Rob Peter Pay Paul

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I'll do so after I'm done going to the Anaheim show. Going to that with my OC friends tonight. Hadn't been planning on it because that drive is a nightmare at regular hours, but so it goes.

I took some pictures on my fancy schmancy Sony DSCHX7. Gil took tons of video, and a cool British dude I met there posted some pics on facebook, so we could do a straight-up megathread if so inclined.
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Heston wrote:I'm patiently waiting for a review of the LA gig.
It was brilliant.

BTW, the setlist was the same as Philly and Minneapolis.

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Anaheim show was great too, but sort of ruined by Orange County people. Some woman offered me $5 for a cigarette and told me BAD were almost as good as ICP and then told me to "limewire" a couple ICP songs. Made a BAD convert of a friend of mine who knows of Mick Jones primarily through the Gorillaz, which is cool.

The venue was really annoying about re-entry too. I needed to get my snus (aka my "quit smoking, you asshole" medication) out of the car and it was like 40 minutes before the opening band even went on, and security was like "absolutely not." Some manager let me out though and he was really cool about it.
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Kaleb wrote:Anaheim show was great too, but sort of ruined by Orange County people. Some woman offered me $5 for a cigarette and told me BAD were almost as good as ICP and then told me to "limewire" a couple ICP songs. Made a BAD convert of a friend of mine who knows of Mick Jones primarily through the Gorillaz, which is cool.
Think she was trying to chat you up. You could have woken up underneath a poster of Violent J, resting your hand on her stars tattoo.
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She was so drunk I was surprised she was standing up.
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Kaleb wrote:She was so drunk I was surprised she was standing up.
Definitely trying to chat you up.
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Silent Majority wrote:
Kaleb wrote:She was so drunk I was surprised she was standing up.
Definitely trying to chat you up.
I remember when I was still young enough to be chatted up by creepy middle aged women. Those were...times.
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Wolter wrote:
Silent Majority wrote:
Kaleb wrote:She was so drunk I was surprised she was standing up.
Definitely trying to chat you up.
I remember when I was still young enough to be chatted up by creepy middle aged women. Those were...times.
Irish Oak?
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If he had played his cards right, Beej coulda been fist-deep in some sweet, middle-aged juggalette poon right now, instead of posting on this message board.
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"You should have stayed in Anaheim and essentially raped a woman of questionable judgment, both spiritual and musical." - all of you terrible people.
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appleseed wrote: Passing 'round the plate. Me, I had to fake it.
You lay down the law, said I gotta take it. I'm gonna break 'em all.
If you're gonna rob Peter, you better pay Paul.
From the Lollapalooza clip that second line sounds like;

Passing 'round the plate. Me, I had to fake it.
You lay down the law, said I gotta BREAK it. I'm gonna break 'em all.
If you're gonna rob Peter, you better pay Paul.

To me.

Great song. What bootlegs is this on, just in case we don't get a studio version?

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Rob Peter Pay Paul on Fallon: http://www.mediafire.com/?efrhb38psj2alnk

mkv -> wav -> 320kbps mp3 (used foobar).

I turned the volume up. The db on Fallon was like 70.
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Thanks for the link Kaleb.

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oliver wrote:
appleseed wrote:Can any of you lend me a hand with a couple of lyrics I can't quite make out?

Where is the justice? What happened to the law?
?
Where us the justice? What happened to the law?
______ question, who's he working for?

Not sure on that first bit :-)
From the Anaheim bootleg;

"Let me ask a question, who's he working for?"

Damn catchy song, it was stuck in my head after two listens to the Lolla youtube clip and one listen of the Fallon show MP3 from Kaleb above.

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appleseed wrote:One of you folks who have Mick's ear, please thank him for me for writing this song. I can't overstate how impressed I am by it. I feel like it was written for me. Mick was already my favorite musician, but when I heard this on Jimmy Fallon my jaw dropped open. It gave me goosebumps and misty eyes. I was just so overwhelmed by it--from the lyrics to the riffs to Mick's solo--and thankful and happy for BAD to be back with a great song that captures our times so perfectly. I'm not surprised because this is the kind of music that Mick's always written, and that's made The Clash and BAD such a fundamental part of my life. Still, I wasn't expecting an absolute lightning bolt like this song. In the few days since I've heard it I've listened to it over and over. It's a new favorite. Job well done, guys.
I would say the melody is not too different to "Other 99" and the lyrics are, even more so, "Free/Kickin' In"

A truly wonderful song, ticks all the right boxes, a modern classic?

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