As I said before, Trolling the Underground is on hiatus  for lack of time. I'll be doing a lot of writing today and tomorrow, believe me, but nothing for Blogovia unless you'd like to read my literary analysis of Cinderella (Two versions!) or my paper on ethical technical writing. I don't even want to know about that second one.

But I'm still downloading music and listening to a lot of new bootlegs, so I'll share a sampling with you throughout the month. Here's the stuff I've been listening to on campus this past week!

The first cut has a story to it. On 08-06-2003, I went with my friends to the Journal Pavilion just south of Albuquerque to see Galactic, Jeff Beck, and B.B. King. I had scored us some sweet second row center seats for this one, and as Beck was starting I noticed that the guy to my left was recording it! Cool! It turned out sad, though, because the guy hadn't checked his batteries before starting, and they died during the fourth song. Fie! I still wanted the recording, though, so we exchanged e-mails. He offered me a copy, and I suggested we get together so I could buy him a beer for his troubles. I never heard from him again. I figured maybe he thought I was hitting on him or something.

Then, last weekend, I see it posted on my fave site. I made a comment about the guy I met, and it was indeed him posting it. He said his hard drive had crashed, so maybe we'll have that beer someday after all. In the meantime, here's the first song that Jeff played that night, called Psycho Sam. You can hear me and my former friend to my left discussing the presence of drummer Terry Bozzio (whose name I mispronounce) on stage, a happy thing that we hadn't known would happen. You can tell that I'd had a few and didn't yet know that my neighbor was recording.