SAL-Loot!

Hope y'all didn't miss this weekend's big event. No, not the grand re-opening of Fayetteville Street here in Raleigh. I'm talkin' about CMT's Hee Haw Weekend! Hell yeah! It was awesome. One Hee Haw after another all weekend long, non-stop stupid jokes, lazy hillbillies, hot girl hillbillies, old Country acts singing real Country music (plus Hank Jr.!), and Buck and Roy (who writes really really really awful songs and sings them in front of God and everybody..I especially hated the one about the "Orchid and the Rose". God Bless America! that sucked!)and the whole Hee Haw Gang. So thanks for the memories CMT...SAL-Loot!

go to bed w/ us!

Believe it or not! Get this!..and I shit you not! Our next venture into capitalism via the merch bag....PILLOW CASES!!YEP! PILLOW FUCKIN' CASES!! They've got the kickin' guys on one side and "Terry Anderson and The Olympic Ass-Kickin'Team" on the other! 2 fer $10!! ya can't beat it!
Come to the next gig and find out!
Sweet Olympic Dreams!

opening #'s

You won't go to an OAKTeam gig without hearing the "Olympic Theme". (Yeah, come get us! Whatever! We're ripping off your damn song, your torch and your precious little trademarked name, "OLYMPIC"!! Who gives a shit! Ooops!...got carried away there for a moment! The point is..) We start the show with the Olympic Theme blasting over the PA..and just at the right point Big Daddy usually jumps into "Weather on Not"...and it's a free-for-all for the next 2 hours!
A few years back before the OAKTeam, I liked coming out with the intro to "The Weight" by The Band. I don't remember that The Woods had an opening theme but The Fabulous Knobs had a pretty good one..."A Summer Place"!
You're only as good as your opener!

unicorns and rainbows...

...and a sunset in Bunn...

  

OakTeam PROGRAMS!

Jack is in the process of puttin' together an OakTeam "program" for the shows. I'm not clear if they'll be givin' away at the door like at church or sold by a hawker like at ball games but I do know they are gonna be IG-NUNT! I'm sure they'll be filled with silly pics and antidotes and have a list of songs for the fans to request from. He asked each of us to submit some fun facts about ourselves. I don't know how fun my submission is but if he needs more I'll send it.

Terry Randall Anderson....named after his Dad's crazy Uncle Terry and Randall Lolley, the preacher at his Mom's church, Pine Ridge Baptist. He was nicknamed Randy until he put a stop to it at the early age of 8 years old. In the 3rd grade he told the teachers, "Mam, there's 2 other Randy's in here and I really wouldn't mind if you called me Terry" So ever since that day he's been know as Terry, except to his family of course.
He was born in Louisburg, NC just 10 miles from his current home of Bunn and the family soon moved to Connecticut where they stayed for 2 or 3 years. They moved back just in time for Terry to start school in Raleigh, NC, where he grew up and still calls home.
Terry's first car was a Fiat 850 Spider, which stayed in the shop more than it did on the road. But it was a convertible and really cool lookin' when it DID run. He soon traded that in for a Delta 88.
After high school Terry attended the prestigious Sandhills Community College where he met Jack Cornell and other members of his first band, The Fabulous Knobs. After 6 years together, some members left and the 3 remaining, Jack, Terry and David Enloe became The Woods. After about another 6 years and a release on Twin Tone Records, The Woods also called it quits.
On the strength of his hits "Battleship Chains" and "I Love You Period" Terry was invited by BMG to write in Nashville for a while but soon realized that it sucked so he decided to stay home with his wife Grace and his kids, Will and Nathan and just paint for a livin', all the while still writing. Now that Terry had the freedom to write whatever he wanted the songs poured out of him like piss out of a boot. Realizing that those songs had to have somewhere to go, Terry and Jack once again re-wrote Rock history and formed The Olympic Ass-Kickin' Team!

Go Team Go!

wished I could'a met..

Dudley Moore

Otis

Keith Moon

Elvis

Steve McQueen

Ronnie Lane

Marvin Gaye

Dennis Wilson

my Grandparents on my Dad's side

Bob Stinson

JFK

Buck Owens

Roger Miller

George Harrison

Johnny Cash

June Carter Cash

Roy Orbison

Ray Charles

Bob Marley

Jerry Clower

Al Jackson

and...well...a bunch of other people and shit...

flamethrower?

Anybody got a flamethrower I can borrow? I went out to start the lawn mower to cut grass and it was a no go. The starting mechanism can be temperamental sometimes, the battery has to be perfectly in place and bolts fastened just so. I rolled it outta the barn I keep in and down to my house to check all the contacts. So as I'm doing that I'm standing in the gravel under my carport where the ticks begin crawling up my legs, maybe about 20 on each leg. I wash them off and decide to spray for them bastards with a highly concentrated Diazanon mix. Then the nozzle on my sprayer started screwing up, not clogged but just spraying uncontrolably until the trigger finally broke from me trying to stop it. OK...then I'm gonna spray my gravel with lighter fluid and set them MF's on fire. I have a whole container of lighter fluid which I spray evenly across the gravel. Went to get the lighter, click..click..click..THAT son of a bitch is broke too! Awww..screw it, I'm just gonna stay inside and load the dishwasher, wash a few dishes.

..SHIT! we're outta dishwashin' liquid!

day trippers

On a full tank of gas it is 2 hours from my doorsteps to the sand. It’s hard to believe but I did it yesterday. About Sunday I saw the weather report and decided it was time for a day trip to the beach. Grace had some time she could take off and the job I was working on finished up on Tuesday, forecast was for beautiful weather, let’s go!
So after I had the oil changed on the Kia “Specka Fi”, the young Nathan, the Bride and myself kicked it old school towards the coastline. (Yep, the Crystal Coast!). Our neighbors, Chick and Janet just happened to be on their way down later that afternoon and their place at Wrightsville Beach is NIIIIIIIICE! So we borrowed a key from them that got us into their backyard where the outdoor showers were so that we’d have a place to change.
It was about 11:30 when we drug all our crap up the hot sand to set up shop for a full day of sun worship and laziness. The water was perfect!..crystal clear, and with a cool breeze blowing there was NO-where else I wanted to be. But like a dumbass, I brought my wallet (what am I gonna buy out there?.. a jellyfish?) with me and there was about $500 cash in it so Grace and I had to take turns between staying on the blanket and playing with Nathan in the water. When I got back to the blanket once though I had an epiphany! Just as I was laying down, my favorite song came blastin’ outta the radio…”Mississippi Queen! You know what I mean…!” Hell yeah, I know exactly what you mean! This is where it’s at and it don’t get no better than this!
About every 4 years Wrightsville Beach gets the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge in sand to keep from losing their beachfront. The beach there is pretty huge so there were a lot of people there as you can imagine on a perfect day like this. We brought other stuff to do, baseballs and gloves and such but all Nathan wanted to do was ride the waves on the boogie board. I baked for a little while until about 1 o’clock I decided that the cooler in the car was going to waste. So I go back to take a quick shower at Chick’s place. Except about halfway through the shower I realized that our stuff wasn’t there where we had left it before. Hmmmm….was it stolen or…SHIT! I’m at the wrong house! So I turned the shower off and threw a towel around me and ran a couple of houses down to where I was supposed to be. Whew! Nobody saw. That could’a been ugly..in a number of ways! I got my clothes on and went to the store and grabbed a 6 pack of them Tecate bellywashers and threw’m on ice. Got back to the beach and sucked down 3 of’m before I knew it. That’s when the water REALLY started to feel good. Problem by then was that we were all starting to get pretty red. So we put on shirts and carried on. The waves had gotten bigger by then and Nathan and I were having a blast taking turns riding them in.
About 4 o’clock or so Chick and Janet arrived and we hung out for a while, it was her birthday. We went out and had a great dinner before heading back to Bunn. I had my favorite, Blackened Salmon salad and a glass of Zinfindel (no! not white!). We went to a place called Dockside. We ate outside, overlooking the water as small ships rolled through, cool breeze…a beautiful end to a great day on the beach. We were back home before 10 pm. I love North Carolina!

Sorry, no pics..the camera battery was dead! But trust me, it was beautiful!

wine tip

Do yourself a flavor and go get you this wine right here...
Tres Ojos...Old Vine Garnacha (Grenache)..from Spain
2004...CALATAYUD...
AND BY Keith Christopher's standards, it's a winner...14% alcohol
It IS really awesome and especially for the price. I bought a case
last Friday (of which there are 2 bottles left) for the low low
price of $7.20 a bottle..and it rocks!..and you don't feel bad the next day!
What..the hell...else...do..you want!

separated at birth?

 

Chris Cummings

Y'all ever heard of this guy? I ain't. Anyhoo, keep your ears to the ground or radio for him cuz he is releasing one of our songs as a single in Canada...
"CMT Canada will start playing it on the 25th and it goes for adds at radio August 9th (the record does not come out until October). This will be Chris' 15th single in Canada and this is the first time he is releasing a song to radio that he did not write." says wife, Stacey.
The song?.... "Dixie Beauderaunt".
I smell another $7.35 ASCAP check! WooHoo!

sing along!

"We are the world, we are the children..."

Will and his girlfriend, Ashley hanging with a lot of their friends in Ecuador.

Huey

I never did blog about our adventure to the ampithaeter this past weekend. We didn't really "open", but our job was to keep the old folks entertained while there was nothing going on on the big stage. Doors opened at 6:30 and The OakTeam went on soon thereafter. We kicked ass for about an hour and had the peeps gatherin', dancin' a jig, a hootin' and a hollerin'! It was close to 100 degrees that day so it felt like there was an giant frying pan directly in front of us. I think they call that thing the sun. It was pretty brutal we were hydrated up and toughed it out. Soon it was time for the "Huey Lewis Beach Band and Show". Huey's voice was ROUGH! He opened with one of his hits and then immediatly went into smaltzy Beach music world. He started doing songs by The Chairmen of the Board, The Drifters and hell, there was probably an Embers song in there somewhere. If you're not familiar with "Beach" music, you're lucky. It's indiginous to the Carolinas and it's something that most of us are not to very proud of. It involves a dance called The Shag, some pennie loafers and lots of light beer, usually Miller Light. Huey finished the set with a couple of more of HIS songs and left the stage to roaring applause. I was embarrassed for him. As soon as the roar quieted, we kicked into Battleship Chains and people we running from the big stage area to come see where the REAL music was coming from. They were all in party mode for the next 20 minutes as we gave them hit after hit. Then in the middle of a song the stage manager, Daniel gave us the throat slash sign meaning Chicago was on. We jumped up and started packing as quick as we could hoping to not hear nary a note of "Color my World". As we were getting the last few things in eVANgilina (Dave's rock super van), the piano player began with those first few meloncoly notes....AAAAHHHH! ..too late!! Damn!

mili-terry

I am staying out of the public eye and cancelling all gigs for the next month because of a haircut "accident". I told the bitch what to do but she was just yapping away and I don't think she heard a word I said cuz I walked outta there looking like Sgt. Carter.."Shazaam!" lady what in the hell did you do to me? "You like your summer cut?" Grrrrr!!!
The good news is that Will finally got home last night. He went straight to Taco Bell. He made a lot of new friends and had a great (and very busy) time. He'll be putting together his diary and pictures this week and I will post the link to it. Thanks again to all those who gave $$. It was a very rewarding trip and he has a new appreciation for his life here in the States.

flight cancelled

Well, I was disappointed to find out today that my son Will's flight back from Ecuador was cancelled. I miss him and can't wait to see him again safe and sound. The reason they cancelled the flight? A VOLCANO ERUPTION! I shit you NOT! Check it out! He's not near the volcano but Continental (nor I!) doesn't want their planes flying through the ash. Hopefully they'll git him back to his Mommer and Diddy tomorrow!

http://www.ecuador.us/news/archives/ecuador_news/tungurahua_volcano_eruptions/

writing machine

...strung w/ the tiny strings from a 12 string set.. 

It's official!!

I/WE..Ain't....scared!!!!!!
I will play anywhere with this band....David Letterman: "What you want, Dave? How about "You Know Me" ..we ALL sing on that one!?" "Hi and Dry" rocks like ASS though Live!" Emmy's? "Yup! What ya wanna hear? "College Girls"? "Raindrops"? "Fat Lady"? "OK! ..but you REALLY need to hear us do "Thunderbird" live...it absolutely brangs the house on DOWN!!!" Classic big hit's?..how about "Chains" and "Period"?
CMA's?.."Need a Country song?"..How about "$100 a week"? Perfect! You need it? We got it!
Good to go!..and by the way they are all our songs and we ain't SCARED!!

donut creek gig

Time Bomb! 

drankin'!

OHH!! so THAT'S what those blank CD cover/case/holder/thingys are for!!

their stage

 

our stage

 

Zach (somebody)

gotta get'm young! Got this tonight...

"hey, im zach (age 12) and i saw yall at huey lewis, and i had never heard of you guys but i was thinkin this stuff is awsome. Oh yeah, i was the one dancin with my sister ; ) ....hahaha
well i just wanted to tell u that you guys rock!"

hot rock weekend

Great gig at Tir Na Nog (Irish bar in Raleigh) last night. Had the folks dancing, laughin' and singin' along...what it's all about, ya know? It's a little thing we like to call FUN. We didn't have as big of a crowd as the Pearl Jam Tribute band did (What's the facination with tribute bands these days? Go see the REAL band, bitch! Anyway, I digress..) but it was a decent gathering of drunks and loyal fans. Not really looking forward to today out at the "Miller Beer tent at the Walnut Creek Ampitheater sponsered by Alltel" or whatever it is called. But it's not cuz we ain't gonna brang the ROCK and the FUN (we ALWAYS do THAT!) but cuz it's gonna be hotter Hell out there! It's supposed to feel like 100 degrees about the time we go on. I'm sure we'll be fine. I'm gonna drink plenty of water all day (gotta replentish what I lost last night anyway) and take it easy. Not gonna work too hard, how many fans of Chicago do we want as OUR fans anyway?

quick gig reminder

TIR NA NOG..... TONIGHT! 7/14

side stage @ walnut creek ampitheater
w/chicago and huey lewis...tomorrow 7/15

and just in!! Live after Five uptown Raleigh 8/2
w/the presidents of the united states of america
(hope the current one doesn't show up!)

Thanks ASCAP!

WooHoo! Got that big 'ol ASCAP check today. Man! I love being a rock star! Ya just sit there and wait for that money to roll in, meanwhile working on the next big hit. Well, the last part of that is not quite true, I really haven't had time to write much lately. But I DO throw ideas down that I will eventually (in another life!) go back to. ASCAP has been good at times, sometimes even GREAT! They are the checks I get for performance royalties, meaning the nickels I get from radio, TV and plays in Wal-Mart (believe it!.."I Love You Period" has been spotted a lot in there lately..but don't tell Steve Earle, he'll FORBID me from taking that money!). Anyhoo, the checks go up and down if you haven't had a hit in the past ten years. Back when "Period" was hot I got one for $14,500. Actually what happens is they hold your money for 9 months, steal the interest from that..and THEN send it to you. Damn nice of'm , huh?
So I get that money today and it's a DOMESTIC (from Amerka) performance check. That means one of my songs was played in Amerka and they gots to pay me fer it. The only song that paid off this time was Jo Dee Messina doing "Do Ya Wanna Make Something Of It". I wrote that one by myself..ooops!..did I say that outloud?...I mean with Pam Tillis's then husband (and seriously..all around great guy, we had a blast together!), Bob DiPiero. He didn't really change much I had about it, but we DID write a chorus together and isn't that what the damn songwriting thing is all about anyway? OK, so forget all that shit I just talked about him. He and his publisher got it placed too, so there..Terry! Mr. Hotshit songwriter dude! Be happy you're gittin' what you're gittin'!!
The check today was for $7.35 (147 nickels..but who's counting?). The tequila I bought tonight was $17...see why I paint for a livin'!?

Thrilling news!

I can't believe it! My dream gig has come true! The OakTeam is playing THIS Saturday with Chicago! (Believe it!) and our hero Huey Lewis! at the Walnut Creek Ampitheater! Oh my God! I'm just ecstatic! Of course, I really hate the hell outta them..but were ARE playing with them on the side stage. The REAL thrilling news is that we got an Email from Will and he has arrived safely in Ecuador. He said he got about 2 hours sleep on the plane, that the bus ride to the hotel was CRAZY but that all is fine. That's the news we've been waiting for.

Love ya!

I know I've blogged before about how we roll through this nation's great toll booths and after receiving our receipts the driver (Dan or Roscoe...as well as Big Daddy Dave w/ The OakTeam) will say "Love ya!" as we speed off. Well I was laughin' the other day about our last trip because Dan got off a really good one on the old guy in Pennsylvania. Looked him straight in the eyes and said it very sincerely,"Love you."
This all started with "A.Y.", Roscoe's friend and former bandmate who now plays with that chainsmokin' phony John "the Coug" Mellonball. A.Y. was workin' as a paralegal and often worked late into night diggin' up info for impending cases. He would sometimes call the lawyers he was working for as late as 4 in the morning with stuff they needed to know for the next day.
Being the kook that he is, A.Y. would end those calls with a good 'ol "Love Ya!"
Try it sometime. It's fun for the whole family!

whore in church

Ever heard the sayin', "nervous as a whore in church"? How about a drunk in church? That was me this morning. Yeah, I went up to the church house to see my son perform in the play that they will do while in Ecuador. It was moving and hard to watch, so I guess it did it's job..making us sinners nervous! The church itself was cool. They let everybody in, bikers, grandmas, whites, blacks and everyone in between. They do a lot of shoutin' in his church and I had the distinct pleasure of sitting in front of the loudest of them all. My ears are still ringing with "AMEN!","HALELOOO-YA!" and "PRAISE THE LORD!". I think a couple of the members were actually speaking in tongues too, which was pretty wild. It had been a while since I last went to church so I guess it was about time I got my sorry ass in there. Maybe I'll straighten up and fly right one of these days!

tough week ahead..

This is the week that my son, Will, goes to Ecuador. We've been busy gettin' his bags together. He's got his bug spray, guns (just kiddin'), diarrehea medicine, long pants (no shorts!..threat of cholera!) and all dat shit. They are carrying down medical supplies and have worked out a play to perform. Will is Jesus.
It's gonna be hard on me, harder than letting him drive off on his on with his brand new license.
Hell, he's never been on a plane before! But I tell him, "you'll be fine, they do it every day", meaning the flying. That's what I tell myself when I fly.
I remember thinking back to when Grace was pregnant with him and wondering, "Do I really wanna bring a child into this world full of killers, assholes, stress, ignorance, insincerity and downright mean-ness? And then I told myself, "well..maybe this kid can at least help in some way to change all that!" I had no idea how right I could be.

Oct. run..

The OakTeam is workin' on a 7 day (or more) stretch in October up through Ohio, Mich., N.Y. and beyond. Well..really we only gots 2 dates in the bucket but we do have some other fish on the line. Confirmed is Columbus on the 6th and (a trimphant return to..) Wapakoneta on the 7th. We'll fill in the blanks soon and let ya know.

live stuff

http://web.mac.com/jackcornell/iWeb/Site/JackBlog/740FF39E-03DD-4786-A956-C841AE60C557.html

see if'n you can git you some T-Bird..

Chocolate goatee

OK...who got into the brownie batter? 

Weeeeeee!!!

 

Happy Fourth!

For those of you across the pond, you may not be privy to the goings-on of this first week of July when American drunks everywhere are trying to survive the holiday without a ticket
(DUI or otherwise), a broken arm, a busted head, a divorce or a wrecked vehicle.This is the weekend when just about everybody kicks it up a notch and goes from beer (usually light and pissy tasting) to hard liquor. Then they get together and fall over drunk onto a burning charcoal grill (where hot dogs are burning!) or they get in a boat on a lake and drive too fast until somebody falls out. Sometimes they shoot off fireworks which sometimes results in a lost finger or eye or they dive into the shallow end of the pool and break their nose. Some other fun things to do on the Fourth include passing out drunk in the yard in the middle of the day and getting a severe sunburn, fighting with your wife or girlfriend, playing your OakTeam record way too loud and getting the cops called on you or dancing to your Yayhoos record and twisting your ankle. It's especially great this year because the Fourth falls on a Tuesday which means we celebrate for four full days! I, personally will need to dry out for at least a day or two
starting Wednesday.

I love America!

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