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It's the Viking apocolypse and it's happening February 22nd, 2014. Which just happens to be a Saturday night. Party on Lief.

Yeah, itès him. Didn't know he was Swedish.

Is that Murph from Murph an the Magictones (and the Blues Bros) on piano?

Clapton will be touring and I suspect Bluesfest would lovelovelove to book him. Think Neil Young will be booked for a makeup at one of the Ottawa Fests this year?

Yes I go to the shows for CK5, but I don't care about the lights. I just think CK5 is kind of cute.

I really don't get Arcade Fire. It's not them, it's me. I'm very excited about Springsteen, and if I can possibly get out of this without sounding like a whiner I'll say that there are many, many acts on the first weekend that I would be very excited to see.

Oops...we booked the wrong weekend!

Thank-you. I will tell them.

Okay, so clearly the sanctuary is just a shadow of what it was pre-bot attack, and while I'm not really sure why it remains so quiet, I now have a clue as to some of the problem, and it seems very fix-able. I was at a social gathering the other night and talked to two different parties who have been kicked off since the bot fiasco and have been asking bouche to reinstate their accounts for some time, and he has yet to do so. I was shocked! And if there are two, there are probably many more! bouche, whassup!?!? C'mon, how about sifting through your old emails and reinstate people's accounts! Let's revive this once-lively scene we got here. C'mon, who's with me?!?!?! (think Animal House - Belushi and his non-inspirational speech)

This was a tough one to skip but it feels good to wake up and not have spent about $300 yesterday (ticket/hotel/gas...). That said I wish I had been there!

An online friend spent the last year experimenting with stop-motion animation. Here is the result. Feel free to spread it far and wide.

Thanks for the headsup NW and thanks for the link NR!

Agreed, but I think the Allman flag alone wouldn't sustain any sizeable audience, certainly not enough for something like, say, a Beacon run. I might be totally wrong about that, but I think the guitar players they are losing really helped rebuild the current ABB fanbase. But hey, would it be so bad to have Gregg playing with Ringo's All-Starr Band?

AMEX presale is mysteriously back on!!! Beacon tickets are available right now!!!

My first ABB show: Event Date: Wednesday, August 11, 1993 Start Time: 7:00 PM * Band: The Allman Brothers Band Venue: Kingswood Music Theater Location: Toronto, CANADA Map of Venue Map Setlist Order Song or Setlist Comment 1. Statesboro Blues 2. Stormy Monday 3. All Night Train 4. You Don't Love Me w/Derek Trucks 5. Temptation Is A Gun 6. Just Before the Bullets Fly 7. Dreams 8. Midnight Rider 9. Melissa 10. Southbound w/Derek Trucks 11. What's Done Is Done 12. The Same Thing w/Danny Lewis 13. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed 14. Whipping Post 15. End Of The Line 16. One Way Out David Grissom subbing for Dickey Derek Trucks Band, Warren Haynes opened Derek Trucks had just turned 14 and he was spectacular. The info above is a little bunked: I don't remember the Trucks Band opening (according to wiki his band didn't form until three years later), the opening band was billed simply as "The Warren Haynes Band".

Might just go tomorrow. Thanks Bradm!

Yeah, maybe two nights at the Beacon are in order this year.

I'll give you that.

I don't know - if Eric Clapton told me his drummer had quit I wouldn't think it was a fact that needed checking.

Oh, and thanks for the birthday wishes everyone! Good times here in NYC (until about 6am that is).

Guess I should have mentioned that my birthday present included a ticket to that! (and a Phish shirt)

Thanks Bradm! Just arrived in NYC and went straight to Morrison Hotel to pick up my awesome birthday present from Heather: a signed, numbered framed photo of Keith Richards shot by Ethan Russell. Now, if the band would just play Stash tonight.

Thanks!

Happy Everything Always.

Did you go last year? If so, tell me all about it!