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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #315 on: April 22, 2015, 06:12:36 PM »

Man O War lit with the Eagles singing Take'n It Easy
One of the few Eagles songs I truly hate.  Yes, it's a classic song.  But it is contrived and predictable and not at all indicative of what they would become...i.e. the most musically talented rock band ever assembled, and arguably the third greatest rock and roll band of all time (after the Beatles and the Stones).

But. Not. That. Song.

Sorry, rant over.
Glad you got it out of your system before going home and beating the warden or such.  Besides I am listening to Jack Johnson now.
Like Jack Johnson.  Warden likes Jack Johnson.  Good music for a warm spring afternoon by the pool.
And it is a warm spring day and I am by the pool.
GFY!  49 and windy.
81 and a light breeze
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #316 on: April 22, 2015, 06:13:43 PM »

50 ct. boxes of Papas Fritas in at Atlantic.  VIP price of $190.95 or $3.82/Frit.
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #317 on: April 22, 2015, 06:21:43 PM »

50 ct. boxes of Papas Fritas in at Atlantic.  VIP price of $190.95 or $3.82/Frit.
Supersize that order of French fries.
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #318 on: April 22, 2015, 06:23:03 PM »

50 ct. boxes of Papas Fritas in at Atlantic.  VIP price of $190.95 or $3.82/Frit.
Supersize that order of French fries.
That's exactly what they did.
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #319 on: April 22, 2015, 06:26:26 PM »

Man O War lit with the Eagles singing Take'n It Easy
One of the few Eagles songs I truly hate.  Yes, it's a classic song.  But it is contrived and predictable and not at all indicative of what they would become...i.e. the most musically talented rock band ever assembled, and arguably the third greatest rock and roll band of all time (after the Beatles and the Stones).

But. Not. That. Song.

Sorry, rant over.
Sheesh, every band has to start somewhere, and usually the early songs are not indicative of what a band will be come.  Don't think She Loves You or I Want to Hold Your Hand are clear indicators for the Beatles.
Besides, it's Dean's theme song (or should be)
Yes, but contextually, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" was groundbreaking work.  It seems trite now only because of what the Beatles went on to do.  But at the time, that was a whole new approach to rock and roll - musically, vocally, and compositionally.  It hearkened back to Elvis, Buddy Holly, and Chuck Berry, but no one but NO one was going to confuse the Beatles with those guys, let alone the pablum on the radio in 1964.  Pat Boone anyone?  Neil Sedaka?

By contrast, "Take it Easy" was just a knock-off.  It is utterly of it's time.  The last great gasp of the country rock movement started by the Byrds with "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" in 1968. All right, so it paid the bills so they could sit around and come up with "Witchy Woman", and "One of these Nights" and they could let Randy Meisner write "Take it to the Limit."  All of those songs have the unique interval skips and "Chuck-Berry-On-Roids" harmonic structures, along with the acerbic and emotionally ambivalent lyrics that marked all their later work.  All that serves to make "Take it Easy" the outlier that it is - a collaborative work with Jackson Browne and JD Souther, a sunny little stoner set-piece about a guy whose biggest problems are all the women in his wake, but Lord here comes his next victim.  If all the Eagles songs were guests at a party, "Take It Easy" would be the drunk, annoying guy who keeps babbling on about all the women he's going to fuck and ends up passed out by the toilet.

And that would all be fine except the radio played the damned thing to fucking death, and still does.
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #320 on: April 22, 2015, 06:28:23 PM »

Man O War lit with the Eagles singing Take'n It Easy
One of the few Eagles songs I truly hate.  Yes, it's a classic song.  But it is contrived and predictable and not at all indicative of what they would become...i.e. the most musically talented rock band ever assembled, and arguably the third greatest rock and roll band of all time (after the Beatles and the Stones).

But. Not. That. Song.

Sorry, rant over.
Sheesh, every band has to start somewhere, and usually the early songs are not indicative of what a band will be come.  Don't think She Loves You or I Want to Hold Your Hand are clear indicators for the Beatles.
Besides, it's Dean's theme song (or should be)
Yes, but contextually, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" was groundbreaking work.  It seems trite now only because of what the Beatles went on to do.  But at the time, that was a whole new approach to rock and roll - musically, vocally, and compositionally.  It hearkened back to Elvis, Buddy Holly, and Chuck Berry, but no one but NO one was going to confuse the Beatles with those guys, let alone the pablum on the radio in 1964.  Pat Boone anyone?  Neil Sedaka?

By contrast, "Take it Easy" was just a knock-off.  It is utterly of it's time.  The last great gasp of the country rock movement started by the Byrds with "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" in 1968. All right, so it paid the bills so they could sit around and come up with "Witchy Woman", and "One of these Nights" and they could let Randy Meisner write "Take it to the Limit."  All of those songs have the unique interval skips and "Chuck-Berry-On-Roids" harmonic structures, along with the acerbic and emotionally ambivalent lyrics that marked all their later work.  All that serves to make "Take it Easy" the outlier that it is - a collaborative work with Jackson Browne and JD Souther, a sunny little stoner set-piece about a guy whose biggest problems are all the women in his wake, but Lord here comes his next victim.  If all the Eagles songs were guests at a party, "Take It Easy" would be the drunk, annoying guy who keeps babbling on about all the women he's going to fuck and ends up passed out by the toilet.

And that would all be fine except the radio played the damned thing to fucking death, and still does.
Me, I just know what I like.
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #321 on: April 22, 2015, 06:29:13 PM »

Man O War lit with the Eagles singing Take'n It Easy
One of the few Eagles songs I truly hate.  Yes, it's a classic song.  But it is contrived and predictable and not at all indicative of what they would become...i.e. the most musically talented rock band ever assembled, and arguably the third greatest rock and roll band of all time (after the Beatles and the Stones).

But. Not. That. Song.

Sorry, rant over.
Sheesh, every band has to start somewhere, and usually the early songs are not indicative of what a band will be come.  Don't think She Loves You or I Want to Hold Your Hand are clear indicators for the Beatles.
Besides, it's Dean's theme song (or should be)
Yes, but contextually, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" was groundbreaking work.  It seems trite now only because of what the Beatles went on to do.  But at the time, that was a whole new approach to rock and roll - musically, vocally, and compositionally.  It hearkened back to Elvis, Buddy Holly, and Chuck Berry, but no one but NO one was going to confuse the Beatles with those guys, let alone the pablum on the radio in 1964.  Pat Boone anyone?  Neil Sedaka?

By contrast, "Take it Easy" was just a knock-off.  It is utterly of it's time.  The last great gasp of the country rock movement started by the Byrds with "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" in 1968. All right, so it paid the bills so they could sit around and come up with "Witchy Woman", and "One of these Nights" and they could let Randy Meisner write "Take it to the Limit."  All of those songs have the unique interval skips and "Chuck-Berry-On-Roids" harmonic structures, along with the acerbic and emotionally ambivalent lyrics that marked all their later work.  All that serves to make "Take it Easy" the outlier that it is - a collaborative work with Jackson Browne and JD Souther, a sunny little stoner set-piece about a guy whose biggest problems are all the women in his wake, but Lord here comes his next victim.  If all the Eagles songs were guests at a party, "Take It Easy" would be the drunk, annoying guy who keeps babbling on about all the women he's going to fuck and ends up passed out by the toilet.

And that would all be fine except the radio played the damned thing to fucking death, and still does.
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #322 on: April 22, 2015, 06:36:57 PM »

My favorite Ragae on now Inner Circle - Sweat.    Perfect fuk'n song!
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #323 on: April 22, 2015, 06:38:50 PM »

Man O War lit with the Eagles singing Take'n It Easy
One of the few Eagles songs I truly hate.  Yes, it's a classic song.  But it is contrived and predictable and not at all indicative of what they would become...i.e. the most musically talented rock band ever assembled, and arguably the third greatest rock and roll band of all time (after the Beatles and the Stones).

But. Not. That. Song.

Sorry, rant over.
Sheesh, every band has to start somewhere, and usually the early songs are not indicative of what a band will be come.  Don't think She Loves You or I Want to Hold Your Hand are clear indicators for the Beatles.
Besides, it's Dean's theme song (or should be)
Yes, but contextually, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" was groundbreaking work.  It seems trite now only because of what the Beatles went on to do.  But at the time, that was a whole new approach to rock and roll - musically, vocally, and compositionally.  It hearkened back to Elvis, Buddy Holly, and Chuck Berry, but no one but NO one was going to confuse the Beatles with those guys, let alone the pablum on the radio in 1964.  Pat Boone anyone?  Neil Sedaka?

By contrast, "Take it Easy" was just a knock-off.  It is utterly of it's time.  The last great gasp of the country rock movement started by the Byrds with "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" in 1968. All right, so it paid the bills so they could sit around and come up with "Witchy Woman", and "One of these Nights" and they could let Randy Meisner write "Take it to the Limit."  All of those songs have the unique interval skips and "Chuck-Berry-On-Roids" harmonic structures, along with the acerbic and emotionally ambivalent lyrics that marked all their later work.  All that serves to make "Take it Easy" the outlier that it is - a collaborative work with Jackson Browne and JD Souther, a sunny little stoner set-piece about a guy whose biggest problems are all the women in his wake, but Lord here comes his next victim.  If all the Eagles songs were guests at a party, "Take It Easy" would be the drunk, annoying guy who keeps babbling on about all the women he's going to fuck and ends up passed out by the toilet.

And that would all be fine except the radio played the damned thing to fucking death, and still does.
No argument at all with that interesting and entertaining thesis. 
But doesn't every party need that drunk?  Just a necessary part of the formula.
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #324 on: April 22, 2015, 06:41:45 PM »

Man O War lit with the Eagles singing Take'n It Easy
One of the few Eagles songs I truly hate.  Yes, it's a classic song.  But it is contrived and predictable and not at all indicative of what they would become...i.e. the most musically talented rock band ever assembled, and arguably the third greatest rock and roll band of all time (after the Beatles and the Stones).

But. Not. That. Song.

Sorry, rant over.
Sheesh, every band has to start somewhere, and usually the early songs are not indicative of what a band will be come.  Don't think She Loves You or I Want to Hold Your Hand are clear indicators for the Beatles.
Besides, it's Dean's theme song (or should be)
Yes, but contextually, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" was groundbreaking work.  It seems trite now only because of what the Beatles went on to do.  But at the time, that was a whole new approach to rock and roll - musically, vocally, and compositionally.  It hearkened back to Elvis, Buddy Holly, and Chuck Berry, but no one but NO one was going to confuse the Beatles with those guys, let alone the pablum on the radio in 1964.  Pat Boone anyone?  Neil Sedaka?

By contrast, "Take it Easy" was just a knock-off.  It is utterly of it's time.  The last great gasp of the country rock movement started by the Byrds with "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" in 1968. All right, so it paid the bills so they could sit around and come up with "Witchy Woman", and "One of these Nights" and they could let Randy Meisner write "Take it to the Limit."  All of those songs have the unique interval skips and "Chuck-Berry-On-Roids" harmonic structures, along with the acerbic and emotionally ambivalent lyrics that marked all their later work.  All that serves to make "Take it Easy" the outlier that it is - a collaborative work with Jackson Browne and JD Souther, a sunny little stoner set-piece about a guy whose biggest problems are all the women in his wake, but Lord here comes his next victim.  If all the Eagles songs were guests at a party, "Take It Easy" would be the drunk, annoying guy who keeps babbling on about all the women he's going to fuck and ends up passed out by the toilet.

And that would all be fine except the radio played the damned thing to fucking death, and still does.
Me, I just know what I like.
I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung, wanna pull out your tough
'Cause you notice that butt was stuffed
Deep in the jeans she's wearing
I'm hooked and I can't stop staring
Oh baby, I wanna get with you
And take your picture
My homeboys tried to warn me
But that butt you got makes me so horny
Ooh, Rump-o'-smooth-skin
You say you wanna get in my Benz?
Well, use me, use me
'Cause you ain't that average groupie
I've seen them dancin'
To hell with romancin'
She's sweat, wet,
Got it goin' like a turbo 'Vette
I'm tired of magazines
Sayin' flat butts are the thing
Take the average black man and ask him that
She gotta pack much back
So, fellas! (Yeah!) Fellas! (Yeah!)
Has your girlfriend got the butt? (Hell yeah!)
Tell 'em to shake it! (Shake it!) Shake it! (Shake it!)
Shake that healthy butt!
Baby got back!
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #325 on: April 22, 2015, 06:43:07 PM »

My favorite Ragae on now Inner Circle - Sweat.    Perfect fuk'n song!
Not that I have any need for that...
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #326 on: April 22, 2015, 06:47:07 PM »

REMEMBER:  earth-day cofounder killed and composted his girlfriend
Indeed.
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #327 on: April 22, 2015, 06:47:58 PM »

Man O War lit with the Eagles singing Take'n It Easy
One of the few Eagles songs I truly hate.  Yes, it's a classic song.  But it is contrived and predictable and not at all indicative of what they would become...i.e. the most musically talented rock band ever assembled, and arguably the third greatest rock and roll band of all time (after the Beatles and the Stones).

But. Not. That. Song.

Sorry, rant over.
Sheesh, every band has to start somewhere, and usually the early songs are not indicative of what a band will be come.  Don't think She Loves You or I Want to Hold Your Hand are clear indicators for the Beatles.
Besides, it's Dean's theme song (or should be)
You know how touchy Raz is though, especially late in the day when he is working and the rest of us are smoking and drinking. ::)
Got that right. Besides, I'm a musician.
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #328 on: April 22, 2015, 06:50:33 PM »

Hump Day!
Oh, and Earth Day!
Lets just stick with The Hump.
People been sticking it to the earth for a long time.
Sheesh, now you're sounding like a real left coaster...
Well, I was born in Silicon Valley.  But don't confuse my realism with idealism.  They been sticking it to the earth for a long time.  She'll take her revenge, but meanwhile...let's give her another round.
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Re: 4/22/2015
« Reply #329 on: April 22, 2015, 06:53:02 PM »

Hump Day!
Oh, and Earth Day!
Lets just stick with The Hump.
People been sticking it to the earth for a long time.
Sheesh, now you're sounding like a real left coaster...
Well, I was born in Silicon Valley.  But don't confuse my realism with idealism.  They been sticking it to the earth for a long time.  She'll take her revenge, but meanwhile...let's give her another round.
Just use it and don't abuse it and all will be fine for a few million more years.
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