Steel Notes Magazine

24/07/2024

TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT AT 9 PM EDT/6 PM PDT FOR MY INTERVIEW WITH Butch Patrick, AKA "EDDIE MUNSTER" FROM THE MUNSTERS TV SHOW!!! YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THIS!

23/07/2024

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22/07/2024

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22/07/2024

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29/06/2024

"Many have passed away, and those who are still here are called

"the elderly.""

We were born in the 40s-50s-60s.
We grew up in the 50's-60's-70's
We studied in the 60s-70s-80s.
We were together in the 70s-80s-90s.
We got married or not and discovered the world in the 70s-80s-90s.
Adventuring into the 80s - 90s
We're settling in to the 2000s.
We became wiser in 2010s.
And we’re going strong into 2020 and beyond.
Turns out we went through EIGHT different decades...

TWO different centuries...
TWO different millennials...

We've gone from phone with operator for long distance calls, pay booths, video calls worldwide.

We’ve gone from slides to YouTube, vinyls to online music, handwritten letters to emails and Whats App.

Live games on the radio, black and white TV, color TV, then HD 3D TV.

We went to the video store and now watching Netflix.

We've known the first computers, punch cards, disks and now we have gigabytes and megabytes on our smartphones.

We wore shorts all through our childhood, then trousers, ep pants or mini-skirts, Oxfords, Clarks, Palestinian scarves, jumpsuits, and blue jeans.

We avoided childhood paralysis, meningitis, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, swine flu and now COVID-19.

We've done roller skating, roller skating, tricycle, bicycle, moped, gasoline or diesel and now we drive hybrids or electric.
We played with the little ones
horses and checkers, ostrich and marbles, 1000 threshold and monopoly, now there's candy crush on our smartphones
And we read... much
And our schoolmates religion was not a subject...
We used to drink tap water and lemonade in glass bottles, and the vegetables on our plate were always fresh, today we get meals delivered
Yes, we have been through a lot but what a beautiful life we have had!

They might describe us as “ex-annuals”; people who were born in this 50s world, who had an analog childhood and digital adulthood.
We should add the Biological Revolution that we have witnessed. In 1960, biology was very descriptive. We have witnessed the event of Molecular Biology: the molecules of Life have been discovered: DNA, RNA etc. When you see everything that has come from it: gene therapy, gene fingerprints, and others the progress is considerable.

We kind of have "seen it all"!

Our generation has literally lived and witnessed more than any other in every dimension of life.
This is our generation that has literally adapted to "CHANGE".

A big congratulations to all the members of a very special generation, which will be UNIQUE.. "

29/06/2024

Big shout out to our newest top fans! 💎Frank Porter

Frank We appreciate you.🎙️🎶🎵🖤

22/06/2024

Lehigh Valley friends! Many of you Gloria "Mimi" Domina, from the Greater Lehigh Valley Music Awards and her anti- bullying work. She has done many things to help our community, and has now fallen on hard times. Her home in Bethlehem has been destroyed by tenants she rented to while living in Delaware. Her sister started a Go Fund Me page to help raise funds for her to restore her living conditions, if you can find it in your heart to help. Any donation will be greatly appreciated!

Two years ago, my cousin, Gloria (Mimi) Domina, rented her home in Bethlehem, PA … Linda Massa needs your support for Help Gloria Rebuild Her Destroyed Home

20/06/2024

09/06/2024

Because you can't tell this story enough:
NEAL SMITH’S TOTAL RESTORATION OF
GLEN BUXTON'S 1968-1972 GIBSON LES PAUL SG CUSTOM
by Neal Smith

In 2012 I found and acquired my bandmate, friend and brother, Glen Buxton's original white Les Paul Custom SG guitar body.

It is the guitar that Glen is holding on the back cover of our first Alice Cooper hit album Love It To Death. Glen played that guitar on stage and recorded with it, in the “Love It To Death,” “Killer,” “School's Out” era of the early 1970’s.

In 2012 I was contacted by a person living in Stamford Connecticut. Stamford is, the town right next door to Greenwich where all five members of the Alice Cooper Group lived in the early 1970’s at the Galesi Estate, AKA The Cooper Mansion. This fellow had a telecaster guitar that he wanted to sell and he knew I was looking for one.

I met with him at his home in Stamford sometime later and bought the Fender telecaster guitar. At same that time he had a friend of his with him, who wanted to show me some items that he thought might be of interest to me from back in the day. He said that Glen Buxton had given him these items in the late 70's early 80's when he visited Glen at his house in Greenwich. Well into the conversation, this fellow of questionable character told me he used to sell pot to Glen and that's how he acquired these items, then it all began to make sense to me.

I recognized most of the items that he had brought with him immediately from the Galesi estate. One was a fake life size elephant’s foot/umbrella holder that Alice used to keep in his room. There were also a couple of collages, like the ones we used to make in college. I could clearly tell that Glen had made these. The guy wanted to sell these items, but wanted way too much money for these Glen Buxton/Alice Cooper artifacts and besides there was nothing that was of interest to me.

Then he showed me the last item he had in his box of goodies. It was a banged up, smashed up, stripped down body of a cream white Gibson Custom SG guitar, missing its neck, pickups and all hardware. It was an almost unrecognizable, brutalized, naked, neck-less, wooden guitar body.

But there was one identifying characteristic of the guitar. It had a single glow in the dark star that Glen had put on the guitar near the right horn tip.

I was holding what was left of Glens cream white Les Paul SG Custom Guitar. I bought the guitar relic on the spot. After I acquired the body of what was left of Glen’s custom SG, I began researching to see if it was at all possible to rebuild a complete guitar from just this body. The way the guitars neck had snapped and broken off the guitar, made restoration almost impossible. Everyone I approached with the project passed on it. I even approached Gibson Guitars and they also reluctantly declined on the restoration project. In 2016, I contacted a friend of mine and Guitar aficionado Rick Tedesco, to help me locate someone to totally restore the guitar if possible. I thought Rick, who also owns a guitar store called “The Guitar Hangar,” in Brookfield Connecticut would be the perfect person to find someone to do the job. Finally after almost four years of looking fruitlessly on my own, Rick found a guitar builder in California name Pat Wilkins, to take on the project. In late August of 2016 the neck-less body of the guitar was shipped off to Pat on the west coast.

After nine long months, in May 2017, Glen’s guitar was shipped back to me in Connecticut totally restored and looking beautiful. It came out fu***ng great and plays awesome. Pat Wilkins’s renovation with a new neck is master craftsmanship of the highest quality. All of the new vintage Gibson custom hardware was supplied by Todd Money from Gibson Guitars. This project would have never happened without the professional help of both Pat and Todd. Thanks a billion! Neal Smith

No alterations were made to the finish. It’s all original. The nicks, cuts, scratches and burns in the guitar’s body stayed as Glen made them and left them forty years ago.

As a footnote, Dennis Dunaway has the severed neck as well as the original Gibson vibrato bar from this guitar. The break on the neck matched up perfectly to the break where it broke off the guitar body. That original neck could have never been restored because (a) it is missing the headstock and (b) reattaching the neck the way it had broken off could have never been reattached properly to make it strong enough to be a fully functional, playable guitar.

08/06/2024

🎼True love still exist🎵✨

Jimmy Page with love of his life 😍
📸 Paul Reeves

25/04/2024

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21/04/2024

Feeling sad and emotional right now. Just came back from visiting my friend Jr Peterson's wife to bring her a vase of blue silk flowers and a blue sympathy card to match. Jr had his bue guitars when we would gig. His wife Chris showed me a big card the neighbors made with pictures of all the neighborhood dogs. The dogs would always want to stop to see him when they went on their walks, and he would give them treats. While I was at their house today a neighbor's husky came to visit, and Jr's wife Chris got some treats out for the dog.. That is the kind of person Jr was.. kind, caring , and with a heart of gold. On my was out I came face to face with his Steel Notes Magazine Id card I made for him,,, I guess he let me know that he knew I was there to offer my condolences, and mourn with his wife over his loss. I told his wife Chris, that I will do a memorial piece for him, and post the pictures from their recent Bahamas cruise. As sick as he was feeling, he still did not want to disappoint the nursing home residents, by not showing up, but unfortunately he was unable to perform. that just shows much of a stand up guy he was.. He did it "His Way" , to the very end

14/04/2024

5 year old Yailees Rivera Ocasio of Bethlehem, Pa, enjoying reading my book, Adventures in Dogville!

11/04/2024

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11/04/2024

You are never too young to Rock N Roll!

30/05/2023

Alexxis Steele and her Co-Host - Award winning album cover designer, Spencer Drate , interview the Fabulous 26th Marquis- Actor/MusicianSirius XM DJ, with L...

23/05/2023

Welcome to our 9th Anniversary double issue! In this edition we feature the legendary actor/musician/DJ The 26th Marquis Michael Des Barres, Styx 2023 Tour, Trans-Siberian Orchestra at The PPL Center, Ringo Starr at The State Theatre, Easton, Pa, Poison at The Windcreek Steel Stage, Larry Gatlin at....

11/05/2023

CHECK OUT OUR LATEST 9TH ANNIVERSARY DOUBLE ISSUE !
Legendary actor/musician/DJ Michael Des Barres
Trans - Siberian Orchestra at The PPL Center
Styx 2023 Tour
Ringo Starr at The State Theatre, Easton, PA
Poison at Wind Creek Steel Stage
Larry Gatlin at The Wood Theatre, Glen Falls NY
Lisa Marie Presley memorial by Bob Klein
Raquel Welch memorial by Marlowe B West and Bruno Pacheco
and much much more!

Welcome to our 9th Anniversary double issue! In this edition we feature the legendary actor/musician/DJ The 26th Marquis Michael Des Barres, Styx 2023 Tour, Trans-Siberian Orchestra at The PPL Center, Ringo Starr at The State Theatre, Easton, Pa, Poison at The Windcreek Steel Stage, Larry Gatlin at....

12/12/2022

Look who came back east!!!
Just got done with another interview with Sammi Z and Next X
in town recording some of their EP at Dan Malch's Soundmine Studio.. Check out our interview on IHeartRadio and Spotify on:
Music 101 With Alexxis Steele

Look who came back east!!!
Just got done with another interview with Sammi Z and her band Next X, in town from Utah, recording some of their EP at Dan Malch's Soundmine Studio.. Check out our interview on IHeartRadio and Spotify on:
Music 101 With Alexxis Steele

08/10/2022

1970, In memory of Janis Joplin died today in 1970 at the age of 27.

She was an American singer and musician.

One of the most successful and widely known female rock stars of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and "electric" stage presence.

She appeared at the Woodstock festival and on the Festival Express train tour. Five singles by Joplin reached the Billboard Hot 100.

Her most popular songs include her cover versions of "Piece of My Heart", "Cry Baby", "Down on Me", "Ball and Chain", "Summertime", and her original song "Mercedes Benz", her final recording.

Joplin died of a he**in overdose in 1970, at the age of 27.

A second solo album, Pearl, was released in January 1971, just over three months after her death. It reached number one on the Billboard charts.

She was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

She remains one of the top-selling musicians in the United States, with Recording Industry Association of America certifications of 18.5 million albums sold.

01/10/2022

14/09/2022

Alexxis Steele interviews Jamie Andrew of The UK from the band HeyZeus