Monsieur francais, w/out doubt your answer is somewhere in the mix of the above answers (excepting my post of course). People here know their shit. Oh, and the reason people shout at "Freebird" at random musical events is because they can, and probably because their friends probably dared...

speedo wrote:

beantownbubba wrote:Hey Speedo?

Fuck you.

erudite *and* well spoken - kudos

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"I don't give two splats of an old negro junkie's vomit for your politico-philosophical treatises, kiddies. I like noise. I like big-ass vicious noise that makes my head spin. I wanna feel it whipping through me like a fucking jolt. We're so dilapidated and crushed by our pathetic existence we...

"Classic hard rock began in 1970 and largely, though not entirely, burned out by the end of that decade. We're speaking here of bands like UFO, Alice Cooper, Uriah Heep, Blue Oyster Cult, Grand Funk Railroad, Slade, Robin Trower, Budgie, ZZ Top, Free, Rush, Foghat, Bad Company, Montrose, AC/DC...

Locrian - The Crystal World

i went to bed after the Rangers made it 7-4...didn't think there was any way they could come back the way they were playing.


incredible.


also, one of the sloppiest games i've ever seen played.

hte version of Lookout Mountain is fantastic.

Don't forget The Mekons' Fear and Whiskey (1985). I don't know enough to make any claims one way or another but at least some people say this was the first alt country album. And FWIW, they did come out of the punk/indie scene, but in England. their first 7" (m) was a direct pisstake at The Cl...

You know while Uncle Tupelo is often given credit for starting the whole alt country thing, but IMHO it started several years earlier with bands like Jason & The Scorchers and it certainly was a blending of the punk aesthetic with the twang of country. The thing is that narrow definition starte...

Steve French wrote:

The Black Canary wrote:Loverboy

.......you rang?

i wish i had the time to do more contributing, but i dug the stuff i read. thanks to all for doing it, and hopefully for keeping it moving on.

jimmyjack wrote:The Dead? Clunkers?

This place is crazy sometimes.

yeah, put me squarely in the 'don't get the Dead' category. i've listened to them, seen 'em once and yep...not for me.

'Scratch wrote:First concert ever - The Hooters. As if that's not shameful enough I got claustrophic and dizzy and vomited and had to crawl out of the auditorium. SUCKED

is it possible to leave a Hooters gig any other way?

holy shit. matthew sweet got fatter than axl rose!

dogstar wrote:There's a new Walkabouts album out next week (21 October) in Europe. They were one of the first Americana bands that I found out about so might investigate - it got a decent review in one of the UK papers last Friday.

great new track:

i saw the Damned last night...awesome! The Captain still has it. Vanian sounded great and the band smoked.

The Damned tonight!

just back from Dum Dum Girls and Crocodiles.


gonna see The Damned tmrw night.

Led Zeppelin, Cream, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Grateful Dead, Warren Zevon, Big Star, Jayhawks, Phish, Nick Cave, Kinks, John Hiatt, Dinosaur Jr., Can, Dylan. One of those is a lie. Only one??? Half of those would be on my all time top 25 (with the Dead, Sonic Youth and Big Star in ...

really? that's cool. they are a severely underrated band.


i still haven't seen them play live.

Zip City wrote:Bands with relationships almost always end badly, so it's amazing that SY last as long as they did.

we still have Yo La Tengo (and Georgia and Ira have been married as long as T&K).

but on the whole, it's a good problem to have.

my problem w/ repeated listenings to music that doens't quite grab initially is there is SO MUCH stuff to listen to, both new and old...i've only got 2 ears and so many hours to listen to stuff...

my problem w/ repeated listenings to music that doens't quite grab initially is there is SO MUCH stuff to listen to, both new and old...i've only got 2 ears and so many hours to listen to stuff...

oilpiers wrote: Stones at the Coliseum. Most notable for Prince opening up in nylons and heels, getting booed off the stage after hundreds of people threw their shoes at him.
1983

did Prince handle it as well as Henry Rollins?

dime in the gutter wrote: srv getting booed off the stage when opening for .38 special. full indian head dress and closed eyes for the first and only 20 mins. our boy melted their faces and they didn't even know it. ninja. I hope those folks who booed Stevie off the stage for the likes of .38 Speci...

with Kim and Thurston announcing a separation, this throws serious doubts into whether or not Sonic Youth will continue. they are certainly one of my favorites, and embody a lot of what i feel music should be. fun, creative, expansive, powerful. they never really stayed in one place (though there is...

there's no distinction drawn for songwriting royalties? or does it assume that it's split equally among the band (which is probably a poor assumption for most bands).

Heavy Metal Sunday - Baltimore Civic Center - 1974 Blue Oyster Cult - Crowd had been whipped into a near frenzy already by the time they unleashed their 5 guitar attack on ME262. That was all she wrote. The joint went bonkers. They closed w/Hot Rails To Hell (I think). I guess 'coz there were 5 ban...