#WhatsHappening for August 15, 2019

Hey, friends. Hope the week is treating you well. If not, well- at least it's almost over.

Don't forget to join us this weekend for another round of Saturday Night Karaoke, live and loud at the Iron Horse Tavern in historic downtown Norcross. (Just a note... the city will have another one of their "Jazz in the Alley" nights this week, which means traffic will be blocked off until after that show wraps and the crowd clears out- which is usually 10-ish. That means you may not be able to get into the Tavern's parking lot until a little later.)

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I love Creedence Clearwater Revival, and I really dig John Fogerty's solo work, too- but geez, what a whiner. He blames the Grateful Dead for CCR's set not receiving the acclaim he thinks it should have.

Fogerty told the LA Times that "...it was 2:30 in the morning..." by the time CCR went on "... but there was almost no reaction" from the crowd. He said organizers had "agreed to put (the band) on at 9 on Saturday night... (but the Grateful Dead) didn't start until after 9, and they played for 45 minutes and I thought, 'Great, we’ll be on pretty soon.' But then they started playing again, and played for another 45 minutes. They didn’t finish until after midnight." He added that he didn't find out until "the ‘90s that they’d dropped LSD before they went on, and so there they were onstage, what do you say, pretty bewildered."

Fogerty continued that the band "ran onstage ready to rock ’n’ roll, but everybody was just lying there in front of the stage asleep. That’s why I didn’t want it on the record or in the film. I figured at best it wouldn’t help, and at worst it might hurt us for people to see that. About halfway through, I went to the microphone and said, 'We’re playing our hearts out for you and want you to have a good time.' And from the back of the field somewhere I heard a voice shout, 'Don’t worry about it, John.' So in my mind, there was one guy who was awake and we finished our set for that guy."

Fogerty says he knew the Dead's reputation. Despite that, he was "what you would call pissed off" because they "sabotaged our chance in the limelight. But over time, I have developed quite an affection for the Dead. They mumbled their way through a career and they outlasted the Man. They changed the paradigm by doing it their own way, and they made it work. But at Woodstock, they were just a bunch of drugged-out hippies."

Yeah. Totally sounds like he's over it.

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Reports say Mike Tyson smokes forty grand worth of weed every month. That explains a lot of The Mike Tyson Mysteries. 

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The Daily Mail reports that Death Row Records co-founder Michael "Harry O" Harris is expected to be released soon after serving 31 years in prison for his attempted murder and kidnapping convictions in 1988.

Harris, 57, is currently being held at a Federal Correctional Facility in Lompoc, California. The report says he'll be transferred to a half-way house in San Antonio, Texas in "mid August." 

He tells the Mail that he was "part of the problem" when he was convicted, but that "over the years I have repeatedly proven myself to be part of the solution. It’s about returning to society with my new found vision, talents and insights. Giving back to the communities where my help is so desperately needed. ... I am a man who has experienced incredible highs and incredible lows. I am a man who came to prison a boy and who will emerge as a grown man."

"I know that from the moment I’m free I will work tiredly to help change lives."

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A Slipknot fan reportedly died at the band’s Knotfest gig in Illinois earlier this week.

The 62 year old concert goer was reportedly in the mosh pit at the concert Sunday when he began having seizures. He was eventually pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. No cause of his death has been reported and an autopsy is pending.

A witness says others in the pit were "calling for help" and two men attempted to perform CPR during the incident.

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Birthdays today include: Joe Jonas of Jonas Brothers (30); Michael Graham of Boyzone (47); Matt Johnson of The The (58); Bobby Caldwell (68); Tommy Aldridge, who's played with Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, and Motörhead- among others (69); Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers (71); Jimmy Webb (73); Pete York of the Spencer Davis Group (77). #MusicalBirthdays