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I saw him play in Albuquerque in the spring of '90 on his last tour, which was supporting "Aura." I just happened to be taking a jazz history course at the time and the teacher was a trumpeter. He said he was done with seeing Mile live because Miles had terrible stage fright and would always play with his back…

Sweet, sweet Lady H.

You win, inle. One of my favorite LL songs.

And heck, in middle school I was listening to Kiss' "Animalize" & ZZ Top's "Eliminator" on cassette and loving it. So yeah…there's that.

None taken. I'm flattered you had me in mind.

Oscar Peterson for sure. Plays in just about every jazz style at some point. One of the best is a 3 or 4 disc set called Exclusively for my friends, which was recorded in private concerts at his producer's house on what must have been the very very best equipment of the time. There is some really astonishing stuff…

Yeah whatever
I was supposedly in the perfect age demographic for loving Nirvana and grunge & that they were somehow super special and thinking: Really? This pop star/Axl Rose with depression & a flannel shirt who thought he was some groundbreaking artist and not ripping off better acts is the poet genius of my…

The Tiki Room is one of my very earliest memories. I got lost in Disneyland when I was 2 and somehow gained entrance to the Tiki Room without adult supervision. I think it warped my little brain permanently with the colors and inexplicably singing flowers.

With Susan all strung out and junkie thin, getting her fix from some evil old building in Alphabet City ca. 1977.

I like balls! Won't someone think of the balls?!

Danzig
Hardcore's answer to Meatloaf.

Yikes
His "x-ray" had giant nuts. At least he's got that going for him.

My high school French got real fluent when arguing with Metro employees who shafted us on 3-DAY (apparently not 72 hour) tickets.

Fun thing to do in Amsterdam: get really baked at your favorite coffee shop. I mean so you don't even know your own name anymore. Then find the nearest mode of public transport & get on it. Get off where ever you like, then board another random street car or whatever. Repeat. By the time you are good & lost the…

My cultural assumptions of the Brits were formed by MTV reruns of The Young Ones, which I've come to know as highly accurate.

Kancho!

"…I'm 'honing my gem!'

I never watched F&G for some reason. I grew up just south of Clinton during the 80's, so it sounds like it's something I should see. I was/am a freak and/or geek. At least Clinton had George Clinton for a few years. Adrian only had drugs.

I've got a J for you Towelie. I'll be out back by the dumpster. Don't forget to bring a towel.

Like a coupl'a dang ol' spider monkeys.