Looking For The Magic

Elizabeth and Amy talk about assumptions. 

Tonight we're going to party on the Looking For The Magic podcast - Amy and 
@paranoiacs Elizabeth Nelson will discuss the weird magic of birthday shows, wedding gigs gone wrong...join us live at 6:30 pm, working on your birthday is proof you're alive.

Happy Birthday Amy! 

Elizabeth and Amy discuss the unfolding insurrection in Washington D.C. and talk about protest songs. 

Good riddance to 2020, the shittiest year. Sharing stories of worst gigs, stage outfits, venues and performances by other bands. Also things we thought might be crap that turned out to be good.

Referenced in this episode:

The Center Of Nowhere - documentary about Springfield MO music scene
Bobby Keys documentary: Every Night's A Saturday Night
Glenfarg
Philly
Business suits on stage
"The jacket"
Replacements at the Ritz
Luton on LSD
Love for NRBQ
Rod Stewart's autobiography

Elizabeth and Amy brave a December snow storm Wednesday night. It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Bee Gees doc
Luc Sante's Maybe The People Would Be The Times
Alright Alright Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused
Braving the elements
Jimmy Page's argyle vest; Kurt Cobain's sweater
Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah shows & Do You Remember That
Sex Pistols Pittsburgh show that never happened

We share memories of first live shows, last live shows, best nights ever and hope for future gigs.

Peter Murphy at Roseland
Sonny & Cher 
The late David Olney
Drive-By Truckers
Wussy
Fave music venues

https://youtu.be/PwXQpT7Vkqk

This is the second episode of our new podcast about music. This week we share some reflections on Columbia Recording Artist Bob Dylan.

Show Notes: 11.25.20

Conversations with Tom Petty / Paul Zollo

They Might Be Giants / Live at The Music Hall of Williamsburg 11.29.15

Emma Swift / Blonde on the Tracks

Peter Paul & Mary / Blowin’ in the Wind

Hippies / Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

Bob Dylan / Biograph 

Bob Dylan / True Confessions Tour with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Bob Dylan / Chronicles

Suze Rotolo / A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties

Carole Bayer Sager / They’re Playing Our Song: A Memoir

Bob Dylan / Knocked Out Loaded

Bob Dylan / Street-Legal / The Changing of the Guards

Bob Dylan / I Contain Multitudes (Emma Swift / I Contain Multitudes)

Charlie Daniels / Off The Grid: Doin’ It Dylan

Oxford American

Bob Dylan / Nashville Skyline / New Morning (Charlie Daniels)

Charlie Daniels / Drinkin’ My Baby Goodbye (Last Roundup)

Amy Rigby / The Old Guys / From philiproth@gmail to [email protected]

Tony Garnier

Mary Lee Kortes / Mary Lee’s Corvette / Dreaming of Dylan

Bob Dylan / Theme Time Radio Hour

Bruce Bennett / Action Swingers / Hoodies / Mike Bloomfield

Ratso Sloman / On The Road With Bob Dylan

Bob Neuwirth

Bob Dylan / Planet Waves / Going Going Gone

Bob Dylan / Fort Worth Texas / May 16, 1976

The Last Waltz

Thanksgiving 

Bucket Hats

Looking For The Magic gets off to a start with a discussion of current reads, brushes with greatness and things you shouldn't say to your heroes.

Discussed in this episode:

Peter Frampton's memoir Do You Feel Like I Do
Chris Frantz's book - Remain In Love
Pittsburgh
Richard Thompson
Shants
Interviewing NRBQ; Terry Adams
Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys
Touring with Warren Zevon
Jill Sobule
Tom Petty
Joe Strummer; The Clash
Beethoven; Theme from St. Elmo's Fire
Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream & Other Delights
All the greens from all the (pressing) plants

Recorded live here https://youtu.be/cVm_5Sr6Vno