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  8. Pink Floyd "Animals"

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    Eh. This album has its moments for sure, but I think the band was past its creative prime by this point. The experimental edge was almost entirely gone as was Rick Wright's creative input. I'd compare it to some other late 70s prog rock albums like Going for the One and Wind & Wuthering. Nice albums, but not on the level of their earlier work.

    WHAT? Wind & Wuthering is a brilliant album. Beautiful writing and lyricism on that record. Ditto for And Then There Were Three... And Duke is probably the most underrated Genesis album of all time (and their last true prog record). Genesis was still making good prog into the early 80s.

    But anyway... yeah, I wore out my cassette copy of Animals in middle school. I recently listened to it for the first time in probably 20 years this winter and I forgot how good it is. Dark, yes. Brooding, yes. But I liked the stripped down nature of it.

    I saw the recent Roger Water's The Wall tour and it was incredible. That album is amazing just from a mere production standpoint. The themes are a bit overwrought and it is extremely self-indulgent but I still like it.

  11. The musician's blues...

    in Musician's Forum

    Posted

    Just a small vent of frustration:

    Had a gig an hour and forty-five minutes away from Lansing in Wyandotte, MI tonight. Work has been slow the last few months, even the national touring work I do, so I'm a bit stretched right now. I took this gig because I enjoy playing with the other musicians but also because I need the money. And the money on this gig was shit to begin with. Gas is $4.29 in Michigan right now and the gig only paid $100. I probably spent $40 in gas at least getting to and from the gig.

    Anyway, I'm almost to the gig, flowing with traffic down Southfield Freeway, and I turn right on Jefferson, using my signal. Moments later the flashing lights are behind me. Cop pulls me over. I'm thinking maybe I have a tail light out or something. I haven't gotten a speeding ticket in 6 years or more because I don't speed anymore... used to when I was younger but I got over that shit.

    He comes up to the window. License and registration, proof of insurance, all that jive. I'm always friendly and polite to cops. He asks me if I know why he's pulled me over. I tell him honestly no. He said I was going 45 in a 35mph. I said I had no idea what the speed limit was, I was just flowing with traffic, which is true. He looks at my license and asks if I still live in Lansing. I say yes. "What are you doing here?" he asks. Playing a gig in Wyandotte, trying to make a buck.

    He goes to his car, comes back and writes me a ticket for "impeding traffic". He's trying to be nice. That ticket means no points on my license, no increase in my insurance. But it also means I cannot fight it and it's a $116 fine. Did I mention the gig only paid $100.

    I fucking hate that shit. I could've stayed home with my wife and kids and I would've SAVED money.

    That's my rant. :)

  15. 2013 Summer Funddrive

    in Forums Discussion

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    Y'all may have noticed the board was down. Actually my entire server was down because I owed the hosting company $600. Hence the funddrive. So far we've gotten $250. I had to pay the rest of the bill on my own personal credit card, much to the chagrin of my very patient wife in order to get the server turned back on.

  19. 2013 Summer Funddrive

    in Forums Discussion

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    It's that time again.

    For our new members from JC (and anyone else who missed this information the first few times around), it costs $1800 a year to keep this place online. Rather than try to raise all that money at once, the forum members agreed on tri-annual fundraisers. Our last one was in November/December of 2012. It's that time again. Actually, it's a bit later because we raised enough the last time to pay for 5 months of hosting instead of four.

    So... the goal is $600. Paypal to b3groover at hotmail dot com. If you would like to send a check, make it out to me (Jim Alfredson) and send to:

    PO Box 27551
    Lansing, MI 48909


    Thanks!
    ----Jim

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