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art, music, etc. / Re: Live Performances

« on: September 27, 2023, 08:05:55 PM »

Derek and the Dominos - Little Wing (October 1970) audio only


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G5CJFrO2Oc

Sort of a last gasp of Eric Clapton's psychedelic side from Cream and Blind Faith. I like some of his solo tunes after Blind Faith and Derek & the Dominos, but late 60's Clapton was my favorite.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Live Performances

« on: September 26, 2023, 12:37:11 PM »

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art, music, etc. / Re: Hell's radio station

« on: September 26, 2023, 07:37:47 AM »

(Rebecca Black - Friday)

These days, she's doing her level best to look like Jane, Jesse's dead junkie girlfriend from Breaking Bad.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Hell's radio station

« on: September 25, 2023, 06:15:14 PM »

In hell, these pants are back in style for all of eternity. And you shoot the Bay City Rollers over and over again, but they just keep getting back up and playing this song.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKKaKT_dtM

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art, music, etc. / Re: Live Performances

« on: September 25, 2023, 02:41:14 PM »

NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT.

I'm a professional asshole. And take my Claire's word for it, I'm a bigger one than you.
                                                                          ^and Shloo's

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art, music, etc. / Re: Pantera - Domination

« on: September 25, 2023, 02:39:57 PM »

You're cute, sugar tits.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Pantera - Domination

« on: September 23, 2023, 03:47:41 PM »

The Pantera reunion. 

Some people were pissing their pants with glee at the notion. Others wanted no part of it. I was somewhere in the middle, remaining curious. To be honest, I was leaning more towards wanting no part of it though. Dime and Vinny before each of their deaths made it abundantly clear that Pantera getting back together was never gonna happen. And once you do a little research into the person of vocalist Philip Anselmo, it's pretty obvious that his personality grated on the Abbott brothers until it was finally more than even someone as wild and crazy as THEY WERE could put up with. Don't get me wrong, I love all the music Pantera did (even Great Southern Trendkill), I loved Down, I love Superjoint... eh, not so much Anselmo's other various projects. But... they guy is just a massive DICK. He's got this thing where he always feels like he needs to put on that he's the biggest alpha dog of the cell block. He does shit in interviews just to try and intimidate people for no reason (moreso in the past, he's cooled it a little bit on that with age I'd say, but he still does it). I've known guys like him, and as much as you love them and enjoy hanging out when they're being cool, inevitably they can't help themselves and they gotta go into bi-polar mode and start smashing your buttons. And they think that because you don't react by knocking the living shit out of them that they've somehow intimidated you. It's a silly childish game they play. Anyway... yeah, Anselmo's a dick.

Zakk Wylde, as cool as he is, just doesn't have the same groove that Dime did. He plays some of the songs really close, but it stills sounds like him all the way through.

That fuckin VIBRATO though. It's his thing. There's no losing that wacked out Zakk Wylde vibrato I guess. It sounds out of place in Pantera.

It's a "when the hell will I get this chance again?" kinda thing, and even though I know the whole thing probably makes Dime spin in his grave... I was still considering going to the show when it hit Atlanta, especially since Mastodon was also going to be there. I LOVE MASTODON. But after seeing this... yeah I don't think I missed much.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnlB-LzSSNQ

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poetry / essays / short stories? / Re: Quotes

« on: September 22, 2023, 09:33:38 AM »

I recently watched all 4 of Bruce Lee's old martial arts movies again as well as some documentaries about his life. I originally came across this quote through google images as it was quoted in a handwritten note from Bruce Lee to his wife Linda. Bruce Lee was a lifelong student of philosophy, and likely came across the works of William Henry Channing while studying Philosophy in college.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha watchin'/streamin'...

« on: September 21, 2023, 02:53:37 PM »

Some quotes from various Tastyspleeners about Bill Cosby from before the fall...

From Jagermonsta:

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice. - Bill Cosby

From Reaper (referencing the standup comedy movie Bill Cosby Himself, 1983)

bill cosby on dentists was really good.  ...

From PeeWee who I remember used to say he was a fan of Bill Cosby (also referencing Bill Cosby Himself, 1983)

"I brought you into this damn world, and I can take you out." 

"...and I can make another one that looks just like you"

You're dad was Bill Cosby? 

Okay... Bill Cosby.



Obviously I don't condone the actions of a person who drugs people and then has sex with them while they are unconscious. And apparently PLENTY of women came forward to make such similar accusations against him. Did he do it? If I'm being honest, I don't really know. However, I do know that several people have been unfairly accused and unfairly treated by the "MeToo" movement. It was 60 women who said he assaulted them. Sounds bad. So on one hand... part of me wonders how in the hell such a thing could happen SIXTY TIMES and stay under the radar. But at the same time, on the other hand, there ARE 60 accusers - that seems like too many to not be true.

Wikipedia as of today says:

In 2018, he was convicted of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand. He was imprisoned until the conviction was vacated in June 2021 by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, for violations of Cosby's 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment due process rights.

Personally, my verdict?

Eh, I dunno. The law did him kinda dirty, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court acknowledges that. Then again... there's a good possibility he's a fucking deviant rapist piece of shit.

All I DO know is that regardless of what the man did or didn't do, Bill Cosby Himself was and still is (in my opinion) one of the best standup comedy films/specials of all time. My parents taped it off of HBO back in the 80's and I used to watch that tape a lot. It was family friendly and funny, and with all the stuff about drunks and dentists and raising children, it still stands as relevant humor after 40 years.

Last time I had seen it was sometime back in the 90's. Downloaded it from youtube and watched it. Laughed my ass off!

No thanks to Youtubes blatant disregard for copyright laws and Bill Cosby's rights as a person after he becomes a prime target of the virtue signaling and MeToo movements... Bill Cosby Himself was easily available on Youtube for free.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymUYO4T_ZjQ

On one hand, it's shitty that Youtube seems to NOT GIVE A SHIT that they're complicit in the distribution (for the last 8 years according to the date of the video upload) of copyrighted material they haven't paid to license at all.

On the other hand, I'm glad this is on Youtube and Bill Cosby is not so blacklisted that they try to scrub every memory of him from history. No matter what Bill Cosby did, it doesn't negate the fact that he made one of the greatest standup specials of all time. Most comedians watched it and it greatly influenced them to want to become a comedian. But few of them are still willing to give him credit for it. Yeah well... OJ Simpson slaughtered two people. That fact doesn't delete the OTHER fact that he was one of the greatest runningbacks in NFL history.

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/dev/random / Re: The Good Old Days thread

« on: September 15, 2023, 02:21:04 PM »

Kinda "wankerish" in the style of the 1980's "we are the world", but kinda cool.

Never been a fan of Kevin Dubrow and Quiet Riot. I first heard him on a Quiet Riot: The Randy Rhoads Days cd I bought in my young teens when I was studying Randy Rhoads stuff on the guitar. I do not like his singing.

Kinda funny, you can clearly hear Rob Halford cutting through everyone else during the first chorus. Dudes got some lungs.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5H94GHb-10

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/dev/random / Re: im drunk

« on: September 06, 2023, 03:45:03 PM »

From a pic that's been on my digital cam for a while...



Saw this at my local Publix earlier this summer, from a tiny little unknown microbrew over in the neighborhood where my folks grew up and my grandpa lived before he passed back in '95. Call me crazy, but I kinda assumed that microbrews would actually give a damn about the taste of their beer and thus use an adequate amount of hops in the recipe. Apparently these people aren't really sticklers for trivial little things like "flavor". It doesn't have that weird chemical-y flavor like a lot of mass produced major brand domestics, but perhaps that's due to how utterly watered down this stuff was. I think it was like 4.2% abv, just weak as a baby fart. I don't think I've ever seen any beer with an abv that low before. If it were legal to make "childrens beer" kinda like they make childrens cough syrup and childrens aspirin, this would be childrens beer.

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/dev/random / Re: The Man Thread

« on: September 04, 2023, 09:06:51 PM »

I like to watch Bob Ross episodes because it's amazing to see him bring a full landscape to life in one single 30 minute episode.

I think I like watching these videos for sort of the same reason. It's cool to watch these guys make a house in as much time as I can watch a movie. Plus, I used to be a pipefitter, so I like construction and tools and building shit.

But no shit, I'd kill just about any list of 10 people you threw at me to have a house up in the mountains like this, especially one this close to the Nantahala river. One of THE BEST places for river rafting.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCfgdXtOYNg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm9Nb6IpCN0

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: September 04, 2023, 08:01:55 PM »

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny



It had action and adventure. But then again, lots of other movies do these days. I mean... if you just wanted another Indiana Jones movie... and one with ridiculous shit like time travel, MORE nazis (because the 1st and 3rd ones didn't have enough for you I guess), 80% of the movie looking like it was shot in front of a green screen (yet oddly enough still costing shitloads of money to produce as if they used physical sets and real effects and stunts), and rampant plot "borrowing" from the other 4 Indiana Jones movies (like the room with shitloads of creepy crawly insects from Temple of Doom)... then this is the movie for you.

Personally, I didn't think Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was as bad as the critics said it was. I kinda liked it. It wasn't as good as the first 3 Indiana Jones movies obviously, but I felt like it fit enough to be a legit 4th installment, and it was written by George Lucas and directed by Spielberg, so even though it was an obvious cash grab of a movie, it felt like it fit with the others.

This one is NOT written by George Lucas and is NOT directed by Spielberg. And you can tell. And if the 4th one tarnished the reputation of franchise, the critics were very accurate on this one for once: it was rehashed mediocre crap.
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Here's what I notice:

*1st movie - the ark of the covenant (was a real thing)

*2nd movie - chakra stones (pretty sure they were a real thing in Indian culture, maybe not THOSE SPECIFIC stones in the movie, but such things were known to have existed)

*3rd movie - holy grail, the cup christ used at the last supper (likely a real thing, I'm pretty sure certain historical accounts do reference certain people possessing a thing believed to be the cup, unknown for sure if they actually did)

*4th movie - crystal skull (fake, all the discovered supposed native american crystal skull artifacts were proven to be fakes)

(note: moving away from reality and believability here, aren't we?)

*5th movie - dial of archimedes (fake, not a real thing, VERY loosely based on the Antikythera mechanism, a greek artifact theorized to have been created to predict the movements of the stars and the occurrence of eclipses)
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All of the movies feature some kind of "magical" aspect: The mystical power of the Ark and it's curse being able to kill people, the magical powers of the chakra stones, the mystical power of the grail cup and it's ability to heal and give eternal life to whoever drinks from it (even though Indy's dad did end up dying eventually... strange, right, lol), the otherworldly power of the crystal skull, the magical power of the dial to predict time fissures that allow for time travel.

But the first three were based on religion, major ones that still exist. The 4th one... arguably a religious myth, although based on fake archeology. 5th one, COMPLETELY MADE UP, no religious context at all. I think the fact that the first three used artifacts from religions still in existence today lent a bit of believability to the magical aspects of the plots in the movies. Just my opinion, just my theory. I think if they could've found some other religious based artifact, like the "spear of destiny", perhaps that would play better. (the spear that was used to stab Christ as he hung on the cross, a special division under the direction of Nazi SS Reichsfuhrer H. Himmler was trying to find it, it's rumored that the catholic church has it hidden somewhere) And HEY, since they obviously had to have a nostalgic callback with Nazi's, that one would've let them use Nazi's again as the bad guys, right!?!

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art, music, etc. / Re: Live Performances

« on: September 02, 2023, 08:24:02 PM »

Eric Gales

This one takes a while to break loose... after about 2:40 though, holy shit!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swZnhQ44Lwo

Kingfish Ingram


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-nTAgOMK7w

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art, music, etc. / Re: Live Performances

« on: September 02, 2023, 01:53:21 PM »

David Allan Coe

Live from Prison, early 1970's (mostly story telling)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM_iGi1ixzg


DAC doing an alternate version of "If That Ain't Country (I'll Kiss Your Ass)", 2002

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sbBD96_31M

The guitar he's playing in that video was a gift to him from the late Dimebag Darrell from Pantera and Damageplan. After Pantera broke up, between 1999 and 2003, David teamed up with Darrell, Vinnie Paul, and Rex Brown of Pantera to record several songs whenever they found the extra time to do so. It wasn't until 2006 that they finally released the album, Rebel Meets Rebel (about 3 years after the murder of Dime). It's probably not a very popular album. Personally, I like it, but then again, I like anything with Dimebag or David Allan Coe.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkKz1Kgykp4

One and only live performance of "Rebel Meets Rebel" as a group: (click for video - video must viewed on Youtube)

(note: Out of sync audio/video - Dude needs to sync the audio with the video and re-up it  )

Got a chance to see DAC live a couple of times live around 2001 and 2002, once at the old Cowboy's in Kennesaw GA (now closed) and once at the old famous Mama's Country Showcase in Decatur GA. Not sure if he performs anymore at all. Last time I saw anything about him performing, he was doing the whole show sitting. He had been in a car wreck around 2012 and age was really playing a factor on him. Hell he's 80-something years old at this point.