Shred Room III

James wrote: Bern wrote: I wrote a 60 page essay the other day on the relationship between visual arts, music, dance and hallucination drugs.  Hallucinogenic drugs or Hallucinogens *jumps off his Grammar Police stool*

Yeah, whatever. Didn't know how to write that in english.

Use the grammar police gun on english men.

James wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Color makes more sense with pronunciation though. But they're pronounced differently. Americans tend to emphasise the O more. The way the English pronounce Colour is actually closer to the Colour spelling.

Bump.

James you should know that English spelling wasn't standardized until midway through the 19th century, so all this stuff about the early settlers' spelling is a bunch of bs.

Alex. I like Adrian Belew a lot too as a vocalist but, ever since I know David Byrne, I realised that Belew just ripped him off. 

When you take english classes as a second language, they teach you that "color" is the true spelling. They also teach you that "colour" is tolerated if only to avoid annoying englishmen rants. 

James wrote: James wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Color makes more sense with pronunciation though. But they're pronounced differently. Americans tend to emphasise the O more. The way the English pronounce Colour is actually closer to the Colour spelling. Bump.

I saw it; I just was multitasking and didn't get the chance to respond.

I'm not going to argue either over something so stupid.

progismylife wrote: James you should know that English spelling wasn't standardized until midway through the 19th century, so all this stuff about the early settlers' spelling is a bunch of bs.

Indeed I do.

But there were still some standard spellings even before the first dictionaries appeared.  That's how the dictionaries got their words.  They didn't just decide "oh, we will spell 'colour' with a 'U' just because we can".  No, they would likely have used sources of the word and decided to spell 'colour' that way.

Samuel Johnson's dictionary was much earlier than the 19th century.  Although it was not as accurate or as advanced as the first Oxford English Dictionary.

Hmm, I understand the love for FZ's composition, but never entirely got the love for his guitar playing.
I mean, he wasn't bad, but there is something about his style, particularly on the Shut Up and Play Yer guitar series, that sounds amateurish and a little annoying at times.

HughesJB4 wrote: Hmm, I understand the love for FZ's composition, but never entirely got the love for his guitar playing. I mean, he wasn't bad, but there is something about his style, particularly on the Shut Up and Play Yer guitar series, that sounds amateurish and a little annoying at times.

His guitar playing was so unique and consistently manages to reach so many levels of depth to me on so many of his albums and in different styles that he has grounded himself as not just my favorite composer of all time but also my favorite guitarist.

Contrast his tones on "Watermelon in Easter Hay" and "Willie the Pimp", both of which are absolutely genius, especially within context.

Again, comes down to some subjectivity though. But he's easily my favorite guitarist.

HughesJB4 wrote: He's playing was definitely unique, but still, it never gelled with me. Some of his solos are pretty cringe worthy to my ears to be honest, sometimes they just seem like after thoughts rather than something he bothered to think over properly before laying it down on the record.

I never got that impression, really.