Completely Conspicuous

Part 3 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see. 

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• Jay: Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust tour in 1973
• Never saw Bowie
• Phil: Grateful Dead's…

Celebrating 19 years of podcasting with part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see. 

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• On to our top 10 shows
• Phil's are in chronol…

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about concerts we'd like to go back in time to see. 

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• We're taking advantage of time machine technology
• That time Zebra opened for their o…

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about our favorite music of 2025 so far.

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• Counting down our favorite albums
• Breitling's #6: Dan Bejar with another well-done Destroyer a…

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about our favorite music of 2025 so far.

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• Drinking some Italian beer
• Rock is dead commercially
• Billboard album chart contains nearly no …

Part 4 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we crown the winner of a March Madness-style tournament featuring our favorite rock artists. 

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• Round 3 begins
• The Smiths vs. Led Zeppel…

Part 3 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we wrap up the second round of a March Madness-style tournament featuring our favorite rock artists. 

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• Round 2 forced some difficult ch…

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we wrap up the first round of a March Madness-style tournament featuring our favorite rock artists. 

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• Finishing up the rest of round 1
• …

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey as we talk our way through a March Madness-style tournament of our favorite rock artists. 

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• We left out artists that we both didn't like: …

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about bad songs from good artists. 

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• Songs we hate by artists we love
• Phil's #6: U2 makes a misstep
• Bono's talking tough
• Jay's #6: A #1 hi…

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about bad songs from good artists. 

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• Songs we hate by artists we love
• Jay: Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" is so whiny it turned me off t…

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite concerts. 

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• Our top 10 concerts in no particular order
• Phil: Banged up and seeing his first Dead show in Foxborough in …

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite concerts. 

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• Cold weather running tips
• What makes a great concert?
• Small shows vs. stadiums
• Hard to pare down the list
• L…

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about our favorite music of 2024.

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• Our top 10 albums of the year
• Shout out to Rock P's top 20 out of 10 countdown
• JB's #10: Triple album…

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Jay Breitling about our favorite music of 2024.

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• The 16th annual year in review 
• First one was in 2009
• Cybertrucks are dumb
• Self-driving cars are also…

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite instrumentals. 

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• Phil's #8: A jazz-funk classic out of Scotland?
• Jay's #8: Powerful surf rock from the Pixies
• Phil's #7…

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite instrumentals. 

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• We're feeling goooood.
• What makes a good instrumental?
• Jay: I like the musicians in Red Hot Chili Pepp…

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite cover songs. 

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• Jay's #7: Ty Segall with a ripper of a Neil Young cover
• Phil's #6: The live version of a Linda Ronstadt …

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about our favorite cover songs. 

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• What makes a good cover?
• Be true to the song, but bring something of yourself to it
• Jagger and Bowie's c…

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of the 2010s. 

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• Phil's 2016 #1: Drive-By Truckers with a political statement in a divided year
• Jay's 2016 #1: The final ac…