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Reply #11000 on: August 09, 2020, 05:45:34 AM
See, being an admirer of the human form, I never found it nescessary to click.

I believe it's a kind-hearted variation on the custom of inviting one to have some tea.

Yeah... sadly enough I was told vaguely that TEA was not involved... but it was brown.

I haven't seen it either, but again - one of those things I can live without.

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Reply #11001 on: August 09, 2020, 05:54:27 AM
I haven't seen it either, but again - one of those things I can live without.

Hey!  Dragline just said Bobby's video was boring.  Which it probably is, in addition to being probably disgusting and tainted.

I don't know if I much like that attitude.

Well, well.   

I'm thinking about a little banjo music and some porcine delights.

Sound about right?

I'll take seconds.  You go first, son.  Heck, it don't matter none to me all none much. 
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Reply #11002 on: August 09, 2020, 05:26:41 PM
I must confess, I'm not that familiar with the New Orleans scene (definitely have to look into it some more though) but The Meters have a slight Curtis Mayfield vibe who I absolutely love. If you haven't heard the Superfly soundtrack I highly recommend it. Here's a little taste;



Curtis was my man! I'd take him any way over Rachmaninoff...

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Reply #11003 on: August 10, 2020, 10:06:37 AM
This is a piece of music that really tugs at the heart strings...



I miss the late 1990's, early 2000's. That was the best generation of genuine musicians (once you take out all those bastard boy bands, and the dreg that the Spice Girls churned out)

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Reply #11004 on: August 10, 2020, 03:26:39 PM
This is a piece of music that really tugs at the heart strings...

Yeah.  She's as good as Rachmaninoff, actually. 

Here is an interesting fact about Ms. Lavigne, though:  by the age of twelve she was already an accomplished percussionist, who performed the Bartok Sonata for 2 Pianos with some members of the Ontario Symphony Orchestra as her debut concert.

Magnificent, intelligent musician, and indeed she went on to plumb the depths of the human psyche as a young adult, adding experience as a vocalist and arranger to her already impressive CV.
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Reply #11005 on: August 10, 2020, 07:21:06 PM

I miss the late 1990's, early 2000's. That was the best generation of genuine musicians (once you take out all those bastard boy bands, and the dreg that the Spice Girls churned out)

Personally cannot stand that kind of pathetic whining...I'd say good music became quite rare after the 70's.

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Reply #11006 on: August 10, 2020, 11:52:52 PM
I'd say good music became quite rare after the 70's.

I tend to agree but I think some of the greatest music came out of the 80's (see Kate Bush, Tom Waits, etc…).

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Reply #11007 on: August 11, 2020, 11:43:49 AM
Personally cannot stand that kind of pathetic whining...I'd say good music became quite rare after the 70's.

Nah - once you had arseholes in EMI records writing the songs for dingy fashion models (Bieber, Minaj, Spears) and let them mouth the lyrics while autotune and lip-synching became the norm - music went down the toilet.

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Reply #11008 on: August 11, 2020, 07:16:14 PM
Nah - once you had arseholes in EMI records writing the songs for dingy fashion models (Bieber, Minaj, Spears) and let them mouth the lyrics while autotune and lip-synching became the norm - music went down the toilet.

It might be time for the vocoder to make a reappearance, you know, or a Peter Frampton-style  talk-box.

Oh, wait, you kind of have to know how to use those.

Well, that's what recording engineers are for!
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Reply #11009 on: August 12, 2020, 04:31:10 AM
The sixties through 70's  was probably the best years for pop music, except for the Beatles dirge,  I could never stand them!

America were fortunate to have Simon & Garfunkel, their music was pure gold.   

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Reply #11010 on: August 12, 2020, 11:30:27 AM
The sixties through 70's  was probably the best years for pop music, except for the Beatles dirge,  I could never stand them!

What are your thoughts on Queen??? I must admit, even I am a fan of theirs.

Freddie Mercury had a HELL of a voice.

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Reply #11011 on: August 12, 2020, 02:19:39 PM
What are your thoughts on Queen??? I must admit, even I am a fan of theirs.

Freddie Mercury had a HELL of a voice.

I cannot stand Queen...or his singing.

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Reply #11012 on: August 12, 2020, 03:23:33 PM
And all roads lead back to Neil Connery's classic movie The Highlander.

Not sure if I've told this story here, but when I was twelve or thirteen I bought a pretty accurate, thick book of transcriptions of many performances of Led Zeppelin.  You know, drums on one staff, keys on a grand staff, bass, guitar in standard+tab, vx in an approximation.

The spine fell apart and I was pissed off so I typewrote a complaint to Hal Leonard saying "blah blah mewl pule how dare you!" 

They did apologize.  In their way:  they sent me a book of Queen transcriptions in the same series of "orchestral" scoring.

I thought it was brilliant, just to shut some kid up.  "All right you little queen, here's another book for you!"

Never read through it.  Sold it for like thirty bucks USD, though.

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America were fortunate to have Simon & Garfunkel, their music was pure gold.

Art Garfunkel was a pretty good actor, I agree.
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Reply #11013 on: August 12, 2020, 10:48:02 PM



*Bob feigns polite interest and like he's been paying attention the thread.  In reality, he isn't going to spend the time to figure out what's going on.*








*... and yet he still picks up the win.  8) *
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Reply #11014 on: August 12, 2020, 11:40:53 PM



*Bob feigns polite interest and like he's been paying attention the thread.  In reality, he isn't going to spend the time to figure out what's going on.*

Well, Bob.

You're a handsome fellow for a Canadian.

Hmmm....

The women won't have me any more, but I don't mind putting from the rough.

Oh. 

Dammit, you lost the thread. 

Your status has decreased.

Sing "Mr. Tambourine Man"! 

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Reply #11015 on: August 13, 2020, 09:57:22 AM
The sixties through 70's  was probably the best years for pop music, except for the Beatles dirge,  I could never stand them!

I'm glad someone else thinks so. The Beatles always sounded so generic to me. I don't think their music is "bad" per se but I've never heard anything particularly interesting from them.

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Reply #11016 on: August 13, 2020, 09:58:16 AM
I cannot stand Queen...or his singing.



I *** love that there is a shirt with this exact quote on it.

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Reply #11017 on: August 13, 2020, 01:39:23 PM
Yeah, who doesn't like Little Queenie.

She's too cute to be a minute over seventeen.

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Reply #11018 on: August 13, 2020, 01:59:14 PM
What are your thoughts on Queen??? I must admit, even I am a fan of theirs.

Freddie Mercury had a HELL of a voice.


Mercury had a good singing voice, but as a person I didn't really like him.     

 I would say though that the The Walker Brothers had great voices.  I also liked, Simple Minds,
but mostly I liked the  American pop sound, such as the Beach Boys. I was In Canada when they were popular.

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Reply #11019 on: August 13, 2020, 02:44:44 PM
I would say though that the The Walker Brothers had great voices.

The Walker Brothers.  The Ramones of their time.

But there can be only one!

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Reply #11020 on: August 13, 2020, 07:04:26 PM
I'm not familiar with  the guy.  You must be ancient!   :D

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Reply #11021 on: August 13, 2020, 10:48:14 PM
I'm not familiar with  the guy.  You must be ancient!   :D

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Reply #11022 on: August 13, 2020, 10:48:45 PM
Well, Bob.

You're a handsome fellow for a Canadian.





*Bob realizes Canadians must just be ugly though.... and Bob isn't Canadian..... Bob wonders what that meant, or if it was a back handed compliment..... *  You're handsome... for a Canadian?  What if you are or are not a Canadian......   *Bob's mind continues meadering....*
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Reply #11023 on: August 14, 2020, 12:31:07 AM
*Bob realizes Canadians must just be ugly though.... and Bob isn't Canadian..... Bob wonders what that meant, or if it was a back handed compliment..... *  You're handsome... for a Canadian?  What if you are or are not a Canadian......   *Bob's mind continues meadering....*

Yeah.  It's a man's secret!

What happens in prison, stays in prison, bunkmate.

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Reply #11024 on: August 14, 2020, 07:20:23 AM
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Looks like you have gone tits-up ! 

COVID19 UPDATE – The J-Tour is not available at this time and we do not anticipate it opening for the 2020 season.

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Reply #11025 on: August 14, 2020, 08:02:37 AM

Looks like you have gone tits-up ! 

COVID19 UPDATE – The J-Tour is not available at this time and we do not anticipate it opening for the 2020 season.

 ;D

Oh, no, honey.

That's the kind of sugar papa likes.
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Reply #11026 on: August 14, 2020, 01:28:55 PM
That's the kind of sugar papa likes.

It's really CREEPY when you refer to yourself as 'Papa', especially on the internet.

Based upon the information you've given us, I wouldn't be surprised if you had a windowless van with a tear-stained mattress inside...

...not to mention masking tape and rope.

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Reply #11027 on: August 14, 2020, 06:07:39 PM
...not to mention masking tape and rope.

Please.

Zip ties, a ball gag, four liters of bleach, large plastic bags.

One must be professional in such matters.
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Reply #11028 on: August 14, 2020, 11:29:22 PM
[I'm just checking J_Tour and I live in different countries...]

PHEW... It's all good. Carry on.

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Reply #11029 on: August 14, 2020, 11:59:46 PM
[I'm just checking J_Tour and I live in different countries...]

PHEW... It's all good. Carry on.

That may be, but my breadth and girth encompass the globe!

No one is to have been spared my wrath.

KHAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Reply #11030 on: August 15, 2020, 05:00:42 AM

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Reply #11031 on: August 15, 2020, 05:36:10 AM
Yeah.  OK, Mr. Spock.  We know all about how you like to try to pick up girls by touching their neck and saying it was a Vulcan mind-meld.

These guys were part of Queen, right?

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Reply #11032 on: August 15, 2020, 09:54:33 AM
These guys were part of Queen, right?


How the *** would I know - I wasn't alive in the 1970's; I'm presuming that's where this music is from by the sound of it?

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Reply #11033 on: August 15, 2020, 05:33:29 PM
How the *** would I know - I wasn't alive in the 1970's; I'm presuming that's where this music is from by the sound of it?

I wouldn't know:  I don't listen to that crap.
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Reply #11034 on: August 16, 2020, 12:44:54 AM
Seems we've reached an impasse...

Well, I guess the noble thing to do J_Tour is to just quit while (you think) you're ahead.

 ;D

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Reply #11035 on: August 16, 2020, 03:09:13 AM
Seems we've reached an impasse...

Well, I guess the noble thing to do J_Tour is to just quit while (you think) you're ahead.

 ;D

What are the majuscule letters recently invented in your native country?  I don't know who or what a "J_Tour" is, except there's a convenient offset in some character notations to eliminate the problem, mr. roboto domo arigato.

And nobody accused me of being noble ever.  Just ask your sister.

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Reply #11036 on: August 16, 2020, 03:35:36 AM
And nobody accused me of being noble ever.  Just ask your sister.

I don't have a sister... could that have been a random hobo you met on the street? Or is it one of the other patients you know in the Psych-ward???

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Reply #11037 on: August 16, 2020, 05:15:52 AM
Or is it one of the other patients you know in the Psych-ward???

We prefer to call it the "quiet room."

It's really a designated ward, but we find our "guests" find it more comforting to consider it as a room.

Where everyone's friendly.

Of course, we do some fun when it's lights out, but that's just how we men in the clean white coats TCB.

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Reply #11038 on: August 16, 2020, 07:51:12 AM

You want to dig out any more video clips of movies from nineteen-sixty-whogivesacrap.

Try to keep up with the times.

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Reply #11039 on: August 16, 2020, 10:24:54 AM
You want to dig out any more video clips of movies from nineteen-sixty-whogivesacrap.

Try to keep up with the times.

Blasphemy! Blazing Saddles is one of the greatest comedies of all time!

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Reply #11040 on: August 16, 2020, 04:24:12 PM
Blasphemy! Blazing Saddles is one of the greatest comedies of all time!

You're damned right!  That other little fellow has been mixing his rye with his gin.

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Reply #11041 on: August 17, 2020, 11:19:37 AM

You realise that you've already posted this video before J_Tour...

Are we stuck in an infinite loop?!?

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Reply #11042 on: August 17, 2020, 03:39:04 PM
Are we stuck in an infinite loop?!?

no u

And this whole fetish for the glam-rock "group" Queen, what's that about?

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Reply #11043 on: August 18, 2020, 08:48:50 AM

First J_Tour posts a video that he's already posted from the past... and now he's posting videos that don't even exist.

It's a slippery slop to senility J_Tour... hope it's a smooth one for you.

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Reply #11044 on: August 18, 2020, 04:17:42 PM
It's a slippery slop to senility J_Tour... hope it's a smooth one for you.

Ain't no slope, slippery or otherwise, MF! 

I'm in it to win it, and already there!
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Reply #11045 on: August 19, 2020, 09:52:53 AM
Ain't no slope, slippery or otherwise, MF! 

I take it you're already fallen to the bottom of the ball pit then if there's no slope???

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Reply #11046 on: August 19, 2020, 11:17:48 PM
*Bob checks his watch for the decade.*  ::)


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Reply #11047 on: August 20, 2020, 01:20:29 AM
This aggression will not stand!

There are snakes in the ball pit! 

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Reply #11048 on: August 20, 2020, 10:05:22 AM
There are snakes in the ball pit! 

You're the one in the ball pit... don't get bitten.

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Reply #11049 on: August 20, 2020, 03:24:41 PM
You're the one in the ball pit... don't get bitten.

The Ball Pit is that place you go to ride the leather pony, right, RachmaniBoy?
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