WINTER MADNESS!! PA's Battle of the Bands.

The tournament system is always set to give the highest seeded ones the advantage, by pairing them with the lowest seeds in the initial round. Usually the big guys win, but if a band was "good" enough to make the tournament, anyone could plausibly beat any other "on any given Sunday" (am I using that expression correctly?)

Btw Micky - i'm in DC for a couple of days and if you know a good record or CD store I could visit, i'd appreciate any rece you have (yer from here, right?). I'm already planning on Crooked Beat, about a 2 mile walk from the Marriott.

If not, nvm

here Steve.

http://www.cdcellarva.com/

both of them (the Falls Church store is the larger one) are generally within walking distance from Metro stops.


When are you going to be up here? Perhaps we can get together?

HolyMoly wrote: micky wrote: here Steve. http://www.cdcellarva.com/ both of them (the Falls Church store is the larger one) are generally within walking distance from Metro stops. When are you going to be up here? Perhaps we can get together? i just arrived today. I'm at a seminar all day tomorrow but Tuesday afternoon I'm pretty free. I'd love to meet if you have time.

Ahh. Raff might be your best bet.  I may be down for the count with a bug, not even sure if I'm going to work tomorrow but perhaps Raff can meet up with you. I'll have her drop my here when she finishes being my slave... you know men when we are sick.. we suddenly become incapable of doing anything

HolyMoly wrote: micky wrote: HolyMoly wrote: micky wrote: here Steve. http://www.cdcellarva.com/ both of them (the Falls Church store is the larger one) are generally within walking distance from Metro stops. When are you going to be up here? Perhaps we can get together? i just arrived today. I'm at a seminar all day tomorrow but Tuesday afternoon I'm pretty free. I'd love to meet if you have time. Ahh. Raff might be your best bet.  I may be down for the count with a bug, not even sure if I'm going to work tomorrow but perhaps Raff can meet up with you. I'll have her drop my here when she finishes being my slave... you know men when we are sick.. we suddenly become incapable of doing anything Doh. Sorry you're feeling poorly :( Thanks for the link, i'll try to check it out. And if Raff is up to it, I'd be honored to make her acquaintance in your stead. Feel better, mang.

Feeling Poorly?  Hah. I wish.  Today is the first day in a week I feel close to 100%.. good thing since my office decided to 'take it easy on me' on first day back to work this week and then proceeded put on top of a 16 story building in 30mph winds with biting cold with snow showers to troubleshoot some aircraft warning lights even when obviously not 100% and obviously (visibly) needing to still be in bed  

Yeah, that was a bad bug. One definitely going around it seems. Pretty much in bed from Sat to Wedns.  Days like today I have to remind me why I decided to drop out of college and leave a potential high paying safe warm cushy office job for a high paying dangerous frigid job   Oh yeah...  because I love it!!  Plus you will never hear about a good electrician being laid off for corporate cut backs or downsizing.. a good highly educated electrician is worth their weight in gold and never out of work and still makes the big bucks haha. 

Sorry we couldn't meet up with you Steve.  Definitely give us some lead time next time and hopefully we can get together.  Did you get a chance to check out the CD Cellars? Any other places?

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Dateline: ROME!!!

Dick:  man...  what a blast from the past. K-tel records.  I didn't know they were still around. M@X really must be digging for revenue streams.
PS:  It does pay the bills and keeps the site free for everyone.
Dick:  Yeah.. I suppose.
PS: So let's get on with the weekends action.  Shall we start in Lima.
Dick: Hah.  Way ahead of you, I found this great Peruvian place in Travestere.. my favorite part of Rome.. and man I got loaded on Pisco Sours.  The best thing to come out of Peru, next to my good friend Ivan of course haha
PS: Yeah Ivan is a hoot isn't he.
Dick: Yeah great guy. He got me my start in the business.  He was mentor of sorts. He taught me all I knew.
PS: Cool.  Though once I saw the blue font I knew to run for my life
Dick: No.. you knew to really run when the red font came to challenge the blue font.  My favorite was the 14 pages of arguing over an album's release date.
PS:   I remember that. Classic PA's. So what are your thoughts on the Lima results with two days left in the voting.
Dick: Well much like Portland there really hasn't been a lot of drama.  The current results are pretty well set in all but two.  Traffic has a slight edge over Opeth and Renaissance has a slight edge over Weather Report. The rest are pretty much in the bag.
PS: Now Rome has..
Dick: oh yeah baby.. much like Detroit that had the more interesting matchups and has lived up to expectations.
PS: Shall we check in with those results
Dick: I haven't really checked them in a few days.
PS: During commerical break our crack research staff will check the current totals and we'll see where we stand
Dick: okey doke.

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micky wrote: Feeling Poorly?  Hah. I wish.  Today is the first day in a week I feel close to 100%.. good thing since my office decided to 'take it easy on me' on first day back to work this week and then proceeded put on top of a 16 story building in 30mph winds with biting cold with snow showers to troubleshoot some aircraft warning lights even when obviously not 100% and obviously (visibly) needing to still be in bed   Yeah, that was a bad bug. One definitely going around it seems. Pretty much in bed from Sat to Wedns.  Days like today I have to remind me why I decided to drop out of college and leave a potential high paying safe warm cushy office job for a high paying dangerous frigid job   Oh yeah...  because I love it!!  Plus you will never hear about a good electrician being laid off for corporate cut backs or downsizing.. a good highly educated electrician is worth their weight in gold and never out of work and still makes the big bucks haha.  Sorry we couldn't meet up with you Steve.  Definitely give us some lead time next time and hopefully we can get together.  Did you get a chance to check out the CD Cellars? Any other places?

A man of danger and intrigue.  Not to mention electricity.  I like that.
Hope you're continuing to recover.  Sounds like a badass bug you had.

I had only about 3 hours on Tuesday to roam free - I was afraid of something going wrong with my flight (I wasn't able to secure my seat online - sometimes they prefer to assign seats right at the gate, and I'd never come across that practice before), so I went to the airport very early.  Plus it was cold and rainy and that affected my ability and desire to go exploring outside (on foot).  I ended up walking 2 miles in the rain (buying a cheap umbrella at CVS that was so small that I should have kept it to stir my tropical drinks with) to this area on 18th Street that looked like the bohemian area of town and I had the most success at Smash Records, which is like a punk rock shop and they had some good CDs (I was a punk/hardcore fan prior to getting into prog).  Two other stores were almost exclusively vinyl, which would usually excite me but in this case I was just mindful of not buying anything that won't fit into my pocket.  So 3 CDs was just about the right size purchase and I was happy with that. 

I'll try to check CD Cellar next time, and I'll try to let you know ahead of time the next time I go there.   I think I'm going to a conference in March or April, and I think it may be in DC.  I just can't find the email about it right now.

What's the next bracket going to be? Amsterdam? Brussels?

Moogtron III wrote: What's the next bracket going to be? Amsterdam? Brussels? Maybe some Arabian city, like Mekka, in support of Camel. Mekka bracket has a nice rhythm to it.

lol.  Not a March madness fan I assume. The four host cities will stay as such until they each have winners. The site of the final 4 has not been announced (i.e. determined haha) yet. 

I heard a rumor  that M@X is putting the site of the final 4 up for bids. Hah. FIFA has nothing on PA's.  I guess he needs another yacht to ski behind. I

1st round Final Scores: Lima Bracket

2nd round matches start tomorrow morning upon the Rome Bracket's closing.

Genesis - 63 / The Moody Blues - 19
Van Der Graaf Generator - 36 / Anekdoten -18

Genesis will face VDGG in a round 2 matchup

Cynic - 20 / Atheist - 7
Renaissance - 35 / Weather Report - 29

Cynic will face Renaissance () in a round 2 matchup

Traffic - 30 / Opeth - 27
PFM - 31 / Popol Vuh - 14

Traffic will face PFM in a round 2 matchup

Marillion - 40 / Voivod - 17
Jethro Tull - 48 / Osanna - 9

Marillion will face Jethro Tull in a round 2 matchup.