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    March 2025 Challenge Thread - Live Music (Really) Is Better!

    Day 8: P!nk / Brandi Carlile October 2023, Snapdragon Stadium – P!nk (like Brandi) really connects with her audience and puts on quite a theatrical show, flying around the arena at the end of the show. Play something over the top Deep Purple was known as a band that played really really loud in...
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    March 2025 Challenge Thread - Live Music (Really) Is Better!

    Day 7: Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers October 2019, The Magnolia – Bruce was touring for Absolute Zero, which featured Justin Vernon. Bruce was super grumpy with the folks that were calling out for Grateful Dead tunes, said he wasn’t going to play any and also stated that he thought that nobody...
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    Your Life in Music...

    I want to do this, but 1969 has at least half a dozen albums I'd consider. Abbey Road, Let it Bleed, Zep I and II, Hot Rats, Nashville Skyline.
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    Overlooked 2024

    Wow, I dig this!
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    March 2025 Challenge Thread - Live Music (Really) Is Better!

    Day 6: Rolling Stones February 2003, Staples Center – I’ve seen the Stones 2x, both for free. The first time was at the LA Coliseum when I worked security and got to stand right by the stage, and the second was this benefit for the NRDC, and was the first free show they played since Altamont...
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    @Mather I was married by a witch. (it's true) Please don't read that as married TO a witch. Hmm...

    @Mather I was married by a witch. (it's true) Please don't read that as married TO a witch. Hmm, actually my ex-wife earned the honorary title.
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    Online Vinyl Deals

    Electric Cowbell Records For whom the cowbell tolls! For this Bandcamp Friday March 6 we are offering a 20% storewide discount on everything on our Bandcamp shop including merch! Electric Cowbell hoodies and vinyl! Pre-order a copy of the new Rolando Bruno y el Grupo Arevalo & of Tropique too...
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    @Mather There are other wizards though.

    @Mather There are other wizards though.
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    Television

    Great discipline! We usually don't watch the latest Severance or White Lotus episodes until the following day, but both shows have us excited to watch asap. Speaking of White Lotus, I'm loving this season. I guess I just like Mike White's way of telling a story.
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    Television

    We've been watching every episode twice this season, looking forward to watching that one again.
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    2025 Reading Challenge

    Book 7 - 33 1/3: The Moon & Antarctica by Zachary Petit This was fantastic.
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    March 2025 Challenge Thread - Live Music (Really) Is Better!

    Day 5: Social Distortion February 2001, 4th and B – This was the first time I saw Social Distortion after the death of founding member Dennis Dannell from a brain aneurysm at the way too young age of 38. Play something from a band with shifting lineups or that continued on after a founding...
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    March 2025 Challenge Thread - Live Music (Really) Is Better!

    Day 4: Prairie Home Companion November 1997, Fitzgerald Theater – Went to two Prairie Home Companion tapings when I lived in Minneapolis. This one featured the Nashville Bluegrass Band which featured Peter Rowan (who was in Old & In The Way with Jerry Garcia), and can be listened to here: March...
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    March 2025 Challenge Thread - Live Music (Really) Is Better!

    Day 3: The Samples, early 1990s at The Barn UC Riverside – Booked them to play the bar I worked at, my now-wife and I had so much fun that we followed them to Vegas the next day. They were big for a bit, and flamed out into varying resurrected iterations. Play an album from a band that has faded...
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    NHL Thread Because There Isn't An NHL Thread

    The record challenge had me going through old ticket stubs. I had so many Wings tix in there, but these stood out. I have zero recollection of the Wings playing Team USA, much less that I went. The price on the 89-90 ticket is amazing. And March 26th 1997, well that sure was a fun one to attend.
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    March 2025 Challenge Thread - Live Music (Really) Is Better!

    Thanks for putting together March @imtheocean - I'm loving it already, it gave me a reason to find my old stubs. They were in like the 5th box I checked, not bad. Day 2: Chicago, November 1986 at Universal Amphitheater. This was during the very smooth Peter Cetera era Chicago, really went at...
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    March 2025 Challenge Thread - Live Music (Really) Is Better!

    Day 1: The Jacksons Victory Tour, December 1984 at Dodger Stadium. First concert that I saw, besides saying I saw the Jackson 5 the main memory I have is the waves of bass across the field. Oddly enough I ended up reading fan mail for Michael Jackson as a summer job a few summers later. Play...
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    The 33 1/3 thread.... (the book series)

    It's so hard to narrow it down to just a couple when I order them, but both of these were easy calls for me.
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    February 2025 Spin Challenge

    Thanks for hosting February @Matt M !!
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