Sometime around 9 p.m. Saturday night, I tweeted the following: Never had a higher musical moment than right now. Ever. I’ve been doing this for a while. I saw my first Grateful Dead show at Blossom Music Center — the same building where I saw Phish last night with Mrs. Crappy and Dr. Yohe —… Read More 14. best ever?
We’re going to have to settle for listening to today’s enormous World Cup match between the U.S. and England. That’s because we’ll be on the way to Blossom for tonight’s Phish show, a musical break that I desperately need. I’m really excited for both — and I’m hoping that I know someone with both a… Read More 13. phootball.
Right now… … I’m thinking we need to see the Flaming Lips when they play the Trib Total Chevy IC Media Light Amphitheater at Station Square July 20. I listened to a good portion of Embryonic, the double album the band released last fall, on the way to work today; that’s a bit of weirdness… Read More 2. lips.
Game Seven. Do it.
It’s kind of a tradition for us to load up the iPod with Tony Kornheiser Show podcasts when we set out for a long drive in the car, and that’s what we did when we traveled to Columbus last weekend. One of the best bits we heard from those shows was a critique of whatever… Read More twang.
In the four times I’d seen Wilco prior to this month’s show at the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland, one song — Via Chicago, probably the most precise example of what the band is about — had escaped my set lists. So I was quietly thrilled when Tweedy started strumming the chords on his acoustic… Read More breathtaking.
Uncle Crappy 