NAPcast 7.10: Mixtape ‘93

I graduated high school and began college in 1993. No matter what year it was, I would have indelible memories of the music I heard then because of where I was in life. But 1993 was a pretty good year whatever my personal circumstances. The major labels were signing anyone just to see who [...]

Multitudes

I hate this and love it at the same time.

Quadiliacha and the Internet Archive

I went to the well and it was dry. . . but then my friend Sanjeev sent me an e-mail. Apparently we had had a conversation some time ago (or maybe it was something on Facebook?) wherein I recommended this band that I used to listen to in high school called Quadiliacha.

Circa [...]

Slippery When Wet

My wife’s family is in town. Damn near all of them. A couple of days ago I got a package in the mail from them. I thought that was funny on account that I knew them’s to be on the road. Opened it up, found a couple of cd’s full of Bon Jovi. The [...]

The Great Abilene String Theory

Growing up in Abilene does not afford one the chance to reflect on their past as one that might be described as “Culturally diverse.” We were pretty much in the middle of no-fucking-place and absolutely-no-fucking-where. And when you live in spots like Abilene, you know it. And we didn’t really get the internet until [...]

This week in sports

GAS’ing for a Lee Ranaldo Jazzmaster on eBay. Auction ends Wednesday, but really can’t afford to be spending that money. I am now soliciting donations for the $1000 Save My Bank Account fund. Put your email in the comments and I will reply with my PayPal account address. Just finished “Goodbye 20th Century”, a [...]

Worldly possessions

I am moving in less than a week. I am moving 20 minutes away, so it’s hard to take the actual moving process seriously. Of course, that’s partly because I hate moving so very much. I hope no one actually likes it. Because it’s the worst. If we don’t all have individual pods within [...]

Banal Stories #6: Things Would Never Be Better

When I bought Paul Westerberg’s 14 Songs in 1993, I hadn’t heard of the Replacements. No, instead I was doing what I did fairly often back then. Reading a review in Rolling Stone and buying the record if it sounded promising. During the same period RS turned me onto two other artists with whom [...]

La Luna

One of these days I’ll have something more to say. Until then, here’s a video of Keith Moon:

The grunting is what sells it for me.

Bonus:

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Beginner guitars

Inspired by John’s comment on Ghost’s post this week:

I don’t think a Tele is the best option for a person trying to learn, for this reason — the classic Tele is a single-coil with a fairly unforgiving tone. They are real crisp and don’t do much to alleviate the steep learning curve.

I [...]