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Back in 2000 I met one of the original MTV VJs, Dave Kendall at a club in Hollywood. He was the host of 120 Minutes back when MTV didn't suck. I spent half the night BSing with him and a couple of friends about music and women before I even realized who he was. I felt like a dumbass.
Back in 2000 I met one of the original MTV VJs, Dave Kendall at a club in Hollywood. He was the host of 120 Minutes back when MTV didn't suck. I spent half the night BSing with him and a couple of friends about music and women before I even realized who he was. I felt like a dumbass.
That probably made it even more cool for him. Don't feel bad about it.
One of my favorite songs on the album -- Yes I said album -- my first copy was vinyl. I miss album art...the CD or i-Pod screen is just too small to do it justice.
Great song and a very good video - always on my YouTube favorites list. Without entering into a pro-and-con pacifism discussion, the lyrics of the last stanza with its sun/moon opposition are as good as anything ever written:
Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
Thought I would jump in on an "easier" thread than the others listed. My first post was at the end of the Newsmax one.
So...formal introductions. I am one of those "hatchlings" that periodically show up here (when permitted). I do have to extend my thanks to all (well, almost all) who post here. If it wasn't for this site, I would have gone bat-shit crazy over the past few months. Thanks to all of you - for your sane comments and links to other sites...oh...and yeah...love the sarcasm!!
Thought I would jump in on an "easier" thread than the others listed. My first post was at the end of the Newsmax one.
So...formal introductions. I am one of those "hatchlings" that periodically show up here (when permitted). I do have to extend my thanks to all (well, almost all) who post here. If it wasn't for this site, I would have gone bat-shit crazy over the past few months. Thanks to all of you - for your sane comments and links to other sites...oh...and yeah...love the sarcasm!!
I don't know...I've got 2 border collies mixes and they shit on command...and will do ANYTHING for food. Don't know if I would like for BOTH of those activities to occur in the kitchen.
Looks like the progressives are trying to play catch up...
Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, under fire for conservatives for describing the gist of their health care plans as "die quickly," is not exactly backing down from claims he's crossed a line of civility.
Just now on the floor, he called on members of the House to pass health care reform in the most extreme terms possible:
"I apologize to the dead and Fltheir families athat we haven't voted sooner to end this holocaust in America," Grayson said.
In a new post on the official White House blog, an administration official specifically names Fox News for lying about the administration's push to bring the Olympics to Chicago.
"Last night Fox News continued its disregard for the facts," the post begins, "in an attempt to smear the Administration's efforts to win the Olympics for the United States."
The author, White House online programs director Jesse Lee, goes on to point out several quotes from Glenn Beck, which it says are lies, and the truth behind them. ("Rhetoric: Beck said Vancouver lost $1 billion when it 'had the Olympics.' ... Reality: Vancouver's Olympics Will Not Take Place Until 2010.")
These mist covered mountains Are a home now for me But my home is the lowlands And always will be Some day you'll return to Your valleys and your farms And you'll no longer burn To be brothers in arms
Through these fields of destruction Baptisms of fire I've witnessed your suffering As the battle raged higher And though they did hurt me so bad In the fear and alarm You did not desert me My brothers in arms
There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones
Now the sun's gone to hell And the moon's riding high Let me bid you farewell Every man has to die But it's written in the starlight And every line in your palm We're fools to make war On our brothers in arms
You'll see the same guitar in videos of other live performances...
he's playing a resonator guitar, maybe a Dobro...but the steel is the slide you play this type of guitar with...kinda confusing because the guitar itself is now sometimes called a steel guitar...nevertheless a steel guitar is always played with a slide...according to tradition anyway
he's playing a resonator guitar, maybe a Dobro...but the steel is the slide you play this type of guitar with...kinda confusing because the guitar itself is now sometimes called a steel guitar...nevertheless a steel guitar is always played with a slide...according to tradition anyway
I always heard what you've mentioned above as 'bottleneck' or slide guitar. The Dobro was called a 'steel guitar'. Perhaps Charles would like to give his opinion on the subject before we start tearing each other's finger-picks out?
three-time Democratic governor of Colorado Richard Lamm, sounded a similar theme in 1984, while still governor, saying "terminally ill people have a duty to die and get out of the way."
Did you see the size of the radio and the headphones on the skater girl! The music has held up remarkably well. There was a lot of crap in the 80's but I can't recall a bad Dire Straights album.
I always heard what you've mentioned above as 'bottleneck' or slide guitar. The Dobro was called a 'steel guitar'. Perhaps Charles would like to give his opinion on the subject before we start tearing each other's finger-picks out?
don't get me wrong...I was just pointing out some old time nuances...a bottle neck is just another term for using a slide...in the old days it was usually an acoustic...which is what Dobros and other resonators are...Dobro is just a make name...if you play it with a slide it's a steel guitar...if you stick a pickup on an old Dobro then I don't know what you'd call it...all in fun anyway
don't get me wrong...I was just pointing out some old time nuances...a bottle neck is just another term for using a slide...in the old days it was usually an acoustic...which is what Dobros and other resonators are...Dobro is just a make name...if you play it with a slide it's a steel guitar...if you stick a pickup on an old Dobro then I don't know what you'd call it...all in fun anyway
the pedal steel is a whole different animal...but still played with a slide, hence the name steel guitar...or pedal steel...the 'steel' is the slide itself
the pedal steel is a whole different animal...but still played with a slide, hence the name steel guitar...or pedal steel...the 'steel' is the slide itself
Yes, I know.
The images also include a whole range of Dobro and Dobro-type guitars - known generically as - and I maintain my assertion - 'steel guitars.'
The whole thing is a joke. Fox "News" is manufacturing a controversy where there isn't one.
Guess who is the Chairman and CEO of the Chicago 2016 bid committee team? Patrick G. Ryan who is also chairman of AON corporation. Here's a portion of his Federal Election Commission results:
Miles D. White is the vice chair and Chief Executive Officer of Abbott pharmaceuticals. Another Republican donor. 24,000 dollars to the RNC in 2004; 20,000 dollars to the RNC in 2007; and amongst others he also donated 2,100 dollars to Rick Santorum in 2006.
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMMITTEE
08/29/2007 10000.00 28020110682
SANTORUM, RICHARD J
VIA SANTORUM 2006
10/18/2006 2100.00 27020083892
“Having him there for us would be a great asset because he’s done so much for our bid, has been so outspoken, that everyone knows how committed he is,” Patrick G. Ryan, Chicago’s bid leader, said recently at Chicago 2016 headquarters. “The I.O.C. knows that he has presidential business and would be there if he could.”
Patrick G. Ryan is the founder and retired executive chairman of Aon Corporation. He is the Chairman and CEO of the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid committee. He is also a leading benefactor of the Art Institute of Chicago Building's Modern wing addition.
In 2004, Ryan hosted President George W. Bush during a political fundraising dinner at his home in Winnetka, Illinois. Later that year, he hosted another fundraiser with President Bush's wife and daughters as special guests.
I know this is a dead thread, but I had to say thank you to Charles for this song. It's great but given its use here to commemorate soldiers who have died, this song will always have a mournful connotation to me. Realwest started that tradition and though he is gone, I felt it appropriate to note his use of the song.
I've always thought this song/video is a window into the "real" Dire Straits. This was made without thinking about what the "fans" might think. Real music by the real Dire Straits. Good stuff.
The popular stuff is all good, but there's nothing like knowing that somewhere down deep they remember why they started making music and weren't afraid to let it out.
And so it is - Dire Straits #2 is "Money for Nothing" - #3 is "Walk of Life" - #4 is in Beethovian Trope (5th Symphony) - "Calling Elvis."
Mark Knopfler - a sung - not enough - Genius - enough to have sold 120 Million Albums. That is all.
Was front and center for him at Summer Stage in NYC a couple years ago, great show. He is quite the innovator. Also, this is my first post, I'm glad to be part of the community...
My favorite Dire Straits tune; thanks for putting it up, Charles. Knopfler was mostly a Strat/Fender-type player (single-coil pickups, clean sound) until this particular album, when he picked up the Les Paul and proved he could play the sweet lyrical legato stuff as well as anyone.
Was front and center for him at Summer Stage in NYC a couple years ago, great show. He is quite the innovator. Also, this is my first post, I'm glad to be part of the community...
It's a dead thread but us noobs keep it going, heh. Cheers!
I'd like to know who's Plunkin' the monkeys? -- It was on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I can't remember the year maybe 10 years ago? They were talking about AIDS and how AIDS all got started, he had 3 theory's. First Frank said something about AIDS being a government test gone wrong Then maybe it was an Alien (ET) test or mistake and finally they talked about the theory of AIDS coming from a monkey and then Frank said " I'd like to know who's plunkin' the monkey's?"
Frank says: