Good evening, and Happy Birthday to the late, great B.B. King.

I think I found a pic:

Please post this in every article about the Bears this season, will you?

The White Sox outscored the Bears today. What a fucking slog that game was. God I hate sports.

Suffice to say, the city attempting to buy its way out of the consequences of such egregiously awful policing without admitting that Brown’s civil rights were violated is weaselly as shit.

My son is 15. I took him to Teenage Bottlerocket. He wouldn’t get in the pit so my 39 year-old ass did.

Tuned in at this time to the Brexit debate still going on…

Good evening. Here’s Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers (which includes, in this instance, Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley and Horace Silver).

The future of the Blues looks bright with young artists like Marcus King!

I took my son to his first punk show a couple of months ago. I was pleasantly surprised to see how many 30 somethings there were with their kids.

I Can’t Work No Longer

Guns ‘N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy [2008]

Happy Labor Day in the Trump era:

Styx were from Chicago (Far South Side) and Speedwagon were from Champaign. Cheap Trick are, to the best of my knowledge, the only act of any significance from Rockford (unless you count cult-beloved dirtbag American Primitive guitar wizard and stoner-folk troubadour Ryley Walker).

Styx - The Grand Illusion [1977]

One of my favorite Soundgarden songs.

I have never been one willing to pay big bucks to go see bands like the Stones that haven’t put out anything worthwhile in decades (plus not usually into old dudes still trying to rock) so with that said I give you my exception to this rule that even in his 70’s still comes out with creative new…