Matthew

How I Met Your Mother. Season one. Seeing this for the first time and I'm enjoying this a lot more than I thought I would.

It was 102 when I passed the bank this morning at 10:30 a.m. For the past sixty days it's been in the 90-104 range the whole time. I hate the heat!

What's that? The "easy listening" station on satellite radio, it plays a lot of EZ covers from the trippy 60's.

I've gotten to a point where the only Beatles I can listen to is by aging easy listening artists from the late 60s and early 70s. Especially like EZ covers from the psych era. You must listen to Escape on XM Radio a lot then.

I sure hope so. This would be a first-day-available purchase for me, if it ever does come out. Not sure why Page/Plant didn't want to capitalize on this right after the show, especially with how impressive it apparently was. This is the closest thing we have right now. That's cool, hadn't seen the show set up like that, just random song clips. It is nice, I've downloaded the whole thing to my hard drive and will be making my own dvd to play to my heart's content. In My Time Of Dying is the highlight for me. Have to love the Zep.

I sure hope so. This would be a first-day-available purchase for me, if it ever does come out. Not sure why Page/Plant didn't want to capitalize on this right after the show, especially with how impressive it apparently was. This is the closest thing we have right now.

Led Zeppelin: 1968-1980 -- The Story of a Band and Their Music. by Keith Shadwick. A very good book on the mighty Zep. Maybe they didn't rule the earth, but they sure ruled Madison High School in San Diego.

Is this ever going to come out on DVD? or am I going to be stuck with the aud recording for the rest of my life?

No one is surprised this didn't work out for the Cubs, Bradley is one of those players who function much better in a low-key environment, e.g., Oakland & San Diego. Nice article that sums up the Bradley situation on ESPNChicago.

I've been tempted to get that huge book of Orwell's essays, I always found the ones that I've read very interesting.

Abby Road has always struck me more as a George Martin creation then anything else. Now, as a late comer to the game, I'm probably way off on my Beatles history, but didn't the Beatles just leave it to Martin to put together side two, and pretty much left the scene? I'm not overly enamored with side one either.

Darn dude! You don't need to follow the cut and paste!! You can read minds, so read those instead of the board!

Eric Ambler: Judgment On Deltchev. Starting to reread my Ambler novels, and I like this one the best, very interesting story with nice twists and turns.

Dave Niehaus is the announcer; local legend, HofFer, all that kind of stuff. He really got excited when the Mariners blasted and owned the Red Sox this year. .500 for Seattle this year is something to get excited about, it's been a very enjoyable year for Mariner fans.

Goodness! And I thought that Chronicles was Dylan's biggest practical joke, but this takes the cake....

Please in the name of all that is good, tell me this is a joke! please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, PLEASE!!!!

re: ITTOD, I am almost curious enough to dab a wet cloth across the inner sleeve of this one, to see if the colors show up, like they did on the original LP sleeve. Not gonna do it though. That also happened to me in college, but I spilled beer on it though.... Schlitz will do that, ya know?

Put me down for Revolution In The Head, sounds interesting. What's a good overall book about the Beatles, I have the Anthology in mothballs, do I need to get that out and actually read the words? I just got it for the pictures.... Brad: I think it's the book people a talking about, and Purple Chick are bootlegs of the Beatles catalog that were better than the "official" cds that were out at the time. Dr. Ebbetts is another famous boot series of the Beatles.

Hey, good pick up Erik! I really like this box set, and now you have all six covers for ITTOD -- your life is complete.

A very interesting book can be written about the bands who have been influence by Please Please Me vs. Revolution/Rubber Soul. This is where there seems to be a divide on opinions as to the musical importance of The Beatles. Just to take two of my favorite rock bands: The Flamin' Groovies come down very much on the PPM side of this divide, while XTC is very much under the influence of the later albums. Do I even need to mention Oasis in this context? I know that this is over simplification in a lot of ways, but those two strands of influence are there, and very pronounced in different bands.

And there you have it. That's why everyone who can afford it has jumped all over the mono box. The first two albums are only of historical interest to me. HDN, BFS and H are hugely enjoyable but... It's Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt P (with reservations), the White Album and Abbey Road + the singles album that are the big atraction for me (I've not heard 'Let It Be' as an album ever!...should be remedied in the next couple of weeks). Mono, stereo, cylinder disc, download...doesn't enter into the equation for these ears. Ah! now here is where tastes differ! Please Please Me to my ears is one of the greatest power pop records of all time, I love it! I always return to PPM when I need a jolt of rock 'n roll.

The game last night will hopefully get some Cy Young talk going about Hernandez, he's been great this year.

I'm late to the party (as ususal) but I've spent the morning listening to the stereo versions of Revolver, Rubber Soul, & The White Album, and I really like these remasters; Macca's bass comes through loud and clear on these cds. The sound is much clearer, cleaner, and more powerful then the old cds. I broke down and ordered the mono box today, I must admit that I think I enjoy the earlier albums more then the later ones, and to have them in the original mono mix is a plus in my book. The first five cds seem to have a sense of fun to them that got lost in some of the later albums, where the weight of the expectations, at times, made the Beatles later work strike me as strained. That's not to take anything from their greatness however...

Been traveling so much the past two weeks, I only had time to come to the Org and wish Dan happy birthday (your welcome). Anyway, the Mariners get closer to their magic number -- .500, with a great win last night, Felix was on and they come up with two runs in the bottom of the ninth of Rivera. The only down side was that I was stuck in the Portland airport last night for three hours waiting for my plane, and what does Gustav's have on tv the whole time? A STUPID COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME! Now that sucks, big time! The Black Bear Stout though, was really good.

Happy birthday bro, hope you're listening to some Gene Harris tonight.