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Here's a link to part 2 of the interview, if you download the pdf, it starts at the beginning. http://www.bobdylan.com/#/conversation?page=5 Part 2 has a little bit about Mike. Also, if you pre-order the album through skyroo (via bobdylan.com), you get a poster (dunno how big it is though, bigger than a postcard I guess) I mean, I'm a poster, and I'm only 130 pixels tall. :cool: L@@K! A Contest! No purchase necessary at Amazon US: See Bob Dylan In London Sweepstakes - 3/30/09 http://www.amazon.com/Bob-Dylan/e/B000AP7NRI#EntertoWin Official Rules 18+, contiguous US (void RI), one entry per person. Ends March 30, 2009 @ 11:59pm ET Prize: (1 winner) Two round trip airline tickets (economy coach class) from the major airport nearest winner's home to a London, UK area airport (as determined by Sponsor). Winner and travel companion will depart on or about April 25, 2009 and will return three calendar days later; 3-nights' hotel accommodation (standard, one room, double occupancy) in London; two tickets to a Bob Dylan performance scheduled to take place on April 26, 2009 in London, UK; and ground transportation or the equivalent per diem to and from the performance (ARV $3300)

I'll definitely change

From the 'Conversations' interview at bobdylan .com: The instrumental sections on your albums have a different quality than the usual rock instrumental sections. For instance, on an Aerosmith record, at least part of it is about Joe Perry’s solo. While there's wonderful playing on BEYOND HERE LIES NOTHING, we don't hear the usual guitar soloing technique. Is there a special way you approach the instrumental sections on a record? What can I say, if I had Joe Perry with me everything would obviously be different. As it is though, he wasn’t there. Soloing is not a big part of my records anyway. Nobody buys them to hear solos. What I try to do is to make sure that the instrumental sections are dynamic and are extensions of the overall feeling of the song. Who’s that playing with you here? Mike Campbell. You have a history with Mike? Yeah, I do. He played with me a lot when I played with Tom Petty. I saw some of those shows. I particularly liked the segment during the show when it was just you and Mike and Benmont and no bass or drums. Yeah. We worked out a few things. I would’ve always liked to have seen that develop more, but it didn’t. How is he to work with? He’s good with me. He’s been playing with Tom for so long that he hears everything from a songwriter’s point of view and he can play most any style.

Oh! Roadrunner is the song they rolled into from Hey Bo Diddley on Friday. Thanks for shooting the set list, Relic.

Oh these are great Steve! I can't wait for more! more! more!

An otherwise great shot - um, Matt? That's better! But now Lance has disappeared... Mike using a bottle slide: Our Mike, he sucks and he blows, but we love! Why? Silly question! I love the mirror-like expressions - now that's teamwork! A couple more gratuitous pictures, hope you don't mind

It's really a shame you can't upload those meals as pdfs and share them. I can almost smell them from here. I still have to get the guest house ready for my aunt and uncle, and a dozen other little tasks. But I think I'll upload some more Knobs pictures instead. What say you?

Being able to pay bills online is great, even better is being able to file business taxes - not only do we not have to fill out tedious paper forms and pester clients for checks before the deadlines pass, most of the online forms autofill and do the calculations for you. I hope some of the money they save goes for providing broadband access across the country though. The main reason I am losing most of my clients when I move my office home is that my internet connection is inadequate. At $80/mo, all I can say is, it's better than dialup. :085: I think the Post Office is one of those entities that ought to be able to adjust to changing times, it's actually a very efficient system when it works. One thing you are supposed to be able to do is print out the label and pay for your shipping charge online and the postal carrier picks up your package. The system works great until you try to pay. The system will take my personal credit card, but not my business card for no apparent reason (same type of account, hell, it's even from the same bank!), so they have lost a business customer who mails a lot of packages. I have notified them several times over the last couple years, and they always say they are aware of the problem and hope to fix it soon. I believe the fancy term for this is malfeasance. On one hand, they blame the internet and private companies for cutting into their profits, but on the other, can't be arsed to fix what is probably a very simple problem which probably costs them millions a year. (no other vendor I know of would let this problem exist more than a nano second) I even sent a letter to the Post Master General, because the last time I tried the online shipping system and it failed at checkout, was around the time they were announcing the postage rate hike and that they were thinking of dropping Saturday deliveries a couple months ago.

We should hear from him mañana, he'll be driving home today. Keep him in your good thoughts - the weather's supposed to be bad.

1. What is the last party you went to? I don't remember 2. Would you say that you are a good worker? I tend to go too far in the other direction and work harder than what a job is worth. 3. Who can you talk with for hours? A friend. 4. Who was the last person you greeted at your door? My parents. 5. Take this quiz - Are You Flirtatious, Fearless, Factual, or Friendly? You Are Factual You are highly intelligent, especially in areas that deal with concrete knowledge and facts. You are amazingly analytical. You can make sense of chaos without involving your emotions. If anything, you tend to be overly logical. It's sometimes hard for you to come to a decision, because you're too busy weighing all the options. People turn to you in times of trouble. They know that they can trust you to give good, well thought out advice. 6. Do you feel that the results of the quiz describes you accurately? Why or why not? The results are surprisingly accurate, but several questions had different choices that would have fit me just as well. All 4 options in #2 (Indecisive, Irritating, Irresponsible, Impatient) fit me equally well, Impatient won by a whisker.

I used to go to the libraray frequently, but they cut hours back many years ago, which made it difficult to go when they are open. I wanted a book a few weeks ago and they didn't have it, so I tried to order it online and found out my card wasn't any good anymore. I went in to get a new one and the computer was down. I went in the following week, got a card, reserved a book from another library, but by the time it came 3 weeks later, I'd found it online for $4 (which was mostly shipping). Our branch is too small to be very useful for research. What I really need is a library that has wifi and one of those job search centers.

I believe they started with Feed the Snake, then Never Gonna Own Me (Bye Bye Bye), and then Humdinger. And sometime later they played Hey, Bo Diddley, then segued into another blues standard. Jason sang Love Minus Zero. I think the third Beatles song after Working Class Hero and Hide Your Love was I'm So Tired. I know they did three in a row some where. That hour and a half went by in a flash. Square One, I am looking forward to seeing some of your pictures, the previews in the camera looked great. I know you got some special ones I hope you can share. I was bummed not being able to go last night, but my husband didn't remember to tell me until on the way home Friday night (2:30 am Saturday actually) that we had a funeral to go to Saturday afternoon, and then out of the blue, my uncle called from Palm Springs (I had no idea they were in the area) later Saturday and told me they are coming up the hill Monday to visit, so I thought maybe I should stay home so I could get ready for them on Sunday. I was still debating about it in the evening and my husband didn't tell me, but told someone else on the phone, that he was staying home (thanks, sweetie :012:) Anyway, I fell asleep at 10:30 when I would have just been arriving at the bar if I'd gone.

A couple things came up today, so I decided not to go tonight, I hope everyone who got to go have fun and get home safely.

Okay folks, here's some more: I took this one early as I was fooling with camera settings, so it's not very good, but I like the juxtaposition between Mike and the dog: This one's obligatory: (wipe the slobber off your screens, ladies) Nice footwork fellas: Fancy footwork, and nobody's face is obscured by a mic or headstock(not much anyway): Soooo intense: Mother of pearly whites: Wipe the slobber off your screens, gents (you know who you are):110: