Just an edumacated guess here, but we’re thinking Ted Nugent’s campaign contributions are not going to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. (Wait, this batshit crazy video was taken in Anaheim? Just how many hardcore redneck assholes live in or around Anaheim? Now I’m flat-out confused.)

Welcome to the end of another working week. As usual on Fridays we try to keep you entertained with the following links:

• Apple Computers and The Beatles’ Apple Corps may finally put their long standing differences aside and do some business together
• The Live Music Blog has a nice review and great pictures from U2’s tour closer with Pearl Jam in Hawaii
• The Friday Rant features a handy list of 2007 festival dates
• Umphrey’s McGee has added a bunch of tour dates in the northeast and midwest
• The next installment of the Neil Young concert archive series will be a 1971 concert from Toronto’s Massey Hall
• Nearly 50 years later the Big Bopper’s son investigates the day the music died
• Crosby, Stills, and Nash head back on the road this spring
• Double J, Jesse Jarnow has released the 11th edition of his Frow Show podcast
• Glide Magazine has a great feature on Toubab Krewe
• Langerado has added Galactic and The Spam Allstars to their lineup, and more importantly announced there will be shuttle service between the festival and the late night venues
• News about the new Wilco album
• Club D’Elf has announced some upcoming dates
• Ted Nugent caused trouble at the inauguration of Texas Governor Rick Perry
• Rock Music Daily has an mp3 of the Foo Fighters cover of Pink Floyd’s Have A Cigar
• Frank Zappa used to enjoy his Fridays just like the rest of us
• Ick Music provides the mp3s of the infamous Clash set at the US Festival

Have a great weekend and remember to get your entries in for the Live At The Cow Palace contest. As always please share any interesting links you may have with the rest of the class.

In an effort to provide you with as much content on this blog as possible, First Lt. Scott Bernstein will scour the world wide web every week to bring you some of the best circulating torrents — both audio and video — that you may not have noticed floating around the information superhighway.

Since this post serves as the debut of this department, allow me to take a second to vouch for ScottyB. I recently bought a new iPod and delivered the unopened package directly to Scotty and his roommate, Coach, who then sent me an Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of gigs worth of sick live shows and awesome rarities. I picked out what I wanted and shot it back to them, stopping by a week later to claim a top-notch personal music device.

The point is this: ScottyB wants you all to accumulate a stellar music catalogue, and he’ll stop at nothing to accomplish that goal. Let him help you out, he knows what he’s doing here. So here’s the first installment, for the week of 10/23/06.

(Oh, and we’re also offering +10 Hidden Track Heady Points to anyone that can tell us what musical genius coined the questionable phrase “Grousing the Aisles”…)