Category: Music
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I just saw Led Zeppelin.
Posted in: MusicWell, the next best thing actually. Kiers Marketing where I work sponsored the Classic Albums Live show at The Fredericton Playhouse tonight so I got to go for free. For the uninitiated, this is a group of guys who travel around performing classic rock records in their entirety, note for note. Tonight’s platter du jour…
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Juke Box Hero, with apologies to Foreigner.
Posted in: MusicI couldn’t get a ticket. It was a sold out show. Well, really, I probably couldn’t have gotten a sitter either anyway, and it was a weeknight and I had to be up for work the next day and the headliners weren’t going on until 10:30 and that’s pretty late for me, and…. I have…
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My Albums of 2011.
Posted in: MusicHere’s the albums I dug the most, mostly for 2011. No particular order. Enjoy. Sam Roberts Band – ColliderI had hailed Love At the End of the World as Sam’s finest record yet to most of the people I argue about music with (ok, well, ONE person). But I think this record stepped it up…
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The Live Album is Dead.
Posted in: MusicThe Live Album is dead. Remember how monumental live albums used to be? The Who, Live at Leeds.Peter Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive.Pink Floyd, Delicate Sound of Thunder.Rush, Exit Stage Left.Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains The Same. Live albums used to be a bastion of a recording landmark in any bands career. It occurred to me…
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Frozen in (musical) time.
Posted in: MusicThose of you who know what a music geek I am will know how much it pains me to say so, but this weekend I packed up my CDs (all 1000+ of them) into boxes and shuffled them off to the basement in favour of more space in the living room for things like dump…
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Jonesing for the fix.
Posted in: MusicI’ve got no money for ’em, no place to put ’em and no time to play ’em, but damn have I got the jones to play the drums lately. I trolled on kijiji and found a guy here in Fredericton with a nice Pearl Export kit for sale. It was even green. I’ve always wanted…