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    I'm going to cry... Why can't people keep their psychological problems to themselves????!!!

    I hope they can fix it. I'm sure they have the best people working on it...

    This is interesting...

    "our memory, our patrimony."

    Jeezz.....This is part of their identity.. Maybe the guy has issues with his father...

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    ^I know. The law is the law. But it wasn't the government, state or city who went after her. It was a business group that took her to court. They picked her and many others. If you look at it in terms of business, it doesn't make sense. She doesn't have much money, so they probably wouldn't have had her business anyway. Their argument about losing money because of file sharing is very weak if they're using her as an example of a customer. I'm sure she violated copyright law if she lost the suit. That's all the companies wanted -- a precedent. Now they can go after other people.

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    I think they have a right to say whatever they want to a point but when an old man is saying lude things to a young girl trying to give him a shower he's out of line!

    ^LOL Marion...It reminds me of a time when I went on blood draws to a convalescent home.. My co-worker (a male) and I were just medical care visitors. He was drawing blood from an old guy and the patient copped a feel...LOL My coworker said the patient thought he was a nurse (female)...lol I don't know...maybe you don't care when you're that age....LOL

    Gosh...91? I'll be happy if I still have my brain cells...

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    jeezz...a single mom supermarket clerk.. I think the record business forgot the basic rule of a sale -- your buyer has to want your product AND have the money to buy it!!! She's not their market; I'm sure she wouldn't have the money to spend on those recordings. Why did they make an example out of her? Aren't there single guys with better jobs doing this stuff? It seems screwy and a little heartless. I'm sure she thought she was innocent because everyone was doing it with her. I don't know....seems like she's very inexperienced and she had a low budget attorney; they took advantage of it.

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    Good advice, Linda....This is why the last TPATH tour was so great -- real fans got good seats!

    Mr. Kovach asserted in the statement that RMG’s system is “specifically designed to navigate or otherwise avoid various security measures on Ticketmaster’s Web site,” including what is known as the Captcha feature — those squiggly letters in a box that users must retype before they can proceed.

    Jeez....I have a hard time navigating those squiggly letters; how can they do it?

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    Here's who's playing......

    FRIDAY

    Banjo Stage

    Augie March (2:15 p.m.)

    TOP PICK

    Buddy Miller (3 p.m.), T Bone Burnett (4:15 p.m.) and Jeff Tweedy (5:45 p.m.)

    Friday shows were added last year, and a small crowd was treated to an outstanding performance by Elvis Costello. This year the return Hardly Strictly engagement by "O Brother" soundtrack producer T Bone Burnett would be an obvious spot for surprise guest appearances.

    SATURDAY

    Banjo Stage

    Dale Ann Bradley & Coon Creek (11 a.m.)

    Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands (11:50 a.m.)

    TOP PICK

    New Lost City Ramblers (12:45 p.m.)

    The pioneering bluegrass group featuring Mike Seeger, Pete's brother, has re-formed for this special occasion, to be filmed for a documentary.

    TOP PICK

    Roan Mountain Hilltoppers (1:30 p.m.)

    The real deal from the Smokey Mountain backwoods had its 15 seconds of fame - 15 seconds is a long time for a bluegrass group - when Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren sampled the band's music for his 1982 disco hit "Buffalo Gals."

    Alison Brown Quartet with Joe Craven (2:15 p.m.)

    TOP PICK

    Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby (3:20 p.m.)

    This year's most unlikely pair opens a brief tour to promote a joint recording. Their bluegrass version of "Super Freak" should be the theme song of the weekend.

    Gillian Welch (4:40 p.m.)

    Steve Earle & the Bluegrass Dukes (6 p.m.)

    Star Stage

    The subdudes (11 a.m.)

    The Knitters (12:05 p.m.)

    TOP PICK

    John Prine (1:30 p.m.)

    Anytime, anywhere, John Prine is a special treat. On a sunny afternoon in the park, he will be sublime.

    Keller Williams (2:50 p.m.)

    Bela Fleck & the Flecktones (4:10 p.m.)

    Los Lobos (5:30 p.m.)

    Rooster Stage

    Fionn Regan (11 a.m.)

    Allison Moorer (11:45 a.m.)

    Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson (12:40 p.m.)

    Nick Lowe (1:45 p.m.)

    TOP PICK

    Boz Scaggs & Blue Velvet Band (3:15 p.m.)

    Not to be left out of the fun, rock star Boz Scaggs, who has been playing with a jazz group for the past several years, has put together a country-flavored band specifically for Hardly Strictly, featuring Nashville phenom Buddy Miller and New Orleans pianist Jon Cleary. One for the books.

    Symphony Bluegrass Ramblers (4:45 p.m.)

    Robert Earl Keen (5:45 p.m.)

    Arrow Stage

    Austin Lounge Lizards (11:10 a.m.)

    Jimmy LaFave (11:55 a.m. p.m.)

    James McMurtry (1 p.m.)

    The Flatlanders (2:20 p.m.)

    TOP PICK

    Michelle Shocked (3:45 p.m.)

    The East Texas iconoclast will be swinging gospel tunes by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and others from her new album, "ToHeavenURide." She may be a little odd, but she is never less than rewarding.

    T Bone Burnett (5:20 p.m.)

    Porch Stage

    Richard Brandenburg & the Cash Magnets, Julay Brooks (11 a.m.)

    The Whoreshoes (11:50 a.m.)

    Chris Smither (12:35 p.m.)

    Shana Morrison & Caledonia (1:40 p.m.)

    Blanche (2:40 p.m.)

    Teddy Thompson (3:40 p.m.)

    Dan Reeder (4:40 p.m.)

    Belle Monroe & her Brewglass Boys (5:45 p.m.)

    SUNDAY

    Banjo Stage

    Pete Wernick &Flexigrass (11:20 a.m.)

    Hazel Dickens (12:20 p.m.)

    David Grisman Bluegrass Experience with Curly Seckler (1:45 p.m.)

    Earl Scruggs (2:55 p.m.)

    Doc Watson (4:15 p.m.)

    Emmylou Harris (5:45 p.m.)

    Star Stage

    Poor Man's Whiskey (11 a.m.)

    The Sadies (11:45 a.m.)

    Heartless Bastards (12:55 p.m.)

    The Mekons (2:05 p.m.)

    Dry Branch Fire Squad (3:10 p.m.)

    Railroad Earth (4:30 p.m.)

    Del McCoury Band (6 p.m.)

    Rooster Stage

    Jim Lauderdale (11 a.m.)

    Kevin Welch, Kiernan Kane and Fats Kaplin (11:55 a.m.)

    Charlie Louvin (12:55 p.m.)

    TOP PICK

    Songwriter Circle with Chris Smither, David Olney, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Steve Young (2 p.m.)

    The festival's trademark peer interaction moment is always a highlight.

    Jorma Kaukonen (3:15 p.m.)

    Dave Alvin & Guilty Men (4:30 p.m.)

    TOP PICK

    Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams (6 p.m.)

    This eccentric but charismatic quartet was the surprise hit of spring's Strawberry Music Festival. The group could work the same magic on the Hardly Strictly crowd.

    Arrow Stage

    Mother Hips (11 a.m.)

    Moonalice (12:05 p.m.)

    Hot Buttered Rum (1:05 p.m.)

    Hacienda Brothers (2:10 p.m.)

    TOP PICK

    Bill Kirchen & the Hammer of the Honkey-Tonk Gods (3:30 p.m.)

    If you're looking for rock 'n' roll truck songs - dieselbilly, as he calls it - Kirchen is your man.

    Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit (5 p.m.)

    Porch Stage

    TOP PICK

    The Wronglers (11 a.m.)

    Unkind people have suggested that Warren Hellman throws this million-dollar bash just so his bluegrass band can get a job. Come watch him play banjo as he has more fun than investment bankers are usually allowed.

    Red Wine (12:05 p.m.)

    The Secret Life of Banjos (Bill Evans and Jody Stecher) (1:10 p.m.)

    Bill Callahan (2:15 p.m.)

    Ned Sublette (3:20 p.m.)

    Steep Canyon Rangers (4:40 p.m.)

    TOP PICK

    Marley's Ghost (5:45 p.m.)

    Don't feel like fighting the end-of-day crowds at the big stages? Try this festival-in-a-band, whose music includes rock, country, reggae, gospel and R&B.

    HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL:

    10:30 a.m.-noon and 2:15-7 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and Oct. 7 at Speedway, Lindley and Marx meadows in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Free. www.strictlybluegrass.com.

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    HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL

    100,000 expected to descend on park for financier's 3-day roots-music bash

    Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Critic

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    Warren Hellman sat on a picnic table watching Buddy Miller open his seventh annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, a three-day free concert in Golden Gate Park that costs investment banker Hellman millions.

    "This is a lot of money to pay for a gig," he said.

    Hellman, whose banjo playing has been improving, and his band the Wronglers will open the Porch Stage on Sunday, joining 71 other acts that will appear today and Sunday on the five festival stages set up at Speedway, Lindley and Marx Meadows.

    More than 100,000 people will throng J.F.K. Drive to hear Steve Earle, Los Lobos, John Prine, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs and the Hardly Strictly poster girl, Emmylou Harris, who has closed every one of Hellman's clambakes.

    The crowd Friday was smaller, maybe 5,000 slackers who snuck away early from work to hear Buddy Miller, T Bone Burnett and a solo performance by Jeff Tweedy of alt-rock group Wilco.

    "This is the best music festival I've ever heard of," said Burnett, who also played last year.

    Rock star John Mellencamp joined Burnett, who produced the new, as-yet-unreleased and untitled Mellencamp album. They did four songs, including "Jena," about the Jena Six case in Louisiana, which Mellencamp has released as a video on YouTube.

    Burnett also produced the soundtrack to the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," a multimillion-seller that helped kick-start the re-emergence of the kind of American roots music the Hardly Strictly Festival celebrates.

    With artists such as Steve Earle, Boz Scaggs and Jim Lauderdale already in town, wandering around the crowd and hanging out backstage, festival musicians started appearing on each other's sets - a hallmark of the Hardly Strictly - as early as Buddy Miller's opening performance, where he was joined by both Alison Moorer and Lauderdale.

    The festival actually began Friday morning, when Hellman bused in 4,000 students from middle schools in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Palo Alto and Marin to hear performances by country music groups under sunny morning skies. The morning event is dedicated to the memory of journalist Daniel Pearl, whose family was in attendance. By the time the afternoon concert ramped up, chilly winds were whipping through the meadow.

    "I hope this wind dies down," said Slim's general manager Dawn Holliday, producer of the sprawling event. "I told Buddy it would."

    Largely ignoring mainstream commercial country music, Hardly Strictly has been building its program out of Texas songsters, Nashville rebels, British misfits and folky Okies - with everything in between, from a lesbian bluegrass group called the Whoreshoes to members of the San Francisco Symphony who put together a group specifically for the event.

    After six years of booking the finest talent in this kind of music, Hellman's bash is beginning to develop a national profile, especially in the country music field. But Hellman's gift to the city of San Francisco remains unparalleled. As a young man, billionaire financier Hellman made himself something of a legend on Wall Street; now 73, he's a legend in Nashville.

    Wearing his inevitable denim shirt and khakis, Hellman cordially greets people in the roped-off area he reserves for friends and family, most of whom he said he never recognizes.

    He and Holliday went to research acts at this year's MerleFest, Doc Watson's annual Wilkesboro, N.C., festival held in memory of Watson's son and accompanist, Merle. And last Labor Day, Hellman took his banjo up to Strawberry Music Festival in Yosemite, where people walked by as they played without paying any attention.

    "That's jamming to faint praise," he said at the time.

    Called up onstage after Mellencamp and Burnett left, Hellman was accorded an entirely different reception as the crowd stood and cheered him.

    "Now that's what I call an ovation," he said.

    E-mail Joel Selvin at jselvin@sfchronicle.com.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/10/06/MN5TSLDFA.DTL

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