Palms

Guess they were closed. No one answered the phone, so we gave up.

Speed City in London has some punk/garage finds

Reigning Sound in Hamilton good for the same

Cheapies in Hamilton has some good finds, as does Dr. Disc. Sonic Unyon is good for new vinyl in Hamilton.

In Kitchener, check out Orange Monkey if you've never been before

Toronto - also check out Sonic Temple (in North York, really) for collector vinyl (you'll pay for it too)

Is Star Records still open in St. Catharines? If not, try Tantrum

In Ottawa, try birdman Sound for garage/psych stuff - okay Ottawa's not Southern Ontario. Sorry,

Can anyone tell me if the Pepper Jack Cafe in Hamilton is open for dinner on Good Friday (today) Anyone know? Also, is it kid friendly before bands go on?

Apparently they do somewhere between 30,000 - 50,000 each. That's enough to continue them, especially since there is really no marketing needed to sell them. They are making $$$.

Iron Maiden - Maiden Japan

It's the bonus CD with the 1995 US remastered edition of their Killers album, released in the US by Castle Communications. The only way it's been available on CD in North America. Great early live set with Paul Di'anno singing.

Sorry Del, but they played their final show ever on New Year's Eve in Chicago.

GBV is Robert Pollard. He put out the first album as Guided By Voices in 1986.

The last line-up was only together about a year, with a newly added bassist and a drummer that joined the year before.

GBV, especially their on their best albums - Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes, Propeller - take the best parts of classic rock like the Who, Beatles and Stones and compress them into lo-fi masterpieces. Whimsical, precise poppy songs that never go on too long and leave you wanting more.

Live, GBV is more rock. The band is notorious for its on-stage debauchery. The cooler full of beer makes it on before they do, but they don't leave till its all gone. But you have to be there at a show to experience it, listening to a show afterwards doesn't parlay the experience. You can't sit back and marvel over the marbellous musicianship, that's not what it's all about. It's about the song, the pop hook, the here and now. Sorry you don't like it, that's too bad, but you'll never know what you're missing.

For those of you that get WNED Channel 17 Buffalo, the episode of Austin City Limits with Modest mouse and Guided by Voices airs this Friday at midnight.

I know some have mentioned that Brock from MM's voice doesn't sound good live on the show. I can only imagine what they thought of GBV's Robert Pollard. GBV treated the taping like a real show and drank and smoked and played an entire 90 minute set, which was then edited down to 30 minutes by PBS. Apparently Pollard is hammered by the end and is almost incoherent for the last two songs. Sounds like a good time - I can't wait!

I'm not talking about Legacy versions or reissues, I am talking about the original albums.

Sweethears has now been released three times on disc. The original 80s issue, the Columbia legacy version of the late 90s and the double disc reissue from last year.

To rate the album higher because of the bonus material would be like saying that Shakedown Street by the Dead, which would undoubtedly be my least favourite Dead album, is no longer my least fave because the bonus take of Good Lovin' with Lowell George singing is so amazing that suddenly that record is now better than Go To Heaven and Built To Last (the other Dead albums at the bottom of the barrel). See what I mean?

If we're including the Preflyte album, make it my 2nd least favourite Byrds album.

Talking to Rob their bassist the other night, it came out that the band's name is actually Vorcza. They dropped the Trio bit a few years ago...

Notorious Byrd Brothers is my #1, then in order of preference:

Younger Than Yesterday

Sweethearts Of the Rodeo - would be higher if all of Gram Parsons vocals weren't wiped

5th Dimension

Untitled

Dr. Byrd & Mr Hyde

Mr. Tambourine Man

Byrdmaniax

Turn Turn Turn

Ballad of Easy Rider

Live at the Fillmore 1968

Farther Along

The Byrds (1973) - this one stinks

Best solo album by Byrds Members:

Gene Clark - No Other (just listened to it today while driving the tyke to daycare. A fu©king classic that doesn't get enough props)

David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name (just as great as No Other)

Gene Clark - White Light (great bonus tracks on the Universal 2002 remaster, what a shame that he was never got his just dues as a solo performer)

Aren't the rumour mills saying he's shortly to rejoin the Allmans and that Warren Haynes is stepping out again? I've heard that a few places now.

This is probably a very unpopular, but logical move.

When I was 12, I was given a tape of Skeletons From The Closet. It sounds crazy, but this is a very good compilation that gives a good cross-section of early material, including all the hits. Try this and if he likes it, then go to Workingmans Dead and American Beauty, because they might be too rootsy for a kid heavily into AC/DC

1. Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)

2. Truckin'

3. Rosemary

4. Sugar Magnolia

5. St. Stephen

6. Uncle John's Band

7. Casey Jones

8. Mexicali Blues

9. Turn on Your Love Light

10. One More Saturday Night

11. Friend of the Devil

I'm interested in that book. Find out how much shipping will be to Hamilton. Also, are the CDs included and in good condition still.

Shainhouse - trackdown the afrostrut compilation Nigeria 70 - I think the 3rd CD (a radio show documentary) may be helpful to you.

The Minus Five are not opening, The Marble Index from Hamilton is the opening band for Canada.

Check out the interview with Frank Black here - http://www.eye.net - Frank is on the cover of eye Weekly in Toronto this week!

I haven't decided if I am going to get this yet.

I almost never listen to the 76 shows I have. I thought a lot of the shows were slow and i too agree that much of the problem lies with the reintroduction of Mickey Hart. 77 was much stronger to me. I do really love lazy lightning > supplication jams though.

They are one of Canada's best bands. Don't miss it.

I'll be there with a few oldschool dead fans. Hope to see some of you there, Ike included.

I'm gonna split and go to the Bulldogs game afterwards though, no pepperjacks for me tonight.

Had a good time - first time seeing both bands due to whatever...

Only caught a few CJ songs but was enjoyable. RG was fun, caught the set up until halfway though Morning dew and had to go home. Would have liked to have seen the Sugar>Scarlet, but fell asleep to the Grateul Dead Movie DVD anyway, as our little one had crawled into bed with my wife so I slept on the couch.

I feel like a giddy kid and had to share my thoughts on this...

I don't know if any of you have this yet or not, but I picked up a copy of the Grateful Dead Movie dvd last night and have to say they did a really good job with it. I've been watching the bonus disc so far - all the extra songs are in their entirety and there are a few surprises - Weather Report Suite and the China>Rider are really great, especially the segue Feeling Groovy jam in the latter. Nice Spanish Jam in the Other One too.

Documentary stuff looks really good. Donna is interviewed in the bonus stuff - weird to see her now. Lots of interview footage with Billy K. That's cool, since he almost never talks in any other footage I've seen with him in it. The 3 commercials for the Mars Hotel album are neat - it would have been a real mindfuck to have seen those on TV. David Lemieux gets interviewed about the making of the DVD, along with Jeffrey Norman.

Anyway, I don't wanna blow any surprises, but it's definitely worth getting. The original film looks and sounds better than ever too. I can't wait to hear it in full 5.1 surround somewhere soon (Can't afford one myself).

FWIW, I got my copy at Dr. Disc here in Hamilton for $40 - a bit more than through the Dead maybe, but probably almost the same price when shipping, etc is factored in. They had another copy left too, if anyone's interested.

I say fu©k Wal-Mart anyway and would never buy a CD from them, but here are some things to consider:

$0.80 Packaging/manufacturing

-average cost for a CD with an 8 page booklet is closer to $1.50 Canadian and can run as high as $5.00 for something extravagant i.e. a CD released on the Constellation label, for example (godspeed you black emperor!, Do Make Say Think etc)

$0.82 Publishing royalties

-pretty accurate (in US funds)

$0.80 Retail profit

-that's Walmart's profit

$0.90 Distribution

-distributor's profit

$1.60 Artists' royalties

-for a band signed to a major label deal, indies are usually higher, sometimes as much as a 50/50 split with the label

Too bad it's the same night as Cryptopsy in Hamilton...

How was it? At home looking after a sick 18 month old with a cold...

Nope, not Tropical Robots. Lethargy is GBV's St. Stephen, not Tropical Robots. TR is a song that GBV will do if there is a power failure, someone is sick on stage, etc - since Pollard can do it with only guitarist Doug Gillard helping out.

Americal Flag drummer Jon McCann later joined Guided By Voices, after meeting them while on tour. He drums on their last excellent album, Isolation Drills (the albums since are good, but not as good).

Evan always came across like Freddie Mercury on stage. Their first show was opening for Guided By Voices in London, ON in October 1995 - it was just Ayal and Evan then. they convinced Bob to let them play, so they got a short set between Thrush hermit and GBV.

The Slip are probably being taped as a back up. Maybe they will be one half of a TBA show.

Pixies tape on Oct 18th.

My question is, why does Trey A. get a whole show and the Flaming Lips don't? His solo stuff is even worse than Phish.