Pizza for Spicoli !

-7 this morning. That's damn crisp.

A perfect goose egg this morning, and we've turned into "funky hat town". All fashion goes to the wind, and the more ridiculious you look, the warmer you probably are. As for myself, I stick with the "Zhivago" look

I saw them in '77 at Cobo Arena. They were backing up J. Gelis, I believe. They may have even been the third band on the bill behind Heart. Don't remember much about it except that it was a very short set. Those spandex jumpsuits made them look like an 80's hair band ahead of their time.

I think I heard "Far Post" enough to last me until the next millenium.

I saw them so many times pre-1980 that I've lost track. They played here more than KISS. The beginning of a tour, the middle, and the end....sometimes 3-4 nights in a row. What else could you do at 16-18 for 5 bucks ? We never sat down....evah ! Those Cobo shows were absolutely nuts. Peter Wolf was a madman. "We got the Detroit demolition here for ya tonite" "Detroit breakdown.....Motor City Shakedown" I still throw this on occasionally....."Surrender.....give up your heart !" One of those albums from my youth I never seemed to give up.

Your problem is solved. It would have been nice to get a bit of a warning.

Hey Brian and Rocky......get a room !

Snow started at 10am today.....right on schedule. I hate when the weatherman is right. There's no one to bitch at. I imagine it's going to start in the Toronto/Buffalo area as we speak. This snow is much more slippery than the last round. This is Bong-Man, your Detroit weatherman signing off for now..... smoke a bowl and forget the cold.

It's a major......2 inches an hour coming down in Motown.....schools are already closed.

http://www.freep.com/article/20081123/FEAT.../811230307/1030 Book review: John Lennon is a brawling, selfish, spiteful misogynist in Philip Norman's new biography BY GLENN GARVIN • MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS • November 23, 2008 Everybody from Bill Clinton to Fidel Castro loves to remember John Lennon as the dippy Utopian of "Imagine." Less remembered is the Lennon of "Run For Your Life": "Well I'd rather see you dead little girl/Than to be with another man." In Philip Norman's merciless biography, Lennon No. 2 is on full display, and the picture isn't pretty. Spiteful and selfish, miserly and misogynistic, Lennon abused his friends, cheated on his women and quarreled with almost everyone he knew. His politics were phony and his public persona a pose -- the working-class hero never labored a day in his life. (Personal motto: "Death before work.") "John Lennon: The Life" started out as a semi-authorized biography. But when Yoko Ono got a look at an early version of the manuscript, she told Norman he had been "mean to John" and cut him off. Unlike Albert Goldman's vicious "The Lives of John Lennon," this book is no calculated character assassination. Norman admires Lennon's writing and musicianship and even appears to have some personal affection for Lennon. But his reporting butts up against the ruthlessness and self-indulgence with which Lennon conducted his life. Manipulative from childhood, he loved to play the role of a thuggish Teddy Boy, the primitive British gangbangers of the day, but let his burlier friends finish the fights he started. No one was immune from his bullying. He smacked a girlfriend for talking to another man. He once mugged a drunken fan. And Norman even investigates -- inconclusively -- an accusation that the brain hemorrhage that killed original Beatles bass player Stuart Sutcliffe was caused by a beating Lennon administered. Perhaps no one suffered more at Lennon's hands than Cynthia Powell, his first wife. Lennon cheated on Powell with friends, fans, practically any female at hand. Yet when Lennon dumped her for the loony avant-garde artist Ono in 1968, the divorce suit accused Powell of adultery, even though Ono was pregnant with his child. As the Beatles rose from a boozy bar band into the leading cultural export of Great Britain, Lennon maintained a carefully manicured image of puppy-dog rebellion, epitomized by his remark at a concert attended by various members of the royal family: "Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry." If Lennon had survived a mentally ill fan's bullet in 1980, he'd be 68 and perhaps past the age of artifice. Certainly, whether he liked it or not, he would recognize the portrait in these pages.

You mean I missed the second show ?

Steve.....Is there any detailed information about Jimmy's trip to Cairo ?

http://www.freep.com/article/20081116/ENT0...0334/1039/ENT04 Fresh thoughts on new music: Neil Young November 16, 2008 When the not quite 23-year-old Neil Young came to Ann Arbor in the fall of 1968 for two performances at the Canterbury House, he was at a crucial point in his career. After gaining fame as a vocalist and guitarist in the pioneering folk-rock group Buffalo Springfield, he was now a solo artist after drug busts and bickering caused the band to dissolve prematurely. With his first solo album ready to hit stores, Young wanted to test the waters without the benefit of other musicians and see how he came across to a live audience. He chose to perform at a music-friendly venue run by the University of Michigan's Episcopal ministry, the Canterbury House, still thriving to this day on Huron Street but located back then at 330 Maynard Street. Before rapt audiences on Nov. 9 and 10, Young proved he was more than ready to embark on a solo career that would establish him as one of the definitive singer-songwriters of his generation. "Sugar Mountain -- Live at Canterbury House 1968" (**** out of four stars, out Dec. 2 on Reprise) is the latest release in Young's Archives Performance Series and a remarkably moving and intimate affair, captured with just two microphones plugged into a two-track recorder. All you hear is Neil on his acoustic guitar playing deeply personal material before what sounds like all of a hundred or so people at the tiny venue. Imagine him in your living room singing, playing and telling stories and you've basically got the idea. "Sugar Mountain" takes its title from one of the most enduring songs in Young's canon, one he wrote on his 19th birthday. The version included here is the same one found on his essential retrospective "Decade," but otherwise the material on the album has never been heard before. Besides incisive reprises of Buffalo Springfield tracks "Mr. Soul," "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" and "Expecting to Fly," Young also offers up stirring songs from his self-titled, solo debut, including "The Loner," "I've Been Waiting For You" and the epic "Trip to Tulsa." Making "Sugar Mountain" a particular treat are Young's lengthy song introductions, which often expand into hilarious stories about how he got fired from a job at a Toronto bookstore (the culprit: diet pills) and how he came to write "The Old Laughing Lady" (while stranded at a Detroit White Tower restaurant on Livernois outside the old Chessmate club). An essential document from Neil Young at the beginning of his solo career, this release will notably not be a part of his long-awaited 10-disc Blu-ray and DVD archives project that might finally see the light of day next year.

It's "39" on XM. Maybe they switched because of the merger ?

I find the female voice that introduces the inteviews to be very annoying......"PLANT" Seems they lost everyone's solo collection except Plant's also. Soon I'll hear a deep booming voice say, "Robert Plant....A Man among Men"

They were originally advertised as the warm-up band, but I guess that changed.

God bless all of you who struggle every day with any type of mental illness. I know from some folks close to me that it is never an easy cross to bear. In that spirit, could we all please remember to make sure we take our meds before posting in the evening hours ? Thanks in advance.

Glad you enjoyed yourself in Motown. You must have drove 8 hours straight into the I-75 construction zone by The Palace during rush-hour. How was Wilco ?

I was laying on the couch last nite about 10pm....half asleep, when the phone rang. I've been dealing with some parental health issues lately, so when the phone rings at night I cringe. I picked it up and couldn't for the life of me figure out what I was listening to. Turned out someone (don't know Who yet), decided to call me from the show and give me a bit of a sample of what I was missing. F*ckers....."LONG LIVE ROCK" !!

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic...220412/1032/ENT The Who pay back Detroit with rousing show Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Susan Whitall The Who kicked off a mini-tour of the United States with an energetic show at The Palace of Auburn Hills on Tuesday night, despite having just stepped off a trans-Atlantic flight. It might have been eminently more sober than their many gigs at the Grande Ballroom in the banner year of 1967, but the effect on the audience was as potent (if not mind-altering). In his more dignified middle age, Roger Daltrey has reverted to the short-cropped, tailored Mod look of his youth, and it suits him. His voice is a throwback as well, with the strong, bright tone he had as a youngster. Daltrey is a master of the controlled yell, and if he's missing any notes on the upper end of his register, we didn't notice. Wearing the darkest of sunglasses, Pete Townshend is the hopped-up middle-age punk, his arm windmilling over his Stratocaster as he chopped out those familiar magnetic riffs, each of which sparked an emotional memory. There were a few first-night bumps -- Townshend had to stop strumming right at the beginning of "Pinball Wizard" to change guitars, and Daltrey broke a tambourine (not on purpose), then had to leave the stage at one point to retrieve his own guitar -- but the audience didn't mind. They are one of the most quintessentially British groups, but The Who bonded with southeastern Michigan in the late '60s, and the bond is steadfast. The members donated their take from the show to two Detroit charities, Gleaners Food Bank and Focus: HOPE, because they wanted to give back to a community where they tasted their first American success, Daltrey said. The 11,000 paid customers at the Palace will provide a nice shot in the arm for two charities that will be hard-pressed to help people this winter. "We had our first hit record out of Detroit," Townshend said between songs. "I forget the radio station that played it, but it was a funny little record called 'Happy Jack' in 1967. We got the hit here, and then it spread all over the place." Townshend also bragged that the best car he ever owned was a Lincoln Continental, "built right here in Detroit." He recalled that "a guy from the MC5" attended their first Detroit gig, which drew "about 10 people. Maybe 20." "Then I just found out that we played Southfield High School that year, too," Townshend said, to screams. "That's why we're here," he added at the end of his Detroit tribute. Modestly, they didn't mention that they were donating their fee. Other musical highlights: "5:15," which had the audience dancing and the band jumping (despite Townshend's complaints of jet lag), "Love Reign O'er Me," "Behind Blue Eyes," "Eminence Front" and "Won't Get Fooled Again." Townshend's elegiac chord changes, rising majestically, on "Listening to You" at the end of the "Tommy" segment, are a reminder of how, at their best, The Who have always been a communal experience, one that not only entertains, but elevates. You can reach Susan Whitall at (313) 222-2156 or swhitall@detnews.com.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...SHvtLr8YIOBc%3D A tip of the hat to Detroit from the Who Concert earnings will go to 2 area charities BY MARTIN BANDYKE • FREE PRESS SPECIAL WRITER • October 19, 2008 Key British invasion quartet the Who has soldiered on since the deaths of drummer Keith Moon in 1978 and bassist John Entwistle in 2002. Guitarist Pete Townshend and vocalist Roger Daltrey are carrying on as the two surviving founding members. After what was billed as a farewell tour in 1982, the band has continued to play sporadic live dates, but has released only one studio album in the last quarter-century: "Endless Wire," which came out two years ago. Recently, the Free Press spoke to Daltrey about a special show the Who will do Tuesday at the Palace of Auburn Hills, one of only a handful of concerts slated for North America this fall. The band's rhythm section may not be as formidable now as in the days of Moon and Entwistle, but it won't be chopped liver either. Zak Starkey (Ringo Starr's son) will be featured on drums and veteran session player Pino Palladino will be on bass. QUESTION: All of your earnings from the show at the Palace are being donated to Gleaners Food Bank and Focus: HOPE. How did this all come about? ANSWER: The Detroit area was the first major U.S. city to latch on to our single "Can't Explain" back in '65. You know you gave us our first hit record, and since then, we've got this soft spot for Michigan. We know that Detroit is a bit on the blue-collar side, and that's where we come from. With the car industry going through a hard time, we want to pay back a bit to our fans there and help people get through winter. That's why. Q: What are your memories of your greatest moments onstage here? A: The first Who concert in the U.S., where we played a whole show as opposed to doing just a few songs, was in Ann Arbor (June 14, 1967, at the Fifth Dimension Club, according to the Who's official Web site). That was our first real appearance in the States. We also did a great gig that year at the Southfield High School. Q: And how about those legendary shows at the Grande Ballroom? A: Yeah, I remember the Grande! I can still see it now: Joe Cocker was often our support act, and it was a really good place to play. I can't remember what I did yesterday, but I still remember the Grande. U.S. audiences generally take music a whole lot more seriously than in the U.K. and the rest of Europe. It's more an ingrained part of life than in England, where it's much more throwaway. Q: There's been talk of the Who recording an album of R&B covers. What's happening with that? A: Yeah, it's still on the burner, but it might just end up on our Web site. We loved Motown, and we would copy those songs and any others if they were good. We were English, and we were white. But we knew where the center of the music came from. The idea is perhaps to revisit that now and play it like we used to play it when we were 17 or 18. We'd love to do it, but don't know quite what the market would be for that kind of project these days. Q: You and Pete Townshend will receive this year's Kennedy Center Honors, along with Barbra Streisand, Twyla Tharp, Morgan Freeman and George Jones. What was your reaction when you got the news? A: I mean I was totally stunned! For someone from our background, from London and totally inspired by American music, to be honored by the country that inspired you was extremely humbling and an honor indeed. Q: Any final thoughts for your many fans in Detroit? A: The bad times in Detroit won't last forever. Never bet against the working class; they just need some relief right now. I really do believe in the blue-collar side of America. They're resilient and tough, but need inspiration from people in power to make things happen. Basically, your auto industry needs rethinking and rebuilding, but the possibilities there are quite promising. Posted by Susan Whitall on Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:36 PM The Who...live and loud tonight When I interviewed Roger Daltrey a few weeks ago, the first thing I told him was that whenever anyone has to speak louder or repeat themselves for me, I say, "The Who, Pontiac Silverdome ..." Was that '75? It was loud. I'm happy I saw the Who several times with Keith Moon on drums, but oh my ...I remember my ears ringing for days after that show. Daltrey's laughing response, "Was it that loud? I couldn't tell on stage." I can tell you, I didn't have to repeat one word to Daltrey, so his hearing is intact, although I know Pete Townshend's had issues. Tonight's show at the Palace will mean a payday for two Detroit charities, Focus: HOPE and Gleaners Food Bank, thanks to Daltrey and Townshend's gratitude to Michigan for its support of the Who

Did some hiking here today, and the tree show is absolutely aweome ! The woods always calm me down.

Posted by Susan Whitall on Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 12:50 AM The Who step forward to help Detroit The Who are playing the Palace of Auburn Hills on Oct. 21, and according to promoter Live Nation, the band will donate "all of their earnings" from the concert to Detroit-area charities. Singer Roger Daltrey said, in a statement: "The first gig we ever played in the U.S. was in Detroit, and we have always had an affinity with this part of the country. Pete and I are very aware of the problems people are having in Michigan and feel we should give something back for all the support we have had over the last 40 years." The band tapped radio station WCSX-FM (94.7) to help select the local charities: Gleaners Food Bank and Focus: HOPE will receive the money. There's always been a warm relationship (and several wild incidents) between The Who and southeastern Michigan, but was Detroit really The Who's first U.S. concert? More on that later. Meanwhile, tickets for The Who, October 21 at The Palace of Auburn Hills, start at $39.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. this Monday, August 11. Tickets are available at livenation.com, palacenet.com, the Palace box office and Ticket Master.

Did you sit on the lawn for $15 bucks at DTE ? Well worth the money. Hell, I'd pay that just to hear "Lines on My Face". I can listen to him play that solo anytime.