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Welp... That's that then. Buckle in for Trump's second term.

I saw that, too. I've been weeding out records from my collection over the last year with the intention of selling them on Reverb. I've been putting it off because it's a lot of work cleaning, grading, pricing, listing, then packing and shipping once they sell, and dealing with returns/lost packages/crazy people. All that work for a slow trickle of $10 or $20 at a time. Now that Reverb is out of the game I'll probably sell them all as a lot and be done with it.

That's Lord of the Thighs. Walk This Way is boom BAP ba boom boom BAP. One less boom before the second BAP. I didn't watch it, but it sounds like the drummer on the Grammys missed the ba. Any half-way decent drummer would know it's the ba that gives that groove its character, and it's inexcusable that they didn't play it right.

Great photos! On a somewhat related note, I noticed somewhere else on the web that this same resort is hosting a Widespread Panic festival right now That seems like a pretty good way of doing things. Keep the stage and infrastructure set up and have one event after another all season long. Was there an event the week before Sky Blue Sky?

What is this a setlist from?

Oh cool, I didn't realize those two songs made the top ten. I thought they had only hit the album charts.

Now that I think of it, I think Santana beats Aerosmith. Smooth was his first #1 in 1999, 30 years after the debut album in 1969.

Someone else had to write it for them. That's gotta hurt. I don't know about #1s, but the Grateful Dead had their only top 10 hit (Touch of Grey) in 1987. 22 years after forming.

Not even slightly. Since I mentioned Heather Cox Richardson... Atticus Finch is the parallel she drew from yesterday's hearing: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/

I agree and hope you're right.

I just hope I get to go on the Aerosmith rollercoaster later this year when I go to Disney World. Stupid thing was out of service last time I was there.

We can probably do both. If they're dipping into Joe Perry's solo catalog, that seems like an admission they're sick of their own songs and they think their audience is, too. Or that Joe Perry is throwing his weight around, which is sure to piss off Steve Tyler. I see them imploding in the near future.

An interesting take on this from Heather Cox Richardson's daily blog (which I will say once again, EVERYONE should be reading daily): Indeed, a very smart lawyer I follow on Twitter (but whose account is locked and he had not given permission to name him, so for now let’s leave him anonymous) observed this morning that perhaps even the few GOP Senators who would like to hear witnesses and see documents don't dare to demand them because they are afraid Trump will refuse even them, thus illustrating that they are powerless.

Hey, if he willingly signed that shitty deal then he's fucked and can pound sand. But in my opinion, nobody's shares should be reduced in any scenario that has so far been presented. Their shares should be determined and known by all, set in stone, and insured well before the tour even starts, so nobody's pay is reduced if one or more members misses a show or even the entire tour. There should be a plan in place in the event replacement members have to be brought in, whether it be insurance, a contingency fund, or any other financial scheme they can dream up. But saying "it comes out of yo

Let's not play semantic games. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and believe/hope you know what I meant by scab. So I'll ask a different way: You don't think the clause is that bad. Would you agree to that clause at a job you've been loyal to for decades, if your contract is ever renegotiated?

Is that what your boss does when you miss work? Take some of your pay and give it to a lower paid scab, leaving you with the leftovers?

I was aware of Uncle Tupelo when they were an active band, but I don't think I ever heard them. I think I unfairly associated them, based on the word Tupelo, with the local rockabilly scene that was rapidly morphing into a greaser version of a swing revival, and for that reason I had no interest in hearing them. I first heard Wilco when I worked in a restaurant. It was a place where a lot of musicians worked, and the owner was a musician, so he let us bring in CDs to play in the dining room. AM was new at that time, and was one of the most frequently played CDs. I remember thinking a l

Someday he's going to die. Probably of heart disease. That's all we're going to get.

None of the three contestants on Jeopardy! last night could identify a picture of Adam Schiff. I understand last night's episode was taped two months ago. At that time, the impeachment hearing was underway and Schiff was one of the highest profile members of our government. It's scary to think smart people have taken their eye off the ball.

I'm surprised they had the sense to induct T. Rex. I figured they'd snub them, since Bolan and most of the key band members are dead and they won't be able to sell them tickets to the event.

Yep, create so much chaos nobody can stay on the trail of any single misdeed. Do one thing, and if there's serious pushback, do a few other things, most of which go unnoticed or underreported. Maybe one will get seriously called out, but you've accomplished five other nefarious things in the meantime. Then when one starts getting attention, do something bigger, and everyone will forget about the first one. How many times during this administration have people said "we're in a constitutional crisis"? And how many of those things can people even remember at this point? They're very g

This is on the money. I really wanted to like this, but it was pretty flimsy. The performances were mediocre, and none of the stories went into any depth. Carmine Street Guitars was very good. Haven't seen Once Upon a Time yet. On the subject of music docs (maybe I mentioned these on the old thread) but the Roland Kirk doc and The Jazz Loft on Amazon are both really good.

My New Years Resolution is to keep a food diary and track everything I eat, with the goal of pinpointing the specific types of food that give me abdominal pain. I wouldn't call this a resolution, but more of a hope/desire, and that is to get back to playing music with others. I moved across town a couple years ago and, for unrelated reasons, my band ended around the same time. As a result, I've been a lot less socially active over the last two years than I want to be going forward. But my guitar playing has vastly improved in that time spent at home, and I've worked up quite a bit of musi

This kind of article strikes me as little more than "If we had known Trump was going to be president, and what he and the GOP were going to be like, we would have kicked more asses when we had the chance." It makes some legitimate points, but it feels to me like arguing in bad faith.

I used to hear Wilco every time I left the house when I was living in a 98+% white neighborhood in the late stages of gentrification. Since moving two years ago to an area that is much more diverse, probably majority black, and far less affluent, I have not heard Wilco a single time. That's not surprising in the least, but what is interesting to me is that I work next to a college campus, and I have never heard Wilco when I go out for lunch or coffee. Wilco seems like it'd be a happy medium between college students and office workers.