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John Smith

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  1. Some how Benghazi will be brought into it too.
  2. I think I was at both of those shows. 77 was when they debuted the rotating stage. Thought our seats were about half way back then got there and saw that the stage was right in front of us. Didn't know too much about them at the time but the show was pretty good. 79 I came over from normal with some friends. I think I saw them maybe a year later in champaign too. This was with the buggles guys playing. Lost interest in prog rock about then.
  3. I actually heard someone com[lain that they feel discriminated against now because they can no longer discriminate. WTF are people thinking?
  4. No particular order... Beatles Stones Springsteen Replacements Neil Young AC/DC Johnny Cash Alejandro Escovedo Led Zeppelin Steve Earle Kinks Sugar The Jam/Paul Weller The Clash Ramones Dinosaur Junior Queens of the Stone Age Lucinda Williams Warren Zevon REM Pink Floyd Van Morrison Jimi Hendrix Stevie Ray Vaughn Afghan Whigs Husker Du MMJ Black Sanbath Nick Cave/Grinderman Wilco/Son Volt/Uncle Tupelo
  5. Warren Zevon Carmelita Hasten down the wind Splendid isolation Roland... Johnny strikes up the band
  6. I'm pushing 55 and have a rather large collection on all kinds of media, primarily cd's. I still love to listen but because of time and commitments I have much less time to devote to it than in the past, but I view that as just part of my maturation process. Any how these days I find myself primarily listening casually at work. I'll bring a selection for each day, but because of the environment I don't listen intently. I do tend to listen more seriously while driving, mowing the lawn, working out etc... What I've also found is that my buying habits have changed. Most of the adventurism of my
  7. Talk about synchronicity... I'm listening to the police for the first time in about a decade and check here to see all the police activity, so I'll add... Walking on the moon Driven to tears Synchronicity Message in a bottle When the world is running down
  8. Replacements Let it be Tim Bastards of young Unsatisfied I'll be you
  9. Micks story could also be revisionist song writing. I thought it was about coke and the road. Mick has kids and grand kids etc... And might be trying to clean up his past for them. Arnold and Bette Midler have tried, why not Mick?
  10. At the time I thought this was parody because he was doing the country music thing and that's expected of country musicians.
  11. I read tons of civil war books and like Sears he does a decent job. Favorite book on a single battle is Peter Cozzens "A Terrible Sound" about chickamaugua. Good stuff
  12. Battle Cry of Freedom. 200 pages in and it's pretty darned good so far. The war is at least 100 pages away. Just as good as Foote, but different
  13. I'll try this again by age... 5 Beatles 10 Beatles 15 Beatles and solo beatles 20 Ramones/Clash/Pink Floyd/Springsteen 25 Replacements/REM 30 Replacements 35 Pearl Jam 40 no one in particular 45 no one in particular 50 no one in particular 55 no on in particular Springsteen the Stones, Neil young have ways been important just not the most important.
  14. Sister Morphine Gimmie Shelter Dead Flowers Memory Motel Can't You Hear Me Knocking
  15. Red Fang was just as good if not better than Mastodon and RF was third on the 3 band bill.
  16. Alice in Chains opening for KISS. Kevin Kinney opening for some shithead at the Cubby Bear.
  17. The guy in the article complained about pricing of services...the services are always higher when you are uninsured. The insurance companies and Medicare negotiate pricing on each service offered.
  18. 1970 - the Beatles 1975 - the Beatles/sir Paul 1980 - Pink Floyd>the clash 1985 - the replacements 1990 - replacements 1995 - rem 2000 - wilco 2005 - no one in particular 2010 - no one in particular 2015 - no one in particular I don't know that any are important in My life but these are some that I listen to more than others. Edit: I need to add that regardless of which bands dominated my life for these periods I have to say that Springsteen, The Beatles, The Stones, And Neil Young have always been there.
  19. I don't hate any bands, I just don't listen to the ones I don't want to listen to.
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