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Huge bummer. Garcia gets all the notoriety but as far as I'm concerned Kantner is a far better representative of what the hippies in SF were trying to accomplish in the '60s.

Aside from the CNN Center food court, there's a Waffle House and Ted's Montana Grill (both visible from the venue), Park Bar, and Slice Pizza all very close to the Tabernacle. There's also a big Ferris Wheel right next to it now. If you walk across the park, you'll find Max's Pizza, Der Biergarten, Stats Sports Bar (all on Marietta St.), and maybe some other places. If you're there in the afternoon, Broad Street (a few blocks east of the venue) is the place for lunch. It's usually a good mix of GSU students and office workers. I recommend Rosa's Pizza, Dua Vietnamese (both on Broad St.),

Didn't Butch have a subscription service for streaming ABB concerts at one time? Maybe that's why they don't allow torrents.

I learned Sound and Vision on guitar last night. It was fun.

^^I work a block from the Tabernacle, and it's pretty common to see people lining up at lunchtime. That tends to be for teeny bopper bands, though. For a band with an adult audience like Wilco, you're probably safe if you get there an hour before doors open. I agree about 2016. This year has been awful on many different levels.

They're still there, ramping things up to even greater heights of idiocy.

I'm thankful that I have a reserved seat at the Atlanta show. Girlpool is opening and I don't like them. It'll be nice to miss them and still have a good seat waiting for me. I'd be way into seeing Bill Frisell or Angel Olsen open, or even William Tyler, who I've been meaning to check out.

What is the full lineup of the band these days? Am I correct to assume Robert Smith is the only original member? EDIT: I found the answer easy enough. Simon Gallup is still in the band as far as I can tell. He's about as close to an original member as one can get.

I'll be seeing them in Atlanta. Never seen them before.

Never seen them, but I used to see Derek a lot when he was a little kid. He used to sit in with or open for a lot of more established acts in Atlanta during the HORDE era. Even back then he was a complete badass that made a lot of highly regarded musicians sounds quite mediocre. I haven't seen him since he was a teen, but I try to keep up with what he's doing.

I know nothing of Fiery Furnaces, but I've seen Eleanor twice, and I have her first album. She puts on a show that far surpasses her record (the first one, anyway). Hopefully she still has the lead guitarist that she was working with a few years ago. He was terrific.

The party of personal responsibility.

JPJ's bio on his website has a pretty thorough discography, but it ends at 2009.

The way this year is going, half those people will be dead by the time Jazz Fest comes around.

How 'bout you just tell me? I don't know the answers to these riddles.

Who is the guy on the left?

The response is pretty concrete evidence that none of the Republican candidates will be able to win a debate against any of the Democrat candidates once the nominations are finalized. Most of what Haley said was "we're going to do that, too, but better."

^^Certainly true. They have been known to cover Bowie songs in concert. I saw them do a pretty good version of "Andy Warhol".

Let's not forget Scott Weiland. He died shortly before Lemmy.

I still don't see how that's a sellout. Did he not want to make those albums in that style? Pursuing success is not the same as selling out. Granted, the two albums after Let's Dance are not very good. But to sell out, there must be an element of pandering, and I don't detect that.

What is all this nonsense about Bowie's "''80s sellout"? If Bowie legitimately wanted to make a pop/dance record with Nile Rogers, and MTV videos to go along with it, then how is that a sellout? I've never heard anything about Bowie doing something he wasn't genuinely interested in just so he could make money.

This one hits me harder than any other celebrity death that I can remember. I heard he had been fighting illness, but I guess I thought he was winning that battle. It's incredible that he managed to give us one more record. I'm very thankful for that.

Well, that's exactly why I'm considering voting for Trump in the primary.

Is Mick Avory on record stating that he will participate in a Kinks reunion, if one ever happens?

I detected at least two scenes that were almost shot-for-shot remakes of scenes from the first Indiana Jones movie.