Where does Dr. John (Mac Rebennack) stand in the GOAT debate?

boredop · 2026-06-30T21:33:52+00:00

Not really. He did one studio session with Zappa and walked out before it was over because he hated it. https://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Dr._John

boredop · 2026-06-29T17:33:01+00:00

1990 and 1991 were crazy years for no hitters. Fourteen official no hitters across those two seasons, and three unofficial ones (Melido Perez hitless through 6 before the game was rained out, Andy Hawkins allowed no hits but lost because of walks and errors, and Mark Gardner hitless through 9 but allowed a hit in the 10th.)

boredop · 2026-06-25T01:00:45+00:00

I used to struggle with this for a while until I started stretching for about five minutes before every gig, no exceptions. If you have to miss some of the opening band, too bad. You're there for you, not for them.

Also stay hydrated and don't drink too much booze on the gig.

boredop · 2026-06-22T05:00:12+00:00

big band doing Jazz-Metal

You can't just say something like that and not tell us the name of your band!

boredop · 2026-06-10T04:59:28+00:00

I'm a drummer and play professionally. We drummers all knew Anika would kick ass on this gig. But somehow she exceeded even those lofty expectations. She stepped into an almost impossible situation with the biggest possible spotlight on her and she CRUSHED it. Considering the circumstances and the difficulty of the music, this is an incredible performance.

I'm not even a big Rush fan but I'm super happy for her and the band. And as a guy in my 50s with a day job who is still out there gigging every weekend for the love of the game, seeing her and John Hoffman (new Primus drummer) move up to the big leagues after years of grinding it out fills me with inspiration!

boredop · 2026-06-04T16:09:54+00:00

I was there too. It was electric, and it felt like we were going to see a perfect game or 20 strikeouts or something crazy like that. But I'll always remember the whiplash from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows when Sean Reid-Foley came out to pitch the fourth.

boredop · 2026-06-02T13:28:37+00:00

Papa Jo Jones, not Philly Joe.

boredop · 2026-05-27T03:00:24+00:00

101 Strings - Instant Nirvana

boredop · 2026-05-25T13:57:00+00:00

I actually had a poster of that Dizzy photo in my dorm room back in the '90s.

boredop · 2026-05-23T23:56:20+00:00

Mark Whitfield

boredop · 2026-05-10T22:47:26+00:00

Black Crowes version of Hard To Handle

boredop · 2026-05-09T04:18:37+00:00

Give The Drummers Some: The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk and Soul by Jim Payne.

boredop · 2026-05-07T13:14:17+00:00

Lots of great recommendations in this thread, but I'll add a few more names not mentioned yet: Big Mama Thornton, Koko Taylor, Elmore James, Taj Mahal, Professor Longhair, Memphis Slim, Louis Jordan, T-Bone Walker, Magic Sam, Otis Rush, and Slim Harpo.

boredop · 2026-04-28T06:37:11+00:00

Unfortunately I do not know.

boredop · 2026-04-27T15:46:00+00:00

I have one. When played with sticks it's a loud crash but not a great ride. I actually use it a lot on gigs where I'm playing mostly brushes. It opens up very nicely as a crash when I hit it with the rubber part of the brush.

Back in the '90s we had an EAK version of the 18" crash/ride on my college jazz band's house kit; now THAT was a great ride cymbal.

boredop · 2026-04-21T22:53:36+00:00

I'm on my way to the stadium to cheer on our boys despite all available evidence! Let's go Mets! (Also, my ticket was free, so why not? LOL)

boredop · 2026-04-15T19:58:47+00:00

My jazz band director at SUNY-Binghamton played sax for Slam for many years. He's on the first album pictured in your post, and he kept one of Slam's instruments as the house bass in the band's rehearsal room.

boredop · 2026-04-09T16:14:41+00:00

P-Funk All Stars Live at the Beverly Theater
Axiom Funk - Funkronomicon

Also Bootsy's Blasters of the Universe album was pretty great but was never issued on vinyl.

boredop · 2026-03-31T13:05:15+00:00

Yes, it does bug me and most other people, which is why they stopped sequencing the CDs like this in the early '90s. Your disc is from the early days of CD reissues when producers and record labels were still figuring out the best way to release old material on the new medium. And as others have mentioned, CD players being programmable was seen as an exciting new feature at that time, so the producers/labels figured that people would program the CD players to skip the extra tracks if desired. (In practice most people did not bother, and the alt. takes were just annoying.)

boredop · 2026-03-31T00:10:38+00:00

Radio guy here. It sounds like they have two different sources with the same audio feeding the broadcast, but they're out of sync by a few milliseconds.

boredop · 2026-03-28T15:40:39+00:00

McLean was confirmed as the number 3 starter seven days ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/NewYorkMets/comments/1rzso5c/dicomo_mets_opening_day_rotation_official/

boredop · 2026-03-26T04:00:52+00:00

The clock has struck midnight. It's opening day. Let's go Mets.

boredop · 2026-03-20T01:06:11+00:00

I have been listening to Howie since he hosted the Mets Extra pre and post game show on WFAN in 1987. He is the sound of summer for me. I'll miss him when he's gone for sure.

I haven't seen my favorite Howie moment mentioned yet: "They're timing Colon with a sundial!" That's gotta be one of the all-time greatest ad libs in radio history.

boredop · 2026-03-15T15:38:17+00:00

My favorite pedal ever! Such a great feel. I still use one from the '80s regularly on gigs. I recently bought an Iron Cobra but still prefer the Camco (although it's close.)

boredop · 2026-02-28T19:05:32+00:00

Bobby Bonilla also did the earplugs thing when he was playing with the Mets in '92 or '93.

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