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Just got back from two shows. Early was Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3(featuring Peter Buck of R.E.M. on guitar) and later was Bardo Pond. My ears have been been shredded. I think this is the latest I've been up since I was in my 30's.

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Just got back from two shows. Early was Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 (featuring Peter Buck of R.E.M. on guitar)

Sounds like a good show. The others in that band are Scott McCaughey (g, kb) and Bill Rieflin (d), who also play with REM.

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Just got back from seeing....

Ab Baars Trio & Ken Vandermark

with

Ab Baars, tenor sax/clarinet/shakuhachi

Ken Vandermark, tenor sax/clarinet

Wilbert de Joode, double-bass

Martin van Duynhoven, drums

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I just realized that Fly (Mark Turner, Jeff Ballard, Larry Grenadier) is playing at Yoshi's on Monday. I may have to drag myself out to see them. Got a great write-up in the NY Times recently.

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I just realized that Fly (Mark Turner, Jeff Ballard, Larry Grenadier) is playing at Yoshi's on Monday. I may have to drag myself out to see them. Got a great write-up in the NY Times recently.

There's been alot of (...ahem) buzz about Fly. :w

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Chris Potter - Underground at the Palace Of Fine Arts - SF.

trying to meet Bev's gig a month challenge.

Review:

The Chris Potter Underground had a lineup change in that Scott Cooley is now on Bass replacing Craig Taborn on Fender Rhodes. No offense to Scott Cooley as he is a monster in his own right but at first I was disappointed because the sound of the Underground with Taborn and Nate Smith making up for the lack of a Bass player was so unique, It also freed Adam Rogers from being chord based so he could just go nuts along with Chris Potter.

So the first couple songs I was really missing the Fender Rhodes but once my ear got use to the fact that this is the band they are now I was enjoying how it opened up the sound for everybody, while the hard hitting rhythm was still there with the amazing Nate Smith the music was less dense without Taborn. There was certainly no lack of intensity though. At one point last night Smith and Cooley were so locked in on over a blazing Adam Rogers solo I started laughing, it was just freaking ridiculous.

Halfway through to the end I wasn’t missing the Fender Rhodes at all. Where I felt the version of Radiohead’s Morning Bell on the studio record Underground was a missed opportunity as that it played too close to the original, the version last for the encore was a thing of beauty. With the keyboard taken out Cooley and Rogers could navigate over the melodies and chord structure more freely and it was superb.

They have a new record coming out next month, safe to say it’s going to be very good.

The only downer of the night was that the venue was only about 45% full but that didn’t stop the band from putting on a great show.

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I just realized that Fly (Mark Turner, Jeff Ballard, Larry Grenadier) is playing at Yoshi's on Monday. I may have to drag myself out to see them. Got a great write-up in the NY Times recently.

There's been alot of (...ahem) buzz about Fly. :w

:rofl:

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I am going to see Kronos Quartet right after work (a 6 pm concert). This is taking place at the Art Institute. I've never seen them live. I'd say the show is criminally underadvertised. I wouldn't have known about it except for stopping in at the Art Institute last weekend. Perhaps it has been in the daily newspaper listings, but I certainly don't recall seeing it.

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Just got back from Unwigged & Unplugged - an informal retrospective of Spinal Tap, Mighty Wind and Guffman tunes, plus some random videos and "rareties". Quite funny and entertaining!

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Just got back from Unwigged & Unplugged - an informal retrospective of Spinal Tap, Mighty Wind and Guffman tunes, plus some random videos and "rareties". Quite funny and entertaining!

Did any drummers explode?

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Just got back from Unwigged & Unplugged - an informal retrospective of Spinal Tap, Mighty Wind and Guffman tunes, plus some random videos and "rareties". Quite funny and entertaining!

My wife and I are going to this at the end of May. I do wish it was a real Tap performance, but this should be fun.

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Just got back from Unwigged & Unplugged - an informal retrospective of Spinal Tap, Mighty Wind and Guffman tunes, plus some random videos and "rareties". Quite funny and entertaining!

Did any drummers explode?

No. But they took a few questions at the end.........and it was asked about. :lol:

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Went with a friend to see the classic punk band "The Angry Samoans" last night, what a blast that was! Haven't been to a punk show in years. Then we ended up at the after party till about 4am.

Tonight...free tickets to see Napalm Death...not sure if I'm ready for that or not. :rfr

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Sunday, 4/26/09, Baltimore Museum Of Art

Ben Riley's Monk Legacy Band

Don Sickler: trumpet, musical director

Wayne Escoffery: tenor sax

Bruce Williams: alto sax, soprano sax

Jay Brandford: baritone sax

Freddie Bryant: guitar

Cameron Brown (filling in for Essiet Okon Essiet): bass

Ben Riley: drums

First set

Green Chimneys

Brake's Sake

Bemsha Swing

Bright Mississippi

Rhythm-A-Ning

Epistrophy (Theme)

Second Set

Shuffle Boil

Bye-Ya

Straight, No Chaser

Ask me Now

Evidence

Epistrophy (Theme)

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Mingus Dynasty on Sunday as part of the SF Jazz Fest. John Handy sitting in with nephew Craig, too.

That sounds like it could be an event. Please, let us know details later!

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