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It pays to introduce your spouse to blues and other music styles: While I was away, my sweetie struck and got tickets for Stevie Windwood, Paco de Lucia, and Esperanza Spalding.

Other: What were the chances of going to some old lady's estate sale and find three R.L. Burnside CDs? Closet blues hound, or she had a young boyfriend with taste?
 
poodlesrule said:
It pays to introduce your spouse to blues and other music styles: While I was away, my sweetie struck and got tickets for Stevie Windwood, Paco de Lucia, and Esperanza Spalding.

Other: What were the chances of going to some old lady's estate sale and find three R.L. Burnside CDs? Closet blues hound, or she had a young boyfriend with taste?
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:rollover

Mrs. T brings home CD's from garage sales, too. Usually stuff I already have or don't listen to, but sometimes I get lucky. She also thoroughly enjoys every concert we go to since she had never been to any live music shows before we met.
 
marnold said:
Well, it's official! My son and I and three friends are going to see Maiden! Unfortunately, one of them dragged his feet and so we are in the bleachers instead of undercover. Hopefully there's not a torrential downpour. Found out that Orianthi is Alice Cooper's lead guitarist for this tour! Should be pretty fretteriffic.
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OK, this sucks. My sister decided that she is going to get married that day, so now we can't go. On top of it all, I need to find a way to unload my tickets or I'm out $120.
 
Ah, wonderful siblings!
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marnold said:
OK, this sucks. My sister decided that she is going to get married that day, so now we can't go. On top of it all, I need to find a way to unload my tickets or I'm out $120.
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Sorry to hear it Marnold. I didn't get to see the Budos Band show I'd been looking forward to either as my new job requires me to work a couple of Saturdays while we prepare the new issue of the magazine for press. This time it happened to fall on the same day of the show. I guess there could be worse reasons to miss a show than finding a new job but it still sucked.
 
Bought a ticket to see Wilco over at the Idaho Botanical Gardens in Boise! http://www.idahobotanicalgarden.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=feature.display&feature_id=40 Very excited to go. I like Tweedy's songs, and am stoked to see Nels and the boys.

Will likely also see Bonnie Raitt with my wife in SV, with Mavis Staples. Norah Jones is also coming to Boise, and my wife is going too see her with her mom friends. I would be interested to see that show if it was a Willies style show, but not so much if it is her solo work, and it is billed as a Norah show. I bet my wife will have fun though.
 
sunvalleylaw said:
Bought a ticket to see Wilco over at the Idaho Botanical Gardens in Boise! http://www.idahobotanicalgarden.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=feature.display&feature_id=40 Very excited to go. I like Tweedy's songs, and am stoked to see Nels and the boys.
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Cool. I saw them once with Sonic Youth when I was first getting into their music (YHF era). I've only heard their new album a couple of times, but it seems better than their last one, which seemed kind of milquetoast to me.

Will likely also see Bonnie Raitt with my wife in SV, with Mavis Staples. Norah Jones is also coming to Boise, and my wife is going too see her with her mom friends. I would be interested to see that show if it was a Willies style show, but not so much if it is her solo work, and it is billed as a Norah show. I bet my wife will have fun though.
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Nice. That's a funny term. I know what you mean, but it's funny to see it couched that way.
 
Oh, I forgot to report back on Esperanza Spalding, Sunday night in Boston!

Delightful and very interesting material, kick *ss eight-piece brass section, I mean, that was a show just in itself!
You could hear classic R&B touches at times. Again some featured brass solos, or actually duets with her were breathtaking. Great drummer as well. It was very much an ensemble rendering her work.
Esperanza will be kicking some butt in both the jazz and pop world, IMO

I like the "This is Eric jackson..." touch, at the beginning of the show, in reference to our beloved Eric, who has been doing his jazz radio program (4 days a week) for the last 30 years, here in Boston. Like many, thanks to what he brought, I went out to see some jazz greats play, when jazz was confined to dark and smelly bars, and you could get in to see, say, Stan Getz, for 13 bucks...
 
Ticket purchase complete. Childcare arrangements made. Seeing Wilco on Monday night.
 
I just bought a ticket to see Steve Earle here in Camrose. I'm surprised he's coming to our little town!

Haven't heard him in a long time, and never live, but I figure I'd better go see him since it's at our local Bailey Theatre.
 
Robert said:
I just bought a ticket to see Steve Earle here in Camrose. I'm surprised he's coming to our little town!

Haven't heard him in a long time, and never live, but I figure I'd better go see him since it's at our local Bailey Theatre.
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I'm very jealous Robert. Enjoy the show. Steve Earle is awesome.
 
Well Wilco sure can put on a show. The two hour set was varied with tunes from across at least half a dozen of their albums.

For the first few songs I was pretty much in awe of Nels Cline. I've listened to him for years (longer than I've been into Wilco) but last night was the first chance I ever had to see him play. He's truly unbelievable.

Tweedy was in good voice and good spirits, being quite chatty with the audience for a bit. It was also very cool to watch Pat Sansone do his thing. He's a killer guitar player and keyboardist and watching him go back and forth every few songs was fun.

The highlight of the show for me was "Impossible Germany" which featured a lengthy solo by Nels over some highly enjoyable two guitar riffing by Tweedy and Sansone.

The venue (Straz Center for the Performing Arts) is beautiful and has the best sounding room in the area. Best of all, it took me all of fifteen minutes to get home from the show.
 
Awesome!! Sounds like a great show! I have to wait a little more than a month to go catch them in Boise. I hope the show is just as good that night!
 
sunvalleylaw said:
Awesome!! Sounds like a great show! I have to wait a little more than a month to go catch them in Boise. I hope the show is just as good that night!
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Last night was only the 3rd or 4th show on the tour. By the time they get to Boise they'll be firing on all cylinders for you.

Next up for me is Lucero on the 25th.
 
Seeing Lucero in a few hours.

Incidentally, as much as I complain that my area doesn't get enough good shows, tonight is a major exception. Aside from the Lucero show, John Prine, Steve Kimmock, and Amanda Shires are all playing tonight in either Tampa or St. Pete. I wish I could have afforded the Prine tickets but the Mahaffey is a bit pricier than the State Theater.
 
Killer show last night from Lucero.

The opening act was the Soul Rebels Brass Band from New Orleans. These guys, like their NOLA brethren the Dirty Dozen, fully mesh the heavy funk with the brass band jazz sound bringing together two of NOLA's finest traditions.

These guys put on a great set that Lucero wasn't ready to let end. The bandleader for the Soul Rebels did his "thank yous" at the end of what he thought was their last song only to be met onstage by Lucero's road manager telling them the guys in Lucero wanted to hear the Rebels play Stevie Wonder's "I Wish" which they had debuted the night before. The Rebels obliged and performed a blistering version of Stevie's tune.

Lucero played a long set with a great mix of tunes from their most recent two albums featuring the horn section as well as many songs from their older more punk-driven albums. Ben Nichols was in great voice (for Ben Nichols, if you've listened to Lucero you'll get that). The whole band seemed to be having a really good time. The audience was full of people who knew the words to every song and recognized each tune from the opening chords. That made me feel good, to see that this band that none of my friends really knew had a big following in the area.

A great night overall. The venue (State Theater in St. Pete) is one of my favorite small theater venues. I've never had a bad time there. It gets crowded but not uncomfortably so. The door and bar staff are really good people. I'm always glad to hear a band I like is playing at the State.

If any of you guys get a chance to see Lucero in a town near you, take it.
 
http://pearljam.com/news/0/1/21386/pearl_jam_announce_missoula_mt_show Should be fun! At the University of Montana Adams Center.

Show announced today. I am going to try to score some tickets and go. Anyone want to meet up and have a beer if we get tickets? I plan to bring a mountain bike too. (probably also a guitar.).

Looking forward to some McCready and Gossard shred, some Crowe drums, some Ament bassitude, some Boom keys on the Hammond, and some Vedder wail.






This vid shows Ament in his home in Montana, which I believe is part of the MT connection. They are supporting a MT senate candidate as part of the show if you buy the expensive seats. I will be just going for the GA seats.


[video=youtube;FF4GPQyH1A0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FF4GPQyH1A0#![/video]
 
I'm hoping to catch one of Pearl Jam's December shows in St. Pete.
 
sunvalleylaw said:
http://pearljam.com/news/0/1/21386/pearl_jam_announce_missoula_mt_show Should be fun! At the University of Montana Adams Center.

Show announced today. I am going to try to score some tickets and go. Anyone want to meet up and have a beer if we get tickets? I plan to bring a mountain bike too. (probably also a guitar.).
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Scored a couple tickets for me and my brother to the Pearl Jam/Mudhoney show up in Missoula MT and the Adams Center at the University of Montana!! Gonna go a day early, bring a mountain bike, check out Missoula area biking and local micro brews, then hang out with Pearl Jam and Mudhoney with up to 7000 of my closest friends. (7000 will be max venue can hold, not sure how they are gonna set it up). Excited!!
 
Got tickets to see Fiona Apple in December in Clearwater.
I've loved pretty much all of her work to now, I just wish there was more of it.
 
R_of_G said:
Got tickets to see Fiona Apple in December in Clearwater.
I've loved pretty much all of her work to now, I just wish there was more of it.
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Don't fall for it... I heard she's a PC user! :what

Her recent album has gotten rave reviews. I might need to get it.
 
Tig said:
Don't fall for it... I heard she's a PC user! :what
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Nice. Always love a good OS joke.

Tig said:
Her recent album has gotten rave reviews. I might need to get it.
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So far I've only listened to it once, but I loved it. She's a tremendous songwriter and that voice, oh that voice. Production by Jon Brion is also unsurprisingly excellent.
 

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