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Be My Guest

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Here’s a pic from the show, and if you’re not at least a tiny bit impressed by amount of information available about something that’s currently happening in a darkened room in Virginia, then you’re just not paying attention.

Second set promises “special guests” and there’s a only a certain number of folks it could be:

  • Bobby. (It’s probably Bobby.)
  • Woody Hayes.
  • Isn’t Mickey at Lock’n this year? Mickey might show up.
  • Mickey’s not really a “special” guest, though.
  • Guest?
  • Sure.
  • Special?
  • In ways, yes, but mostly: no.
  • Unless he brings his pants made out of train horns: those are special as hell.
  • Benjy with a kazoo.
  • The forty pounds of foundation makeup on Cris Colinsworth’s withered skull and splotchy old-man hands.
  • Maybe–and I’m just spitballing–thespecial guest can confiscate both of the guitarists’ hats?
  • Just a thought.
  • Phil will not be the special guest.

Lights Up

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Holy shit: Billy’s latest bar band is fucking killing it. It is going to be a real shame when he fires them, suddenly and with no explanation, in six months.

The stream’s going and I don’t think anyone’s putting a kibosh on it; but for battery loss or a well-aimed EMP blast from the North Koreans (the little fat one saw Ocean’s 11 and got the whole EMP thing in his head,) the show should be yours for the listening.

The band’s not perfect, but in a very Billy way: they jam every song, even Bobby’s cowboy tunes, which we can only assume that Billy still plays so he can still bitch about having to play them.

You forget what a motherfucker Billy is (in a musical sense; also, in the sense that he fucked your mother) but he is mixed up real high in the feed–it’s basically an A+ AUD–and he does not have three guitarists and two keyboardists and Mickey fucking around with his tom-toms smothering him and he sounds miles better than he did in Chicago. If we’re completely honest, he also sounds as if he’s trying just a bit harder, but that’s just one man’s opinion.

Once again: check it out here.

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