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Roger started off by saying he had a cold and couldn't sing well. He was right. I think he maybe shoulda cancelled the show but as I was an out-of-towner I'm glad he didn't. As an aside, a big thanks to Basher for setting us up in a great room for an unbelievable price. I highly recommend y'all try out his pricebashing.

I waited in that line too Paisley, 1982. That lineup was the best party I had ever been to at the time. The parts I remember I'll never forget.

During Won't Get Fooled Again the guy in front of me, who was sitting with his girlfriend, got security and asked them to get the people in front of them to sit down. At this point in the show everyone, and I mean everyone was standing up. Security just sorta shrugged and left. They came back and offered them different seats I think, but they stayed where they were.

We want fish. Beautiful. In Moncton every year everybody brought their xmas trees to Centennial Park and the fire department burnt them while we all drank and hung around. I always thought it was cool, and I was surprised to find that every town doesn't do it.

I had a good time but it was too bad Roger wasn't in top form. The Sisters Euclid kicked ass afterwards though!

I always have an 'out' when it comes to shopping for my mom, as long as memory serves. http://www.canadaeast.com/tt/news/article.php?articleID=75472

The cheeseburgers were divine.

What's going on tonight?

They will bve waiting at the door for you.

Awesome. Hopefully we can hook up pre-show.

I vote we make it so when you type in the phrase GG Allen it gets treated as a swear word and is changed to something much less disgusting.

"Sure the band benefits. But a band benefits when a radio station plays one of their tunes too. Should radio therefore have access to artists' music for free as well?" Well, that's what radio stations thought. The musicians went on strike and stopped recording. The radio stations buckled, companies like SOCAN were formed, and the stations payed. They still do. "I'm certainly not suggesting that record stores stop playing music. I'm just saying that the music has economic value and the artists should be compensated for it's use. If playing music in the store is part of their marketing strategy then it should be part of the cost of doing business, regardless of what that line of business that may be." For the record I don't work in a cd store, though the store does sell CD's as part of it's business. Let's take a dentist's office for example. Playing music in the waiting room can't be construed as a marketing strategy, it's just being polite really. Bizarre to think that ABBA deserve their royalty for that. Frankly, if they do then I think you might want to reconsider playing music when you invite friends over. "If SOCAN plans to continue pursuing revenues from sources that have long gotten a free ride then I think they have to re-examine their rates and the way they do business for sure. There has to be some negotiation with record stores, web radio, etc. I agree that SOCAN's tactics have gotten out of hand, but I do think they are entitled to pursue those revenues, they just have to be smarter about it." Remember, the businesses won't be paying these royalties, their customers will. But we do agree that SOCAN is getting out of hand. One way they could be smarter is enforcing the payment rules they have for live music venues. It's very rare that Canadian venues are paying what they are supposed to.

Store plays CD. customer hears CD, customer buys CD, store and artist make money. Store doesn't play CD.... Plus, if the store decided to pay the artist their money for plays, they'll have to charge more for CD's, maybe just enough to stop people from making that impulse purchase. On another point, this all started when radio switched from live musicians to records. The union was started, stations had to pay to play. Things can, however, get out of hand.

Yes, every country has it, no they don't all work the same*. I agree that SOCAN provides a necessary service and they do a damn good job at it, but I'm just saying they should be careful they don't protect the musicians to death. *ie In the US royalties are distributed only to the 100 top played artists annually, whereas SOCAN actually gives money where it's due.

Whenever I feel that I try and remember that it's all my fault, as I hold the job I intended to hold. You did that too.

SOCAN needs to step back a little and shake their fucking heads. Like many areas, they'll get so effective nobody will make a cent. I remember when the music store I work at could afford to play (read: promote) the music they sell in the store, but now that SOCAN is so efficient at gathering cash for their clients, no music gets played and cd sales have plummeted. Way to go SOCAN.

Elgin Theatre.

I guess I'll have to try harder next time.

I betcha smart people aren't concerned about making sure their socks ae pulled up either.

I've always known that intuitively.

I'll be there next Monday!

The Bobby is a remarkably convincing Bobby, only he's a better singer than Bobby is/was.

They sound like the Grateful Dead.

I love those things. But I'm okay with being lost too.