Just so long as you don't mind them making you look like a fucking idiot.

Thanks, the two or three of us here that are Wilco fans really appreciate it.

What in the fuck are you talking about? To fans of alternative country like myself, No Depression going out of publication is a great loss. You're only showing your fucking ignorance of the magazine by making jokes more closely associated with country music, something No Depression was rarely ever about. Yes, they put folks like Willie Nelson and Don Williams on the cover but they were the rare exception, it was usually someone like Gram Parsons, Steve Earle, Billy Joe Shaver Whiskeytown, Uncle Tupelo, Jay Farrar, Drive-By Truckers, Alejandro Escovedo, etc., musicians who represented the flipside to mainstream country music, the side commercial radio and CMT/TNN refused to acknowledge. Before you go making such asides in the future you might be better served by actually educating yourself on the subject first.

The fighting is over a poster that has a history of making racial remarks since joining the site. When no one said a word about icantquityoubabe's use of the word "japped" he had to make an issue of it, thus stirring the pot even more.

Why? There's not a damn thing the matter with being a fan of Dolly Parton's. Unfortunately she hasn't been in the best of health lately though. Hopefully she'll recover soon so you'll be able to see her.

The Bleeding Hearts Stayin' After Class Revisited Saturday, February 9th Slim's Downtown Distillery Raleigh, NC The Bleeding Hearts "Pretty Enough" Before beginning work on their next record The Bleeding Hearts played their debut (Stayin' After Class) all the way through and then finished up by playing a couple of numbers that'll be on the next record.

I'm not sure how new you are to message boards or if you're new to them at all but once fans of a certain artist have their say there may not be much more they have to offer. It's not like there's only one post and no one replied at all. Every thread, even ones about Janis Joplin, eventually run their course.

Maybe you're thinking of a different thread but the last time I checked this one had plenty of posts and is now at 11 pages long.

WARM, SAFE & SOUND A benefit concert for the Raleigh Rescue Mission Patty Hurst Shifter, Big City Reverie, The Love Language, Beggar's Caravan, Puritan Rodeo and The Repeating Friday, February 22nd Pour House Music Hall Raleigh, NC The Cartridge Family w/ Joe Swank and the Zen Pirates Saturday, February 23rd Slim's Downtown Distillery Raleigh, NC

I definitely hope to make the Carolina Theatre date in Durham.

I was referring to his initial post. The bottom line is, no one said a word when you used the term "japped out" so Jethro Tull had to bring it to everyone's attention in order to stir up more shit (which he has accomplished). No, I don't believe in such racial slurs but I'm about as politically incorrect as they come. However, I don't think that excuses the use of such terms.

If you would read his post you would see he didn't mention my name at all.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/articl...t_id=1003712235 U2 Hits The Studio In Dublin U2 Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. U2 has hit the studio in Dublin to continue work on its next studio album with longtime collaborators Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. "We're going to try and break new sonic ground and deliver a masterpiece," Lanois tells Billboard.com. "The sleeves are rolled up. Bono is all charged up with a lyrical angle." As previously reported, U2, Eno and Lanois have spent time working on new material on three prior occasions in France and Morocco, and Lanois confirms the results are prolific. "There's so much material," he says, referring to speculation that the sessions could yield two new albums. "When you get Eno and I and those guys in the room, before lunch there's like eight things." "We've had some exciting beginnings via jam sessions," he continues. "Now we will pick our favorite beginnings and say, 'OK, that's a lovely springboard. Now what are we trying to say?' The springboards are sometimes melodic, sometimes riff-based, but I can assure you they are exciting." There's no date yet for the project, which will be the follow-up to 2004's "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb." In other U2 news, the group has contributed to a new charity single, "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew," proceeds from which will benefit the cancer-stricken Irish artist of the same name. The track will be available in Ireland only as a download beginning Friday (Feb. 22) and week later on CD. In addition to U2, "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew" features appearances by the Pogues' Shane MacGowan, the Frames' Glen Hansard, Sinead O'Connor, Andrea Corr, Damien Dempsey, Ronan Keating, Chris de Burgh, Gavin Friday and members of the Dubliners.

End of The Great Depression Given how many of its problems are self-inflicted, it's easy to adopt an attitude of schadenfreude about the record industry's ongoing free fall. But not everybody feeling the pain is an overpaid muckety-muck, and the independent-music community is taking a major hit: No Depression, the award-winning bimonthly magazine that covers alternative-country and its variants, is going out of business after the May/June issue. And the primary reason for its demise is that record-label print advertising has plummeted as much as compact disc sales, even while the magazine's circulation has held steady at about 30,000. At this point, a few disclosures are in order. No Depression co-editor/Mebane resident Peter Blackstock has been one of my closest friends for more than 20 years. I'm also a regular contributor, going all the way back to a feature on Raleigh's Whiskeytown in issue #1, Fall 1995. Read the rest of the article here: http://blogs.newsobserver.com/beat/index.p...;pb=1#more15875

How about leaving me out of this you motherfucking asshole. It's "Jethro Tull" that's obviously here just to provoke people, not me.

You do love to stir the shit.

As I've probably mentioned countless times by now, it's not that I hate Kiss, it's just that they're one of the few bands who's albums I haven't purchased on CD. When I do, it will probably be Alive! (which I never see on sale for less than $30). I was gifted with the first volume of Kissology a couple of years ago which made for a nice trip down memory lane but it hasn't prompted any Kiss purchases on CD, yet. However, a local country band covered Strutter as their encore a few weekends ago, it took me several days to get that one out of my head. It was good but so damn catchy I couldn't get it to go away.

Still a hell of a deal considering it was originally going for $45.

Tift will be appearing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday, February 25, the night before Another Country hits record store shelves in North America, February 26. Another Country will also be coming out in Australia Feb. 22, Norway Feb. 25, United Kingdom & Ireland April 14, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden - April - date TBA.

Yes. http://ias.ga.unc.edu/~jsh/gerry.htm I have a photo of Gerry at Woodstock somewhere. If I'm ever able to find it I'll post it. He's asleep atop a police car.

Alternative Country in less than a minute: http://alt-country.org/Thread.aspx?ID=812743

I forget how old I was when I first got into them but I knew people my brother's age (8-10 years older than me) that were also Kiss fans. That said, I'd say their primary audience at the time were indeed teens and younger but I don't see a damn thing the matter with that. I may not be a fan of them now but they were the perfect band for me way back when and they put on a concert I will not soon forget. Hell, I still have some confetti from it.

What prompts you to say that? I sure hope it isn't just because they're females.

I love the Dead's version of that. If I had to pick a Dylan favorite today it'd probably be Desolation Row. Tomorrow it may be something else entirely.