dualstow wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 8:30 pm
Focus on the vocals.
I just finished listening to that CD twice. Yes, definitely a Led Zeppelin type sound. But vastly inferior. I have 10,611 songs on my iPod and I would not have added one song from this CD to it.
It's like Led Zeppelin are major league and they are AAA. Or, fringe major leaguers just trying to stay in the big leagues.
Vinny
Above provided by: Vinny, who always says: "I only regret that I have but one lap to give to my cats." AND "I'm a more-is-more person."
dualstow wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2020 6:55 am
I couldn’t agree more. It’s the fact that they don’t admit the similarities that bothers me.
Where are you expecting them to do this? Or, have they been asked and they deny?
I’m not expecting. But when they first became popular, it was brought up in every single interview. (Naturally, because any Zep fan notices after 4 seconds of listening). Pretty much every time they would say, Zeppelin? Oh, I guess. Maybe a little bit. We really listen to Aerosmith more. Or this band, or that band. But the vocals may as well be a sound sample.
I’m not saying they’re not talented. They sound nice.
I was just reading ‘The World Without Us” a book describing in great detail how nature would retake the earth if humans suddenly vanished (the New York chapter is terrifying, WiseOne. How do they even keep the subways free of water *today*. Answer: with great effort).
WiseOne wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 8:24 am
Ooh, that does sound scary. Although, if the subways filled with water but no one were around to use them, why would that matter. Except the rats, I guess. Feral cats are way too smart to mess with subway tunnels.
Probably a more significant problem are the shorelines and steep cliffs held up by retaining walls in various states of disrepair. A nearby one collapsed a few years ago and blocked a highway for several days. The residents of the coop that owned the wall ended up getting stuck with bills of $50K or so each. Not everyone had enough insurance coverage. I made sure my homeowner's policy would cover an event like that, because my coop also has retaining walls.
In the author's scenario, the rats starve off, yay! Although, if the subways filled with water but no one were around to use them, why would that matter.
It wouldn't. It's just an interesting, detailed description of how the city was constructed and how it could fall apart. The scary part is all the work that is being done right now, every day, to keep water from various sources from getting into the NYC subway system.It was published a good five years before superstorm Sandy, but it talks about how storms occasionally temporarily overwhelm the systems in place.
In my 'notifications' section, home page with the bell- top right, I have a '2' next to the bell. When I checked, there are two people who are not forum members with irrelevant info. I usually ignore 'notification' and I did not click/open either one. How did these 2 notifications get to me?
p.s. Dualstow thank you for your signature line! I'm safe as blazes where I am....out of the way, unfashionable, low density neighborhood protected by geography. I briefly heard some marchers heading down a main street the other day but they were out of earshot within a few minutes.
WiseOne wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:25 am
link is broken?
If you mean Smith's photo, you can see it on a previous page. Here ⇢ viewtopic.php?f=9&t=18&start=48#p197531
Yeah, I spent way too much time, hours, looking at the highly organized looters in New York. Spotters on scooters. The police must be running ragged from this bs.
WiseOne wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:25 am
link is broken?
p.s. Dualstow thank you for your signature line! I'm safe as blazes where I am....out of the way, unfashionable, low density neighborhood protected by geography. I briefly heard some marchers heading down a main street the other day but they were out of earshot within a few minutes.
Yes, I understand you are on an almost uninhabited island.
Of course my map may be a little out of date...
dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:55 am
Is everyone enjoying the rooftop Korean memes? (Tough armed Koreans from the L.A. riots of '92. The pictures have aged well).
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Heard Tim Pool talking about it briefly in is latest podcast. I had no idea that he is himself part Korean.
WiseOne wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 5:30 pm
We now have a curfew from 8 pm to 5 am, daily until next Sunday. Wow. The people going out to walk their dogs at 9pm are going to be in for a shock.
Definitely time to stay in and watch TV (or read a paper on microglial function, in my case :-).
Maybe you should also read up on Texas real estate. :-)
WiseOne wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 5:30 pm
We now have a curfew from 8 pm to 5 am, daily until next Sunday. Wow. The people going out to walk their dogs at 9pm are going to be in for a shock.
Definitely time to stay in and watch TV (or read a paper on microglial function, in my case :-).
You’re spoiled. Ours has begun at 6pm for days now.
