DrW

Lots of years ago I had a Dutch girlfriend. She gave me the LP "10 Mistakes" by the Dutch band Gruppo Sportivo. Pretty funny stuff. The song I like best is "Superman". If the long (2 minute) intro sounds familiar to you, it is Zappa's "Take your clothes of when you dance". The real fun starts afterward (the lyrics are the main attraction).

Seems like Russell Wilson does not want to poop at all.

Punk live albums are rare. My favorite is the Black Flag - Who's got the 10 1/2? And my favorite post-punk album: "Nocturne" - Siouxsie and the Banshees

An arguably even better source is the German TV show "Rockpalast" that started in 1974 and continues to these days. The list of artists they recorded live is lengthy (google it). Initially (I do not remember for how long) they had Rockpalast Nights, a concert with several bands. Where else can you find Pete Townshend jamming with the Grateful Dead? I would also like to mention that the A/V quality of their shows was phenomenal for the time (the linked song was recorded more than 40 years ago) .

Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light My main con: Many songs are not this different from her studio recordings and there is very little interaction with the audience. My main pros: A) The musicians are first-rate; B) You can also have it on DVD or watch it on youtube (see below); C) It is just awesome -Joni makes very complicated songs accessible to a wider audience.

I agree (and I don't even like Lynyrd Skynyrd very much).

Having watched every Longhorn game in the last five years (my son was playing tuba in their marching band), I was always convinced that Sam Ehlinger would make a borderline starter-quality NFL quarterback (clearly better than his 6th round pick indicates). His arm strength and accuracy are nothing special, but he is smart and good on his feet. Most importantly, he seems to have the drive to succeed. His life so far was not without set-backs. In 2013, his father died while running an ironman marathon, and in 2021 his brother due to a drug overdose.

Oingo Boingo - Farewell: Halloween 1995 (CD or DVD)

For me, the best live albums should have an element that elevates the songs beyond the versions on studio albums. In some cases, there are longer jams which take you far away from the original song, but manage to return to it some five or ten minutes later. Best examples here are "Dark Star" on Grateful Dead's Live/Dead or "The Low Spark of High-heeled Boys" on Traffic's "Live On The Road". In other cases, it is the interaction with the audience that makes a live recording special. Unfortunately, often this interaction is left off the released album. This is why I like Frank Zappa's live albums, where he reacts to the audience. The prime example: The Helsinki Concerts (found on "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 2"). First, Zappa plans to play a Finnish tango (well, we are in Helsinki). His band has never played it before, but all of them are able to read sheet music. Thus, he asks for the lights to be left on so that they can play the piece. Later in the concert, a somewhat inebriated member of the audience asks them to play "Whipping Post". Zappa, not familiar with the Allman Brothers' song, still modified the lyrics of "Montana" to include "whipping floss". Several years later, Zappa actually played a cover of "Whipping Post" in concerts; in Bobby Martin, his keyboard player at that time, he had found somebody able to sing the blues.

Fairport Convention - House Full: Live at the L.A. Troubadour - I love the long versions of "Sloth" and "Matty Groves"

As I work for a major state university in Texas, talk at work is pretty much exclusively about college athletics. Outside of work, sometimes I wear my "Josh Allen draws the Buffalo Bills logo" T-shirt. Some people recognize the logo and I tell them the story behind it. In general, it is very well-received.

The material for this album was actually taken from 4 shows. For the hardcore fan, in 2014 they released a 6 CD set with the individual shows ("The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings").

Grateful Dead - Live/Dead Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 "The Helsinki Concert" Traffic - Live On The Road Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus The Band - Rock Of Ages

After getting my PhD in Biochemistry in Germany, I came to University of Rochester as a postdoc. My mentor there referred to me as Dr W (W being the first letter in my last name).

Your sarcasm sensor needs some adjustment. This was the intention of the piece. It was published on a Packers fan site.

Not a song, but a 15 year old commercial...

Punk before punk was invented: The Fugs In case you can't understand English, there are captions in Swedish. And here is their most anarchist song (written in 1965): Nothing

The best song from the best Genesis album, "Selling England by the Pound": Firth of Fifth

A few months ago, a board member (Ralonzo; sorry, i do not know how alert him to this post) pointed me to The Walkabouts. Here is one of their live concerts - thanks to German public TV. A cello in a rock band is very rare.

Next Thursday you will be treated to Washington versus Chicago.

Jefferson Airplane spawned two musically different groups, Jefferson Starship and Hot Tuna. Here are two concert clips from the better one of the two (by far). However, I will admit that Jorma's vocals are not in the same class as Grace's. Acoustic Electric

Department store clerk Between high school and army I had 6 weeks time. 4 of these weeks I worked in the largest department store in Hanover (Germany) as "Verkaeuferin" which is the word for female sales clerk (I am male; this was in the mid-1970s where they still were allowed to pay women less than men). I was put into the photography department. As I did not have any sales experience, they did not let me sell cameras, but I was part of the team responsible for making photocopies and selling the low-end stuff. Among other things, we were selling picture frames. I vividly remember how sometimes people came with very wrinkled photographs and were disappointed that the wrinkles did not disappear just by putting the pic in a frame. Another item we sold were sunglasses which were a favorite target for thieves. The best time for sunglass theft (seen from the point of view of the thief) was the last half hour before closing time. Most sales staff would tend to look away when they spotted a thief during that time, to avoid the lengthy procedure to formally deal with the theft; they just wanted to get home.

Monk - "It's a jungle out there" by Randy Newman Four CSI franchises use "Who" songs as theme. My favorite - CSI Miami - Won't get fooled again