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  1. Saw Furthur a couple of nights ago here in Chicago. They played an outdoor pavilion on the lake (Charter One Pavilion) which suited the show greatly. The show itself was pretty good and entertaining. The background vox, though sometimes too high in the mix, were really good. The all around playing was tight, also. Glad I finally gotten around to see them. I thought it sounded better than the last time I saw The Dead play. John suits the band very nicely and Russo, through I not a huge fan of the sound of his drums, played great. I was a little bit disappointed in the Jeff C. piano/organ pl
  2. I always understood your points, bleedorange - I just don't agree. They covered this up to save the football program - the football program needs to take the hit for it. If someone in the theater department, creamery, or hell someone on the basketball or baseball staff, sexual abused kids - I don't think the university would had covered it up, at least I would hope they wouldn't have - who knows. The reason for the cover up was because it happen in the football program.
  3. Nothing wrong with the Stones....
  4. The album cover looks like its from 1985. Looking forward to it. The song titles look promising. Plan to see him in Ft. Wayne, IN in August.
  5. Again it isn't fair and suspending the program won't make things "better" for the victims, but perhaps a stiff penalty will make other institutions, who makes millions of dollars off their programs, think twice before covering stuff up. Am I am saying that they should be set up as an example - yes. I am not sure how it can't be a NCAA issue - Penn State is a part of the NCAA and the NCAA is the governing body of overall football league. They make the rules and enforce them. Of course it's a criminal and civil issue, but one of the NCAA most prestigious football programs was involved in a c
  6. That's what they do if a team is caught cheating, paying players, etc.... This goes way beyond that and the penalty should reflect that. Again, it isn't necessarily fair to the current players/students, I realize that, that's why the players scholarships should stay in place. It would suck that no football will be played there on Saturdays, but I think it would suck even more if the school can make even more money, through tickets, concessions, etc...
  7. I think the football team needs to take a big hit - it sucks for the current students/players - but such is life. The school/program needs to be severely punished. Football should go away for at least a couple of years and the university should still pay for the scholarships to the football players that choose to stay. http://www.suntimes.com/13733985-761/penn-state-deserves-death-penalty-for-football-prison-for-officials.html
  8. I am watching the Live in Texas Blu-Ray - 1978 show from Dallas/Fort Worth. Great show. Ronnie plays very well. Plus, Some Girls is perhaps my favorite Stones record. Though I swore off buying tickets for Stones shows, I probably will attend one if they go on tour next year, which I am sure they will. Hopefully, Richards can still play decent enough. From the few snippets I saw of Keith's playing recently, I think it was wise to take the year off. I am sure arthritis has a lot to do with it - plus I am sure his past lifestyle has caught up with him, too.
  9. As previously stated...this should be an interesting show. http://www.chicagotr...,0,698053.story
  10. Surplus - I wonder what would have happen if a "lock box" was instituted.
  11. The sound was good towards the back. Tweedy did seem very appreciative towards the crowd. At the beginning of the last encore we headed up towards the top of the hill (adjacent to the parking lot) that overlooked the whole field/park - it was a rather impressive site. The fireworks were being lit off on the same side of as the hill - which was cool.
  12. Fun, beautiful(weather-wise) day/night. Fireworks were cool, too. We stayed towards the back of the field (had two kids with me) - it was nice that it was not packed towards the back. Kane County did a nice job with traffic flow at the end of the night, for us at least. We parked in the "Preferred" lot and were out of there in about 3 minutes - I was a bit worried that there was going to be some type of bottleneck. After seeing 3 of the Chicago shows last year - it was nice just to relax with the family and listen to the music in the open space. We didn't decide to go until the day before
  13. I believe a SLR is considered a professional camera at most venues - at least from my experience.
  14. I kinda liked this one. The recording devices item is a bit odd - at least someone should be able to pull the feed from WXRT for posterity.
  15. http://www.chicagotr...,3426266.column I don't particularly agree with article, but I have never been one to care about this type of stuff, either. Plus I don't own a VW and haven't shopped at a Whole Foods in a while, though my neighborhood will be getting one by the end of the year, so that may change a bit. The Tribune just instituted a sign-in policy (that is free) to read columnists' content, so I am not sure if the link will work for "non-subscribers" .
  16. I believe all the op's answers are below. http://www.jamusa.com/wilco/wilco-geneva.html
  17. Well, I guess I would be remiss if I didn't mention the Ranger/White Sox series was a fun to watch - great series. Hats off to the Rangers for the below and for the White Sox for ending the Ranger's streak. Brutal weather, too.
  18. Not sure if it counts, but Sky Blue Sky was going through my head as I was walking in a parade today....
  19. Just got done participating in my 1st 4th of July parade with the kid's - now, both zonked out while listening to 2/11/70 in our AC confines - it's a scorcher here in Chicago. http://archive.org/details/gd1970-02-11.sbd.smith.patched.99154.sbeok.flac16
  20. Yeah - Yankee through the Album were all on Nonesuch - so why would Nonesuch say you can play songs off of any album, besides WTA. Plus, they have been playing songs off of the Album since The Whole Love has been released - just not on this present tour.
  21. Contractual ---- that's pretty funny. I believe they are going to play the whole Album in Geneva....
  22. That's what I figured.
  23. Last year or so I read Moon's bio "Dear Boy" - depressing read. I haven't read Dougal's and I am not sure I want to.
  24. I was kinda surprised to Roger drinking straight from the bottle - I am by far an Who expert, but I thought he was the only somewhat sane one in the group, not much of a drugger/drinker. Not that there is anything necessarily wrong with drinking whiskey from the bottle.... Rock and roll shouldn't be so stressful - but then again, perhaps stress induces great music, who knows. It was sad seeing Moon being dragged off, too.
  25. Sure the hell was a bummer...
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