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when i was a kid, it was I Should Have Known Better. loved that song as a 13-year-old now ... probably across the universe i remember the morning after john lennon was killed, we were in central park for a memorial and they had these huge speakers set up and david sancious was i think at the capital theater in passaic playing improv piano and they were piping it into the park. was amazing. i remember him playing something that morphed into across the universe and it just was devastating

one out of two that's actually better than my usual ratio

yeah, but he was 12 years old! come on, jay doesn't even talk to his wife

yeah, you've got to explain what you mean by "downloading" i download stuff off archive, dime and off artists' own web sites, etc., that's legal downloading ain't illegal

i wasn't in love with cocaine and ashes but very much looking forward to the full band shows as well jay's web site is a joke ... don't think jay or his management is real concerned with his fans

catherine popper i met her the other night my god

cool! i'll be there too you owe me a beer now by my calculations!

who's going? sounds like mark spencer and andrew duplantis are both in, which is very cool Wed 04/09/08 Louisville, KY Headliners Music Hall Thu 04/10/08 Nashville, TN Exit / In Fri 04/11/08 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse Sat 04/12/08 Tallahassee, FL The Beta Bar Sun 04/13/08 Birmingham, AL WorkPlay Theatre Tue 04/15/08 New Orleans, LA Tipitina's Uptown Wed 04/16/08 Houston, TX The Continental Club Thu 04/17/08 Austin, TX Antone's Fri 04/18/08 New Braunfels, TX Gruene Hall Sat 04/19/08 Fort Worth, TX Main St. Fort Worth Art Festival Tu

hmmm this could be pretty cool Jeff Tweedy - guitar, bass Jay Farrar - guitar Mike Heidorn - drums

Guided By Voices Electrifying Conclusion (final tour) poster signed by Pollard, Gillard, Slusarenko, Farley and March

but bon jovi does, so lay off the wise cracks please Happiness, it's been no friend to me But forever after ain't what its all cracked up to be Yeah, I had a taste, you were my fantasy But I lost my faith when I hit reality I don't need no guru to tell me what to do When you're feeling like a headline on Yesterdays news Come on, come on, come on Give me something for the pain Give me something for the blues Give me something for the pain when I feel I've been danglin from a hang-man's noose Give me something I can use To get me through the night Make me feel all right, Something like you

for me The Search is No. 2 behind Trace and not all that far behind either terrific piece of work

dime does that every year last year's screen was worse -- something like a huge RIAA logo saying, "You've been caught downloading illegal material." funny stuff

an editor? that's like saying Shakespeare should have trimmed some of Hamlet and Macbeth, because they were too wordy i wouldn't change a damn thing on any of Jay's records, solo or son volt this is some of the most brilliant, inventive, compelling, cliche-free music i've ever heard then again, if ya dig 90 percent of a record, that's a pretty damn good percentage as for Uncle Tupelo, I would start with Still Feel Gone. tremendous

this hits the nail on the head for me why i don't like this this record screams out to me: "OK, what we've been doing hasn't been working, we know that. Let's make a conscious and transparent effort to do what people used to like." Just rings out disingenuous to me. Marah's last record struck me the exact same way. OK, this is our return to when we were fucking great. well ... why did you make me buy the last couple records then? that you claimed were "your best work ever?" bands that do this shit lose all credibility with me i can't even list to marah anymore because of this dynamic

thanks "sort of in the middle of nowhere" is putting it mildly! but there's nothing on stubhub right now or ebay - not even expensive-as-crap tickets - so it doesn't look good. small place. i'm bummed. if i don't get in, i'll scream louder than Donna!! but listening to April 10, 1978, Atlanta, is cheering me up a little

it's been a long while since i pulled this one out still sounds freaking great

let it go

REM hasn't written a song in 10 years as good as Guided By Voices / Robert Pollard's 500th-best song during the same 10 years

wow, great setlist i'm toying with seeing the stroudsburg show on tuesday but it's a long way to go to hope to get a ticket outside

after all the buildup, I was stunned at how trite most of his stuff is I gave him a fair chance but have no desire to ever listen to a piece of Bright Eyes music again how did the Village Voice put it? music for gawky drama girls? sure as hell ain't for me

that would be so cool i saw open for REM back when REM didn't suck great double bill love the feelies i posted on dime once that it seemed like no feelies shows on dime included the song "Higher Ground," which I love. and i wondered why within an hour, their drummer posted and found me a few available shows that included it that's damn cool

you can convert *.shn files to *.wav files using mkw audio compression tool it's a free download @ http://etree.org/mkw.html and very easy to use just drag & drop the files and watch 'em go just make sure that under "options" you unclick "delete files after converting." otherwise, you won't be able to continue seeding

i remain baffled by peoples' refusal or inability to run bittorrent software it's ridiculously simple and easy for even the most novice computer user. for some reason, there's an air of mystery about this, but it literally takes 5 minutes to set up download azureus (free download -- go to http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.pp) register at one of the numerous sites -- dimeadozen & hungercity are my favorite (or don't & use eztree) click on a torrent (that has at least one seeder) save it when it hits 100 percent, you have the show. stick around & seed for others. yo

nice great little song listen to my heart pound ...