Central Scrutinizer

I was listening to Pink Floyd the other day and it sort of reinforced my opinion that if you stripped away David Gilmore's effects pedals and volume, he'd be a bloody boring, one-string-bending ancestor to The Edge.

O.K., it is amazing and I'm very glad for this woman, and that her self-esteem is restored. But I saw a small snippet of her public interview and when she talked she looked like the eagle on the Muppet Show. I wonder how much muscle control they can actually restore; and why couldn't (or shouldn't) create a synthetic facial prosethsis to hang the tissue and muscles on, rather than all the danger and risk of a body rejecting the transplanted face?

I'm hoping they pull out plenty of Aja in St. Augustine. "No 'Gaucho,' please."

It it can cure one person of hyperbole and deluded expectations, then this could be the next White Album.

How much do you weigh?

I had a feeling this was trodden territory ... Couldn't help but notice a few people commented then -- and now. Do flashbacks count in rating guitarists?

His publicist should be contacting VC

You don't apologize for a pun like that, you celebrate it!

I would have a hard time whittling down a top 20 let alone a top 5, but Leo Kottke deserves mention too.

I'll take May 20th, 8 p.m. in the pool.

"Wilco (the beef)"

I'd have a few of these. What about Chet Atkins? There are *all kinds* of great guitarists.

God, I love VC.

I think that's the only significant movie appearance I remember of his -- I passed on the Burt Reynolds filmography after Smoky and the Bandit I. I think he earned plenty of respect on the countless cameos, Tonight Show appearances, etc. Nothing was too outrageous for him, and I mean that in a good way.

Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie." Shouldn't that be in the "bacon" thread?

It gives me a migraine just thinking about it.

I'm living on borrowed time.

Hey, what can I say? I'm bored at work.

I understand what you mean, and that was sort of my point, as far as JB and JT and their mental health. There's a story related in Kot's book (I think he quotes Bennett) about JT having a bad trip and Bennett holding him and helping him through it that sounded ... so ... creepy. But dependency/enabling his a weird cycle. On the current lineup, if they couldn't afford the surgery, we would not know who they were. I think if JB would have said "lil' help?" prior to this, it would have come out of the woodwork.

When he does get it done, will it be a fixied hipster?

But a well-intended one.

Good points, but it was what it was. Trying to extrapolate whatever came together to make ST and YHF and attempt to distill who caused what or what might have been is impossible. Conjecture that Jay Bennett staying with Wilco would have made any difference in the band's artistic direction (and whether the band would still exist to this day, rather than a solo Jeff Tweedy being Jeff Tweedy, or Bennett and/or Tweedy being a statistic) is impossible at the worst, misguided at the least. It's eight years later, both men are completely different people, in completely different places/mind/tempermen

... or that he caused them to lose the security deposit on the loft due to cigarette burns.