I went and saw Regina Spektor at the Chop Suey in Seattle, WA tonight, and man, what a show.

The opening act, Jack "Only Son" Dishel, was pretty good. The guy didn't have a band on the tour, so he was just singing and playing guitar over canned drums/bass/rhythm guitar, but for all that he sounded good enough that I picked up a copy of his album, and after listening to it on the drive home, I think I like it pretty well. Plus, he had a good stage manner for an opening act, characterized by exchanges like…

Squeeze Box holds a unique position in The Who’s repertoire. It is a position similar to that held by songs like Octopus's Garden in the repertoire of The Beatles. Hardcore fans of both bands fall into two camps: Either they like the song in question ironically, or they hate it vehemently, wishing it had never been made and either defending the band every time the song is brought up or pretending it was never made (this is, of course, the outward presentation; I tend to think that many if not most of these fans secretly love the offending…