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Hey, no problem. I did want to ask you, though, if that was Chunga's Revenge Zappa on your bass drum? I kept squinting at it, trying to figure it out, but my eyesight is so bad that it was never clear.

I had a great time. I wish I could have stayed longer. Sounds like the second and third sets were good. I wanted to let the band know that as I was driving to the club, Michael G Nastos was mentioning the gig and he played one of your tunes on WEMU.

Guys you were great tonight!! Sorry I had to split after the first set but what I caught I liked! You put on a good show despite the less than perfect acoustics the sound was a good mix. I hope to catch you again when you're back in Ann Arbor. Nice meeting Joe and Jim and Paul from the board too!! Paul we'll have to meet up again at the next show.

I find a very strong King Crimson influence in this album, most noticeably in the drums and some of the guitar tones I've heard a lot of these references to King Crimson. I guess I should go check them out, since I've never heard any of their music before. they are an interesting and always changing band, with lineup changes every few years and with that usually a drastic change in sound. The Tool references are, to me at least, from the 73-74 edition of the band, with Bruford on drums and John Wetton bass and singing; I hear a lot of similarities in the guitar tones and some of the phrasing with this edition of the band, and some of the drumming reminds me of the mid-90s "double-trio" edition of the band. Check out the live The Nightwatch (the Wetton 70s edition) and THRAK from the mid-90s to hear what I'm talking about. None of this is to say Tool isn't original. What I hear is Crimson filtered through Tool but never obviously. I'm dying to hear some of the live tapes from their tour in 2001, where Fripp sat in with them

I find a very strong King Crimson influence in this album, most noticeably in the drums and some of the guitar tones

ugh. There is nothing I hate more than THAT smell. You need to sit them by an open window for a few weeks or something. One of the main reasons I've stopped going to bars/clubs; I hated my clothes and jacket emanating the stale smell of cancer the next day

huh? where did I say I avoided Zappa? I listen to him frequently. I know my Zappa!!

no need to look it up. Sounds nothing like Frank, let me tell you!! Howard Stern kept playing parts of this song a few days ago, so I was NOT able to avoid it

actually, yes, you are the only one who must think this. Unless there's a different "flavor-of-the-month" type of Zappa out there, then no, this sounds nothing at all like the Frank Zappa we know and whose music we love!

Ravi Shankar's, no?

a discussion of King Crimson records by people here would be very interesting, although I would definitely ignore anything to do with rap or musics of that ilk

Keith Jarrett trio in Y2K ( not much jazz where I lived before I moved to Michigan) followed 2 months later by Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock duet. I hope Chris responds to this thread. I'm interested in what his first jazz concert was!

It's very easy to avoid this stuff. Stay away from mtv/vh1, and don't listen to commercial radio. I am proud to say that this method works just fine for me!

I still haven't gone to the Bird yet. How was it??

man I gotta move to Chicago. I've been kinda searching for jobs in that area lately

too bad the plugged nickel isn't around anymore

I wanted to vote for my birthday..........anyway, what about miles????

Fair Ball by Bob Costas (I agree with a lot of Costas' ideas; he should have been commish) from 1999, and the one by Whitey Herzog. I've also been meaning to check out the Baseball volume in the Library of America series. It is a collection of writing, fiction and essays, on baseball, minor and major leagues.

yes, lovely Milan (pronounced like the Italian city, of course), where the phrase "wrong side of the tracks" seems to have originated. The railroad tracks honestly divide the decent part from the outrageously ugly rundown barren part. Maybe guns would be ok if I had to live there....

Toledo has 400K people??? holy crap I never knew that!!! seems like a small city I think we need much stricter gun control here. And that idiot Michael Moore needs to stop with the lies. I have opened 2 bank accounts here in Michigan, and the people I work with all have bank accounts, and none of us got a gun.

If the boys in blue wanted to play for a national championship, they should have eaten their Wheaties on their trips to Eugene and Iowa City. I will be rooting for them, though, to pave the way for LSU's first championship in 45 years. at least OSU are below Michigan!!

I ordered the Dylan Love and Theft SACD and they sent me a Matchbox 20 CD!! Umm, no thanks. On another forum others were reporting the same mistake

the national champ should be the winner of this game, screw the BCS

The tax issue depends on your state. I don't think I get charged tax for BMG orders

they have the Coltrane Ballads Deluxe?? I havent seen that in there, but A Love Supreme deluxe is. I too have wondered why choose certain discs and not others