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krj
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KRJ's miscellaneous rambling
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Aug 31 17:07 UTC 2001 |
Another item in which I make notes to myself, or make random short
comments which don't seem to merit their own item. The previous incarnation
of my item was item:music2,200 (music2 conference, item 200)
This style of item was introduced to the conference by Mark Ziemba
and I'd like a few more of the regulars to try running such an item
themselves.
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krj
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response 1 of 124:
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Aug 31 17:12 UTC 2001 |
On Wednesday we were in Hoboken, just across the river from the
skyscrapers of Manhattan. We were visiting Karen, a friend of Leslie's
from her summer singing program in the Czech Republic.
As we walked across Washington Street, Karen pointed out Maxwell's,
which she said was the famous rock club where lots of bands had gotten
started. She said in a previous apartment, on the same block as Maxwell's,
she could hear the bass playing on some nights.
I must be getting old; I'd dimly heard of Maxwell's but the only Hoboken
band I can think of is Yo La Tengo.
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dbratman
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response 2 of 124:
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Sep 1 00:09 UTC 2001 |
I once lived in an apartment where I could hear the bass playing.
After calling the cops every night at 1 AM for a few months, we moved.
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mcnally
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response 3 of 124:
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Sep 1 07:20 UTC 2001 |
The Feelies were another Hoboken, NJ, band. I know there are others that
I could think of if I put my mind to it..
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sspan
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response 4 of 124:
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Sep 15 02:28 UTC 2001 |
Hoboken? um... wasn't that where Sinatra was from?
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krj
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response 5 of 124:
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Sep 15 22:08 UTC 2001 |
Yes; we walked through Frank Sinatra Park, in fact. Though I understand
that he didn't come back to his old home town much.
Prairie Home Companion note: according to the webpage at
http://www.prairiehome.org, the Sept. 22 and Sept. 29 broadcasts will
be "vintage" shows from 1985. I haven't seen PHC dig so deeply into
its archives for rebroadcasts in years.
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bruin
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response 6 of 124:
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Sep 16 00:11 UTC 2001 |
RE #5 Perhaps the two 1985 episodes of APHC were chosen because both
shows featured appearances by the late Chet Atkins, and are being
repeated in his memory.
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krj
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response 7 of 124:
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Sep 16 00:14 UTC 2001 |
Could be, but there are a *lot* of PHC shows with Chet Atkins, he usually
appeared a couple of times a year.
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krj
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response 8 of 124:
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Sep 18 20:57 UTC 2001 |
The news will be mostly lost in the news coverage of the attacks, so
I'll mention it here. PJ Harvey took Britain's prestigious Mercury
prize for popular music for her album "Stories from the City,
Stories from the Sea." (Radiohead was the only other finalist
I'd ever heard of.)
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krj
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response 9 of 124:
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Nov 6 21:56 UTC 2001 |
Folksinger Janis Ian wrote a con report about her worldcon trip,
which was her first SF convention:
http://www.janisian.com/news-oct2001wc.html
(reposted from SF conference.)
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dbratman
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response 10 of 124:
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Nov 7 00:49 UTC 2001 |
Probably the most famous goshwow neo in fannish history.
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krj
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response 11 of 124:
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Nov 14 23:30 UTC 2001 |
So today, being nostalgic, I was playing Camper Van Beethoven's
"Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart" and the Oyster Band's "Holy Bandits."
Any more suggestions for rock bands with violins?
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scott
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response 12 of 124:
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Nov 14 23:44 UTC 2001 |
Not exactly a rock band with violins, but a hearty recommendation for Thomas
Dolby's "Astronauts and Heretics", which features some Cajun violin on a few
tunes.
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