The Living Rockumentary

Britodd, I've heard that CD but don't own it. I go through phases with Dylan and I guess i'm just not in one right now. I'm very familiar with that version of "Isis," though. They included a live version from that tour on his "Biograph" box set and it's several notches above the "Desire" album studio version. The tempo is increased and the band just rips through it while Dylan spits out the lines like he's a gansgta rapper. Cool stuff. I've never seen a video of it, though, only the acoustic Tangled Up in Blue from that tour where his face is painted white, which is quite a contrast to his yellow teeth and yellow fingernails.

Of course you all know I hate talk radio, just like I hate everything else about the "entertainment" industry. And this morning after popping the cassette out of my player on my ride to work, I caught this AM DJ talking about this fire at a heavy metal club in Rhode Island. He has one of those whiny Seinfeld-like "come on, folks, what's the deal?" voices and two sidekicks, one man and one woman who chortle at everything he says. I'm sure you know who I mean, if not the actual guy, the archetype, like a watered-down Howard Stern for the locals. So he's talking about this fire and how it was started by the band's pyrotechnics and then he went into a bit about how his mother always told him not to light fireworks and he did anyway but at least even as a youngster, he had enough sense not to do it inside of the house. "I mean, come on folks..." and his cronies start to guffaw like they always do but then both of them, the man and woman both, stopped quickly mid-guffaw, realizing how cruel it was to be cackling at his bit only hours after this incident in which all these people burned to death. And then the sick black humorist in me burst out laughing at these mindless stooges for their knee-jerk chuckling at everything the funnyman says. Is it me? Am I the sick one? Who starts every weekday of their lives listening to this shite on the radio? What the fack? Mother of shite.

In other news, I have penned a set list for this evening and will make photocopies as well. I used Ken's suggestions with just one substitution of my own, which is Candy Cane, although I don't recall which song came off the list to make way.

Pick A Gripe/ Thug/ Photobooth Curtain/ V-66/ Martha/ Candy Cane/ Wichita/ Ayla/ One Lady Dancing

I know it seems strange to end on One Lady Dancing but it's so strong and ends on such a strange note, it makes folks hungry for more and they'll be raring to come see us in the future.