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What if a few Republican senators dying or going into comas from Covid is how RBG's seat goes unfilled? That'd sure be a twist. I can envision Mitch McConnell right now getting the every Republican in the senate to write notes saying their dying wish is to vote for Amy Coney Barrett, and then if enough of them die, McConnell arguing that those are valid votes.

I've noticed something about Biden that I wish he would work on, or that his team would have trained out of him by now. He'll start to make what is obviously going to be a direct, plain spoken and clear statement from his heart, then before getting to the meat of the statement he stops, says "Look...", then veers off into a related but much less clear statement. He does this a LOT, and if he would overcome this habit it would greatly increase the effectiveness of his message, and probably score him a lot of powerful sound bites. That's my primary criticism of Biden

Adding two still puts the liberal justices on the losing side of 6-5 (or 7-4 if Breyer drops dead in the next couple of weeks). There's no point in increasing the number unless you end up with an even balance or the winning hand.

Lack of trial judge experience is not a deal breaker. I mention that because it would count for lot if it were in addition to her 2.5 years of experience as an appellate judge. And frankly, the first half year (or more) as a judge is spent moving into and setting up your chambers, hiring law clerks, etc., so 2.5 years is a pretty flimsy amount of actual case work. I think the standards should be quite a bit higher for anyone holding the highest possible position in a profession. I'll bet the standards to be the president's limo driver are more stringent. Certainl

I'd say she's only barely qualified. She has 2.5 years total experience as a judge. While there is no requirement for a SCOTUS justice to have any experience as a judge whatsoever, or to even hold a law degree, I would hope that all Americans would prefer for our Supreme Court Justices to have served more time on the bench than that. Her experience as a judge only includes federal appellate court, and she has zero experience as trial judge. Her on the bench experience is slim enough that anyone would be perfectly justified in questioning her qualifications. I wou

I saw on Nels' Instagram page that he was playing on the new Joan Osborne album Trouble and Strife. I had never heard her music, aside from What If God Was One of Us?, so I didn't know what to expect. Anyway, Nels does some fine playing on this record, and has a few solo spots that are very satisfying to hear. My opinion is that Wilco has underutilized him in recent years, using him on the records mainly as a background/ambient sounds, with only the occasional moments where he gets to come up to the surface, so to speak, so it's nice to hear him play some traditional lead and rhy

I can't get the Ashes episode to play, but i'm enjoying the At Least... episode. Regarding your discussion of Sunset Magazine in the At Least... episode, and magazines specific to states or cities, which seems to be a novel concept to the Canadian host of this podcast, that is very common in the states. Most cities and states in the US have their own magazines. Here in Atlanta, we have Atlanta Magazine. We also have magazines specific to various statewide industries or interests. Georgia Music Magazine (now defunct) was one that comes to mind. Even Little Rock has it's own magazine,

Hey, Looking forward to listening to the Ashes episode later today. Just as soon as I finish listening to the George Clinton interview on Questlove Supreme. BTW, I agree with your take on Art of Almost feeling like an experimental track shoehorned into a fairly straightforward batch of tunes. That, and like you guys, The Whole Love is my lost Wilco era. It's my least listened to of their albums, and one of the few tours I skipped (I think I skipped the Schmilco tour, too). I was hoping what they were doing on Art of Almost would be representative the whole album, but instead it's mostly

I've listened to a number of episodes now, and have enjoyed it, but if I may I'd like to offer a bit of constructive criticism based on a couple things I noticed in the Art of Almost episode. When talking about Glenn's contribution to the song they make a couple of unforced errors. They say he plays a cimbalom. They don't know what this is, and guess that it is some sort of cymbal. That's not a bad guess based on its name, and I'm sure 99.9% of people in the world don't know what a cimbalom is (I didn't know for sure, and I'm a musician who has played in numerous school orchestras with we

I'm almost done watching Teenage Bounty Hunters. It's been a fun show so far.

I guess anything's possible, but I know the person whose TV I was watching it on had a 4 head VCR, which was high end at the time (I remember that because he advised me to insist on 4-head when I was in the market for a VCR), so it'd be weird if it were a B&W TV. I suppose that could be the same video I saw, but I remember it way differently.

Well, that's interesting to know. He looks just like Chris Slade when you're six hours into an acid trip. That's definitely not the New York promo video I saw. The one I saw was more sparse. Filmed on what looked like a soundstage. No concert production or lighting. So no frills it was almost black and white. But again, the acid, so who knows.

This concert film, in its entirety, took up an hour or so of my first experience taking acid. Not a particularly good concert film for that. Would be very interesting to see again now, 30+ years later. I recall he had the bald drummer from AC/DC in his band, which was a bit of overkill. His songs don't really require that level of beastly pummeling.

I'll check it out tomorrow. Sounds like a fun podcast.

Probably the first ever was a big band jazz concert with my grandparents in Massachusetts. We used to see a lot of that kind of thing when we'd visit the grandparents, especially after they found out I wanted to play drums. But the first one I went to without adult supervision was George Benson and Lee Ritenour JVC Jazz Festival tour in 1988, at the Fox in Atlanta. First rock concert was The Who The Kids Are Alright tour 1989. 4th row center at Lakewood Amphitheater in Atlanta.

As a constituent in his district, it was always a pleasure and honor to cast a vote for him. I hope we in District 5 will be able to fill his seat with someone worthy of following in his footsteps.

Ah, thanks. I was curious because the paint job is a little like the Tabernacle in Atlanta (different colors but similar style.)

These are fantastic! Thanks for sharing those. What is the venue in the shot of the full audience/balcony with purple painted wood taken from behind the drums? About 2/3 down the page.

Lol, I’ve met some people in bands who might react that way.

Lounge Axe had a basement that was failrly roomy, if memory serves. I could see a small drum kit fitting down there somewhere. In this case, my drums were set up on the floor in front of the stage while we waited for our sound check. After setting them up I was vegging out by the front window when I heard drums and turned around to see Spencer playing them, with Sue watching over him. Little moments like that can be pretty refreshing for an exhausted, d-list touring band.

What was the answer to this? Spencer played MY drums in October of 1997 when my old band played at Lounge Axe. I remember he was a toddler, but I don’t know what age he was. He seemed like he knew what to do, but didn’t have the body control to execute it.

I hope RBG is being kept in isolation.

I'm Not OK With This was great. Currently on Netflix. From the folks who made End of the Fu*&%ing World, which was also great. I always enjoy the 30 minute format. A series with hour long (or longer) episodes is like watching five or more movies per season, and I would never watch that many movies from the same storyline in the span of three or four months, or even a year. I've probably never even done that in a decade.

As of yesterday the DNC was angling for Sherrod Brown with Michele Obama as VP.

Democratic leaders would be better served focusing on the down ticket races and avoiding a brokered convention at all cost.