I'll be finishing Steinbeck's King Arthur book tonight. It's fucking badass. I know you mentioned it before, but I don't remember if you said you had read it. If not, you really, really, really should.

JOHN Steinbeck had a King Arthur book????

Anyway, wanted to let you know - East Bay Ray of the Dead Kenndys sat in with the Dreden Dolls Sunday and there are recordings circulating.

Just a matter of time . . .

Well, haven't obtained the DDolls with East Bay Ray show, but you may have heard about the Gene Vincent Tribute album Jeff Beck did with The Big Town Playboys. Well, he sat in with them last year as they opened for him and I DO have that set. I'm looking for your email address I think I have somewhere so I can send you links for download. It's quite awesome.

If you're interested, I have the rest of that show (the part without the Playboys) and the night before (where Clapton came out and sang and played 2 songs while Jeff Beck played slide).

Awesome stuff.

All together, it's a 4-CD set, but would fit on 3, I think. The Cover Art is for 4 CDs.

where the hell are you?

I'm actually in RI. I don't speak German per se. I understand a very rudimentary version, which is to say I know pretty much nothing. I'm German by ancestry and will cheer my German futbol team on till the end. I was actually in Munich in '96. It was a great experience to see the love of my fellow Germans spilling into the street supporting their team.

I'm actually German, Polish, Irish, and English. Making your response kinda funny. I'm pretty much 52% German and the rest is mixed equally. It's quite interesting. My dad has actually been spending a lot of time looking into our ancestry--we can trace it back to the 15th Century precisely then it gets a bit hazy. Your story about WI is kinda funny, because I felt the same way when I visited eastern PA which supposedly has a lot of German immigrants (that's where all the Germans in my family started anyway).