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IF YOU GOSlightly Stoopid plays Oct. 20 at the Houseof Blues in Showboat, 801 Boardwalk.Show time is 9 p.m. Tickets are $27.50 and$32.50 and can be purchased at the Houseof Blues box office, all Ticketmaster loca-tions, Ticketmaster.com or by phone at(800) 736-1420.
No one could ever accuse SlightlyStoopid of skimping at their fans’expense.
The August release of “Top of theWorld” features 21 tracks, including therarity of rarities in today’s world of rock:the instrumental.
The thing is, co-founderMiles Doughtysays such an explosion of music is not ananomaly.Most of thegroup’sworkextendsbeyond the typical 10- to 12-song CD.
“We want to give our fans as much mu-sic for the money,” he said in an interviewfrom his home in San Diego.
Thebandcut 35 to 40 songs in the studiofor “Top of the World.” “With your own la-bel, you can do it anyway you want,” saidDoughty,whobrings themusicallydiverseeight-piece band to the House of Blues onOct. 20.
“We love to record instrumentals. Wedig ‘Introduction to Organics.’ Sometimeswe open up shows with it,” he said.
Maybe the band will open the House ofBlues concert with the four-minute song.Thebandwillmixup the set list to incorpo-rate all seven studio albums, but still do alot from its latest release.
“We’ll play something new, but at thesame time, we let fans call out what they’dwant to hear. We want to give them whattheycamefor,” saidDoughty,who likes theintimacy that comes with smaller venueslike the House of Blues.
“You can reach out and touch someone.It’scool in thatkindofvibe, likeabackyardparty,” he said.
As a budding teen, Doughty caught therockbugwatchingMTVvideos.Heandco-founder Kyle McDonald formed SlightlyStoopid when they were around 16.
“It was just a dream as kids.We startedplaying guitars. Nothing sounded great,”he said.
It’s all about persistence. “You have tobelieve it and push for it,” Doughty said.
Eighteen years later, they’re still doingit. “We never looked back. I haven’tworked a regular job since I was 20. I’mblessed and lucky. It’s also a testament toour fans — called Stoopid Heads — who
travel and have grown up with us.”Doughty is also a fan ofmusic.When he
and the band recorded “Live at Roberto’sTRI Studios,” they shared the stage withBobWeir (formerly of the Grateful Dead)and Ivan and Ian Neville, among others.
Indeed, the session was an all-star jamwith a 12-piece band.
“I was in awe of some of these musi-cians. The dopest part was to go to Weir’sdressing room and do harmonies withhim,” Doughty said. “I said ‘I’m sittinghere with BobWeir doing vocal harmony.’
Itwas agreat live show.We’vedone a lot ofstuff with the Neville Brothers,” he said.
In fact, IanNevillewas one of a numberof guest artists on “Top of theWorld.” Alsoon tap: G. Love, Angelo Moore from Fish-bone, Don Carlos and Barrington Levy.
Who would Doughty like to play with?“I’d love to jam with Slash.”
Meantime, Doughty lives the dream. “Istill wake up smiling every day because Iplaymusic, travel theworld andhangwithmy best friends. Notmany say they can dothat.”
SLIGHTLY STOOPID PUTS FANS FIRST
Slightly Stoopid is Miles Doughty (from left), Oguer ‘OG’ Ocon, DeLa, C-Money, KyleMcDonald and Ryan ‘RyMo’ Moran. The band performs Oct. 20 at House of Blues.PHOTO PROVIDED
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“I’m the last ofme, and I amnot egotisti-cal,” Pat Cooper said by way of an inter-view kickoff. I didn’t even have to ask aquestion.
But the question I didn’t get to askwas simple:Whodidyouemulate asaco-median? The short answer is: no one.
“I always wanted to be myself. I nev-er tried to be like anybody. I grew upwith the greatest comics inworld. It’s allabout flow orchestration. When I walkdown the street, people say that’s PatCooper, not a guy who wants to be DonRickles. And I love Don Rickles,” saidCooper,whoperformsatBorgataOct. 26
Speaking of Pat Cooper, theman tookheat for his act, including heat from hisfamily for changing his name from Pas-quale Caputo.
“They’drather Ibe in jail thanchangemy name. I said ‘I could not get a job un-der that name.’ ”
Cooper ran away from home, and noone looked for him.
No matter. He built a career.“My family was shocked when they
sawme on ‘Jackie Gleason,’ ” he said. “Iwas the first Italian to openmymouthontelevision. People said I wasmaking funof Italians, but I wanted to show theworld we have a sense of humor. Howdare you say I cannot talk about our cul-ture?We’re funny, but people are afraidto laugh.”
He admits he had no love lost for hisparents and sisters.He got a last-minutecall when both his father and motherpassed away. After his father’s death,the obituary read, “Michael Caputo leftthree daughters.”
“I had no relationship with them.They said I offended my family,” saidCooper, who has homes in Fort Lauder-dale and New York.
Cooper guessed that had he not cho-sen the path he did and did what otheryoung Italian men of his generation did,he might have ended up in prison.
A lot of Cooper’s experiences borrowfrom the cliché that life is stranger thanfiction. And a lot of it ended up on paperin his autobiography, “How Dare YouSay You Dare Me.”
The Army released him because hehad hammerhead toes, an affliction heneverheardof.Then they turnedaroundand drafted him.
Cooper’s father had a sense of humor,
even if he didn’t appreciate it or under-stand it. “My mother gave him a hardtime, so he goes to the drawer and takesout his marriage license and says to her,‘Where does it say I have to put up withthis (expletive)?’ ”
Then there was the time his fathercametoseehimat theCopa inNewYork.“They threw him out because he said hewas Pasquale Caputo’s father and theysaid there’s no one here by that name. SoI had to get him in. After the show, hesaid, ‘You weren’t funny at home, andyou’re still not funny.’ ”
Today, at 83, Cooper is as sharp assomeonehalf his ageandas funnyasanycomedian on stage. He’s closed 15 to 20Friar’s Club roasts, a hard enough jobwith prepared remarks, but he speaksfrom the top of his head.
“I change, I’m different, I’m innova-tive,” Cooper said of his performances.
He doesn’t use foul language or racymaterial, but can still put a thousandpeople in a showroom. Throughout hislong and lucrative career, Cooper hasshared the stagewith such superstars asJerry Lewis, Tony Bennett, Tom Jones,Paul Anka, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin,Engelbert Humperdinck, Sammy DavisJr.; the list goes on.
He’s had recurring appearances onshows as different as “The HowardStern Show” and “The Late Show withDavid Letterman.” He’s made moremoney than he could ever hope to spend.
Money can be a curse, Cooper said.“It’s to spend and enjoy. Why save it?Guarantee me there’s a tomorrow.”
Cooper donates to causes, especiallychildren’s causes such as St. Jude’s. Hesays doctors who help develop some-thing to improve the lives of childrende-serve the accolades thrown at rockstars.
“If I die broke, I’ve lived good. I’veworked my career. I stayed away frompeople I don’t get along with,” he said.
PAT COOPER’S LIFE STRANGER THAN FICTION
Comedian Pat Cooper has been around the block. The 83-year-old funnyman bases hisschtick on his life experiences. ROBERT WEIDENFELD
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Lastmonth,MelissaEtheridge joinedagroup of women of rock for a concert inNew Orleans, including Gladys Knightand Stevie Nicks.
Nice company. The reason for theLife@50+ show—sponsored by theAARP—spokeas loudlyas theperformers sang.
Yes, Etheridge is AARP eligible at 51.“It felt funnythatwe’re thenextgener-
ation. We birthed rock ’n’ roll. But there’smore of us than anyone else. Old is thenewyoung,” she said in a phone interviewfrom New Orleans. With the show behindher, Etheridge comes to Caesars Oct. 19with a new album and a new tour.
The CD, “4th Street Feeling,” soundslike something from Bob Dylan, but thestreet name refers to her native home inLeavenworth, Kan., a town knownmostlyfor its prison and Army base. “It’s kind ofthe main drag, starting in the old down-town,” Etheridge said.
The Dylan connection was not lost onsomeone who wears the influences of thebard and his slightly younger counter-part, Bruce Springsteen.
“I remembered thinking as I titled it‘4th Street,’ thank goodness the streetwasn’t 10th Street,” she said with achuckle about her 12th studio album in a25-year career.
The album has elements of both sing-
ers, along with country influences and aZZTop-typeedge. “The last coupleyears Irealized, our interpretation of the musicwe love andmoves us is steeped into rock’n’ roll, country, soul and R&B.”
Thealbumhas adeluxeversionwith15songs. “It’s so funny, you have bonussongs. You have to do this to sell the al-bum. I suppose it’s good. But that’s a lot toask, to listen to 15 songs. Ten to 12 is whatmost people listen to.”
Etheridge’s website describes “4thStreet” as arguably her most immediate,heartfelt and musically resonant release.It’s also, perhaps not coincidentally, thefirst on which she has taken the lead gui-tar role, playing all the guitar parts.
“It wasn’t so much a sound I wanted,but a process,” she said. “I wanted to playas much as I could, wanted to play all theguitars. Challenged myself to play lead.And I got better. I hadn’t thought peopleget better. I thought I was as good as I’dget at 30.”
“I’ve been through things, but I’m on ajourney,” she said of “Falling Up,” a songon the album that required her to play abanjitar — a banjo body with a guitarneck. “It’s getting better. I’m going some-where. That’s where the banjo feelingcomes in.Can’t frownandplay thebanjo.”
ETHERIDGE STILLGOING STRONG
The name of MelissaEtheridge’s new album,‘4th Street Feeling,’ refersto the main drag in herhometown ofLeavenworth, Kan.JAMES MINCHIN III
She brings ‘4th Street’ tour to Caesars
IF YOU GOMelissa Etheridge playsOct. 19 at the CircusMaximus Theater inCaesars Atlantic City,2100 Pacific Ave. Showtime is 9 p.m. Tickets are$75 to $105 and areavailable at Ticketmasterlocations, (800) 736-1420, ticketmaster.comor the Caesars Box Office
multi-instrumentalist Tom Gimbel, key-boardistMichael Bluestein and drummerMark Schulman.
The latest release for Foreigner is athree-disc set, “Feels Like The FirstTime,” which includes an acoustic CDwith an intimate and unique reinterpreta-tionofmanyForeignerclassics, studio re-records by the new lineup and a live per-formance DVD showcasing the group’senergy.
“We did live acoustic shows in Europewhen we were promoting ‘Can’t SlowDown.’ We had a great response, so webooked shows in this format. They soldout. We were shocked by that. So we fig-ured we have to do that on CD,” Hansensaid.
As forwhat’s next, the band is still pro-moting this album so any thought to thenext releasehasnot surfaced.Todoanen-tire album takes a large effort of energy,time and money and then the songs areavailable to download for free, he said.“We have to figure out how to approachthat.”
It’s a cliche that Kelly Hansen had bigshoes to fillwhenhereplacedLouGrammas lead singer of Foreigner eight yearsago. After all, Gramm’s voice led songslike “Double Vision,” “Cold as Ice,” “JukeBox Hero” and “I Want to Know WhatLove Is.”
But Hansen is not trying to be LouGramm.
“I’m trying to be me,” he said in aphone interview. “Our intention is not tobe a previous version of the band. We’reongoing; this is where we are now.”
This version ofForeignerwill performOct. 20 at Harrah’s Philadelphia.
While he doesn’t change the songs sothat they are wildly different from theoriginals,Hansen says, he absolutely putshis own spin on the numbers. And he sangleadon the last studioalbum,2009’s “Can’tSlow Down.”
What can fans expect at the concert?Hansenwouldn’t give away the set list.
“But we’ll do all the classics with a fewsurprises. We’re an interactive band. Welike to play with the audience. It’s a high-energy show.The audiencewill leave say-ing I didn’t know they did that song.”
The name of the band — formed byMickJones in1976—hasalwaysreflectedthe American and British nationalities ofthe members. “No matter where weplayed, someonewas always a foreigner,”Hansen said.
In addition to Hansen and Jones, thelineup includes bass guitarist Jeff Pilson,
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c o u r i e r p o s t o n l i n e . c o m2S COURIER-POST, Thursday, October 11, 2012
» An advertising supplement to the Courier-Post, a Gannett newspaper, 301 Cuthbert Blvd., Cherry Hill, NJ 08002. Sales Representative — Tom Martino, 856-486-2516
GAMING DESTINATIONS & DIVERSIONS
Not content to rest on its DoAC laurels,the Atlantic City Alliance has launched a$6 million fall tourism marketing cam-paign. Yes, Do AC is still prominent. Afterall, why mess with success.
“Do Anything, Do Everything, Do AC”includes a new television spot called “DoChange” (the third for Atlantic City sincethe campaign’s April 16 launch), new radio
spotsandnewfall print andonlineads.Thecampaign also includes billboards and asizable social media effort.
The advertising buy is concentrated inthe close-by drive markets of New York,Philadelphia and Baltimore. A 30-secondtelevision ad, “DoChange,”will air at least1,300 times in those markets through De-cember. In addition, 3,500 radio spots willair among 33 stations.
The objective is to showcase the desti-nation’s wide offerings to visitors, fromentertainment, fine dining, luxury accom-modations, nightlife, gaming, the beachand the famed Boardwalk. The campaignhighlights popular fall activities such asindoor pools, spas, rooftop bars with firepits and shopping. The creative empha-sizes midweek and overnight travel.
“The fall is a beautiful time to visit At-lantic City. This campaign shows off the
many things one can do inAC. The adswillbe on TV in our key feeder markets andcomplementedby radio, billboards, digitaland social media. The ads emphasize stay-ingmidweek, indoorandoutdooractivitieslike a romantic walk on the beach, andstaying overnight in an oceanfront room,”said Jeff Guaracino, chief strategy andcommunications officer for the AtlanticCity Alliance, a non-profit corporationwhose primary mission is to develop andimplement a multi-year marketing pro-gram for the resort.
Initial research indicates that the DoAC campaign is resonating with potentialvisitors. The target audience, known as“fun seekers,” reports an increased inter-est in visiting Atlantic City and that theirperception of beach resort is expandingbeyond gaming to include a variety of visi-tor attractions. In addition, respondents
say that the city appears cleaner andmoresophisticated than before the campaignbegan.
For more information, visit www.doat-lanticcity.com.
‘Do AC’ and a little moreNew marketingcampaign toutsfall tourism
DO FALL. DO FALLINGIN LOVE AGAIN.
ByWilliam SokolicCourier-Post Staff
The success of “Boardwalk Empire”has put a spotlight on all things1920s inAt-lanticCity, theera tracedbythesuccessfulHBO series.
The latest nod is an exhibit at theAtlan-tic City Historical Museum on GardenPier.
The exhibit, “The Atlantic City Experi-ence: 1920s,” features information andphotographs of Atlantic City boss Enoch“Nucky”Johnson, themanwho is the inspi-ration behind the show’s fictionalizedcharacter Nucky Thompson.
Other Atlantic City icons and land-marks synonymous with that decade arehighlighted, includingthefirstMissAmer-ica, Margaret Gorman, crowned in 1921;the Ritz-CarltonHotel, the home of NuckyJohnson; Mayor Edward L. Bader, the
namesake for the municipal airport andvarious Boardwalk scenes.
Those wishing to learn more aboutNucky’s empire and Atlantic City’s richhistory can also visit the museum’s web-site at www.atlanticcityexperience.org.The site highlights many of the historicalresources available at the Atlantic CityFree Public Library and showcases themthrough online exhibits.
See photos of Enoch Johnson (third from right) and other people and places of the past during ‘The Atlantic City Experience: 1920s.’ The exhibit runs through the end of the year at theAtlantic City Historical Museum. PHOTO PROVIDED
MUSEUM SPOTLIGHTS ‘EMPIRE’ INSPIRATIONByWilliam SokolicCourier-Post Staff
The Ritz-Carlton was home to the real Enoch Johnson and is also the home of HBO’sfictional Enoch Thompson. PHOTO PROVIDED
Miss America was created and crowned in the resort town in the 1920s. PHOTO PROVIDED
IF YOU GO‘The Atlantic City Experience: 1920s’ runsthrough the end of the year at the AtlanticCity Historical Museum, New Jersey Ave-nue and the Boardwalk. Hours are 10 a.m.to 5 p.m. daily. Admission is free. Call themuseum at (609) 347-5839 for more in-formation.
and Convention Hall, now BoardwalkHall.
“Since ‘Boardwalk Empire’s’ arrivalthree seasons ago on HBO, there hasbeena flurry of interest inAtlanticCityin the 1920s,” Levi said. “Aside fromdays of Prohibition, or lack of them, atour shore, Atlantic Citywas a hotbed ofglamor and entertainment. A town ofBroadway tryouts, nightclubs, amuse-ment piers and the birth of Miss Amer-ica— the resort bubbledwith overwithexcitement. We will talk about the poli-tics and pulchritude of those salad daysof yore.”
Themuseumisopenfrom10a.m. to5p.m.daily.VisitorscanenjoyexhibitsofAtlantic City, with vintage photographsand local artifacts. To learnmore aboutAtlantic City history, visitwww.atlanticcityexperience.org.
The Atlantic City Historical Mu-seumwill host “TheAtlantic City Expe-rience: TheRoaring ’20s” at11a.m. Oct.13 in the museum’s board room. Thefree talk is presented by the AtlanticCity Free Public Library.
Vicki Gold Levi and Heather HalpinPerez, who are both historical consult-ants forHBO’s“BoardwalkEmpire”se-ries, will be the guest speakers. Levi,co-author of “Atlantic City,125Years ofOcean Madness,” will discuss the cul-ture of the 1920s, including the music,movies and clothing. She will also talkabout her father,AlGold, the city’s firstofficial photographer, plus share somepersonal experiences of growing uphere, including her work for “Board-walk Empire.”
Perez, who is the archivist for the li-brary’s Alfred M. Heston Collection ofAtlantic City history, will discuss someof the city’s biggest names, includingEnoch “Nucky” Johnson, the inspira-tion for the show’s Nucky Thompson.She will also touch on a variety of high-lights from the decade, such as the con-struction of the World War I Memorial
‘Empire’ consultants talkabout Roaring ’20sByWilliam SokolicCourier-Post Staff
IF YOU GOThe Atlantic City Historical Museum willhost the discussion “The Atlantic CityExperience: The Roaring ’20s” on Saturdayin the board room of the museum, NewJersey Avenue and the Boardwalk. Time is11 a.m. The talk is free. Call (609) 347-5839for details.
