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February 24th, 2010 — Complaining, Misc
In one of the most unexpected tours to come along in a while, the semi-reformed Public Image Limited will be playing the Midland theatre on April 26.
The end of April is getting filled with a bunch of crazy good concerts. Unfortunately that’s also when my wife is due for our new son.
So to summarize, I will be missing the following shows:
- Jeff Beck, who is the last on my list of living guitarists that I really really really want to see.
- Mastodon playing at Liberty Hall. Not a huge deal since I saw them with Dethklok, but it kills me that they’re playing just a few minutes away from my house.
- Steve Martin playing a bluegrass concert. The guy is an amazing banjo player and I would really like to see this.
- Public Image Limited, who canceled their Las Cruces show that I had tickets to back around 1990 and I’m still bitter about it.
Maybe Paul McCartney can go ahead and schedule an appearance in Kansas City at that time as well.
February 18th, 2010 — Misc
NPR had an interesting interview yesterday with Mike Nakagawa about the music that gets played during the snowboarding events. I only half pay attention to the olympics so I had no idea any sport other than figure skating got a musical accompaniment.
What I thought was interesting was how the two genders broke down. The men all leaned toward classic rock and really not a whole lot that is recent. “Back in Black”, “Pour Some Sugar on Me”, “Kashmir”, and oddly enough “Rockin’ in the Free World” were all mentioned.
The women had a more diverse selection, with songs by the Black Eyes Peas, “Dominoes” by the Big Pink, and “How Bizarre” by OMC all being picked. Rebecca Sinclair also picked “Eye of the Tiger” which I was sick of hearing at sporting events back in the 90s, but that’s my problem. Nakagawa mentioned that Kelly Clark supplies her own Christian rock music.
The difference between the men’s picks and the women’s picks were interesting. It seems like the women gave more thought into what they picked and maybe selected something that was meaningful to them while the guys just used the first song that came into their head.
December 3rd, 2009 — Misc
I was so close but the holiday turned out to be my downfall. I had posts already written for the five days I would be out of town and figured I would publish one each day since I haven’t had much luck scheduling posts to be published in the future. My laptop wouldn’t be much use since there aren’t any free wireless access points around my mother’s house.
Things turned ugly Wednesday night when my phone no longer had internet access. I thought about staying up later to see if it came back online but I was exhausted from the plane trip so I just went to bed knowing that I wasn’t going to finish NaBloPoMo. The phone was still having problems the next morning so I was glad I didn’t stay up. It’s not that big a loss anyway, I just had a bunch of goofy pictures of Yngwie Malmsteen.
Anyway, I’m still glad I did it. Hopefully it will get me writing more on this site because the posts got easier to write as the month went on although I did feel like I cheated whenever I just posted Youtube clips.
November 24th, 2009 — Misc
I had no idea these were out but on Amazon I ran across two Devo remasters released a couple of weeks ago: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo and Freedom of Choice. Both of these include live tracks, the former looks like a more recent convert playing the album in its entirety; the latter has the live EP that I had on vinyl a long long time ago.
Clubdevo also has limited edition package of these two that includes two live DVDs and a vinyl single. I was amazed to find out you could still buy the flowerpot hats off their website but I’m still too cheap to buy one.
November 22nd, 2009 — Misc