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We shall see. What other YOUNG straight up rock and roll bands are there these days? Almost every young band that is popular nowadays is either gimmick or schtick.

Based on the fact that they are so young (aren't some of those guys still under 21?) and they've released two solid albums thus far, I am of the belief that they are on course to be the best straight up rock and roll band in America by the time the are 30 years old. They could easily blow it, though. I don't know about the VW commercial coming out when they were unknowns. I think that came out after they had been on tour opening for the Strokes...a pretty high profile slot for any musician to be in. (By the way, they blew the Strokes off the stage when they played together in Atlanta, bu

If you don't like Double NIckels you should probably stop trying to like the Minutemen. I've always considered "Ragin' Full On" and "Flyin' the Flannel" to be by far the strongest Firehose albums.

Any of his releases on the Cryptogramophone label are good places to start, as they're a pretty good rerpresentation of what he does when he is the boss. Those include 'The Inkling", "Instrumentals", "The Giant Pin" and "New Monastery". If you want to hear him playing rock music you might want to check out Mike Watt's "Contemplating the Engine Room" (he also shines on Watt's "Ball Hog or Tugboat", but he's only on part of that album).

Re: New Monastery http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=23275 enjoy.

Mike Watt, recently on tour with The Stooges, wrote a tour diary of his visit to Iceland (among other places). Maybe it'll be helpful to you. Here it is: http://hootpage.com/hoot_stoogestourdiary2006a.html

Because we live in a post-Mark David Chapman world.

I've been a fan of Nels since before Wilco even existed, and I'll go on the record: Nels does not excel at country rock guitar playing.

If the writer had used "Impossible Germany" as an example he would have failed as a journalist.

And a white one, too.

The Danelectro is worth the $15 they sell for. I've gotten some good sounds out of it. I don't know how long it'll hold up. It's seems fairly solid, despite being made of plastic. However, it'd probably break if someone accidentally stepped on it with all their weight.

That'd probably sound cool. Maybe an overdrive pedal would be good for what you do. I've heard nothing but praise for the Digitech "Bad Monkey" overdrive pedal. They sell for $40. I also play a Tele, but haven't messed with pedals much. I only have a Danelectro $15 overdrive pedal at the moment. I'll probably get a delay pedal in the near future.

Excellent. Way to bring it back from all that neglect/abuse.

It's an album that needed to be made, but I think they did a horrible job mixing it and basically shot themselves in the foot. Someone went way overboard on the snare drum while minimizing the guitar and it is kind of grating to my ears. Kind of sucks since Neil is one of my all time favorite musicians. If they'd done a little better job in terms of making an album people would want to listen to over and over for years, it wouldn't have fallen off the radar so quickly. Once the CSNY tour ends, you'll probably never hear anything else about the album.

That's probably true, but you're talking about a $300 amp compared to $100 (or $120, i think, for the combo amp). $300 is still cheap, though, and the Pro Jr. is 15 watts compared to Epiphone's 5 watts. Pro Jrs. are great little amps. I almost bought one, but I found a great deal on a Traynor Custom Valve 20 (15 watts, two channels w/ footswitch & reverb compared to the Pro Jr which has volume and tone knobs and that's it). I guess I needed a bit more flexibility for my main amp. I'll try to post some pics of my gear someday soon.

I have a Valve Junior head. Definitely a tube amp. I run it through a Peavey 112E (the extension cabinet that was made to go with the Peavey Classic 30 combo amp) which I got for a steal at a pawn shop. Sounds great, and even works fairly well as a vocal amp for band practices. Best $100 piece of gear currently available in the guitar industry.

What I meant was that Kelly left Atlanta to go to Chicago because she had worn out all the musical opportunites Atlanta had to offer and had nowhere to go but down. It seems odd to me that someone who had been performing her own tunes with great local success would be satisfied to spend so many years as a back up singer. Where would she be without Neko? Back in Atlanta, maybe, but certainly not on national tv. That's what I mean by "riding her coat tails".

So Kelly Hogan is still riding her coat tails?

An excellent guitarist might not be able to play worth a crap on pedal steel. They're very, very different instruments. But I'd like to hear that, too. It'd be interesting.

Me too Excellent band.

My post was in reference to the Monkees, not Nirvana.

It's not "are", it's "come".

"I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past twenty years, really," the 65-year-old rocker said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Noting the music industry's complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, (Dylan) said, "Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway."

But I do know. Just as I know that I don't like smooth jazz based on what Kenny G and Dave Koz were doing several years ago. I've heard enough to not have any interest in making attempts to force it. It's simply not aesthetically pleasing to me. Am I missing out on great stuff sometimes? Yes. Is there great music being made by people in Malaysia that I'll might never hear? Yes. For me, genre doesn't matter as much as the instrument being played. Sometimes I want to hear guitars. Recently I was into violins. Before that I couldn't get enough of Wurlitzers and Rhodes pianos. As a you

Hearing music blasting from the cars that drive by when I walk down the street IS noise. It just happens to be rap 95% of the time that is blasting out of cars in Atlanta. That doesn't mean I've never actively listened to rap. What did calling me "Maynard" have to do with?