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I hope everyone going tonight has fun. I'll be stuck in Ottawa (thank you inflexible job). If someone was kind enough to bring me back a logo bumper sticker it would be appreciated

have fun guys, hope the show rocks!

what jon. said.. truly!

anyone got links to the weekend shows yet? I'm putting together my playlist for heading down to the Toronto show tomorrow.

grr... youtube embed not working!!! FAIL!!!

You know, Lance was in those boots eh. That's why they were in the case.

Such an awesome night, such great music and good vibes. It was awesome to see guys I haven't seen in 10-15 years. So many memories from the Post, I cherish them all.

It's been a melancholy weekend for me coming down from the high of Friday night. Lance would have loved it though, it was certainly a night deserving of his remembrance.

the official line up for tonight has now been posted:

Frank James

Christope Elie

Razor Mike Pihlainen

Melissa Payne

Miss Grundy

Wicked Grin - playing some Crowd tunes with friends

Bethany Bisaillion

The Fenton Brothers

The Mighty Popo Murigande and Scott Doubt

Big BigJeezus Truck

Jed Rached and Terry Owen

Bush Pilots

Death Cake

each band will play 3 songs and get about 15 minutes or so of stage time

Phorbsie, I'm just repeating what has been told to me, so take whatever I say with a grain of salt I guess. I've been told that the bands start playing at 8:00. The FB event lists 280 people as attending the event, but we all know that is usually wrong. I would be amazed if the place doesn't sell out though.

So yeah, I wish I had a better sense of when early really is, but I don't, sorry.

I got into MyAnonaMouse last night. It's pretty much all ebooks and audiobooks. There seems to be a half decent library of music (sheet music, instructional books, theory, and instructional videos) as well. But that's all they got, no software or movies or tv or anything like that. Just FYI for anyone else looking to get in there.

oh.. and I've heard rumours of a Miss Grundy reunion.. that'd be amazing!

I'll be performing tomorrow night in a mini/quasi reunion of The Crowd. We even have a couple of people coming up from Toronto and Kingston to join us.

The line up so far is the following:

Frank James Band, Razor Mike, Melissa Payne, Wicked Grin and Friends, The Fenton Brothers, Big Jeezus Truck, The Mighty Popo, Scotty Doubt

but they go on to say "The line-up is ever evolving". My fingers are crossed that this will devolve into a massive jam session

The show is currently scheduled to start at 8:00pm and there will be a $5.00 cover charge. My advice is to show up early.

hey Jaybone.. did they let you in?

The Sun is publishing pro-NDP articles

Beating back the socialist hordes

David Akin | Parliamentary Bureau Chief

OTTAWA - There they stood, grinning for the cameras on Parliament Hill Tuesday - the leaders of the country's socialist hordes, carbon-taxers all, economy-destroyers and energy industry-haters.

Or at least that's what the NDP's political opponents would have you believe as federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair gathered nine provincial leaders - including two sitting premiers - for an afternoon meeting about the economy, resource development and federal-provincial relations.

Fred Delorey, chief spokesman for the Conservative Party of Canada, called the summit "a brainstorming session on how to get Canadians to accept higher taxes and a higher cost of living."

Delorey, relying on the 2011 federal NDP platform as his source, accused the NDP of favouring a "job-killing carbon tax" and noted they "would like to add an additional new sales tax and impose higher taxes on job creators."

There's no mention in Delorey's release, of course, that all Canadians got smaller paycheques as of Jan. 1 thanks to the Conservatives' own increase to the job-killing payroll tax known as EI premiums. (And there'll be another increase next Jan. 1.)

No mention, either, of how all sorts of federal fees and surcharges have gone up under Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories, such as the extra $1.5 billion going into the federal treasury from hikes on airport security charges.

No matter. This is politics and the partisan back and forth is all part of the game.

But the NDP leaders' summit is part of a calculated effort to neutralize the scare-mongering of its opponents, to prove itself to the 50% or so of Canadian voters who disapprove of Harper's performance.

The NDP holds power in Manitoba and Nova Scotia and are poised to seize power in B.C. Going back to founder Tommy Douglas' long tenure as Saskatchewan's premier, the NDP believes it can point to a long history of sound public administration.

As part of its claim to be among the most fiscally prudent of parties, the NDP took a look at all federal and provincial budgets across the country going back to 1980 and claims that nearly 50% of all budgets tabled by any NDP government anywhere were balanced. By comparison, about 40% of budgets tabled by Conservative, Progressive Conservative or Saskatchewan Party governments did not contain a deficit. Only a quarter of budgets tabled by Liberal governments were balanced, according to the NDP analysis.

The NDP also hopes the picture of their leader at a summit of provincial leaders draws attention to the fact that Harper has not met with all provincial premiers since 2009.

Harper's supporters will, with many good reasons, excuse his absence at premiers' meetings by saying they are little more than talking shops whose aim is to beat up the federal government.

Still, there are many Canadians who like the idea of prime ministers and premiers getting together once a year.

This summit also comes on the heels of a week when Mulcair wisely held his fire on the state of the federal government's relationship with First Nations. In fact, the entire NDP caucus was noticeably absent from the Idle No More protests and blockades last week.

On Tuesday, Mulcair observed that he was pleased about Friday's meeting between Harper and First Nations leaders, offered some mild criticism that more had not been accomplished on that file, but refrained from casting his lot with the more radical elements of the Idle No More crowed. He has even called on Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence to end her protest of eating no solid food.

The federal NDP, it should now be clear to their Conservative and Liberal opponents, are playing for keeps and they're playing smartly. Conservatives and Liberals will need to be as smart if they wish to beat back "the socialist hordes."

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2013/01/20130115-163928.html

other than burgers do you have any invites you can trade for TVTorrents?

I have two tvtorrents.com invites..

Velvet, There will be no funeral (as per Lance's request) but there will be a musical event happening around mid-January. Details as to when, where, and exactly what type of event have not been made public yet, I'm sure the wheels are spinning on getting that all set up though. When I hear more I'll be sure to post here.

my first post about Lance's passing was a bit premature. Details coming to me were a bit vague. When I had posted last Lance had been taken off life support. He actually passed at 2:48 this morning. He passed peacefully surrounded by friends and family.

Lance has passed away. Today is a sad day.

I just got an unconfirmed report that he is being taken off life support. If this indeed true then there will soon be a guy to fix the lights and set the smoke machine for that great big jam session in the sky. Very sad.

Thanks for everything Lance, I wouldn't be the musician I am today or know all of the great musicians I know if it wasn't for you.

I'll be there!

so I just got a mass email invite to sign up for this new tracker: https://bitleechers.me

I don't know anything about it, but they are currently open to the public for registration

looks to be an all purpose tracker like Demonoid was.

I loved this show and had been looking for it for ages.. I eventually gave up thinking it wasn't recorded. HUGE thanks to both Dave and Brad for putting this out on there!

Feats done't fail me now!

there's torrentleech.org

anyone got invites for that?

I can trade a tvtorrents invite for a torrentleech

I was in Montreal for the show for his last album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. Awesome show.. and so awesome to see him in a club rather than some big stadium or something.

Wish I had my act together to get to this show, the album is awesome (but how could it not be, it'd David Byrne)!

thanks Jaybone, I'm fine with TV shows as I have an account with TVTorrents. I prefer to stick to private trackers rather than going with Pirate Bay because usually the stuff you download is legit and not full of viruses and such. Obviously when you're dealing in the world of pirated software viruses and trojans are just part of the territory no matter where you get your stuff, but usually with a private tracker the really bad ones get filtered out pretty quickly.

I'm looking for an invite to a generic tracker, like demonoid used to be.. I'm mostly looking for a place to download apps.

anyone got anything?

unfortunately I'm currently unable to provide anything to trade