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DLRR podcast

DP — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:56:07 GMT

ok......#2 is here!!!! silliness prevails...........www.mamajax.net/DLRR stream or download........

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Rock N Roll Hall of Fame:Class of 2007

kubbie — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:11:09 GMT

Hi, back after a brief Tribe vacation. And already going to annoy with a post.

Do we agree with the picks?

I totally agree on Patti Smith and The Ronettes. Van Halen? I like some of their old stuff, but Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? I cant comment on Grandmaster Flash, I really dont know anything about him/them. R.E.M. YUCK, sorry I have never been a fan. I have this uncontrolable urge to split skulls when I hear Micheal Stipes voice.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
R.E.M.
The Ronettes
Patti Smith
Van Halen

The Ronettes
Be My Baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCUO7F2xjzw

Shout!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC_S5n_VcxY

THE RONETTES sing "Silhouettes" 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCDylO5MPMc

THE RONETTES "You Baby" 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Bu_VTHj8A

THE RONETTES "Is This What I Get For Loving You?" 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4kDxQI7PxY

The Ronnettes bio here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ronettes

Van Halen

Jump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e-vgQSqNtA

Panama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX2CyIH_ebE

Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Snf9oQ_ErM

You Really Got Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRqkRmRocQ

Van Halen Bio here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_halen

Patti Smith

Gloria Live 1975!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Le_oJAyAnQ

Because The Night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoGdx3I3dPE

Aint It Strange
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg7Fe_EcnRw

Patti Smith Bio here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_Smith

Grandmaster Flash bio here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_flash

R.E.M. reem bio here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.E.M.

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Dylan Hears A Who

bridgetds — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:58:29 GMT

For DP:

http://dylanhearsawho.com/

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James Brown RIP

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 15:42:58 GMT

BBC Obit

Singer James Brown, known as the "Godfather of Soul", has died at the age of 73, his agent has said.
He was admitted to hospital in Atlanta after being diagnosed with severe pneumonia but died at 0145 local time (0645 GMT), said Frank Copsidas.

The star was famous for hits including I Got You (I Feel Good), Papa's Got a Brand New Bag and Living in America.

"He is such an influence, I learned so much from him," Mr Copsidas told the BBC World Service.

"On Friday he had his toy giveaway, which is his annual toy giveaway in Augusta, Georgia.

"On Saturday, he went to his dentist up in Atlanta, and his dentist told him something was wrong, and he sent him to a doctor immediately."

Gospel roots

Brown was born in 1933 in South Carolina.

He joined a gospel group as a young man after his release from jail for trying to steal a car.

He had his first hit on the US rhythm and blues chart, Please Please Please, in 1956.

Brown had 94 hits on Billboard's mainstream Hot 100 in the US, according to his official website, and by the end of his career, he had a total repertoire of 800 songs.

However, he achieved only one top 10 single in the UK.

This was Living in America, from the soundtrack of the Sylvester Stallone film Rocky IV, which reached number five in 1986.

High-speed chase

Two years later, however, Brown returned to prison, convicted of aggravated assault and failing to stop for a police officer.

This followed a high-speed car chase through Georgia and South Carolina, which ended when police shot the tyres of his truck.

The star was credited with spreading the popularity of funk around the world, influencing a new generation of black music which spawned rap and hip-hop.

Brown, who had surgery for prostate cancer in 2004, appeared in London in October as part of the BBC's Electric Proms line-up.

At the time, he described how he planned to carry on as a performer, saying: "Everyone's got soul, whether it's talking, hip-hop, rap, gospel.

"We've gotta just stay with whatever we do.

"I don't wanna change, because then I'd have to name myself Sam Smith or Ted Wright or somebody. I'm going to be James Brown."

Last month Brown played at a ceremony at London's Alexandra Palace which saw his induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame, 20 years after entering the US equivalent.

Source BBC

Bio and Links

James Joseph Brown, Jr. (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006)[1][2], most commonly known as James Brown (also known as The Godfather of Soul), was an African American entertainer who was recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century music.

As a prolific singer, songwriter, bandleader and record producer, Brown was a seminal force in the evolution of gospel and rhythm and blues into soul and funk. He left his mark on numerous other musical genres, including rock, jazz, reggae, disco, dance and electronic music, afrobeat, and hip-hop music.

Brown began his professional music career in 1953 and skyrocketed to fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s on the strength of his thrilling live performances and a string of smash hits. In spite of various personal problems and setbacks, he continued to score hits in every decade through the 1980s. In the 1960s and 1970s Brown was a presence in American political affairs, noted especially for his activism on behalf of African Americans and the poor (as well as his outspoken support for Richard Nixon).

Brown was recognized by a plethora of (mostly self-bestowed) titles, including Soul Brother Number One, Mr. Dynamite, the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business, Minister of The New New Super Heavy Funk, Mr. Please Please Please, The Boss, and the best-known, the Godfather of Soul. He was renowned for his shouting vocals, feverish dancing and unique rhythmic style.

Early life

Brown was born in the small town of Barnwell in Great Depression-era South Carolina as James Joseph Brown, Jr; as an adult, Brown would legally change his name to remove the "Jr." designation.[3] Brown's family eventually moved to nearby Augusta, Georgia. During his childhood, Brown helped support his family by picking cotton in the nearby fields and shining shoes downtown. In his spare time, Brown variously spent time either practicing his skills in Augusta-area halls, or committing petty crimes. At the age of sixteen, he was convicted of armed robbery and sent to a juvenile detention center upstate in Toccoa from 1948.

While in prison, Brown later made the acquaintance of Bobby Byrd, whose family helped Brown secure an early release after serving only three years of his sentence, under the condition that he not return to Augusta or Richmond County and that he would try to get a job. After brief stints as a boxer and baseball pitcher (a career move ended by leg injury) Brown turned his energy toward music.

The beginnings of the Famous Flames

Brown and Bobby Byrd's sister Sarah performed in a gospel group called "The Gospel Starlighters" from 1955. Eventually, Brown joined Bobby Byrd's group the Avons, and Byrd turned the group's sound towards secular rhythm and blues. Now called The Famous Flames, Brown and Byrd's band toured the Southern "chitlin' circuit", and eventually signed a deal with the Cincinnati, Ohio-based King Records, presided over by Syd Nathan.

The group's first recording and single, credited to "James Brown with the Famous Flames", was "Please, Please, Please" (1956). It was a #5 R&B hit and a million-selling single. However, their subsequent records failed to live up to the success of "Please, Please, Please". After nine failed singles, King was ready to drop Brown and the Flames until the success of their 1958 single "Try Me." While not a big hit, it went to number forty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100, which was enough to keep the group working Southern one-night stands.[1] Nearly all of the group's releases were written or co-written by Brown, who assumed primary control of the band from Byrd and eventually began billing himself as a solo act with The Famous Flames as his backup.

These early recordings, also including "I'll Go Crazy" (1959) and "Bewildered" (1960), were fairly straightforward gospel-inspired R&B compositions, heavily inspired by the work of contemporary musicians such as Little Richard and Ray Charles. Yet the songs were already marked by a rhythmic acuity and vocal attack that would later become even more pronounced, contributing to the developing style that would eventually be called "funk". Brown, in fact, called Little Richard his idol, and credited Little Richard's saxophone-studded mid-1950's road band The Upsetters as the first to put the funk in the rock and roll beat. [4]

Brown's arrangements and instrumentation, initially standardized, began to give way to more improvisational and rhythm-heavy tracks such as 1961's #5 R&B hit "Night Train", arguably the first single to showcase the beginnings of what today is considered the "James Brown sound". Except for declamatory ad-libs by Brown, "Night Train" is completely instrumental, featuring prominent horn charts and a fast, highly accented rhythm track.

"Papa gets a brand new bag"

While Brown's early singles were major hits in the southern United States and regularly became R&B Top Ten hits, he and the Flames were not nationally successful until his self-financed live show was captured on the LP Live at the Apollo in 1962, released without the consent of his label King Records.

Brown followed this success with a string of singles that, along with the work of Allen Toussaint in New Orleans, essentially defined funk music. 1964's "Out of Sight" was, even more than "Night Train" had been, a harbinger of the new James Brown sound. Its arrangement was raw and unornamented, the horns and the drums took center stage in the mix, and Brown's vocals had taken on an even more intensely rhythmic feel. However, Brown violated his contract with King again by recording "Out of Sight" for Smash Records; the ensuing legal battle resulted in a one year ban on the release of his vocal recordings.[5]

The mid-1960s was the period of Brown's greatest popular success. Two of his signature tunes, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" and "I Got You (I Feel Good)," both from 1965, were Brown's first Top 10 pop hits as well as major #1 R&B hits, remaining the top-selling single in black venues for over a month apiece. His national profile was further boosted that year by appearances in the films Ski Party and the concert film The T.A.M.I. Show, in which he upstaged The Rolling Stones. In his concert repertoire and on record, Brown mingled his innovative rhythmic essays with ballads such as "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" (1965), and even Broadway show tunes.

Brown continued to develop the new funk idiom. "Cold Sweat" (1967), a song with almost no chord changes, was considered a departure even compared to Brown's other recent innovations. Critics have since come to see it as a high-water mark in the dance music of the 1960s; it is sometimes called the first "true" funk recording.

Brown would often make creative adjustments to his songs for greater appeal. He sped up the released version of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" to make it even more intense and commercial. He also began spinning off new compositions from the grooves of earlier ones by continual revision of their arrangements. For example, the hit "There Was a Time" emerged out of the chord progression and rhythm arrangements of the 1967 song "Let Yourself Go."

The late 1960s: "Ain't It Funky Now"

Brown employed musicians and arrangers who had come up through the jazz tradition. He was noted for his ability as a bandleader and songwriter to blend the simplicity and drive of R&B with the rhythmic complexity and precision of jazz. Trumpeter Lewis Hamlin and saxophonist/keyboardist Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis (the successor to previous bandleader Nat Jones) led the band; guitarist Jimmy Nolen provided percussive, deceptively simple riffs for each song; Maceo Parker's prominent saxophone solos provided a focal point for many performances. Other members of Brown's band included stalwart singer and sideman Bobby Byrd; drummers John "Jabo" Starks, Clyde Stubblefield, and Melvin Parker (Maceo's brother); saxophonist St. Clair Pinckney; trombonist Fred Wesley; guitarist Alphonso "Country" Kellum; and bassist Bernard Odum.

As the 1960s came to a close, Brown refined his funk style even further with "I Got the Feelin'" and "Licking Stick-Licking Stick" (both recorded in 1968), and "Funky Drummer" (recorded in 1969). By this time Brown's "singing" increasingly took the form of a kind of rhythmic declamation that only intermittently featured traces of pitch or melody. His vocals, not quite sung but not quite spoken, would be a major influence on the technique of rapping, which would come to maturity along with hip hop music in the coming decades. Supporting his vocals were instrumental arrangements that featured a more refined and developed version of Brown's mid-1960s style. The horn section, guitars, bass, and drums all meshed together in strong rhythms based around various repeating riffs, usually with at least one musical "break".

Brown's recordings influenced musicians across the industry, most notably Sly and his Family Stone, Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, and soul shouters like Edwin Starr , Temptations David Ruffin and Dennis Edwards, and a then-prepubescent Michael Jackson, who took Brown's shouts and dancing into the pop mainstream as the lead singer of Motown's The Jackson 5. Those same tracks would later be resurrected by countless hip-hop musicians from the 1970s on; in fact, James Brown remains the world's most sampled recording artist, and "Funky Drummer" is itself the most sampled individual piece of music.[citation needed]

The content of Brown's songs was now developing along with their delivery. Socio-political commentary on the black person's position in society and lyrics praising motivation and ambition filled songs like "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud" (1968) and "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I'll Get It Myself)" (1970). However, while this change gained him an even greater position in the black community, it lost him much of his white audience who could no longer relate to his lyrics.

The 1970s: The JB's

By 1970, most of the members of James Brown's classic 1960s band had quit his act for other opportunities. He and Bobby Byrd employed a new band that included future funk greats such as bassist Bootsy Collins, Collins' guitarist brother Phelps "Catfish" Collins, and trombonist/musical director Fred Wesley. This new backing band was dubbed "The JB's", and made their debut on Brown's 1970 single "(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine". Although it would go through several lineup changes (the first in 1971), The JB's remain Brown's most familiar backing band.

As Brown's musical empire grew (he bought radio stations in the late 1960s, including Augusta's WRDW, where he had shined shoes as a boy), his desire for financial and artistic independence grew as well. In 1971, he began recording for Polydor Records; among his first Polydor releases was the #1 R&B hit "Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)". Many of his sidemen and supporting players, such as Fred Wesley & the JB's, Bobby Byrd, Lyn Collins, Myra Barnes, and Hank Ballard, released records on Brown's subsidiary label, People, which was created as part of Brown's Polydor contract. These recordings are as much a part of Brown's legacy as those released under his own name, and most are noted examples of what might be termed James Brown's "house" style. The early 1970s marked the first real awareness, outside the African-American community, of Brown's achievements. Miles Davis and other jazz musicians began to cite Brown as a major influence on their styles, and Brown provided the score for the 1973 blaxploitation film Black Caesar.

In 1974 Brown performed in Zaire as part of the build up to the The Rumble in the Jungle fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.

Later years and death

James Brown lived in a riverfront home in Beech Island, South Carolina, directly across the Savannah River from Augusta. On November 11, 1993, Augusta mayor Charles DeVaney held a ceremony during which Augusta's 9th Street was renamed "James Brown Boulevard" in the entertainer's honor. On May 6, 2005, as a seventy-second birthday present for James Brown, the city of Augusta unveiled a seven-foot bronze statue of Brown. The statue was to have been dedicated a year earlier, but the ceremony was put on hold because of a domestic abuse charge Brown was facing at the time. He later forfeited bond on the domestic abuse charge.

On August 22, 2006, the Augusta-Richmond County Coliseum Authority voted to rename the city civic center the James Brown Arena.

Trivia
Brown was a recipient of Kennedy Center Honors for 2003, and a scheduled 2004 unveiling of a statue of Brown in Augusta was delayed because of James Brown's ongoing legal problems.

Brown's eyebrows were tattoos.

In December 2004 Brown was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which was successfully treated with surgery.

Brown collaborated in the production of Soul Survivor -- The James Brown Story with English director Jeremy Marre.

Brown held the record for the artist who has charted the most singles on the Billboard Hot 100 without ever hitting number one on that chart.

At around the time of his legal troubles in the late 1980s, there happened to be a Supreme Court vacancy. Late-night talk-show host Arsenio Hall proposed nominating Brown, because "He's black, he's liberal... and he's familiar with the court system!"

A mistaken news broadcast reported him as dead in 1992. A sample of that broadcast became the basis of a techno hit for L.A. Style called "James Brown Is Dead".

James Brown Jr. was featured as a recurring character on Mad TV, played by Aries Spears. The portrayal was an humorously exaggerated parody of Brown's energetic performing style.

Brown was the subject of the Tom Tom Club's 1982 hit song, "Genius of Love."
Brown's 1976 single "Hot" (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)" (R&B #31) was a cover of David Bowie's "Fame", not the other way around. The funky riff was provided to co-writers Lennon/Bowie by guitarist Carlos Alomar.

"Funky President" and "The Payback" were included in the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on fictional radio station Master Sounds 98.3.

"The Payback" was prominently played in the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Brown's works have been sampled by a number of the most popular rap artists of the 80's, 90's and 00's.

He appeared at the World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view event SuperBrawl X in 2000, dancing alongside wrestler Ernest "The Cat" Miller.

James Brown Official Site
http://www.godfatherofsoul.com/

doscography
http://www.music-city.org/James-Brown/discography/

BBC Obit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/386563.stm

Photo Archive
http://www.photofeatures.com/jamesbrown/index.html

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YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:56:18 GMT

Just got the email for the new podcast. Cant wait.

These never leave my ipod I have to tell you.

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Blondie 1977 at cbgbs

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:08:44 GMT

fun silly clip doing x offender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4tURuzVf8E&mode=related&search=

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CBGB closes October 15th

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:12:06 GMT

CBGB, Renowned Epicenter Of Punk, To Close Doors Oct. 15
Blondie, Ramones, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Joan Jett Among CBGB Alumnae
from: wnbc.com

NEW YORK -- Legs McNeil remembers the night back in 1975 when he walked into the dingy storefront club perched on the even dingier Bowery. The band onstage, four guys in leather jackets and torn jeans, was the Ramones. McNeil sat at a nearby table, watching their set with Lou Reed.

It was unforgettable. But as McNeil would soon discover, it was just a typical night at CBGB, the club that spawned punk rock while launching the careers of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Blondie, the Talking Heads and the Ramones.

"Every night was memorable, except I don't remember 'em," said a laughing McNeil, co-author of the indispensable punk rock history "Please Kill Me."

After Oct. 15, memories are all that will remain when the cramped club, with its capacity of barely 300 people, goes out of business in New York City after 33 years. Although its boom years are long gone, CBGB remained a Manhattan music scene fixture: part museum, part barroom, home to more than a few rock-and-roll ghosts.

The club didn't exit without a fight. An assortment of high-profile backers, including E Street Band guitarist Little Steven Van Zandt, battled to keep the legendary club open. But in the end, it was a simple landlord-tenant dispute -- and tenant Hilly Kristal saw the handwriting on the club's dank walls.

"I knew the closing was inevitable, because my lawyers said, `You can't win this case. The law is that your lease is up, and they don't even need a reason to put you out,' " said Kristal, sitting at his ancient desk just inside the club's front door.

Kristal sits beneath a platinum record from Joan Jett, a CBGB clock and a few of the endless band stickers that blanket the interior. Kristal, who is battling lung cancer, wears a black and white CBGB T-shirt with a matching baseball cap.

He once managed the Village Vanguard, the renowned jazz club where he booked acts like Miles Davis. Things were a bit different at his new club: "In rock, the bands were creative -- but at first, they didn't play so well."

Television was the first punk-scene band at Kristal's Bowery nightspot, followed quickly by Patti Smith. Punk poet Smith will play the closing night as well, a booking that Kristal described as effortless.

Kristal said Smith's longtime guitarist called and said `She wants to come in for the last show.' It was that easy."

Smith isn't the only veteran playing one last gig. The '80s hardcore band Bad Brains and the '70s Bronx punks the Dictators are both scheduled for the final week. More than a few old favorites won't make it: Joey and Johnny Ramone died of cancer, Johnny Thunders of the Heartbreakers and Dee Dee Ramone were victims of drug overdoses, Dead Boys lead singer Stiv Bators was fatally injured by a car while walking through Paris.

When Kristal opened his doors in December 1973, CBGB's stood for country, bluegrass and blues -- three musical styles that wound up in short supply. Tommy Ramone, drummer for the group from Queens, recalled how a new breed of bands gravitated to the space.

"At that time, there were no places to play in New York," Ramone said last year. "It was a very dead time in New York City, doldrums all around. But CBGB's allowed bands -- original bands, no less -- the freedom to go and play and do whatever they pleased."

Kristal recalled those days, and those early bands, as his favorites.

"It was the beginning, when everything started," he said. "Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, Blondie, Dead Boys, the other bands. You know, I saw them all the time."

He mentions another favorite, from a later era: Sonic Youth. And there were the hardcore bands that played there in the '80s -- "a lot of the bands who became big were influenced," said Kristal, who's spent the last 12 months reminiscing about the past while looking to the future.

"A lot of things have happened in the last year," Kristal said. "You know, people work their jobs for 25, 30 years, and then they retire. We'll I'm not going to retire. CBGB's is just not going to be here, that's all."

Now, for Kristal, it’s Vegas, baby. He plans to move the club far from its Bowery roots to a new CBGB's in Las Vegas. The owner plans to strip the current club down to the bare walls, bringing as much of it to Nevada as possible.

"We're going to take the urinals," he said. "I'll take whatever I can. The movers said, `You ought to take everything, and auction off what you don't want on eBay.' Why not? Somebody will."

Even a longtime CBGB's devotee like McNeil thinks the best advice for the 74-year-Kristal is go west, old man.

"I always said Hilly should go to Vegas," said McNeil. "Girls with augmented breasts playing Joey Ramone slot machines. It would become an institution."

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good stuff

DP — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:32:36 GMT

Camera Obscura-Let's Go Out to the Country
Mojave 3-Puzzles Like You
the Complete Reprise Recordings-Gram Parsons

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Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd) 1946-2006 RIP

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:40:28 GMT

Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett dies
Musician a major influence on British psychedelia

Tuesday, July 11, 2006; Posted: 11:04 a.m. EDT (15:04 GMT)

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Syd Barrett, the eccentric guitarist who founded Pink Floyd but later left the music business to live quietly and somewhat reclusively, has died at the age of 60, according to a spokeswoman for the band.

A spokeswoman for Pink Floyd told the Press Association: "He died very peacefully a couple of days ago. There will be a private family funeral."

The singer and guitarist, born Roger Keith Barrett on January 6, 1946, founded the band in 1965 with Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright. (Its name was derived from two American bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.)

He wrote many of the early hits for the avant-garde rock band, including the 1967 album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and the band's first hit singles, "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play."

His songs were odd and charming combinations of childlike lyrics and swirling melodies, often augmented with strange arrangements. The titles alluded to space, the occult and sometimes nonsense: "Astronomy Domine," "Lucifer Sam," "Chapter 24."

Consider some lyrics of "Bike," from "Piper": "I know a mouse, and he hasn't got a house / I don't know why, I call him Gerald / He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse."

Pink Floyd, taken under the wing of Beatles engineer Norman Smith, had early success, but Barrett, suffering from mental problems and heavy drug use, started demonstrating erratic behavior, including catatonia during concerts. He left the band in 1968. He was replaced by David Gilmour, who had joined the band as its fifth member earlier that year.

Barrett put out two noted solo albums, "The Madcap Laughs" and "Barrett," both in 1970.

In 1975, during the recording of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album, Barrett showed up unannounced at the studio -- ironically, during the recording of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," a song about him. He had become overweight and shaved his eyebrows; the other members didn't recognize him at first.

"Wish You Were Here" was dedicated to Barrett.

Much of British psychedelic music was influenced by Barrett, and a number of musicians have credited him, according to Allmusic.com.

Barrett had since lived in anonymity in the eastern English city of Cambridge. According to The Associated Press, he suffered from diabetes.

The spokeswoman said a low-key, private funeral would be held. She did not disclose the cause of death.

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stay tuned for DLRR Radio!!!!

DP — Sun, 28 May 2006 19:03:33 GMT

Jax and I have finished our 1st podcast and should have it available for yr listening pleasure very soon............

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Grant McLennan

DP — Sun, 07 May 2006 17:25:16 GMT

I am very sad and disillusioned to report that Grant McLennan of the Go-Betweens is dead at 48......cause of death unknown......breaks my heart........

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what u b groovin' 2???

DP — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:28:24 GMT

Jamie Lidell-live and on cd[this guy's awesome]
Pink Fairies-comp......heavy........much like Stooges or MC5
Stars-Set Yourself on Fire......more cool Canadian pop........there's so much of it......

looking forward to the Nada Surf and Turbonegro shows upcoming.........Juliette Lewis on the Turbo bill........

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Link Wray RIP

DP — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:26:07 GMT

influential guitar player......mad mad mad......sorry I never saw him live......died in his chosen home of Denmark..........age 76......

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the Flaming Lips

DP — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:03:46 GMT

ok......from OK.......one of the finest and most challenging American bands of all time....I'm convinced of that even more after seeing the doc "Fearless Freaks"........seeing them live is a trip too.......dada,man!!!!

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March Madness-concert wise

DP — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:54:38 GMT

ok....so I am going to sooooo many shows next month......and ushering.......here's my [tentative] list..........
March 2-Yeah Yeah Yeah's[Bimbo's],March 13-Arctic Monkeys[Great American],March 17-the Orb[Bimbo's],March 21-Art Brut[the Independent],March 22-the Bats[in-store at Amoeba and Rickshaw Stop],March 27-Flaming Lips!!![totally sold out at Bimbo's],March 28-Feist[Bimbo's] and March 30-Rogue Wave[Bimbo's].........I'm tired just looking at that list!!!!

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Lez Zeppelin

DP — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:02:15 GMT

yeah......an apparently all-dyke Led Zep cover band from NYC......check out lezzeppelin.com pretty cheeky!!!!

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The Pretenders Box Set

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:20:19 GMT

I love these guys. Seen then 3 times lives. Great. So happy this is coming out

Pretenders Boxset - Pirate Radio to be released by Rhino March 14th

http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=73270

Disc 1
1. Precious (Regent Park Demo)*
2. Stop Your Sobbing
3. The Wait (Single Version)
4. Kid
5. Tattooed Love Boys
6. Mystery Achievement
7. Brass In Pocket
8. Porcelain
9. Talk Of The Town
10. Message Of Love
11. Cuban Slide
12. What You Gonna Do About It
13. The Adultress
14. Bad Boys Get Spanked
15. I Go To Sleep
16. Day After Day
17. Birds Of Paradise
18. The English Roses
19. Time The Avenger
20. Watching The Clothes (Denmark Street Demo)*
21. Show Me

Disc 2
1. Back On The Chain Gang
2. Thumbelina
3. Thin Line Between Love And Hate
4. My City Was Gone
5. Middle Of The Road
6. Tequila*
7. 2000 Miles
8. When I Change My Life (Alternate Version)*
9. My Baby
10. Worlds Within Worlds*
11. Don't Get Me Wrong
12. Hymn To Her
13. Tradition Of Love
14. Room Full Of Mirrors
15. Reconsider Me*
16. Hold A Candle To This (Alternate Version)*
17. Windows Of The World
18. Never Do That
19. No Guarantee
20. Not A Second Time

Disc 3
1. Sense Of Purpose
2. Downtown (Akron)
3. How Do I Miss You
4. Bold As Love
5. When Will I See You
6. Hollywood Perfume
7. Night In My Veins
8. 977
9. All My Dreams
10. Angel Of The Morning (Original Version)*
11. Money Talk
12. Rebel Rock Me
13. I'll Stand By You
14. Every Mothers' Son (Demo)*
15. Love Colours
16. Private Life (Live)
17. Lovers Of Today (Live)
18. Creep (Live)
19. Criminal (Live)
20. Revolution (Live)

Disc 4
1. Everyday Is Like Sunday
2. Human (Class Mix)
3. Popstar
4. Back Down*
5. California*
6. The Needle And The Damage Done
7. From The Heart Down (Alternate Version)*
8. Who's Who
9. Biker
10. Nails In The Road
11. Legalize Me
12. The Homecoming (Live)*
13. Up The Neck (Live)*
14. Fools Must Die (Live)*
15. Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
16. Lie To Me
17. Complex Person
18. You Know Who Your Friends Are
19. I Should Of
20. The Losing

DVD INCLUDES PERFORMANCES FROM 1979 TO 2003

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tyme to dance!!!

DP — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:09:36 GMT

going to Shadowplay this Friday.....plan on staying extra late.....please join me......it's also DJ Donimo's 10th anni w/ his partner Dan........yey!!!! I'll be there after 10.......

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James Brown live!!

DP — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:30:07 GMT

finally saw #1 Soul Brother himself last nite for the 1st time ever.....and what a show!!! I was pleasantly surprised......he's still got the moves in him and some of the voice......and he plays the organ on the instrumentals just like the ol' days.......worth seeing........sure it bordered on Las Vegas cheesiness at times but still alot of fun!!!

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1/8 Birthdays Elvis & David Bowie

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:38:40 GMT

David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947 in London) is an English rock musician and actor.
to continue bio go to 1st link

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie

www.davidbowie.com/

www.bowiewonderworld.com/

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Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known as "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" and "Elvis the Pelvis", was an American singer, song producer and actor.
Rolling Stone magazine claimed "Elvis Presley is rock 'n' roll" and called his body of work "acres of perfect material." During an active recording career that spanned more than two decades, Presley set and broke many records for both concert attendance and sales. Since then, those records have only been matched and/or broken by the likes of The Beatles, Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey. Presley had more than 100 singles in the US top 40 and 17 went to number one. He has reportedly sold an estimated one billion records to date.
to continue bio go to the 1st link

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley

www.elvis.com/

www.elvis.ro/

www.imdb.com/name/nm0000062/

and the FBI Freedom of INformation ACt files on Elvis

http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/presley.htm

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Top Ten of 2005

DP — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:21:01 GMT

what I heard and devoured.......

1]Tales from Turnpike House-Saint Etienne
2]Twin Cinema-New Pornographers
3]Go-Betweens-Oceans Apart
4]the Clientele-Strange Geometry
5]Dungen-Te........
6]James Carter-Gold Sounds[jazz readings of Pavement tunes]
7]White Stripes-Get Behind me Satan
8]Bettye Lavette
9]Brian Wilson-Smile
10]ok.......will check back on this one......

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the Earlies

DP — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:53:32 GMT

a new discovery for me......been around a couple years.......psych-ish.......good stuff......check out "These are the Earlies" for starters.......

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best of 2005 new and reissues

DP — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:32:32 GMT

ok........Saint Etienne-"Tales from Turnpike House"
Kate Bush-"Aerial" the Clientele-"Strange Geometry"

reissues-Patti Smith "Horses-30th Anniversary edition" "Spurts"-Richard Hell "Girl Groups-Lost and Found"-Rhino [hat]box set

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Kate Bush To Release New Album

bridgetds — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 03:46:50 GMT

...And it's a double -- 'Aerial.'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4204166.stm

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79 Cheers to Chuck Berry

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:05:14 GMT

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (born October 18, 1926), better known as Chuck Berry, is a highly influential African American guitarist, singer and composer. Berry was born in St. Louis, Missouri and was part of the first group to be inducted into the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986. He received Kennedy Center Honors in 2000.

Biography
As a young man, Berry served a three-year term in reform school for attempted burglary. He was later arrested for stealing a car. Chuck Berry had been playing a form of the "blues" since his teens and by early 1953 was performing with "Sir John's Trio," a band that played at a popular club in St. Louis. In May of 1955, he traveled to Chicago where he met Muddy Waters who suggested he contact Chess Records. Signed to a contract, that September he released a unique version of the Bob Wills song, "Ida Red", under the title, "Maybellene." The song eventually peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard charts. At the end of June, 1956 his song "Roll Over Beethoven" reached No. 29 on the Billboard charts. In the fall of 1957, Berry joined the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly and other rising stars of the new rock and roll to tour the United States.
In December 1959 Berry had legal problems after he invited a 14-year-old Apache waitress he met in Mexico to work as a hat check girl at his nightclub (Berry's Club Bandstand) in St. Louis. After the girl was arrested on a prostitution charge, so was Berry, who stood accused under the Mann Act of transporting a minor across state lines for sexual purposes. Berry was convicted, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $5,000. He was released in 1963 but his best years were now behind him.
Chuck toured for many years carrying only his Gibson guitar, confident that he could hire a band that already knew his music no matter where he went. Among the many bandleaders performing this backup role were Bruce Springsteen and Steve Miller. Springsteen backed Chuck again when he appeared at the "Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" in 1995.
After travelling the oldies circuit in the 1970s, he was in trouble with the law again in 1979, when he pled guilty to income tax evasion and was sentenced to four months imprisonment and 1,000 hours of community service doing benefit concerts.
In the late 1980s, Berry owned a restaurant in Wentzville, Missouri, called The Southern Air. Berry also owns an estate in Wentzville called Berry Park. For many years, Berry hosted rock concerts throughout the summer at Berry Park. He eventually closed the estate to the public due to the riotous behavior of many guests.
Although in his late 70s, Berry continues to perform regularly, playing both throughout the United States and overseas. He performs one Wednesday each month at Blueberry Hill, a restaurant and bar located in the Delmar Loop neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri.
A documentary was made about Chuck and a concert he did in 1987 called "Hail Hail Rock and Roll".
Berry was also the subject of attention in the early 1990s for his alleged voyeurism of female guests in the bathrooms of his home and restaurant.
Influence
A pioneer of Rock and Roll, Chuck Berry had a significant influence on others. When Keith Richards inducted Berry into the Hall of Fame, he said, "It's hard for me to induct Chuck Berry, because I lifted every lick he ever played!" John Lennon, another devotee of Berry, borrowed a line from Berry's "You Can't Catch Me" for his song "Come Together," and was subsequently sued by Berry's management. Angus Young of AC/DC, who has cited Berry as one of his biggest influences, is famous for using Berry's duckwalk as one of his gimmicks.
While there is debate about who recorded the first rock and roll record, Chuck Berry's early recordings, including "Maybellene" (1955) fully synthesized the rock and roll form, combining blues and country music with teenaged lyrics about girls and cars, with impeccable diction alongside distinctive electric guitar solos and an energetic stage persona. Chuck Berry also popularized use of the boogie in rock and roll.
Most of his famous recordings were on Chess Records with pianist Johnnie Johnson from Berry's own band and legendary record producer Willie Dixon on bass, Fred Below on drums and Berry's guitar, arguably the epitome of an early rock and roll band.
Producer Leonard Chess recalled laconically:
"I told Chuck to give it a bigger beat. History the rest, you know? The kids wanted the big beat, cars, and young love. It was a trend and we jumped on it."
Berry's musical influences were Nat King Cole, smooth singer and master pianist, Louis Jordan, very much Chuck's model, and Muddy Waters, singer and guitarist vital in the transformation of Delta blues into Chicago blues and the man who introduced Berry to Leonard Chess at Chess Records.
Throughout his career Berry recorded both smooth ballads like "Havana Moon" and blues tunes like "Wee Wee Hours." but it was his own mastery of the new form that won him fame. He recorded more than thirty Top Ten records and his songs have been covered by hundreds of blues, country, and rock and roll performers.

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a reason to cheer!!! Delta 5 domestic!!!!

DP — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:17:07 GMT

Kill Rock Stars will release Delta 5-Singles and Sessions 79-81 early next year........woo hoo......!!!

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Fest Sat/Sun

DP — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 18:09:07 GMT

ok...gonna miss the Knitters and Gillian Welch today but....plan on going tomorrow afternoon for the songwriter's circle[Steve Earle,Guy Clark,Joe Ely,etc] and Rosanne Cash and of course......DOLLY!!!!

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Dylan doc on PBS 2nite and Tues

DP — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:41:00 GMT

check yr local stations......Dylan doc "No Direction Home" on PBS.....directed by Martin Scorcese.............9pm both nites......should be very interesting........

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2 new Rhino box set must-haves

DP — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:06:41 GMT

"Children Of Nuggets"-power pop and neo-garage stuff from the 70's and 80's........"One Kiss Leads to Another"-girl pop rock soul etc from the 60's........woo hoo!!!! 4 cd sets!!!!

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utter Madness

DP — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:11:07 GMT

I have to say how great Madness were at Bimbo's last nite.....I had no expectations.....they were wonderful.....full-on knock em' dead and funky cool horn section....did all the "hits" and the stuff[covers] from the new record worked better live........Madness......they call it Madness!!!!! it was not just a trip down memory lane......

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Happy Birthday Joan Jett (my queen of R N R)

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:37:59 GMT

Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin on September 22, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American rock and roll guitarist, singer, and actress best known for her hit "I Love Rock N' Roll," which was #1 on the Billboard charts from March 20th to May 8th, 1982.

Career and Biography
Joan Jett was born in Philadelphia. She later moved to Hollywood, California, where, when still in her teens, she first gained attention as the guitarist, main songwriter and back-up singer in the pioneering all-women band The Runaways, known for pre-punk hard rock and the classic song "Cherry Bomb." Once lead singer Cherie Currie left the band, Joan assumed the duties of lead vocalist. Although the band was misconstrued in the U.S. as a novelty act, they were very popular almost everywhere else, particularly in Japan. Subsequently, they have proved enormously influential for other women in bands and are regarded as pioneers.

After the Runaways disbanded in 1979, she produced an album for Los Angeles punk rock band, The Germs, then embarked on a solo career. Although she approached many labels, not one would sign her due to the stigma that accompanied her former band The Runaways, and so she and manager and co-writer Kenny Laguna created their own independent record label, Blackheart Records to release recordings by her new band, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.

With the Blackhearts, she had several singles in the top ten, including the #1 "I Love Rock N' Roll" cover, originally by The Arrows, as well as covers of Tommy James' "Crimson and Clover" and Gary Glitter's "Do You Wanna Touch Me". "Bad Reputation", whose accompanying video narrates the story of the rejection of Joan by major labels and the creation of her own record label, was also a hit. During this time, Jett toured relentlessly. One of the highlights of her live performance is the cover of the AC/DC song "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap". Her cover of the song Little Drummer Boy appears on the soundtrack to the 1983 film Class. In 1989, she had two more hits with the Blackhearts, "I Hate Myself For Loving You" and "Little Liar".

Film and television appearances, personal life
Joan Jett's first appearance on film is in the 1981 live concert film Urgh!, subtitled A Music War, performing with her band The Blackhearts. Her first acting role came in 1987, co-starring with Gena Rowlands and Michael J. Fox in the Paul Schrader film Light Of Day. She has also appeared in some independent films, including Du-beat-E-O which was originally entitled We're All Crazy Now and was to have been about The Runaways. Production difficulties necessitated changes and the film was rewritten to focus around Jett and released in 1984.

In 1997, Joan appeared in the independent film, Boogie Boy, directed by Craig Hamann and most recently has appeared in the Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Show in the role of "Columbia".

During the 1990s, Joan officially, though subtly, "came out" in The Advocate. At the same time, she appeared on the Ellen show, performing the title song. She also appeared on the television show Highlander and covered the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show of the 1970s. Her song "Bad Reputation" was used as the theme song for the cult tv show Freaks and Geeks.

Later music career

Joan Jett visits American troops at Fort BraggJoan returned to producing for the band Circus Lupus in 1992 and again, in 1994, for Bikini Kill. This recording was the New Radio EP for which Jett also played and sang back-up vocals. It was during the 1990s that the Riot Grrrl movement arose, of which Bikini Kill was a representative band, and many of these women credited Joan as a role model and inspiration. Another Riot Grrrl band, Bratmobile, covered the song "Cherry Bomb" as a tribute to her. At this time Joan co-wrote several songs with Kathleen Hannah of Bikini Kill, foremost among them, "Activity Girl".

Near the end of the 1990s she worked with members of The Gits, whose lead singer and lyricist, Mia Zapata had been murdered. The results of their collaboration together was a live LP, Evil Stig, whose earnings were used in an effort to find Mia's murderer and bring him to justice. To this end, the band and Jett appeared on the television show America's Most Wanted, appealing to the public for information. The case was finally solved in 2004, when Zapata's murderer was finally brought to trial and convicted.

Current projects
Joan Jett's primary focus remains on recording and touring. Rumours of a Runaways reunion have sparked new interest in her old band and the members are known to be friends. Joan has recently released material by Cherie Curie on her own label, Blackheart Records.

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Fats Domino Missing

bridgetds — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:20:53 GMT

From cnn.com:

The 77-year-old R&B legend, whose real name is Antoine Domino, told Embry that he planned to stay at his New Orleans house with his wife, Rosemary, and their daughter.

"I hope somebody turns him up, but as of right now, we haven't got anybody that knows where he's at," said Embry, who has worked with Domino for 28 years. "I would think he might be safe because somebody said he was on top of the balcony."

Checquoline Davis, Domino's niece, posted a message on Craigslist.org Thursday pleading for information. Davis wrote that Domino, his wife, their children and grandchildren "didn't get out" of the second floor.

Domino, who has rarely appeared in public in recent years, has a home in the 9th ward, a low-lying area of the flooded city.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/01/katrina.fatsdomino.ap/index.html

Apparently, other NOLA musicians have been affected: Allen Toussaint is reportedly one of the +25K who've been forced to seek refuge in the Superdome; and Alex Chilton lives in downtown NOLA, though his residence is supposedly on higher ground.

I just wish it were within my means to help. This is shaping up to be worse than 9/11, in terms of property and lives lost.

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Love Letter to New Orleans

rnizanzchk — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:49:25 GMT

This is from my friend Shadow Angelina who escaped to Shreveport with her mother. Please forward - if I could be John Cusack holding up the boombox so her voice can be heard. My drowning hurting city - my beautiful friend - her aching heart... pass it on.

My Love,
You are the first safe place that I have known. Seems strange to say considering your reputation. When we first met, I was young, stupid, self-involved. Even then, I could feel you, see you, I was so drawn to you but could not understand why. The closer I looked, the more I got to know you, I could see that in so many ways, I had been blind. They say that familiarity breeds contempt. That may be true for some, but not for you and I. The longer I loved you, the wider your lips, the more spread your arms.
You introduced me to strange and sad and brilliant creatures. You showed me things I never could have imagined. I grew up with you. I am who I am, how I am, in large part because of your influence. You stayed up with me when everyone had gone to sleep. You whispered and shouted and chastised and humiliated me. I watched as so many that I have cared for have cursed your name and blamed you for their failures. I watched you destroy people close to me. I have never been truly alone for as long as I have known you. Even if it may have felt so.

I adore you, Lover. Your dips and crevices, cracks and curves, the harsh bumps and delicate details. Your rhythm, your age and wisdom. Your cruelty. Your sensitivity. Your aloofess. Your flow and cadence. The blood of you. Your soul. The way you smell in the rain. Your harsh laughter. I am yours. Perhaps I always have been, even at first though I did not know it.
You are the first safe place that I have known. Being forcibly separated from you gives me pain like none I have ever felt. This wrenching sob that will not come out.
Some laugh at my devotion. They acknowledge your beauty but cannot feel your pulse. They do not know what it feels like to be cradled by you. They don't 'get it'. I would feel pity for them but really I can only be grateful that this is mine.

You have taken so many lovers. I will not be the last. You are the ultimate whore with a discerning palate. You are Kali and Kali-mah. Mother, saint, fallen woman, so much and now, once again, a supplicant bows at your feet and begs you to be the phoenix. Because I cannot fathom a world without you.
I would tear apart those that have abused you and continue to do so, even now. Rip out the tongues of those that would slander your name. If I could, I would protect you. But I cannot.

Lover, while I am away, do take care. I know your story and I realize that you will not be the same when I return. But I will return to you. Of course you know that. I will cover your face with my kisses and fill your gaps with my tears. You are the only safe place that I have ever known, my sacred New Orleans.

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New Tribe Girl Groups of 50's and 60's

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 03:51:43 GMT

They are all there from The Dixie Cups & Supremes to The Ronnettes and The VelVelettes.

http://tribes.tribe.net/girlgroups?r=10659

please stop by and take a gander

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killer downloads

DP — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 01:25:41 GMT

Jamie Lidell-"Multiply" and other songs from same titled record
Caesars-"Dont Fear the Reaper"
new Frank Black-"Honeycomb"
Placebo w/ Kate Bush-"Running Up that Hill"

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O. M. F. G!

bridgetds — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:51:53 GMT

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009CTUPA/102-1446957-3786554?v=glance

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Fun House reissue

Tim (DJ Donimo) — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:58:42 GMT

I get so annoyed when crap is reissued, and I'm expected to buy it again. I caved in and bought the Fun House reissue, cuz it was on sale at Tower. I haven't listened to the cd of bonus crap yet.

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Low & Red House Painters Join Forces!

bridgetds — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:00:55 GMT

Well, Alan Spearhawk and Mark Kozelek, anyway...

> Slowcore godfathers Alan Sparhawk (Low, Black Eyed Snakes) and Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon) are joining forces, along with Duluth comrades Eric Pollard and Matthew Livingstone, as the "Retribution Gospel Choir" for a U.S. tour this fall...Word on the street is that the Choir is a full-blown rock band.

They're playing Bottom of the Hill in SF on Sept. 6.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-08/11.shtml#sparhawk

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some good shows

DP — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:59:55 GMT

I'm going to a few........Loquat at the Great American on the 20th.....finally heard a track of theirs and I like it[Swingset Chain].........New Pornographers at Bimbo's in September[fab power pop from Canada w/ Neko Case on backup vocals],and on Oct. 3 at the Independent,Four Tet and opener Jamie Lidell who I think is tremendous and someone to watch in 2006!!!

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Analysis of Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl"

bridgetds — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:02:29 GMT

Snicker! This was posted in the 'I Just Think It's Neat' tribe.

http://www.ocweekly.com/printme.php?&eid=63738

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new Hendrix bio

DP — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:42:03 GMT

written by Charles Cross[author of the Cobain bio].......hot off the press.....incredibly well-researched.......a must read for psych-60's fans!!!!

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what have you purchased lately??

DP — Mon, 09 May 2005 23:50:52 GMT

today......Suzi Quatro[1st 2 albums,hope it's remastered],Tindersticks 2nd w/ bonus live at Bloomsbury cd[remastered],and Love Peace and Poetry-the Brazilian 60's Psych collection........

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Today's Cat and Girl

bridgetds — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 18:03:44 GMT

"Whose word do we have that it's he they've been coming to see? The Piano Man could be as delusional as the old man making love to his tonic and gin."

http://www.catandgirl.com/

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ABC at Red Devil Lounge Sept. 2

DP — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:58:49 GMT

I think I may just be compelled to go.........

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"Get Behind Me Satan"

DP — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:54:27 GMT

new White Stripes.....a review soon......yay!!!

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Acquisition

DP — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 04:19:33 GMT

my roomie put this in my IBook.....oh wow!!! I'm dowloading alot of great stuff......!!!!!

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newbie purchases

DP — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:10:38 GMT

a French garage/pop comp of 60's bands[Gentlemen de Paris],Joe Meek box set,Boo Radleys comp,the Brunettes 2nd[New Zealand,not as cool as I had imagined],a comp called "Bubble Pop"-UK Pop Oddities from the 70's"

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Go! Team Wed at Bimbo's

DP — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 18:32:18 GMT

this is a show not to be missed!!!! think it's gonna be a highlight of the year!!!

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Smiths Musical

bridgetds — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:55:08 GMT

Has anyone else seen this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/theater/18smit.html?

First few paragraphs:

Mining the Drama in a Rock Catalog
By JON PARELES

LONDON - Rock's conquest of the West End here, and of Broadway, has arrived largely in the form of unchallenging oldies: familiar songs that mimic the recorded hits and are attached to revue vignettes or a cobbled-together storyline. Queen, Abba and Billy Joel are among those whose songs have found that kind of afterlife, and a John Lennon musical on Broadway is now in previews.

The Smiths - a band from Manchester, England, whose singer and lyricist, Morrissey, taught a generation-wide cult how to mope with melodramatic self-consciousness - are getting an entirely different treatment in "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others," a music-theater piece based on Smiths songs; the band lasted from 1982 to 1987.

The show is at the Lyric theater in the Hammersmith neighborhood (far from the West End) through July 23, and is booked for Ireland and Australia.

"Some Girls" seeks the spirit of the Smiths' songs by transforming them. The arrangements are not for rock band, but for string quartet with electronics. Morrissey's heartsick legato croon is reassigned to four women and two men, who deliver anything from keening, primal unaccompanied wails to swing-era harmonies. The Smiths' lyrics were proudly defenseless and unguarded: "I know I'm unlovable/ You don't have to tell me." Yet the staging doesn't wrap them in obvious scenarios. The show is an allusive, surreal, ever-mutating fantasia on love and sex, family and control, violence and death.

The women take on archetypal roles as a child, a young woman and a mother; there's also a red-headed diva. An older and younger man are like a father and grown son; and there's a young boy on video, at first isolated and frightened, but eventually smiling and stepping into the light. They interact in love and rage, but there is no simple story. The younger man, Garrie Harvey, sings, "I am human and I want to be loved" while dressed as a rabbit; the girlish Katie Brayben is at various times a cellist, a trapeze artist and a gunslinger.

"What I wanted to make was a world that was recognizable but somehow changed, very 'Alice Through the Looking Glass,' " said Andrew Wale, the director. "You go through this mirror, and it's somehow different, although you recognize all the elements. What I also wanted to do was to try and get a group of performers who would treat this very strange, dislocated and adjusted world as their normality, so that we could sit there and then go, 'Well, maybe we'll look at our own world and realize the abnormalities in that a little bit more strongly.' "

"Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" is the second major collaboration, under the name Anonymous Society, by Mr. Wale and the music director Perrin Manzer Allen. Both had been longtime Smiths fans. "I never even thought about why I loved them so much," Mr. Wale said. "It's a very teenage thing, that kind of teenage angst, that sense of not being taken seriously and being taken advantage off. There's definitely a kind of martyrdom complex in there."

"It's really effortful being young and trying to fit in with your peer group," he continued, "and this was an invitation to be completely outside that. Morrissey invited you to laugh at him, but the invitation implied that if you laughed there was always going to be something that proved you wrong. There were multiple inversions of sophistication in it."

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Britpop meets hip hop and it's my fave rite now!!!

DP — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:35:01 GMT

I'm really really enjoying the Gorillaz "Demon Days" cd.....in fact,it's my fave record of the year so far.....it's a great summer record......damn fine beats,nice melodic strokes from Damon Albarn[from Blur],super cool to listen to on headphones!!!! check it out!!!

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Melissa Ferrick & Kaki King Shows

rnizanzchk — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 05:29:40 GMT

Just wanted to let y'all know that there are still tickets available for these performers' shows at Freight & Salvage. They are going to be amazing performances.

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The Runaways Joan Jett Lita FOrd

Tue, 07 Jun 2005 07:18:31 GMT

He there. I just wanted to let you know about a tribe called Neon Angels dedicated to The Runaways , Joan Jett , Lita Ford and the rest (with some nods to Girlschool and Suzi Quatro)

Stop by and take a looksie. Have links to videos, some fansites, big gallery of pics

Hope to see you there

http://neonangels.tribe.net/

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4th of July listening.......

DP — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:54:01 GMT

started off the day w/ some medium heavy dubby reggae.....now the Flaming Lips "Transmissions......" don't know what's next.....missing my friends Dixieland band at Yerba Buena.........oh well..........

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Shadowplay Stage at Pride

DP — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 04:23:21 GMT

Hyde near Market......get yr rocks off for Pride!!!!!!

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Chocolate Watchband

DP — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 04:18:26 GMT

just got the complete recordings of this band........it's sonic heaven!!!!!

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stern grove

ann — Tue, 03 May 2005 17:13:28 GMT

hey, I'm kinda new hear and maybe this doesn't quite belong, but I just gotta share:

John Doe and Lucinda Williams at Stern Grove!!!

Now THERE is the potential for a coooooool picnic.

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Doves 2nite!!!

DP — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:39:26 GMT

I've got an extra tix if anyone in SF area is interested.....$30......supposed to be incredible live!!!!

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oh calling DJ Donimo.....!!!

DP — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:02:21 GMT

time to toot yr own horn!!!! tell us about the festivities coming up for Pride!!!pleazzzzzze!!!! I know you have a stage at Pride,etc.............

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a song for today 10

DP — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:26:24 GMT

"People Have the Power"-Patti Smith

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Queen Rampage!!!

DP — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:01:27 GMT

ok Anti-Sean.......what's w/ the Queen Rampage???

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fave T. Rex song

DP — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 21:27:20 GMT

mine is prob "Jeepster".....can't get much sexier and hotter than this one.....

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poor Kelly!!!

DP — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 03:34:41 GMT

Kelly Osborne enters rehab!!!! oh....big surprise!!!!

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Kylie[for Tim]....

DP — Wed, 18 May 2005 18:00:54 GMT

and other fans....wishing her a speedy recovery!!!!

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"Edgeplay"-doc about the Runaways

DP — Mon, 09 May 2005 18:25:18 GMT

is now out on DVD....apparently,Netflix have it....I don't have that service anymore....I'll look around and see who has it......Joan Jett would have nothing to do w/ the project......they could only use snippets of their music too......still wanna see it!!!

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a song for today 9

DP — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:25:35 GMT

the perfect sentiment....."Take this Job and Shove It"!!!

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MC5

Alexandra — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:29:19 GMT

I just put a poster in our album from a Motor City 5 show in Great Neck (NY?) at some Jr. High in 1969...check it out.

Our HS almost got Queensryche at one point but still,
this kicks ass!

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Glam/goth trivia

Tim (DJ Donimo) — Fri, 27 May 2005 17:04:51 GMT

In honor of tonight's Shadowplay glam night...Who was going to produce the first Siouxsie and the Banshees rekkid, but couldn't (I can't tell you why, or that'd give it away)?

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a show to get revved up about!!

DP — Fri, 20 May 2005 20:03:58 GMT

Stereo Total and the Gossip at Bimbo's on Thursday May 26....I'll be ushering....come say hello!

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Zen Arcade

DP — Mon, 23 May 2005 02:13:40 GMT

finally......rebought a copy of Husker Du's "Zen Arcade" which is a certified indie rock classic.......gonna have to listen to it soon.........

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a song for today 8

DP — Wed, 18 May 2005 14:52:54 GMT

"Love Will Tear Us Apart" "Norwegian Wood" tons.....floods of memories......"Foxy Lady"..........

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a song for today 7

DP — Wed, 11 May 2005 17:50:34 GMT

"Cloudbursting"-Kate Bush sue me!!!

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new tribe: Working Class Queers

Alexandra — Tue, 10 May 2005 04:37:10 GMT

please join us at:
workingclassqueers.tribe.net

a little introduction is in order. I'll be your moderator.

I was born into a GI family in the USA and have thus lived on and near fabulous military bases all over the lower 48 and AK. Locations include many of our vast and wild western deserts, like the Columbia River Plateau and the Mojave Desert. Others included the largest staging point for the Vietnam War, Tacoma, home of both McChord Air Force Base and Fort Lewis.

This is where I was born. My dad, whose family was anthracite coal miners in PA, quit HS to join the air force, and my mom, whose folks were dairy farmers, went to secretarial school to get a civilian job on base.

We're german, welsh, scots-irish, french, and native american.

I knew I was queer without the luxury of any role models. This was in the days when military doctors still used shock therapy on many lucky psychiatric patients, thankfully not me. I focussed on getting through HS, and moving to Seattle, the big city for us, where there was queers. I had no idea what they'd be like, but I had no choice but to go.

I went to a state university, where I studied economics and languages. I presently work with HIV positive people who are on a fixed income.

please feel free to fill us in on yourself.

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Raveonettes Rave On!!!

DP — Wed, 04 May 2005 19:02:54 GMT

oh,I love this band....they got all the good influences[girl group circa 60's,surf,Sonic Youth,Blondie,Jesus and Mary Chain].....for a Danish band they sound more "American" than any American band!!! super cool!!!

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Gang of 4 2nite!!!

DP — Mon, 02 May 2005 18:15:27 GMT

can't wait even though I feel practically crippled rite now!!! see ya there!!!

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Ramones-"End of the Century" on PBS

DP — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:41:53 GMT

check yr local listings....this is one doc you don't want to miss!!! very moving.......

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New Order/Chemical Bros-April 29th

DP — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:11:40 GMT

show has been added.....Henry J. Kaiser-Oakland already got tix for Fiery Furnaces that nite........

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a song for today 6

DP — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:57:09 GMT

"Streets of Your Town"-the Go-Betweens.......a brilliant Aussie band....I can't rave enuff!!!!

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a song for today 5

DP — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:21:02 GMT

"Ferry Cross the Mersey"........

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what's rocking yr little world rite now????

DP — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:16:39 GMT

Mod comp "Doin' the Mod-Volume 2.........Australian comp "Clarion Call'-a very obscure label from down under[60's beat/R+B/pop-psych stuff......and because I'm a jazzbo at times.....Don Byron's "Ivey Divey"

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bush ain't no fortunate son?

Tim (DJ Donimo) — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:29:58 GMT

hilarious: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/11/MNGQTC699Q1.DTL

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a song for today 2

DP — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 00:08:34 GMT

"Blue Monday"-New Order.....even thought it ain't Monday.......

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a song for today 4

DP — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:39:18 GMT

"Blue Jay Way"-the Beatles.......gonna eat at the Blue Jay Cafe today so.......

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a song for today 3

DP — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:09:03 GMT

hello sunshine-Super Furry Animals

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just announced!!!

DP — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 00:20:41 GMT

Go-Betweens at Slim's on June 17....I am there!!! Brian Wllson performs "Smile" September 2 at the Greek.....might be there!!!!

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a song for today

DP — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 17:09:04 GMT

"Sentimental Fool"-Roxy Music

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the soundtrack of your lives

DP — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 17:41:29 GMT

ok...so what's the soundtrack of yr life[so far].......birth and childhood-Mack the Knife-Bobby Darin[#1 when I was born],"Downtown"-Pet Clark,Tijuana Brass[loved that "Whipped Cream" cover],"Java"-Al Hirt,Ella Fitzgerald and show tunes[no thanks,Mom],Bobby Sherman,Partridge Family,Jackson Five,Beatles.......savage teenage years-Carole King-"Tapestry",the Doors "Morrison Hotel","Bursting at the Seams"-the Strawbs,Yes albums[yes!],Elton John,then the punk explosion[yey!]-Patti Smith-"Horses"[still my fave],Ramones,Sex Pistols,LA/Orange County breakdown-X-"Los Angeles",Rodney on the ROQ[every Sunday nite],disco/club classics and not so classic,New Order-"Blue Monday",industrial and post punking in Silverlake leather bars,adulthood-too many to mention but my faves are still Patti and Love-"Forever Changes",Bob Dylan-"Blood on the Tracks",Damned-1st record,Stones-"Between the Buttons",X-"Los Angeles",alot of tunes by the Fall,Wire,Todd Rundgren,Roxy Music,T.Rex,David Bowie,Pretty Things,the Who,Richard and Linda Thompson,Tindersticks,Mekons,etc etc.........

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Neil Young ok

DP — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:33:16 GMT

he had a brain aneurysm.....expected to make a full recovery!!!! thank goodness.......

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Doves/Mercury Rev-May 1st Fillmore

DP — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:49:30 GMT

have to get tix this Sunday...for my sis....she may get us on guest list though.....any other takers?? then Gang of Four next nite.....whoa!!! guess you'll meet my sis then.......

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LZ

fayewantsanothername — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 04:00:15 GMT

I'm in such a Led Zepplin phase right now. It's all I've been listening to for the past few days. Especially Houses of the Holy on repeat. I hope I don't kill them...

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Steve Perry=Greek god

DP — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:43:56 GMT

one of the hottest and hunkiest rock stars ever!!!! I do declare!!!!!

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Worst rock song ever

Tim (DJ Donimo) — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:09:56 GMT

What do you think is the worst rock song ever recorded? I'm limiting this to rock, because we all know it would be too easy to say "anything by eminem, garth brooks, britney, etc".

My vote: "Layla". That song makes me want to kill.

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Prey for Rock & Roll

villavillekula — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:56:47 GMT

Has anybody seen this movie. It was just mentioned in the British magazine for lesbians, Diva. When I looked up in google, it says it was made in 2003. I had never heard of it but then I have been living abroad since 2003.

Prey For Rock & Roll is the story of Jacki and her all-girl rock and roll band, Clam Dandy, who are trying to make it in the LA club scene of the late 1980's. After ten years of being ignored by record producers, Jacki and the band find hope in one producer who promises to see them play and consider them for a contract. Jacki resolves to play this one last gig and then throw in the towel if she does not find success. Personal tragedies, however, threaten to rip the band apart, rocking the foundation of friendship and trust the women have built together. Ultimately, the band must find its strength in the music that is their passion and the thread that holds them together, inspiring them to prevail.

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fave toons rite at this moment in time

DP — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:32:46 GMT

"I Predict a Riot"-the Kaiser Chiefs
"Tangled Up in Blue"-Dylan
live version of "I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea"-Elvis Costello
"the Ship Song"-Nick Cave