{"id":54428,"date":"2024-08-09T09:55:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=54428"},"modified":"2024-08-09T09:55:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:55:16","slug":"on-stage-extra-foghat-tops-bill-at-musikfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=54428","title":{"rendered":"On Stage Extra: Foghat tops bill at Musikfest"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>, Entertainment Editor, The Times<\/em><\/div>\n
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Over the years, Musikfest (www.musikfest.org<\/a>) has established itself as one of America\u2019s top annual music festivals an event that offers big name headliners as well as a wide variety of folk, rock, pop and ethnic music acts.<\/div>\n

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It also sports some impressive numbers.<\/div>\n
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The festival, which is celebrating its 34th anniversary this year, features free music performances on most of its indoor and outdoor stages.<\/div>\n
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Musikfest, which is running now through August 11, presents more than 300 live musical performances and draws over one million people to the Lehigh Valley every August.<\/div>\n

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The main concert stage at Musikfest is the Sands Steel Stage which features national touring acts with tickets required for all shows.<\/div>\n
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This year\u2019s main stage schedule features many classic rock acts including Sugar Ray, Slash, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Eyed Peas and ZZ Top and Foghat.<\/div>\n
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The season finale will feature ZZ Top and Foghat on August 11.<\/div>\n
Foghat\u00a0are an English rock<\/a>\u00a0band formed in London<\/a>\u00a0in 1971.\u00a0The band is known for the use of electric slide guitar<\/a>\u00a0in its music.\u00a0Their best-known song is the 1975 hit, \u201cSlow Ride<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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The band has released a slew of albums over the last half-century-plus \u2013 17 studio albums, eight live albums and nine compilation albums.<\/div>\n
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Foghat resume includes eight gold albums<\/a>, one platinum album and one double platinum album — all of which feature the band\u2019s unrelenting in-your-face hard rock crunch mixed with the blues, a genre of music the band remains passionate about to this day<\/div>\n
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Despite numerous several line-up changes over the last 53 years, the band continues to record and perform.<\/div>\n
The current line-up features Roger Earl\u00a0\u2013 drums\u00a0(1971\u20131984, 1993\u2013present), Bryan Bassett\u00a0\u2013 lead guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals\u00a0(1999\u2013present); Rodney O\u2019Quinn \u2013 bass guitar, backing vocals\u00a0(2015\u2013present); and Scott Holt \u2013 lead vocals, guitar\u00a0(2022\u2013present).<\/div>\n
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The band initially featured\u00a0Dave (\u201cLonesome Dave\u201d) Peverett\u00a0on guitar and vocals,\u00a0Tony Stevens\u00a0on bass and\u00a0Roger Earl\u00a0on drums, after all three musicians left\u00a0Savoy Brown\u00a0in 1971.\u00a0Rod Price, on guitar\/slide guitar, joined after he left\u00a0Black Cat Bones\u00a0in December 1970.<\/div>\n
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Peverett died in 2000 of cancer after receiving months of intensive\u00a0chemotherapy\u00a0and radiation treatments. Price died in March 2005, aged 57, due to a fall resulting from a heart attack.<\/div>\n
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Later that year, original bassist Stevens left the band and was replaced by former bassist MacGregor, and Price crossed over the same year. Earl, meanwhile, just keeps rocking on.<\/div>\n
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The most recent album by Foghat is \u201cSonic Mojo.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cSonic Mojo\u201d\u00a0is\u00a0Foghat\u2019s highly anticipated and long-awaited 17th studio album\u2014their first in seven years–on the band\u2019s label,\u00a0Foghat\u00a0Records, which is distributed by Select-O-Hits (part of the Sun Records family).<\/div>\n
The album has spent almost six months on the Billboard Blues charts with no end in sight so far. \u00a0It\u2019s also still on the Roots Rock charts in both the U.S. and the U.K.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s also getting rave reviews from both critics and fans.<\/div>\n
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\u201c\u2018Sonic Mojo\u2019 has been doing great,\u201d said Bassett, during a phone interview during a tour stop on Monday.<\/div>\n
\u201cIt came out in November and debuted at Number One on the Billboard Blues charts. It was in the Top 10 for 27 weeks and just re-entered the charts last week.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s been getting a lot of streams and has been doing well on the Sirius XM Blues Chart. It\u2019s also been getting a lot of play in the U.K.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Bassett is celebrating his silver anniversary as half of Foghat\u2019s rhythm section.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI grew up in Pittsburgh,\u201d said Bassett. \u201cI played football at Pittsburgh Central Catholic and had a scholarship offer from Carnegie Mellon University. I turned it down and got into a band in Ohio.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe British Invasion turned people on to rock and roll \u2013 \u2018Gloria,\u2019 \u2018Louie, Louie,\u2019\u2026all those songs. I was playing every night. I got into a band called Wild Cherry. After three albums with Wild Cherry, I had another band called Airborne but it didn\u2019t go anywhere.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI moved to Florida in the mid-1900s \u2013 to New Smyrna Beach. I started my engineering career in 1985. I toured with Lonesome Dave\u2019s version of Foghat for five years and then all the original members came back.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhen Rod left the group, Dave asked me to play. It was really up my alley stylistically \u2013 guitarists like Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green. The hardest thing was learning slide because Rod was such a great slide player.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Foghat headed to Florida to make the new album.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe made it at a recording studio \u2013 Boogie Ranch South,\u201d said Bassett. \u201cIt\u2019s located on a 10-acre ranch in central Florida between Ocala and Deland.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe recorded \u2018Sonic Mojo\u2019 all across last year. We came to Boogie Motel South several times. We finished the mixing in October. The album has six originals and six covers. We always experiment with songs.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The six covers are \u201cLet Me Love You Baby\u201d by Willie Dixon, \u201cHow Many More Years\u201d by Howlin\u2019 Wolf, \u201cSong for the Life\u201d by Rodney Crowell, \u201cShe\u2019s Dynamite\u201d by B.B. King, \u201cPromised Land by Chuck Berry and \u201cMean Woman Blues,\u201d a song written by\u00a0Claude Demetrius and sung by\u00a0Elvis Presley\u00a0on the soundtrack of the 1957 film,\u00a0\u201cLoving You.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cIn our live shows, we\u2019re always going to play the hits \u2013 \u2018Slow Ride,\u2019 \u2018Fool for the City,\u2019 \u2018Drivin\u2019 Wheel\u2019 \u2013 and some deep tracks,\u201d said Bassett. \u201cWe play three or four songs from \u2018Sonic Mojo\u2019 and we play some blues songs.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Video link for Foghat \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/IC1VMK4Hd4I<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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The show on August 11 will start at 7 p.m. on the Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza.<\/div>\n
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Ticket prices start at $30.<\/div>\n
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Classic rock acts are like fireflies. Each summer, they faithfully appear \u2013 seemingly from out of nowhere.<\/div>\n
There will be another event on August 11 featuring several popular acts that have been around for decades including Rebirth Brass Band and Yellowman.<\/div>\n
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The event is the annual Ardmore Rock\u2019N\u2019Ride (ardmorerocknride.com<\/a>) which will get underway with a series of bicycle races starting at 10:15 a.m. The music will start at noon and will run into the evening with performances on two stages \u2013 Suburban Square and the Schauffele Plaza.<\/div>\n
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Yellowman<\/p><\/div>\n

Yellowman, one of the greatest reggae singers to come out of Jamaica in the 1980s, is still going strong.<\/p><\/div>\n

Also known as King Yellowman\u00a0and by his birth name of Winston Foster, he was born in 1956 and grew up in an orphanage in Kingston.<\/div>\n
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Yellowman\u00a0is an albino. Known as dundus in Jamaica, albinos have always faced racial prejudice and are usually shunned.<\/div>\n
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This happened with\u00a0Yellowman,\u00a0but he got the last laugh by becoming a major reggae star internationally and a sex symbol in the Jamaican music scene.<\/div>\n
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King Yellow first gained wide attention when he won a toasting contest event in Kingston. Toasting was a Jamaican singing\/talking vocal style that was the precursor of rap and hip hop. In 1981, Yellowman\u00a0became the first dancehall artist to be signed to a major American label and released his \u201cKing Yellowman\u201d album on\u00a0Columbia Records.<\/div>\n
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Yellowman\u00a0has always been known for his high-energy shows. Fueled by the driving reggae sounds of the Sagittarius Band, Yellow is a non-stop whirl of action every show from start-to-finish.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m in my 60s but I\u2019m not slowing down at all,\u201d said Yellowman\u00a0during a phone interview.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI know how to keep my energy up. I take care of myself physically. And I drink soursop juice and oatmeal porridge drink.\u201d<\/div>\n
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One of Yellowman\u2019s first big hits was a song called \u201cZungguzungguguzungguzeng.\u201d In many of his numerous hit singles in Jamaica, he boasted of his sexual prowess \u2013 songs such as \u201cThem a Mad Over Me,\u201d \u201cLetter to Rosey,\u201d \u201cYellow Like Cheese\u201d and \u201cGoing to the Chapel.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cReggae has been kind of stagnant for a while, but my fans have stuck with me,\u201d said Yellowman. \u201cThe best reggae was in the 1980s.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Yellowman\u00a0is a true survivor. In addition to still making vibrant music, he has shown the strength to overcome obstacles \u2013 such as the prejudice he faced as a youth.<\/div>\n
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In 1982, Yellowman\u00a0was diagnosed with skin cancer, and was initially told that he only had three more years to live. After several surgeries Yellowman\u00a0was able to continue his career and the cancer went into apparent remission during this time.<\/div>\n
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In 1986 it was diagnosed that the cancer had spread to his jaw. Yellowman\u00a0then underwent very invasive jaw surgery to remove a malignant tumor. This surgery permanently disfigured Yellowman\u2019s face, as a large portion of the left side of his lower jaw had to be removed to successfully remove the tumor.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m still all right,\u201d said Yellowman. \u201cI didn\u2019t let it beat me. I\u2019m doing fine \u2013 cancer gone.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI just keep playing my songs and performing live. Younger audiences are coming out. I do songs that draw young people. They understand classic reggae.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Video link for Yellowman\u00a0— https:\/\/youtu.be\/9Y2F9yVNEVE?t=113<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Yellowman will go onstage at 5:10 at Schauffele Plaza and Rebirth Brass Band will start their set at 6:45 at Suburban Square.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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