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Bob Weir at the Chicago Theater (Better be good, I am missing my son's musical theater debut -- he ended up getting two lines...)

I saw Miss You on the set list and thought it was the Stones tune -- forgot that Phish has a new tune name Miss You. It's interesting that Weir sang a lot of the verses last night.

Did you put the above in this thread because of the Al Kooper reference? Did you know it was quite by accident that Kooper played keyboards with Dylan and without Kooper, Dylan probably never would have won the Nobel Price....

Nice write-up from Rolling Stone on the Live '66 set. Looks like they did track down the master audience tapes - hopefully some more info the AUD's will be in the notes. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-bob-dylans-massive-new-36-album-1966-live-box-set-w444654

Nice piece by The Arizona Republic defending it's first endorsement of a Democratic President against to those who disagree. http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/2016/10/16/publisher-response-to-threats-after-republic-endorsement-clinton-trump/92058964/

The only time I voted early was in 2008 - I lived down the block from President Obama and my wife and I knew that the actual voting day was going to be very crowded in our neighborhood. Even voting early we had to wait for close to an hour.

Just turned on the XM channel and they are playing a Depeche Mode tune -- don't know if that means anything -- then they went into ELO, looks like they are just going down the list--- think I am going back to the Dead channel. (I am a Depeche Mode fan, though). Don't Let Me Down -- e-gads...

I wonder if Rich asked Gorman.

Going in the opposite direction this afternoon while watching the Indians/Blue Jays game -- listening to By Your Side -- it has it's moments - I do enjoy Rich's playing throughout. That was one of the draw backs to last night -- Chris's guitar playing is pedestrian at best - he had some decent links every now and then. He did take a few solo's and Casal's rhythm playing was always far more interesting to Chris's rhythm playing. Now onto 2/6/93 - a FM source tape.

Yeah, the bass player is definitely a straight ahead bass player - but it suited the music fine, last night. Also he was ok in the mix, last night.

I am still waiting on getting the new one from my library, so I only heard the live versions of the new tunes, thus far.

With regards to Kerouac, I always enjoyed Big Sur and the Subterraneans. I have re-read Big Sur a few times and it holds up a bit, haven't read the Subterraneans in a long while - 25 years or so. It does seem like Kerouac is a young person's game...which is fine. Carver is great.

Saw the CRB last night in Chicago -- real solid show. Decent crowd, but not a sell out. Casal is just amazing on guitar the new bass player is decent at laying the groove. Adam's keyboards didn't bug me too much, other then when he played the Moog, it needed to be tempered in the mix, but last night he didn't over play it at all, which is good. Also the back up singing was always spot on. No banter from Chris at all, just a few thank you's scattered about. Also found out - after the show - that Betty Cantor-Jackson was in the house recording -- I would have made a point to search for her

Yeah - that's one of the draws going to the show - looking forward to the venue. Also, it's a plus that I don't have to deal with the Loop/Lake Shore and the North Side for a change (I am coming from the South Side).

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood at the Thalia Hall (in Chicago). Never been at this venue before, nor seen the band before - looking forward to show and grabbing some tacos before the show - the venue is in the Pilsen neighborhood.

A true patriot. http://time.com/4530588/donald-trump-sexual-allegations-transcripts/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter

Got an email, the Weir 10/16/16 Capital Show will stream live for free on nugs.tv.

The below link has the announcement, in the middle of the piece. Never seen an announcement before, rather odd way that they do it. The interview at the end of the video was pretty good - the whole does he deserve it bit, -- "well of course he does, he just got it". It's seems like the European press hasn't change much since the 60s - the interview with the Nobel representative seems a lot like one from the 65 or 66 tour with Dylan. It starts about 31 minutes in or so. https://www.thelocal.se/20161013/live-swedens-nobel-prize-in-literature-2016

Recently I saw a piece on TV about a new documentary on the Austin shooting. Haven't seen the documentary, yet - but it looks very interesting. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/movies/tower-review-mass-shootings.html?_r=0 All the cuts in mental health in the state of Illinois and throughout the country and the relative ease of obtaining guns, it's a wonder that this type of stuff doesn't happen more often (obviously shootings happen too often as it is...)

My wife showed me these maps last night --- crazy. Yes, glad for the 19th Amendment (and the 15th).

Looks like the whole 84 is a myth though. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-10-07/sports/0510070330_1_lights-at-wrigley-field-cubs-ozzie-guillen

I don't remember that back story in 84 or more than likely I forgot. That's crazing. Really crazy - surprised they were able to do that - guess it must have been in the rules for the league to do that.

Of course I went to bed - glad the Cubs won, though - wasn't looking forward to a Game 5 against Cuento, with the likely hood of Bumgarner coming out of of pen.

Wow --- at least they got the band right.

The below is kinda cool - I guess this a last minute addition, the guitar player from the National had to drop out, due to a family emergency. At least I will be familiar with someone else on stage, beside Weir. I do like the new album. Nicely produced and good tunes.