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October 26, 2020: Three Days and Not Much Longer

  Hi Jessi and Kate, I second your comments on how difficult it is to only listen to Last Exit and not find yourself wanting to hear the rest of Vitalogy.  It's strange, because I don't really find myself doing that with any of their other records.  Vitalogy continues to grow on me in my elder years.  I think what it is with Vitalogy and some other albums I love are filler tracks.  A couple of the Beastie Boys records (Paul's Boutique and Ill Communication) have become recent favorites for the same reason.  The filler tracks seem to really glue together the track listing, which I think Vitalogy may benefit from considering you would probably lose your hearing a lot faster having Dave A. destroy his drum kit for 11-12 tracks straight.  As I am writing this email, I am "Spinning the Black Circle" on a new record player table my wife got me for my birthday. ​ I'm not sure of the exact timeline of when the lyrics to Last Exit were written, but it is really coincid

October 17, 2010: RIP Mozart for Guitar

Hi Brad and Brad, I first want to mention that I can't remember the last time I laughed as hard as I did while listening to you two and Clint Wells go on about spoonfuls of flour and uncooked spaghetti.  I almost had to pull my car over as I was driving home during that part of the episode!   Since Eddie Van Halen passed away on October 6th, I've been listening to a lot of Van Halen.  I didn't really get into them until 10-15 years ago, but I consider them to be one of my favorite bands of all-time.  Eddie was truly an innovator on shredding guitar solos and may be my favorite lead guitarist ever.  I saw Mike's comment on Pearl Jam's Twitter feed referencing how he began playing guitar shortly after their first record came out.  He goes so far to say "it sounded like Eddie was from another planet" and "Eddie was like Mozart for guitar.  Changed everything and he played with Soul." I know the guys have covered Van Halen here-and-there and I looked