• The Thriller Free Zone has begun. Warming up with Stick Men improvs and Starless with David Cross.
• ProjeKct Four - Seizure
• A Scarcity of Miracles by Jakko Jakszyk, Mel Collins, and Robert Fripp
• followed by Caitley's Ashes, from Jakko's solo but featuring Mel Collins.
• Liquid Tension Experiment Osmosis

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as we get closer to the 25th, the seasonal albums that aren't just tolerable, but i absolutely love countdown...but not in any order, so nyah.

• Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio
• December - George Winston
• A Celtic Heartbeat Christmas - various
• Jethro Tull's Christmas Album
• A Scottish Christmas - Maggie Sansone, Al Petteway, Bonnie Rideout. ( ( Read more... )

Soundchecking - 5:30pm

• Flock of Seaguls - Nightmares
• Depeche Mode's Policy of Truth
• Frankie's Welcome to the Pleasuredome
• Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
• Eurythmics - Who's That Girl

• Warmed up the system to various Pink Floyd

soundtracks

• The closing credits suites from Pirates 3
• "Obliviate" - the opening music from Harry Potter 7.1 (painful scene, that...)
• Abduction of Barry - Close Encounters
• The Conversation - Close Encounters

...started late as traffic was horrible getting out of Tysons.  Got in just in time for 6 kids...hope I didn't miss everybody else...

This year I'm going to shuffle up a bit more (having put together an ipod mix)

• The Gathering - Herbal Movement
• Stick Men - The Firebird Suite (yes, Stravinsky played on a Chapman Stick, a specially made Touch Guitar ( Read more... )

American Landmarks Series

I posted these, one every half hour (give or take) today on FB.  Here they are collected...


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Newt Gingrich didn't see his shadow (right before his eyes), so we're stuck with 6 more weeks of GOP primary stupidity...

started 6:15, ended by 7:45.  Not even 30 kids (and for a moment, with 2 "rushes" of 8-10 kids, I was worried we'd run out of stuff...).  Totally a classic rock evening this year...

• soundchecked to Pink Floyd (Dogs, Welcome to the Machine, One of these Days, Careful with that Axe Eugene)
• Alan Parsons (Tales of Mystery and Imagination)
• Sting's I Burn ( Read more... )

Some of you might have seen this on FB, or 'cause I kept passing my phone around showing it, 'cause I think it's just great...


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