Since there are some newbies (or is that "noobies"?) on the list could someone put up the current ftp addresses for them? I've lost all that stuff. As for the live shows, a wonderful listee has recently sent me some live shows from Brixton that I've never heard. They all sound like board takes which is very nice. I liked the '91 show a great deal. It's interesting to hear how organic those songs were and how they changed over time. Now back to the racism ranting: I've been thinking about this politically correct bullshit around "racist" remarks and I've gotta say I'm with Otto. The truth is ugly sometimes but it's not going to go away. There is a subculture in black America that involves all the stereotypes you are denying. By denying it you are turning away from it not only as a simple fact but also as the problem it is. A few months back, when it was warm and my windows were all open, two lowriders pulled over in front of my house, got out and had a conversation. If I wrote it out as fiction you people that are shouting "racist" the loudest would accuse me of it though I were quoting directly. "Now John*, if you have his baby he take care of you. But that Paul* is just out fo' some pussy. He must have five babies out there and he don't pay a cent fo' none of them!" This was a girl talking to a guy. They also talked about which of their friends were getting how much welfare, who got shot recently, who was smoking crack, how much of their income (sounded like ALL of it from the jobs they had) went into their hoopties... everything but "who my daddy is?" It was so stereotypical it was frightening. Am I a racist because I heard it? Or am I a racist for repeating it? How about seeing the crack dealers two blocks over or the crack whore three doors down? Or the two year old child that I got out of the street because his momma is too fucked up to watch him? Am I a racist for seeing this? How about the gold toothed felon in a hooptied SUV that pulled a gun on me for honking my horn at him? Am I a racist for noting he had gold teeth, a stupid fucking car, a gun, and black skin? Oh, I didn't say that, did I? But you filled his color in, didn't you? cont'd *The names were probably Leroy and G Piddy but I don't remember and I didn't want to just assume their names were "black" sounding. [dripping sarcasm]