Heh well maybe give the track itself a shot at normal speed - unlike most recent (by this I mean more so than about "RUOK") MBM stuff it is a "stone groove."
Now THIS is hilarious. I have this record, and will DJ with it at 33 (wrong speed) then when it gets to the (I think) second breakdown switch to 45 and then let it bang. I never realized till this little conversation that you can actually get very close to this with .75 (33/45 = .7333etc) vs 1x.
Bloggerchick, eh? What's your blog(s)? DM me if you want, replying in comments might be considered "self promotion"?
Edit: While we're on the subject, anyone remember a prominent acct on here that announced they'd be leaving to concentrate on blogging? If so who and what's their blog?
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (mono)
(These guys particularly BW of course were fucking genius.)
It's a tie:
- DM Devotional - best large-scale show I've seen, what a spectacle. You can find videos on YouTube, note the stage design and how things would move between the screens on stage (the square ones on the front of the second "story" of the stage). Normally I'd want to be front and center but we were up and to the left and that turned out to be wildly good luck because at that angle we could see things going AROUND the screens not just ACROSS). Wild. And no one does crowd control like Dave Gahan, I mean Jagger's not even close.
- Orb Cydonia - SF, Maritime Hall, 2001 - and cited as one of the Orb's standout gigs of all time as well. LX Paterson's brother had just died but the show went on and I think he was playing it for him basically. Just fucking incredible.
- Symbiosis/Nebula 9/Freaky Chakra vs Single Cell Orchestra - this was live lineup with some great DJs supporting at a rave in Dallas, mid-90s. Insane. Symbiosis was local to Dallas, almost went national, Nebula 9 was from Denver and I still can't believe the show, and FC/SCO were from SF and also were great. It was a very pimp evening. (Freaky Chakra's "Lowdown Motivator" is probably one of the best electronic albums ever made and worth checking out.)
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Brubeck (Eugene) - jazz festival. Show in fantastic-acoustics hall. Apparently for the boomer+ Jazz Audience going WOOOOO loud and long after each song isn't a thing, but I didn't care. When the drummer took a solo, and I wouldn't shit you you're my favorite turd, it sounded like the whole band was still playing (well minus the piano). A standard jazz kit. This still remains one of the damndest things I've seen or heard in my entire life.
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Oh and Brubeck story #2. This was oh ~2005 and so he was pretty old by this point. He would dodder up to the mic, making his way as quick as he could which was not at all quick obviously, tell a story about the next song or whatnot, then dodder back to the piano and just play the living shit out of it.
- Steely Dan (Aspen) - jazz/etc festival (actually lots of other stuff, but whatevs). It was great and the drummer even did a short instead of long and wanky solo. We were kind of far back (not-VIP section) which worked out well because it was like being properly positioned for listening to a giant hi-fi stereo in a field.
Yes "pit" and "mosh pit" are synonymous. A buddy of mine back in the day saw the Ministry tour with the chain link fence (the one with two drummers and chain link fence across the front of the stage), he said that was the most aggressive pit he'd ever seen, people were going so aggro they were just swinging their arms and getting hit themselves and whatever.
I only lightly engaged in moshing, myself.
"Sex is one of the most important aspects of man’s life and, therefore, must never be approached lightly or casually. A sexual relationship is proper only on the ground of the highest values one can find in a human being. Sex must not be anything other than a response to values. And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important."
-- Ayn Rand
I went to one as a teenager (so, dork that thought being a Top Gun pilot would be the absolute best life possible*) and it was neat seeing the planes up close and the flight demonstrations etc. Now, I think it would be like "BTDT" esp after working adjacent to an airport with ANG F-16s at it where they scrambled twice a day (full afterburner every time, we'd go out and watch sometimes, otherwise it totally rattled the place anyway).
*And not the super gay part which we absolutely had no idea about at the time LOL
Dunno, auroras are one thing I could see HAARP actually causing. There's no fucking way - and I'm not saying there might not be a different way of weather control/modification but HAARP ain't it, it would be something we don't know about - it has anywhere near, by many orders of magnitude, the amount of energy required to modify weather. If they did cause the auroras, it's still a gigantic "ok so fucking what, pretty sure that's what it was intended to do/study."
So a former friend was generally individualist/libertarian but also was Injun, and he maintained the Keystone Pipeline was illegal because it was Indian land, and the white man took it by force. In under 2 minutes of searching/reading I easily established that that land had exchanged hands by force between various Indian tribes 6 times in recorded history so who knows how many times before that.
I was like "ok so which tribe owns it then."