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donald 'buck dharma' roeser [blue oyster cult]- crafts the finest solos ever...listen to 'last days of may' and tell me i'm wrong jon mcgeoch [magazine, siouxsie/banshees, public image] - woefully underrated player...best of the 80s? maybe. john fahey - singlehandedly created the new primitive america genre. amazingly skillful, and not afraid to do new things. marc ribot [tom waits, elvis costello, robert plant, john zorn, solo] - master of all styles, incredibly skilled wrt to melody and emotion. thurston moore/lee renaldo [sonic youth] - impossible to credit one and not the other...revolu

for me, RR is all about "Pink Steam." best song on it, no question in my mind.

are you gay? i've become a casual acquaintance w/ drummer Tim Morse; good guy.

Almost any song by The Frogs.

'we're gonna kill the california girls' - Sonic Youth "Expressway To Your Skull"

my guess is that they will hit New England on the tail end of whatever European shows they do.

Smog - Be Hit

'grandpa pissed his pants again/he don't give a damn' - warren zevon, play it all night long

you're tripping, aren't you?

'Pearl of the Quarter' was my immediate choice.

i readily admit i've changed my opinions about music before, and sometimes it takes multiple instances for something to sink in. but not this time. np: Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse [now *this* is psychedelic music.]

there's more noodles in 'dark star' than yr average chinese restaurant. seriously, garcia and weir's playing just doesn't appeal to me. on the fillmore '71 version i am currently listeining to, it only catches my interest in the ~9 to 10:30 minute mark area...otherwise there's way too much wool gathering to hold any interest at all. i'll take a crack at 'drums > space' from dick's picks vol 21 next, but i don't have high hopes. agreed that as a pigeonhole, 'psychedelic' has been the most abused term outside of 'indie' but for me there are still clear properties. i would consider th

absolutely not. i listened to a Dick's Pick today (fillmore, '70) just to make sure. yep, i'm sure. so which ones have you actually heard? the dead are folk/bluegrass-based, definitely not a psych band (regardless of their lysergic ingestion habits).

see, my theory is validated. 'back in my day...'

nothing is more tired than the 'there is no new good music' lament. it generally means you just got lazy or apathetic.

no, they were some sort of lame-ass jug band. far too much wimpy noodling, no fire. two drummers? they could have gotten by w/ a bongo player. psych bands of note, in that era, just from one label...there are many more...: http://www.forcedexposure.com/labels/akarma.italy.html

in my mind it's not even close. in your mind, you reach the same conclusion, but we are choosing different options.

texture over melody (though they can churn out out a good melody when they want to...cf "When You Sleep").

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln8XsL6veaU

foobar is an open source media player, mp3 tagger, database etc...hugely customizable, and uses very little resources while running. if you are a coder you can do tons w/ it, or just use it like me...find someone's mod you like and use it. you will still need iTunes (or something anapod) to move songs onto yr ipod.

at least it's doing some serious crunching...iTunes is a colossal waste of resources for no good reason. run foobar and it'll be clear.

you will always find people who have had failures w/ a specific brand and then swore off using them in the future. i've had 7 different external hard drives...Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate and Fantom. two have failed; a WD500 after over a year, and a Seagate after a few weeks. my Maxtor 300gb is my oldest and is at least 4 years old at this point. i've been happy w/ the Fantom drives i've gotten recently, but i really should look into a RAID system.

that's a good idea. it not's *if* the hard drive will fail, it's *when*. and i am *way* behind in backing up my data...i've got at least 50 gigs (shows, not GB...it's a lot more than 50GB) worth of photos w/ no redundancy right now...not good.

I don't like the Grateful Dead. Aside from "Blues For Allah." There. I said it.