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.

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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.

Aside from the obvious privacy issues, I get the impression that Page isn't exactly that tech savvy when it comes to the innerwebz, despite the launch of his new website. I believe there was one comment in a recent interview where he said something to the effect that fans shouldn't be expect to see him blogging and using Twitter.

When it comes to post Yardbirds stuff, it seems this group is often overlooked. Their debut album, released in 1984 was very promising. Their second one, Strange Land, which came out in 1986, didn't exactly deliver on that promise but still had it's moments. For the uninitiated, there's more info here.

I need to expand my Yardbirds collection. All I have is the one recorded live at the Anderson Theatre, and a couple of cheap knockoffs on the Pickwick label, one with Jeff Beck and the other with Eric Clapton (all on vinyl).

I had come onboard with Zep around '72 via IV and became a diehard fan in the years to come. By the time of In Through the Out Door I was just as big a fan as ever. Unfortunately, I didn't see them when they played Greensboro, NC in '77 (the only opportunity I ever had to see them) and never had a chance after that as history took it's course.

Wilco!!!

From the Tower Records Facebook page: ON THIS DATE (44 YEARS AGO) July 24, 1967 - The Yardbirds Little Games is released. Allmusic 3/5 stars Little Games is an album by The Yardbirds, released on this date in 1967. Successful singles producer Mickie Most was called in to assist The Yardbirds on what was to be their final album before the group disbanded in 1968. Jimmy Page used his guitar-bowing technique on "Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor" and "Glimpses". The song "White Summer" would later be performed live at Led Zeppelin concerts as a medley with "Black Mountain Side". The album peaked at #80 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. The album title track is the first of several tracks that producer Mickie Most would exempt Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty from participating in. The Yardbirds' U.S. Epic record label, having made several printing errors with Yardbirds material in the past, made yet several more with this album. Chris Dreja's surname on all his songwriting credits for this album was misspelled on the LP labels as "Ereja". This misprint also appears on the U.S. "Drinking Muddy Water" single and the tracks "Smile On Me" and "Drinking Muddy Water" from the 1970 Epic Records compilation The Yardbirds Featuring Performances By Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page. The U.S. single of "Little Games", written by Harold Spiro and Phil Wainman, only credits Phil Wainman as the writer. On top of this, his last name was misspelled on the label as "Wiemann" Epic Records (US) mistakenly released a number of stereo versions of the LP in mono version sleeves, with the mono version catalog number, and a mono version record label. The only ways to identify true mono copies is by listening to the album or by examining the 3-letter prefix of the master numbers on the record labels or in the LP trail-out grooves. "XEM" indicates genuine mono copies, stereo copies show an "XSB" prefix. Counterfeit copies of the album exist also. Genuine copies have deep, dark purple album covers, counterfeits have brighter or "bleached" purple covers. TRACKS Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Little Games" Spiro, Wainman 2:25 2. "Smile On Me" Dreja, McCarty, Page, Relf 3:16 3. "White Summer" Page 3:56 4. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor" Page, McCarty 2:49 5. "Glimpses" Dreja, McCarty, Page, Relf 4:24 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Drinking Muddy Water" Dreja, McCarty, Page, Relf 2:53 2. "No Excess Baggage" Atkins, D'Errico 2:32 3. "Stealing Stealing" trad. arr. Dreja, McCarty, Page, Relf 2:42 4. "Only the Black Rose" Relf 2:52 5. "Little Soldier Boy" McCarty, Page, Relf 2:39 1992 Expanded edition An expanded Little Games edition entitled Little Games Sessions and More, was released as a 2 disc set featuring additional sessions and alternate takes from the period, plus the singles "Ha Ha Said the Clown", "Ten Little Indians", and "Goodnight Sweet Josephine".

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