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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 5, 2024 12:30:28 GMT
Joni Mitchell performed "Both Sides Now" at the Grammy Awards last night. I was sitting there watching it on TV with tears streaming down my face. Joni also won the award for Best Folk Album Of The Year for Joni Mitchell At Newport.
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 6, 2024 11:48:31 GMT
The Grateful Dead have had a record 59th album hit the Billboard Top 40. With the new placing, they've topped Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, who had 58 apiece. The album is their 49th in the Dave's Picks archival concert series. Only 13 of their 59 Top 40 albums were contemporaneous albums. The rest were retrospective releases, most of them from the aforementioned series (named after their archivist Dave Lemieux). I wouldn't have guessed this in a million years.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 11, 2024 16:18:15 GMT
There are signs Joanna Newsom might be releasing new music this year. She announced her first headlining shows in four years, a short residency in Los Angeles in May. She will perform both old and new music at the shows. I'm excited to think she may release a new album this year, though admittedly that's just me trying to read the tea leaves. Still, seems feasible. Newsom has not released a new album since 2015's excellent Divers. Fans here might know her best for the Van Dyke Parks-arranged Ys from the mid-00s.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 11, 2024 19:48:59 GMT
A Jimmy Buffett tribute show in April:
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 18, 2024 11:51:19 GMT
A new, three-and-a-half hour docuseries about Paul Simon began last night on MGM+. (I did not know there was an MGM+...) The two-part series is titled In Restless Dreams and covers both the making of his 2023 short album Seven Psalms as well as his long career, of course with the requisite talking heads. The good news is, he announced at the NYC premiere of the doc that the hearing loss he announced last year has slightly reversed. people.com/paul-simon-tried-stop-frank-sinatra-covering-his-song-mrs-robinson-8609019
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 18, 2024 11:56:53 GMT
A new, three-and-a-half hour docuseries about Paul Simon began last night on MGM+. (I did not know there was an MGM+...) The two-part series is titled In Restless Dreams and covers both the making of his 2023 short album Seven Psalms as well as his long career, of course with the requisite talking heads. The good news is, he announced at the NYC premiere of the doc that the hearing loss he announced last year has slightly reversed. people.com/paul-simon-tried-stop-frank-sinatra-covering-his-song-mrs-robinson-8609019In conjunction with the documentary:
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Post by kds on Mar 18, 2024 15:53:37 GMT
I can't say I'm a huge fan of John Mellencamp, but after reading about several of his live shows, there's no way I'd pay to see him in concert for the risk of having him lose his mind and walk off due to one jerk in the crowd. In no way am I defending a heckler, but why make a whole paying crowd suffer the consequences of one or two idiots? ultimateclassicrock.com/john-mellencamp-cocksucker-heckler/
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 18, 2024 16:23:26 GMT
I can't say I'm a huge fan of John Mellencamp, but after reading about several of his live shows, there's no way I'd pay to see him in concert for the risk of having him lose his mind and walk off due to one jerk in the crowd. In no way am I defending a heckler, but why make a whole paying crowd suffer the consequences of one or two idiots? ultimateclassicrock.com/john-mellencamp-cocksucker-heckler/I do feel bad for the artists who have to listen to idiots' nonsense night after night. But I feel worse for fans who, for artists of Mellencamp's stature, probably hundreds of dollars for a show only to see it cut short because of moron hecklers getting on the artists' nerves. Thankfully I've never been at a show with that sort of thing going on. The closest I can recall off the top of my head was when some fan at a Lou Reed show in 2000 shouted early on for him to play one of his (few) "hits," possibly "Rock 'n' Roll," and Reed just deadpanned "shut the fuck up" and continued into whatever song he was doing next.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 22, 2024 13:27:59 GMT
Joni Mitchell asked Spotify to remove her music in solidarity with Neil Young. I tried to find her place on their streaming stats, and came up with "phrase not found."
Somehow I don't think Spotify is really sweating this yet. Until Drake or Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift or Ariana Grande, pulls their stuff, it's just much ado about nothing.
The other funny thing is, even if they did dump Rogan, it wouldn't actually affect him much. He was the #1 podcast by far when they signed him, and he would be if they dumped him.
Surprise, surprise: after two years, in the past week or two, both Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have returned their music to Spotify. Joe Rogan remains on Spotify. I guess the principle of the thing wasn't so important to them after all, and they changed nothing with their protests.
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Post by kds on Mar 22, 2024 13:33:35 GMT
Joni Mitchell asked Spotify to remove her music in solidarity with Neil Young. I tried to find her place on their streaming stats, and came up with "phrase not found."
Somehow I don't think Spotify is really sweating this yet. Until Drake or Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift or Ariana Grande, pulls their stuff, it's just much ado about nothing.
The other funny thing is, even if they did dump Rogan, it wouldn't actually affect him much. He was the #1 podcast by far when they signed him, and he would be if they dumped him.
Surprise, surprise: after two years, in the past week or two, both Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have returned their music to Spotify. Joe Rogan remains on Spotify. I guess the principle of the thing wasn't so important to them after all, and they changed nothing with their protests. I noticed that a few of Neil Young's songs reappeared on my Spotify playlists. Turns out Rogan got a new contract, and he's no longer exclusively on Spotify. So, Neil Young (or Neil Young's People) decided it would not be smart to remove his music from all streaming formats.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 22, 2024 13:53:04 GMT
Surprise, surprise: after two years, in the past week or two, both Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have returned their music to Spotify. Joe Rogan remains on Spotify. I guess the principle of the thing wasn't so important to them after all, and they changed nothing with their protests. I noticed that a few of Neil Young's songs reappeared on my Spotify playlists. Turns out Rogan got a new contract, and he's no longer exclusively on Spotify. So, Neil Young (or Neil Young's People) decided it would not be smart to remove his music from all streaming formats. In other words, it became a business decision that outweighed the supposed moral one. Which is normal for people, even if some tend not to want to admit it.
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Post by kds on Mar 27, 2024 16:40:34 GMT
When Eddie Trunk posted "Big Skid Row News," two thoughts crossed my mind. Retirement or reunion (with Sebastian Bach). I was incorrect on both, their current singer is leaving the band, and Lzzy Hale is a temporary replacement. That choice actually makes sense as the Halestorm cover of Slave to the Grind is very good. ultimateclassicrock.com/skid-row-erik-gronwall-split/
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 4, 2024 14:46:20 GMT
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Post by kds on Apr 4, 2024 16:42:52 GMT
I just can't imagine a universe where I'd pay money to see avatars "live."
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 4, 2024 17:03:36 GMT
I just can't imagine a universe where I'd pay money to see avatars "live." I can't either. Or, maybe once, just to really understand what it's like, how good or bad it is? But not much money even for that, and I can't imagine doing it repeatedly. Part of it, I think, is that I'm not that big a fan of the show aspect of concerts anyway: lighting, explosions, choreography, effects, or whatever. I've been attracted to the musicianship of the people performing on the stage. That is literally absent from these shows--or, at best, it is a rerun of performances done who-knows-when. I don't get why it's worth seeing. But hey, I'm not exactly a genius. I have a long history of misjudging emerging technologies.
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