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QUOTE (treeduck @ Nov 8 2006, 05:09 PM)http://www.poundart.com/art/comics/hduck4.jpg http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f321/mikemoran/NovDecCover185.jpg

QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Nov 8 2006, 04:51 PM) 'Traps: The Art of Drumming' and 'Mental Floss'. I checked out the Mental Floss website. That looks like something i would enjoy reading too!

The only thing I ask is that if someone subscribes to a magazine which could be considered political or partisan, state what you get and leave it at that please. No political discussions or attacks as I do not want this thread moved to Sense O'Clock news. The magazines I subscribe to include: Outside Backpacker The Atlantic Monthly US News and World Report Consumer Reports Chile Pepper Fiery Foods and Barbecue I like all of these but its my last year for Chile Pepper. I've subscribed to it for many years, but the recipes keep getting less and less hot and I feel the magazine has too many non-hot food articles.

I am really looking forward to reading that interview.

I have been Bucketized! Bucketized: 1. Someone who has just been introduced to the legendary guitar player Buckethead. 2. The experience of losing your Buckethead virginity. 3. Buckethead Baptism Source

Yeah, I checked in at the portnoy forum and they are freaking out about it!

QUOTE (The Rocinante @ Nov 6 2006, 07:12 PM) I just got Awake, probably my least favorite DT albums that I've Heard...but it's still a four-star album My sentiments exactly. My favorite from that disc is Scarred. Erotomania is good too.

Go Broncos! Many years ago I saw the Broncos spank the Steelers in Mile High.

Mortkort, I am not a player but a huge fan of instrumental guitar. I have seen that Steve Vai has written numerous articles that may be of interest to you. Perhaps you have seen them already or perhaps you are not interested but in case you are here is the link. http://www.vai.com/littleblackdots.html

QUOTE (D-13 @ Nov 5 2006, 12:17 PM) I just snowboard. Telemark skiing looks hard though! Kudos to you Tang! Well its not as if snowboarding is easy. I have nothing but of respect for snowboarders. To me its all good, nothing better than cruising down the mountain and feeling free.

I hear you Goose! That first day of the season is a killer on the legs. Typically I am only good for abut three runs on the first. I just noticed that I left out a key word in the title of the thread. A rip off of a semi-famous George Clinton phrase: Free your heel and your mind will follow!

just saw an ad on TV for www.photostamps.com and thought of this thread. http://photo.stamps.com/Store/?source=si10985886

QUOTE (goose @ Nov 4 2006, 11:24 AM) Ever been to Utah to ski? Amazing snow. Sadly no. When I lived in Summit County ( Breckenridge ) our season was longer than Utahs so typically I was working until we closed and by then all of the resorts in Utah had closed. I have spent some time in Utah in Arches and Canyonlands and have spent some time mountain biking trip in Moab. The Slickrock trail rules! I do have a good friend who is a groomer at Alta who has been trying to get me to come out to visit. One of these years.......

QUOTE (goose @ Nov 4 2006, 11:23 AM) Heavenly averages 360". Last year, 480"! Kirkwood, nearby, averages 500". Last year, 800". Epic.

QUOTE (goose @ Nov 4 2006, 11:03 AM) I live at the base of the Sierra Nevadas, 20 min from Heavenly Valley. Got my season pass and the first official day is Nov. 17! Pray for snow! I have heard great things about Heavenly Valley, maybe one year I can make it out there. Pray for snow is right! Breckenridge has Ullr Fest whihc is a week long party, Ullr is the supposedly the Norse good of snow. Back in the day there would be a huge bonfire built of broken skis and snowboards as a sacrifice to Ullr, in hopes of receiving lots of snow. The bonfire of skis and snowboards died out along time ago after the realization that it was not ecologically friendly and I believe a really drunk guy fell into the fire. How many inches of snow per year do you typically get out there?

Go for it Goose! Thats the real beauty of telemarking, getting in the backcountry. Telemarking is actually easier in deep powder than anywhere else IMO, because the deep snow slows you down and stabilizes you. You also do not expend energy holding an edge. I lived in Colorado from 1989 to 2004. Now I am in the mountains of North Carolina, which has skiing, but nothing great. I hope to make one trip up to Snowshoe in West Virginia this winter and then I am going out to my old stomping grounds of Breckenridge, CO in April for some spacing at Arapahoe Basin.

Thanks for the kind words Goose. Telemarking is one of those things that probably looks harder than it is. If you can ski already you could pick it up pretty quickly, plus with the plastic tele boots now used you can still do alpine turns if you need to. Give it a shot if you get a chance.

Any other Telemarkers out there? I've been using telemark skis since 1991, once I tried it, I never used alpine equipment again. Telemark skis are like beefy x-country skis with metal edges, with the boot attached only at the toe, leavinging the heel free to go up and down. The real beauty of this type of ski is realized in the steep and deep! from wikipedia Telemark The Telemark turn came to the attention of the Norwegian public in 1868, when Sondre Norheim took part in a ski jumping competition. Norheim's technique of fluid turns soon dominated skiing, and in Norway it continued to do well into the next century. Starting in the 1910s, newer techniques based on the stem gradually replaced Telemark in the Alpine countries. Newer techniques were easier to master and enabled shorter turns better suited for steeper alpine terrain and skiing downhill. The Telemark turn became the technique of ski touring in rolling terrain. The technique is named after the Telemark region of Norway, just as the Stem Christie turn was named after Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. Not only did Sondre Norhiem and his fellow skiers invent the telemark turn, but they used and refined parallel skiing techniques as well. Thus, while the telemark is part of early skiing's foundation, so are parallel techniques of equal importance. The Telemark Revival The revival in the Telemark technique, after its decline from popularity in the mid-1940s, first started out in United States in the 1970s. Telemark skiing was a back-to-basics reaction to the high-tech equipment developments of Alpine skiing, and the increasing reliance on crowded groomed pistes (trails). The use of traditional clothing was often (and sometimes still is) part of the Telemark skiing revival. The telemark revival started in Crested Butte, Colorado and quickly spread to many other areas in the Western United States. It came to the attention of a larger public with a demonstration by a team from the Professional Ski Instructors of America at Interski, Italy in 1983. It grew to prominence during the 1990s, but is still a minority sport. While some still choose Telemark for its counter-culture or "hip" image, others choose it because they enjoy the beauty of the turn, or for a fresh challenge, or to do downhill or cross-country skiing, on or off piste, and ski-touring, all on one well-chosen Telemark ski, once the Telemark technique has been mastered

Your not kiding! I've never seen such a tripping light show in my life. Considering their very low budget its quite impressive. Thanks for checking them out. PS- I posted a killer, very early version of Spocks Beard playing The Light in the beard thread you started.

I need it heavy duty! Well that was interesting, now for your punishment you need to go to Music of the spheres and check out my Ozric Tentacles thread!

QUOTE (priest_of_syrinx @ Nov 3 2006, 05:38 PM) Does anybody here have a CD called "An Evening With John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess"? I bought it at Best Buy last week and it's amazing! It has Rudess on piano and Petrucci mainly on acoustic guitar and I think the songs are all from Liquid Tension Experiment, but I'm not really sure. If you like DT, it's a must have. Only one of those songs is from the LTE projects to the best of my knowledge. State of Grace is from the first LTE disc. Great disc from the Favored Nations label. ( Steve Vai's label)

Its Yuengling time! How your supply holding out these days Third Hand Grace?

Chronicles of Narnia?

QUOTE (CygnusX-1Bk2 @ Oct 31 2006, 08:30 PM) Yngwie and the DT guys are of the same ilk. Too many notes, not enough heart. Nature versus nurture. Give me Johnny Ramone over these guys. At least he meant it when he played. Thought you might appreciate this or maybe not.............. From MP: JOEY RAMONE Believe it or not, for a period around 1980 & 1981 - The Ramones were my #1 favorite band. I saw them live many times back then - and somewhere here in my house I have a great picture of me and the 4 of them from when I was 13 years old...meeting them at that stage of my life was like meeting the Beatles or Kiss...If I ever dig up that picture I will post it here.. Here it is http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f321/mikemoran/MP--Ramones-81.jpg

QUOTE (RUSHHEAD666 @ Nov 3 2006, 01:45 AM) This would be like me joining the Dream Theater Forum so I can ask someone on there on how I can play like Alex Lifeson. It's nice that both fans of each band can co-exist on here. But come on. I am seeing more Dream Theater Threads than RUSH Threads. What's wrong with this picture? You know the funny thing is that there is ton of discussion about Rush and their members @ mikeportnoy.com. In fact I dare say that alot of the forumers there are more knowledgeable about Rush than many here............. It also appears to me that you post and write about DT as much or more than any else on this forum. If you stop fanning the flames perhaps the fire will die out? Tangy