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Post by Trexx on Jun 18, 2010 16:51:32 GMT -5
Glorious weather. 72 degrees, slight breeze from the West. scattered lil' clouds.
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Post by Trexx on Jun 18, 2010 15:42:31 GMT -5
Not to take away from Johnny, but also, how's his brother Edgar doing? Thanks Kim Dunno. I do know not to expect a healthy tan though. I'm an Edgar Winter fan. Terrific, BIG sound and plenty of fancy guitar pickin'
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Post by Trexx on Jun 18, 2010 15:19:50 GMT -5
I love that crazy muther f'ers music.
Shredd-O-Rama!
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Post by Trexx on Jun 18, 2010 13:58:21 GMT -5
Aww to hell with 'em all, I see pooldude from time to time over at Sludge, someone will ask about him & he'll put his cape on & fly in to save the day... Too funny! HAAA!
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Post by Trexx on Jun 18, 2010 13:54:25 GMT -5
Going back to the query...
There's plenty of cowboys and jarheads in my area. The rockers are easy to spot. "Black tee shirts and no cowboy hats!" It seems that whenever a jukebox hijacking is underway at the local watering hole by the shit-kickers, there's always a Metal-Rivit-Head to step up and break the fillibuster. ....makes me soooo proud. It's really cool how we, rockers relate to one another and assert our influence and possibly risk bodily harm to put on Y&T or Monster Magnet to clear the air. Of interesting note: The common ground is "Hard Country". That genre with Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard that get the nod, equally. The Motherlode (N. California foothills on West side of the Sierra Nevada range) has a interesting mix of folks and has a culture all it's own.
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Post by Trexx on Jun 18, 2010 13:45:26 GMT -5
Speedy is off his rocker though. Around here the Amish listen to electronica and techno. Here are some Amish at one of our gigs. NO LIE, all those kids are Amish. HOLY FUCK! ...no shit?!?!?
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Post by Trexx on Jun 18, 2010 13:37:33 GMT -5
Thanks for fueling my YouTube addiction. AHhhhhhhhh! Ooohhh...
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Post by Trexx on Jun 18, 2010 13:35:32 GMT -5
Olfactory fatigue saves the day again! Whew.
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Post by Trexx on Jun 18, 2010 13:34:14 GMT -5
Can we smoke medical marijuana in here?
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Post by Trexx on Jun 18, 2010 13:24:12 GMT -5
I've seen it all. ...and MORE, especially in relation to Ricki and Sandi. Shenanegans galore! It's all perfectly normal, perfectly natural because it's always about the ROCK and the cool folks that LOVE it. The un-cool never last.
From the longevity that has produced many twists and turns the ride has been fun and at times terrifying! HAAA!
I saw right through the Sandi croaking thing because of my highly tuned Bullshit Detector from Ronco.
My worst memory continues to be Kim's snowcone machine incident. Wow. I'm just glad HE's still with us.
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Post by Trexx on Jun 16, 2010 13:02:03 GMT -5
That made me dizzy. Whew!
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Post by Trexx on Jun 16, 2010 12:55:08 GMT -5
Give him credit for trying something, since he doesn't own a voice anymore!!! Cold, just cold.
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Post by Trexx on Jun 16, 2010 12:27:56 GMT -5
A Tale About the Scorpions
My friends and I, (circ. 1980s) their friends and friends of their friends...and so on made the Scorpions the huge band they are today! When I started to get keen on rock’n roll in my high school days my friends and I would go to Tower Records and browse the offerings. There weren’t any listening booths. There was no way to preview (listen) before you bought anything. We weren’t rolling in dough either so our choices had to be educated in some way. We traded home made tapes and talked to each other about what was cool or what would make our parents cringe. And another way to find out about kick ass music was to hang out at Tower Records when the cool rock’n rollers were on their shift. There was this one certain dude, the resident rock’n roller that had been noticing my purchases over the months. We had a rapport. I’ll never forget when he mentioned the Scorpions and their brand new album “BlackOut”. He went on about how the Scorps had been trying to make it big in the USA. They’ve already a long line of successes in Europe, Japan and everywhere except the USA and the BlackOut album was their final attempt to make it in America and they NEEDED our help. He put that on the store stereo and when that glass broke I was sold. I’d been a little familiar with the Scorps music (Ulrich Roth era) but that BlackOut album was truly a special dose of what my rocker friends and I craved. We ate it up. We made many, many tapes to give away and turn folks onto the Scorpions. From that point on the Scorpions have been nailing the soundtrack of my life and my friend’s lives to a tee. ...and Yes. Even the “Winds of Change” song is embraced here. I was working for a Metropolitan Daily Newspaper as a young buck when the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Socialist Army did not open fire upon the revolutionaries at the Kremlin. My coworkers, my peers on the job (all older than me) were emotionally moved and astounded by the history that we were reporting to everybody via the newspaper. Then that song came out and put the events to music. ...and it was the Scorpions! OUR band! Our lakeside, boombox ammo that blared at us while we windsurfed Folsom & Natomas lakes, penned an anthem for all time, denoting the fact that we may NOT actually have to fry in an all out thermonuclear war. The Scorpions weren’t even near done... they cranked out more and more high quality rock’n roll for us to enjoy and get all fired up for. It’s true, they’d had a stinker or two, but the band kept working and touring. I love their music a lot. I’m proud to be a fan for the better part of 30 YEARS! Their final tour is the completion of a full circle that I’ve been a part of. They are PROFESSIONAL ROCK’N ROLLERS. ...newbies, take notes!
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Post by Trexx on Jun 15, 2010 16:36:11 GMT -5
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Post by Trexx on Jun 15, 2010 16:30:09 GMT -5
The last I heard of a Whitesnake wine was actually 20 years ago exactly on today's date(June 15th,1990)!! It was in Toronto,ON where Kiss opened for Whitesnake at CNE Stadium. At the last minute Whitesnake refused to let Kiss use any type of their stage production or pyro. Paul Stanley appologized to the fans because they were not allowed to use any special effects or any pyro but that they were going to put on a Kick Ass Rock & Roll show. Coverdale walked out to the side of the stage & flipped Paul off causing the crowd to boo him. Whitesnake took the stage & Coverdale started whining(See I mentioned there was a Wine involved!!!)about Kiss & putting them down. That was a bad mistake & the crowd began booing him very loud & many people started walking out at that point. Oh-Meee-GAWD! HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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Post by Trexx on Jun 15, 2010 16:27:54 GMT -5
Sandy never brought us beverages or took out the trash, but she smelled nice. (usually)... HAAA! I miss her.
...those other dudes are sissies.
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Post by Trexx on Jun 15, 2010 16:16:00 GMT -5
Yeah. I take back half the bad shit I've said about 'cha, Bucky.
He, he, he...
Thanks to Bucky I'm aware of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band and it's connection to the Michael Schenker Group through Chris Glenn and all sorts of other cool, ear opening music!
Cool. Yes!
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Post by Trexx on Jun 15, 2010 16:07:54 GMT -5
LOVE IT. My girl and my buds are going to two Northern California shows! Concord, California: Concord Pavillion (August 1st) Sacramento, California: River Rat Stadium (August 8th) I've attended 13 Scorpions shows since 1979. ...TOTALLY BITCHEN' !
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Post by Trexx on Jun 10, 2010 15:00:03 GMT -5
The oil business is definitey fucking things up royally.
Let's take stock in what Arabic culture has provided the world before religious thugs took over everything:
1) The Guitar 2) Whiskey 3) Belly Dancing 4) Coffee 5) Numbers 6) Mathmatics
Many, many fun things indeed.
Cause for a scratching of one's head, eh?
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Post by Trexx on Jun 9, 2010 16:18:04 GMT -5
Yeah. Cool!
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