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[You Can't Abandon a Pain in the Ass Friend? Kid Cudi Joining Kanye West on Stage in Chicago is the Ultimate "A Man's Blues"] On a night when the ice in your glass chinks, you sometimes find yourself wondering: why is it that the most high-maintenance friends in your life are always the hardest to cut ties with? It makes me think of an old bandmate from way back who would call dead drunk at 2 AM and yell, "Lend me some cash." The kind of guy who, by the following morning, would show up acting like nothing happened and ask, "Got a guitar string I can borrow?" Normally, you'd cut him off. But whether it's some kind of bluesman's curse or what, for some reason, you just can't abandon him. A drama of precisely that kind of "annoying yet unbreakable bond" unfolded under the night sky of Chicago, the mecca of the blues. …