Confessions of a Fanboy

This is not one of the better-known sides Waters cut during his run at Chess, but it has become one of my favorites.
This single was cut in 1956 in the midst of his golden age. Some prefer the early sides that emphasized his slide playing and captured some of the earliest marriages of [...]

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It’s been a banner week for the blues here at Fanboy World Headquarters. My iPod is bursting with new blues music (more about my iPod later), and I’m just loving it.
You already know about my new Joe Bonomassa CD, courtesy of Joan. What I didn’t tell you is that she also hooked me [...]

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The daily scorecard of what I listened to, provided as a public service. See anything you like? Anything you’ve forgotten? What did you listen to?
Girlfriend | Sweet, Matthew | Time Capsule|The Best Of Matthew Sweet 1990-2000
Today | The Smashing Pumpkins | Greatest Hits|Smashing Pumpkins
Creep | Radiohead | Pablo Honey
Ansaphone [Demo] | Pulp [...]

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I’ve spent too much time this week watching movies and listening to podcasts and that’s why there haven’t been too many Let’s Talk About My iPod features this week. Today was more centered on music and I finally have enough songs to warrant posting one.
Obviously Luscious Jackson, Jeff Buckley, and U2 made the big [...]

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Fanboy Post #300, a major milestone. Pretty cool, huh?
As I was driving in to work this morning, I realized I had forgotten to reset my Let’s Talk About My iPod playlist on my iPod. I realized this right about the time I put Guster’s Lost and Gone Forever in my CD player to [...]

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I don’t know why LTAMi has been MIA for so long (that’s two abbreviations), but it’s time to bring it back ASAP (cool, three).
Today’s installment finds us revisiting the works of Brendan Benson, Peter Karp, Jimmy Burns, and some old favorites in the form of Garbage, Foo Fighters, Satriani, and Muddy Waters.

Filed under: Built to Spill, Foo Fighters, Garbage, Joe Satriani, Let's Talk About My iPod, Muddy Waters, Peter Karp | No Comments »

I’m still signing the “I Ain’t Got My Laptop Blues…”
No word on when it’s going to be ready. Apparently the senior technician’s mom had surgery yesterday, so he took the day off. Why couldn’t he just let the doctor fix his mom so he could fix my laptop? Priorities, people! Oh, [...]

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I tried learning guitar in college, never got very far with it. I’m sure if I’d tried longer than 20 minutes I could have learned to do something with it. I probably could have learned how to play a Muddy Waters tune if I’d dedicated and applied myself. I could have learned [...]

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Welcome to Camp Fanboy, boys and girls. Today is a good day.
I don’t know exactly why I woke up with my Good Mood Personality at the helm this morning, but I am pleased today. I am choosing to attribute all or most of this good mood to the tremendous amount of fabulous [...]

Filed under: Barrett Martin, Bruce Springsteen, Muddy Waters, Musical Musings and Random Ramblings, Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam, Rolling Stones, Ryan Adams, Tom Petty, Tuatara | 4 Comments »

I spent this weekend watching DVDs, taking notes, and writing reviews. I’ve been feeling the crush of piling review material and I set out to do something about it. I finished my Muddy Waters review for tomorrow. My Pinetop Perkins review should go live today. I’m working on the Stones’ monster [...]

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