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Came across this last night on cable. Hadn't ever heard of it and I found it surprisingly affecting.

Most of my early concert going experience was the Dead and Jerry Garcia Band so I assumed most concerts had mistakes, no set list, muffed lyrics, long pauses between songs, and other imperfections. Then I saw Talking Heads on the Stop Making Sense tour and it was pretty eye opening for me.

I stood next to a friend of a friend and he was wearing a Solid Sound shirt. We chatted about Wilco for a while and he said SS was his 50th Wilco show. I thought he said he was on this site but I didn't get his screen name. Anyway, nice work. I think I was 12th row and over to your right.

Me too! I got a call from a friend at about 6:00 saying he had an extra ticket. It was a great show. (Wait - was I standing nextx to you? Are you Chris C.'s neighbor?)

Two thoughts: 1. I agree with what others have said that the rise of other social media has changed things, at least for me. This place used to be one of only a couple of different sites that I would go to throughout the day and now there is a longer list. 2. The user name thing is funny. The other day I was at lunch and the person I was eating with asked the waiter to change something as part of their order. My first thought was "I wonder if that is a legal sandwich maneuver ..." (with "legalsandwichmaneuver" being the user name of someone who posted here regularly a while back).

Good point; I missed that ...

Pretty interesting article in today's NY Times Magazine about Jason Everman, who was kicked out of both Nirvana and Soundgarden and is now a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces. It's interesting, in part, because it was written by former Bullet LaVolta/Chavez member Clay Tarver. Don't know if it will go behind a paywall at some point but for now it's at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/magazine/evermans-war.html?smid=fb-share

For me it was Airline to Heaven (Camden Maine 2000) and it was a great opener.

Arcade Fire - Wake Up

People suck. Who would throw a bottle at anyone, nevermind a 70 year old man? (I suppose the answer is a drunk 19 year old ...) http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/latest-news/reggae-singer-files-million-suit-in-bottle-throwing-incident/article_c35abfc2-d465-11e2-a17d-001a4bcf6878.html Frederick “Toots” Hibbert has filed a lawsuit seeking $21 million against a young Henrico County man accused of throwing a vodka bottle at the reggae singer during a recent concert in Richmond. The lawsuit, filed June 4 in Richmond Circuit Court against William Connor Lewis, seeks $1 million in compensatory d

Kim quits the Pixies: http://m.spin.com/articles/kim-deal-leaves-pixies-breeders/

Have you ever wondered where the cover of Workingman's Dead was taken? Holy smokes - look at the amount of work that this guy did to figure it out: http://www.popspotsnyc.com/workingmans_dead/

New album preview?

Wow - last night's Bruins-Penguins game was great. Sudden death overtime hockey is so freakin stressful.

I had a lot of fun at the 10-12-84 show in Augusta ME and it was a great show.

Great article from The Onion: New Liver Complains of Difficulty of Working with Lou Reed http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-liver-complains-of-difficulty-working-with-lou,32669/

It's been a while since I've been there but I saw some great shows (mostly Feelies related) back in the late 1980s.

...the moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fhur6g8_BM

I wonder how much of that comment is based on Andy Warhol (who died in an NYC hospital recovering from gall bladder surgery).

Didn't see a Lou thread but apparently he's having some health issues. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/rock_legend_lou_reed_recovering_otGQJofERlxkywYXuL06cO It's been a while since I've really loved anything he's put out but he is certainly one of the bedrock foundations of much of the music I listen to.

Apparently it's real - and that is a cool teacher (and student): http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/blackhawks-fan-answers-hossa-3rd-grade-math-test-171023862.html

For readers of reddit, John Fogerty was on today doing an AMA. He gives some pretty thoughtful and thorough answers. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fa3ed/i_am_john_fogerty_singer_songwriter_and_former/