Confessions of a Fanboy

All right, we rebound from our brief nostalgia trip and get back to what I’d intended to talk about earlier this morning.
I started today talking about Nine Inch Nails’ instrumental release Ghosts I-IV. Ghosts is the first NIN I ever bought and I bought it because A) it was instrumental and B) I […]

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What can a poor boy do except sing in a rock and roll band? Five days after the passing of E Street Band keyboardist Dan Federici, Bruce Springsteen and the rest of the E Street Band returned to the stage to resume their tour.
The show opened with a video tribute to their fallen friend. […]

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It was a strange afternoon yesterday. Here is what I’m sure will be an overly long recap.

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The streak is no more, long live the streak.
Well, the streak is probably no more. What streak? I wrote 5 reviews last week, several of which were written this past weekend. I’m 50-60% done with my review of the new Black Keys record, but I’ve hit a small wall (hint: I […]

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Fuck me, they do go on!
I know you hardcore Zep fans will want my hide, as will all you jam band folks who think it takes 45 minutes just to tune a guitar, to say nothing of actually playing something. I think Led Zeppelin and The Grateful Dead might be the reason The Ramones […]

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I’ve just written up a draft of my Top 10 Albums of 2007. It was a difficult process, but a fun one because I got to reflect on just how many great albums were made this year. I’m stunned at a couple that didn’t make the list. I love The White Stripes […]

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It’s 9:38, the iPod is charged and loaded, and I’m about ready to call it a night.
TheWifeToWhomI’mMarried and I will be hitting the open road, heading for S. Carolina to visit friends. It’s the third year in a row we’ll have rung in the new year in Columbia, and we just can’t get there […]

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Yep. I bought Living in the Material World at lunch today.
I’m listening to it a second time now, and I am pleased. I’d be more pleased if I were listening to it at home, following a day in which my work project was actually working.
Oh, well. I like the CD.

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There were no tour debuts tonight in Stockholm in terms of new songs, but there was a special cameo tonight. Christopher Clemons, son of E-Street Band sax player Clarence Clemons, played acoustic guitar on “Dancing in the Dark.”
There are five shows left on this first European trek. After the London show next Wednesday, […]

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The 50th Annual Grammy Award nominations were announced this morning and I’m not even disappointed by the level of suckitude therein.
As expected, Kanye West and the troubled Amy Winehouse cleaned up. Springsteen got hosed, and someone likes the Foo Fighters new record a lot more than I do.
I’m going to do a more detailed […]

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