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20th Annual Christmas Jam Report

Season’s Greetings, Earthlings! Warren Haynes’ (Allman Bros., Government Mule, lots of etc’s.) 20th Anniversary Christmas Jam this year had the usual “pre-jam” in local pubs – locals mostly – and the main event went to 2 nights due to the all-star lineup. More musicians than you can shake a stick at, and more participants than any one venue could hold. So this year there were art exhibits, a film festival, day-jams at those local pubs, and two long, long nights at the A-ville Civic Center Arena – big enough to park all the tour buses, Winnebegos and Priuses before you even got to the curtained-off green room & bar or the musician’s dinner, drinks and rehearsal area. I’m guessing this is where they park the lions, tigers and elephants when the circus is in town…

The Citizen-Times covered the full event in all its glory from the starting gate – we love our Warren, just as we loved our Mr. Moog. We started early on as well, back when Warren was just beginning his long career in charity and memorial concerts/jams, which he figured he could do because… he’s Warren Haynes. In 1990 we did our first Haynes jam at the Jacksonville Beach Pavillion, a memorial for Lynard Skynard / Rossington-Collins guitarist Allen Collins. Entertained the young’uns before the show with the basic juggling and magic. Not exactly respectable musicianship (we have no musical talent at this end of the family), but it does get us in free. Mostly because there IS (or, sadly, was) musical talent at other ends of the family.

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George Bush Ducks Iraqi Journlist… Not His Questions …His Shoes!

George Bush ducks two shoes of protest in Iraq

Probably protesting American presence in the US and the horrible decisions of the Bush Administration, an Iraqi journalist who will probably be put in jail for the rest of his life or even killed (so much for freedom) took it upon himself to throw shoes at President Bush. Now, I’m not for violent protest, but I have to admit that I got a chuckle out of this. I wish the journalist well and hope they don’t punish him unjustly.

Source: George Bush Shoe Video @ PopCrunch

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