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Know how to get there or how much it costs? Does look enticing

Yeah, like the episode of The Osbournes, where there's a bubble machine as part of the production of an Ozzy or Black Sabbath show -

Ozzy: "I don't want the fucking bubbles, I'm the fucking prince of darkness." hehehe

The Saturday Sun - May 29, 2004 - Pg.38

"It's getting hot in here...Big, big acts give T.O.'s summer concert scene plenty of sizzle" - Jane Stevenson

Paragraph 17 -

"Acts touring this summer who could yet book a T.O. date include Courtney Love, Lenny Kravitz, Phish, Al Green and David Byrne.

On the downside, it looks like we're not getting Ozzfest with a reunited Black Sabbath, The Dead, Jessica Simpson, The Who,...blah, blah, blah..."

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Do we have a hope in hell? Is it possible that HOB Canada finally saw an opportunity for a jamband sellout and are attempting to fork out some real dough? Anybody got the goods? ::

Same night as Scofield, Galactic, and New Rider's birthday!! It would be really sweet if Scofield started at 8, JJ Cale at 10, and Galactic at midnight (but highly unlikely)

Haven't left yet, if anyone's up and rarin' to go...probably an hour or so away from leaving. Woohoo, let the games begin (for me anyway) ::

Gotta work overnight, and was kinda hoping to leave for CTMF in the morning when I finish, but I'm a bit discouraged with all the lightening and thunder. Does the show go on?

Anyway, if I go, I'll be driving up sometime Sunday morning (from Toronto, travelling through Mississauga and Hamilton) if anyone needs a ride. I probably have room for 1 or 2, and the passenger(s) might motivate me to do it regardless of weather conditions.

Any thoughts/takers? Peace - Karen

Hey CB, sorry to hear that I'd always thought that if I made the trek out to London, I'd have somewhere to stop in and check out. It really sucks that booking/promoting a club is such a thankless job. As booker of the Comfort Zone on and off for the better part of 3 years, I think I understand the love/hate relationship you probably had with your job. No matter how much you do and how exhausted you become, there's still always more promotion you could do. And at the Zone, the coatcheck person was making as much as the booker, but had to take no responsibility for the success or failure of the shows. From talking to one of the owners at Healey's, I realize also that many club owners expect the club to be filled every night of the week. Unfortunately, live bands don't get nearly the respect they deserve in this day and age, with beats and DJs raking in the bucks with stiff cover charges. Why it's difficult to get $5 cover for a live band, but dance clubs fill up at $20 a pop is beyond me.

Anyway, I'm rambling, but I just wanted to express my gratitude for your efforts in bringing more live music to SW Ontario, and giving touring bands a safe haven to stop at along the way.

Good luck in all your future endeavours and enjoy your summer and all your new found time off in the meantime ::

What I'd like to know is, how many parents actually planned to have their children coinciding with the May 2-4 weekend...and how kind is that? Seems to me there's an awful lot of celebrating to be done this weekend, and I sure hope you're able to keep it going Willy until I finally (hopefully) get there on Sunday to share a cold one with ya :: Happy birthday buddy!

On the fence...I just got a $265 speeding ticket, so I'm not sure I can afford anything (including the speeding ticket)

Sure am relieved I didn't make the same mistake as I did years ago not seeing Muddy Waters prior to his demise, and was able to catch this master in action at the Toronto Jazzfest in 2000. What a show that was...and now what a huge loss to the music world

Now I understand why you were doing your celebrating in town last Saturday...hmmm. I was hoping to share some fine Lucky's with you at CTMF (if I make it after work Sunday morning), but I guess I'll just have to wait :: Hope you had a fantabulous birthday and I'll look forward to seeing you out there at some show or other soon ::

Thus far, Grindelwald, Switzerland...closest place to "heaven" I can imagine (though I'm sure there are many others)

Hey Brian, happy birthday!! And don't worry, you're still young...just wait until you're questioning the loss of your twenties and thirties ::

BTW, here's my new mantra (that you might like to try out) -

"you are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely"

Words to live by I think ::

Have a fabulous day ::

Must be nice to have a birthday so close to the May 2-4 weekend...I suggest, start your partying now, and don't stop 'til after Labour Day :: Oh screw it, why stop ever?

So now you got nothin' to complain about...well, except that it's a Monday...and it's gonna start rainin' soon...and...

Happy birthday, and do it up in style!

The Silver $ decided to extend the Rave

...imagine that (the $/Zone wanting to extend a rave)...somehow I'm not surprised

Hey thanks CK - see ya there! ::

BTW, any sitins expected...from say Wilson or Murphy (or any of those other talented folks from Brantford)?

It's the plan Stan!! ::

BTW, if I take the 403 up from Hamilton, how do I get to Alexander's from there? Any suggestions?

...the funk quartet this time round?

The TO jazzfest website says "John Scofield Trio feat. Steve Swallow & Bill Stewart" - does anyone know whether this would be the configuration within which Scofield plays straight-ahead jazz rather than the danceable jazz/funk fusion?

It's not 'ersh, but here's a link -

www.geocities.com/bneilsonband/lyrics.html

As a footnote to my earlier post, I'm not sure why the Beach Boys were my first concert, as I was never really a BB fan. When I was really little, my oldest brother was hugely into the British invasion and subsequently played every Beatles, Stones, Who album for me as they came out. I would kick and scream (mostly because it was my big brother forcing me to do something), but finally couldn't get enough of "Honky Tonk Woman" and "Street Fighting Man", so he began bribing me to listen to every album he purchased after that. I guess, had my big brother been willing to take me to a show, it would've been something better than the Beach Boys. Unfortunately, my big bro' had moved out to B.C. by 1975, so BB it is ::

Hey Mark, you're welcome...anytime ::

There's one actually in the park. Stayed there once after an ABB show...it was rather barren (treeless) and they told us to keep it down sometime in the wee hours (it was only some acoustic guitars), but man, the Sunday football party (with the portable TVs) sure seemed to start early the following morning. Turns out, the neighbours said they were really enjoying the music the previous night and wished we hadn't been told to stop.

There's another more forested state park across the road. I know the Caution Jam folks have stayed there on several occasions. They seem to like it, but there's been a "no visitor" rule after midnight(?) anytime I've wanted to hang with them post-show. Sorry, don't know what the campground is called though.

Kept thinking I'd missed this thread, but I guess it's the thread that just won't die

Well, apparently being the oldest person alive, as a child, I was at Montreal Expo 1967 with my family for 3 or 4 days, so it's entirely possible that my first show was the Grateful Dead Montreal Expo Youth Pavilion 08/06/67 (Sunday), but that would probably be way too good to be true, and my parents won't confirm one way or the other that they are responsible for what has happened to me since ::

So...I guess it would have to be when my friend's dad took us to the O'Keefe Centre to see Mac Davis (whoever that is?) when we were about 10.

After that, I think the first show I actually purchased a ticket for was the Beach Boys at CNE Stadium in maybe 1975? My older sister had to be my chaperone (I'm sure she was impressed), and already being a seasoned concert-goer, she told me wild tales of major pot smoking at all the shows she'd been at. As a result, my recollections of the show are dim at best, reserving instead valuable brain cells for the memory of how terrified I was that someone would pass me a joint and I would humiliate myself trying to be cool and smoke it with no previous experience. Little did I know, the Beach Boys weren't really the "stoner" crowd that I was expecting. Anyway, things obviously went uphill from there.

And hey Velvet, I used to sing that song ("Rocks Off") and "Freaker's Ball" off Dr. Hook's "Sloppy Seconds" album. When my older brother first got the album, he used to get in shit from my mom for playing those songs (as well as Donovan's "The Intergalactic Laxative") to my sister and I, but soon after, when I became the rocker/stoner/troublemaker highschool teen, those obviously became my favourite songs, along with Max Webster's "The Party", "Waterline", and "Lip Service". Of course, all of Zappa's "Joe's Garage" was up there as well, but we didn't really sing that album.

This is from pollstar.com, so not sure if it's for real, but man, that would be one sweet show!! I think I've only seen them twice, at the Horseshoe 10/16/96 and Berkfest 08/13/99, but both times kicked my ass ::

Hey 'ersh, is that El Mo double bill that Diesel Dog Doug proposed on the BNB Message Board for Thursday, May 13th going to happen? That'd be super cool ::