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The Bass Zone / Re: Great secrets of rock revealed!
« Last post by Ken on May 09, 2024, 06:39:27 PM »The Wop? Naw, I think he's good fun!
Hard pass. Thank you.
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Hard pass. Thank you.
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The Bass Zone / Re: Great secrets of rock revealed!
« Last post by uwe on May 09, 2024, 05:07:49 PM »I don't think anyone's as annoying as that Davie504 guy.
The Wop? Naw, I think he's good fun!
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Steve Albini
« Last post by uwe on May 09, 2024, 04:51:28 PM »He was in a band called Rapeman and was altogether far too enthusiastic about images of child sexual abuse. If I was feeling generous i would say he was clearly a bit neurodivergent and trying far too hard to mine new depths of shock value. But I'm not feeling generous; he was a chronically overrated hipster and his music sounded terrible. Like being locked in a filing cabinet full of loose cutlery and being kicked down a metal fire escape.
Ok, some (s)obitchuary, but I'm sure, Alan, there must have been some small things too you perhaps did not like that much about him?
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Steve Albini
« Last post by Ken on May 09, 2024, 03:50:25 PM »You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but I try not to judge someone about things they said and did in their '20s, especially when they later acknowledge them, like is mentioned in this Guardian article.
"... he founded his next band Rapeman in 1987. Named after a Japanese manga, it was perhaps the most high-profile example of Albini’s eagerness to prod and provoke, and he later expressed regret for the band name, calling it “flippant”."
"Possessed of a gleefully scabrous sense of humour, Albini riled up plenty of artists and fans alike with insults and provocations – such as jokingly dedicating a Big Black single to the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. He became contrite in later years, saying in a viral thread on Twitter in 2021: “A lot of things I said and did from an ignorant position of comfort and privilege are clearly awful and I regret them.”"
"... he founded his next band Rapeman in 1987. Named after a Japanese manga, it was perhaps the most high-profile example of Albini’s eagerness to prod and provoke, and he later expressed regret for the band name, calling it “flippant”."
"Possessed of a gleefully scabrous sense of humour, Albini riled up plenty of artists and fans alike with insults and provocations – such as jokingly dedicating a Big Black single to the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. He became contrite in later years, saying in a viral thread on Twitter in 2021: “A lot of things I said and did from an ignorant position of comfort and privilege are clearly awful and I regret them.”"
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Steve Albini
« Last post by Alanko on May 09, 2024, 03:26:45 PM »He was in a band called Rapeman and was altogether far too enthusiastic about images of child sexual abuse. If I was feeling generous i would say he was clearly a bit neurodivergent and trying far too hard to mine new depths of shock value. But I'm not feeling generous; he was a chronically overrated hipster and his music sounded terrible. Like being locked in a filing cabinet full of loose cutlery and being kicked down a metal fire escape.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: SoCal Pool Party
« Last post by uwe on May 09, 2024, 03:15:37 PM »More trees died from the cheesiness of this song and vid than were ever planted. 
I tend to be benevolent toward most of Henry J. Deutschendorf Jr's work, but this is bad enough to send a light airplane into a stall.
But Leaving On A Jet Plane was an ingenious compsition, verse, bridge and chorus all over the same three chords, yet each part sounds different, but similarly catchy and - suiting the song's theme - longing.
I tend to be benevolent toward most of Henry J. Deutschendorf Jr's work, but this is bad enough to send a light airplane into a stall.
But Leaving On A Jet Plane was an ingenious compsition, verse, bridge and chorus all over the same three chords, yet each part sounds different, but similarly catchy and - suiting the song's theme - longing.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: SoCal Pool Party
« Last post by 4stringer77 on May 09, 2024, 01:32:11 PM »The UK needs their own version of John Denver.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: SoCal Pool Party
« Last post by uwe on May 09, 2024, 10:00:13 AM »https://www.visitsherwood.co.uk/explore-the-forest/the-major-oak/#:~:text=Probably%20the%20most%20famous%20resident,that%20absolutely%20cannot%20be%20missed.
Reputedly 800 to 1.100 years old, i.e. when you guys weren't even seasick on the Mayflower yet. Alan used to walk by it on his way to school when it was still a seedling.
Reputedly 800 to 1.100 years old, i.e. when you guys weren't even seasick on the Mayflower yet. Alan used to walk by it on his way to school when it was still a seedling.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: SoCal Pool Party
« Last post by Pilgrim on May 09, 2024, 08:45:07 AM »I remember reading some time ago that one (1) tree of the Sherwood forest had been preserved alive. I can't recall the source.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Steve Albini
« Last post by gearHed289 on May 09, 2024, 07:27:21 AM »Very cool guy and local legend. I liked his work with the Jesus Lizard. RIP.