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  1. 16 hours ago, Stryder1978 said:

    Funny you should mention that.  One weekend I had nothing better to do so I kept track of all the commercials on TV Friday night through Sunday night.  I did the math that Monday and found that 87.2% of all the commercials I watched featured a black person (NOT a person of color, i.e., Asian, Hispanic, Native American, etc.) in a major role in each ad.  If you were coming from a foreign country to visit here, and judged the US demographic by watching TV in your hotel room, you'd thin the U.S. comprised of 90% blacks, rather than the 14% that actually reside here!    

    What's even more insulting is on rare occasion when a straight white male is included in a commercial they are almost always portrayed as inconsequential, an idiot or a cuckold. 

    This will keep you up at night. In 1970 the population of London was nearly 91% white. In 2023? 39%...and falling. 

  2. 9 hours ago, reids said:

    R.I.P. 

    R😎

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    Denny Laine is the father of Helen Grant's daughter Lucianne, born in 1987. Peter Grant once referred to him as "a waste of food". 😄

  3. 11 hours ago, The Only Way To Fly said:

    Totally agree, today I was playing the soundtrack to American Graffiti. It opens with Rock Around The Clock and is packed full of great 50's rockers.  

    As I thought more about it I had the realization free form radio was in large part responsible for cultivating my broad knowledge and awareness of popular music. Nowadays, if younger listeners are tuned into radio at all, they're probably being fed a steady diet of programming lists that have at best a couple dozen different songs.

  4. It depends on the age of the contestants. I'd fully expect most Baby Boomers to know the answer, and at least half of Generation X, but beyond that all bets are off.

    I remember about five years ago I asked a Millennial to name in reverse order the US Presidents. They struggled to reply "Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton"...silence...  
     
    Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy was released 50 YEARS ago, but it's not so much like asking a kid in 2000 to name a number one album from 1950. Rather, the 
    realization that there are fewer and fewer truly universal pop culture points of reference being established within the 21st century entertainment landscape. We had 
    AM/FM and three main tv channels providing 90% of pop culture entertainment. These Tide pod eaters have 200 channel cable tv packages, streaming and the net.
     
    Actually, I myself have noticed over the past ten years that whenever a so-called celebrity death makes the news I have no idea who those celebrities are. I'd be hard
    pressed to name three shows on television right now, or a single hit song on any pop chart. It's strange because not only are the '70s-'80s right in my wheelhouse, as
    expected, but I also have more than a fair amount of knowledge about pop culture from the '50-60s, whereas again the Millenials are completely self-referential. They 
    think history began when they were born.          
  5. 16 hours ago, custard pie man said:

    I can remember listening to Imus in the morning decades ago while at work and his producer Bernard Mcgurk(?) would do his Cardinal Occonnor bit and sometimes  talk about  this book selling in NY City called " Heather has two Mommies" and everyone would be yucking it up well no ones laughing now

    I too was an avid Imus listener and recall all of that.

    Just as abortion has morphed from "safe, legal and rare" to "on demand at anytime" so too "Heather Has Two Mommies" has morphed to "Heather Has Two Mommies, Doesn't Know Which Bathroom to Use and was Defeated in a Women's Sports Competition by a Biological Male".   

  6. Each of the four was irreplaceable and the loss of one, regardless of whom, meant the end. With the benefit of hindsight, Page should not have spent most of the rest of his active days pursuing an approximation of the original. 

  7. On 11/26/2023 at 11:38 AM, ohjimmy said:

    I don’t believe Artie recorded the Montreal show. Those are some French Canadians working the recorder. 

    That is my recollection as well. I have the vinyl bootleg too but haven't listened to it in 30 years. The recording is undoubtedly on the internet.

  8. On 11/23/2023 at 7:10 AM, hummingbird69 said:

    This picture is a great metaphor for the state of the country at Bidens hands. Just look at him smirk while the country burns. He's holding onto that table like he thinks he's gonna fall off.

    Isn't it something how wrinkles and grey hair add some gravitas to a wholly corrupt, lifelong grifter? Oh well, at least Jimmy Carter can join Rosylyn in heaven knowing he's no longer the worst President in America's history thanks to Joe Xiden.

  9. 11 hours ago, in_the_evening said:

    The whole "performance" was what, three minutes?  Rumble, if memory serves correctly, is composed mostly of three major chords.  It is not that difficult to play.

    Complexity wasn't the point, paying homage to Link Wray was and to that end he delivered a five star tribute.

    Recognize and appreciate what he and his bandmates accomplished sonically on stage that night -- the TONE and DELIVERY is a mirror image of the original recording.  

  10. 12 hours ago, custard pie man said:

    funny! what is even  funnier was watching Biden looking dazed and confused and once again needing help and direction  as to what to do and where to go next after laying wreath on tomb, god help us all

    Biden can't navigate a salad bar without assistance.

  11. On 11/8/2023 at 3:17 AM, custard pie man said:

    10-15 minutes top, shit Steve you could be a hooker and make some monet to boot 🤣, seriously this is why I have lived in the country, have acerage, peacefulness, hunt , fish and stay off or never have  been on facebook or twitter, and with 2 of my 3 kids choosing to live in big cities when I visit them  and experience their  challenges I realize how fortunate I am to be a sort of Dinosaur, I have neighbors I might say hello to but that's it, a few very trusted friends that my wife and I hang with, got rid of my home phone years ago so the past can't keep calling

    I used to feel bad about letting calls go straight to voicemail, especially if I knew it was someone seeking to "catch up" or "reconnect". You know the great singer John Mellencamp? He of all people changed my philosophy about the phone such that I now have no qualms whatsover about ignoring calls. He said "I have a cellphone but it's for MY convienence".  

    I'd really like an isolated place in the country but, and I know this is going to sound illogical, I don't think I could relax not knowing what was out there. I'm fearful about my personal security, especially as I grow older. I suppose I could retain a security detail but that speaks to Bong Man's point about would something complement or complicate day to day living. 

  12. I gotta get this off my chest and let me know if you can relate. I'll preface this by saying it has nothing to do with anyone here. All that said, it's a source of deep resentment for me to encounter people I haven't seen in years and years and they'll gradually take that as an opportunity to unload all of their bullshit on me for free advice or counsel. Immigration concerns, tax issues, home buying or repair and on and on. The moment you tell them something they disagree with they want to argue the point, and they are arguing from ignorance because they never made the effort to become more well informed in the first place. Even more infuriating is when it's not someone I haven't seen in years and years, but someone I barely know who uses a mutual acquantaince as a conduit for similar support. Finally, how about people you seldom if ever see who want to cold call you on a weekend to "catch up". In other words, waste two hours of your time on a bunch of meaningless bullshit of no consequence to what's going on today. You know, Ozzy once said he makes it a point to cut ties with people from the past...childhood friends, whatever...as otherwise it leads to sustaining connections that have long since lost any relevance to your current life. I didn't necessarily agree with that at the time, but seriously, the older I get I just want to be left alone. I don't mind dealing with people but I prefer to do so in small doses --- ten or fifteen minutes tops.   

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