The Chameleon

I think you are assuming a lot when you say "I think on an extremely individual level there exists a want to do good amongst all human beings". While this is true for some, I have crossed paths and been witness to many things that prove this is not so. Many people thrive ont he misery of others and truly enjoy inflicting suffering on others. In a perfect world your assumtions woudl be right. ANd most people do have a moral compass for "doing good", but certainly not all. Some peopel are just evil to the bone.

Yeah I thought it was a while. I liked Wormwood too.,, oraginc yet electronic in places... "Who's got my heady moe. Canadian tour?"

Hey y'all Intersested to know what you guys think are moe.'s best years? I have seen them 10 times or so. mostly in the late 90's to early 2000's and I am curently listening to a 1998 show that is smokin'. I am leaning towards thinking that like Phish they're best years (so far) are 1998/1999. I've seen them a bit here and there in 2005/2006 mostly a festivals for a few songs and they didn't blow me away like before. But maybe it's just the venue. How are the 2006 shows, those of you who have been to Chicage recently... P.S. what wa the last album they released? Been a while, no?

I think this is a great thing. The ACC neds to pay up. As to the question of how they can claim if there is no Canadian music played and it's an international artist?.... The answer is two fold.... 1. Socan charges a blanket fee no matter what to venues, bars, restaurants and anywhere that uses music. Then they average the intake amoungst thier members who are the producers of the lexicon of music in general. This way the do not have to ahev "SOCAN Police". This si how artist get paiod for performance royalties, that are not covered by radio... 2. They have to pay as perhaps some of the music that is being played by these "international artists" is Canadian written, canadian produced or the performance rights may have been sold to a Canadian holder. There are many intricacies in the publishing/performance royalties dichotmy that the public never sees and hence does no understand when it comes to these issues. Bottom line is the artists have to get paid and SOCAN represents them in a perfomance capacity...

You are right Tipper Gore is the "flyin th ointment" with her crusade aginst Heavy Metal in the 80's. Even wierder is that both the Gore's are deadheads and have seen many shows. So odd?

I really don't see what the size of the promoter's wang has to do with getting DSO up here. Take a time out or we'll ban you from the board! Perhaps but I think unless you could hook up thge DSO with 3-4 well paying gigs and pay thier frieght/rifer from what I hear they are not interested as they can easily play a tonne of great paying gigs in the US. I think it's the big paycheck that is putting off the promoters, especially 'cuase they've never played in Canada.

always enjoyed MDMA, it's enhanced my life greatly. Never felt bad physically from it or mentally. I have a good job, cool band and 4yrs honours degree. Bottom line: Everyone reacts to checmicals different. If you don't treat your body right on that stuff you can hurt yourself. As with any substance. No for the unprepared, nieve or foolish. But those of us with egnough smarts to get tonnes of rest after, eat while high, drink lots of fluids, not overexert and take lots of vitamin supplememnts to replenish..and not overdoo it ,,,,well game on.

Hope so..love that guy!

I loved gores movie and his presentation is well laid out and brings up some pretty daming evidence. The US would have been in a better position had that guy been presedent for the last 6yrs. Highly recommended!

They are the best cover band in history more or less. They have not played Toronto, not becuase they get tonnes of work all the time in the US, and to come hear for one show they would want big $$$ to lose out on all the other booking they always have in the US. You gotta go south to see them. THey have played Buffalo int he past.

Man, this is sad, one of the last links to early blues, and specifically Robert Johnson has died. I saw this great play in Cleveland a few years back and talked with him, very warm and at the time in fine musical form..... --------------------------------------- Robert Lockwood Jr., 91, Bluesman, Dies By JON PARELES Published: November 25, 2006 Robert Lockwood Jr., the Mississippi Delta bluesman who was taught by Robert Johnson and became a mentor to generations of blues musicians, died on Tuesday in Cleveland, where he lived. He was 91. The cause was respiratory failure, said his wife, Mary Smith Lockwood. Mr. Lockwood had been hospitalized since suffering a brain aneurysm on Nov. 3. Mr. Lockwood considered himself Johnson’s stepson, since Johnson had a decade-long romance with his mother. For long stretches of his career, he called himself Robert Jr. Lockwood to acknowledge Johnson’s influence. Mr. Lockwood carried the music of the Mississippi Delta to other emerging blues scenes. He performed on the pioneering blues radio show “King Biscuit Time.†He gave B. B. King guitar lessons. He became a studio musician at Chess Records and played on sessions that defined electric Chicago blues and went on to shape rock ’n’ roll. Although he could play in the old Delta style, he embraced blues from across the United States and drew strongly on the harmonies and phrasing of jazz. “I never did want to sound like anybody else,†he said in a 2001 interview with the Big Road Blues Web site. “What I play sounds easy, but you just try it. It’s not easy.†Mr. Lockwood was born on March 27, 1915, in Turkey Scratch, Ark. He learned to play the family pump organ and hoped to become a pianist. But when he was a teenager, Robert Johnson moved in with his mother (who was separated from Robert Lockwood Sr.). Once Mr. Lockwood heard Johnson’s music, he turned to guitar. Other bluesmen worked in guitar duos, but “Robert came along and he was backing himself up without anybody helping him, and sounding good,†Mr. Lockwood recounted in Robert Palmer’s 1981 book, “Deep Blues.†Johnson was secretive about his technique, but he instructed Robert Jr. in his songs and his guitar style. “Robert wouldn’t show me stuff but once or twice,†Mr. Lockwood said, “but when he’d come back I’d be playing it.†When Johnson was killed in 1938, Mr. Lockwood was so shaken that he didn’t perform for a year. “Everything I played would remind me of Robert, and whenever I tried to play I would just come down in tears,†he said. Mr. Lockwood often insisted that he improved on what he learned from Johnson. “On a lot of things, you know, Robert kind of messed the time around, and I played perfect time,†he said. In 1940, Mr. Lockwood traveled to Chicago, and in 1941 he made his first recordings in nearby Aurora, Ill. But that year he returned to the Delta, where he and Rice Miller (calling himself Sonny Boy Williamson) inaugurated a daily blues radio show, “King Biscuit Time,†on KFFA in Helena, Ark. It made them stars across the South. Growing up in Mississippi, a young B. B. King heard Mr. Lockwood on the radio and went to him for guitar lessons, and Mr. Lockwood worked with Mr. King in the late 1940s. In interviews, he said that while Mr. King was already a skilled guitarist, his timing was bad. Mr. Lockwood settled in Chicago in the early 1950s and became a mainstay of the studio bands at Chess Records and other labels. Although he recorded a few singles of his own, he worked primarily as a sideman. He backed Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Sunnyland Slim and Little Walter, among many others, and was in the pianist Roosevelt Sykes’s live band. In 1960 he accompanied Muddy Waters’s pianist, Otis Spann, on the duet album “Otis Spann Is the Blues.†As the 1960s began, Mr. Lockwood moved to Cleveland, where he reigned as the city’s leading bluesman. He resumed his solo recording career in the 1970s with albums for the Delmark and Trix labels, drawing on blues, jump blues and swing styles from across the country. He also recorded live albums in Japan. Around 1975, his first wife, Annie Roberts Lockwood, gave him a 12-string guitar, and he made it his main instrument, switching from the six-string. He is survived by his second wife and nine children. Mr. Lockwood reunited with an old Delta partner, Johnny Shines, on albums for Rounder Records as the 1980s began. Their album “Hangin’ On†was named best traditional blues album at the first Blues Music Awards in 1980. Mr. Lockwood’s 2000 album “Delta Crossroads†(Telarc) received the same award. Mr. Lockwood was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1989. In the ’80s, Mr. Lockwood made albums of Robert Johnson songs, and in the ’90s he started his own label, Lockwood Records, which released “What’s the Score.†In 1995 he received the National Heritage Fellowship Award, America’s most prestigious traditional arts award. He toured the worldwide blues circuit. Until Nov. 1, Mr. Lockwood worked a weekly club gig at Fat Fish Blue in Cleveland. A street in Cleveland’s night-life area, the Flats, was named for him in 1997. Verve Records released his album “I’ve Got to Find Me a Woman,†on which B. B. King and others sat in, in 1998. It was nominated for a Grammy Award, as was “Delta Crossroads.†“I just do what I’m doin’,†Mr. Lockwood told Living Blues magazine in 1995. “Express my ideas, explore new ideas.â€

HAHA@!! Fianlly the tables have turned and you west-coasters are getting a real winter for a change. While in Toronto today is very mild and almost balmy! Ahhhhh global warming is working out for the Southern Ontario crew. Well that is until our skin burns off from lack of ozone! But unitl then it's rad!

HI Gang, I'm sitting here at work and would love to know; "Where are all the Jimmy Buffett show, on-line that I can stream?" Does anyone know? I know where to find some for download, but I can't do that at work. Lemme know if you know fellow Parot Heads.....

Again I say; "HICKS with SITCKS!!!" just to keep up the inflamatory tone..... hahahahaha......

Iggy is too shaky to get my A-OK. Bob Rae also sacrss me due to his speding debacle in Ontario in years past. Hmmmmmm? :crazy:

Yes I would have loved to be there for that! See this is what I mean. The fans love the J.Y.D. and that reason alone is egnough to bring him back. He would put people in the seats and give the team some defense, rebounding, hustle and a locker room leader. And how much woudl it really cost? A million a year MAX! And I tell you the good will they would recieve for it would be worth every penny! He's only 33 too, there's still gas in the tank!

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There is TONS of western "business" there right now!! I know where you're coming from' date=' but it was too easy . Anyone want a copy of "Iraq For Sale"??? You'll soon realize why they want the war to continue. There's simply toooo much money to be made by the contractors, and oil to control. http://iraqforsale.org/ SICK SICK SICK [/quote'] Sorry I misstyped. What I meant to tyope was: No western country has any business being there!. Of course I know there is tonnes of business/monetary interst there. Either way it's time to go and let social darwinism play out....my 2 cents...

I have to agree with Deeps. The only way this thing is goping to be solved is for all foriegn forces to leave, allow the country to desolve into civil war and then let a new leader emerge that they can all be dictaed under. The thing is that democracy doesn't work in that part of the world. Never has. The ones who are on the bottom/opressed simply want to be the dictators/opressors themselves. They do not want equality they want supremacy. Harsh? Yes but that's life, no western force has any business being there anyway. Time to cut and run! For real!

I've eaten there and it is quite good foodwise and has a very funky atmosphere! Recommended.

Here's some jokes I found hillarious thta Willie Nelson told in the Dukes of Hazzard.. Q: "Why are blondes an tornadoes the same?" A: "'Cuase at first there's a lot of sucking and blowing and then they take your house!" Q: "What do you get when you cross a donkey with an onion? A: A Piece of ass that will make you cry.

Negril Jamaica.... hands down. When the talk of paradise on earth they are talking about Negril. Not too over developed, tonnes of wildlife nearby, great people, even better drugs and negril has the largest population of Rastas on the island. Also negril is lush with some of the freshest food I have ever tasted. It is also always warm with a trade wind breeze and never too humid. I've been there 5 times 'casue I can't get egnough..

The trump card in all of this Quebec as nation talk which usually leads to seperation talk, is this: "Sure, if you want to leave Canada fine, then you have to take you're share of the debt and use you own currency". This only fair, but ever seperatist mantra I've heard states they want to continue to use Canada's money and leave the rest of the counrty with the portion of the debty they incurred. Sorry Frenchy, you can't have you cake and eat it too.

I'll see your MMW & Bill Frissel and raise you a Pat MArtino & MMW

Fuck it then! I want me and my dreadlocked acid taking, pieced up, imporvised music bretheren to be declared a nation too... It's only fair. I need to be recognized as distinct! Or else I'm going to fight to make my apartment it's own country and suceed from Canada. Who's with me!