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Man! Nehi orange and grape sodas, especially with a few peanuts added, is the bomb. Mogrubb hasn't seen Nehi drinks in a long time, didn't know they were still made.

My condolences, Mark. I love my 18 yo cat, Dickens, and know her time is near.

The best real beer for the money, under seven bucks a six-pack, that's on the market.

I know, but when it became popular, certain people claimed that it would replace the orchestra. Obviously, that didn't happen. I understand, but the moog/syns did replace horns.

Bach's pretty cool, though.

Well, fuck you, clem. I agree about the humor, but, how much can you laugh at the same repetitive diatribe? It's a happening book. Lots of very hip people aren't usually wrong, but damned if I saw it. [Maybe I'll get another copy and give it another shot.]

re: tedious reading I read a few pages of Burrow's Naked Lunch one time, talk about tedium... Maybe someone with an exceptional memory and oversight could make sense of it but to me it seemed like repetitive, rambling gibberish.

Maybe it's "stupid" to talk ill of the dead, but, it's not stupid to know that synthesizers lessened the number of gigs for horns and strings by imitating their sounds. The Moog certainly ushered in these ideas and sounds. BTW, the piano replaced much of the harpsichord market, not the orchestra.

Bob Moog Dies at 71 Yeah, I bet a lot of horn and string players are still in mourning.

Sounds like a "cutting off your nose to spite your face" syndrome. Sad.

It just doesn't pay to be a horny camel.

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He's there to keep time and coordinate a big group. Do you really think everybody can really hear each other that well? I'm thinking a symphony orch concert where it's pretty darn quiet, they can hear a pin drop. I agree that the conductor is the visual focal point. As long as he knows where he's at the musicians can read him, know pretty much where they're at by reading his body english/emotional sensitivity. I think you'll agree that his main gig is rehearsing?

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I've been wanting to get one of those pink flamingo lawn ornaments.

I agree. The media and computers blow everything out of proportion, and with tremendous speed and repetition. It makes the abnormal appear to be the norm, or as if times are a-changing. There's no stability. We're drowning in our excesses too boot. I think I'll go hide under the bed until all this blows over.

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Didn't Kerouac write a book, the Psychedelic Bus, or something like that. It was ok, but, if I'm going to read about hobos, beatniks and/or hippies I'd rather read some John Steinbeck stuff.

Statistics can be strange. Anyhow, that's not how I remember it, the My Favorite Things recording was his first "hit." A Love Supreme was his next biggie in the global market.

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I'm not defending Lockhart, unless I'm missing something in your post, fwiw, the conductor's main function is to rehearse the orchestra/band. By the time the group gets on stage everything is supposedly so well prepared, the group is so together, that all he needs to do is give downbeats and cutoffs, maybe a few cues. It's common knowledge that he is mainly for show and emotional appeal at concerts.

It sounds like somebody was fucking with him, trying to make him lose his cool, which he did. He ought to kick that somebody's ass. re: MT Moore/Chuckles That had to be one of the funniest scenes ever on tv. It was hallarious.