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#201
Pano said:
I guess I didn't know Disco was Disco. It was all pop music to me. I enjoyed it in the clubs, it was truly a great time to go clubbing. We had so much fun with the goofy clothes and all the dancing. I do remember waiting until late (about 4AM) when they would play what is now called New Wave. That was even more fun...
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I've probably been a bit more morose than necessary on this topic; if you had fun that's all that matters of course. As for me, a few years later I knew everything was gonna be OK again as soon as these guys showed up!

-- Jim
 
#202
badman said:
Philosophically, live and let live. Practically, there's no reason to smoke it, with other delivery methods available absent the carcinogens.
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Spliffs are only carcinogenic due to the tobacco usually mixed with it.
THC itself has been shown to stop the growth of cancer cells and some years ago one huge study has shown no link between smoking pure cannabis and lung cancer. People who smoked weed pure were no more likely to develop cancer than people who never smoked anything at all.
 
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I am a bit skeptical of the smoking pot does not cause cancer studies. Weed has been illegal for so long that many people will not admit to smoking it. Could this throw off the statistics? I hope for my sake these studies are correct.....
 
#204
I figure worrying about cancer will give you cancer quicker than smoking pot.

Regarding carcinogens; pretty-much anything you burn and inhale is going to be bad for you, but much worse if it has had all kinds of chemicals sprayed on it first.

Tobacco only started to really cause people health problems when it became "an industry". Coincidence? I think not.

That's why I am skeptical about the "big pot" industry that is starting to take over. If they are going to legalize it, then just tell me I can grow it myself for personal use, just like I do my tomatoes and carrots.

I don't need no stinkin' industrial pot, thankyouverymuch.
 
#206
In "full disclosure" mode, I strongly dislike weed's effect on my brain. Introspective, self-loathing and paranoid is an amplification of my natural state, which did not occur with psychedelics. It was the enjoyment of music while under the influence that kept me coming back to a substance that was very detrimental to my well-being. I have known many people that did not have that reaction to it. Two friends have died from alcohol. Much damage and near death from alcohol. No such situation with weed.
Back to music, Devo is fun. Saw them live, of course. "Think I'm only a spud boy, looking for that real fresh tomato."
 
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I have a habit of posing one of my "old age tests" at gatherings of people who don't know me, and are usually younger than me. I did this a lot when I started college at age 37 or changed jobs within Motorola.

I would reach into my pocket and take out one of those yellow plastic inserts that you pop into a 45 RPM single so that you can play it on a standard turntable, place it on the table, and ask "what is this". Apparently some current female pop star now wears a chrome plated one on a chain around her neck. The younger crowd thinks it's some type of symbol. People younger than 40 usually have no clue what it actually is. I have also used a vacuum tube, a phono cartridge, or in technical circles, a schematic of an old HP audio oscillator. One guy figured it out when he saw the 1958 copyright date.

I am going to try something different here.

Name a Beatlesesque pop music group with local Australian success in 1965 and a dozen or so worldwide hit songs on the charts from 1967 to 1972. They were all over pop and "hippie" radio here in the US with songs like "New York Mining Disaster 1941", "To Love Somebody" , "I've Gotta Get a Message to You", and "Words".

Yes, these were the Bee Gees before they went to the dark side. Few people remember.....except the stoners who listened to the radio in the late 60's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps-Qq7ucMA0
 
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Found this while digging up old memories that made their way to Youtube.

My father and I never did see eye to eye, and one day I had my radio cranked on the University of Miami's radio station (which barely reached our house) when they played the Grateful Dead's song Casey Jones....

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

After having a fit on me, then when I told him it wasn't a record or a tape of mine, it was radio, he had a fit on the radio station. I imagine they all got a good laugh.

My father was strongly anti drug, since he had been to all the "drug awareness training" that the US federal government could supply because he was the supervisor over all the air traffic controllers on shift at the Miami airport. Stoners could kill lots of people.

Imagine my surprise when he was sitting in front of the TV somewhere into his second six-pack of the evening watching Lawrence Welk when I heard this come out of the TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE

Obviously Lawrence Welk had no clue, and neither did my father, or the TV might have lost it's life!

It's a Brewer and Shipley song from the late 60's. Didn't see much radio play in conservative 60's Florida.
 
#211
Charles Darwin said:
Spliffs are only carcinogenic due to the tobacco usually mixed with it.
THC itself has been shown to stop the growth of cancer cells and some years ago one huge study has shown no link between smoking pure cannabis and lung cancer. People who smoked weed pure were no more likely to develop cancer than people who never smoked anything at all.
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Maybe.

There are so many people with axes to grind on this subject, it is one of the few areas of 'science' where there is more open dispute than audio. It's hard to come to a hard-and-fast conclusion.
 
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tubelab.com said:
Yes, these were the Bee Gees before they went to the dark side. Few people remember.....except the stoners who listened to the radio in the late 60's.
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Sure, I loved all those pre-D Bee Gees tunes. Elton John too. Just picked up Goodbye Yellow Brick Road on Blu-Ray. (They sure got my number with all these 5.1 remixes. 🙄 )

First Rod Stewart I ever heard was that mind-bending cover of "Shapes of Things" with Jeff Beck. It was really discouraging for me to see him go from that to "If ya want my body, and ya think I'm sexy..." Come on, man.

I'm just grateful Jeff didn't follow him down that road... 😱

-- Jim
 
#218
tubelab.com said:
...Imagine my surprise when he was sitting in front of the TV somewhere into his second six-pack of the evening watching Lawrence Welk when I heard this come out of the TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE
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Holy CRAP, dude!

I spent a LOT of hours watching old Lawrence reruns with Mom at the nursing home, but this one obviously never made the cut for Public TV syndication!

How could this have happened? Maybe they thought "toke" was short for "token," like some kind of train ticket slang or something? Or maybe they knew exactly what it meant, and they were just rolling with it, so to speak? (That one sure doesn't seem likely, though.)

Anyway, thanks man. That made my day.

-- Jim
 
#220
I just discovered those old Bee Gees tunes recently. My wife and I were shocked at how Beatles-like the music was.

By telling you all this I am showing my age a bit, so I might as well just go ahead and admit that I am only 45. I missed out on the 60's and spent a number of years in my twenties and some of my thirties wishing I had been born 15 years earlier.

Anyway, I know exactly what those 45 adapters are for, and so do my daughters. 🙂

I just had a memory of a time when I was a kid. One of those yellow adapters lived in my LEGO box for a long, long time.
 
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