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Oct 282008
 

Memorabilia from some of punk rock’s biggest acts and seminal moments — including a scrawled flier for one of the Clash’s first shows and publicity photos signed by the Sex Pistols — is headed for a Nov. 24 Christie’s auction.

Full story here.

Items include an unwashed rag used by Johnny Thunders to wipe gob off his face between sets and a tissue used by Dee Dee Ramone to clean the man goo out of his nostrils after taking a facial from a businessman at lunch in a bus depot to pay for glue.

What would you pay top dollar for?

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Oct 222008
 

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From the album Meaningless. Released in 2001 on his own label.

Jon Brion- Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Rich Costey- Engineer
Jim Keltner- Drums
Greg Leisz- Pedal Steel
Benmont Tench- Piano

The video is a live, sort of, version of I Believe She’s Lying from the album. Here are a couple of more tracks.

Gotta Start Somewhere

Ruin My Day

Congrats to and a patented RTH No-Prize for townsman saturnismine.

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Oct 212008
 

What are your thoughts on the tune, maaaaan. You likey? You no likey? Why?!

Harness your rock nerd powers and impress us with your bold critique. You might just stumble on the artist.

If you know who it is, shut your yammer.

Mystery Date

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Oct 212008
 

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October 21, 2008

TELEVISION REVIEW
‘Nova: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives’

By ROBERT LLOYD, TELEVISION CRITIC

“Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives” is not your usual edition of “Nova,” the PBS science anthology. The film, which airs tonight, follows rock musician Mark Oliver Everett — better known as E, leader of Eels — on a journey to discover the physicist father he never really knew and to understand something of his “Many Worlds Interpretation” of quantum mechanics — at first, painfully ignored, but now taken quite seriously.

Full story here.

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Sep 292008
 

This is a simple one. What fantasy show would you make every effort to go see no matter the cost and location? The only rule is that it has to be feasible. So a Beatles reunion is out. But you can get creative like a Syd Barrett tribute featuring Robyn Hitchcock, Gilmour and The Soft Machine guys that played on Madcap. I’d consider that but probably wouldn’t go to the end of the Earth for it.

When the Velvet Underground reunited in London in ’93, I went so far as to look in to acquiring tickets and airfares and such. Didn’t pull the trigger but that was close. I only had to drive down to Long Beach to see The Stooges reunion. I went by myself which I think might be the only time that I’ve gone to a show by myself. So I’ll never know how far I would’ve gone for that.

The only show that I can think of that I would go to the end of the Earth for is The Dukes of Stratosphear, if and only if, they did it in full character and with a full blown psychedelic extravaganza.

What say you? Is it a reunion show? A super group? A reunion show of a super group?

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Sep 152008
 

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LONDON — A Pink Floyd spokesman says founding member Richard Wright has died. He was 65.

Wright died Monday after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. His family did not want to give more details about his death. The spokesman is Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist.

Richard Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason at college and joined their early band Sigma 6.

Sigma 6 eventually became Pink Floyd and Wright wrote and sang some of the band’s key songs. He wrote “The Great Gig In The Sky” and “Us And Them” from Pink Floyd’s 1973 “The Dark Side Of The Moon.”

He left the group in the early 1980s to form his own band but rejoined Pink Floyd for their 1987 album “A Momentary Lapse of Reason.”

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