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Homer: I’ll have the smiley face breakfast special. Uhh, but could you add a bacon nose? Plus bacon hair, bacon mustache, five o’clock shadow made of bacon bits and a bacon body.

 

morning all...


Justin and Rodd, congrats on the anniversaries.

I'm still looking through all the previous ONS. I really do like them!

Matt, I saw on one of your posts that you like Tool. Me too, I listen to them and APC for about 2 hrs yesterday doing lawn work.

 

echo, echo.....every time i come on here, all i get are crickets...

 

Woo Hoo... I worked it out so I can take a Personal day on Friday. My wife has Friday off as her "voluntary" work reduction, so we will have the day after 15th anniversary off. We put the kid on the bus and then can go out and enjoy the day...


I dunno... the talk about Lacey Chabert is kind of creepy, when the last thing I saw her in was Lost in Space in 1998... she was just a kid then and that is how I remember her....

Keep up the ONS as long as you can Micah! We all appreciate them!

 

I like them and have listened to them, but I'm not a big fan or anything....that was actually a bit of an inside joke, what you saw... Sorry for misleading.... :ashamed001

How's things with the dog? Feel free to email me with updates if you'd like...

 

I got to see APC open for Nine Inch Nails in Houston the night their first album came out. I drove to Denver to see Tool on their Lateralus pre-tour. That was at Red Rocks which is an awesome venue. King Crimson opened for them. I had never heard of King Crimson, but man, they've been making some good music for a lot of years.

I remember thinking, man those guys on stage are a little old for this concert... must be doing a sound check or something. Then Fripp sits down with the guitar next to a stack of equipment and starts playing. It took a couple of minutes for me to figure out what was going on, but those guys do some really interesting and complicated guitar melodies. Their current bassist is pretty amazing too, he plays a touch-bass and he's good at it.

Want to go home. Work is overwhelming me lately. Unfortunately, going home would only make it worse.

 

Well, just put the finishing touches on #47--- You guys talked me into it. I'm gonna keep going.

 

Woo hoo!! glad to hear that we could twist your arm into keeping it running!

 

I figure I might as well make it to 50, at least, if not higher.

 

I have King Crimson on the To Get list

what's up at work, man? Just beat down.

 

King Crimson has been around since the 60's (late british invasion). Their style morphed constantly over the years. I like their most recent albums the best.

Everyone wants everything done yesterday and it's just piling up. Stress doesn't help get it done any quicker. I do reliability testing on high frequency chips and I wonder if I'm really in the right career sometimes. That just stresses me out more.

 

For some reason, I feel the need to post this again.

 

You ever listen to Porupine Tree. They've been around awhile too but i really like their newest album much heavier than they're other stuff.

I hear ya. Our sales volume is tanking right now and that just means tons of analysis for Kevin. Trying to find the needle in the hay stack.

 

Feeling a lot better now. Just had my weekly meeting with all of the people I'm doing testing for. Still a lot of work to be done, but it doesn't feel like I have everyone breathing down my neck.

Never heard of Porcupine Tree, I'll have to try them out. I've been listening to mostly German industrial for a while now. Oomph! is great stuff, if you like heavy music and don't mind the lyrics being mostly in German. (like Rammstein without the perverted stuff)

 

I am truly envious. I would have loved to have seen King Crimson on that tour!

King Crimson's gone through many phases and lineups and they've covered a wide range of genres. They were cutting edge supergroup when they started in 1968 (I might be off on the year). Members spun off to form Emerson, Lake and Palmer among other bands. The only member to have been in KC throughout is Robert Fripp.

My favorite era is 72-74, which featured Bill Bruford of Yes on Drums and John Wetton (of later Asia fame on bass and vocals). This covers the albums Lark's Tongue in Aspic (my avatar), Starless and Bible Black, and Red.

I'd recommend you start with one of those.

The 72-74 timeframe is also when they most sounded like Tool. Tool drew heavily from parts of KC's 74 album Red for the sound and tone of their first album Undertow.

To each his own, I suppose.

 

I do have to agree that Lark's Tongue in Aspic and Red were great. I haven't heard much from Starless and Bible Black, unfortunately. Their new stuff is pretty experimental, but I like the complicated guitar parts that they've been playing with. One of the interesting sounds is two guitars, playing a similar melody, but a half step apart. Gunn's baselines tend to be fast and with all of that combined it just kind of tickles my brain a little.

Fripp is a really amazing guitarist, but unlike most of the really accomplished guitarists, he likes to twiddle knobs too. He uses a really impressive stack of effects these days, many of which are rather unconventional. That's why he plays seated in concert, facing the equipment rather than the crowd.

 

I owned Starless and Bible Black for about a day before I lost it. It's mostly a live album if I remember right and served as a bit of a warm up for Red.

Was it Gunn who worked with Reznor for a while? I seem to remember he was on the Downward Spiral or the Fragile.

 

Hi Everybody!
Hope all is well with everyone.

 

Wow, I've been out of the loop for a while. I started listening to King Crimson in 2000 with The Construkction of Light and it seems the last album I picked up was in 2003. Apparently Gunn left King Crimson after that album to work on other things.

From a little looking around, it seems that the vocalist/guitarist Adrian Belew is the one you're thinking of, having been a session musician for Bowie, NIN, and several other major acts. As best I can tell, Belew is still part of King Crimson.

Useless trivia: Microsoft commissioned Robert Fripp to make the startup sound for Windows Vista.

 

that was my baby bashing on the keyboard. he is smokin' hot.

:love055 from me
love055 from mini me.