Well, Halloween is officially over but I'd be remiss if I didn't add this one:

Even though I wasn't all that impressed with his last couple of records I'm glad to see him back making music again. Apparently the set he played over the weekend included a few new songs. Not sure if they have surfaced on YouTube yet or not. I also have to say Mandy Moore does an outstanding job on backing vox here. More info on the show: Setlist Ashes & Fire (new) Dirty Rain (new) Shining Thru The Dark (new ) Oh my Sweet Carolina Ryan Adams acoustic guitar, vocals, harmonica Mandy Moore backing vocals Marshall Vore drums Sebastian Steinberg double bass Jamie Candiloro piano, acoustic guitar

^7.8 R.E.M. also do a great version of Out In the Country with Mike Mills on lead vocals. A friend of mine is currently going nuts over the band below. I'll hold off on my thoughts for now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYKlM8xMnVM&feature=share

First Ryan Adams public performance in quite some time, here with Mandy Moore:

Even "Lez" Zeppelin? That is somewhat inspired but on the other hand, I'm sure it confused a lot of people when they played Bonnaroo the year Zeppelin themselves were rumored to perform.

Apparently the album they covered last night was Little Feat's Waitin' For Columbus. I'd heard about them doing a version of Time Loves A Hero when they played Raleigh earlier this year. Anything that brings more attention to that record and Little Feat in general is a good thing.

*Edited to add: I probably should have watched this before posting it in this particular thread as I figured it told the story of the origins and rise of "country-rock" and would include Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers. While I still consider it essential viewing he/they were never mentioned once, at least that I noticed. If you want a history of California folk-rock with a hint of country, this is more the focus of this program. It also doesn't paint the Eagles in the most favorable light, same for CSN & Y (at least by the end of Neil's first tenure with them).

With GPS's, cellphones (texting, calling), etc. we already have enough potential distractions while driving. I understand that the new car stereos will house all of this stuff as a massive storage unit. No CD player and you'll be able to make and accept calls through the unit. Not sure if that will have any impact or not but something has to give. I haven't been to the movies or rented very many movies in the past few years so I have a pretty wide selection to chose from. I started with these two last night:

Which is a travesty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nJIs3HTBsM

This one scared me as an adult even though a friend gave away the ending before I'd even had a chance to see the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O79EN3z6IpU

Bonzo_Stixx,, maybe you've gotten the wrong thread. If I'm not mistaken, this one is for posing hypothetical questions for Robert Plant.

Not thematically about Halloween but this one is spooky nonetheless:

Here's a few to get the ball rollin'...

Here's a war story from the Civil War era:

Scarlett Johansson. It's a shot from the opening sequence of Lost In Translation.

From jambands.com: A Tribute to Neil Young at Carnegie Hall City Winery/Knitting Factory founder Michael Dorf’s next tribute concert will honor the music of Neil Young. The performance will take place at New York’s Carnegie Hall on February 10, featuring 20 artists covering Young’s music. 100% of the net proceeds from this event benefit the following charities: Fixing Instruments for Kids in Schools, Church Street School for Music & Art, The Pinwheel Project, Music Unites, The American Symphony Orchestra and Young Audiences New York. Dorf’s previous concerts have honored Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, R.E.M. and others.

I've held out for a very long time on buying any of Buffett's early records on CD in hopes that he'll finally see fit to release remastered, expanded versions of them someday but so far that hasn't happened. I figure once I acquire them all (at least everything up to and including Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes) he'll decide to put them out. In the meantime I'm enjoying listening to one of my all time favorite records (by Buffett or anyone else) in it's entirety for the first time in far too long.

The first time I saw Neil in concert was on the Trans Tour. The first half was just him, an acoustic and a harmonica. The second half was the Trans set. It was quite bizarre but also ahead of it's time. As I'm sure you will recall, Neil was sued by his label (Geffen) at the time for making "uncharacteristic and uncommercial music" which included Trans, Everybody's Rockin' (with the Shocking Pinks) and Old Ways. I admire Neil greatly because, like Dylan, he does what he wants and doesn't care what the general public (or record labels) think. Also, like Dylan, he's released a lot of pure crap but when he's on, he's capable of knockin' it out of the ballpark. Like any truly great artist, it would be impossible for him to be "on" all of the time, that's why we love him.

Del Fuegos Boston, Mass One of my absolute favorite albums from the 80s. This was released during the peak of what Steve Earle once called "the Great Roots-Rock Scare of the Late 80s". It was significant enough for The Gavin Report (a radio trade industry magazine similar to Billboard) to create a chart just for this kind of music back then.

Nor have I. My collection of unofficial live recordings are mostly R.E.M. and the Drive-By Truckers.

I consider an album a "classic" if there's not a single song I'm inclined skip. There may be songs I like more than others on Some Girls but when I listen to it, it's one of those rare albums I can listen to all the way through. Even though I had always like the Stones, it was that album that made me a fan back in the 70s. I like both of those records as well (Emotional Rescue more so than Tattoo You) but to my ears neither one of them holds a candle to Some Girls.

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit w/ Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter at the Casbah in Durham tomorrow night. It's my first trip to the newly opened Casbah so I'm really looking forward to it. I saw Jason a while back and it was good but his sets haven't changed a whole lot over the years. I'm hoping he's starting to break in some new material on the road this time out. That would be nice.