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feels like the trajectory would be long, circular debates for half a century or more, and then Trump just gives it to them in 2017 ('it's just a box of dust')

wow, the only one of these I can recall offhand is "Act of Contrition"

odds this van caught fire at some point? probably decent

contest ad to win a red van with Styx LP art on the sides and a band logo on the hood. Allegedly worth $20,000

somewhere in the US in 1979, someone was driving around a Styx van they won from A&M records (Billboard, Feb '79)

i think she was essentially a friend of one of Bowie's bandmates, and sang as a one-off thing

no idea--she may be around, too

with Vernon's passing, I believe the only person still alive who worked on DB's debut album is the drummer, John Eager (and not sure about him)

From David Bowie to Fleetwood Mac and Eric Clapton, Mike Vernon’s ear was invaluable to British pop and blues The musician, producer and label head, who has died aged 81, turned his boyhood passion for blues into a hugely impactful career

RIP Mike Vernon, producer of Bowie's first album, among many (& more successful) others: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

aw man, was just thinking about diamond dave. peace to a genuine subterranean.

I feel like I've seen David Ellison somewhere before. Can't quite put my finger on it.

Isolar 50: Chicago, 3 March 1976 | Chris O'Leary Get more from Chris O'Leary on Patreon

Thin White Duke 50: Bowie in Chicago, with an audience tape that does give you the sense of being in a bad seat in a surly crowd. www.patreon.com/posts/isolar...

The Maduro escapade was a disastrous precedent: convinced them they could do these mafia-style hits and nothing else would change

Happy birthday Ned!!!

no, that's good

oh yeah don't get me wrong---at least half of my high-school class were reactionary assholes who almost certainly voted for Bush and DT. but were they that much different from the class of 1980 or 2000? i dunno..

i mean, it's like "Boomers" includes Trump as well as my dad, who delivered sandwiches, voted Dem. his whole life, and listened to Jackson Browne records. the broad-brush is the broad brush. it's patina of "science" in this meme that's really grating

i know it's a gag but man i am kind of getting tired of this: i am of the age with the absolute most exposure to lead, according to this likely bullshit chart, and i don't think I am more brain damaged and irrational than people younger or older than me.

!!

"the new record is okay but a real territorial retreat from the daring of 'Original Wrapper'"

also cracking up at Pete going "where's your wine-bar sax, Lou Reed? get with the times, old man!"

"If you want to talk nostalgia & take one on the nose, go see Tom Petty...I thought [Lou Reed's] New York was a great album, but I would have liked to have heard a saxophone or maybe even a synth. I don't know who's living in the past & who's living in the future, really." Pete Townshend, 1990

Ron Carter :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Dig that.

yeah she has a Wiig and Jan Hooks quality to her--am hoping the show lets her thrive

"Neil Young was invited. He declined, then changed his mind too late, so he'll be in the audience."

a very Neil Young photo caption (Toronto Globe & Mail, July '69)

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano — The Bowie Book Club Podcast Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club , where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read The Savage Detective...

This month we read The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano - a far-ranging tome about poets who never seem to write any poetry, but do a lot of other crazy stuff. (No guarantee that this picture will make any more sense after listening, but you should tune in anyways!) #bowie #booksky

yeah, it's just baffling there's no Albany-Pittsfield-Springfield-Worcester-Boston connector. one would think you'd get some riders for it. Instead it's been vaguely talked about for the 20+ years I've lived here, and you still have to take a train to New haven if you want to go to Boston.

cracking up at a truly phoned-in Bowie concert review from '76. "one number led into another...the concert continued, without interruption, until its conclusion."

it drives me just bonkers that there is no train service between Boston and western MA; it's more convenient in some ways to go to New York City than the capital of my own damn state

yeah the frustrating thing is that he's very talented--the 1986 Live at Blues Alley is pretty great. He just should be ranked on the same level as, say, Don Pullen, and not as the Spokesman/Saviour of Jazz

yep! yeah, it would've been much different.