Jammin' on New Years

Jeff, a friend of our, MC'd the event for the Talk Radio station that he is affiliated with. His girlfriend, Rebecca, and I have covered numerous North Georgia news events as she has also worked in media. Thankfully my time at the paper has resulted in several great friendships. They (Jeff and Rebecca) are big time into concerts, which we are quickly learning to appreciate the local-regional music scene . The kind that is as good or even better than the national Top 40 artists, which in some cases is contrived manufactured corprate junk for thirteen-year-olds. Which reminds me I need to slap up my Missing Post- the Fall Hootenanny. Sheila and I try to make as many concerts as possible, hopefully even more in 2008. But for know I will just share a few photos of the Cookin' on the Quarter-New Years event we were so fortunate to attend with a few thousand others.

Bobby Yang and his Unrivaled Players kicked off the evening, he is a violin virtuoso that burns up his bow to the point of having strands of string flying through the air like hair at a heavy metal concert. The songs palyed include classics by Led Zeppelin's -Kashmir, Van Halen's Hot for Teacher, Prince's-Purple Rain and Stevie Wonder's-Boogie on Reggae Woman.



The second act (and my personal favorite) was the Nashville based, Smokey Lonesome a honky tonk bad that still know what it means to be country, conjuring up the spirits of Lynyrd Skynyrd back in their early years. How can you go wrong with an album called "Redneck Voodoo". HMMM Maybe this should be the start of a Christmas list.......



Bass playing brother with braids, with a bad ass style.... I probably did about 50 shots of just him.

Leading up to the final minutes of 2007 was the third band, Mother's Finest, which sent us off into 2008 in style.

The similarities to Tina Turner are minimal, but Baby Jean has also been around since the 70's. I admit it I didn't know much about them. However after seeing them, I have great respect for Mother's Finest. A quick listen will let you know the are more like Parliament Funkadelic meets Prince with a bit more Rock and Roll and less Tina Turner- Private Dancer....



Garth Algar: Uhm, Wayne? What do you do if every time you see this one incredible woman, you think you're gonna hurl?
Wayne Campbell: No way!
Garth Algar: Way!

Wayne's World .........Wayne's World....It's party Time..Excellent