A Major Announcement

A major announcement  for all my peeps livin' in the ATL.

Starting tonight, the Alpharetta Wild Wing will feature a different SCF Family Band every Thursday. Basically it will be a rotation of the 6 current shows(White Leppard Crue, Slippery When Wet, Stone Cold Fox, Electric Boogaloo, Dock Martins, and Foxxy Cleopatra).

the First month looks like this.......

Tonight, Nov. 30th - White Leppard Crue

Dec. 7th - Slippery When Wet

Dec. 14th - Electric Boogaloo

Dec. 21st - Stone Cold Fox

Dec. 28th - Foxxy Cleopatra (the newest band featuring Luna Ashlee on vox. OJJ will be filling on bass that night, so don't miss it.)  

I will get these dates on the website and the myspace pages in the coming days, so stay tuned.

 

j

Casino Royale

As stated in an earlier blog, OJJ and some Family members went and checked the Bond on Turkey Day. Many of you don't know this, but OJJ was and is somewhat of a 007 fanatic. I even have al the Ian Flemming and John Gardener books. I think my edition of Dr. No and Casino Royale are both 2nd editions. Unfortunately no first editions. To hard to find.

The new movie........not bad. I thought it was a decent adaptation of the 1st James Bond novel. Daniel Craig did a great job as 007. I wouldn't go so far to call him the best. He was gritty, but so was Sean Connery. He was a bad ass when fighting, but so was George Lazenby in his one outing as 007. I wouldn't say he was debonair like Roger Moore. Maybe a little dark like Timothy Dalton. In my opinion, a much better Bond than Remington Steele.  

The story, as in the book, is an introduction to Bond. He has just been given "double 0" status. It also shows how Bond becomes cold as ice.

My biggest problem is that they keep advertising as the movie were Bond finds the one love of his life. uh, Hello! Her Majesty's Secret Serve, Bond (George Lazenby) meets Teresa, whom he later marries. She is then killed by Blowfelds henchmen at the end. Later in For Your Eyes Only, the beginning starts with Bond (Roger Moore) visiting Teresa Bond's grave and placing flowers there before getting his chopper hijacked by Blofeld (in full Doctor Evil mode) which he re-hijacks and then drops Blofeld in a smokestack. Did they forget all of that. At least the marriage parts are in the book, so they can't discount that!

I am glad, however, that they finally made Casino Royale in to a real Bond movie. All we had before was the camp with David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Woody Allen, and of course the very first Bond that was live on American TV with Bond played by American, Barry Allen.

Overall, I liked it and would put this movie in the top 10 Bond movies. Hey maybe next TBS or Spike does Bond week, I'll Rank the movies.

In the meantime go see Casino Royale.

OJJ

Turkey Ponderings.

As most of you know, I have a weekday job. At that job last Tuesday, we had our annual "Thanksgiving Lunch". The usual fair: Turkey, Ham, Stuffing, Sweet Tator Sooflay Souffle, etc etc. Then on Thursday I was at my parent's house in Brunswick, GA. Again, Turkey, Ham, sweet tators, etc. Later that night, after viewing Casino Royale (Another blog reviewing it,  coming soon), I headed over to my God-mother's mother's house (BoBo as she is referred to by all her grand children, god children, etc). Guess what we had for dinner at Bobo's? haha, you guessed it, Turkey, Ham, etc, etc............

My mom always wonders why I don't ever take home leftover turkey and ham when she offers to put some in my cooler.

Why the Turkey? Why the ham? Surely when the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, there were cows roaming around. I' m sure the Natives had been feeding some of those cows corn and such to make them yummy. And I damn sure know they all knew how to build a fire and make a make-shift grill! Why couldn't Turkey day be known as Steak Day!?!?! Hell, they were near the water, they could have had Sushi! But No! Had to be a bird loaded with shit that makes you sleepy and causes Gout.

The cool thing is that at work, our CFO and I thought that next year we would propose replacing the "Thanksgiving Lunch" with the "UGA vs GA Tech Steak Out". Yep get everyone to put in about 7 bucks, go and get some nice cuts of beef, preferably Filets, but Strips will do nicely, thank you. And grill them in the back parking lot, like we do during baseball season. For those that don't want a steak, we offer Bubba Burgers and Nathan's hotdogs. I think it will be a hit

J

Borat

OK, Finally I saw it. I met up with the Right Reverend Rolo P. Coltrane and saw Borat. Possibly one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.

Warning to the ladies. A lot of toilet humor. You might not like it or get it.

Warning to the fellas. No warning. Go see this movie! You will laugh your ass off all the way through to the end.

If you have seen Borat on Da Ali G show, it a lot like that. Borat interacting with real people. There is some scripted stuff and that part is just as funny.

OJJ 

A Dear, Does She Have Doe? Yeah, Two Bucks!

I don't know what what was going on last night, but as I drove from Augusta back home to Atlanta after the gig, there were dear everywhere on the side of the interstate. Usually there are a few, but it seemed last night that they were every half mile or so. What was going on in Dear Land? I wonder if the had their own sort of Wingstock? I mean to dear get together at the side of the road for parties and such.

 OH well, at least I made it home without hitting one.

Last nights gig went well. It was Augusta's Wingstock so the place was packed. They dug the Fox. And the Fox was diggin' them back.

Still haven't had a chance to see Borat yet, but I may go see it today. I'm trying to get Rolo to go see it with me.

later,

OJJ

Columbia & Moons Over MyHammy

Nice crowd last night in Columbia. Not much for dancing there, but they were really into the Dock Martin's show. More of a stay in their seats, concert mode show, but they were loud and responded to every song in a positive manner. We even gave them a handful of 80's songs even though they were quite happy with the 90's.

Afterwards Skelly , Lindsey and I went to Denny's. MMMMMMM MMMMMMMM MMMMMM, Moons over MyHammy, that's good stuff.

Today it's off to Augusta, for the Wingstock tonight. If you are at home doing nothing, and if we happen to be playing inside (not sure yet since it is Wingstock) you can peep at us through the Augusta Wing's streaming video cam. here is the address.... http://24.236.106.48:5001/ ....... Check it out.(Be careful sometimes it just doesn't work) Also gonna try and catch the matinee of Borat. I will post a review afterwards if I can.

Peace, Love & Soul,

 

OJJ

CMAs & Mohawks

A little known fact about OJJ.....even though I like to bring the Funk to the party, I am a bit of a country fan.

with that being said..............

As I'm watching the CMAs tonight, I noticed that both Miranda Lambert and Faith Hill's bass players are sporting mohawks. Is tonight country mohawk night? What gives? So if I ever decide to pick up sticks and hit the Nashville scene, do I have to sport a mohawk?

And another thing, I always thought Carrie Underwood was hot, but damn she is "Smokin' Hot" tonight! 

Holy crap! Carrie just won female vocalist of the year! She just beat out Martina and Gretchen! Good for her.

And one last note, they are now showing footage of The Hag from 1973, talk about smooth! Many don't know it, but the inspiration for OJJ is 45% Rick James, 45% Pimp, 5% Elvis, and 5% Merle. 

Somebody hand me my pimp cane!

ojj  

Halloween and then some..........

OK. I know. There have been a lot of gigs since my last post and Halloween. My apologies to you all. Things at my day gig have been a bit hectic and I haven't had much time to get to the blog, nor the scf website. (The website, that's a whole other story. I promise that I will get something a little more interactive up shortly after the Xmas holidays. Possibly a message board of some sort.) I have however been keeping the dates up on our myspace pages, so be sure and check those out. I will list all of them at the end of this post.

ok, let's see how I can recap the gigs since August and Halloween, in just a few sentences.

September came, we played our normal gigs in Alpharetta and Suwanee, great crowds as usual. We played one last time in G'Vegas one last time until New Years eve. Unfortunately, we won't be back there until December 31st. October came and we played in alpy and suwanee to the wonderful crowd we have grown to love. We also debuted Electric Boogaloo at The Fieldhouse. Competing with Eric Clapton down the street at the Civic Center, I'd say we did pretty well. Big ending, although a lot of the Stone Cold Fox regulars were wondering where the medley was at the end of the night. (hahaha. One of these days we should put together an 80's version of the medley.) Also, in October we had a week where Sean lost his voice for a a few days. We ended up doing two nights with a guest singer. Luna Ashlee, formerly of Lixx, filled in for Sean and did a great a job. Spartanburg and Augusta loved her. Special thanks to her for helping us and getting us out of a pickle.

And that brings us to Halloween in Asheville, NC at the Wild Wing cafe.

The weekend started with a nice steady rain from Thursday til Saturday morning. That Friday was horrible. I think I had rain all the way to Asheville. Once I got to Asheville I had the fun task of getting the rooms set up. At least they didn't put us in the Mountaineer.

Scott and I arrived at the Wing about the same time, to discover the Haunted Castle facade on the stage. It looked great and all, but it seriously took away about 50% of the already cramped stage in Asheville. Once we were set up, Scott's drums were turned in a manner that made it look like Sean, Scott and myself were turning our backs to Rich. haha.

The first night we were the Dock Martins. Great show. We were firing on all 4 cylinders. Not a very a big crowd, but we were received well by the folks that were there. It was nice to see Mack, who came out to hang out with Luna Ashlee.

The next day, Scott and I met up with my friends Katie and Sarah and we went to the Wing to watch the GA/FLA debacle. nuff said.

That night was nuts. The Wing was having a costume contest worth $1000 in prizes and cash. The tables were full all the way to the stage. It was nearly Standing Room Only. By the time the Fox cranked up, they had removed some of the tables in the front and banished those folks to the bar. It was off the hizzook all night. They were dancing right til the end. One of the best Asheville shows yet.

Special thanks to Luna Ashlee, Katie, and Sarah for making the trip to see and support us.

After the gig was relatively low key. The pimpinest bass player of all, had to hit the sack early to get up at 5am to return to Atlanta and go sit in a skybox at the NASCAR race. You know........that's just how OJJ rolls.

Now to the past weekend, in Suwanee, GA.

Friday night we went in as the Dock Martins. Once again great playing, the 90's is getting more and more comfortable for me. I am almost completely independent of any cheat sheets, so it is liberating to be able to work on my character a little more.

The crowd that night was into it, the were diggin the songs of the last decade. As usual the dance floor at the Suwanee Wing was full and hopin'.

Saturday night, was back to business with the return of Electric Boogaloo. As Bob, the manager said to me, "what did you guys put in the water tonight?" hahaa. The crowd was rockin all night. Great crowd! Full dance floor!

Special thanks, to Skip, Tim, Faith, Gail, Shelly, and anyone else I haven't mentioned, for coming out. We always appreciate your support. And of course, the staff at the Suwanee Wing. Jason, Deanna, Tattoo, Bob, Jason, Chewie, Jamie, Becky, Thadd, and everyone else that was working. (Hard to remember who all was there thanks to some red bull and vodka) You guys are the bomb!

Changes

With all the recaps out of the way, I think I am going to change the way I do this blog. Usually, I have tried to save my random thoughts and then include them when I can recap the gigs. The problem as that I forget what I was thinking and I miss out on blogging the good stuff. Not the boring gig recaps. And it makes for a long ass blog.....not unlike this one. hahaha.

So from this time forward, the posts will probably be shorter, more frequent, and not necessarily about the gig we just played.

until then,

Peace, Love & Soul

OJJ

OH yeah, here are those myspace addys. enjoy

myspace.com/stonecoldfoxdisco

myspace.com/eboogaloo

myspace.com/dockmartins

myspace.com/whiteleppardcrue

myspace.com/seanthomason

myspace.com/richardgibson

myspace.com/joaobass

myspace.com/atlspike