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Always liked Brian Dunn from Stump the Host. But they never got very popular outside of Chicago. Still, that guy is a monster!

John Prine - "Sam Stone"

John Prine - Great Days: The John Prine Anthology (disc 1)

Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones

Yo La Tengo - Electr-o-Pura

no ... it was 10cc

 

 

Fooled Around and Fell in Love was Elvin Bishop.

Always get those songs confused as to who sang them! Anyway, I like them both, and the sentiment of my post remains the same.

Reckoning

Murmur

Life's Rich Pageant

I don't know how much of it is really your fault, but that's what you get for going to see James Taylor. (Kidding. )

The things we do for love...

(Oh wait... that was Elvin Bishop!)

Jeebus.

I would say that I was damn stupid, if I weren' just clueless at the time. I'm not even a big JT fan. But the rain held off, we didn't see any tornadoes, and we didn't hear any sirens. So that's lucky.

Just a bunch of streaming stuff from this site:

www.iacmusic.com

A lot of good stuff there.

CD

DVD

Oh, and a $25 gift card to a restaurant in Chicago, all because I knew that

Grateful Dead - "Box Of Rain"

was released in 1970.

It's not too hard to get through at 5:45 in the morning, you know. So, I'll see if my guys like it and, if not, I'll probably put it up on the trading block, although I might not.

"Dancing Partner" - Joe Pisapia

Just becaue I'm like that, you can hear this song at his MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/joepisapia

The day I went to visit her

Soon after she turned ninety-four

The coffee and the Entenmann's

We talked as if we were old friends

 

She filled me in on gossip

All the seniors in the complex

We talked about the days gone by

And then she told me with a sigh,

 

It's been twenty-seven years

He's passed away

It still feels like yesterday

 

The conversation turned to love

As any long talk always does

She asked about my situation

Was there someone I was dating

 

I told her of a pretty girl

Who's teaching me to dance

She told me how she love to dance

But only with one man then she said,

 

When they play that music

I turn the other way

Since my dancing partner's away

 

Driving home so late that night

My mind still recollecting

All the many things we talked about

Like living with and then without

 

I wondered to myself if I would

Ever love someone that way

And in the echoes of that night

I still can see her as she's saying,

 

When they play that music

I turn the other way

Since my dancing partner's away

Jeff Buckley,sometimes.

"Lover, You Should've Come Over"

Although I will miss Quine's presence, the fact that he's still using, Menck, Leisz, Lloyd, and Julian has me very excited to hear this bad boy. One of the best backing bands in rock today. Nice.

"Hot Burrito #1 (I'm Your Toy)" - Flying Burrito Brothers

"For No One" - The Beatles

"Teach Your Children" - Crosby, Stills, and Nash

"Dress Blues" - Jason Isbell

"Dancing Partner" - Joe Pisapia

Each of those songs can totally destroy me at any given moment.

Sympathy for the Devil as a guitar song? It's all piano and bongos, no?

The solo is one stinging muthafukkuh. One of the best. Period. That alone, makes it one of the top guitar songs for me.

I don't think that you can argue with #'s 1 through 4. You might not totally agree, but if you're gonna say that they don't belong there, you simply don't know rock n' roll. For #5, I might have gone with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" or "Sympathy For the Devil" over "Brown Sugar", but I still can't really argue with that one, either.

Any of you see this movie?

My wife and I saw it in the theater back in the day and I liked it a lot. Sharon went back and saw it a second time before it left the Music Box the next week.

I just checked it out at Amazon, and the sunnufabitch is just about $70 at the cheapest -- used!

Anyway, just wondering if any of y'all had a copy that you might want to offer up in trade.

Or, if any of you have seen it yourselves?

Not sure if you can call it a rock doc, per se -- or even totally a music doc, but

Theremin: An Electronic Odyessy

definitely touches on rock. And the interview with Brian Wilson is simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking. I saw this in the theater and the whole place was in hysterics during that part, and then fell into an uncomfortable silence following.

Still, a very cool film about an interesting topic.

Also, from about the same time and even more heartbreaking:

Nico Icon

Woman was seriously messed up.

Chicago Cubs

 

can't believe i let it languish in the netflix que for so long. fucking stunning...20+ years later and it still looks better than a lot of CGI FX megafilms of today.

Just how many freaking versions of this are there?!?!?!

I was working downtown and living in Evanston when Chicago hosted the World Cup and, honestly that did not snarl much at all. It was actually kinda cool taking the El with all the foreign nationals, who were psyching themselves up for the games.

I remember a huge group, dressed in the German nation uniform, holding an impromptu pep rally in front of 401 N. Michigan avenue and, and being a part of a crowd that gathered around them to enjoy the show. I imagine that the Olympics would be like that, tenfold.

And, with all the different ethnic neighborhoods in Chicago, there is a lot to explore, and many places for all to feel at home.

God, I love this city.

New collection is out, too:

Anyone pick this one up? How is it? Still waiting for his version of "Ju Ju Man" to be released.

Obviously...since the words make NO sense....

 

 

But it is a fun set of covers....

 

LouieB

I must be thinking of another song. Sorry about that.

Still... there's some previously unreleased song that he's freaking about.

So me and a couple of friends at work who are into beer have started up a beer exchange... each of us brings in a couple of beers for the other one, whenever we can find something that we think the others will enjoy: obscure stuff.

Today I just received a couple of bottles of Ommegang Hennepin. It's a Trappist-Style that is from a brewer owened by Duvel.

I've also received some New Glaris Totally Naked and Bell's Oberon. (IL is still having some distribution troubles with Bell's.)

I'm brining in some New Belgium Mothership Wit and Abita Turbodog. This week.

THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT!

A friend of mine who is a Dylanophile is obsessed with the one, newly unearthed Basement Tapes song that appears on there -- "I'm Not There". Apparently, it makes the entire thing entirely worthwhile. (He calls it one of the best songs that Dylan ever wrote, and therefore, one of the best songs of all-time. And he cannot understand why it has gone unreleased for so long.)

A backwards (albeit incomplete) alt-country timeline?

Nice.