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10:59 am
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More stuff meant to avoid actually writing anything
IYNSHO, what is the greatest concept album? And what is the concept?
I will have to say that The Kinks wonderful snapshot of British life, Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) is my favorite, although this could change with my mood in a moment.
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10:34 am
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If there is any lingering doubt ...
... that I am a geek, I now dispel it.
I present to you the ( DVD-1701 )
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02:16 pm
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So ...
What is your favorite guilty pleasure movie? A movie that makes your friends question your sanity. (Or, if you have as cool of friends as I do go "yeah, isn't it terrible? Let's watch it again")
For me it's Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. Really, it's serious cheese. One of my favorite things is trying to work out who is taking it seriously and who isn't. It's a killer cast, Molly Ringwald as an alien planet valley girl, really, she's deeply funny, Ernie Hudson walking through the same part that he seemed to play in every 80s movie he was in and Michael Ironside as the heavily made up villain, having more fun than the rest of the cast put together.
If you want to come over to my place, I'll make the popcorn and throw it up on the big screen.
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08:35 pm
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Home
I will try to get some travel reports written in the next day or so, but we'll see how that goes.
For the moment, it was a great weekend, it's been a great 7 weeks of this craziness. It's good to be home.
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03:08 pm
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A day late perhaps ...
My father was a cartoonist some years ago, here are some of his cartoons from WWII with commentary.
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08:57 pm
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Just FYI
There was going to be this thing called Tomboat at Windycon next weekend. Toyboat backing up Tom Smith that is. Due to our recording schedule and Tom and our performing schedules and just life getting in the way, this is not going to happen at this time. It may still happen at some future date.
Which means that I am under the most unusual of circumstance at Windy.
I am attending a con. I have nothing to do. Nothing. At all.
I don't know when the last time was that this happened, but I am going to try to keep it that way ... for Windy anyway.
BUT, if you find yourself at Windy, we will have CDs with us, and the Ropers have our CDs. So please support our debilitating social disorders, and buy our music. For that matter, go to themadmusicarchive.com and vote for Would You Like To Play A Game (Emi, what is the link to go sign up and vote?). And take another listen to it on The Fump.
Tags: tom smith, tomboat, toyboat, windycon
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08:18 pm
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I'm in Nashville
Yeah ... scary. Meeting up with folks from an old message board as soon as I can work out how to get to where they are.
Wish me luck, I'm really afraid that my inner hillbilly may come out ... still, if it didn't in Branson, what sort of threat could Nashville be?
If you see me next week at Windy with a cowboy hat, you'll know I lost.
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08:26 am
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I seem to be on a roll
IYNSHO, what is your favorite album. The first thing you think of, and only one per customer. Duplicate orders will be mocked mercilessly.
Mine, it's easy. Quadrophenia. Townsend is one of the greatest songwriters of the rock era, and this is his masterpiece. The Who at their best outstrip pretty much everyone. It's powerful, brutal, touching, lovely. I think I'll listen to it right now.
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09:16 am
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Another ...
What is the most exciting live act you ever saw ... IYNSHO?
For me it's tricky, so I'll mention a couple.
Jethro Tull numerous times in the 70s ... Ultravox in 79 opening for, and blowing off the stage, The Police.
And the greatest ... The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. If you have seen me play in circles you've probably heard my favorite story about Alex. I think this sizes up their attitude onstage.
They were opening for Slade in 1972. Slade is pretty well forgotten by most folks on this side of the pond, but in 1972 they were one of the biggest acts in the British Isles. No one wanted to open for Slade, it was dangerous, their fans were berserk. Alex saw no problem with it. One night was particularly tricky. At a certain point Alex walked up to the mike, and in his thick Scottish burr said "I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is, this is our last song". The audience cheered, and cheered. Alex stepped back with his wonderful gap toothed wicked grin. And kept grinning. After a moment, the audience calmed down. Alex stepped up to the mike and said "the bad news is it's a fookin long one".
Much of Alex's early fan base was made up of folks who saw them on that tour.
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08:40 am
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The leader of the bland
What is the blandest rock band ... IYNSHO?
It's a toss up for me between The Doobie Brothers (before Michael McDonald came in) and The Steve Miller Band. Just dull dull dull dull dull dull.
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11:17 am
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Another question
IYNSHO who is the greatest blue eyed soul singer?
First of all let's eliminate the The Righteous Brothers from this, cause it's just not fair to everyone else. I mean really.
My current favorite is Peter Riviera from Rare Earth, who is also one of two singing drummers who should not shut up (the other being Levon Helm)
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06:34 pm
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Oh ...
And I was told this weekend that the band is showing up in someone's book. I won't say who, cause I'm just mean (that doesn't keep someone else from telling in comments), but how many writers who filk put people she knows in her books?
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06:26 pm
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Me Me Me ... geeze ...
I forget sometimes.
Congratulations to all the Pegasus Award winners.
Best Filk Song: The Wreck of the Crash of the Easthill Mining Disaster by Brooke Lunderville
Best Classic Filk Song: Still Catch the Tide by Talis Kimberley
Best Performer: Heather Dale / Ben Deschamps
Best Writer/Composer: Vixy & Tony
A Little Bit Country: Stray Dog Man by Bill Sutton
A Little Bit Rock and Roll: Six-String Love by Vixy & Tony (Vixy is very cute when she wins an award)
It was all well deserved. A couple of the categories were an easy vote for me, a couple of them really really weren't. I won't tell you how many winners I voted for, cause I just won't.
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05:33 pm
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Let me tell you about my weekend
( Cut for lengthiness )
In the meantime, take a look at this picture that Adam English drew of the band.
oh, and a CD (mine or the bands) to the first person who gets the music geek joke that is in the text here somewhere and sends the answer to me at ericcoleman at gmail dot com.
Tags: cd, ovff, pictures, toyboat
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08:38 am
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We're on The Fump !!!
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03:31 pm
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Music time
We're talking about various bands here at work.
IYNSHO, what is the great American prog rock band?
I have to go with Kansas.
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11:46 am
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I'm a happy camper
I have the Beatles Mono Box set sitting here on my desk, the stereo albums at home, and a complete set of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy radio shows in my car.
It's gonna be a good weekend for a road trip.
Just a reminder, Toyboat is playing at OVFF at noon on Friday. We will also be in the Pegasus Awards concert Friday night doing Come To Mordor by Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff.
We will also have our CD release party at OVFF this weekend at 11 am Saturday in the Con Suite.
And CDs are for sale at toyboatband.com. If you get your order in today, I may be able to get it in the mail before I hit the road tomorrow.
OH, and Would You Like To Play A Game will be on thefump.com Friday as well.
Tags: beatles, ovff, toyboat
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09:25 pm
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More Buck Naked And The Bare Bottom Boys
I think that the thing about that that makes me wonder the most is the sentence
"This was for a Flash project at school."
WHAT SCHOOL ???
( This is probably not safe for your workplace )
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01:17 pm
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Conclave
A good show Saturday. We've been in recording mode for a couple months now and if felt really good to get out there and make some noise.
Bold Marauder
Uplift*
Hellraiser*
Zombie Momma* (first performance)
Sunset Boulevard*
Rocket Launcher
Gimmie Shelter
Poolhall At The End Of The Universe*
Merlin
The Lady (first performance in this form)
SOAW
Sucked Through A Wormhole* (new lyrics)
Banned From Argo*
Would You Like To Play A Game*
Song with a * after them will be on the CD. Zombie Mama and The Lady had not been done onstage before, and Sucked had new lyrics that had not been done onstage before.
Would You Like To Play A Game will be on The Fump October 23rd.
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10:22 pm
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Home again home again
It's been a long weekend. Part two of the October Death March has been survived.
Good show this weekend, more tomorrow after I get some sleep
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