Confessions of a Fanboy

Some days the driving force that gets me to the office is the knowledge that I’ll have some time to listen to music.  I can only imagine the look on my face when a co-worker stops by my cube to ask me a question, forcing me to remove my earbuds so I can answer them.  [...]

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I bought a copy of the new Martin Scorsese flick Shine A Light on Blu-ray DVD yesterday.  It’s based on the true story of this British band called The Rolling Stones that’s kind of old and they play a concert at the Beacon Theater in New York City.  That Scorsese!  He thinks of everything.
I liked [...]

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There is always a song for every situation.  Always.  Sometimes, it takes an album to survive a day.  I found mine. I started with The Gutter Twins’ Saturnalia.  It’s an excellent record and I’m glad I listened to it again today, but it wasn’t what I needed.  Not exactly, anyway. What is it [...]

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It’s a setlist free Wednesday, boys and girls!  Bruce took the night off last night and I don’t have an R.E.M. update, so we’re going to have to talk about something different.
I’m mentally… absent… at the moment so today’s updates my be short, sweet, and bereft of creativity.  My apologies.
I’ve gotten a couple e-mails from [...]

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It hasn’t been the hottest summer for new music this year so I’m already anticipating a fall/winter overflowing with essential purchases.  Oct. 7th just got more expensive.  I’m already buying Oasis’ Dig Out Your Soul and now there’s a new Bob Dylan collection being released that same day. The eight volume of Dylan’s “Bootleg” [...]

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I have a confession to make.  I like Tuesdays better than Fridays most weeks.  I love new releases.  This week isn’t as dense as last week and only one of my two purchases is actually going to cost me a dime.  After last week, I need the break.
First up- Martin Scorsese’s tour film of the [...]

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The good news is there is an end in sight.  This tour is going to end and I won’t have to fail miserably to creatively assess the previous night’s set list.  I’ve decided the focus of my ire will be the covers.  I know some people enjoy them but it gets back to my main [...]

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This has to have been another festival set because it’s short 3-5 songs, and the song selection shows it. I’m stunned to see they managed to work “Pretty Persuasion” into the mix. It’s the lone rarity in the set and not one I’d expect.  They haven’t played it much in Europe so it’s [...]

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We’re back in the U.S.A., a stretch of dates for the home crowd at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. The set list is, well, it is what it is. Some fantastic songs got played at night one in E. Rutherford but some tired shit was interspersed.

For once, “Mary’s Place” makes sense to [...]

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How do things slip through the cracks?  I finished my review of Buddy Guy’s Skin Deep yesterday and in the process of writing it I spent a good amount of time listening to that and other Guy albums.  I was reminded there is one Buddy Guy album — a compilation, actually — that has eluded [...]

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