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Don't forget about his hair, too. Ugh.

The state of Illinois has Blago - he just happens to live here. In the Chicago area he had less votes in the democratic primary for governor against Paul Vallas (and Roland Burris) in 2001-02. He won be getting the vote down state. Sorry for the rant, it just still bugs me. Anyway I back the bid, I am sure it is going to be rough putting on the show, but I think it will be worth it. Will there be corruption - of course. But I think it will be exciting as hell.

Do you mean this guy (see below). He is on XM/Sirius. I listened to him sometimes on the way home from work. He does play a lot cool tunes. His intro ( a montage of gangster movie dialog) to his show is pretty cool, too. http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/Page&c=Channel&cid=1104779639688&s=person I did listen to XRT yesterday when Wilco was on. It was okay. It was pretty funny that Tweedy was stressing that there will be no surprises at the UIC shows and that one of them(Tweedy??) already forgot the name of the camel.

Any suggested shows from 1976. I have only: 6/9/76 | 6/15/76 | 7/18/76 | 12/31/76.

Thanks for the links: Two things that jumped out It would be interesting to hear Lemieux's take on the latest Rhino news. I thought Grateful Dead Productions did do a good job before they sold the rights to Rhino, obviously there were more releases once Rhino took over. I understand (I guess) why the Dead did sell the rights, but (upon hearing the news about Rhino) it's gotta be a kick in the gut to Lemieux and the rest of the GDP team. Of course GPD might have folded long before now if Rhino did not get involved. Perhaps The Dead saw the demise of CD's coming and wanted to get as mu

I haven't heard the JGB with Hopkins until recently, either. A couple of incredible sounding audience tapes were up on bt.etree a few weeks back. They are still seeding, but if you don't do the torrent thing, you can send me a PM I can send you the discs. Great recordings and Hopkins plays great. I am looking forward to the official release. When Borders was doing the 1/2 off sale on all there cds a while back, the Borders by my house had a whole bunch of the Jerry Live releases in stock, so I grabbed them all. http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=527952

I am not sure for how much longer, though. It should be interesting how this plays out. I assume the Warner Music Group will maintain control of the Grateful Dead catalog if Rhino completely dissolves. Hopefully they will keep up with the releases. Perhaps this is why Rhino has been pushing out a large number of Dead releases while they could. I for one still like the physical box sets. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118009163.html?categoryid=16&cs=1&nid=2562

Blue Murder on Blue Murder by Blue Murder.

I whole heartily agree. But people are showing up for their gigs and I can't fault the band for trying to make a decent living. I agree, but I guess he must be a pretty good impersonator with some skills, thus I wouldn't call him a hack.

I wouldn't go as far as calling the dude a "hack", but I do not get the whole DSO thing either. Like I wrote before, I only saw them once in the late 90's, so they were just starting out, but it was a bit boring. Obviously they have a bit of a following, so they must be doing something right. I would prefer to throw a tape on if I want to hear a particular Grateful Dead show. To each their own. I haven't listened to either of the Further shows, yet.

http://forums.viachicago.org/topic/36140-wilco-involved-with-neil-finn-project-with-radioheadjohnny-marr-etc/ I have been hearing a few of the the tunes from the record on the radio, the songs I heard did sound good.

I just think that troll picture should be banned, yikes. The closest Wilco/Dead resemblance I can think of was when Wilco actually took set breaks, "like the Dead"(as Jeff said), during the Residency shows, as suggested by the V.C. board. They always have be taper friendly, too. But when comes to the music --- none.

Got it, now. Thanks.

Not really sure what the above means??? It looks like amazon took down the samples.

At least one more is planned: I also found this a bit funny, usually directors encourage anyone to see their film: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/09/16/behind-neil-young-trunk-show-director-demme-on-capturing-a-legend-in-new-film/

Yeah, plus I think Kanye needs to stay away from the sauce. At least for a little while. Perhaps Barack can have a beer, the other two can have a Diet Coke (or which ever corporate drink they represent, via commercials.)

Finally an interview that Jeff Tweedy/Wilco was not brought up. Thanks for the link.

I walked past a tea party going on at Millennium Park (Downtown, Chicago) this afternoon. Around hundred people or so. No protesters, or at least I did not notice any. They had a little stage set up and I did over hear a lady who was giving a speech to the crowd: while talking about Chicago, she stated that we all were in the "belly of the devil".

I am more excited about the inclusion of the B.B King and Turner sets than the five extra songs by the Stones. I will probably end up purchasing it, however I wish there was more Stone's extras.

There was a Blue Murder. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jifqxqw5ldde

Really dig the picture of Tony Iommi's guitar/fingers. I think there will be few more people on this board who will chime in.

I am sure you already saw this, Louie... http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2009/09/bloodshot-records-celebrates-15-years-an-interview-with-coowners-rob-miller-and-nan-warshaw-.html I thought the below was interesting. Also, you gotta love the H.L. Mencken quote that Bloodshot has on top of their website.

Suppose you need "rehab", too.

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