TimmyB

Good, I'm glad I didn't miss this, as I would have if it was on tonight.

Though I haven't picked up Trey's new album yet, and I'm not going to the gig in Buffalo, which will be the closest gig I've missed since 1997, I'll still go out of my way to watch Trey on TV.

Tim

'The Colbert Report' made it's debut on the Comedy Network tonight after Steve Colbert's past/present (?) show 'the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.'

So now I'll be watching the Comedy Network from 11-midnight Monday through Thursday.

It was great Colbert even acknowledged the fact that he was on in Canada for the first time. Which I'm sure all us insecure Canadians appreciated.

Colbert stated "[Tonight] the Colbert Report airs in Canada. Seems fair you gave us Neil Young."

Tim

It doesn't really matter when the election takes place, as by the time people walk in that voting booth the question will revolve around three words:

Prime Minister Harper.

HA! HA! HA!

That was the funniest thing I have read in a long long time. Damn, I'm still laughing to myself as I read it again.

Tim

Ah "Dance on a Volcano" and "Los Endos" As this day is going on and I'm blasting out some old Genesis I'm getting very excited about this gig.

It makes a lot of sense to me that the show has a very 'Seconds Out' feel to it as the Slippermen play Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins era Genesis from 1970-1980.

Actually if the show was a recreation of 'Seconds Out' I wouldn't walk away disappointed.

Hey ollie, sorry for all the questions but do you feel it has a 'Seconds Out' feel because the vocalist sings more like Collins than Gabriel, therefore creating that mid to late seventies Genesis sound of Collins singing Gabriel era material as well as Collins era material as well?

Tim

I could see myself picking this up one day.

Tim

I likely won't be attending that show, I just put it out there just in case anyone might want to hold off on their New Years Eve plans until it is confirmed or denied?

Tim

Hey ollie,

Thanks for that, now I think I need to look at my ticket stubs to see which guitarists I have seen in the Musical Box?

But I believe I have seen all three of those guitarists then, minus their manager.

I just looked at the slippermen website to see what songs they are going to perform and I am all the more excited for the show.

I really hope I hear "Deep in the Motherlade," "In That Quiet Earth" into "Afterglow" and "Ripples." As I'll never hear that material with many other groups, whereas I've heard so much Peter Gabriel era stuff with the Musical Box. Though I'll be happy to hear it all I'm sure.

Tim

Thanks ollie,

I'm very much looking forward to tonights gig. I'm sure I saw Denis Champoux at one of the Musical Box shows I have attended as I have seen them four of five times since the late nineties.

I seem to remember seeing only one guitar change in the Musical Box has there been more?

I do remember a drummer change in the Musical Box as the new drummer drums left handed like Phil Collins and sings like him too, since they even gave him "More Fool Me" at the last 'Selling England By the Pound Tour' I saw.

Do the Slippermen perform a lot from 'A Trick of the Tail?' I'm really hoping to hear "Dance on a Volcano," "Ripples" and "Robbery, Assault and Battery."

Tim

SLIPPERMEN

THE OPERA HOUSE

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5 2005

8PM DOOR

$22 AT THE DOOR

I'll be heading to the Opera House to see yet another Quebec Band tackle the great music from the 1970's era Genesis songbook.

Unlike the Musical Box who only focus on Genesis from the Peter Gabriel era, the Slippermen focus on Genesis from 1970's 'Trespass' to 1980's 'Duke.'

And the Toronto show will be a bit of a hybrid of the Musical Box and the Slippermen reading this off the Opera House and Slippermen web pages.

Nov. 2, 2005 Update regarding Toronto show !!

Due to illness, our lead guitarist is not be able to make the Toronto Show. We are proud to announce that he will be replaced by a special guest, Denis Champoux, ex-guitarist for The Musical Box. Denis has graciously accepted to fill-in on very short notice and only a few days of preperation. Thank you Denis. It's very appreciated.

Oct. 28, 2005 Opening Act for Toronto !!

Seven Virgins and a Mule, a tribute to Emerson, Lake & Palmer will open for us at

the Opera House show next Saturday Nov. 5th.

The doors will open at 8:00 pm with Seven Virgins hitting the stage at 8:30 pm followed by

Slippermen at 9:30 pm.

If anybody is interested in going to this show let me know as my friend that was supposed to attend this with me bailed. I'll be leaving from Hamilton sometime before the doors, possibly early enough to have dinner in Toronto? So if anybody needs a ride from the Hamilton area and any city in between Hamilton and Toronto let me know?

Tim

I heard that Trey Anastasio, Dave Matthews and Bruce Hornsby will be playing Hampton for New Years Eve this year, though I don't think anything is confirmed yet.

Tim

Hey Timmy,

Rome has already been renewed for another season. The show is really taking off plot-wise.

Sweet Jaimoe,

That's great news.

Tim

i really like this show too...i used to be able to rent the videos of it in tokyo. i've only seen about 10 episodes though' date=' would love to catch the rest of them!

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Well, you've seen them all.

Almost everything HBO produces turns out great. Carnivale, Deadwood and Rome as well as Band Of Brothers are some of the best TV dramas I've ever watched.

How great is 'Rome' eh? I absolutely love that show right now.

Jaimoe, Do you think that will be a single season series or do you think it will run past this year?

Tim

No I don't know any Jeremy by that name.

Tim

Hey Tooly,

What's his last name? I do know Ryan Gunson, whom we have spoken about before.

Tim

hey man, its ok...

i'm biased towards the other side of the coin, cause i see my friends working hard as hell in school, getting three and four year degree/diploma's, and coming out in debt to their tits...only to be mocked by people who are the same age, working at car factory/steel factory, making twice what we'll start at, already owning their own place, making Hordes of cash, and only getting the job because of someone they know, or their parents.

hows that for being biased?

I don't mock anybody. And I have seen both sides of the story.

I graduated from Carleton University with a History degree. Yet since my father was in the Canadian Auto Workers Union Local 707 at the Ford Oakville plant I was able to get work there.

Now I never wanted to remain on the line to be an autoworker, yet eight years later here I am. I will be able to hopefully work at the Ford Plant in Oakville for thirty years and retire at 53.

Yet I will have health problems that are often only found from people who work on an assembly line and have to work shift work. I will likely die 5 to 10 years before the average Canadian because of the stresses I was put through during those thirty years working at Ford. And I'm quite sure that Stelco with their environmental hazards are just as bad if not worse.

So I believe I deserve ever penny I get from Ford and I would not say I'm some Union Fat Cat or lazy or spoiled, why don't you see what I do all day long and see if you could handle it for thirty years.

It's a hard life and those poor workers around the world that are being taken advantage of by corporations like the one I work for, have to suffer with less. It's wrong and it's a problem that I will not get into in this initial reply, yet their human rights are being violated.

There is a saying in society that goes "It's a living," in Ford it goes "It's a dying." I go to many union meetings and before roll call they list off the number that die each month and it is often staggering to hear how many names are called.

Trade Labour and Unions in North America helped to make The USA and Canada what they are today, it is union grievances and gains during contractual negotiations that have given our society many of the things that we take for granted today. To cast off Unions as obsolete in our present time would be a huge mistake for the middle class of North America.

As Unions dwindle in size there is an argument that our middle class in our society will also dwindle. There is a direct correlation between the two.

People like my CAW president Buzz Hargrove look out for the average person, while corporations just try and find a way to line their shareholders with a little bit more money. I applaud his efforts and the efforts others like the NDP our one left wing party that has a voice in Canada. They actually care about the downtrodden in society.

To hear a bunch of "hippies" knock Unions, makes me think the world has changed drastically from an era long gone. Any activists on this board should know that it is Unions like the United Auto Workers (or in my case the CAW) have fought for the rights of humans in not only the society in which they live, but the world around.

And Steve, when it comes to getting my job at Ford because of my father, how is that a bad thing? It is one of the few benefits that a autoworker gets for his or her years on the line.

Doesn't this practice of nepotism occur in all levels of society. Bill Ford Jr runs Ford now, Belinda Stronach was side by side with her father at Magna for quite a while. Look at actors and musicians as well. It leads all the way to the steps of the White House. If this practice only occurred on a Union shop floor I could see your argument, but I really feel that it is a benefit that is well deserved for "making a dying."

In Union Solidarity,

Tim

The greatest mini-series ever produced. What a journey it takes you on.

Tim

Warning, if anyone see's this man do not approach him!

Don't approach the guy in the background either.

Tim

Man was that ever fuckin fun last night.

Free rum!!

10/31/2005 The Docks, Toronto, ON

Jam >

Help on the Way >

Slipknot! >

Loser >

Jack Straw >

Bird Song

So Many Roads

Picasso Moon

Weather Report Suite Prelude/Part 1 >

Let It Grow

II:

El Paso

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall>

Even So >

October Queen >

The Deep End >

Mississippi Half-Step >

Jam* >

The Other One >

Wharf Rat >

Throwing Stones >

Slipknot! >

Franklin's Tower

E:

Werewolves of London+

*-w/out Bob

+-Bob came out after song started black shirt, white face, and top hat

Previous "Werewolves of London" 2003-10-31

http://www.ratdog.org/setlists/2005.php

Once again "Odessa" was after "Bird Song." And the "Jam" without Bob was after "The Other One" not before.

Tim

Hey Cyberhippie,

Were you there last night? By your above post, and since I didn't see you I assume you weren't.

Tim

"Odessa" was after "Birdsong" not "Loser"

And I'm pretty sure that "Slipnot" was after "Help on the Way" not before "Franklin's Tower."

Tim

PS All I wanted was "Werewolves of London" and I was quite happy to get it. May you rest in peace Warren Zevon.

So those who care can look through their telescopes and see if there is "Life On Mars?"

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/10/27/mars.close.up.ap/index.html

David Bowie - Life On Mars

=============

It's a god-awful small affair

To the girl with the mousy hair

But her mummy is yelling "No"

And her daddy has told her to go

But her friend is nowhere to be seen

Now she walks through her sunken dream

To the seat with the clearest view

And she's hooked to the silver screen

But the film is a saddening bore

For she's lived it ten times or more

She could spit in the eyes of fools

As they ask her to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall

Oh man! Look at those cavemen go

It's the freakiest show

Take a look at the Lawman

Beating up the wrong guy

Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know

He's in the best selling show

Is there life on Mars?

It's on Amerikas tortured brow

That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow

Now the workers have struck for fame

'Cause Lennon's on sale again

See the mice in their million hordes

From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads

Rule Britannia is out of bounds

To my mother, my dog, and clowns

But the film is a saddening bore

'Cause I wrote it ten times or more

It's about to be writ again

As I ask you to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall

Oh man! Look at those cavemen go

It's the freakiest show

Take a look at the Lawman

Beating up the wrong guy

Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know

He's in the best selling show

Is there life on Mars?

I think this outing may prove entertaining. Perhaps I'll attend.

JOKING!!! Wouldn't miss this one for the world!

I would miss this one for the world.

Actually I would miss if for a small country like Sweden or maybe a country as small as Nepal or Uruguay. Becaue then I would be a ruler of a country, which would be cool.

Tim

Happy Birthday Ms.Huxtable,

May you have many, many more in health and happiness.

Tim

Sweet!

Tim

From www.billboard.com

Edited By Jonathan Cohen. October 28, 2005, 4:10 PM ET

Wilco Eyeing 2006 For New Studio Album

By Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

With its first live album, "Kicking Television," about to hit stores next month via Nonesuch, Wilco is well into the writing process for its next studio set, which the band hopes will be released sometime next year. Frontman Jeff Tweedy tells Billboard.com Wilco has worked up 13 new tunes already. "There's an enormous amount of excitement in the band about the recording," he says.

"We did some recording before we went to Europe, and we have time scheduled in December and throughout the winter," he adds. "There's no schedule in terms of when something might come out. We all have high hopes we'll be able to get something out next year, and sooner than later."

The new album, which will be the follow-up to 2004's "A Ghost Is Born," will be the first to feature new members Nels Cline (guitar) and Pat Sansone (keyboards, guitar), who joined up shortly after that set's release. The six-piece incarnation of Wilco makes its recorded debut on "Kicking Television," which chronicles a four-night May stand at the Vic Theatre in the band's Chicago hometown.

"What we've done already is basically record in our own studio," Tweedy says. "We set up without headphones in a circle and roll tape based on us trying to get ourselves balanced as much as possible, without using the mixing console."

Two of the tunes from this first batch of material, "I'm Talking to Myself About You" and the tentatively titled "On and On and On and On," have been receiving stage time during recent shows. Tweedy says the former is "about as straightforward and as dumb as anything I've ever written, but musically it's really exciting and fun to play."

The artist adds that while Chicago seemed like a logical place to record, he initially failed to take into consideration that "we'd played a lot of these songs for these people like 7,000 times. How were we going to make this exciting?"

"Luckily it didn't end up being a problem. But in hindsight, maybe it would have been a good idea to record our first show in Tulsa or something," he adds with a laugh.

The only show on Wilco's schedule for the time being is a Tuesday (Nov. 1) benefit for hurricane victims at the Vic in Chicago. Afterward, Tweedy will play a host of mostly U.S. solo dates through Nov. 22 in London.

I haven't liked Ryan Adams since he did Summer of 69

I mean what was that cheese ass song he did for that Robin Hood movie?

Give me Run To You any day man!

Ryan Adams for ever!

Too funny.