The year was 1991, Kevin Costner was at the height of his fame, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was a huge hit at the box office, and I was 14 years old.  Even at that age I realized the film was nothing more than fluffy escapist pop-corn junk, but I kind of liked it.

The song was a big old stinking hit. It was #1 for seven weeks, won a Grammy and ranks #16 on the Billboards top 100. It was also declared to be “our song” by my brother’s girlfriend at the time.

The brother was at Navy boot camp in Orlando, Florida. His girlfriend was still in high school in Oklahoma. That summer me, the family, and the brother’s girlfriend made the drive to Florida to see the brother graduate boot camp.

The song was all over the radio. We probably heard it 30 times on the drive down. We all sang along. The brother’s girlfriend had not yet told the brother that this was their song and was all excited about declaring it to him soon.

It remains a song I love to belt out randomly, especially as it annoys the wife. Yesterday was one of those days and it must have got stuck in my head as I woke up to it as well.

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Metallica
Acoustic Metal

1. Low Man’s Lyric
2. Helpless
3. The Four Horsemen
4. Poor Twisted Me
5. Nothing Else Matters
6. Creeping Death
7. Tuesday’s Gone
8. a)Last Caress; b) Fade to Black
9. Fade to Black (continued)
10. Bleeding Me
11. Medley a) Seek And Destroy; b) Fight Fire With Fire)

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Tom Petty
‘Solo lp’ outtakes and Mudcrutch Outtakes
circa 1974-1975

1 FLAC CD -

Probable locations: Shelter Church Studios (Tulsa), Warners (Burbank). and Johnny Yuma (Burbank)
cassette>cdr>eac>cooledit>flac>you!

1. Another Lonely Night
2. Don’t It Get Weird
3. You’re Driving me Crazy
4. She’s A Screamer
5. Parade of Loons
6. Makin’ Some Noise
7. You Don’t Care
8. Don’t Bring me Down
9. Save Me
10. Don’t Make It Any Easier
11. Lost in Your Eyes
12. Long way From Home 1
13. Long Way From Home 2
14. Once Upon a Time Somewhere
15. Country Girls Run Dry

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Lou Reed
05/05/08
Highline Ballroom
New York City, NY

Disc 1

01. intro
02. Mad
03. Sweet Jane
04. I’m Set Free
05. Ecstasy *
06. I’m Sticking With You
07. The Power Of The Heart
08. I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum) *

Disc 2

01. Halloween Parade *
02. Video Violence *
03. Guardian Angel *
04. Magic And Loss *
Encore
05. crowd
06. Band Intros
07. Satellite Of Love *
08. Walk On The Wild Side *
09. outro / crowd

* w/John Zorn

THE BAND:
Lou Reed - vocals, guitar
Steve Hunter - lead guitar
Mike Rathke - guitar
Rob Wasserman - bass
Tony “Thunder” Smith - drums, vocals
Kevin Hearn - keyboards,accordion, mandolin, vocals
Sarth Calhoun - computers, electronics
John Zorn - saxophone *

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Loretta Lynn
Alabama Theater
Birmingham, AL
2007-04-20

The Coal Miners
1. The World
2. Nobody But Me

The Lynns
3. All I Got To Say About That
4. Sarah
5. One Of These Lonely Nights

Loretta Lynn
6. Loretta Lynn Intro > Let Your Love Flow
7. When The Tingle Becomes a Chill
8. I Wanna Be Free
9. Here I Am Again
10. You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)
11. Before I Loved You **
12. Fist City
13. Table For Two

Tayla Lynn
14. Rated X
15. Mrs. Leroy Brown

Loretta Lynn
16. Don’t Come Home A Drinking

The Coaletts (Back-up Singers)
17. Peaceful Easy Feeling
18. Man of Constant Sorrow

Loretta Lynn
19. Dear Uncle Sam
20. Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
21. Where No One Stands Alone
22. How Great Thou Art
23. Coal Miner’s Daughter

Total Time: 76:07

** First time played since 1982

Notes: Entire show with The Coal Miners. Loretta sits in a gold arm chair center stage following the first 2 songs. After each song Loretta talks with the audience and begins taking requests even when she does not remember all the lyrics.

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My father found it strange that I was not nervous moving to Tennessee. It is true, in the days leading up to the move, and in fact now that we have moved I am not particularly nervous or anxious. There are a couple of reasons for this, I believe.

This is not my first move. In my life I have moved from house to house somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 times. I have lived in approximately 20 cities and towns, six states and a few countries. Moving is nothing new to me.

I know there will be difficulties.  I know how discouraging it can be living in a new place with new people trying to figure out the lay of the land and make friends.  I also know that in time this will become home.

To tell the truth, it hasn’t really hit me yet. I’ve been focusing on Belgium and so the five weeks that we will spend in Tennessee feels more like a short visit rather than an actual move. Belgium still seems like a long time away, though I’m sure once we start having meetings over the next few days it will become very real, very fast.

We arrived yesterday afternoon. They have given us what they call priority housing on campus which is an apartment reserved for seniors. It has four bedrooms, two baths and a communal living room and kitchen. The bedrooms are meant for single girls and thus have single beds. We spend last night in separate beds in separate rooms which was weird. Maybe tonight we’ll throw the mattresses down on the floor.

This is all very academic for me still. In my head I understand we’re going on a new adventure, but it still feels like we’re in stasis. I guess some of that comes from being more or less in that state over the last year in Oklahoma. Again this should all become real very soon and then I’ll probably panic.

Until then there are all those little things that we didn’t think of bringing to buy.  Like dish soap.  And a sharp knife.  And someting to open the plastic packaging around the sharp knife.  And sheets.  And who knows what else.

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The White Stripes
BBC Session
Sorry I don’t have any further information on this show.

Boll Weevil
lets shake hands
Death Letter
Cannon
Astro / Jack the Ripper
Hotel Yorba
I’m Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman
Screwdriver
We’re Going To Be Friends
You’re Pretty Good Looking
Baby Blue

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Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Engineer’s Demos

I’m The Man Who Loves You
Kamera
Magazine Called Sunset
Poor Places
Shakin Sugar
War On War
Ashes Of American Flags
Cars Can’t Escape
Pot Kettle Black
The Good Part
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
Reservations
Let Me Come Home
Heavy Metal Drummer
Nothing Up My Sleeve
Corduroy Cutoff Girl(Radio Cure)
Never Let You Down
Venus Stop the train

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I forgot to mention that I did recently write a new Random Shuffle piece. I don’t feel like doing the formatting to fit it in here, so I’ll just link to the article over on Blogcritics. Enjoy!

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I’ve mentioned before that my wife and I are going to Belgium, so I’ll now give the full scoop. Though all of my friends already know, and I don’t know that anyone else who comes to the blog actually cares, it seems like I should tell the blog-o-sphere anyway.

My wife recently got a new job at a university in Tennessee. She will be teaching French, English Comp, and likely something else in the Spring, but each Fall she is in charge of the Belgium program. The university has a learning abroad program which is based in Verviers. While there will be classes taught there it is really more of an opportunity for the students to travel and experience Europe. As such there will be lots of adventures.

Some of the places we will travel will be Paris, the beaches in Normandy, concentration camps in Germany, mountains in Austria and islands in Greece. We will be in Europe for three months and more than half of it will be spent traveling.

We leave this Monday for Tennessee. We will stay there until August 7 at which time we will fly to Belgium. We are very excited, though a little overwhelmed.

This will, of course, have repercussions on this site. I know that we will have Internet access both in Tennessee and Belgium. However, I am not too sure on how often I will be able to use it, nor how much ability I will have to download/upload concerts. My guess is that once we set up in Tennessee I will have daily access to their network and thus will be able to still post shows. I’m also guessing for the same in Belgium. But I could be wrong.

There will obviously be breaks in posting when we travel, but I’ll keep you posted on when those days will be.

I suspect that my posting of shows will take a general dive. Between traveling, living in strange places, and generally being more busy than I have been I simply won’t have the capability of uploading shows on a daily basis. Again, I could be wrong, and I suspect I’ll still post quite a bit in Tennessee, but Europe looks sketchy. I will continue to try to point you to some cool websites with cool show download, and I’ll probably start pointing out some cool torrents as well.

With less bootleg posting, you can expect more general writing. I have every intention of writing periodic articles about my travels, and I hope to be more of a daily blogger during this new adventure. I will also try to write more Random Shuffles and keep up with the Radio Free MP3 columns.

As always, I really have no idea what I’m going to do. I often think I won’t have much access then find myself with nothing to do but surf. Then again I often make plans to write more and find myself playing games instead. What I do know is yet again the Brewsters are moving and traveling abroad. I never expected this to be my life, but I can say it is rarely boring.

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