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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 26, 2014 9:37:16 GMT -5
The Eagles would make my Top 30, too -- of Bands That Should be Tortured. Careful, Dan. I hear Santa Claus is a HUGE Eagles fan. Cei-U! I summon the Naughty List! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2014 9:44:27 GMT -5
An old bearded hippie? Of course he is.
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Post by DubipR on Nov 26, 2014 9:47:05 GMT -5
Me, circa 2010ish... just add some Reed Richards grey around the temples and that's me today. |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 26, 2014 10:56:36 GMT -5
We all have different tastes, of course, & rest assured that I'm utterly enamored with all sorts of sentimental tripe myself, but I viscerally hated those songs from the moment I first heard them on the radio as a kid. Great examples of the sort of puked-up-&-then-soaked-in-meat-tenderizer-for-good-measure pablum that made punk not only necessary but inevitable. I would agree that those Bread songs are exactly the sort of overly sentimental, sanitised "musak" that began to flood the charts as the '70s progressed (see the Brotherhood of Man, John Denver, Boney M and The Carpenters for further details), but the overly technical, virtuoso musicianship and conceited pretensions of prog rock bands like Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd and Rush also played their part. Of course I'll defend John Denver's pre-1974 output to the death and I'm also a bit partial to the whimsical and darkly weird English eccentricity of Genesis albums like Nursery Cryme and Selling England by the Pound, but there can be little doubt that punk and new wave were a much needed shot in the arm for popular music. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2014 16:51:17 GMT -5
We all have different tastes, of course, & rest assured that I'm utterly enamored with all sorts of sentimental tripe myself, but I viscerally hated those songs from the moment I first heard them on the radio as a kid. Great examples of the sort of puked-up-&-then-soaked-in-meat-tenderizer-for-good-measure pablum that made punk not only necessary but inevitable. I would agree that those Bread songs are exactly the sort of overly sentimental, sanitised "musak" that began to flood the charts as the '70s progressed (see the Brotherhood of Man, John Denver, Boney M and The Carpenters for further details), but the overly technical, virtuoso musicianship and conceited pretensions of prog rock bands like Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd and Rush also played their part. Oh, definitely. The ghastly self-indulgence of ELP & all those other vile examples of wretched excess -- not for nothing did Mr. Lydon famously wear a "I Hate Pink Floyd" T-shirt -- were perhaps the major contributing factor from a musical standpoint, really much more than the soft-rock garbage churned out by Bread & their hideous ilk. Please, sir. I just got my flu shot. (Couldn't feel a thing, actually.) |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2014 17:21:31 GMT -5
Lydon has been senile for years.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 26, 2014 23:25:35 GMT -5
Lydon has been senile for years. Worse, he's been a hypocrite and a good little corporate shill for years. *sigh* Time was when I admired the man immensely. Not any more. |
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Post by wickedmountain on May 26, 2015 22:30:22 GMT -5
Me about two years ago. Not much has changed, though. Excuse the crooked glasses.  Very nice Photo  It is so cool you collect comics |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2015 21:56:51 GMT -5
Me with Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon a few weeks ago (they were in town to flag the LeMans race at the Austin F1 track and called me to meet up for lunch.  |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 3, 2015 6:08:37 GMT -5
and here's me and my Husband, Nick at Kraftwerk last Friday: Kraftwerk!!!!  |
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Post by Confessor on Oct 3, 2015 6:35:22 GMT -5
Love me some Kraftwerk...I think The Man-Machine is probably my favourite album of theirs, but Autobahn, Radio-Activity and Trans-Europe Express are all excellent too.
Great pics, bert!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2015 12:33:26 GMT -5
and here's me and my Husband, Nick at Kraftwerk last Friday: Kraftwerk!!!! and they played the WHOLE 20+ minute album version of the song, with the 3D graphics behind them putting us ON the Autobahn. the the Robots encore was awesome, the finale of "Boing, Boom Tsack" and "Music Non Stop" was incredible! (and as you can tell from the pics, we had some GREAT seats to the sold out show) |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Oct 3, 2015 14:00:02 GMT -5
Ha! just spent some time with Dieter Moebius who used to be in Kraftwerk before he formed his bands Neu! and Harmonia. Really nice and loving guy! Nice Goblin T-Shirt BTW  ![]()  Fom two years ago at a show in Ibiza, after breaking my nose the previous day at another show. Chose this as it was the only comics related picture I could currently find. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2015 19:46:25 GMT -5
a couple more pics of me - my best pics always seem to be way after hours when I'm drunk at Dragon*con too. From last year's Dragoncon:  and from 2 years ago (yes, with Anna Strange again in both pics, but this time with a Furry!).  |
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