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A friend of mine saw Jeff Beck recently and had seats right up front. He said that under the heat of the lights and as Beck started to sweat you could see the black hair dye dripping down. To LouieB's point, the dude is almost 70 and the jet black hair looks silly.

Speaking of that, I just read: I had read it in high school but one of my kids was reading it for school so I picked it up. [An aside, when I went to get that cover picture from Amazon I noticed that there are about 40 one- and two-star reviews so I read them. Some are about problems with orders, some are from Holocaust deniers, and then there are people who write things like "He [Wiesel] has an incredibly selfish and generally uncaring attitude." WTF?]

Never knew that Farrar used J Mascis's guitar on this ...

I have not read through all of the GBV/Pollard threads so maybe it's been mentioned elsewhere but I learned today that Pollard threw a no-hitter in college: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/01/29/bob-pollard-of-guided-by-voices-threw-a-no-hitter-in-college-ok/

Neko Case is playing in Birmingham tonight (where it is apparently snowing) and she just tweeted: "Ok guys. The show is NOT CANCELLED tonight. It's snow, not lava."

Ha! Didn't watch the Grammys but I know exactly what you mean.

Still thinking about last week's show.

Nice. Even though a lot of that is already out there and some of it has been released, I'm looking forward to an official release of it.

That was a great show. I remember Mould had lost a bunch of weight and didn't have the Flying V and I didn't recognize him at first. And then he started playing ...

At the Paradise (with Stamey, Maimone, and Fier)?

I saw them do Odyssey live back in 1998 or so. It was pretty great.

Derek and the Dominos - Keep on Growing. On the original vinyl I have (and have listened to a thousand times) there is no shout but on the remaster someone (Bobby Whitlock maybe?) shouts out "whoooo" just after the intro right as the song gets going. I cracked up the first time I heard it. I'm generally not a big Clapton fan and while I don't love the Layla album there are a few songs on it that I think are fantastic, Keep on Growing being one of them.

Pretty interesting oral history on the making of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: http://www.stereogum.com/1629101/the-oral-history-of-pavements-crooked-rain-crooked-rain/franchises/the-anniversary/

Wait - really?! I've got to pay more attention to shows.

My friend asked whether Grumpy was filling in for Scott Spillane.

Ha! Funny - I was 7th row right on the center aisle. And yes, it was a fantastic show. Quite a collection of instruments they had.

I know I'm repeating myself but Neutral Milk Hotel! remphish1 - how was it?

I remember at the time reading an interview where they said their next album was going to be called Go To Hell and they would all be dressed in devil's costumes. Glad that never happened ...

In the Pixies' Monkey's Gone to Heaven I love how Black Francis says "Rock me Joe" before Joey Santiago's solo.

Not sure this belongs here or in the blasphemy thread. Heroes is one of my favorite songs by any artist but I don't really care for David Bowie. I don't dislike him but he doesn't do much for me.

Nice! I'm going Thursday and pretty excited about it.

ARod suspended for 2014 season. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/01/11/alex-rodriguez-receives-162-game-suspension/related/

Hot Stove Cool Music which is this annual music and baseball related fundraiser and concert. Performers include: The Baseball Project (with Steve Wynn and Mike Mills) Howie Day Trigger Hippy feat. Joan Osborne, members of the Black Crowes Kingsley Flood The Hot Stove All-Stars featuring Peter Gammons, Theo Epstein, Paul Barrere of Little Feat, Buffalo Tom's Bill Janovitz, indie rocker Kay Hanley, Belly's Tanya Donelly,

I'm not sure this is blasphemy but the only thing of Clapton's that I ever listen to is Derek and the Dominoes. And I only like about half of that album.