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19 hours ago, Segue Myles said:

I've never hated an album with so much positivity in my life

Just based on the few things EP and Mick said, there, I’m steering clear of it, for sure. And thank you!

55 minutes ago, Rhyta said:

I am so sorry to hear this, it's a sobering thought to realize you soon will be the lone member of your family.  We lost my SIL last Mother's Day and my hubby had it hit him that he is the sole member of his family left.  Just had the 7th year anniversary of my Mother's death, in July 8 years for my MIL, can't believe they have been gone that long.

 

Hope you have others who you can lean on, I wish you well my friend...again sorry to hear this.

Thank you, my friend.

So my father passed away last year. Confident, positive, physically active and very healthy, all the way up to age 75. And then metastatic prostate cancer took two years to completely waste him away.

I was on holiday with family last week, including my mother and stepfather- my mother is not doing well. Lots of mobility issues, and she has a condition called CAA (cerebral amyloid angiopathy)- the effects of which basically mimic Alzheimer’s disease. Proteins build up in the brain and cause the blood vessels to rupture. I honestly don’t think she has very long. Another year or two, maybe. (And that might be optimistic. Or it might not. I really have no idea). 
 

So that would be both parents, in a relatively short period of time. And my sister died, close to 15 years ago.

So then it’ll just be me.

I’m a very positive person. But I’d be lying if I said that nothing ever gets me down.

I don’t often post in these threads (made your day, made you sad, made you facepalm)- and as it’s 6:15 in the morning, there’s not much that has happened for me yet TODAY…but I’ll put a few things in here:

I was accepted to graduate school, about a month ago.

My son was accepted to the Fisher College of Business at THE Ohio State University, just yesterday. He’ll start on the second year of his Bachelor’s degree in August.

And last week I got to vacation in a tropical paradise. 
 

So 🤷🏼‍♂️ Not bad, right?

On 6/8/2023 at 3:37 PM, IbanezJem said:

Collected my new car, and it`s awesome.

I also got a new car, about six weeks ago. Love it.

I was out last week and I’ve just now seen this- feliz aniversario, meu amigo!

I hope this finds you well, Rodrigo.

Just got done acquainting myself with the last 20-odd pages of this thread since I last posted in it, more than three years ago (!)…and the only bands I’ve listed in this venture are the Black Crowes and Steely Dan. Certainly I’ve got more up my sleeve. I’ll get to it.
 

At least in another year or two. Lmao…

Because of the damn CCR and Jethro Tull thread-

CCR- Down on the Corner

Just…just leave!! Ffs 🤦‍♂️

Genesis- Foxtrot

I don’t obsess over any bands anymore. Which isn’t to say that I don’t love music as much as ever- I absolutely do.

But obsessing, like a little schoolgirl, talking about how dreamy some group is? Not for me, thanks. 
 

Maybe I’ve become an old curmudgeon?

(**as he puts on the latest Megadeth for the 317th time and thrashes his thin-haired head around, in joyful release…**)

I have been off of LC’s trail for a few years now, but I still love what I know of them. The latest album of theirs that I was aware of before they fell off my radar was Black Anima- and honestly, I don’t remember it at all. So I should give it another listen.

I thought Delirium was a bit of a step down after Broken Crown Halo. But BCH is my favourite of theirs by a pretty good margin. So… 🤷🏼‍♂️

3 hours ago, Mithrandir said:

Different eras.  So confusing with them!

 

I really like the albums with Danny Kirwan

Yeah, I will admit I have given the 1970-‘73 period rather short shrift. But, like I do like Bare Trees a lot.

2 hours ago, bluefox4000 said:

 

CCR couldn't and they shouldn't.

 

Flip side i don't tull could ever do swamp rock.

 

Mick

Oh I don’t disagree with that, haha.

1 hour ago, Chronos said:

 

Comus -- First Utterance (1971)

 

Acoustic, psychedelic folk ... with twisted, macabre lyrics touching on rape, necrophilia, etc.

I should check this out. Not for the lyrical content. But ‘acoustic, psychedelic folk’ is right in my wheelhouse.

Hemispheres

Freewill

Huh?

I had two quesadillas for lunch 🤷🏼‍♂️

Traveling Without Moving- Jamiroquai

Last week I read A Word Child, by Iris Murdoch.

Currently- Solito, by Javier Zamora

Deep in Britpop today:

Blur- The Great Escape

Oasis- What’s the Story Morning Glory

Charlatans UK- Up to Our Hips

So if the vocals were still being recorded as of last month- are we still potentially maybe six more months away from release? Or more? Does anyone know? Has the band said?

I can’t post what I want to say about the discussion above without sounding like a complete snob. But I’m wondering if I should even care about that.

CCR does have more commercial appeal, for sure. I don’t question that at all. But it’s an odd comparison, CCR and Tull. Jethro Tull is quintessentially British, yes, and they are also as prog as prog rock can get- on Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play in particular. CCR never attempted anything as ambitious and risk-taking as those. But that’s not to put them down. They were just a straight-ahead American rock band in 4/4 time.
 

It’s purely a case of apples and oranges. 
 

On 6/9/2023 at 3:50 PM, Turbine Freight said:

Tull clean sweep.

Same. I like CCR, but still has become a top ten band all-time, for me. So it’s not close.

5 minutes ago, Mithrandir said:

Have listened to all of the different versions of Fleetwood Mac?

Do you mean all of the different eras, from Peter Green forward? 
 

Or various different versions of the self-titled album ‘Fleetwood Mac’?

(and in their discography there were two different albums that were both self titled- one with Buckingham and Nicks, and one that pre-dated them as well).

35 minutes ago, Chronos said:

 

Only 34 minutes in length. Noice.

I love those shorter records that really pack a punch.

And that doesn’t even have to be in a heavy metal sense. Like the album that John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman did together in 1963, is the same kind of thing. It’s just under 31 minutes, and totally blows me away.