Thurs 3/17/05 -- St Patrick's Day

[RGMike]

It's the trad "Irish set". Cue up Hothouse Flowers.

[Gazoo]

HHF just got back together for a new album.  It's pretty solid & I'm trying to get AMG to let me review it.

[Beej]

I bet some Boomtown Rats will make its way into the set. At least I hope.

Woo-hoo! I installed a CD-Rom RW drive in my home computer last night. Cooool. The only thing I haven't tried yet is to make an audio CD from another audio CD. Do I rip the tracks as wavs if I want it to be playable on just a plain old CD player? Or is there another format (my guess being not all CD players play mp3s).

[mshray]

I have a meeting at a customer site at 10:00, so I'll miss everything.

But it says here that in true self-serving KFOG style we will here one of the archive tracks from the Thrills that they promo'd last year as "KFOG to iTunes".

How much you wanna bet?

Tomorrow just might be something even more special, but I don't want to get my hopes up too high.

[mshray]

I found the set list from 2 years ago, but not last year.

 3/17/03 - Monday!  It's all Irish for St. Patrick's Day!!
    1. Van Morrison - Bein' Green
    2. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
    3. The Pogues - Sunnyside of the Street
    4. Cranberries - Dreams
    5. Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
    6. U2 - I Fall Down
    7. Rory Gallagher - Tattoo'd Lady (BEST O' SET!!)
    8. The Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
    9. Hothouse Flowers - Don't Go
   10. Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka

[mshray]

I bet some Boomtown Rats will make its way into the set. At least I hope.

Woo-hoo! I installed a CD-Rom RW drive in my home computer last night. Cooool. The only thing I haven't tried yet is to make an audio CD from another audio CD. Do I rip the tracks as wavs if I want it to be playable on just a plain old CD player? Or is there another format (my guess being not all CD players play mp3s).

It depends on the software you use to rip/burn.  If you burn a CD with the same software you ripped it with it will generally cue you to "make music CD" in which case it will automatically burn .wav files just by draggiing & dropping .mp3 files into the list.  This is at least true in Musicmatch & iTunes.

[RGMike]

Tomorrow just might be something even more special, but I don't want to get my hopes up too high.

Do you have inside info or is this a hunch?  We have been averaging '68/'69 about once every 5-6 weeks...

This as been a decent enough week, which is good since I'll be stuck working Sat morning and I'll be entertained.  Gaz, you working Sat too?

[Beej]

Thanks for the CD burning info, Mshray! I'll have to play with the program a little more. I've been burning data CDs (docs, jpgs, etc) & I made a test CD of mp3s (my DVD player plays mp3s, too). So far, so good!

[urth]

And leading things off, a CG-trina (but an entirely appropriate one), Thin Lizzy's Whiskey in the Jar.

[RGMike]

Woo Hoo! "Whiskey in the Jar-O"! A CG fave makes it to 10@10. Instant BOS.

[Beej]

Woo-hoo! I love "Whiskey In the Jar(-O)".

Or is it "...Jar(-Boy)?

[Beej]

WOO-HOO JINX!

[RGMike]

BOS2: WaterBoys!

This set could end right now and I'd be satisfied -- 2 faves in a row.

[Gazoo]

BOS to "Fisherman's Blues."  With light in my head and you in my arms, I'll always think of Vesuvios in North Beach when I hear this song.  Somewhat saddened, though, that I can't toast the day with the people I want to in the places I want to.  Any of you going to the Irish Bank tonight?

[princessofcairo]

Woo-hoo! I love "Whiskey In the Jar(-O)".

Or is it "...Jar(-Boy)?

or is it astrojar(-oh)?