Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I love The Orb! "We lived in Arizona, and the skies always had little fluffy clouds in 'em..." I love their audio samples the use like "The youth of America on LSD!" and "You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks. All those childhood traumas, magically wiped away... along with most of your personality!" My first album of theirs was Orblivion. I forget which track it is, but one starts out with ambient sounds inside of a video game arcade, with pinball machines clacking and such. I heard that through earphones at Zia Records and I bought that CD right away.
Did you live in Phoenix in the '90s? I first heard Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" on KUKQ1060AM and they would play that a lot on that station.
I was born and raised in Arizona. I graduated ASU West in '99, proposed to my girlfriend in Japan in January 2000, then later that year started a job in Japan. Moved back from 2002-2012, and I've been back in Japan ever since. Zia's Records is such a strong nostalgic factor for my coming of age. At Zia's I bought vinyl lettering stickers of band names for the back window of my old, beat up car I drove. There were some other places in the East Valley area like Rockaway Records and Tracks In Wax, and maybe one other place I cannot remember the name of. Oh yes, and Bookmans! Damn, I loved going there.