Jim Alfredson

Jesus, Big Ben is hitting jumpers! In the pre-season, Hamilton seems to have his 3-point shot down pretty good, too. This is going to be a fun season!

George Blahah is one weird looking dude. I think he should just wear an afro wig this season, in respect to Big Ben. HA! The Pistons fans just boo'ed Stern as they introduced him! WTF?

I'm watching the opening of the Pistons NBA season... Anita is doing her thang. She's a bad mama. Anyway, when are sports teams going to stop using the frickin' "Final Countdown" as they introduce their players?! Criminey. When Anita sings, the Pistons win. GO KERRY!

From that photo, it looks like he might be pulling out his infamous Wicked Eb Above Middle C, known to cause orgasms in certain women.

and he's playing the mighty b3! cool!

Sounds like the guy missed the point. "He changed the tune!!! OH NO!"

Should be working now.

C'mon, that song is so annoying!!! The Miller Lite referee ads are much more clever.

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Moving this to the appropriate forum.

Do they sell donuts at Mavs games? If not, I see a business venture in your future...

"You say your brother's taken pictures. Well he can take as many as he please, 'Cos if he didn't come up and touch me Then it still wasn't me!"

I had to wait about 20 minutes (just got back) whereas my wife, who went as soon as the polls opened, had about an hour wait. I VOTED STRAIGHT US TAXPAYER/CONSTITUTION PARTY!!! ....not

Chuck, Why couldn't you have killed Blitzen as well? That fucker tore up my roof last year in a fit of rage once he found out that Rudolph had been banging his fiance. Oh wait, I think that was Moose.

The set up time for the drum machine is a lot less. Those drum cages are a bitch. And the drum machine probably doesn't pen lyrics like this gem:

In Latin percussion, they are known as "agogo" I believe. But we just call 'em cowbells! Randy has a slew of different cowbells and uses them here and there. It's a nice effect when it's not being hammered on the quarter notes for an entire set. Randy doesn't do that, by the way!

Up for Nessa.

I was asking if there is a difference between Neil Peart and a drum machine.

So I'm watching Monday Night Football and one of my most hated commercials has been on about 1,000 times (the stupid "twins" Coors commercial... I HATE that song and they've been using it on SportsCenter now, too!) and their tagline on the end of the commercial makes absolutely no sense. "Coors Lite: The coldest tasting beer!" Coldest tasting? Do they mean it's actually cold or it just tastes like it's cold? Can something taste cold without actually being cold? I mean, advertisers like to say that mints somehow taste cold but they don't. They taste like mint or some unnatural approximation thereof. Would you want your beer to taste minty anyway? I just don't get it.

He hasn't posted since August 24th. Where you at, bro?

If all he's doing is web surfing or word processing, it probably isn't faster. The power of the G5 lies in it's multimedia abilities.

Every drummer I've played with called it a cowbell. Fortunately, I haven't played with a drummer who had a cowbell in a long time. Years ago, I was in a band and our drummer was obsessed with Neal Peart from the band Rush. This drummer we had loved "exotic" percussion and playing triplets. Not a good combo for a jangly rock band. We replaced him with a drum machine. There's a difference?

It's running good for me. Anyone else having problems? As far as donating, I've said this before but please do not feel obligated to donate. If you can, great! If you can't, great!

I'm all over the VibraSlap. Also, as an homage to all that great 70s rock, look for synthesized wind intros and "pitch bend madness" (listen to the "Birds of Fire" record as an example).

To get back to the original post in this thread, adding cowbell was a common trick back in the 70s to add "groove" to a tune. The idea is that you have the cowbell playing quarter notes and then mix it underneath everything, so it's barely audible. It's almost subconscious, but it makes everything gel together better. In other words, listen for some serious cowbell on the next Organissimo record!