Just for fun...

[Chargeride]

Down in South Liverpool taking the parental unit for a check up.
Never been here before and Ive just realised this is Penny Lane.
Every type of human is here, lots of dark skinned Andrew Tates surprisingly .

 

[Chargeride]

 

[PedalUma]

Recall that song about Jenny? 86-75-309. I do not have recording equipment. I wish someone such as @Catalyzt would over-dub 86-47...

 

[Catalyzt]

B-52's are from Athens GA (same as R.E.M). There was a disco down there with a TV screen showing random content. One of the scenes showed a lobster preparation for food. Schneider (a vegetarian) said 'A disco lobster? Let's make Rock Lobster!'

The guitar work of Ricky Wilson is one in a kind!

Two favorite songs:

Ha! Stefan a B52s fan?! Outstanding! One very odd thing a friend of mine and I noticed purely by accident: Rock Lobster sounds almost the same at 45 RPM vs. 33 and 1/3. The next morning, we cued up the album again, convinced that this idea was an artifact of... little pieces of paper we had chewed the night before. Strangely, while the similarity between the double-speed and the normal-speed version was not quite so pronounced, we could still hear it. I think it's just such an unusual song that the timbre of the instruments is more important than the tempo or pitch, but I cannot really explain this.

Roll it over in your mind

The kiddie Steinway hook is classic

The main reason I went to see them so many times was not just the music, it was the crowd and the venues. They played a lot of small clubs in New England, where you could jam on the dance floor right at the edge of the stage. Every show was a huge party. We'd see people we'd met at the last show. I'd be wiped and soaked through with sweat on the way home.

Athens is also home to one of the best nighttime criteriums in the US, the Athens Twilight Criterium.

They did, indeed, but also some medium-sized ones. One of my favorites was U Mass at Amherst in '78 or '79 on a double bill with The Talking Heads. Amazing show, and great vibe. That might have been the first time I heard the B52s. The Talking Heads I had already enjoyed on the album, but were staggeringly good live.

Athens was an underground highly curated college radio incubator.

Dick Dale used extra thick stings to make his near east-sounds extra-tight. @Catalyzt can explain more as a suffer and guitarist. The Zoroastrian music flow follows deep with natural patterns. These tap and reflect natural patterns. That is why it is moving. Waves. Surfing.

My friend just made the call to move the First Friday group ride from July, 4th to the 11th because of Independence day. I asked him if he thought of the implications of that on things such as clocks and cosmologically; it could really mess up the moon and tides.

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The whole string tension issue is extremely complicated; for Dale, I think, that rapid double-stroke strumming would require it. As I shift to lighter string due to osteoarthritis, I find that I have to switch to lighter picks as well. In terms of the tonal quality, the physics of it is somehow that both the tone is more pure and the intonation is better at higher string tension, but that is a pretty exotic subject. It is the theory behind fanned-fret guitars, where you get higher string tension by a longer scale length rather than thicker string; my own impression is that yeah, if the scale is longer even by a half inch or an inch, the increased string tension does seem to make a difference, but it's ephemeral; I could be imagining it. It's a hotly debate issue.


I have heard rumors that Dale was not only a pain in the ass with record labels, but also to musicians he worked with-- very difficult, beyond uncompromising, just kind of mean, but they are only rumors. I did see him once at a small to medium-sized club-- I can't remember where, could have been the Troubador or even the Viper room-- sometime in the late '90s or early 2000s, and I was struck by how psychedelic he and his band sounded. I hadn't expected it; it was much more like a Hendrix power-trio kind of experience than I remembered, and I hadn't expected it to be so fast and high energy, either. Quite astounding.

I went to see this band in the 90s, I miss this adherence to iconic style in music thesedays.
The had a few good hits when skinny arms and cheesy videos were no barrier to success.

I was so down on this band for decades; I didn't get the genre, I thought it was really throwback and commercial.

That all changed this year, when I started jamming with a cover band that does Stray Cat Strut-- and another guitarist who can cover the hooks. For me, I still don't like to listen to the song that much-- though I like it much more than I used to-- but it's a marvel to play, just a ton of fun. The changes are much more interesting than they sound; it's kind of like a Beatles song in that respect: It seems really easy until you actually try to cover it, and then you're like, "What is a C sharp minor doing there?! That shouldn't work, but it sounds great!" Unlike many Beatles songs, however, you actually can figure them out, and the inversions of the chords are not too bizarre.

 

[Roamers]

Rock Lobster

Sorry, couldn't resist. 3.5 #er last night for dinner. Back to music.

 

[DaveMatthews]

Recall that song about Jenny? 86-75-309. I do not have recording equipment. I wish someone such as @Catalyzt would over-dub 86-47...

86-47 "We don't mind"

Donny, Donny, who can you turn to?
You give us problems we can hold you to
I know you think you’re stronger than you were before
But you can scratch your number on the jail cell wall

Donny, we got your number
We mean to make you cry
Donny, can't change your number

86-47 We don’t mind

 

[PedalUma]

86-47 "We don't mind"

Donny, Donny, who can you turn to?
You give us problems we can hold you to
I know you think you’re stronger than you were before
But you can scratch your number on the jail cell wall

Donny, we got your number
We mean to make you cry
Donny, can't change your number

86-47 We don’t mind

Brilliant beyond my pay-grade!!! @DaveMatthews you nailed it; so creative. We need to rehearse a group with megaphones with the karaoke backing track!

 

[PedalUma]

I was at an outdoor café, overlooking boats and water, with an amazing cheese plate, outstanding, with fruit, wheat sourdough with seeds, and cold gazpacho, when I spotted 86-year-old Jenny. She always is friendly and always forgets my name, when this impetus came to mind. And Dave creatively solidified this amorphous initial general concept. Now it will take off. The cat cannot go back in the sack.

 

[Roamers]

 

[DaveMatthews]

Squeak squeak squeak...

 

[PedalUma]

 

[Stefan Mikes]

The Talking Heads I had already enjoyed on the album, but were staggeringly good live.

Let me tell you all a story how the life looked like behind the Iron Curtain.

The American music was almost totally banned from the Poland's media by 1980s; British music was better seen by the media and censorship. The media outlet where you could listen to the Western music was the Polish Radio III (the only FM broadcasting station in the country). Home taping was the norm.

On April Fools 1978, a PR III radio DJ broadcast a single programme of the era presenting PUNK (Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Stranglers). That broadcast was listened by many young people in Poland, was home taped, and inspired some people.

The PUNK movement exploded in Warsaw in Autumn 1978. The REMONT student club in Warsaw organised a ‘Sound Club’ playing PUNK & New Wave, which led to the formation of the seminal band Kryzys (I was their first fan). 1979 can be the best described by the lyrics of the Generation X song 'One Hundred Punks'. We young punk-rockers were listening to the new music at homes of those who owned the albums and singles, or at parties. More bands were formed, so we could attend their gigs, too.

At the very end of 1970s, a record exchange was opened in Warsaw's Hybrydy student club. I got a Blondie album (Parallel Lines) from my aunt living in England. I traded that LP for another, then the next album for yet another (always paying a trader a sum for the exchange) and so on. The albums were then home taped. It was mostly the British music. Of the American bands, we could listen to (among others) the Ramones, Patti Smith, Television, Devo, Pere Ubu, Blondie, B-52s, The Modern Lovers and yes, Talking Heads.

My high school class had an excursion to a village by name Urle on the picturesque River Liwiec in late Spring of 1978. We lived on mattresses in a village school.

I recognize myself in this photo.

A PR III DJ had announced he would broadcast the Talking Heads "77" album on two following Thursdays. A classmate owned a battery powered combo of a turntable, a cassette recorder and a radio. I went in an empty and dark school gym and enjoyed listening to the album's A side while my mate in Warsaw was home taping the broadcast. Magical days... (Later that year I with friends started illegally publishing one of the first Polish fanzines by name SZMATA (The Rag) but that's another story. I, friends and our families were soon oppressed by the system for doing that! Scans and copies of that fanzine still do exist).

 

[stompandgo]

YOWZA!!! Looks like a beautiful hardshell.

 

[Catalyzt]

Let me tell you all a story how the life looked like behind the Iron Curtain.

The American music was almost totally banned from the Poland's media by 1980s; British music was better seen by the media and censorship. The media outlet where you could listen to the Western music was the Polish Radio III (the only FM broadcasting station in the country). Home taping was the norm.

On April Fools 1978, a PR III radio DJ broadcast a single programme of the era presenting PUNK (Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Stranglers). That broadcast was listened by many young people in Poland, was home taped, and inspired some people.

The PUNK movement exploded in Warsaw in Autumn 1978. The REMONT student club in Warsaw organised a ‘Sound Club’ playing PUNK & New Wave, which led to the formation of the seminal band Kryzys (I was their first fan). 1979 can be the best described by the lyrics of the Generation X song 'One Hundred Punks'. We young punk-rockers were listening to the new music at homes of those who owned the albums and singles, or at parties. More bands were formed, so we could attend their gigs, too.

At the very end of 1970s, a record exchange was opened in Warsaw's Hybrydy student club. I got a Blondie album (Parallel Lines) from my aunt living in England. I traded that LP for another, then the next album for yet another (always paying a trader a sum for the exchange) and so on. The albums were then home taped. It was mostly the British music. Of the American bands, we could listen to (among others) the Ramones, Patti Smith, Television, Devo, Pere Ubu, Blondie, B-52s, The Modern Lovers and yes, Talking Heads.

My high school class had an excursion to a village by name Urle on the picturesque River Liwiec in late Spring of 1978. We lived on mattresses in a village school.

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I recognize myself in this photo.

A PR III DJ had announced he would broadcast the Talking Heads "77" album on two following Thursdays. A classmate owned a battery powered combo of a turntable, a cassette recorder and a radio. I went in an empty and dark school gym and enjoyed listening to the album's A side while my mate in Warsaw was home taping the broadcast. Magical days... (Later that year I with friends started illegally publishing one of the first Polish fanzines by name SZMATA (The Rag) but that's another story. I, friends and our families were soon oppressed by the system for doing that! Scans and copies of that fanzine still do exist).

This is fascinating-- and goes a long way towards explaining the record-trading phenomenon in Europe that folks in the US know very little about. In 2020, I was stunned when I was approached by a boutique US record label who wanted to master, release, and distribute vinyl copies of songs one of my bands recorded in the late 1970s! I was referred by another musician who'd been referred by someone else. "Yeah, I guess they trade records in Europe, that's the market. It's a cool label, but they won't release in the US at all."

I wondered how there was a market for trading records. This may explain it, at least partly: The records used to be banned, so an infrastructure developed; when the music was no longer banned, however, the infrastructure remained-- clubs, informal networks of small retail outlets, private individuals-- and then little labels cropped up to serve that market.

The whole thing was crazy. I was like, "What? You'll master and press 500 records for free?!" We went ahead with it; fortunately, I had ripped some cassette demos of masters to DAT tape in the late '90s so I had clean digital copies. (We found the 1/4 inch reel to reel masters, but they had degraded a lot by 2020, not usable.) They did an outstanding job on the masters; on vinyl, the songs sound WAY better than the original demo tapes, or even than albums by our friends' bands that were released on vinyl in the late 70s and early 80s! I wish this label had existed in '79, '80, or '81!

Thanks so much-- now THAT is what I'd call an underground music scene! Makes us look like posers here in the states!

 

[Chargeride]

Let me tell you all a story how the life looked like behind the Iron Curtain.

The American music was almost totally banned from the Poland's media by 1980s; British music was better seen by the media and censorship. The media outlet where you could listen to the Western music was the Polish Radio III (the only FM broadcasting station in the country). Home taping was the norm.

On April Fools 1978, a PR III radio DJ broadcast a single programme of the era presenting PUNK (Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Stranglers). That broadcast was listened by many young people in Poland, was home taped, and inspired some people.

The PUNK movement exploded in Warsaw in Autumn 1978. The REMONT student club in Warsaw organised a ‘Sound Club’ playing PUNK & New Wave, which led to the formation of the seminal band Kryzys (I was their first fan). 1979 can be the best described by the lyrics of the Generation X song 'One Hundred Punks'. We young punk-rockers were listening to the new music at homes of those who owned the albums and singles, or at parties. More bands were formed, so we could attend their gigs, too.

At the very end of 1970s, a record exchange was opened in Warsaw's Hybrydy student club. I got a Blondie album (Parallel Lines) from my aunt living in England. I traded that LP for another, then the next album for yet another (always paying a trader a sum for the exchange) and so on. The albums were then home taped. It was mostly the British music. Of the American bands, we could listen to (among others) the Ramones, Patti Smith, Television, Devo, Pere Ubu, Blondie, B-52s, The Modern Lovers and yes, Talking Heads.

My high school class had an excursion to a village by name Urle on the picturesque River Liwiec in late Spring of 1978. We lived on mattresses in a village school.

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I recognize myself in this photo.

A PR III DJ had announced he would broadcast the Talking Heads "77" album on two following Thursdays. A classmate owned a battery powered combo of a turntable, a cassette recorder and a radio. I went in an empty and dark school gym and enjoyed listening to the album's A side while my mate in Warsaw was home taping the broadcast. Magical days... (Later that year I with friends started illegally publishing one of the first Polish fanzines by name SZMATA (The Rag) but that's another story. I, friends and our families were soon oppressed by the system for doing that! Scans and copies of that fanzine still do exist).

Look at that cute teenage rebel, still tearing about now

 

[Chargeride]

London delivery rider delivers to stuck train, he should be in the England cricket team.

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[Chargeride]

 

[Chargeride]

When I put AI videos up on my projector, they sometimes just overpower your brain.

 

[PedalUma]

When I put AI videos up on my projector, they sometimes just overpower your brain.

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Is she related to this guy?

 

[PedalUma]

dentition

What if you blacked out one tooth and pushed out the ears?