LouisvilleGreg

I'm guessing Dex and Lueman(check spelling) will soon be hooking up in more ways than one.

The Lakers on paper look even better than last year, I would most be worried about the Thunder if I were them, maybe Portland. I think the Heat will have nights where they steamroll great teams and nights where they lose to subpar teams (at least early on). The Celtics still have to be considered the favorites in the east. I'm very cautiously optimistic that the Knicks might make the playoffs as an 7 or 8 seed. Also stoked to see John Wall and Demarcus Cousins (2 UK guys) as they develop. Are the Spurs relevent anymore?

I think that "Electic Nebraska" is a no-brainer. The hype on that would likely be even greater than this, though there is likely little to no video footage that exists. I'm sure BITUSA will get some kind of a deluxe treatment someday, though as you said, I don't think there's alot left under that rock. There's certainly still tons of early 70's material yet to be properly released, including a truly haunting song, "The Ballad of the Self-Loading Pistol."

rock and roll was very dangerous to me one day in 1991, when I decided to (unknowingly to the crowd) jump off of a balcony at a laser tag place that did punk shows here in Louisville. A great local band, Undermine was playing and the mood hit me, and then whack I hit some poor guy and then the floor. I knocked myself out for 10-15 seconds, but the whole ordeal seemed to impress some girls who largely ignored me up to that point, so I guess it was worth it.

better to lose a bag of weed than an eye.

I love the bands that I've seen heavily the past decade or so: Wilco, MMJ, Springsteen, Lucero, DBTs, etc; but there is very little in the way of true spontaneity at any of those shows. Being reared in punk rock, before it was commercial the unexpected could and often times did happen. Stage diving in the days before Pearl Jam was a dangerous thing, band members coming into the audience with their instruments was a dangerous thing, random fists to the face were frighteningly common, especially at local all ages shows. I don't necessarily miss all of these things, but to me a truly great rock s

David Yow: "Nice shot, dick" I've seen some fairly out of control Jesus Lizard shows and yes they were one of rock's all-time great live bands, but their shows seemed tame to a few others that come to mind. I saw an Eye Hate God and Anal Cunt double bill that involved lots of flying glass and bottles and all kinds of fights that ended in blood. I saw the singer from the Candy Snatchers, a great garage rock band from VA Beach cut themselves into a bloody mess and set their instruments on fire on stage. A small noise band from Richmond called PCP Roadblock had multiple shows end with police bu

The whole season was a giant build up about consequences catching up with the alpha males and their elite sense of entitlement and smugness. And then in the eleventh hour, they get the big contract and Don gets a younger, even hotter wife who is great with his kids? I really felt for Faye. She was perhaps the first really strong, mature woman that Don was with and she was dumped like yesterday's trash on the side of the road. The most interesting thing that happened to me is Joan deciding to have Roger's kid, that plotline has strong possibilities.

gotta say i thought the season was gonna end on a major down note. i certainly didn't foresee the events of last night coming, it actually felt a little sloppy and haphazard to me, the first time i can recall feeling that way about MM, especially a season finale.

Another similarity between Bruce and the E Streeters and Wilco (YHF era specifically) is the process of putting together a cohesive body of work. There are bands who have been togehter a lifetime that would love to write a song as powerful as "The Promise," or as devastating as "Cars Can't Escape," but creative vision relegated those songs to rarities in their respective catalogs. Hell of a problem to have.

I was trying to think of a beloved, long-running show that got consistently better with each passing season? Lost certainly dropped off, as did the Sopranos. The Wire on the other hand, I could be convinced that the show continued to grow, evolve and even improve for five seasons. I guess what I'm getting at is maybe Dexter is due for a down season, though it's way too early to even entertain that for this year.

Here'another sneak peak and interview: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/39553372#39553372

Will the year of the no hitter strike again on opening day of the playoffs?

Wonder what Fogerty thinks of how Mavis and Jeff tackle his song? It's certainly more uptempo. The first time I remember playing the original on "Green River" I thought the record was dragging. The CCR original might be the most soulful song in their catalog, and that's saying a lot. Anyhow one of the better tv performances I've seen in quite sometime, we'll probably get "You Are Not Alone," tonight on Colbert.

that second episode served almost no purpose save for 2 of the kids being out of the picture, otherwise it didn't go anywhere.

the black keys song from Hung is pretty good.

The documentary finally airs on HBO this week. Dying to see this. Here are the upcoming showtimes: HBO 10/7 (9:00 p.m.) 10/12 (3:30 p.m., 12:30 a.m.) 10/16 (11:30 p.m.) 10/21 (10:30 a.m., 1:55 a.m.) 10/24 (5:00 p.m.) 10/30 (2:00 p.m.) HBO2: 10/8 (8:00 p.m.) 10/10 (3:30 p.m., 12:20 a.m.) 10/13 (4:55 a.m.) 10/18 (9:30 p.m.)

first 10: 1. Led Zep - Stairway (this is fucking ridiculous, the most played song in the history of radio, also first on my shuffle) 2. Jayhawks - Crowded in the Wings 3. Broken Social Scene - Pitter Patter goes my Heart 4. Dylan - New Morning 5. 2nd Story Man - Flies (Louisville locals) 6. Loose Fur - Laminated Cat 7. Dr. Dre - Fuck Wit' Dre Day 8. Husker Du - Perfect Example 9. Robert Johnson - Come on in my Kitchen 10. Social Distortion - Lawless

this seemed appropriate: http://www.donewaiting.com/2009/10/25/ted-leo-cmj-one-polaroid-a-day/

not to continue to detract from this thread, but Tesco Vee once visited a punk house I lived in back in '93. He was touring with the Hate Police and they ended up at our house. He was very tall.

it's my inner punk rocker associating barefoot musicians with hippies, and punks hate hippies, so there you go. or to be more reasonable, i have serious issues that should probably be evaluated by a professional.

I have a tough time getting behind any performer being barefoot on stage. It just doesn't sit well with me. Jim James of MMJ used to do that as well and it distracted the hell out of me at their shows.

There's some really good songs from '73 that made the Tracks collection. "Thundercrack," "Zero and Blind Terry," "Santa Ana," and "Seaside Bar Song" are all very good early E Street outtakes, some of which got played live quite often. Of course the complete John Hammond solo auditions from '72 could be on an early collection. My favorite early solo track is "The Ballad of the Self Loading Pistol." That's about as dark as anything Bruce has ever done, just a downright knockout performance and it hasn't been properly released yet.

Anyone see the Springsteen intro to the emmy's last night. pretty frickin' hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjkDxlhleN8

Not to get too far ahead, but I wonder how many more of these album retrospective box sets Bruce has on his radar. I assume that Nebraska is a no brainer with the electric sessions, etc. And there are reportedly as many as 75-100 songs from The River era, so that's a possibility, as is BITUSA, but that's gotta be it right? When and if we ever get a Tracks 2 I would think it would focus more on the early 70's, possibly even pre E Street days and more from the lost days from the late 80's-reunion in the late 90's.