Cygnia Posted November 13, 2014 Report Share Posted November 13, 2014 San Diego brewery honors Tony Gwynn with Pale Ale 394 Burrito Boy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted November 14, 2014 Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 France: Big cat on the prowl is not a tiger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted November 14, 2014 Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 Pronounced dead, 91-year-old Polish woman awakens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted November 15, 2014 Report Share Posted November 15, 2014 Scientists Have Finally Made It To The Bottom Of One Of The Mysterious Siberian Holes No sign of mole people...yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted November 15, 2014 Report Share Posted November 15, 2014 Scientists Have Finally Made It To The Bottom Of One Of The Mysterious Siberian Holes No sign of mole people...yet. While the peninsula itself is relatively quiet in a seismological sense, the temperature beneath the hole was “higher than usual”. Lava dragon, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 Scientists Have Finally Made It To The Bottom Of One Of The Mysterious Siberian Holes No sign of mole people...yet. Ternaugh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 Scientists Have Finally Made It To The Bottom Of One Of The Mysterious Siberian Holes No sign of mole people...yet. Never mind the mole people. I hope they find the gaming stuff I misplaced a couple of decades ago. Burrito Boy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 Tinnitus brings back fond memories of going to the Pantera/White Zombie concert. Three hours in a mosh pit with no hearing protection. I started a new job the next day and I couldn't hear a damn thing. "How was the concert, Bob? "What?" "I said, how was the concert, Bob?" "Sorry, can't hear you. I was at the concert!" I was actually in that position once, the day after a concert by a Celtic-Rock band called tempest at a local club. I had almost precisely that exchange at the start of the housefilk the next day. gewing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 Best concert I ever went to. Metallica and Rage were good but an arena can never be as good as a filthy warehouse with a stage and chain link fencing off the bar. kd lang was pretty good except for the sound; she spent the whole concert avoiding feedback. That one almost turned violent. I got dragged to a reggae concert that actually did turn violent--it got shut down and I had to hustle my gf at the time out of there before we got caught up in it. Caught Mavis Staples a couple months ago; she was great but her backing musicians were phenomenal. They did this twenty minute jam session mid-concert, presumably while Ms. Staples caught her breath, that was unreal. What thread is this again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 There could be a whole thread for concert experiences, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 "How was the concert, Bob? "What?" "I said, how was the concert, Bob?" "Sorry, can't hear you. I was at the concert!" I was actually in that position once, the day after a concert by a Celtic-Rock band called tempest at a local club. I had almost precisely that exchange at the start of the housefilk the next day. I have several Tempest albums... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 I never did see the attraction to seeing a concert. I always feel like the sound quality would be better at home with a bought album, and cheaper too. Burrito Boy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 I never did see the attraction to seeing a concert. I always feel like the sound quality would be better at home with a bought album, and cheaper too. It would be, for me, like the difference between witnessing the experience and being a part of it. Like how seeing a Portland Timbers soccer match at the stadium is much more exciting than watching the same match on TV. You can listen to the latest album of your favorite band anytime you want, but they play live in your town once or at most twice a year. That makes it a special occasion. Add to that the fact that most bands put a lot of effort into their live sets, and that you don't always know what number they will play next or whether something truly spectacular would happen. Not every band was like that, of course. At the end of the second phase of their careers (the first being their apprenticeship in Germany) the Beatles came to loathe touring in spite of the perks that went with it (Which I will not go into here). When they came home from their final tour in 1966 they started creating music that was, with the technology then available, utterly impossible to play live. And although each member of the band did resume playing live concerts after their breakup in 1970, it was a fundamentally different experience for them (Paul McCartney inducted his wife into the band so she would accompany him wherever he went, for example, which probably helped him keep the groupies at bay). Even then, John Lennon never overcame his antipathy for playing live and at one point spent four to five years outside the music business altogether (not even recording for several years). Touring is hard for a top band. It's exhausting. You can't really write new music on tour, at least not consistently. If there are tensions in the band, a tour will bring them to the surface more rapidly than just about anything else. But many musicians never feel more alive and vital than when they are playing to a packed arena. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 It's also important to remember that touring is usually the most lucrative source of income for the band. Used to be that the record label got a huge percentage of album sales. Now that percentage goes to Apple or Spotify. The money that the band gets from live gigs is pretty much all theirs, after covering the staff and venue costs of course. I'm philosophical about concerts. I like songs, not necessarily bands, and often the recorded version of the song is impossible to play live for some reason or other. But a concert can have spontaneity and audience participation that a recording cannot. It's a shared experience--moshing at home isn't quite the same, you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 Markdoc should probably weigh in on his opinion on this, but Science this week reports that they believe that the second (of three) types of polio virus has been eradicated. (The first type was eradicated in 1999.) One more to go. (I dimly remember, when very young in California, standing in a very long line to get my dose (maybe my first dose) of polio vaccine. I also remember getting several smallpox vaccinations at later ages.) News item, probably behind subscriber wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is ticked about Keystone I've been against Keystone pipeline from the start, but this is an interesting twist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 Police: Miss Honduras, sister apparently killed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is ticked about Keystone I've been against Keystone pipeline from the start, but this is an interesting twist. NPR pointed out yesterday that the Keystone XL issue is somewhat moot since the tar sands oil is currently being transported by rail to Vancouver and thence to China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 New subatomic particles found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 Ferguson protest leader's car stolen at anti-police rally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 New subatomic particles found Two new baryons...I'm subatomically famous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 ... if short-lived. Old Man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 NPR pointed out yesterday that the Keystone XL issue is somewhat moot since the tar sands oil is currently being transported by rail to Vancouver and thence to China. Doesn't stop some politicians from trying to push for it hard though. I'm still not sure what Keystone gets the American public. It pretty much seems for the oil company's benefits, and at the public's risk. It's not like the oil that would go through it is earmarked for the US. It's going to where it will make the oil companies the most money. Big Biz wants to make a profit, I get it, that's what they do. I just don't see why it's OUR government's job to make that profit happen, especially when in case of leak or other oops it's the public that will end up with the fall out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 Something something something PROFIT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted November 21, 2014 Report Share Posted November 21, 2014 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/peta-steals-va-family-dog-kills-dad-article-1.2010408 I believe I am beginning to HATE PETA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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