waits patiently for Joe to make comment about Bay Area musical bias.

That Grace Slick has a balcony you could do Shakespeare from!

If I want to hear Jack Casady I'll put on Electric Ladyland. If I want Hot Tuna I'll have a sandwich. If I want to hear Jerry -- and I don't -- I'll listen to him with Ornette, not the Dead. And if I want to hear music from the Bay Area I'll break out Sly, CCR or Moby Grape. Or maybe Deedee Bridgewater Live at Yoshi's. Or maybe Journey's "Na Na Song". The Jefferson Airplane, with a few exceptions, does very little for me. Nothing to incite strong feelings either way so I don't feel like they sold out or took a major nosedive when they became Starship. "We Built This City on Rock and Roll" is bad even by their standards, though.

And I like Bob Seger. No apologies necessary. 'Cause you look just like a Commie and you might just be a member/Get out of Denver, baby, get out of Denver, baby, gooo!!

David, I'm pretty surprised the CDs are not there yet. I sent them over a week ago.

Well, then you're off the hook. glares in direction of USPS.

And if I want to hear music from the Bay Area I'll break out Sly, CCR or Moby Grape. Or maybe Deedee Bridgewater Live at Yoshi's. Or maybe Journey's "Na Na Song".

Where's "Sex Bomb" in there?

I also like Bob Seger just fine.

Not a fan of either the Jefferson Airplane or Bob "Like a Rock" Seger here. Like Joe, I am fond of Sly, CCR, and Moby Grape/Skip Spence, though.

Off the hook. Woo!

And Flipper, natch. And the American Music Club. Who else is from the Bay Area?

And the American Music Club. Who else is from the Bay Area?

Metallica, Chris Isaak, Primus, Green Day, Chuck Prophet, The Avengers, Crime, The Nuns, Beau Brummels, Graham Central Station, Tower of Power, Sylvester, some very famous remixy people that Angus would know, Del The Funkee Homosapien, Digital Underground, Too Short, Faith No More...

David, I'm pretty surprised the CDs are not there yet. I sent them over a week ago.

Well, then you're off the hook. glares in direction of USPS.

The week of April 15. Not the USPS's speediest time of year.

Where's "Sex Bomb" in there?

On a record where my non-functioning turntable can't reach it. Come to think of it, I think an old roommate with whom I've lost touch has the record. And my first run French Frith Kaiser Thompson CD (the one with the nice packaging). I don't mean the same roommate has it, although he might, just that it too got lost in the shuffle & I'm still bummed about it.

"Old Time Rock and Roll" is indeed vile.

*gasp*

My love for the Seger and for that song is well-documented. However, I gleefully embrace the Bad and the Kitschy in all genres, especially if it can be sung at karaoke.

I always thought that the lyric for "We built This City" is actually "Marconi plays the mambo", referring to Guglielmo Marconi. As was said, Jefferson Airplane/Starship/whatever may have been schlocky, but they were literate.

Now ends my Claven-ness.

Metallica, Chris Isaak, Primus, Green Day, Chuck Prophet, The Avengers, Crime, The Nuns, Beau Brummels, Graham Central Station, Tower of Power, Sylvester, some very famous remixy people that Angus would know, Del The Funkee Homosapien, Digital Underground, Too Short, Faith No More...

Uh, I like Chuck Prophet and Beau Brummels. Mushroom is from the Bay Area, too, right? I've only heard a few songs, but they had the Can thing working.

And my first run French Frith Kaiser Thompson CD (the one with the nice packaging).

Henry Kaiser - also local. Also dated one of my friends.