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Didn't have time to read all 154 pages, so at the risk of being super-redundant I have to say:

Out of the Past (Not only a great film, but so good-looking, and the macho wisecracking with Kirk...

Here's a frequency test so you can tell how much you've lost off the top end of your range. All the loud gigs have taken a toll on me. A lot of my high-end hearing has come back since I stopped...

Yes, The Big Clock is a lot of fun. Elsa Lanchester is a hoot in this one.
"We're looking for a collector of your paintings."
"So have I been - for thirty years"
Charles Laughton is also...

Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances Simon Rattle conducting - somebody (I'm not going to get up to look).

Late to the discussion, and I didn't read all 74 pages, but among my idea for best b&w films would be both Bergman's Wild Strawberries and Seventh Seal. Citizen Kane is always up for discussion,...

Old recording, but someone out there might dig my brother-in-law's bag. He usually works with a sextet, and writes some pretty out stuff. I'd pick this one for the PE contingent to start with - be...

I was really hoping they'd make one more studio album that they knew they weren't going to have to take on tour. After Farewell to Kings - maybe Hemispheres - everything was so obviously sculpted...

Doobie Brothers - Captain and Me
Emerson Lake & Palmer s/t

Purchased at the same time, when I was 12. I had no idea that, later in life, I might have to pick sides concerning which genre held my...

So - a household discussion led me to pull out and listen to 10cc's 'The Original Soundtrack', which led to oblique comparisons to Queen and City Boy, which made me think - "Hey - y'know what else...

Staying within the original bounds of discussion, I'd say Neil Schon.

Depending on your definitions of "AOR" or "best", I'd introduce two hitherto unmentioned options:

Chris Hayes with Huey...

Man. Keith Emerson was my first rock and roll hero. Seeing the broadcast of him and Jon Lord at the California Jam when I was 13 is what made me want to be a keyboard player. I really blew an...

The bass players I love are the ones that - irrespective of whether they technically play above or below someone else's standard - play in a way that holds down their role in their genre, and yet...

Exactly. Except that 40 years ago, we were the young kids willing to spend the time foraging through whatever was out there to find things outside the shite on the radio to suit our tastes. I don't...

Greetings! Even though I was pretty active in the old days, I've been reading less and not posting much here for quite some time. I sort of got sidetrackred around the time we moved to PE.org. I...

I didn't get into many direct discussions with him, but he was sure a big presence here, and even though he was the kind of guy that got under a lot of people's skin, he seemed to be the kind of guy...

Wow. Lots of action on this thread. :)

I'm a keyboard player, but I might list players of other instruments, and I'll keep it to ten. In the order they occur to me:

1) Elton John:...

Well, I just saw them tonight in Portland, and they absolutely crushed it. I really can't say anything that hasn't already been said, except maybe that seeing how they create all the musical...

Ah, songs for the wedding day. That reminds me of a story...

For my wedding, for the recessional I wanted the organ recessional from Janacek's Glagolithic Mass, and I got the music to the...

They're here in Portland on Thursday. After everything I've read on this site over the years, I'm looking forward to it. When I was seventeen (in 1977), I was already melancholy about having missed...

Well, he's probably plenty easy to get along with now, although he is a bit mortality impaired. A full on Montrose reunion could never happen, indeed.

If the rumor mill does not exaggerate, at...

The thing I think is going to be most important in the game is Denver's inability to stop Marshawn Lynch. I think Denver is going to have to get out ahead early to stand any chance; otherwise, they...

Well, there you go (maybe); Rita Moreno's feature number in West Side Story was America, so that's very likely what she would have sung.

Didn't spend any time doing internet research here, but is Steve Broughton the same from City Boy?

Hi!

Not to be pedantic, but I think there are some vocabulary issues at work here.

The 13-pin cable isn't MIDI, so it probably goes to some proprietary interface that spits MIDI (or other...

I like this quite a bit. It's especially interesting to me in the way that they seem to be faithful to either the original or the Yessongs arrangement, except they've moved the key from D to Bb,...

Well, you've got to give the Ravens credit for grinding out a win like that one, but on the other hand, if I were a Ravens fan I'd be really worried about their ability to get the ball into the end...

Peter O'Toole totally kicked ass. What a stylish screen presence. If you haven't seen The Stunt Man, JKL, give it a go - it's a wild ride the first time you see it. Plus some crafty, if showy,...

Uh-oh; could be the beginning of another Cowboys December. Who do they have left on the schedule? It just seems like they should have done better. Who goes if they don't win the division - Romo or...

P.S. Ton Scherpenzeel doesn't really show off a lot, but if you listen real deep, he's a total badass. Those Dutch guys are something. Between him and Van der Linden and van Leer, they really kind...

I think Royal Bed Bouncer is the pinnacle. Poppy songs with bizarre, weirdo twists - great playing, super tape-saturation '70s production standard - - what's not to love? One of my very favorite...

This album was a bucket of fun, and it really rather rocked, considering how quirky it is. I remember seeing them do Talent is an Asset on Midnight Special and wondering what the hell these guys...

Wow. I'm not at all surprised that Wilson and the offense looked that good, but I'm totally surprised that they shut down Brees and the Saints' offense so completely. Where was Pierre Thomas? And...

Wow. Crimson much? I'd never heard of these guys, but I was having sort of a Rush / Xanadu moment at several points during the intro. Well, further evidence that is was still the '60s in 1970.

Colin Moulding. Maybe not the best all-around bass player, but my favorite. Melodic, unpredictable, and can put a total WTH? part into a perfectly normal song, and not make you pay attention to it...

Man - that new stadium is designed to be a TV-watching experience. I mean, sure, they play the game there too, but everybody it watching it on TV. Weird.

Wow. Being that so many NFL journalists had the Patriots picked for the Super Bowl, and the Jets tagged for being a helpless, season-long disaster, it was only a 3-point game? Belichick, Brady +...

I've always been on the fence about this one, and I can't really explain why. Which means it's time to break it out for another listen. I had the English language version first, and sold it too...

>>>Amazing that such an outspoken Christian would demonstrate such misplaced pride<<<

Maybe it's just not what he wants to do.

Interesting weekend. Discussion points for me would include:

Everyone who had the Seahawks making a run for it all this year was raving about what a fast and serious defense they had; Carolina...

Hey! Change of subject: Are we going to have a PE Yahoo Pick 'em league this year? I haven't seen anything about it. Who organized that last year?

Gawdang. Sell-out, not sell-out. Everybody is pretty holy around here. What do you do for a living that is so artistically superior that you can condescend to how these guys made their money?

I kind of don't see it happening, because at the end Steve's voice was really showing the effects of all the touring. I can't imagine that after twenty years off his voice would stand up to the kind...

I don't know if that's a good example - The whole song is just I - b7 - IV - I , with a V - I chorus. It really doesn't get more common than that, even in pop music.

I think there's really a...

Back to the original question, you didn't give an example of what you consider to be a "repetitive chorus". Whenever there's a pop music syndrome to be cited, I usually refer back to the Beatles,...

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I used to think it was "wrapped up like a douche", but it's really "revved up like a Deuce" - like a Deuce coupe, I assume.

There are my Steve Miller Favorites: "Big Ol' Jed Had a Lineup",...

The string tension should hold in in place. I don't have the sliding problem. I'm not a manic string bender, though, and I use .010s on top - not sure if someone playing with .008s with more...

I'd clean out the slot and then not use glue with the next one. It's easier to shape the nut in, because you don't need to account for any of the differences the glue will cause, and also it keeps...

Big fan of Sports here, even though I don't really ever pull it out and listen to it.

Sports was a really weird album. I was in a college party band, playing keggers and frat parties when it...

Very cool. I'd say Flower Lillies + Puccini + .5(Queen) + Weill. Ish. Or something like that. Definitely different than most things. Way cool. Based on the first sample. I'll move on the the...

Yes, but - especially in rock and pop - people burn their voices out on tour. Some crash and burn, some survive, and some come out the other end of the tunnel still rocking it.

Agreed, and yet...

I'd always heard the joke as 'Tugboat Annie'. Great debut and great singer, though - the greatest. I don't care about her figure.

I was just having this conversation the other night, and I have to say I can't believe how well Sammy Hagar's voice has held up, especially considering the relentless touring schedule he's had in his...

I bought this just to see what was up; it was pretty much another document of what happened to formative progressive musicians when they were manhandled by the labels in the 80s, and was I pretty...

I just love Shatner's late-career attitude.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OURiyZ5quw0

Wow. I'm still back at the original post. That's really something. Cheezier than hell, but on the other hand, they sure can sing in tune, those two.

But on yet the other hand, the part where...

I remember when the LP with Love and Affection came out, there was actually a promotional film trailer of the song that they played at the "art" movie houses (a really great clip - I haven't been...

Actually, I believe that bit in Tank is just a snare roll with some tape flange on it.

The synthesized drum thing was sort of impractical the way it started out with ELP - having a bunch of zoo...

I got to thinking about Mark Craney today: I remember reading his website when he was still alive and hoping he'd get a kidney match and - well - be fixed. But I got all nostalgic and dug up this...

Awesome! This is more like something I was hoping for. But that's got to be right. The clarinet preset is totally the sound of the single-note stuff that Banks is playing at the beginning,...