response 407 of 503:

Dec 4 13:01 UTC 1999

Junior Brown, "Guit With It".  This is the country guy with the freakishly
mutated Telecaster/steel guitar who plays a more old-timey style.  Never
really heard his stuff, but I found a couple CDs at the library.  I like it!
The tune that just finished was a bluegrassish instrumental that somehow ended
with the signature guitar part from Jimi Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary". 
The CD isn't half over and already I'm a fan.  :)

response 409 of 503:

Dec 4 19:33 UTC 1999

        There are steel bodied guitars.  Makes a very durable guitar,
I take it.  I wonder if they came into popularity in WWII when such
durability would have been very welcome to soldiers.  Robert Jones,
of WDET's " Blues form the Low Lands" plays a Nation Steel guitar.
Rather unique voice.  Works well for the Blues.

        I'm currently listening to Matt Watroba's "Folks Like Us".
Earlier he was interviewing Ron Coden and others who will be performing
at the Focus Hope benifit.  I had to stop Grexing and call and pass on
the word that Ron Coden's "'Twas the Night Before the Seventh Day of
Chanahah" will be heard nationally this weekend on Dr. Demento show.
(I get the Dr. Demento playlist weekly just to see what's playing even
though we are demento-less in Ann Arbor.  YOu can get playlists from
drdemento.com or look at some in my directory (~tpryan) as drd99.*
or drd99_*).  I am glad that Ron's recital has now been played each
year on Dr. Demento since I sent him a copy of the charity CD I found
it on (a little holiday spark--songs of the season from detroit's leading 
lights).

response 411 of 503:

Dec 5 03:56 UTC 1999

Kraftwerk, "Radio Activity".   Got curious, found a copy.

response 413 of 503:

Dec 7 01:24 UTC 1999

 Luna -- "The Days of Our Nights"

 (borrowed from KRJ..  I prefer "Penthouse", but I think "Days.." is fairly
  good.  I certainly don't understand the vitriolic abuse heaped upon it by
  multiple reviewers..)

response 415 of 503:

Dec 7 06:15 UTC 1999

  Michael Hedges -- "Oracle"

  (which I only just now realized is playing while I'm doing
  homework for my database class..  hmmmm...)

  Good album (more guitar, less vocal) and the last one he completed
  before his untimely death in an automobile accident (I believe one
  uncompleted album was released posthumously..)

response 417 of 503:

Dec 7 21:44 UTC 1999

I'm listening to Bauhaus 'cause my co-worker wanted to know what my 
definition of "old goth" is.  He thinks Marilyn Manson songs released 
before 1998 are "old goth".  Puh-freakin-leeze.  So, I'm educating the 
boy.  =)

Next up are Miranda Sex Garden and Sisters of Mercy.

response 419 of 503:

Dec 8 07:46 UTC 1999

Are Fields of the Nephilim old school goth?

response 421 of 503:

Dec 9 05:55 UTC 1999

Macy Gray - I try
Although the song of the night was Big Girls Dont Cry - four seasons
Its been quite the day.  

response 423 of 503:

Dec 9 23:34 UTC 1999

        Michael Longcor - Twlight of the Millennium

response 425 of 503:

Dec 10 03:05 UTC 1999

Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips "Fellow Workers"

response 427 of 503:

Dec 11 15:42 UTC 1999

        Christmas in the Trenches - John McCuthchen; the story of the 
sudden truce in The First World War on Christmas Eve night, often 
thought of a myth, as Brithish officers back home would not believe
that their men would stop for any such thing.  John McCuthchen's
tale of playing that song in Germany and the old German soldiers
that came to his performance to verify the story, as they where
part of it, is also wonderful.  
        It's something when a song tells a story.  It's something
new when the song creates it's own story.

response 429 of 503:

Dec 11 20:56 UTC 1999

  (out of curiosity:  when you get a refund for a cancelled concert,
   does Ticketmaster refund their "servicing" charge?)