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I ran into J Mascis on the street couple of hours before the Buffalo Tom show. I said hi and he nodded. He sat in with them on four songs including a very tasty cover of Mazzy Star's Fade Into You.

Buffalo Tom

Ha! Thanks. They are also two of the cornerstones of most of the music that I listen to.

Now that's a story I'm not familiar with and I'm a little reluctant to google it here at work ...

I see some similarities (some of which are superficial): They were both called the Warlocks Lou and Jerry both liked Ornette Coleman, and Lou and Bob played with Rob Wasserman They both experimented heavily with feedback early in their careers Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable had similarities to the Acid Tests They both felt like albums didn't capture their live show But feedback aside, I don't hear much in common musically. Even in their early improvisational noisy jams, the VU were about repetition where the Dead were emphatically not.

I did that one too - only I got maybe 15 seconds with him. It was a weird event ...

Cohen's third client is Sean Hannity? That is rich ...

Why yes, yes you do. They changed a bit after Crazy Rhythms and introduced some acoustic guitar but both The Good Earth and Only Life are top notch.

Yeah I got it right when I moved to NYC in the fall of '86. It totally brings me back to walking all over New York with my walkman, just wandering aimlessly listening to music until I had to get more batteries.

Thanks! It was sort of interesting, particularly to see who got involved and who didn't. Waiting 20 minutes in 39 degree weather while the umps sorted out who was being tossed wasn't my favorite part.

Was at the Red Sox-Yankees game last night - and realized that in all my years of going to baseball games I had never seen a bench clearing brawl.

Superchunk!

Happy birthday r.e.m.! Played their first show 38 years ago today.

Bigmouth Strikes Again. Great song.

Setlist from last night in Boston: Set 1:You Are HereForeverLast Days of DiscoAshesShe May, She MightPolynesia #1 (Michael Hurley cover)No WaterI Feel Like Going HomeHere You Are Set 2:Dream Dream AwayStupid ThingsMoby OctopadShades of BlueFor You TooI Should Have Known BetterArtificial HeartDouble DareOhmThe Story of Yo La Tango Encore: Junk (Christmas cover) So Easy Baby Center of Gravity

Thanks for the report. Looks awesome. I'm going tonight in Boston.

How were they? I'm going tomorrow night ...

Gotta be Ty Cobb.

Congrats to you. That must be a great experience.

I've been watching Wild Wild Country, the Netflix documentary about the Rajneesh. I remember some of it while it was happening but had no idea about how crazy it really was. It has a great soundtrack too.

Interesting piece on Betty Cantor and other women in the Dead's inner circle: https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/593958534/do-you-want-to-talk-to-the-man-in-charge-or-the-woman-who-knows-what-s-going-on

Glad you enjoyed it. I keep it on my coffee table and still pick it up and just flip through it. I'm always seeing different things in her drawings. And good point about the non-New Yorker view of NYC. I think a native New Yorker might have a different take and might not be as fascinated by some of the detail of the city.

Looking forward to that. And I've got tickets to see them in a few weeks!

I just finished reading that and thought it was great. I'm from Cambridge/Boston so a lot of the history was fascinating. I definitely learned a lot.