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Sorry for bumping a long dead thread, but I thought I'd add another example of two who may have been seperated at birth. Dee and Christina

Thanks a bunch everyone. It's tough being a crop duster in a stealth bomber world. Heehee.

Any music fan worth their salt likes this movie, if only for the music. The really funny thing is, when Macchio's character gets his first shot of whiskey, and it damn near kills him, and in the next scene, when Gertz leaves him, he's slugging it from the bottle like an old pro. A great line from this movie is Willie's: "If you spent as much time with your hands on that gutiar and you do on that girl's ass, you might get good" Top notch.

You are the 54,758,156richest person in the world! You're in the TOP 0.91% richest people in the world! Yea, right. Then why am I always broke?

I hope someone can help me out, or at least lead me in the right direction, anyway. I recently decided to purchase a video camera. I was figuring, since I just got a new computer, and a new digital camera, that I might as well go all the way and get a video camera, too. I want to get one of those ones where you record onto a disc, and put it right into the tower. However, the guy at the radio shack was telling me I need a 'video capture card'. Then he starts telling me all these numbers and stuff, which I simply do not grasp. So, I say, ok, what about this camera? (a different one), Then he starts telling me, in addition to a video capture card, I'll also be needing an adapter for my usb port to plug in from the camera to the the tower. (this camera had a really small video cassette instead of a disc). Then he starts throwing a bunch of numbers at me again, and again, I have no idea what he's saying, and I tell him so. "I don't understand what you're trying to tell me. I don't know about this stuff, ok? Can you explain it so I 'get it'?" so, he sighs, like I'm a real inconvenience because I don't spend all day working with electronics for a living like he does. He gets out a piece of paper, and I'm thinking, ok, good, he's going to sketch it out for me so I'll understand. So what does he do? He starts writing all these numbers and letters, instead of saying them. By now, we're both exasperated, because I telling him "Dude, I DO NOT UNDERSTAND what you're trying to tell me" So, finally, I just left. I'm not the type to just buy something without doing my homework first. So far, what I gather is, I need a video capture card. What is that? He said they're like, 100 bucks!!!! Man, this is a brand new computer. Shouldn't it have all the bells and whistles already???

you cats make me feel like a slacker. My weekend is puttering. Cut the grass, (done), go to Walmart, (done), go to a niece's softball game (done winners 6-2), and now, it's Saturday night, almost nine, and my dog is lying here snoring and farting as I contemplate going back in my shop and fooling around with my art supplies, see if I can create something. Tomorrow? Sleep until 9. After that, I'm wide open.

If you think Pipeline was cool on video, you should have seen them do it live, like I did. Heehee. It was June of either 87 or 88, I forget now. The Mann Music Center in Philadelphia. An outdoor pavillion. SRV was the headliner and The Fabulous Thinderbirds were the undercard. Whatta a show! It was easily the best show I've ever seen as far as being 'included'. When Stevie played, it wasn't like you were listening, it was as though you were enveloped in the music. Man, I swear, I still get chills when I think about that show. SRV was my boy. I own all his officially released stuff, and a handful of things that aren't officially released. I've always loved him, and I always will. I remember when I found out he had been killed, I was on my way home from work and heard it on the radio. I had to pull the car over. I'm not ashamed to admit, I cried like a school girl when he died. I've enjoyed music my whole life, but Stevie Ray's guitar went deeper, and got to a place in me no other music had ever gone. I'm sure everyone has someone like that. SRV was that for me. What makes me truly sad, though, is the fact that, for the last 17 years, there's been no Stevie Ray Vaughan. All the music that he never got to give us is what makes me sad. Stevie had 'it'. Even the great ones knew it and acknowledged SRV. The Albert Kings and B.B. Kings and Buddy Guys and Eric Claptons of the world said he was a channel. Stevie Ray Vaughan will be gone 17 years this August 27th. Man, I miss that guy. *edit* Oh, and BTW, here's a drawing I did of SRV's In Step album cover:

I was only 9. Mt whole life revolved around baseball and fishing. Fortunately for me, my mom has always loved music, and I was always exposed to whatever was out at the time. Music was always a big part part of my life. Matter of fact, I know more Motown than any middle aged white suburban male has a right to. LOL.

Hhmmm. It would seem 1973 was a hazy year for some.

Journey ~ Something to Hide Man, Perry could get up there, couldn't he?

Yea! ehy is that? For some reason, this one never impressed me. I guess because it was a little too poppy/mainsteam/watered down, compared to all the other Queen I'd owned up to that point. I mean, after Get Down, Make Love The Prophet Song 39 Tie Your Mother Down Sheer Heart Attack Save Me Now I'm Here Seven Seas of Rye Killer Queen it's kind of tough to accept Another One Bites the Dust. I'm not knocking the song because it's bad, because it's not. It's ok, but not the Queen I cut my teeth on. I guess, in all honesty, it kind of irked me that it was so popular, when it isn't even in their top 20 best cuts. Just my opinion, of course. (BTW...did you own an original 'The Game', when the cover was metallic? Now they're just gray)

i love Queen, and own quite a bit of their stuff. this song, however, is one of the ones I will skip. I don't know if it's the fact that it's been played to death, or the fact that it's so bland compared to other Queen songs, but I can't sit through it. LOL.

I've owned this on 8 track, album, cassette and now on cd. When I was a younger man, in the army, I was rooming on the top floor of a barracks in Germany. They had these huge windows that swung open, with a view that went for miles over open field. My room mate and I enjoyed a charitable hunk of hashish, and sat at that window, with DSOTM playing at 'swallow you up into the music' volume, watching a thunder and lightning storm cover the entire sky, and slowly move towards us as we swigged a 5th of Jack Daniels. Wow. Whatta a high that was. Those days are long behind me now, but I still have that memory.

Let's see...what was going on in 1973? Let's take a look. In the theaters, wow! What a great year for pictures. The Exorcist scared the heck out of everybody, and Deliverance scared everybody, too, but for different reasons. Roger Moore did ok in Live and Let Die, Ryan & Tatum schemed their through Paper Moon. Enter the Dragon (holla!) Some really good soundtracks, too: Jesus Christ Superstar American Graffiti Lady Sings the Blues The Sting Brando said "get the butter" On tv, the biggest event of the year was Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii, seen by over 1 billion peole worldwide. In 1973. Long Live the King. "James Paul McCartney" airs, Sir Paul's first tv special. George Jefferson made his debut on All In The Family, and Schoolhouse Rocks!!! debuts. The Six Million Dollar Man showed up, and I never missed an episode. Steve Austin...astronaut. A man barely alive. We can rebuild him. Make him better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster. (how sad is it I know the introduction to that show right off the top of my head?) Kojak loved you, baby. Jed Clampett became Barnaby Jones, and stayed Barnaby for the next 17 years. (I did not know that). Trekkies got the first animated series that year. In music, we lost a great storyteller when Jim Croce was killed in a plane crash at the age of 24. Paul McCartney was fined 240 bucks for growing the green outside his Scottish farm Mick is denied a visa to get into the Orient because of drug busts 4 years earlier Dead bassist Phil Lesh is busted for possesion. Hmmm...I see a trend. David Bowie retires his Ziggy Stardust persona. debut albums: KISS Aerosmith Bob Marley and the Wailers The New York Dolls Springsteen Queen Skynyrd Not a bad list. I own them all but Marley (don't care for it) and the NY Dolls (never saw what the big deal was) But I digress. Getting back to the music, there were some great albums put out that year, besides the freshman efforts listed above. Pink Floyd released, quite possibly, the perfect album, Dark Side of the Moon Alice Cooper released Billion Dollar Babies (which, btw, I got him to autograph for me last year. I don't know if I posted the pic I have of he and I or not.) the Coop also released Muscle of Love. Remember the good old days, when a band realeased more than one album every five years? On the charts, Billy Preston wanted to know, Will it go round in circles?, Cher was at her sultry best singing Half Breed, Eddie Kendricks kept on truckin'.Also on the charts were the usual suspects...Elton John, Grand Funk Railroad, The Carpenters, all the big names controlled the top of the charts, with each artist spending time at #1. An interesting thing I found out about the Beatles while researching this post: all 4 charted top ten singles in 1973, with 3 of the 4 hitting number one, and the 4th topping out at #10. I'll leave it at that, in case anyone wants to look it up. Heehee. And in early February, topping out at # 10: King Harvest ~ Dancin' In The Moonlight I really enjoy this song. Like most one hit wonders, it's poppy. Not to be confused with Thin Lizzy's song with the same name, a lot of people know this song by heart, but couldn't tell you who does it. Formed in New York City, USA around 1972. The band comprised three keyboardists, Ron Altback, Sherman Kelly and Davy "Doc" Robinson, plus Ed Tuleja (guitar), Tony Cahill (bass), Rod Novak (saxophone) and David Montgomery (drums). All had been involved previously with other bands and done session work. In 1972, they signed to the small Perception label. Their first single was Altback's "Dancing In The Moonlight", a soulful pop song that he and Robinson had performed with their earlier band, Boffalongo. "A Little Bit Like Magic", charted, reaching number 91 in 1973, but wasn't even close to the success of Dancin'. The original line-up recorded one album titled after the hit single, which failed to break into the Top 100. They made other singles, but by the mid-70s had disbanded. Dancin' In The Moonlight

It sounds like Philip Bailey from Earth Wind and Fire.

I have vista. It's the first computer I bought since my original one, 9 years ago. I went in and told the guy I needed a bigger pc. He asked me how many gigs I have, and I looked him right in the eye and said 10 He laughed and said ipods have that. so now, I have 120 gigs, which is plenty for a rube like me. as far as antivirus stuff, I found it pretty annoying that there were all these programs already installed for free 90 day trials. I just uninstalled them all, just on principle. I don't abide people thinking they're entitled to be in my personal space. It's presumptuous and rude. I don't care how good the programs were. I didn't ask for them, so i got rid of them. Ok, end of rant. I called my brother. He came and hooked me up. Every family has the go to computer person, don't they?

Darn near any Celine Dion song.

I know, I know. I've been getting crushed at work. I have it about halfway done. Hopefully, Friday. Sorry, folks!. Oh, and by the way, I checked, and I already did 1974, so I moved over one year to 1973.

She's right, in a way. there's no shame in getting a helping hand. but once on your feet, it's your responsibility to help yourself.

For my money, Highway to Hell is their best from front to back. The title cut is my least favorite, probably because it's played to death. The cool thing about AC/DC is the simplicity of their music. You get a few guys together for the first time and they just want to jam, invariably, every knows AC/DC cuts. They're simple to play, but they rock. I used to love playing their songs in a couple of bands I was in, because not only were they fun to play, but their backing vocals were something I could do without embarrassing myself. But I digress... I remember when Back in Black came out. I was a soph or a jr. in high school. Among us metal heads, the anticipation darn near reached a fever pitch. there was much debate in the smoking area at school. (Yes, we used to be allowed to smoke in school. You older cats will attest to this, right?) This guy is gonna blow. Maybe not. BON SCOTT RULES!!! I don't care, long as Angus is on it, I'm buying it. Will his vocal style fit? They should have snagged Ozzy. I mean, this was a major event in metal circles. So, when it came out, I was one of the ones that liked it right away, but because of the guitarwork. But, every AC/DC I've ever owned, I bought because of the guitars. ( I had to keep seeing this girl for, like, two months longer than I wanted to, because she had an awesome stereo and I wanted to play the new album on it.) So, I'd say it was a pretty even split when it came out, with maybe a slight leaning towards the liking Brian Johnson side. There was never any question about the music. Back in Black is right there with the best of them. A tried and true heavy metal classic. Come to think of it, Highway to Hell & Back in Black should both probably be in the top 50 metal albums, if not the top 25. With two different vocalists. Pretty cool.

He looks like Nick cage now?

1974 it is. I'll have something done by the end of the weekend.

I also forgot to mention, Peterik also cowrote "Music for Dummies", or "Guitar for Dummies, or something like that. Hey, it was last week, how am I supposed to remember? Anyway, I have been thinking about it for a week, and I am stuck on what to post next. Too many to choose from. somebody pick a year.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra plays the music of Pink Floyd. If you enjoy Pink Floyd, this may be a pretty refreshing interpretation of some of their best known cuts. I thoroughly enjoy it. I have had this great cd for a long time, probably ten years, and I thought I'd share one of the tracks. If anyone wants, I'll post more. Time I'll say in advance, it's 8 minutes long, so it may take a minute to download.