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Nick Cave (An Evening of Talk & Music ...)

Robert Hunter RIP https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robert-hunter-grateful-dead-dead-889788/

Enjoy! I loved it when I saw it ten days ago.

I'm getting confused by days. You saw them in Portland? I saw them Friday night in Cambridge and is was great (as always). They played 33 songs over 3+ hours. Hadn't seen them play All Tomorrow's Parties before.

And Kimbrel seems to be going from bad to worse. That was a rough outing yesterday. Red Sox officially eliminated yesterday. Pretty miserable season for them all around - except for Devers and Bogaerts.

I had mixed feelings about the Red Sox not re-signing Kimbrel last off-season but it looks like one of the few good decisions they made. He was pretty shaky in the second half last year and his troubles are continuing.

The Feelies!

Pretty cool that Yaz's grandson hit a homer at Fenway yesterday: https://twitter.com/i/status/1174357665146949632

I saw them several times in the late 80s but have not seen the reinvented Moving Targets. Original drummer Pat Brady (RIP) was a monster.

Very sad. I had no idea that he and Ben Orr started playing together in Ohio in the late 60s and that (according to wikipedia) "they formed a Crosby, Stills and Nash-style folk rock band called Milkwood. They released one album, How's the Weather, on Paramount Records in early 1973 but it failed to chart. After Milkwood, Ocasek formed the group Richard and the Rabbits, which included Orr and keyboardist Greg Hawkes, who had played on Milkwood's album."

I thought it (David Byrne's American Utopia) was incredible. Somewhere between a concert and a Broadway show. Great musicianship, choreography, singing. I only saw Talking Heads once and I'm a huge fan so it was great to see him play some of those songs - and it didn't hurt that I was in the 5th row.

David Byrne's American Utopia

So was Bolton fired or did he quit? What a shit-show ...

Came out 20 years ago yesterday. Still not sure which is my favorite of the three discs.

Is that the name of a band you are seeing tonight or commentary on the previous post?

I am/was a big fan of Kozelek and Sun Kil Moon but then both his shows and his albums turned into just that - long, talking stories.

Nice one. I'm a big fan of that record.

Sorry - been on vacation and off of VC. No Tanya - just Kristin, Bernie, and Dave. Dave's drumming still blows me away. It was at City Winery (I think at the same table where I sat with you for Robyn Hitchcock) so I had a great view of the drums.

Throwing Muses

Me too.

I'm a big fan of that album.

Ha! I saw his original tweet and didn't think much of it. And then later in the day I started seeing all of these feral hogs tweets ...

Me too! I love Capacity but for some reason never picked this up until yesterday.

I only did once but definitely lots of people did. Logistically it was a drag. People filing out while others are lining up outside. And some percentage of those filing out were only going far enough to get back in line.

It was the early show. https://jerrygarcia.com/show/1980-07-25-orpheum-theater-boston-ma/ The early/late thing was a bit of a bummer, particularly when they would just announce one show and then later add in a late show (rather than a second night). And I agree on Ozzie's playing. I like it on this show, particularly on Tangled.