Oil Can Boyd

Back in my vinyl hunting days, it took me a long time to find a copy of this:

I'm surprised they waited a full 12 hours after last night's game ended ...

I agree. It is interesting - I went to Amazon to get the cover picture to post here and read some reviews. Most people agreed it was great but there was a sizeable number of people who said that his story must be exaggerated or embellished and that it should be considered fiction.

Put this one on in honor of all of the Smiths rumours ...

Pretty remarkable story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who, during WWII, was shot down, lost at sea, brought to a Japanese POW camp where he was beaten, starved, and tortured, and is still alive at 95. Now I'm moving on to John Irving's new one ...

Thanks for posting that. It's a totally cool read ...

That's a good one but I think I prefer The Name of This Band is Talking Heads. I really like that it has one disc of the early stripped down band and one disc of the expanded band.

The kids crying in Lou Reed's The Kids. I get why it is there but it freaks me out every time ...

I spent a bunch of time in my car this weekend listening to sports talk radio (two things I don't normally do) and heard some talk about this. The arguments for Cabrera (some of which I agree with and some of which I don't) were: Cabrera's hot and Trout is not. Cabrera is hitting over .350 over the past two months and Trout is hitting in the .270s. Cabrera has 48 RBIs in August/September and Trout has 23, inlcuding only 4 in September. They have similar average and OBP numbers but in almost every other category Cabrera has better numbers. One area where Trout has significantly better offensi

Not to nitpick but 1941 was the year Williams hit .406, and led the league in home runs, runs, walks, OBP, Slugging, and OPS and didn't win the MVP. 1942 and 1947 were the two years Williams won the triple crown and didn't get the MVP.

Interesting story about a career minor leaguer. My favorite quote: Rodriguez spent four years in Boston and earned a spring-training invite in each of them. He smiled when he recalls catching Pedro Martinez at his peak: "He says to me that first day: 'I'm working on fastballs in and fastballs away. My curveball is my best pitch. My changeup is my other best pitch.'" http://deadspin.com/5944179/who-is-the-blurry-guy-in-this-photo-and-why-did-manny-ramirez-steal-his-pants-the-story-of-the-machete

I actually just put this down after about 100 pages. I thought I'd love it but the writing style really bothered me.

I really liked Dig!

Craig Calcaterra has a funny piece about this on Hardball Talk today written in the voice of Ted Williams, who definitely had some legitimate complaints about MVP voting. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/19/a-message-from-ted-williams/

I wouldn't say the original CSI was "truly awful," particularly the early seasons. In classic major network fashion they wrecked it by trying to duplicate it, not just once but twice. Saw thing with Law & Order. I thought the early seasons were decent enough police procedurals but once they added the Criminal Intent and SVU versions, it just became too much.

Yes and yes. Though, like you, I couldn't figure out whether to put them in the two lead gutiarist thread or this one. I think this one is more appropriate. In most of their songs Million plays a more traditional rhythm guitar role.

If it was the boombox and acoustic guitar then it was the Stop Making Sense tour a few years after this. The link above is to a show from 1980 which was the first big expanded Talking Heads band and parts of that tour were included on the album The Name of This Band is Talking Heads ... It is worth watching to see Adrian Belew's guitar playing.

This 1980 show has been on youtube in bits and pieces for a while but now the hour plus show is together:

Agreed. I still remember when I was in high school being at a friend's house and he sat me down in a comfy chair, put headphones on me, put on Echoes, and said "I'll be back in 20 minutes ..."

Saw Mould last night and the band (bassist Jason Narducy and drummer Jon Wurster) ripped through this to open the show. They took a breath, addressed, the crowd, and then launched into a mix of songs from Silver Age and some choice Husker Du numbers (and a Cheap Trick cover). It was pretty great.

Yes - but for me it would need to be the speedier Uncle Tupelo version, not the slower Tweedy solo version.

Bob Mould

I saw O'Rourke sit in on a couple of songs at Avalon in Boston on 10-2-01. They played California Stars and Beard of Stars (by T Rex) which, according to WIlcoBase, was the only time the band ever played it.