I just finished watching ERIC CLAPTON: LIFE IN 12 BARS....a lengthy show about Clapton's life...good and bad...mostly bad...I was surprised to see how closely he followed Jim Morrison's decline....I guess because a lot of it was in the UK I wasn't aware of it....but his drunken episodes at concerts certainly reminded me of Jim's behavior...I guess I really didn't know much about him at all...the show is very candid and raw in a lot of scenes but it also tries to play the victim card way too much...I knew about his obsession with his best friend's(George Harrison) wife...but all these other women he used was a total surprise...and at the end of the piece... when he's smiling with his current wife and family just wasn't the Hallmark Card ending I would have expected...
ALL ABOUT MUSIC #2 - Non Surround, Not Covered In Other Threads
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Steve Martin with banjo..or whatever in 1969
Just sitting here watching on BBC2 the BBC Proms with Youssou N'Dour and his band Le Super Etoile de Dakar, absolutely brilliant.
Whoa! For the last 2 days...my laptop acted like it was dead. It forced a restart....something about updates. Then it went black. I tried to turn it back on....only the keyboard would light up.....the screen black. Over and over and over. Just now, I tried to force restart and it magically turned on. Holy effing shit.....I seriously thought it was dead. I don't pretend to understand it...but if you do a google on DELL laptops that have keyboards lit....but screen blank....you will see TONS of complaints. I don't get it....but I think I've survived and now back on my Dell. Dodged a curveball...
And...just to further talk to myself...I bought this new from BBuy going on a year this December. I've had nothing but trouble with it....even been back to Dell for a total overhaul......of course...now it's out of warranty...and I never did buy a square trade on it back then. So, this is one of the few times an extended warranty would have likely paid off for me.
ZZ Top - 1970
When in high school as a 17-year old, I wrote a weekly music column for the local paper ($1.25 a column; half an album then!). Sure, the pay sucked, but, by using the letterhead of the paper, I wrote to Atlantic Records, Columbia, etc., offering to review albums. A gamble, and boy did it pay off! No payola, sigh, but I received items like TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS pre-release -- didn't impress dates, but the local guys were in awe
-- Firesign Theater's THE TALE OF THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA, Clapton's Miami album (with press photos, no less), the latest Rolling Stones, etc.I also used my mighty credentials (please excuse the smell of pimple cream) to interview bands that came through. We were a pit stop, but I did manage to interview and tape on cassette a couple of bands including ZZ Top backstage . . . they were real kind to me, in fact, they invited me to go to Mexico with them (mom said NO,
and was probably right!). I had the cassette tapes for this but they degraded to uselessness over the years. One memorable time I brought a tape recorder to a T. Rex show in Mobile, and while I didn't get an interview, I recorded parts of it (badly, unfortunately, or else I'd be retired now ). On another occasion a buddy and I were ushered inside to see Elton John for free. So, yes, the pay sucked -- but 
Stories like this are priceless....I wish more members would open up about all these great experiences.When in high school as a 17-year old, I wrote a weekly music column for the local paper ($1.25 a column; half an album then!). Sure, the pay sucked, but, by using the letterhead of the paper, I wrote to Atlantic Records, Columbia, etc., offering to review albums. A gamble, and boy did it pay off! No payola, sigh, but I received items like TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS pre-release -- didn't impress dates, but the local guys were in awe
I also used my mighty credentials (please excuse the smell of pimple cream) to interview bands that came through. We were a pit stop, but I did manage to interview and tape on cassette a couple of bands including ZZ Top backstage . . . they were real kind to me, in fact, they invited me to go to Mexico with them (mom said NO,
Rock!!! Excellent DR.....
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I know....Van Halen is such an important band.....it is criminal that there isn't an effort to release some high quality surround.......it's as if they fell off the earth. Ugh.....
Such wonderful music...this is my soundtrack to high school!!
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Starting to rip some of my favorite CD’s. Here’s one of them. The DR on this is surprisingly excellent. They do a badass cover of War Pigs...
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Hell yes! Another favorite CD I’ve had since 1987...sounds most excellent. Dee Snyder nearly wrote all music and lyrics.
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Just ripped another of my favorite CD's from 1990.
Ernie Isley - High Wire
Elektra
If you don't have this.....you NEED it...as Quad Linda says. It rocks and it's super funky. Sound quality is excellent...you wouldn't be disappointed. This man can play the geeeeetarrrrr.
Ernie Isley - High Wire
Elektra
If you don't have this.....you NEED it...as Quad Linda says. It rocks and it's super funky. Sound quality is excellent...you wouldn't be disappointed. This man can play the geeeeetarrrrr.
Cure...an absolute favorite of mine. Wish is amazingly personal and dark. Wonderful!!! Finished the rip. Sounds great!!
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