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I thought about maybe coming out there for that this year but it’s too close to NHL opening weekend and I have tix for Angels & Airwaves that weekend.
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They’re not selling merch for GY!BE but they’ve allowed LA Antifa to setup merch and are selling books and United Front t-shirts.
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Could go in the brushes with thread but seen at the Godspeed You! Black Emperor show — Aya Cash, Scoot McNairy and Seth Rogen.

The new version of BBF3 with film of Trump supporters assaulting protestors intertwined with southern cops assaulting civil rights marchers and Nazi troops beating protestors in the 1930s was insanely powerful.
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DaveInSeattle wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 11:21 am
sancarlos wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 11:10 am Yeah, I agree. Nothing after Tattoo You worth listening to. I still regularly listen to their old stuff tho. Exile on Main Street, Sticky Fingers. That's the stuff.

I saw the Stones in 1981. My friends and I were like, "Hey, they're getting old. We better go to this show, because who knows if there will ever be another one!"
I saw them in '89, and thought the same thing.
Saw them in '89 as well. I was in college and thought they were really old, but I was impressed at how active they were at that age. That was 30 years ago. The mind boggles.
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Saw the Claypool-Lennon Delirium this weekend. Fantastic.
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The new expanded line-up (with Selvidge on guitar and Franz back on keyboards) for the Hold Steady sounded fantastic. Put on one hell of a show Friday night.

ETA: Before the band came out on Friday night, as their intro music, they played Soundgarden's 'Mind Riot'. To hear that song, super loud, in that venue, was pretty much perfect.

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DaveInSeattle wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2019 11:25 am The new expanded line-up (with Selvidge on guitar and Franz back on keyboards) for the Hold Steady sounded fantastic. Put on one hell of a show Friday night.

ETA: Before the band came out on Friday night, as their intro music, they played Soundgarden's 'Mind Riot'. To hear that song, super loud, in that venue, was pretty much perfect.

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Seeing queen on Friday in Charlotte. Took youngest to buy T-shirts since you can’t wear a queen shirt to a queen show. He got a Led Zeppelin and I got a Guns N’ Roses similarities to queen be damned. Looking forward to it. It was a Christmas present eight months in the making.
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After the first couple of songs, which was either my ears adjusting or the sound techs adjusting, the hat was a pretty awesome show.

ETA: Brain May really controls the whole show. It’s impressive. He barely left stage until very late. Had an extended solo around a show that was super cool. And Adam Lambert is no Freddie Mercury but he does the songs justice.

They also do a good job using videos and sound of Freddie at certain moments. This was apparently the last show of the tour. They player for just over two hours. Very pleased.
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Thinking about heading to LA in a few weekends for a VGK/LAK game on Oct 13 and checking out Pollstar for concert listings on October 12 and came across this gem.

The Hu, a Mongolian metal band, is playing The Teragram Ballroom on Saturday and The Who is playing the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday. I would love to see how many The Who fans end up at the former thinking it's some kind of "secret" club show.

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Seeing Elton John tonight. Should be fun...
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Seeing The Mountain Goats/Lydia Loveless. Excited about both. First-ever time seeing The Mountain Goats and it's the final show of this tour.

ETA: Bonus points for getting to see Jon Wurster's twitter feed for the next couple of days.

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brian wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 11:38 am Seeing The Mountain Goats/Lydia Loveless. Excited about both. First-ever time seeing The Mountain Goats and it's the final show of this tour.
Lydia Loveless is one of my favorites.
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brian wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 11:38 am Seeing The Mountain Goats/Lydia Loveless. Excited about both. First-ever time seeing The Mountain Goats and it's the final show of this tour.

ETA: Bonus points for getting to see Jon Wurster's twitter feed for the next couple of days.

He's one of my favorite follows, and he's even better on Instagram.
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Giff wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 1:25 pm
brian wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 11:38 am Seeing The Mountain Goats/Lydia Loveless. Excited about both. First-ever time seeing The Mountain Goats and it's the final show of this tour.
Lydia Loveless is one of my favorites.
I just met her after the show and she is intimidating. Not in a bad necessarily but damn. I’m still a little shook.

Awesome show all the way around. Dardanelle was in great form.

ETA: Saw John Wurster and the bassist at In-N-Out a half hour after the show. Small town sometimes.
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So, I was watching Lydia Loveless opening and this couple behind me just would not shut up, so after three songs of that I turned around and just politely asked if they could save their conversation until her set was over and they were cool about it and did.

So after the show, the woman starts talking to me and is really apologetic and said they didn't realize they were being loud and generally just being really cool about it and she hands me a small package and says she wants me to have it but to wait to open until later because she didn't want to be embarrassed. She said she's an artist and makes one for each song on a particular album for bands she likes and will just give them out or leave them to be found. So this was for "Broom People" on The Sunset Tree.

They offered to buy me a beer too, but they were so contrite and so nice and it was just such a nice gesture to give me her art, I refused saying I had won some money earlier (I had not).

It was a good lesson that it's best to be polite and also to sometimes say something when you normally might otherwise suffer in silence.

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brian wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2019 11:34 am So, I was watching Lydia Loveless opening and this couple behind me just would not shut up, so after three songs of that I turned around and just politely asked if they could save their conversation until her set was over and they were cool about it and did.

So after the show, the woman starts talking to me and is really apologetic and said they didn't realize they were being loud and generally just being really cool about it and she hands me a small package and says she wants me to have it but to wait to open until later because she didn't want to be embarrassed. She said she's an artist and makes one for each song on a particular album for bands she likes and will just give them out or leave them to be found. So this was for "Broom People" on The Sunset Tree.

They offered to buy me a beer too, but they were so contrite and so nice and it was just such a nice gesture to give me her art, I refused saying I had won some money earlier (I had not).

It was a good lesson that it's best to be polite and also to sometimes say something when you normally might otherwise suffer in silence.

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Elton John last night was...well....Elton Fuckin' John. Which is to say pretty amazing (All Killer/No Filler!). Played for 3 hours, and every song was fantastic.

He got pretty emotional at the end, when he was thanking the audience and saying how lucky he's been to be able to do this for 50 years.

The one question I had is: Where did he get his rug/hairplugs? Must be the same guy that does Tom Brady's...
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brian wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2019 1:11 am
Giff wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 1:25 pm
brian wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 11:38 am Seeing The Mountain Goats/Lydia Loveless. Excited about both. First-ever time seeing The Mountain Goats and it's the final show of this tour.
Lydia Loveless is one of my favorites.
I just met her after the show and she is intimidating. Not in a bad necessarily but damn. I’m still a little shook.

OK, need to hear more about this.
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Giff wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2019 11:46 am
brian wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2019 1:11 am
Giff wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 1:25 pm
brian wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2019 11:38 am Seeing The Mountain Goats/Lydia Loveless. Excited about both. First-ever time seeing The Mountain Goats and it's the final show of this tour.
Lydia Loveless is one of my favorites.
I just met her after the show and she is intimidating. Not in a bad necessarily but damn. I’m still a little shook.

OK, need to hear more about this.
She was very nice and I only talked with her for about 20 seconds, but she just has an absolutely withering look when she looks at you. I don't know how to best describe it. Like she seemed like she was fine to talk to me for a few seconds and she wasn't acting like I was wasting her time and was gracious, but if I thought that she did think that combined with the look she gave me, it felt like I would have turned into a puddle. Maybe the word I'm looking for is just "charisma". I've only been that close (i.e. literally face to face) with a small number of people with whom I've felt anything similar and one was Bill Clinton. Not even people whose work I revere, love and admire like Patterson Hood or Ben Nichols have I felt that intimidated in an interaction.
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BSF21 wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2019 12:11 pm Seeing Reckless Kelly at my favorite venue in the city tonight. Can't wait.
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sancarlos wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2019 1:28 pm
BSF21 wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2019 12:11 pm Seeing Reckless Kelly at my favorite venue in the city tonight. Can't wait.
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It's going to be another outstanding lineup in San Francisco on October 4-6 for the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. Five stages. So many acts I'd like to see. But five stages leads to tough choices. For instance on Saturday afternoon at about the same time you can choose from Margo Price, Robert Earl Keen, the Long Ryders, and Calexico/Iron & Wine. Sheesh.

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Do not miss Calexico/I&W if you can help it. Their show in Phoenix was outstanding.
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brian wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2019 2:11 pm Do not miss Calexico/I&W if you can help it. Their show in Phoenix was outstanding.
Yeah. I want to see them. But, I want to see Margo Price, too. Dammit! I can miss REK because I've seen him plenty of times already. Long Ryders are early enough to see them and then get to one of the other stages - I don't know if any of you are familiar with the Long Ryders, but they were big in the mid-1980s cowpunk scene and I loved them then (reminder: I am old), and had no idea they had reformed until I saw this lineup.

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That looks like it would be a cool show to see. Should mention I'm not sure how well Calexico/I&W would translate to an outdoor venue though I assume they're adjusting their setlist to focus mostly on the louder stuff so given that might not be too much of a worry about skipping. They're supposedly touring again in early 2020 as well, which is pretty awesome. I figured this might be a two month thing and then another 15 year gap.
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I really don't like I&W at all.
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In Asbury Park right now prepping for Sea Hear Now. Lumineers, the B-52s, DMB, and BLIND FUCKIN’ MELON!
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L-Jam3 wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:48 pm In Asbury Park right now prepping for Sea Hear Now. Lumineers, the B-52s, DMB, and BLIND FUCKIN’ MELON!
It's no Blind Melon with out fucking Shannon Hoon. Fuck them.
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We accidentally went to Asbury last year during the fest and it wasn't really that bad, crowd-wise. I imagine this year's will be a lot bigger.
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duff wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:51 pm
L-Jam3 wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:48 pm In Asbury Park right now prepping for Sea Hear Now. Lumineers, the B-52s, DMB, and BLIND FUCKIN’ MELON!
It's no Blind Melon with out fucking Shannon Hoon. Fuck them.
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Going to see Angels & Airwaves tonight. Definitely a "guilty pleasure" band.
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I keep meaning to ask...who?
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Giff wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2019 5:01 pm I keep meaning to ask...who?
One of the guys from Blink 182’s emo band, I think?
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Yeah the alien guy. But I’m a sucker for power pop.

Anyway they probably have the smallest ratio of fervent fans to “fans” of any band ever. With these guys it’s almost “Superfan” or nothing. It’s crazy.
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If you think about it it’s pretty amazing how technology has destroyed the market for in-person ticket scalping
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This guy who looks like Adam Scott just chiseled me down from $40 to $20 for my AVA ticket but it’s a fuckin pain to sell a “real” ticket these days.
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