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Pete's brother, Simon, just posted this on his blog: Good News and Bad News September 8, 2015 Yes, I know…. This webpage blog update is long overdue! I feel compelled to make a brief statement concerning recent developments. First, the bad news: Poor Roger Daltrey (my brother) has been unwell lately. Subsequently the first 4 shows of the 2nd leg of ‘The Who Hits 50′ tour have been postponed. An announcement will be made shortly as to when they will be rescheduled. The good news is that Lisa Climie image has taken over my management. The usual ST crew is staying fully involved under the Stir

You should be more careful what you say.

I've read that Apple plans to increase their song limit for iTunes Match to 100,000 from the current 25,000. I'll be more likely to stream my music from the cloud when that happens.

In my car, I have two 32GB thumb drives filled with MP3s that I typically play randomly. I just bought the car a week ago so it has 3 free months of SiriusXM, but I rarely listen to it. I like the DJs and variety of material, but the poor sound quality just turns me off. At home, I use iTunes on a Mac Mini connected to my home theater system to play my music collection and listen to Apple's new streaming music service. On the weekend I listen to music in/on my neighbors' pools or decks. I downloaded the Billboard Top 100 for every year from 1955 to 2013 and slapped the songs on their compu

I've been unemployed for the last 15 months.

If you're looking at his user page, there's a "context" link.

Yeah, it'll be archived. Sometimes they're a bit of a mess to wade through.

From Facebook: Join Jeff Tweedy and Nels Cline for a reddit AMA in /r/Music tomorrow, September 1 at 6pm Central time. reddit.com/r/Music

I know 3 of those bands and they're great. Thanks for the info, I passed it on to 3 friends who are big fans.

I just remembered a DVD/Bluray or two of live performances of Quadrophenia. I've also seen it performed lived about a dozen times over the last 20 years. Amazon will deliver my copy of Star Wars tomorrow. I tried to find it at Target, but no luck.

I've purchased Quadrophenia enough times to put Townshend's kids through grad school 8-Track Cassette 1980s vinyl Original 1973 vinyl Original 1973 UK vinyl CD Remastered CD Super Deluxe Edition Original Soundtrack vinyl Original Soundtrack CD Quadrophenia film VHS Quadrophenia film DVD Quadrophenia film Criterion BluRay I'm probably forgetting a few more. That said, I doubt that Wilco will make fans buy another version of Star Wars.

I'm pretty sure that a presidential candidate has to be at least 35 years old, so Mr. Nuts can try again in 2035.

I skimmed through it and there were a few strange messages in the video, they seemed like some sort of debugging info for the video editor? Maybe they're just fixing it.

Agreed. I enjoy his theatrical projects (last night my neighbor and I watched the accompanying documentaries/films that were released with All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes and White City) but I don't want to hear a lot of spoken dialog when I'm listening to one of his increasingly rare solo albums.

I've found that I can enjoy the music-only version that was later released. The narration used to annoy me.

Well, if we were to use President Obama's tactic of blaming his predecessor for his problems, we'd put the blame on Bill Clinton since the planning took place during his administration. If I recall correctly, the men who would fly the planes into the Pentagon and World Trade Center were already on American soil before Bush took office.

I think I remember some sort of tie in with a pictorial in Hustler magazine? I'm not imagining it, am I?

Obama and Hillary Clinton famously touted their "reset" in relations with Russia. Fast-forward a few years and Russia has invaded Ukraine and they are threatening other republics. Putin thumbs his nose at us on a regular basis and Russian bombers and subs are skirting our borders for the first time since the end of the Cold War. Libya was home to a weirdo dictator who was essentially contained. Now it's a chaotic mess of anarchy. The Obama administration touted Iraq as one of its greatest achievements only a few years ago. Now large swathes of it are being held by ISIS and thousands of Am

I like your Jewish-fied spelling. I'm glad that he refused to partake of their purity test.

The Iraqi military fired at coalition aircraft hundreds of times as they were patrolling the no-fly zones in Iraq. It happened almost daily for 10 years, but didn't get much mention in the press.

The status of forces agreement that Bush negotiated with Iraq was ratified the month before he left office. Long before that, candidate John McCain was calling for calling for a continuing troop presence in Iraq. His remarks were prescient: Predictably, fellow candidates Obama and Clinton were against the idea. Hillary even went so far as to promise this: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/14/mccain.king/

Because the last 3 years of the war took place under his watch. His administration took credit for ending the war, so they also deserve any criticism that comes as a result of pulling out too early. He now also "owns" the war in Afghanistan, too. Along with Syria, Libya, etc.