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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 07/09/2026

I wanted to dress like Mickey Rourke/Charlie so badly

Me, totally 21 years old, drinking a beer at Twelve South in Atlantic City, circa 1991.

chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 28/08/2026

Ten chapters in and loving it! Strongly recommend to any Sprouts fan. If you’re in the US, Blackwell’s offers free shipping - mine came in a sturdy cardboard mailer via USPS.

Cover of “Truly Gifted Kids” by Nige Tassell

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 22/08/2026

Stompin' on the Avenue, May 1986.

Photo of Radio City Music Hall, taken by me in May 1986 on a trip to NYC with my mom.

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 15/08/2026

I don’t care if you download a new one, where ya at mentally

A drawing of a gnome sitting in a chair. Caption: “I have no idea what's going on with my life I'm just in charge of the music”

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 10/08/2026

Just heard “Fly Like an Eagle” and remembered that I stood right in front of this

SH-2000
Analog Synthesizer
Roland Corp., Hamamatsu, Japan
Ca. 1973
Monophonic; thirty-seven keys with aftertouch; thirty preset sound tabs and four control tabs, one oscillator, one low-frequency oscillator, random note generator, portamento, pitch-bend,
"wow," "growl," and vibrato switches, master volume control
Courtesy Steve Miller

Steve Miller used this Roland keyboard in combination with an Echoplex tape echo to create the psychedelic synthesizer flourishes on his 1976 hit "Fly Like an Eagle." Released in 1973, the SH-1000 and its simpler counter-part, the SH-2000, were the first instruments produced by Roland. In contrast to the large, complex modular and semimodular designs by Moog and ARP, the Roland SH series was compact and employed preset sounds.
Though the SH-2000 was originally designed to complement home organs and marketed to amateur players, its portability and ease of tweaking and re-creating sounds made it well suited for live and studio performances.

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 04/08/2026

“Can’t Buy a Thrill” is obviously the best song on “Aja” (via /u/seaniemic on Reddit)

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 04/08/2026

Minutemen “Double Nickels on the Dime” SST Records 1984

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 03/08/2026

What's your skate name? Mine's "Lazy Ass Johnson".

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 25/07/2026

“Oh, yacht rock. Well, I tell you what. Why don’t you go fuck yourself?”

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 23/07/2026

It’s landing on the Jersey beaches

Shipping notice for the MoFi SACD reissue of Donald Fagen’s masterpiece, “Kamakiriad”.

I don’t even have an SACD player, but if history bears itself out, the standard CD layer should be pristine.

Also: he probably had to approve this, right? Does this mean we might get Morph and Condos remasters next? DAMMIT DONALD RELEASE THE DISCS

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 12/07/2026

Daughter is at a music festival with her friends watching a bunch of cover bands and I just got this text #parentingwin

Screenshot of a text message: “they’re praying [playing] prince and I’m the only one here who knows…#thank u for culturing me”

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 10/07/2026

House to myself till at least 11:30pm. <does math> That’s nearly three Steely Dan live shows. First up: Bonn, 2007.

Carolyn and Cindy looking all angelic and shit

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 26/06/2026

Also get you someone who loves you as much as Donald Fagen loves Coca-Cola

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 26/06/2026

Get you a girl who looks at you the way Carolyn Leonhart looks at Cynthia Calhoun

Carolyn Leonhart smiling at Cynthia Calhoun on stage during "Dirty Work". From Steely Dan's 2000 tour.

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 19/06/2026

Y'ALL. Mixed in with some of the other LPs I just got out of storage: a promo copy of the "Bright Lights, Big City" soundtrack, featuring Donald Fagen! The sleeve is a bit banged up, but I don't think I played the record more than a couple of times since I also had a promo CD of "Century's End".

Promotional vinyl copy of the "Bright Lights, Big City soundtrack".

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 15/06/2026

Also: this is an excellent Cab for the price

St. Hubert’s The Stag Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 14/06/2026

Name your fav TV show that was canceled too soon. Lodge 49

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 09/06/2026

we don't usually see each other's headers, quote post with yours

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 03/06/2026

Don't skip! Post you in another country.

2008, Geneva, Switzerland: attending a meeting at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 28/05/2026

reply with "🥷🏻" and I'll give you a letter to list your 4 favorite characters I got K

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 16/05/2026

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone

Nicola Coughlin as Clare Devlin in “Derry Girls”

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 06/05/2026

They shouldn't let me use these generator sites

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 02/05/2026

Reminds me of this, which sums up me and my wife

Quiet laidback men, why do you go for loud, fiery women?

someone gotta tell the waiter i ordered mashed potatoes and it aint gon be me

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 01/05/2026

It's Bandcamp Friday! Here's what I grabbed:

Prefab Sprout - Let's Change the World with Music

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 24/04/2026

New faceplate acquired and installed; build complete. Hopefully it’ll last another 21 years :)

5th gen iPod Video with shiny new smoky gray faceplate.

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 24/04/2026

Accidental 2AN! Found this yesterday while scanning old photos.

Photo of two silhouetted people by a beach, a bit reminiscent of Steely Dan’s “Two Against Nature” album cover. It was probably taken in the summer of 2000, so the question is, accident or homage? We may never know.

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 19/04/2026

If you could hang out with any 80s movie duo, who would it be? I’ll go first:

Jerome Benton and Morris Day in “Purple Rain”

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chad mo b there @chadmobthere.com · 18/04/2026

Just upgraded my 5th-gen iPod Video that I’ve had since 2005. Threw in a new 2000mah battery and 128GB SD card in an iFlash Solo adapter. Next up: new faceplate and trying to get a few specks off the LCD. Before/after innards:

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