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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 3, 2020 9:07:41 GMT -5
In 1984, I turned 18. However, I was ineligible to vote in the election that year, because my birthday was 9 days after the election. I had to wait 4 years to vote in my first presidential election, in 1988. Like many servicemember, I voted via absentee ballot. 6 months earlier, I was commissioned as an officer in the US Navy and took an oath to "...protect and defend the Constitution, against all enemies, foreign and domestic..."
Today marked 32 years of upholding that oath by carrying out my civic duty to vote for the leadership of this country.
Take a moment to recognize the line of people who sacrificed, demonstrated and organized so that every citizen, over the age of 18, had the right to vote in the leadership of this country.
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 3, 2020 13:19:08 GMT -5
Trombone Shorty was on one of the Sammy Hagar tv shows recently if you get to see those. Okay, now I'm off on some kind of rekindled Bob Seger lust-craze... want to hear all the stuff from Cameo/Parkway singles when they were The Last Heard, then to albums as The Bob Seger System, and finally the werewolfy sounding Silver Bullet Band. It's like if Tom Skerrit could sing... super cool rock n' roll dude! I don't think he was too keen on disco either. Bob Seger's first song (and band) age 16: societyofrock.com/ever-heard-of-bob-segers-first-ever-written-song/
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2020 13:42:05 GMT -5
Happens every now and then....
New cops, or trainee cops are put on the road to stop vehicles randomly and check license, insurance etc....
So several cars ahead of me were stopped and the guy wanted to check all of us...guy in front had to open his trunk as well.
Gets to my car...and instead asks me what I'm playing on my car deck and wished me a good day.
Thank you Scorpions, I was playing In Trance.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 3, 2020 13:48:14 GMT -5
After the horrible murders in France, I have read a lot of comments (many by influential people) that go something like "violence is inexcusable, but..."
There is no "but". There is absolutely nothing that justifies the decapitation of a teacher or the stabbing of an old lady in a church. No amount of hurt feelings and no level of outrage. Not in any country that claims to be civilized.
I am absolutely ashamed of Canada's prime minister's spineless reaction to these horrors. His attitude sounds virtuous and open-minded, but what he's basically saying is "rape is awful, but it wouldn't happen if girls dressed decently". Shame on him. Shame.
There. I said it!
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 3, 2020 14:45:05 GMT -5
'Should one be free to publish a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed' seems what Trudeau was responding to, a question asked after an initial condemnation statement on the recent attack. People at a French paper which did were murdered back in 2015.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 3, 2020 16:10:08 GMT -5
If disco should apologize for anything it’s Staying Alive. Ugh.
Thankfully great legends like Barry White made great disco music durning that era.
Outside of that only a handful of other disco songs, if that, I could name.
Also I agree with every word you said RR. Didn’t feel a like was enough. I guess we’ll have to keep striving to be a better species.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 3, 2020 16:17:00 GMT -5
Bob Seger is meh. My dad (73 yo) likes him, so that is my Dad's rock, although he does also like The Who, so he does get credit for that.
I can take the Foo Fighters, but they aren't my favorite. Saw them in concert a few years ago, as my sister got us tickets for my birthday; it was a good show. While I do have a couple of their songs on my playlist, I'm not above skipping them if I'm not in the mood.
I have pretty varied interests in music. Can listen to almost anything except most rap music and "new country" (the Luke Bryan/Kenny Chesney party boy style). My playlist can go from The Smiths to The Sex Pistols to The Rolling Stones to Guns 'n Roses to Gary Numan to The Beatles to U2 to The Killers to Oingo Boingo within 30 minutes.
Been listening to a lot to one of our local listener-funded stations here in Pittsburgh lately; they have a bluegrass show on Saturdays, and a folk music show on Sunday mornings while I'm grocery shopping. During the week, they might play Kula Shaker, then Alison Krauss, then David Bowie, then The Cure, then some indie folk singer I've never heard of, and I kind of dig them all.
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Post by impulse on Nov 3, 2020 16:27:11 GMT -5
I think the most successfully versatile rock group who both made good music in different styles while also still sounding like themselves pretty much has to be Queen. They've got straight rock, disco, show tunes, thrash metal, power ballads, punk, and everything in between under their belts.
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 3, 2020 17:18:30 GMT -5
I had to go to a news source outside Canada, in Asia, to find what Trudeau said in English. I would say the English language media here has not covered the comments beyond his under one minute statement condemning the recent attacks in France. Most video available is a minute or less with just that part.
Below is what I found which can be read as 'let's consider the sensitive feelings of violent terrorists'. I remember the 'Je Suis Charlie Hebdo' signs back in 2015. Back then the questions were; are violence and murder to be acknowledged as provoked by cartoons, and is there a right to expression that may be deliberately offensive?
The recent victims, like the Charlie Hebdo paper employees, should in no way have had to even fear death over any words, images, or association is how I feel.
"We will always defend freedom of expression," Trudeau said in response to a question about the right to show a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed, as France's Charlie Hebdo magazine did. "But freedom of expression is not without limits," he added. "We owe it to ourselves to act with respect for others and to seek not to arbitrarily or unnecessarily injure those with whom we are sharing a society and a planet."
"We do not have the right for example to shout fire in a movie theatre crowded with people, there are always limits," he argued.
Distancing himself from the position of French President Emmanuel Macron, Trudeau pleaded for a careful use of free speech. "In a pluralist, diverse and respectful society like ours, we owe it to ourselves to be aware of the impact of our words, of our actions on others, particularly these communities and populations who still experience a great deal of discrimination," he said.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 3, 2020 19:34:00 GMT -5
I think the most successfully versatile rock group who both made good music in different styles while also still sounding like themselves pretty much as to be Queen. They've got straight rock, disco, show tunes, thrash metal, power ballads, punk, and everything in between under their belts. While Prince had multiple bands and his solo act he was damn versatile too in his music. But Queen was pretty much the same act so I see where you are coming from with the statement. You might say I’m an Insatiable Prince fan. ;-)
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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 3, 2020 20:17:30 GMT -5
Disco disturbs me. I don't mean that as a joke. It's so dream-like and eerie. It's like alien music. Then buddy, you sure as shit won't like Space Rock
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2020 9:23:39 GMT -5
I think the most successfully versatile rock group who both made good music in different styles while also still sounding like themselves pretty much as to be Queen. They've got straight rock, disco, show tunes, thrash metal, power ballads, punk, and everything in between under their belts. thrash metal and punk?
My knowledge of Queen is far from exhaustive, but that seems a stretch - what tracks did you have in mind?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2020 9:29:19 GMT -5
I like Boney M. The way Night Flight to Venus segues into Rasputin is pure musical genius. I own more than my fair share of Village People LPs too. Needless to say I got into Punk very fast when I was a kid. I would hazard a guess that the Venn diagram of "people who are heavy into punk" and "people who like Boney M" shows a very small intersection set (I'm not going to say it's just you, but.... it's probably just you )
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Post by impulse on Nov 4, 2020 9:46:50 GMT -5
I think the most successfully versatile rock group who both made good music in different styles while also still sounding like themselves pretty much as to be Queen. They've got straight rock, disco, show tunes, thrash metal, power ballads, punk, and everything in between under their belts. thrash metal and punk? My knowledge of Queen is far from exhaustive, but that seems a stretch - what tracks did you have in mind?
To be clear, I would never go so far as to say they became a thrash or punk band at any point, but they definitely veered into that territory for a song or two and pulled it off. They were obviously a classic rock band at their roots but successfully pulled in a LOT of other influences. Specifically... Stone Cold Crazy which is hugely influential to thrash bands and is often cited as a proto-thrash song (famously covered by Metallica, and I think Queen's rendition hits harder) And the song, but not the album, Sheer Heart Attack is quite similar to a punk song in composition, delivery and energy.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 4, 2020 9:53:23 GMT -5
And the song, but not the album, Sheer Heart Attack is quite similar to a punk song in composition, delivery and energy. Oh yeah! I used to wake up to this song in high school for the sheer energy of the thing. A lot of the Roger Taylor songs bordered on metal. You could even argue "The Loser" was proto-grunge. Queen is my favorite band of all time, and has been for nearly thirty years now, but I will say my one problem with them is they have a ton of unequivocally BAD songs. You can listen to any Beatles album, even the unreleased tracks, and there's no such thing as a bad Beatles song. Queen had so damn many, though.
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