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jff, you are a person of few words. care to elaborate?

My wife vastly prefers Michael Lee to Jason Bonham. I can understand that, although for me they are nearly equally good.

Oh, yeah! The end of the year "what year is it?" confusion, sorry!

My Morning Jacket - 2 nights at Red Rocks and 3 nights at the Wiltern in Los Angelese, it just doesn't get any better than that these days....Both runs featured NO REPEATED SONGS and lots of fan requests. The Red Rocks second night show clocked in at about three and a half hours, epic on the Led Zeppelin scale! Rich Robinson - Phoenix, AZ - he blows away his brother Chris when it comes to solo stuff. Severely underrated and a mature musical genius!!! JJ Grey and Mofro - Scottsdale, AZ - these guys blow the roof off with their authentic R&B soul sound, just incredibly fun and moving t

I think I agree with mountain bed on Jason's drumming, particularly on the Celebration Day performance. I don't see robotic or stiff, I hear him grooving and drawing on his studied and encyclopedic knowledge of his dad's performances, both on record and live. I also see him having the best. frickin'. night of his life and I found that very very moving. I have also dug Jason' playing in his stint with Foreigner, he drove that band very well, too. I'm also a huge fan of Michael Lee's drumming on the Page/Plant tours in the 90s. I love how passionately he played and how hard he hit with those

Echoey soundboards from 1977? I get just the opposite, a real nice dry, balanced sound from them in that year. You don't hear a lot of the room, just a real balanced mix of the instruments and vocals, which is exactly what I prefer in a recording. I don't really want to hear much audience noise or the ambient sound of the room at all. Others feel differently and love the good AUD recordings. About the echoey sound, maybe you and I are just using different terms, I don't know. Either way, like most people, we seem to both dig the recording quality of much of 1977 GD. I've read that the SBDs fro

Yeah, but you also think the Crowes played too hard and too fast in 1992!!!! Jest funnin' with ya, analog man. To my ears, Luther, Neal and Jackie are pretty similar in style and sound. They are all capable of doing a reasonably good job in the Crowes, but none of them are in the same league as Marc Ford and not nearly as exciting to me. I like blazing, fast, hard late 60s/early 70s lead guitar, though, that is most definitely my preferred sound for rock 'n' roll. Each to his own, of course. Luther and that gang all play pretty good blues/roots based guitar, just not with enough dri

I'm not really that big of a Jackie Greene fan, so I'm kinda disappointed, but I guess he's as good as Luther or Neal so I suppose its gonna sound about the same as the last few years. Rich will just have to take up the slack on the solos, which he is perfectly capable of doing.

Good question. I hope so, I think they'd lose momentum if they had to get another new guitarist to find chemistry with. Sven is so solid, damn fine bass playing in an under-the-radar way. I will be disappointed if they go with Neal Casal over Luther for whatever reasons, but I wouldn't be surprised, either. I have a feeling that Chris tends to get his way and Rich probably goes with the flow. He might've learned that it isn't worth it to fight what Chris wants. That's pure speculation based on no real facts, just my impression. Thanks, Calvino, for the info on the Vic. That's what I w

Heard this from seven people this AM already! Thanks for the update, Analogman. We think we'll do two nights in Chicago, but seeing them at the Ryman is also tempting. Is the Vic all seated or this there a standing area up front?

Yeah, that isn't one of Zubia's country songs (which I could not find on YouTube), so not what I thought would work in Nashville, but a good recording of a good song in another genre. Its from a public station TV show that spotlights local musical talent from the Tempe Arts Center. If you are interested in Mark's country-ish songs you could check out Ain't Been Here - Los Guys http://www.amazon.com/Aint-Been-Here/dp/B001PEINJ0/ref=sr_tc_6_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356113618&sr=8-6-entd I Wonder http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=Mar

Yeah, a good tune. Good luck selling it in Nashville. I've got a few musician friends I'd like to sell just one of their songs to the Nashville biz. Seems like one good hit could set you up for life? Or at least help out quite a bit. Here's my friend Mark Zubia with Gin Blossom's Jesse Valenzuela singing a great song they wrote together, Hotel Defeated. Mark is an awesome songwriter and he's got some more country-ish stuff that sounds like they could be country hits to me. He also did some songwriting with Gary Louris of the Jayhawks back in the early 90s when he was signed and part of the Tem

Yeah, CR is too busy not singing with The Faces! He would be a great choice in either band, I'd say! Rather solidly sourced rumors are flying that the Crowes are doing shows in 2013.

Thanks, mountain bed! I hope they release this show on DVD, I'd love to watch it again.

I just saw Justin for the second time last week. It was a solo acoustic show. I usually vastly prefer a full band to a solo performance, but in this case, I think I liked Justin better solo because he's such a captivating performer/entertainer and he sure is a good finger-picker on guitar, sounds like its two or three guitars at once. His song introductions are as revealing and entertaining as ever. Its a weird feeling to me, like I'm invading his privacy or being a voyeur when I listen to him sing such songs and tell the stories of his life that are behind them. But he also talked about a fri

I can't remember the specifics of these, but as the Dead rarely spoke on stage, it could be amusing when they did. There's the one in which Jerry uncharacteristically berates a fan calling out for Truckin' one time too many "What are ya, some kinda cop or something? What about the people who don't want to hear Truckin'?" And another in which Jerry and Bob ask that the house lights be turned down and as they go down a little bit, Jerry says "turn them waaaay the fuck down, yeah that's it"

The Stones were on fire last night! It was far better than I was expecting and seemed to me better than the times I've seen them throughout the 90s. I thought Ronnie was particularly hot with his solos, probably better than I've ever heard him. I love how he makes his Tele sound like a pedal steel without using a slide, how does he do that? Such a great country rock twang, as much of a Mick Taylor fan as I am, Ronnie really did justice to Mick's parts on Dead Flowers, Happy, Tumblin' Dice, etc. But when Taylor came out, holy shit, taking it to another level! I guess he got over his shyn

I'd go see them again if they'd just play their old stuff. They still sound pretty damn good when they do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_ZD74t4Rko Music starts about 38 min. in.

I've been listening to the non-Who's Next Lifehouse songs, including the ones you sent, dtram, thanks again and I've been enjoying them quite a bit. Some of the mellower ones sound more like Quadrophenia songs than Who's Next songs. I guess I'm saying I can hear the transition into that Quadrophenia kind of songs in these Lifehouse ones. I also orderd yet another version of Who's Next, the two disc deluxe edition that has the live show on disc 2. It hasn't arrived yet, but I'm looking forward to digesting that and seeing if some of those live versions might sound cool in a Lifehouse sequenc

I bought that and its a good value, but I have a sneaking suspicion they are trying to unload all their DVDs in preparation for Blu Ray releases...I'm just being cynical here, but they did turn the biz over to Rhino and they are definitely profit minded. Yeah, each should make up their own mind about all things Dead, of course. I'm in the minority on being slightyl underwhelmed by the GD movie, but its just a matter of opinion. Not that its not good, I just don't think its as great as some do. Definitely worth having, but its not where I would start. Might have to do with the quality of the

I love Ticket to New Year's (1987) and the View From The Vault IV that has Oakland and Anaheim 1987. They were playing very solid that summer and fall. Downhill From Here is ripping good, too. Alpine Valley 1989. Dead Ahead Radio City NYC Halloween 1980 isn't that bad either. Nice little acoustic set, really good singing for the Dead and some good electric stuff, too. The problem with the early year video footage is that there is not that much and what there is is not the best performances, IMO. A lot of people love the Grateful Dead movie, Winterland 1974, but the echo-y sound in

I have to wait for Christmas to get it, but I saw it in the theater. I was very surprised how excellent it was. Glad to hear other fans are digging it, too!

dtram, thanks for the sendspace, worked just fine. mpolak21, on that crystal sphere blog do you have to download the music to get the tracklisting? I didn't see it anywhere in the blogpost. I'd like to see what versions/performances he chose and in what sequence. Lots of different ideas out there amongst fans about what does and doesn't belong on Lifehouse, interesting stuff.

I read somewhere, maybe wikipedia or iTunes, that the masters for Who's Next had been lost or destroyed or something. Not that I believe everything I read... Glad to hear those demos are pretty fleshed out and high quality, I'll look forward to hearing them. Thank a lot for the sendspace offer. Glad to get your stoke going for the show!

I picked up all those songs except Greyhound Girl, Mary and When I Was A Boy. Its really too bad the Who's versions of those first two are lost. I'm not really that excited by Townshend demos, especially if they were recorded years later than '71, but I'm not really clear on when they were. I would like to hear When I Was A Boy, but its only available on Who's Missing and on Amazon, you can't buy the individual tracks as MP3. I'm not gonna buy that whole album for one song. I know what you mean about the NYC sessions with Kit Lambert vs. the Olympic London sessions with Glyn Johns. In gener