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Finally getting to the last show of the 66 tour -- 5/27/66, Royal Albert Hall. The electric set is something else -- the whole 'read more books and J.D. Salinger' intro on the intro to Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues. This day and age, management would have risked him off to rehab after this show. Of course, back then they just called it a motorcycle accident.

Lastly, why the hell do you to have extra percussionist when you have Gorman. Always bugged the hell me when the Stones had Ollie Brown in 75-77, too,

Looking forward to the 1st two, too. 12/5/71 was one of my first boot legs tapes.

Here's a great review from a show from the 95 Beacon run. Man... http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/20/arts/rock-review-borrowing-without-blending-black-crowes-at-the-beacon.html

I didn't know Wachtel was touring with Walsh until after the tour. I wouldn't mind seeing a Joe Walsh gig (with his current band). I saw him once - he played, solo, at a benefit type show - he was still drinking and it wasn't very good. He was funny as hell, as per usual, though. Now listening to 3/22/95, Beacon Theatre show.

Honestly, he was the best part -- still wasn't good, though.

Watched some Bad Company's Soundstage performance last night on PBS -- it was pretty painful, though I never really was much of a fan. I don't think they needed Robinson up there at all - I don' think he took one solo. He just to seemed there to fill in the sound. Their reworked version of Shooting Star was dreadful.

It's all about the image of a wall.

Plus an hour before the tweet, Conway was on the talk circuit touting the plan to gut the oversight committee.

And Trump. Of course, now Trump can take a victory lap for a tweet opposing the plan and take full credit for the R's backing down.

Looks like the House R's are scratching their plans in gutting the ethic's panel. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/gop-congress-ethics-office-233123

I'm the rank outsider.

My niece bought me Blues & Lonesome for Christmas -- very enjoyable. Production isn't too bad, either. Definitely not a phone-in record. Also got the Stripped Blu Ray set --- definitely see some overdubs, esp on the France show - but it sounds great. Keith, especially looks great. I haven't watched the actual Stripped video since it came out. I forgot much of it. Nice to have it.

I think that was the Duke, 78 show where Jerry is jumping around a bit during US Blues.

I always put Archive Ratdog (or Archive Dead / Archive Lesh) in Google and their page comes up. Find the year on the left of the page (hit more if you can't find the year) Once your are in year section and on the far right of the Sort By bar there is 5 blue lines - hit that and click on the show details box. Hit the Date Publish tab and the shows will get in date order. I still like the old look -but have gotten use to the new one.

Perhaps they showed their own venue's past concerts at the Capital on nights when they did not have live show going on. Or they planned to do it. One would guess they had reasons on why they filmed the shows - it probably wasn't the cheapest endeavor.

Yeah - that's what I am thinking, the whole close circuit thing. Maybe the local PBS TV station was cool and played the shows. I don't think the whole pay-per-view thing was working in the mid to late 70s.

Any idea why so many shows were shot at the Cap in Passaic -- was there a video screen in the actual theater?

Just heard Mickey's Rolling Thunder version of 'Playin in the Band' or Main Ten on XM---- don't think I every heard it before. Pretty cool version. Didn't realize Rolling Thunder was Spotify.

Last week I was telling my 7 year old about the giant mall arcades of the early/mid 80s. Just watched clip of the game on youtube - I don't remember that one.

I don't why they have to nominate or do any of this stuff -- the museum itself is cool. There is stuff there from bands (Wilco for one) who have never been inducted - not sure why they need to have any induction process. Just have the museum and be done with it. Of course they get the publicity with thee nomination process, etc. Also, I never got into the whole Sex Pistol bit, either. They were definitely great opportunist, though.

ELO - ugh. Would rather have Journey make it in.

Mr. Robot really picked up steam midway through the 2nd season. Saving the Wire for next year. We watched the 1st episode The Man in the High Castle last night - it was a nice start.

Saw the first 45 minutes of Rogue One and had to bail -- it was too much for my 7 year old. I think one of the characters was really freaking him out. The Force Awakens didn't faze him when we saw it in the theaters. Though, from what I saw of Rogue One, it definitely was 'darker' than the Force Awakens. It was cool, though, from what I saw.

The Dreams on that 12/15/96 show sounded great --- this taper seems like an interesting person. The piano throughout Torn and Frayed is very nice, too.