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The reason the Pixies are not on there is because they are SO appreciated that they were able to reunite and become multi-millionaires. Prior to the reunion, David Lovering was a low budget clown/magician and Kim Deal was living with her parents. Joey Santiago had fallen off the face of the earth. Only Frank Black had sustained some level of success, but even he was only playing small clubs. The Replacements are hugely over-appreciated.

Interesting. Snowden are from here (Atlanta), but I don't think I've heard them. Good for them for landing a good tour. The fact that the opeing act isn't "the Strokes guy" will make it easier for me snag a decent balcony seat without having to arrive at 6:30.

The Features and Albert Hammond Jr. are opening for KOL in Atlanta. The Features opened last time, too. I'm not happy about that.

I was in DC last week. I walked past Ben & Jerry's in Dupont Circle, which was having a "free cone day". There had to have been close to 200 people in line. Two hours later I walked by again. Still a huge line. I'd rather just pay the $3 than have to stand in a line for 45 minutes. These days I eat the lowfat chocolate fudge brownie.

The kittens that stage dive to that song have done more to change the world than the song has.

Guitar Player magazine had a really good feature on 40 great guitar albums from '67 a couple of issues ago. Rolling Stone hasn't published a good list since the pre-internet era.

These are two inches tall? They should have made the Nels one three inches.

Those Ibanez lawsuit guitars are really nice. I used to be in a band with someone who had an ES-335 copy and a Fender P-Bass copy. I'm not sure if Fender sued Ibanez, though. I recently saw a Flying V Ibanez lawsuit guitar in a shop. Those banez folks must've been working their asses off.

This concert is NOT general admission. The lawn is GA, but the lawn is very small (comparable to a typical suburban backyard), and unless the show is sold out, the lawn will probably be virtually empty. yes, those are good seats.

Sarah, the chart you posted is for concerts where tables are set up. That chart is meaningless for the purposes of the Wilco concert. Here's the seating chart for "rock setup", which is what the Wilco concert will be. http://www.ticketmaster.com/seatingchart/114766/4564 In another thread you said you have Row 6 in "SEC PIT". I don't know what "SEC" means. I assume it means "SECTION: PIT" as opposed to "SECTION: Orchestra" or "SECTION: Lawn". I'm almost certain your seats are 6th row...great seats! Mine are row 14, which, according to the seating chart in the link, is the first r

The first albums I bought with my own money were: Van Halen: 1984 David Lee Roth: Crazy From the Heat I bought them on cassette at Richway. The first rock concert I attended was the Who, 1989, 4th row.

From what I've heard the Knitting Factory has been booking mostly indie rock, rap, ska and some fairly big name shows (Graham Parker, Benvento-Russo Duo, Paul Green's "School of Rock"), and has not been hosting the types of shows that it once was known for. I checked the KF website and did not recognize the names of most of the bands. Their concert listing looked to me like any typical club catering to local and touring bands and the occaisional higher-echelon band. Maybe someone from NYC could chime in on this.

I received my weekly newsletter from Downtown Music Gallery this morning. Below is this week's lengthy installment of the Tonic closing saga. I believe raising millions of dollars and purchasing a building is a more likely scenario than the pure fantasy they are now proposing: Dear DMG Newsletter Subscriber IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU READ THE MESSAGE THAT FOLLOWS OUR INTRODUCTION. It is extremely important that as many of you as humanly possible attend the below-mentioned demonstration and press conference to be held this SATURDAY APRIL 14th at TONIC, 107 Norfolk Street (between Dela

I might be able to help you pinpoint the location of yor seat since I've been to Chastain a bunch of times. Do you know which section/row you're seat is in? If you're on the floor (Pit) hopefully you won't have tall people right in front of you. If you're in the "Orchestra", or anywhere other than PIT seats, you'll be on a hill and won't have any trouble seeing the band.

Here's a link to the Chastain Park "rock setup" seating chart (as opposed to "table setup") for anyone who may be interested. http://www.ticketmaster.com/seatingchart/114766/4564

I got 14th row PIT seats for the Atlanta show 45 minutes after the presale started.

How many of those places are rented? Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center are probably the only places on that list that are safe for the long term.

I got 14th row Atlanta and didn't even log on until 10:40. Tickets become available if you keep trying.

Damn, I wasn't expecting Atlanta to go on sale today. Still, I logged on at 10:40 and got 14th row pit. Keep trying. Tickets often get kicked back into the system for a variety of reasons.

http://www.eyedrum.org/ I was incorrect in stating that Eyedrum owns their property, so the comparison is not really fair. They do not own, they have a long term lease. Regardless, if the DMG guys think it can be done, I refuse to shit on their idea. The questions you raise about who's going to do this and who's going to do that...well, those are problems that will have to be dealt with by responisble adults, and not flakey kids in bands. Look how many records Zorn has released on his label and look at how much globe-trotting is required of people like Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, Dave Dou

Clearly there's a big difference between a club (in the case of Tonic, two people, plus a doorman and a bartender) and an arts collective, which could incorporate music, dance, theater, film and all manner of visual arts. I'm not saying it'd be simple, but it's definitely do-able with some coordinated efforts and a board of directors put in place to take care of the mundane hassles all property owners must deal with (which Eyedrum in Atanta has managed to do). I'm pretty sure the DMG guys know a hell of a lot more about real estate in NYC than anyone on this board, and they seem to think it

Again, they're not proposing buying the building they're currently in. Eyedrum in Atlanta has successfully done what they're proposeing. Granted, real estate in Atlanta is peanuts compared to NYC. Eyedrum has survived through grants and non-profit status. That's alwasy an option for the folks in NYC.

They're not proposing the club buy a building. They're proposing a commuity arts collective raise money to put a down payment on a building, and then continually raise funds to pay the mortgage.

I think the overarching problem is that the end result of capitalism is greed. DMG has offered the only long term solution that could actually work, and even if their vision became a reality and they bought a building it would still be vulnerable to eminent domain seizure.

Here's an interesting letter/proposal in response to Tonic's closing from the folks at NYC's "Downtown Music Gallery": AN OPEN LETTER TO ANY VIABLE MUSIC-ACTIVIST GROUPS HERE IN NYC: "It's time for [at least one] building to be bought and owned by a downtown-Manhattan new-music collective. All future fundraising and energies - undissipating anger, political drive - should be towards this goal. The corrupting effect, which began appx 20 years ago on the real estate market, of national chains who would pay any amount to have representative retail outlets in NYC, without heed to th