OT: 'Off topic' thoughts

[Squiffy]

Master of Puppets
Ride the Lightning
And Justice For All
Kill 'Em All


Everything else that I don't care that much about

Ya, about that. There’s 1/2 and then 3/4. I took a long long break from the Black album, but I loaded on to my phone for driving tunes taking my son to hockey about 6 months ago, and that’s a damn lot of travel time in the season, and some of the deep dive stuff from it I hadn’t heard in forever was kinda cool to hear. I mean I never need to hear Sandman or Nothing Else again in my life, no one does, but Struggle Within, God that Failed, couple of those types of songs from it, I was like god damn, haven’t heard this in a long long time, good tune.

Seeing GNR is a couple weeks.

Ya really tempted. 3 hours of a deep dive GNR set is hard to miss. Slash is worth admission himself.

 

[Squiffy]

1…….. And Justice For All
2…….. Kill ‘Em All
3…….. Master of Puppets
4……. Ride The Lightning
5…….. Black album

…….. or all of them again in no particular order. So damn good for so damn long.

I like Justice a lot. Terrible production, mostly great songs. One was my first great love of a Metallica song. Solo on Shortest Straw can be listened to over and over again, and at the end its just a deep breath and wow. I can actually remember first noticing it, really noticing it, listening on a walkman on the Greenwood bus, thinking, damn, what did I just hear there.

 

[Squiffy]

Is Taste of the Danofrth worth it? It is just so so busy in its modern existence. I can remember it from the 90's and it was a good time, but it is bonkers any time I went in the last ten years. Thinking of hitting it with family early afternoon tomorrow.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Ya, about that. There’s 1/2 and then 3/4. I took a long long break from the Black album, but I loaded on to my phone for driving tunes taking my son to hockey about 6 months ago, and that’s a damn lot of travel time in the season, and some of the deep dive stuff from it I hadn’t heard in forever was kinda cool to hear. I mean I never need to hear Sandman or Nothing Else again in my life, no one does, but Struggle Within, God that Failed, couple of those types of songs from it, I was like god damn, haven’t heard this in a long long time, good tune.


Ya really tempted. 3 hours of a deep dive GNR set is hard to miss. Slash is worth admission himself.

The songs on Justice are amazing. The recording quality is atrocious, and I say this as a fan of other types of music that often have bad recording quality for different reasons.

The snare sounds horrible and the bass has been both scooped and buried. There are unofficial mixes of this record on YouTube that sound infinitely better than the actual record.

Lars is a douchenozzle. The end.

 

[MSZ]

Is Taste of the Danofrth worth it? It is just so so busy in its modern existence. I can remember it from the 90's and it was a good time, but it is bonkers any time I went in the last ten years. Thinking of hitting it with family early afternoon tomorrow.

We went to Danforth before the pandemic and obviously the whole place was too crowded.

 

[Anthrax442]

 

[ACC1224]

Ya really tempted. 3 hours of a deep dive GNR set is hard to miss. Slash is worth admission himself.

Saw Slash solo in a small venue before COVID. One of the best shows I’ve ever been to.

 

[Evilhomer]

Lars is a douchenozzle. The end.

Truest statement ever.

 

[nsleaf]

My fav big hair band.

 

[notDatsyuk]

Apparently that came from a comment from Deep Purple (Ian Gillian?) to a sound man "I want everything louder than everything else".

 

[BallardEra]

So gang, I'm off to Cyprus tomorrow and return September 8th. My brother, his wife and Yorkie all moved down there for good last year and I miss them a lot.

Looking forward to the trip. Here's a little snippet of where I'll be:

 

[Metroid]

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That's better seats than I had lol

 

[Squiffy]

Saw Slash solo in a small venue before COVID. One of the best shows I’ve ever been to.

Saw him at the Warehouse coming through with Snakepit, right up at the stage. Great show.

Did the Danforth today, got there pretty early and the crowd wasn’t too bad, by 4 when we were leaving getting pretty jammed. Nice to see it back.

 

[Alamo Leafer]

Saw Slash solo in a small venue before COVID. One of the best shows I’ve ever been to.

Oh man, I saw Slash put on a show one night @ Sundance Saloon in St. John's, NL when I was there on a business trip few years ago. He is something else.

 

[BallardEra]

Did the Danforth today, got there pretty early and the crowd wasn’t too bad, by 4 when we were leaving getting pretty jammed. Nice to see it back.

Grew up in the area. Brass Taps was our hangout for many years. Went downhill after it got bought by new owners and Covid finished it off.

 

[Squiffy]

Grew up in the area. Brass Taps was our hangout for many years. Went downhill after it got bought by new owners and Covid finished it off.

Spent lots of time there, was a good place. I think it was Mondays for wing night? Whatever wing night was it was a regular weekly visit for a good stretch.

Yes, we seem to have a lot of the same haunts, grew up round there too. Odds that we have been in the same place at the same time border on 100%. Might have chatted Leafs sometime. If you ever had someone arguing Bryan McCabe was the best Leaf D-man they had had in 20 years it was me.

 

[BallardEra]

Spent lots of time there, was a good place. I think it was Mondays for wing night? Whatever wing night was it was a regular weekly visit for a good stretch.

Yes, we seem to have a lot of the same haunts, grew up round there too. Odds that we have been in the same place at the same time border on 100%. Might have chatted Leafs sometime.

Ya you never know. I also remember their half price pizza night was very popular as well. Place was rammed every Tuesday or Wednesday for that.

Wings were really good there too. Towards the end I used to love the Steigl draft on tap there.

 

[Squiffy]

Ya you never know. I also remember their half price pizza night was very popular as well. Place was rammed every Tuesday or Wednesday for that.

Wings were really good there too. Towards the end I used to love the Steigl draft on tap there.

The pizza!, Ya, spot on, the pizza there was excellent, had forgotten. Good kitchen for a cozy little neighbourhood bar. Remember playing a lot of darts and pool there.

 

[BallardEra]

The pizza!, Ya, spot on, the pizza there was excellent, had forgotten. Good kitchen for a cozy little neighbourhood bar. Remember playing a lot of darts and pool there.

They had great ones like the "High Stakes Porker" among others. Then the new owners removed those pizzas and in order to "build" it yourself it would cost $3-4 more than before.

Sometimes I just don't get the logic behind moves like that.

 

[Evilhomer]

Best pub in the city for me has always been McVeigh's on Richmond. Couldn't even count the number of nights I've spent there.

 

[Burnie97]

Up later listening to tunes and having a pint. I had that thought we do once in a while as a Leaf fan... but what if they did win.

Can't wait for the season to start now. Getting there again. Yup suckered back in no doubt.

 

[Squiffy]

The phr

Up later listening to tunes and having a pint. I had that thought we do once in a while as a Leaf fan... but what if they did win.

Can't wait for the season to start now. Getting there again. Yup suckered back in no doubt.

The phrase you are looking for is “Next year is different”.

 

[Mr_Fun]

I disagree. I have a pretty sizable record collection but the quality of sound on a lossless format is unbelievable. I have a portable DAC made by Fiio. I moved to that when I wanted better sound quality than mp3. I digitized my music collection to FLAC. The portable Fiio looks like a clunky iPad classic but contains micro SD cards where I loaded about 400gb of lossless compressed music. One day I piped it into the input of a stereo and was floored at the quality improvement of some of the songs. That was with a smallish processor on it. Times are changing. No crackle typical of a turntable.

FLAC has way more bandwidth/resolution than any CD or record.

I know people say they prefer records, the reason being that the bass has to be compressed which in turn causes what is perceived to be a pleasing sound caused by the resulting saturation.

Stunning LP.

Here's my living room rotation!

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I had a squire Tele back in 1983 when they first arrived. Loved that guitar back then. I ended up scalloping the neck and eventually sold it to a friend who stiffed me on the payment.

Edit- just got a Strymon Big Sky Reverb pedal which arrives tonight.

 

[Bomber0104]

I had a squire Tele back in 1983 when they first arrived. Loved that guitar back then. I ended up scalloping the neck and eventually sold it to a friend who stiffed me on the payment.

Edit- just got a Strymon Big Sky Reverb pedal which arrives tonight.

Don't check today's JV Squier prices, you'll hate your friend even more

 

[ULF_55]

Best wishes for those impacted by the ongoing wildfires.

I know some of you are in the path.

Best of luck to you all.