, and acted as compere.[44]

Bragg was invited by Michael Eavis to curate the Leftfield stage at Glastonbury Festival in 2010,[45] which he has continued to do in subsequent years.[46] He also took part in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty-Six Books, where he wrote a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible.[47] Bragg performed a set of the Guthrie songs that he had set to music for Mermaid Avenue during the Hay Literary Festival in June 2012,[48] he also performed the same set on the Friday night of the 2012 Cambridge Folk Festival.[49]

On 18 March 2013, five years after Mr. Love & Justice, Bragg released the studio album Tooth & Nail. Recorded in five days at the home studio of musician/producer Joe Henry in South Pasadena it featured 11 original songs, including one written for the Bush Theatre and a Woody Guthrie cover. Stylistically, it continued to explore genres of Americana and Alternative country, a natural progression since Mermaid Avenue.[50][51] The album was a commercial success, becoming his best charting record since 1991's Don't Try This at Home.[52]

  

Bragg with Joe Henry at the Union Chapel, Islington.

In February 2014, Bragg started a series of "radio shows" on Spotify, in which he talked listeners through self-curated playlists of "his favourite tracks and artists, and uncovering some little-known musical gems."[53] On 14 April 2014, Bragg put out Live at the Union Chapel, a souvenir album and DVD of a show he played on 5 June 2013 at the Union Chapel in London, featuring songs from Tooth & Nail as well as favourites from his back catalogue.[54]

In February 2016, Bragg was given the Trailblazer Award at the inaugural Americana Music Association UK Awards in London.[55] Following that, in September he was given the Spirit of Americana Free Speech Award at the Americana Music Association US Awards in Nashville.[56]

In August 2016, Bragg released his eleventh album, a collaboration with Joe Henry, Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad, recorded at various points on a journey between Chicago and Los Angeles by train in March. It reached number 28 in the UK Album Charts[57] and number one in the UK Americana album chart.[58] The pair started a dual Shine a Light tour at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville in September 2016, and taking them across the States and Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. In April 2017, they played in Australia.

Faber published Bragg's second nonfiction book (after 2006's The Progressive Patriot), Roots, Radicals and Rockers in June 2016, a history of the British skiffle movement, tracing the form from its 1950s boom back to ragtime, blues, jazz and American folk music. On BBC Music Day 2017, he helped unveil a blue plaque marking the studio (Trident) where the late David Bowie recorded two classic albums and the single Space Oddity, in Soho; he joined album sleeve designer George Underwood and BBC Radio London’s Robert Elms.[59] In November, he released all six tracks from the mini-album Bridges Not Walls as downloads through the Billy Bragg website,[60] followed by the single Full English Brexit through Cooking Vinyl.

In April 2018, Bragg was invited to deliver a Bank of England Flagship Seminar; his presentation was titled Accountability: the Antidote to Authoritarianism. The speech was made available on the Bank of England's website.[61] At the Ivor Novello Awards (the Ivors) in May, he accepted the PRS Outstanding Contribution to British Music award.[62] Also in May, his official biography Still Suitable for Miners was published in a new, 20th anniversary updated edition.[63]

He ended 2018 touring New Zealand and Australia. In Auckland, he road-tested a new live format for 2019 (first tried out in Toronto), One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. The idea was to play three consecutive shows over three nights at each venue: the first night a current, mixed Bragg set; the second from his first three albums; the third from his second three albums. "It’s a way of keeping things interesting," he said.[64] The tour would cover the United States and the UK and Ireland throughout 2019.

In May, Faber and Faber published The Three Dimensions of Freedom, a short polemic by Bragg intended, according to the publisher's blurb, to "protect ourselves from encroaching tyranny." The author urges readers to "look beyond [the] one-dimensional notion of what it means to be free" and "by reconnecting liberty to equality and accountability, restore ... the three dimensions of freedom."[65]

Politics and activism[edit]

For all of Bragg's 30-year-plus recording career he has been involved with grassroots, broadly leftist, political movements, and this is often reflected in his lyrics. He has also recorded and performed cover versions of famous socialist anthems such as "The Internationale" and "The Red Flag". Bragg said in an interview: "I don't mind being labelled a political songwriter. The thing that troubles me is being dismissed as a political songwriter."[66] Bragg has cited the Clash as a strong influence on his politically themed material and activism:

It wasn't so much their lyrics as what they stood for and the actions they took. That became really important to me. Phil Collins might write a song about the homeless, but if he doesn't have the action to go with it he's just exploiting that for a subject. I got that from the Clash, and I try to remain true to that tradition as best I can.[67]

From 1983 to 1997[edit]

Bragg's politics were focused by the Conservative Party's 144-seat majority landslide at the 1983 general election. He told his biographer, "By 1983, the scales had fallen from my eyes."[68] His record label boss Andy Macdonald observed that "his presence onstage took on more of the avenging angel."[69] Bragg was at the forefront of music's influence on the 1984 miners' strike, and played many benefit gigs in towns close to coalfields such as Newport and Sunderland.[70] He also released an EP during this year titled "Between the Wars", which connected struggles of class solidarity to the present issue. This single was his most successful up until this point, reaching number 15 on the charts.[71] The following year, after playing a short Labour Party-sponsored Jobs For Youth tour, he joined other like-minded activists in the public eye to form the musicians' alliance Red Wedge, which promoted Labour's cause – and in turn lobbied the party on youth issues – in the run-up to the 1987 general election,[72] with a national tour in 1986 alongside The Style Council, Jerry Dammers and The Communards.

Bragg travelled twice to the Soviet Union in 1986, the year Mikhail Gorbachev started to promote the policies of perestroika and glasnost. He played a gig in Leningrad, and the Festival of Song in the Struggle for Peace in Kyiv.[73]

 

On 12 June 1987, the night after Labour lost that year's general election, Bragg appeared on a notable edition of the Channel 4 discussion programme After Dark, alongside David Selbourne, Teresa Gorman and Hilary Hook among others. The Independent wrote "A show called Is Britain Working? brought together victorious Tory MP Teresa Gorman; ...Helen from the Stonehenge Convoy; old colonialist Colonel Hilary Hook... and Adrian, one of the jobless. It was a perfect example of the chemistry you can get. There were unlikely alliances (Bragg and Hook)".[74] Later Gorman "stormed off the set, claiming she had been misled about the nature of the programme"[75] "She told...Bragg: 'You and your kind are finished. We are the future now.'"[76] Bragg said "I sing in smokey rooms every night and I can keep talking for far longer than you can Teresa".[77] Bragg explained later: "She was so smug. And because she was Essex I took it personally. Then she accused me of being a fine example of Thatcherism."[78]

From 2010 to 2014[edit]

In the 2010 general election, Bragg supported the Liberal Democrats because "they've got the best manifesto".[88]

Bragg was also very active in his hometown of Barking as part of Searchlight magazine's Hope not Hate campaign, where the BNP's leader Nick Griffin was standing for election. At one point during the campaign Bragg squared up to BNP London Assembly Member Richard Barnbrook, calling him a "Fascist racist" and saying "when you're gone from this borough, we will rebuild this community". The BNP came third on election day.[89]

In January 2011, news sources reported that 20 to 30 residents of Bragg's Dorset village, Burton Bradstock, had received anonymous letters viciously attacking him and his politics, and urging residents to oppose him in the village. He claimed that a BNP supporter was behind the letters, which argued that Bragg is a hypocrite for advocating socialism while living a wealthy lifestyle, and referred to him as anti-British and pro-immigration.[90]

In July 2011 Bragg joined the growing protests over the News of the World phone hacking affair with the release of his "Never Buy the Sun" single, which references many of the scandal's key points including the Milly Dowler case, police bribes and associated political fallout. It also draws on the 22-year Liverpool boycott of The Sun for their coverage of the Hillsborough disaster.[91]

In October 2011, Bragg joined the Occupy Movement protests in the City of London.[92]

In 2013, despite his scathing criticism of Margaret Thatcher, he urged people not to celebrate the death of the former Conservative Prime Minister:

The death of Margaret Thatcher is nothing more than a salient reminder of how Britain got into the mess that we are in today. Of why ordinary working people are no longer able to earn enough from one job to support a family; of why there is a shortage of decent affordable housing... of why cynicism and greed became the hallmarks of our society. Raising a glass to the death of an infirm old lady changes none of this. The only real antidote to cynicism is activism. Don't celebrate – organise![93]

In 2014, Bragg joined the March in March anti-government protests[94] in Sydney, Australia.

In June 2014, Bragg joined other musicians (including Radiohead's Ed O'Brien) in backing a call for the EU to intervene in a dispute between YouTube and independent labels. According to a BBC News report, the video-streaming site was offering "non-negotiable contracts" to its planned, Spotify-like music-subscription service to labels such as XL Recordings, 4AD, Cooking Vinyl and Domino "accompanied by the threat that music videos they have posted to their YouTube channels will be blocked from site altogether if they do not agree to the terms."[95]

Bragg supports both Scottish and Welsh independence.[96] In 2014, after David Bowie spoke in favour of Scotland remaining part of the UK, Bragg said, "Bowie's intervention encourages people in England to discuss the issues of the independence referendum, and I think English people should be discussing it, so I welcome his intervention."[97] Bragg was a vocal supporter of Scottish independence during the campaign prior to the referendum on 18 September 2014. Bragg wrote an article for the Guardian publication on 16 September, in which he addressed the objections he had previously received from people who conflated Scottish nationalism with the far-right ethos of the BNP. He described the independence campaign as "civic nationalism" and his opinion piece concluded:

Support for Scottish self-determination might not fit neatly into any leftwing pigeonhole, but it does chime with an older progressive tradition that runs deep in English history – a dogged determination to hold the over-mighty to account. If, during the constitutional settlement that will follow the referendum, we in England can rediscover our Roundhead tradition, we might yet counter our historic weakness for ethnic nationalism with an outpouring of civic engagement that creates a fairer society for all.[98]

2015 to present[edit]

Bragg was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas at the 2015 general election.[99] In August 2015, Bragg endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. He said: "His [Corbyn's] success so far shows you how bland our politics have become, in the aim of winning those swing voters in middle England the Labour Party has lost touch with its roots. We live in a time of austerity and what you want from that is not more austerity, you want compassion."[100] On an edition of Question Time in October 2015, he said that Corbyn represents a political "urge for change" and that Ed Miliband had failed to win the 2015 general election because Miliband and the party followed "the old way of doing things".[101] In 2016, Bragg, along with numerous other celebrities, toured the UK to support Corbyn's bid to become Prime Minister.[102][103] He also voiced his support for Remain in the 2016 EU referendum.[104]

In August 2016, The Times reported that at the Edinburgh Book Festival, Bragg had said: "I worry about Jeremy that he's a kind of twentieth century Labour man", and that "we need to be reaching out to people". Described as a "previously loyal supporter", who has "lent his support to Mr Corbyn on numerous occasions since he became Labour leader", The Times quoted Bragg: "I don't have a simple answer. My hope is that the party does not split and that we resolve this stalemate". Corbyn at the time was campaigning in an enforced second leadership election in the summer of 2016.[105]

After The Times article appeared, the singer tweeted that he had "joined the long list of people stitched up by the Murdoch papers"[106] and accused the Times of "twisting my words to attack Corbyn", urging "don’t let Murdoch sow discord".[107] The Guardian reproduced a quote from a recording of the event absent from The Times article: "It's a challenge. Labour has fires to fight on different fronts. This would be happening even without Corbyn if any of the other candidates had won last year, these problems would still be there".[106] In August 2016, Bragg also endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.[108]

During the general election campaign in May 2017, Bragg added his signature to a letter published in The Guardian calling for Labour to withdraw its candidates in two constituencies; Brighton Pavilion and the Isle of Wight and potentially allowing the Green Party to defeat the Tories in both, where Labour were running second. The letter was also signed by Labour MP Clive Lewis, former policy chief Jon Cruddas, former shadow children's minister Tulip Siddiq and journalists Paul Mason and Owen Jones. The initiative was shut down by Jeremy Corbyn.[109]

In June 2019, Bragg publicly criticised fellow singer-songwriter Morrissey for his recent political comments and endorsement of a far-right political party, and accused him of dragging the legacy of Johnny Marr and the Smiths "through the dirt".[110]

In November 2019, Bragg endorsed the Labour Party in the 2019 general election.[111]

 

Stephen William Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, with lyrics that mostly span political or romantic themes. His music is heavily centred on bringing about change and involving the younger generation in activist causes.

Early life[edit]

Bragg was born in 1957 in Barking, Essex (which is now in Greater London)[2] to Dennis Frederick Austin Bragg, an assistant sales manager to a Barking cap maker and milliner, and his wife Marie Victoria D'Urso, who was of Italian descent.[3] Bragg's father died of lung cancer in 1976,[4] and his mother died in 2011.[5]

Bragg was educated at Northbury Junior School and Park Modern Secondary School (now part of Barking Abbey Secondary School[6]) in Barking. He failed his eleven-plus exam, effectively precluding him from going to university.[7] However he developed an interest in poetry at the age of twelve, when his English teacher chose him to read a poem he had written for a homework assignment on a local radio station.[8] He put his energies into learning and practising the guitar with his next-door neighbour, Philip Wigg (Wiggy); some of their influences were the Faces, Small Faces and the Rolling Stones. He was also exposed to folk and folk-rock music during his teenage years, citing Simon & Garfunkel and Bob Dylan as early influences on his songwriting.[8]

During the rise of punk rock and new wave in the late 1970s, Elvis Costello also served as an inspiration for Bragg.[9] He was also particularly influenced by the Clash, whom he'd seen play live in London in May 1977 on their White Riot Tour, and again at a Rock Against Racism carnival in April 1978, which he admits was the first time he really stepped into the world of music as it is used for political activism.[10] The experience of the gig and preceding march helped shape Bragg's left-wing politics, having previously "turned a blind eye" to casual racism.[10]

Career[edit]

Early career[edit]

In 1977 Bragg formed the punk rock/pub rock band Riff Raff with Wiggy. The band decamped to rural Oundle in Northamptonshire in 1978 to record a series of singles (the first on independent Chiswick Records) which did not receive wide exposure. After a period of gigging in Northamptonshire and London, they returned to Barking and split in 1980.[11] Taking a series of odd jobs including working at Guy Norris' record shop in Barking high street, Bragg became disillusioned with his stalled music career and in May 1981 joined the British Army as a recruit destined for the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars of the Royal Armoured Corps. After completing three months' basic training, he bought himself out for £175 and returned home.[12]

Bragg peroxided his hair to mark a new phase in his life and began performing frequent concerts and busking around London, playing solo with an electric guitar under the name Spy vs Spy (after the strip in Mad magazine).[13]

 

His demo tape initially got no response from the record industry, but by pretending to be a television repair man, he got into the office of Charisma Records' A&R man Peter Jenner.[14] Jenner liked the tape, but the company was near bankruptcy and had no budget to sign new artists. Bragg got an offer to record more demos for music publisher Chappell & Co., so Jenner agreed to release them as a record. Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy (credited to Billy Bragg) was released in July 1983 by Charisma's new imprint, Utility. Hearing DJ John Peel mention on-air that he was hungry, Bragg rushed to the BBC with a mushroom biryani, so Peel played a song from Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy albeit at the wrong speed (since the 12" LP was, unconventionally, cut to play at 45rpm). Peel insisted he would have played the song even without the biryani and later played it at the correct speed.[14]

Within months Charisma had been taken over by Virgin Records and Jenner, who had been made redundant, became Bragg's manager. Stiff Records' press officer Andy Macdonald – who was setting up his own record label, Go! Discs – received a copy of Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy. He made Virgin an offer and the album was re-released on Go! Discs in November 1983, at the fixed low price of £2.99.[15] Around this time, Andy Kershaw, an early supporter at Radio Aire in Leeds, was employed by Jenner as Bragg's tour manager. (He later became a BBC DJ and TV presenter, and he and Bragg appeared in an episode of the BBC TV programme Great Journeys in 1989, in which they travelled the Silver Road from Potosí, Bolivia, to the Pacific coast at Arica, Chile.)[16]

Though never released as a Bragg single, album track and live favourite "A New England", with an additional verse, became a Top 10 hit in the UK for Kirsty MacColl in January 1985. Since MacColl's early death, Bragg always sings the extra verse live in her honour.[17]

In 1984, he released Brewing Up with Billy Bragg, a mixture of political songs (e.g. "It Says Here") and songs of unrequited love (e.g. "The Saturday Boy"). This was followed in 1985 by Between the Wars, an EP of political songs that included a cover version of Leon Rosselson's "The World Turned Upside Down". The EP made the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart and earned Bragg an appearance on Top of the Pops, singing the title track. Bragg later collaborated with Rosselson on the song "Ballad of a Spycatcher".[18]

In the same year, he embarked on his first tour of North America, with Wiggy as tour manager, supporting Echo & the Bunnymen.[19] The tour began in Washington D.C. and ended in Los Angeles. On the same trip, in New York, Bragg unveiled his "Portastack",[20] a self-contained, mobile PA system weighing 35 lbs (designed for £500 by engineer Kenny Jones), the wearing of which became an archetypal image of the singer at that time. With it, he was able to busk outside the New Music Seminar, a record industry conference.[21]

Late 1980s and early 1990s[edit]

In 1986 Bragg released Talking with the Taxman About Poetry, which became his first Top 10 album. Its title is taken from a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky and a translated version of the poem was printed on the record's inner sleeve. Back to Basics is a 1987 collection of his first three releases: Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy, Brewing Up with Billy Bragg, and Between the Wars. He enjoyed his only Number 1 hit single in May 1988, a cover of the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home", a shared A-side with Wet Wet Wet's "With a Little Help from My Friends". Both were taken from a multi-artist re-recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band titled Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father coordinated by the NME in aid of the charity Childline. Wet Wet Wet's cover dominated radio airplay and its video was shown over three consecutive weeks on Top of the Pops; in week four, Bragg went on the programme to play his cover, with regular accompanist Cara Tivey on piano.[22]

Bragg released his fourth album, Workers Playtime, in September 1988. With this album, Bragg added a full backing band and accompaniment, including Tivey on piano, Danny Thompson on double bass and veteran Micky Waller on drums. Wiggy earned a co-production credit with Joe Boyd.[23]

In August 1989 Bragg took lead vocal on the ‘Levi Stubbs’ Tears’ sampling Norman Cook's UK top 40 hit "Won’t Talk About It", which was a double-A-side with "Blame It On the Bassline". The track was a bigger hit a year later with Lindy Layton replacing Bragg as lead vocal.[citation needed]

In May 1990 Bragg released the political mini-LP The Internationale on his and Jenner's own short-lived label Utility, which operated independently of Go! Discs, to which Bragg was still contracted. The songs were, in part, a return to his solo guitar style, but some featured more complicated arrangements and included a brass band. The album paid tribute to one of Bragg's influences with the song, "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night", which is an adapted version of Earl Robinson's song, "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", itself an adaptation of a poem by Alfred Hayes.[24] Though the album only reached Number 34 in the UK Charts, Bragg described it as "a reassertion of my rights as an individual ... and a childish two fingers [to Go! Discs boss Andy Macdonald, who'd recently signed a distribution deal with entertainment industry giant PolyGram]."[25]

His sixth studio album Don't Try This at Home was recorded in the shadow of the build-up to the Gulf War and subsequent ground war, inspiring the track "Rumours of War". Although there is social comment ("The Few", "North Sea Bubble"), it was intended as a more commercial pop album, released in September 1991. (Bragg called it "a very long-range attempt to convert the ball between the posts."[26]). The first single was the upbeat "Sexuality", which, despite an accessible video and a dance remix on the B-side, only reached Number 27 on the UK Singles Chart. Following overtures by rival label Chrysalis, Bragg and Jenner had been persuaded by Go! Discs' Andy and Juliet Macdonald to sign a four-album deal for a million pound advance; in return he would promote the album with singles and videos.[27] A more commercial sound and aggressive marketing had no appreciable effect on album sales, and after a grueling, 13-month world tour with a full band (the Red Stars, led by Wiggy), and a period of forced convalescence after appendicitis, Bragg left Go! Discs in summer 1992, paying back the remainder of his advance in return for all rights to his back catalogue.[28]

Late 1990s and 2000s[edit]

Bragg released the album William Bloke in 1996 after taking time off to help new partner Juliet Wills raise their son Jack. (There is a reference to him in the track "Brickbat": "Now you'll find me with the baby, in the bathroom.")[29] After the ambitious instrumentation of Don't Try This at Home, it was a simpler record, musically, more personal and even spiritual, lyrically (its title a pun on the name of 18th-century English poet William Blake, who is referenced in the song "Upfield").[30]

Around that time, Nora Guthrie (daughter of American folk artist Woody Guthrie) asked Bragg to set some of her father's unrecorded lyrics to music. The result was a collaboration with the band Wilco and Natalie Merchant (with whom Bragg had worked previously). They released the album Mermaid Avenue in 1998,[31] and Mermaid Avenue Vol. II in 2000.[32] The first album was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category. A third batch, Mermaid Avenue Vol III, and The Complete Sessions followed in 2012 to mark Woody Guthrie's centennial.[33] A rift with Wilco over mixing and sequencing the first album led to Bragg recruiting his own band, The Blokes, to promote the album live. The Blokes included keyboardist Ian McLagan, who had been a member of Bragg's boyhood heroes The Faces. The documentary film Man in the Sand depicts the roles of Nora Guthrie, Bragg, and Wilco in the creation of the Mermaid Avenue albums.[34]

A developing interest in English national identity, driven by the rise of the BNP and his own move from London to rural Dorset in 1999, informed his 2002 album England, Half-English (whose single, "Take Down The Union Jack" put him back on Top of the Pops in the Queen's Golden Jubilee year[35]) and his 2006 book The Progressive Patriot. The book expressed his view that English socialists can reclaim patriotism from the right wing. He draws on Victorian poet Rudyard Kipling for an inclusive sense of Englishness.[36] In 2007 Bragg moved closer to his English folk music roots by joining the WOMAD-inspired collective The Imagined Village, who recorded an album of updated versions of traditional English songs and dances and toured through that autumn.[37]

In December Bragg previewed tracks from his forthcoming album Mr. Love & Justice at a one-off evening of music and conversation to mark his 50th birthday at London's South Bank.[38] The album was released in March 2008, the second Bragg album to be named after a book by Colin MacInnes after England, Half-English.[39][40] The same year, during the NME Awards ceremony, Bragg sang a duet with British solo act Kate Nash. They mixed up two of their greatest hits, Nash playing "Foundations", and Bragg redoing "A New England".[41] Also in 2008, Bragg played a small role in Stuart Bamforth's film A13: Road Movie.[42]

In 2009, Bragg was invited by London's South Bank to write new lyrics for "Ode to Joy", the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (original libretto by Friedrich Schiller), since adopted as an international anthem of unity. The London Philharmonic Orchestra performed it at the Royal Festival Hall in front of the Queen and Bragg met her afterwards to earn "brownie points" with his mother, also in attendance.[43]

2010s[edit]

He was involved in the play Pressure Drop at the Wellcome Collection in London in April and May 2010. The production, written by Mick Gorden, and billed as "part play, part gig, part installation", featured new songs by Bragg. He performed during the play with his band, and acted as compere.[44]

Bragg was invited by Michael Eavis to curate the Leftfield stage at Glastonbury Festival in 2010,[45] which he has continued to do in subsequent years.[46] He also took part in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty-Six Books, where he wrote a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible.[47] Bragg performed a set of the Guthrie songs that he had set to music for Mermaid Avenue during the Hay Literary Festival in June 2012,[48] he also performed the same set on the Friday night of the 2012 Cambridge Folk Festival.[49]

On 18 March 2013, five years after Mr. Love & Justice, Bragg released the studio album Tooth & Nail. Recorded in five days at the home studio of musician/producer Joe Henry in South Pasadena it featured 11 original songs, including one written for the Bush Theatre and a Woody Guthrie cover. Stylistically, it continued to explore genres of Americana and Alternative country, a natural progression since Mermaid Avenue.[50][51] The album was a commercial success, becoming his best charting record since 1991's Don't Try This at Home.[52]

  

Bragg with Joe Henry at the Union Chapel, Islington.

In February 2014, Bragg started a series of "radio shows" on Spotify, in which he talked listeners through self-curated playlists of "his favourite tracks and artists, and uncovering some little-known musical gems."[53] On 14 April 2014, Bragg put out Live at the Union Chapel, a souvenir album and DVD of a show he played on 5 June 2013 at the Union Chapel in London, featuring songs from Tooth & Nail as well as favourites from his back catalogue.[54]

In February 2016, Bragg was given the Trailblazer Award at the inaugural Americana Music Association UK Awards in London.[55] Following that, in September he was given the Spirit of Americana Free Speech Award at the Americana Music Association US Awards in Nashville.[56]

In August 2016, Bragg released his eleventh album, a collaboration with Joe Henry, Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad, recorded at various points on a journey between Chicago and Los Angeles by train in March. It reached number 28 in the UK Album Charts[57] and number one in the UK Americana album chart.[58] The pair started a dual Shine a Light tour at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville in September 2016, and taking them across the States and Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. In April 2017, they played in Australia.

Faber published Bragg's second nonfiction book (after 2006's The Progressive Patriot), Roots, Radicals and Rockers in June 2016, a history of the British skiffle movement, tracing the form from its 1950s boom back to ragtime, blues, jazz and American folk music. On BBC Music Day 2017, he helped unveil a blue plaque marking the studio (Trident) where the late David Bowie recorded two classic albums and the single Space Oddity, in Soho; he joined album sleeve designer George Underwood and BBC Radio London’s Robert Elms.[59] In November, he released all six tracks from the mini-album Bridges Not Walls as downloads through the Billy Bragg website,[60] followed by the single Full English Brexit through Cooking Vinyl.

In April 2018, Bragg was invited to deliver a Bank of England Flagship Seminar; his presentation was titled Accountability: the Antidote to Authoritarianism. The speech was made available on the Bank of England's website.[61] At the Ivor Novello Awards (the Ivors) in May, he accepted the PRS Outstanding Contribution to British Music award.[62] Also in May, his official biography Still Suitable for Miners was published in a new, 20th anniversary updated edition.[63]

He ended 2018 touring New Zealand and Australia. In Auckland, he road-tested a new live format for 2019 (first tried out in Toronto), One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. The idea was to play three consecutive shows over three nights at each venue: the first night a current, mixed Bragg set; the second from his first three albums; the third from his second three albums. "It’s a way of keeping things interesting," he said.[64] The tour would cover the United States and the UK and Ireland throughout 2019.

In May, Faber and Faber published The Three Dimensions of Freedom, a short polemic by Bragg intended, according to the publisher's blurb, to "protect ourselves from encroaching tyranny." The author urges readers to "look beyond [the] one-dimensional notion of what it means to be free" and "by reconnecting liberty to equality and accountability, restore ... the three dimensions of freedom."[65]

Politics and activism[edit]

For all of Bragg's 30-year-plus recording career he has been involved with grassroots, broadly leftist, political movements, and this is often reflected in his lyrics. He has also recorded and performed cover versions of famous socialist anthems such as "The Internationale" and "The Red Flag". Bragg said in an interview: "I don't mind being labelled a political songwriter. The thing that troubles me is being dismissed as a political songwriter."[66] Bragg has cited the Clash as a strong influence on his politically themed material and activism:

It wasn't so much their lyrics as what they stood for and the actions they took. That became really important to me. Phil Collins might write a song about the homeless, but if he doesn't have the action to go with it he's just exploiting that for a subject. I got that from the Clash, and I try to remain true to that tradition as best I can.[67]

From 1983 to 1997[edit]

Bragg's politics were focused by the Conservative Party's 144-seat majority landslide at the 1983 general election. He told his biographer, "By 1983, the scales had fallen from my eyes."[68] His record label boss Andy Macdonald observed that "his presence onstage took on more of the avenging angel."[69] Bragg was at the forefront of music's influence on the 1984 miners' strike, and played many benefit gigs in towns close to coalfields such as Newport and Sunderland.[70] He also released an EP during this year titled "Between the Wars", which connected struggles of class solidarity to the present issue. This single was his most successful up until this point, reaching number 15 on the charts.[71] The following year, after playing a short Labour Party-sponsored Jobs For Youth tour, he joined other like-minded activists in the public eye to form the musicians' alliance Red Wedge, which promoted Labour's cause – and in turn lobbied the party on youth issues – in the run-up to the 1987 general election,[72] with a national tour in 1986 alongside The Style Council, Jerry Dammers and The Communards.

Bragg travelled twice to the Soviet Union in 1986, the year Mikhail Gorbachev started to promote the policies of perestroika and glasnost. He played a gig in Leningrad, and the Festival of Song in the Struggle for Peace in Kyiv.[73]

 

On 12 June 1987, the night after Labour lost that year's general election, Bragg appeared on a notable edition of the Channel 4 discussion programme After Dark, alongside David Selbourne, Teresa Gorman and Hilary Hook among others. The Independent wrote "A show called Is Britain Working? brought together victorious Tory MP Teresa Gorman; ...Helen from the Stonehenge Convoy; old colonialist Colonel Hilary Hook... and Adrian, one of the jobless. It was a perfect example of the chemistry you can get. There were unlikely alliances (Bragg and Hook)".[74] Later Gorman "stormed off the set, claiming she had been misled about the nature of the programme"[75] "She told...Bragg: 'You and your kind are finished. We are the future now.'"[76] Bragg said "I sing in smokey rooms every night and I can keep talking for far longer than you can Teresa".[77] Bragg explained later: "She was so smug. And because she was Essex I took it personally. Then she accused me of being a fine example of Thatcherism."[78]

From 2010 to 2014[edit]

In the 2010 general election, Bragg supported the Liberal Democrats because "they've got the best manifesto".[88]

Bragg was also very active in his hometown of Barking as part of Searchlight magazine's Hope not Hate campaign, where the BNP's leader Nick Griffin was standing for election. At one point during the campaign Bragg squared up to BNP London Assembly Member Richard Barnbrook, calling him a "Fascist racist" and saying "when you're gone from this borough, we will rebuild this community". The BNP came third on election day.[89]

In January 2011, news sources reported that 20 to 30 residents of Bragg's Dorset village, Burton Bradstock, had received anonymous letters viciously attacking him and his politics, and urging residents to oppose him in the village. He claimed that a BNP supporter was behind the letters, which argued that Bragg is a hypocrite for advocating socialism while living a wealthy lifestyle, and referred to him as anti-British and pro-immigration.[90]

In July 2011 Bragg joined the growing protests over the News of the World phone hacking affair with the release of his "Never Buy the Sun" single, which references many of the scandal's key points including the Milly Dowler case, police bribes and associated political fallout. It also draws on the 22-year Liverpool boycott of The Sun for their coverage of the Hillsborough disaster.[91]

In October 2011, Bragg joined the Occupy Movement protests in the City of London.[92]

In 2013, despite his scathing criticism of Margaret Thatcher, he urged people not to celebrate the death of the former Conservative Prime Minister:

The death of Margaret Thatcher is nothing more than a salient reminder of how Britain got into the mess that we are in today. Of why ordinary working people are no longer able to earn enough from one job to support a family; of why there is a shortage of decent affordable housing... of why cynicism and greed became the hallmarks of our society. Raising a glass to the death of an infirm old lady changes none of this. The only real antidote to cynicism is activism. Don't celebrate – organise![93]

In 2014, Bragg joined the March in March anti-government protests[94] in Sydney, Australia.

In June 2014, Bragg joined other musicians (including Radiohead's Ed O'Brien) in backing a call for the EU to intervene in a dispute between YouTube and independent labels. According to a BBC News report, the video-streaming site was offering "non-negotiable contracts" to its planned, Spotify-like music-subscription service to labels such as XL Recordings, 4AD, Cooking Vinyl and Domino "accompanied by the threat that music videos they have posted to their YouTube channels will be blocked from site altogether if they do not agree to the terms."[95]

Bragg supports both Scottish and Welsh independence.[96] In 2014, after David Bowie spoke in favour of Scotland remaining part of the UK, Bragg said, "Bowie's intervention encourages people in England to discuss the issues of the independence referendum, and I think English people should be discussing it, so I welcome his intervention."[97] Bragg was a vocal supporter of Scottish independence during the campaign prior to the referendum on 18 September 2014. Bragg wrote an article for the Guardian publication on 16 September, in which he addressed the objections he had previously received from people who conflated Scottish nationalism with the far-right ethos of the BNP. He described the independence campaign as "civic nationalism" and his opinion piece concluded:

Support for Scottish self-determination might not fit neatly into any leftwing pigeonhole, but it does chime with an older progressive tradition that runs deep in English history – a dogged determination to hold the over-mighty to account. If, during the constitutional settlement that will follow the referendum, we in England can rediscover our Roundhead tradition, we might yet counter our historic weakness for ethnic nationalism with an outpouring of civic engagement that creates a fairer society for all.[98]

2015 to present[edit]

Bragg was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas at the 2015 general election.[99] In August 2015, Bragg endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. He said: "His [Corbyn's] success so far shows you how bland our politics have become, in the aim of winning those swing voters in middle England the Labour Party has lost touch with its roots. We live in a time of austerity and what you want from that is not more austerity, you want compassion."[100] On an edition of Question Time in October 2015, he said that Corbyn represents a political "urge for change" and that Ed Miliband had failed to win the 2015 general election because Miliband and the party followed "the old way of doing things".[101] In 2016, Bragg, along with numerous other celebrities, toured the UK to support Corbyn's bid to become Prime Minister.[102][103] He also voiced his support for Remain in the 2016 EU referendum.[104]

In August 2016, The Times reported that at the Edinburgh Book Festival, Bragg had said: "I worry about Jeremy that he's a kind of twentieth century Labour man", and that "we need to be reaching out to people". Described as a "previously loyal supporter", who has "lent his support to Mr Corbyn on numerous occasions since he became Labour leader", The Times quoted Bragg: "I don't have a simple answer. My hope is that the party does not split and that we resolve this stalemate". Corbyn at the time was campaigning in an enforced second leadership election in the summer of 2016.[105]

After The Times article appeared, the singer tweeted that he had "joined the long list of people stitched up by the Murdoch papers"[106] and accused the Times of "twisting my words to attack Corbyn", urging "don’t let Murdoch sow discord".[107] The Guardian reproduced a quote from a recording of the event absent from The Times article: "It's a challenge. Labour has fires to fight on different fronts. This would be happening even without Corbyn if any of the other candidates had won last year, these problems would still be there".[106] In August 2016, Bragg also endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.[108]

During the general election campaign in May 2017, Bragg added his signature to a letter published in The Guardian calling for Labour to withdraw its candidates in two constituencies; Brighton Pavilion and the Isle of Wight and potentially allowing the Green Party to defeat the Tories in both, where Labour were running second. The letter was also signed by Labour MP Clive Lewis, former policy chief Jon Cruddas, former shadow children's minister Tulip Siddiq and journalists Paul Mason and Owen Jones. The initiative was shut down by Jeremy Corbyn.[109]

In June 2019, Bragg publicly criticised fellow singer-songwriter Morrissey for his recent political comments and endorsement of a far-right political party, and accused him of dragging the legacy of Johnny Marr and the Smiths "through the dirt".[110]

In November 2019, Bragg endorsed the Labour Party in the 2019 general election.[111]

 

Stephen William Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, with lyrics that mostly span political or romantic themes. His music is heavily centred on bringing about change and involving the younger generation in activist causes.

Early life[edit]

Bragg was born in 1957 in Barking, Essex (which is now in Greater London)[2] to Dennis Frederick Austin Bragg, an assistant sales manager to a Barking cap maker and milliner, and his wife Marie Victoria D'Urso, who was of Italian descent.[3] Bragg's father died of lung cancer in 1976,[4] and his mother died in 2011.[5]

Bragg was educated at Northbury Junior School and Park Modern Secondary School (now part of Barking Abbey Secondary School[6]) in Barking. He failed his eleven-plus exam, effectively precluding him from going to university.[7] However he developed an interest in poetry at the age of twelve, when his English teacher chose him to read a poem he had written for a homework assignment on a local radio station.[8] He put his energies into learning and practising the guitar with his next-door neighbour, Philip Wigg (Wiggy); some of their influences were the Faces, Small Faces and the Rolling Stones. He was also exposed to folk and folk-rock music during his teenage years, citing Simon & Garfunkel and Bob Dylan as early influences on his songwriting.[8]

During the rise of punk rock and new wave in the late 1970s, Elvis Costello also served as an inspiration for Bragg.[9] He was also particularly influenced by the Clash, whom he'd seen play live in London in May 1977 on their White Riot Tour, and again at a Rock Against Racism carnival in April 1978, which he admits was the first time he really stepped into the world of music as it is used for political activism.[10] The experience of the gig and preceding march helped shape Bragg's left-wing politics, having previously "turned a blind eye" to casual racism.[10]

Career[edit]

Early career[edit]

In 1977 Bragg formed the punk rock/pub rock band Riff Raff with Wiggy. The band decamped to rural Oundle in Northamptonshire in 1978 to record a series of singles (the first on independent Chiswick Records) which did not receive wide exposure. After a period of gigging in Northamptonshire and London, they returned to Barking and split in 1980.[11] Taking a series of odd jobs including working at Guy Norris' record shop in Barking high street, Bragg became disillusioned with his stalled music career and in May 1981 joined the British Army as a recruit destined for the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars of the Royal Armoured Corps. After completing three months' basic training, he bought himself out for £175 and returned home.[12]

Bragg peroxided his hair to mark a new phase in his life and began performing frequent concerts and busking around London, playing solo with an electric guitar under the name Spy vs Spy (after the strip in Mad magazine).[13]

 

His demo tape initially got no response from the record industry, but by pretending to be a television repair man, he got into the office of Charisma Records' A&R man Peter Jenner.[14] Jenner liked the tape, but the company was near bankruptcy and had no budget to sign new artists. Bragg got an offer to record more demos for music publisher Chappell & Co., so Jenner agreed to release them as a record. Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy (credited to Billy Bragg) was released in July 1983 by Charisma's new imprint, Utility. Hearing DJ John Peel mention on-air that he was hungry, Bragg rushed to the BBC with a mushroom biryani, so Peel played a song from Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy albeit at the wrong speed (since the 12" LP was, unconventionally, cut to play at 45rpm). Peel insisted he would have played the song even without the biryani and later played it at the correct speed.[14]

Within months Charisma had been taken over by Virgin Records and Jenner, who had been made redundant, became Bragg's manager. Stiff Records' press officer Andy Macdonald – who was setting up his own record label, Go! Discs – received a copy of Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy. He made Virgin an offer and the album was re-released on Go! Discs in November 1983, at the fixed low price of £2.99.[15] Around this time, Andy Kershaw, an early supporter at Radio Aire in Leeds, was employed by Jenner as Bragg's tour manager. (He later became a BBC DJ and TV presenter, and he and Bragg appeared in an episode of the BBC TV programme Great Journeys in 1989, in which they travelled the Silver Road from Potosí, Bolivia, to the Pacific coast at Arica, Chile.)[16]

Though never released as a Bragg single, album track and live favourite "A New England", with an additional verse, became a Top 10 hit in the UK for Kirsty MacColl in January 1985. Since MacColl's early death, Bragg always sings the extra verse live in her honour.[17]

In 1984, he released Brewing Up with Billy Bragg, a mixture of political songs (e.g. "It Says Here") and songs of unrequited love (e.g. "The Saturday Boy"). This was followed in 1985 by Between the Wars, an EP of political songs that included a cover version of Leon Rosselson's "The World Turned Upside Down". The EP made the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart and earned Bragg an appearance on Top of the Pops, singing the title track. Bragg later collaborated with Rosselson on the song "Ballad of a Spycatcher".[18]

In the same year, he embarked on his first tour of North America, with Wiggy as tour manager, supporting Echo & the Bunnymen.[19] The tour began in Washington D.C. and ended in Los Angeles. On the same trip, in New York, Bragg unveiled his "Portastack",[20] a self-contained, mobile PA system weighing 35 lbs (designed for £500 by engineer Kenny Jones), the wearing of which became an archetypal image of the singer at that time. With it, he was able to busk outside the New Music Seminar, a record industry conference.[21]

Late 1980s and early 1990s[edit]

In 1986 Bragg released Talking with the Taxman About Poetry, which became his first Top 10 album. Its title is taken from a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky and a translated version of the poem was printed on the record's inner sleeve. Back to Basics is a 1987 collection of his first three releases: Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy, Brewing Up with Billy Bragg, and Between the Wars. He enjoyed his only Number 1 hit single in May 1988, a cover of the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home", a shared A-side with Wet Wet Wet's "With a Little Help from My Friends". Both were taken from a multi-artist re-recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band titled Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father coordinated by the NME in aid of the charity Childline. Wet Wet Wet's cover dominated radio airplay and its video was shown over three consecutive weeks on Top of the Pops; in week four, Bragg went on the programme to play his cover, with regular accompanist Cara Tivey on piano.[22]

Bragg released his fourth album, Workers Playtime, in September 1988. With this album, Bragg added a full backing band and accompaniment, including Tivey on piano, Danny Thompson on double bass and veteran Micky Waller on drums. Wiggy earned a co-production credit with Joe Boyd.[23]

In August 1989 Bragg took lead vocal on the ‘Levi Stubbs’ Tears’ sampling Norman Cook's UK top 40 hit "Won’t Talk About It", which was a double-A-side with "Blame It On the Bassline". The track was a bigger hit a year later with Lindy Layton replacing Bragg as lead vocal.[citation needed]

In May 1990 Bragg released the political mini-LP The Internationale on his and Jenner's own short-lived label Utility, which operated independently of Go! Discs, to which Bragg was still contracted. The songs were, in part, a return to his solo guitar style, but some featured more complicated arrangements and included a brass band. The album paid tribute to one of Bragg's influences with the song, "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night", which is an adapted version of Earl Robinson's song, "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", itself an adaptation of a poem by Alfred Hayes.[24] Though the album only reached Number 34 in the UK Charts, Bragg described it as "a reassertion of my rights as an individual ... and a childish two fingers [to Go! Discs boss Andy Macdonald, who'd recently signed a distribution deal with entertainment industry giant PolyGram]."[25]

His sixth studio album Don't Try This at Home was recorded in the shadow of the build-up to the Gulf War and subsequent ground war, inspiring the track "Rumours of War". Although there is social comment ("The Few", "North Sea Bubble"), it was intended as a more commercial pop album, released in September 1991. (Bragg called it "a very long-range attempt to convert the ball between the posts."[26]). The first single was the upbeat "Sexuality", which, despite an accessible video and a dance remix on the B-side, only reached Number 27 on the UK Singles Chart. Following overtures by rival label Chrysalis, Bragg and Jenner had been persuaded by Go! Discs' Andy and Juliet Macdonald to sign a four-album deal for a million pound advance; in return he would promote the album with singles and videos.[27] A more commercial sound and aggressive marketing had no appreciable effect on album sales, and after a grueling, 13-month world tour with a full band (the Red Stars, led by Wiggy), and a period of forced convalescence after appendicitis, Bragg left Go! Discs in summer 1992, paying back the remainder of his advance in return for all rights to his back catalogue.[28]

Late 1990s and 2000s[edit]

Bragg released the album William Bloke in 1996 after taking time off to help new partner Juliet Wills raise their son Jack. (There is a reference to him in the track "Brickbat": "Now you'll find me with the baby, in the bathroom.")[29] After the ambitious instrumentation of Don't Try This at Home, it was a simpler record, musically, more personal and even spiritual, lyrically (its title a pun on the name of 18th-century English poet William Blake, who is referenced in the song "Upfield").[30]

Around that time, Nora Guthrie (daughter of American folk artist Woody Guthrie) asked Bragg to set some of her father's unrecorded lyrics to music. The result was a collaboration with the band Wilco and Natalie Merchant (with whom Bragg had worked previously). They released the album Mermaid Avenue in 1998,[31] and Mermaid Avenue Vol. II in 2000.[32] The first album was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category. A third batch, Mermaid Avenue Vol III, and The Complete Sessions followed in 2012 to mark Woody Guthrie's centennial.[33] A rift with Wilco over mixing and sequencing the first album led to Bragg recruiting his own band, The Blokes, to promote the album live. The Blokes included keyboardist Ian McLagan, who had been a member of Bragg's boyhood heroes The Faces. The documentary film Man in the Sand depicts the roles of Nora Guthrie, Bragg, and Wilco in the creation of the Mermaid Avenue albums.[34]

A developing interest in English national identity, driven by the rise of the BNP and his own move from London to rural Dorset in 1999, informed his 2002 album England, Half-English (whose single, "Take Down The Union Jack" put him back on Top of the Pops in the Queen's Golden Jubilee year[35]) and his 2006 book The Progressive Patriot. The book expressed his view that English socialists can reclaim patriotism from the right wing. He draws on Victorian poet Rudyard Kipling for an inclusive sense of Englishness.[36] In 2007 Bragg moved closer to his English folk music roots by joining the WOMAD-inspired collective The Imagined Village, who recorded an album of updated versions of traditional English songs and dances and toured through that autumn.[37]

In December Bragg previewed tracks from his forthcoming album Mr. Love & Justice at a one-off evening of music and conversation to mark his 50th birthday at London's South Bank.[38] The album was released in March 2008, the second Bragg album to be named after a book by Colin MacInnes after England, Half-English.[39][40] The same year, during the NME Awards ceremony, Bragg sang a duet with British solo act Kate Nash. They mixed up two of their greatest hits, Nash playing "Foundations", and Bragg redoing "A New England".[41] Also in 2008, Bragg played a small role in Stuart Bamforth's film A13: Road Movie.[42]

In 2009, Bragg was invited by London's South Bank to write new lyrics for "Ode to Joy", the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (original libretto by Friedrich Schiller), since adopted as an international anthem of unity. The London Philharmonic Orchestra performed it at the Royal Festival Hall in front of the Queen and Bragg met her afterwards to earn "brownie points" with his mother, also in attendance.[43]

2010s[edit]

He was involved in the play Pressure Drop at the Wellcome Collection in London in April and May 2010. The production, written by Mick Gorden, and billed as "part play, part gig, part installation", featured new songs by Bragg. He performed during the play with his band, and acted as compere.[44]

Bragg was invited by Michael Eavis to curate the Leftfield stage at Glastonbury Festival in 2010,[45] which he has continued to do in subsequent years.[46] He also took part in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty-Six Books, where he wrote a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible.[47] Bragg performed a set of the Guthrie songs that he had set to music for Mermaid Avenue during the Hay Literary Festival in June 2012,[48] he also performed the same set on the Friday night of the 2012 Cambridge Folk Festival.[49]

On 18 March 2013, five years after Mr. Love & Justice, Bragg released the studio album Tooth & Nail. Recorded in five days at the home studio of musician/producer Joe Henry in South Pasadena it featured 11 original songs, including one written for the Bush Theatre and a Woody Guthrie cover. Stylistically, it continued to explore genres of Americana and Alternative country, a natural progression since Mermaid Avenue.[50][51] The album was a commercial success, becoming his best charting record since 1991's Don't Try This at Home.[52]

  

Bragg with Joe Henry at the Union Chapel, Islington.

In February 2014, Bragg started a series of "radio shows" on Spotify, in which he talked listeners through self-curated playlists of "his favourite tracks and artists, and uncovering some little-known musical gems."[53] On 14 April 2014, Bragg put out Live at the Union Chapel, a souvenir album and DVD of a show he played on 5 June 2013 at the Union Chapel in London, featuring songs from Tooth & Nail as well as favourites from his back catalogue.[54]

In February 2016, Bragg was given the Trailblazer Award at the inaugural Americana Music Association UK Awards in London.[55] Following that, in September he was given the Spirit of Americana Free Speech Award at the Americana Music Association US Awards in Nashville.[56]

In August 2016, Bragg released his eleventh album, a collaboration with Joe Henry, Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad, recorded at various points on a journey between Chicago and Los Angeles by train in March. It reached number 28 in the UK Album Charts[57] and number one in the UK Americana album chart.[58] The pair started a dual Shine a Light tour at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville in September 2016, and taking them across the States and Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. In April 2017, they played in Australia.

Faber published Bragg's second nonfiction book (after 2006's The Progressive Patriot), Roots, Radicals and Rockers in June 2016, a history of the British skiffle movement, tracing the form from its 1950s boom back to ragtime, blues, jazz and American folk music. On BBC Music Day 2017, he helped unveil a blue plaque marking the studio (Trident) where the late David Bowie recorded two classic albums and the single Space Oddity, in Soho; he joined album sleeve designer George Underwood and BBC Radio London’s Robert Elms.[59] In November, he released all six tracks from the mini-album Bridges Not Walls as downloads through the Billy Bragg website,[60] followed by the single Full English Brexit through Cooking Vinyl.

In April 2018, Bragg was invited to deliver a Bank of England Flagship Seminar; his presentation was titled Accountability: the Antidote to Authoritarianism. The speech was made available on the Bank of England's website.[61] At the Ivor Novello Awards (the Ivors) in May, he accepted the PRS Outstanding Contribution to British Music award.[62] Also in May, his official biography Still Suitable for Miners was published in a new, 20th anniversary updated edition.[63]

He ended 2018 touring New Zealand and Australia. In Auckland, he road-tested a new live format for 2019 (first tried out in Toronto), One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. The idea was to play three consecutive shows over three nights at each venue: the first night a current, mixed Bragg set; the second from his first three albums; the third from his second three albums. "It’s a way of keeping things interesting," he said.[64] The tour would cover the United States and the UK and Ireland throughout 2019.

In May, Faber and Faber published The Three Dimensions of Freedom, a short polemic by Bragg intended, according to the publisher's blurb, to "protect ourselves from encroaching tyranny." The author urges readers to "look beyond [the] one-dimensional notion of what it means to be free" and "by reconnecting liberty to equality and accountability, restore ... the three dimensions of freedom."[65]

Politics and activism[edit]

For all of Bragg's 30-year-plus recording career he has been involved with grassroots, broadly leftist, political movements, and this is often reflected in his lyrics. He has also recorded and performed cover versions of famous socialist anthems such as "The Internationale" and "The Red Flag". Bragg said in an interview: "I don't mind being labelled a political songwriter. The thing that troubles me is being dismissed as a political songwriter."[66] Bragg has cited the Clash as a strong influence on his politically themed material and activism:

It wasn't so much their lyrics as what they stood for and the actions they took. That became really important to me. Phil Collins might write a song about the homeless, but if he doesn't have the action to go with it he's just exploiting that for a subject. I got that from the Clash, and I try to remain true to that tradition as best I can.[67]

From 1983 to 1997[edit]

Bragg's politics were focused by the Conservative Party's 144-seat majority landslide at the 1983 general election. He told his biographer, "By 1983, the scales had fallen from my eyes."[68] His record label boss Andy Macdonald observed that "his presence onstage took on more of the avenging angel."[69] Bragg was at the forefront of music's influence on the 1984 miners' strike, and played many benefit gigs in towns close to coalfields such as Newport and Sunderland.[70] He also released an EP during this year titled "Between the Wars", which connected struggles of class solidarity to the present issue. This single was his most successful up until this point, reaching number 15 on the charts.[71] The following year, after playing a short Labour Party-sponsored Jobs For Youth tour, he joined other like-minded activists in the public eye to form the musicians' alliance Red Wedge, which promoted Labour's cause – and in turn lobbied the party on youth issues – in the run-up to the 1987 general election,[72] with a national tour in 1986 alongside The Style Council, Jerry Dammers and The Communards.

Bragg travelled twice to the Soviet Union in 1986, the year Mikhail Gorbachev started to promote the policies of perestroika and glasnost. He played a gig in Leningrad, and the Festival of Song in the Struggle for Peace in Kyiv.[73]

 

On 12 June 1987, the night after Labour lost that year's general election, Bragg appeared on a notable edition of the Channel 4 discussion programme After Dark, alongside David Selbourne, Teresa Gorman and Hilary Hook among others. The Independent wrote "A show called Is Britain Working? brought together victorious Tory MP Teresa Gorman; ...Helen from the Stonehenge Convoy; old colonialist Colonel Hilary Hook... and Adrian, one of the jobless. It was a perfect example of the chemistry you can get. There were unlikely alliances (Bragg and Hook)".[74] Later Gorman "stormed off the set, claiming she had been misled about the nature of the programme"[75] "She told...Bragg: 'You and your kind are finished. We are the future now.'"[76] Bragg said "I sing in smokey rooms every night and I can keep talking for far longer than you can Teresa".[77] Bragg explained later: "She was so smug. And because she was Essex I took it personally. Then she accused me of being a fine example of Thatcherism."[78]

From 2010 to 2014[edit]

In the 2010 general election, Bragg supported the Liberal Democrats because "they've got the best manifesto".[88]

Bragg was also very active in his hometown of Barking as part of Searchlight magazine's Hope not Hate campaign, where the BNP's leader Nick Griffin was standing for election. At one point during the campaign Bragg squared up to BNP London Assembly Member Richard Barnbrook, calling him a "Fascist racist" and saying "when you're gone from this borough, we will rebuild this community". The BNP came third on election day.[89]

In January 2011, news sources reported that 20 to 30 residents of Bragg's Dorset village, Burton Bradstock, had received anonymous letters viciously attacking him and his politics, and urging residents to oppose him in the village. He claimed that a BNP supporter was behind the letters, which argued that Bragg is a hypocrite for advocating socialism while living a wealthy lifestyle, and referred to him as anti-British and pro-immigration.[90]

In July 2011 Bragg joined the growing protests over the News of the World phone hacking affair with the release of his "Never Buy the Sun" single, which references many of the scandal's key points including the Milly Dowler case, police bribes and associated political fallout. It also draws on the 22-year Liverpool boycott of The Sun for their coverage of the Hillsborough disaster.[91]

In October 2011, Bragg joined the Occupy Movement protests in the City of London.[92]

In 2013, despite his scathing criticism of Margaret Thatcher, he urged people not to celebrate the death of the former Conservative Prime Minister:

The death of Margaret Thatcher is nothing more than a salient reminder of how Britain got into the mess that we are in today. Of why ordinary working people are no longer able to earn enough from one job to support a family; of why there is a shortage of decent affordable housing... of why cynicism and greed became the hallmarks of our society. Raising a glass to the death of an infirm old lady changes none of this. The only real antidote to cynicism is activism. Don't celebrate – organise![93]

In 2014, Bragg joined the March in March anti-government protests[94] in Sydney, Australia.

In June 2014, Bragg joined other musicians (including Radiohead's Ed O'Brien) in backing a call for the EU to intervene in a dispute between YouTube and independent labels. According to a BBC News report, the video-streaming site was offering "non-negotiable contracts" to its planned, Spotify-like music-subscription service to labels such as XL Recordings, 4AD, Cooking Vinyl and Domino "accompanied by the threat that music videos they have posted to their YouTube channels will be blocked from site altogether if they do not agree to the terms."[95]

Bragg supports both Scottish and Welsh independence.[96] In 2014, after David Bowie spoke in favour of Scotland remaining part of the UK, Bragg said, "Bowie's intervention encourages people in England to discuss the issues of the independence referendum, and I think English people should be discussing it, so I welcome his intervention."[97] Bragg was a vocal supporter of Scottish independence during the campaign prior to the referendum on 18 September 2014. Bragg wrote an article for the Guardian publication on 16 September, in which he addressed the objections he had previously received from people who conflated Scottish nationalism with the far-right ethos of the BNP. He described the independence campaign as "civic nationalism" and his opinion piece concluded:

Support for Scottish self-determination might not fit neatly into any leftwing pigeonhole, but it does chime with an older progressive tradition that runs deep in English history – a dogged determination to hold the over-mighty to account. If, during the constitutional settlement that will follow the referendum, we in England can rediscover our Roundhead tradition, we might yet counter our historic weakness for ethnic nationalism with an outpouring of civic engagement that creates a fairer society for all.[98]

2015 to present[edit]

Bragg was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas at the 2015 general election.[99] In August 2015, Bragg endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. He said: "His [Corbyn's] success so far shows you how bland our politics have become, in the aim of winning those swing voters in middle England the Labour Party has lost touch with its roots. We live in a time of austerity and what you want from that is not more austerity, you want compassion."[100] On an edition of Question Time in October 2015, he said that Corbyn represents a political "urge for change" and that Ed Miliband had failed to win the 2015 general election because Miliband and the party followed "the old way of doing things".[101] In 2016, Bragg, along with numerous other celebrities, toured the UK to support Corbyn's bid to become Prime Minister.[102][103] He also voiced his support for Remain in the 2016 EU referendum.[104]

In August 2016, The Times reported that at the Edinburgh Book Festival, Bragg had said: "I worry about Jeremy that he's a kind of twentieth century Labour man", and that "we need to be reaching out to people". Described as a "previously loyal supporter", who has "lent his support to Mr Corbyn on numerous occasions since he became Labour leader", The Times quoted Bragg: "I don't have a simple answer. My hope is that the party does not split and that we resolve this stalemate". Corbyn at the time was campaigning in an enforced second leadership election in the summer of 2016.[105]

After The Times article appeared, the singer tweeted that he had "joined the long list of people stitched up by the Murdoch papers"[106] and accused the Times of "twisting my words to attack Corbyn", urging "don’t let Murdoch sow discord".[107] The Guardian reproduced a quote from a recording of the event absent from The Times article: "It's a challenge. Labour has fires to fight on different fronts. This would be happening even without Corbyn if any of the other candidates had won last year, these problems would still be there".[106] In August 2016, Bragg also endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.[108]

During the general election campaign in May 2017, Bragg added his signature to a letter published in The Guardian calling for Labour to withdraw its candidates in two constituencies; Brighton Pavilion and the Isle of Wight and potentially allowing the Green Party to defeat the Tories in both, where Labour were running second. The letter was also signed by Labour MP Clive Lewis, former policy chief Jon Cruddas, former shadow children's minister Tulip Siddiq and journalists Paul Mason and Owen Jones. The initiative was shut down by Jeremy Corbyn.[109]

In June 2019, Bragg publicly criticised fellow singer-songwriter Morrissey for his recent political comments and endorsement of a far-right political party, and accused him of dragging the legacy of Johnny Marr and the Smiths "through the dirt".[110]

In November 2019, Bragg endorsed the Labour Party in the 2019 general election.[111]

 

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James Lavelle

Guy J

 

Sunset Terrace hosted by Future Disco

Broadcast Live on Ibiza Sonica

Few Nolder (Live)

Sean Brosnan

After Midnight

Mr.Doris Presents After Dark

Aldo Vanucci

Mr.Doris

Little Prince

Banana Boogaloo

 

Premier Etage hosted by Emerging Ibiza

 

El Salon hosted by Slovenian DJ Showcase

DJ Baly

  

02ND AUGUST

 

Discoteca:

Carl Cox

Nicole Moudaber

Umek

 

Covered Terrace:

Sasha

Monika Kruse

Steve Mulder

 

Sunset Terrace hosted by Angels Of Love

Broadcast Live on Ibiza Sonica

After Midnight

Mo’Funk

  

09TH AUGUST

 

Discoteca:

Carl Cox

Pan-Pot

Carlo Lio

 

Covered Terrace:

Fatboy Slim

Stefano Noferini

Just Be

 

Sunset Terrace hosted by Angels Of Love

Broadcast live by Ibiza Sonica

After Midnight

DJ Callum

 

Premier Etage hosted by Luckylife Presents

 

El Salon hosted by Electronique

Juliche Hernández b2b Moises

The Willers Brothers

Adam Chappell

Ripley

Si Heslin

  

16TH AUGUST

 

Discoteca:

Carl Cox

Kerri Chandler

Heidi

 

Covered Terrace:

Joris Voorn

Josh Wink

Drumcomplex & Roel Salemink (Live)

 

Sunset Terrace hosted by Angels Of Love

Broadcast Live by Ibiza Sonica

After Midnight

Andy Baxter

 

Premier Etage hosted by Float Your Boat

Jason Bye

 

El Salon hosted by The Secret After Party

Quini!

  

23RD AUGUST

 

Discoteca:

Carl Cox

Loco Dice

Magda

 

Covered Terrace:

Masters At Work

Artwork

 

Sunset Terrace hosted by Angels Of Love

Broadcast Live by Ibiza Sonica

After Midnight

Mr.Doris Presents After Dark

Smoove

DJ Cheba

Mr.Doris

The Allergies

Mo’Funk

 

Premier Etage hosted by Midnight Social Recordings

Carlo Gambino

Joe Morris

Steve Jones

Lee Guthrie

 

El Salon

Sam Graham

Andrea De Niro

  

30TH AUGUST

 

Discoteca:

Adam Beyer

Carl Craig

Yousef

 

Covered Terrace:

Nicole Moudaber

Julio Bashmore

Catz ’N Dogz

 

Sunset Terrace hosted by Ibiza Sonica

Pirupa

After mIdnight

DJ Callum

 

Premier Etage hosted by Clara Da Costa Presents Jacks House

Clara Da Costa

Two Diggers

 

El Salon hosted by Electronique

Special Guest TBA

Di Andre (Live)

SY b2b Si Alker

MACK b2b Jim Rider b2b Matt Henshaw

   

06TH SEPTEMBER

 

Discoteca:

Carl Cox

Nina Kraviz

Davide Squillace

 

Covered Terrace:

Eats Everything

Hot Since 82

David Glass

 

Sunset Terrace hosted by Ibiza Sonica

Darren Emerson

After midnight

Mo’Funk

 

Premier Etage hosted by Midnight Social Recordings

Carlo Gambino

Dudley Strangeways

Tim Weeks

Sydney

Lee Gibson

 

El Salon hosted by Unity Radio

  

13TH SEPTEMBER

 

Discoteca:

Carl Cox

Marco Carola

Deetron

 

Covered Terrace:

John Digweed

Eli & Fur

Saeed Younan

 

Sunset Terrace hosted by Ibiza Sonica

Carl Cox

After Midnight

Mr.Doris Presents After Dark

A.Skillz

D-Funk

Mr.Doris

Ghetto Funk Allstars

Kevin Cutts

 

Premier Etage hosted by The Secret After Party

Quini!

 

El Salon hosted by Digital Groove

Mikey Duncan

Alex Maxwell

Woody

Harry Miller

Scott Fleming

  

20TH SEPTEMBER – CLOSING PARTY

 

Discoteca:

Carl Cox (All Night Long)

 

Covered Terrace:

DJ Sneak

Nic Fanciulli

tINI

 

Sunset Terrace hosted by Ibiza Sonica

Popof b2b Julian Jeweil

After Midnight

DJ Callum

Andy Baxter

Ken Fan

 

Premier Etage hosted by Clara Da Costa Presents Jacks House

Clara Da Costa

Alex Arnout

 

El Salon

Eoin Smyth & Friend

   

14 JUNIO – 20 SEPTIEMBRE 2016

THE FINAL CHAPTER

MUSIC IS REVOLUTION

  

Este verano en Ibiza solo hay un sitio en el que estar los martes por la noche: siendo testigo de la última temporada de Carl Cox en Space. Comenzando el 14 de Junio, Carl vuelve en otras 15 ocasiones acompañado de un line up de lujo para todas y cada una de sus fiestas.

 

Safehouse Management y Carl han estado trabajando sin descanso para asegurarse una de las programaciones más potentes de sus 15 años de historia, y cuenta con un montón de caras conocidas que vuelven para acompañar a Carl en su despedida de su icónica residencia. Ya están confirmada la programación para cada una de las fechas del verano, de forma que los fans puedan ir planificando su calendario de verano teniendo esto en cuenta.

 

Todo comenzará el 14 de Junio, inaugurando la temporada con estilo, ya que Carl vendrá acompañado por Luciano y Cristian Varela en la Discoteca, mientras que la Terraza cubierta será capitaneada por Matthias Tanzmann, Michel De Hey y la presentadora de Radio 1 de BBC, B.Traits. A lo largo de estas 15 semanas podrás disfrutar de las sesiones de muchos de los DJs más importantes del mundo, como Loco Dice, Fatboy Slim, Josh Wink, Erick Morillo, Kerri Chandler, Dubfire, Marco Bailey, Nicole Moudaber, John Digweed, Nic Fanciulli, Davide Squillace, Chris Liebing, Carl Craig y Yousef, además de otros pesos pesados de la escena electrónica, nuevos talentos, e invitados sorpresa, haciendo que la fiesta Music Is Revolution de este año sea una experiencia que no te puedes perder en Ibiza.

 

Las entradas anticipadas para algunas de las fiestas se están agotando en cuestión de horas. Debido a la gran expectación la demanda está por las nubes y los tickets se venden como nunca. La primera de las fiestas para las que ya no quedan tickets es la Closing Party del 20 de septiembre. DJ Sneak, Nic Fanciulli y tINI se harán cargo de la Terraza mientras que Carl pinchará toda la noche en la Discoteca, lo cual promete ser muy emocionante, al tratarse de la última vez que actuará en Space. Su sesión será apoteósica y posiblemente una de las más recordadas de su carrera. Ibiza ya no volverá a ser igual sin Carl Cox en Space.

 

Los invitados de este año para tomar el control de El Salon y la Premier Etage son Clara Da Costa Presents Jacks House, Electronique, Digital:Groove y Unity Radio.

 

Además, Future Disco organizará dos noches en la Sunset Terrace, con Ashworth, Few Nolder (Live) & el residente de Future Disco, Sean Brosnan. Igualmente, Angels Of Love volverán como anfitriones de la Sunset Terrace durante el mes de Agosto.

 

Ibiza Sonica e Ibiza Global Radio retransmitirán los eventos desde la Sunset Terrace durante todo el verano.

¡

   

S.A.S.S. 2010 Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

#1C-4, A 1974 Bell Helmet with 52 Picture Proof Autographs From NASCAR and INDY Drivers, (See List Below For Full List and Placement)

 

1) Ed Carpenter, INDY, #20, Menards,

2) Alex Tagliani, INDY, HOT WHEELS,

3) N/A

4) N/A

5) Shean Guthrie, INDY,

6) Sara Fisher, INDY, #4, Dollar General,

7) Robby Gordon, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #7, Jim Beam,

8) Ron Hornaday Jr., NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Kevin Harvick, Inc.,

9) Casey Attwood, NASCAR , Busch, #9, Vigoro,

10) Steven Wallace, NASCAR, Busch, #64, Dodge, Rusty Wallace's Son

11) Danny Gilliland, NASCAR, Busch, #50, World Insurance,

12) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, # , HusQuarna,

13) Krista Voda, NASCAR, Speed, TNN,

14) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Trucks, Aero,

15) Amend Andretti, NASCAR, Busch, Owner, Mario's Bother,

16) John Andretti, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #10, Camping World,

17) N/A

18) Todd Bodine, NASCAR, Trucks, #30, Lumber Liquidator,

19) Carl Edwards, NASCAR, Sprint, Scotts, Office Depot,

20) Dennis Setzer, NASCAR, Trucks, #85, Fleifuel,

21) Joey Miller, NASCAR, Trucks, #12, Tundra Toyota,

22) Bill Lester, NASCAR, Trucks, #22, NAPA,

23) David Green, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, #27, Kleenex, Slim Jim, Caterpillar,

24) Jon Woods, NASCAR, Busch, #47,

25) David Ragan, NASCAR,Sprint, #6, Scotts,

26) Clint Bowyer, NASCAR, Sprint, #2, AC Delco,

27) Tim Sauter, NASCAR, Busch, #36, Lester,

28) M. McFarland, NASCAR, Busch, #88, NAVY, Dale Jr. Car

29) Milka INDY, #29,

30) Mike Wallace, NASCAR, Busch,

31) N/A,

32) N/A,

33) Tracy Hines, NASCAR, Busch, #12, Supercuts,

34) Brendan Gaughan, NASCAR, Trucks, #77, New Orleans,

35) Bobby Hamilton Jr., NASCAR, Busch, #18, Fast, #35, McDonald's,

36) Fleming, NASCAR, Sprint, Crew Chief, Roush,

37) Justin Alligator, NASCAR, Busch#63, Air Force,

38) David Reutimann, NASCAR, Trucks , Sprint, #17, Tundra Toyota,

39) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Busch, Yard Man,

40) Erin Crocker, NASCAR, Trucks, #98, Cheerios,

41) Derrick Cope, NASCAR, Sprint, Daytona 500 Winner,

42) Mike Skinner, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #5, Tundra Toyota, GM Goodwrench,

43) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #75, Spears,

44) Phil Parsons, NASCAR, Busch, Speed Channel,

45) Mike Bliss, NASCAR, #16, IWX,

46) Andy Houston, NASCAR, Trucks, Busch, #10, Camping World, McDonald's,

47) Matt Crafton, NASCAR, Trucks, #88, MENARDS,

48) Johnny Benson, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #23, Toyota Certified, Valvoline,

49) Rick Corillie, NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Crew Chief,

50) Terry Cook, NASCAR, Trucks, #10, Ford Power Stroke,

51) Ted Musgrave, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #9, A.S.E.,

52) Kerry Earnhardt, NASCAR, #13, Pork Racing,

 

Drivers signed, But N/A Where?

1) #17, Tire Discount,

#1C-4, A 1974 Bell Helmet with 52 Picture Proof Autographs From NASCAR and INDY Drivers, (See List Below For Full List and Placement)

 

1) Ed Carpenter, INDY, #20, Menards,

2) Alex Tagliani, INDY, HOT WHEELS,

3) N/A

4) N/A

5) Shean Guthrie, INDY,

6) Sara Fisher, INDY, #4, Dollar General,

7) Robby Gordon, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #7, Jim Beam,

8) Ron Hornaday Jr., NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Kevin Harvick, Inc.,

9) Casey Attwood, NASCAR , Busch, #9, Vigoro,

10) Steven Wallace, NASCAR, Busch, #64, Dodge, Rusty Wallace's Son

11) Danny Gilliland, NASCAR, Busch, #50, World Insurance,

12) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, # , HusQuarna,

13) Krista Voda, NASCAR, Speed, TNN,

14) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Trucks, Aero,

15) Amend Andretti, NASCAR, Busch, Owner, Mario's Bother,

16) John Andretti, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #10, Camping World,

17) N/A

18) Todd Bodine, NASCAR, Trucks, #30, Lumber Liquidator,

19) Carl Edwards, NASCAR, Sprint, Scotts, Office Depot,

20) Dennis Setzer, NASCAR, Trucks, #85, Fleifuel,

21) Joey Miller, NASCAR, Trucks, #12, Tundra Toyota,

22) Bill Lester, NASCAR, Trucks, #22, NAPA,

23) David Green, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, #27, Kleenex, Slim Jim, Caterpillar,

24) Jon Woods, NASCAR, Busch, #47,

25) David Ragan, NASCAR,Sprint, #6, Scotts,

26) Clint Bowyer, NASCAR, Sprint, #2, AC Delco,

27) Tim Sauter, NASCAR, Busch, #36, Lester,

28) M. McFarland, NASCAR, Busch, #88, NAVY, Dale Jr. Car

29) Milka INDY, #29,

30) Mike Wallace, NASCAR, Busch,

31) N/A,

32) N/A,

33) Tracy Hines, NASCAR, Busch, #12, Supercuts,

34) Brendan Gaughan, NASCAR, Trucks, #77, New Orleans,

35) Bobby Hamilton Jr., NASCAR, Busch, #18, Fast, #35, McDonald's,

36) Fleming, NASCAR, Sprint, Crew Chief, Roush,

37) Justin Alligator, NASCAR, Busch#63, Air Force,

38) David Reutimann, NASCAR, Trucks , Sprint, #17, Tundra Toyota,

39) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Busch, Yard Man,

40) Erin Crocker, NASCAR, Trucks, #98, Cheerios,

41) Derrick Cope, NASCAR, Sprint, Daytona 500 Winner,

42) Mike Skinner, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #5, Tundra Toyota, GM Goodwrench,

43) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #75, Spears,

44) Phil Parsons, NASCAR, Busch, Speed Channel,

45) Mike Bliss, NASCAR, #16, IWX,

46) Andy Houston, NASCAR, Trucks, Busch, #10, Camping World, McDonald's,

47) Matt Crafton, NASCAR, Trucks, #88, MENARDS,

48) Johnny Benson, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #23, Toyota Certified, Valvoline,

49) Rick Corillie, NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Crew Chief,

50) Terry Cook, NASCAR, Trucks, #10, Ford Power Stroke,

51) Ted Musgrave, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #9, A.S.E.,

52) Kerry Earnhardt, NASCAR, #13, Pork Racing,

 

Drivers signed, But N/A Where?

1) #17, Tire Discount,

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.TimHortons.com

www.MusicBC.org

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

#1C-4, A 1974 Bell Helmet with 52 Picture Proof Autographs From NASCAR and INDY Drivers, (See List Below For Full List and Placement)

 

1) Ed Carpenter, INDY, #20, Menards,

2) Alex Tagliani, INDY, HOT WHEELS,

3) N/A

4) N/A

5) Shean Guthrie, INDY,

6) Sara Fisher, INDY, #4, Dollar General,

7) Robby Gordon, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #7, Jim Beam,

8) Ron Hornaday Jr., NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Kevin Harvick, Inc.,

9) Casey Attwood, NASCAR , Busch, #9, Vigoro,

10) Steven Wallace, NASCAR, Busch, #64, Dodge, Rusty Wallace's Son

11) Danny Gilliland, NASCAR, Busch, #50, World Insurance,

12) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, # , HusQuarna,

13) Krista Voda, NASCAR, Speed, TNN,

14) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Trucks, Aero,

15) Amend Andretti, NASCAR, Busch, Owner, Mario's Bother,

16) John Andretti, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #10, Camping World,

17) N/A

18) Todd Bodine, NASCAR, Trucks, #30, Lumber Liquidator,

19) Carl Edwards, NASCAR, Sprint, Scotts, Office Depot,

20) Dennis Setzer, NASCAR, Trucks, #85, Fleifuel,

21) Joey Miller, NASCAR, Trucks, #12, Tundra Toyota,

22) Bill Lester, NASCAR, Trucks, #22, NAPA,

23) David Green, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, #27, Kleenex, Slim Jim, Caterpillar,

24) Jon Woods, NASCAR, Busch, #47,

25) David Ragan, NASCAR,Sprint, #6, Scotts,

26) Clint Bowyer, NASCAR, Sprint, #2, AC Delco,

27) Tim Sauter, NASCAR, Busch, #36, Lester,

28) M. McFarland, NASCAR, Busch, #88, NAVY, Dale Jr. Car

29) Milka INDY, #29,

30) Mike Wallace, NASCAR, Busch,

31) N/A,

32) N/A,

33) Tracy Hines, NASCAR, Busch, #12, Supercuts,

34) Brendan Gaughan, NASCAR, Trucks, #77, New Orleans,

35) Bobby Hamilton Jr., NASCAR, Busch, #18, Fast, #35, McDonald's,

36) Fleming, NASCAR, Sprint, Crew Chief, Roush,

37) Justin Alligator, NASCAR, Busch#63, Air Force,

38) David Reutimann, NASCAR, Trucks , Sprint, #17, Tundra Toyota,

39) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Busch, Yard Man,

40) Erin Crocker, NASCAR, Trucks, #98, Cheerios,

41) Derrick Cope, NASCAR, Sprint, Daytona 500 Winner,

42) Mike Skinner, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #5, Tundra Toyota, GM Goodwrench,

43) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #75, Spears,

44) Phil Parsons, NASCAR, Busch, Speed Channel,

45) Mike Bliss, NASCAR, #16, IWX,

46) Andy Houston, NASCAR, Trucks, Busch, #10, Camping World, McDonald's,

47) Matt Crafton, NASCAR, Trucks, #88, MENARDS,

48) Johnny Benson, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #23, Toyota Certified, Valvoline,

49) Rick Corillie, NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Crew Chief,

50) Terry Cook, NASCAR, Trucks, #10, Ford Power Stroke,

51) Ted Musgrave, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #9, A.S.E.,

52) Kerry Earnhardt, NASCAR, #13, Pork Racing,

 

Drivers signed, But N/A Where?

1) #17, Tire Discount,

#1C-4, A 1974 Bell Helmet with 52 Picture Proof Autographs From NASCAR and INDY Drivers, (See List Below For Full List and Placement)

 

1) Ed Carpenter, INDY, #20, Menards,

2) Alex Tagliani, INDY, HOT WHEELS,

3) N/A

4) N/A

5) Shean Guthrie, INDY,

6) Sara Fisher, INDY, #4, Dollar General,

7) Robby Gordon, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #7, Jim Beam,

8) Ron Hornaday Jr., NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Kevin Harvick, Inc.,

9) Casey Attwood, NASCAR , Busch, #9, Vigoro,

10) Steven Wallace, NASCAR, Busch, #64, Dodge, Rusty Wallace's Son

11) Danny Gilliland, NASCAR, Busch, #50, World Insurance,

12) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, # , HusQuarna,

13) Krista Voda, NASCAR, Speed, TNN,

14) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Trucks, Aero,

15) Amend Andretti, NASCAR, Busch, Owner, Mario's Bother,

16) John Andretti, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #10, Camping World,

17) N/A

18) Todd Bodine, NASCAR, Trucks, #30, Lumber Liquidator,

19) Carl Edwards, NASCAR, Sprint, Scotts, Office Depot,

20) Dennis Setzer, NASCAR, Trucks, #85, Fleifuel,

21) Joey Miller, NASCAR, Trucks, #12, Tundra Toyota,

22) Bill Lester, NASCAR, Trucks, #22, NAPA,

23) David Green, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, #27, Kleenex, Slim Jim, Caterpillar,

24) Jon Woods, NASCAR, Busch, #47,

25) David Ragan, NASCAR,Sprint, #6, Scotts,

26) Clint Bowyer, NASCAR, Sprint, #2, AC Delco,

27) Tim Sauter, NASCAR, Busch, #36, Lester,

28) M. McFarland, NASCAR, Busch, #88, NAVY, Dale Jr. Car

29) Milka INDY, #29,

30) Mike Wallace, NASCAR, Busch,

31) N/A,

32) N/A,

33) Tracy Hines, NASCAR, Busch, #12, Supercuts,

34) Brendan Gaughan, NASCAR, Trucks, #77, New Orleans,

35) Bobby Hamilton Jr., NASCAR, Busch, #18, Fast, #35, McDonald's,

36) Fleming, NASCAR, Sprint, Crew Chief, Roush,

37) Justin Alligator, NASCAR, Busch#63, Air Force,

38) David Reutimann, NASCAR, Trucks , Sprint, #17, Tundra Toyota,

39) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Busch, Yard Man,

40) Erin Crocker, NASCAR, Trucks, #98, Cheerios,

41) Derrick Cope, NASCAR, Sprint, Daytona 500 Winner,

42) Mike Skinner, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #5, Tundra Toyota, GM Goodwrench,

43) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #75, Spears,

44) Phil Parsons, NASCAR, Busch, Speed Channel,

45) Mike Bliss, NASCAR, #16, IWX,

46) Andy Houston, NASCAR, Trucks, Busch, #10, Camping World, McDonald's,

47) Matt Crafton, NASCAR, Trucks, #88, MENARDS,

48) Johnny Benson, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #23, Toyota Certified, Valvoline,

49) Rick Corillie, NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Crew Chief,

50) Terry Cook, NASCAR, Trucks, #10, Ford Power Stroke,

51) Ted Musgrave, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #9, A.S.E.,

52) Kerry Earnhardt, NASCAR, #13, Pork Racing,

 

Drivers signed, But N/A Where?

1) #17, Tire Discount,

#1C-4, A 1974 Bell Helmet with 52 Picture Proof Autographs From NASCAR and INDY Drivers, (See List Below For Full List and Placement)

 

1) Ed Carpenter, INDY, #20, Menards,

2) Alex Tagliani, INDY, HOT WHEELS,

3) N/A

4) N/A

5) Shean Guthrie, INDY,

6) Sara Fisher, INDY, #4, Dollar General,

7) Robby Gordon, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #7, Jim Beam,

8) Ron Hornaday Jr., NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Kevin Harvick, Inc.,

9) Casey Attwood, NASCAR , Busch, #9, Vigoro,

10) Steven Wallace, NASCAR, Busch, #64, Dodge, Rusty Wallace's Son

11) Danny Gilliland, NASCAR, Busch, #50, World Insurance,

12) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, # , HusQuarna,

13) Krista Voda, NASCAR, Speed, TNN,

14) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Trucks, Aero,

15) Amend Andretti, NASCAR, Busch, Owner, Mario's Bother,

16) John Andretti, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #10, Camping World,

17) N/A

18) Todd Bodine, NASCAR, Trucks, #30, Lumber Liquidator,

19) Carl Edwards, NASCAR, Sprint, Scotts, Office Depot,

20) Dennis Setzer, NASCAR, Trucks, #85, Fleifuel,

21) Joey Miller, NASCAR, Trucks, #12, Tundra Toyota,

22) Bill Lester, NASCAR, Trucks, #22, NAPA,

23) David Green, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, #27, Kleenex, Slim Jim, Caterpillar,

24) Jon Woods, NASCAR, Busch, #47,

25) David Ragan, NASCAR,Sprint, #6, Scotts,

26) Clint Bowyer, NASCAR, Sprint, #2, AC Delco,

27) Tim Sauter, NASCAR, Busch, #36, Lester,

28) M. McFarland, NASCAR, Busch, #88, NAVY, Dale Jr. Car

29) Milka INDY, #29,

30) Mike Wallace, NASCAR, Busch,

31) N/A,

32) N/A,

33) Tracy Hines, NASCAR, Busch, #12, Supercuts,

34) Brendan Gaughan, NASCAR, Trucks, #77, New Orleans,

35) Bobby Hamilton Jr., NASCAR, Busch, #18, Fast, #35, McDonald's,

36) Fleming, NASCAR, Sprint, Crew Chief, Roush,

37) Justin Alligator, NASCAR, Busch#63, Air Force,

38) David Reutimann, NASCAR, Trucks , Sprint, #17, Tundra Toyota,

39) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Busch, Yard Man,

40) Erin Crocker, NASCAR, Trucks, #98, Cheerios,

41) Derrick Cope, NASCAR, Sprint, Daytona 500 Winner,

42) Mike Skinner, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #5, Tundra Toyota, GM Goodwrench,

43) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #75, Spears,

44) Phil Parsons, NASCAR, Busch, Speed Channel,

45) Mike Bliss, NASCAR, #16, IWX,

46) Andy Houston, NASCAR, Trucks, Busch, #10, Camping World, McDonald's,

47) Matt Crafton, NASCAR, Trucks, #88, MENARDS,

48) Johnny Benson, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #23, Toyota Certified, Valvoline,

49) Rick Corillie, NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Crew Chief,

50) Terry Cook, NASCAR, Trucks, #10, Ford Power Stroke,

51) Ted Musgrave, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #9, A.S.E.,

52) Kerry Earnhardt, NASCAR, #13, Pork Racing,

 

Drivers signed, But N/A Where?

1) #17, Tire Discount,

#1C-4, A 1974 Bell Helmet with 52 Picture Proof Autographs From NASCAR and INDY Drivers, (See List Below For Full List and Placement)

 

1) Ed Carpenter, INDY, #20, Menards,

2) Alex Tagliani, INDY, HOT WHEELS,

3) N/A

4) N/A

5) Shean Guthrie, INDY,

6) Sara Fisher, INDY, #4, Dollar General,

7) Robby Gordon, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #7, Jim Beam,

8) Ron Hornaday Jr., NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Kevin Harvick, Inc.,

9) Casey Attwood, NASCAR , Busch, #9, Vigoro,

10) Steven Wallace, NASCAR, Busch, #64, Dodge, Rusty Wallace's Son

11) Danny Gilliland, NASCAR, Busch, #50, World Insurance,

12) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, # , HusQuarna,

13) Krista Voda, NASCAR, Speed, TNN,

14) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Trucks, Aero,

15) Amend Andretti, NASCAR, Busch, Owner, Mario's Bother,

16) John Andretti, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #10, Camping World,

17) N/A

18) Todd Bodine, NASCAR, Trucks, #30, Lumber Liquidator,

19) Carl Edwards, NASCAR, Sprint, Scotts, Office Depot,

20) Dennis Setzer, NASCAR, Trucks, #85, Fleifuel,

21) Joey Miller, NASCAR, Trucks, #12, Tundra Toyota,

22) Bill Lester, NASCAR, Trucks, #22, NAPA,

23) David Green, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, #27, Kleenex, Slim Jim, Caterpillar,

24) Jon Woods, NASCAR, Busch, #47,

25) David Ragan, NASCAR,Sprint, #6, Scotts,

26) Clint Bowyer, NASCAR, Sprint, #2, AC Delco,

27) Tim Sauter, NASCAR, Busch, #36, Lester,

28) M. McFarland, NASCAR, Busch, #88, NAVY, Dale Jr. Car

29) Milka INDY, #29,

30) Mike Wallace, NASCAR, Busch,

31) N/A,

32) N/A,

33) Tracy Hines, NASCAR, Busch, #12, Supercuts,

34) Brendan Gaughan, NASCAR, Trucks, #77, New Orleans,

35) Bobby Hamilton Jr., NASCAR, Busch, #18, Fast, #35, McDonald's,

36) Fleming, NASCAR, Sprint, Crew Chief, Roush,

37) Justin Alligator, NASCAR, Busch#63, Air Force,

38) David Reutimann, NASCAR, Trucks , Sprint, #17, Tundra Toyota,

39) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Busch, Yard Man,

40) Erin Crocker, NASCAR, Trucks, #98, Cheerios,

41) Derrick Cope, NASCAR, Sprint, Daytona 500 Winner,

42) Mike Skinner, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #5, Tundra Toyota, GM Goodwrench,

43) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #75, Spears,

44) Phil Parsons, NASCAR, Busch, Speed Channel,

45) Mike Bliss, NASCAR, #16, IWX,

46) Andy Houston, NASCAR, Trucks, Busch, #10, Camping World, McDonald's,

47) Matt Crafton, NASCAR, Trucks, #88, MENARDS,

48) Johnny Benson, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #23, Toyota Certified, Valvoline,

49) Rick Corillie, NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Crew Chief,

50) Terry Cook, NASCAR, Trucks, #10, Ford Power Stroke,

51) Ted Musgrave, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #9, A.S.E.,

52) Kerry Earnhardt, NASCAR, #13, Pork Racing,

 

Drivers signed, But N/A Where?

1) #17, Tire Discount,

edited by Scott Anderson.

 

Toronto, summer 2oo1. 1oooo copies.

 

8-1/2 x 8-1/2, 21 sheets white bond folded & stapled twice into 3 sheets white chromecoat & white glossy card wrappers (inspected copy has a pair of staple holes in the center that don't go through the cover, suggesting there'd been a futher leaf (probably a return card) stapled in from the centerfold), all printed black opffset with 3-colour rocess additions to all covers & 9 interior pp.

 

cover photos by Yuki Kimura.

186 contributors ID'd:

Bambi Acconci, David Acheson, Claudette Agustin, Gert Anckaert, Phil Anderson, Scott Anderson, Isaac Applebaum, Steve Armstrong, Mowry Baden, Ian Baines, Barbara McGill Balfour, Carol Barbour, Rebecca Belmore, Tom Bendtsen, Joseph Paul Bergel, Michael Beynon, Yashin Blake, Adam Bobker, Roberta L.Bondar, Russ Bonfanti, Diane Bos, Danny Bowden, Rachel Brett, Winston Bronnum, Jessica Bronson, Jubal Brown, Tobi Bruce, Guido Bruidoclark, Chandra Bulucon, Ian Carr-Harris, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ken Case, Billy Childish, [--?--] Cho, Bill Clarke, Erin Curtin, Sylvia Ciurtis-Norcross, Mike Davey, Holly Dean, Joseph DeAngelis, Leah Decter, Reid Diamond, Rebecca Diederichs, Jason Dunda, Robert Durocher, Dave Dyment, Marcel Dzama, Matthew Edwards, Marwa Eladiry, Andy Fabo, Anne Fauteux, Jennifer Febbraro, David Ferguson, Chohreh Feyzdjou, Kathleen Finlay, Troy Forbes, Coco Forget, Gillian Frise, Daniel Fuchs, Geo Fuchs, Janine Fung, Carole Gallagher, Nick Gamble, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Pamela Gawn, Chris Gergley, Stéphane Gilot, Ernst [Gisef?], Simon Glass, Barbara Gowdy, Scott Griffin, Massimo Guerrera, Andrew Guthrie, Sophie Hackett, Emese Hajagos, Mark Hakala, Anitra Hamilton, S.R.Harris, Andrew Harwood, Jill Henderson, April Hickox, Sylvie Hill, Bettina Hoffman, Graham Hollings, Greg Holman, Cheng Biau Huang, Kim Hume, Jay Isaac, Katja Jacobs, Miss January, Jack Jeffrey, Gunilla Josephson, Shirley Kaufman, Chris Kennedy, André Kertész, Yuki Kumra, Lisa Klapstock, Phil Klygo, Germaine Koh, Ben Smith Lea, Wilson Lee, Buzz Lighthead, Caroline Lim, Huang Zong Lin, David Liss, Sue Lloyd, Andrew Lochead, Gar Lunney, David Mabb, Andrew MacDonald, Maggie MacDonald, Cassie MacLean, Patrick Mahon, Viktor Malyarenko, Dyan Marie, John Marriott, Silvana Matella, Steven Matijcio, Jennifer Matotek, Jeff Mayhew, Glenn McArthur, Alex McClelland, Betty McEachen, Sally McKay, MNary McKenzie, John McLachlin, Sara Mohammedi, Gordon Monahan, Amish Morrell, Ian Newton, Nancy Nicol, Mia Nielsen, [--?--] Nilioema, Lounge Ninja, Jack Niven, Elaine O'Connor, Daniel Olson, Catherine Osborne, Jamie Osborne, Paul P, Si Si P, Andrew J.Paterson, Mong Phu, Ray Piestick, Milena Placentile, Tina Poplawski, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Anthony Randall, Clint Roenisch, Malcolm Rogge, David Rokeby, Gina Rorair, [--?--] Sakis, Dana Samuel, Thomas H.Scott, Mark Schilling, Volker Seding, Dave Seymour, Floria Sigismondi, Rhonda Silver, Dionne Simpson, Andrew Sneddon, Siphay Soputhidara, Lucie Sparham, Fraser Stables, Matthew Storey, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Shaan Syed, Ruth Tait, Craig Taylor, Fra[n?]ces Thomas, Charles Thomsopn, Sally Trash, Jaret Valdera, Jason Van Horne, R.M.Vaughan, Leela Viswanathan, Egon Von Bark, Trixie Von Lukacs, Andrew Weir, Melanie Wheaton, Pae White, Jay Wilson, Jeff Winch, Andrew Wright, Chao Yu.

 

includes:

i) A Short History On NOTHING In Art, by Dave Dyment (p.25; prose in 13 numbered parts, part 1o on bpNichol with reference to Studies In The Book Machine)

#1C-4, A 1974 Bell Helmet with 52 Picture Proof Autographs From NASCAR and INDY Drivers, (See List Below For Full List and Placement)

 

1) Ed Carpenter, INDY, #20, Menards,

2) Alex Tagliani, INDY, HOT WHEELS,

3) N/A

4) N/A

5) Shean Guthrie, INDY,

6) Sara Fisher, INDY, #4, Dollar General,

7) Robby Gordon, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #7, Jim Beam,

8) Ron Hornaday Jr., NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Kevin Harvick, Inc.,

9) Casey Attwood, NASCAR , Busch, #9, Vigoro,

10) Steven Wallace, NASCAR, Busch, #64, Dodge, Rusty Wallace's Son

11) Danny Gilliland, NASCAR, Busch, #50, World Insurance,

12) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, # , HusQuarna,

13) Krista Voda, NASCAR, Speed, TNN,

14) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Trucks, Aero,

15) Amend Andretti, NASCAR, Busch, Owner, Mario's Bother,

16) John Andretti, INDY, NASCAR, Sprint, #10, Camping World,

17) N/A

18) Todd Bodine, NASCAR, Trucks, #30, Lumber Liquidator,

19) Carl Edwards, NASCAR, Sprint, Scotts, Office Depot,

20) Dennis Setzer, NASCAR, Trucks, #85, Fleifuel,

21) Joey Miller, NASCAR, Trucks, #12, Tundra Toyota,

22) Bill Lester, NASCAR, Trucks, #22, NAPA,

23) David Green, NASCAR, Busch, Sprint, #27, Kleenex, Slim Jim, Caterpillar,

24) Jon Woods, NASCAR, Busch, #47,

25) David Ragan, NASCAR,Sprint, #6, Scotts,

26) Clint Bowyer, NASCAR, Sprint, #2, AC Delco,

27) Tim Sauter, NASCAR, Busch, #36, Lester,

28) M. McFarland, NASCAR, Busch, #88, NAVY, Dale Jr. Car

29) Milka INDY, #29,

30) Mike Wallace, NASCAR, Busch,

31) N/A,

32) N/A,

33) Tracy Hines, NASCAR, Busch, #12, Supercuts,

34) Brendan Gaughan, NASCAR, Trucks, #77, New Orleans,

35) Bobby Hamilton Jr., NASCAR, Busch, #18, Fast, #35, McDonald's,

36) Fleming, NASCAR, Sprint, Crew Chief, Roush,

37) Justin Alligator, NASCAR, Busch#63, Air Force,

38) David Reutimann, NASCAR, Trucks , Sprint, #17, Tundra Toyota,

39) Scott Wimmer, NASCAR, Busch, Yard Man,

40) Erin Crocker, NASCAR, Trucks, #98, Cheerios,

41) Derrick Cope, NASCAR, Sprint, Daytona 500 Winner,

42) Mike Skinner, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #5, Tundra Toyota, GM Goodwrench,

43) Aric Aimirola, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #75, Spears,

44) Phil Parsons, NASCAR, Busch, Speed Channel,

45) Mike Bliss, NASCAR, #16, IWX,

46) Andy Houston, NASCAR, Trucks, Busch, #10, Camping World, McDonald's,

47) Matt Crafton, NASCAR, Trucks, #88, MENARDS,

48) Johnny Benson, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #23, Toyota Certified, Valvoline,

49) Rick Corillie, NASCAR, Trucks, #33, Crew Chief,

50) Terry Cook, NASCAR, Trucks, #10, Ford Power Stroke,

51) Ted Musgrave, NASCAR, Trucks, Sprint, #9, A.S.E.,

52) Kerry Earnhardt, NASCAR, #13, Pork Racing,

 

Drivers signed, But N/A Where?

1) #17, Tire Discount,

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. 2010 Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. 2010 Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. 2010 Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. 2010 Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. 2010 Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.TimHortons.com

www.MusicBC.org

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

   

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. 2010 Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. 2010 Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. 2010 Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. 2010 Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. 2010 Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

www.SASS-BC.com

www.PacBluePrinting.com

www.RonSombilonGallery.com

 

Proud Sponsors of S.A.S.S.

 

www.TomLeeMusic.ca

www.TheLatency.com

www.ArmouryStudios.com

www.Vancouver.VirginRadio.ca

www.Shore104.com

www.EdieHatsVancouver.ca

www.MusicBC.org

www.TimHortons.com

www.BestBuy.ca

www.Staples.ca

www.ElixirVancouver.ca

www.MorganGuitars.com

www.Roland.ca

www.WBgear.com

www.Socan.ca

www.ScrapBookWarehouse.com

 

ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

S.A.S.S. 2010 Year End Recital

 

School Alliance of Student Song Writers

 

Art & photos by

Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBlue Printing

 

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ABOUT S.A.S.S.

 

In the summer of 2005, Don McLeod brought SASS to Vancouver and other schools throughout British Columbia including Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Langley and Maple Ridge.

 

The Goals of SASS are to:

 

To offer a safe and supportive space in which young people can express their true selves through songwriting and music.

 

To enable young musicians to meet and collaberate with other artists, both professional and their own peers.

To connect young songwriters with professional knowledgeable mentors, as well as organize field trips to professional recording studios.

 

To help students learn together, stand together, forming a new generation of artists willing to make their world a better place through love and music.

 

Past Guest Speakers @ SASS:

 

Jim Vallance (Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Ozzy)

Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (NickelBack, Hinder)

Vincent Degiorgio (NSYNC)

Kyprios (Sweatshop Union)

Mike Reno (LoverBoy)

Faber (FaberDrive)

Danny Craig (Default)

Trevor Guthrie (Soul Descision)

Bob D?eith (Music BC)

Dane Deviller (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)

Paul Silveira (The Armoury Studios)

Sean Maestri (Tour Manager)

Dave Benedict (Default)

Tom McDonald (Hedley)

Sherry St. Germain (EMI)

Rob Darch (Hipposonic Studios)

Scotty McCargar (Bif Naked, Strapping Young Lads)

Terry O'Brien (SOCAN)

Aileen De La Cruz (Chapter 2 Productions)

Sean Hosein (Kelly Rowland, The Corrs, Jessica Simpson)