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    "I have adopted the Italian way of life... I may stab you!"
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    "You make the British Lion seem like a declawed, toothless, neutered fat tabby with the mange."
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    So HBO has a new show called "Hello Ladies" and the theme song so reminds me of your music JT!

    http://soul88.blogspot.com/2013/10/h...all-oates.html
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    Hall and Oates... definitely!
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    If you are an R.E.M. fan, you'll love this

    As a youngster, I assumed R.E.M.’s 1991 single “Losing My Religion” was about just that: a lapse in faith. Perhaps it was some Freudian obsession based on my parents’ own religious turmoil (Mom’s an excommunicated Irish Catholic, dad’s an atheist Jew), or one too many viewings of the icon-heavy music video. But even after later reading Michael Stipe’s claims of it being just another ”classic obsession pop song” ala The Police’s “Every Breath You Take”, I wasn’t entirely sold he hadn’t experienced some spiritual crisis. Now, via a strange twist of fate (or divine being, perhaps?), I understand the song in a totally new light thanks to the isolated vocal track.

    When it’s just Stipe’s vocals, free and clear of all the mandolin and the images of angels and Baby Jesus, it’s clear that this is a man at the end of his rope. Plenty of isolated tracks feature starting and stopping thanks to the editing process, but this time it adds to the performance, as if Stipe has to take breaks to collect himself and surge achingly onward. The echo of the vocals only further enhances the emotional impact, with all the extra space making his pleas of anguish and loneliness cut that much deeper. Whether the band’s talking about the love of another person or God/Buddha/Allah, you can’t help but feel the visceral heartache that’s purveyed with every pained note. Listen in below.


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    Grateful Dead ends long, strange trip this weekend in Chicago

    The Grateful Dead celebrates its 50th anniversary this weekend with three last shows before the band declares itself officially "Dead."

    The final gigs will take place at Soldier Field in Chicago, the same venue where the Grateful Dead last played with legendary guitarist Jerry Garcia nearly 20 years ago, before his death at age 53.

    Tickets to Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well shows top $116K in resale market

    The four surviving original members — Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir — will be joined by Trey Anastasio (Phish), Jeff Chimenti (RatDog, The Dead and Furthur), and Bruce Hornsby.

    They say it'll be the last time the band will play together.

    Flocking to Chicago

    Grateful Dead fans, known as Deadheads, are flocking from around the world to attend, including many Canadians.

    Among them are the members of a Toronto-based Grateful Dead tribute band called Caution Jam.

    Guitarist Eric Fefferman plans to catch all three concerts. "Once you become a Deadhead, you're forever in love with the music," he told CBC News.

    Appropriately enough, Fefferman and his bandmate Les Garant, who play a monthly gig at Grossman's Tavern, met years ago at a Grateful Dead show.

    Fefferman recalls how he became a Deadhead: "It just happens by accident. Somebody takes you to a show, you're not expecting much, and all of a sudden you're walking out of there and planning your vacations and all of your pay cheques around going to Grateful Dead shows.

    For Garant, the appeal was that the Grateful Dead kept the music fresh with its improvisational approach to songs.

    "If you go see Bob Dylan in Toronto, and you see a great show, and then you go see him in Ottawa, you're going to see exactly the same great show," Garant explained.

    "But I used to buy seven tickets for seven different shows in a row from the Grateful Dead and not hear the same song twice."

    Documenting the Dead

    In all, the Grateful Dead played more than 2,300 shows, more than any other rock band in music history.

    The Grateful Dead's official archivist, Canadian David Lemieux, is preparing a massive 80-CD boxed set of live concerts, one per year from 1965-1995, called Thirty Trips Around the Sun. It will be released in September and sell for $700 US.

    He said it documents the band's evolving music.

    "Their sound changed virtually every year if not every tour," said Lemieux, "and it changed quite dramatically."

    This free-spirited approach kept the music exciting for the fans and for the musicians themselves.

    "I don't think they wanted to ever be bored," Lemieux said, "and they certainly weren't because they would always push the envelope and challenge themselves and try new things."

    Deadhead dedication

    Music journalist Alan Cross pinpoints the success of the band in its ability to create a close network of fans that made up for a lack of hit songs or bestselling albums.

    "Being part of the Grateful Dead community was like being part of a family," he said. "And you would do anything as part of this family to follow and support the band."

    The Grateful Dead encouraged its fans to trade tapes of concert recordings, as long as they weren't sold for profit. In this way the band was decades ahead of other musicians, who are only now facing the reality of releasing music as a loss leader to draw fans into buying concert tickets.

    Cross is hosting a documentary presentation that will be part of a live cinema event called Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead at Cineplex theatres across Canada on Sunday.

    Fans who can't make it to Chicago can watch the concert live-streamed to cinemas here and around the world.

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    RIP Robbin Thompson (June 16, 1949-October 9, 2015)




    Singer-songwriter Robbin Thompson dies at 66

    Robbin Thompson, the singer-songwriter who was a hero to a generation of rock’n’roll fans and one of the two singers behind Virginia’s unofficial state song, died early this morning. He was 66.

    Thompson had become best known in recent years for his effort with fellow singer Steve Bassett to get legislators to adopt their song “Sweet Virginia Breeze” as the official state anthem. The song was a high point in a career full of them.

    Thompson once sang in a band with Bruce Springsteen – the only time in his career The Boss wasn’t front and center – recorded with a list of session all-stars and was on the cusp of national fame by the early 1980s.

    The breakthrough never came, but Thompson didn’t let it deter him. He continued to create music and ultimately released more than a dozen albums.

    He also was co-owner of In Your Ear Music and Video Production in downtown Richmond, from which he based his later career and worked with a new generation of musicians.

    Thompson was born June 16, 1949, in Boston. His family moved to Melbourne, Fla., when he was seven, and he stayed there through high school.

    He moved to Richmond in the late 1960s to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. He formed a band called Mercy Flight, which often shared bills with the Springsteen-led band Steel Mill.

    Springsteen asked Thompson to join his band, beginning a friendship that would last a lifetime. The band lasted less than two years, but the two occasionally performed together in the decades that followed, including during a Springsteen show at the Richmond Coliseum in 2003.

    Thompson began making a name of his own in 1976 with the release of his self-titled debut album. The session players included Timothy B. Schmidt, who shortly thereafter joined The Eagles, and the legendary guitarist Steve Cropper.

    That album include a number of songs – “Boy From Boston,” “Dream on Melinda” and “Highway 101” and “Like a River” among them – that would become staples of Thompson’s live shows for decades to come.

    Two years later, he and Bassett released “Sweet Virginia Breeze” on their record “Together.”

    With momentum building, Thompson put together his own band, hit the road and recorded what would be the most successful record of his career.

    “Two B’s Please” included a new version of “Breeze” along with two other that songs that became regional hits, the fun rocking “Candy Apple Red” and “Brite Eyes,” an operatic rock anthem that’s as much about the musicianship that drives the song as the story it tells. That song became a natural show closer for the band.

    In the years that followed, Thompson recorded several solo albums.

    His touring schedule slowed, but he and the band never completely parted ways. They staged several sold-out reunion shows in late 2009 and early 2010 and later released a live album and video from that mini tour.

    Thompson’s last record was 2013’s “Real Fine Day.”
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