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Neil's too cerebral for Monopoly. My guess is he's a "Magic The Gathering" player.

For the male and female models involved in those swimsuit pics, I can imagine their agent coming to them and saying "I've got some good news and some bad news." These are just in time for this year's SI swimsuit issue. I hope I won't be disappointed.

(My 82 year old mother told me this joke just a couple months back) A man is suffering with erectile dysfunction. As he is embarrassed about it, his wife, Mary, goes to the local pharmacy to pick something to help. Mary goes to the pharmacist and says "Hey Tom, how's this new ED medication we've heard so much about?". Tom says "Oh, I've heard that it does an awesome job, definitely worth all the hype". Mary says "That's great, can you get it over the counter?". To which Tom replies "Maybe if I took two".

If you look up "tasty lick" in the dictionary, there should be a picture of Buck. He's got more of them to his name than just about any other guitarist. He was one of my first guitar idols (from back in the "Fire of Unknown Origin" days) and still is to this day.

It is a bit on the trippie side, isn't it? :D

I just listened to "Lonesome Crow" this past weekend. I was a huge Scorpions fan back in the early 80's, buying everything they had come out with at the time. One of these purchases was "Lonesome Crow" and my musically immature 18 year old mind just couldn't figure out what to do with it. Fast forward to around 2004 and I decided to give it another listen. It completely blew me away and continues to do so to this day. The fact that Michael Schenker was 16 when it was recorded makes me want to give up playing the guitar entirely. I'm not worthy.

I didn't know I was a member of the club until my lower back told me a couple years ago.

36. Focus - Hamburger Concerto

To me it sounds like he's trying to rip the neck and/or bridge off the freak'n guitar. I love just about every solo he has done, but I appreciate the energy he puts into this solo in particular (like he did much later with Kid Gloves).

Not sure if this has been discussed before or not. I apologize in advance if it has. In the guitar solo for "Cinderella Man", Alex goes wild with his whammy bar and at two distinct times during the solo (at the beginning and end) it sounds like he does a dive and then pulls back on the the tremolo to increase the pitch beyond the original note. He's does almost the exact same thing twice in the solo and, at both times as the pitch is rising, I hear a pretty loud creaking sound. My assumption is that he is not pulling up on the tremolo arm, but possibly using a finger to press down on a string above the nut to increase the pitch (a trick that I know Jimmy Page used from time to time). This "creaking" sound could then possibly be the string straining against the nut. I would guess that he didn't have a floating tremolo back then (i'm not sure when they started to become popular) to pull this off another way. Any opinions as to what this sound is?

I agree that a desire to get that one more large influx of cash would be the only thing that would get him to do it one more time. I believe that he's beyond the point of no return physically, but if he feels better after a long rest, one never knows. I know that discussing this is beating a dead horse, but it's interesting to think about none the less. I'm sure that he's a smart man and gets proper financial advice, but just that "dangling carrot" of one last big payday could be awfully tempting. As far as his books go, if he enjoys writing them, then he'll continue. I'm not sure he's overly concerned if they sell or not.

Due to the guitar distortion factor, I'll say "Lilywhite Lilith" from The Lamb. My runner-up would be "Land of Confusion".

Michael Caine loses just because he did "Jaws: The Revenge". I saw an interview with him years later where he said he didn't regret doing that film because it bought him a house. That's a total lack of artistic integrity.

I've been listening to GG's first album a lot lately. I can't help but think that, even though I enjoy "Acquiring the Taste", it was a significant drop off from their first quality wise.

I thought the vocals were fantastic on this album. It's too bad that Max Bacon left the music industry, because I fully believe he should be the one fronting Styx right now. In my opinion, he had a great voice, but no feel for the music. In his case, the great voice didn't make him a great singer. That being said, he'd be perfect for Styx :)

I literally just listened to the GTR album for the first time in (let's see, it came out in '86, so I haven't listened to it in) 30+ years and I stand by my "it sucked" review. The music could have been passable if they hadn't put that advert in melody maker for "Wanted: Completely soulless singer with a good set of pipes". I'm not sure I can forgive Hackett for stealing his own instrumental...It bothered me doubly upon my re-listen today. I guess he figured that nobody would notice given his solo album sales. To be honest, I believe that Steve Howe's instrumental piece was regurgitated from somewhere else also.

I've become my father when it comes to nodding off. I used to laugh at him when he'd fall asleep after sitting down for five minutes. Now my son laughs at me. It's the circle of life.

NO U SUCK Anyway you do have a point though. Apparently both Steves ended up hating each other after their only tour was over. I never knew that there was any animosity between them. I do remember an interview where Steve Hackett said he was disappointed.with management for letting them get into serious financial trouble. I always assumed that there would have been enough musical differences between them to the point of where they wouldn't get along. It could only have continued if that album performed fantastically on the charts and they were raking in enough dough to put aside their differences.

GTR had no prayer of continuing. The two Steves would never have been able to co-exist for the long haul (or even the slightly longer than short haul). Also, the music sucked. Hearing Steve Hackett borrow one of his own instrumentals for the GTR album was all I needed to hear. I'm sure they were hoping for an "Asia" type response to the music which, thankfully, didn't happen. GTR was purely a cash grab which backfired.

It's a very so-so album that was followed by an awesome tour.

Maybe not the most jarring, but "Going for the One" off of "Going for the One" by Yes is the one that stands out to me. That pedal steel guitar intro was so "UnYes_like" when compared to the material on "Relayer" and "TFTO" that I couldn't help but love it right off the bat.

I only got into Rush in the early 80's and knew going in that "Caress" was the "red-headed stepchild" of their collection. I enjoy it, but I'll admit that I had low expectations just because of what I'd heard about it. It's obvious why it wasn't a big seller.

Speaking of Rush album covers. I remember reading an interview where the band said that they were disappointed in the "Caress of Steel" album cover because the wording ended up looking more brass than steel. Given that it was Hugh Syme's first album cover for the band, I wonder what made the boys decide to stick with him for the long haul.

I've always loved Ian Anderson's lyric writing. Thick as a Brick and Baker St. Muse are two great examples. I think in J.T.'s entire body of work, I'd only consider a handful to be weak lyrically. Ian was on top of his game 95% of the time.

I think La Villa was his best performance on record.