Dave Mandl

Haha, really?

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Hi Dave. I haven't. I'm not the biggest Rush fan, tbh, but I should check the new lineup out.

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🤷‍♂️There are very few of them left here.

On second thought, I don't think I know this band at all. They seem like an important missing link. 1975??? Thanks!

Linden Blvd.

I vaguely remember the name, but that's it. Will check them out, thanks.

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🙏And thanks for the kind message.

Did guys really buy their girlfriends "diamond rings" (plural) in the '60s? I guess that's when the economy was really booming.

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Bunker! I would love to. Last I saw he was spouting crazy conspiracies on FB.

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You're such an easy guy to deal with.

Consider eating less beef, which is bad for the environment, bad for animals, and bad for you.

...Sadowsky basses (very fine, beautifully made custom instruments), are "active," and I'm just not a fan of active basses, which sound kind of fake to me. The sound of drums at these larger venues has also changed over recent decades. I grew up on heavy drummers, but these also sound fake to me.

Akiko Yano @ Sony Hall: Good show, Yano charming and in fine form, but it had a kind of slick "pro" sound I'm not wild about. I thought, "This bassist sounds like the Letterman guy, with that Sadowsky bass." Turned out to literally be the Letterman guy, Will Lee, who is the poster boy for Sadowsky.

Inside any number of parks, esp. big ones like Prospect Park. What are you trying to do?

Talking to a musician friend who knows the English saxophonist Trevor Watts. Trevor played with Yoko Ono in the sixties, and one day Yoko said, "Do you mind if I bring my boyfriend next time we jam?"

"Sure, why not?"

Oh...

New York Ave.

Short clip of Emergency Group grooving live at Westbeth the other night. @emergencygroup.bsky.social

Problem is, it can make you look humorless or snobbish.

Financial writers will say that a stock "blew up" when it shot up and also when it plummeted.

Asking/pressuring the audience to clap or sing along is unreasonable, in my opinion (with rare exceptions).

Clapping along is kind of inexcusable unless it's requested. On the other hand I saw Joe Jackson many years ago and he chastised the audience for clapping along with a song. Most ungracious.

Wow.

That's two friends in the past year who have called me in the middle of the night to tell me their apartments were flooded because some nut left a bathtub running.

Bad editing. It isn't clear whether the monument celebrates ethnic violence (a strong possibility in the US) or condemns it. It's the latter, but I had to read half the article just to find that out. #copyediting

I have a computer science degree and I set the clocks in people's cars for them all the time. Also available for microwaves.