cwnorman

I saw Fogerty at NOLA Jazz fest in 1998. I realize this was a bit after the law suit was settled, but I swear he went into a big monologue about the law suit and not playing those CCR songs in X number of years. The band then launched into Born on the Bayou and the place exploded!!!! We were actually walking through the main stage crowd to another stage....and stopped in our tracks. Up until 2006, Fogerty was right behind Ray Charles as the top 2 sets I had seen at the fest since I started going in 1994.

If your wondering, 2006, year after katrina, was when the Boss and the Seeger Sessions band took the stage...it was religious. To this day, I still laugh when i think about this girl leaning over and asking my buddy why they call Bruce the Boss during the frist song. My buddy, not missing a beat, says:

"Cause we're all working for him baby!"

Priceless

I really enjoyed this movie, maybe a bit biased towards it, but I think everyone would enjoy this. Not perfect, but still pretty damn good.

Perm, when does it hit the streets?

Looking forward to this

Aquarium Drunkard

Be thankful the Hogs have the stupidest coach in the country. Not taking anything away from your boys, but Nutt is a moron.

Pigsooie....you know this Tiger fan is a little bias, but there looked to be some home cookin during the 4th quarter. Quite a few questionable calls.

We've got Darth Visor coming into Death valley next Sat and if we can win that and beat Tulane in NOLA and FLA can win their next two....Sat Oct 6th is going to be one helluva game. One helluva game that i have a great ticket to!

A-man must be on vacation.

what's the difference between the over the ear and on ear versions of the bose triports?

I remember a previious thread but couldn't find it (i.e. didn't want to take the time to use the search option). I was fully expecting Aman to police this. Luckily he didn't as I've got some good advice and don't feel like some small eared freak.

Although I think the girl at the gym yesterday thought I was checking her out when I was simply trying to see how she was wearing her ear phones.

Ha...Actually, I think my ears are too small. Maybe I'm trying to fit the earbuds to far into my ear? Appreciate the help.

I just got a new shuffle for my birthday and will be using it mostly for running and at the gym. The times I've borrowed the wife's Ipod for travel, I've found the ear buds hurt my ears quite a bit. Was wondering if anyone had suggestions for a pair that had good sound and might be a good fit for the stated uses. Thanks for any help.

Its pretty rough down there, everything you hear is true. There is a lot of good happening too. Go down and see for yourself. If you want to volunteer your time, that is fantastic, the city needs it. If you want to just go down and get an order of the crawfish cheese cake and Fried chicken at Jaquemos...maybe stroll around the quarter, catch some live music, the city needs that also.

If you want to read a great book about the aftermath of the storm and what it was like in the city, you should check this out.

One dead in the Attic

Looks great. Can't wait to see jack White sitting in on Lovin Cup!

Not sure if this has been mentioned:

On August 26th, Britt Daniel will be performing a brief solo set at Beacon Theater to raise money for 826NYC, a children's writing center in Brooklyn.

The line up includes:

Feist

Jim James (of My Morning Jacket)

A.C. Newman (of The New Pornographers)

Grizzly Bear

Sarah Vowell (with Eugene Mirman and Leo Allen)

Demetri Martin

I'll be there Sat night and may be rolling in Hans Solo. Would enjoy meeting you fellas.

Got the confirmation email too. Are you guys people to both shows, etc.? I may have an extra for the Sat show.

No,and I'm getting f'n nervous!

oceanman, went back and looked at my confirmation email and it looks like we need not get too worried until a week before the show

Have ya'll received your tickets for either night yet?

Welcome back Nick! I hope to hear some stories about your experience one day -- but to answer your question:

 

Okkervil River - The Stage Names (and I recommend waiting for the 2-CD version to become available again, as it's sold out at the moment).

 

Iron & Wine - Shepherd's Dog (right now only a leak, official release in a month)

Was the 2 CD version the one with the bonus EP, or was Stage Names actually issued as a double or deluxe edition?

This has been amazing....I remember the old thread, ar atleast the Westy post.....WOW!

Met Peyton and Eli manning at their grandmothers cabin at the Neshoba County fair in MS.

Took 2 of 3 from Morgan Freeman at at his blues bar in Clarksdale, MS. Called two rails off a bank

and drained it. Morgan was as cool and down to earth as he could be,. After that last shot he howled "Mother Fucker"!

My favorite, though, was getting inducted into the MS Sports hall of fame as a senior in high school. There were 8 of us inducted as scholar athletes, and a number of other honors. The Big awards were always MS athlete and Lifetime achievement...and I hit the jack pot. The year was 1993, so the MS athlete was Brett Favre, and lifetime achievement was Walter Peyton. I got to sit next to Brett at the banquet....great guy. Walter was a couple of chairs down and they were cracking jokes all night long. It was one of the highlights of my teenage years.

I don't remember it, but apparently My dad took me to a honky tonk in Austin one sunday afternoon while I was staying with him while he was finishing up his PhD at texas. Willie sat down and had a beer outside with dad and his buddies (and me) at their table and later dedicated

"my heroes have always been cowboys" to me.

I started catching them in '95 when I first moved to Boulder. They used to play at a very small brew pub, the Mountain Sun Brewery, for free on Sunday nights. It was obvious back then they were something special. They were much more in the traditional Bluegrass vein back then but with their unique twist.

 

I caught them quite a bunch when it was still affordable and easy to catch them at local venues, even Telluride Bluegrass Fest, but hadn't caught them for about three years. Their side bands (Zilla, Hollingsworth's band, Billy Nershi and his wife, etc.) have been doing small bars/clubs for a bunch of years now and those I've still caught a bunch of. I saw Billy and his wife's band up at a small mountain joint in June and they sounded excellent. More Folk-y/Americana. Apparently this is the way he's leaning and one reason for the split.

 

Like most bands worth their salt the scene got pretty huge around them fairly quickly and I kind of bowed out at that point. I still appreciate the availability of the shows on disc and always felt fortunate to have them be based locally.

 

I tried to get them for my wedding in 1999 and had a shot but they were unavailable/out on the road at the time.

Lammy...whats the Mountain joint you saw Billys band at. I really want to start catching some local acts at some of the mountain bars.

Intro to Morse Code 101

Glad you mentioned it....this is a very nice deck and from everything I've heard it's a real bargain...cartridge included (and pre-mounted I believe).

Interestingly enough, i bought the audiophile issue of Sound and Vison Mag (use to be Stereo Review) Sound and Visionyesterday. They test three tables, low, mid, and stupid.....Debut III was the low and got an A+!

Probably a better precision machined main bearing/spindle, and a heavier platter - these make a bigger impact on the sound than you might imagine. They reduce all sorts of distortions typically caused by micro-vibrations as well as speed variations. Also you get an uprated tonearm and cartridge...seems like an excellent deal, again. (Pro-ject keep costs down by manufacturing in Eastern Europe)

 

But just keep it "in context" with your other equipment; i.e. the $300 -> 500 jump may be "lost" on your cheap system. If that's the case, you might want to consider, for example, putting that $200 extra into a better phono preamp. (maybe something like the Bellari)

Right on. I was all about the Expression due to the carbon fiber tone arm...unheard of in tables at this range. I can not tell you how happy I've been with this rig (need to upgrade my cartridge though.

Agreed on the equiptment issue. I've got a Rotel 1062 integrated stereoamplifier, which has a great phonostage, but the table would have been a waste without it.

FYI...Pro Ject makes a really great Tube phono pre-amp... One other thing that is keey is a speed box. While lifting the platter everytime you want to play a 7" isn't that big of a deal, its a lot easier to flip a switch.

Later I'll try to find the letter from the editor on-line, pretty much exactly what I like about vinyl.

Will

I researched this quite a bit last year and finally decided on a PRO-JECT Expression II made by Sumiko. I could not be happier with my decision.

Sumiko audio

I've seen the debut III for $200.

Debut III

I will be attending all of these shows as well!

 

I'm also going to see:

St. Vincent/Scout Niblet @ Hi-Dive July27

Ryan Adams @ Red Rocks Aug03

Magnolia Electric Company/Porlolo @ Bluebird Theatre Aug28

Aarvid...hear you on the move to CO. While there were quite a few shows to catch in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, I'm loving CO. Just moved to Denver in April.

Don't forget Jason Isbell at Larimer Lounge 8/9.

Going to my first Red Rocks show next Fri....MMJ opening for Dylan

and slim just left town

Ha!

Mississippi is still burning.

 

Times have changed, but the incendiaries won't quit. Mississippi, statistically, could shame most of our states with its

minimal per-capita crime, its cultural maturity and its distinguished alumni.

But Mississippi has enough residual gentility of the Old South not to rub

our noses in our own comparative inadequacy. The pack-media could not wait to remake the movie MISSISSIPPI BURNING into a TV version called MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI. Thus yet another generation of Americans is being

indoctrinated with indelible snapshots which are half a century out of date.

 

The very idea that anybody from New York, D. C., Chicago or L.A. could launch stones from those shabby glass houses toward anybody else is patently absurd.

 

Lilliputians have a psychological need to make everybody else appear small

and Mississippi, too nice to fight back, is such an easy target.

 

The International Ballet Competition regularly rotates among four citadels

where there is a sufficiency of sophisticated art appreciation: Varna,

Bulgaria-Helsinki, Finland - Moscow, USSR and Jackson, Mississippi.

 

Only Mississippi has a satellite art program in which the state Museum of Art

sends exhibits around the state for the enjoyment of smaller communities.

 

No state can point to a richer per capita contribution to arts and letters.

William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Walker Percy, Ellen Douglas, Willie Morris,

Margaret Walker Alexander, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Harris

(Silence of the Lambs) and John Grisham are Mississippians. As are Leontyne

Price, Elvis Presley, Tammy Wynette, B.B. King, Jimmy Rogers, Oprah Winfrey

and Jimmy Buffett.

 

Scenery? The Natchez Trace is the second most traveled parkway in our nation. With magnolia and dogwood, stately pines and moss-draped oaks, Mississippi is in bloom all year 'round. And the state stays busy-manufacturing more upholstered furniture than any state...testing space shuttle engines for NASA...building rocket motors. Much of our nation's most monumental medical progress has roots in Mississippi.

 

The first heart transplant in 1964. The first lung transplant in 1963. The most

widely used medical textbook in the world, THE TEXTBOOK OF MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY, reprinted in ten languages, was authored by Dr. Arthur Guyton of the

University of Mississippi.

 

The Case Method of practicing law, the basis of the United States legal system, was developed at the University of

Mississippi. Nationally, educators are chewing their fingernails up past

the second knuckle anxious about the disgraceful rate of dropouts and

illiterate graduates... In Mississippi, the state government and two philanthropic organizations have teamed up to put a computer-based literacy program in every elementary school in the state.

 

Maybe Mississippi is right to downplay it's opportunities, advantages and refinement. The ill-mannered rest of us,converging, would surely mess it up.

 

---Paul Harvey

I realize this one is specific to MS but that is where I was born and raised and it probably has one of the worse stigmas.

Ryman, I couldn't agree more.

My South

by Robert St. John

 

 

Thirty years ago I visited my first cousin in Virginia. While hanging out with his friends, the discussion turned to popular movies of the day. When I offered my two-cents on the authenticity and social relevance of the movie