Gov. Christie on the 'Today' show
Did you know New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has his own YouTube page?
Well, he does. And it’s chock full of recent interviews from national media outlets such as Imus in the Morning and the Today show.
In fact, Christie’s appearance on NBC’s Today show this morning is already up and running in case you missed it.
George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Look for an extended interview with Delaware’s favorite guitar-slinging blues rocker George Thorogood in this week’s issue of Atlantic City Weekly.
But for all the Bob Dylan fans out there — and we know you’re out there, waiting for word that his Bobness will be touring the East Coast at some point this year — we thought we should share this little nugget from AC Weekly associate editor Ray Schweibert’s interview with Thorogood in advance of his House of Blues show in Atlantic City July 23. Here’s the excerpt.
I’ve read some favorable reviews of The Dirty Dozen online. Are you and the band pleased with the final product?
Pleased. Surprised. Astonished. It includes six of our songs that I wouldn’t call classics or among our higher-profile songs, but ones that our more-or-less diehard fans would recognize, plus six new cuts. We’re still pumping them out and selling them at the shows every night. We did a show with Bob Dylan in Los Angeles and we gave him a copy, and he seemed really quite touched by it.
And for all you Thorogood fans out there, check out this interview with Bo Diddley, conducted a couple years before the blues legend passed away in June 2008.
Guy Fieri
When Guy Fieri hits town for the Atlantic City Food & Wine Festival, he’s bringing his Triple D film team with him, to film episodes of the popular Food Network show. Go here for the story.
Jadakiss in W. Atlantic City June 26 (Photo VS)
Did you know that last Saturday night at the Bayside Resort in West Atlantic City, hip-hop’s Jadakiss did a 20-minute set with opener Apollo, 20, who did a few songs of his own as well?
Our eager intern Velv S. attended the show, which was also to include Juelz Santana — he didn’t show — and has reviewed the concert for Atlantic City Weekly. Check it 0ut.
courtesy ladygaga.com/photos
Two of the biggest acts around will be in Atlantic City on this July 4.
The Flaming Lips will play the House of Blues and Lady Gaga will make her much-anticipated Atlantic City debut at Boardwalk Hall.
We didn’t get an interview with Gaga (as we expected), but back in April, AC Weekly had the fantastic opportunity to speak with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne.
Here is the entire interview.
Jonathan Butler
South African jazz, R&B and gospel artist Jonathan Butler comes to Harrah’s Resort this Saturday (June 18) in a Together Again Tour with jazz great Dave Koz that also includes a guest appearance by Sheila E. Butler chatted with AC Weekly about the tour and his new album, So Strong. Go here for the interview.
The new trailer for the upcoming HBO series Boardwalk Empire looks mighty tasty.
The series, which is set to debut in September, is based on the book of the same name by Atlantic County resident Nelson Johnson. Atlantic City Weekly spoke to the show’s executive producer Terence Winter a little while back when he was in town.
Check out the new trailer:
Dan Finnerty
I had a chance to talk with the hilarious Dan Finnerty, lead singer of the YouTube and LA club scene sensation The Dan Band. They do parodies of female empowerment songs that will make you roll over laughing. Check out the interview here.
Wynonna Judd
When you are a journalist, your favorite type of interview is with someone who wants to tell the truth and doesn’t censor his or her remarks. Wynonna Judd is not only a brilliant singer (check out her latest release, Sing Chapter 1, as proof of that) but she speaks her mind. Wynonna performs at Harrah’s Resort this Saturday, May 15. Here is an excerpt; you can read the full review here.
What’s your take on the music industry these days and country radio.
Don’t get me started. I don’t want to seem bitter. I got in trouble for speaking about Taylor [Swift] winning too early you know, because she’s 12. I was being funny. It got slammed back in my face. All I was saying was where do you go from here, and you’re not even 25 yet … Radio is like a foreign country. You go visit it and then you come home. My home is with the fans, and the music and being who I am. If I want to be on country radio, I have to fall into a certain formula. If I do, I do, and if I don’t, that’s okay. It used to be that if you’re not on the radio … you suck! I’m not going to go there anymore.
Comedian Bill Burr (see hilarious clip below) spoke to Atlantic City Weekly a while back in relation to his upcoming show at Trump Taj Mahal this Saturday night. Here are a couple of sample questions we asked the comic who considers himself “uninformed,” has a bit part in the movie Date Night and who can’t stand watching baseball anymore. See the rest of the interview in this week’s issue.
Why do you characterize yourself as uninformed?
The reason I say that is I just realize how much information is out there and how much of it that I actually have access to and then how much of that that I’ve actually read. It’s just a fancy way of saying that I realize, you know, I’m not really calling myself a moron, some people take it as that, but I like to think that I’m of halfway decent intelligence. But when people ask, “Hey, what do you think about the war in Iraq?” — the real answer should be, “Do you think I work in the Pentagon?” I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t have access to top-secret files. I don’t know what’s about ready to go down. So the reality is I shouldn’t be answering questions about stuff like that. But then you’d have nothing to talk about. I always characterize myself as that loud guy in the bar who’s like making sense and then you realize he flunked everything in high school, but then you just laugh and think, ah, he’s an idiot. That’s kinda who I am.
You also said you used to be very self-conscious. So how did you first get into comedy?
It was something that I secretly wanted to do, but it didn’t seem possible to me. I was working at a warehouse at the time and I worked with this guy who was into comedy as much as I was and we were watching stand-up one night on TV and he was going, “You know, Bill, these guys aren’t funny. We’re funnier than these guys!” And then he said, “One of these days I’m just gonna take a shot of Jack Daniels and go up on stage.” And I remember thinking … well, that’s a good idea. I’m gonna do that [and] like a month later they had a talent competition at my college and I remember there was a phone number, so the second I saw it I just made a promise the second I got home I was gonna call it before I chickened out.
