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Our government at work..........................sigh.Thats what really slays me, send machine gun toting guys for some lumber I'm impressed.
Was Schon that prominent? That is the Woodstock line up, right? On paper, the two look like an interesting match. Both very original styles, but vastly different. Even with Journey in their megaselling heyday (or in his Jan Hammer projects, hell, even in Bad English), I found Schon had a truly original style. He sounded like he really didn't listen to what other guitarists were doing around him and made a wide arc around all Mike Varney-isms. Among Perry's stratospheric crooning and Cain's "AOR from the book"-songwriting (albeit skillful), Schon was the singular piece of spice Journey still had after the departure of Greg Rolie. Still the best and most original AOR band in my book though and unlike Bon Jovi not all their ballads sound the same either.Neal joined Santana after Woodstock. After Neal joined Carlos let Neal do most of the lead guitar work this is not a knock against Neal I liked the first three Journey albums after they went commerical I stopped listining .
Speaking of Mike Varney: The new Santana CD could be one of his products. It is that bad (I've listened to it repeatedly now). Abraxas compares to it like Sgt. Pepper does to The Girl is Mine, Macca's syrupy and ultimately pointless track with MJ. There is no point in hearing Carlos Santana play Smoke on the Water (unless it had been a really off the wall arrangement, which it isn't, in fact it sounds a bit as if The Miami Soundmachine played it).
Haha, well, the fridge is 3 years older than I and has been great the whole time. The freezer has only had to be defrosted once in 14 years. Lots of people who've seen it have told me, "Dang, you should get a new one and save a lot of energy. That's fine on the face of it, but a new, inexpensive fridge costs $450 and bumps up to over $700 for Energy Star rated ones. Since my energy bill can be in the low $40s some months of the year, the payoff on a new fridge just to save $5 per month is an inefficient way of looking at it. Now, if the fridge REALLY is doomed, then it's worth getting a new efficient one, of course.I use to have one of those after I got a new fridge the old one went into the garage for beer until it died.
Here are some pics of the possibly doomed fridge. Reading up on it, the clicking can be caused by any number of things: capacitors, relays, dirty coils and yeah, the dreaded compressor. I'm hoping it's one of the former items not the last.
