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I listened to Motley Crue's "Shout At The Devil" album on CD, vinyl, & cassette once & they all sounded completely different even though they were the same arrangements note for note. It's like claiming that a studio recording & a live recording of the same material is identical. It's not. 

Shout at the devil!!!!!! Love it.

I still buy CD's too, probably will for the rest of my life. They're so cheap now, you can rack up on old albums. 

True that, cds are getting so much cheaper in recent years you can pick some up at times more easily then the old days.

A few were more expensive though like when I got the New Order "Substance" album.

I think regarding YouTube, since Prince passed away some of his video's are being blocked for some reason or are phony's for some reason. I noticed that too when I tried to watch a couple.

Prince fought Youtube for many years, however he officially threw the towel back in February. NPG restored the videos that were taken down, by Youtube users that filed complaints and asked for it to be brought back up. This was a big controversial thing back in February, where a bunch of those videos were brought back on Youtube, and the users got emails from NPG records representives (NPG is Prince's private label)

Once upon a time Prince used to be very very hardcore with this stuff. I have a friend on Youtube who does guitar videos, and he did videos of himself playing solos and riffs from Prince songs years ago, and he had a lawyer representing Warner Brothers come at him for using those songs in videos. That was about 5 years ago, that's the height of how bad they were over Prince stuff but rest easy, he threw in the towel and gave up 2 months ago. 

Those videos with the audio blocked are older ones before this year. 

Jules you wanna listen to some Prince albums? Here you go 

Okay there you go, thats the album with some songs I was looking for that had some up on youtube with no audio.

"Panic in Detroit" the title always reminded me of "Panic in the streets".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042832/

You just found an old film noir I haven't ever watched, and that's my favorite genre of old movies. 

Thats a very very famous old movie. I only seen bits and parts but the title is hugely famous.

And omg......your new background and avatar are........

Almost seems hard for me to believe with Liam but yeah it's true. I looked it up.

It's always interesting to see famous actors before they hit it big. You know, before Liam did "Schlinder's List" with Steven Spielberg. 

Jules, where did you find that cat with headphones on jamming out? It's awesome! 

Can't remember where right now but I have seen and saved so much cat stuff it's almost embarrassing.  

No need to apologize Jules or be ashamed of it. We all have our obsessions trust me. 

Remember, you're preaching to the choir here. SW1 has an affinity for cats myself. It's all good. 

I know that song by Alice in Chains. I know a ton of their music but I don't think I ever bought anything from them or got it. I admit they were a pretty talented band.

I think when most think of grunge they think "Nirvana" first and Kurt Cobain and probably because well.......yeah they were pretty freaking grungy lol and Kurt died giving him the legend status and all that crap at 27. And granted Nirvana wasn't really all that smooth in sound a lot and was a product of studio production.......they did click hardcore as a band for the short time they had together. They had chemistry. 

Some of the early Manson stuff is also grunge in a way you once told me and you can hear it on Portrait which ironically is still my favorite album of theirs due to cake and sodomy LOL.

At least Manson had lyrics though. Nirvana's lyrics were pretty bland. I am a big fan of lyrics but still have that stupid soft spot for grunge. 

It was sort of that "I don't care" angst movement too that many dug.

I think some grunge could even be called punk at times? Some Nirvana was punk-ish if you dig through it and some STP stuff too maybe even.

Marilyn Manson's original band "The Spooky Kids" were hardcore grunge or punk, whatever you want to call it. He didn't want to be grunge, and he clashed with his band mates over this when he hooked up with Reznor who produced and pushed the music in a more modern industrial way. 

Grunge was punk rock all over again, same thing. They play the same power chord heavy songs, and it's all muddy sounding and loud. You aren't wrong that production really helped Nirvana. The band fought the producers over Nevermind, and thankfully the producer's won and we got a much more polished sounding album. I listened to their debut 'Bleach' the other day, and I'm always taken back at how horribly produced that album is. 

Alice In Chains was too talented to be called grunge. They are a metal band in my eyes, they certainly had the rhythm section for it to compete with all the big metal bands out at the time. 

I couldn't ever get into Stone Temple Pilots. They became the 70's nostalgia band of the 90's, and I hated that stuff. I would rather listen to the real deal of Bowie or Iggy Pop, rather than a poor imitation of it. I hated that Scott Weiland died last year, since he was so big during my youth. STP's debut album was OK, but everything else fell flat. 

At least we got "creep" lol

Jules, I thought for sure you were talking about the great Ben Roethlisberger in 2005  He was clearly the MVP of the SB (sarcasm)

I have a thing for the 2000 Ravens though because on defense I just thought they were scary as hell. I mean even looking back to this past season......I am not even sure we beat the 2000 Ravens like we did the 2015 Broncos.

I will not discuss the 2005 Steelers. I am still trying to forget that game vs. the Colts. 

Although I think we can say maybe the Broncos best days are over for a while unless the D learns to fly and play offense too.

They went from Peyton to......well please tell me people here won't get into the Sanchez and Kaepernick show?  

Yeah the Broncos have a problem at QB no doubt. They have a Great Defense but I cant see Sanchez or Kaepernick leading them to a Repeat SB win. The 2000 Ravens perhaps had the best Defense of all-time. I would rank it higher than Denver's of last season. The 1985 Bears are in that discussion as well.

Congrats on the new additions to your family Bogie. Are you gonna name 1 of them ole 'blue eyes' in honor of Frank Sinatra? 

No thats not my real cat, kinda wish it was though. Thats a heap of fluff I could have a lot of fun with. I used to have a real fluffy cat for many many years who died a 4 years ago. She was pushing 20 years old though. Her name was Tiffany.

Bogie has new kittens that are cute as hell. One is a little fatty too!!!

Age 20 for a cat is remarkable actually. Sorry you lost Tiffany Jules. Yeah, that cat on the printer looked like she owned her domain that's for sure. We don't train pets; they train us as you already know. 

LOL I didn't even realize Pacino was in that, that movie was the butt of a lot of jokes many years ago. I think yeah Ben and JLo were an item once. Was that Bennifer? It was that time period when couples names got combined.

I have not seen anything with JLo since American Idol when I still watched it.

I thought "the wedding planner" was a cute film with her and Matthew M. though in the early 2000's.  

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209475/

Back when Matthew M was stuck in the romantic fantasy leading roles that nobody took seriously. I remember the wedding planner too since she played someone smart in the movie who worked hard at her job.

LOL any guys on this forum who come in this status now to see about the batman/superman film are going to be like WTH?

LOL someone here just posted a status update that Batman vs. Superman is awful.  They saw it.

Al Pacino is in "Gigli" really? I believe you Bogie. I just hold him in high esteem from his work with director Michael Mann with "The Insider" & "Heat" that I don't want anything to tarnish my opinion of his acting ability. I even liked him in "You Don't Know Jack" as in Dr. Jack Kevorkian as an HBO TV special. 

Oh I see, somehow that didn't register with me with the 50 cents and half dollar thing. 

Never saw Southpaw. 

I have a weak spot for boxing films. I typically hate sports related dramas, but I can sit through a boxing film. 

Million Dollar Baby is the last boxing movie I really remember analzying and sitting through. 

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Jules, that's BB-8 you're talking about, the new droid. He's the cutest thing ever 

 

 

Cutest thing ever, sorry but it stole the show.  

OMG

That.

Just WOW.

Thats the best!!!!!!!

I'm on Season 2. Started the series last week. 

If you are watching the old ones, you're going to love this season reboot. They kept the same formula and the actors have aged into their roles without missing a beat. I loved the show back in the 90's when I was growing up 

It just sounds dumb, I get the marketing perspective but I hate when the same thing is changed with names over and over again. Blah.

I know, and they do it over everything. I go to the club and hear "dub step" which is really just House dance played with better equipment. "Retro wave" is the synth pop/new wave of the 80's. 

"Duh step"? Now my intelligence truly IS being insulted.........

The double sided discs. Seen them called "flippers" in an Amazon review earlier. 

Oh I see, I don't have real experience with those to be honest. My sister would. 

I've got a few DVD sets with them. Universal seems to package them often with doubles. So far, no problems. I'm just curious after reading so many Amazon reviews with them having errors. 

lol I can attest that it is possible too now.  I heard your work.

Thank you Jules! I work hard on those recordings. Still need to learn how to edit them on the multi-track editor. My next learning project. 

HOJ is sounding good lately!

I prefer him to most of my family members at times outside of my sister. Easily.

David Bowie easily>my cousin David omg.......

Honestly they might very well be the best all around true rock stars ever. They had everything you had to have to be "rock stars."

TRUE; and every rock stars after them copied from them and stole from them. For Jagger, that also includes his partner Kieth Richards. Certain ones in the 90's sure as hell copied from them too. 

Jagger and Richards IMO are the original singer/guitarist duo. Bowie had his guitar partner too with Ronson in his Ziggy phase. 

I feel your sadness & pain today over the loss of Bowie Bogie. 

It's times like this when an artist so groundbreaking leaves us that I have a profound appreciation for your ability to chronicle & document this man's musical contributions. 

I value your keen impressions too Jules on David as well. I really respected David's marriage to Iman too. 

I hope your sister gets a chance to take you to Iron Maiden. Those guys might be old, but hot damn, they still put up an amazing show. You would have a blast there. 

I used to like this drug song:

I don't think we get to see Iron Maiden sadly.

I can't help it.......I just rock so hard lately.

Sigh.

Motorhead had a few great classic metal albums. Never was big on them but 'Overkill' is a classic. 

I know the name but nothing pops into my head. My sister was well aware though just like she knew the name of the shredder dude with the name I can't say or spell who everyone worships. 

He wasn't the best singer ever, but Motorhead had a great raw sound. Hard to believe they were a trio too. Lots of talent in there. 

Get better quickly!

if you haven't seen it yet, and you love the older Star Wars films, I can guarantee you that you're probably going to love it. 

I noticed this trend in Hollywood to blow the dust off of older films & reboot them 2 decades later: Footloose, Point Break, Spider Man. I think the word original is a foreign concept to CA movie mogul studio executives. 

It's like remakes on steroids, stilts, & a spin the top factory. Eventually, studio heads will run out of films to screw up & over commercialize. One can only hope Bogie. 

If you can't beat em join them, I guess. As a ticket purchaser myself, I'm patiently waiting on the Flash Dance reboot. Bring on Zoe Saldana in the leading role as a welder by day & stripper by night & that famous drenched water dance routine on stage. LOL!