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45 arrested at Summerfest overnight

Police said they arrested 45 people on a variety of charges overnight at Summerfest.

The 45 were arrested on a total of 49 charges broken down by police as follows: underage drinking, 23; possession of a controlled substance, 8; disorderly conduct, 7; resisting or obstructing an officer, 4; outstanding warrants, 3; furnishing alcohol to a minor, 1; battery, 1; theft, 1; and "other," 1.

I guess when ever there is a big gathering of folks, a select few morons who don't know how to hold their liquor, know nothing of maturity and respect need to make their appearances. But that is really a low number, all things considered.

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Paul Simon appeared at the Marcus Ampitheater Saturday 7/1/06

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7/2/06

just got back from bauhaus/NIN

Bauhaus was really good, but I got to tell you I knew only two songs! No Bella Legosi's Dead, No Terror Couple Kill Colonel, no Mask.......this was really a show for their deep deep hardcore fans, or else they are planning on a new album. It was good and they were into it; I just have no recollection of any of them songs. I will have to find a site and fill you in later. I knew "She's In Parties" and "Stigmata Martyr". Maybe Bunnyman who I ran into can help me out here. I think its really a show that a reconveined Bauhaus would want to put on; so good for them.

NIN. Kinda like that guy in college that had all them problems and darkness, stil having all them problems and darkness, 12 yrs later; not being able to mature enough to get past them; and in the meanwhile is balding....

a few people around us new all the words to the popular songs from when they grew up on top 40 radio. were a bit too into it. so good for them. heard nothing off of pretty hate machine; took off to see something called queeens of leroy I think? they were ok.

next up- Psychadelic Furs on Tuesday- this will be an AWESOME SHOW! and then Wilco on Wednesday- looking very forward to this; then Michael McDonald/ Steely Dan and Cheap Trick on Friday!

Bunnyman · Senior Member

Bauhaus did rock...I think there was a couple of songs that I really didn't know. Flat Field, Silent Hedges,Double Dare, God In An Alcove,Rose Garden Funeral of Sore (very hardcore), Lagartija Nick, Stigmata Martyr. Of course, like I said, I've been watching the dvd of their vids/live footage from back in the day. The one thing I though of while watching...the corpse, no really I thought from time to time that Murphy looked a bit like Neil Diamond. Mrs. Bunnyman was quite pleased with the program but also confused on why they didn't play Bela. She is usually freaked by Bauhaus' darker stuff (King Valcano, specifically) Her comment was that Murphy voice is "just amazing!" She has never heard his solo stuff and now she really wants to. She's very familiar with Love and Rockets, Daniel Ash stuff. At times the show did seem like some band was doing a really great re-enactment of a Bauhaus show.

NIN. I guess I don't keep up on the scene. Trent is a muscle head. I was telling the wife, it takes away from the frightened little geek lashing out at the popular, happy folks. To help y'all understand what I'm saying... do you know Beck, "Two turntables and a microphone", what if he all of the sudden became this altra handsome fellow with a great body then, sang "loser"

I did Jim Liban, blues at the backyard stage... local blues at it's best! After BHaus/NIN I went to check out King Solomon, Local Reagae band. The front man, Terry is a former member of the X-Cleavers, 80's Milwaukee snotty New Wave band. He sort of fronts the program. A couple of true Rasta men flank on right/left. Several years back you would have thought... how did that white guy hook up with this Jamaican group. Probably ten years have passed since then. Sorry to say, Solomon is not the band I used to go see. Huge crowds and the first three songs sounded more like the blues or jazz with a Jamaican singer.

The eve was topped with a Funnel Cake from the Donaschwabens. (no fat 'cause I got it at Summerfest!)

Not sure if I will end up going to the Furs. I'm affraid of seeing myself age.

Trower, maybe. I will need more of those $5 beers!

Later.

BMan

P.S. For the "gearheads" in or around WI... Iola Car Show and Swap Meet is this weekend.

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Ray Davies at Summerfest Sunday July 2nd

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Paul Simon at the ampitheater July 1.

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look what the cat dragged in

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

Great pics, JD. Thanks so much for posting them!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

glad you like them, ls! these aren't the ones I took, but some great shots posted from the local newpaper where fans can send pics in to be posted/ and the pros too from reviews!

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

these aren't the ones I took, but some great shots posted from the local newpaper where fans can send pics in to be posted/ and the pros too from reviews!

I thought they looked really professional. Ahh.. next lifetime - Rock Photographer!

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you know what gets me LS, is that these guys have primo spots in the pits in front of the stages. and yet more than 1/2 take off once they get their 3 pics 1/2 way into the first song! I mean, I am sure they have to get to other shows and get a pic or 2 there too, but man o man, with the best seats in the house, how could they not wanna stay awhile! I should so try and get a press pass next year. Freeze Frame Radio, on location. I wouldn't leave the grounds for the whole 11 days!

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Wilco was awesome! One of the best shows I've ever seen; and I maybe new 1/3 of the songs! Highly recommend seeing them if they come to your neck of the woods. Younger crowd for the most part, but really music fans! They were there to listen, not get stupid.

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oh & my buddy Mot got down there before us, and saw Micky Hart of The Grateful Dead walkind around and got his autograph. I guess he is really really short, & was a nice enough guy and happy to be there.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

The Harley Stage was packed to see the Skynyrd show, which was also taped to be on CMT on July 14.

DO FREEBIRD YOU HILLBILLIES!

-- Edited by JD The Jazz Doctor at 23:44, 2006-07-09

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

you know what gets me LS, is that these guys have primo spots in the pits in front of the stages. and yet more than 1/2 take off once they get their 3 pics 1/2 way into the first song! I mean, I am sure they have to get to other shows and get a pic or 2 there too, but man o man, with the best seats in the house, how could they not wanna stay awhile! I should so try and get a press pass next year. Freeze Frame Radio, on location. I wouldn't leave the grounds for the whole 11 days!

Normally, a photographer is only allowed in the pit for the first song or 2. That's just the way it has always been.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

that makes total sense. most of them guys couldn't wait to high-tail it out of there once they got "the shot". In hindsite, all that were left might have been the camera men working to broadcast on the new big-screens mounted on either side of the stage this year! That's a big added bonus. Its the biggest grounds stage area, and now even folks in the back can see better, or at least feel that they were "there".

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ok I figure it'd be easiest to just copy-n-paste the e-mail I sent to chef regarding tonights GREAT Michael McDonald/ Steely Dan show. I DONT LIKE REPEATING MYSELF!

hi girl michael mcdonald and steely dan were both very good. Michael mcdonald was awesome lotta motown stuff way better than I expected. started off mellow and then ended up with like a choir on stage for like "takin it to the streets". steely was really good too. it was like jazz in the park but on a bigger scale, and with steely dan. we ended up getting lawn seats. the rest of the grounds were soo sooo packed it sucked. but up in the lawn we literally had 40 feet in any direction to ourselves. and this is center stage too so it was awesome! we were thinkin that hell we coulda paid $75 to sit up front, but then you're trapped in a crowd! it was like a picnic. Michael McD came out for the last 1/3rd of the Steely show too and it was just brilliant. this was the opening night of the tour, and the first time they had hit the stage together since 1974. so that was historically cool.

Sweet dreams!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Steely Dan

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a crappy review of the show from local paper, where the other is more concerned with making a haked point than actually delivering anything of substance:

When Steely Dan got on stage at the Marcus Amphitheater on Friday night, it quickly proved that, nearly 3 1/2 decades after its debut, it is still a gigantic incongruity in the history of the 1970s, of California music and of rock 'n' roll in general.

Reelin' in the years? Yes, and then some.

The main oddity was and is this: The core duo of Steely Dan, singer-keyboardist Donald Fagen and guitarist Walter Becker, achieved mass appeal with an amplified, rocked-up version of 1950s cool that still takes much of its breezy energy from the West Coast jazz of Chet Baker rather than the more lauded and harsher East Coast bebop of Miles Davis et al. (Not to mention a name drawn from one of the most devoutly lurid passages of Beat writer William S. Burroughs.)

With the help of a punchy four-piece horn section, two backup singers and the standard rock-band complement (bass, guitar, drums, keyboards), Fagen and Becker maintained what really was a long look back at how Baker and his audience must have anticipated an easy future of personal jet packs, video phones and ever-larger tailfins.

This had its ironic side, of course, unless Fagen, in sunglasses and dinner jacket, really wanted to look like a pasty Ray Charles while sitting down behind the keys, or unless the feather-light reggae of "Any World (That I'm Welcome To)" was meant to stand up to the heaviest Bob Marley tracks.

On the other hand, Steely Dan's music did carry strong reminders of the possibilities of the "fusion" subgenre: the volume and edge of rock meeting the muted showboating and deep-background technique of jazz. Becker was responsible for a lot of this amalgamation: His avuncular, professorial demeanor gently belied the pointed dexterity of his guitar solos.

For legends, too, Becker and Fagen came across with near-maximum self-effacement, guiding the band under mildly watchful eyes rather than forceful leadership. They gave the right glint of wry humor to the melancholy decay of aging in "Hey Nineteen" and sprinkled the slow party vibe of "Josie" with a pinch of campy fairy dust.

There were signs of aging: for example, the ease with which the backup singers buried Fagen's lounge-Dylan vocal cleverness or the super-relaxed and elongated pace of "Aja," a neo-classic suite that needs every surge it can get. But it's difficult if not impossible to think of another band (or collective, really) quite like Steely Dan.

A former member of Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers - the latter a more representative 1970s band - Michael McDonald opened with his own distinctive voice: an indefatigable and instantly recognizable falsetto with a low tone not unlike that of a shout in an oak barrel.

With his experienced band, he took on Doobie faves such as "What a Fool Believes" as if he had recorded them yesterday; his takes on obvious Motown choices like Smokey Robinson's "I Second That Emotion" were less successful. Fagen knew better than McDonald that an inimitable voice requires material to match.

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& a cheap Cheap Trick review from the same news rag:

Matching and, at some points, exceeding the energy of the packed crowd - many of whom still were in diapers when the band was cranking out hits in the '70s and early '80s - Cheap Trick was colorful and creative Friday night at the Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard.

Giving the excited fans everything they wanted, the Tricksters smashed out classics such as "I Want You to Want Me" alongside the drum-led "I Can't Take It" and new songs such as "Perfect Stranger" and the anthem "Welcome to the World."