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That's a good one. Everyone seems to know them now. I bought my wife a Misfits coffee mug from Guitar Center. Our coffee cups are on a shelf in a glass-doored cabinet, and it's funny how many times plumbers and other workers we've hired have seen it and said "cool Misfits mug!"

There are a lot of angles from which to unpack this. It's a cool looking design that has stood the test of time. And tattoos are something a lot of people get with no forethought whatsoever (my brother is a tattooer, so I know from him that a significant percentage of customers have absolutely no idea what they want. They just know they want a tattoo right now.) Considering that, I guess a Black Flag logo is as good as anything else to get tattoo'd on your arm. But I have to wonder what happens if you eventually listen to the band and find that you hate their music. What if you do a si

Black Flag's gotta be considered. I'd like to see the pie chart of societal awareness of their logo vs. actual knowledge of their music.

I've never seen a merch booth swarmed like at the Maiden show I saw last month. There had to have been 20 lines, probably 50 people deep each (and that was only one of the multiple t-shirt booths). And I've never been to any show with anywhere close to as many people wearing a t-shirt advertising that night's band. Maybe this is normal at big metal shows. I wouldn't know, since I don't really follow metal. But seeing this kind of devotion was weirdly awe-inspiring.

Yes had a really good thing going with Roger Dean's album art.

The Who. Lots of iconic imagery (the "male" logo, Pete's windwilling arm, "Maximum R&B", etc.), and the destroying of instruments is perhaps THE rock and roll archetype, which they are still cashing in on decades after their last guitar was smashed.

Tape Op has posted a podcast interview with Jeff. https://tapeop.com/podcasts/episode-31-jeff-tweedy/ EDIT: Listening now, and this seems to be basically the audiobook version of the interview.

The Beastie Boys have got more attractions than Elvis Costello, everything they do is funky like Lee Dorsey, you can plug them in like they was Eddie Harris, they're on like Dr. John (yeah, Mr. ZuZu), they're like Buddy Rich when they fly off the handle, etc.

Speaking of Don Henley, he had that song about seeing a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. I remember hearing a Hank Williams 3 song where he sings something about Dickey Betts, then plays a hilarious Dickey Betts-esque guitar part.

Sonic Youth - "Screaming Skull" name checks Superchunk, Pat Smear, Lemonheads, Husker Du, and the record label SST. And there's a band called Screaming Skull now.

David Bowie: Song for Bob Dylan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxnCNRm_nY Jimi Hendrix "That's Bob Dylan's grandma over there" (referring to Noel Redding at Monterrey Pop)

Van Morrison "Jackie Wilson Said"

John Lennon references Dylan (and foreshadows the Counting Crows) in Yer Blues. "I feel so suicidal just like Dylan's Mr. Jones." I'm not sure if this counts, but Hendrix tossed Beatles guitar riffs into his guitar playing a lot. And, of course, incorporating Hendrix's Third Stone From the Sun riff into a blues jam has become as cliche as yelling Freebird. Red Hot Chili Peppers name checked MIke Watt and Firehose in one of the songs on Mother's Milk.

That sounds very promising. Although the only song released so far uses regular snared drum and toms throughout. Hopefully well hear the kind of playfulness he's describing on the other tracks.

Working my way through season 2 of Barry, and it seems to have gone in perhaps the most bizarre direction I've ever seen in a TV show.

Oh, that never occurred to me. Nevertheless, I hope we're not going to get a record like Nebraska.

That sounds promising. I'm not negative about the album. I'm very hopeful for the album, but a review in one of the more reputable and well written music publications comparing it to Nebraska (a solo acoustic guitar singer-songwriter album...which is exactly the opposite of what I want from Wilco, particularly after Schmilco) makes me worry Jeff is underutilizing his band...again. Now, as mentioned by someone else, maybe the review was alluding to the "political aspects" of the album. We'll see, but that doesn't seem to jibe with what Jeff has had to say recently about political songs

I didn't realize this band was still a thing. I've been weeding out records lately and this one has been on the chopping block. The only reason I keep it is because it was the answer to a "Win a Tama Drum Kit" trivia question* in Modern Drummer magazine when I was in high school, and my drum teacher (Tom Rafferty, RIP....link below to his band, the Starving Brain Eaters) told me the answer. I didn't win the drums, but I guess keeping that memory alive is a pretty good reason to keep the record. Then again, am I really going to forget if I let the record go? (*Name the band that Carl Palm

Whoever wrote that, I'll bet they sat in front of a mirror admiring their image for a long time when they came up with that line. It means don't expect Glenn or Nels to do anything interesting on this one.

I was scrolling through Facebook a few minutes ago and saw the Iommi picture. I didn't stop long enough to see that it was your page/this article, but I thought it was a really rad photo. I'm glad you posted this here, because, like most of what I see on FB, I probably would have just thought "cool photo" and never given it another thought Now that I'm looking at the Iommi photo in detail, I don't think I've ever seen one where his false fingertips are so clearly visible. You got a rare shot there! Excellent stuff! Cograts on the coverage.

I loved Biden as a campaigner way back when he was running against Obama, but he scares the shit out of me now. Trump will beat him.

This post kind of leads straight back to my original point. With Hillary vs Bernie, and continuing after Bernie's run was over, the emphasis coming from progressives stayed exclusively on the problems with Hillary (often using the exact same talking points as the GOP), and there was not a peep about the ways she would have been better than Trump, which were myriad. I see that happening again on a large scale. Democrats and progressives both have mistakes they should learn from. I think democrats are showing that they have learned from them, based on the platforms of most of the candidate

I'd be interested in seeing the full context of this hot sauce conversation. I live in the south side of Atlanta, 78% AA population, and I've never known hot sauce to be a thing that's specifically associated with food black people eat. Mike Watt has a holster on his belt that he uses to carry hot sauce everywhere he goes. I doubt he does that to pander to the African-American community.

That was a mistake. Among my social group I saw lots of #NeverHillary stuff, and loads of suspect article sharing aimed at damaging her. Even after the primaries were over. This "give me everything I want or we burn it all down" nonsense was a nationwide trend on the progressive left. We're suffering badly now for it, and their belief that a Trump presidency would be no worse than Hillary was obviously and objectively wrong. Every last one of them went dead silent the minute Trump won, and they've stayed dead silent (for better and worse) ever since. I don't respect that. Can you des

That's what all Bernie-or-Busters say.