HOMEGROWN ROCKER 11/28/10 (THE TAKEN)

[Jim Price]

Hello Everyone,

Here is the recap of the November 28 edition of Rocky 99 and Rocky 104.9's weekly local music program, "The Homegrown Rocker," which airs every Sunday night from 9 to 11 PM during football season on WRKW-FM (www.rocky99.com) and WRKY-FM (www.rocky1049.com).

Thanks to our guests this week, Harrisburg area rockers The Taken (www.myspace.com/takenrocks1). We met the band members and learned the group’s history, and heard recorded tracks from their 4-song EP. The group also brought acoustic instruments and played two songs live! Along the way, we updated “Local Music News,” reviewed LoveHateThing’s The Disco Killer CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner,” and with the group’s former drummer, Tony Pichler, in the studio, broke out a 1995 song by Loud Silence for a “Local Music Flashback.”

Here is this week's playlist:

HOUR ONE:

SYNESTHESIA – “Sweet Rhapsody”
INSIDE OUT – “Demons Inside”
THE TAKEN – “Parallel”
SCORCHED – “Frozen Inside”
THE TAKEN – “Through the Pain”
GANISTER – “Saving Grace”
THE TAKEN – “Suffocate” (performed live on the air)

HOUR TWO:

TOP DEAD CENTER – “Worker’s Creed”
SOLEGION – “My Monster”
THE TAKEN – “Toxic Beautiful”
LOVEHATETHING – “Sex on the Brain”
THE TAKEN – “Broken” (performed live on the air)
LOUD SILENCE – “Only Son” (1995, Local Music Flashback)
THE TAKEN – “Hate Within”

With the Pittsburgh Steelers again in action next Sunday night when they take on the Baltimore Ravens, there will not be a “Homegrown Rocker” program next week. Instead, the show will return on December 12 when our guests will be Brookville-based audiovisual specialists Ten Till [Destiny]. We’ll meet the band members and learn their story, get inside their visual spectacle live show, and hear recorded tracks from them. We’ll also update “Local Music News,” dig into the archives for a “Local Music Flashback,” and review another new local CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner!” Ten Till [Destiny] on the “Homegrown Rocker” when the show returns December 12!

Forthcoming guests and specials include:

DEC. 5 – (NO SHOW DUE TO STEELERS FOOTBALL)
DEC. 12 – TEN TILL [DESTINY]
DEC. 19 – CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
DEC. 26 – 2010 YEAR IN REVIEW SPECIAL, PART 1
JAN. 2 – 2010 YEAR IN REVIEW SPECIAL, PART 2
JAN. 9 – JACKSON MONSOUR
JAN. 16 – THE UP DOWNS
JAN. 30 – JEREMY dePRISCO
FEB. 6 – SUPER BOWL WIDOWS’ SPECIAL
FEB. 13 – THE GOOD SEEDS
FEB. 27 – MILLENNIUM MUSIC CONFERENCE RECAP

For regular updates on what is happening on the area music scene, pay a visit to Rockpage (www.rockpage.net). Rockpage features band links, a message board, "Homegrown Rocker" updates, the online 'zine publication "The Final Cut," and other local music scene information.

Bands and artists interested in having music aired on "The Homegrown Rocker" are invited to send their broadcast-quality recordings to: WRKY Radio, One Forever Drive, Hollidaysburg, PA 16648; ATTN: Jim Price. Or drop the recordings off at the station during regular business hours, Monday-Friday 9 AM - 5 PM. You can also email me with inquiries about the show at profjp@rocky1049.com.

Jim Price

In Local Music News…

Famous jazz musician Tom “Bones” Malone, best known as a member of the Blues Brothers Band, will spend a day at the Mount Union High School on Wednesday, Dec. 1 with the Mount Union Jazz ensemble giving “big league” instruction and offering clinics to junior and senior high school band students. Malone will prep the Jazz students for a concert he will perform with them at 7 p.m. at the Saint Catherine Catholic Church, 205 West Market Street in Mount Union.

In area band personnel moves, Randy Servello has taken over drumming duties in Chris Vipond and the Stanley Street Band. Meanwhile, bassist Paul Rainey has returned to Bad Daze, replacing his replacement, Kent Tonkin.

Time is running short if you or your band wants to showcase at next year’s upcoming Millennium Music Conference. The deadline for submitting applications to showcase at February’s conference is Wednesday, December 8. The 15th annual Millennium Music Conference will take place February 17-20 at the Radisson Penn Harris Hotel and Convention Center in Camp Hill near Harrisburg. For more information about the event, visit the conference’s website, www.musicconference.net.

And next weekend is the annual Pennsylvania Musician Magazine-sponsored Toys for Tots benefit concert events. The shows will happen both next Saturday night and Sunday afternoon at 30 Something in Altoona. Donation both days is either a $5 cash donation or a new unopened toy of equal or greater value. Toys and monetary proceeds go to the U.S. Marine Corps’ Toys For Tots program to help needy area kids and families this holiday season. Saturday night’s show starts at 8:30 PM, and will feature performances from Chris Vipond & the Stanley Street Band, A Beautiful Mess, Represent The Lie and Ganister. Sunday’s show starts at 2 PM, and includes The Ultra-Magnetic, Rain Must Fall, E.V.K., Felix & the Hurricanes, Mysterytrain, Synesthesia, A 2 Z, Spirit Lost and Slacker Theory.