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I had a bad feeling he would pass this year. His guitar playing is mind boggling, and his inventions/innovations played an immesuarble part in the progression of modern music making and recording.

Rashied Ali, most well known for being John Coltrane's drummer, has died. Ali and Coltrane's landmark duo recording, Interstellar Space, was covered by Nels Cline and Gregg Bendian and released in the late '90s as Interstellar Space Revisited. http://www.metafilter.com/84100/Rashied-Ali

Cool, thanks for the heads up!

red Rocks is pretty high up on the list of dream gigs. That statement seems entirely genuine to me, but I didn't hear him say it. The "you are the greatest fans" thing does seem hollow, but then again, I've seen him give the finger and turn his back on the audnece, so who knows? He probably kept saying those things because he was euphoric over the fact that he and his family were onstage at Red Rocks...and very likely high on cocaine.

Tweedy says in this month's Uncut interview that he, Jim and Glenn are all still interested in continuing Loose Fur.

I wish Leroy would do whatever has to be done to get 5ive Style back together.

I never heard that album. Their album cover always makes me think of this guy:

Lone Rhino is a good one too. Lately he's been playing/touring with a couple kids from Paul Green's Scool of Rock. A brother-sister duo, if I'm not mistaken. I was pretty impressed by the youtube clips I saw.

Either I'm misunderstanding this thread, or someone thinks Born to Run is better than Electric Ladyland.

I'm more into jazz than singer-songwriters. Armstrong Hampton is my favorite.

Kristopherson Lightfoot.

Eh, he's ok, but I prefer Croce Denver.

In my experience, the number of times I feel I've been "street teamed" is virtually non-existant compared to the amount genuine praise I hear/read from regular fans. Does street teaming still happen, and where would I find some examples? (aside, of course, from XM radio's indie rock station) EDIT: I posted this beofre reading the street teamer post about "Crosby Loggins".

Whoa, what the hell? Looks ridiculous. When can I get a ticket?

Cold Turkey (John)

Cool. Before I owned Doolittle, I had the Monkey Gone to Heaven ep. I loved Manta Ray, Weird at My School, etc. It'd be fun to hear those songs.

The weather in Atlanta is much nicer in January/february than it is in Chicago or New England. Maybe Atlanta will get a winter show.

I'm not sure the percentage. I just bought whatever rubbing alcohol (isopropyl) was on the shelf at the drug store. I poured out a small amount of the water before adding the alcohol. I didn't measure the exact amount I was poured out.

I don't know anything about the official D4 solution, but the vinyl expert at my local shop that still sells phono cartridges says to make a homemade version, just buy a gallon of distilled water and add a little bit of isopropyl alcohol. I forget the exact mixture. I think I used 1/4 cup, or something. I've never had any trouble with that mixture. I mixed it up eight years ago and still have 90% of it. There's another thread around here somewhere where this was discussed a bit.

Ratt: Round and Round

And then all current and former members will come together as one...

That's a strong possibility. I haven't listened to the commentary, but it's pretty clear from the film that the "obsolete" comment has to do with the fact that Wilco had been a pretty straight forward two guitar rock band for a while and were moving in different directions. I would imagine that Tweedy thought the two guitars on that song (I can't even remember what song it is now) sounded like they were treading water rather than moving forward.

That sums up my take on it. I always felt the better examples of the growing wedge between Bennett and Tweedy were the scenes in which Bennett wanted to play some "easy rockers" at an upcoming show, rather than working up some of the newer tunes, and the scene in which Tweedy claims that "two guitars is obsolete", to which Bennett responds "I don't know what that means."

I agree. I also don't like when the cd itself has no writing on it and only has art which offers no clue as to what band or album the cd is.

Basically, they're both saying "Heavy Metal Drummer needs to start off with 8 beats worth of a really goofy and dated drum machine rhythm".