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The B-52’s rocked Charm City

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After I was able to cross Kraftwerk off of my “bucket list” of bands to see, I was happy at the prospect of never going to see another band live again. When my cousin called me and said she wanted to go and see the B-52’s live, I was a little apprehensive at first, but in looking back over my concert going career, they where one of the bands that I always loved (before the Love Shack/Roam invasion) but had never seen live. I thought, “WTF” I’ll go. And I was glad I made that decision.

They rocked it. The crowd was a mix of folks my age with their kids (it was an open show and I should have taken my daughter who is also a fan), my parents age, and a younger college crowd which was nice to see. Also, the hispter factor was at an all time low which was another plus.

They played the obligatory “Love Shack” and “Roam” and of course “Rock Lobster”, but the most impressive aspect of the show was that the play list consisted mostly of songs from their “Wild Planet” album. They played maybe 3 songs off of their new album “Funplex”, but the fact that they went back to the “Wild Planet” to get most of their material was the best.

Keith Strickland is an amazing guitar player, and for each song they played, the roadie supplied him a fresh guitar. Even when during the beginning of “Party Out of Bounds” when guitar handed to him was out of tune, he stopped the song much to the amusement of the other band members and they began again. Its was hard to remember that he was the original drummer for the band before Ricky Wilson’s untimely death in the late 80’s. The spirit of Ricky is still strong in those early guitar rifts that Keith now belts out. I wish they had played some songs off of my favorite album “Whammy”, but that was the last album Ricky and his sister Cindy Wilson worked on before his death. I can imagine that some of those songs still carry a sting to them.

It also was inspiring that Cindy Wilson, who left the band back in the early 90’s to have a career as a housewife and a mother could come back now, with a voice as strong as ever, to rock it just as she had back in the late 70’s. Kate Pierson is an amazing vocalist, and it was the same with her; like she had just stepped out of a time capsule, only a little older and wiser. Fred Schneider was in “Full Frontal Fred” form, with his microphone, Spock/Kirk “Phaser Set to Stun” baseball tee, and cow bell. Fred rapped way before it was the norm, a credit due to him which I think is tragically overlooked.

If you get a chance to see them live this summer, don’t pass it up. It’s like turning down a chance at tasting a vintage wine or wondering how good the soup might have been vs the salad. The B-52’s are a true professional band and they will not disappoint. And another plus-NO AUTO TUNE!

I’ll give you fish. I’ll give you candy. I’ll give you everything I have in my hands…

Chronicles of the Absurd, silly, WMOM

Bono needs Doans® pills! “OUCH! ME BACK!”

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If you haven’t heard, the self proclaimed savior of the world and personal do-good’er Bono from the band who defined “sell out” known as U2 has been admitted to a hospital for emergency back surgery.  Personally I think its from bending over in those stupid rock and roll poses in his music videos while the camera sails under his crotch or down his big mouth.

He’s probably in the hospital right now saying, “how kin yew poke foon of me in yer bloog when there’s all this suffrin’ goin on in me back!  NURSE!  I need another Nooty Booty bar!!!”

Here’s the CNN article, if you are pretending to give a crap!

Space Weather Alerts

Watch out for Solar Whiplash

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“A long dark magnetic filament is looping around the northeastern limb, stretching almost 100,000 km from end to end: Long, bushy filaments like this have been known to grow unstable and erupt, producing a type of spotless flare called a “Hyder flare.” If that happens now, Earth would likely feel some effects from the blast because the filament is turning to face our planet.”

The solar wind has also been raging. Speeds and proton densities of the solar wind over this last 24 hour period have increased by 30%. Proton density is now down but the winds are still going strong. So hipsters beware…its not your 3-G network failing…its because you are falling victim to the most important weather on the web.