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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, “Drive All Night,” from The River (Columbia, 1980). Clarence’s classic solo starts at 3:41. Farewell, Big Man.

Giancarlo Cruz-Michael “Mike” Stanton just played his 162nd career game, exactly a season’s worth (between his rookie year and this year). Totals: .258 38 100, good enough, in the pre-roids era, to tie with Frank Robinson and Wally Berger for most rookie homers ever. Ever! This kid is sweet at baseball.

Neil Young and Devo live in the studio, c. 1979. Mark Mothersbaugh as Booji Boy, singing from his crib. This is really weird.

Orioles 14, White Sox 4. W: Doyle Alexander (5-1), L: Eddie Fisher (5-4), S: Grant Jackson (2)

Red Sox 5, Royals 4 (10 innings). W: Bill Lee (6-3), L: Doug Bird (1-1)

Angels 7, Tigers 4. W: Bill Singer (10-2), L: Joe Coleman (10-4), S: Dave Sells (4)

Twins 7, Indians 3 (game one; 15 innings). W: Ray Corbin (2-1), L: Jerry Johnson (2-3)

Twins 13, Indians 9 (game two). W: Joe Decker (1-0), L: Ray Lamb (2-3), S: Dave Goltz (1)

A’s 11, Brewers 1. W: Jim Hunter (7-3), L: Jim Slaton (2-5), S: Darold Knowles (2)

Yankees 5, Rangers 2. W: Steve Kline (4-5), L: Jim Merritt (0-1), S: Sparky Lyle (11)

Cubs 6, Dodgers 4. W: Burt Hooton (6-3), L: Don Sutton (7-4), S: Jack Aker (10)

Astros 4, Phillies 3 (10 innings). W: Jim Crawford (2-2), L: Barry Lersch (1-2)

Braves 5, Expos 3. W: Phil Neikro (4-2), L: Mickey Scott (0-1), S: Danny Frisella (2)

Giants 9, Pirates 7. W: Charlie Williams (3-0), L: Jim Rooker (1-1), S: Randy Moffitt (10)

Cardinals 5, Padres 3. W: Bob Gibson (4-6), L: Clay Kirby (2-6)

Souls of Mischief, “‘93 Till Infinity” (Jive/Zomba, 1993)

Bay Area represents.

Bill Withers, “Don’t You Want to Stay?,” from Making Music (Columbia, 1975)

The song that was in my head all last week as I got ready to leave Brooklyn for San Francisco. I should be back east by June.

Minutemen, “History Lesson Part II,” from Double Nickels on the Dime (SST, 1984)

Thanks to everyone for coming out to Freddy’s last night for Thunderegg’s latest installment in the History Lesson concert series. Such a fun and supportive and, dare I say, physically attractive crowd.

The set list: “Ephemeral” (Universal Nut, 1995); “The Girl Who Has Everything” (New England Music, 1996); “Will Bite” (Personnel Envelo-file, 1997); “I Died Today (for Just a Minute)” (Thunderegg, 1997); “Ceiling Fan” (demo version is on Powder to the People, 1998); “It Took a Week and a Day (to Drink Those Twelve Sodas)” (In Yanistin, 2000); “Pardon Your French” (The Envelope Pushes Back, 2000); “If You Knew Me So Well” (Sweetest One, 2004); “If I Went on a Diet,” featuring Jake (A Very Fine Sample of What’s Available at the Mine, 2005); “If You Were Paper” (This Week, 2007); “Glass of Water” (Line Line, 2011); “Retarty” (Platinum, 2011); “Your Shoes Are Stupid” (Gazillion, 2012); “I’d Stay” (C’mon Thunder, 2012).

Last March, I launched the Thunderegg History Lesson concert series at Freddy’s Backroom in Brooklyn. About three weeks later, they tore the place down. But tonight, in honor of my imminent departure for the West Coast (I leave Friday), the series returns at the fancy new Freddy’s in the fabulous South Slope.

Thunderegg History Lesson Part Two: Farewell to Thunderegg
Tonight: Tuesday, March 29, 9:00 p.m.
Freddy’s Bar
627 Fifth Avenue, between 17th and 18th streets, Brooklyn

To explain the History Lesson part. Like last time, I’ll be playing one song from each Thunderegg album, in chronological order, and then wrapping up with an assortment of newer stuff. But this set will be completely different from the previous iteration. That’s the beauty of Thunderegg History Lesson. It’s possible to do exactly eighteen gazillion COMPLETELY DIFFERENT song sequences. We had real math people figure that out.

Last year’s set list, and therefore not this year’s, was:

“Pillowcase” (Universal Nut, 1995); “Supergirlfriend” (New England Music, 1996); “Wilson Calls It Quits” (Personnel Envelo-file, 1997); “Christina Stopped Playing Her Violin” (Thunderegg, 1997); “Macaroon Muse” (Powder to the People, 1998); “Thanks for the Great Performance (in My Dreams)” (In Yanistin, 2000); “If I Went on a Diet” (The Envelope Pushes Back, 2000); “If You Knew Me So Well” (Sweetest One, 2004); “To See Things Begin” (This Week, 2007); “The Scheduled Show” (Line Line, 2011); “Astronauts” (Gazillion, 2012)…and then it got chaotic for a while, then came back to good ole “Christy Pickle” (Larry, 1994).

This year? Who knows? But it won’t be any of that stuff. Well, maybe “Diet.” You can’t deny your public the big hits. Do that too much and you become Talk Talk. What happened to Talk Talk? Exactly.

The PS 22 chorus sings “Round and Round” by Ariel Pink.