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Three of the four are out of print. As you noted Only Life was just reissued, but you should also track down the first two: Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth. (If you need help, send me a PM.) I saw them a lot between 1986 and 1991 and was never let down. I also saw them back in October and they've lost nothing off their fastball.

Somewhat self-serving in that my brother-in-law wrote it. It's a pretty interesting portrait of the first marine killed in the war in Irag. It's good but if I can continue to praise his work, his first book is better. It's called Flight of Passage and it recounts the story of when he (age 15) and his older brother (age 17) fixed up a Piper Cub airplane and flew it across the country.

Y'know, I'm not a huge Bowie fan but Heroes is probably one of my ten favorite songs.

Maybe, but I would argue that the only reason that Mirabelli had a job in major league baseball last year was that he had some skill in catching a knuckleball. I remember watching one of the games where Bard was catching Wakefield and you could see the fear in his eyes.

Bard was awful catching Wakefield. He had something like 10 passed balls in 5 games. Everyone agreed it wasn't working and they shipped him off to get Mirabelli back ...

Weird - I put on Dylan's Street Legal earlier this week and my turntable died in the middle of Changing of the Guards.

It does remind me of this old article from the Onion: Yankees Ensure 2003 Pennant By Signing Every Player In Baseball

Reminds me of that famous Billy Ripken baseball card:

That was certainly a central theme of Ken Burns' series on baseball.

Here is Ellis describing it: "I was in Los Angeles, and the team was playing in San Diego , but I didn't know it. I had taken LSD..... I thought it was an off-day, that's how come I had it in me. I took the LSD at noon. At 1pm, his girlfriend and trip partner looked at the paper and said, "Dock, you're pitching today!" "That's when it was $9.50 to fly to San Diego. She got me to the airport at 3:30. I got there at 4:30, and the game started at 6:05pm. It was a twi-night doubleheader. I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria. I was zero

I am a pretty big fan of Furr but have not heard any of their earlier stuff. What do people think of it?

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I remember an interview with REM, probably in the Green era, where Peter Buck said that they could have kept cranking out albums that sounded like Reckoning over and over but they wanted to move on. Being a huge fan of Reckoning, I was really disappointed to hear that.

I am pretty sure that I am in both the Feelies and New Pornographers crowd shots. I think I bought the Feelies t-shirt that you photographed (I got the last one). I was also at a bunch of the other shows so it is fun to see the shots. I am friends with one of the guys in Kinski and I sent him a link of your pictures of them.

Overall it was a great night of music. Obviously too little Wilco but, as mentioned, they were very focused and very tight. But it was a weird crowd. A lot of drunk people and a couple of near-fights where we were (in the front third of the floor).

Nice photos! I looked at your site and there are lots more great shots. (And I can see myself in at least two of your photos ...)

The Amy Grant/Vince Gill show that was scheduled there for last night apparently took place so I can't imagine they would cancel tonight's show.

Coldplay responds to copyright lawsuit By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP Music Writer Tuesday, December 9, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (12-09) 13:01 PST New York (AP) -- Coldplay has fired back against accusations they copied another artist's work for their hit "Viva La Vida." In a statement released on Tuesday, the band responded to a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by guitarist Joe Satriani last week in federal court in Los Angeles. That lawsuit says the Grammy-nominated song contains "substantial, original portions" of his 2004 s

With David Lynch producing? A repo man is always intense. Alex Cox

I used to listen to this a lot when it first came out but I haven't listened to it in a while before today.

Me too. I like it.

I'm with you.

One great moment from that Boston show is when one of them (Stipe, I think) says "We'd like to thank the opening act, the Replacements."