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by King Crimson
Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:52 pm
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: What is the best Van Halen album?
Replies: 19
Views: 1800

the better cover of "where have all the good times gone" is on Bowie's Pinups record. VH self-titled is the only one worth listening to. unchained, cradle will rock are good singles. i like that part of panama, kind of break: "i can see the heat coming off the road, push down the seat...
by King Crimson
Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:57 pm
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Any concerts that it killed you to miss?
Replies: 25
Views: 1694

i missed seeing Junior Wells at teh Fox Theatre in Boulder due to an argument with a gf. had tickets and everything. he died about 2 months later. inverse, i did see Albert King (and his flying V) about 6 months before he passed. a friend of mine tried to talk me into going to a show at this lame bu...
by King Crimson
Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:50 pm
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Opening bands you wish you'd showed up in time for...
Replies: 12
Views: 957

i could have missed seeing the Thrills opening for the pixies last Sept. they were awful.
by King Crimson
Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:47 pm
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Listening to Soul Coughing right now...
Replies: 4
Views: 611

i saw Doughty a couple years ago and he seemed to blame the fans for SC breaking up. weird.
by King Crimson
Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:56 pm
Forum: Golf
Topic: 44% of Golf HOF voters are morons
Replies: 6
Views: 1690

i don't understand all the Vijay hate.....not just here.....in general. the guy is a player.

he's spoke to the so-called cheating thing.

sure, golf is about integrity...but i'm inclined to give the guy the benefit of doubt.
by King Crimson
Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:49 pm
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: what's your musical taste?
Replies: 17
Views: 1443

free jazz

bebop.

not-mtv/vh1
by King Crimson
Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:04 pm
Forum: Cooking Forum
Topic: i just made a KICK ASS soup
Replies: 6
Views: 1274

whole foods is cool...but you spend $ before you even touch a shopping cart.

for lentils and such--a decent middle eastern market can get you what you need.

for a lot cheaper.
by King Crimson
Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:59 pm
Forum: Golf
Topic: I'll give Darren Clarke this...
Replies: 5
Views: 1217

i played golf in Scotland summer before last with my Dad. and like every town had a restaurant (usually indian) or a pub with a picture of the owner with his arm around Darren Clarke both smiling blissfully. made me think DC is a pretty good guy. he really did fold at Hilton Head. happens to everyon...
by King Crimson
Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:51 pm
Forum: Golf
Topic: Gavin Coles
Replies: 1
Views: 811

i never heard of him either. he did something interesting yesterday holding the flagstick as a planer surface to check to slope of the green....visually. now, he left it about 5 feet short, so i don't know. but, i thought that was interesting. i've never seen anyone do that before. seems like a dece...
by King Crimson
Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:55 am
Forum: College Basketball
Topic: kleiza going pro
Replies: 8
Views: 527

i've heard about that video. "run around with no noticable pattern or logic, and then jack a 3 early in the shotclock. will confuse them everytime once they realize they are fighting teammates for rebounds" ** **yeah, i know Missouri has defeated OU in conference two OT games in which the ...
by King Crimson
Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:08 am
Forum: College Basketball
Topic: kleiza going pro
Replies: 8
Views: 527

mistake. good player, but that's not a good move. if it happens. unless he just doesn't like college* and wants to go back and play in europe. which is OK. i could see it.

bad for Mizzou, as well. real bad for the ever popular Quin.



*i know i found screwing co-eds tedious business.....
by King Crimson
Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:23 pm
Forum: College Basketball
Topic: Lets just hand Duke the ACC Crown right now
Replies: 24
Views: 828

i know the folks at Missouri's Tigerboard.com were shower rod when Hansborough commited out of state (UNC).

from everything i've read, he's a serious player.
by King Crimson
Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:42 am
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Pinball Wizard
Replies: 15
Views: 1196

he ain't the only one.
by King Crimson
Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:34 am
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: badfinger
Replies: 8
Views: 644

big star is much better than badfinger. bf is cool--with some high moments, but big star is really great songwriting. for the first two records--solid.
by King Crimson
Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:22 am
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: badfinger
Replies: 8
Views: 644

i didn't mean it like that: it was a complement to both.

Chris Bell's solo record is pretty cool.
by King Crimson
Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:18 am
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Listening to my kids music
Replies: 18
Views: 1194

rack the parents.

when i was kid we used to listen to sly and family stone, otis, and ray charles opening gifts on christmas.

james brown.

that's what i grew up on. i damn near thankful for it every day. i knew about Stand! and everyday people , fafafafa.....when i was 4.

white boy and all.
by King Crimson
Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:46 am
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: badfinger
Replies: 8
Views: 644

i still think you could drop "no matter what" onto the first song of side two of Radio City.....ya know.

Big Star is by far the superior outfit, but it's till knida interesting.
by King Crimson
Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:38 am
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: badfinger
Replies: 8
Views: 644

scritti wrote:their story is very heartbreaking...and a cautionary tale of how not to get fucked with a plunger in the music biz.
it's true.
by King Crimson
Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:25 pm
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Paul McCartney to tour this summer
Replies: 5
Views: 538

i've heard his show is painfully mechanical. same show, same jokes, same set list, etc. every night.

lot of acts do it, but not for 250$.
by King Crimson
Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:34 pm
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: badfinger
Replies: 8
Views: 644

badfinger

for years i worked in professional kitchens and we mostly listened to Norteno and other northern mexico musical stylings. some of it i've grown to actually like quite a bit. but, anyway, the one non-accordian option permissable to the pirates i worked witn was oldies radio. occasionally one of we gr...
by King Crimson
Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:27 pm
Forum: BIG TIME POWER COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Topic: Fanhome Poll - Stadiums
Replies: 28
Views: 3350

one these lists is a couple years old (before remodel/expansion of Memorial in Norman)--and makes the rounds in the off-season. there is also some problem in the total breakdown involving Owen Field and Folsom--in which the "Tradition" element is reversed--or something like that. I forget....
by King Crimson
Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:52 pm
Forum: ARCHIVE!
Topic: Okay, who has the pics of the NC State chicks?
Replies: 22
Views: 2853

wasn't that guy with the Duke tux in 3rd bass?
by King Crimson
Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:49 pm
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: you can now kiss Britney's career adios and sayonara...
Replies: 12
Views: 1603

it was more fun when Britny was a "virgin".
by King Crimson
Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:00 am
Forum: BIG TIME POWER COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Topic: The next Aaron Rodgers?
Replies: 34
Views: 2293

next time he doesn't get blown out by Texas Tech, a defensive powerhouse. please post again.
by King Crimson
Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:43 am
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Pinball Wizard
Replies: 15
Views: 1196

youth of today listening to pixies? search and destroy was on Life Aquatic. yeah, that's it. S&D. what else? Where's Penetration or your pretty face is going to hell? dude, when i saw the pixies last september i thought it was gonna be a bunch of aging indie rockers like me--i wasnt too sure ab...
by King Crimson
Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:40 am
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Pinball Wizard
Replies: 15
Views: 1196

on the subject of thematic covers....some of the greatest crimes on planet earth are on the Bee Gees sgt. Peppers. though, i do confess Aerosmith (who i truly hate what they have become--put out an album that's really a soundbite for a commercial) does a convincing job with come together (the B side...
by King Crimson
Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:31 am
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Pinball Wizard
Replies: 15
Views: 1196

go get the remastered 2 disc set live at leeds. it pisses off the purists with some overdubs but it's a sonic beast and the tommy disc rules.....it's worth it. if yer a who fan. there was a few years ago there was a VU revival among the college students--i saw a lot of t-shirts. it was interesting. ...
by King Crimson
Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:57 pm
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Best movies about music or musicians
Replies: 39
Views: 3043

velvet goldmine is the one i was thinking of. God Part II is a great U2 song, but i can't get with most of that record any more. if it weren't for that friggin ipod every 30 seconds for 6 months commercial i'd still sort of give U2 some respect....for hanging around this long. motley crue's cover of...
by King Crimson
Tue Apr 12, 2005 5:44 am
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Best movies about music or musicians
Replies: 39
Views: 3043

there was a glam rock film about 4-5 years ago--name escapes me. but, the Asheton brothers from teh stooges were in it. i think the name was lifted from a Bowie tune--or something.

the most hilarious *might just be* Rattle and Hum...IMHO, that flick did not age well.
by King Crimson
Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:08 pm
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Best movies about music or musicians
Replies: 39
Views: 3043

i saw Dig! It was pretty cool.

i posted about it on here or maybe back on scobode.
by King Crimson
Sat Apr 09, 2005 1:14 am
Forum: Cul de Smack
Topic: Motorcycle Diaries
Replies: 2
Views: 616

i saw it. thought it was pretty good.
by King Crimson
Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:47 am
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs.
Replies: 10
Views: 1512

actually, that's the only one. i looked it up but for some reason i always thought satisfaction was his first. he did do it a few months after the stones....appears.

mea culpa.
by King Crimson
Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:36 pm
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs.
Replies: 10
Views: 1512

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:That list just pisses me off. I guess I'm kind of old school in that I think of music in terms of albums, rather than songs. .
i tend to agree with that.

and what happened to the first post in this thread?
by King Crimson
Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:58 pm
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: B-felice or anyone else sort of mid/SW: Billy Nayer Show
Replies: 0
Views: 423

B-felice or anyone else sort of mid/SW: Billy Nayer Show

bizzaro, i don't know where you live, but thought maybe since you are an MU guy maybe near KC. I dig the BNS, quite a bit. too bad, they aren't doing the show and film screening of American Astronaut (check the trailor url below, it's great) as a two-fer. KC Ladies & Gentleman, The Billy Nayer S...
by King Crimson
Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:54 pm
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs.
Replies: 10
Views: 1512

i wouldn't choose Hey Jude as the best beatles song--not really sure which i'd choose if i had ta, but it woulnd;t be Hey Jude. also: noting that two of those songs were originally performed by Otis Redding.
by King Crimson
Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:04 pm
Forum: Golf
Topic: Why do they still let the old timers play Augusta?
Replies: 11
Views: 1313

it was a good tradition but the way they have to trick out the course and pin positions, and generally lengthen the older courses to account for the new equipment and better more well conditioned players, it's not feasible for the old guys to play well. what's their big poke off the tee? 210? that's...
by King Crimson
Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:35 am
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: What's spinning while you're reading?
Replies: 18
Views: 1737

e wrote:jet
i thought the major was a lady.
by King Crimson
Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:20 pm
Forum: College Basketball
Topic: "Those are ILLEGAL SCREENS! '; not being called!"
Replies: 9
Views: 722

live by the 3, die by the 3.

i did think Augustine got jobbed pretty hard.
by King Crimson
Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:06 am
Forum: Bitter_Pittsburgher music forum
Topic: What's spinning while you're reading?
Replies: 18
Views: 1737

Eric Dolphy--Complete Prestige recordings.

props on Astral Weeks. BTW.
by King Crimson
Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:08 am
Forum: College Basketball
Topic: SI's 20 Greatest College Players of All-Time
Replies: 41
Views: 2598

i don;t know. Corliss was a damn good player....as was Larry Johnson. i think grandmmama was about as dominant a college player as there was. before he hurt his back, no one could guard him.

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