"The material from 1974’s It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll is surprisingly solid, however, especially the searing version of “Star Star” included here, "

That was from Goat's Head Soup...

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I feel like this one hasn't aged as well as the one after it (or even the one before it).

They're just worried about competition with their own preferred drug smugglers.

No, he's actually been providing surplus value based on their model.

The Arenado contract is underwater, but not the Contreras one.

Nothing wrong with the Contreras contract. He's still an above average hitter (and defender) at 1B.

Big difference is that in tennis, there's an actual line on the ground, whereas the strike zone is more of an abstract construct that varies from batter to batter...

Some of the gear used in making that album. The "Silicon Valley sound" was still very much analog in those days.

There is a new Quiet Room album, started in 1982 and finished earlier this year after the tapes were rediscovered:

quietroom1.bandcamp.com/album/sing-o...

This was from Bruce's year in NYC (1984). He and Susan had a band, Altered States of America, that included Daniel Carter on saxophone.

They played a few gigs but never recorded, although somewhere there are rehearsal tapes and maybe a live recording.

In other words, it wasn't intended as a photo of "Bruce from Flipper." They just happened to be passengers in the guy's cab.

And now it's part of this prestigious collection (meaning it'll probably be too $$$ to use in the book).

brucesilverstein.com/artists/67-r...

It turns out that this article/interview was the very beginning of the work on Bruce's memoir. A lot of material from that initial interview (most of which did not make it into the SFBG article) will finally appear in his book when it comes out, hopefully next year.