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  1. 16 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

    Yeah, techniques... So did others... But who first took it out of "focus"... Blurred the lines... The impressionist.

     

    I assume you are talking about Salvador Dali and his art.  With out impressionism, cubism, dada/surrealism doesn't spring forth.

    That Dali for sure. I live 12 miles from the museum as the crow flies. He is a one of a kind IMO... he did things that no one before him had done. One example, imbedding an actual fly in a painting. My favorite painter but I'm not right on that, only for me.

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  2. 11 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

    Doesn't that literally describe every great artist, in every medium, in the history of the world?

    Not really. Gene Krupa designed the first "modern" drum kit that is still used today. He is the captain of the ship for the drumming world as we still know it.

     

    Dali developed his own techniques that were not used by anyone before him.

  3. 18 minutes ago, row_33 said:

    The Musical Box for Peter Gabriel Genesis

     

    see them every time they come to Toronto

     

    I have heard about this one and they are reputedly excellent... actually I think the chickie here saw them aways back, I'll have to ask her when she wakes up to go to work.

     

    For anyone in the Tampa area or visiting... Skippers Smokehouse (they smoke everything) at Nebraska and Skipper Rd. has Grateful Dead night every Thursday featuring Uncle John's Band. These guys have been doing it so long that if you look away from the stage you really can't tell the difference. Well over 1,000 shows by now... highly recommended if you are a Dead fan.

     

    https://www.skipperssmokehouse.com/event/grateful-dead-nite-w-uncle-johns-band-free-33-2018-05-31/

     

     

  4. 2 hours ago, Seasons1992 said:

     

    The crazy thing is, the most perfect technical drummer ever is Neil Peart and they all never really partied at all. (You Buddy Rich fans are also not wrong but Neil wins this battle for me).

     

    Dave Grohl, Keith Moon and John Bohnam, on the other hand...........

    You aren't wrong, but you aren't right either. I've been in a lot of these kinds of discussions on various boards and in real life and I have found that no one is ever right. Its all just what your ears and mind like.

     

    I personally think that Frank Zappa is the greatest guitar player I've ever seen or listened to... but, I'm not right... only to me or someone else that thinks the same. There are too many through time that aren't in the big 20 or whatever on any given instrument.

     

    Heck, any version of Return to Forever blows the windows out of some of these so called greats. But again, I think that but no one can really say who is the "greatest". Apple pie, cherry pie, key lime pie... 

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  5. 7 minutes ago, Fadingpain said:

    Yes.  That documentary is a big part of why I suggest he is a POS human.

     

    He has spent a lifetime reinventing himself and running from his past, going from location to location...and treated his own son like ****.

     

    He's kind of a sad figure actually, especially given the huge amount of natural talent he was born with.

     

    There's a great clip on Youtube from the '60s where an interviewer is asking him if he ever practices playing the drums.  Ginger kind of laughs and says "No" but that he used to practice all the time.

     

    It's like he didn't realize how hard it was do what he did easily.

     

     

    That was in this film too...and yeah, he's crusty for sure.

     

    A 60's music/culture/etc. group I'm in on facebook was talking about him/BD yesterday. His oldest daughter has a book out now and she posted to the group. I mentioned something like "holy crap, I guess I'm hanging with the wrong people if we have his daughter posting here/looking in"... and lo and behold Ginger Baker (or who ever posts for him) liked the post and made a comment that "you'll really love it". Probably his daughter but pretty cool nonetheless.

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  6. 15 minutes ago, Fadingpain said:

    My memory of fun and games is that it had a giant curvy slide that was very wide, with many "channels" so many kids could go down, in theory, side by side at the same time.  I think you went down in like sleeping bag type things.

     

    It was high as I recall, or at least it impressed me as being high as a little kid.

     

    Am I inventing this memory or did that slide exist?

     

     

    Definitely remember the sign in this photo.

     

    fun-and-games-park2.jpg

     

     

     

     

    Oh I'm sure it did exist, I don't remember it like you. As far as I can remember riding the slides Anywhere it was always big burlap bags we sat on.

  7. On 8/11/2018 at 11:01 PM, Cynical said:

     

    I remember that. I also remember the small amusement park (Fun-N-Games) next to it that had a Wild Mouse roller coaster ride.

     

    http://blog.buffalostories.com/tag/fun-n-games-park/

     

    "Western New York children of the 1970s might remember Fun-N-Games Park just off the Youngmann in Tonawanda. Another instance of amusement rides in a Twin Fair parking lot, the park’s most memorable feature might have been the unconnected roadside attraction in front of it—the whale car wash."

     

    History of the Wild Mouse Roller Coaster

    http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/v/a/vac3/wdm.html

    I don't remember Fun&Games, guess we never went there... as a kid my rides fix was Glen Park, and once bigger it was Crystal Beach... Fantasy Island once in a while, they had a Wild Mouse too.

  8. Pressed rat and warthog have closed down their shop
    They didn't want to; 'twas all they had got
    Selling atonal apples, amplified heat
    And pressed rat's collection of doglegs and feet

    Sadly, they left, telling no one goodbye
    Pressed rat wore red jodhpurs, warthog a striped tie
    Between them, they carried a three-legged sack
    Went straight round the corner and never came back

    Pressed rat and warthog have closed down their shop
    The bad captain madman had told them to stop
    Selling atonal apples, amplified heat
    And pressed rat's collection of doglegs and feet

    The bad captain madman had ordered their fate
    He laughed and stomped off with a nautical gate
    The gate turned into a deroga tree
    And his peg leg got woodworm and broke into three

    Pressed rat and warthog have closed down their shop
    They didn't want to; 'twas all they had got
    Selling atonal apples, amplified heat
    And pressed rat's collection of doglegs and feet 

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  9. Big WTF happened here.

     

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-jefferson-airplane-surgery-lawsuit-20180817-story.html#

     

    Small piece of the article:

    “Mr. Balin walked into the hospital able to speak and with fully functional left hand,” the suit says. “By the time Mr. Balin was finally released from the hospital, he had lost half his tongue so that he cannot speak or eat properly.; he also has a paralyzed vocal cord; he has a necrotic left hand and has lost his left thumb; he had become totally disabled and has never recovered properly.”

     

     

  10. 12 minutes ago, fridge said:

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    One thing I think we can all agree on...

     

    Initially McCoy was better off just paying her some "hush money" and cutting his losses when they broke up.  Is he wrong to want to be able to just walk away from this relationship? No, but let's be real here... she just suddenly become a crazy person.

     

    I do think it would be cool if McCoy made this his hill to die on and found a way to drag her through a lengthy court process and never settle with her.

    This. Bills fans are crazy enough to set up a gofundme page for his legal fees lol.

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