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  1. On 3/27/2024 at 9:13 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

    In what world is Dark Side not a concept album? I’ve never heard that questioned. The Wall is more explicitly so but Dark Side is an icon of a concept album. One of the most important albums of all time  

    Some others: Frank Zappa - Joe’s Garage; Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord; Spirit - 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus (awesome album despite the concept being poorly defined).

    Give me Quadrophenia over Tommy all day every day. I’m not disputing Tommy as a concept album but it just doesn’t do it for me like Quadrophenia. That’s a masterpiece.

    I don’t know if it counts but my parents had a copy of Peter & The Wolf when I was a kid and that was part of my musical foundation. They didn’t have much in the way of good music but that was a good one. They also had the soundtrack to West Side Story. That’s just a play. But so is Peter & The Wolf, right? And so are Quadrophenia and Joe’s Garage and The Wall, right? Labels are useful when talking about music but they can get fuzzy on the edges. I think we can safely say the West Side Story soundtrack is not a concept album.

    But how about this? I used to have this on vinyl. A college roommate bought it on CD. It’s pretty good.

    I haven’t read the whole thread. I see the Styx mention but I’m not sure which album you’re talking about. I assume Kilroy Was Here? That counts but I don’t think it was executed very well. I think Paradise Theater was the better effort. I haven’t listened to it in a long time but I still own that one. And I saw them live on the Kilroy tour. That was one of my first three concerts. I think it was my third after Rush and REO Speedwagon. It was a good show. 

    Have this on CD, back in high school a friend loaned it to me on vinyl.  Still love it.  Justin Hayward, Phil Lynott, David Essex, Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann), it's really a great album, very proggy.

  2. Lotta fuckin yappin in this thread (sorry, I'm drunk, nothing personal), let's have some goddam music

    Had this one stuck in my head ever since I saw this thread bumped

     

    Love all the Dan stuff, but Katy Lied/Royal Scam is pretty much the high point for me, before they got a little too slick

     

    might be my all-time favorite, here with both the guitar and sax outros

     

    and a great deep cut, only available on certain greatest hit albums, have this one on vinyl, sounds fantastic

     

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  3. Got a ‘70’s pop summer lined up, first up is 10cc at ACL Live in early August (no Eric Stewart, but Graham Gouldman and half of the six-member Dreadlock Holiday era band), then a couple of weeks later Barry Manilow at Moody (wife’s favorite), then back at Moody in October for ELO.  

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  4. Damn, I watch that yt channel all the time, cool to watch the ships come in and out.  They usually train the camera on the port during the day, lucky to have it facing the bridge last night.  Rewind about 7 hours and you can watch the whole thing unfold, sickening how slowly it happens.  Prayers to all the workers on that bridge..

     

     

     

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  5. 9 hours ago, mooseoutfront said:

    Skeeter season!

    Assuming you were heading to Fairbanks?

    You drove right by the turn off to my place

    Yep, Fairbanks and North Pole.  I shoulda honked.  No shit about those skeeters too, jesus.

  6. 24 minutes ago, mooseoutfront said:

    Nenana had Tripod Days last weekend. 
     

    Tripod is set. Get your Ice Classic tickets before the ice breaks

    Passed through there last summer, tripod was ready and waiting..

     

     

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  7. 10 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Cheesy, but some of that Raspberries stuff was a precursor to great bands like Cheap Trick and the 'mats.  RIP Mr. Carmen.

    Fuckin A, let's get some up in here.

     

     

    Loved this one when I was a kid.  Listening just now, was struck at how it has the same electric piano sound and vocals as some of the songs on the Beach Boys 1977 album "Beach Boys Love You".  Sure enough, both were recorded the same year and that is Brian Wilson and Bruce Johnston on backing vocals.

     

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  8. Fucking gutted man, goddamn it.  Loved World Party, essentially a one-man band.  Rest in peace sir.

     

    and Karl loved him some Beatles, both in spirit and straight up covers

     

     

     

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  9. 10 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    I was at the benefit show they did for your brother and cried when Rhett played the song he wrote for him.  Sorry for your loss.

    I appreciate you being there.  Got to meet a lot of Joel's friends that night, an did a lot of shots/toasts, so there was some good mixed in with the sad.  Thanks again for your thoughts.

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  10. Truly sad.  Hell he's 5 years older than my mom and she's in a nursing home unable to move basically, but still sharp mentally 5 years from now, who knows...).  But Jesus, let's see, blowing your mind on drugs (luckily able to somewhat come through it unlike Syd Barrett), having both of your younger brothers die before you (as someone who has lost a younger sibling, yeah, that will fuck you up the rest of your life), a cousin who went nutso and took you to court, and a "manager" who controlled your entire life and tried to steal you blind.  My mind would be mush too.  I don't think he is near the end, but I do believe he is totally done creatively, or even as a "prop" on any kind of tour or anything.  He was the ultimate man-child.  Just never grew up, wrote some of the most brilliant music and melodies ever, but accompanied by just simple, juvenile even lyrics.  He was just stuck in that "Great American Songbook" style of writing, from the 30s through the 50's, into the early 60's, but he could just never progress any further.  A true savant, we will never see his likes again.    Just a few favorites, again, the lyrics don't matter, it's the sound, the blend, the chords, the arrangements, that are true genius.

     

     

    One of the most brilliant songs ever written, if you're musically inclined, just try to mentally figure the chord structure out as this is playing, where is the center?  You can't do it..

     

    again, such a deceptively simple song, but track where the chords go, every way you 'don't' expect them to go..

     

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  11. 57 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

    Don't remember how this one came about.  Same song, different title/words.

     

    The song was rewritten after Mike Love voiced objections to the lyrics.[16][17] Love stated in a 1993 interview that he found the original lyrics "so totally offensive [and] nauseating" that he refused to sing them.[18] He told Wilson that he was strongly opposed to drugs such as LSD and did not wish for the Beach Boys to be associated with its culture.[19] In his recollection, he was aware of the fact that Wilson had experimented with LSD and knew that the "prevailing drug jargon [suggested] that doses of LSD would shatter your ego, as if that were a positive thing... I wasn't interested in taking acid or getting rid of my ego."[20] He said, "The people that I'd seen indulge in those things exhibited behaviors and mannerisms that left much to be desired."[16]

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  12. 2 hours ago, Underdog said:

    Lulu’s in San Antonio was first place I’ve seen queso on cfs. 

    Couple of Mexican restaurants here around Taylor do that, actually chicken fried fajitas topped with queso, damn tasty.  I always ask for tortillas and make some cfs, rice and bean tacos.

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  13. Not mine, but damned if I ain't gonna try making these soon...  

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    From the bean and cheese breakfast taco to the raspa, the San Antonio culinary scene is known for a number of signature items.  That includes the crispy dog, the 1950s-era diner favorite made by restaurants and grandmothers alike, according to Texas Monthly. Unfortunately, the crispy dog, a hot dog wrapped in a tortilla with cheese and then deep-fried, is now disappearing from menus, Jose Ralat, a journalist with the magazine, wrote on Monday. 

    https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/crispy-dogs-san-antonio-17768887.php

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  14. 4 minutes ago, bolverk said:

     

     

    It's disgusting beyond all words, but let's please be more careful about tweets. This one's misleading in that it implies the case was in Texas with the mention of Abbott. It was not - although I wouldn't be surprised if there were cases like this here.

    But this happened in Michigan.

    It also happened in 2017 and the judge reversed the order after new shit came to light.  Just a clickbait post unfortunately.

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    CRIME 

    Judge rescinds order granting rapist joint legal custody of victim's child

    October 17, 2017 / 5:45 PM EDT / CBS/AP

    SANDUSKY, Mich. -- A Michigan judge has rescinded a controversial order he gave last month granting a convicted rapist joint legal custody of the child conceived when he attacked a 12-year-old girl in 2008.

    Sanilac County Judge Gregory Ross ruled Tuesday that 27-year-old Christopher Mirasolo won't have any parental rights in connection to the 8-year-old boy. But he's still on the hook for child support.

    Michigan Supreme Court spokesman John Nevin told The Associated Press last week that Ross didn't know 27-year-old Christopher Mirasolo had two criminal sexual conduct convictions, including one concerning the woman.

     

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