If Music Could Talk

It's been a few years since I've bothered with RSD. Absolutely no shade to anyone here who's been picking up stuff they enjoy, sincerely, but overall the element of conspicuous consumption increasingly makes me want to puke. It's obviously always been a "retail holiday" and buying shit was the point...

The dude who self-immolated outside Trump's trial yesterday had a manifesto, and it's a doozy: https://www.newsweek.com/read-max-azzarello-manifesto-about-lighting-himself-fire-trump-trial-1892368 Some very rough truths smothered by loopy analysis of idiosyncratic (to be kind) evidence. Well, he ha...

revbob wrote: ↑

19 Apr 2024, 6:44pm

A steak and ale meat pie. I feel like Heston.

Did the steak and ale pie come from some form of packet? That's true Hestonianism.

I should clarify, I have PMd him and we've corresponded so I can confirm life and that he seems well. We don't PM regularly. I don't want to be accused of stolen Rattie valor.

Marky Dread wrote: ↑

19 Apr 2024, 6:20pm

So was Ratty online?

He checks in regularly as a lurker. I gather he's doing well from our periodic contact, but prefers to just read our shenanigans from afar at the moment. Sort of like the watchmaker god.

Kory wrote: ↑

19 Apr 2024, 2:29pm

I doubt many here care, but I'm going to see jazz fusion legend Stanley Clarke tonight.

I care! RTF FTW

This might be the dorkiest shit I've ever seen:

Much Ado is pretty close to the toppest of top tier Billy Shakes, imho

ISO hard: https://www.discogs.com/release/7905882-The-Beach-Boys-Summer-In-Paradise South Korean promo vinyl Summer in Paradise. $850 median selling price per discogs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py5J3gu6Dbs This is the only BB recording that I don't own in any format. I suppose I'd pick one up...

Threw on Hugh Laurie's blues record for some background noise while working because I remembered it being pretty okay. It fucking rips, man! Apart from maybe Shatner's Has Been, are there any other vanity records by a famous person that succeed as actual music? Been a while since I listened to it, ...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/entertainment/dickey-betts-death/index.html Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers. They did have some wicked jams. Dang. Allman Brothers were alright by me. My dad met Dickey Betts a couple of times and he seemed like a pretty nice guy according to him, so that's someth...

revbob wrote: ↑

18 Apr 2024, 7:50pm

Got tickets for Death, the old Detroit proto-punk band, not the metal band.

Oh cool, I had no idea they were still performing.