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I probably would have lost if he came up in a game of dead or alive. Hard to imagine the landscape of American music without him and Mike Stoller. Jailhouse Rock, Don't, Stand By Me, Yakety Yak, Hound Dog, Kansas City, On Broadway, Love Potion #9. Wow. BTW, Stoller lives on.

Didn't they start streaming W(TA) almost immediately after they had word it leaked?

Totally agree. This documentary is a better historical documentary than 95% of those that cover "real" history. The producers did their research and pieced together the cause and effect of the rise of skatboarding.

An exciting time to be working in Miami sports media.

I just won a game of computer solitaire. Actually, I lost

This had better not disappoint. Starting to get very high expectations.

My wife is going to Josh Groban tonight. I won 2 tickets, she won 4. I'm not sure there will be any paying customers there.

About 50/50. There are times I find the drone mesmerizing and others grating.

He'd fired Stamey by the time I saw him. That's a guy I'm pretty sure I would not want to work for. But, yes, that band was the best band he played with. Sugar was a tighter, one, but more limited.

Bob Mould - 1st Avenue, Fall 1989. Touring behind Workbook, his first solo LP. I discovered him through this album that spring and quickly worked my way back through Zen Arcade. By the time of that show, I realized how that album probably alienated a lot of his Husker fans in the Twin Cities. Before shows at First Avenue, they used to (maybe still do) show videos on a projection screen that doubles as a stage curtain, then an announcer (just like Alice Cooper in Purple Rain) announces the act, the screen rises, and the show begins. Bob looked about 50 lbs thinner than he did in his Husk

Breakfast of Champions really screwed with my head for a long time.

He booked the venue. Is Great American Ballpark booked solid with events every night the Reds aren't playing? C'mon. He generated more for the economy of Cincinnati than he took away.

Why? If he wasn't playing none of the vendors would have been working.

You're Paul Effin McCartney. Sir Paul Effin McCartney. You are probably the world's most famous and important living songwriter. You were an integral part of the most important band in rock history. The most important musical phenomenon of the twentieth century. You don't eat meat. You think it's immoral to eat meat. You have established yourself as a person who can make certain demands upon your audience and the venues you play. You do it. Period. He's not banning meat eaters from the concert, just meat itself. Maybe advertisements of meat products. He doesn't want to be associate

I think it's silly, but he's a Beatle. He gets to throw around his influence however he wants.

That's the spirit!

I think I pulled the original list of wikipedia, but did make some mistakes. I included O'Rourke purposefully, though, because his role was so important in YHF.

I was thinking about the impact each person had on Wilco is / was.

So a couple of years ago I started this thread. http://viachicago.org/topic/40161-rank-wilco-members/page__fromsearch__1 The timing was unfortunate as it was right around the time word of Jay Bennett's death was announced. I knew nothing about his death when I started the thread, but it was declared insensitive timing and locked. Here was the original post if anyone wants to discuss now. I imagine there's been a thread like this before, but the poll about O'Rourke/Sansone got me thinking... Use your own criteria. Here's mine: Jeff Tweedy Jay Bennett John Sirratt Glenn Kotche Nels Cli

FYI, all the Dick's Picks and lots of other stuff is available on Spotify. I dumped about 2,000 GD tracks into a playlist.

Fair enough. But I don't think rewarding his generosity sends the wrong message in the least.

He was caught on camera doing something generous. He didn't do it because he expected a reward. He was rewarded because one of two reasons, probably both. 1) The TV crew was genuinely moved by what they saw and wanted to extend generosity to one who was generous. 2) It made for good TV that made the TV crew look good. I don't think there's going to be a rash of older kids giving baseballs to little kids expecting to be rewarded in the broadcast booth.

The controversy sold. How much curiosity would a sober Amy Winehouse generate? Will her death stop anyone from profiting from her. In the short term they'll profit more. That's why I'm not sure the Elvis analogy fits here either. Elvis's income had little to do with his addictive lifestyle. I think it could be argued that Amy Winehouse's lifestyle generated a huge chunk of her income.

Here's a question: Do those who profited from her drug and alcohol notoriety have blood on their hands? Ultimately, she is responsible for the decisions she made and the addictions she left untreated. But what if managers, publicists, and record label execs all turned a blind eye to her troubles and even encouraged her to release songs like rehab knowing that she was quite possibly killing herself. Do these people bear any responsibility?

I played around w/ it last night. Dumped about 4,000 songs in one playlist to play on shuffle. Just searched by artists and/or album and filled it up. If I can download on my computer at school, I will use the heck out of it. Some artists have pretty ltd or non-existent catalogs, but overall I enjoy it so far. I think the ads are maybe a bit less frequent than Pandora. I like Pandora for the randomness and the ability to discover artists, but I will probably take to spotify to listen to what I want to.