20 Feb 2008 -- It's 1980

[mshray]

promo tipped it at 11:30 am, which has got to be the soonest yet. (not counting theme sets that Dave hypes days in advance, of course).

[RGMike]

promo tipped it at 11:30 am, which has got to be the soonest yet. (not counting theme sets that Dave hypes days in advance, of course).

like clockwork: our last '80 set was Jan 21st (when we were all expecting MLK). 

[RGMike]

Damn, even Bob managed to avoid the Cars today.

[Alicat]

Heard already this morn:

Pete Townshend     Let My Love Open the Door
The Police    When the World is Running Down
Jackson Browne    Boulevard   
Bruce Springsteen     Devil with the Blue Dress
The Clash    Train in Vain
Paul McCartney   Coming Up
The Romantics    What I Like About You
AC/DC     Back in Black 
Billy Joel   You May be Right   
Bob Seger    You'll Accomp'ny Me 

[urth]

A real Touch and Go start to the set. (Gettin' the Cars out of the way early.)

Figuring XTC and probably some kind of Lennon reference (if not actual song) are near certainties. I'd love to hear Sherry, Darling too, but that's lots less likely.

[RGMike]

Expresso Love's all right! and it's BOS1.

[urth]

Now this is more like it: Expresso (sic) Love. BOS1.

[mshray]

A real Touch and Go start to the set. (Gettin' the Cars out of the way early.)

Strange track record for this song.  Dave played it once each in '02 & '04, but then 4 times in 2006, and now this is only the second time we've heard it since '06.

[Wayback]

A real Touch and Go start to the set. (Gettin' the Cars out of the way early.)

Figuring XTC and probably some kind of Lennon reference (if not actual song) are near certainties. I'd love to hear Sherry, Darling too, but that's lots less likely.

<--today's avatar, my autographed photo of Springsteen & Seger, taken 11/80 at start of The River Tour in Ann Arbor, Mich.

[RGMike]

A real Touch and Go start to the set. (Gettin' the Cars out of the way early.)

Figuring XTC and probably some kind of Lennon reference (if not actual song) are near certainties. I'd love to hear Sherry, Darling too, but that's lots less likely.

<--today's avatar, my autographed photo of Springsteen & Seger, taken 11/80 at start of The River Tour in Ann Arbor, Mich.

"someday Broocie, you'll accomp'ny me..."

[mshray]

Now this is more like it: Expresso (sic) Love. BOS1.

I surrender to the fever, yeah I surrender to the will of the night.

Brings to mind an experience I had in Yangshuo, China with a German girl that lasted a total of about 15 hrs.

(PG rated, but no less intense for it)

[RGMike]

Woo Hoo! BOS2 "Stop Yer Sobbin'"!

[Wayback]

yes, in 1980 there was a 6.0 quake on the Greenville Fault in Livermore

[urth]

A real Touch and Go start to the set. (Gettin' the Cars out of the way early.)

Figuring XTC and probably some kind of Lennon reference (if not actual song) are near certainties. I'd love to hear Sherry, Darling too, but that's lots less likely.

<--today's avatar, my autographed photo of Springsteen & Seger, taken 11/80 at start of The River Tour in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Wow, very cool.

But you gotta  'splain somethin' to me: Have you got gifs of all this stuff just sitting in waiting on your hard drive? Or are you listening from home with your scanner and/or digicam all warmed up and ready? Your ability to come up with topically relevant avatars on very little notice is pretty remarkable.

[mshray]

Woo Hoo! BOS2 "Stop Yer Sobbin'"!

Chrissie took a lot of heat in punk purist circles for making her first single a Kinks cover, but I guess if you want to have a baby with the songwriter it's not a bad career move.