Hagar with Page would be laughable at best. Much like Hagar's current outfit, Chickenshit, quite possibly the worst "rock" band ever.

Press Release Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns, the new album from acclaimed songwriter John Hiatt, will be released August 8th on New West Records. This is Hiatt’s 20th solo album and follows his acclaimed 2010 release, The Open Road, which the Los Angeles Times heralded as a “bluesy, heartland-soaked musical excursion,” while the Buffalo News declared it “a classic for the future”. Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns was recorded at Ben’s Studio in Nashville and was produced by Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, The Black Crowes). In addition to Hiatt, the album features Kenneth Blevins on drums and percussion, Doug Lancio on electric guitars, mandolin and Hammertone and Patrick O’Hearn on bass guitar.

The ledzeppelin.com version of Beavis and Butthead if ever there was one.

This was the first Zep boot I ever remember hearing. The same friend that had this one also had Live Over Europe (or something to that effect). To the best of my recollection, the Blueberry Hill boot sounded like absolute shit. Probably a huge reason why I never actively sought out bootleg recordings, no matter how much I may have liked the band (Zep included).

The Gourds covering Grin's "Everybody's Missing the Sun". For those familiar with Nils Lofgren (Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen), he was in the group Grin from 1971-74.

This is comedy gold. It's a young girl who decided back in 2009 to start listening to every album listed in the book 1001 Albums You Should Listen To Before You Die. For instance, her take on Led Zeppelin IV: ...and Dark Side of the Moon:

This venue, The Brewery, featured prominently on the cover of the Backsliders' From Raleigh, NC EP (depicted below), where it was recorded, bites the dust on August 1st. It changed hands in 2004 and has since catered to the death metal/thrash crowd so I haven't set foot in there since but it's still a great loss to the Raleigh music scene.

From RollingStone.com: Pete Townshend: The Who Will Perform 'Quadrophenia' On Tour He also disputes Roger Daltrey's assertion that he's not touring this year due to hearing problems By ANDY GREENE The Who Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images According to a post on Pete Townshend's blog, The Who are going to stage another Quadrophenia tour next year. "The reason I am not on the road with Roger is that this is entirely Roger's adventure, one that is bringing him great joy," Townshend wrote. "I don't belong on this Tommy tour. I wish him well, sincerely, and I look forward to playing with Roger again doing Quadrophenia next year." In an interview with Rolling Stone just last month, Daltrey said that Townshend isn't touring with him this year because of his hearing problems. "Pete is having terrible hearing problems at the moment," he said. "I don't want to be on stage with him destroying the last bit of his hearing. That would be completely foolish. He's a composer." Townshend completes disputes Daltrey's take on the matter. "My hearing is actually better than ever," he wrote on his blog. "Because after a feedback scare at the O2 Indigo in December 2008 I am taking good care of it. I'm 66, I don't have perfect hearing, and if I listen to loud music or go to gigs I do tend to get tinnitus. DON'T WE ALL????" He also confirmed reports that he's prepping a remastered edition of Quadrophenia for release sometime in the near future. "I have computer systems in my studio that have helped me do my engineering work on the forthcoming Quadrophenia release," Townshend wrote. "I have had assistance from younger forensic engineers and mastering engineers to help me clean up the high frequencies that are out of my range. The same computer systems work wonderfully well on stage, proving to be perfect for me when The Who performed at the Super Bowl and doing Quadrophenia for TCT at the Royal Albert Hall in 2010." The Who originally toured behind Quadrophenia shortly after its release in 1973, but they quickly stopped playing many of the songs from the rock opera when the backing tapes required to perform the complex tracks repeatedly jammed up. In 1996 they launched a reunion tour where they performed the album in its entirety for the first time, and just last year they played the album for charity at the Royal Albert Hall. It's their only major album to not get re-released as a deluxe edition over the past decade.

I know of lots of friends that are fans and her version of "Fairytale of New York" with the Pogues often comes up on everyone's lists of favorite Christmastime songs.

One of my older brothers saw them at Maggie Valley in NC way back when. By the time I saw them for the first time in '75 in Savannah, GA Duane was obviously long gone. Even these days with Derek, they're still a force to be reckoned with. That's next to impossible to say about most any other band that's been around as long as they have.

Gordon & Smith Fibreflex skateboard decks, developed in the early 70s in California.

Left to right is Chris Mars, Bob Stinson (R.I.P.), Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson.

The Replacements

It worked for Peter Tosh.

Loaded Tosh.

The first time I can remember hearing them was in a rented VW band travelling through Europe in November of 1972. The album was Led Zeppelin IV on an orange cassette that my brother had purchased overseas at the beginning of our trip. The setting couldn't have been more perfect; lots of foggy mornings, rolling hills, misty mountains and beautiful castles. As for their impact, I eventually picked up some of their earlier albums over the years which led to me seeking out blues artists such as Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters. Still a fan to this day and thanks to this board, I've learned much more about them than I ever thought possible through the pages of Creem, Circus, Rolling Stone and Hammer of the Gods that I'd studied so closely in my younger days.

Never been a big fan but I saw Phish there in '92. I was working for a radio station at the time so the ticket was free and one of my friends I went with is a big Phish fan so it was worth the journey just to check them out. Probably one of my favorite concerts by the water was a reggae festival on the coast of NC back in the 80s.

For no particular reason, I never saw the Allmans after the Shades of Two Worlds tour in the early 90s (the last with Dickey) until around three years ago when Derek had become a full time member and I must say he did a very admirable job. They're also a very different band these days, perhaps leaning more heavily in a jazz direction with Derek but still just as vital as they were with Dickey.

The oldest operating brewing company in the United States, established in 1829 at the Eagle Brewery on Center Street in Pottsville, PA.