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  1. 33 minutes ago, Underdog said:

    Saw them last year at a free show in Schenectady,NY.   I shook both Javors and Liberty's hand afterwards, bought a Lords of 52nd Street t-shirt, also. 

    Very cool.  (Outta rep for the day, will hit you up tommorow.)

  2. 48 minutes ago, Underdog said:

    Carl Fischer on Horns for him now in Concert does an excellent job with Zanzibar.  Really a damn shame he had somewhat of a falling out with his old band members, they were a tight group in concert, Cannata was the tits on sax. 

    Liberty, Richie and Russell Javors formed a Billy Joel cover band, the Lords of 52nd Street (Doug Stegmeyer committed suicide in 1995, sad story).   They're not half bad.

     

  3. 23 hours ago, Continental Op said:

    I'm tired of commercials where some female vocalist sings an already popular song in a really breathy voice, especially the one for whatever gum where the guy is drawing shit on gum wrappers to impress some broad. That chick is a 4 at best and that guy needs to figure out he doesn't need to go to all that effort to get her in the sack since she is probably glad any guy is paying any attention to her at all.

    This right fucking here, or any apple/phone commercial that tries to find the hippest/coolest/outta the box song for their commercials.  Yeah I'm old, but your songs suck.

  4. OK, from search it looks like there is scattered Christmas movie talk going on in several threads, but we need a proper thread for this.  What ya got?

    Me, never really got into It's a Wonderful Life until well into adulthood, was and still am a Miracle on 34th Street guy.

    I'm a train nut, so Polar Express is a natural for me.

    Big fan of the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol.

    A Christmas Story, goes without saying (yeah I just said it), 24 hours on TBS is always on in the background at our house.

    And my favorite, mentioned on the old site as well, none other than the gang of Stalag 17.  Play us somethin', Joey.

    stalag-17-05.jpg

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  5. 8 hours ago, Rip76 said:

    “I got the old man’s car, I got a jazz guitar,

    I got a tab at Zanzibar.”

     

    Cmon man.

    Yeah, being a trumpet player that's by far my favorite.  Here's an extended version with the unedited Freddie Hubbard solos...

     

  6. 1 hour ago, Rip76 said:

    The Entertainer lyrics are just great.

    ”Like another can of beans.”

    "So they cut it down to three-oh-five"

    I have the single, it is - wait for it - 3:05

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    This song ls a slow burn, but I really like it, channeling his inner Righteous Brothers, much better than anything off of An Innocent Man...

     

    Very underrated live album, great versions of his early catalog.  Let's do some Ronettes...

     

    Perfect ending to his best album, really sums up the themes of lost idealism, unfulfilled promises and expectations, broken dreams...

     

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  8. 3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    Did you know Taylor Ham is a thing in New Jersey? I didn't until this week. Yeah, it's a fucking pork product not unlike spam, which I think dovetails with the Taylor Hamm we've all come to know as well.

    It's actually like canadian bacon.  Think an Egg McMuffin, basically that's Taylor Ham.

  9. 15 hours ago, Spawn of Cthulhu said:

    "You've got male" means something very different on campus than it did back in the early days of the internet.

    Nah, pretty sure from the get-go aggy knew EXACTLY what it meant.

  10. 7 hours ago, Ollie Slatt said:

    I like some of Midland's songs, but they are not in the same league as Sturgill, Margo Price, or a lot of the other indie country acts out there now.  

    In fact, these guys are more of a creation of the Nashville machine reacting to the fact that country audiences were suddenly interested in more authentic music (e.g., Chris Stapleton).  The front man is a former model, they are signed on Big Machine (Taylor Swift label), and the songs were written by Shane McAnally (same guy writing hits for the Sam Hunts and Luke Bryans of the world).  There are also articles out there calling bullshit on the entire backstory about them being a hard-working Austin band:  https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/despite-the-quality-of-on-the-rocks-midland-are-still-bullshitters/

    All that said, the songs are catchy and not bad.  

     

    I read that a while back before I had even heard of the band, never listened to a note just based off of that article until the video above.  It's a'ight, but yeah, can't get past the whole poser thing.  I'll stick to Dale Watson and the Derailers, relatively new guy named Weldon Henson, plays the Spoke a lot, is pretty darn good too.  (Went to the Luckenbach Mud Dobber fest a few years ago, Weldon Henson, John Evans, Dale Watson, and Chuck Mead (ex-BR549), that was a damn good day of music.)

  11. (caveat - not sure they were ever considered "great", but since we're mainly talking classic rock here...)

    I'm a prog rock guy, Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, Yes, Tull, love some, like others, but god almighty is ELP the most bloated bunch of horseshit I've ever heard.  From the Beginning, Lucky Man, Karn Evil 9 single, that's it,  everything else is just Keith Emerson jacking off for 20 minutes at a pop.  Ugh.

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    Just for your info and all the world to see, one of my informants from the scat boy site, says that they think I'm you. Bahahahahaha!
    Lolol that's awesome. If I were to use sock accounts, I'd make an army of them. Glad they're talking about us, though.
     
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