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October 22, 2016: Feel You Around Me
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CLICK HERE to read "The Zombies Are Back"
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CLICK HERE for the 1988 piece "Who Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?"
CLICK HERE to see how Norman from Teenage Fanclub rates the bands albums
CLICK HERE for "The Truth of the Flamin' Groovies' Story is Stranger Than Fiction"
CLICK HERE for info about the tuning used on Bad Company's "Can't Get Enough"
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CLICK HERE to see the March 25th Hot 100 chart - when Happy Together was number one!!
CLICK HERE for detailed Pet Sounds credits
CLICK HERE for a piece on how they come up with radio ratings & Delilha's radio show
CLICK HERE to see a Thought Leader gives a talk on Thought Leadership
CLICK HERE to find out about a medical fundraiser for Scott Schinder
CLICK HERE to find out Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be
CLICK HERE to find out Why You Can’t Get a Ticket to the NBA Finals … … and every other major event on the planet
CLICK HERE for a great documentary about The Cactus Blossoms
CLICK HERE to hear "How Music Taste Evolved"
CLICK HERE to get to know my new favorite person Lively Val Shively
CLICK HERE to check the stats
CLICK HERE for Ringo's isolated drums from "Oh Darling"
CLICK HERE to hear Laura Cantrell ina BBC interview with some woman with a lot of plastic surgery
CLICK HERE for info on the new lp from The Explorers Club
CLICK HERE to see some paintings by Jonathan Richman
CLICK HERE for "Rob Freeman Recording The Ramones"
CLICK HERE for a FREE download of Money Mark's "Mark's Keyboard Repair"
CLICK HERE for The Hollies Family Tree
CLICK HERE to see The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall
CLICK HERE for a free download of The Michael Shelley Band live at WFMU's Monty Hall
CLICK HERE to see Michael Shelley get interviewed on a NJ public access TV show "Destination Montclair"
CLICK HERE if you have the stomach to read Rolling Stone's ridiculous "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time"
CLICK HERE to go "Inside the Strange, Hidden World of Offstage Touring Musicians"
CLICK HERE to watch The Cactus Blossoms live at WFMU April 18, 2015
CLICK HERE to watch James Hunter sing "Somethings Calling" live at WFMU Dec 7, 2015 - just so so so good
CLICK HERE for a nice piece on former guest on this show (and the drummer for The Beatles) Bernard Purdie
CLICK HERE to test your sense of pitch
CLICK HERE to see a BBC Allen Toussaint Documentary
CLICK HERE for a great piece on Esquerita
CLICK HERE for Wilton Felder's so good isolated bass on "I Want You Back"
CLICK HERE for the Glyn Johns interview in Tape Op!
CLICK HERE for Bruce Swedien: Recording Michael Jackson!
CLICK HERE to find out "Why Do All Records Sound the Same?
CLICK HERE for a cover of a Michael Shelley song!
CLICK HERE for The Cactus Blossoms on The 30 Minute Music Hour
CLICK HERE for "Cassette Revolution: Why 1980s Tape Tech Is Still Making Noise in Our Digital World"
CLICK HERE for a new Q&A with Brian Wilson
CLICK HERE to read about "The Endless Fall of Suge Knight" (yikes!)
CLICK HERE for Barack Obama on WTF
CLICK HERE for info on the new, all instrumental, Michael Shelley album
CLICK HERE for a video of David Myhr's cover of Oh Susie, featured on "Even More Super Hits of the Seventies"
CLICK HERE for a documentary and discussion of The Columbia House Record Club
CLICK HERE to test yourself and find out "How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?"
CLICK HERE for an article about Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" with files of the isolated tracks to listen to
CLICK HERE to see actual AFM contracts for some legendary recording sessions
CLICK HERE to read Carol Kaye review of the book "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret" or CLICK HERE to read Carol's review of The Hoover Linx Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner, BH50010
CLICK HERE to see part one of a short behind the scenes film about Brian Wilson's new album "No Pier Pressure"
CLICK HERE for Brian Wilson's new song "The Right Time" (feat. Al Jardine) live on SoundStage. and
CLICK HERE for "Wild Honey" feat. Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar
CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion
CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350
CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit"
CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl"
CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload
CLICK HERE for Gay Robot
CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research
CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage)
CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing
CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?"
CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen
CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live!
CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years
CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman
CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting"
CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse
CLICK HERE for The K-Tel Story
CLICK HERE for Ock TV
CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1"
CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits.
CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"?
CLICK HERE for optical illusions
CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work
CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill
CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet"
CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off
CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show
CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU
CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut
CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of
CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything"
CLICK HERE for a film excerpt "Session Men - Memphis"
CLICK HERE for a laugh
CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville"
CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin
CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people
CLICK HERE if you want see a lady call for President Obama's execution. My mind keeps returning to his video and what it means about how screwed up our county is.
CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?"
CLICK HERE for the website of the guy who shot Bigfoot
CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does
CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes
CLICK HERE for the The Knack - this clip (with hard panned guitars) will help you understand the division of guitar parts in this song - which is not quite what I thought it was
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CLICK HERE for a grammar test
CLICK HERE for Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee
CLICK HERE for a reminder that you have to be 恋のホワン・ホワン (or HERE, or HERE , or HERE , or HERE, or HERE!)
CLICK HERE for info on an odd e-book "Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale." It is 4 pages long and "sells" for $1.99. The same author has one about Dean Martin that was reviewed like this: "This pamphlet was complete gargbage. A sixth grader could have written a better essay. All of this author's works should be removed from Amazon."
CLICK HERE, but only if you have golden ears
CLICK HERE for some amazing RARE STAX MUSIC from tapes Robert Gordon pulled out of the debris when the STAX building was being torn down!
CLICK HERE for STAX at The White House
CLICK HERE for Ernie Bushmiller illustrated autobiography, on an amazing website
CLICK HERE for The Mills Brothers
CLICK HERE for James Jamerson & Gladys Knight going nuts on I Heard It Through The Grapevine
CLICK HERE for info on Fake Amps!
CLICK HERE for a PDF of who plays what on Everly Brothers recordings.
CLICK HERE for a nice piece about the the L.A. studio musicians who dominated the 70's sound.
I love THESE Beach Boy videos!
CLICK HERE for some classic Jerry. The whole clip is crazy - but 2:13 in is really off the charts nuts.
CLICK HERE for Paul Anka's famous post-gig turned into a short film!
CLICK HERE for an recent Montclair Times article on Michael Shelley!
CLICK HERE to read how Big Star's "September Gurls" was recorded at Ardent Studios
Apparently Bowie offered "Golden Years" to Elvis Presley - but The King declined. CLICK HERE former guest Stevie Riks nails the Elvis/Bowie duet version.
Listener comments! | |
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![]() When Baby was seven, we wanted a Jungle Jim. Baby! |
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![]() Monkees tonight. Won tix! Nobody going to be there. Should be interesting. |
Sat. 10/22/16 11:04am
Todd E:
Can never have too much Vitamin Q! | |
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Sat. 10/22/16 11:05am
Michael Shelley:
Nobody @ The Monkees? |
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![]() Nobody. You can get 10th row center day of show. |
Sat. 10/22/16 11:07am
BennettCap:
I need to get a grip. I thought he sang, "I couldn't masturbate without you." | |
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![]() Upright through an amp. |
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Sat. 10/22/16 11:11am
Michael Shelley:
That could be cause the front tickets now a days come with meet and greet, a poster & cost $350 |
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![]() It's not that bad up here. I think $70 for front section. I just think nobody cares. Except me and a few hundred other people. |
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Sat. 10/22/16 11:14am
glenn:
i see phil chess died last week. one of the unsung heroes of rock and roll. |
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![]() Baby. Big Sandy was the BOMB last week. People went crazy. Nice guys too. Love this song a lot!! A LOT |
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Sat. 10/22/16 11:16am
Michael Shelley:
best seats are row JJ www.ticketmaster.com... |
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Sat. 10/22/16 11:17am
Michael Shelley:
No rain? |
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![]() Some. We stuck to our guns and didn't panic. It was a magic night. Recording is just the best. Can't wait. Keep in mind, that the center section is not yet sold. I've never seen that. |
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Sat. 10/22/16 11:20am
Michael Shelley:
Anybody else live near Paso Robles? |
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![]() That listens to WFMU??? Are you nuts?? |
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Sat. 10/22/16 11:21am
Michael Shelley:
Weird that Ticket master wont let you see all the unsold seats, and let you pick, like they usually do |
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![]() I hope it happens. Could cancel out. |
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![]() Bobby's in over his head. |
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![]() Bobby sounds half a sleep. |
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![]() I gotta go listen to "The Drum" so I can forgive him. |
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Sat. 10/22/16 11:24am
Todd-o-phonic Todd:
Big Sandy at Union Pool on Sunday 11/6! www.ticketfly.com... |
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![]() Yes!! In Long Beach., Saw the Q there. |
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![]() Todd.. Sandy is at the top of his game. So much fun. |
Sat. 10/22/16 11:30am
Stuart Rose:
Big sandy, the rockabilly guy? | |
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![]() The same. |
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![]() AMAZING band! |
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![]() Los Shakers, I mean. |
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![]() Someone let Yvonne in! |
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![]() Syl Sylvain wrote this or do I just only know his recording of it? |
Sat. 10/22/16 11:47am
burpage:
mike mike mike mike | |
Sat. 10/22/16 11:47am
Dennis Diken:
diggin' the show Mikey, thanks for props! | |
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![]() Los Chicos de Oro |
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![]() @Michael Shelley: I am gonna need a receipt for those records (tax writeoff). |
Sat. 10/22/16 11:56am
JOFF:
I WONDER who could be on backing vocals ?!?!?! | |
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![]() The Michael Shelley Show is the best part of Saturday. Seriously. |
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![]() Manchesters = David Gates, later of Bread |
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![]() Michael -- Got a version of "I'm Your Puppet" to play in honor of the last debate? |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:06pm
Marc Francis:
Howdy Gaylord! |
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![]() Hi, @Marc Francis! |
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![]() "Alright" is not a standard spelling in any usage. But I'm all right with it being one word in colloquial use. |
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![]() HolySmokes - 'I Get It' - the art & mastery of the 'simple'... Smithereens tune down!...that could be useful to know... |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:11pm
glenn:
i like the ron-dels. |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:12pm
Michael Shelley:
that is one loud tambourine |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:12pm
glenn:
although i guess it's the rondels, no hyphen. |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:13pm
Juke Joint Jonny:
Definitely fake Beau Brummels. |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:13pm
Paul:
Michael, my Merriam-Webster dictionary indeed lists "alright", an adverb meaning "all right" . Have always loved the show - keep up the great work!!! | |
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![]() I say no, Baby. Could be as much fake Everley Bros. |
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![]() Accidentally Beatlesque...that seemed like a country song to me. |
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![]() I like that, Juke. Think you nailed it. |
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![]() 'Open up yer eyes an' ears & yer influenced - & there ain't a damn thing you can do about it.' - Dylan ...The Faux Brummels... |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:15pm
Dennis:
My vote: not fake Fabs. | |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:16pm
Juke Joint Jonny:
Wow! Gold-starred this Love Potion toot sweet! |
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![]() Me too, JJJ! |
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![]() It gets to be like saying Jazz sax players sound like Bird or Trane or electric guitarists like Jimi : wull, by definition - almost... |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:17pm
Parq:
Dig it JJJ. I'm in. |
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![]() Coasters had Soul. |
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![]() I'm with the consensus here: It seems to draw from the same influences as the Beatles but not from the Fabs directly. |
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![]() Not that Delbert would have known who The Brummels were. |
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![]() But Delbert certainly knew the Beatles before the rest of us did. |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:20pm
Michael Shelley:
Delbert played w/ Bruce Channel on the same tour as the Beatles - and I think John used some of his harmonica riffs later |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:20pm
glenn:
delbert taught john lennon how to play harmonica. |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:21pm
Michael Shelley:
I think the influence went both ways |
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![]() - a contemporary! It's kewl to acknowledge the Fabs had them.. |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:22pm
Mike tp:
The coasters indeed! | |
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![]() Delbert himself says "taught" is overstating it wildly: He says he just gave John a few pointers. |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:22pm
Dennis:
Not going to see The Monkees tonight - stuck working in Pittsburgh- but will be at the NJ gig next month too, Michael, so I hope to see you there. | |
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![]() - like Lennon learned 'clawhammer' picking from Donovan, maybe... |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:24pm
Paul:
Definite Fountains of Wayne feel to the Monkees track...enjoyed it. | |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:25pm
Dennis:
I wish The Monkees would add that one to the set list. | |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:25pm
glenn:
i don't know about guitar, but she's pretty good at playing trump. |
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![]() ...Carter, maybe...Bill of course was Sax... |
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![]() ...Bach didn't write for Guitar, you see - he wrote for Lute & Cello ...the Guitar was always the village bicycle & everybody had a ride... |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:35pm
AlexB:
Wow this sounds like the Zombies | |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:36pm
Paul:
Man, the Gentrys! Had forgotten all about them...Sounds DC5-ish !! | |
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![]() @AlexB: Seriously! I knew it from the Buckinghams' great cover: their 1st album (...before their Hits) is totally bitchen... |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:39pm
Juke Joint Jonny:
Speaking of singing right, saw the Rubinoos last night. They will make you never sing again, soooo good. If you're anywhere near their gig tonight you should go. |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:40pm
Michael Shelley:
JJJ - where? |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:40pm
Michael from the Left Coast:
Considering there was no internet to look up the chords, no youtube for a tutorial on how to play any given song, I thought the Gentrys did pretty well with the Zombies' song. And Sam was the one in Sam and Dave who stuck around, the Dave role was the one that rotated | |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:41pm
Michael from the Left Coast:
Rubinoos with the Bongos--so double your pleasure, double your fun... | |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:42pm
Juke Joint Jonny:
tonight at the Tabernacle, Mt. Tabor. We saw 'em last night in Teaneck. the beat. |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:42pm
scott:
Don't mean to be negative, but I have to correct Left Coast Michael here. It was Dave Prater who toured and recorded with a fake Sam, Sam Daniels. | |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:42pm
Juke Joint Jonny:
*best* |
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![]() I've listend to this song about 20 times in the last 24 hours. You are a mind reader, Baby. |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:50pm
herb.nyc:
(I just sealed my envelope w Silent Check, to mail later) yay dB's! | |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:51pm
Michael from the Left Coast:
Scott--all due respect and I'm sure you're correct but I saw Sam and Dave at the Bottom Line in NYC and it was Sam Moore and some Dave other than Prater | |
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Sat. 10/22/16 12:51pm
Marc Francis:
Damn. This is a number one song. |
Sat. 10/22/16 12:52pm
Michael from the Left Coast:
BTW, Peter Holsapple opening for Ian Hunter in North Carolina! | |
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![]() 'Amilee' by The Jeanies is a primo numero earworm. |
Sun. 10/23/16 11:34am
Bobby:
Pretty sure "chewy macs" are chewy macaroons. | |
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