So apparently Eddie Vedder joined Roger Waters onstage for "Comfortably Numb" recently. Not bad.
Now, Roger made the Douche List AND has irritated a whole lot of people lately with his anti-Israel remarks. Meanwhile, a friend of mine who works for the best music venue in Hampton Roads (and whose family co-owns the cottage we inhabit for the fishing trip) tells me that the band I saw last night is a bunch of truly nice people. So maybe you should watch their rendition of the same song instead.
And for those brothers of the Virginia Psi chapter of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity*, you may want to watch this. And fall into the fetal position, shaking. Enjoy the inflatable kangaroo.
*before it went all soft in the eras of Marls and Teej; they may not appreciate this
Anyway, Roger Waters and David Gilmour are done playing together forever. Their reunion for the Live 8 concert was 12 years ago now. You can go see one of their individual shows and pay some inflated rate to watch a grumpy famous guy or you can watch The Australian Pink Floyd Show crank out astoundingly note-for-note, brilliant versions of the classics. (They started with a full run-through of Dark Side of the Moon and then went from there last night.)
Good stuff.
Monday, July 24, 2017
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Ah, the memories!
Leaving for Folsom today. Got to do my annual parole meeting.
Good luck, squeaky. Just tell them what OJ told them.
so, do you have to pay royalties or anything to be a note-for-note cover band? and shouldn't we form a band called "punk floyd" and do punk versions of pink floyd songs?
Good question. I assume so because a bar owner I know refused to pay ASCAP the annual fee to have their guest musicians play covers of licensed songs, meaning they could only have people play originals.
A Google search netted this: Instructions are to take the occupancy times $3.33. For example: 50 person occupancy equals $166.50. However, ASCAP has a minimum fee of $356. Pay whichever is greater. So that's what a restaurant owes in order to play songs by ASCAP songwriters for one year.
That may just be for restaurants. Not sure when you are a cover band using the name as in the Australian Pink Floyd Show. I feel very strongly that Roger Waters would sue them if he could, so they must have done it the right way. In fact, David Gilmour hired them to play his birthday party, which I think is amusing.
Two of the best shows I have seen this year are note for note cover bands. Badfish and now this. Both have relatively large followings. Interesting.
Punk Floyd! Punk is the complete opposite of Pink Floyd in just about every way. Perfect.
...and of course they already exist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUeD53wtZ18
I don't really dig them
punk floyd is terrible and not using that name correctly.
maybe we should become a note for note punk floyd cover band. that's an unoccupied niche.
how many bar owners don't pay that? got ot be most of them . . . open mic nights, etc
Speaking of music, Greg Ashley's new album "Pictures of Saint Paul Street" sounds like a collaboration between Tom Lehrer and Charles Bukowski. Or like Father John Misty without the cockiness. Which is to say you should check it out.
Father of a 7 y/o boy I coach in baseball sitting across from me on train. He has watched me drink two beers at 5 PM on a Monday. Sorry, but my new life rule is to drink in every shitty train commute home. May come back to bite me as I maneuver to coach high-level travel next year.
Teej....are you receiving my emails pal? Let me know. Sent one yesterday afternoon re St. Andrews.
Sheila take a bow
Rocco take the cannoli
Danny take a hint
danimal, just saw an email from you this morning - I'm stuck in some west coast mtgs today, but will try to email back from the airport
Dave, can you hook me up with some soccer drills for 3rd grade boys. Got roped into coaching. I sent an email yesterday to Greasetruck.
I like the punk floyd song.
Teejus O'Boyle, Irish Jet Setter
"West Coast Meetings"....sounds kinda important!
Tough playoff loss tonight for my U7 baseball team. On the positive side, I can now focus on being a good employee.
i rarely look at that greasetruck email. i'll send you some soccer drills tomorrow that will work for third grade boys . . . or girls, you sexist bastard.
By the way, Dave's recent podcast title is bloody brilliant. "That Girl is Poison (Ivy)" embedded Bell Biv Davoe's opus into my head for much of the afternoon.
thanks! give it a listen, my wife is a special guest and there is discussion of her boobs.
also, tennis related post on Sentence of Dave today . . . sort of. hopefully this won't happen at obft.
Rand Paul's exclusive editorial on Breitbart today highlights the fact that physicians don't have to be good at writing and that Breitbart editors do not have to be good at editing.
We have a Pendleton sighting from our sources in Munich!
In case you want a break from the day's news and chatter on social media, here's a good distraction:
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/19769575/what-do-athletes-do-to-pee-games
Rob's gonna be pissed at us
while I'm not proud of the events that transpired, I am very proud of my account of them
awkward Dave returns on Sentence of Dave today
gheorghies! re-entering civilization after four days in the maine woods. what have i missed, other than dave being dave and nobody posting anything?
We have been completing an exercise designed to make you feel needed, Rob. Welcome back.
backish
Did you "find yourself" out in the woods?
Rob, maybe found some awesome banjo music out there?
Tomorrow, we as a family are off to fabled NE institution, Story Land in BFE, NH. And if I'm lucky we'll hit Santa's Village on the way home Sunday. This is just a brutal trip. Think miniature Disney but nursery rhyme themed rides all about 1/20 the size. (Whit, insert size joke here) Another family ropes us into the trip every year. I dread it. I can't wait until the kids are too old for it, maybe next year.
The real reason Squeaky can't make it to OBFT is he can't miss a shift in the workshop at Santa's Village.
Sounds like Rob needs an agent to assist in extrication. From what I know of your oldest, this must be painful for her too, no? Man up man! Get out of there.
Bluegrass Covers on Spotify btw - give it a listen.
Hey lefties - my dulcet tones may be on NPR's All Things Considered this afternoon. Set your cassette tapes accordingly.
what time would that be hardcharger?
Interwebs says b/w 630-8 PM. Me and my new bestie Chris Arnold chat oil.
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