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nero 2003-01-25, from Cafe Dekcuf in Ottawa, ON. Aloha, Brad

UCSC Grateful Dead Archive receives Dick Latvala's personal reel collection Aloha, Brad

Akron/Family 2008-10-03. Thanks, jahdawg! Aloha, Brad

Back in April, 2005, I recorded James McKenty And The Spades at The Pour House in Ottawa, ON, but when I processed the recordings, I found there were some digital glitches, and even a track or two that was unlistenable, so I ended up just leaving the recordings on my hard drive. Fast forward to this weekend, and as I was seeing what I could take off the hard drive to free up some space, I came upon the recordings. I had remembered them being glitchy, but didn't know how bad they were, so I decided to look at the tracks, and at least delete any unlistenable tracks (to reduce how much I'd have to put on CD-R backup), and maybe end up with something uploadable. As it turned out, the recordings are actually not too bad. There was only one pair of unlistenable tracks ("Busting Off An Easy One" blended into "49 Tons Of Diesel Locomotive" from the first night, which they actually did again the second night), and even the tracks with "pop" glitches weren't too bad, especially after some audio tweaking using Audacity. And since it's a pair of back-to-back shows, and has some songs they don't often or anymore ("Lantern Kites", "The Business Of Being Friends", "Tampa To Tulsa", "Everybody Looks Like Zombies And Not My Friends"), I figured it'd be good to upload them. The audio quality isn't the best, but it's more than passable. Here they are: http://www.archive.org/details/jmats2005-04-08.oktava.flac16 http://www.archive.org/details/jmats2005-04-09.oktava.flac16 Enjoy! Aloha, Brad

Is this every week? What's the dealy? Yes' date=' it's weekly, at Irene's Pub. Their weekly events include blues jams on Thursday nights, an acoustic open stage on Saturday afternoons, and Jesse Greene and guests on Sunday nights. Aloha, Brad

Tom Sawyer Taking Care Of Business American Woman Aloha, Brad

I wanted to make it out for this show, but I'm just too tired from Brothers Chaffey last night. Enjoy the dirty banjo, snarf. Aloha, Brad

Little Italy in general, but Pub Italia in particular. Aloha, Brad

Bump. Aloha, Brad

David Lauzon's at Cafe Dekcuf on Saturday, April 4, which should make for a good welcoming party. Aloha, Brad

Congratulations! When are you expecting to get here? Aloha, Brad

He hasn't been there on a Monday. http://www.avantgardebar.com/location.php (I just learned this, as Mike replied to my e-mail suggesting Avant-Garde that it looked like it wa closed on Mondays. ) Aloha, Brad

I'm planning on being at the Montreal gig regardless, so having an Ottawa show would be awesome. E-mail sent about a possible venue. Aloha, Brad

I found a blog by an Ottawa person who's in Toronto for CMW. It's supposed to be updated nightly. Aloha, Brad

How about April 20 in Ottawa? Aloha, Brad

http://www.jambands.ca/sanctuary/showtopic.php?tid/250758/ I'm planning on being there. Anybody else? Aloha, Brad

I don't think "Pets" is that far in the vault for them; there's a recording from less than a year ago in which they did it. Aloha, Brad

nero Aloha, Brad

Im not quite sure what that is supposed to be or mean. Can you explain? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TLDR perhaps? Aloha, Brad

Sisters Euclid Folk Alarm Supergenerous (All are projects featuring Kevin Breit.) Aloha, Brad

Happy Day, livingstoned! Aloha, Brad

That'd be the Econolodge on St. Dominique. Aloha, Brad

I wish either of David Lindley's appearances and Jackson Browne's appearance lined up, 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

I'm not sure I agree. What happens if the arbitrated agreement includes scheduling limits that are in excess of the limits in the federal regs?* Wouldn't it be better to have the regulations that specify scheduling limits in place before an agreement on (or including) scheduling is set up? Aloha, Brad * I wonder if OC Transpo was given an exemption from the 2007 federal regulations precisely because there was already a contract in place with limits that exceeded those in the regulations, to avoid having to have the regulations include provisions for how existing agreements would have to be changed.

Transpo drivers to be bound by federal law: Baird Aloha, Brad