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The Outpost Cafe / Re: SoCal Pool Party
« on: May 08, 2024, 02:25:09 PM »
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: SoCal Pool Party
« on: May 08, 2024, 08:00:00 AM »Wait until they go in the pool.
And knock on the window pane asking for pool-served drinks.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: SoCal Pool Party
« on: May 08, 2024, 07:35:35 AM »
Ilan, but mama bear already did in the vid! And no, she did not take a dump in the pool water, brown bears aren’t hippos! 
Alan, you Limeys are pretty much terrible at preserving wildlife, no bears, wolves, golden jackals or lynx on your barren island - and that was even before BREXIT! Instead invasive pests like North American squirrels of hideous size.
At least you managed to bring back the white-tailed eagle.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/18/white-tailed-eagle-chick-born-in-england-for-first-time-in-243-years
In fairness, your voting habits have somewhat improved lately!
Alan, you Limeys are pretty much terrible at preserving wildlife, no bears, wolves, golden jackals or lynx on your barren island - and that was even before BREXIT! Instead invasive pests like North American squirrels of hideous size.
At least you managed to bring back the white-tailed eagle.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/18/white-tailed-eagle-chick-born-in-england-for-first-time-in-243-years
In fairness, your voting habits have somewhat improved lately!
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: SoCal Pool Party
« on: May 07, 2024, 04:25:47 PM »
She doesn't seem to be aggressive, just inquisitive, but with two cubs to protect that can of course change quickly. But as long as the human inhabitants stay on their side of the window, all seems to be well, give or take periodic re-purchases of pool floats obviously not designed to withstand brown bear claws and teeth.
I've seen black bears this oblivious to human civilization, but not brown bears (I've learned that a Grizzly is a brown bear sub-species, but Californian Grizzlies as another sub-species are extinct, so she and her cubs are brown bears, not Grizzlies).
If this happened in Germany in the few regions where we still have brown bears a state of national emergency would have already been called. West Coast relaxation about things can be admirable sometimes.
I've seen black bears this oblivious to human civilization, but not brown bears (I've learned that a Grizzly is a brown bear sub-species, but Californian Grizzlies as another sub-species are extinct, so she and her cubs are brown bears, not Grizzlies).
If this happened in Germany in the few regions where we still have brown bears a state of national emergency would have already been called.
West Coast relaxation about things can be admirable sometimes.
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The Outpost Cafe / SoCal Pool Party
« on: May 07, 2024, 02:09:35 PM »
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/bears-house-pool-los-angeles-california
Goes to show that male gay couples are just more appreciative of the needs of a single mom with two children and no swimming pool!
Goes to show that male gay couples are just more appreciative of the needs of a single mom with two children and no swimming pool!
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: You can’t hiii-iiide your lyin’ tracks …
« on: May 07, 2024, 12:40:11 PM »
Ironically, karaoke singing IS live - it's just not always good! 
But even the worst karaoke singer takes the risk being judged and laughed at - which is something Don Henley avoids on the canned Desperado.
Not karaoke, but still live, also no AutoTune, just beautifully sung:
I wasn't aware of her. Canadian North American Native, talented girl.
But even the worst karaoke singer takes the risk being judged and laughed at - which is something Don Henley avoids on the canned Desperado.Not karaoke, but still live, also no AutoTune, just beautifully sung:
I wasn't aware of her. Canadian North American Native, talented girl.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Butchered Bicentennial IV to '64 II Clone
« on: May 07, 2024, 12:38:13 PM »
This is a humanitarian gesture of immense proportions - you'll go to heaven for resurrecting that poor bass from what it has gone through!
PS: Scott, I'll never say a word about you sawing up that TBird once for a deeper cutaway again, your original sin cannot be forgotten, no, but it now has been dwarfed beyond relevance.
PS: Scott, I'll never say a word about you sawing up that TBird once for a deeper cutaway again, your original sin cannot be forgotten, no, but it now has been dwarfed beyond relevance.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Sam Ash on the decline
« on: May 07, 2024, 09:34:14 AM »
No one is to blame, the times they are a-changing and have been for a while. Like cars taking the place of horses.
There will be a place for boutiques selling hi-end & vintage stuff to investment bankers, rock stars (“Can I help you with something, Mr Bonamassa?”) traveling through with GAS and people looking for THAT ONE INSTRUMENT, essentially like art galleries - but not for budget, entry level and commodity stuff.
Still sad, SAM ASH was an institution.
There will be a place for boutiques selling hi-end & vintage stuff to investment bankers, rock stars (“Can I help you with something, Mr Bonamassa?”) traveling through with GAS and people looking for THAT ONE INSTRUMENT, essentially like art galleries - but not for budget, entry level and commodity stuff.
Still sad, SAM ASH was an institution.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: You can’t hiii-iiide your lyin’ tracks …
« on: May 06, 2024, 10:51:54 AM »
Maybe it's an arbitrary distinction, but somehow having the lead vocalist lip syncing feels like crossing a line - but to me it depends on who they are and how the represent themselves to the public. I'm not surprised and don't care if an "entertainer" is dancing with pyrotechnics and needs some help from autotune or tracks because they're too busy with choreography. If I went to a show like that I'd be expecting a visual spectacle.
But if I'm shelling out the big bucks to see an aging rocker who recorded "classic" tracks, I'd rather hear them struggle to hit the notes and hear what they sound like today, even if their voice is shot, and if they can't be bothered to expose that, then I'd rather they and me both stay home.
But that's just me. If other folks want to watch Don Henley or Billy Gibbons or whoever stand at a microphone and do nothing, that's fine. I'd rather it not be a secret though. I don't want to show up expecting one thing and get the other.
Amen!
I can't get worked up about Taylor Swift using Auto-Tune and backing tracks reinforcing her vocals. She was never Ella Fitzgerald in accuracy nor Janis Joplin in emotional outpour in the first place and plays largely to an audience that is under the misconception that an auto-tuned voice is how a natural voice sounds. Plus with the amount of moves she performs she is closer to a figure skater than a singer, you don't expect the former to sing either while they do their loop jumps.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: You can’t hiii-iiide your lyin’ tracks …
« on: May 06, 2024, 10:39:53 AM »
"kinda sloppy"
That is the understatement of the century, Rob, the Texans are way off beat and timing, hilariously stumbling all over the place!
That is the understatement of the century, Rob, the Texans are way off beat and timing, hilariously stumbling all over the place!
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: You can’t hiii-iiide your lyin’ tracks …
« on: May 06, 2024, 10:37:46 AM »Speaking of The Who, this clip muddies the waters!
I assume the winking lights on the modular synth are to represent the processed organ track, even though the band never tried to pass the organ off as a live instrument during real performances of the song. At a guess we are looking at some of Pete's ARP gear rather than fake synths from the Doctor Who prop department, but Pete never normally brought his synth rig onstage.
I read, years ago, that Pete wanted live performances of Baba O'Riley to feature a spontaneous synth track, generated by inputting metrics from a random audience member into a synth. That would have been interesting to see, if completely implausible.
Frankly, I don't think anything in this performance is live. Daltrey even misses his scream at 03:06 and Moonie isn't in sync with the ending of the song either.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: You can’t hiii-iiide your lyin’ tracks …
« on: May 06, 2024, 06:40:24 AM »
Good catch, Alan, though I’m not sure whether it might not be an electric piano rather than a guitar. (The studio version features prominent keyboards during the solo.) But there is undoubtedly a fourth guy playing.
That said, offstage keyboard and other support was nothing new even in the 70ies, Sabbath and Quo had it too. Michael Schenker had his guitar tech play rhythm guitar parts behind the Marshall stacks when Michael was soloing in MSG line-ups sans a second guitarist. And in the 80ies it became de rigueur: Ozzy, Whitesnake, Foreigner and Iron Maiden all had offstage keyboarders.
That said, offstage keyboard and other support was nothing new even in the 70ies, Sabbath and Quo had it too. Michael Schenker had his guitar tech play rhythm guitar parts behind the Marshall stacks when Michael was soloing in MSG line-ups sans a second guitarist. And in the 80ies it became de rigueur: Ozzy, Whitesnake, Foreigner and Iron Maiden all had offstage keyboarders.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: You can’t hiii-iiide your lyin’ tracks …
« on: May 05, 2024, 08:50:29 PM »
That's sobering. 
I saw them in 2017 with Status Quo as openers at an open air. The difference was day and night: Everyone laughs about Quo, but their music is the epitome of live excitement, warts and all as well as taking the piss out of themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=louOWbSA4aI&list=PLOaOZamj9YJVGz7LZ1jZGxJ7EKVTL1SJr
ZZ Top were very collected, safe and lifeless in comparison.
I saw them in 2017 with Status Quo as openers at an open air. The difference was day and night: Everyone laughs about Quo, but their music is the epitome of live excitement, warts and all as well as taking the piss out of themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=louOWbSA4aI&list=PLOaOZamj9YJVGz7LZ1jZGxJ7EKVTL1SJr
ZZ Top were very collected, safe and lifeless in comparison.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: You can’t hiii-iiide your lyin’ tracks …
« on: May 05, 2024, 07:39:09 PM »Funny thing about Alice Cooper having a boa on stage is that they are wonderful creatures. I've had one. It was probably just thrilled to have warmth.
Like all snakes it was also deaf (they have an inner ear that senses vibrations, but doesn't really "hear") - that no doubt helped!
It wasn't even his snake and saw retirement to a snake farm eventually. It must have liked the warmth from the stage lights, but keeping it cozy warm during transport must have been a task. And then Alice's alcohol breath ...
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: You can’t hiii-iiide your lyin’ tracks …
« on: May 05, 2024, 07:25:32 PM »
I know. Poor critters. Not that it was remotely "worldwide", they didn't even get to Canada or Mexico, it was strictly nationwide (in the Lower States).
But one look at their opening acts during 1976/77 tells you how big they were, albeit as a strictly US-American phenomenon: Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wet Willie, Marshall Tucker, BÖC, Rory Gallagher, J. Geils Band, Bob Seger, The Outlaws, Ted Nugent, Foghat, Foreigner, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Pure Prairie League, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Edgar & Johnny Winter, The Band, Montrose, Point Blank, Head East, Elvin Bishop, The Dictators, Santana, Rush, Nils Lofgren, Sea Level, Burton Cummings, Muddy Waters, Climax Blues Band, Piper, Blackfoot, Atlanta Rhythm Section and Starz.
But one look at their opening acts during 1976/77 tells you how big they were, albeit as a strictly US-American phenomenon: Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wet Willie, Marshall Tucker, BÖC, Rory Gallagher, J. Geils Band, Bob Seger, The Outlaws, Ted Nugent, Foghat, Foreigner, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Pure Prairie League, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Edgar & Johnny Winter, The Band, Montrose, Point Blank, Head East, Elvin Bishop, The Dictators, Santana, Rush, Nils Lofgren, Sea Level, Burton Cummings, Muddy Waters, Climax Blues Band, Piper, Blackfoot, Atlanta Rhythm Section and Starz.