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I love the Blues Project. They're one of ths highlights of the Monterey Pop expanded edition. Wish by albums of theirs weren't in such bad shape. Anyone remember Biscuit Davis? I still listen to their album a couple times a year. Pretty corny cosmic-country, but it has its charm. http://www.bothypress.com/images/ebay/110930119.jpg

In one sense I agree with this, but I feel that the Who, more than any other band that has ever existed (possible exception being the Beatles), is a band in which every member has a very clear identity and easily identifiable sound, all of which is essential to the whole. Pete was the mastermind of their best work, but there's no way the Who could have existed without Roger, Keith and John.

I used to be sort of anti-Immigrant Song until I heard the version on the Zeppelin DVD. That version is absolutely monstrous, and now I love that song. I'm not trying to sway your opinion, just throwing that out there.

Sort of makes me wish I hadn't sold my Modern Drummer magazine collection. That was a pretty thorough resourse of the corniest music trends/phenomena circa 1986-2000.

In the late '80s/early '90s Joey Kramer used to wear a suit with a bunch of drum pads on it and during his solo he'd run around the stage beating himself with his drumsticks.

I was talkig about Aerosmith.

Like what?

Every song has a guitar solo. I don't like drum solos, and I'm a drummer.

Some of it. Seeemd like a bunch of pseudo-coherent back patting followed by some old fashioned crap about how great record companies are. And a little too much talk about balls.

WTF is he on about now?

Not a solo per se, but Mary Timony's "Summer's Fawn" has a guitar/bass unison break that builds up to pretty huge climax/resolution, only to return into to openign riff in a quite powerful way. Lots of tension/release in that one. (It's a little more badass on the album version, but here's a live version)

I'm kind of excited for the moustache craze to die down. I think the next trend will be to have as many razor cuts on your face as possible.

Yeah, this year it's moustaches.

I was a few miles away from Centennial Park drinking beer on my friend's front porch that night, and I remember strangers walking by telling us that had happened. Fucked up stuff.

I wouldn't expect a singer in a rock band going on stage high and acting goofy to get any publicity.

I'm back from this. I'll try to do an "after the show" for this trip, but for now I'll just say that I don't think I've been as happy as I was after the Wild Flag show in ten or fifteen years.

Rock and roll vacation starts tomorrow. St. Vincent tomorrow in Dallas, Wild Flag on Monday in Birmingham.

While most arabs I have known were/are assholes, I was referring to terrotists/dictators, etc.

They always do this with all those assholes. Osama was Usama for a while.

That album cover gets my seal of approval.

This seems to be the consensus. I couldn't be more excited for next Monday in Birmingham.

Candyman is one of the best melodies in the history of pop music.

I'll want a review. I'm seeing them next week.

I wish. If I wasn't trying to move, I'd probably be making some serious effort to get a great guitar.

That'd definitely be interesting to hear, but it'd probably force John to play a lot more notes than he currently does. To me, the beauty in his playing is that he knows when not to play, and has the luxury of playing very minimally. It's almost impossible to do that in a three piece group without the sound getting very empty. I don't know of any three piece rock band that didn't have a much busier bass player than John.