Dave Thompson

Nov 28, 2024 | yahoo.com | Dave Thompson

Generate Key TakeawaysThe DoorsLive in DetroitRhino (RSD Exclusive Release)Another RSD, another Doors live album, and you’d think we’d be sick of the things by now … there must be a couple of dozen of them knocking around by now, but they keep on coming and we keep on buying them because — well, because it’s The Doors. And few bands put on a better show than them. Recorded at Cobo Arena on May 8, 1970, this is not the first time around for this show.

Nov 27, 2024 | bismarcktribune.com | Dave Thompson

North Dakota’s Emergency Commission has approved $11.4 million of spending authority for the National Guard adjutant general’s office to help cover the costs of fighting the early October wildfires in the western part of the state. Of that, $9.9 million is federal funds, along with a $1.5 million loan from the state-owned Bank of North Dakota. The loan will be repaid with additional expected federal aid, Prairie Public reported. Gov. Doug Burgum has requested a presidential disaster declaration.

Nov 1, 2024 | yahoo.com | Dave Thompson

King CrimsonRed - 50th Anniversary (Discipline/Panegyric - 2 CDs 2 blu-ray)_The King’s 1969 debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King, is more or less nailed into place as history’s favorite Crimson LP. But there’s another contender for that title, poised at the opposite end of the “original” band’s career, and equally bookended by the two distinct faces of the scarlet monarch.

Oct 22, 2024 | yahoo.com | Dave Thompson

Generate Key TakeawaysBrenton WoodBrenton Wood’s 18 Best(Craft - 1 LP)Only 18? You could pick almost any number you like, at least until you ran out of recordings, and used much the same title for the result. Except, you’d need a fork lift truck to carry the albums, whereas this single disc’s worth of material probably does best deserve the appellation. It’s tragic how history seems now to overlook the Southern California-born Wood.

Jul 3, 2024 | quillette.com | Sean Welsh |Dave Thompson |Jonathan Kay |Iona Italia

Jonathan Kay: This week’s guest is one of my favourite newspaper columnists, Pamela Paul of The New York Times. She writes lots of great columns, but the one that really caught my eye was a somewhat tongue-in-cheek June 20 article titled, No, I Don’t Want to Protest, which for me summed up my own feelings about standing around in the sun or rain and shouting simplistic slogans at people about Donald Trump or Joe Biden or Gaza or whatnot.