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  Finally forced myself out to a real show. Nickel Creek was excellent, Father John Misty was ho-hum and Kacey Musgraves was really good. Note I didn't move or touch the levels at all, those disparities in dynamic range are purely house sound. She had a really wide PA array, perhaps to compensate for the mellower sound. Recorded from Sec 210 row 10. Not my original seat but plenty of empties and I didn't haul myself all the way to the top. Paid $31 on the secondary, and last minute, had to make sure I would get there in time for Nickel Creek following an instore that ended at 5:35. I blew off so many cheap tickets the last month or two (hey I LOVE the secondary market and will defend it to the death) but the novelty of going to a concert for "only" $20 has kinda worn off especially when including the massive investment of time and energy. Nickel Creek joins Kacey Musgraves on 1 song. Be sure to read the Dime NAB before posting. Not sure the policy on guest appearances

  THE RAVEONETTES LOS ANGELES, CA @ TERAGRAM BALLROOM 2024-06-06 SP-CMC-4U -> A10 -> Soundforge -> FLAC 01. When The Night Is Almost Done 02. Hallucinations 03. Lust 04. Dead Sound 05. Blush 06. Railroad Tracks 07. Love Can Destroy Everything 08. Return Of The Grevious Angel 09. Attack Of The Ghost Riders 10. Veronica Fever 11. Do You Believe Her 12. My Tornado 13. The Enemy 14. Endless Sleeper 15. Heartbreak Stroll 16. The Great Love Sound 17. Recharge & Revolt 18. Remember 19. Love Is A Trashcan 20. Aly, Walk With Me this might run a tad hot WILD PINK LOS ANGELES, CA @ TERAGRAM BALLROOM 2024-06-06 SP-CMC-4U -> A10 -> Soundforge -> FLAC (no setlist) Whatever that first song is I thought they were playing Soul Asylum's Black Gold both at https://pixeldrain.com/l/NnRrX8XZ

DALE CROVER BAND LOS ANGELES, CA @ PERMANENT RECORDS ROADHOUSE 2024-09-20 SP-CMC-4U -> A10 -> Soundforge -> FLAC 01. Rings 02. Glossolalia 03. Jane 04. Doug Yuletide 05. Kitten Knife 06. The Bit 07. I Quit https://pixeldrain.com/u/EHwKFVcK More of an in-store than regular concert, free admission, went on around 7:15pm and I was back home by 8:30.

This was originally written and shared privately with relatives on Oct 1 2020. The only change made was to the age. He would have been 65 today. It's hard to imagine him being old even though he was always old to me. He certainly never grew up at least in the sense most of us associate with adulthood and maturity. He lived a short and sometimes troubled life. Like my mother and most of her siblings he grew up in foster homes. My father would sometimes derisively say he was the one relative who I took after the most. He was rarely employed and aside from a three-year stint in the navy, often lived with us. He was something of a loner and may have had what would be more politely called amotivational syndrome today. When he went into the navy, I was about 7 years old. He left his records in my room and I listened to them often. It included many of the staples of FM rock radio of the 1970's. They more than anything have formed the core of my musical tastes today as I could also dig

The Zombie Apocalypse continues with 2 high profile incidents. And this is what's so scary about life at the street level in Los Angeles right now. I have been taking the bus and walking the streets at all hours since about 1990. I can live with the possibilities of crime within the normal parameters like getting robbed or hit by a drunk driver but this is an entirely different kind of threat, one that is hard to prepare for. Though I am fully supportive of an individual right to carry, I can't do it on the bus to a show. You can't even do that in Texas. I bet if the first incident happened within LA city limits, the cops likely would have just arrested the very protective father, tossing the kid into DCFS system until they can make a case. Hard to say as legitimate self-defense cases are so rare in LA. It's taking so long to ID the deceased perpetrator, probably a bit too feral even by LA street life standards. https://lamag.com/crimeinla/alleged-kidnapper-stabbed-to-d

I know people were excited about some of the Christian Death I was posting so just wanted to let you know the Redwood streamed this set. Ended up not making it out to any of the 8 shows on my calendar Saturday including the Hoodoo Gurus which I was most excited about. But forcing myself to stand thru a show I only went to because it was almost free and a miserable experience kinda made me not wanna force myself out again in spite of my FOMOCD mind was telling me. Now if someone would have answered my call to hitch a ride to a Crowded House 200 miles away I would have certainly jumped on it. Also was definitely definitely going to go to a free afternoon bar show until it came time to leave when I decided to hold myself to my more recent standard of never going to a bar show without set times, this time regardless of it's in the daytime. I made up for it by listening to some history lectures and finally finishing up the mess that is my bookshelves in order as my former roommate left