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Barry, Is Joe's Joint 21 and over? There have been a few queries about this and although I do believe that it is 21+ I wanted to confirm for the sake of those over 18s but under 21s that would like to attend. Hope you can reply, thank you and see you at the gig!

I remember him being on the audience's left side last time - and the way he watched Matt, and Phil's big smile, are some of the striking memories of that evening. That may be one very crowded stage!

Sissy Spacek, 'John You Went Too Far This Time' http://www.imeem.com/people/9nw3HH/music/OZ2Tz4by/sissy_spacek_john_you_went_too_far_this_time/ LOL!

8771 West Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90035 Phone: (310) 275-2619 From this site: http://losangeles.citysearch.com/profile/11304289/los_angeles_ca/joint.html I think I used this number years back to call in advance of a show. Its been a long time since I used it so let us know if it is still good and what you learn OK? Thanks! The trick was to do a google search for 'the joint la' FYI

from the first post in this thread: "Dirty Knobs live @ the Joint 10/20/08 !" There seems to be some hint of a SoHo gig in November too but I can't find anything on SoHo's site: http://sohosb.com/calendar.html There are some 'open' nights and a few 'call club' nights.... I guess we'll all find out soon (crossing fingers)

It is a bar but calling the venue would be your best bet to find out for sure. Sometimes they will have a special hand stamp for the over 18 / under 21 crowd and still let you in. "Two Drummer Jamming" sounds like Phil Jones might be there - he is a Joe's Joint regular on Monday nights. Saw him join with the Knobs before and it was very cool. There isn't a lot of room on that stage so I wonder if it will be two full drum kits or 1 1/2 ... 1 3/4 ... 1 7/8?? LOL!

No Nurk I still hear the music the same way. It might be that there is just more music around, or that we have to pick more carefully, or that the artists are getting dragged into the whirlwind as the business tries to regain its footing in a landscape punctuated with rampant file sharing and bogus bands of the week. I think its the latter option and they are going to make some mistakes along the way... But I still hear the music the same. If these guys wanted to take our last $ you would have known it by now.

It is indeed a puzzling and infuriating marketing strategy which may fall flat on its face given the present state of the economy..... But the music still rocks!

The venue lighting was extremely challenging last time I was there, but if I am permitted to I will attempt to capture a few images to share here. The coming week seems like it will last an eternity...... Having this gig to look to on the 20th is a Godsend.

Unlikely pretty much sums up October so far, so why should this be any different? LOL! Can't wait! We are very possibly going to the Joshua Tree Roots Music Festival on Saturday and Sunday (iffin' the world doesn't end before then), and will no doubt be dragging our asses pretty hard by Monday night. Tuesday morning will hurt LOL! Gotta learn to pace myself!

Wow, that is a scoop! Nothing on the knobs site yet..... Thank you for the heads up! (Isn't the venue called 'Joe's Joint' now?)

Ron is exceptionally kind based upon the short conversations I have had the pleasure to have had with him. We were all standing outside of Vinny's one evening and I asked him what it was like to step out of the Heartbreakers, and then years later step right back into the action. Ron was in the middle of starting to answer but the circumstances changed, he got interrupted, other fans were asking for a photo or two, and he simply ran out of time before we could conclude the conversation. (I would sure like to finish that conversation some time, if Ron isn't sick of answering that question. Of course I didn't want to monopolize all of Ron's time there in front of Vinny's ) He also recognized me at the Runnin' Down A Dream premiere at WB Studios and came up and shook my hand. (The band had very kindly allowed a few of us to be there.) That all was pretty incredible. There I was standing with a bunch of photographers along the 'Red Carpet' documenting the event and up he waltzed, wearing that big Ron Blair smile and stuck out his hand. (I almost dropped my camera in my eagerness to shake it! LOL) I can't think of the words to write to convey how much of a warm-hearted and 'down to earth' person he has been any time I have been able to interact with him. Pure gold if you ask me, pure gold! My world would be a much darker place were it not for the music that all of these wonderful musicians have given us. Priceless! Absolutely Priceless!

'Lies' by the Thompson Twins.

Wow, I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who stopped going to HOB (the one in Anaheim) because the security people were not taking on the bullies in the audience. Seems like the problem is more widespread than just Anaheim. HOB really SERIOUSLY needs to make a few adjustments. We have seen some really great gigs there, and the place can be a real treasure if the planets line up right, but when it gets too rowdy they NEED to do something about it. Maybe now something can be done about it company wide.

Ron sitting in for Lance back in January of 2006 at SoHo in Santa Barbara. (I think his smile is quite infectious!) As I recall, it was Lance's wedding anniversary that weekend, and so Ron kindly sat in with the rest of The Dirty Knobs.

Indeed the stage design and lighting at Tom's shows are beautiful. I've always thought that the high production values of a TP&HB show are one of the factors that make seeing this band perform live so much fun, and have helped to make the tours so successful. No melamine in this product! Just the good stuff, served up in heaping helpings. Bravo to Jim, and everyone behind the scenes who make the experience so real. Oh, and the band is pretty good too!

I don't know, but I'm guessing that of all the things Tom worries about (and I hope its a short list), getting rolled into a joint and smoked by a fan is fairly far down on the list!

Where else can you find writing like: "Cobain cremato-chronic" "warbler-weed" and "the not-untalented much-despised yo-yo-weight rehab-regular conspiracy-magnet Courtney Love" ????? I love that site!

I thought a few folks might get a laugh out of this - and the British writing is really great. 'Grumble flicks' LOL!

I love the fall weather. (But I do miss the sunlight)

OK This is very strange - I hope its just performance art! Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/03/rash_ash_hash_mash_up/ "An artist claims to have made a spliff containing the remains of raspy blond grunge genius pin-up martyr Kurt Cobain. The Graunida coughs that Aussie-born Natascha Stellmach, currently exhibiting at Berlin's Galerie Wagner + Partner, plans to sneak the fat one into a secret location in the city and have a good old toke as the finale to her exhibition on 11 October. The exhibition, Set Me Free, is a five-part "death cycle", and the symbolic puff is meant to emancipate the rock star at last from all the nasty media brouhaha he sought to escape - but naturally exacerbated - in 1994 by means of a shotgun to the head. The supposed Cobain cremato-chronic has inevitably raised questions as to how Stellmach came into possession of some of music's most revered dust. Unsurprisingly, the artist has revealed little, saying that the ashes "came to" her: "That's confidential and kind of magic," she cooed to Art World magazine. An excellent riposte to any implication of dodgy snaffling, which we must remember to use. Kurt's ashes were mostly scattered at a Buddhist temple in New York and in Washington's Wishkah River, with the remaining portion nestled in a pink handbag in the possession of his widow, the not-untalented much-despised yo-yo-weight rehab-regular conspiracy-magnet Courtney Love. There were reports in June the ashes had been stolen from her. The Love camp has now pooh-poohed the claims, saying the burglary was "erroneously reported", according to SFgate.com. The warbler-weed controversy recalls the momentary foofaraw last spring concerning Rolling Stone Keith "Keef" Richards allegedly hoovering up his own dear departed dad's ashes, chopped and mixed into a nice fat line of Colombian naughty-powder, shrugging that he "couldn't resist". Next week, rumours abound that Katy "I Kissed A Girl And Really Upset My Po-Faced Religious Parents" Perry baked bits of Bo Diddley in a pie, and ate it all up." What a strange world we live in!

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/03/virgin_offer/ "Virgin Galactic has rather churlishly rejected a $1m offer to allow an unnamed company to shoot a zero-grav grumble flick aboard its SpaceShipTwo vehicle - thereby depriving science of crucial research into how humanity might procreate during the very long haul to the nearest Earth-like planet once we've finally screwed this ball of dirt we call home. The cash was slapped on the table "up-front, for a sex-in-space movie", said the company's prez, Will Whitehorn, According to Space.com. He confirmed: "That was money we had to refuse, I'm afraid." The rumpy-pumpy-free Virgin Galactic programme is gearing up to take space tourists aloft aboard SpaceShipTwo at $200k a pop, having apparently already snaffled $40m in deposits from 280 customers keen to enjoy the two-hour jaunt to 62 miles (100km). During the trip, punters will experience around five minutes of weightlessness - just long enough for a quick hump and a money shot, by our reckoning." What did they expect when propositioning a virgin?

I posted the info for the other bands that were performing at SoHo tomorrow night - guess the thread was deleted because it looked like a duplicate. Didn't see the additional info already posted. Am I missing something? Wish I could go Ref, just too far on a Thursday night with work like it is now.

For what it is worth, I tormented Athena all day .... I'd sneak up to her and say 'Foo!' I really do want to see them sometime but with the crowds, the heat, and other conflicting performances, I elected to miss their performance in hopes that I can catch them in a smaller place in a situation that is less of a survival exercise! Foo!