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Jaimoe

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  1. Thanks Tim. This all sounds interesting. I like The Kills and QOTSA, plus the bassist in The Raconteurs is also from another great band The Greenhornes. Jack's a good drummer too.
  2. Not all staged fights are from one-dimensional players. Just off the top of my head, I've seen Daniel Briere, Chris Phillips and Ladislav Smid drop the gloves off of a faceoff. Personally, I have no problem with getting rid of "staged fights", but I certainly didn't hate seeing Brashear getting knocked flat last night by Belak.
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    Bluesfest...

    I wish either of David Lindley's appearances and Jackson Browne's appearance lined up' date=' as I'd love to see Lindley sit in with Browne. (So far, I'm most excited about Jeff Beck. With any luck, he'll have Vinnie Calaiuta playing drums.) Aloha, Brad[/quote'] Isn't Bozzio still kicking around? I saw Beck with Bozzio a few years ago... and no Jennifer Batten.
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    Bluesfest...

    Jeff Beck is worth the price of admission alone.
  5. It was a mutual decision by Baseball Canada and Ernie to sit their best starter. That was a bad mistake. Imagine the Jays finally making it to the playoffs and deciding to sit Halladay in Game 1. McCowan was all over Whitt today on The Fan and so were his ink-stained wretch co-hosts and guests.
  6. Baseball Canada made bad decisions all-round: They sit their best starting pitcher for two games (looking past their game versus Italy) and Ernie does no shuffling of some of the more inept batters like Stairs and Chris Barnwell. Argue all you want, but the game versus the US came down to pitching and "we" didn't have our best starter in the game. Of course, having brutal hitting in the Italian game wouldn't have mattered if they beat the US. Ernie is getting ripped today and he deserves it.
  7. Have a great birthday. I'm sure you'll make a Tuesday work for you.
  8. I guess the publisher has never seen Sufjan Stevens wearing butterfly wings.
  9. Great game last. That was one of the best games I've ever been at, regardless of the outcome in any sport. The crowd was incredible and the Canadians did Canada and the game of baseball proud. It all came down to pitching and there's only so far a roster with mostly minor leaguers can take you, but they did an admirable job nonetheless. Canada has a really good batting order with Joey Votto, Russell Martin, Justin Morneau, Jason Bay, Matt Stairs and Mark Teahan. I loved hearing 42-thousand booing Jeter and razzing Larry "Chipper" Jones. The crowd was the loudest over a sustained period of time I've ever witnessed. Anyway, I'm going to the US-Venezuela game tonight and I think I'll boo Jeter just for old time's sake.
  10. Pompous or not, I love those two Arcade Fire albums. As for Coyne ripping off Peter Gabriel? Who cares? He does it better.
  11. Most of the Betts-penned instrumentals such as "Pegasus", "Les Brers in A Minor" and "Kind of Bird" have jazz leanings, especially the latter Charlie Parker inspired tune. And parts of Betts' solos on "Whipping Post" and "Mountain Jam" on Live at the Fillmore have jazz stylings. Duane may have been influenced by jazz, but his lead playing rarely strayed from blues. Even his solos on the Push Push album are blues-based. I've played bluesy guitar for over 20 years and Duane is my biggest lead guitar influence. His style is easier to emmulate than Dickey's because, one, he died at 23 and two, he was a killer blues player that embraced the genre and took it as far as it could go. I don't have a country/bluegrass mentality, but I certainly can get into Warren's headspace, since he is blues to the core. I'm afraid of that Trucks kid though.
  12. Dickey is into jazz. He was inspired to write Jessica in a Django style. Both Duane and Dickey loved Coltrane too, and Dickey's lead style is pretty jazzy, even back to the Fillmore days. And Jaimoe is a jazz drummer, so the ABB have always had the jazz influence anchoring their sound.
  13. Def cant make it before game 1' date=' but is it close enough to meet up for a few between games?[/quote'] Yes. I'll be there after Game 1 with some folks. All you do is walk up John Street and Adelaide. It's on the south-west corner, across from Hooters (a five-minute walk from Front Street). I'll be wearing an old-school blue Jays jersey.
  14. As musicians that is arguably true. But Warren, Derek and whoever sits in with the band didn't help create a sound, a genre, or influence several generations, not to mention help produce transcendent albums. Substitutions are all well and good, but they can never replace original soul. On an aside, the second-best ABB line-up was: Dickey Betts, Greg Allman, Butch Trucks, Marc Quinones, Warren Haynes and the irreplaceable Allen Woody. If Woody and Haynes didn't join the fold when they did, the Allman Brothers would have faded into the sunset (as Skynyrd should have done after the plane crash).
  15. True 'dat my friend. And The Who ain't The Who without Keith Moon.
  16. All I know is that Coyne loves The Who, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is one of the greatest albums of thedecade and Arcade Fire is one of the best fucking live bands I've ever seen (and their two albums aren't too shabby either).
  17. The A Channels are all in trouble.
  18. Sometimes, but it isn't necessary. My wife is a server and she doesn't expect a tip when she deals with take-out orders.
  19. I doubt traffic will be bad though. Also, there's decent parking around John Street, on the streets that run perpendicular to Queen St..
  20. I'm going to the Can-US and then the Saturday night game. I'll also be attending a game on Sunday.
  21. All these dropouts really sucks. I've got my tickets (a Christmas present from my wife). How about meeting at the Fox and Fiddle on John Street before and/or after the game?
  22. Mike, did you eat some bad gourmet mushrooms or something? When No Doubt first came onto the music scene, I immediately hated their gratingly obnoxious fake ska-influenced pop shit songs. Solo Gwen is worse. Even worse than that is hearing some classic solo Gwen like "Hollaback Girl" done by No Doubt, no doubt with bouche fist-pumping in his seat along to the chorus.
  23. Anyone catch the Jose Gonzales concert at 2pm? That show interests me more than the other three, but I do like it when Dave plays with Tim.
  24. That joke has been lingering around Toronto for months, but with Leaf tickets involved instead of Sens ones. Still, the joke certainly is applicable in both cases.
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