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  2. The LEGENDARY 12 Song Album Game!

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    #298 Songs about non-conformity

    1. Oasis - Whatever

    2. Bob Marley and the Wailers - I Shot the Sheriff

    3. Soulside - You've Heard It All Before

    4. Kiss - Shout It Out Loud

    5. The Kinks - Misfits

    6. Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It

    7. D.R.I - I Don't Need Society

    8. Tom Waits - I Don't Want to Grow Up

    9. Amy Winehouse - Rehab

    10. Modest Mouse - Parting Of The Sensory

    11. The Smiths - Is It Really So Strange?

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  3. The LEGENDARY 12 Song Album Game!

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    no worries bro, and thanks for catching it M.O.B.E.

    here's how the theme stands

    #298 Songs about non-conformity

    1. Oasis - Whatever

    2. Bob Marley and the Wailers - I Shot the Sheriff

    3. Soulside - You've Heard It All Before

    4. Kiss - Shout It Out Loud

    5. The Kinks - Misfits

    6. Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It

    7. D.R.I - I Don't Need Society

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  6. The LEGENDARY 12 Song Album Game!

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    #296 Songs with names that are also corporate-slogans (and the corporation who uses it)

    1. Aquarium - Zoom Zoom Zoom (Mazda)

    2. Bob Seger - Like A Rock

    3. Alice In Chains - Real Thing (Coca Cola)

    4. Th Rolling Stones - Start Me Up (Micro$oft)

    5. Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll (GM Motors - Cadillac line)

    6. Justin Timberlake - I'm Lovin' It (McD's)

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  10. New Radiohead album October 10

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    More details

    What would that Lefsetz guy say about this?

    He said:

    http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/index.html

    Is this real?

    I'm standing in Gelson's, shopping for dinner, and my BlackBerry starts to go wild. All with the above link. About a new Radiohead record.

    Then I get in front of a computer and I read that there's been a hoax. That the site purporting to count down to Radiohead's release is fake. But now everybody is saying the story at the ABOVE link is REAL! That the new Radiohead album comes out in ten days and you can pay whatever you want. It's even on the Record Of The Day site.

    Huh?

    I got a call from the AP just last week. Asking me what Radiohead would do. I said they'd use the English indie model. License the record to a major for a limited period of time for a ton of bread. You see majors OWN physical distribution. And that's where the lion's share of recorded music revenue still is, in CDs, at Best Buy/Wal-Mart and the other brick and mortars left. The majors can get the product in the store and you can get paid. They need the billing. You still can't do it alone, even though it's been thirty plus years since the Dead failed with "Wake Of The Flood". Hell, PEARL JAM made a deal with a major.

    But what if they're not? What if RADIOHEAD is giving the major labels the middle finger? What if they're saying WE'RE RICH ENOUGH! That the Net allows you to go straight to your audience. FUCK the middleman who says he's so necessary.

    R.E.M. went for the cash They could have gone indie. Turns out re-signing with Warner was a good move, for they never sold tonnage again, despite getting PAID for selling tonnage. Springsteen went for the check. As did Neil Young.

    But none of the foregoing acts are in their prime. They're riding off into the sunset. They don't have a hold on the younger generation. Boomers in Bimmers are the fans of these acts, none of whom can sell big numbers anyway. They're all on victory lap tours, raking in the dough for retirement. Radiohead doesn't have their dough...shouldn't they be going for the CHECK?

    Isn't that the majors' advantage, they've got the money, they can write the CHECK?

    Who leaves money on the table. Certainly not the agents. They don't want StubHub to steal a single dollar from their bottom line. Fuck image and credibility, THAT'S MY MONEY! I'm gonna make a deal with Cadillac. I'm gonna whore my product out on TV. Radio won't play my music, I can't get it on the Top Forty, MY HANDS ARE TIED!

    It's not like Radiohead's living in a different world. But they're playing by a different rule book. One that says the money flows from the music, that people have to believe in you, that you've got to treat them right.

    Shit, you can barely get a ticket to a Radiohead show. The venues aren't big and the demand is incredible. They're doing it all wrong, don't they see??

    Well, obviously they don't.

    This is big news. This says the major labels are fucked. Untrustworthy with a worthless business model. Radiohead doesn't seem to care if the music is free. Not that they believe it will be. Because believers will give you ALL THEIR MONEY!

    This is the industry's worst nightmare. Superstar band, THE superstar band, forging ahead by its own wits. Proving that others can too. And they will.

    This is what happens when you sell twenty dollar CDs with one good track and sue your customers for trading P2P. This is what happens when you believe you're ENTITLED to your business. This is what happens when music is a second-class citizen only interested in the bottom line.

    There's no testimonial to Jimmy Iovine on inrainbows.com. No thanks to Rick Rubin, never mind Lyor Cohen. Radiohead doesn't need those stinkin' badges. They're THINKING FOR THEMSELVES!

    What did that button say back in the sixties? "Question Authority"? That's what Radiohead is doing here. They're not holding back, saying their hands are tied, but are forging into the future.

    You can't make a TV show by yourself. Certainly not a movie. Not that anyone can see. But you can make a record all by your lonesome, it doesn't cost that much. And you can say exactly what you want, you don't need to clean it up for Wal-Mart. And, you can distribute it yourself online. That's what Radiohead is doing.

    Will they make a deal with a major for physical distribution? Will they do it themselves? Or will they leave ALL that money on the table? Shit, that would blow MY mind.

    http://www.recordoftheday.com/cgi-bin/rotd-mb/rotd_config.pl?read=123608

    (You can pay as little as 1p for the download album, but a 45p credit card charge will be added.)

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    If you would like to subscribe to the LefsetzLetter,

    http://www.lefsetz.com/lists/?p=subscribe&id=1

  11. Bob Lefsetz on Neil Young ticket prices

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    I'll just say that the consistent ramping up of ticket prices SUCKS for now and leave it at that.

    However, I will share with you an interesting and sympathetic response that Lefsetz got (hey, like Bob or not, his newsletter has some must-read responses from some industry peeps; did you miss Phish's ex-manager John Paluska responding last week about how Phish kept their ticket prices down? Bob's newsletter is worth the free subscription taking some room in yer inbox, imo).

    I saw around Neil ten years ago in Concord, CA. It was the first and only time in my life I paid a scalper for tickets, $75.00 for six row left of center seats. It was a Crazy Horse show. The show was amazing, Bob. I'm not exaggerating, it was simply amazing. I went in a passive fan familiar with Neil and came out a convert. The end of of the show, giant candles which had been burning all during the show were picked up and the melted wax slung all over the stage while Neil went nuts during an astounding jam out by him and his band of Hey Hey, My My. No makeup, no explosions, no fancy clothes and sets..... just pure, unadulterated rock and roll music with an animal unleashed at the ending that to this day still finds itself at the top ten list of concerts I've seen in my lifetime. I left there completely happy that I paid that scalper and sat by myself in the middle of those people, because the show was astounding.

    I was close enough to see Neil's guitar rig, consisting of several amps and its own little PA system and mixer for them, plus his knob-turning contraption custom-made for him that got pre-set tone choices from the amps using mechanical knob-turners placed over the amp knobs instead of using sampled guitar tones, etc. I saw that night why I can never seem to get my Les Pauls to sound the way Neil's Les Pauls sound.

    A few weeks later, friends of mine are getting married. Neil is a friend of theirs too and come to the small wedding and reception at a rented private hall somewhere in the Oakland Hills. Neil, in his Hawaiian shirt and white pants, sandals and hat, is there. We sit next to each other on a bench and eat food from the buffet on our paper plates. I get up the courage to tell him I bought a scalped ticket, and that I'd never seen him before, and how absolutely knocked out I was by that magical show. Neil grinned. He was so nice. I turned the conversation to shop talk about that guitar rig setup. He lit up like a little kid talking about his favorite fire truck and for a good half our or so, described in detail how the idea came about, talked about the guy who made the system for him, the various amps, and humbly, gently thanked me for noticing the rig and liking it. People all around enjoying the reception, and me and Neil sitting there talking guitars, amps and tone like we were a couple of kids in a music store. Try having that conversation with Bob Dylan some time......

    About five or so years ago, Neil was preparing for his short run with Crazy Horse to South America. He had two suprise performances at the Warfield in San Francisco. The shows were announced the same day the first was to happen. Knowing they would sell out immediately, my employees and I, tipped off to the tickets going on sale, rushed to the local Ticketbastard location at a Long's Drugstore near our publishing offices in Vallejo, CA. Expecting lines, we sweated and rushed and ran..... got into the store, nobody in line. Went to the ticket sales counter, bought four tickets for each show, $35 each plus fees. The Warfield, Bob! Tiny venue by comparison. Both nights, beautiful magic. He could have easily got $200 a head for that tiny show, and scalpers outside on Market Street had no problem doing it. I saw them sell them while I waited in line.

    I won't go into the wonderful things Neil does as a human for Bridge School every year with his benefit show in the SF bay area. I won't humor you with details of Neil telling a room full of audio engineers, producers and manufacturers at the TEC Awards during AES to not interpolate his music into surround, and how much CD's suck (while the high-ranking SONY people sat there in front of him).

    I don't know who sets these crazy ticket prices. I don't pretend to know the mindset behind it, or Ticketbastard, or even the real costs of a tour in the 21st Century, but I do know this much, Bob. Neil Young is a good guy, with a good heart, a truckload of talent and Neil Young has nothing, I mean NOTHING to be ashamed of, Bob.

    Mike Lawson

  17. Bob Lefsetz on Neil Young ticket prices

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    I love Lefsetz. He makes my freakin' day sometimes. I don't always agree with him but he's the master of a good rant and I have respect for that.

    In this case, I disagree with his conception of Neil coasting on his laurels (although I am a little disturbed at Neil's recent habit of writing a song in the morning, recording it in the afternoon, doing that ten times and PRESTO a new album!). The dude I saw drill Greendale into 18000 confused heads a few years ago, or the dude who FINALLY brought CSN out of their coma a year ago with all that Living W/War material, is *not* coasting on his laurels.

    But he raises some great points. What IS the justification for such high ticket prices? That the market demands it? The restless consumer?

    Ticket prices are out of control. Totally, utterly, out of control. And it's the "heritage artists" - those that need it the least, that we really should be pointing our fingers at.

  21. What are you listening to right now?

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    RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON

    The Boathouse

    Kew Bridge, London, October 24, 1972

    Very first live appearance

    (remastered by PR)

    1. Nobody's Wedding

    2. Shady Lies

    3. He May Call You Up Tonight

    4. Shaky Nancy

    5. Has He Got A Friend For Me

    6. Dragging The River

    7. Once Brave Napoleon

    8. Hornpipe

    9. Brand New Way To Hurt A Woman

    10. The Poor Ditching Boy

    11. Now Be Thankful

    12. When I'm Prime Minister

    13. The Great Valerio

    14. Twisted

    Insanity. :o I had trouble signing up for his site a while back and left it alone but this reminded me to go back and do it. I've been looking for a site full of RT/Fairport stuff for a while and here it is. How could this be bad?

    If I had a band we'd do "Now Be Thankful". :P

  23. The LEGENDARY 12 Song Album Game!

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    AD - which version of "TWOTB" are you submitting? It's a good choice, we just need a recorded version to add to the disc at hand.

    #286. Songs about buses and/or public transit.

    1. Frank Zappa - Get On The Bus

    2. Shuffle Demons - Spadina Bus

    3. The Hollies - Bus Stop

    4. The Guess Who - Bus Rider

    5. Mike Doughty - Thank You Lord, For Sending Me The F Train

    6. Phish - Cars Trucks Buses

    7. Traditional - The Wheels on the Bus

    8. Bob Dylan - Train A-Travelin'

    9. The Who - Magic Bus

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  24. What are you listening to right now?

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    Dave Matthews Band 09-06-07

    Lane Stadium @ Virginia Tech

    Blacksburg, VA

    "A Concert For Virginia Tech"

    To help give the Virginia Tech community a positive start to its first semester back after the April 16, 2007, shootings, DMB headlined this semi-private, free show for Tech students and faculty. A limited number of tickets were sold to the public. All four artists played for free, and ticket and merchandise sales were used to make up the cost of putting on the concert.

    Two Step G1 G2

    Where Are You Going G1

    Corn Bread G1 G2 G3 G4

    Crush G1 G2

    #27 G1 G2

    Eh Hee G1 G2

    Grey Street G1 G2 G3 G4

    The Idea Of You G1 G2 G3 G4

    Crash Into Me G1 G2

    Hunger for the Great Light G1 G2

    Dreamgirl G1 G2

    #41 G1 G2 G5

    So Much To Say ...> G1 G2 G3 G4

    Anyone Seen the Bridge? ...> G1 G2 G3 G4

    Too Much G1 G2 G3 G4

    Jimi Thing ...> G1 G6 G2 G3 G4

    Three Little Birds G1 G6 G2 G3 G4

    Stay G1 G2 G3 G4

    Encore:

    Ants Marching G1 G2

    Guests:

    G1 Butch Taylor

    G2 Rashawn Ross

    G3 Matt Cappy

    G4 Lamont Caldwell

    G5 John Mayer

    G6 David Ryan Harris

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