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He's the final scene in the 2024 Beach Boys documentary (on Disney), and includes the living 60's era members - David Marks, Al Jardine, Brian, Mike Love, and Bruce Johnston. I think this 2nd picture may have been from promoting the documentary, and includes Blondie Chaplin (and director Frank Marshall).

Powderfinger - Odyssey Number Five

Can you donate them to a local library? Or alternately there's a Half Price Books store in Berkley (I looked online), and they will make offers on things you bring in to sell them (books, music, dvds, etc). They tend to lowball offers though, but they'd likely at least take them off your hands. Might be worth at least a phone call.

David Bowie - Moonage Daydream ost

Ichthyosaur, Nevada State Museum, 31 May 2025

The Cliffs of Moher, 20 May 2025

Kurt Vile - Watch My Moves

Mine as well! It's a relatively brief time here in the desert when there's a little pop of color to things. Then the long hot summer with muted colors and many plants going dormant for the summer. It's an interesting contrast to other places I've lived where things go more dormant in the winter months.

One of our prickly pear cactuses (I know the word is cacti but it sounds pretentious to me) is about to have a ton of blooms.

Talking Heads - Live on Tour 78

At the Hotel Prins Hendrik in Amsterdam:

I wish this had resulted in a full-blown, ongoing Japan reunion. np: Cowboy Junkies - Songs of the Recollection

Well, I like it when I listen to it, but after it's over there's not much I recall musically. A few bits and pieces recall earlier SW music, even a little earlier PT. It's pleasant enough, and better than the last one (Harmony Codex) IMO. I've probably spun it 5-6 times now since it came out, maybe it will grow on me more over time. I'm still more a PT fan than a SW fan, though I'll always give him credit for exploring and not sitting still.

Steven Wilson - The Overview

We called it Pennsyltucky when we lived outside of Philly. Outside of the Philly & Pitt areas it's really a very large rural state. One thing I'll say about the Amish in Lancaster area is that they have terrible puppy mills. They don't consider dogs to have souls, and they overbreed them in terrible conditions, and sell them to the "English" as they call the rest of Americans. So for a group of people that don't interact with the outside world, they eagerly sell unhealthy puppies to them, for profit. Most of these puppies have health issues as they grow up, and have shorter lifespans than typical dogs. https://woundedpawproject.org/the-amish-community-and-puppy-mills/

Caught The Bad Plus last night in Phoenix. It was a fine show, mostly stuff from their most recent album, Complex Emotions. I was more familiar with the music from their 3-man lineup with Ethan Iverson, but after he (and later Orrin Evans) left, they added Chris Speed on reeds and Ben Monder on guitar. I was familiar with Monder's older albums, but was curious to see him in a group like this, and he didn't disappoint. Speed is a remarkable sax (and clarinet) player. I'll have to check out further work of his.

Icehouse - The Berlin Tapes

Sunset, 17 Mar 2025

I still post here occasionally, but it's mostly in the "what rock are you listening to" and the photo threads. I got tired of being agitated by a few others here, some of whom are still here and some who seem to have moved on. I'm sure I did my share of agitating others as well. But many of the people here that I have truly enjoyed engaging with have become Facebook friends, and the interactions have continued there. And many of those I've ended up meeting in person over the years. I'm happy about that most of all.

I believe the movie was named "Heavy Metal" because it was based on the comic magazine of the same name that was popular in those days - not because they intended to use heavy metal music as the soundtrack. The comic featured short stories/vignettes that were generally unrelated but often were sci-fi or fantasy related, and usually PG or maybe R rated on occasion. The movie did essentially the same thing, but connected the stories. So they used current or established rock musicians for the most part. Although Riggs and Trust were bands I wasn't aware of prior to the movie's release. As a side note, Jerry Riggs, the main guy from Riggs, is a guitar player in 38 Special now, and they play "Radar Rider" as a spotlight track for him.

Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer

You're pretty much spot-on. Per Wikipedia: "Blue Öyster Cult wrote and recorded a song called "Vengeance (The Pact)" for the film, but the producers declined to use the song because the lyrics provided a capsulized summary of the "Taarna" vignette. "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" was used instead." Re-reading the lyrics for Vengeance, it does essentially tell the story of Taarna, so I guess it makes sense that it wouldn't have been included.

That's a very good late BOC album there, I fully agree. I got to chat with Eric Bloom briefly about it back in January. I think "The Alchemist" is his standout moment on the album. np: Zabriskie Point Soundtrack 2 cd edition Useless trivia - the house that was blown up at the end of the film is about a mile from my house here in AZ. (the house used in the movie wasn't actually blown up, but a full size model was. The model's location atop a rocky outcrop is also about 2 miles from my house). That house today:

Chris Squire - Fish out of Water