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#1051 Re: The Garden » Morons of the Millenium » 912 weeks ago
Two Rocket Scientists where I live tattooed a radio station logo on their foreheads a couple years ago. That was a pretty fun story
Here's their part of the story
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1024078906088
You read that and sorta feel sorry for them, but...
The really funny thing is, that their claims were bullshit and the radio station had tapes that proved it.
http://www.wqad.com/global/story.asp?s= … =Printable
A buddy of mine works for that radio station and told me he talked to the tattoo guy. He told him that he spent at least 10 minutes trying to talk these guys out of it before he did the ink.
The funniest part of the whole story, that radio station changed formats about 6 months later.
Edit- and if you look here http://www.kconline.com/deckers/0303.html#03033 about 2/3 of the way down the page you see a picture of them
#1052 Re: The Garden » How Did You Derive Your User Name? » 912 weeks ago
I am much less Spanish/Mexican than my username implies.
#1053 Re: The Sunset Strip » Jessica Simpson Going Country On New Album » 912 weeks ago
Jameslofton wrote:She knows her career has officially hit rock bottom. She's gonna try and be the next Shania Twain while a few people still care.
I cannot imagine her having a country hit. It will flat out amaze me if it happens.
I don't know, is it any different than Carrie Underwood, or any other in the line of smoking hot chicks who hire songwriters and musicians to make it happen.
Pop Country is currently almost exactly like the genre that Jessica Simpson originally came up in. I think the only issue she would have (getting a hit, not making a good album) is if Nashville doesn't want her to come in after after already getting notoriety somewhere else. I think a lot of that industry is against outsiders.
#1054 Re: The Sunset Strip » Time to give props to Diamond Dave » 912 weeks ago
It would be cool, but I really don't see Vai being into it. He's carved out a pretty good niche just putting out albums that make guitar players want to put down their guitars for a long time. I can't see him wanting to go back with Roth unless it was guarunteed to be a lot of money, fun, and he would have a measure of control. Which I wouldn't see Roth being willing to give up to anyone not named Van Halen.
#1055 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Next Chapter or the Grand Finale? » 912 weeks ago
I think a little bit of both (hate to take the easy road
). If it comes out I don't think it will be Axl or GnR's last album, but i do think all future GnR releases will have less impact on the days music scene. Rock is in the gutter, so on one hand alot of people are looking forward to it. But at the same time, it's not going to be some 50 year old rocker which will be the savior either. So the future GnR releases will not be as highly anticipated (unless it's a reunion album with the old band, but that will be more for novelty purposes, not so much for the music).
CD will not explode & be the AFD for this new band, but I don't think it will be the only album either. Most likely as Neemo said, another album or two will be due. And likely the songs are already recorded, will just be released a year or two later, with maybe a few new songs written & recorded & added in.
But I think this band is not going to be "GnR" for more than 3-4 years after CD is released. So in a way, it'll be the beginning of the end for its existance.
I'm taking the easy road and not answering the question either, but...
I think what it will be all depends on what Axl expects out of it. The question is- Has Axl surrounded himself with enough yes-men for long enough that he believes a 50 year old rocker can be the savior? If he has, then if CD comes out and does what a lot of us expect it to do commercially, he won't do anything but another Greatest Hits, and another live album to fill his contract.
If he has realistic expectations (something about typing that made me laugh) he could do pretty much whatever he wants, which would be easier if all this rumoured material is in the can already.
#1056 Re: Guns N' Roses » Questions » 913 weeks ago
dude... if you're going to compare GnR to Poison, you clearly haven't seen them live.
I agree with what he's saying, but Poison was a bad choice of bands to reference.
I would make the same point, but substitute Dream Theater or some other prog band instead of Poison.
#1057 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » SLASH To Guest On VASCO ROSSI's New Album - Dec. 14, 2007 » 914 weeks ago
"Disco Volante" is the name of a Mr. Bungle album.
Not that that means anything, I just thought I'd throw it out there, I guess.
#1058 The Sunset Strip » Steve Albini- The problem with music » 915 weeks ago
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Since the fucked-up-ed-ness of the music indurstry has been a fairly major topic of discussion around here lately, I thought I should put up this from Steve Albini:
http://negativland.com/albini.html
Really cool read, and if you don't know who Steve Albini is, you can look on the wiki, to see a list of the albums he's engineered
#1059 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2007-08 Season thread » 915 weeks ago
Yeah really especially Cleveland, it'd be one hell of a shootout on offense, but the Pats defense is enough better than the Browns that that would be a huge difference maker there.
I would totally agree that they'd rather see the Chargers than the Jags though.
#1060 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 915 weeks ago
PS2 Still Most Popular Console
Other systems aren't being played as much as Sony's seven-year-old beast.
by Daemon HatfieldDecember 12, 2007 - The Nielsen Company has released several top ten lists for 2007 that reveal a variety of consumer trends related to media and technology. Among them is Videogame Console Usage from April to November that shows the PlayStation 2 is still enjoying the most use among consoles.
Nielsen measured the total amount of minutes its participants spent playing videogames, then divided those minutes between all current- and last-gen consoles. The PS2 obliterated the competition, claiming over 42 percent of all usage time. For each of the big three platforms, their last-gen predecessors saw more use than current systems. Here's how each console ranked:
Videogame Console Usage (April-November 2007)
1. PS2 - 42.2% of usage minutes
2. Xbox - 13.9
3. Xbox 360 - 11.8
4. GameCube - 7.1
5. Wii - 5.5
6. PS3 - 2.5
7. Other - 17.1"Other" consists of any other console found in the home.
The data suggests that while the Wii has seen brisk sales this year, many of its purchasers don't play the console as often as those who bought a 360. It is also interesting to note the "other" category saw more use than the PS3, Wii, and GameCube combined.
Nielsen also revealed that Fresh Bread was the most popular consumer packaged good in 2007.
My theory on that is that it makes sense for the same reason I got a PS2 instead of an Xbox years ago. You seem to be able to get more games for cheaper with the PS2. So rather than playing the two or three games you've bought for the new system, people are playing from the pile of $20 PS2 games they've amassed over the years.
