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this for you MJ this thread has been down out of site way too long

gotta mention charlie daniels name here too

Hope it was a blast.

Anyone heard the Travis Tritt duet with David Lee Roth on the song Cheatin' Heart Cafe? Man, he soounds so awesome on this song along side of Dave. If he didn't do country, classic rock would be right up his alley

yeah, he is one of a kind. if you want to hear something close to Steve's work check out a guy by the name of Chris Knight and the song Framed. I would have bet $1,000 when i heard it that it was a very young Steve Earle

Hot on the heels of their new release DRIVETRAIN, 38 Special will be, in Cleveland, sharing the Tower City Amphitheatre stage with their Southern counterparts Lynyrd Skynyrd on Weds. August 18. Like Lynyrd Skynyrd, 38 Special has been in the music business for 30 years – scoring a string of radio hits in the 80’s that carried them to platinum status. However, it didn't come easy for the band. If it wasn't for one special moment in 1974, there may not have ever been a 38 Special. After struggling through various bands in the Jacksonville, FL area, a frustrated Donnie Van Zant thought that he might never make it in the music business. Donnie made a decision to start a new band with his musical partner in crime – Don Barnes. At that time they decided to start a new band, two job offers came in from two railroad companies for Donnie. Should he stick with his dream of making music his career or should he throw in the towel and take a job with one of the railroad companies. Donnie approached his older brother Ronnie Van Zant and asked for his advice. Ronnie laughed at him and replied “Bro ther, you got music in your blood whether you realize it or not. You owe it to yourself to go for it. If you don't, you may regret it someday.” Taking Ronnie’s advice to heart, Donnie decided to stick with music as his career choice and 38 Special was born. That advice and decision would prove priceless, as 38 Special would later score a string of radio hits in the 80’s that solidified their status as a platinum selling band. Their new release DRIVETRAIN is a raw, aggressive, dirty, and greasy record. It is their heaviest record to date. Anchored by the cornerstones of the band – Donnie Van Zant (vocals) and Don Barnes (vocals, guitar) the current 38 Special lineup is rounded out by long time bassist Larry Junstrom (who joined the band for their second album and was a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd before they hit it big), Danny Chauncey (guitars, keys), Bobby Capps (keys), and Gary Moffatt (drums). Danny Chauncey phoned in to CLEVELANDROCKNET to talk about the new album and the current tour. CRN – I caught 38 Special a few months ago and man, did you blow me away with your energetic live show. Danny Chauncey – The live show experience is the best part of what we do. We have a lot of fun playing live. We challenge ourselves to do a good live show. We’re very aware of the technical end of things and doing what we do so that it will sound the best out front. We take a lot of pride in playing tight. CRN – I agree with that. The audience feeds off that… DC – For myself, I’ve been to shows and when the performers on stage are actually engaged with the audience (making eye contact, having fun with them, allowing them to be part of the show) – those have been the most fun shows for me. I think that’s important. I still want to hear musicians play well. But, if I’m going to see someone live I would like it to be an experience. That’s kind of what 38 Special is all about. CRN – I love the dirty sound you guys nailed on the new record DRIVETRAIN. Is that something you were shooting for? DC – I’m glad you like it! Actually, what we tried to do is capture that live sound of how we sound live. We wanted, for our own sake, that when we played the record for our friends or listened to it ourselves that it would sound every bit energetic and exciting as our shows sound to us. That’s the approach we took with the recording of the record. CRN – Why such a long gap in studio albums? It’s been 5 years since your last release. I was getting worried you were ready to hit the oldies touring circuit! DC – (laughing) I think the reason for such a long gap was because we were actually touring so much. We didn’t have a huge block of time where we could set aside to work on a new record. We finally ended up having to do that earlier this year. We thought that we could work on a new album around the touring schedule. To some degree, we did. But it was starting to drag on. So we sat aside some time earlier this year and got it done. And no! No plans to hit the oldies touring circuit! (Still laughing). CRN – You’re touring right now with Lynyrd Skynyrd. You can’t go wrong with that package. DC – Playing a concert with Lynyrd Skynyrd is so much fun. Number one is that we all get along and it’s great to see old friends. Number two is that our audiences are so similar. So it’s a really good package. We probably do around 15-20 shows a year with them. They’re always great shows. Anyone who gets a chance to see those shows really should come check the show out. Lynyrd Skynyrd is the headliner. But they are always kind enough to give us as much time as possible to play. Normally an opening act gets like 40 to 45 minutes. Lynyrd Skynyrd always gives us around 70-75 minutes. CRN – With so much material available, that has to be hard coming up with a set list. DC – What we’ve had to do actually, is that because there have been so many radio songs we have to do a medley. It lets us play a little bit of a lot of songs. Otherwise, we would have to drop a lot of songs and we don’t want people to go home from a concert going “Oh man! I wish they would have played that one song.” I know that every artist can’t play everything. We try to accommodate the fans the best we can. CRN – What are some of your favorite songs on DRIVETRAIN? DC – There’s so much I like on there. It’s hard to pick one. There’s this one song called “The Play”. It’s probably the most interesting piece of music on the record. It was a fun song to write and it has some sonically interesting things going on in it. CRN – One of my favorites is “Haley’s got a Harley”. DC – Isn’t that a cool song? “Haley’s got a Harley” was actually one of my picks to be the first release off of the record because of how trashy it is. The slide guitar solo was actually done by a friend of mine named Marke Burgstahler in California. We were in Atlanta. I had some server space and uploaded a rough mix of the song. He downloaded it and did the solo in his studio in CA. He then uploaded the song back to me. It’s really cool from a technology standpoint. I’ve never worked like that before. It didn’t take up a lot of time and it definitely helped speed up the production. CRN – I know 38 Special released the ANTHOLOGY retrospective a few years ago. I know you have to have a big catalog of unreleased music. Any plans to release any of that material in the future? DC – That’s a great idea. I’ve thought about that before – maybe releasing alternate versions of songs and unreleased songs. On every record there’s a bunch of songs that don’t make it onto the actual record. For DRIVETRAIN, there was this really good song that we didn’t use because we wanted it to be a 12 song record. Why did we want 12 songs on the record? I don’t know. I don’t see why we didn’t put it on the record. But anyhow, the song is called “Jealousy”. For a lot of us involved in the record it was our favorite song. But, yeah, you’re right. There’s a lot I think we could do. For the die hard 38 Special fans it would be great. Hopefully, we can something like that for them. CRN – Any closing thoughts? DC – Hopefully everyone can make it to the show. We’re really looking forward to putting on a good show. It’s been awhile since we’ve played right in Cleveland, so it should be a good night of good rock and roll. Thank you for all the years of support. We don’t take the fans for granted. We really appreciate the fans from the bottom of our hearts. 38 Special’s new release DRIVETRAIN is out now on Sanctuary Records. For more information log onto www.38special.com or www.sanctuaryrecords.com Chuck Myden http://www.clevelandrocknet.com/

NEW CD out Tuesday It's time to pull out the Harley t-shirts, the ripped jeans, boots and bandanas, country outlaw Travis Tritt is back with a turbo-charged new album, My Honky Tonk History. The leather pant-wearing, long-haired, guitar-slinging rebel tears it up on the twelve track disc. Songs like the mile-a-minute "The Girl's Gone Wild" and the attitude filled "When In Rome" are sawdust floor country-rock cuts with enough rootsy grit to please both the Skynyrd and Haggard crowds. "When in Rome, you can do like the Romans/ But when you're down home, you'd better do like us," Tritt growls on the latter track. "Honky Tonk History" is a hard-edged number with plucky banjo and driving electric guitars. Tritt lists the scars, the bullet holes and the bounty he's collected during a lifetime of hanging out in and around beer joints. Redneck woman Gretchen Wilson adds her whiskey-drenched vocals to "Tonight Ive Gone Too Far To Turn Around," a song she co-wrote with Jon McElroy and Cory Mayo. Tritt slips into a rambler's skin for the southern seasoned cut, playing a man haunted by the things he's done. Wilson's and Tritt's voices blend together perfectly. Tritt has enough electricity coursing through his veins to power a city the size of Nashville for an entire month. The Georgia native can get down and dirty with the best of them. From the barrelhouse blues of "Monkey Around," to the Allman-esque "When A Good Ole Boy Goes Bad," the man has all the right moves. "It's All About The Money" has Tritt taking shots at sleazy lawyers and money hungry losers. John Mellencamp joins the singer for a duet on "What Say You," a number that wouldn't sound out of place on one of his own albums. The rock and roller in Tritt may show up more often than the hardcore traditionalist, but make no mistake, this rocker has a country soul. The old-school "Circus Leaving Town," one of the album's best tracks, has plenty of sorrow and sinuous steel guitar to go around. Tritt wraps his tear-stained voice around an aching production. "We've Had It All," a co-write with Marty Stuart, and the only song on the disc Travis had a hand in writing, is cut from the same cloth as past hits like "Anymore" and "Tell Me I Was Dreaming." Not only is My Honky Tonk History Travis Tritt's best album, it's one of the best country-rock releases to come out of Nashville in the last five or six years. By Todd Sterling

and another point. The first 10 minutes of victory lane should be a celebration, not a thank you list a mile long. "the five or 10 minutes of celebration that a team gets in victory lane should be about the driver, the owner, the team and their sponsor — not all of these other people and sponsors. " Larry McReynolds http://msn.foxsports.com/story/2652718 "To me, we take away so much from these victories when we pull into victory lane and it's all about getting the interview and it's all about putting the hat on, it's all about mentioning the sponsor," he said. "I want to just, you know, jump up and down and hang out with my guys." Jeff Gordon

NASCAR has overstepped its bounds. If the track wants to name victory lane Gatorade Victory Lane, so be it. But when you start putting product on the race car of a driver who has a personal services contract with a competing company, that's out of line, especially when you turn around and fine the driver like NASCAR did last week with Jimmie Johnson. We're looking at a dictatorship that's totally out of control and has lost its mind. by Jeff Hammond you know, i agree 100% with this statement. see the full article here: http://msn.foxsports.com/story/2651778 Nascar has gotten itself into a mess with this thing and the nascar officials look very bad here!! in My Opinion

you know, I really use to dislike Jeff Gordon but as of late, he seems to be not so the "nascar all-American do everything right" guy. His stances a couple of times this year and his celebration at the start finish line instead of the politically correct and sponsor correct victory lane has gotten a little respect from me. I will admit that I thought the championship was Johnson's but the way Gordon has run the last 7 races I don't know. looks like a two man race to me.

Blame It On A Sad Song - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Kenny Chesney - my greatest hits i put together 38 Special - drivetrain

Yeah, I don't think juniors pit crew can get it done week in and week out. That will be his weak piont in the last ten races. They just don't make the adjustments like the 24 or the 48 car's can

the way i look at it is in a football perspective. if you go 15-1 in the regular season then go into the playoffs you still have a lose and you go home thing, no matter if the next team to you went 10-6 so I don't really care about if it is fair or unfair. in the other sports the team with the best record always doesn't win the championship. It is the team who is the best in the "playoffs" but i would like to see the leader after 26 races have some other compensations like first pick of pit's for the final 10 races. automatic pole position as the homefield advantage given to the best team in the playoffs and the rest of the field qualify for 2-43 place. I mean if you work that hard through the season to be the point's leader their needs to be a little more "homefield advantage" you earn.

Yes it sucked that Stewart wrecked and i have to agree that unless something drastic happend to Johnson and his team it doesn't matter that they will reset the point's because they are just too good right now

ok, i bought the cd and it is in a total different direction and sound. while you still have the core sound that made up the 38 Special sound, everything else is changed. Gone are the pop/aor hooks and smooth polished production of the 80's and it is replaced with a much more raw and unproduced sound. The cd sounds like they do live, which has it pro's and con's. While the Van Zant songs stay more true to the past, The Barnes songs are much more raw. The songs will not win any pop fans over. They are totaly different from songs such as Caught Up In You and Back Where You Belong. They are a bit "fuzzed up" in the vocals and guitars. My take is how laid back Resolution was, they tried to make up for it with this cd. While it is growing on me, I'm starting to like what i hear. The Van Zant songs caught my attention first and more of the Barnes songs are coming along. My big compaint is that they put two older songs on the disc. The Squeeze was a song they put out when Don came back to the band back in the mid 90's. And Trooper With An Attitude, a song they did a few years ago from the movie Super Troopers. They re-recorded these songs and my opinion was that they sounded better in the original form. They could have thrown in two new songs and put these songs as a bonus on so many new releases as a limited run or something. It just bothers me because i have both of them and i know that most fans would have never even of heard these songs but at a show so a can see the reason for them being on the cd but i still don't like them on the cd without some bonus songs to make up for some older recorded songs.

new cd out today

38 Special be live on Rockline Wed. night @ 11 p.m. est. to promote the new Drivetrain CD July 27th release of "Drivetrain." Once again, ROCKLINE will feature songs from an unreleased album for you, as the vaunted Southern Rockers join us from KQ 92 in Minneapolis in the midst of a huge tour. The Jacksonville, Florida based band will be on the road well into October. You can listen live on the net here............. http://www.1077thebone.com/

Bad Company. The Brian Howe era was great and put out Hits. Even if they didn't have any hits the music was still fantastic and overlooked. Brians voice, while not blues drenched like Paul, was great for 80's rock and reminds of a Bad English feel but much better.

I think Johnny Van Zant is doing a nice job in Skynyrd but it wasn't till they added Ricky Medlocke that the band started to really kick out some solid rock again.

Uncle Kracker - Seventy Two & Sunny - if you haven't heard this yet is is a throwback to 70's rock and todays country and new soft rock. no rap-rock on it at all

Tonite You're Mine - Tim Karr

Cross Canadian Ragweed - Soul Gravy. These guys are from Oklahoma i think and mix country and southern rock in a great mix and they have an amazing guitar player

hear the new 38 Special song now http://24.104.40.88/bone/38Special_hurtslikelove.asx