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Myhamish, if you haven't won a Klipsch t-shirt yet you have now! If you have, I'll draw again.

And this leads me to a conundrum. The Klipsch store is out of the

regular t-shirts and will not be getting any more. They are now

offering a baseball t but it costs about $5 or $6 more pushing me into

spending about $25 a month of this effort when shipping is included.

This is starting to cut into my junk food budget. They do have

bumper stickers which are $3 to $4 a pop. I know you can get medallions

from the parts dept. but I'm not sure if they would like me ordering up

a batch of these. Suggestions are needed, so along with your

weekly recommendation some feedback on this issue would be greatly

appreciated.

Format's simple: Name of artist or group, name of album, type of

music as best you can (rock, blues etc.), and recording format (cd, lp

etc.)

As usual I'll start it off with:

Bob Dylan, "Unplugged" rock/folk cd. From the MTV unplugged

series of concerts it includes 3 tracks not on that broadcast.

What can I say about Dylan, you either love him or hate him, and in

recent years I've overcome my hate to become a big fan. His take

on this cd of All Along the Watchtower is simply awesome, and his

backing bands have gotten so much better over the years then the group

he started with.

So what do you have to share this week?

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I might get in some trouble for this one, but...

DJ Panzah Zandahz's "Me and This Army"

"A collection of 16 Radiohead tracks remixed with snippets of artists such as MF Doom, Jurassic 5, De La Soul, and more. It's as if the white label gods planted sensors inside my brain; they heard my innermost mashup prayers, and answered them here." - boing boing

A very interesting mashup attempt between Radiohead and rap vocals. Real fun to listen too if your interested in that kind of stuff.

If you want the album, PM me and I'll send it to you. It's a free album, I just can't find the BitTorrent link anymore...

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I won a t-shirt!!! Thank you Mr. Thebes and the twins (sigh) where ever

they may be. I've sent you an email. Next dram is to

you.

....and if you're being led to a conundrum, check out the fees.

They really inflate conundrum fees like grass cutting, garbage pickup

and maintenance....just kidding.

......this little contest really adds to the feeling of community here on the forum.

If there are out of pocket expenses to keep it going, here's an alternative idea.

Maybe a winner's page could be added to the forum,

where the winner's handle and their choice of music could be

posted. Every week, this would be added to so in the long run, it

would be an interesting list of music and members. Then possibly,

Klipsch could kick in one measly lil set of zebrawood Khorns as a

raffle for the names listed once a year.

Slainte. Hamish

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Benefit - Jethro Tull

Released 1970

01 With You There To Help Me

02 Nothing To Say

03 Inside

04 Son

05 For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me

06 To Cry You A Song

07 A Time For Everything?

08 Teacher

09 Play Time

10 Sossity; You're A Woman

Greg's pick: Track #2 Nothing To Say.

"Teacher," became a fan favorite in the U.S. though the band felt

it was a throwaway song and Ian wrote it as a B-side. Ian, to date,

professes distaste for this tune reflecting disillusionment with formal

education, a theme arising in future songwriting as well. The U.K.

version on the remastered copy is a very different arrangement with far

less flute. The flute was added to the U.S. release as the record

company felt Tull needed a pop single featuring the flute.

http://www.j-tull.com/discography/benefit/

Greg

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Hey, RUSH has just released their 30th anniversary world tour, R30 DVD. Recorded in Germany. Features include a video sequence with "George Castansa's" dad - Jerry Stiller, introducing and starting out the show, and the band doing 20 songs with 2 medleys. Includes some covers of their own personal old favorites like Summertime Blues, The Seeker, Heart Full of Soul and Crossroads. A great drum solo by Peart. Disk 2 has some video interviews and some older recordings of a couple songs.

A 2-CD set of the concert is also included with the deluxe version not available any other way. A printed linen backstage pass, autographed picks from Alex and Geddy, even though Geddy does not use one.

It's a lot of entertainment for the Rush fan, or may make you one.

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Happy Whatever Y'all celebrate this time of year! I'm in a great

mood - shopping, wrapping, making goodies all that good stuff

Grabbed an oldie but goodie out of the cupboard tonight and thought I'd

share it as my pick of the week. Really gets me into the Holiday

spirit!! Have a great one!

ZZ Top - Greatest Hits - Original Release Date: April 14, 1992/ ROCK

1. Gimme All Your Lovin'

2. Sharp Dressed Man

3. Rough Boy

4. Tush

5. My Head's In Mississippi

6. Pearl Necklace

7. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide

8. Viva Las Vegas

9. Doubleback

10. Gun Love

11. Got Me Under Pressure

12. Give It Up

13. Cheap Sunglasses

14. Sleeping Bag

15. Planet Of Women

16. La Grange

17. Tube Snake Boogie

18. Legs

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.........Grabbed an oldie but goodie out of the cupboard tonight and thought I'd

share it as my pick of the week. Really gets me into the Holiday

spirit!!........

Womanthing, you must be quite a unique individual if songs like Tush, Gun

Love, and Tube Snake Boogie get you into the Holiday spirit.

[:^)] [:)]

This week, a friend of mine suggested that I pick up Honky Chateau by

Elton John (1972). Pop music never really did much for me but I

have to admit that I really liked this. There is some truly fine

musicianship on this album that I never really associated with Elton John. I think it's been remastered and it does

sound nice. Contains "Rocket Man" and "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters".

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.........Grabbed an oldie but goodie out of the cupboard tonight and thought I'd share it as my pick of the week. Really gets me into the Holiday spirit!!........

Womanthing, you must be quite a unique individual if songs like Tush, Gun Love, and Tube Snake Boogie get you into the Holiday spirit. [:^)] [:)]

This week, a friend of mine suggested that I pick up Honky Chateau by Elton John (1972). Pop music never really did much for me but I have to admit that I really liked this. There is some truly fine musicianship on this album that I never really associated with Elton John. I think it's been remastered and it does sound nice. Contains "Rocket Man" and "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters".

All Elton's early albums are incredible with lyrical songs devoid of formula and cliche, and superior musicianship and lush orchestration--up until maybe Capt Fantastic-- Shoot he was the fifth Beatle--

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Keeping in the spirit of the season...

I always get a couple rolling eyes when I mention my favorite Christmas albums--

A Charlie Brown Christmas with Vince Guaraldi -- amazing melancholy piano jazz with excellent efficient solos--beautiful melodies. The fact it comes from a cartoon doesn't hide that its the best Christmas music out there--

And Elvis' first Christmas Album -- Everyone thinks "Elvis --- yecchh!", but this is so soulful and filled with great songs! I am not an Elvis fan because of most of his dreck that came after his early period, but this I love. Blue Christmas is a knockout--- Don't miss it!

Both of Brian Setzers's Christmas albums are a hoot, too. Great brass sound, and his great guitar. Who else would replace "one horse open sleigh" on Jingle Bells, with "a fifty seven Chevrolet"-- !! Amazing this one-hit wonder has survived all these years after Rock This Town--he's talented, that's why--

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Pink Floyd "Echoes" greatest hits 2-CD set. Won off eBay last week.

Finally had a chance to listen to Wish You Were Here at what I'd consider to be reference levels.

The dynamics of that song are amazing! Starts off quietly and then when the song really gets going the vocals and guitar are incredible. I have heard this song so many times before. Never heard it as good as I have now.

There are many other great songs, Learning to Fly, Money, Comfortably Numb, and many others I had never heard that coincide with Pink Floyd's abnormal side.

All the songs must have been remastered, and/or I'm finally listening to them the way they should always have been...on an awesome amp with awesome speakers.

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.........Grabbed an oldie but goodie out of the cupboard tonight and thought I'd

share it as my pick of the week. Really gets me into the Holiday

spirit!!........

Womanthing, you must be quite a unique individual if songs like Tush, Gun

Love, and Tube Snake Boogie get you into the Holiday spirit.

[:^)] [:)]

This week, a friend of mine suggested that I pick up Honky Chateau by

Elton John (1972). Pop music never really did much for me but I

have to admit that I really liked this. There is some truly fine

musicianship on this album that I never really associated with Elton John. I think it's been remastered and it does

sound nice. Contains "Rocket Man" and "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters".

"Unique" is one words that has been used to describe my personality

.... It took 3 husbands to finally find one who enjoys being associated

with someone like me! Actually Viva Las Vegas,

Cheap Sunglasses, Sharp Dressed Man and Legs are what I enjoy most

about this cd. And you know, anyone can wrap gifts & bake to

regular Christmas music - it takes someone different to do these things

differently.

Regarding your pick - I still love Honky Cat probably best of anything

other than Yellow Brick Road that Elton John released. Good pick!

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