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My sister would be perfect for this but she's pregnant again and lives in BC! Is there a job profile somewhere? Has this been officially posted yet?

Man, I checked out this web site a few months ago and there were just a few bands announced! I'd love to go to this festival but Bluesfest is too dear to me. Wish Yes and California Guitar Trio would also play in Ottawa! Mike, when did your French side of the family switch over to English? Do you know?

Ottawa needs gritty jazz clubs.

I'm waitintohavemyfirstbeer. Still at work. Leaving soon I hope. I'll probably be having my first beer as Ollie naps on the couch.

Yeah, nothing really excites me on here except for Iggy, but it's nice to just go to those festivals to walk around and check out new bands. This will probably be a last minute decision for me, depending on the weather forecast!

YES!!!!! I've been waiting for the Maiden Montreal date to be announced! I'd love to see Anthrax again; Motley Crue I never saw (wanted to during the Girls, Girls, Girls tour but my parents didn't allow me); Mastodon is one of the recent heavy bands I like. As for the other bands, I don't know them very much, unfortunately. Hmm. I think I'll have to go to this! I loved Parc Jean Drapeau for the first Osheaga festival. This will probably be similar but with heavy metal dudes!

Yep I do and I know it's not cool.

Primus?!! Very cool!! Fingers crossed for Metallica. Man, that would make the blues fans mad. Not that they're a super heavy band anymore, but most people think they are.

Ah ooops...I knew I shoulda looked to see if this topic already existed. Thanks AD.

Gibson built, Jimmy Page OK'd, yours for just $20,999 Bruce Ward The Ottawa Citizen Friday, April 04, 2008 CREDIT: Pat McGrath, the Ottawa Citizen Gibson Les Paul There's likely to be a whole lotta love for one ultra-special guitar now on display at Dave Lauzon's Wellington Street music store. The guitar is a re-creation of the instrument played by Jimmy Page in the first days of Led Zeppelin, who became rock gods in the 1970s. It has a $20,999 pricetag, but is likely worth four times that to collectors. Only 25 of the numbered guitars were built by Gibson Custom Shop. "Page played all 25, picked out one for himself and signed the rest. Our guitar is No. 25 and it's the only one in Canada," said Mr. Lauzon. He has not put up a "No Stairway To Heaven" sign, as in Wayne's World, because only Page has ever played the guitar. "If I owned the guitar, I would play it because I think guitars are meant to be played," he said. "But in this case, the last person to play it was Jimmy Page. That means something to collectors." The guitar has only been on display for a few days, but Mr. Lauzon has had several e-mail inquiries, sent to the Lauzon Music site from collectors in England and the U.S. as well as Canada. "I've talked to a bunch of people about this guitar from all over the world already. I don't know how they find out we have it, but these guys are serious Jimmy Page lovers. There's a buzz about it. It's a unique piece of rock memorabilia. You don't see that too often. There are guitars that are investment pieces, and this is an investment for sure." The original guitar -- a three-pickup 1960 Les Paul custom "Black Beauty" -- was stolen at an airport in 1970 and never recovered. Mr. Lauzon said Mr. Page used the guitar while working as a freelance session musician and on albums with the Yardbirds as well as the first Led Zeppelin recordings in 1969. "I think it was stolen somewhere between Ottawa and New York. He went on to play others, but he referred to it as the one that got away," said Mr. Lauzon, who at 30 is too young to have seen the band perform live in its glory days. He won the right to buy the guitar in a draw set up by Gibson. "The distributor for Canada basically took all Custom Shop dealers and put their names in a hat. If your name was drawn, you got the chance to buy the guitar." A few years ago, Gibson reissued another early guitar favoured by Mr. Page -- a 1959 Les Paul Sunburst. He also signed each of the 25 Sunbursts. "They were probably priced around about $15,000, I think." One of the special Sunbursts recently sold for $87,000, added Mr. Lauzon. So what's stopping Mr. Lauzon from selling the guitar to the highest bidder in an auction? "As a Gibson dealer, it's our responsibility to provide the guitar for sale. For me to take the guitar and jack up the price and put it on eBay probably wouldn't be the most ethical thing to do," he said. The re-created guitar features "Page BurstBucker pickups, gold Bigsby tailpiece, and an innovative six-position toggle," Gibson says in a release. "There are lots of limited edition guitars out there, and sometimes they fly and sometimes they don't," said Mr. Lauzon. "But I think the stuff that's really limited like this guitar, that gets exciting. "My gut feeling is that this guitar is headed for a collection somewhere where it's not going to be played. I would assume that whoever buys it first might resell in on eBay and it would go to a private collection somewhere. The highest percentage of collectible guitars are in Japan, I'm sure." ONLINE: GUITAR HERO Dave Lauzon, of Lauzon Music, has a whole lotta love for Gibson's re-creation of one of Jimmy Page's classic instruments. Retail price: $20,999. See video and a photo gallery in Editor's Picks, © The Ottawa Citizen 2008

Ah man! That's tonight? Anvil! I'd love to see that. Going to the hockey game tonight though. And I've been sick all week so I should probably go home after the game. But Anvil. Hmm. I was thinking these guys would be cool to see also; that's tonight too though: For those about to rock Australia's Airbourne a throwback to testosterone-driven rock era Lynn Saxberg The Ottawa Citizen Thursday, April 03, 2008 The sound of the young Australian band Airbourne hearkens back to a time when rock really rawked, around the late '70s and early '80s, when old-school metal began to lose ground to the slick crunch of hair bands. It was a testosterone-driven time, when Van Halen, AC/DC and other bands with screaming singers and blazing guitars delivered swaggering songs at top volume. If I remember correctly, the main purpose of the music was to have a good time. The members of Airbourne, all born in the 1980s, have learned their lessons well. Growing up in the Australian town of Warrnambool, singer Joel O'Keeffe and his drum-bashing little brother Ryan discovered their uncle's music early. "There's never been any rock 'n' roll commercially on radio where we grew up," says Ryan. "It was more or less a fully surfing town with nightclubs. We've always just stuck to our uncle's records that we found when we were kids. We pretty much just listened to those and switched off whatever was going on in the world." The bands they listened to included Motorhead, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Van Halen and naturally, their countrymates, AC/DC. They picked up instruments, and absorbed every decibel of influence. "We were so young when we started listening to it, it was something we couldn't live without," Ryan says. "We've always felt it's the only kind of music we could listen to and relate to." They formed the band when Ryan was 11, and Joel 13, and have been at it for a decade, growing from a pub band, to a Rolling Stones opening act, to an international priority for the U.S. label Roadrunner Records. Their total immersion in rock has made them serious and single-minded about pursuing it. This year, the four band members moved from Australia to New Jersey to settle in for a long stretch of touring to promote the worldwide release of their debut disc, Runnin' Wild. From Jersey, they reasoned, they could get to either Europe or Los Angeles on a day's notice. On stage, the band members are renowned for their bare-chested headbanging and fiery playing, while the disc celebrates every rock cliché in the book, starting with the electric guitar eruption in Stand Up for Rock 'n' Roll (now a wrestling theme song). There are plenty more like it -- Airbourne's high-octane anthems toasting life in the fast lane have been used on several video games, while the CD is a hit with classic-rock fans of all ages, even the grizzled headbangers who refuse to let go of their AC/DC records. The band members see young and old at their concerts. "It's great with the demographics at all the shows we've played," reports Ryan. "The back wall can go from 60-year-olds to 16-year-olds at the front." But what about the effect of a song like Cheap Wine and Cheaper Women on the younger generation? Ryan has no worries. "People want to let loose, and we sing about having a good time and letting loose and having fun with life. I think it's a lot better than singing about negative stuff," he says. As the band makes its first visit to Canada, radio stations (including the Ottawa rock station The Bear) are playing their music, and shows are selling out. The Ottawa date, originally scheduled at the cosy Zaphod Beeblebrox, was moved to the more spacious Capital Music Hall to accommodate demand. The buzz is great, Ryan says, but they aren't in it to get rich. "For rock 'n' roll, you do it for passion, never for the money, and if you do it for the money, I think you're kidding yourself," he says. As for the name of the band, Ryan says it came from watching too many action movies. "Airbourne was a vision of a group of mates up there in the middle of a difficult situation, like a war, and they just jump out of a plane and put themselves out there," he says. "That's kind of what we do, not that we're in a war, but we're a bunch of mates that live together in the same house and we put our lives down for rock 'n' roll and we don't know how to do anything else." Airbourne plays the Capital Music Hall tomorrow. Tickets & times, 613-755-1111 or www.ticketmaster.ca. © The Ottawa Citizen 2008

So on my walk to work today, I found this charming bracelet on the sidewalk, right beside fresh dog poo (but far away enough for me to pick it up without getting my hands dirty). Go Sens Go!

Ah, right, ok.

What's a better search engine then? Ollie just said the same thing tonight when we couldn't come up with any good results for a Superbowl wallpaper' date=' using Google.[/quote'] Read that again, very carefully - paying close attention to spelling. Huh?

February is a good month. A little shorter (although 1 day longer this year), but when March is here, Spring is close by. Some dude was snowblowing the driveway this afternoon; I have no idea who he is, but I have to find out so I can buy him a bottle of wine or something. Very nice of him.

What's a better search engine then? Ollie just said the same thing tonight when we couldn't come up with any good results for a Superbowl wallpaper, using Google.

Tequila is helping me right now. But really, I haven't had winter blues ever. If I have the blues, it has nothing to do with the weather. I kinda like winter. Ottawa just scored...tied game against Toronto. Things are looking up.

Ah man. Sorry to hear about this. Geez. If only the doggie could talk. Urgh. I wish the cops would spend more time figuring out thefts like this. They always seem to be too busy with other things. I say that you guys should try to solve this one on your own. Two awesome brains like yours can do this! Were there any footprints in the snow? Musta been. When was the last time you used the hot tub? When could this have happened?

He's probably thinking "My wife is having pizza?" Haha! Funny!

Article in the Ottawa Citizen

What the hell happened to Mike? He's wearing some kind of sports shirt.

for those who have nothing to do this Sunday afternoon: Washoku [Japanese Food] - Lecture and Demonstration Date: January 20th, 2008 Time: 2pm-4pm Venue: Embassy of Japan- Auditorium - 255 Sussex Drive Admission: Free, please call to reserve your seat at (613) 241-8541

I freaking love sprouts. There are tons for sale in BC, and whenever my sister comes to town, she brings me a huge bag. I eat salad every day and sprouts make it way more interesting! I found some for sale at the Farmer's Market at Landsdowne Park but the variety was not as good.

To celebrate Ottawa's 150th anniversary as capital of Canada, we're getting fireworks today! Whoo hooo! They're at 6:57pm (18h57...the year Ottawa became capital), and the best locations to view them are at Major's Hill Park or the Museum of Civilisation. Check it out! Click here for more info

I wonder if my boyfriend is passed out in the office somewhere. I might have to look for him later.