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Johnny Winter, The Progressive Blues Experiment.

Why should a band get a free ride just because they haven't "made it" yet? If you're going to perform publicly or offer product for consumption you are fair target for criticism, negative or positive. Would you have a problem if zero had been praising a 'bunch of nobodies"?

From everyhting I've read about him, the dude was a real class act. He was as much about the talent and the music as he was about the business, which is something you don't see as often in today's record industry. Who else would have allowed CSNY to knock their own #1 single off the charts with another song?

Darien Lake, perhaps?

Is that a legal opinion or a personal one?

Happy Birthday!

Maybe MarcO can sign up for one of my refresher reading classes this month.

Sorry to hear of your loss.

From msn.ca : Pretty cool shit.

I don't think he spent much time hanging out in Hess Village during the mid-90s! I think he's a few years younger than me - he either went to Barton or Sherwood, IIRC.

Jimmy Smith, Softly As A Summer Breeze.

As I understand it, there is no actual proof that there ever was a historical Jesus.

I remember him from my high school years - he was pretty damn cocky, probably due to the fact that he could pretty much kick the ass of just about anyone he pleased.

I remember going to a HORDE Festival in Darien Lake ('96 maybe? ABB was headlining...) and Ecstasy hadn't been made illegal yet. There was a little booth/tent against the wall at the back of the lawn that was selling it inside the venue. That was a pretty crazy crowd...

When I lived in London' date=' there was a Dead cover band called Cosmic Charlie. Is that what you're talkin' about?? That was in 2001 but I think they'd been around for a long time. They played to a crowd of about 10 of us and afterwards we sat around drinking as they grumbled on about the low turnouts. [/quote'] That's pretty funny - I saw that same cover band when I was in London, too. Winter of '99 IIRC.

I was at that show too, and I was paying attention. I also didn't think much of his set, and found that the tracks of his that I heard on the radio were overhyped at best and just plain poor at worst.

I hope it isn't too late to take you up on the marriage proposal you made to me in the holiday symbols thread.

13 albums' worth of some of the greatest rock and pop songs ever written, and you're looking forward to that song the most?

Sorry, next time I'll write it for you in purple.

John Lennon said that Bob Weir was the "******" of the jamband world?

Ahhh... here it is! Link

It's funny - when I first visited the Vault there was a statement saying that roylaties would be paid to the artists any time that you chose to listen to a show, but I was just searching for it now and I can't find it.

Enjoy

I understand everything you are saying from scholarly and etymological standpoint, and I can even agree; but the *legal* standpoint is the one that concerns me here, because there needs to be *some* kind of legal definition, otherwise we are in a bit of a problem. If we take the position that government should be entirely separate from religion and make no contributions to any of them, then your definition (or lack thereof) means that the government cannot fund *any* group at all (whether based on culture, interest, sport, etc), because they could theoretically be considered a religion. Conversely, if the government should sponsor all religious groups equally, then your definition would require that the government hand out funds to any wacko or group of wackos who ask for them because you can't tell them (the applicants for funds, that is) that what they practise is not a religion.

Happy Birthday!