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it's time to cure the disease of FOMO!

half the fun of a festival is making painful decisions.

great record w/ Matt Pike

motherlode, right here.... dig in http://monoskop.org/File:Cope_Julian_Krautrocksampler.pdf

Jaki Liebezeit is basically the seed. amazing drummer.

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yeah, Neu! is the bomb. Harmonia, too. and La Dusseldorf!

finally got approved to cover.... turns out i was using an old and discontinued email for the publicist... doh! good thing i decided to use the phone today.

when i reach 50 next year, all my posts will suck even harder.

agreed. musicians want to play music. and they probably don't want to play songs they wrote 35 years ago.

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i think we've covered this before, but finding someone who put out a great record after age 50 is like finding a velociraptor in the wild.

there were some aluminum bleachers to the right of the sound desk, and a little back.

TV21 is a severely underrated band. nice to see Bird Nest Roys there too!

Straitjacket Fits blew away The La's when i saw them...i wasn't 100% sure they opened that show, but the magic of the internet confirmed it. http://thimble.pairserver.com/fits/fitsmeltpress91.html

yeah i will be there again. btw, here's my full review of day 1: http://bigtakeover.com/concerts/boston-calling-spring-2015-day-1-with-beck-tame-impala-sharon-van-etten-boston-city-plaza-friday-may-22-2015 yesterday's bands did nothing for me until St Vincent got on (thought Run The Jewels was pretty good, all their songs sounded the same) but at least they made for arresting photography subjects. i am in love with Annie Clark, however. good goddamn can she shred and look amazing while doing it.

do other festivals have reclining chairs? it's not that horrible, and you can find a bench or step to sit on if gravity is becoming too much. despite the fact that a giant concrete monolith is a few hundred feet from the stage, the sound is actually pretty good (though the wind fucked around w/ it this weekend so far). SVE's set was good, Tame Impala a let down, Beck very good. yesterday the 1st 5-6 bands sucked aside from RTJ, and St Vincent was amazing. Harper was decent, and MMJ was good but played too much of the new one for me.

high strung little fuckers. i like them a lot more than shelties.

at least on the way back, i found a workaround to get free WiFi. didn't have time for Bayless Frontera food, and got shitty Chinese food instead. what kind of dog is it? our neighbors have had a series of Shetland Sheepdogs ever since we moved in almost 20 years ago, and i have zero idea how the fuck they put up w/ the non-stop barking. that shit would have me up a wall and driving to the euthanization store in a week.

attn Boston area peeps, keep June 10th open: Join Smuttynose Brewing Co. and Lagunitas Brewing Co on The Sinclair roof deck celebrating the return of Wilco's Solid Sound Festival for beer, tunes and tacos. Both breweries will be on hand with shirt and record giveaways, awesome beer, and many high fives. Sinclair will be cooking up an array of taco goodness for your dining pleasure. Smuttynose will be pouring Finestkind IPA and Vunderbar Pils. Lagunitas will have IPA and Lil' Sumpin Sumpin on hand. We'll be playing tunes from bands performing at this year's festival. Entry is free. Beer and ta

nice.... i'd go w/ the Monkey cover (Beatles) myself, but hard to argue... Tame Impala It Is Not Meant To Be Alter Ego Jeremy's Storm Endors Toi Apocalypse Dreams

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no, but Beck's rather particular about photos i think (none of the press shooters could shoot his Newport Folk show from the pit, only production). and his PR firm (Nasty Little Man) is well known for artists having difficult releases (Foo Fighters, Jack White, etc).

i didn't get approved to shoot Beck, though. edit - my last ditch plea to the publicist has apparently succeeded!

Sharon Van Etten, Tame Impala and Beck.