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I'm surprised they had the sense to induct T. Rex. I figured they'd snub them, since Bolan and most of the key band members are dead and they won't be able to sell them tickets to the event.

Yep, create so much chaos nobody can stay on the trail of any single misdeed. Do one thing, and if there's serious pushback, do a few other things, most of which go unnoticed or underreported. Maybe one will get seriously called out, but you've accomplished five other nefarious things in the meantime. Then when one starts getting attention, do something bigger, and everyone will forget about the first one. How many times during this administration have people said "we're in a constitutional crisis"? And how many of those things can people even remember at this point? They're very g

This is on the money. I really wanted to like this, but it was pretty flimsy. The performances were mediocre, and none of the stories went into any depth. Carmine Street Guitars was very good. Haven't seen Once Upon a Time yet. On the subject of music docs (maybe I mentioned these on the old thread) but the Roland Kirk doc and The Jazz Loft on Amazon are both really good.

My New Years Resolution is to keep a food diary and track everything I eat, with the goal of pinpointing the specific types of food that give me abdominal pain. I wouldn't call this a resolution, but more of a hope/desire, and that is to get back to playing music with others. I moved across town a couple years ago and, for unrelated reasons, my band ended around the same time. As a result, I've been a lot less socially active over the last two years than I want to be going forward. But my guitar playing has vastly improved in that time spent at home, and I've worked up quite a bit of musi

This kind of article strikes me as little more than "If we had known Trump was going to be president, and what he and the GOP were going to be like, we would have kicked more asses when we had the chance." It makes some legitimate points, but it feels to me like arguing in bad faith.

I used to hear Wilco every time I left the house when I was living in a 98+% white neighborhood in the late stages of gentrification. Since moving two years ago to an area that is much more diverse, probably majority black, and far less affluent, I have not heard Wilco a single time. That's not surprising in the least, but what is interesting to me is that I work next to a college campus, and I have never heard Wilco when I go out for lunch or coffee. Wilco seems like it'd be a happy medium between college students and office workers.

These shirts have been popping up at Trump rallies. I'll bet these guys are hardcore Reagan fans. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-than-democrat-shirts/

I thought that's how Pat always is, but I guess I"m basing that on seeing them mostly in Atlanta, where Pat's family is always in attendance.

I think it's probably safe to say everyone is just utterly exhausted. If you want to keep up with political news, but don't want to deal with "the news," I suggest reading political historian Heather Cox Richardson's daily wrap-ups either on FB on on her blog. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/

Chastain is the kind of venue where the best show of the year is always Chicago. The odd thing to me about my Chastain experience was that the crowd was much younger than the typical Chastain season ticket audience (wealthy people nearing or well into retirement.) But despite the relatively younger crowd, the level of disinterest was exactly the same as the type of audience that feels they're at a wine tasting/business schmooze with ambience provided by a live band rather than at a concert.

I don't know how current this is, but his website says he's a private music instructor, and lists some live dates as recent as last month (I'm assuming November means last month and not November from a year or more ago.) http://www.leroybach.com/ I first saw him with Five Style. I think he was also in Wilco at the time, but that before I ever saw Wilco. Five Style were a terrific band. Leroy was the bassist. Between that group and WIlco, it really shows how versatile and talented he is.

Sounds like the Chicago Theater audience is similar to the audience they draw in Atlanta when they play The Fox and Chastain Park.

They go back to the '80s, but hit it pretty big as a recording band in 2004 with Amassakoul. Definitely one of the most interesting bands of the last decade, though not born in the last decade.

Amazon Prime has some spectacular jazz docs for free right now: Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Case of the Three Sided Dream https://vimeo.com/167097426 The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EheTr-wyLPg They also have a Sun Ra doc that looks good. I need to carve out a couple hours for that. Switching genres, I also adored The End of the F***cking World on Netflix

I feel exactly the same. One of the new songs seemed promising, so hopefully they'll be on an upswing, although the never-ending tease over the new album (going on SNL months ago, headlining summer festivals, slow drip of new songs) seems contrived.

I prefer the first two (Masterpiece, Capacity) to the ones that came out this year, but they all have their strengths.

Omni Big Thief Ohmme Sam Evian (if by "bands" we include "music artists") Flasher Nels Cline 4

Wow, that's frightening. Glad everyone's ok, and I hope it will prove to be an isolated incident.

The WP article said they were on stage at 6:30. (Not necessarily that that's when they went on stage.) So, even if that's when they started, they played 15 songs, plus several breaks for outbursts of violence. So if they were on stage for 90 minutes, that still leaves them an hour to get from the stage to the hotel. I guess I had never given it much thought, but I would have assumed the concert was much later at night than that.

I'd love to see Nels in a show like this. Usually when I get to see Nels outside of WIlco, it's formless noise imrpovs. I like that kind of thing, but I also like seeing Nels play more structured music. I haven't seen him do that since the tour for the first Nels Cline Singers album. I think this show will probably be a good balance of free and structured (or at least anchored to a groove) playing, based on what I've heard from Billy Martin and John Medeski.

Are the Hell's Angels the Scientology of '6os/'70s rock stars? I don't know why else there would still so much "God Bless the Hell's Angels" coming from that generation of music stars when the Hell's Angels is demonstrably infested with rabid scumbags.

Not sure if your'e serious, but this is not true. When did Booker T and the MGs do an arena tour? Or Elvis Costello? Or Leadbelly? Or the Velvet Underground? Or many, many others? I would agree they probably wont get in, at least not for a while. But it's not because of their audience size. It's more due to them showing how useless the traditional record business is.

Tough question. Just about everyone I keep up with put out one or more record this year. So... Kinks? Nels Cline Singers?

I find translucent colors to be consistently worse than solid colors. The clear ones often have a fizzy sound, almost like the needle is scraping its way through the grooves.

I guess I'm of two minds on this one. I still feel that this is an innocent use of technology. The nature of prerecorded parts is that they are locked into a tempo, so Glenn has to use a click track on that one song, which is harmless. On the other hand, it seems the only backing track is some strings and string-like sounds during the first half of the song. IMO, the song would come across just as well in concert without those. Alternatively, I'm sure they could figure out a way to compensate for the loss of those sounds...for example, as far as I can tell, Jeff has two free hands durin