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a DVD of the long out-of-print “The New York Album” concert film, which features Reed performing the album in Montreal at the Theatre St. Denis. 

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.

That audience shot was from the Riviera in Chicago during the Residency of 2008. As I recall, that shot was during the encore break of the last show of the 5 night run. 

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.

That's cool. I think there is scene in the I Am Trying to Break Your Heart where Spencer is playing along on his knee to a song - think it was Heavy Metal Drummer.

 

Though, it would have been pretty funny if you had a Richard Cole/Peter Grant type road manager who would have berated little Spencer ---- yelling 'hey little piss-ant, I don't care who your parents are -  get the fuck off my drummer's set', while pointing a finger in his little chest...

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

I don’t remember exactly what was said, but I do sort of recall Susie or Jeff mentioning that Spencer used to play the drums in Susie’s office at the Lounge Axe when he was extremely young. They both seemed to agree that that was probably the first time. I’m not sure how drums would fit in an office of a smallish concert venue, but that’s how I heard it.

 

Or it could be when he (with Jeff) used to come visit her at the Lounge Axe when she was in her office, he’d find his way to a drum set up on the stage. I haven’t gotten around to watching that one again.

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.

The Tweedy Show Tuesday April 7 Episode 19

 

 

— when did Spencer start playing drums?.

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.

To me it comes down to this:

 

Who other than the most popular candidate would be the nomination? Someone with fewer delegates?

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

If this shit gets pulled, another 4 years of Trump.

 

Headline: Democratic Leaders Willing to Risk Party Damage to Stop Bernie Sanders

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/democratic-superdelegates.html

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

Haha! Pardon my laughter. It's just that we both seem to understand the issue and the 11th court makeup, etc., but we are expressing it differently. 

 

Regardless of court rulings, any multi-billionaire could make certain Florida felons that want to vote can do so by paying all fines and costs that the legislature requires. It would be a drop in the bucket for them. As soon as the legislature interpreted the meaning of Amendment 4, I said that the uber-wealthy should just pay the fines.

I hope I'm not coming across like I'm disagreeing with you, or trying to school you, or anything like that.  I agree with everything you're saying, I'm just throwing in a little bit of info to expand on things in case anyone cares about this type of minutiae. 

And I totally agree about the wealthy politician having far better ways to spend their money than hogging up every Youtube video with annoying ads.  It'd play better as a political strategy.  Imagine how Bloomberg's campaign wold be going right now if five years ago he personally funded the repair of Flint's water crisis and publicly challenged other billionaires to spend their money doing similar things.  That'd be a damn good thing to boast about, and he'd probably be the front runner.  

Yes they did. I live in Tampa and am watching closely. The governor is appealing. We'll see what happens. As you said earlier, it's the lower courts that do a large part of the work.

Unfortunately, this ruling doesn't entirely open the door to voting rights for all felons in Florida who have served their sentences, but it's a very loud step in that direction and should lead to that end if the next steps in the appeal process fail.  As I said earlier though, the 11th Circuit bench is 50% Trump appointees, none of whom served on the three judge panel that made this ruling.  The judges on this panel were appointed by Carter and Clinton.

Thank you. That is admirable.

If he truly wants to keep Trump from getting elected, then the best use of his fortune would be paying off the fines and other costs of Florida felons so that the can vote in November. 

Since I mentioned the 11th Circuit earlier...

That court just ruled last week that felons cannot be prevented from voting because of outsanding fines:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/amendment-4-eleventh-circuit-florida-voting.html

All true regarding the Supreme Court, but it currently would be 5-4 to the left, if you will, if not for Mitch McConnell.

That's true.  I will add that the emphasis should be removed from just the supreme court, since the vast majority of cases never get beyond the appellate level.  Trump and McConnell have loaded up all the federal courts with conservative judges.  Our entire judiciary would be left leaning now if Clinton had won. 

My area is served by the 11th circuit.  Florida, Georgia, and Alabama.   There are 12 active judges at the appellate level in this circuit.  Six of them are Trump appointees.  Half of the lineup of active judges.  For comparison, George W Bush only appointed one judge to this circuit in his eight years as president, and Obama appointed 4 (one of which has ALREADY retired...or technically became a senior judge...and has been replaced by Trump).  So Trump has outpaced 16 years of previous appointments in three years.  If Clinton had won, this court would have a 10-2 liberal slant.  As it is now, it's 7-5 conservative slant.  

Ruth Bader Ginsburg 

It's my policy any time someone mentions RBG as the (singular) slot that will open to remind folks that Steven Breyer is 81 years old.  

That's two seats that will open relatively soon. 

If Trump gets reelected, he will almost definitely get to replace RBG.  If he also gets to replace Breyer, that gives him a 7-2 court.  I also think if he wins, Clarence Thomas will retire so Trump can replace him with someone young, rather than waiting until a later term and gambling on being replaced by a dem.  This solidifies the 7-2 split for at least a decade since everyone else is relatively young (Alito, the next oldest, is 69).  

The best case scenario if a Democrat wins, barring the death of one of the justices, would be to hold the 4 seat minority.  Assuming that still exists come inauguration day.

That alone is far more than reason enough to enthusiastically vote for a pile of maggot encrusted dog shit with a D attached to their name over Trump.

There's absolutely no chance Sanders would pick Buttigieg as a running mate.

If Buttigieg is trying to stake out a VP slot, it'd far more likely be with Biden or even Bloomberg. 

And now trump is retaliating against Romney by opening up big ears national park for drilling! His retaliation is ruining a national park for everyone but he doesn’t care he is so petty!!!

That's been in the works for a good while, but the timing of the latest news is certainly a retaliation against Romney.

And it's Black History Month.  And yesterday was Rosa Parks' birthday.

You mean that monster who once took a mildly inappropriate photo?!?!?

Yes.  If he were a Republican, he'd still be in office.

And to be fair, Democrats are good at enforcing rules upon themselves that Republicans have happily ignored.

Al Franken concurs.

 

I wonder if these Senators feel comfortable with their actions being a precedent, should the Dems ever have an Executive who plays dirty and gets caught.

That's not a concern for them.  One thing Republicans are good at is imposing rules and standards on the Democrats that they themselves are not beholden to. 

And as more revelations come out of the Bolton book (like the one today that Trump contacted him about Ukraine in May), be prepared for widespread dismissal of it all as just Bolton "trying to sell his book."

 

If only there was a way to get him to tell his story under oath, under penalty of perjury...

He's trying to sell a book, and their latest (pretty god damn clever, I have to hand it to them) strategy is to tank his book sales. 

Their new line is "We know Trump is guilty.  The House proved it.  But we still oppose a conviction and whatever Bolton has to say in testimony or in print doesn't matter, so there's no point buying his book."

Bolton is and always has been utter shit.  He had a chance to talk and chose to hide behind a rock instead.