NEWS DE ROQUE

Members of SGT. MAXWELL’S PEACE CHORUS have been spending time in the M*A*S*H unit. Drummer SHAWN MARQUIS (The Church of Flying) underwent a tonsillectomy in January. SGT. MAXWELL (The Noise) tore the posterior horn of his medial meniscus. Knee surgery commenced on 2/7 (the eighth anniversary of MIKEY DEE’s infamous heart surgery). CHRIS MASCARA (Mascara) tripped coming off Shawn & Suzi’s Mardi Gras stage and twisted his ankle so badly that he needed to walk with crutches for weeks. After healing, the three warriors against war will be back on the front lines. *** JONNY P (White) had a near death experience when someone pulverized his skull in front of Bill’s Bar on 9/29/07. He has since healed—and he believes he is fine. *** In the where-are- they-now category, HARVEY WARFIELD (x-WAAF) has produced a video for MOG (New England’s longest lasting father/son band) of a remake of “Immigration Man,” the Crosby/Nash hit from ’72. *** AARON TAP (Layne/ x-Paula Kelley Band) made his network TV debut on the Conan O’Brien show on 1/30/08. *** PETER C. JOHNSON received permission from Universal Music (A&M) and Sony (CBS) to release a limited edition of Peter C. Johnson: 1978-1981, a CD that includes guests NILS LOFGREN, CARLENE CARTER, BONNIE RAITT, and MARK SANDMAN (and the Sandman Project will benefit from all sales). *** A rare 7-inch test pressing by BOBB TRIMBLE (who was number-one on last month's Noise radio chart) has just sold on ebay for $1,975. The acetate was donated by an old high school friend of Bobb's, who showed up with it at his record release party at River Gods. All proceeds are going to Bobb, who's currently unemployed. *** On 2/10/08, ten Berklee alumni and three faculty members won 13 Grammy Awards. Berklee alumni have now won a total of 162 Grammies. *** EMBRIONIC (JAMES BRYAM and SIOBHAN McCAULEY) has two songs airing on MTV’s Real World – Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet III. *** HUMANWINE bought a big old school bus and rebuilt it from the bottom up. It now runs on waste veggie oil. They intend to tour with their gas expense equaling zero. *** MARK HAMILTON will be running the 2008 WBCN Rock ’n’ Roll Rumble. *** CBS radio, owner of WBCN and WZLX, has axed 15 of their employees. At first we heard JUANITA lost her job, then we heard she was moved off the overnight shift to part time weekend status. CBS claims, “With these actions, we continue to build on our strategy of deploying our assets to best grow our ratings and monetize the results.” It's called addition by subtraction. Lolita: That’s kinda like peace through war. Rita: It’s more like it’s all about the buck.