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Flea wrote:Very likely. I went to Wake Forest, then NC State. Saw a ton of shows in both Greensboro/Triangle, only a few in Charlotte, between 82 and 93.
Sounds very likely. I was hitting shows in all places mentioned by 81, and then I lived in Chapel Hill from 89-92 and caught a ton of shows all over the region. I worked at the Record Bar (Tracks) store in Asheville from 87-89 and in 89 got a job at the corporate office in Durham, where I worked until the company was sold :( :( :(

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Holy crap, Gene Tracy! I haven't thought about him in a while. I had a cassette of his. Truck Stop #7 I believe it was called.
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This thread needs more Eddie Izzard
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whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:
Flea wrote:Very likely. I went to Wake Forest, then NC State. Saw a ton of shows in both Greensboro/Triangle, only a few in Charlotte, between 82 and 93.
Sounds very likely. I was hitting shows in all places mentioned by 81, and then I lived in Chapel Hill from 89-92 and caught a ton of shows all over the region. I worked at the Record Bar (Tracks) store in Asheville from 87-89 and in 89 got a job at the corporate office in Durham, where I worked until the company was sold :( :( :(

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Flea wrote:
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:
Flea wrote:Very likely. I went to Wake Forest, then NC State. Saw a ton of shows in both Greensboro/Triangle, only a few in Charlotte, between 82 and 93.
Sounds very likely. I was hitting shows in all places mentioned by 81, and then I lived in Chapel Hill from 89-92 and caught a ton of shows all over the region. I worked at the Record Bar (Tracks) store in Asheville from 87-89 and in 89 got a job at the corporate office in Durham, where I worked until the company was sold :( :( :(

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Spent a lot of money at Record Bar. And The Record Xchange. Did you catch Talking Heads at UNC in 83?
Did not, saw them in Charlotte in either 82 or 83. When I was in high school (graduated in 84), travel for shows was pretty much Charlotte, Greensboro, Knoxville, and Greenville/Spartanburg.
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i've heard some rumblings but nothing in detail. this was an interesting bit in teh RS piece:
And when he arrives back at said well-off bachelor pad, with his vulgar sidekick in tow (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Charlie Day, the movie's impish resident Id), his kid is already there, waiting for him. Played by 20-year-old Chloe Grace Moretz and done up for maximum teen-Lolita effect, the movie introduces her lolling around in a bikini, at which point you begin find several trains of thought colliding violently into each other. Is C.K.'s camera straight-up ogling the young woman, or is that simply how we're reading it? Or is this completely in character for China, who's learning how to weaponize her feminine wiles while playing up her daddy's-little-girl affectations so Dad will let her do whatever she wants? Are we supposed to feel this uncomfortably complicit watching this? Can all of these notions be equally correct, response-wise? Get used to this conflicted feeling. You're going to be experiencing it a lot.

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speaking of Andy Kaufman

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/s ... tival-tiff

Carrey was so committed to method acting that he would only work “as Andy” or “as Tony”, which is annoying enough, but when you factor in that Kaufman and his creation Clifton were intentional agents of chaos, you can see how it could be a recipe for trouble.

Carrey had a documentary crew follow him around during the production, and their footage has been sitting on a shelf for nearly 20 years. Knitting this footage together along with a present-day interview with a bearded, philosophical Carrey, director Chris Smith (American Movie) has all the elements of an inquiry into the madness behind fame, art, performance and the issue of when a joke has gone “too far”.
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whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:speaking of Andy Kaufman

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/s ... tival-tiff

Carrey was so committed to method acting that he would only work “as Andy” or “as Tony”, which is annoying enough, but when you factor in that Kaufman and his creation Clifton were intentional agents of chaos, you can see how it could be a recipe for trouble.

Carrey had a documentary crew follow him around during the production, and their footage has been sitting on a shelf for nearly 20 years. Knitting this footage together along with a present-day interview with a bearded, philosophical Carrey, director Chris Smith (American Movie) has all the elements of an inquiry into the madness behind fame, art, performance and the issue of when a joke has gone “too far”.
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John A Arkansawyer wrote:
Cole Younger wrote:George Carlin is probably my all time favorite.
Mine's probably Lenny Bruce (unless the Firesign Theatre counts*), but I do love Carlin. He's the first one I saw live, and for that I owe him extra special thanks. I only really knew one John Prine song, Joan Baez's version of Hello In There, till I saw him open for Carlin. I bought the songbook for the first record not long after.

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Sam Kinison.
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John A Arkansawyer wrote:Only to ten, Mudhead.
Was listening to Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers the other day. We used to get stoned out of our minds and listen to these guys all the time.
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watched Equanimity last night, most enjoyable
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whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:Image

watched Equanimity last night, most enjoyable
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I found Equanimity to be funnier, and The Bird Revelation to be more thought provoking.

Thoroughly enjoyed both. Chappelle is just operating on a totally different level than most humans.

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Iowan wrote:I found Equanimity to be funnier, and The Bird Revelation to be more thought provoking.

Thoroughly enjoyed both. Chappelle is just operating on a totally different level than most humans.
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John A Arkansawyer wrote:
Cole Younger wrote:George Carlin is probably my all time favorite.
Mine's probably Lenny Bruce (unless the Firesign Theatre counts*), but I do love Carlin. He's the first one I saw live, and for that I owe him extra special thanks. I only really knew one John Prine song, Joan Baez's version of Hello In There, till I saw him open for Carlin. I bought the songbook for the first record not long after.

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saw Lewis Black on Sunday, 2nd time I've seen him. He was great but he seemed really tired. He's been touring the west heavily for last 3 weeks or so, maybe the road is taking its toll.
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