calvino

From the interview: I guess that is why I like the album, it is heavily arranged/produced. I am a bit of sucker for Xmas music, though.

Here is an interview with Dylan where he talks about his Christmas album. I listened to it a few times and I think its great. I like the backup singers and I think the production is great. It's bit funny that Dylan's producer moniker has been "Jack Frost".

Here's the link for the Go Card Here I thought it was for transportation. If you plan to go to a lot of the museums and such, this pass should have you covered. Individual passes into the museums are not cheap. Here is link for the CTA passes/fares. You might want to consider public transportation, even though you will have a car. Especially if the streets are bad due to snow.

I thought tonight's episode was pretty funny, I had no idea that dude was Anthony Michael Hall until I open up this thread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phish_festivals Wiki has a decent link of all the Phish festivals.

I'm kicking around the idea of seeing Furthur in Chicago. It would be great to see them play at the Auditorium Theatre. However the ticket price is $65.00, which is fine, but I don't know if I want spend that much. But it would be sweet seeing them at the Auditorium.

Throw on a show and enjoy the day.

It's never too cold to anything outdoors, esp. in Chicago. Plenty of places (downtown at least) to duck into, if you need to warm up a bit. Actually most hotel lobbies and public buildings do a lot of decorating for the holidays, so it would be worth you while to check them out. Plus nothing beats a brisk walk along the lake in the winter. As far as the Go card, I am not too familiar with it, but if you plan to use lots of public transportation, I am sure it will be well worth it. Enjoy.

Nor do I. On the Berkley release, each of member of the quartet compliments each other rather well. I don't think anyone is over playing. Hopkins does the inro's on this set also and Garcia didn't cut him off. I am a fan of Hopkins, it was just weird (for me) hearing him do all the talking.

I got the JGB and Winterland set, also. The Berkeley set almost seems like it should have been called the Nicky Hopkins Band...Hopkins sure liked to do all the talking, which is fine of course, it just seemed that Jerry was sitting in with the band, though he doesn't play like he is just sitting in. And I know Jerry never talked too much on stage after the early 70s anyway. The music is great. I also like the tone of Kahn's bass on the Berkeley's set. Some years I don't particularly like the sound of Kahn's tone... The Winterland set of course great, some clunker notes and playing, but the

Phish definitely did not change the word to "black". The lyrics were much more clear in the Phish performance of Exile than the original album. I wonder if they had prompters...which of course is fine if they did.

Can you post the winning haiku? Thanks. That is a great prize.

I think I remember reading that some musicians (bass players?) did not want their names on the credit's because they did not want their name associated with the Doors. Am I right about this? I am sure this is not the case with Dallas Taylor and this new release.

Well if that doesn't get you in the holiday spirit, I don't know what will.

or show's over!

Agree, esp. about the keyboards on this song...at times keyboards gets lost in the mix when you are at the show.

Love the ending of BBN..

no video here, which is fine.

It's just the audio feed, right? There is no video feed on my computer.

Not too sure this is blasphemy in the least.

Joe Perry Project played the above two songs the night Tyler did his cameo.

I was thinking the same thing while I was reading that thread earlier today. While we are talking about Coltrane sets, I think I revisit Coltrane's Complete Vanguard Shows the most. Great set. allmusic link We should change the title of this thread to simply John Coltrane. Just a thought.

Complete Quartet Impulse Recordings Allmusic entry The quartet plays on A Love Supreme and the above set is the complete quartet recordings on Impulse. Definitely worth the purchase.

from Sun-Times gossiper Bill Zwecker When will bands learn...I guess that's why some performers just put their spouses/significant others in their band. Imagine if Twitter was around during the Beatles break-up.