Mr. Heartbreak

Has anyone tried to use the new Music app on an iMac desktop? I just read a review of the Catalina OS, and it's looking like some really ugly (not user-friendly) changes are here. Still using iTunes on mine, but not sure how long that will be feasible. And is there going to be an actual subscription charge going forward for the privilege of using the app? Screw that. https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/06/macos-catalina-pb/

Wow. A lot of us remember exactly where we were when we got the news that Jerry died. I'll never forget this news. I was driving down the road tonight and pulled up to a stop light. Picked up my phone, checked the board here, and read the update. My iTunes was playing the version of Ripple from Reckoning (where Jerry says, "That's Otis"). A quote from the RS article: “What we were doing was almost sacred. The spirit of the times. … there was a time I felt this was the way the world would be going in a spiritual way, and we were an important part of that. I didn’t feel we were a pop music

Thanks, A-man! Yeah, I was a mere 17 on that date. Kinda weird now to think that I'd already seen Kiss, Aerosmith and The Who. Jerry & Co. definitely took my head in a different direction...

9/23/82 - My first show, 37 years ago today. Alabama Getaway > Greatest Story, Peggy-O > Little Red Rooster, Tennessee Jed, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Althea, Let It Grow Touch Of Gray > Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Ship of Fools, Throwing Stones > Drums > The Wheel > The Other One > Wharf Rat > Around & Around > Johnny B. Goode E: It's All Over Now Baby Blue Here's my little blog post commemorating it: https://qoo.ly/zu2rz And there's a nice board on the archive: https://archive.org/details/gd1982-09-23.sbd.miller.108973.flac16

Goddamn, how do you manage to find time to work in between all those conversations!?

Wow. This is a must-have, as Zappa’s playing was incredible in ‘73.

UFO Wishbone Ash Be-Bop Deluxe U.K. Baker Gurvitz Army 13th Floor Elevators Stealers Wheel Amon Düül II Cranberries Henry Cow Blondie Hatfield and the North Caravan Camel National Health Quiet Sun Buffalo Springfield Zombies Mazzy Star

Fuck. That is a real kick in the gut. I'm a huge fan, especially of all his solo albums. I actually met him after a CRB show and talked to him for a couple minutes. Got an autograph on my copy of Basement Dreams. Dude was four years younger than me. https://youtu.be/Hws85P8yIGk

Thanks, Donna!

I’d like to thank all the VCers who are currently reading, or have already read, my fourth novel. I appreciate it.

04/14/95 - This is actually just Jeff and Jay, but it's a nice set. 11/12/96 - Available on the 5-disc Being There Deluxe box, and totally worth it. Had it for years on cassette, and bought the box to upgrade. 02/15/97 - The so-called Deli Tray Incident show. Essential. 03/11/99 - Intro of Summerteeth at Tower Records. Rocking hard versions, just mindblowingly good. 08/31/99 - My first Wilco show. Excellent SBD. 11/05/99 - Any Major Dude and Cock In My Pocket. Legendary. 01/04/00 - Show opens with Remember the Mountainbed. Covers include Kingsport Town & Lookin' For A Love. 'Nuff said. 07/

My pleasure. This is a great first AND second set show...actually, I think it might have technically been three sets. Enjoy!

Just realized today was the anniversary of my favorite unreleased show: 7/18/72. First 72 Birdsong and a Dark Star>Comes A Time! Plus one of the best MAMU versions ever. And a beautiful Stella. Hell, the whole thing is worth hearing. https://archive.org/details/gd72-07-18.sbd.cribbs.9067.sbeok.shn

When I said I wasn’t that crazy about Dark Star, mountain bed punched me in the mouth.

My feelings on the new doc were perfectly summed up by a Variety reviewer: "Scorsese, working with mountains of footage from the Rolling Thunder Revue tour, had crafted a burbling, live-wire, turbulently vital portrait of Bob Dylan in the mid-’70s that felt kaleidoscopic in its authenticity... "...Yet the fact that I was nearly seduced into palming off a blatant fabrication as fact kind of bugged me. I didn’t feel delighted — I felt played. And the fact that I liked the rest of the movie so much didn’t mitigate the irritation; if anything, it only increased it."

Every Elton John album from Empty Sky in 1969 through Blue Moves in 1976 is well worth owning. We're talking 13 records if you don't count the Greatest Hits comp or the soundtrack of Friends (which itself has a couple classic tracks only). It's really a run I'd put up there with The Beatles or Stones. In fact, when Elton came along, John Lennon was quoted as saying, "That's the first new thing that's happened since we [The Beatles] happened." People think he did a lot of shlock--which he did, but not until later. That original Elton band was a real band, a tight unit with great chops and p

As good as that setlist looks, I think I would have preferred the previous night. The run from Shouldn't Be Ashamed through Laminated Cat would have made me very happy. Hope there is at least one full-band show in SW Florida this winter. Five years is just too long...

I’d pay for a single version of them covering Sign of the Gypsy Queen.

Be cool if they covered that. They’ve done Blue Oyster Cult, so why not Asia? Couldn’t resist.

Been scrolling through these threads without commenting until I saw these comments about Chicago. Over the years, Wilco have played a shit ton of shows in the midwest, especially in Chicago. A quick Internet search reveals multiple shows there in February 2017. In the same city. Contrast that, if you will, with the entire state of Florida. Yeah, the 4th most populous state in the nation. Last time Wilco played any shows in the state was in May 2015. 2015. That means no Star Wars tour here. No Schmilco tour. Nothing. And on this upcoming tour, the closest they get is Atlanta. Sorry, I l

Yeah, mainly playlists. I have one called "New to Library," which is basically about 10K songs I haven't listened to yet. It's a beast.

I've heard of that. What about the three I listed--Clementine, Vox, Nightingale--any of you guys have experience with them? I want to be able to drag and drop stuff easily from the existing iTunes library I've laboriously built.

Has anyone posted the trailer for the doc yet? Rolling Stone just put this up: Bob Dylan’s ‘Rolling Thunder Revue’: See Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Netflix Doc https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-dylan-rolling-thunder-revue-trailer-martin-scorsese-netflix-doc-843743/

Well, that's good to know. I'm still going to transition to something else on my iMac, though. I have over 40K songs on that, but it used to be over 100K. When I upgraded from an older iMac to a newer one, I skipped a generation of OS, and now I'm on Sierra. In making that transition, I had to re-archive my iTunes, and it didn't work with the new one. So I literally had to go back and rebuild (part of) my iTunes library manually, pulling from my external hard drive. A lot of this stuff is live shows, where I actually had to go through each song and type in the song title--and that meant I had

Well, it looks like Apple is finally getting rid of iTunes. Of course, because I've been such a big Apple booster over the years, they have to do it in such a way that they totally piss me off again -- kinda like what they did with eliminating the iPods, then bringing them back years later. WTF I don't want or need a streaming service on my iMac or iPhone. I have literally thousands of artists, and hundreds of thousands of files on an external hard drive--nearly 2 terabytes' worth. So I'm going to move my existing library to another app and then eventually delete the iTunes app. I only want