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For Brooksie:

Art Garfunkel has aged better than I expected.

You are both worthy and notoriously light in the Bass department. Man up, Badger!!! 😂

The expanded Live At Leeds is so great, they were ferocious sounding live from ~69 to ~72. Isle Of Wight has some great footage; https://youtu.be/M9boFzhUVG4

I remember Gracins in L.I.N.Y. were the big dealers for BC Rich back then. $981 for that was a good price. Cheaper than my 1981 Standard Bass.

That may be the coolest bass I've ever seen. I'd buy it but I'm not worthy. And I'm trying to sell my own accumulation of basement dwelling gear.

So relevant during these trying times 🙏

KEEEEP GOING...

Bump with corrections made. I found the original sales receipt from Sam Ash Music (not Manny's) and my big brother paid $981 for it back on May 8th, 1981. Wisdom beyond his years for a 19 year old.

Welcome to Europe 😚!

It depends on where Missus Polara gets a job (biotech). Probably Malmö, but maybe Helsingborg. All very exciting and stressful!

Yeah, no shit, Pete. As I said above, I saw them on the '82 "Farewell" tour. "It's Hard" had just comce out. I was so over-the-moon excited to see them and they were so disappointing. I blame Kenny Jones. An incredibly boring, nothing extra drummer. I saw them again in '89 at another stadium show, this time Giants Stadium, here in New Jersey. This time for the Tommy *shudder* 20th Anniversary Tour. This was a much more enjoyable show; bigger, louder, and Simon Phillips on drums. Here was a drummer. He didn't "Moon out," but he drove the song. Jones played drums more like a passenger. I've seen a few stadium shoes over the years, but that was the only time I had a ringing in my ears afterwards.

No, but I saw them in 1989 in the amphitheater they played in Atlanta when Pete responded to the crowd's urging for another encore by telling us to go home and get some sleep. Other whipping-up-the-enthusiam remarks were some head shakes about how, without Keith, it was no longer like it used to be. We young bucks missed all the good times.

Yeah, I went to Shea Stadium in Queens, NY for that tour. 43 years later, they're still jerking us.

There is a cartoon out there somewhere that was published 20-30 years ago, it had the band on stage with a banner reading "final farewell reunion tour" and a guy in the audience saying "I like them better when Mr Townsend smashed his guitar instead of his walker"

Just to be clear my "LOL" emoji is for "suck-ass Santana" not for the rest of the post 🫡

And it's making me wish I hadn't sold it. It was badass.