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Sorry for your loss. My pups are 13 and 14 and aging so very fast.

Blue Cranes - Swim

a cutie, nice picture.

My wife and I will be having dinner with friends at an Indian-Mexican fusion place.
Should be interesting.

The card does not care what is on it.
If you can, I would try to format the 64gb card in the phone and then see how much space the phone says the card has.
If it's 32gb, maybe time for a new...

Boston had been on heavy rotation on WGTB ( college radio ) until it 'hit top 40' when they stopped.
Foreigner really didn't do college radio as much. In high school I heard it plenty.
I did...

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I know I have seen them around, but we have such a huge robin population with a bunch of Towhee's thrown in for good measure that it is hard to get a positive identification for an Oriole.

Saw Jonathan Demme's fantastic Talking Heads movie Stop Making Sense Sunday. I had forgotten how good it was, and how deeply embedded Talking Heads music is in my brain.

Caravan - A Knight's Tale, Live in the USA

But wait, there's more

https://youtu.be/LPrf-RgX0lU

Sort of the equivalent of looking at thumbnail porn.
mini-midi-synth-uses-minimum-number-of-parts

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Thanks Sean. Great interview. So much name dropping with great anecdotes.
I had no idea he worked with Wilson.
Kept my attention for over two hours. No mean feat.

Going to have to carve out a couple of hours for this one.
Should be interesting.

https://youtu.be/3YoAghWNjjI

Annnd

https://youtu.be/YpZ60CmTodQ

and

https://youtu.be/mFKheYp7r0Q

https://youtu.be/1Wxqg4AcRrc
Oooo

A few years back this pair was looking to hitch a ride south.
https://goaskmark.com/picture_library/headingsouth.jpg

Ghost Rhythms - Sept Cercles

Brown Headed Cowbird perhaps.

If you can stand having it around, Virginia Creeper is probably arond. also
https://dnr.maryland.gov/wildlife/pages/habitat/wahumbutbee.aspx...

Lunar Sea is a big favorite. Moonmadness was in heavy rotation back in the 70's on the college stations, along with Mirage and The Snow Goose.
I liked Rain Dances, the addition of Mel Collins was a...

Big Big Train - East Coast Racer from the Live album Empire

https://youtu.be/FuVhDJ1pvBs

We have a bunch of the chipping sparrows as of a week or so.
Early migrators or coming through in small flocks. Little brown jobs that flit around for a day or two and then take off.
Saw a Pileated...

1. Emperor Tomato Ketchup ( my gateway and forever favorite )
2. Dot & Loops
3. Cobra and Phases
4. Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
5. Oscillons from the Anti-Sun mostly because...

It seemed that after the destruction/implosion of the labor movement ( unions ) in the 1980's-90's college and university was sold as the Way to middle class.
Small colleges became University's,...

Back in the 80's I saw Howard Jones open for Eurythmics. He had pretty much everything sequenced, it was just him and a mime (!).
He would just get up and dance around while the music played. Do...

removing the -c copy fixed it in the batch. Now it will copy to a 'repaired' folder with correct song lengths.
fixflac.bat


mkdir repaired
for %%a in ("*.flac") do...

Running this command worked to correct the song length and put it in the repaired folder
z:\media\Music\AJ. Croce\Transit>c:\Users\Mark\Downloads\bliss-analyser-windows-0.1.0\ffmpeg -i 01-Maybe.flac...

Hmmm, the batch ran, but didn't correct the song length

Pretty cool. I grew weary of the vocal pretty quick, but the underlying music is well done.

Cool, thanks.

I was curious about Big Ears and the potential for a superspreader event.
Interestingly enough, there was a small spike following the festival.
Nationally it has not bumped things.
Back when...

Years ago I ripped most of my collection into flacs. Around a thousand cd's
I used cdex from several computers to my NAS.
It turned out that the song lengths for a bunch of albums is 3:22:00 ( 3...

So it's going to cross the forbidden April 1 barrier. How can we possibly believe/trust an April Fools Day schedule?

I always thought the 'freeness' was dependent on both government programs and insurance.
I don't pay ( or copay ) for vaccines at the pharmacy because I have insurance.
Even with the early covid 2...

I bought Real to Real Cacophony first and then Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call and Empires and Dance and New Gold Dream..., eventually Life in A Day and Sparkle In The Rain on vinyl back in...

There is a skylight in the front right of the M&M with a tarp over the top that blows in the wind.
Noise and light distractions.
And it's been like that since 2018 I think. It opened in 2017 for...

I have seen some acoustic/low volume shows at M&M there that were outstanding. They worked in the space. And it did seem, that it's not always the same sound people.
Or perhaps a band had some say...

Were you at Big Ears? or did they play in GA?

I know this might be a little disrespectful, but I could see St Vincent selling the arena booked in DC, not so much Roxy Music. At least as an headline act.

Not everyone went to the same Festival for the same reasons. AKA "Some Folks Just Don't Get It"

There was a woman sitting behind us at one of the Zorn shows complaining about all the same people...

Saturday
Mary Lattimore & William Tyler at the Tennessee Theater. They played a soundtrack for a series of newsreels about the TVA project and Knoxville.
Treated Harp and guitar and some synth....

My take on 2022 ,Gonna break in two.
Big Ears 2022
Thursday
Kronos Quartet So Very nice way to start the festival. Liked the Kronos set for 3/4.
The last, mostly pre recorded piece, was not...

Julian Lage - Squint

John Zorn - Chaos Magick
John Zorn - Simulacrum
John Zorn - Electric Masada - 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 4
John Zorn - New Masada Quartet
Alamaailman Vasarat -...

Hmmmm, sounds interesting. I have seen them only once on the Manifesto tour, and Ferry for Bete Noir.
Had tickets to see Ferry a while back, but the show got canceled due to voice problems.
Don't...

In No Particular Order, lots of guessing since I still play lots of albums from way back.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Yes - Fragile, CTTE, Relayer
Rush - 2112

Just to see recent history,...

What a freaking treat. Still collecting thoughts, and trying to remember if I was really "there" or not. It was on my schedule......
Let me just say Electric Masada killed. ahhhWoooo! That was So...

Last minute info.
https://bigearsfestival.org/reminders-things-you-need-to-know/
Bring a mask. Be prepared to wear it to enter a venue.
Bring your vaccine card or negative test result.

Populist red meat to distract from aggressive inaction.

As I recall, the popular stuff that we now know as Prog ( Focus, Yes, ELP, Jethro Tull, etc ) was just popular and people were interested in the albums and concerts.
The 'other Prog stuff' was...

I thought there was something wrong with the schedule because so many venues were missing.
There were no scroll bars. This was in Firefox, but I tried in Edge too.
Then I went full screen, and...

Back in the olden days I would go to clubs to see a show and there would be these old guys, usually by themselves enjoying the show.
Now that's me. I've gotten razzed a few times " Hey, don't you...

More like Porcupine Shrubbery nowadays.

According to wikipedia that one is 'unofficial'. Poorly done 'board recordings' from the nightclub, there is a series of recordings from that venue.
The Dead stuff I used to listen to were the...

I read an article a couple of years ago about Disney having better than red carpet treatment for "rich people".
Folks with 'no time'.
They fly in for the day, get their kids on all the rides and...

I just got my paper ticket in the mail. 10pm doors open. OMFG, what is this, the 80's.
Gonna be a late night, no metro for me.

Some of the 'bootlegs' that were released by bands ( or family trusts or what have you ) are probably just intended for completists.
The New Tony Williams Lifetime live at the village gate for one.

Given our ( the US at least ) economy and 'anything goes' with regards to making money attitude, scalpers are not going away.
The fact that they have spread to pretty much any product with a...

I am not saying that I believe this, but.
For years it has been argued that the prices that people pay for scalped tickets indicate that the original price was too low, ergo higher prices are in...