Pardon me, I need to settle down and return to my dried crust. 
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Boeing did work on one as I recall. I assume it’s a much more practical issue than european (lol). Most flights being domestic, the sonic boom over the lower 48 would not be appreciated.
I do believe there is new research that narrows the shock wave angle and keeps the boom in the atmosphere. Now that would be a supersonic solution.
Sorry, I used to pretend to be an aero engineer. 90% mostly forgotten at this point but do have a bunch of fancy paper hanging on the wall behind my desk at work that swears it used to be true.
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Yes the sonic boom on takeoff was one problem here - when Speke airport changes ends (due to wind direction I assume) the regular jets are pretty deafening when they are climbing over our house instead of gliding in. They try and do it over the river but it’s only a mile wide around here I think.
Never heard Concorde doing that thankfully 
On a different note -
I sometimes ramble on this forum about how paying people (everyone!) a basic subsistence for doing nothing is a good (and ultimately, necessary) thing, at least for the arts and especially music.
We had this in the 80s, and to some extent, in the 90s, and had a lot of very good bands (and small venues) thrived (or at least survived) as a result, different to now, and all we seem to have is rich kids in bands.
This is a story from Popbitch (today’s edition) that obliquely mentions this, plus a link at the bottom to the original story about the cool Secondary School in northern UK (ages 11 - 16/18) and the various bands they got to play in their school hall 
It’s a heartwarming read all 'round if you have the time!
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Doling out advice
Last week, we linked to a story about a secondary school in West Yorkshire that staged an impressive string of rock gigs in the 90s – getting bands like The Lemonheads, the Levellers, the Wedding Present and more to play. Delightfully, one of CUD (who played Minsthorpe High School twice) got in touch to tell us a bit more about it.
Carl writes:
"I was in CUD, still am. Our bass player, drummer and guitarist gave music lessons during the day and the band’s manager and I gave a talk on all the tricks that a young band would need to learn so they could be a band but still sign on.
"We told them to organise tours around the aggregate of their signing on days. Keeping separate food cupboards if they co-habited but didn’t want to get the couple rate of dole. When we did those shows we were totally on the breadline, so we probably talked to them about doing supermarket skips too.
“Some of the kids started up a fanzine, Maggots and Mash, that was full of us first issue…”
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RIP Aaron Spears. Killer Drummer.
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I don’t know if this free link will work. But this is an interview with Chris Botti. A mix of jazz trumpet and fast cars.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/trumpeter-chris-botti-is-living-life-at-140-mph-9cdae37d?st=xp3njbyzqs8t79x&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I wonder if Keith Richard’s actually plays the guitar on any of the tracks.
Snarkily yours.
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Read this yesterday, a quick summary of why such a good artist didn’t quite have the hits some people were expecting.
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The pace of scientific advancements is mind boggling. Would love to be around fifty years from now to see how it all pans out.
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“The new album sold 693,000 copies on vinyl, the largest week of sales for that format since at least 1991.”
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Ugh! Feeling Taylor Swifted to the point I could scream. Thank goodness her noisy Eras Tour flick is out of the local theaters. Couldn’t believe how loud the theater operators turned up the SPL to satisfy her teenybopper demographic. I practically got blown out of my recliner in an adjoining theater attempting (!) to take in another film. Anyway, out of rant mode.
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I sympathise, I really do (and I am hyper-vulnerable to earworms agghh!).
I try and think of it like this:
Folks used to complain about Enid Blyton, and of course more recently, JK Rowling, but that was two generations of kids who grew up reading.
Same goes for TS - a generation of kids who love the music, and a good proportion of them will always love music.
I think that’s worth the inconvenience of seeing her cheesy grin everywhere at the moment and being
Fifteen years ago it was Mily Cyrus / Hannah Montanna so it could be worse 
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* I saw Mily Cyrus (with various youngsters in tow) around fifteen years ago.
She put on a decent show for sure, as did Kelly Clarkson and Avril Lavign…
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I remember “Beatlemania” and all the associated hype from the kids and confusion/disgust from the parents. I was five at the time of their U.S. “Invasion”, but had lots of older cousins who were taken in by all of it. Today’s kids are really no different. Each generation has it’s “Mega Pop Stars”.
Life doesn’t repeat itself, but it certainly does rhyme.
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Very cool story.
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You have to scroll through the pictures. Just amazing the variety of ideas and visual presentations.
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Delightful
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