Kanada Kev

Haw did this one slip through at the DMV?

Oh YEAH! I will HAVE to find tix for the "Aja" performance. These will be absolutely stellar shows in that venue. http://www.steelydan.com/ Nov 25 - Toronto ON - Massey Hall | Aja (Plus) | on sale 9/25 Nov 26 - Toronto ON - Massey Hall | The Royal Scam (Plus) | on sale 9/25 Rent Party '09 Tour Extends Into Autumn: Special Setlists Shows Continue A Leg II has been added to Dan's Rent Party '09 Tour, bringing Special Setlist shows to several more cities. Multi-night stands are again scheduled in selected markets. All Special Setlist evenings will offer one of the following programs (see steelydan.com for specific setlist-by-date schedule): Classic Album (Plus) Night: Setlist is one of two classic Steely Dan albums in its entirety — Aja, or The Royal Scam — plus selected additional favorites "Takin' It To The Seats" Internet Request Night: Setlist is determined by the internet votes of ticket-holders for that show. (Ticketmaster sends buyers a voting email after purchase; please direct ballot/voting questions to Ticketmaster Support.) Stay Tuned ...

Yup, I'll be at that one too (got 2nd row!!!) I'm also going to the Ravi Shankar performance. It took forever for them to sell tix for this amazing venue. They seem to have filled up now.

This is going to be one kickass performance this Saturday. Anyone else going? I'm stoked to check out the gorgeous new Koerner Hall (the Grand Opening is only the night before ) http://www.rcmusic.ca/ContentPage.aspx?name=KoernerCH Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke & Lenny White Trio with very special guest Sophie Milman Saturday, Sep 26, 2009 8:00 PM Koerner Hall Genre: Jazz This trio of legendary artists draws on 30-plus years of cross-genre jazz exploration. Three original members of the supergroup Return to Forever - Chick Corea(piano), Stanley Clarke (bass), and Lenny White (drums) - take it back to basics, reuniting as a trio. Don't miss this journey of three masters through an evening of electro-acoustic alchemy from swinging jazz to hard-hitting fusion. Captivating vocalist Sophie Milman brings pop songs into the jazz repertoire in her own charming, Juno Award-winning style. NPR's Weekend Edition has praised her "classic jazz voice that evokes smoky lounges, softly clinking glasses and the cool of the night." Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White take it back to basics, reuniting as a trio as they originally started back in the day before Return to Forever and are now recharting their course in a fresh new direction. http://ccwtrio.chickcorea.com/ TOUR SCHEDULE September 09/02—Los Angeles, CA: The Hollywood Bowl 09/04—Detroit, MI: Detroit International Jazz Festival 09/05—Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University 09/07-09/08—Minneapolis, MN: The Dakota Jazz Club 09/09-09/11—San Diego, CA: Anthology 09/15-09/18—Oakland, CA: Yoshi's Jazz Club 09/20—Monterey, CA: Monterey Jazz Festival 09/22—Arcata, CA: Humboldt State University 09/25—Buffalo, NY: University at Buffalo 09/26—Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Royal Conservatory 09/28—Alexandria, VA: The Birchmere 09/29—Englewood, NJ: Bergen Performing Arts Center October 10/20—Paris, France: Le Grand Rex Theatre 10/22—Tourcoing, France: Tourcoing Jazz Festival 10/24—Bucharest, Romania: Bucharest Masters of Jazz Festival 10/26—Skopje, Macedonia: Skopje Jazz Festival 2009 10/27—Ljubljana, Slovenia: 50! Jazz Festival Ljubljana 10/31—Zurich, Switzerland: Theaterhaus Gessnerallee November 11/02—Vienna, Austria: Wiener Konzerthaus 11/06—Ankara, Turkey: Anadolu Gosteri Merkezi 11/09—Athens, Greece: Pallas Theater 11/13—Groningen, The Netherlands: Oosterpoort Main Hall 11/15—London, England: Barbican Theatre 11/27-11/30—Tokyo, Japan: Blue Note Tokyo December 12/01-12/02—Tokyo, Japan: Blue Note Tokyo 12/05—Singapore: Esplanade Concert Hall

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=528277 FURTHUR Fri. Sept. 18, 2009 Fox Theater, Oakland, CA Set One 1 Hr. 25 Minutes (7:40pm - 9:05pm) Jam > The Other One > The Wheel Jack Straw > The Music Never Stopped > Bird Song > Born Cross Eyed > Let It Grow Set Two 1 Hr. 45 Minutes (9:50pm - 11:35pm) Lost Sailor > St. of Circumstance Althea Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain St. Stephen > The Eleven > Foxy Lady Jam > Terrapin Station > Not Fade Away Donor Rap E: Touch of Grey Furthur 09/19/2009 Fox Theatre, Oakland, CA Set I: Bertha> Good Lovin' Estimated Prophet> Jam> Friend of the Devil Feel Like A Stranger Brown-Eyed Women Hell In A Bucket Set II: Shakedown> Jam> New Speedway Boogie China Cat> Rider Playin' In The Band> Eyes Of The World> Unbroken Chain Help On The Way> Slipknot!> Franklin's Tower E: One More Saturday Night

Way to go Burke. Good to see a young player with talent being sought after like this. The deal doesn't seem out of whack in the league the way it is today. Burke's moves will hopefully show some other players that he IS serious about getting a contender built. As stated here already, we'll have to wait and see how it does/doesn't gel and what young talent will rise to the top and surprise us.

That would have been special. Looking forward to Massey Hall.

HOU @ TEN = TEN NO @ PHI = PHI ARI @ JAC = JAC OAK @ KC = OAK CIN @ GB = GB MIN @ DET = MIN STL @ WAS = WAS NE @ NYJ = NE CAR @ ATL = ATL TB @ BUF = BUF SEA @ SF = SF BAL @ SD = SD PIT @ CHI = PIT CLE @ DEN = DEN NYG @ DAL = DAL IND @ MIA = IND Combined = 30

Yup, and that's what they do. So, in order to get them to even consider lowering any of their charges, people have to stop buying tickets from them. This won't happen on a big enough scale because people keep going. That, and/or allowing for some competition in the industry. That'd spur on some competitive pricing for sure

Thanks for the heads up (and the txt msg too) ... my buddy just scored a GA too

If anyone has an extra, I have a buddy who could use one. He's gonna try to get one outside, but would love to have one secured early.

Fuck the Dems vs. Repubs ... Lets get D.C. to be Jedi vs. Sith :

I only got the chance to see a quick recap this morning. Bozak's goal was definitely a great one. Five fights in the game??? Look out ... Philly v Toronto tonight in London. Should be a rough one

I got floor tix and they were $57 a piece. Mind you, with fees the pair came to $142.50. From all the positive reviews of this show so far, that price doesn't seem too out of whack. I think we're going to be havin'beers at Gabby's on King St. near John preshow. It's gonna be packed down around there tonight.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/16/mary-travers-dead-dies-at_n_289448.html?view=print FILE - In this June 15, 2006 file photo, Mary Travers of the trio Peter, Paul and Mary arrives at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York. Travers, who had battled leukemia for several years, died Wednesday Sept. 16, 2009. She was 72. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, File) BOSTON — Mary Travers, who as one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary helped popularize such tunes as "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" and "If I Had a Hammer," died in a Connecticut hospital Wednesday after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72. The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, said Travers died at Danbury Hospital. Bandmate Peter Yarrow said that in her final months, Travers handled her declining health with bravery and generosity, showing her love to friends and family "with great dignity and without restraint." "It was, as Mary always was, honest and completely authentic," he said. "That's the way she sang, too; honestly and with complete authenticity." Noel "Paul" Stookey, the trio's other member, praised Travers for her inspiring activism, "especially in her defense of the defenseless." "I am deadened and heartsick beyond words to consider a life without Mary Travers and honored beyond my wildest dreams to have shared her spirit and her career," he said. Mary Allin Travers was born on Nov. 9, 1936 in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of journalists who moved the family to Manhattan's bohemian Greenwich Village. She quickly became enamored with folk performers like the Weavers, and was soon performing with Pete Seeger, a founding member of the Weavers who lived in the same building as the Travers family. With a group called the Song Swappers, Travers backed Seeger on one album and two shows at Carnegie Hall. She also appeared (as one of a group of folk singers) in a short-lived 1958 Broadway show called "The Next President," starring comedian Mort Sahl. Story continues below It wasn't until she met up with Yarrow and Stookey that Travers would taste success on her own. Yarrow was managed by Albert B. Grossman, who later worked in the same capacity for Bob Dylan. In the book "Positively 4th Street" by David Hajdu, Travers recalled that Grossman's strategy was to "find a nobody that he could nurture and make famous." The budding trio, boosted by the arrangements of Milt Okun, spent seven months rehearsing in her Greenwich Village apartment before their 1961 public debut at the Bitter End. Their beatnik look – a tall blonde flanked by a pair of goateed guitarists – was a part of their initial appeal. As The New York Times critic Robert Shelton put it not long afterward, "Sex appeal as a keystone for a folk-song group was the idea of the group's manager ... who searched for months for `the girl' until he decided on Miss Travers." The trio mingled their music with liberal politics, both onstage and off. Their version of "If I Had a Hammer" became an anthem for racial equality. Other hits included "Lemon Tree," "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "Puff (The Magic Dragon.)" They were early champions of Dylan and performed his "Blowin' in the Wind" at the August 1963 March on Washington. And they were vehement in their opposition to the Vietnam War, managing to stay true to their liberal beliefs while creating music that resonated in the American mainstream. The group collected five Grammy Awards for their three-part harmony on enduring songs like "Leaving on a Jet Plane," "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" and "Blowin' in the Wind." At one point in 1963, three of their albums were in the top six Billboard best-selling LPs as they became the biggest stars of the folk revival movement. It was heady stuff for a trio that had formed in the early 1960s in Greenwich Village, running through simple tunes like "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Their debut album came out in 1962, and immediately scored a pair of hits with their versions of "If I Had a Hammer" and "Lemon Tree." The former won them Grammys for best folk recording, and best performance by a vocal group. "Moving" was the follow-up, including the hit tale of innocence lost, "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" – which reached No. 2 on the charts, and generated since-discounted reports that it was an ode to marijuana. Album No. 3, "In the Wind," featured three songs by the 22-year-old Dylan. "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" and "Blowin' in the Wind" both reached the top 10, bringing Dylan's material to a massive audience; the latter shipped 300,000 copies during one two-week period. "Blowin' In the Wind" became an another civil rights anthem, and Peter, Paul and Mary fully embraced the cause. They marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Ala., and performed with him in Washington. In a 1966 New York Times interview, Travers said the three worked well together because they respected one another. "There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together," she said. "I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another." With the advent of the Beatles and Dylan's switch to electric guitar, the folk boom disappeared. Travers expressed disdain for folk-rock, telling the Chicago Daily News in 1966 that "it's so badly written. ... When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers." But the trio continued their success, scoring with the tongue-in-cheek single "I Dig Rock and Roll Music," a gentle parody of the Mamas and the Papas, in 1967 and the John Denver-penned "Leaving on a Jet Plane" two years later. They also continued as boosters for young songwriters, recording numbers written by then-little-known Gordon Lightfoot and Laura Nyro. In 1969, the group earned their final Grammy for "Peter, Paul and Mommy," which won for best children's album. They disbanded in 1971, launching solo careers – Travers released five albums – that never achieved the heights of their collaborations. Over the years they enjoyed several reunions, including a performance at a 1978 anti-nuclear benefit organized by Yarrow and a 35th anniversary album, "Lifelines," with fellow folkies Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Dave Van Ronk and Seeger. A boxed set of their music was released in 2004. They remained politically active as well, performing at the 1995 anniversary of the Kent State shootings and performing for California strawberry pickers. Travers had undergone a successful bone marrow transplant to treat her leukemia and was able to return to performing after that. "It was like a miracle," Travers told The Associated Press in 2006. "I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital." She also said she told the marrow donor "how incredibly grateful I was." But by mid-2009, Yarrow told WTOP radio in Washington that her condition had worsened again and he thought she would no longer be able to perform. Travers lived for many years in Redding, Conn. She is survived by her husband, Ethan Robbins and daughters, Alicia and Erika.

A couple of years ago they had John Paul Jones come out and jam with them at Merle Fest: The Duhks with John Paul Jones at Merlefest!

I know this is only a select group of people in the US, but damn, does it ever reveal the level of ignorance and hate and gullibility that many people have. Sad.

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Looking forward to going on Thursday night. Roof is going to be OPEN too! I didn't pay enough money to get a seat, so i have to stand the whole show down on the floor