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  1. Where do compilation albums fit, allowed or nah
  2. Yeah, I mean we are basically the same age. But I just relistened to it this morning, it is wildly different than say Nevermind or Core, which are two albums that really crystalize the '91 to '94 years, where everything really changed big time. If you put them on back to back, it's pretty stark. Jar of Flies, which followed, has a similar vibe as it was tracked in the same place and they used a lot of ambient room in the mix as well. It's funny you should bring up the rhythm section, I think Glenn Graham and Brad Smith were second to only Moon and Entwistle in their uncanny ability to be going to apeshit the entire time and its always right on time. It's pretty wild to listen to. I credit Blues Traveler a lot with changing the sound of the era as well. They are a little hippy dippy for me, all that mindless jamming shit is definitely not my thing, but they have some solid tunes. I actually think Straight on Till Morning was a significantly better album than Four. 110% homie.
  3. 1996? I saw them here at the Virginia Beach Amphitheater. The Gin Blossoms and Ben Folds opened. I've somehow seen the Gin Blossoms twice without meaning to. I've seen the Meat Puppets 3 times without trying.
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  5. I love some Horton Heat. Both times I saw BM though they ripped, the were the headliner in each. Meat Puppets opened in 95, who were very good as well. I can't remember who opened in the 00's when I saw them. I got to see Unified Theory, Chris Thorne and Brad Smiths project, in the early aughts as well in a crazy intimate show. The main venue had a fire, so they set them up in the club in front. We all got to be like 15 feet away and shoot the shit with them after the show, phenomenal time.
  6. I know you would be into them with your other faves. A lot of those guys owe a huge debt to Melon, they really were way out in front on bringing back vintage instruments and equipment. Shit like tweed amps and lap steel, mandolin, banjo, you name it. And very immediate production style, without all the shit that was in vogue by then. A lot of their contemporaries sounded very much of the time, Nirvana, STP, both of which I like to varying degrees, if you listen to their concurrent albums, are very, very slick. Sampled drums, highly compressed, lots of layers. Which ironically was a lot of Andy Wallace's doing, and he did Soup for them. Which I like and became a total cult favorite, but I don't think sounds as good as the first album. To be fair though I chalk a lot of that up to not being at London Bridge. Haha, yeah.
  7. That's funny, as Nevermind is one of the biggest contra-examples I use of how vintage the production of this album was. Nevermind was absolute big label pop sheen, might as well have been a Janet Jackson album, whereas Blind Melon sounds like straight out of 1972.
  8. No Rain is a somewhat insipid song, though I definitely wouldn't say it's a bad song. It just doesn't hit like I Wonder or Time. Or Change, which is another insanely good song. Jesus this was such a good album. I don't listen to them very often anymore but every year or so I will whip this out and listen front to back, kind of like I do with Animals or Social Distortions Live at the Roxy. Now that I think of it, there's probably 3 or 4 albums where I don't skip a song, that's a pretty rare thing even among my favorite bands like the Stones or Zeppelin.
  9. I don't think it's the worst, but another hilariously bad show I was at was the Georgia Satellites opening for someone or other I can't remember. But anyway, their guitar player was so drunk he kept falling over, and would just launch into random songs at random times while the band tried to adapt to whatever he was doing. It was pretty entertaining actually.
  10. @utee94 reminded me last night I totally spaced on the first Blind Melon album which is an amazingly solid album, No Rain is probably the worst track on it. Also has one of my all time songs on it in Time. It's one of the best sounding albums of the 90's too, up there with Jar of Flies. London Bridge's live room is probably my favorite in the world, it's up there with the old Olympic and Trident. Melon was aggressively old school on the instrumentation and production as well, targeting Exile on Main Street as the sound. It was radically different and retro sounding than almost anything else that came out around then, it took years for people to gravitate back to that sound which is almost de rigueur these days with stuff like Isbell.
  11. They had three fantastic albums. One of the best live bands I've ever seen also.
  12. Yeah but how wet was her pussy
  13. I don't do it often, but I use Strava heat maps to check where cyclists tend to ride, and then Ride with GPS for the actual planning.
  14. It's a red flag imo
  15. Also I'm not sure exactly how quickly Marcus can move.
  16. I have probably 8 ish suits and maybe 10 jackets from Poole? Usually the first commission or two are two or 3 fittings, once your pattern is dialed, as long as you don't fluctuate a bunch of weight, it is usually just one. I'll have to look at what my most recent suit was, it's gone up a bit the past few years. Obviously depends on fabric, two or three piece, etc. I am seeing them in March in DC for a new pinstripe, so I should have some current pricing then
  17. Yeah, I'm actually building a shelf system in the closet this weekend to stack my amps here at the house. All the stacks are still at the warehouse though, they aren't going to fly here.
  18. Sick man, looks rad as hell
  19. That's a good line, I will have to steal that.
  20. Came out Tuesday I think?
  21. Yeah I've seen Dylan twice, certainly not a banging show by any stretch but neither were godawful either. Kinda dull is what you get from him. Mellencamp opened one of the shows and was fantastic. ETA Willie also played the Mellencamp show.
  22. Seems to be a pattern
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