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The Bygones by The Bygones (2024) https://album.link/i/1727354327 Example: New to me - discovered off an IG reel. An interesting mix of Elliot Smith, folk and jazz. Overall good production.

Lexington by Wayne Kramer (2012) https://album.link/i/858362515 Example: The harder side of jazz Friday.

Okay, so I finished all 112 videos that Jenny Nicholson has posted on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@JennyNicholson/videos One of my favs is the Dear Even Hansen breakdown that is almost as long as the movie. So I guess now that I am hooked I will be heading off to Patreon for more... (with 54,180 other people)...

The older Stranglers stuff is awesome. One of my best friends moved here from England in the late 70's, brought us his taste in music with The Jam, The Stranglers, etc. Since then, he's seen them many a time, met them all, is part of some informal (and also another formal IIRC) fan club. And most recently, took his 3 kids to visit family and see the latest incarnation of the band in a town where his cousin lives. And his most exciting part was that the original drummer's (Jet Black) widow - who is close with many of the fans - invited him and his kids to stay with her one night. Lots of stories, boatloads of memorabilia, and he got to "hold Jet Black's ashes" in the urn. As creepy as it sounds, he said she was a wonderful hostess and they all had a great time. I haven't listened to much of their output since Hugh Cornwell left. I also got to meet them in 1983, when a guy in my dorm was a co-op for CBS records. They owned the sub-label the Stranglers were on, and we got to take JJ Burnell to a local college radio station for an interview. Some great memories.... All THAT diatribe said....I hadn't heard that Prong cover before, and it's quite good!

Goats are hilarious though NGL

There's a place on MV called the "Dumptique." The purpose is to keep reusable items out of the landfill. I drove up there with a car load of stuff I just couldn't keep (going from a 5 bedroom farmhouse to a 1200 square foot cottage is ride, let me tell you.) It was not my plan to take anything back, but I did peruse the media shelf. Apparently I arrived at the right moment. Mixed in with Sex in the City Season 3, Disc 4, some megachurch propaganda and a box of Christmas music missing disc 5 was this stack: Goddamn. It's like a Gen Xer died or gave up all their physical media. All of it is interesting, but that Bauhaus disc is legendary. It was almost more or less impossible to find in the late 80s when I was obsessively collecting their music. The only downside is that the Stranglers anthology is missing my favorite song by them. Of course, I've always been partial to the cover version by Prong.

Isle of Wight 1970 https://ultimateclassicrock.com/isle-of-wight-festival-1970/ I've walked across that area a couple of years ago - and it is just a peaceful field with fences, cows and sheep. Absolutely no evidence at all that this happened!

I though - I must have seen Sabbath. In the early 70's we as a bunch of lads used to see bands at Newcastle (UK) City Hall - just a regular size city hall. Anyway you can easily find gig listings for that City Hall from that period. How about Elton John, Pink Floyd, Sabbath, Zep, ELP and many others. Ticket price? Well Elton John was quite expensive - 90p (so less that £1!) Most others were typically 60-70p. This was in the very early days of outdoor festivals. The first Woodstock was in 1969, and the first Isle of Wight festival was 1970 (and still has the record attendance of 750,000). So landmark bands played small venues and Universities. I saw AC/DC in the University dining room at Southampton! A golden age to see these bands close up. Ear bleedingly loud. Even at head banging 16 with my long centre parted hair and denims I used to shove cotton wool in my ears. Very weird back in the day, but at least my hearing is roughly intact.

I thought that the Arkansas goat festival was a wind up - until I found that it is a serious event https://www.arkansasgoatfestival.com/ And yes - there is a "Goat Lingerie Show (Nannies at Night)" https://www.arkansasgoatfestival.com/schedule1 That is the single most weird event. Makes chilli pepper eating contests seem sane.

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