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I appreciate the intro, but there must be a better version somewhere.
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We finally got around to watching the SNL 50 concert, if you have Peacock it’s worth the 3 hours.
I was never a fan of Pearl Jam but Eddie Vedder nailed The Waiting by Tom Petty.
And Cher also killed it.
Robyn and David Byrne was very good.
B52s, DEVO, Jack White, Miley Cyrus anders a whole lot more, good stuff.
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Change your heart
ETA The video has an absurdly abrupt fade out. Also, DO NOT play your electric bass, guitar, and keys whilst standing in an inch of water!
Full length audio:
Extended 12” FTW 
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"I have decided to cancel my show at The Kennedy Center on May 11, 2025 and move it to The Anthem. The Kennedy Center show was booked long before the current administration decided to take over this previously bipartisan institution, but I cannot in good conscience play at The Kennedy Center with the change in programming direction forced on the institution by this new board. I kept quiet until now because I wanted to make a thoughtful and thought-out decision, but also because it took time to get the new gig set up and I wanted to make it as easy as possible for folks to follow us the 8-minute drive down the street to The Anthem! All Kennedy Center tickets will be refunded at point of purchase. The Anthem tickets are now on sale. I am lucky to have found another venue willing to make this change at such a late date.
I will say here that I don’t judge anyone for choosing to go on with their shows; it’s a highly difficult situation for artists right now and everyone has to do what makes the most sense for them in the moment.
Let’s make this a huge celebration for all of us who need joy and inclusion to feel human. We would love to see you! Same day, same time, and just down the street.
John F. Kennedy himself said: “If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our Nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.”
The Anthem tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1500625992A11BE4
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I’m not sure where else to put this, but I’ve been listening online to a delightful community radio station, KPFT-FM, out of Houston, Texas of all places. They have a great range of talk, music, events, education, and others. Since I’m listening while working, I’m mostly listening to the music shows, but even there I hear a lot of talk about community building, our dwindling freedom of speech, prisoner’s rights, and more.
I’d say check them out anytime, of course, but they are having their pledge drive right now, so this is an excellent time to give them a listen and see if you want to throw them a few bucks. There is a lot of progressive and community media here in the greater Chicago area. I can’t imagine the challenges they face doing something like that in Texas. Or hell, maybe I can since I work at a library. In any case, I figure my donation will go further there than it will up here.
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That reminds me… we have a second public station here in ATL that I really should listen to more…
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One of my streamers has started livestreaming again, and I’m hooked.
Twitch (not sure if that link will work, but my tablet insists on the mobile link and I’ve tried to edit it to a general link.)
Mitnerd’s a leftist streamer, so it’s a comfy place for me to hide from the news for an hour or two, and he really is a talented musician, with a pretty large repertoire. I usually listen live on Twitch (Tuesdays-Wednesdays-Thursdays, give or take) but YouTube’s the better place to find old livestreams (lots of them!) and some singles.
Please note: Jake’s channel is NSFW and Not Safe for Kiddos, due to language. He covers uncensored songs like (for example) the Dead Kennedys’ “Let’s Lynch the Landlord” and “Nazi Punks Fuck Off,” an expanded version of “Daloy Polizei,” “the Trouble with an Orgy,” and occasionally, a Finnish song named “Aina Mielessä,” which (if his translation is at all accurate) is a long, very dirty joke. Setlists vary from show to show, but apart from the recent instrumental “lazy piano stream,” there’s likely gonna be something NSFW included in any broadcast. 
(If it was truly bad I wouldn’t recommend it at all, but while we’re all adults here, I don’t want to get anybody fired or yelled at by angry parents within earshot. So I figure it’s a reasonable warning. 
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After a few hours to think, I hope I haven’t made Mitnerd’s stream sound worse than it is. He does amazing versions of songs like “Love Is A Verb,” “Sampson,” “Kissing In a Tree,” “Here In My Room” (and so many more great tunes) and he’s working on a cover of Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” that I like so far. There’s also a sprinkling of labor classics like “There Is Power In a Union” and “Bread and Roses,” and the raidout routine is trying to fit in all of “Solidarity Forever” before the stream ends. It isn’t all sweary and raunchy, I promise. But I’m overly cautious and would rather warn too much than have anyone get in trouble at work or at home. That trepidation is very much me, for good and/or bad.
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I love all phases of Wire
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I got hip to Wire in a rather interesting way. A sound man was playing a Wire LP as house music at an 80s punk show, and b/c every track was so different, I had no idea all the songs were by the same band.
D has taken me to 3 Wire shows, and one performed by Colin Newman and Malka Spigel. All were at V small venues and all were fantastic. We had a chance to chat with everyone, and they are really nice people.
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Well, I pulled on trouble’s braids
And I hid in the briars out by the quick mud
Stayin’ away from the main roads
Passin’ out wolf tickets downwind from the bloodhounds
And I pulled on trouble’s braids
And I lay by a cypress as quiet as a stone ‘til the bleeding stopped
I blew the weather vane off some old road house
I built a fire in the skeleton backseat of an old Tucker
And I pulled on trouble’s braids
I spanked cold red mud where the hornet stung deep
And I tossed in the ditch in a restless sleep
And I pulled on trouble’s braids
I hung my rain-soaked jacket on some old barbed wire
Poured cold rusty water on a miserable fire
I pulled on trouble’s braids
The creek was swollen by daybreak
And I could just barely see
And I floated downstream on an old dead tree
And I pulled on trouble’s braids
I pulled on trouble’s braids
I pulled on trouble’s braids
{If the lady in the penultimate photo seems familiar, she very well may be. That’s Mata Hari.}
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{Always loved her spotty horse - doubtless a Knabstrupper, a Danish breed w/coat patterns like leopard Appaloosas’}
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