I bought more CDs this year than I probably have in an entire decade!  it’s TRUE!!!! I WILL NOT LET PHYSICAL MEDIA DIE!!!

here’s what I listened to in 2016!!  all certified thightastic!

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you know my theory – see your favorite musicians in concert before you or they die…

Live By Night!

Raul Malo @ City Winery

31st Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (Deep Purple / Ste ve Miller / NWA / Chicago / Cheap Trick(  @ Barclays Center

David Gilmour @ Madison Square Garden

Pearl Jam @ Madison Square Garden

Flight of The Conchords @ The Heath at The McKittrick Hotel

Ellie Goulding @ Madison Square Garden

Guns N’ Roses @ MetLife Stadium

Paul McCartney @ MetLife Stadium

Pitbull @ the Prudential Center

Willie Nelson @ the Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk

The Bangles @ Irving Plaza

Jeff Lynne’s E.L.O. @ Radio City Music Hall

Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam @ Beacon Theatre

Brian Wilson presents Pet Sounds – Celebrating the 50th Anniversary with Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin @ Beacon Theatre

Tidal X 10/15 @ Barclays

Sia @ Barclays

my very first (and long overdue) @PearlJam show was more epic than Epic Records #ImStillAlive

A video posted by Thigh Master (@thighmaster) on May 2, 2016 at 8:42pm PDT

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here’s a bunch of misc music junk from TWS in 2016…

The The and They They

believe it or not, in my adolescents, I used to be even angrier about really dumb stuff

stuff auctioned off from The Estate of the late Syd Barrett, in 2006

Bantha 8-Tracks

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it sucks the most when musicians die, cause you can never relive their greatness visually like you can with actors.  it’s true!

Goodnight Sweet
Prince & Princesses

Willie Nelson
Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk
September 13th, 2016

Willie Nelson is 83 years young! If you have never seen him live, you should, he is amazing and he still plays his old guitar like he will be playing it for another 40 years! I am so glad we got to see him and that I got lucky taking this photo, nothing like having my camera focused at exactly the right time! Thank you for this life @carlos68gonzalez #blessed #nofilter #willienelson

A photo posted by Kimberly Gonzalez (@therealmrsgonzalez) on Sep 13, 2016 at 8:05pm PDT

Willie Nelson was always on my mind, but never high on my list of artists to see, not matter how high him or I have been in the past.  But I recently realized that he’s 83 years old, and although I can envision him on the road again and again until he’s 803, I don’t think he (or I) will make it that far, and so of course I had to see him before he enviably goes up yonder.  Plus, you never know – if you happen to catch his last show ever, you get to roll him up and smoke his dead body!  Sick, yes, but I didn’t write those lyrics – he did, and I bet in his will, he really wants his ashes smoked!

Anywho, the dude certainly looks like an 83-year-old dude (although he has forever looked like a dude in his 70s, even during in the 1980s!), but he still plays the guitar like he was a 53-year-old, and he STILL sounds like he did when he was 32!!!!  INCREDIBLE!!!!

This man is a national treasure, a country music spelunker doling out troves of down home Americana, decade after decade.  Do your civic and patriotic duty, see him in concert, and roll one up and smoke your own, before he dies

Setlist – Whiskey River / Still Is Still Moving to Me / Beer for My Horses (Toby Keith cover) / Good Hearted Woman (Waylon Jennings cover) / Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (Ed Bruce cover) / Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground / On the Road Again / Always on My Mind (Brenda Lee cover) / Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms / Funny How Time Slips Away / Crazy / It’s My Life / Alexander’s Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin cover) / Me and Paul / If You Got the Money / Down Yonder /  Jambalaya (On the Bayou) (Hank Williams cover) / Hey Good Lookin'(Hank Williams cover) / Move It On Over (Hank Williams cover) / Georgia on My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael cover) / It’s All Going to Pot (Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard cover) / Bloody Mary Morning / Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die / I’ll Fly Away

Willie Nelson is on my mind, but my beloved @sarachka515 is ALWAYS on my mind. long live them both, and you and your mother and your mother's husband

A video posted by Thigh Master (@thighmaster) on Sep 13, 2016 at 8:14pm PDT

Peace The Forks Out

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Fancy Nancy

goodbye Nancy