No doubt, eh?!
It was 4:20 here not long ago. 🙂
One toke over the line is one of my faves.
"Truth" was the second LP I bought with my own money as a kid. (The first was Jethro Tull's "Stand Up.") Still got 'em!
-- Jim
Cheers eh! For me it's Selling England By the Pound in 5.1 on DVD-A. The beginning (and ending) of "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" is so freaking awesome in surround sound. It's like you're sitting in the middle of a giant cave full of sleeping dragons, and that one over there is snoring. 😛
-- Jim
I still have the same copy that I brought along on my first journey into the zone, and it too is still playable, but I usually play the digital copy of the CD that lives inside my computer.
The original Stand Up records do exactly that. They have a pop up silhouette of the band that jumps up at you when the jacket is opened. Amusing fun when in the zone.
I was totally into quadrophonic sound when it arrived in 1971.......I don't even have a surround sound system today. Maybe it's about time? Selling England and Trick of the Tail and all the early Genesis were my favorite records in the early 70's. Never got to see them in concert though.
The first vinyl I ever got was a 45 RPM single that came free with the purchase of a large bag of Fritos. It was "Every Day I Have to Cry" by Steve Alaimo in 1963. After resurrecting a dead record player to play it, I bought a few of the early Beatles singles with my own money.
Heard "She Loves You" when I was in Kindergarden. Every Christmas and every birthday until they broke up I got Beatles records. A fan to this day. As in love with John Lennon as any hetero boy could be. Have never listened to them under any influence, so this is off topic. I guess I could say "Sure wish I could hear "Blue Jay Way" whilst impaired. Never saw them live.
Yup, my Stand Up has the stand-up. It also has my name written on the back, in my mom's handwriting! When she heard I was taking it to my 8th-grade graduation party, she wanted to make sure I got it back - after all, it was my one and only album at the time, hee! Stuff like this is the reason I can't even think of getting rid of my vinyl collection, even though I hardly ever listen to it anymore either. Too many memories...
I never owned a quad system back in the day, but I listened to a lot of it at the local stereo shops (I'm sure I was quite a little pest to those guys). I remember some of the old mixes pretty distinctly, like Edgar Winter's They Only Come Out At Night and Jeff Beck's Rough and Ready. Nowadays there is a DTS-Audio CD version of Edgar's Jasmine Nightdreams that I'm sure is just the old quad mix - there's nothing coming out of the center or LFE channels. Compared to the modern stuff, this mix is also kinda cheesy - Rick Derringer in one rear speaker, Johnny Winter in the other, that sort of thing. I remember some of the other ones back in the 70s being kind of gimmicky too.
To me, the new 5.1 remixes are much better done for the most part. More atmospheric, less instruments bouncing here and there. And clearer sound of course - Steve Wilson's Close to the Edge for example is a revelation. Ever since that record first came out, I've always had to grit my teeth a bit to get through the organ part in the middle section. Wonderful music, but it always sounded so grainy and distorted to me on vinyl. CD was better, but still sort of tinny. But now! "I Get Up I Get Down" takes you right to that Place, among the little water drips over here, and synths contentedly croaking back there, and there's Jon Anderson singing along beautifully in the center channel... and then that ORGAN just materializes right in the middle of this huge space! And it's not some scratchy tinny recording of an organ anymore - I don't know how he did it, but all I can say is I've been waiting 40 years to hear it like this. Good God Almighty.
<ahem> But anyway, yeah, you might enjoy it. 🙂
-- Jim
Is there a substance that makes it possible to listen to Nickelback for more than 10 seconds?
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The nicer chicks went to discos, and for the same reasons 😉.
Thanks for that....that Devo clip is gold and one of my fav tracks outright.
They played an outdoor show here a couple of years back.
The show was everything I expected and a really cool bonus was being able to buy a cd of that concert 30 mins after the show.
This might give you a laugh if you can stand late 70's punk stuff - YouTube - RAZAR : Stamp Out Disco...the title says it all.
These guys were a local band back in my day.....much more fun than discos 😉.
Dan.
"I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback." - Brian Posehn.
I understand. Mostly I don't enjoy it, but occasionally it redeems itself. That seems to be hard for the stoners to understand - they are sooo in love with weed they can't imagine someone would not like its effects. The whole cannabis culture is "overblown", IMO. But that's just because I don't dig it.
This is excellent!! Love that guitar tone - sounds he plugged his amp into a 220V outlet! Perfect.
-- Jim
When I was young and dumb , and nothing too constructive was going
on in my mind - I LOVED the weed high.
20 years later , with more sophistication of thought , not only does getting
high reduce effectiveness ..... but a grave feeling of guilt arises.
Giving good advice - being a good example for family/business brings
about this feeling.
Up in the park (nature) , I'll smoke one and hug a tree , catch a fish ,
see some new species - no guilt or paranoia there.
20 years makes a world of difference. 😕
OS
on in my mind - I LOVED the weed high.
20 years later , with more sophistication of thought , not only does getting
high reduce effectiveness ..... but a grave feeling of guilt arises.
Giving good advice - being a good example for family/business brings
about this feeling.
Up in the park (nature) , I'll smoke one and hug a tree , catch a fish ,
see some new species - no guilt or paranoia there.
20 years makes a world of difference. 😕
OS
Roofies?
I still have my Island version of Stand Up. I played in a band that covered most of the songs from it, but our favorite to play was always Nothing is Easy. I have a kid (by which I mean "He's 30") working for me who plays drums part time in some local bands. One day in the lab, he said something to the effect that he can get any song down in 20 minutes. One of the other old guys in the lab gave me a look and a smile, then cued up Nothing is Easy (we have music going most of the day in there). The kid listened quietly and when the song ended, he merely said, "That would take me more than 20 minutes."
That would mean a couple of hundred people in that study claimed to be smoking cannabis without tobacco mixed in when in reality they were complete non-smokers.
The study in question had just under 10 000 participants.
Some years ago here in the UK they downgraded cannabis from a class b to a class c drug. That is same as anabolic steroids and carries a maximum penalty of confiscation plus may be a nominal fine.
The House of Lords set up a committee which determined that that was the right thing to do given all research available and only stopped very short of recommending legalisation (during that time the number of people hospitalised with mental problems actually went down which they attributed directly to the declassification!). Unfortunately then PM Gordon Brown buckled under the pressure from the right-wing Murdoch press and re-classified it to B without any evidence. The original declassification happened due to pressure from various chiefs of police who wanted to focus their attentions on cocaine and heroin rather than having to deal with practically harmless weed. During that time street prices for coke went up while weed prices went down. May be thats why the newspapers were down on it since it is well known that the whole media industry runs on cocaine.
May be I should try that. My Thorens came with 7" adapter machined from solid aluminium.
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