Rob Not Bob

FWIW, just to maybe embellish the gift certificate idea, where I work the incentives come as certificates to giftcertificates.ca , where you can then redeem the certificates for gift cards from a variety of businesses (HMV, Future Shop, The Keg, Harry Rosen, The Gap, Chapters, etc.). This way , whoever gets the incentive can ultimately get something that is taylored to their personal interests and what is available in their area.

These Rhino bastiches want all my money ... and they are going to end up getting it, damnit.

Embrace the comedic genius that is John C. Mc Ginley :

"I'll be honest with you, I love his music, I do, I'm a Michael Bolton fan. For my money, I don't know if it gets any better than when he sings "When a Man Loves a Woman". "

Roxy Music - Live At The London Apollo

I've come to the conclusion that anything I don't already know about sex is usually pretty gross.

Why do I feel like I'm eight years-old again...my siblings used to do this to me all the time. Talk about stuff I don't understand and then not tell me what it means.

You guys are a bunch of jerks and I'm telling Mum!

Wikipedia is your friend.

Or, alternately, your enemy ... there a few things I've heard mentioned in popular culture that I looked up just to figure out what the hell they were talking about, and since then wish that I could chisel them out of my brain.

"There are some things, Doctor, into which mankind was not meant to enquire."

I'll believe it when I see it.

Tim

What, that it will actually be release? You and me both, brother. I've been waiting for this bad boy for 10 years ...

If it is anything like his past few albums and archival releases, they came with a second disc that wasn't so much a DVD-A proper (at least as I understand the term) but a regular DVD that has the complete album on it accompanied by some video footage or just shifting pictures.

<<<87th position>>>

i'd bet the majority of people who have dvd players only have it hooked up to their tv and not an audiophile stereo system that can reproduce the frequencies he is pining over.

but whatever, he's neil young, he can do what he wants.

We need to start a pool : how many new albums will Neil Young release between now and when the Archives finally comes out?

Say, wasn't the most recent scheduled release date for it supposed to be in about 3 weeks? I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop for the inevitable postponement (yet again) and here it is

Swampland by The Birthday Party. Yes, I'm old ...

The set he did with Umphrey's in Toronto a few years ago is a real comfort food show for me, I can put it on any time and I am cheered immensely. Having said that, I haven't felt the urge to put on any of the other shows of his I have in a long time. No big "I don't like him anymore" moment, I just haven't felt like listening to him. Of course, I could say the same thing about Phish ...

FWIW, James Dean only made 3 movies.

Even my google searches are yielding no results.

Try wikipedia

I rarely watch it (not a snob thing, just never get around to watching it except sometimes the season finale) but this year the writers strike has driven me to watching it from the beginning. Renaldo was actually quite a good singer, I liked him. I have gotten roundly mocked for pitying the singing waitress who butchered the Kelly Clarkson song on the last episode ... I actually heard traces of a good singing voice in the awful performance, but it was like the pressure to diva everything up with vocal gymnastics that seems prevalent in too much music today led her to trick up the song and sing way out of her range with disastrous results. If she got some lessons and learned the basic truth that it is better to sing a simple song well and with feeling than to try to impress with something too big for you and miss the mark. Ah well, I am a soft touch.

I can't wait to introduce my "Songs recorded by one armed veterinarians while standing on one foot" theme

don't let me get that coveted #12 slot, pholks

Actually, I was anticipating somthing like, Songs Written At 3:47 AM.

I assumed it meant pre WWII' date=' actually.[/quote']

Err, wasn't Hard Time Killing Floor Blues recorded in 1931?

I think the caveman is responding to boiler rat a few posts up...

Oh, ya. I was.

Sorry RnB.

Durp, sorry, SM.

I assumed it meant pre WWII, actually.

Err, wasn't Hard Time Killing Floor Blues recorded in 1931?

Bob Weir *is* the juvenile lead in the Gamera movies.

I know there's some folks on the list who still love that classic arena rock sound ...

Triumph lays it on the line

Death of Rik Emmett's brother prompted trio to regroup for festival

Jan 21, 2008 04:30 AM

Greg Quill

ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST

The Triumph shadow has hung for more than 20 years over Toronto guitarist Rik Emmett, but nothing – not the promise of money, nor the efforts of friends and advisers to engineer a reconciliation with his estranged bandmates, drummer Gil Moore and bassist Mike Levine – could have lured him back into the arena-rock vortex.

Until, that is, the recent cancer-related death of his younger brother, a longtime fan of the Toronto trio that broke out of the club scene in the mid-1970s and rose to international stardom through the 1980s before calling it quits.

Emmett, Moore and Levine have spent the subsequent two decades bickering and sniping at each other in public and lawyer's offices.

"Yeah, well ... life's too short, and I did make this promise to my brother before he died," Emmett said Friday from his Toronto home after the announcement that Triumph is one of the featured headliners in June at the four-day Sweden Rock Festival. Having been inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame last March, Emmett, Moore and Levine were approached by the festival to share its main stage with Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Blue Öyster Cult, Whitesnake and other top arena rock bands of the 1980s.

Their decision to reform had little to do with money and less with revisiting past glories, said Emmett, 54, the band's youngest member. He has built a respectable solo career as a jazz and rock guitarist since Triumph split. Levine and Moore quit playing altogether, the latter to establish the Metalworks recording complex in Mississauga.

"When there's a death in the family, you start pondering the meaning of life .. and it's not as if Triumph has ever gone away. It's been part of me since I was in my early 20s," says Emmett.

He also recalled sharing a bill with veteran hard rock act Nazareth recently and being moved by their camaraderie and shared loved of the music they've been playing since the early 1970s.

"They're old, grey-haired, hard-drinking Scottish geezers and they're living an adventure that may never end, eternal brothers in music. I was jealous. I wished I still had that."

In the 1980s Triumph released a string of gold and platinum albums (Progressions of Power, Allied Forces, Never Surrender, Thunder Seven) and several durable hits, including "Fight the Good Fight," "Magic Power" and "Lay It On The Line."

Even so, it's unlikely Triumph can pick up where it left off. The plan, Emmett said, is to perform once in Sweden, and maybe a couple of times in July at venues yet to be determined, then to spend a year gearing up for a major world tour beginning in the summer of 2009.

"Of course, there is a Spinal Tap element to all of this," Emmett adds. "We haven't even had a rehearsal yet.

"This is no middle-age adventure. This is our history, our lives, our work."

336. Pre-war blues songs about death, without repeating an artist or song.

1. Leadbelly - Death Letter Blues

2. Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

3. Robert Johnson - Dead Shrimp Blues

4. Tommy Johnson - Big Road Blues

5. Blind Willie Johnson - Jesus Make Up My Dyin' Bed (later remade by Dylan and Zeppelin going by a different name, In My Time of Dying)

6. Skip James - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues

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Never heard Wave To The Wind, prolly for the best. Least Favorite Bobby song? Easy Answers. Jerry? Hmmmm, I'd say Keep Your Day Job.

What's Become Of The Baby?

As for songs they actually played live more than once, sorry Vince, but Samba In The Rain and Long Way To Go Home were songs that made, for the first time in my life, the words come out of my mouth, "Oh, thank God, it's the drum solo."

I want to do licentious things with the Edge.

He is, after all, Welsh.