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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 other reincarnations of the band. I'll be in that arena, already have that $125 ticket and I can't wait. Tickets are only a few rows back. Gish, Siamese Dream,  Pisces and Mellon Collie in less than 5 years is as good of a run as you can have. I don't tune into Infowars or Joe Rogan so I guess I can continue to enjoy the music I've loved since I was a teenager. I also don't watch sausage being made so I enjoy it still too. 

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. 

Sloan and Nada Surf?? Didn't know they had stuff in the pipe..sweet

 

I am excited for the Foal's new one! I am trying to think who else that I know has something confirmed??

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. 

$80K

$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!!!!

Dylan played a snippet of Something live as a tribute to Harrison. Pretty sure there are youtubes of it out there.

 

Something is also not a Travelling Wilburys song, in case anyone thought I was confused about that. Before forming the Travelling Wilburys, George Harrison was in a band called the Beatles. Paul McCartney from Wings was also in that band. They rocked. 

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 videos of his which I didn't find very inspiring but as I said I'm not a blues guy. There was a silver lining though to my tireless search, the Bonamassa stuff took me to some Stevie Ray Vaughn stuff which led me to the video of him(and his roadie) switching guitars mid solo after a broken string and it is one of the coolest videos on the internet. 

I've often thought about this in similar situations and I agree and disagree at the same time. Are the media supposed to not report who was responsible and do a background check on the person? Wouldn't the public demand to know?! Should the media just try to ignore the person responsible like MLB and other major sports have finally done when an asshole runs onto the field? There are biographies on Bundy and Dahmer and the Texas Tower guy and every other lunatic that has caused major chaos like this. 

 

Reported as to the number and the relation to other mass murders? Yeah, could probably be omitted. It's really not that hard to piece together, though, whether your an interested/concerned average Joe or a mass rampage lunatic in the making. 

 

I think the  "blame" (besides, obviously, the troubled dude who did it who we will, most of us, forget his name in a week or two) falls more on the politicians and the difficulty in attaining/affording mental health care, more so than the media reporting facts.

 

I'm not so sure that reporting the death count in relation to other similar horrific events and giving a background into the deranged killer is necessarily "romanticizing" the event, I guess.

 

ed. I just saw this, from my local media, btw (a"biography" on each of the victims in the shootings). There is balance in the media

http://www.9news.com/news/nation-world/victims-identified-las-vegas-shooting/480170042

 

ed. pt. 2. Not to beat this thing down, but another balanced piece from a local media source that highlights the good that can emerge from tragedy rather than mere body counts/profilie on the killer:

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/10/04/thornton-middle-school-principal-wounded-las-vegas/

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 their story and probably saved lives in the future?....of course.   Its like publishing bomb recipes.  I don't disagree there is balance in the media. I won't give them too much credit because I think that balance exists because they need around the clock content now and it makes good filler. If they only had 30 minutes like the old days it would be all about the killer, his motives and the scene. Full disclosure here I am guilty of what I am bitching about because I have read every detail about how this guy pulled this off because it is morbidly fascinating and it is just human nature to cover your eyes and then peek but if the details were not so accessible I would not seek them out.  

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. 

Sunken Treasure:Live From the Pacific Northwest?

Mermaid Avenue Volume 3 ???

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 at whatever he did....just couldn't kick the smack. 

Harry Nilsson-"Jump Into The Fire" from Goodfellas when Henry is cooking dinner, Michael is being reminded to stir the sauce, helicopters are hovering and Henry is coked out of his brain. Excellent stuff.... I've always thought Goodfellas was really well done soundtrack wise