UTCzech III

1000-yard stare. "Please, not again..."

Good Times Roll - The Cars Let's Go - The Cars Immigrant Song - Zep Come Together - The Beatles Don't Stand So Close to Me - Police One of These Days - Pink Floyd Time of the Preacher - Willie Nelson

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ETA: @BillChristeson is the guy with the sign, apparently he does this a lot, if you want to follow him on Twitter

You can share your YTTV with up to 5 other "family members". You just go to family sharing, click "Invite family member" (or friend, whatever) and put in their email, they will get an email with a link to join, you don't have to give them your YTTV login, they will create their own through the link.

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Very cool, I have a 3 CD bootleg of one of the nights, 2/7/97 supposedly, the night JLH was there, sounds like a radio broadcast. I think I have about half the songs listed on the box set, but also have several not listed. More TPATH is always a good thing.

This is glue. Strong stuff.

I hear Ronnie B!

What a sick joke is trending...

Just wanted to check in with you on this one, I had listened to a crappy version on youtube a while back since it wasn't on Spotify. Well now it is, so I gave it a nice loud listen this afternoon since the wife was out of the house. Yeah, that is a great album, I need to give it a good listen with headphones and a dark room so I can really concentrate on it, but I dig it, a lot. I like the mood swings between quieter and more rocking songs, the brass I like a lot as well. Love the guitars as well. Don't know a lot about Spirit, so didn't know that Jay Ferguson was the lead singer (who I would discover in my teenage years with Thunder Island and Shakedown Cruise...). This album actually reminded me a lot of Forever Changes by Love, musically anyway, they would make a good pair back to back. Thanks for suggesting it.

No, I get it, I get the concept, I get the lyrics. But everything, Ruben and the Jets, We're Only in It For the Money, etc. To me it feels like on one part, yes, you're in on the joke, but then on the other hand, it feels like, you're actually part of the joke as well. When all the lyrics are sarcastic, and satirical, and contemptful, it's just not my personal thing. Again, I appreciate the music, and much of it is mind-blowing. It's just not something I'm going to go back to again and again. A lot of people rail on Roger Waters for the same thing, the politics and all, I'm personally a Roger fan, but I can definitely see why others feel the way they do about him. But Roger can also step away from all the vitriol and produce songs that are deeply personal, or have a moment of hope or depth of feeling to them. To me, Zappa just seem to be, I'm the smartest guy here and you're either with me or I'm going to show you how stupid you are. Maybe there are songs he's written that are not in that vein, lyrically, I've love to hear them. Again, I'm not knocking him or you or anyone who enjoys his music, I do as well, in doses. ETA: I just got on Spotify and picked a few albums at random and spot-checked some tunes, Hot Rats, Lather, Uncle Meat, there is some incredible stuff on there and I will definitely give them a full spin at some point. Not that you have time or want to, but if so, gimme a playlist, stuff more in the instrumental vein, and I will for sure check them out.

Side note - I've been listening to an incredible podcast series called "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs", and the podcaster was doing an episode on the great Johnny Otis and mentioned that Zappa was a huge fan and in fact copied Otis for his trademark moustache and beard, a little trivia.

Back in the late 70's/early 80's, you would hear Dinah-Moe Hum or Montana on AOR stations, maybe Joe's Garage, then Dancing Fool. I would actually hear more Zappa tunes on Dr. Dememto (along with his "projects" like Captain Beefheart and Wild Man Fisher). Actually, the first complete Zappa album I heard was when the Pacifica station in Houston played a (at that time out of print) copy of "Lumpy Gravy", which blew me away and is still one of my favorite albums of all time, just for the instrumental bits. Years ago I picked up the 2 for 1 CD with Overnight Sensation/Apostrophe. A few years ago I got on Spotify and really tried to give Zappa a good hard listen. Started with Joe's Garage, only made it half way through. I know he was a musical genius, I get that, but I just can't get past the sophomoric lyrics. I get satire, I get humor, but to just be bludgeoned with it song after song after song, for me personally it just takes away from the music. I can definitely handle him in small doses, thinks like Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar are actually more enjoyable to me, Orchestral Favorites, I really like those. Just my .02 anyway.

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Yeah, just came to post that RS article. I've bought all the Super Deluxe editions except for Let It Be (I have so many bootlegs of that period, just not essential for me), but I will definitely be plonking down some cash for this one. Can't wait. I alredy have the Mono Box, so not sure if it is the same as what is coming out now, will have to compare.