Naturally, you couldn’t take that photo today.

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Perhaps his greatest contribution to the cringe canon is the Behind The Music: Chris Gaines episode. It’s completely hilarious yet I can bring myself to watch more than 2 minutes at a time vimeo.com/197107209

better than being agents of the law (in a fascist state)

fancy meeting you here

Two vinyl records pictured: XTC’s Live Boots and Steely Dan’s Alive in America

RSD mission accomplished 🫡

I kinda became jaded about RSD because of the janky cash grabs, the ebay flippers, etc, but standing in line at @1234gorecords.bsky.social for 45 minutes (after they’d already been open for six hours) really reminded me that RSD is still about record stores in the end

Fyre fest ass secretary of war

Nickelodeoncore first

*Phil Collins drum fill out of nowhere*

I wanted Sammy to join Van Halen, because I didn't want any other singer in that band. After I said I didn't want to do a Van Halen album with Sammy singing, Leffler and Sammy both got agitated. Sammy was really upset. He said, "Ted, you've got to produce this!" I said, "Look, I just can't do it. It's not personal, but without Dave, it's not Van Halen to me." After I said that, Leffler lost it. Glaring at me, he growled, "This is my big chance!" "I am not going to do it. Period." The lunch didn't end well. Those guys left in a huff.

Ted Templeman with the perfect Van Hagar take in 1985:

He said, "Ted, you've got to produce this!"

I said, "Look, I just can't do it. It's not personal, but without Dave, it's not Van Halen to me."

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Prefab Sprout’s Steve McQueen LP cover

The Bush family? The WWI profiteers who sold steel to the Germans?

Like if it was illegal to have more than 2 people in a band they might be one of the best, but guess what? You can just have a better trio like The Fucking Champs

I’m so close to liking this but the repetitive, looping guitar riffs are just a boring way to construct an instrumental song. Yeah it’s a cool trick that they do that with just two people, but a proper trio would be so much more interesting and listenable.

there’s something so funny about the phrase “as surfers go,”

and it gets funnier the more you say it

I remember reading this! Apropos of nothing of course.

I hope tbpn’s hard nosed journalism won’t be compromised

Well done!

My Jailbreak LP (1976 Pitman pressing) in a Now Playing stand

50 years ago today, Thin Lizzy released their commercial breakthrough Jailbreak, and definitively answered once and for all the question on a generation’s mind: Are the boys back in town? Yes. They were.

Judge, Skenes, Webb all eating shit on Opening Day. The Curse of Team USA is in effect

just don’t let it happen again

hey, I did not authorize this!

post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

why does this always seem to happen in Cumming Parade?

George Duke’s Thief in the Night LP; the inner sleeve, featuring a picture of George Duke, is half visible

the only Duke I care about this March

I was there too. Lmk if you see me

You’re describing the KK Downing solos. Tipton was a god. His solo in Beyond The Realms of Death is one of my favorite solos ever.

meta being called meta is so incredible. it’d be like if microsoft was called zune or nasa was called challenger

There is a party where two representatives from World Baseball Classic team Venezuela (Suarez and Acuna Jr) are dancing with women, and someone from Team USA (assumed to be Judge) is standing in the corner saying "they don't know Paul Skenes was almost in the airforce"