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We let our 5 year old, who is in month 3 of an Indiana Jones obsession wear his Indiana Jones outfit for school pictures. A couple things learned by kid number three: let kids be kids and pick your battles. He's 5 years younger than his next closest sibling...he gets away with a lot. Also, prefers Mary to Willie as far as Indiana Jones women go...huge upset in my opinion.

Oscillate Wildly!!! One of my favorite bands of all time. I'm always in the mood for them although most people I feel perceive them as a "have to be in the mood for" band. Moz Live at Earl's Court is a great live album too. I read "A Light That Never Goes Out" which I thought was a slow read but has some great insight into the arc of the band. Manchester has produced one or two decent musicians!

Scrolling through these items last week I had to pass on Jeff's Stetson but I did see a copy of the Harmed Brothers last album on special edition colored vinyl. These guys are friends of mine, drummer actually lives around the corner. They had no idea the record was on there so not sure who donated it. Regardless, I got it for $15. Anyway, check them out. Great band, great guys doing it right. They currently have members living in Ky, Oregon, Nashville and California so pick up their album and help pay for some of their gas!

I saw him solo(kinda) maybe three years ago for $12. 400 people there tops. Was a great show, he was standing around afterwords by his merch talking with people. For an artist like him I don't know if a nightly bullshit sessions around the merch table are more satisfying then getting shuttled out of an arena into a waiting limo with a body guard. He never struck me as the arena type.

Its possible this article was written just for the puns. I know Billy doesn't go out of his way to be liked by anybody but musically he is a genius. Their body of work speaks for itself...their B-sides alone would qualify as an impressive body of work. In my opinion everything up to Machina was near perfect and a couple years removed from my initial disappointment in Machina I actually started to enjoy it. Vince, I was the Zeitgeist show at the Palace...it sucked, mainly because they played Zeitgeist. From what I'm hearing and reading this tour is focusing on the bands great years...not the ot

Stephen Malkmus...this easily goes to the top of my list.

I have probably watched every "Whats In My Bag" from Amoeba Music. Dangerous dangerous worm hole. They are short and sweet and very addictive. I am constantly taking notes on artists's suggestions to check out. Basically a ton of great artists walking around Amoeba picking out music and books. Unrelated also check out Graham Hancock explaining how it is basically impossible that the Egyptians built the pyramids.

If you want your moneys worth and you like drones "Less Than You Think" would be the obvious choice. One Sunday Morning would get you some value too with a little more content. I might take Future Age though.

I think Nada Surf's catalog is extremely deep and underrated. Love hearing this. Their last album was as good as anything they've made I think. They never try to reinvent themselves, they just keep plodding along under the radar making great albums.

Also and perhaps this is more of a poll type question but are Storm Troopers the worst soldiers of all time? Honestly has a Storm Trooper ever killed someone with a direct shot from a blaster? Their marching techniques are excellent but the minute the shit hits the fan and they have to run in any direction its like fish in a barrel.

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$50K in a matter of hours. Pretty awesome show of support.

This is tragic. Scott is my Bob Dylan. He is probaby on his 4th or 5th morbidly comical song inspired by this episode. I can’t wait till he makes a full recovery and we can hear them. Vibes to Scott and his family. He is the coolest man in rock and roll!!!!

Are you referring to Pete Best's old band?

This thread is extremely entertaining as is any thread that contains the term "BLOOZY guitar masturbator". I'm not a blues guy but I know of him mainly due to Austin City Limits and my local public radio. A couple weeks ago in an attempt to find a live version of the Beatles doing "Taxman" I went down a Youtube wormhole of guitar freaks. Bonamassa came up with his version which wasn't exactly insulting but definitely didn't hold my interest at a time when I was just realizing that there might not be a live version of Taxman on the entire fucking internet. I did however watch a couple more vid

Perhaps "romanticizing" is not the proper word...maybe "detailing" is what I find more frustrating. Essentially this is what he did, this is how he did it, these are the tools and methods to the minute of how he killed as many people as possible. Prime example would be the Virginia Tech guy that took two pieces of chain and padlocks into the classroom. This was a really efficient and cheap way for him to kill probably twice as many people as he could have had they been able to flee. Would this detail come out from survivors and eye witnesses?...of course. Could the media have omitted it from t

The media could do the world a huge favor and stop romanticizing these murderers. They just crowned this asshole the most successful mass murderer in American history. Now there are a couple hundred other lunatics thinking records are made to be broken. Obviously in today's world the identity will eventually get out but they could do away with the pictures and "Who is Stephen Paddock ?" headlines. I am sure all the hour news shows will have a full biography on him this week.

Since we're cussing a lot here is my live music preference. Arrive on time, take your cell phones and stick them up your ass, then sit, then don't get up for the next 2-3 hours. What are you going to do with that 29 seconds of black grainy footage of a distorted guitar solo recorded through a phone speaker? As far as sitting or standing good luck with that. I'd love to sit but never expect to. I also like to pee during Jesus Etc and Art of Almost.

" sonic shoulder for you to cry"....Quite fond of that lyric myself. Good luck man.

Garden strimmer....you guys can make even a weed whacker sound proper.

There's a fortune inside your head.

Fully intended on trying to tackle a Jeff Tweedy Bracket and have it ready for this year since there is a bracket for everything else. Didn't get to it and I never will but the idea was to take all of Jeff's efforts and contributions and compile them. There is probably close to 64 or even more. Seeding would be pretty interesting. Number one seeds might be YHF, AGIB, Being There and Summerteeth but where does a Chelsea Walls soundtrack fall into? ...or a "You're Not Alone". How about Loose Fur "Loose Fur"? a six seed perhaps? Golden Smog "Weird Tales"? That's a solid four seed for me.

Politics thread stays pretty active...

For all the Wilco The Album bashing that has gone on around here the last couple/few years(never by me for the record), I must say that lately when I hear these songs played live on the newer Roadcase sets I own it is a really refreshing treat. To be specific Deeper Down, Country Disappeared, One Wing....these are great songs and they are only getting better with age.

I could never get into it. I liked but not loved them in the 90's. I read a Shannon Hoon biography a few years ago and it stirred up some memories so I busted my cds back out and jammed some Blind Melon for a few weeks and then back away they went. I must say the book is excellent though imo. He grew up in Lafayette, Indiana and knew Axl Rose who helped Blind Melon get their break. Lots of drugs and infighting....your basic VH1 behind the music with the alternate ending where they don't get back together and make a shitty album. From the book Hoon was a sweetheart of a guy and crazy talented a