March 2010
18 posts
Not Just the Ticket — audience question #7 →
Extremely busy week for me here — I hope to have a further entry up on Friday but we’ll see!
So given that — inspired by PDF’s comment in the previous entry about the Fear/Elvis Hitler/Dwarves…
Not Just the Ticket — #36, Toy Dolls/Fear, March... →
Then-current albums: You got me.
Opening act: 7 Seconds
Back of ticket ad: KROQ, once more. And again.
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Friday the 13th, and yet I don’t recall anything bad or unlucky happening on the…
Not Just the Ticket — #35, Primal Scream, March 7... →
Then-current album: Screamadelica
Opening band: …don’t think there was one.
Back of ticket ad: 97.1 KLSX, the Classic Rock Station! Which would have made more sense had this been a show…
Not Just the Ticket — #34, Nitzer Ebb, February... →
Then-current album: Ebbhead
Opening act: Ethyl Meatplow
Back of ticket ad: “50% off developing and printing at Fox Photo 1-hr Labs.” I am guessing this isn’t a popular business model these…
Not Just the Ticket — #33, The Dickies, February... →
Then-current album: …none, really. Locked and Loaded, I suppose, but that was a live album.
Opening act: Green Jello, still some months away from the inevitable name change.
Back of ticket…
Angel hair pasta with gremolata →
Gremolata being a lemon/parsley/garlic sauce. This grew out of the fact I had both some lemons and parsley left over from my latest basket and was unsure what to do with them. A quick…
Not Just the Ticket — #32, L7, February 20, 1992 →
Then-current album: Bricks Are Heavy, but not quite yet (the album was formally released two months later)
Opening act: the Lazy Cowgirls
Back of ticket ad: the California Lottery is, once…
Not Just the Ticket — #31, Swervedriver, February... →
Then-current album: Raise
Opening act: Ratcat, perhaps. But see below.
Back of ticket ad: KROQ, still world famous. Pretty sure MARS-FM played Swervedriver more, though.
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Seeing so many…
Another batch of 2010 AMG reviews →
From the last few weeks here! I feel I could and should have done more with a lot of these reviews, but I’m liking the next batch I’m working on.
Black Tambourine — Black Tambourine
Agoria —
White bean and kale soup with sausage →
Tofu sausage of course, as is my preferred way to work at home. Adapted only slightly from this excellent recipe I found, so check it out — made a huge batch to carry me through the…
Just waiting on early spring here… →
…and loving it. Photo is looking out over my balcony, might sit out here later and just enjoy a book or something similar.
Not Just the Ticket — #30, My Bloody Valentine,... →
Then-current album: Loveless
Opening act: Babes in Toyland
Back of ticket ad: uh-huh, like KROQ ever put MBV into regular rotation. Probably Rodney played them here and there and that was…
Not Just the Ticket — #29, Soundgarden, January... →
Then-current album: Badmotorfinger
Opening act: Eleven
Back-of-ticket ad: KROQ, again being world famous and all. At least they were actually playing the band in question instead of just…
The Oscars summarized →
Thanks to The Daily What for this.
Not Just the Ticket — #28, Fugazi headlining Rock... →
Then-current album: Steady Diet of Nothing
Opening acts: L7, Pearl Jam, Lunachicks plus Torture Chorus as MCs
Back of ticket ad: Once again, Domino’s, the ever-so-logical choice for a Rock…
Not Just the Ticket — audience question #6 →
Given all the birthday fun yesterday I don’t think I could have written a coherent long entry if I tried. So question time!
What was the biggest sound system/lighting gear disaster you ever…
Not Just the Ticket — #27, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin,... →
Then-current album: God Fodder
Opening act: …Dumptruck or Gruntruck or something like that. Too bad it wasn’t Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts.
Back of ticket ad: yes, KROQ, you were always world…
Not Just the Ticket — #26, Smashing Pumpkins,... →
Then-current album: Gish
Opening act: Hole
Back of ticket ad: “Play California Lottery Your Ticket to Fun” — if you say so.
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The price of this one really knocks me for a loop. $10!…
