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Glad I was able to find the presale code. When the general sale happened it sold out literally in 1 minute. & Ticketbastard wasn't involved! That & Japanese Breakfast were the only 2 shows that sold out immediately. Pretty good lineup this year. Patti Smith, Jason Isbell, some other good ones.

Just scored tickets for the Flaming Lips doing all of "Yoshimi" at the zoo in August. The ADA section at the zoo is awesome but small so I'm happy I scored them. It was nice to see that the Lips have drawn a line in the sand at $50 (although there were some reserved seats @ $150. I think that's more of a venue thing). $50 is very fair considering how elaborate the Lips show is. One of my favorite bands!

I saw Bruce Springsteen Monday night. It was a very good show. When I got to the arena I discovered my ADA tickets weren't ADA. I complained & got upgraded by the arena for free. Bruce didn't do the soul covers which was fine with me. We got 1 shocker in the set: Bruce did Trapped for the first time in years. It was stellar. It looks like the tour is hit & miss. The next show in Denver, 1 of the soul songs was back & there were no tour debuts. Only 26 songs. Seattle was 27 songs in 2 hours 45 minutes. I think that was my last Bruce show. especially at those prices. I'm good with it

He's got a really dry sense of humour. Nice guy.

Enjoy! They were really great last Friday night.

Live in Italy has a mighty Heroin, too. Robert Quine was in the band & Fernando on bass. Killer record, wasn't released in the States at least at the time.

Second book of a fantasy series, a new path for James Rollins. Both books have been quite good (about halfway through this one).

The new Beths record is their best yet which is saying something!

As promised, here's some pictures of the Beths on Friday night. As I don't drink they put me at the side of the stage in the all ages area. A guy was there with his 13 year old daughter. He wasn't familiar with the band but by the end was totally into it. As we were leaving I said "you know you're going to have to go buy her a guitar now".

Saw The Beths tonight. They were fantanstic! I'll put up some good pics but I'm headed to the land on Nod.

Ya, it was definitely a good popcorn movie.

Not bad. Mindless entertainment but pretty well done. Just the thing for a stormy day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4CEPUTCDhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8zmeiqPb7Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqWI7Wik7I

First night of the tour was fantastic. I was able to watch the last half of the show on a Facebook stream. 28 songs, 2 hours 45 minutes. The band is sounding awesome. Link for a nice review with setlist below. I'm seeing him on Feb 27. Can't wait! https://consequence.net/2023/02/bruce-springsteen-tour-tampa-review/3/

2023 sure is off to a bad start. https://variety.com/2023/music/obituaries-people-news/tom-verlaine-dead-television-band-1235505443/