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Some of the funniest off the cuff stage banter from Chicago connected artists: Neko Case Kelly Hogan (with and without Neko Case) Jon Langford (with or without Sally Timms) rRobbie Fulks Funny Brits: Billy Bragg Robyn Hitchcock LouieB

I am going to guess that if Clint actually talked to Barack they would have more in common than he would with Mitt. After all Barack is the best Republican president we have had in awhile. LouieB

Maybe Romney will win, I don't know. HIs speech was okay. I still have no idea how he thinks he will create 12 million jobs. Anyone know? Despite being a great actor and director, Clint really needed to stay home last night. The speech was a bit too much ad lib and really fell flat although I dug his hair. Rubio is another one of the young lions waiting in the wings for 2016 should Mill lose. He is pretty articulate. LouieB

Leave iit to my daughter the former Tweedys Gurl to let me know there is a Duquesne train of some sort and the Carbondale invoked is actually in Pennsylvania not IL. Dylan is hardly a reacist having used any number of blues singers as his career and songwritting models. This song clearly has an intentional Armstrong feel. Taking an Armstrong lick or two is a time homored tradition among all recording artists, and really why not. If people are freaked out about Dylan using older musical models it may be time to give him up, but stopping at Street Legal leaves out a bunch of great material

My thought exactly, but sounding like Louis Armstrong isn't THAT bad a thing is it? Actually I thought he should have tried harder to sound like Armstrong. At this point Dylan's songs are trying to ape pre-war music so much that it makes a certain amount of sense to just listen to pre-war music instread. This is an interesting tune, but pre-war music (which I end up listening to alot these days) is really more compelling yet. Not bad though. I kind of like it. And I thought it was funny as hell that Carbondale got a name check. It made me realize that perhaps Dylan is using the nonsense nam

Actually after last night's speech by Ryan it makes more sense than ever. Tell me Jules, in all seriousness, how are R&R going to create 12 million private sector jobs? How does the government do that? They don't. Only the private sector can do that. (The government can create public sector jobs or sponsor projects that employ businesses that hire private sector folks),. I just don't see how what I said is so far fetched. Until the private sector gets off its ass and hires more people what can any government person do to make the private sector create jobs unless the government supp

Christ has nothing to do with it, unless you count Paul Ryan's rationalization for his ideology. LouieB

I knew it was pretty recent. I suspect Tim did this because it was a way to keep the colors from being attached to the old dicotomy. Red and blue are easy colors to decern. It could have been green and purple I guess. LouieB

I wish there was a joke. I am merely refering to the fact that leftists used to be called pinkos or reds, that's all. LouieB

When did left become blue and right become red? LouieB

Yep, LouieB

Okay, so the myth of lower taxes on the rich is the central issue of this election. Clearly it is a myth in some respects, but the outcome of this myth isn't the real issue at all. I have come to the conclustion (not that unlike all the conspiricies that Sparky is always bringing up) that the real issue IS lower taxes so that the so called job creaters become happy and finally loosen their purse strings and start hiring people and finally people will have money to spend on the goods and services and the economy will finally get going. In this scenario the rich are pissed off that they have t

My thought exactly. Von was more of a performer with some aspects of his career that involved mentorship, but Fred was part of a fairly tight community, since he ran a club. LouieB

I didn't see Reich. Neil Tesser was. I got there pretty early and was thrown out of the seats that were being saved for speakers, even though there were not that many speakers. Unlike Fred's funeral, which was crammed full of musicians in the audience, this seemed more fans and family. LouieB

If Chris Christie were actually telling the truth (except for his blatent union bashing) the speach his speech wasn't too bad. If only we were ALL going to share the pain. The real Republican plan doesn't nearly share the pain. LouieB

Okay got itl. The event was very nice but as always with these things, way too long. Chirst Universal Temple was a good spot, with lots of parking and thousands of seats. I would say maybe 3-400 hundred people were there, but there was plenty of room. The pre-program included some audio of Von playing and then some stills. It was followed by a video with clips of various interviews and performances, but it went on entirely too long and didn't end until half an hour into when the program was supposed to start. The whole thing was MCed by a woman who was not familiar to me and consistantly

Romney is tone deaf but he knows how to dog whistle. LouieB

With the emphasis on MOST of the time. (a line appropriated by Dylan himself as I recall.) LouieB

I will post up my impressions of the funeral so long as no one objects..... LouieB

Patti Smith!! LouieB

Since I started this stupid thread I might as well say something additionally stupid. I was not refering to people who are dubbed the "new Dylan"; the past 40 years of singer/songwriters are littered with folks that have that title. I meant who would you be excited to hear from at 65 years old. Somehow I can't imagine anyone being interested in Joe Pug at 65 and I don't see a huge amount of interest in Josh Ritter now. Maybe Ryan Adams can sustain his interest for the next 20 years with his fan base, but he is still has a fairly narrow band of fans. Beck could do it I suppose, except I th

I still plan to the funeral today. Anyone else going? Bob? LouieB

(Or even the last 10 or 20 years??) Okay this is kind of a stupid thread I just thought of (we need more stupid threads don't you think?) I notice a lot of buzz about the new Dylan and Neil and Crazy Horse albums (and to a lesser degree David Byrne teaming with St. Vincent.) And such older artists at Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits put out some fairly strong albums out this year too. All of these guys are as old and in most cases older than I am, meaning that all came to artistic maturity when I was either a teen or in my early to mid 20s, Is anyone putting out music today that someone wi

I haven't listened yet, but lets be honest. The guy has it in him if he wants. LouieB

Self Portrait under rated? It also wasn't a contract completer, nor was Dylan. One was done just prior to New Morning and the other was just crap Columbia put out because they were pissed that he left. Poco is an underrated band to be sure.Los Lobos is hardly underrated, but meanwhile they are great.(The Blasters ARE underrated though if you want to name a band from the same music scene.) LouieB