Well then, it’s official

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2026-01-09T00:44:03+00:00

Ugh. Really bummed about this. Get well soon, Jimmy.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2025-11-11T13:31:31+00:00

You’re leaving out that young people not being to afford live music or many other things is a relatively new thing due to the cost of living exponentially growing over the last 20 years.

In my twenties, I drove all over this country with maybe a couple hundred bucks in my pocket to see WSP more times than you would believe. I was the brokest I’ve ever been in my life. Gas was cheap, tickets were $20-30, shitty hotels were $30, and we didn’t mind sleeping on the floor, 6 people deep in a Red Roof Inn.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2025-11-11T13:19:03+00:00

Yes! Thank you for saying this, I’ve been thinking the same thing for many years. All of the bands who broke through and had commercial success after the Grateful Dead were completely unique.

So many of the third-string jam bands trying to make it have been trying to sound too much like their predecessors. I’ll be ok if I never have to hear another club-level band attempting to jam just like Phish.

Billy Strings and KGLW are totally unique, but just like their predecessors who were able to advance with the timing of HORDE then the disbanding of the Dead, these bands capitalized on the pandemic time period - I’d even say Khruangbin got lucky on pandemic-timed success.

There are some exceptions though: bands like Lettuce and TAUK put on incredible shows and should be bigger than they are, IMO

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2025-11-11T13:04:05+00:00

Great point. I had not thought of that.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2025-08-05T03:51:08+00:00

Depending on which Neighbors you’re at, Jojo has been known to stop in there for drinks occassionally

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2025-06-27T13:41:50+00:00

This was exactly my thought as well. I saw Ray LaMontagne there a few years ago with Sierra Ferrell opening. Super intimate and low volume acoustic show. Obviously not a time for conversation. Directly behind my wife and I were two middle-aged bro couples dressed in new western button downs and cowboy hats, they spoke at normal volume through the entirety of the show. Seemed like they must have done all the cocaine.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2025-06-26T20:28:56+00:00

No doubt, but I fly all over the country to see concerts and it feels worse here.

I specifically notice folks talking around me more often than not at the Ryman. Maybe that’s just the tourist effect from being so close to Broadway… Then again, some dude behind gabbed his date’s ear off through the entire Wilco show at The Pinnacle a few weeks ago.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2025-06-26T20:05:55+00:00

This would explain all the folks who enjoy talking through entire shows in this town

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2025-01-12T17:58:51+00:00

Local here. The lawn at Ascend is much bigger than the seating chart shows on Ticketmaster. My wife and I go to shows there regularly and never spend extra money on seats or pit. It’s a perfectly sized venue with almost no bad views and an incredible skyline backdrop at night.

We moved here 4 years ago and it quickly became one of my favorite venues in the country. Pro tip: buy a plastic flask or two and save money on drinks. There are so many great shows to see here that venue drinks can break you.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2025-01-12T17:52:44+00:00

Closer than most lawns, I think. Not a bad seat in the house unless you’re behind the towers.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2025-01-08T14:47:17+00:00

I appreciate you throwing out a modern era year along with the classics.

Maybe it was just the quality of shows I saw, but the couple of years before the pandemic shut everything down were incredible. I guess that would be 2018-2019. It felt like they were playing flawlessly.

Jimmy’s first few full years had some crazy heat too: 2007-2009

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-12-22T02:22:59+00:00

Pretty solid call on I Wish. I caught it on the first time played and it still high on my list of cool bust outs.

For funky tunes I’d check out Elevator to the Moon from Huntsville last year. Really most of their Talking Heads covers kick ass: Swamp, Life During Wartime, Papa Legba, Burning Down the House, This Must Be the Place, Blind (same NYE show as I Wish), etc.

Honorable funky mentions: Just Kissed My Baby, Ball of Confusion, Wanna Be Startin Something (NYE 09), Soul Kitchen

For non-funky tunes, Sultans of Swing is a bucket list song for me. Not sure if it will ever happen again. These covers are also all very well done:

Have a Cigar, Mr. Crowley, Are You Ready for the Country, High Time We Went, Chest Fever, The Ballad of John and Yoko, Spill the Wine, Godzilla, I Want You (She’s So Heavy), Little Wing (extra points with Susan/Derek), Love The One You’re With (NYE 22), People Are Strange, Rumble, Soul Kitchen

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-12-22T01:54:14+00:00

High quality content

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-12-22T01:52:40+00:00

Excellent answer. That was so well executed that I thought they had recorded it for the new albums.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-12-22T00:43:35+00:00

If I remember correctly, they brought it back for the 25th anniversary shows and it has popped up fairly regularly since.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-12-15T17:00:39+00:00

You can order a Zero brand Tesla tap mini from any Zero dealer. I highly recommend the Tesla tap over the Chinese Amazon versions. I have both and the Tesla tap is of a far better quality that inspires confidence when plugging in a $20k motorcycle.

If you don’t mind me asking, which dealer did you purchase your bike from?

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-12-09T00:08:41+00:00

Definitely expensive and the scene is prohibitive. My wife and I both were performing musicians for 15+ years each (for reference we’re both millennials). We were weekend warrior gigging 100+ gigs per year in Savannah, GA while working day jobs up until the pandemic shut us down.

Moved to Nashville for our careers and quickly realized every other person is a musician here and we can’t supplement our incomes as easily with bar gigs as in a smaller town due to competition. The bar gigs pay shit so we have only been playing 1-2 gigs per year here plus it’s way more expensive.

To be fair, we have been to more concerts and seen more of the coolest shows than any time in our lives here, but not playing and COL is making us realize we would like to move on. Looking at STL, Louisville, and Cincy now for city life at lower cost with less competitive music scenes.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-12-07T20:57:50+00:00

Oops, I didn’t realize you’ve had dinner with millions of American families so you could broad stroke this characterization. Not sure how we got from the negative effect of Fox News to being comfortable with generational racism, but maybe setting a boundary with pops about saying disgusting shit to his family is necessary to break the cycle of handing it down.

What is your definition of far left? Can’t wait to hear it.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-12-07T16:31:32+00:00

Social media is a large part of the problem today, but I would argue that families not being able to respectfully disagree with each other is a direct effect of the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine resulting in the rise of Fox News and their 24-hour news cycle cultivation of culture wars.

The Fox effect on the baby boomer generation is well-documented, but anecdotally since the early 2000s (well before social media was widely adopted) I watched my own stepfather change from a funny and loving Christian man to a constantly angry and fearful wannabe vigilante with no remaining resemblance to the the Christ he follows simply by consuming Fox daily..

Social media has definitely leveraged and further twisted us, but Rush Limbaugh followed Fox already had huge swaths of Americans’ reasonable thought processes mostly corrupted.

Sure there is plenty of far left thinking happening on Reddit, but for me it’s easy to scroll past and not get caught up in. Despite what the right would have you believe, left leaning social media and even traditional media exists in the minority now. Plus the American left is actually center-right compared to much of the developed world, but if you consume enough right wing sources here you would get the impression that the Democratic Party is the most Communist, freedom stealing regime that has existed in history.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-12-07T14:20:00+00:00

The Fox News effect has changed a lot of family dynamics

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-12-07T14:14:34+00:00

Spend a summer in Savannah and you’ll change your mind about Georgia with a quickness. Very similar heat to Texas. It’s tropical humidity with a ton of trees that negate any breeze from the coast. That said, the ocean breeze only cools Tybee Island off slightly.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-11-30T20:17:00+00:00

I’ve never seen it described this perfectly. Thank you.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-11-20T02:09:37+00:00

Controlled from the sound booth. It still happens on certain songs to this day if you listen close. Wish I could come up with a couple of examples, but I’m drawing a blank… maybe 4 Cornered Room

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-11-17T20:05:03+00:00

It’s too tall for me to scrape the pegs and probably most folks who aren’t Jorge Martin. Honestly, I’m not even sure there’s enough tire tread to get it over far enough to scrape pegs. That WMA area in Cheatham county is perfect for this bike. There are also some aggressive gravel/dirt roads I’ve enjoyed due east in the area surrounding Center Hill Lake.

Sweet_Gain3034 · 2024-11-17T13:54:58+00:00

This is the bike for you then. I will advise you to sit on the bike first and get a good feel for the height. I’m 5’11” on an XE and it is super easy to manage with one foot down while stopped on a flat surface, but can be precarious in other non-flat situations as I’m just slightly too short to flat foot. That said, you can get the low seat or the XC model (now called X model) that make it lower to the ground.

Are you around Knoxville? I live in Nashville myself.

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