OT: Thread About Nothing (TaN #...lost count)

[My3Sons]

You don't partake in the festivities?

Not anymore although maybe I ride again next year if any of the boys want to ride. It’s a very long day and the boys are all off with friends. I’d think my wife and me trying to catch beads and trinkets would be sad. Layer in some alcohol and the cigar I inevitably accidentally hit someone with and it’s too been there done that at this point.

 

[Bleedred]

For the encore, Dave played BFR alone, acoustically for half the song, which was very cool, then the band jumped in for the last part.

Never been an Anti-Flag fan. Knew a few songs but they put on a good show. Caught the. End of Skinny Lister’s set and they were fun.

So that's still a staple in the live show? That's pretty cool!

Acoustically for half the song and then everybody else jumping sounds pretty sweet for that song. I'm sure it works for that song!

 

[njdevils1982]

Don't really listen to either, but have seen both back in the day. My friends who are like 6-7 years younger than me (Cage Helmet from this forum and his bestie) used to really love Anti-Flag back in like 1996-1998. They were like 13-15 back then, but I think they kind of stopped listening to them shortly after. The only song I really remember by them other than the die for your government song was some song about turning on the news and wanting to smash his TV cause some rich kid was crying cause her boyfriend left her and the only reason this shit is playing is to make us feel sorry for f***ing millionaire, and then the next verse was some old man jerking off to a some starving model on TV that was 6 foot 4 and only weighed 100 pounds. I somehow thought of that song last year when some stupid celebrity couple was breaking up and we were supposed to feel sorry for them. I think it was the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard bullshit. It did have a really cool guitar solo.

There was also another one which I'm pretty sure was a joke song, about someone's daddy being rich. I remember the line about how his daddy was a motherf***in scumbag who tried to stick a needle into his dick to get high. That was like word for word the song. But I haven't heard any of this stuff since 1996-1998.

One other random Anti-Flag connection. One guy my friend was roommates with over 20 years ago in Jersey originally was from Pittsburgh and grew up with a couple of them. He even lived on the same street as one of the original members. He didn't really listen to their music, but said he had grown up around them and listened to ''Some of that punk music back in the 80's and early 90's'' but also said that bands like Youth Of Today and Minor Threat were both white power, racist skinhead bands with a hate message. Myself and my friend who was roommates with him both him into his place real quick and fact checked him on that one. He said that he was misinformed due to knowing some racist skinheads that listened to these bands and saw that Ian MacKaye and members of YOT had shaved heads and ignorantly assumed they spread a hate message and were boneheads because the boneheads listened to their bands. He also cited the Minor Threat song guilty of being white as a racist song, which I think Ian MacKaye came out and said he wrote because he went to a high school with a lot of black kids who didn't like him because he was white or one of the few white kids in school and he was bullied by them.

That was even weirder than people who assume the Dead Kennedys were a racist band because they heard the N word in Holiday In Cambodia and We've Got a bigger problem now, not being familiar with Jello writing lyrics that satirically mocked those he opposed from their point of view perspective.

As far as Flogging Molly goes, I always thought this was one of the coolest songs ever

people actually thought the dead kennedys were a racist band? DH Peligro was black

 

[JimEIV]

Real estate agent just left. Should be putting the place up for sale soon. Tough decision for my wife and I

But I think a few months in the Keys then off to Wyoming should make it easier.

 

[Bleedred]

people actually thought the dead kennedys were a racist band? DH Peligro was black

And it's people who have no idea who's in the band or who isn't or what they look like or what ethnicity they may or may not be.

Holiday in Cambodia was done before he was in the band (we've got a bigger problem now was not) and he didn't play on that recording. I don't think he joined the band until later in 80 or maybe 81?

I remember I read an interview with him where they asked him what he thought of the band before he joined and if he thought he'd get asked to join the band or make the audition or whatever it was. And he said something like ''I wasn't sure if they'd have me because I'm black''. He said something like that. He didn't elaborate, but I'm assuming he just meant something like demographically the punk scene doesn't have a lot of black guys and not that the punk scene doesn't accept blacks. I don't think he was into the punk scene before he joined that band. Or it's possible he heard that song and didn't understand the context.

Almost every Dead Kennedys song was written from the point of view of whoever they were mocking. Whether it was jocks and dumb frat boys, Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown/or any other politician, businessmen, music executives and lame bands, child molesters. Only someone who didn't know the Dead Kennedys would think that.

I was shocked to hear of DH dying a few months back and that it was apparently from an accidental fall in his home. I think he was only like 62, but he looked way better and in much better shape than everybody else in the band. I saw a picture of him from a week before he died. He looked young, he had a great build. He's the last guy I would have guessed from that band that would have died from an accidental fall in his house. That had to be the most freak of freak accidents. I know he had some big drug problems back in the day, but from my understanding, I thought he was past that about 30 years ago.

He was in the Red Hot Chili Peppers before the current drummer, but they kicked him out because of his heroin problem. They had already had one guy in the band die of an OD and they had to kick him out and I don't think he was in the band for very long.

 

[My3Sons]

Real estate agent just left. Should be putting the place up for sale soon. Tough decision for my wife and I

But I think a few months in the Keys then off to Wyoming should make it easier.

Your wife is willing to relocate to a place where you will be miles from any mental health treatment facility like Wyoming? She’s brave.

 

[JimEIV]

Your wife is willing to relocate to a place where you will be miles from any mental health treatment facility like Wyoming? She’s brave.

The Rockies are my mental health facility

I took this with my phone a few years ago...

You see what I mean?

 

[My3Sons]

The Rockies are my mental health facility

I took this with my phone a few years ago...

You see what I mean?
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Having been to both the Rockies and Alaska my suggestion is to go to Alaska.

 

[JimEIV]

Having been to both the Rockies and Alaska my suggestion is to go to Alaska.

I like the wild but I also like proximity to fine restaurants and good wine. The small ski towns scattered throughout the Rockies are just perfect for that ...

Although, I don't have any experience with Alaska. It's just a real far.

 

[My3Sons]

The Rockies are my mental health facility

I took this with my phone a few years ago...

You see what I mean?
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Who are you kidding. The below is you in the Rockies.

 

[JimEIV]

Who are you kidding. The below is you in the Rockies.

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I won't be there at the first sign of winter. It'll be more like May/June through mid October.

My wife and I do love Estes Park though.

That was Johnny's mistake trying to stick out the winter. He would've been alright if he just stayed the more temperate months.

 

[My3Sons]

I won't be there at the first sign of winter. It'll be more like May/June through mid October.

My wife and I do love Estes Park though.

That was Johnny's mistake trying to stick out the winter. He would've been alright if he just stayed the more temperate months.

It depends upon which version of the story you subscribe to, king wanted it to be about a sane man who may be going insane or who may be seeing evil spirits that push him to the breaking point. In Kubrick’s version he looks insane from the get go and it was his fate all along based on that last picture. It could go either way with you. It probably comes down to whether Hischier comes to visit while you are there.

 

[JimEIV]

It depends upon which version of the story you subscribe to, king wanted it to be about a sane man who may be going insane or who may be seeing evil spirits that push him to the breaking point. In Kubrick’s version he looks insane from the get go and it was his fate all along based on that last picture. It could go either way with you. It probably comes down to whether Hischier comes to visit while you are there.

Not worried... I'm sure he'd prefer the Swiss Alps to the Rockies

 

[JimEIV]

Nevermind

 

[TheUnseenHand]

Getting there. The picture does not do the colors justice. The fins are not that black, and the body has gold and violet that doesn't come through here. The scales don't pop well either. In any case, the top clear coat will get a lot of color shift mica powder for iridescence. I'm feeling good about this one.

 

[njdevils1982]

holy f***. why 3:50 to 4:30? you are not pink floyd echoes or dogs

 

[njdevils1982]

 

[My3Sons]

Ronson was a very underrated guitarist from the classic rock era. He's relatively unknown to the general public because he was never successful fronting his own group. I always found his sound was sort of a hard edged version of Brian May. Ronson was probably fairly inluential given how influential Bowie was. Good job sharing that with us. I guess Bowie ran out of things to do with the Ziggy character but it was really fun. If you want to listen to something interesting find the See Emily Play track from Bowie's Pinups album. it's an interesting listen. I've always contended that it's what Syd Barrett would have sounded like by 1973 had he not gone off the deep end. I think Ronson probably gets credit for the sound of that track as he did the arrangements for that album. So maybe Ronson was channeling some Echoes?

 

[JimEIV]

This guy is one my all time favorite tyers. Besides the fact that he's a meticulous master that ties with incredible precision, his instructional videos are superb. So many little tidbits of information.

This is one of the more simple flies to tie, but Charlie gives so many little tips and techniques for something that is relatively elementary. True master.

 

[njdevils1982]

Ronson was a very underrated guitarist from the classic rock era. He's relatively unknown to the general public because he was never successful fronting his own group. I always found his sound was sort of a hard edged version of Brian May. Ronson was probably fairly inluential given how influential Bowie was. Good job sharing that with us. I guess Bowie ran out of things to do with the Ziggy character but it was really fun. If you want to listen to something interesting find the See Emily Play track from Bowie's Pinups album. it's an interesting listen. I've always contended that it's what Syd Barrett would have sounded like by 1973 had he not gone off the deep end. I think Ronson probably gets credit for the sound of that track as he did the arrangements for that album. So maybe Ronson was channeling some Echoes?

it's also most likely that the general public doesn't know bowie was a sax player

 

[njdevils1982]

This guy is one my all time favorite tyers. Besides the fact that he's a meticulous master that ties with incredible precision, his instructional videos are superb. So many little tidbits of information.

This is one of the more simple flies to tie, but Charlie gives so many little tips and techniques for something that is relatively elementary. True master.

will check out later


and i just realized you just passed your 20 year mark of being on the forum... cheers to you man.

 

[billingtons ghost]

holy f***. why 3:50 to 4:30? you are not pink floyd echoes or dogs

Bc it frigging wails man. Love it.

 

[My3Sons]

Bc it frigging wails man. Love it.

Go find the Jean Genie from the final Ziggy concert. Jeff Beck with Mick Ronson. Maybe one of the most underrated moments in classic rock.

 

[Patrik26]

Bringing back a Devils D-pairing oldie from somewhere around 2015-2106 or so.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

This guy is one my all time favorite tyers. Besides the fact that he's a meticulous master that ties with incredible precision, his instructional videos are superb. So many little tidbits of information.

This is one of the more simple flies to tie, but Charlie gives so many little tips and techniques for something that is relatively elementary. True master.

I often think I should get back into tying, but then I look at all the other hobbies I have going and wonder if it's a good idea.