I really need to listen to more Ulmer - I love weird jazz, and his Sun Sessions blues record fucking rocks.

/coke bump is more like it.

They were trying to get Shuggie Otis after Taylor left.

I love you.

None. Quick rule of thumb for non-fiction writers - if your subject isn't interesting enough for you, THEN DON"T WRITE ABOUT IT.

Didn't they already do this?

His story does check out:  http://web.archive.org/web/…

Booooooooo!

And not only that, not knowing that they're beautiful IS WHAT MAKES THEM BEAUTIFUL!

Dr. Billy Quizboy - Jackson Publick (might be a make-up challenge, but..)

"To her credit, Adamson says she’s tried to sell the tapes back to the remaining members of Joy Division and to their record companies, but none of the parties are interested. Peter Hook, she says, is “not a happy bunny” (obviously), and the other members haven't returned her calls."

Actually, I've always considered punk to be an direct infusion of "folkie" values (simple music, populist rhetoric, an emphasis on self-reliance and anti-authoritarianism, exclusionary practices when it comes to other genres) into the base of rock 'n' roll.

Hey, I never said that horn sections were BAD - just that they count differently from the standard rhythm section lineup of a typical rock/R&B band.

Yeah, I read about those guys in Harpers' recently. They're an interesting subset, but even then, they probably seemed like an anomaly.

So did Iggy Pop, I think. So what does that say?

Yeah, that's what I figured. It just annoys me on some level when that narrative shows up, because it's as silly as using some people who wore flannel and listened to Pearl Jam in the early 90s and who are now Tea Partiers to construct a "Alternative Nation Goes Republican!" narrative.

I'll give you guys Hitchens, but could you provide more information about Kristol's flirtation with leftism? Wikipedia says that he worked for a Democrat in the mid-70s, but nothing else besides that.

I think Madness and the Specials are the two big exceptions to the whole "western ska sucks" argument.

All right, this seems to be the place to ask this:

Hell, I don't even sing or play an instrument. Clearly I am the world's greatest punk band.