Page isn't safe either, especially when his guitar strap comes loose.

I'm not sure how extensive it was but I know they at least did some dates together (the Blues Brothers were also on the bill, see poster below). They also played some shows together in the early days of N.R.P.S. If I'm not mistaken, it was with the New Riders that Garcia first started learning how to play the pedal steel. I believe some footage of him playing steel with the New Riders can be seen in the Last Days of the Fillmore documentary. Dick's Pick Vol. 8 is also from one of the early N.R.P.S./Dead gigs yet the New Riders don't appear on the disc itself (I do think their performance is available elsewhere though). I think it was also around this same time that Garcia and Page met up (if my memory serves, I believe Page coached him on steel or vice versa) and Garcia played steel on CSN's Teach Your Children.

It's been 10 years now so believe me it's not been easy. Sad thing is, I don't seem to be getting any closer to being reunited with my record collection. I simply just don't have enough room where I am now.

First I heard that sound file someone put online that had two different Nickelback songs coming out of each speaker, each of which sounded identical to the other. Then this story surfaced last year.

I never said I hated rap or that is shouldn't exist as a musical genre, I said I'm not a fan of it. That doesn't mean I don't appreciate it as a form of music (which I do). That doesn't make me "narrow minded".

Nirvana wasn't being mentioned in the same breath as Zeppelin in an attempt to compare the two, they were being mentioned as example of artists a good portion of the American audience choses to hold on to without accepting the idea of anything new. As far as Cobain's suicide, yes, it solidified their legend but the impact they had on music had already been made. I think pitting those bands against each other is pointless. Talent (or one's perception of their lack thereof) doesn't even play into it. It was the impact Nirvana had. They were far from the first so-called "grunge" band but they were the first ones to breakthrough in such a huge and highly influential way.

The red flag with that Duane Allman story (if it can even be called that) is the source, the NY Post. Yeah, it was part of a interview with Trucks that ran in Relix but even they didn't capitalize on that particular angle of it when they very well could have.

I still haven't seen the I Am Trying To Break Your Heart documentary about the making of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, I guess I finally need to get around to seeing that someday. Same for the Man In the Sand doc about the making of the first Mermaid Avenue record. Wilco ex-member sues frontman Tweedy Former Wilco member Jay Bennett sued lead singer Jeff Tweedy in Cook County Circuit Court today, claiming Tweedy owes him money from the band's 2002 documentary and royalties on songs written during Bennett's seven years with the group. Bennett was part of the Chicago-based band from 1994 to 2001, the breach-of-contract suit states, and worked as a sound engineer and performed instruments on the albums "Being There," "Summerteeth," "Mermaid Avenue," "Mermaid Avenue Vol. II" and "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot." The suit argues that "as a recording musician in Wilco, Bennett is entitled to compensation for his services rendered in the form of continuing and perpetual artist royalty payments from" Tweedy. You can read the rest of the article here.

I'm not even sure if this song was ever even a hit but it's definitely one that's well worth mentioning. The Tarney-Spencer Band "No Time To Lose"

They're an offshoot of the Grateful Dead. Garcia and Mickey Hart were even official band members at one point but found they just didn't have the time outside of the Grateful Dead to devote to being in the New Riders so they only appear on the debut N.R.P.S. record. The band is still touring today albeit without original frontman John Dawnson (aka "Maraduke") who is apparently quite ill and unable to tour anymore. If you like the early "country rock" of the 70s such as the Flying Burrito Brothers, Pure Prairie League, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, etc., they should be right up your alley.

From Billboard.com: The Levon Helm Band, Jefferson Starship To Headline Woodstock Anniversary Show Levon Helm is set to headline the Woodstock 40th Anniversary Concert. Some performers from the 1969 Woodstock concert will get back to the garden for a 40th anniversary show this summer. On the bill for August 15 are The Levon Helm Band, Jefferson Starship, Big Brother and the Holding Co., Ten Years After, Canned Heat, Mountain, and Country Joe McDonald. They'll perform at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel. It was built on the site of the dairy farm trampled on by some 400,000 people on the weekend of Aug. 15-17, 1969. It includes an amphitheater and a museum up the hill from the original stage. The returning acts feature some Woodstock veterans, including Helm, who performed in '69 with The Band.

I'm not sure about Tweedy's sense of humor but I have seen some fans going absolutely apeshit over the self referencing thing in regard to the new record. It just doesn't seem very imaginative to me. The first few times I saw Wilco Tweedy seemed pretty quiet so in the years since I've actually enjoyed some of his asides, particularly last summer when someone threw a cover from the back of their chair at the stage that had their seat number on it. He got a lot of mileage out of that one since it immediately gave away where they were sitting. Agreed about the fans going overboard with the adulation, especially here but I guess that comes with the territory on boards devoted to one single artist.

I was aware of the Minus Five as far back as The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy record but it took seeing them on the Fast Horse Hootenanny tour to finally pique my interest. They did a great version of Van Morrison's And It Stoned Me that night that kicked my ass up and down. I never have picked up anything by the Fastbacks but they did enjoy seeing open up for Pearl Jam on the No Code tour. I've been meaning to buy that Down with Wilco album for years and even had another chance recently when Yep Roc had one of their $5 sales. Hopefully they'll have another one of those soon.

I see lots of artists on there I'd like to see. In addition to the Felice Brothers (who were just here over the weekend but I missed them), I'd like to see Blitzen Trapper, Asleep at the Wheel, the Greencards, Sara Watkins, Levon Helm, Bon Iver (caught them opening for Wilco last summer), Eek-A-Mouse, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, the Dexateens, the Toadies, Clutch, Raul Malo and Pearl Jam. Not to mention a number of artists I've been hearing good things about who I'd just like to check out. That's the beauty of festivals to me anyway; going to see certain artists but discovering new folks you never had any intention of seeing in the first place. I love Pearl Jam but it's been years since they've played North Carolina. In addition to the festival itself there's also the prospect of catching many of the same artists in the local clubs.

MTV, VH1 and CMT don't even play music anymore (or at least very rarely). As for 50 Cent, even though I'm not a fan of rap, it's not unusual during the height of someone's popularity to find them on the same channel (radio or TV) at once. In regards to Flower's "urge to be a MTV highlight" I didn't see anything about that in his statement. He was referring to how unreceptive a good portion of the American audience is to anything that's new or challenging.

I went the first couple of years and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was never all that bad when I was there but one of the main complaints has been the heat. Thankfully during the second year it was pretty rainy which kept the temps cool.

I love the one record I have by the Young Fresh Fellows (Because We Hate You). I'd heard of the Minus Five for years due to Peter Buck's connection with Scott McCaughey but never really got into them until the Fast Horse Hootenanny tour where the Minus Five shared a bill with the Wayward Shamans, Tuatara and Cedell Davis. On another McCaughey related note I've also been enjoying the Baseball Project record as well as the latest from Robyn Hitchcock (Goodnight Oslo).

I just received a notice that all of the 3-day passes have already sold out but there are some day passes still available.

Both of these were part of Slim's 10th anniversary celebration. The ViBeKiLLeRs Friday, April 24th Slim's Downtown Distillery Raleigh, NC The Yayhoos Saturday, April 25th Slim's Downtown Distillery Raleigh, NC

I'm not "desperate" at all. I'm just using them as an example of how other audiences are more receptive to them (as well as many, many other artists). If their time was "over" Accelerate wouldn't have done so well on the charts (in the U.S. and elsewhere) and they wouldn't have been playing to sellout crowds overseas. They're simply more popular overseas these days than they are in the U.S. That speaks to how inferior American radio has become and doesn't have a single thing to do with your perception of me being "desperate" or R.E.M.'s "time being over". I'm not blaming anything on Led Zeppelin, nor is Flowers. I'm merely stating how unreceptive the American audience is as a whole to anything new and challenging.

Where did I ever say I was a "musical expert" or that I'm "musically advanced"? I didn't. I merely used the artists I listed in order to qualify my statement, nothing more, nothing less. As for the Killers, I'm not even a fan. I just so happen to agree with what Flowers said about American audiences. It's all around us, just look at the proliferation of "Classic Rock" stations and some of the posts in this thread (and throughout this entire board for that matter) where some are totally unwilling to experience any new music outside of their comfort zone.

You might want to try this thread.

We received one at a radio station I worked at in the early 90s on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Stairway To Heaven but a friend who was gifted with a copy by our Program Director burned it along with the rest of his music collection after he found God following a divorce. He's since come back to rock n' roll but I imagine he regrets sending his collection up in smoke as this was far from the only rarity in there.

Yes, I do but I got the impression you didn't because you accused me of apparently showing off about the vast variety of music I like when that wasn't even my point at all. I cited some of the artists I like in order to qualify my statement that not all of us want music to sound just like Zeppelin or what was popular in the 70s. To the contrary, as I previously mentioned, take a look at what's popular on the charts or how predominate the "Classic Rock" radio format is or better yet, read back through this very thread and read some of the posts where some have said they want music to sound just like it did in the 70s. Yes, there are exceptions to that but they're definitely in the minority or else every commercial station on the airwaves would sound just like KEXP or KGSR but they don't, they all sound like carbon copies of each other. Hell, even R.E.M. did a more extensive tour overseas last year for Accelerate than they did in their home country of the U.S. There's a reason for that which is exactly the point Flowers' is making.