The Shred Room II (with extra youth)

Mikerinos wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Mikerinos wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: King By-Tor wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: rushfan4 wrote: We used to have a really cool radio station back in the days I was growing up with the call letters WLLZ.  Their motto was the Wheels (WLLZ) that rock the Motor City.  But they also took to the saying that WLLZ stood for We Love Led Zeppelin.  This music is imbedded deep within my musical soul.  I know most proggers complain about radio overplay, but as usual I am different in that respect. Radios are evil. If not for radio I would have never heard Rush I've never heard Rush on the radio. They get quite a bit of play here.  Not as much as the "big name" classic rock bands, but more than any other prog band probably. Really? That's interesting. Then again, I haven't listened to the radio in years. Really?  I don't do it often on my own time, unless I don't have or feel like listening to my own CDs in the car, but it is sometimes impossible to avoid hearing when with friends or family.

I'm hardly ever with friends, so I don't have to worry about that. David has the same taste I do, and he's the only person I very occasionally see in person. I see Danny too, but he's not around here most of the time, and when he is, he's busy. Again, his tastes aren't normal, and I see both of them usually just at band meetings, so it's not like we're in the car together in the first place.

With family, we usually don't have the radio on; or if we do, it's not very loud and I'll listen to something on my headphones if we're not talking.

Mikerinos wrote: Hmm, I figured there was a single version of TAAB made, but I've never heard it so it might not exist.  That's awesome if a station would actually play that in its entirety, it seems far too unconventional for today's standards. It does sound really awesome, but apparently it was commonplace for a radio station or two around here back in the early 70s. I'd have to ask my dad what else they played, but I remember him mentioning that. I read on wikipedia that some college radio station aired all 80-something disks of Merzbow's Merzbox... everyone in the surrounding area of that school must have been totally RIO shell-shocked by that. That is hilarious.

If there's one thing that I stopped doing it's listening to music around people if it's not on a stereo or something. I hate seeing people walking or standing next to each other and not saying a thing because they're "plugged in". Anti-sociable behavior if I ever did see it.

That said, if I'm chilling with my mates or my girl then I have no trouble putting on some tunes on a low volume so that we can talk over it. If we're in the car we listen to what I want IF I'm driving. And if Im with the lady then sometimes we listen to what she has on her iPod - not my favorite, but she needs to get some stereo time too.

On my last roadtrip with my buddy from the Caribbean we switched so that I got 12 hours of prog (and I talked all the way through, he was very interested) and he got 12 hours of Caribbean pop through which he told some crazy stories because he knows as much about that as we do prog, it was great!

With that, I'm out. Laters!

King By-Tor wrote: If there's one thing that I stopped doing it's listening to music around people if it's not on a stereo or something. I hate seeing people walking or standing next to each other and not saying a thing because they're "plugged in". Anti-sociable behavior if I ever did see it. Well, I listen to my headphones every time I'm on public transport and often when I'm in the car because I am anti-social; I don't really care to talk to people I don't know (as for public transport), and I talk to my family all the time around here---and if we're talking in the car, then I'll oft participate. I'm just a really quiet person. That said, if I'm chilling with my mates or my girl then I have no trouble putting on some tunes on a low volume so that we can talk over it. If we're in the car we listen to what I want IF I'm driving. And if Im with the lady then sometimes we listen to what she has on her iPod - not my favorite, but she needs to get some stereo time too. On my last roadtrip with my buddy from the Caribbean we switched so that I got 12 hours of prog (and I talked all the way through, he was very interested) and he got 12 hours of Caribbean pop through which he told some crazy stories because he knows as much about that as we do prog, it was great! Interesting story! With that, I'm out. Laters! Take care.

I hath returned. Now I'm just waiting for a phone call

MovingPictures07 wrote: NaturalScience wrote: I'm not RIO enough for Merzbow.   I seriously need to hear a full album.

Edited by June - January 23 2009 at 17:49

And yes I see you lurking June:P

Buy a new drum kit huh?:P

Ohh, guitar, right.
I used to always play heaps of thrash metal stuff for rhythm guitar, and believe me, once you've done that, you don't get stuck working out rhythms of stuff as much anymore, hehe. That stuff is pure stamina and precision.

I'm listening to the greatest album ever written (well, tied with one other).