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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.

Good advice, Linda....This is why the last TPATH tour was so great -- real fans got good seats! Jeez....I have a hard time navigating those squiggly letters; how can they do it?

I thought it might be fun to post photos of concert signs from different years... This is one from the 1999 Shoreline show in Northern California.

^haha...they were both wagging their tails...lol Giant pot seeds!!!...j/k They're Mendocino county pumpkins... I think my daughter and her cousin were checking for voices inside......lol The biggest one weighed 900 lbs.

Laundry Get a shovel and clean my daughter's room Homework Do something fun..

I agree.... It's like Jurassic Park, huh? lol

I'm planning on it too. Hopefully I'll be living in the bay area next year....

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.

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 More... 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

^Cool...they didn't cut the songs... Thanks!

^I second that.... Eeeww... I'm wondering if Marilyn and her parents are the same age....lol I'm sure they got along great. Jeeezz.....I have a feeling that old Marilyn is compensating for the fact that he is really a nerd...lol. The guy is like Paris Hilton -- all image and nothing underneath.

I don't think Petaluma, Ca is a biggie. They have No. Cal covered.

OMG....he kinda does...LOL

^LOL!!! How could I miss that, Toni..

I thought this was interesting... Scientists: Appendix Protects Good Germs By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Friday, October 5, 2007 (10-05) 14:15 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut. That's the theory from surgeons and immunologists at Duke University Medical School, published online in a scientific journal this week. For generations the appendix has been dismissed as superfluous. Doctors figured it had no function, surgeons removed them routinely, and people live fine without them. And when infected the appendix can turn deadly. It gets inflamed quickly and some people die if it isn't removed in time. Two years ago, 321,000 Americans were hospitalized with appendicitis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The function of the appendix seems related to the massive amount of bacteria populating the human digestive system, according to the study in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. There are more bacteria than human cells in the typical body. Most of it is good and helps digest food. But sometimes the flora of bacteria in the intestines die or are purged. Diseases such as cholera or amoebic dysentery would clear the gut of useful bacteria. The appendix's job is to reboot the digestive system in that case. The appendix "acts as a good safe house for bacteria," said Duke surgery professor Bill Parker, a study co-author. Its location — just below the normal one-way flow of food and germs in the large intestine in a sort of gut cul-de-sac — helps support the theory, he said. Also, the worm-shaped organ outgrowth acts like a bacteria factory, cultivating the good germs, Parker said. That use is not needed in a modern industrialized society, Parker said. If a person's gut flora dies, they can usually repopulate it easily with germs they pick up from other people, he said. But before dense populations in modern times and during epidemics of cholera that affected a whole region, it wasn't as easy to grow back that bacteria and the appendix came in handy. In less developed countries, where the appendix may be still useful, the rate of appendicitis is lower than in the U.S., other studies have shown, Parker said. He said the appendix may be another case of an overly hygienic society triggering an overreaction by the body's immune system. Even though the appendix seems to have a function, people should still have them removed when they are inflamed because it could turn deadly, Parker said. About 300 to 400 Americans die of appendicitis each year, according to the CDC. Five scientists not connected with the research said that the Duke theory makes sense and raises interesting questions. The idea "seems by far the most likely" explanation for the function of the appendix, said Brandeis University biochemistry professor Douglas Theobald. "It makes evolutionary sense." The theory led Gary Huffnagle, a University of Michigan internal medicine and microbiology professor, to wonder about the value of another body part that is often yanked: "I'll bet eventually we'll find the same sort of thing with the tonsils."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/10/05/MNR7SK0VL.DTL Newsom wants to add 25 cameras / Police Commission waits for crime data Joan Gordon, community health outreach worker, says: "It's not going to deter the hard-core folks." Chronicle photo by Michael Macor

^LMAO!!! Jeezz.....Sounds like he was pissed at his wife and he changed the will... It's easier to deal with some martial problems after you die...lol

((Smokey)) What a cute doggie...

1. Do you dance? Yes...in fact Barb has been my dance partner... 2. Would you consider yourself religious? No....spiritual sometimes... 3. Do you talk about politics? I try to avoid it because it's like talking about religion... I know it's there, but I'm not sure there's any proof...lol Seriously, people feel so emotional about it... I rather not go there... 4. When is the last time you asked for forgiveness? I can't remember... 5. Friday fill-in: I’m holding out for ___. I don't know...I tend to let it all happen...lol

1...he's like bro...lol The bills scare me more than the dentist. I'm really good at handling pain. I've had about 4 root canals.... The first ones were scary...but I'm used to it now.

My favorite quote...lol "Generally, McDonald said, undergarments aren't considered a danger to security."

Woman Told to Ditch Bra to Enter Court Thursday, October 4, 2007 (10-04) 19:47 PDT COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- Security guards refused to allow a woman into a federal courthouse until she removed a bra that triggered a metal detector. Lori Plato said she and her husband, Owen Plato, were stunned when U.S. Marshals Service employees asked her to remove her bra after the underwire supports set off the alarm. "I asked if I could go into the bathroom because they didn't have a privacy screen and no women security officers were available," Plato said Wednesday. "They said, 'No.' "I wasn't carrying a shank in my bra. If it's so dangerous, why did they give it back and let me put it on?" Patrick McDonald, the U.S. Marshal in Boise, said appropriate security protocols were followed in the Sept. 20 matter, and guards suggested she simply remove the bra in her car outside, or find a restaurant bathroom. "She's inflating it," McDonald said. "All of a sudden she just took it off. It wasn't anything we wanted to happen and it wasn't anything we asked for her to do. She did it so fast." Plato, of Bonners Ferry, said she was parked on a busy street and wasn't familiar with downtown Coeur d'Alene businesses. So her husband held up his coat to shield her from the rest of the people in the courthouse lobby while she removed her bra underneath her shirt. Generally, McDonald said, undergarments aren't considered a danger to security. "I don't think they're considered a weapon, really, the last time I looked," he said. He declined to discuss other ways the federal courthouse guards could have screened Plato for weapons. Plato wants the Marshals Service to apologize and stop forcing women to disrobe. "It was very humiliating," her husband, Owen Plato, said. "They could have handled it with a much more professional attitude." http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/10/04/national/a194103D44.DTL

New E-Mail Scam: Hit-Man Threat By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer Thursday, October 4, 2007 (10-04) 14:01 PDT Atlantic City, N.J. (AP) -- E-mail scams seek to separate people from their money by promising a share of unclaimed lottery riches, bounty from a dead fugitive, work-at-home schemes and other enticements. But an Ocean County man recently got an e-mail with a stereotypical Jersey twist: Gimme your money, and I'll cancel the contract someone put out to kill you. Harry E. Whitworth, 72, of the Whiting section of Manchester Township, opened his e-mail Tuesday to find a curious screed from a man named Eddy. "I know that this may sound very surprising to you but it's the situation," the e-mail began. "I have been paid some ransom in advance to terminate you with some reasons listed to me by my employer." The price to call off the hit: $8,000 — half of which is to be paid up front as a sign of good faith. Sort of. The e-mail also warned him not to tell friends or relatives, since they might be part of the plot to kill, too. "I kind of knew it was a scam," said Whitworth, a retired accountant who lives with his wife in a senior citizen development. "The prosecutor's office came over to see me and asked if I had been involved in anything in the past that might have caused this to happen." Whitworth did some Internet research of his own, and found that someone has been running a similar scam in Arizona, with nearly identical e-mails full of typographical errors and misspellings. The e-mailer promises to send the recipient a videotape of "his employer" putting out the contract on the recipient's life. But there were no instructions on how to comply with the demand for cash, and no timetable on when it had to be paid in order to avoid sleeping with the fishes. Capt. Michael Mohel, a spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office, said the case remains under investigation but declined further comment. The FBI received 115 complaints of similar e-mails reaching people across the country in less than a month last winter, according to its Web site. The e-mails vary only in the amount of money demanded, ranging as high as $80,000. Some even incorporate personal information about the recipient that is widely available from online databases, the FBI said. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/10/04/national/a140124D34.DTL

^Me too...LOL

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