My View of Life on the Dock
Home Of The Worlds Undisputed Greatest Coffee Rolls
Misti and Larry Serving Up Glosat Joe’s Perfect Storm and Blackburn Coffee At Mamie’s Kitchen End Of The World Party
Packed House!
Misti Presents Me With her Hand Crafted GMG Ornament Filled With Glosta Joe’s Beans!
The requisite Worlds All Time Greatest Coffee Roll At Mamie’s Kitchen Pic
(If you haven’t tried one yet you should just kill yourself)
Breakfast of Champions ( the most overused breakfast cliché of all time)
Last weekend, Fred Bodin and I were both at a great Christmas party / sing-along with a lot of other guests. I guess I was feeling lazy, because I didn’t bring my camera. Fred, on the contrary, was on top of things and he used his camera to grab some video of our caroling. Here is a medley I put together from his footage. The last part is a snippet of a traditional Christmas Gregorian chant I sang with Kevin McDermott.
Thanks for the footage, Fred!
Filmed December 20th, 2012
People really respond to these so we’re gonna capture all the neighborhoods. Most comments for the next neighborhood you want us to do we will film next.
If you know someone from Magnolia or that used to live in Magnolia, put this on your Facebook page and share it with them.
Filmed By Frank Ciolino using the Kodak Playsport ZX3 and Kaylau nClamp.
Edited using Windows Live Movie Maker
Captain Joe’s To East Main To Mt Pleasant Around The Back Shore Back Up East Main and Downtown.
Filmed using the super cheap Kodak Playsport zX3 and Kayalu nClamp
Those of you who like Christmas music are in luck tonight. Fly Amero is signing Christmas songs with his brother J.B. and Allen Estes at the Rhumbline tonight starting at 8pm.
Then catch the Local Music Seen with Allen Estes 2011 Christmas Special at 11pm on Cape Ann TV Channel 12 (originally aired last year) featuring Dan King, Daisy Nell & Capt. Stan, Ann Marie, Bradley Royds, Inge Berge, Chelsea Berry, Dave Sag, Courtney Reid and Allen’s son Dylan Estes. Here’s a video of many of the performers singing Santa Claus is Coming to Town. (see more air times here)
Of course, there’s lots of other excellent music in town (not necessarily Christmas — see full schedule here), including Dennis Monagle with Marina Evans, Joe Cardoza and Dave Brown at Minglewood Tavern starting at 9pm.
Ever wonder why Pope Julius II Commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel?
Well, the Catholic Church had been losing influence — and parishioners — partly due to tensions created by events leading up to the Protestant Reformation, which was sparked a few years after Julius II died. So, thought Julius, what better way to bring people back to the fold than to make his churches the most beautiful buildings you’re ever likely to see.
And then, of course, there’s the music, which matured over the next 200 years to produce such great works that we still play them today. Think our popular music will be played 300 years from now? Here’s a piece you proabably know, written about 300 years ago:
Imagine life in the early 1700s (when Bach was a church organist — 200 years after Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel). The only sounds you heard were those of nature–birds chirping, rustling leaves, whistling wind, the roar of the sea, the gentle wash of a babbling brook or running stream. Think of this as the background music of the day upon which you hear the human voice: the sigh of a maiden in love; the jealous rage of a prince betrayed; the joyful song of family gathered around a crackling fire; a newborn’s cradle gently rocking on wide pine boards to his mother’s soft candlelight serenade.
People of the day spent their lives listening to the sounds of nature augmented only by music they made themselves, the notable exception being on Sunday. Church music was an utterly exotic and extraordinary sound — and most likely the loudest sound anyone ever heard.
So, you fill the most impressive building in the city with the best art and music available anywhere on Earth and you’ve got a draw. That’s what got people to church. And it still does. Just ask Greg Bover who buys most of the organs he builds at CB Fisk.
Regardless of their religious affiliations, more people go to church during big celebrations than at any other time — and a big reason is that’s when the music and pageantry (entertainment wrapped in ceremony) are at their best. Check out this video of an Easter 2012 church service to see what I’m talking about:
SWAT team are assisting Gloucester police in trying to apprehend the man.
From Herb Wennerberg
I just shot this footage at Good Harbor Beach on Tuesday. Tina and Dexter were rescued from shelters by Kimberlee Bertolino and Michael Oppelt of Gloucester. I hope you will share this with the readers of GMG so they understand the urgency of re…
This will be a great night, local favorite “Satch” Kerans opening for Ronnie Earl & The Boardcasters. Ronnie’s music truly transcends genres and touches the soul. Some tickets are still available.
If Satch & Ronnie don’t do it for you check out the other great live shows happening around cape ann here. Get out and enjoy the holiday with some great music, good friends and always good food.
You’re overwhelmed. So are we. That’s why we’ve got an itinerary that you can follow to make sure you get everything you really want to do into tonight. It’s good practice for tomorrow (Men’s night in case you haven’t been paying attention).
For those of you who like to start early, it’s dinner at Jalapenos GCA fundraiser at 5pm. While you’re there, enter to win some great prizes pictured to the right. You don’t have to be present when the prizes are drawn in order to win. Just be sure your name is on the raffle ticket.
At 6:30 catch the PART 1 premiere of Dan King on his Local Music Seen with Allen Estes farewell tribute with special guest J.B. Amero that we previewed in this post. You can run home to catch the show, or, better yet, ask the bar manager where ever you are to turn the TV to Channel 12.
Then at 7, head over to Alchemy to see Chelsea Berry and drop off a toy for the Pathways Toy Drive.
Finish up the night at with Fly Amero and his 80s rock star guest Jon Butcher at the Rhumb Line. Whew!
Then be sure to get plenty of rest so you can start all over tomorrow at Men’s Night.
Just in case you haven’t heard, Dan King is moving early next year. So, in honor of one of Gloucester’s most important music figures, we had him down to the Cape Ann TV Studio to film a special two-part Local Music Seen farewell show with Allen Estes — and guess who showed up? The great J.B. Amero! Boy, did those guys have fun together! Check out this gem we caught after we were done taping and the boys just started jammin:
You can catch the Part 1 premiere of this special farewell show tonight at 6:30 on Cape Ann TV Channel 12. It will air again on Friday at 1:30pm and Sunday at 6pm.
Now before we started taping we asked Dan if he would represent GMG and here’s what he said — PAY ATTENTION, JOEY!
Gloucester legend Fly Amero has been hosting Wednesday’s at the Rhumb Line for some time now — and his guests range from more Gloucester legends to people you can’t see every day. But tomorrow, he’s outdone himself by bringing Grammy-nominated 80s rock star, Jon Butcher as his guest. Remember this MTV video from 1984?
Here’s what Fly has to say about tomorrow:
It is a thrill for me to present my good friend, Jon Butcher to
the local art community and to the music lovers of Cape Ann
at large. This is a man who built a legacy for himself that
extends from its early roots in Boston to the far reaches of the
planet. At last, after years away on the West Coast, he returns
to his adoring fans here in New England – all of whom clearly
remember his music and his legend. This is Jon Butcher Axis.
And this is a one-in-a-million show you won’t want to miss!
~ Fly
From http://www.jonbutcher.com/
Grammy-nominated Jon Butcher is one of a select handful of
influential recording artists comprising the legendary Boston
music scene. MTV vids and hit songs, “Life Takes A Life”,
“Wishes”, “Holy War”, “Goodbye Saving Grace”, “Miracles”,
“Send Me Somebody” comprise the underpinnings of a
recording/ touring career that continues today. Two critically
acclaimed CD’s, “Positively The Blues” and “Electric Factory”
mark Jon’s enduring love affair with all things Americana –
blues, jazz, Dixieland, folk, swing, Cajun and more.
This just in from Cathy McCarthy
Hey Joey,
The Annual Rocky Neck Plunge will be held on Jan. 1st….2013 at 11 am..
Once again, we will be hosting a food drive for The Open Door.. ‘
Items most needed::
Tuna, 100% juice, Soups, Peanut Butter, Pasta Sauce, Breakfast Cereal , Baking Items.
They requested no glass bottles. We collected over 600 lbs last year and would love to be able to hit that mark,plus more..
We will do our traditional poem by George Sibley at 11 am. and then the plunge…
Much Thanks Joey,
Cathy McCarthy
If you haven’t Plunged before let me tell you there is no better way to start the year. Conquer some fears, step outside your “normal”, ring in the new year with friends and family and start the New Year off funky fresh on Rocky Neck.
ANYONE and I MEAN ANYONE that has done it in the past comes back to do it again because it is so uplifting and exhilarating.
Won’t you join US?!!!
Pics From Last Year Via Manny Simoes-
2012 Rocky Neck Plunge Photos From Betty Pijut
Videos-
Will You Be Plunging? Write in your pledge to plunge in the comment of this post
Joey C-In!
Straight out of the Ed Collard School of Video-
No joke in the past week I’ve received video footage from no less than 5 people who have held their cell phones or regular cameras vertically while they take video.
I guess it’s because people are used to taking cell phone pictures vertically but to upload video to something that is watchable you need to think about keeping your camera horizontal.
This one was ok in that it’s viewable (and I appreciate people sending stuff in believe me I’m just trying to get folks to know how to do it a bit better), but would have been a whole lot better horizontally so when uploaded to YouTube you would have a full frame of video instead of the black bars on the sides.
Sent in by Michael Oppelt –
Can’t believe my luck when walking my dogs down on Davis Neck in Gloucester MA, my boys discovered a dolpin/porpoise? swimming in shallow water at a nearby inlet. Here’s a video I took with my Android phone taken close to sunset over the Ipswich Bay.
Niece Amanda Interviews Ed A Couple Weeks Ag0. this one is taken with a regular camera held vertically. My guess is that Amanda is thinking like a cell phone while taking the video-
An unnamed source submits this video of the lobster trap tree lighting
Given that we’re now in our 4th week, those of you who follow GMG probably know about our Monday series Peter & Vickie’s Laws of Life (LOL, for short). Click here, if you missed any of the first 3. In our LOL #2, we introduced the concept of inverse proportions. Today’s concept of direct proportions is much simpler and today’s law could be stated thus, The vigor with which you fight against change is directly proportional to your need for change.
It won’t take you long to think of plenty of examples of this LOL, the most obvious being addiction, but I thought I’d start with a personal one. Back in 1998, when Vickie and I founded Van Ness Group, we built complex, data-driven websites and Web applications for public companies and big financial institutions. We were experts in a niche and that was that. People told us to diversify. We resisted. Local businesses asked us to build websites for them. We refused. Clients wanted us to help with marketing. Forget about it! We had spent 10 years becoming experts in employee stock benefit plans and 15 years in database technology. We were determined to stick with it — and we did! That is, until the niche vanished suddenly in 2001 right before our very eyes like a cheap magic trick. YIKES.
Mayor Kirk alluded to this LOL in her Mayor’s Desk column with this gem, “Expansion of the commercial tax base is the antidote to rising taxes for homeowners which most people claim to want relief on but at the same time is fought every step of the way.”
Back to addiction. You’ve probably seen or heard of addicts resisting, with all their vigor, the one thing that is their only hope — to quit. But this applies to lots of things, not just drugs. Before the Civil War, the South was addicted to slavery — they believed their economy depended on it. But in the long run, the best thing for their economy was the abolition of slavery.
Now the one addiction I’ll just accept is music. I’ll never try and quit. Especially while I live in the middle of the hottest independent music scene north of NYC. Just look at all the music this week — and it’s off season!
Here’s one of my favorite videos from MTV’s heyday about another addiction:
Watch Beth make the mad dash! She has 3 minutes to grab all the groceries she can at the Gloucester Market Basket. (Winner of the www.foodpantry.org fund raiser raffle)
I don’t care what anyone says- You give me an option of anyone I know to shoot and edit video I’ll take Craig Kimberley 100 times out of 100. Watch this masterpiece and tell me if you agree.
If you need convincing check out what he did for our GMG Farm Bar and Grille Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Video-
or the Horribles Parade Video-
You got commercial video to produce or a show to do- Craig Kimberley is THE MAN.
Check out The Open Door Food Pantry website below-
33 live music shows to choose from tonight through Sunday (see weekend live music lineup here). Oops, make that 32 (unless you already have tickets to Overboard’s sold out show at Old Sloop tomorrow night). Here’s a taste of what you’re missing if you don’t:
But wait! They’re coming back to Rockport as part of New Year’s Rockport Eve’s huge lineup of excellent entertainment. See the NYRE live music lineup here.
Tonight’s music lineup is killer and includes KBMG @ Dog Bar featuring Dave Brown on guitar. Just in case you forgot who Gloucester’s greatest guitarist is, here they are at Celebrate Gloucester 2010 (with Nelson Bragg on percussion):
Good Morning Gloucester 