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Chris Squire - Fish out of Water

Cheers! ...I re-read this thread, and clicked the "wayback machine" link to look at some of the old BNBB threads. A fascinating glimpse into some of our old comments from 23 years ago. And a whole forum just for the RVG series too!

Carolina Chocolate Drops - Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind

Both fine albums there, Buzzz. np: North Atlantic Oscillation - Grind Show

It's a very good album IMO - part of a trilogy of sorts alongside Fripp's Exposure and Peter Gabriel's second album (aka "Scratch"). I'm not the biggest Hall fan around, though I do think he has a fine voice.

Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs

It was a "bonus album" that came with some versions of their album Variations on a Dream. It's really more a Bruce Soord solo album than a full band album. A good listen.

The Pineapple Thief - 8 Days

Mike Flanigin - The Drifter ...great album by a former board member here.

Snoopy Rock in Sedona, 14 Feb 2025

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

It has the exact same setlist as the show I saw, so it must've been 2.5 as well lol. I think if they had continued the band and touring, they'd probably cut back the number of tracks from the C/C album, and maybe replace them with other older songs. But I'm guessing the show would still be roughly the same length. On the other hand, I saw them twice in 2009-10 (Houston & Philly), and they played the full Incident album that time, just like the full C/C album in '22. So who knows.

Ohh yeah! What's your verdict on this one? I saw the first show on the tour in 2022 in Toronto, and loved it. Was happy to see PT back together (well mostly - would've been nice if Colin Edwin had been involved, but whatever), but the show exceeded my expectations. I've got my vinyl set out to spin over the next couple days.

Caught RIckie Lee Jones on Friday night, followed by Kat Edmonson on Saturday. Rickie did well, but you can tell age has slowed her a bit. Kat's sort of a jazz/pop singer, originally from Texas but now based in New York. Her last album had guest appearances by Bill Frisell, Jaleel Shaw, and Avi Bortnick. Got to chat with her after the show for a bit, talking about our shared background in Austin.

You could also easily go with the lightbulb.

They had snow the day after we left.

It's a beautiful area! We spent a few days hiking in Joshua Tree National Park, which was stunning - far more beautiful than I expected. Felt like a giant Flintstones movie set, but real lol.

Joshua tree, Yucca Valley CA - 23 January 2025

How do you like this one? I'm tempted to pick it up, but haven't yet. I kinda fell back in love with the Breeders after seeing them open for the Foo Fighters in Oct 2023.

I've been visiting Waterloo almost as long as I can remember being in and around Austin starting in the early 80's. I don't remember visiting the first location at all, but spent plenty of time at the second (and Tower and Technophilia, and later Stashus Mule in the 90's, if anyone remembers that hole in the wall). Sort of bittersweet to see it relocating, but at least it's still operating, and seems to be in good shape moving forward.

Neil Young - Somewhere Under the Rainbow

Somewhere in Arizona, 29 December 2024

That is frustrating for me as well, for a different reason. In my town, the USPS does not deliver door to door. So everyone gets a PO Box for free (and the post office is only about 2 miles from my house, so mostly no big deal). However, every other service (Amazon, UPS, Fedex, DHL, etc), delivers to my door. So if something ships by UPS, I generally use my street address for delivery. But if they swap it out (like UPS Mail Innovations does) and give it to the Post Office for final delivery, it sometimes gets returned to the sender because it has a street address on it, and not a PO Box. Usually I can figure this out in advance and it's not a big deal, but occasionally it messes up. A package from Amazon UK did this - started with Amazon in England, used some other service for transport to the Royal Mail, transported to the US, picked up by UPS Mail Innovations in California, and then brought by UPS to my USPS box in Arizona. So 98% of that trip worked fine with my street address, but then needed a PO Box number for final delivery. Luckily I was able to intercept it at the Post Office and convince them to let me have it before they returned it to the UK.

Moby - Everything is Wrong