How does a cave have seasons?
James Pearl Thinks Blogging is Dead
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thegock
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thegock
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Hmmmmm...Me First and the Gimme Gimmes may be actually the mislabeled file on my phone.
Why do they always up-tempo when someone covers a classic song? Chili Peppers Higher Ground only makes me want to turn off radio and play the original from Stevie. It rarely works, except this one time I was in the Court Tavern in the early 90s and this punk band did a cover of Maxine Nightengales Right Back Where we Started From, blew the house down. Guess u had to be there.
thegock
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In the instance of "Seasons in the Sun", it needed some tempo, like when the clam chowder needs some salt...
Punk/ska covers are where it's at man-
If it's too up-tempo, you're too old!
The off tempo of OG is what makes it interesting . It's gotta be interesting, Devo's cover of Satisfaction or Sinead O' Connor, Nothing Compares to You(a Prince song) or the classic Patsy Cline Crazy(a Willie song) all interesting, they made a statement and it worked.
rick81721
Lothar
But you're a Queen hater - just made the rouge gallery list!
Not a Queen hater, there like Foreigner or Kansas imo, just an average 70s band. I guess because Freddy Mercury was one of the first semi out gay man in the 70s he and his band are now revered.
rick81721
Lothar
Eh I put them in a different category from Foreigner or Kansas. Mercury was an amazing vocalist, and May a great guitarist. Some of their songs were lame but they had many good ones. I don't think the gay thing had anything to do with their popularity while Freddie was still alive.
Agreed, however you're famous when you're dead, 1970s gay and dead = 2x famous.
i don't think he is all about queen - sure BR is a classic, as in wayne's world -
- he sang Show Must Go On because it meant everything to him
- he was popular in europe outside the rock world, consider Barcelona, this was the theatrical performance, not the best live performance
- also his performances with Pavarotti - look up simon le bon attempting to sing with Luciano.
i'm figuring RockU/Champions was part of your hs experience?
leftoverture was a year before Foreigner 1, and News of the World.
as an individual album, it dominates both of them. The Wall is one of my favorite rock ballads.
As a band, there is no question Queen stands well above anything Lou Gram was able to accomplish with or without the band.
Kansas was a studio band, like Boston (although i saw boston at giants stadium - sucked, the Outlaws, didn't suck)
is it their commercial success that makes them average? not every one was listening to the ramones and dead kennedys.
Esp the ramones at every smokey venue in w/i 50 miles!
As a performer, FM was way above average.
Event of the Day: Cyclocross Nationals & the Pre-Ride
After 7 hours of solid sleep, I woke up at 6:00 and did the breakfast thing and we got out of here before 7:00. Number pickup was 7:30 so we wanted to be there in time to get everything and get on the course by 8:00. Unlike the local races, they have very strict pre-ride time slots. Today was 8:00-8:20 then 11:20-11:40. They may have had some later in the day but these were the 2 we were looking for. Being 700 miles west but in the same time zone, the sun rises later here so at 7:00, we were still in the dark.
Number pickup was painless and we were on the course for 2+ laps. I'm not going to pull punches with this evaluation. I will make it short & sweet. This course is fucking brutal.
After the pre ride we watched Laura Van Gilder obliterate her field for the NC then we watched Stacey do the same for her class. They made the East Coast proud.
After that race we got on for the next open course. I did 2 laps and nothing had changed. It was still brutal. I have to say that at this point I'm very disappointed in this course. I was fully expecting to come down here and get something that was in-line with Northampton but this is not remotely close. The one thing I kept telling myself was that despite my not really being able to compete in this, the course would be fun and I would have a good time racing whoever I was racing against. After 4+ laps today I can say that this is not remotely enjoyable. It is what it is and we all race the same thing. But this is a real big letdown.
It doesn't help matters that I feel like absolute shit today. I don't know if it's the series of bad nights of sleep I've gotten this week or I'm still sick, or sick again, or yesterday's long drive got to me, or what. But as I sit on this couch at 4:30pm on Thursday afternoon I can tell you that I feel like crap. I'm now regretting having bothered to taper at all because I feel like I've wasted ~3 weeks trying to keep myself fresh and not be too tired. But I feel flat and exhausted. And with less volume I probably gained 5 pounds and after riding up these hills today, I guess I should have spent every day riding as much as I can.
There is also the reality that I have been training all fall to ride my bike at 2:00 in the afternoon so starting the day at 8:00 am was a gut punch for sure. I'm hoping that I get another good night of sleep and the 2:10 race start works out for the best tomorrow. I haven't been much worried about this day for the past few weeks because it's mostly a matter of showing up and doing what you do. At this point, you just let the training take over and try not to derail things too much. Beyond that you can't really make much more of a difference in how things go.
Spent much of the rest of the day back at the house trying to relax. At this point, I'm just gonna try to enjoy the trip as much as I can and let tomorrow fall where it falls. I just wish I felt physically better than I do. All I want to do right now is to lay on the couch then lay in bed and go to sleep early. But I'm going to scrape myself up and go see this State of Cyclocross film & discussion with Adam Myerson & Tim Johnson. Mostly this is because I will feel like a loser if all I do is go to Louisville and lay in some Airbnb bed. Plus I paid for it.
Ok, that felt good to vent a little. I am starting 96th tomorrow so all I hope to do is come in 95th or better. We are setting the bar really, really goddamn low on this one.
After 7 hours of solid sleep, I woke up at 6:00 and did the breakfast thing and we got out of here before 7:00. Number pickup was 7:30 so we wanted to be there in time to get everything and get on the course by 8:00. Unlike the local races, they have very strict pre-ride time slots. Today was 8:00-8:20 then 11:20-11:40. They may have had some later in the day but these were the 2 we were looking for. Being 700 miles west but in the same time zone, the sun rises later here so at 7:00, we were still in the dark.
Number pickup was painless and we were on the course for 2+ laps. I'm not going to pull punches with this evaluation. I will make it short & sweet. This course is fucking brutal.
After the pre ride we watched Laura Van Gilder obliterate her field for the NC then we watched Stacey do the same for her class. They made the East Coast proud.
After that race we got on for the next open course. I did 2 laps and nothing had changed. It was still brutal. I have to say that at this point I'm very disappointed in this course. I was fully expecting to come down here and get something that was in-line with Northampton but this is not remotely close. The one thing I kept telling myself was that despite my not really being able to compete in this, the course would be fun and I would have a good time racing whoever I was racing against. After 4+ laps today I can say that this is not remotely enjoyable. It is what it is and we all race the same thing. But this is a real big letdown.
It doesn't help matters that I feel like absolute shit today. I don't know if it's the series of bad nights of sleep I've gotten this week or I'm still sick, or sick again, or yesterday's long drive got to me, or what. But as I sit on this couch at 4:30pm on Thursday afternoon I can tell you that I feel like crap. I'm now regretting having bothered to taper at all because I feel like I've wasted ~3 weeks trying to keep myself fresh and not be too tired. But I feel flat and exhausted. And with less volume I probably gained 5 pounds and after riding up these hills today, I guess I should have spent every day riding as much as I can.
There is also the reality that I have been training all fall to ride my bike at 2:00 in the afternoon so starting the day at 8:00 am was a gut punch for sure. I'm hoping that I get another good night of sleep and the 2:10 race start works out for the best tomorrow. I haven't been much worried about this day for the past few weeks because it's mostly a matter of showing up and doing what you do. At this point, you just let the training take over and try not to derail things too much. Beyond that you can't really make much more of a difference in how things go.
Spent much of the rest of the day back at the house trying to relax. At this point, I'm just gonna try to enjoy the trip as much as I can and let tomorrow fall where it falls. I just wish I felt physically better than I do. All I want to do right now is to lay on the couch then lay in bed and go to sleep early. But I'm going to scrape myself up and go see this State of Cyclocross film & discussion with Adam Myerson & Tim Johnson. Mostly this is because I will feel like a loser if all I do is go to Louisville and lay in some Airbnb bed. Plus I paid for it.
Ok, that felt good to vent a little. I am starting 96th tomorrow so all I hope to do is come in 95th or better. We are setting the bar really, really goddamn low on this one.
