Mr. Heartbreak

I forgot all about Empty Sky. Edited the list accordingly.

That's the wonderful thing about Wilco. They bring together people like you - who posts "you could easily fill the 20 w/ just punk and post-punk records" - and me. I happen to think that pretty much every punk and post-punk band is total crap, whereas you are probably not as big of a classic rock or classic jazz fanatic as me. I would rather celebrate our differences than choose them as a means of criticizing.

I would put Van Halen in the runner-up category if I wrote a #21-40 list. In no particular order: 21) Elton John - Empty Sky 22) Aerosmith - S/T 23) Van Halen - S/T 24) Yes - S/T 25) Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday, 3 a.m. 26) Grateful Dead - S/T 27) King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King 28) Beatles - Please Please Me 29) Bob Dylan - S/T 30) David Bowie - S/T 31) Can - Monster Movie 32) Cream - Fresh Cream 33) The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man 34) Jackson Browne - Saturate Before Using 35) Crosby, Stills & Nash - S/T 36) Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hitmakers 37) Lynyrd Sky

Hendrix peaked by '68. Possibly even late '67.

"Reagan proved that deficits don't matter." - Dick Cheney

Hmm, it actually seems our nation's finances are getting a little better: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/01/13/us-runs-record-budget-surplus-december-treasury

You can if you want. No worries. I was serious, though. One of the things that makes Christie a potentially formidable national contender is that both people on the far left and the far right dislike him. I don't really think he's a moderate Republican, but the disdain from the far left and far right makes him look like one. And moderates are, generally speaking, the only ones who get elected President.

No, that third letter was an "i." As in, "put that vase on the DOILY that your grandmother made in the 50s."

Doily

I was amazed at all the bad press this morning about the December jobs numbers. It's being treated like a disaster that the economy gained "only" 74K jobs last month..."the worst in 3 years." Economists were "expecting over 200K." I thought, Oh, how quickly we forget. You want to know what a bad jobs number is? How about 432K lost in Sept. '08, then 489K lost in Oct., 803K in Nov., 661K in Dec....Those are bad numbers. Damn, if the economy showed a net loss of any jobs next month, you would think it's the apocalypse or something. I'm not saying the recovery has been stellar, but look at the

I would not be surprised if a Tea Party led campaign to roast his nuts exists too. He's certainly not far enough to the right for primary voters, from what I have read. Well, it turns out this is a much bigger story than I'd thought. Not surprisingly, Christie is getting whacked with a lawsuit today, as a lawyer said her clients had a panic attack as a result of the jam. Looks like the six plaintiffs want it to be a class action suit, which will be no fun, at best. The bigger story, I think, is that this clown Wildstein is now pleading the 5th. That looks bad no matter how you slice it...b

That can't possibly be the way the bass on The White Album was done.

I don't really care about him losing his job or not - I suspect he will weather this little storm and come out stronger - I just don't want him to be our President. It's bad enough that much of the world already thinks of Americans as fat, obnoxious, loudmouthed and/or bullies.

It should be a tempest in a teapot, but I am a little concerned that people on the left will try to turn it into a huge scandal ("My child almost died because the ambulance couldn't get there on time," etc., bs like that.) The press should not hammer away at it as much as they are, but if he perversely benefits from it, a lot of us will be disgusted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/09/john-boehner-chris-christie_n_4569341.html Hey, when someone as popular as John Boehner speaks out on your behalf, you know you're having a great week.

One good thing about Christie: he's really a uniter and not a divider. I can't stand him, Hixter can't stand him. See, he really brings together people who are not ordinarily like-minded.

Ha! That was a typo. Was supposed to be "Repubs." The laziness of abbreviating everything can cause so much damage...

Maybe it's Jerry sounding like Dylan? His voice was pretty shot by then.

It's just kind of funny hearing Dylan coming in on Jack Straw during the refrain. I was like, "Is that Dylan, or does Phil sound all froggy and whatnot?" It was first thing this morning on my way to work, which made it that much more surreal. Even the Club Front rehearsals don't feature Dylan on any Grateful Dead songs, from what I recall.

Ok, thanks. That explains it. The '86 setup (Dylan, then Dead) was what I was familiar with. I didn't expect to hear Dylan on the Dead tunes, just the Dead playing behind all of Dylan's tunes.

You sound like you know a lot more about this than I do. I will defer to your opinion.

Do any of you Deadhead fanatics know much about the Dylan/Dead tour? I have been working my way through the Club Front rehearsals (which are really enjoyable, by the way), and now I'm getting through the first set of a show at JFK Stadium in July 1987. I had thought that the Dead did a set of songs without Dylan and then a set of songs with Dylan, but I could swear I hear Dylan adding harmony vocals right from the get-go on Iko Iko and Jack Straw. Do my ears deceive me? Either way, sounds like Dylan had a great time playing with these guys, which you would never guess from the relatively tepid

Maybe the legal stuff is very high grade, and worth paying more for. And regulation would lead one to believe it is relatively unadulterated. http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/01/08/colorado-marijuana-stores-see-steady-business-dwindling-inventory/2333/ Come on, even Tommy Chong can't buy that much pot, can he?

I never said they were coming from another state to do this.

...like all the rest of Clapton's career.