Junior's Reading And Viewing List: March 27 - 28, 2010

Last Update - March 30, 2010 at 2:00 AM EDT

Here are some snippets with title links to some of the items I caught over the weekend just past. It's Junior's 'Reading And Viewing List' for March 27 through March 28, 2010.

March 28, 2009

Postgame Notebook: Flames 5, Capitals 3
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Too Little, Too Late? – They waited until the third game of a three-game road trip to get off the bus, but the Calgary Flames were determined not to go home empty-handed. After humbling losses on Long Island and in Boston, the Flames roared to a four-goal period outburst against the Caps at Verizon Center on Sunday afternoon. The flickering Flames made it stand up for a 5-3 victory...

Calgary Flames at Washington Capitals Game Highlights
Posted at Comcast SportsNet - Washington, DC

Right click on video to choose full screen option.

Coach Bruce Boudreau After Home Loss To Calgary Flames
Posted on Caps365 at WashingtonCaps.com

Washington Capitals Players After Home Loss To Calgary Flames
Posted on Caps365 at WashingtonCaps.com

Ovechkin tops the list of most hated in Pittsburgh
Posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin

Rob Rossi reports from Arlington, VA (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, March 28, 2010) "No Penguin opponent inspires as much hate
as Ovechkin":

The bad guy

In Pittsburgh, Ovechkin is an opposing NHL player who inspires a level of hate previously reserved for Philadelphia's Bobby Clarke and Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky...

Runaways Anthology On The Way
By mdome at Classic Rock

The Runaways are to have a double CD titled The Mercury Albums Anthology released on May 24.This will feature all 42 tracks from the albums The Runaways, Queens Of Noise, Live In Japan, and Waitin’ For The Night.

The compilation will come out two months after The Runaways movie opened in America. Here’s the trailer for the film.

Caps Face Flames to Start Homestand
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

After splitting shootout decisions in a back-to-back set of contests in the middle of the week, the Capitals had a rare Friday and Saturday night off from the rigors of the NHL’s regular season schedule. On Sunday afternoon, they’ll get back to business when they entertain the Calgary Flames in a Sunday matinee match at Verizon Center...

Happy Birthday to Reba McEntire - American singer and actress born in 1955.


March 27, 2009

Daltrey To Continue Peforming Even If The Who Split Up
Posted by Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

The Who's Roger Daltrey insists he will continue performing even if the group split up because of Pete Townshend's tinnitus...

Green’s Giant Appearance
By The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog

...OFB reader and Caps fan Angela sent us the following photos of the event, with explanations of each one...

Gary Bettman: Ovechkin was not doing anything malicious
Posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin

By David Haugh, March 27, 2010: chicagotribune.com
"Commissioner addresses state of NHL":

Did the fact that Ovechkin is a superstar affect the length of his suspension?

No. Your history as a player and the number of times you've been involved in an incident may, but no. The Ovechkin play, he was suspended for being careless and reckless, not for doing anything malicious...

R.I.P. Dudley Moore - English actor and comedian died in 2002.

R.I.P. Milton Berle - American actor and comedian died in 2002.

Happy Birthday to David Coulthard - Scottish
(former) Formula One driver born in 1971.

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: February 18 - 19, 2010

Last Update - February 21, 2010 at 6:06 AM EST

This 'Reading And Viewing List' covers Thursday, February 18 through Friday, February 19, 2010. It's just a small sampling of what became available over the course of those two days.


February 19, 2010

New Media Convergence on the Farm
By The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog

This weekend OFB embarks on a roadtrip we’ve sought since our start — to Hershey, but hauling along with us a hearty contingent of D.C. hockey bloggers. We’ve long wanted to take our new media party up to Chocolatetown for a weekend and see if we could just blow the lid off the terrific puck party up there, and given who’s joining us this weekend, when the Bears will host Lake Erie Saturday night and Albany on Sunday, we like our chances...

Marvel Superheroes And 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'
Team Up This Weekend
By Blair Marnell at MTV's Splash Page

Several artists and designers from Marvel Entertainment are scheduled to appear Sunday night on "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition...

No Role For General Ross In 'Iron Man 2' Or 'Thor',
Says William Hurt
By Blair Marnell at MTV's Splash Page

One of the most memorable moments of director Louis Leterrier's "Incredible Hulk" movie was Robert Downey Jr.'s brief cameo as Tony Stark during a scene with William Hurt's Gen. Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross. And while Stark's line about "putting a team together" suggested a carefully worded reference to the "Avengers" movie, Hurt recently revealed that the entire scene was improvised with Downey...

What did we learn in Sweden? Allow The WRC Guru to explain
Posted at WRC.com


So, after a four month break the 2010 World Rally Championship is finally up and running, and as the snow dust settles after a sensational Rally Sweden, it looks like the year ahead will be cracker.

Of course it's not easy to draw too many long-term conclusions after a rally as specialised as Sweden, but the performances of the top drivers on ice have given us some useful indications about how the season might pan out...

Senator Mellencamp? It Could Happen
By mdome at Classic Rock

A Facebook campaign has been launched to persuade John Mellencamp to for the US Senate...

Is This The End For The Who?
By gbarton at Classic Rock

Who guitarist Pete Townshend could be forced into retirement if he can’t find a successful treatment for his tinnitus.

The band recently put in a half-time performance at the Super Bowl – but Townshend says they’re “finished” unless a new treatment for his ear problems does the trick...

Alex Ovechkin (Russia) lays big hit on Zdeno Chara (Slovakia)
during February 18, 2010 Olympic game. Photo by Shaun Best / Reuters.

Olympic hockey: Slovakia surprises Ovechkin, Russia
By Sport-Express' Slava Malamud at Heavy Medal

..."Ovechkin, Semin and Datsyuk are obviously the best players in the world," Chara said after the game. "It's challenging to play against those guys. But I loved [Ovehckin's hit]. We always battle hard. I was tired and was trying to get the puck out of our zone. I knew he was going to hit me, but I lost my balance and he put me down on the ice. That's what the best players do. We are good friends off the ice but on the ice we compete and go after each other."...

February 18, 2010

Post Rally Sweden Q&A: Mikko Hirvonen
Posted at WRC.com

A fortnight ago Ford team-leader Mikko Hirvonen promised a new, more aggressive approach for the 2010 WRC season. And after the opening round in Sweden his new attitude seems to be working pretty well, thank you.

Of course it must be nice to start the season with a win - although for Mikko it's a feeling he'd never experienced before - but to be so quick that the six times world champion Sebastien Loeb gives up before the end? That was something new for everybody...

Nine Thought on the Marriage Strike
By Kameron at I May Have Been Born Yesterday
But I Stayed Up All Night

...II. The Marriage Strike

From what I can determine, the term “marriage strike” was coined in 2002 by columnists Glenn Sacks and Diana Thompson “The US marriage rate has dipped 40% over the past four decades,” they wrote,”to its lowest point ever. There are many plausible explanations for this trend, but one of the least mentioned is that American men, in the face of a family court system which is hopelessly stacked against them, have subconsciously launched a 'marriage strike.'”...

Women’s Team USA Hockey Impressive at Olympics
By Chasta Piatakovas at Love the Game, Don't Like Puck Bunnies

Those that once believed that women can’t play hockey have been proven incredibly wrong by Team USA: Jenny Potter has registered two hat tricks so far in the tournament; former Olympian-turned-Olympics commentator Cammi Granato equated a goal in the game...

Capitals Season Ticket Holders Brace for Increased Prices
By Chasta Piatakovas at Love the Game, Don't Like Puck Bunnies

The 2010-11 season ticket renewal packets have begun to arrive in the in-boxes and mailboxes for Washington Capitals season ticket holders. Naturally success on the ice has equated into higher ticket prices, but the steep ticket prices have caused for some extreme sticker shock...

Wanted: More Patriots in Pucks
By pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog

Like a good many other American hockey fans, I’ve been underwhelmed by NBC’s hockey coverage during this first week of the Winter Olympic Games. Bumped off the big channel for ice dancing was the first indignity. Then last night, after a particularly long and trying day at work, I sat down to watch Nick Backstrom and his Swedish teammates take on Germany, over on MSNBC, just wanting a game and a bottle of beer or two to salvage my hump day, and right as a 0-0, potential upset intrigue was setting in deep in period one, off went hockey at the stroke of 8:00 and on went . . . Keith Olberman...

Video Premiere : Jimi Hendrix "Valleys Of Neptune"
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

Here's the video, via Spinner.com for Jimi Hendrix's Valleys of Neptune,' the title track of the upcoming album of the same name, due March 9, of studio tracks Hendrix recorded in 1969...

Where's The Promotion, NBC
By Mike Chen at From The Rink

While I've been far from glued to NBC's non-hockey Olympic coverage, I've caught my fair share of it and I've seen a sampling of the fluff pieces the network puts together in between events -- you know, the heartwarming tales of some athlete's home town or a mini-documentary on polar bears. (Seriously -- NBC actually popped up a graphic overlay that said "POLAR BEARS...in 5 minutes" during a broadcast. I like polar bears too, but come on.) However, I haven't seen too much about the Olympic hockey tournament other than some programming notes and shots of Wayne Gretzky from the opening ceremony...

...Seriously, it's not like a two-minute package highlighting how Ovechkin has taken D.C. by storm would take a lot of effort to put together -- and it's not like it'd be terribly out of place showcasing an Olympic athlete in an Olympic event. Heck, it might even make more sense than polar bears -- and I LIKE polar bears!...

John Paul Jones: There Are No Decent Band Names Any More
By gbarton at Classic Rock

The Led Zeppelin/Them Crooked Vultures bassist reckons MySpace has ruined everything.

Talking to The Wall Street Journal, Jones complained:

“Every other name is taken. Think of a great band name and Google it, and you’ll find a French-Canadian jam band with a MySpace page.”...

A Lesson in Supply and Demand
By OrderedChaos (Mike Rucki) at On Frozen Blog

...Yes, the Caps’ current ticket prices—particularly for my seats in the front row of the upper deck—are not only significantly discounted from face value, but quite a bargain by league standards. According to The New York Times, 20 NHL teams charged more, on average, for tickets than the Capitals did in 2009-10...

Entries published for Rally Mexico
Posted at WRC.com


The organisers of Rally Mexico have published the seeded entry list for this year's event, round two of the World Championship season, which starts on 4 March.

The WRC event rotation system meant Mexico was absent from last year's calendar, but it returns in 2010 amid a year long fiesta to mark the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and the 200th anniversary of its independence...

Russia practices, Swedes and Czechs open with wins
By Lindsay Applebaum at Capitals Insider

Yesterday's game action: Nicklas Backstrom had an assist in defending champ Sweden's 3-0 victory over Germany, and Tomas Fleischmann's Czech's took a 3-1 win over Slovakia...

Olympic hockey: Catching up with Tomas Fleischmann
By Sport-Express' Slava Malamud at Heavy Medal

For Caps fans, Olympic hockey is not all Russians, of course. Two other Washingtonians are playing at the Games as well, and both had their first taste of the sport's premier stage Wednesday.

I was able to catch up with Tomas Fleischmann after his Czechs defeated arch-rival Slovakia in a beautiful, open game that featured lots of scoring chances and a brilliant performance by a certain former Cap, whose first and last names both start with a J...

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: February 12 - 14, 2010

Last Update - February 16, 2010 at 9:22 PM EST

February 12 through February 14, 2010 was a big weekend. The last pre Olympics NHL Hockey games were played, before players jetted off to Vancouver, Canada, and this year's World Rally Championship racing got underway in Sweden. Links to what was posted to the web are included in the 'Reading And Viewing List' below.


February 14, 2010

Ford team boss hails Hirvonen's Sweden win
Posted at WRC.com

BP Ford Abu Dhabi team director Malcolm Wilson has heaped praise on his lead driver Mikko Hirvonen for a performance in Sweden he believes was his best ever.

Hirvonen and his co-driver Jarmo Lehtinen started their 2010 WRC campaign by winning the opening round by 42.3sec from arch rival Sebastien Loeb. The win, Hirvonen's 12th, moved Ford level with Lancia at the top of the all-time manufacturer wins table - on 74 WRC victories apiece...

For the Caps’ GM, a Pause To Ponder
By pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog

This morning commences perhaps the most interesting 15 days in the Capitals’ career of General Manager George McPhee. All NHL rosters are frozen until 11:59 p.m. on February 28, coincidental to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, at which time NHL clubs will have less than three full days to tinker with their rosters before the league’s March 3 trade deadline...

ELP's Keith Emerson & Greg Lake To Undertake
Unplugged U.S. Tour
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

Rock legends Keith Emerson and Greg Lake are to tour the U.S. starting on April 1, 2010 in an exclusive intimate evening of musical retrospective highlighting the iconic music of Emerson Lake and Palmer, the Nice and King Crimson...

Hirvonen wins in Sweden!
Posted at WRC.com

Ford Focus RS WRC driver Mikko Hirvonen got his quest for the 2010 World Rally Championship drivers' title off to the best possible start today by winning the opening round of the series, Rally Sweden.

Hirvonen, team-leader of the BP Ford Abu Dhabi Team, took the lead on Friday and successfully fought off a two-day attack from defending champion Sebastien Loeb, who finished second, 42.3sec behind in a Citroen C4 WRC...

Axl Slams Slash Ban Rumours
By mdome at Classic Rock

Axl Rose has hit out at people who are perpetuating the myth that anyone wearing Slash merchandise was barred from venues on the Guns n’ Roses tour of Canada.It had been reported that fans turning up with Slash T-shirts were forced to turn them inside out...

SS17: Hirvonen fends off Loeb's attack
Posted at WRC.com

Rally Sweden leader Mikko Hirvonen did a successful job of defending his position on Sunday opening stage, preventing a hard charging Sebastien Loeb from taking any more than two-tenths from his 16 second advantage.

Running first and second through the 21.87km Rammen test, the pair left the other competitors trailing in their wake - with third fastest Dani Sordo 9.7sec further back...

The feeling is coming, says Raikkonen
Posted at WRC.com

Citroen Junior Team driver Kimi Raikkonen believes his times on the second day of Rally Sweden show progress is being made in his bid to make it as a top line WRC driver.

The Finn ended Saturday's second day of the rally more than 34 minutes behind the leaders after going off the road and getting stuck in a snow bank during Friday's competition. But after a series of promising stage times on Saturday, including one sixth-fastest time on SS15, the 2007 Formula 1 World Champion felt he was starting to get the hang of his new Citroen C4 WRC...

Boudreau: Bradley expected to be 'okay'
By Tarik El-Bashir at Capitals Insider

The Olympic break has arrived, and not a moment too soon for the Capitals, who played their best game of the road trip but still lost, 4-3, in the shootout at Scottrade Center in St. Louis...

February 13, 2010

Postgame Notebook: Blues 4, Capitals 3, SO
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Break Time – The Caps finished off a three-game road trip with a 4-3 shootout loss to the Blues in St. Louis on Saturday. The Caps came from behind three times to gain a point, but picked up a loss when the Blues’ David Perron scored the lone goal of the shootout in the fourth round...

Washington Capitals Players Talk To Media After Loss
To St Louis Blues
Posted on Caps365 at WashingtonCaps.com

Bruce Boudreau Spoke To Media After Loss To St Louis Blues
Posted on Caps365 at WashingtonCaps.com

Washington Capitals at St Louis Blues Game Highlights
Posted at Comcast SportsNet - Washington, DC

Right click on video to choose full screen option.

Last One (Caps Game) Before the Olympic Break Tonight
In Saint Louis
By Usually Frustrated Caps Fan at Mark's Musings

...The Eastern Conference leading Washington Capitals (89 Points, 41-13-7) will meet the Western Conference 12th place Saint Louis Blues (63 points, 27-25-9) tonight at ScottTrade Center in Saint Louis tonight at 7:00PM Central Time. For both teams it is their last game before the 2 1/2 week break for the Olympics. It's also likely the only meeting this season between the two teams...

WRC: Hirvonen takes 16 second lead into the final day in Sweden
Posted at WRC.com

Ford team-leader Mikko Hirvonen will take a 16.6 second lead into Sunday's final day of Rally Sweden, an advantage his chief opponent, Citroen driver Sebastien Loeb, acknowledged will be difficult to overturn on the five stage which remain.

Saturday's second day of the rally featured two identical loops of four stages in the Varmland region of central Sweden, clustered around the Hagfors Service Park. Under clear blue skies and in temperatures than plunged to -22ºC, crews tackled 117.76km of ice and snow covered gravel stages...

The TV Numbers Don’t Lie
By pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog

Word late this week arrived of just what all this stylized winning by Washington’s hockey team translates to: Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic delivered the highest-rated Washington Capitals game in network history for its coverage of the team’s game in Montreal on Wednesday night...

WRC: Hirvonen leads at Rally Sweden midpoint
Posted at WRC.com

With 12 of the 21 stages of Rally Sweden completed, Ford team-leader Mikko Hirvonen holds the overall lead by 4.2sec from Citroen's defending world champion, Sebastien Loeb.

The overnight leader, Hirvonen started Saturday's competition 6.2 seconds in front, and increased this to more than 10 seconds on today's opening stage, but gave away a little to Sebastien on Loeb on each of the three that followed...

SS9: Hirvonen flies through Saturday's opener
Posted at WRC.com

On Saturday's opening stage of Rally Sweden, overnight leader Mikko Hirvonen almost doubled his lead over second placed Sebastien Loeb, taking it to more than 10 seconds for the first time.

Day two of the rally began in darkness at 0600hrs, when drivers left Karlstad for the 85km drive north to Hagfors and a 15 minute service. With the sun rising, and in a temperature of -21 degrees Celsius, they then embarked on the 18km journey west to the start of Vargasen...

Caps Play The Blues
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Washington will conclude a three-game road trip and the pre-Olympic break portion of its 2009-10 schedule on Saturday night when it visits St. Louis for a date with the Blues...

February 12, 2010

SS8: Leaders clear the Super Special hurdle
Posted at WRC.com

Three and a half hours after the last forest stage, SS7, Friday's competition on Rally Sweden concluded with a second night-time blast around the Super Special in Karlstad.

As they had on Thursday night, thousands of spectators braved sub zero temperatures to watch the drivers tackle the ice covered figure-of-eight track two at a time...

Free Nelson Mandela
By Ted Leonsis at Ted's Take

Here is a great documentary film about the life and times of Nelson Mandela.

Watch this film this weekend. It is relevant as we celebrate the anniversary of his freedom...

SS7: Hirvonen holds day one lead in Sweden
Posted at WRC.com

With only the short 1.9km Super Special Stage to run tonight, Ford team-leader Mikko Hirvonen holds the day one lead of Rally Sweden, having overturned the early advantage of his Citroen rival Sebastien Loeb...

Stan Lee To Star In 'Super Seven' Comics And Animated Series
By Blair Marnell at MTV's Splash Page

Marvel Comics' living legend, Stan Lee will create and star in "Super Seven", a new comic property produced by Lee's Pow Entertainment, A Squared Entertainment and Archie Comics...

Gary Moore Ready To Rock Sweden
By mdome at Classic Rock

Gary Moore is to play Sweden Rock as well as Classic Rock’s High Voltage festival this year.

What’s more, the guitarist will perform a hard rock set at both events, concentrating on his albums from the 1980s and also Thin Lizzy songs. No blues at all...

Daltrey: I Didn’t Enjoy Who Super Bowl Show
By mdome at Classic Rock

While there’s been a mixed reaction to The Who’s performance at the Super Bowl in Miami last Sunday, one man was very unhappy with it all – Roger Daltrey...

SS4: Hirvonen fights back as crews reach Friday's midpoint
Posted at WRC.com

Ford team-leader Mikko Hirvonen ended Citroen's run of stage wins on SS4, taking his first fastest time of the rally and moving up to second overall.

The Finn rounded off Friday morning's loop of stages with a time through Torntorp four-tenths quicker than that of his closest rival, rally leader Sebastien Loeb...

SS2: Loeb takes the lead on Friday's opener
Posted at WRC.com

Defending World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb moved ahead of his Citroen team-mate Dani Sordo into the lead of Rally Sweden after setting the fastest time though the first forest stage of the event...

November 2009 Concerts In Maryland, Virginia & Washington, DC

Here is a current list of some noteable music concerts and comedy performances scheduled to take place in November 2009, at venues in Maryland, Northern Virginia and the Washington, DC area.

Jonny Lang & Robert Cray - November 7th at Chesapeake College in Wye Mills, MD

Jackson Browne - November 9th at Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, MD

Roger Daltrey: 'Use It Or Lose It Tour' - November 10th Cancelled at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, MD

Bob Dylan - November 11th at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA

Don McLean - November 15th: 5:00 PM EST and 8:00 PM EST at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, MD

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band - November 20th
Sold Out at 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore, MD

Jim Gaffigan - November 20th at Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, MD

Robin Williams - November 20th and 21st at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC

Steely Dan - November 22nd and 23rd at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC

Charm City Devils - November 28th at Rams Head Live! in Baltimore, MD

*All details are subject to change!

Roger Daltrey On 'Use It Or Lose It Tour' This Fall

Roger Daltrey, lead singer for The Who, will be embarking on his first solo tour since 1985. The 'Use It Or Lose It Tour' starts October 10, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada. See the full current schedule at TheWho.com . Tickets for most of the shows, including the November 10th concert at The Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, MD, go on sale to the general public this Saturday morning. Visit TicketMaster for the latest schedule, and to purchase tickets for dates in this tour.

"The Song Is Over" And Now I'm "Nothin' But Blue"

How do I break the news to those poor unsuspecting sheep?
They're still Rock'n The Red!

The Washington Capitals did not make it to the Eastern Conference Finals of the 2009 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs . They made it to Game 7 of the Semifinals, but lost in that game on Wednesday night, thus ending their post season run.

The Capitals had a glorious 2008-2009 season, and we should praise them for getting to the second round of the playoffs. They went twice as far as last year. Washington was much improved and will continue to get better, even in the off season. You can be sure that Vice President and General Manager George McPhee and the scouting staff are continuously working on making the team better. Chairman and Majority Owner Ted Leonsis, as well as the rest of the Capitals organization, want to win the Stanley Cup just as much as the team's fans do.

This year, more than ever, I'm anxious for the 2009 Entry Draft, trades and free agency possibilities, resignings and everything that goes on before the next season starts. But for now, "The Song Is Over" and I'm "Nothin' But Blue".

The Who - "The Song Is Over"



Brian May - "Nothin' But Blue"

December 3rd 1979 Concert Tragedy Remembered

On December 3, 1979, eleven fans were killed by compressive asphyxia and several dozen others injured in the rush for seating at the opening of a sold-out concert by English rock band The Who. The concert was using "festival seating", (also known as "general seating"), where the best seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Due to the festival seating, many fans arrived early. When the crowds waiting outside heard the band performing a late sound check, they thought that the concert was beginning and tried to rush into the still-closed doors. Some at the front of the crowd were trampled as those pushing from behind were unaware that the doors were still closed. Only a few doors were in operation that night, and there are reports that management did not open more doors due to the concern of people sneaking past the ticket turnstiles[2].

As a result, concert venues across North America switched to assigned seating or changed their rules about festival seating. Cincinnati immediately outlawed festival seating at concerts, although it overturned the ban on August 4, 2004. The ban was making it difficult for Cincinnati to book concerts since many music acts prefer festival seating because it could allow the most enthusiastic fans to get near the stage and generate excitement for the rest of the crowd. Some performers and bands insist on a festival seating area near the stage. The city had made a one-time exception to the ban before August 4, 2004, allowing festival seating for a Bruce Springsteen concert. Cincinnati was, at one time, the only city in the United States to outlaw festival seating altogether.


- From Wikipedia

As Summer 2008 Wanes, So Does Live Music

The Summer of 2008 is coming to an end, and the amount of live concerts in the Mid-Atlantic is dwindling somewhat along with it. There isn't a huge number of good shows left on the schedule before the year ends. We should see some additions soon, but I thought I'd list most of what's currently on the horizon.

Hagerstown, MD's own hard rockers, Kix will be doing a few performances in the area this month. They'll be at Jaxx Night Club in West Springfield, VA on the 12th, onto Rams Head Live! in Baltimore, MD on the 13th (with Fishnet Stalkers), and at Cancun Cantina - West in Hagerstown, MD the 19th of September.

Motorhead pay another visit to the area on September 18th, but this time they are the headliners when they play at Rams Head Live! Opening for the band that never stops touring, will be The Misfits, Valient Thorr and Year Long Disaster.

Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD will host southerners The Allman Brothers Band, along with Phil Lesh And Friends, on September 30th.

One of the world's best classic rock bands, The Who play at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC on November 3rd. If there are any tickets left for this show, I'd be afraid to ask how much they're going for.


If you're into the blues, don't miss B.B. King, when he visits Birchmere in Alexandria, VA on November 26. There really isn't anyone else quite like him.

There are a couple more things happening before the end of the year, but I'll include them in another post.

Well Keith, No Blue Plaque For You Mate

From The Who's web site:

NO BLUE PLAQUE FOR KEITH MOON?

The homes of famous people who have lived in England are awarded a high-status Blue Plaque. English heritage, who decide who gets the blue treatment and who doesn’t, have deemed The Who’s legendary drummer as unworthy.

‘I’m sure the 1860s screw propeller engineer Sir Francis Pettit thoroughly deserves his recently awarded Blue Plaque’, says Rob Lee, editor of thewho.com, ‘ and screw propeller afficionados all over the world will be thrilled. But why turn down Keith Moon, the undisputed greatest rock drummer of all time? It’s not as if English Heritage don’t have at least some rock fans on their panel: Jimi Hendrix was recognised with a Blue Plaque a few years back. Maybe you're only eligible if you smash guitars rather than drums.’

Keith is in good company for his rejection by the panel. Legendary writer Arthur Koestler has also just been turned down too. A case of 'Darkness at Moon'?

For more, CLICK HERE .


Come on now. Keith Moon was good people, right?

The Who - "Won't Get Fooled Again"