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1 simonml  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:40:28pm

My gusta España

2 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:40:33pm

the yput on a hell of a live show, if anyone has a chance to see them...quite unlike anything else

3 Occasional Reader  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:40:50pm

Jazz is nowhere mentioned in the Bible, and leads to autism.

4 Mad Al-Jaffee  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:41:06pm

I liked them better when Howard Levy was with them, but I'm biased since I'm a harmonica player.

5 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:41:26pm

re: #3 Occasional Reader

Jazz is nowhere mentioned in the Bible, and leads to autism.

I just knew there was something evil and satanic about it.
/

6 looking closely  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:41:46pm

That "Drumitar" thing is bizarre(itar).

7 Mad Al-Jaffee  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:42:21pm

re: #3 Occasional Reader

Jazz is nowhere mentioned in the Bible, and leads to autism.

It makes teenagers listen to negro music and smoke reefer!

/sarc

8 capitalist piglet  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:43:20pm

I love Victor Wooten. I saw him with Mike Stern at Jazz Alley in Seattle.

Y.I.K.E.S.

(I love Mike Stern, too.)

9 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:43:26pm

FutureMan is such a freak...I love it

10 A.J.  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:43:53pm

Fleck and Victor Wooten are first rate. But Fleck should ditch the "drumitar" and get a real drummer.

11 Erik The Red  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:43:55pm

re: #7 Mad Al-Jaffee

It makes teenagers listen to negro music and smoke reefer!

/sarc

What is negro music?

12 Occasional Reader  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:44:18pm

I'll have to listen to this a bit later... a little crowded around the office at the moment.

13 acwgusa  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:44:24pm

Chrysler goes under for the second, (or is it third?) time, and is bailed out by the government, again.


Wheeeee for overbearing government! Wheeeeee I tell you!

/Brainfried.

14 Kragar  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:44:29pm

re: #3 Occasional Reader

Jazz is nowhere mentioned in the Bible, and leads to autism.

"To me, jazz is noise. Insolent noise."

15 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:44:31pm

re: #10 A.J.

Fleck and Victor Wooten are first rate. But Fleck should ditch the "drumitar" and get a real drummer.

no way....he is a Flecktone and the fans love him

16 simonml  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:45:20pm

Freshman roommate from college is a professional bass player. Used to play like this for me when we had nothing to do. The guy has ridiculous talent for any instrument, but has that attitude of bass player in a band, does that make sense?

[Link: www.myspace.com...]

His band is playing at House of Blues in Hollywood tonight. Is that a shameless plug?

17 Occasional Reader  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:45:24pm

re: #14 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

"To me, jazz is noise. Insolent noise."

Quote by... ?

18 Mad Al-Jaffee  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:45:36pm

I believe there's a Lizard named after a Flecktones album: Ufo Tofu

19 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:45:46pm

re: #11 Erik The Red

What is negro music?

Ladysmith?

20 Kragar  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:45:57pm

re: #17 Occasional Reader

Quote by... ?

Thats the fun, you get to guess.

21 capitalist piglet  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:46:39pm

re: #20 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Thats the fun, you get to guess.

Okay. Jim Nabors.

22 Occasional Reader  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:47:18pm

re: #20 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Thats the fun, you get to guess.

Dickie Greenleaf's father? (According to google, confirmed by recollection of the movie, which I just happened to see again recently.)

23 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:47:46pm

re: #17 Occasional Reader

Quote by... ?


Jazz isn't dead..It just smells funny..
/Zappa

24 Render  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:47:46pm

[Link: www.flecktones.com...]

CANNED
HEAT,
R

25 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:47:48pm

re: #20 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Thats the fun, you get to guess.

Mr. Burns?

26 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:47:57pm

Are there any vids out there of Charles performing (music)?

Otherwise:

Obama Outsources His Presidency

While officials in the Obama White House dismissed yesterday's "100 Days" anniversary as a "Hallmark Holiday," they understood it was what sociologist Daniel J. Boorstin called a "pseudo-event." By that, Boorstin meant an occasion that is not spontaneous but planned for the purpose of being reported -- an event that is important because someone says so, not because it is.

27 Gearhead  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:48:01pm

re: #20 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Thats the fun, you get to guess.

Probably not Eartha Kitt.

/that's all I got

28 capitalist piglet  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:48:10pm

re: #22 Occasional Reader

Dickie Greenleaf's father? (According to google, confirmed by recollection of the movie, which I just happened to see again recently.)

A line from a movie. Does that even count? What real life person would say such a thing?

(I can barely keep a straight face typing that.)

29 Occasional Reader  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:48:13pm

re: #11 Erik The Red

I think Mad Al was parodying hysterical fears about jazz from, say, the 1930s.

30 Kragar  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:48:24pm

re: #22 Occasional Reader

Dickie Greenleaf's father? (According to google, confirmed by recollection of the movie, which I just happened to see again recently.)

Thats cheating, but correct. Great movie despite the cast being moonbats.

31 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:49:00pm

re: #24 Render

[Link: www.flecktones.com...]

CANNED
HEAT,
R

Canned Heat....yes

32 Occasional Reader  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:49:10pm

re: #27 Gearhead

Probably not Eartha Kitt.

/that's all I got

She spoke to me, on more than one occasion, in the back seat of a NYC taxi. She told me to wear my seatlbelt.

/it's a miracle, I tellsya

33 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:50:30pm

I greatly admire fans of Jazz music. They are intelligent, appreciative folks.

34 capitalist piglet  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:50:36pm

re: #26 Ben Hur

Are there any vids out there of Charles performing (music)?

Someone just posted one the other night, with Stanley Clarke.

Charles shreds.

(I am stating the obvious, of course.)

35 Occasional Reader  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:50:56pm

re: #33 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I greatly admire fans of Jazz music. They are intelligent, appreciative folks.

Not Dickie Greenleaf. He was a grade-A asshole.

36 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:51:10pm

Someone who seems to be a fan of Alex Jones and Ron Paul has been emailing me links to the infowars website every day -- today there's a real classic of a post over there raving that the site is under a denial of service attack by the New World Order.

Judge Andrew Napolitano's pal.

37 Erik The Red  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:51:33pm

re: #19 albusteve

Ladysmith?

You mean this LadySmith?

38 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:51:55pm

re: #33 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I greatly admire fans of Jazz music. They are intelligent, appreciative folks.

what?...bluegrass fans are chopped liver?....jazz is just another thing...there are plenty of stupid jazz lovers I imagine

39 Gearhead  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:52:44pm

re: #36 Charles

Someone who seems to be a fan of Alex Jones and Ron Paul has been emailing me links to the infowars website every day -- today there's a real classic of a post over there raving that the site is under a denial of service attack by the New World Order.

Judge Andrew Napolitano's pal.

New World Order is just code for "past due hosting fees."

40 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:53:00pm

re: #31 albusteve

Canned Heat....yes

Snuck backstage at a canned heat concert.. Me and my friend were about 15..We were sitting around making fun of Alice Cooper when Bob Hite threw me a bag of pot and told me to roll..How embarressing to tell my hero that I didn't smoke and didn't know how to roll..Talk about instant bad karma in the room..At least I got him to give me his autograph

41 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:53:15pm

re: #19 albusteve

Ladysmith?

One of my FAVORITE groups.

42 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:53:53pm

re: #37 Erik The Red

You mean this LadySmith?

certainly...I love those guys, I was fortunate to see them once...never had another chance...but Graceland is a fine record and I play it every now and then

43 UFO TOFU  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:53:56pm

re: #33 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Thank you.

Crap, a Bela Fleck thread and I have a meeting. Charles does this everytime.

44 capitalist piglet  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:54:17pm

re: #26 Ben Hur

Are there any vids out there of Charles performing (music)?

Here you go, B/H:

Audio quality is about as bad as it gets, but you'll dig it.

45 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:54:51pm

re: #37 Erik The Red

You mean this LadySmith?


Can you recommend similar groups?

I'm a HUGE Ladysmith fan.

46 spaceman  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:55:08pm

Love it. We were once lucky enough to fly into NC on a visit to see the in-laws on the very night that the Flecktones were in town. We caught the show, and it was great. So versatile, so expressive.

47 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:55:09pm

re: #40 HoosierHoops

Snuck backstage at a canned heat concert.. Me and my friend were about 15..We were sitting around making fun of Alice Cooper when Bob Hite threw me a bag of pot and told me to roll..How embarressing to tell my hero that I didn't smoke and didn't know how to roll..Talk about instant bad karma in the room..At least I got him to give me his autograph

lucky they didn't stomp you....
jus kidding....bikers love those guys of course

48 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:56:47pm

That being said. I hate jazz.

Wonderful thing about music; taste is never wrong.

Unless you ask anyone named Steve from Albuquerque.

49 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:56:48pm

re: #44 capitalist piglet


That is KICK ASS!

Thanks!

Love it!

50 haakondahl  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:57:05pm

re: #16 simonml

The guy has ridiculous talent for any instrument, but has that attitude of bass player in a band, does that make sense?

There was an Onion headline years ago:
Area Bassist Fellated

51 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:57:21pm

5pm EST Rapture.

52 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:57:54pm

re: #44 capitalist piglet

Don't fly too close to the sun, Charles!

53 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:58:30pm

Free the Weeed!

54 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:58:58pm

Bad news from Lebanon - the people arrested for Hariri's assassination were released.
There goes Lebanon.

55 CyanSnowHawk  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:58:59pm

re: #36 Charles

Someone who seems to be a fan of Alex Jones and Ron Paul has been emailing me links to the infowars website every day -- today there's a real classic of a post over there raving that the site is under a denial of service attack by the New World Order.

Judge Andrew Napolitano's pal.

Are they sure it's not just collapsing from your traffic? Maybe they shouldn't have gone with the bargain hosting.

56 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:59:02pm

Any other Heads NOT go see the Dead this week?

57 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:59:25pm

re: #51 Ben Hur

5pm EST Rapture.

Otherwise known as "Take This Job and Shove It" time. ;-)

58 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:59:32pm

re: #48 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That being said. I hate jazz.

Wonderful thing about music; taste is never wrong.

Unless you ask anyone named Steve from Albuquerque.

I like jazz..i'm intalijent

59 simonml  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:59:48pm

re: #50 haakondahl

There was an Onion headline years ago:
Area Bassist Fellated

LOL. Oh to be in a band.

60 haakondahl  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 1:59:58pm

re: #53 Ben Hur

Free the Weeed!

Babba, that you?

61 redstateredneck  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:00:13pm

re: #9 albusteve

FutureMan is such a freak...I love it


Was he wearing a pirate hat?

62 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:00:27pm

re: #54 Kosh's Shadow

Bad news from Lebanon - the people arrested for Hariri's assassination were released.
There goes Lebanon.

Kosh, Lebanon was lost when the Europeans let turn from Christian majority to Muslim majority.

They sacrificed one of their own, they will not hesitate to sacrifice Israel.

63 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:00:50pm

re: #48 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That being said. I hate jazz.

Wonderful thing about music; taste is never wrong.

Unless you ask anyone named Steve from Albuquerque.

True, taste in music can't be wrong as it is very subjective. Not everyone likes what I like, and I don't like what some other folks like.

64 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:01:26pm

re: #60 haakondahl

hahahahaha!

65 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:01:31pm

re: #61 redstateredneck

Was he wearing a pirate hat?

looked like it...he wears some outrageous costumes

66 Erik The Red  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:02:21pm

re: #45 Ben Hur

Can you recommend similar groups?

I'm a HUGE Ladysmith fan.

There are lots of South Africa bands that are great.

Johnny Clegg

Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba - The Click Song 1966

67 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:02:57pm

re: #63 Honorary Yooper

True, taste in music can't be wrong as it is very subjective. Not everyone likes what I like, and I don't like what some other folks like.

I like so many different types of music that it's crazy.

68 wrenchwench  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:03:02pm

re: #44 capitalist piglet

Here you go, B/H:


Audio quality is about as bad as it gets, but you'll dig it.

You want bad audio quality, you want this one:

Video is terrible too. But it's great.

69 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:03:25pm

My health insurance just cancelled my perscription drug coverage with no way to get in reinstated.

This really sucks.

What the HELL am I paying $445 a month for?

70 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:03:40pm

re: #63 Honorary Yooper

True, taste in music can't be wrong as it is very subjective. Not everyone likes what I like, and I don't like what some other folks like.

true...and as an analogy some would consider the Lions a great football team

71 Russkilitlover  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:04:07pm

re: #13 acwgusa

Chrysler goes under for the second, (or is it third?) time, and is bailed out by the government the taxpayers, again.

The only money government has it what government takes.

72 looking closely  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:04:17pm

re: #44 capitalist piglet

Wow. . .
That was awesome!
Never seen Clarke *or* "Icarus" playing before. . .

73 redstateredneck  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:04:26pm

Hmmmm, the drumitar explained.
Very inventive.

74 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:04:26pm

re: #67 Ben Hur

Me too. Jazz and blues (with the fewest number of exceptions of genres) just never hit me.

75 looking closely  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:04:37pm

re: #61 redstateredneck

Was he wearing a pirate hat?

Aaarrrrhh!

76 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:04:46pm

re: #70 albusteve

That's my Steve!

77 simonml  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:04:47pm

re: #69 Alouette

My health insurance just cancelled my perscription drug coverage with no way to get in reinstated.

This really sucks.

What the HELL am I paying $445 a month for?

Talk to your doc about $4 prescription drugs? Just an idea. Maybe you're only sick enough for the cheap drugs.

78 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:04:57pm

re: #66 Erik The Red

Fantastic! Thanks!

79 UFO TOFU  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:05:00pm

re: #4 Mad Al-Jaffee

Do you like Rod Piazza? He puts on a killer live show.

80 haakondahl  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:05:45pm

re: #63 Honorary Yooper

True, taste in music can't be wrong as it is very subjective. Not everyone likes what I like, and I don't like what some other folks like.

Ohhhh, but I beg to differ. There is commendable, miraculous music, and there is contemptible, predatory music, and there is the vast majority which is up for debate, and at any rate, indistinguishable as one song to the next.

Some taste in music is very wrong.

81 neocon hippie  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:06:28pm

I prefer the current edition of the band which includes Jeff Coffin on woodwinds.

I had the privilege of seeing the Flecktones perform this song on the deck of a cruise ship in the middle of the Caribbean. Coffin's flute playing added a lot.

82 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:06:33pm

re: #67 Ben Hur

I like so many different types of music that it's crazy.

I find I usually cherry-pick from different genres of music, and even cherry-pick specific songs that I like from artists.

83 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:07:23pm

re: #74 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Me too. Jazz and blues (with the fewest number of exceptions of genres) just never hit me.

no blues?....you are
HOmeless
HOmeless

84 Occasional Reader  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:07:45pm

re: #67 Ben Hur

I like so many different types of music that it's crazy.

Me, I only like John Phillip Sousa marching band music. That's it. Everything else is crap.

/

85 haakondahl  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:08:02pm

Gonna step outside--see if MM's back with the smokes yet.

86 [deleted]  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:08:14pm
87 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:08:26pm

re: #81 neocon hippie

I prefer the current edition of the band which includes Jeff Coffin on woodwinds.

I had the privilege of seeing the Flecktones perform this song on the deck of a cruise ship in the middle of the Caribbean. Coffin's flute playing added a lot.

I posted a gig the other day and Coffin was just outstanding...he gets it

88 Render  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:08:59pm

Not a jazz fan, per say. But I've always been interested in strange homemade electronics, especially musical instruments.

The only electronic guitar tuner I ever owned was a 1940's Coast Guard 10MHz oscilloscope for initial reference.

=

Receipt of this pass and sign-in by visitor with signature is acknowledgment and acceptance of all restrictions listed.

GONE
FISSION,
R

89 Guanxi88  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:09:00pm

re: #83 albusteve

no blues?....you are
HOmeless
HOmeless

Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake!

90 Gearhead  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:09:03pm

re: #86 taxfreekiller

NIXON:::"I am not a crook."

OBAMA:::"I am not a commie".

CARTER:::"Kill da' wabbit."

91 Killgore Trout  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:09:09pm

The Tea Parties are looking like a good idea to Noam Chomsky?
Noam Chomsky on Ron Paul Libertarians: Common ground can be explored (video)

Have we achieved complete moronic convergence?

92 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:09:31pm

re: #82 Honorary Yooper

I find I usually cherry-pick from different genres of music, and even cherry-pick specific songs that I like from artists.


Me too.

93 lurking faith  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:09:34pm

re: #84 Occasional Reader

Me, I only like John Phillip Sousa marching band music. That's it. Everything else is crap.

/

Hey, now, don't be mockin' the Sousa.

94 [deleted]  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:09:56pm
95 Erik The Red  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:10:37pm

re: #86 taxfreekiller

NIXON:::"I am not a crook."

OBAMA:::"I am not a commie".

tfk you sure do know how to throw shit out to derail a thread. :)

I never had sex with that women, would also fit into the equation.

96 [deleted]  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:10:41pm
97 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:10:51pm

re: #89 Guanxi88

Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake!

these guys were simply phenomenal on the Graceland album...the vid of Simon playing in SA is outstanding...one hell of a band

98 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:11:24pm

re: #74 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Me too. Jazz and blues (with the fewest number of exceptions of genres) just never hit me.

Can't say I've ever been much into jazz. Blues, a bit more, but I do love rhythm and blues. The classic stuff (Stax, Motown, Philadelpha Int.), not that modern junk they try to pass off as R&B.

99 simonml  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:11:24pm

re: #95 Erik The Red

tfk you sure do know how to throw shit out to derail a thread. :)

I never had sex with that women, would also fit into the equation.

You say it and it happens. Strange.

100 redstateredneck  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:11:35pm

re: #93 lurking faith

Hey, now, don't be mockin' the Sousa.

Lord, I played French horn in high school. Had to do the oom-pah-pah's on the Sousa marches.
:-(

101 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:11:59pm

re: #83 albusteve

Saw a print in a pawn shop once; Old man sitting on a crate playing a guitar, caption read, "If it ain't been in a pawn shop, it can't play the blues."

I have more appreciation for people who enjoy/play the blues or jazz than I have for the music itself.

Please do not ask me to explain why.

Gotta run for a bit.

102 MandyManners  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:12:01pm

re: #85 haakondahl

Gonna step outside--see if MM's back with the smokes yet.

I have my nicotine. All is well.

103 joncelli  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:12:07pm

re: #91 Killgore Trout

Careful now, if you get Chomsky and Ron Paul in the same room you might achieve a critical mass of moronitude and then -- KABOOM! Very messy.

104 Erik The Red  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:12:30pm

re: #91 Killgore Trout

The Tea Parties are looking like a good idea to Noam Chomsky?
Noam Chomsky on Ron Paul Libertarians: Common ground can be explored (video)

Have we achieved complete moronic convergence?

FUCK IT, KT. Give it a break already.

105 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:12:34pm

re: #95 Erik The Red

tfk you sure do know how to throw shit out to derail a thread. :)

I never had sex with that women, would also fit into the equation.

re: #96 taxfreekiller

CLINTON :::: "I did not have sex,, with that woman."

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! One comment after Eric said it, TKF did it.

106 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:12:37pm

re: #98 Honorary Yooper

Can't say I've ever been much into jazz. Blues, a bit more, but I do love rhythm and blues. The classic stuff (Stax, Motown, Philadelpha Int.), not that modern junk they try to pass off as R&B.

Chess...Chicago

107 Killgore Trout  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:12:51pm

re: #91 Killgore Trout

After a second listen it's pretty clear that he does see the Tea Parties as a good common ground to bring the far right over to the far left.

108 capitalist piglet  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:13:07pm

re: #68 wrenchwench

You want bad audio quality, you want this one:



Video is terrible too. But it's great.

THANK you. Man, that takes me back. I lived on George Duke and Stanley Clarke when I was a teenager.

To paraphrase Ann Taintor: We lizards are dysfunctional, but more important, we're funky. LOL

109 redstateredneck  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:13:32pm

re: #94 Iron Fist

My insurance tried to weasle on an ER visit last year (car wreck). They were trying to stick me for almost seventeen grand. When all was said and done, it cost them $750. There is something fundementally wrong in a system that will do that. If I hadn't had insurance I'd have been bankrupt. No ifs, ands, or buts about it, but if it'd just been the $750, I'd have paid it just to avoid the hassel.

Something's broke, that is for sure. But I don't see Obama and the Democrats making it any better.

Same crap happened to me when my husband got burned by hot cooking oil at a Nascar race and they airlifted him to Parkland Hospital in Dallas. They weren't going to cover it because I didn't call them within the 24 hour window to pre-certify it. They eventually did, but I had to raise some hell.

110 [deleted]  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:13:33pm
111 Killgore Trout  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:13:50pm

re: #104 Erik The Red

FUCK IT, KT. Give it a break already.


Nope, but thanks for the suggestion.

112 brookly red  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:14:05pm

re: #105 Honorary Yooper

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! One comment after Eric said it, TKF did it.

4 seconds later to be exact...

113 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:14:07pm

re: #101 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Saw a print in a pawn shop once; Old man sitting on a crate playing a guitar, caption read, "If it ain't been in a pawn shop, it can't play the blues."

I have more appreciation for people who enjoy/play the blues or jazz than I have for the music itself.

Please do not ask me to explain why.

Gotta run for a bit.

because they understand what they are hearing and appreciate the talent

114 Guanxi88  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:14:09pm

re: #97 albusteve

these guys were simply phenomenal on the Graceland album...the vid of Simon playing in SA is outstanding...one hell of a band

Gumboots was one of my favorite singles from that album:

I was having this discussion in a taxi heading downtown/
Rearranging my position on this friend of mine who had a little bit of a break-down.

----

And of course:

"Who am I to blow against the wind?"

115 Erik The Red  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:14:23pm

re: #96 taxfreekiller

CLINTON :::: "I did not have sex,, with that woman."

LOL.

116 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:14:31pm

re: #107 Killgore Trout

After a second listen it's pretty clear that he does see the Tea Parties as a good common ground to bring the far right over to the far left.

And in a way, they have done exactly that. You have Ron Paul, commonly classified as far right, teaming up with Alex Jones, previously classified as far left. To have Noam Chomsky in there would make a moronic trinity.

117 haakondahl  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:15:59pm

re: #91 Killgore Trout

The Tea Parties are looking like a good idea to Noam Chomsky?
Noam Chomsky on Ron Paul Libertarians: Common ground can be explored (video)

Have we achieved complete moronic convergence?

Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

118 Gearhead  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:16:23pm

re: #116 Honorary Yooper

And in a way, they have done exactly that. You have Ron Paul, commonly classified as far right, teaming up with Alex Jones, previously classified as far left. To have Noam Chomsky in there would make a moronic trinity.

a tridumbvirate

119 [deleted]  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:17:12pm
120 capitalist piglet  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:17:40pm

re: #72 looking closely

Wow. . .
That was awesome!
Never seen Clarke *or* "Icarus" playing before. . .

If you like Victor Wooten and Stanley Clarke (and Marcus Miller), you should check out S.M.V. - I love this stuff.

121 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:17:46pm

Do we know what Buchanan's position is on the Tea Parties?

122 Walter L. Newton  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:17:48pm

Did Joe Biden say we need to come out of closet's and other tight places to save ourselves from the hind flu?

123 Killgore Trout  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:18:13pm

Since I can feel the love in the room I'll post this. I was going to save it for later.......
Right wing extremist update: Swastika priest

A priest has shocked parishioners by welcoming them to church wearing a swastika armband.

Fascist Father Angelo Idi, 51 - who once saw off a charity box thief with a truncheon at his church in Vigevano, Italy - confessed: "I am proud of my right wing beliefs. But people shouldn't care about my politics, they should care about how good a priest I am."
...........
Last month a right wing Italian priest who is a member of Richard Williamson's Pius fraternity was caught giving the Hitler salute at a neo-fascist rally - but claimed he was just trying to bless his flock.

Catholic priest Giulio Tam, well known for his extremist right views, raised his right arm when speaking at a rally of the neo-fascist Forza Nuova party in Bergamo, northern Italy. (pictured here - ed)

The ultra-conservative Pius fraternity hit the headlines recently as British Catholic bishop and Holocaust denier Richard Williamson is a member.

After a picture revealed Tam raising his right hand, he argued: "The young people of the Forza Nuova wanted me to bless them. I'll always be on their side."

124 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:18:16pm

I have so many different types of music on my iPod that I could probably find something objectionable to anyone.
About the only type of music I don't have is [c]rap.
I do have some crap, though; I'll admit it. (Why did I download Terry Jacks singing "Seasons in the Sun", unless I wanted to torture myself with it?)
I have country (Johnny Cash), some classical, a lot of jazz (from old big bands to Miles Davis), rock, folk, and the uncategorizable Frank Zappa.
If I wanted to get someone to leave my vicinity by playing music, and I didn't want to experiment, I could go right for the Captain Beefheart. There is a piece by him and Frank Zappa called "Tiger Roach", from a collection of Zappa odds (!) and ends called "The Lost Episodes" that should do it. Actually, he wasn't Capt Beefheart then; just Don van Vliet.

125 Erik The Red  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:18:35pm

re: #122 Walter L. Newton

Did Joe Biden say we need to come out of closet's and other tight places to save ourselves from the hind flu?

I think Barney Frank said that.

126 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:19:05pm

re: #91 Killgore Trout

The Tea Parties are looking like a good idea to Noam Chomsky?
Noam Chomsky on Ron Paul Libertarians: Common ground can be explored (video)

Have we achieved complete moronic convergence?

Almost. Throw in Dougie Hooper, and it'll be set.

127 brookly red  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:19:09pm

re: #116 Honorary Yooper

And in a way, they have done exactly that. You have Ron Paul, commonly classified as far right, teaming up with Alex Jones, previously classified as far left. To have Noam Chomsky in there would make a moronic trinity.

/now where to find a bearded lady & a sword swallower?

128 [deleted]  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:19:28pm
129 opnion  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:19:38pm

A Latino Rights group in the Pilsen area in Chicago has put out a ststement that the Media should quit reporting that this round os Swine Flu started in Mexico. They fear that it might stir up racism against Mexicans.

130 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:19:42pm

re: #123 Killgore Trout


Now now.

"Right Wing" in European (and probably more so in Italy) politics is a much more loaded term than the US.

131 Killgore Trout  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:19:47pm

re: #116 Honorary Yooper

And in a way, they have done exactly that. You have Ron Paul, commonly classified as far right, teaming up with Alex Jones, previously classified as far left. To have Noam Chomsky in there would make a moronic trinity.

It does make sense in a weird sort of way. I just never envisioned the moronic convergence being so popular.

132 saylorfam  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:19:47pm

I remember seeing George Duke and Billy Cobham play in Marietta Ohio when I was in college. John Prine was to have been there but he had cancelled at the last minute.

133 redstateredneck  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:19:51pm

re: #127 brookly red

/now where to find a bearded lady & a sword swallower?

Paging Rosie O'Donnell.

134 Guanxi88  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:19:53pm

re: #127 brookly red

/now where to find a bearded lady & a sword swallower?

Must.resist.Pelosi&Frank comment.

135 mikeymom  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:19:54pm

re: #44 capitalist piglet

OMG--thanks for that--i'm in LLOOOOOVVEE! (ok mm, calm down. you are tooo old for charles!)

136 rawmuse  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:20:01pm

I think that was possibly the baddest bass solo I have ever seen.

137 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:20:35pm

re: #123 Killgore Trout


Of course the guy should be.....well....defrocked, and stuff.

138 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:20:43pm

re: #123 Killgore Trout

Since I can feel the love in the room I'll post this. I was going to save it for later.......
Right wing extremist update: Swastika priest

interesting...how is that relevant to the 'room'?

139 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:21:12pm

re: #129 opnion

A Latino Rights group in the Pilsen area in Chicago has put out a ststement that the Media should quit reporting that this round os Swine Flu started in Mexico. They fear that it might stir up racism against Mexicans.

Geeze Louise. That is as insane as the crap yesterday about people being offended it is called "swine" flu. Face facts, it's called "swine flu", and originated in Mexico.

140 Killgore Trout  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:21:27pm

re: #126 Honorary Yooper

Throw in Dougie Hooper, and it'll be set.


I'm sure Hooper loves the antisemitic Paulians. They also share common ground against the wars in Iraq and Iran as well as stopping US support for Israel.

141 JCM  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:21:27pm

re: #124 Kosh's Shadow

I have very eclectic tastes in music, I listen to both kinds, country and western.

//// ;-P

142 Walter L. Newton  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:21:35pm

re: #125 Erik The Red

I think Barney Frank said that.

Wow, Eric, it's almost like you are time traveling, over there in S.A. Too bad it's not 2008 where you are because last nights episode of LOST was kick assed.

See you in another life, bruther.

143 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:21:46pm

re: #109 redstateredneck

Same crap happened to me when my husband got burned by hot cooking oil at a Nascar race and they airlifted him to Parkland Hospital in Dallas. They weren't going to cover it because I didn't call them within the 24 hour window to pre-certify it. They eventually did, but I had to raise some hell.

And then the insurance companies will wonder why so many people support national health care.
I know a practitioner in the mental health field who thinks national health care will be better than the insurance companies he now has to deal with!
I've been trying to convince him that it will be worse, but what he deals with now is so bad I haven't gotten anywhere.

144 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:21:50pm

re: #132 saylorfam

I remember seeing George Duke and Billy Cobham play in Marietta Ohio when I was in college. John Prine was to have been there but he had cancelled at the last minute.

J Prine does a good show...I would not dash out to see him but he's very well seasoned

145 Killgore Trout  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:21:55pm

re: #138 albusteve

Because it annoys you.

146 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:21:59pm

re: #131 Killgore Trout

It does make sense in a weird sort of way. I just never envisioned the moronic convergence being so popular.

Someone here said that if you get far enough right or far enough left, you swing around to the other side.

147 [deleted]  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:22:06pm
148 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:22:13pm

re: #132 saylorfam

I remember seeing George Duke and Billy Cobham play in Marietta Ohio when I was in college. John Prine was to have been there but he had cancelled at the last minute.

I think Billy is one of the best drummers I've ever seen.

149 Guanxi88  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:22:18pm

re: #139 Honorary Yooper

Geeze Louise. That is as insane as the crap yesterday about people being offended it is called "swine" flu. Face facts, it's called "swine flu", and originated in Mexico.

Influenza al Pastor?

150 Gearhead  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:22:20pm

re: #127 brookly red

/now where to find a bearded lady & a sword swallower?

re: #133 redstateredneck

Paging Rosie O'Donnell.

...and Monica Lewinsky

151 eschew_obfuscation  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:23:21pm

re: #143 Kosh's Shadow

And then the insurance companies will wonder why so many people support national health care.
I know a practitioner in the mental health field who thinks national health care will be better than the insurance companies he now has to deal with!
I've been trying to convince him that it will be worse, but what he deals with now is so bad I haven't gotten anywhere.

Does he currently accept medicare and medicaid patients?

I imagine it would be a lot like that on steroids.

152 Honorary Yooper  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:23:22pm

re: #141 JCM

I have very eclectic tastes in music, I listen to both kinds, country and western.

//// ;-P

The Good Ole Blues Brothers Boys Band from Chicago.

153 albusteve  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:23:22pm

re: #145 Killgore Trout

Because it annoys you.

not me...I'm almost apolitical...I thought there might be more to your motives

154 MandyManners  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:23:25pm

re: #123 Killgore Trout

Since I can feel the love in the room I'll post this. I was going to save it for later.......
Right wing extremist update: Swastika priest

But people shouldn't care about my politics, they should care about how good a priest I am.

I got news for him: you cannot be a good priest and a Nazi at the same time.

155 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:23:27pm

re: #139 Honorary Yooper

Geeze Louise. That is as insane as the crap yesterday about people being offended it is called "swine" flu. Face facts, it's called "swine flu", and originated in Mexico.

What about the Israeli health minister, who is a Hasidic Jew, not calling it "Swine Flu" because, well, you know, and calling it Mexican Flu instead, prompting an protest from Mexico's ambassador to Israel?

156 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:23:32pm

re: #147 Iron Fist

Even some rap is OK. I like Kid Rock, but the early Gangsta Rap (NWA, Ice-T) is OK. Not great, but OK. I like Gangsta, gangsta by NWA well enough, although it also convinced me that most of the people who melt-down at the use of the "N-word" don't so much care about the word, but about who is saying it.

I liked Run DMC and some of the early rappers, pre-gangsta, but I never got any of their music.

157 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:24:02pm

re: #151 eschew_obfuscation

Does he currently accept medicare and medicaid patients?

I imagine it would be a lot like that on steroids.

I don't know, but I can ask the next time I see him.

158 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:24:43pm

re: #156 Kosh's Shadow

I liked Run DMC and some of the early rappers, pre-gangsta, but I never got any of their music.

Cypress Hill, dawg!

159 Walter L. Newton  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:24:44pm

re: #154 MandyManners

I got news for him: you cannot be a good priest and a Nazi at the same time.

Bullshit, there was ton's of them in Germany in the 1930's.

160 Kragar  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:24:57pm

re: #133 redstateredneck

Paging Rosie O'Donnell.

And Jenna Jameson

161 redstateredneck  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:25:10pm

re: #150 Gearhead

...and Monica Lewinsky

Or she could bring her good friend, Madonna. She could probably handle a sword.

162 MandyManners  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:25:24pm

re: #159 Walter L. Newton

Bullshit, there was ton's of them in Germany in the 1930's.

They were not good priests because they were not good Christians. Good Christians don't support a regime that murders human beings.

163 Kragar  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:25:24pm

re: #158 Ben Hur

Cypress Hill, dawg!

GONE INSANE, GOT NO BRAIN!

164 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:25:33pm

re: #158 Ben Hur

Cypress Hill, dawg!

I remember them on the Simpsons.

I need to go through my daughter's CDs before she takes them all back. I think she has some Cypress Hill.

165 mikeymom  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:25:37pm

re: #135 mikeymom

OMG--thanks for that--i'm in LLOOOOOVVEE! (ok mm, calm down. you are tooo old for charles!)

umm--to clarify, i meant myself as mm--NOT mandy! dont want to be whacked!

166 [deleted]  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:26:13pm
167 haakondahl  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:26:45pm

re: #146 Honorary Yooper

Someone here said that if you get far enough right or far enough left, you swing around to the other side.

It's the circle, and here's the mechanism--the madness of crowds.

168 Kragar  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:27:45pm

re: #166 Iron Fist

Gangsta Rap is a lot like speed/death/black metal. I have to be in the mood for it, but when I'm in the mood there's nothing like Slayer. For maybe fifteen minutes or so, anyway.

Seasons in the Abyss was their best album, only one I bought.

Danzig had some good stuff

169 Walter L. Newton  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:27:57pm

re: #162 MandyManners

They were not good priests because they were not good Christians. Good Christians don't support a regime that murders human beings.

Sure. And who are you to judge who is a Christian?

170 Ben Hur  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:27:58pm

re: #167 haakondahl

It's the circle, and here's the mechanism--the madness of crowds.


I was expecting something a little more profound.

171 Erik The Red  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:28:01pm

re: #142 Walter L. Newton

Wow, Eric, it's almost like you are time traveling, over there in S.A. Too bad it's not 2008 where you are because last nights episode of LOST was kick assed.

See you in another life, bruther.

Did you just say something Walter? :)

172 opnion  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:28:34pm

re: #139 Honorary Yooper

Geeze Louise. That is as insane as the crap yesterday about people being offended it is called "swine" flu. Face facts, it's called "swine flu", and originated in Mexico.

It is nutty. I know of noone blaming Mexicans for getting sick.
What I do hear though is that it is probably not a good idea to cross the boarder right now, if you are sick.
That is a tough sell, because most Mexicans view the US medical delivery system as superior to Mexico's.

173 Guanxi88  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:28:52pm

re: #171 Erik The Red

Did you just say something Walter? :)

Not yet, he didn't, but he has and will.

174 MandyManners  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:29:36pm

re: #169 Walter L. Newton

Sure. And who are you to judge who is a Christian?

Common sense.

175 Render  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:29:53pm

Regarding #44...

Such a guitar face you had back then, old man. Lucky you were smiling, somebody might have been tempted to do CPR.

I still think Stanley was cheating on some notes. He's where I got the idea that playing really really fast meant people wouldn't hear when I screwed up.

John Paul Jones is where I got the idea that if you screwed up really badly, do it again really fast and people will think you're doing a lead.

ONE
NEVER
KNOWS,
R

176 [deleted]  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:30:40pm
177 haakondahl  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:30:56pm

If I had to pick a main axis for my musical taste, I'd say it runs from Radiohead to Mötorhead, or from Blue Öyster Cult through Blue Man Group to Blutonium Brainstorm.

178 Kragar  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:31:10pm

re: #173 Guanxi88

Not yet, he didn't, but he has and will.

Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then.
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.

179 Guanxi88  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:33:43pm

re: #178 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then.
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.

How soon?

180 Erik The Red  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:33:44pm

Outta here Lizards. I am now officially unemployed. I just put in a 16 hour day doing the hand over to my business. I will be working the next month for free. I hope to be in the US by mid June. WATCH OUT FLORIDA.
Why am I sad and excited at the same time?

Stay Scaly.

181 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:33:50pm

re: #176 Iron Fist

You should definately know what your kid is listening to. Back during the PMRC bullshit, I think a lot of the rockers should have been pushing that it is your business as a parent to know what your kid is listening to. The same goes for movies. It isn't that movies are inherently evil, but that parent's need to draw reasonable boundries. I'll never forget that my parents bought my kid sister (who is 14 years younger than me, and had a very troubled teenage years) a copy of Pulp Fiction.

When she was 11. Then they wondered why she got into drugs.

I knew what she was listening to when she was 11. Now she's 27 and living with her fiance in Maryland. (He just graduated from the Maryland State Police Academy, and she's a case manager for a drug court)

182 [deleted]  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:34:43pm
183 BlueCanuck  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:35:46pm

re: #180 Erik The Red

Best of luck Erik. Can't wait till you are on this side of the pond.

184 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:36:06pm

re: #181 Kosh's Shadow

I knew what she was listening to when she was 11. Now she's 27 and living with her fiance in Maryland. (He just graduated from the Maryland State Police Academy, and she's a case manager for a drug court)

There are drug courts? I never knew..

185 haakondahl  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:36:58pm

re: #170 Ben Hur

I was expecting something a little more profound.

Uh oh, did I disappoint? While I have liked the idea of the circle for a long time (it's not new, although people keep "discovering" it), It was that comment that got me thinking that maybe the "y-axis" isn't something like extremism, but minimum crowd size.

186 [deleted]  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:37:16pm
187 Kragar  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:37:29pm

re: #182 Iron Fist

My favorite Slayer is Fictional Reality (off of Divine Intervention. It's got the right beat, the right lyrics, the right, well, everything. The quintissential death metal.

I'd have to say Skeletons of Society was my favorite.

Minutes seem like days
Since fire ruled the sky
The rich became the beggars
And the fools became the wise
Memories linger in my brain
Of burning from the acid rain
A pain I never have won

188 Soona'  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:37:48pm

re: #159 Walter L. Newton

Bullshit, there was ton's of them in Germany in the 1930's.

Plus the Grand Pooba in Rome.

189 saylorfam  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:38:06pm

re: #148 HoosierHoops

It was a great show. I remember I was disappointed that Prine had cancelled at the time. I was later very happy about the switch.

190 haakondahl  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:38:36pm

re: #180 Erik The Red

Outta here Lizards. I am now officially unemployed. I just put in a 16 hour day doing the hand over to my business. I will be working the next month for free. I hope to be in the US by mid June. WATCH OUT FLORIDA.
Why am I sad and excited at the same time?

Stay Scaly.

Well, Congratulations!

191 Soona'  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:39:20pm

re: #169 Walter L. Newton

Sure. And who are you to judge who is a Christian?

I watch their feet and listen to what they say.

192 [deleted]  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:39:23pm
193 Render  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:40:10pm

I know y'all are just mentioning metal cuz you know I'm lurking. Cut it out.

Never really cared about the labeling, just the songs.

And I still don't believe a word.

DON'T TALK
TO ME,
R

194 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:41:11pm

re: #189 saylorfam

It was a great show. I remember I was disappointed that Prine had cancelled at the time. I was later very happy about the switch.

If I recall..It was George Duke..Billy Cobham..John Scofield ( A monster on Guitar) and Alfonso Johnson on Bass and the Greek Theater in Berkley..
Those guys are monsters

195 haakondahl  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:41:57pm

re: #193 Render

I know y'all are just mentioning metal cuz you know I'm lurking. Cut it out.

Never really cared about the labeling, just the songs.

And I still don't believe a word.

DON'T TALK
TO ME,
R

Alright, I can't even hit Youtube from here, but I know you got Lemmy in a suit!

196 goddessoftheclassroom  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:42:05pm

re: #139 Honorary Yooper

Geeze Louise. That is as insane as the crap yesterday about people being offended it is called "swine" flu. Face facts, it's called "swine flu", and originated in Mexico.

To follow the previous pattern of naming flu pandemics after the country of origin, calling it Mexican Flu would be correct. The 1968 pandemic was the Hong Kong Flu; the 1918 pandemic was the Spanish Flu. That's the fact people should face.

197 Catttt  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:43:07pm

This is not my favorite type of music or even close, but these guys are so good that I make an exception for them.

My favorite of theirs is an older one - The Sinister Minister. Interesting meter.

198 haakondahl  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:43:16pm

re: #188 Soona'

Man, not this again.

199 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:43:34pm

re: #196 goddessoftheclassroom

To follow the previous pattern of naming flu pandemics after the country of origin, calling it Mexican Flu would be correct. The 1968 pandemic was the Hong Kong Flu; the 1918 pandemic was the Spanish Flu. That's the fact people should face.

The Indy Flu is really bad.. It makes you drive your car in circles really fast...

200 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:44:03pm

re: #184 HoosierHoops

There are drug courts? I never knew..

They're for people whose only offense is possession, or who are first offenders for something else. The idea is to get them off drugs before they become hardened criminals.

201 Kragar  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:45:54pm

re: #192 Iron Fist

Not bad at all. Good lyrics are mandatory in good death metal. Anyone can just come out and scream that the world sucks. Tell us something we didn't know, right?

Yup. As for Danzig, their earlier stuff was really good, cant say I've listened to them recently though

202 Render  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:49:34pm

re: #195 haakondahl

You betcha.

CONTRADICTION
MAN,
R

203 Mad Al-Jaffee  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 2:52:43pm

re: #79 UFO TOFU

Yeah, and he's going to be in town next month.

204 Kragar  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 3:01:55pm

Finally youtube works

Danzig - Bodies

205 Right Brain  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 4:05:26pm

"Chick Corea’s classic tune “Spain,”


Huh?

This is the Adagio (second) movement of Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo.

Here it is played properly, sans the melodramatics that jazz players seem steeped in.

206 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 4:11:58pm

re: #205 Right Brain

"Chick Corea’s classic tune “Spain,”

Huh?

This is the Adagio (second) movement of Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo.

Here it is played properly, sans the melodramatics that jazz players seem steeped in.


[Video]

Uh, no, it isn't. Bela Fleck plays an excerpt from the Rodrigo piece at the beginning of "Spain."

I've only played this tune about a hundred thousand times, and I used to do the same Concierto de Aranjuez intro when we performed it with the Jarreau band.

207 JacksonTn  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 7:04:04pm

oh, man ... I hate it when I miss a music thread ...

208 Right Brain  Thu, Apr 30, 2009 7:50:58pm

I guess I should have listed to it all the way through, used to perform it on a classical guitar, professionally.

209 Land Shark  Fri, May 1, 2009 7:29:26am

Another great tune, Charles. Bela Fleck also performed Spain on one of his pre-Flecktones acoustic / bluegrass albums on the Rounder label. I'm not sure which one, though. I'll look it up when I'm home this evening.

I recently got the CD of his new album with African musicians "Throw Down Your Heart" but I haven't had a chance to sit down and listen to it. I'm hoping to be able to listen to it this weekend. New Fleck music in da house!

210 Land Shark  Fri, May 1, 2009 7:49:06am

re: #63 Honorary Yooper

True, taste in music can't be wrong as it is very subjective. Not everyone likes what I like, and I don't like what some other folks like.

I couldn't agree more. While I'm primarily a rock n' roll guy, I've grown to appreciate a lot of other music besides rock. Jazz, country, bluegrass, R & B, classical, etc. Heck, one of my favorite CDs is one I picked up in Argentina of a chamber music quartet playing tango classics in a classical style. Really cool music.

And that's why I have such a huge collection of LPs, CDs and cassettes. Then we have my wife's considerable collection of CDs, cassettes and 45 rpm singles. We've got vinyl, cassettes and CDs all over our townhouse. Music all over the place, I love it!

There's two kinds of music in the world, the cool stuff I like and the dreck every one else listens too. Of course, I'm kidding.


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