Name another band that is charging $500-685 for tickets? Come on...tell me who else besides the Eagles is gouging their fans this way? Not Bruce Springsteen...his tickets are less than $100. Same with Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Wilco, PJ Harvey, Radiohead and U2...I've always paid less than $100 for their tickets. Recently, Van Halen, Megadeth, and Tom Petty have been charging over $100, but that's a far cry from $500. The only people I could put in the same ballpark as the Eagles are Madonna and the Rolling Stones...they both charged around $200 for the best seats. But at least they put on a SHOW along with the concert. They have tons of staging effects and costumes and dancers and fireworks...you get a little bang for your buck. The Eagles just stand there like robots and play. You're lucky to get a "hello" out of them. Someone mentioned the Eagles haven't been selling out their gigs. Hell, at $600 a pop, you don't need to sell out. Just have 200 suckers buy those $600 tickets and you already have grossed well over $100,000 for the night. The Eagles started this bullshit and they keep jacking it up. Lawdy, if the Eagles are going to charge $500 and up, I shudder to think what the avaricious Mick Jagger is gonna charge for the 50th anniversary tour.

Are you fucking blind?

I used to think it was for the farmers...something to do with them having more daylight hours to harvest in the afternoon. I remember also hearing as a child that the reason we moved the clocks back in the fall was so school kids weren't walking to school in the dark. Anyway, here's the relevant info: http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html

Do a little research and you'll find out. By the way, WHERE EXACTLY were your seats that you got for $35? On the lawn? For the current Eagles tour, a friend just bought tickets to see them: $470 plus $70 convenience charge and another $6 service charge. Over $1000 for two tickets...and this wasn't thru a scalper or a secondary ticket broker. It was thru Ticketmaster. Meanwhile, I paid $45 to see Wilco and ONLY $17.50 for the upcoming of Montreal show!!! A band that uses way more staging and set design than the Eagles.

Because it was released as a single and it was short.

Ok folks, it's Daylight Saving Time again. It seems DST has arrived a bit earlier this year...maybe because it's a leap year? Don't forget to set your clocks ahead one hour tonight.

Ok, so technically it is not a full moon tonight(March 8 was the full moon) as it begins to wane...but it's still big and round and glowing. More songs to swoon to in the moonlight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey3kymG42fo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Oh man, it had been a while since I had seen "Persona"...that is still one weird and intense flick. For some reason, it wasn't the way I remembered it, either...there were whole sections I had forgotten about. "Wild Strawberries" is more of a crowd-pleaser...or at least as crowd-pleasing as Bergman gets. It's less austere and cold than "Persona". My Top 5 favourite Bergman movies are still "Seventh Seal", "Cries and Whispers", "Fanny and Alexander", "Autumn Sonata" and "The Magic Flute".

^^^Are you saying you are also dedanoe?

^^^Let me know if you need more butter and salt for your popcorn, dazedcat. According to these articles I just read in the Boston papers, it was Dave's idea to have Kool & the Gang open. http://news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/view/20220309kool_addition_to_vh_tour/srvc=home&position=also http://bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/03/09/high-five-robert-kool-bell/bdn9oGlFVRJKXgzsMVM9YL/story.html

My movie binge of the past month or so continues...here's tonight's date, an Ingmar Bergman double-bill:

I've been in a movie-going phase lately, but I'll finally be seeing my first concerts since the great Wilco shows of January. Sat. March 10: Reverend Horton Heat, Wanda Jackson, Supersuckers and more @ the Galaxy Theatre, Santa Ana...a Rockabilly Festival. Tuesday March 20: of Montreal and Deerhoof @ the Wiltern Theatre, LA...my favourite band from Athens, GA.

^^^Well, before seeing the reunion tour in 2007, I hadn't seen Van Halen since 1988 when they were on the Monsters of Rock tour...and I only went to that to see Metallica. I was through with Van Hagar by that point; we left 4 songs into their set...around the time Michael went into his dull bass solo. To be honest, Van Halen audiences have always been brutal to their opening acts, throwing shit and in some cases forcing them from the stage...and for good reason. Warner Bros. chose some pretty piss-poor acts to open for Van Halen. 1978 doesn't count as VH was the opening act that year...or they were part of festival bills. But from 1979 on to 1984 when they were headliners, they had best-forgotten bands like Screams, After the Fire, G-Force, Talas, Autograph, and the Fabulous Poodles as openers. Kool & the Gang is the coolest opening act they've ever had.

^^^That's better than their opening act for the 1984 tour: the horrid and wretched Autograph. Rock Historian, in regards to being racist, I wasn't specifically referring to you. I agree that Jahfin went a little overboard about the festival thing, but I think he's just trying to illustrate how much more open people were to genre-mixing concert bills back then than today. It's really not that far from "Dance the Night Away" to "Ladies Night", in my opinion. Maybe Dave could pop in during Kool's set and they could do a mash-up of "Ladies Night" and "Ladies Night in Buffalo"?!?

You know I am starting to get annoyed and offended at this assumption that if you like a hard rock band such as Van Halen or Led Zeppelin, then you shouldn't like funk or disco. And let's clear one thing up right now: Kool & the Gang was not disco. They are funk, R & B...not disco. They've been around since before the disco craze of the 70s. As for this insistence that Van Halen and Kool & the Gang is a strange match...someone likened it to Chaka Khan opening for Ozzy(in which case, I prefer Chaka to Ozzy Has-been)...I refer you to the fact that Van Halen used to cover Kool & the Gang songs back in their club days. Van Halen is a PARTY BAND...Kool & the Gang is a PARTY BAND! What's not to love? I'm looking at that setlist for Kool & the Gang and I am thinking that's a sweet set! If today's audiences can't get down with that, they're even more racist and lame than I thought. I give MAJOR props to Van Halen for picking a fun and interesting band to open the tour for them. It's better than picking some tired old dreary "classic rock" losers like Styx, Journey, Boston, Deep Purple, Chicago, Hootie and the Blowfish, Foreigner, Bon Jovi, Ted Nugent, Lynyrd Skynyrd, .38 Special, ad nauseum. Or some fellow LA Sunset Strip veterans like Motley Crüe, Quiet Riot, Warrant, blah blah blah. None of the above bands, as presently consituted, are fit to share the same stage as Kool & the Gang, let alone Van Halen. I have a feeling many people seeing this Van Halen tour are going to be surprised how much they enjoy Kool's set. They can bring the funk and bring the party for sure!

I've always been torn between whether this was a cry for attention or a cry for help. Either way, it's long past its due date.

Damn you filthy Englishman! You've made me choke on my bagel! By gum, I may not agree with all your posts, but at least you have a sense of humour. Actually, it is the chimpanzees that are the smartest in the primate world, and the species we share 98% of our genes with. Apes are ranked lower down the scale...if I remember my science correctly, I think Orangutans are above the Apes as far as intelligence goes. But even as an "evolutionist" I have certain doubts...I am a skeptical inquirer above all else...and this alien intervention theory is interesting, to say the least. It would also explain dedanoe and Glenn Beck.

Another clear night with the full moon shining bright...time for some more Moon Songs:

+ 100!!! Oh YEAH! Susan Dey(Laurie Partridge) was groovy! Back to the Monkees...here's one of my favourite bits from "Head", where they address the "manufactured" tag: Another great scene from "Head"...Davy Jones meets Frank Zappa:

Thanks for sharing this. And yes, that obit was better than the usual Billboard write-up...I'm glad they didn't reword it from Atlantic's original. RIP Erim.

^^^Jason Bonham had NOTHING to do with the Oakland brawl. It was Peter Grant's son Warren who one of Bill Graham's staff refused to let have the dressing room sign. Enter Grant, Richard Cole, John Bindon and John Bonham. Exit whatever good vibes were left on the 1977 tour.

Topped off dinner with some tiramisu...let the food coma begin. Ahhh...where to begin with Mr. Chuck E. Weiss? Chuck E. Weiss is an LA legend; one of those guys like Rodney Bingenheimer or Bob Forrest who seemingly was everywhere and knew everyone and yet never achieved the fame and fortune they should have. Although Chuck E's considered a Los Angeles institution, he is from Denver and got his start there, meeting blues great Ligtning Hopkins at Ebbett's Field. From there, he met and played with a whole lotta greats: Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Howlin' Wolf, Tom Waits. He moved to LA in the late 70s. In fact, not only did Rickie sing a song about Chuck, but Tom Waits references him several times throughout his albums "Nighthawks at the Diner" and "Small Change". It was rumoured Rickie and Chuck had a fling, but it was really Tom Waits and her that had a romance. Of course, it was almost too perfect that all three of them lived at the late, great Tropicana Hotel...what the Chelsea is to New York, the Tropicana is to LA. The Chateau Marmont is too expensive and the Continental Hyatt too "touristy" and part of a national chain. In LA, he played regular Monday night gigs at the Central club on Sunset, across the street from Tower Records and the Whisky. When the Central closed, he played his gigs at the Gorky's in Hollywood, mere blocks from the Pantages Theatre. Later, he and Johnny Depp re-opened the Central, renaming it the Viper Room. Chuck E. would usually play solo or with his band The Goddamn Liars. He's released a few albums and appeared on compilations. "Extremely Cool" from 1999 is probably his most widely known. Anyway...now you know that Chuck E. is a real person.

Yes, slave, that's the place she is referring to in "Chuck E.'s in Love"...who, by the way, used to play regularly up the street in the 90s at the Cahuenga Gorky's. Chuck E. that is, not Ricki. What a great late-nite place Gorky's...both the downtown LA and Hollywood locations. They mostly have musicals from Broadway, but every now and then, a band will play there. Here's the latest schedule: http://www.broadwayla.org/production/ Ok, what made me happy today? Just finished a late dinner of sausages and peppers and pasta at a place called Enzo's, with Frank Sinatra playing in the background.