Another track from the forthcoming eponymously titled Queensryche album released: "Fallout." Simply stunning, especially when compared to anything from the last 3-4 CDs!!
I'm also looking very forward to seeing fan uploads on youtube in the weeks to come chronicling King Diamond's tour of Europe!! He's got the headlining slot at CopenHell on June 15th(?)...I hope Copenhagen gives him and the band a loud and proud 'Welcome Home!!!' I know not everyone here can necessarily get by on King Diamond (for which, is fine...hell..anything can be an acquired taste), but I gotta tell all of you...I'm EVER so glad to see him back and kickin' SERIOUS ass! He looks healthy and his voice is more insane than ever--given the health regiment he's had to follow after his triple-bypass from last year! The stage set they now have is just killer...totally suitable for the likes of King Diamond!
Was anyone able to attend any of the screenings for 'Epitaph?' Just curious what the experience was like--especially with the surround sound and some of the improved audio stakes in many theaters nowadays!
HAAAAAA!!!! I like "smack!" They talk it, it makes sense!
"Intrusion" just too tame. If so we could simply send up an "intruder alert" but, as with cockroaches, they are hard to eliminate.
Plus, it calls up images of Berzerk (video game): "Intruder alert, intruder alert....shoot the intruder!"
(oh, come on, SOMEONE remembers the arcade game...NOT the Atari 2600 version which didn't have the voice).
(Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Sunday, June 02, 2013 11:57:56 PM)
I know the slower part drives some fans nuts...but man...I absolutely love the mood in Iommi's guitar...and when it crescendos, it's enough to knock yer fillings loose!! LOL! What can I say...I'm a sucker for air-tight blends between bass and guitar, and precious few could ever aspire to do better than Butler/Iommi!!
I just listened to another new track from the forthcoming Queensryche CD (sans Tate)....it's called "Where Dreams Go To Die," and I'm here to tell you...I find it to be simply OUTSTANDING.....QR haven't sounded this vibrant and this cohesive since "Empire..." and for me, a serious QR fan, that's saying something. Todd LaTorre is doing an AMAZING job....hands down.
Also heard the title track from Megadeth's newest...sounds like it harks back a bit to the "Risk" / "Cryptic Writings" era...but boy...it's tough to forget all the same! Wonder what others are thinking about it if they've heard the whole thing...
It did surprise me that the Westboro Baptist Church didn't show up. They probably knew better than to try to rile up already emotional Slayer fans. The cult would all be impaled and without a single survivor left to try to sue the attackers for "damages". I heard that they were going to Moore, OK to protest the memorial service being held for a child killed in that F5 tornado. Looks like they didn't even show up there, either.
As for Black Sabbath. The only new song I heard was "God is Dead?". The first three minutes were "meh", but the rest sounded good. I'll probably buy the album, but won't see them live. I prefer to keep my experience of seeing Heaven and Hell live in 2008 intact. Stupid idea? Probably.
Justin Kenny wrote:
Hey all!! S'been quite the 'dog's age' since I've made any sorts of posts around here...apart from time spent working, most of my free time is spent on facebook keeping in touch with family and various friends (made online and otherwise) that way.
Three years gone by...and we've lost Ronnie James Dio, Jeff Hanneman, and recently--Ray Manzarek. Our heros are dropping with seemingly great regularity... ...I will say this much, however; I'm very glad the Westboro Baptist Chur....um...I mean CULT, neglected to show to protest Hanneman's Memorial service as they'd initially vowed....it could've gotten very ugly (in spite of Slayer's urgings to merely ignore the lot of them and spend time instead queuing up to get inside and celebrate Jeff's life and music). I caught some pictorial and other visual accounts of Hanneman's service...I'd say they did a wonderful job celebrating his legendary career in heavy metal and honoring the very person he was.
It's also been unusual to see our beloved Rob Halford resorting to a wheelchair in recent weeks given his issues with his back, eh?! Thankfully, it doesn't sound like a terribly involved problem, and he's confident once the surgical procedure he needs is completed, he'll be just fine...so...good news there!
I know a lot of people are still up in arms about Bill Ward's absence in Black Sabbath. Admittedly, I too had hoped whatever needed working out or ironing out would've been done in time for his inclusion on their forthcoming album "13," but...as a quip I'd read from Tony Iommi stated, the issue of getting on with things reached rather critical levels--especially once he'd realized what he'd been diagnosed with. Having seen for himself how quickly things deteriorated with Dio, even for as positively Tony's responded to his own spate of treatments; I can't really say I blame him for pressing Bill to shit or get off the pot...if they'd waited, who really knows if we'd be celebrating any opportunity whatsoever to hear the original masters of metal make ANYTHING new ever again? I feel for Bill, and I've read a lot of what he's had to say about the whole affair, but these gentlemen too, are not getting any younger and time seems to be getting shorter and shorter with each passing hour!! In the grand scheme of things, I can only hope "13" will NOT be Tony's 'swan song' as "The Devil You Know" was for Dio (all that's been released since notwithstanding). I've heard "God Is Dead" and "End of the Beginning" from it so far, and I must say I'm very pleased with what I've heard so far!!
There's also a lot to be said regarding the whole "...two Queensryches" issue (you'll all forgive me for possibly recanting things you all may have commiserated about thousands of times over in recent months...like I said, it's been a while for me!!). I'll just say this much about all of that....I've listened to about 7 or 8 tracks from Geoff Tate's 'version' (from "Frequency Unknown")....and...in all honesty, even for all the talent he's got with him this time around...I'm every bit as nonplussed about it as I was with Queensryche's previous album "Dedicated To Chaos," which in my humble opinion--was dreadful...and as a fan, it irks me to say that. Conversely, I've only heard one track so far from the OTHER camp (now featuring Todd LaTorre...a great singer) called "Redemption," and it's got me VERY eager to hear what the rest sounds like! Sure, it could be argued that LaTorre sounds a bit 'too much' like what Tate sounded like from the days of "The Warning" or "Rage For Order," but it's abundantly clear that THIS is the sound much of the remaining long-time members of 'Ryche were looking for and wanting to do for a very long time. Seems Tate had himself too tight a pull on the reins on what was becoming a very worn 'horse,' and it was down to either feed it carrots and let it get lazier and fatter, or give it a royal smack in the ass and get that sumbitch back to running speed! The fans have (largely) responded...the eagerness to see 'Ryche tear it up with LaTorre seems far greater in scope.
....why part II? Well..as I remember it, if enough time goes by while typing a post; you could invariably be timed out and lose the whole mess! Very frustrating! LOL!
Not much else to impart really...just wanted to say an overdue "Hi ya!!!" and share (as well) things I'd been noticing, reading up on, and thinking about. Good to see a lot of other Priest board vets are still at it here, and I wish you all well and hope your lives have been trucking along smoothly!
Hey all!! S'been quite the 'dog's age' since I've made any sorts of posts around here...apart from time spent working, most of my free time is spent on facebook keeping in touch with family and various friends (made online and otherwise) that way.
Three years gone by...and we've lost Ronnie James Dio, Jeff Hanneman, and recently--Ray Manzarek. Our heros are dropping with seemingly great regularity... ...I will say this much, however; I'm very glad the Westboro Baptist Chur....um...I mean CULT, neglected to show to protest Hanneman's Memorial service as they'd initially vowed....it could've gotten very ugly (in spite of Slayer's urgings to merely ignore the lot of them and spend time instead queuing up to get inside and celebrate Jeff's life and music). I caught some pictorial and other visual accounts of Hanneman's service...I'd say they did a wonderful job celebrating his legendary career in heavy metal and honoring the very person he was.
It's also been unusual to see our beloved Rob Halford resorting to a wheelchair in recent weeks given his issues with his back, eh?! Thankfully, it doesn't sound like a terribly involved problem, and he's confident once the surgical procedure he needs is completed, he'll be just fine...so...good news there!
I know a lot of people are still up in arms about Bill Ward's absence in Black Sabbath. Admittedly, I too had hoped whatever needed working out or ironing out would've been done in time for his inclusion on their forthcoming album "13," but...as a quip I'd read from Tony Iommi stated, the issue of getting on with things reached rather critical levels--especially once he'd realized what he'd been diagnosed with. Having seen for himself how quickly things deteriorated with Dio, even for as positively Tony's responded to his own spate of treatments; I can't really say I blame him for pressing Bill to shit or get off the pot...if they'd waited, who really knows if we'd be celebrating any opportunity whatsoever to hear the original masters of metal make ANYTHING new ever again? I feel for Bill, and I've read a lot of what he's had to say about the whole affair, but these gentlemen too, are not getting any younger and time seems to be getting shorter and shorter with each passing hour!! In the grand scheme of things, I can only hope "13" will NOT be Tony's 'swan song' as "The Devil You Know" was for Dio (all that's been released since notwithstanding). I've heard "God Is Dead" and "End of the Beginning" from it so far, and I must say I'm very pleased with what I've heard so far!!
There's also a lot to be said regarding the whole "...two Queensryches" issue (you'll all forgive me for possibly recanting things you all may have commiserated about thousands of times over in recent months...like I said, it's been a while for me!!). I'll just say this much about all of that....I've listened to about 7 or 8 tracks from Geoff Tate's 'version' (from "Frequency Unknown")....and...in all honesty, even for all the talent he's got with him this time around...I'm every bit as nonplussed about it as I was with Queensryche's previous album "Dedicated To Chaos," which in my humble opinion--was dreadful...and as a fan, it irks me to say that. Conversely, I've only heard one track so far from the OTHER camp (now featuring Todd LaTorre...a great singer) called "Redemption," and it's got me VERY eager to hear what the rest sounds like! Sure, it could be argued that LaTorre sounds a bit 'too much' like what Tate sounded like from the days of "The Warning" or "Rage For Order," but it's abundantly clear that THIS is the sound much of the remaining long-time members of 'Ryche were looking for and wanting to do for a very long time. Seems Tate had himself too tight a pull on the reins on what was becoming a very worn 'horse,' and it was down to either feed it carrots and let it get lazier and fatter, or give it a royal smack in the ass and get that sumbitch back to running speed! The fans have (largely) responded...the eagerness to see 'Ryche tear it up with LaTorre seems far greater in scope.
[Justin Kenny] Friday, September 14, 2012 3:56:55 PM
I've been asked this lots of times before...and my answer hasn't changed or wavered any...I can never pinpoint one album of Priest's that truly stands out above all others...it's like asking a parent, "..which of your 20 children do you love most?" LOL
I will say this....Priest have an album for every mood...and it seems each tracklisting for each album suits every mood as well!! Truly among the most diverse and interesting metal bands ever assembled...hence--why I've been a die-hard fan since 1980-'81 and haven't looked back since!!
[Justin Kenny] Friday, September 14, 2012 3:36:09 PM
Ah hell...I wish!!! I do know someone though who was...I forget his user name here, but his name is Darren. I had a cassette tape with 8 songs of their set on it recorded from a broadcast WPLJ did way, WAY back. I had whatever they taped of Ozzy's set on the other side and I swear...I listened to that tape on a daily basis!! It's been one of my ultimate wish-list dreams to have this show on video (back when VHS videos were all the rage!!! LOL), and now...30 years later....it's FINALLY on DVD!!!
You'll never hear me bad-mouth Sabbath about ANYTHING....regardless of who sang, who came, who went...I loved every album (yes...including "Born Again" and "Forbidden..." the two that seem to make certain Sab fans shudder for God-only-knows-why reasons). Was blessed to see them three times with three different incarnations and each show was pure kick-ass start to finish.
They're the progenitors...the reason METAL is a genre in the first place...the first proper boom of thunder the world ever heard and never forgot its impact. The original line-up have done Birmingham, England RIDICULOUSLY proud! So many great albums with some UN-BE-LEEV-ABLE songs on them...y'can't do any wrong with Sabbath...EVER....
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:40:01 PM
.....at this point, I should imagine Judasfanfromsweden is probably sitting at his 'puter right now thinking, 'Ohh-kaaayy....what the fuck have I just stepped into here??' LMAO!!!!!!
Lighten up folks....life's too short and the clocks tickin'.....there's enough discord, cacophony and bullshit in our respective day to day existences....it really needn't breed and multiply in HERE....don't care if you've never been banned, been banned 3 to 33 times, are ABOUT to be banned, or just joined a band. We need to start thinkin' of this place (and other online venues) as 'happy-hour' locations...where you go to escape, talk music and the GOOD things--God knows the good things are as fleeting as the flavor in a piece of Juicy Fruit gum (for those who never had it...trust me...the flavor's DEAD in like...3.5 minutes).
Welcome all new entrants of the metal faith!!! I now resume you all to the 'hey...I'm new here' thread...already in progress.... dig it...
Oh man...I didn't have a 'puter w/ audio at the moment I watched this...but the only thing that went thru my head half the time was MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This..." LMAO! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by jimmyjames from Saturday, May 22, 2010 7:26:58 AM)
Hey all!! Wha's happ'nin'? What's shakin' & quakin'? What's movin' & groovin'? What's new 'n exciting? Hah? Hmmm?? o_O (Yes...you guessed right...I'm too feckin' lazy to be reading through the last 10 or so pages of posts...LOL!!)
Me? Eh....this kid's got nuthin'.... If you've all seen the Bill Murray movie "Groundhog Day," you pretty much know my story...so...I'm depending on y'all to render some news/info/low-down/skinny/what-the-hell-have-ya that might make this kid smile/laugh/celebrate with you/what-the-hell-have-ya.......as a caveat though, the following is just a sample of some news I could do very well without:
1) If you've been looking into using butt-plugs- I mean, okay....do whatever gets yer freak on, go with it and God Bless man, but...keep the updates to yerself, y'dig?
2) If you've found some seriously unidentifiable matter or another in your refrigerators that happened to consume the family cat- Sorry if such an event occurred, but...may I offer.. empty that sumbitch, douche that fucker out proper and throw a fresh box of Arm & Hammer baking soda in there to minimize odors and for GOD'S sakes...thin the left-over herd once a week...you'll thank me later. As for the consumed cat.... **shrugs** ...adopt a new one...get it spayed and neutered like that Bob Barker dude's always been pushin'...
3) If picking off poppy seeds from bagels and counting the amount of 'em PER BAGEL for a cost/comparison analysis has been the height of your excitement as of late.....hooo boy....then you'd need more of a life than THIS kid....dig it....unless of course this is a profession of yours and you're getting righteously paid for it...then fuck yeh...I say count them seeds and be the feckin' best at it!
4) ...and lastly...as examples go... I could care less about politics....may I remind you all that I'm about as politically minded as a cardboard box...I've heard the events of what's going on in AZ...here in NY we got a governor that we like to call 'Blind-Muppet Boy' who's got this state on its knees so hardcore right now the patella bones are splintering, and Arnold is STILL governor in CA....which is frightening as fuck-all...quite frankly.
So...beyond the aforementioned...I'm strapped for what else may not really tickle my hypothalamus (look it up)...so....let's make it good people... Moreover, I hope you've all been happy, healthy, laughing, livin', lovin', touchin', squeezin' (Oooh, a Journey reference, dig it!), and all that happy horseshit... **nods**
I bid you all a wonderful day/evening and am lookin' forward to the respective updates.
Between the footage of "Rapid Fire" on youtube, along with the "Living After Midnight" premiere clip on this very site, I can honestly say I'm stoked to owning this DVD and all else it contains! It'll serve as yet another wonderful souvenir to the show I caught last July in NJ, as well as another worthy Priest item to my catalog!
I don't care what anyone says....this band STILL has the goods to keep going, and the industry itself NEEDS Judas Priest STILL; showing everyone how honest-to-God, british-style heavy metal is meant to be delivered.
There....my two cents....don't spend it all in one place, eh?
C'mon DF....taking shards of glass to yer throat is no way to be talking NOW....especially since you got your band up 'n running.... Can't go lettin' Dr. Phil WIN like that...y'dig what I'm sayin'??? [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Thursday, May 06, 2010 3:43:25 PM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
OK, so the Princess is watching "Dr.Phil" which is bad enough, BUT.......the ENTIRE show is about his new grandaughter and it has to be the MOST ridiculous, OVER-BLOWN, HOKEY, SICKLY SWEET load of BULL SH$# I have EVER witnessed!!! I mean, COME ONE, PEOPLE!!! Kids are born EVERYDAY! This one is NOTHING SPECIAL!!! Believe me when I say that it is as run of the mill, average, non-descript a kid I have ever seen and yet, these people are making it Christ him (her?)self!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the parents!! OH GAWD!! The gal keeps going on about how she "never knew such love", followed by phoney, Hollywood-script tears and crap...... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
I swear, if THIS episode does not make me put a shard of glass to my throat, NOTHING will...............................
[Justin Kenny] Monday, January 25, 2010 6:01:35 PM
Good for you Freeze! Good to see you've gotten the fire re-lit, and that the gig went down as well as it did!!
Yeh...I'm outta the loop....I'm like a month behind what everyone else already knows...I'm a chat-whore....I likes my contact in more real-time...but, those of you who know me ...well....you know me like that...so.....LOL....
....but I DO check in from time to time....keep y'all on dem there toes....y'dig?
Let it rock...let it roll.....keep dem inner children playin'!!!!
[Justin Kenny] Monday, January 18, 2010 5:45:10 PM
Holy fuckoli!!!!! O_O Well....there's ONE thing NOT to do when you go out on a date, eh??? I hope she thought enough to include THAT tidbit of advice... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by jimmyjames from Friday, January 15, 2010 2:01:29 AM)
jimmyjames wrote:
Hopefully this doesn't happen when you get there.
spapad wrote:
What is pissing me off is I am gettin sick. I know I won't feel like going to work tomorrow but tomorrow is pay day and I hand out the checks. I will at least have to drag my sickly ass out of bed long enough to go to work and try to work half a day and then I wont be able to burn a Vacation day on that day, I'll just have to take the cut, because you cant get even a half day's pay at my job until you have been sick for 3 days and have a Dr.'s excuse! My work policies suck! I had better work benefits as a waitress at a country club than I have at this stupid job. So, I'll go to work sick and pissed off.
[Justin Kenny] Friday, January 08, 2010 4:47:20 PM
Saw only one show in '09 (and God...there were so many great bands on the road this past year....wish I could've seen 'em all...but let's face it...going to concerts is a luxury these days...especially when you have a family to support). And I'm glad to say it was Judas Priest's summer jaunt that featured all of "British Steel." Phenomenal evening....the power and conviction they played with was overwhelming. What made it even more fitting, was to see it was raining considerably hard with thunder & lightning to boot as we made our way out from the PNC square...it brought to mind the lyric.... "....white bolts of lighting...came outta nowhere...blinding the darkness...creating the storm!!!!"
My only show...and it was so worth it. Edited at: Friday, January 08, 2010 4:48:53 PM
[Justin Kenny] Friday, January 08, 2010 4:43:13 PM
Nope....nope...not gonna do it....considered it, yes....but...nah...not gonna....if I start rantin' now...I won't get home for another 3 hours....had a long enough day, thank you very much....
[Justin Kenny] Friday, January 08, 2010 4:35:06 PM
Hey all....long time--no post...lol!! Just haven't had a whole lotta things to say/talk about really...my day to day stuff is so predictably INANE that it just doesn't warrant sharing. I haven't squired a whole lot of new music (apart from Queensryche's "American Soldier" and Heaven & Hell's "The Devil You Know"...both of which are brilliant)...and...well....I'm making this post (in part) out of sheer frustrated boredom.
For starters, to any/all who know me here, Happy New Year/Decade to all of you!!! And yes...this greeting goes to all of those here that I don't know of course (didn't wanna seem selective...though, my history here has proven that it doesn't necessarily HURT to be as such). I hope this past holiday season was a pleasant one for all of you, whether you observe it or not. God knows the start to winter has been quite kickin' to say the least...areas of the world not ordinarily renowned for seeing such bitter cold/snow are probably reeling right now, and for those of you who like orange juice; given the shots I'd seen of various orange groves in Lakeland FL. recently, ya might wanna downgrade to quart containers....this bitter snap is gonna certainly affect the crop output.
Man...I can't feckin' WAIT for January 18th....this is when I start a new run package at work that'll break the monotony of what I've been doing for the past 5.5 months. This kid doesn't tolerate routine very well (never did)...and what I do is just that....routine as a mutherfucker. I'll be doing a slightly more varied package of bus routes, most of which have been recently refined and streamlined (which is meant to facilitate things considerably). I'm SO done with the one I've been doing....I mean...literally...put a fork in this kid....juices should be clear....LOL!!! I'm grateful I'm employed, don't get me wrong...but JEEEEZ-UZZZ.....sometimes even for all of my gratitude, there's just certain things I deal with that...well...I could do without. Like people who insist on bringing their bicycles out and loading 'em on the bike racks on the front of all of our buses. This is fine and all when the weather is relatively decent, and when you consider that most of this area is uphill climbs for all 4 points of the compass...it does stand to reason...
...but when it's some 20 degrees, WITH a wind chill....AND BLOWING SNOW!!!??? FFS...don't these asshats watch 'The Weather Channel!!???' o_O I don't even like having to WALK fast in elements such as these!! I'm gonna ride a goddamn BICYCLE in it!??? Yeh....MIGHT happen...hold your breath...g'head...see if it does....
...at least it's quiet...the college kids are still home/abroad for the holidays for the most part...when they all come back is when my schedule changes and I get to see some different necks of the 'woods' for a little while....then, long about March or so, I'll be bitching about how burned out I am on it...LMAO!!!!
...vicious cycles boys 'n girls....watch out for 'em.....meanwhile...take care of yourselves....salud....
[Justin Kenny] Friday, October 30, 2009 3:46:06 PM
Have a good and safe weekend everybody!!! If you're partying this weekend, enjoy, and don't do anything genuinely stupid (like hopping into the driver's seat of your car or someone else's when you KNOW FULL WELL you've had that '..one too many..'). As you make your rounds on Saturday, be wary and cautious of the wee ones as they make their door-to-door haunts for free candy... LOL! And by all means....as has been traditionally done now for the better part of some 40 years now....INSPECT YOUR CHILDREN'S LOOT BAGS UPON GETTING HOME!!! Who knows what sicko out there is doing to that stuff or WHAT they're handing out.....be scrutinous....after all, there HAVE been used needles (and worse) thrown into those bags and buckets in years' past....sick, I know..but, it happens.
[Justin Kenny] Friday, October 30, 2009 3:42:09 PM
Palmer! My old buddy!! Good to see ya! Te absolvo there pal....I too don't come in here all that often anymore....there just hasn't been a lot worth sharing, and I've been busy doing my own thing(s) too....none of which are all that riveting or eye-popping enough with which to regale everyone.
Glad you and yours are well!!! Congrats to your daughter for entering those "..terrible 2's..."
[Justin Kenny] Monday, October 19, 2009 1:58:22 PM
I would....but it's not like I've had a whole lot to impart these past few months... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Friday, October 16, 2009 10:10:04 PM)
Vaillant 3.0 wrote:
PK87!!! Justin!!!!! Get back here more often!!!!!
Good evening and happy Friday, ladies and gents of the Noticeboard! Hope you're enjoying it!!!
[Justin Kenny] Friday, October 16, 2009 3:42:40 PM
Hey everybody....sorry I've been MIA 'n all...but that got-damn Yoville game has been keeping this kid busy now for weeks...I owe a few Quorumite friends of mine a right smack up the back of their heads for suckering me into that game...LOL!!! I mean, as if I don't have enough of a full plate going, NOW I have to make sure my little 'yomo' keeps up with the baked goods in the 'Sweets Factory,' else, all the baked goods you make get burned up and you waste more money having to clean the ovens and make more cakes, muffins, pies, or whatever da fuck else they're makin' us push these days. The background music is gay as fuck-all though....I strongly recommend those who have a yomo of their own to mute the sound....'tis a lot more liveable that way...
Apart from that, the wife's daycare is prospering nicely. She has (very possibly) another wee one starting next month, and still has her 2 pretty much from the beginning. Two little girls she also looks after should return soon once they both recover from a wicked case of pneumonia, and in January, the mother of a boy (which was my wife's first 'charge') will be birthing a new baby girl, who'll probably start in the daycare once she's reached 2 months. I dunno if I'd even mentioned this back in the summer (once it was up 'n running, that is)....but..there ya have it.
Me? Meh....more of the same....driving in circles...driving folks crazy, one bus load atta time, and trying to keep my head above water....by this point, I should be able to BREATHE underwater, ffs...
I hope you're all well, happy and healthy...s'been a while...
Ahhh shit....see? I KNEW there was a thread for this SOMEWHERE.... Oh well....after a few days too many, I finally had the time to post my review of the show I caught July 11th at PNC in Jersey....it's posted in the original 'Metal Blah Blah Blah' thread, as it seems to be the thread most converged upon....there's also a review I put in the Halford Quorum (for those who haunt there also) in the JP Concert Reviews topic (posted by 'setibevol88'..my handle on the ~Q~).
Holy fuckoli!!!! That "Angel of Retribution" tatt she's got just RULES!!!!!! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ from Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:50:39 PM)
~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote:
THE ONE AND ONLY!!!!!!!! SWEETHEART! SINNER RIDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know it's almost a week later...but I just wanted to drop in and tell all of you that Judas Priest promptly DESTROYED New Jersey last Saturday (11th)!!! The show was purely, simply, utterly, irrefutably OUTSTANDING...all five members were in top form, and some 10,000+ of us sounded more like 20,000; roaring our approval and praise at EVERY opportunity!!! Great stage and effects (paled only by some of their larger presentations back in the early-mid '80s), which suited the show and the songs perfectly. It was awesome also, to hang out for a few hours prior to the show with many members of the HALFORD QUORUM...many of whom I'd met before, as well as seeing/meeting some new faces that I'd only corresponded with on the Quorum's messageboard. Some of these people are just DIE-HARDS, man....one guy (Dylan, who is 'BS2K' on the Q) came from Utah to see that night's show as WELL as the following night's show at Jones Beach. Bill ('Helloween') and his wife Deb came up from FLORIDA to their old stomping grounds of NJ to see the show, others came from Virginia and Maine!!! I mean....talk about LOYALTY!! It was great seeing all of them, and sharing food (that we all brought w/ us) along with the grill one Quorumite was good enough to bring enabled us to eat quite heartily! Peggy (my wife) and I snuck away when it was getting to be that time when Whitesnake would be taking the stage....just as we made it to our seats, they were one-third of the way into "Bad Boys," and Coverdale and co. sounded really, really good. It was Peggy's first time witnessing Whitesnake and I knew she really wanted to see 'em...esp. Coverdale...LOL....
Storm forecasts were threatening the whole day, but it didn't really start in earnest until just after the show was over....when we walked out from the protective roofing of the seated area (PNC is partly outdoors...esp. with a lawn area that can house some 10,000 all by itself), that's when we felt the rain and it got heavier as we made our way toward the parking lot. Lightning and thunder...the whole bit....a fitting end to the maelstrom of metal we'd witnessed!!! I looked over at my wife and said, "Storm warning, but there's no fear..." She just smiled big...she must've sensed I was making a Priest reference. We caught up with a few of the people we were hanging out with earlier that afternoon to say good-bye and other well-wishing departures and made our perilous way back to the motel room we scored upon arriving in NJ. A great day/night and a KILLER show!!! Priest can STILL deliver!!!! BELIEVE IT!
Good Morning Faithful Defenders.. MG, Lady B good to see you fine ladies have decided to not be driven away by unimportant w*nkers.
This has been a really hectic, tiring week for me.. we had the kids home until wednesday morning so only three school days for them this week, shitty rainy weather so they were bored stiff and when we did take them out.. Idk.. it's like somebody thought it would be cool to sneak them an energy drink or something lol. Tuesday, I managed to step in dog shit when there wasn't even a dog around.. How the hell does that happen?
Then yesterday, I was rushing my arse off to get some stuff done before I picked the kids up from shcool. I went to get Craig's father's day gifts (kids are too small to pick out stuff so along with their hand made gifts I get a little something to add to it) anyways, so I've just got enough time to get to the vet to pick up dog food and then get the kids and.. some helpful parking lot attendant (do you have these twits anywhere else in the world or is it just in SA?) he harrases me by my car and I'm taking some money out to give him a tip, I put my keys down on the speaker in my trunk and.. before I can stop him the dick head slams the car shut. I stare at him and say "what did you do?' He realizes what he did and frantically tries to open the trunk again (total Basil Fawlty moment!) Lucky for me and him, I had my blackberry in my pocket so I had to call Craig who was working an hour away to come and help me. He had to drive home, fetch my spare keys and come and rescue me. Thankfully, my friend whose kid goes to the same playschool as mine was kind enough to take them to her house so they were in safe hands and not abandoned at school for two extra hours. Sheesh.. I tell you, ramdom acts of stupidness seem to be happening more and more frequently. I mean, sure, I shouldn't have put my keys down where I did but why on this good earth did that idiot have the need to lunge over me and slam down the door to my trunk??
I'm totally surprised as to how calm I managed to stay, I guess aging is helping lol.
I'm also so dog tired that I skipped gym this morning. With the way my week, no, make that the whole month has been going, I was afraid that I'd probably end up doing something stupid like falling the bike in my spinning class ( I have no idea how anyone could fall off a stationary bike but I'm not chancing it anyways lol).
I'm prone to agree here....both bands never wavered or stepped outside of their respective styles and kept delivering consistent material, all of which still stands on its own today.
Having said that though, I think the reason I put Priest on such a loftier 'plane' is due to their willingness to experiment and change their approach while keeping their style within the metal realm. Priest definitely have a progressive edge to their creativity. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Dime/UNDER BLOOD RED SKIES!!!! from Friday, June 05, 2009 9:43:33 AM)
Dime/UNDER BLOOD RED SKIES!!!! wrote:
who gets my vote?
AC/DC AND MOTORHEAD!!!!
Seriously who can argue that AC/DC has pretty much kept true rock alive into the 21st century. Every album they put out kicks ass, and they have kept their distinct sound for decades. Along with Motorhead, keeping the same heavy sound and rawness that helped create a legend all their own. Lemmy is a heavy metal god hands down. Edited at: Friday, June 05, 2009 9:44:28 AM
OK...to kinda get caught up here...as I've not really been able to impart much these past few weeks...
...my days (esp. Monday thru Friday) are akin to what you may have seen in the movie "Groundhog Day." A lot of the same things happen, but with slightly different results....there's precious little variation to my days. I try to throw the proverbial 'wrench' to make SOMETHING interesting happen...but, it doesn't always work....lol. That's why I always say...thank God for vacations...I might not go anywhere special, but at least I get to spend time and do things with people I don't always get to devote...my family.
But...that's not what I'm here to talk about....I'm here to say to the following:
Guido: I hope whatever happened to you has Godspeed resolve and was just some fluke thing. It must've been pretty scary stuff at the time, but to echo what's been said, I'm glad you're on the mends...just listen to what the docs tell ya, and look after yourself well.
MG: I'm glad you kept your chin and upper lip stiffened to the horseshit that occasionally creeps up in here and that you stuck around. The ones who come along and opt to make trouble and stir shit will never last the test of time. The faithful and the otherwise GOOD people this site has conjured will always have another home of sorts here, and will always welcome any/all others who contribute to said home...new members and veteran alike.
Joe D: I hope whatever had you so cramped up recently is a thing of the past. Lord knows you've got too full a plate to be sidelined by anything you don't have the time or energy for. Continue making the most of what each day offers and don't spread yourself so thin!
There....I think I've sufficiently caught myself up a bit...if I missed anything....umm.....if it was something bad, I hope it's all good now....if it was something good or outstanding, I say EXCELSIOR!!! Y'all know who you are and which of those best apply.... Edited at: Friday, May 22, 2009 12:37:11 PM
..........right-ass kissing......is THAT allowed??
JUUUUSST kidding MG.....saw that last line, and...well....I just HAD to.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by ~ MG_Metalgoddess~ from Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:17:24 PM)
~ MG_Metalgoddess~ wrote:
SO Here I was going through pics.... I went to right click on one of then to post it here.. and this finger wave emotionic comes up on the screen shunning me, and then says no right clicking allowed.... I laughed my ass off.. I have never seen that before.....
No right clicking allowed.... well Kiss the right side of my ass.... LMAO
I'd have to imagine this new 'look' is intended to coincide with Priest's plans to perform all of 'BRITISH STEEL' in its entirety during their summer jaunt w/ Whitesnake.
The look of it all is far more suitable, I gotta say that much.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by _strat_ from Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:55:57 AM)
_strat_ wrote:
Great new layout! I just wonder what made them choose the British steel look?
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:46:43 PM
I'm sorry all....I don't even know if this is the best place to put a post like this, but I know a lot of the members of this site hit this thread up considerably, so...in the interest of those who respected his loyalty to The Masters--Judas Priest, to those who'd gotten to know him but had wondered where he'd been...it is with great regret I share the following news...news I just learned today.
Long-time member and author/designer of the 'Judas Priest Info Pages' known as 'Maddrakkett' , (or Mark, to those who got to know him better) passed away November 5th, 2008. It was not a highly publicized passing, nor was the condition--diagnosed as GVHD, or 'Graft-Vs.Host Disease,' that had taken him from us. Mark's involvement online had dwindled considerably in the last couple of years, mostly in the interest of keeping his stellar 'Judas Priest Info Pages' site updated as possible, but also to come to terms with the grim diagnosis he'd received. His last few posts on the HALFORD QUORUM between mid-September into October illustrated the complications as they became more realized. Many within the HALFORD QUORUM who'd gotten to know him and his work (along with his penchant for playing bass and his myspace page) are saddened by this news, which seems to have surfaced only within the last couple of weeks. If anyone among us here has known about this, you'll kindly forgive me for (perhaps) re-opening a wound of sorts. Many newer members who've been hipped to the 'JP Info Pages' have been astounded by the details and the painstaking measure by which Mark's site has graced the cyber-world.
RIP Mark....you'll be a very missed entity between this site and the HALFORD QUORUM. A wonderful authority about our favorite band, and one hell of a nice guy...may God bless and keep you my friend....'til we meet again.
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:46:28 PM
OUCH!!! Hope she's better DF...that had to be painful... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:03:29 AM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
Morning gang! All quiet I see. Well, a bit of a busy morning ahead for me I'm afraid. The Princess broke a tooth and I have to take her to the dentist this fine morning! Arrrggghh!!! Oh well, try to behave yourselves!!!!!!!!!!
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:51:41 AM
I can't say I hate Metallica....I think everything they made from "And Justice..." and prior is stuff worth having. The 'black' album I liked for a time, then...much like a piece of Juicy Fruit gum, it lost flavor. I couldn't get by anything they made after that one.
I WILL tell you one thing I don't like at all....the fact that Metallica received a nomination for Rock And Roll Hall of Fame induction BEFORE Judas Priest. That......that's just....WRONG.
Yeh...it's just too got-damn bad they couldn't do that BEFORE I saw the pic as it was originally posted.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Phantom A6 from Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:53:48 PM)
Phantom A6 wrote:
"This image or video violated our terms of use"??
Aww... what a pity!! It's so a nice pic, he, he!!
I try to bring it back. I can send it via email if you want to have it!!
(Quoting Message by Phantom A6 from Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:14:38 PM)
Phantom A6 wrote:
Norman, this is just for you!!
That's your trying to distribute shit about members of the board, but be careful 'Cause the wind could be change his direction!!
After the work is done you need to be clean up, but... Ohps...
Yep, all your bullshit makes you very thirsty!! Cheers, sucker!!
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, March 24, 2009 12:25:23 PM
Duly noted...and credit given. I've already sent a PM to the esteemed individual I mentioned in my last post and am merely waiting any particulars (IF any) and what his availability is....
...updates pending...dig it.... ;) [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Monday, March 23, 2009 1:15:29 PM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
Hey Justin!!! "THE WORD"!!!! There, I said it!!!! And please, please allow ME to take credit for giving it!!!!!!!
Justin Kenny wrote:
....here's wisdom...I know someone who's MOST capable of doing this....part and parcel of his living is made hacking into the IP addies of child porn rings and busting 'em where they live....for him to find someone like this 'magicman' character and fuck up his whole cyber-life would be the equivalent of him going out to his mailbox to retrieve his daily newspaper....
....fun tho' it must be to have someone like this to kick around...if it gets too much....just say the word.
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
LOL... SOY !! I know someone with a degree in computer science ,, Should track this guys url, addy , and let his boss know about his dailey computer abuse at work,,, then he can go home and explaine his nice wife why he got fired...
Now wouldnt that be a blast to see
Soylentgreen4u a.k.a. theWOLFMAN wrote:
FINE I'LL LEAVE THEN!....ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS ASK NICELY.....OHHHH I THOUGHT YOU WERE TALKIN' TO ME......WHAT'S A SKANKPUD?....FUCKTARD?,SKANKPUD?.....GUESS I GOTTA GET OUT MORE OFTEN...WE DON'T USE SUCH LINGO HERE IN OUR FOREST OF GREEN......
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
Why dont you please grow up... you are repeating yourself over and over again, and no-one cares???
Get a Life please.... If you dont have anything good say keep your trap shut..... I mean Been there done that... You are old news yesturdays trash at the curb...
ANd if you send me a message Dont bother for I have allready blocked you, and I dont read them...
....here's wisdom...I know someone who's MOST capable of doing this....part and parcel of his living is made hacking into the IP addies of child porn rings and busting 'em where they live....for him to find someone like this 'magicman' character and fuck up his whole cyber-life would be the equivalent of him going out to his mailbox to retrieve his daily newspaper....
....fun tho' it must be to have someone like this to kick around...if it gets too much....just say the word. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Monday, March 23, 2009 11:27:28 AM)
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
LOL... SOY !! I know someone with a degree in computer science ,, Should track this guys url, addy , and let his boss know about his dailey computer abuse at work,,, then he can go home and explaine his nice wife why he got fired...
Now wouldnt that be a blast to see
Soylentgreen4u a.k.a. theWOLFMAN wrote:
FINE I'LL LEAVE THEN!....ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS ASK NICELY.....OHHHH I THOUGHT YOU WERE TALKIN' TO ME......WHAT'S A SKANKPUD?....FUCKTARD?,SKANKPUD?.....GUESS I GOTTA GET OUT MORE OFTEN...WE DON'T USE SUCH LINGO HERE IN OUR FOREST OF GREEN......
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
Why dont you please grow up... you are repeating yourself over and over again, and no-one cares???
Get a Life please.... If you dont have anything good say keep your trap shut..... I mean Been there done that... You are old news yesturdays trash at the curb...
ANd if you send me a message Dont bother for I have allready blocked you, and I dont read them...
Dig it...woke up late as a sumbitch on Friday morning....neither the wife nor I heard that clock go off until 6:43am. Needless to say, I was very late for work, and opted instead of making the trek in to use a 'sick' day...(LOL..yeh..sick my ass...more like sick of TCAT's bullshit). So, I spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday to my advantage, and helped Peggy get her daycare further along. We're almost there too....the room itself is DONE...all that there's left to do is decoration, and Peg's got that market cornered. I built new shelves for the pantry closet in the kitchen, put trim up along the bottoms of the walls (those that needed it, that is), and on Sunday, Peg and I tore down a wall between the daycare and the hall that connects to the kitchen...it actually leads closer to the bathroom itself, which will serve to be most advantageous when her little clientelle needs to "...go potty." We're digging how it looks, and once whatever touch-ups are finished (nothing more than a little wall plaster, some sanding and a smidge of paint where it all belongs), it's golden. The weekends to come will more than likely be devoted to taking the wood pallets we've gathered and fashioning fence segments out of them so we can better keep the wee ones corralled if/when they go outside to play. This has been quite the undertaking, but it's all gonna be worth it...
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:07:13 PM
Are you kidding?? A lotta kids today barely even crack a SMILE at shit we would think to be hysterical....slapstick ain't dead....the sense of humor in people is what has taken a landslide, if anything. I mean...take a more modern day cartoon like "The Fairly Oddparents," for example. I don't know what it is, but that show has its moments sometimes where I'm bustin' out loud laughing....my daughters would just sit there...or look at me like....'...okay, that was funny...how?'
Now, I know cartoons are fashioned and created by adults. And I know an adult sense of humor can go over a kid's head most times...but even things THEY should've been giggling like a fiend about...NOTHING.... I know what you're thinking..."Well..Justin, it was probably early in the morning...give 'em a break..." for some of what they'd watch, this may be true...but it'd be even like this LATER in the day sometimes!!! I dunno...maybe humor itself has gotten so subjective, they probably saw "The Fairly Oddparents" as mere 'room filler,' rather than something to actually be entertaining.
I will say, however...they do have their own sense of humor, and they do know how to use it. And as they mature, I know it'll sharpen and get more honed as they go... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:53:03 AM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk..... HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It amazes me how funny that actually was back then. Kids watch it today and just don't "get" it. Slapstick is truly dead.
Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote:
Don't forget The Three Stooges. Funniest, most goddamn ridiculous show ever created!
_strat_ wrote:
Yeah, forgot about that one, wasnt bad either.
Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote:
King of Queens is okay. The best sitcom ever was M.A.S.H. imo. Alan Alda and Jamie Farr were incredibly funny!
_strat_ wrote:
The King of Queens? Never heard about that one before. Fraiser and Third rock from the sun, yeah, and theyre both good. But that aside, when it comes to sitcoms, nobody beats the Brits. Really, loads and loads of them. Black Adder (starring young Hugh Laurie - if you think House is funny, you aint seen nothing yet), You rang, milord?, Allo,Allo... Really great stuff. Shame they dont play them so often as they used to.
Deep Freeze wrote:
Yeah, MWC is good. I like The King of Queens. It is marginally funny. Always try to catch the news at 5 while eating supper. I use the DVR a lot these days. I just cannot stay up very late at night so I record a lot of shows that I like so I can watch at these ungodly hours of the morning!!!
_strat_ wrote:
Me too - Discovery, National Geographic, and the evening news. Sometimes a good movie, but that is rare enough.
The only exception is the Great Al Bundy - our national TV just recently dug out that show from their archives, and are playing all episodes from the first on!
Deep Freeze wrote:
Well, I really can't stand MOST of what is offered on television. I try to stick to Discovery Channel and occasionally the Sci Fi channel (when I need something stupid) but network TV is simply brutal.
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:10:03 AM
...you ain't lyin'.....I already drove SOME of 'em to work this morning.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Al-fons Blazing from Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:36:39 PM)
Al-fons Blazing wrote:
...and in judgement day, the dead wil rise....
Demonizer13 wrote:
Freeze! Long time my friend!
Should call you "Ripper" for lurking about!
How's the back?
[Justin Kenny] Monday, February 23, 2009 9:42:19 AM
I liked Metallica plenty until about 1990....and while I still enjoy a lot of what they did from "Kill 'Em All" to "And Justice...." when I first heard Megadeth, that did it for me. "Peace Sells...." was my formal introduction to them, and I looked far more forward to their newer releases than I ever did Metallica's.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, February 23, 2009 9:38:45 AM
Alas...even cybernetic technology...much like automobiles...needs some preventative maintenance every now and again...glad it wasn't anything too grave..and kudos to those who spotted/addressed it.
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:41:47 PM
Hey...better to feel like having a banana than feeling the urge to fling your own poop at passers-by.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Soylentgreen4u a.k.a. theWOLFMAN from Saturday, February 07, 2009 3:58:16 PM)
Soylentgreen4u a.k.a. theWOLFMAN wrote:
PLANET OF THE APES (2001) ...WATCHING IT NOW...GOOD RETELLING OF THE ORIGINAL,AWESOME JOB WITH THE MAKE-UP....I'LL STILL TAKE THE '68 ORIGINAL OVER IT THOUGH.....FEEL LIKE A BANANA ALL OF A SUDDEN...
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:47:57 AM
Got-DAMN Sam!! Whaddaya got bro? Flu?
All sortsa illnesses milling about lately....youngest daughter hasn't been feelin' all that great these last couple days....our resident Chat Mod Joe fears she may be coming down with something now because her kids were sick...
I tell you what....if peace and love were as contagious as illnesses....we wouldn't have a feckin' problem yet. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:36:01 AM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
I am so SICK of being SICK. I cannot sleep. I cannot sit quietly. I feel like garbage most of the time. I just spent this last evening thrashing about in bed, unable to get to sleep. That sickly feeling coming in wave after wave. The pain in my back screaming at me. I roll to one side, then the other.. I am hot. I am cold. I ache. I have had it with this. It is the most miserable feeling I have evet known.
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:43:46 AM
Lawd hab mercy....I tell ya this right now....the ONLY thing I'd ever have to contribute to this thread would be problems, gripes, oversights, questions, curiosities and other tech-tard dilemmas....
....don't expect solutions, answers, possibilities, quick-fixes or anything too useful from THIS kid...
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:34:43 AM
I'll tell you what..if that sumbitch who tried to steal that car does any jail time, he's gonna spend a lotta nights wishing wedgies were all he'd get...
...if that seems vague to anyone....lemme put it like THIS: ....prison inmates aren't renowned for giving wedgies. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:20:52 AM)
Woman wields wedgie to subdue suspect
Technician says she saw man trying to break into a co-worker’s car
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updated 3:47 p.m. CT, Tues., Feb.
17, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY - It took a wedgie and a headlock to pin down a man suspected of breaking into a car.
Yvonne Morris, a technician at the Brickyard Animal Hospital, said she chased a man who broke into a co-worker's car, but he kept squirming away from her.
The third time, Morris grabbed hold of the man's boxer shorts and pulled. Salt Lake City police said she then she put a headlock on the man until help could arrive.
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:49:03 AM
Hey all....just a quick 'good morning' to all before embarking on my meager little two loops, then I have a nice 5 hour split; from which, I shall drop in later...
GOD, I love my Wednesdays thru Fridays.... (same schedule as above all 3 days)
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:20:53 PM
Boy oh boy....that Gary Dee Bradford one....the last 3 songs listed are in a most suspicious order.... I mean...'He Touched Me,' 'Get All Excited,' and 'How Great Thou Art?' EEEEP!
*shudders like a summamabitch* [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by devils_child from Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:34:58 PM)
devils_child wrote:
Ok ok... I'm sure i can compose myself for a few minutes whilst i post some more....... hahahaha....
*cough*..... Apparently it's not just the cover art that is cheesy....
Sorry pal, but i think the lady said NO.....
I know i'm going to hell for laughing at this one.... but it's just so damn hard not too.... HAHAHAHA!!!!! ROTFL!!!! Someone help me up .. please.... I can't stop laughing.. BWAHAHAHA!!!!
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:50:09 PM
Yow....
Godspeed 'Black Widow...' Godspeed... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Necroticist from Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:05:22 AM)
Necroticist wrote:
TY - will try not to stray fer so long again - but i was ill fer a few days...then her ladyship got ill...am worried, Doc says if no better by Thursday = hospital. (She has chronic bronchitis on top of chronic asthma?COPD) Not a nice combination..She's like me tho...unbeatable..i KNOW she'll get thro it. Another reason fer quiets is cos of son...his granpa passed away (ex's dad)...i let him have all the time on here he wanted. Ain't life fun...??
Deep Freeze wrote:
Welcome home, my friend!!
Necroticist wrote:
Hi MetalHeads - finally feel better so will post more...hope u all been ok - er...wassup with Jethro Tull? LMAO - i know...ain't really a 'rock' band...but still good - i love em at least as much as JP...but wtf do 'awards' matter anyway...u know what's in ya heart..fook the mainstream \m/
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, February 10, 2009 5:29:55 AM
Precisely....just like Rob said in the "Seven Stages (Ages?) Of Rock" series...."....I don't wanna play 'safe music....'" and when anyone looks back throughout Priest's career, it's fair to say they ALL stayed true to that mantra. Even with the two albums Priest made that they seem to catch the most "heat" for (Point of Entry & Turbo)...there's a lot to be said for the styles those two albums have. Apart from that, it's also fair to say that Priest were also (perhaps) indirectly influenced by sounds and styles of other bands....whether they listened to those bands during their off periods, or caught onto something from a band they toured with, some of that may have rubbed off on them through the years...for which, I have no issue with. After all, Priest were always able to keep a signature sound and approach, no matter how intense or melodic the songs they created. To whatever degree some of those potential influences may have had, they ALWAYS made it their own, never forgetting or forsaking their original approaches or intentions. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Head banger from Monday, February 09, 2009 2:21:08 PM)
Head banger wrote:
of course, your right, their progression and changes make them what we love today. even if we dont love a particular album, they on the whole produce the best music out there. and they never seem to play it safe.
Justin Kenny wrote:
I think it's fair to say Priest may have 'dabbled' in the commercial 'pool,' in the name of keeping their name relevant....as KK himself put it (regarding the radical direction of "Turbo"), "...we figure, if Dokken and Twisted Sister could do it, why not Priest?" And while "Turbo" DID in fact open the doors to many who might not have otherwise given Priest half a chance, it also served to (somewhat) alienate those fans who were expecting the more straight-forward, heavy-hitting style Priest evidenced by "Defenders...." But I think some of these 'yo-yo'-esque dabbles were done without much compromise....Priest never gave off the idea that anyone in their record company ever sat them down and pushed the idea of putting forth a more "radio-friendly" album....the only time Columbia "..got on them" was when they snubbed the idea of using Roger Glover to produce "Sin After Sin." Once they realized they'd get more done with him than without him (at the company's urging)...they back-pedaled on their decision and squired him to man the board after all. Beyond that, Priest (I think) have been largely left to their own devices...creatively speaking. They could've easily made more commercial sounding albums after "Turbo..." but they are, at their core...a HEAVY METAL band...which is why "Ram It Down" sounded heavier than "Turbo," and why "Painkiller" sounded heavier than the previous 2 efforts combined.
They could've also easily told Curbishley to go shit in a hat for suggesting a concept album about Nostradamus. But all it WAS...was an idea.....once it swam in their minds for a spell, they realized there was a lotta potential to take that idea, bring it to life, and make something great come of it....and that they did...I don't care who says what about it. After all....I didn't rightly expect EVERY Priest fan in existence to love this one....let's face it....historically, fans have always had varying opinions from one Priest release to the next....the fact they explore so many possible territories musically and keep it within the metal 'realm' is probably what drives some Priest fans outta their ever-lovin' minds. And maybe...JUST maybe...the industry itself doesn't quite know what to think/make of Judas Priest for the same reasons....wanna know what else?? I don't CARE what the industry thinks....and neither do Priest....they make music for THEMSELVES first....it's gotta please THEM first...and if they were AT ALL displeased or ill at odds about "Nostradamus" upon its completion or at any time during the creative process...it'd have never seen the light of day.
For that matter...the same could be said for everything else they released...it's all about progression....it's all about what THEY feel magnifies their best achievements effort for effort. I, for one...couldn't be any more proud to be a fan of this band!!!
Head banger wrote:
but, how do we know they are doing what they want? Turbo, was that a sell out? lots say so, I like it, but who am I. AOR was awesome, yet sold squat. is nost a gimick to sell more?
do they want to sell more? are they doing what they want, or what the industry wants? is selling out what they want? could they do some comercial crap? probably, but no one would buy it. they are known for doing what they do, not for "popular (read music lots of people like) music"
paorcamp wrote:
I see your point...I got it...but priest(after rob's return) kept doing whatever they wanted...you can see it with the last two albums....of course a band needs to sell their products...otherwise they would be unknown...and we fans would be disapointed and furious if we couldn't get their music....guitars and other stuff are not for free and they also need to eat...but metallica changed to a comercial band,they lost their identity...they lost that thing that made us like their music...and of course they turned their back to their real fans...on the other hand priest keeps trying new things, and nostradamus is a piece of evidence...for those who like it(i like it) and for those who don't
Deep Freeze wrote:
I see. Well pao, win or lose, like or dislike, it is still about selling and making money. I admire your allegiance to Metal. I really do. Unfortunately, marketing and sales is what this whole show was about. Now then, on to your other post;
It is interesting that you would put it this way. ....Irefuse to give credit to a band which turned its back to heavy metal to become a heavy comercial band.... As much as our dear friend Mr. Uno may take exception to what I am going to say, isn't that what Priest did with Ripper? They wanted to stay commercially viable and turned from what made them who they are/were. Jugulator is a great example. Not "Priest" sounding at all, as far as I am concerned. Very much like the grinding, crunchy "Nu-Metal" sound that is more commercial and sells more. They were trying to keep the cash coming in. Trying to remain relevant in the face of a HUGE change.
Of course, there are some that may point to Rob's return as a commercial gimmick. I can accept that. Say what you will but Priest, as with any other act, want to sell their records. That is what they do. It is how they make a living. For me, and most fans of the Band, Rob is what makes Priest. He is THE voice so I do not view his return as previously mentioned but I can see where some might make that connection. Anyway, it all comes down to selling the product. I don't think that Judas Priest are in a position at this stage of their career where they really need money..I mean gazillions. They certainly enjoy a comfortable lifestyle, I'm sure. I think Nostradamus is a good example of that. They did something they wanted to do, whether or not it is a commercial success. And I do not mean to insinuate that I do not like the album, because I do like it. I just believe that the Band has gone beyond the need for commercialism and so things like the Grammy award are nice but they won't really affect the Band's future.
paorcamp wrote:
NOOOO....I refuse to give credit to a band which turned its back to heavy metal to become a heavy comercial band....I won't give credit to a group who prefered fame and fortune over the real escence of music...sorry...but I can't...that's not selling more cd's by hardworking...that's selling more cd's because they left their roots and their true personality to do what the industry wants them to do...and that's something a real band would never do!!...that's not what made metallica famous...now they became shitallica...Who's the master of puppets now???huh???not you metallica...that's for sure!!! (Quoting Message by Numero Uno from Monday, February 09, 2009 11:40:39 AM)
Numero Uno wrote:
GIve Tallica credit, they won the award. They sell more cd's anyway.
paorcamp wrote:
eh...what kind of priest fan could ever say something like that!!!??
are you ok???If priest didn't deserve it...why would metallica do!!??
Numero Uno wrote:
Lots of sour grapes in here. Maybe Priest didn't win because they just didn't deserve to.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, February 09, 2009 1:59:26 PM
I think it's fair to say Priest may have 'dabbled' in the commercial 'pool,' in the name of keeping their name relevant....as KK himself put it (regarding the radical direction of "Turbo"), "...we figure, if Dokken and Twisted Sister could do it, why not Priest?" And while "Turbo" DID in fact open the doors to many who might not have otherwise given Priest half a chance, it also served to (somewhat) alienate those fans who were expecting the more straight-forward, heavy-hitting style Priest evidenced by "Defenders...." But I think some of these 'yo-yo'-esque dabbles were done without much compromise....Priest never gave off the idea that anyone in their record company ever sat them down and pushed the idea of putting forth a more "radio-friendly" album....the only time Columbia "..got on them" was when they snubbed the idea of using Roger Glover to produce "Sin After Sin." Once they realized they'd get more done with him than without him (at the company's urging)...they back-pedaled on their decision and squired him to man the board after all. Beyond that, Priest (I think) have been largely left to their own devices...creatively speaking. They could've easily made more commercial sounding albums after "Turbo..." but they are, at their core...a HEAVY METAL band...which is why "Ram It Down" sounded heavier than "Turbo," and why "Painkiller" sounded heavier than the previous 2 efforts combined.
They could've also easily told Curbishley to go shit in a hat for suggesting a concept album about Nostradamus. But all it WAS...was an idea.....once it swam in their minds for a spell, they realized there was a lotta potential to take that idea, bring it to life, and make something great come of it....and that they did...I don't care who says what about it. After all....I didn't rightly expect EVERY Priest fan in existence to love this one....let's face it....historically, fans have always had varying opinions from one Priest release to the next....the fact they explore so many possible territories musically and keep it within the metal 'realm' is probably what drives some Priest fans outta their ever-lovin' minds. And maybe...JUST maybe...the industry itself doesn't quite know what to think/make of Judas Priest for the same reasons....wanna know what else?? I don't CARE what the industry thinks....and neither do Priest....they make music for THEMSELVES first....it's gotta please THEM first...and if they were AT ALL displeased or ill at odds about "Nostradamus" upon its completion or at any time during the creative process...it'd have never seen the light of day.
For that matter...the same could be said for everything else they released...it's all about progression....it's all about what THEY feel magnifies their best achievements effort for effort. I, for one...couldn't be any more proud to be a fan of this band!!! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Head banger from Monday, February 09, 2009 1:31:01 PM)
Head banger wrote:
but, how do we know they are doing what they want? Turbo, was that a sell out? lots say so, I like it, but who am I. AOR was awesome, yet sold squat. is nost a gimick to sell more?
do they want to sell more? are they doing what they want, or what the industry wants? is selling out what they want? could they do some comercial crap? probably, but no one would buy it. they are known for doing what they do, not for "popular (read music lots of people like) music"
paorcamp wrote:
I see your point...I got it...but priest(after rob's return) kept doing whatever they wanted...you can see it with the last two albums....of course a band needs to sell their products...otherwise they would be unknown...and we fans would be disapointed and furious if we couldn't get their music....guitars and other stuff are not for free and they also need to eat...but metallica changed to a comercial band,they lost their identity...they lost that thing that made us like their music...and of course they turned their back to their real fans...on the other hand priest keeps trying new things, and nostradamus is a piece of evidence...for those who like it(i like it) and for those who don't
Deep Freeze wrote:
I see. Well pao, win or lose, like or dislike, it is still about selling and making money. I admire your allegiance to Metal. I really do. Unfortunately, marketing and sales is what this whole show was about. Now then, on to your other post;
It is interesting that you would put it this way. ....Irefuse to give credit to a band which turned its back to heavy metal to become a heavy comercial band.... As much as our dear friend Mr. Uno may take exception to what I am going to say, isn't that what Priest did with Ripper? They wanted to stay commercially viable and turned from what made them who they are/were. Jugulator is a great example. Not "Priest" sounding at all, as far as I am concerned. Very much like the grinding, crunchy "Nu-Metal" sound that is more commercial and sells more. They were trying to keep the cash coming in. Trying to remain relevant in the face of a HUGE change.
Of course, there are some that may point to Rob's return as a commercial gimmick. I can accept that. Say what you will but Priest, as with any other act, want to sell their records. That is what they do. It is how they make a living. For me, and most fans of the Band, Rob is what makes Priest. He is THE voice so I do not view his return as previously mentioned but I can see where some might make that connection. Anyway, it all comes down to selling the product. I don't think that Judas Priest are in a position at this stage of their career where they really need money..I mean gazillions. They certainly enjoy a comfortable lifestyle, I'm sure. I think Nostradamus is a good example of that. They did something they wanted to do, whether or not it is a commercial success. And I do not mean to insinuate that I do not like the album, because I do like it. I just believe that the Band has gone beyond the need for commercialism and so things like the Grammy award are nice but they won't really affect the Band's future.
paorcamp wrote:
NOOOO....I refuse to give credit to a band which turned its back to heavy metal to become a heavy comercial band....I won't give credit to a group who prefered fame and fortune over the real escence of music...sorry...but I can't...that's not selling more cd's by hardworking...that's selling more cd's because they left their roots and their true personality to do what the industry wants them to do...and that's something a real band would never do!!...that's not what made metallica famous...now they became shitallica...Who's the master of puppets now???huh???not you metallica...that's for sure!!! (Quoting Message by Numero Uno from Monday, February 09, 2009 11:40:39 AM)
Numero Uno wrote:
GIve Tallica credit, they won the award. They sell more cd's anyway.
paorcamp wrote:
eh...what kind of priest fan could ever say something like that!!!??
are you ok???If priest didn't deserve it...why would metallica do!!??
Numero Uno wrote:
Lots of sour grapes in here. Maybe Priest didn't win because they just didn't deserve to.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, February 09, 2009 5:24:39 AM
Well...even though it's quite painfully obvious Priest didn't walk away with anything from the Grammy's last night...one thing's for got-damn sure....MILLIONS of people became abundantly aware that Priest were NOMINATED....the album and the songs were mentioned....so....as a result, however direct or indirect; people around the country (and anywhere else this show was broadcast) are also aware that Priest are STILL a band....highly functional and existent....whether or not this'll boost their stakes any outside of the Grammy award show remains to be seen, of course...but....it's PRESS.
Besides....to receive 2 nominations for an album that better than a handful deem a 'flop' is also among the greater middle fingers given as well.
I'm also proud to say I FINALLY acquired my official copy of "NOSTRADAMUS" over the weekend. I maintain as always....Priest have NOTHING to be ashamed of.....this fucker's a MASTERPIECE!!!! WHAT AN ALBUM!!!! WHAT AN EPIC!!!!
I give it : However late in the game my review may be...
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:57:43 AM
Frankly...I, for one...am STUNNED that Joe Draper has NOT even taken a stab at this thread yet... I mean...she LIVES to weigh in on ANYTHING related to Scott Travis...
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:54:25 AM
Acts of green, eh? Hmm...maybe this all ain't enough...but it's something:
1) We started buying those tough, durable bags in stores like Aldi, Wal-Mart, et, al...in order to cart the items we buy. We figure, if we're using less plastic and paper bags, it helps. If we do get any plastic or paper bags, we try and use 'em as often as we can.
2) We recycle...but then, a lotta folks are doing that these days...
3) We have 5 of those 'Silly Straw' lookin' light bulbs in various lights throughout the house that get used most. Word is, they use much less energy and save money. Plus, we learned that unplugging any/all unused appliances like toasters, microwave ovens, or the plugs that boosts our battery power to our cell phones and anything else we're not using that requires plugging in can save on electric draw.
4) The next thing we're gonna be doing pretty soon is investing in cleansing products that are maleluca(?) oil based. This natural ingredient is combined with other bio-friendly additives that clean just as well if not better than those store-bought items, and is far more user friendly compared to some of the more chemically, butane-based aerosols and harsh cleaning agents that can give off strong aromas/odors that asthmatics or other respiratory-sensitive folks (like my wife and oldest daughter) can't deal with.
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:39:50 AM
Here's a 'Hmmmm' for ya...
For those of you who haven't learned much about me just yet, I drive transit buses for a living...needless to say, it's the kind of profession that puts me in touch with people from ALL walks, crawls, and runs of life; name the variety of individual you can think of, and odds are I've given them a ride SOMEWHERE. I mean...ffs....we have this regular rider who could EASILY pass as Charles Manson's twin feckin' brother....I shit you not.
Anyhoo....
I pick up some dude yesterday....and he had on this utterly dreadful striped shirt. And no...we're not talking about one of those snazzy, VERTICALLY pinstriped dress shirts you might see as part of a 3 piece suit ensemble...no sir...we're talking about the kind of striped shirt you'd see on one of those characters from the "Peanuts" gang, okay!? I'm talkin''bout...this shirt had stripes, horizontally designed...some 2" thick..and all different colors....this mutherfucker looked like a life-size pack of 'Fruit Stripe' gum. I mean...BEACH LOUNGE chairs have more cohesive striped designs than this!!!
Someone in the chats yesterday suspected (even if humorously so) that this cat was color-blind. But I don't know 'bout that....see....one needn't necessarily be color-blind to KNOW that you just DON'T wear shirts that LOOK like this, goddamn!!!
While I'm on the subject of color-blindness (and this is in NO way shape or form meant to tease or denigrade anyone here or elsewhere who may be as such), it's common knowledge that most folks who ARE color-blind know exactly which colors they cannot see. Whether they know or not what those colors truly look like may be another matter entirely...but if THEY see 'reds' as 'greens' (or, however it may appear to them), how does GREEN look to them? Moreover...if they've ever been told by a trusted soul that they just don't look good in a couple of colors they cannot see, and don't know the counterpart colors they actually DO see, does this extend the amount of time they'd spend in department stores? I must Google this....
I wonder too....given the aforementioned-- if there are people in this world who see in pastels.....
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:41:59 AM
By and large, I didn't have any real issues with any of the professors I had....but I did get the distinct impression that some of them were likely frustrated artists who didn't quite make it in their field and opted to teach instead...some were just so unbelievably critical (criticism does build character...that much I get, but we were getting graded on this stuff too!!).
The art history prof I had was just a little on the humorless side, was all... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by _strat_ from Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:49:04 PM)
_strat_ wrote:
Mine was great. Whats the matter with yours?
Justin Kenny wrote:
Print nothin'...LOL...I said the shit out loud....the class erupted...the prof..well....you know how uptight some art professors are....
guidogodoy wrote:
HAAAAA!!!! I certainly hope you put that in print for your Art History Prof. Too funny.
Justin Kenny wrote:
LMAO....I'ma say the same thing now as I did when I first saw this painting back in my (would-be) college days during 'Art History...' the look on Saturn's face almost gives the idea that he realizes his own son will cause salmonella poisoning....helluva thing to have dawn on you mid-nosh, eh???
guidogodoy wrote:
Mwwaaahaaaaaaa!!!!!! Bring it!
_strat_ wrote:
Dont push it, Guido... You know, Freeze started a new religion yesterday... Its called Stratism, and guess who is the god in it? I just might have to bust a swarm of locusts on yo ass!
guidogodoy wrote:
Perhaps you were embarrassed by the term "little" man. Shrinkage. I know. Best to save face with the metal ladies.
Cold water there, eh?
_strat_ wrote:
Perv.
Anyway, I will start taking showers with my clothes on from now on. Just to be on the safe side.
guidogodoy wrote:
Haaaa! Surveillance has you covered little man!
_strat_ wrote:
You can count me out too.
guidogodoy wrote:
Went to about 130F at the end. No one invited me to shower with them. Not even Timbo. Sniff....
Calvin Boytano was the laugh of the day. It'll haunt me tomorrow as I hear the ice coming down as I type.
Vaillant 3.0 wrote:
I see there have been some interesting conversations here.
From Kama Sutra UFC-style to taking showers together to Tennis matches in 120 degree heat. What can possibly be next?
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:14:48 PM
Oh MAN....don't get me feckin' started....
...alright..I'll behave and just mention one, 'K??
If I never....EVER....in this plane of existence or the next.....EVER have to hear Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" again....I won't miss a single note of it.
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:12:33 PM
Print nothin'...LOL...I said the shit out loud....the class erupted...the prof..well....you know how uptight some art professors are.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:10:46 PM)
guidogodoy wrote:
HAAAAA!!!! I certainly hope you put that in print for your Art History Prof. Too funny.
Justin Kenny wrote:
LMAO....I'ma say the same thing now as I did when I first saw this painting back in my (would-be) college days during 'Art History...' the look on Saturn's face almost gives the idea that he realizes his own son will cause salmonella poisoning....helluva thing to have dawn on you mid-nosh, eh???
guidogodoy wrote:
Mwwaaahaaaaaaa!!!!!! Bring it!
_strat_ wrote:
Dont push it, Guido... You know, Freeze started a new religion yesterday... Its called Stratism, and guess who is the god in it? I just might have to bust a swarm of locusts on yo ass!
guidogodoy wrote:
Perhaps you were embarrassed by the term "little" man. Shrinkage. I know. Best to save face with the metal ladies.
Cold water there, eh?
_strat_ wrote:
Perv.
Anyway, I will start taking showers with my clothes on from now on. Just to be on the safe side.
guidogodoy wrote:
Haaaa! Surveillance has you covered little man!
_strat_ wrote:
You can count me out too.
guidogodoy wrote:
Went to about 130F at the end. No one invited me to shower with them. Not even Timbo. Sniff....
Calvin Boytano was the laugh of the day. It'll haunt me tomorrow as I hear the ice coming down as I type.
Vaillant 3.0 wrote:
I see there have been some interesting conversations here.
From Kama Sutra UFC-style to taking showers together to Tennis matches in 120 degree heat. What can possibly be next?
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:10:49 PM
Prototype of YOU!?? Hardly....I for one should think you'd dance a HELLUVA lot better than Elaine can. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Monday, January 05, 2009 9:07:43 PM)
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
LOL I have all the episodes... I miss that show.... I love elaine.. She is a prototype of me..LMAO
adrianaec_88 wrote:
You sure remember this one .... I love the episode when she screams SteeeeeelllllllllllAAAAAAAA!!!! LMAO
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:07:23 PM
LMAO....I'ma say the same thing now as I did when I first saw this painting back in my (would-be) college days during 'Art History...' the look on Saturn's face almost gives the idea that he realizes his own son will cause salmonella poisoning....helluva thing to have dawn on you mid-nosh, eh??? [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Tuesday, January 27, 2009 1:36:11 AM)
guidogodoy wrote:
Mwwaaahaaaaaaa!!!!!! Bring it!
_strat_ wrote:
Dont push it, Guido... You know, Freeze started a new religion yesterday... Its called Stratism, and guess who is the god in it? I just might have to bust a swarm of locusts on yo ass!
guidogodoy wrote:
Perhaps you were embarrassed by the term "little" man. Shrinkage. I know. Best to save face with the metal ladies.
Cold water there, eh?
_strat_ wrote:
Perv.
Anyway, I will start taking showers with my clothes on from now on. Just to be on the safe side.
guidogodoy wrote:
Haaaa! Surveillance has you covered little man!
_strat_ wrote:
You can count me out too.
guidogodoy wrote:
Went to about 130F at the end. No one invited me to shower with them. Not even Timbo. Sniff....
Calvin Boytano was the laugh of the day. It'll haunt me tomorrow as I hear the ice coming down as I type.
Vaillant 3.0 wrote:
I see there have been some interesting conversations here.
From Kama Sutra UFC-style to taking showers together to Tennis matches in 120 degree heat. What can possibly be next?
[Justin Kenny] Friday, January 23, 2009 8:20:37 AM
"Hot Rockin'" is definitely good...especially when caffeinated products aren't readily handy.
I once found myself doing 100mph (it was like 2am) on the Long Island Expressway by the time the song was three-quarters of the way through....never even realized it 'til I finally looked down at my speedometer...LMAO!!!
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:26:51 AM
June 8th, 1986-- "Fuel For Life" tour....Priest gave new meaning to the word 'annihilation' that night...I STILL have a shirt from that tour....fits snugly, and the material is practically translucent at this point....the wife has suggested we frame it...LOL!
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:42:14 AM
No...no...no....it's NOT another Nostradamus thread...lol....we certainly do have enough of those floating around for new generations of site users to draw inference from; God knows...
...I was just inferring how useful youtube was in FAMILIARIZING me (finally) with how "Nostradamus" is, as I've not yet been able to get my own copy...which, for the record...is the longest span of time that's elapsed since a new Priest output was released and my being able to obtain one for myself...
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:23:24 AM
It's a whole new addiction for me. If it weren't for youtube, I wouldn't be able to see some of this incredible live footage fans have been posting of the mighty Priest doing their thing over the past 7 months!!
Now...up until recently, the 'puters we'd been using here in the driver's lounge really weren't very user friendly when it came to witnessing vid clips and such that others would often share and display the links to....with the ones that are in here NOW however...Madonn'....it's like a whole new world is open to me.
What's been great too is...apart from all the live stuff...a lotta people have posted audio-only clips of many songs from "NOSTRADAMUS..." courtesy of these, I've managed to hear Dawn of Creation/Prophecy, The Four Horsemen, War, Exiled, Death, Alone, Lost Love, Pestilence & Plague, Conquest, Visions, Nostradamus, and Future of Mankind (some of which I'd already heard once or twice).
I have to say...."NOSTRADAMUS" is an absolute masterpiece!!! Even without having heard the whole thing in its proper order straight through yet....I'm absolutely over the MOON with what these guys have done....so many moods....so many feelings....power...passion....light...shade....aggression....it's ALL on this epic!!!! So many moments Priest have captured on albums in their past are totally re-visited on "NOSTRADAMUS" and taken to new heights!!
Way I see it....Priest have been overdue for a Grammy....I sincerely hope they win one for the work they've done here....they earned it...they deserve it!!! They've proven to me...yet again....they are the unprecedented, undisputed, and peerless MASTERS of heavy metal music and the dynamic of its scope.
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:06:09 AM
GREETINGS O MIGHTY METAL CONTINGENT!!!
So here it is....it dusted about an inch of snow between last night and this morning...some of the secondary and primary roads by me were a bit icy. So by the time I hit the main artery that leads me into Ithaca, I open it up a bit more and find I'm running a bit behind by the time I got in. I clock in at 6:34am...a minute late (which yes...in spite of how little, is seriously frowned upon here)...I see another name in my slot on the sign in sheet, to which I thought my run was given away for the day. Then, I remembered they'd been doing refresher training (which we have to do...it's mandatory) all this week...so...I ask the dispatcher...
"....am I part of that this morning?"
He says..."Yes....8am to noon..."
Now...here it is...all this week, I'd been hearing dispatch making arrangements with virtually every driver to accommodate their shifts so they can get their refresher training done...right??
WELL...IT WOULD'VE BEEN NICE IF THEY TOLD ME AHEAD OF TIME!!!!
OHH!!! OHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! (this should please Kinison fans...LOL)
Like the song says....'communication breakdown...it's always the same...'
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:36:04 AM
I just finished scarfin' down 2 smallish meatball subs....home-made meatballs on two rolls lookin' like hotdog rolls....it'll fill the void for what I gotta do for the next 3 hours...which is drive....ecch....
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:30:06 AM
Wow...I can't say I possess shirts quite as well-aged as that...the oldest Priest shirt I possess is from the Turbo tour...it has the 5 members on the front, and the logo in yellow on the back with TURBO and FUEL FOR LIFE above and below it respectively. It was bought on June 8th 1986....to think that shirt will be 23 years old this year...and no...it doesn't quite fit me the way it did back when either... The wife wants to frame it....when you hold it up to the light, you can see through it...that's how worn the fabric is...
[Justin Kenny] Monday, January 12, 2009 1:41:20 PM
And in case anyone wonders...I sincerely doubt that was taken at the parking lot of the venue where he saw said show....(unless they got there REALLY early to tail-gate 'n shit like that....).
Shows that big (thankfully) conjure far more parked cars... ...good work on the hat too.....(if ya can't buy it...I say, MAKE IT!!!) [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by I.M.P. from Monday, January 12, 2009 12:48:03 AM)
I.M.P. wrote:
Right before going to see the Metal Masters. Priest did the impossible-Topped HnH. Couldn't believe it. Best show I'd ever seen. If I can find 'em, I'll post a real funny one of me, some buds and Hansi Kursch.
And that is a home made JP hat on mah head there!
Edited at: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:48:30 AM Edited at: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:49:46 AM
[Justin Kenny] Monday, January 12, 2009 12:13:44 PM
Hi ya MG....and everyone else who's on today!
My last week of my current assignment...and next week begins a new one....the first two days of which will match my last 3 of this week....so that's gonna be a bit boring....5 days of the same damn run with only the weekend to break the action up...uggh...it's my own fault though....but of what was left for me to choose from, I just didn't like a lot of what was there.... bidding for assignments....eccch...beats having it assigned TO you though...
....in any event....just doin' my usual thing....killin' time....
[Justin Kenny] Friday, January 09, 2009 11:27:10 AM
The other helpful aspect of SUVs is that they haul a lotta shit....they're the ideal family vehicles in a lotta ways, in that mothers can take their children to various activities they're involved in, their equipment, and sometimes a friend or two if they take part in a carpool team (where one mom will take a small group of say 4-5 one day, another mom will do it another day...etc..etc...). And with 'bulk' shopping stores like Sam's Club or Price Club, the larger storage areas in the rear of some of those SUVs can hold a considerable amount of stuff without compromising how/where others are going to sit.
They are for the most part, however...not quite as fuel efficient...and when being controlled by lesser drivers, they're twice the hazard...
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:14:01 AM
I think it's fair to say that NO ONE here would ever deny or minimize the importance of Ian Hill and Scott Travis to Judas Priest. Hill co-founded the band with KK after all, and Scott has been pummeling the skins for Priest since late '89 (even though he's initially featured on 1990's "Painkiller"). The reason Rob, Glenn and KK are so often featured in photos, interviews, and seem to dominate the spotlight on stage is because that's how it's been for a very long time. Ian has even stated in many interviews over the years that he's content to let Rob, Glenn and KK command the stage....he's always seen his role as the band's anchor...the man who helps keep time and the thunder of the rhythms of each track tight and intact. And because Rob, Glenn and KK write and orchestrate the songs, they know more about the content and the semantics of them; they all have also stated that Ian's and Scott's input are very necessary and important...if they can't see playing something that doesn't resonate within them, they have every right to say.
There's never been any 'bad blood' with this given arrangement. Most times, when Ian isn't pictured flailing himself and that bass about like a man possessed, you can see a very contented, satisfied grin crossing his face. He knows damn well that everybody's working together like a finely tuned and oiled machine.
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:03:15 AM
If I had more time, I'd find this one album cover that had me howlin' pretty good...I'm sure if you Google it, you'll find it...the artist is Millie Jackson..and the album is called "Back To The Shit!" For what appears to be an R&B artist, this cover is pretty damn hysterical as it is irreverent....(and no...there's no 'shit' to be seen).
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:55:52 AM
Hi ya MG!!! (Cripes...we need us a smiley that waves....)
Well...in another 40 minutes or so, I'm gonna be embarking on yet another training excursion involving an addition made to one of our existing routes....it goes into a whole other county. I went through it already, but it was the direction taken during the AM routes....the PM routes go the OPPOSITE direction, and I didn't want to do it wrong (as I'm doing the PM route)....it's not painfully difficult, but I will be driving it when it's dark, and the routes take on a whole different perspective at night. I hope they go the OTHER way today....else, I'm gonna have to take extra notes than I did the first time. Gonna have to squire me a left-right diagram too...just to be sure. I'm only doing it 3 days this week and 3 days the next before our new bids take effect....might have to avoid picking anything with the route 20 on it (the route that's had this new county addition)....these roads that cut through Burdett and Watkins Glen are murder in winter!
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:03:59 AM
Ahhh yes....Tuesday....the penny of the work week....I call it that because it seems that it's the most useless day of the week....unless your birthday falls on a Tuesday, that is...
....oh well....may as well go and make the most of it.... *sips coffee...and pulls up bootstraps*
[Justin Kenny] Monday, January 05, 2009 1:51:49 PM
Indeed....beer goggles, after all....come at a premium..... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Head banger from Monday, January 05, 2009 11:47:12 AM)
Head banger wrote:
LOL.
perhaps as sugested, we need beer sales to increase, to make the nasty decrease?
Justin Kenny wrote:
So THAT explains why so many of the women that grace the pages of 'HUSTLER' are so feckin' NAAAAAASSTY!!!!!
Thank Christ on His Throne I'm married....
Head banger wrote:
more bizare facts...
Recent studies have purported to show that the tempo of popular songs slows, that beer and pasta sales increase, and that Playboy's Playmate of the Year tends to be older and heavier during bad economies
[Justin Kenny] Monday, January 05, 2009 11:34:19 AM
So THAT explains why so many of the women that grace the pages of 'HUSTLER' are so feckin' NAAAAAASSTY!!!!!
Thank Christ on His Throne I'm married.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Head banger from Sunday, January 04, 2009 10:54:04 AM)
Head banger wrote:
more bizare facts...
Recent studies have purported to show that the tempo of popular songs slows, that beer and pasta sales increase, and that Playboy's Playmate of the Year tends to be older and heavier during bad economies
[Justin Kenny] Monday, January 05, 2009 11:25:14 AM
Thanks for that update MG!!! And what Glenn ended that info with is exactly what I've been saying about Judas Priest for the last (almost) 20 years!!! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Monday, January 05, 2009 11:12:54 AM)
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
Judas Priest plan special shows to celebrate 40th anniversary
Judas Priest plan special shows to celebrate 40th anniversary
THIS year marks the 40th anniversary of the formation of Judas Priest – and guitarist Glenn Tipton hopes it is celebrated with some extra special shows.
The 61-year-old who was born in Blackheath, Birmingham, but now lives in Worcestershire, says there are plans for the band's latest album, Nostradamus, a concept double album, to be performed in its entirety.
''Our ambition is to perform Nostradamus from start to finish when everyone's got used to it and they all know it,'' says Glenn who is joined in the band by vocalist Rob Halford, guitarist Ken 'KK' Downing, bassist Ian Hill and drummer Scott Travis.
''We'll certainly pick some special venues as we'd like to make an event of it. We'll be looking at venues around the world that would contribute to the classical and operatic side of the project.''
Glenn says he's unsure where in Birmingham the 100-minute record could be showcased.
''The Bull Ring would be a good place to do it – it's probably there in his prophecies if we look,'' he jokes. ''Nostradamus visits Birmingham Bull Ring!''
Symphony Hall would be the obvious place to emphasis the operatic qualities of the double album but Glenn says the band's reputation may deter the hall's owners from hiring it out.
An incident on their 1984 Defenders of the Faith tour means they're unable to play at one of the world's top arenas.
''Madison Square Garden banned us for life,'' he recalls. ''The audience went berserk and ripped all the seats out. They cost more that quarter of a million dollars to replace. Me and Ken went back there to see a tennis match which John McEnroe was playing in. We went incognito, wearing hoodies so no one would recognise us but the ushers came up to us and said 'Thanks for the new seats, guys'.''
Before the full Nostradamus shows Judas Priest join Megadeth and Testament for the 'Priest Feast' at Birmingham's LG Arena at the NEC on February 14.
Glenn reveals that there will be snippets from the latest album on display: ''The intro tape will be Dawn Of Creation from Nostradamus, then Prophecy and Death, and for our playout there's the title track so the fans will get plenty of Nostradamus as such.''
He adds that there will also be plenty of oldies, including some that haven't been played live before.
''There's Hell Patrol, Devil Child, Sinner – classic Priest, plus the unmissable Painkiller and Hell Bent For Leather.''
As for the next project...
''We might do a live album . We've recorded quite a few shows so we have to get together and listen to those and a think about that.
''But with us you never know what's around the corner. We never really plan. We finish a tour, take a break, then we go into a room and start to write. We're very lucky in this band that we have a great writing formula, we never know what we're going to come up with.
"That's the beauty of Priest, you never know what's coming next.''
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Kerriann posted this out on my space.. so I thought I would post it here..
[Justin Kenny] Friday, January 02, 2009 5:21:56 AM
Let's put it this way, people.....metal (as a genre) has evolved and shown more dimension-growth than every other genre put together. Case in point....are ANY newer country artists doing anything differently than country artists from 50 years ago? What about R&B? Sure, some artists may infuse other genre influences into the music they predominantly make or create....but when you think about the very diversity bands like Judas Priest, Queensryche, hell...even Black Sabbath had a penchant for creating and generating different moods and melodies in the songs they wrote!
Any musical artist HAS to create music that pleases THEM first before they can feel confident about releasing their work to the public. Priest have done this over and over again....while they know their fans have varied opinions and feelings about what they've released, this is par for the course, and as artists, they understand this. I'm sure there are varied opinions among art critics when it comes to reviewing works by Cezanne, Van Gogh, et, al....if everybody loved what those artists made, they'd have had no reason to keep working. Criticism (even the blunt kind) helps to shape and drive artists to keep creating, even for as much as they do it for themselves first.
Metal is more than a sound, tempo, or how loud a band can play. As progenitors of heavy metal music, Judas Priest have amply shown the world many times over just how diverse and magnanimous the genre can be and to GREAT affect. Hence....HELL yes.....Priest are as metal today as they were 30+ years ago.
[Justin Kenny] Friday, January 02, 2009 5:10:41 AM
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!
I hope everyone enjoyed ringing in '09, and have every intention of making this year better than the last. Remember, it starts with US....ALL of us...respectively...
I made a resolution to be more active....not so much to lose weight, but being more active will certainly assist me to that end. God knows my job doesn't render ME to be in motion as much as the bus...so....during my leaner off-peak times, I'm going to be walking around the building a few times, and using some of the exercise equipment I have at home a lot more often than I have. Really gotta start doing something to help offset my inactivity!!
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, December 30, 2008 5:05:58 AM
Oh my frickin' Lord....if my youngest daughter saw that moose for herself...she'd be utterly beside herself....to say she's fixated on moose would be a gross understatement. The girl has some 18+ STUFFED moose animals (made by various plush companies...rest assured), just got a pair of fleece pajama bottoms with moose-heads patterned in them, and last year or so, she visited some farm area or another near Niagara Falls (I think it was), where the owners had a moose on site, which proceeded to give her an unofficial ride around shortly after she hugged herself around its front leg. I so wish I had footage of this....'cuz it must've been hysterical!!!
Children's minds change like the tides...but even at present, she wants very much to be a veterinarian....not just for the benefit of all animals...but moose especially...
I'm tellin' you...if she saw the moose in the yard like your brother did, MG...she'd be like, "MOOOOOOOSSSIIEEEE!!!!!!!" [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Monday, December 29, 2008 6:09:15 PM)
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
Hi guys My brother e-mailed me these 2 pics of a moose that came through yard.. look at all the snow.. OMG This was the other day, and they have gotten 14 more inches of snow since then...
But the moose is beautiful.. so I thought I would share..
[Justin Kenny] Monday, December 29, 2008 6:45:09 PM
...and then, of course...there's MY segment of NY where the motto about the weather is, "...if you don't like the weather, wait a few minutes..." and that's pretty much year-round. Sure...we get some brutal winters and other brutal moments appropo to any of the 4 seasons there are...but Madonn'....I've never seen weather changes from city to city and county to county as I have since I lived in this region of NY.....it's unbelievable already.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, December 29, 2008 7:09:54 AM
...'mornin' folks....until I know something otherwise...I've already committed to my work day....one morning loop and my whole afternoon is wiped off the slate (my normal schedule...which is considerably dead given the nature of this time of year and the completely minimized traffic on campus/downtown). Not that I'm complaining...I could use a dead week or two....
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, December 24, 2008 11:33:03 AM
Good Lord!! And thank God nothing did go wrong....
...that's gotta be the scariest time for parents...when their children are so young...so innocent....so curious, and don't understand the harm that can come to them when they're away from those who can keep them safe and secure.
That elderly gentleman was definitely a guardian angel of sorts Joe...no question....thank him in your prayers, and thank your own Spirit Guide for sending him her way!!! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by joedraper from Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:51:31 PM)
joedraper wrote:
Feck! Where does all the time go?
Lately I haven't had as much time to be here as I'd like to have but I've still had a peek in everyday to see how my metal family are.
It's been a tough week in Draperville.. On Saturday I had to go shopping and something so scary happened. I was busy paying for something and we got distracted, in the confusion my two year old daughter sort of walked out of the store we were in without anyone noticing. It took about 20 seconds to realize that she was missing> I dropped everything, ran out the store and about 5 stores up from where we were, I saw an elderly gent leading her away from me. First, I froze in terror and then ran toward them and grabbed her away from him. As I got closer and before instinct took over and I grabbed her, I did hear him saying to her 'Is that your mommy?' as he pointed to ladies in his vicinity. So luckily for us he was a good samaritin trying honestly to find her parents. When I realized that I was watching two strangesr walking away in a mall, I realized how fast and how easily an abduction can take place. To any outside observer, they could have so easily passed for grandfather and granddaughter. What scared me the most is how trusting and comfortable she was with a total stranger! I still feel very freaked out over the incident and I always thought of myself as a very vigilant parent but, I guess this is how these things happen. You think that, I took my eys of her for a second, what can go wrong in a second.. a lot can go wrong.
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:59:47 AM
....Evanescence!!? I'm not about to chastise anyone who may enjoy their music or anything....like what ya want..but Christ on His Throne....that's HARDLY headbanging material...I'm sorry (and I know what I'm talking about...my eldest daughter is quite the devotee to said group).
Aaaannnnnnyhoooooooooo.....
...I don't know what tomorrow has in store for me...so...just in case I find myself to busy to visit...allow me to say now a Merry Christmas to any/all who observe....and a Joyous Holiday season wish to those who do not. PLEASE be safe and take care in your travels (if you do) and watch for the OTHER guy...and whatever you do...do NOT become that 'other guy...' we have enough assholes traversing these highways/bi-ways/interstates, tyvm....adding to that quotient is not an option.
...and no....I don't anticipate getting "Nostradamus" for Xmas.... ...'s'been a rough 5 months...
Hee hee hee, had to post this for all, having to share it, and knowing that no-one in my house would get it...
Headbanging has been branded a "health hazard" by the first ever study into the sacred heavy metal ritual.
A report, published in today's British Medical Journal by Declan Patton and Andrew McIntosh from the School For Risk And Safety Sciences at the University Of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia concluded that headbanging leaves participants with "similar effects to whiplash."
The pair conducted an extensive study of headbanging, attending numerous concerts and observing various headbanging techniques. They were then able to come up with a biomechanical analysis and a "theoretical headbanging model".
The study showed that a typical death metal song has approximately 146 beats-per-minute, which, combined with headbanging arcs of at least 45 degrees, will more than likely "cause mild head and neck injury." They also warned that faster tempos and wider arcs provide a "definite risk of mild traumatic brain injury."
And don't just take their word for it, doctors believe that in 2005, Evanescence guitarist Terry Balsamo suffered a stroke from headbanging too hard.
(and Good evening to all!)
[Justin Kenny] Monday, December 22, 2008 12:22:41 PM
It's probably already been posted on a link or talked about already...but I only saw it last week during my vacation for the first time..so..forgive me if this is old news...but boy howdy....I laughed like my feet were being tickled when I saw footage highlights of the year 2008, and that one dude was throwing his shoes at President Bush.......oh man....that shit took the ever-lovin' cake!!! I'd never seen a President have to duck and weave like that....I found it too damn funny....
[Justin Kenny] Monday, December 22, 2008 4:37:24 AM
Good morning fellow Metallians and Metallianettes!!!!
.....Metallianettes?? Hm..well...that's what happens when I have only one cup of coffee in my system....I just dig equality, is all...
...vacation was quite good....wife fell ill half-way through it, but that's alright....I don't mind being the domestic king...it's only during my vacations and on weekends I get to exact my cooking/cleaning prowess. Lots got accomplished...that's what matters....
Well...barring a couple of other pending days off in the next couple of weeks, this kid is back in the saddle....just in time for Xmas....innit that wunnerful??
So...talk to me y'all...wha's shakin' and quakin'?
[Justin Kenny] Friday, December 12, 2008 11:25:13 AM
I'm not offended whatsoever....if anything, I'm terribly sympathetic to you and your mom, and your family...I'm also hopeful that they can slow its progress...even if only somewhat...
Well here goes.. for those that wanted to know my mom has
Invasive or Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma (IDC)
85% chance it will come back and or spread into another organ... If it has not allready.. Full body scan to be done next tursday to check all of her other organs. Its allready in stage 3 going into stage 4 .. so things do-not sound good for her. I was not going to post this here.. because I did not want to disrupt the web board.. But I have had so many of you PM with your wonderful wishes, and happy thoughts.. I am lazy and I didnt want to write a zillion e-mails in PM.
Sorry if this has offended any-one...
Iam okay.. I knew what to expect.. I just know what lies ahead.. and I guess We will all deal with it one breath at a time, and one moment in time..
Thank you all for your wonderful words...
Hugs MG~
[Justin Kenny] Friday, December 05, 2008 12:24:16 PM
As my man Deep Freeze would put it.... 'HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
O.J. Simpson has just been sentenced to 40+ years on ten counts of charges (all sentences of which served in concurrence or consecutively) for his involvement with that whole mess he got himself in...the kidnapping, brandishing (and...apparently use of) a deadly weapon, and all that other good shit.
All in all...O.J. is easily looking at 9-10 years SOLID...even if he survives his term, and is a good boy.
Karma....it's a bitch people....she takes names and remembers deeds...dig it!!!
[Justin Kenny] Friday, December 05, 2008 12:14:00 PM
Hey...wasn't one or all 3 of those guys with Rush playing "Closer To The Heart" (as seen on the "R30" DVD)?? There's a clip of that one dude with the glasses playing guitar with them ( I recognized him immediately once I saw this post).
...just showing that I can pay SOME kind of attention to details.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Thursday, December 04, 2008 5:23:22 PM)
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
Oh man I just got this in a e-mail...too lol
Sunset for Sunnyvale: Trailer Park Boys cancelled
Ricky will soon munch his last chicken fingers and stub out his last joint. Julian will drink his final rum and Coke, and Bubbles will steal shopping carts no more. There will not be an eighth season: Following a Dec. 7 special, and a movie to follow next October, Trailer Park Boys will come to an end.
[Justin Kenny] Friday, December 05, 2008 12:08:01 PM
Good...so now that we got rid of two MORE shit-stirrers...I say we get back on track..rally around MG, and give her one solid, warm, bona-fide, big-ass group hug...dig it....
[Justin Kenny] Friday, December 05, 2008 12:00:49 PM
At the risk of sounding too confident...I don't think there'll be any drastic personnel changes within Judas Priest until the day comes when the band decides to call it a day. I think the lineup we see now will last the duration...long may it be.
[Justin Kenny] Friday, December 05, 2008 11:57:06 AM
Alrighty then....at the risk of dating myself....being a pest....annoying a few and exasperating others....(and being redundant to boot, ffs)...I ask y'all this...
WHAAAA-AAAASSSAAAP!!!!!!??
**MEMBER DISCLAIMER: No...the people at Budweiser in no way, shape or form endorse the Judas Priest website or the contents therein. The member in question just felt like being a tool for about a minute, and..quite frankly, doesn't care. If this member's post made you smile or laugh, his job is complete...if it made you want to put him on your 'Ignore' listing on a permanent basis, that's okay too. The reason for such flippant airs is because according to Hoops & Yo-Yo...it's "I Don't Care Friday." We thank you for your time...that is all.**
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:17:22 AM
So...it's finally out there, eh? After...HOW many years?? Me thinks Axl Rose has gone to the "Tom Scholz School For Album Manufacturing..." that is...give 'em a new album every decade or so (don't get me wrong, I love Boston's music just fine).
"Chinese Democracy," eh? Hmm...interesting title. I don't know about you all...but I like Chinese food when I'm REALLY in the mood for it....can't help but wonder if "Chinese Democracy" works the same way....
....for that matter, after an hour or so from listening to it...do you end up 'hungry' again and listen to something more substantive?? o_O
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:09:50 AM
Hell yes...I've been a proud member here for 5 years (as have others..some of whom have more time behind them even!!), and there ain't a troll, site-spy, asshole, fuckstick or shit-talkin' skell that has managed to eliminate me yet.
You'll all kindly forgive my 'french...' but hey...when the terms apply....
Those less than FAITHful...or who do NOT embody the METAL CONTINGENT....lemme help y'all out...see that little 'X' in the red square right at the top, right corner of your screen?? Yup! You got it....THAT one...yeh...now, move the cursor up to that using your mouse...and left-click on that sumbitch just once....something cool will happen...dig it. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Metallark from Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:02:44 AM)
Metallark wrote:
I love you too FREEZE, but you still can't have my Crystal Light!!! HHHHAAAAAA!
On a serious note, credit goes out to FREEZE who once again has wordsmithed with great wisdom what this site means to many of us.
Thanks to all of those that still believe that this site holds a sentimental value and adds to our expression as fans of JP.
Deep Freeze wrote:
I do not think I could I have said it any better, guido. What wonderful words and remarkable sentiment. And how true your words! I know there are members that would just as soon see this site closed. Many of these same people would prefer to see my mouth closed as well. Such is their position and I will respect it. I recall a very dear friend of mine, Shawn in Canada, that expressed the desire to see the site closed. His thought was that this place had become a big "chatroom" and had lost its appeal as a Priest site. He lamented the daily babble about all things "Un-Priest". He ended up leaving this site. I respected his opinion then, and I respect those today. But I do not agree. This is one of the great beauties of friendship; we need not always agree.I believe many more will come and go. The choice is theirs. (I use e-mail. I have a cell phone, by the way! These are all tools for work more than they are anything else.)
This place is more than just a band's website to me. It is through this site that I have met, face to face, some of the most wonderful and dear friends I have ever known. I have met, electronically, many others. There is just no way that I can place a value on that. I think a certain element among us have forgotten the importance of friendship. Perhaps their lives have become so hectic with the many other responsibilities we face that they are no longer able to remember the joy of seeing a dear friend? Of having someone to talk to when you need them? Of sharing a laugh? Of knowing what friends and being a friend really means?
The day I came here, I met some great people. Some of them are gone now. Some of them are still here. A couple are very close to me. Phil (Metal Meltdown) is as close to a "best friend" as I have had in twenty years. We are very close and that friendship means SO much to me. Without this Board, I would have never met him. I would have never had the opportunity to do the wonderful music we have created! I won't even get into all the other tremendous aspects of happiness that has brought along!
I guess the most important thing I can impart from this post is this; I truly love you all. You really do mean something to me. ALL of you. Whether or not we agree is irrelevant to me. I am grateful for you. I learn from you. Occasionally, I lean on you. You know as much about me as any friends I have ever had. You have been here during some of my most difficult moments. There is a certain theraputic value to that. To be able to tell you things. To share. And all of this has been facilitated by the place we know as Judas Priest.com.
guidogodoy wrote:
I'll jump in with and answer, if I may, as it matters a great deal to me if JP is up or down.
Most know me as one very much into tech. I am a programmer, set up computer networks, just finished building three computers in as many days and can (sadly?) tell you how the next quad-core "Nehalem" Intel chip will fare against the nanosecond "future" of computing. That said, I am one of the only people I know who does not own a cellphone! I have NEVER been one for chat even in the beginnings (yeah, I know FORTRAN and can change tubes on the ENIAC! LOL!). Quite frankly, I feel no need nor do I have anything so important to say as to be in contact with someone so constantly.
Email, to me, is a task. A chore. How I deal with people on a day-to-day basis at work. WORK being the key word. They demand a response. IM conversations? To me, they are like cellphones (and chat, for that matter). They are "non-substantive," IMO. Perhaps a laugh or two on the good days but, again, a chore to me.
I may come across as a troglodyte (anyone who knows me knows that I am cutting edge on most everything) or perhaps an anomaly of the traditional tech-nerd. Still, for as much as tech marches on, I appreciate the human contact all the more. Wanna know the saddest thing I saw last Ozzfest? The masses who were there speaking on the phone. I am almost ashamed to have taken so many pictures at the last Priest concert. Probably what led to my injury. First time I got a camera into a show while trying to headbang.
"Don't you email your friends" you ask? IM? IRC? Nope. I might email a friend from time to time but no IM nor IRC. I just don't have the time to be on the same schedule as them. HERE, however, I can be writing at 1am, post pictures, make friends both here at home and ESPECIALLY abroad. Necro sending recipes to us, for example? How would I have found such a thing otherwise?
I cherish the noticeboard for it doesn't "demand" my time. I give it freely and whenever I am able. I very much appreciate the opportunity to have that choice. (Quoting Message by Where AmI from Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:24:48 AM)
Where AmI wrote:
Don't you email your friends and have IM conversations or use IRC? Honestly, there is no reason why you should stop talking to your friends now that you have them. It shouldn't matter that jp.com is up or down.
Where there is an ending, there may be a new begining. A far better, sharper, improved begining. A slick, shiny - and technologically advanced - begining to reflect the changing times.
If for that to happen, jp.com has to be sacrificed, so be it. I'll be the first one to hammer the nails on the cross.
Head banger wrote:
I think that to let the actions of one spoil the fun and friendships that hundreds have forged here would be a great loss.
Where AmI wrote:
I don't know if it's because of people posting here that the website may shut down. It's fine by me if it does, even if I have been coming here for years. If the noticeboard itself shuts down but not the website, I rather ask if it's possible to leave only two threads available for visitors:
Messages To Judas Priest and Messages By Judas Priest and management.
All else can dissappear.
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
Yep.. this is exactly what Iam talking about.. Its too bad that these people really have no clue..
For reasons such as this and others Its no-wonder this site may shut down..
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:03:55 AM
WELCOME BACK, WHISKEY WOMAN!!! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by WhiskeyWoman from Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:41:34 AM)
WhiskeyWoman wrote:
Anthony ... Thanks.
(Not getting any easier, as I would have hoped.)
I'm just clinging on to sanity by the skin of my teeth ... ha-ha.
Some days are better than others, but it's a tough go...
Didn't help much when Colley borrowed a movie this weekend called, "U-Turn", where Sean Penn gets a couple fingers cut off about a 1/2 hour into the movie. Yeah... When I realized what was happening, I kind of lost it and became a big, sobbing mess on the floor ...
Wasn't too funny at the time, but Colley jumped up with a horrified look on his face saying, "I didn't know, I didn't know!" Kind of funny now though... Needless to say, we haven't watched the end yet... That was just too close to home for comfort.
Then there's smashing what's left of my 'finger' into things. Oh yeah, now that's fun. Holy hell... it's like stubbing a toe, but 100% more pain, for 100x longer. Note to self, "Gotta stop doing that."
So, all in all, with help from my angels out there (you know who you are...) I stay out of the "black hole" that's ever present and threatening ... and I just sit on the edge, trying to put space between us.
However, a stranger went out of his way to be nice to me yesterday. I had been a bit rude, which did not warrant his kindness. But, his small gesture of caring regardless of my own behaviour, at such a critical moment (perhaps, he sensed a breaking point?), went a long way towards me looking at the world and my own situation in a better light.
You just never know when doing something good, however small, will help someone in ways you can't imagine. He may have helped me turn that corner... At the very least, he reaffirmed some of my faith in humanity.
So, for today, my tears are of gratitude for being lucky enough to have people care. Thanks to my Angels without wings....
scorpion01 wrote:
THINGS ARE GOING WELL! THIS TIME OF THE YEAR I GET A LITTLE CRAZY BEING AN ACCOUNTANT. WE ARE A LITTLE CRAZIER THIS YEAR WITH OUR COMPANY TRYING TO GO PUBLIC.
HOW DO YOU FEEL? SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE DOING WELL.
WhiskeyWoman wrote:
Hey Scorpion! (you sweet thing, you!)
So good to see you again! Ron gave me your message... kind of kicked my butt to get back here. Missed you kind folks around here...
Now, *his* pc is down and the last chess move he made was Monday morning... MIA for almost two weeks now!
Hope things are good with you?
scorpion01 wrote:
WELCOME BACK WHISKEY WOMAN. THE BOARD WAS NOT THE SAME WITHOUT YOU.
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:01:06 AM
Ummm....................................ya....okay. Whatever.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MatisseGroening from Tuesday, December 02, 2008 5:45:07 AM)
MatisseGroening wrote:
Hello,
So 'do you believe' was used, and was mine. Nostradamus was used and was an explaination for my ability to speak using Remote Viewing. And on my CD it should have started with 'creation'. That 's the main point here. He just stole it.
The point leading to the Nostradmus double CD was that I have the old videos and recorded them on DVD now. And I noticed that the songs of Turbo weren't that good in my opinion. It wasn't because of the synth-guitars. So I came to Remote View with Rob Halford and did'nt wanted him to think he was hearing voices (-> Nostradamus). The thank you was to steal everything and to just use me for his purpose.
The CD is constructed, so this means he actually is not talented enough to do it better than Turbo. And the double CD was in this sense not because of challenge and talent, it was because of arrogance!
It was a friendly suggestion and he showed his lousy charakter! And they give respect points here.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, December 01, 2008 12:26:32 PM
At the risk of sounding like a broken record...the live rendering of this on the "Unleashed In The East" re-issue is absolutely SMOKIN'....gets me fired up each and every time I hear it.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, December 01, 2008 12:12:29 PM
In all honesty, I didn't take part in the initial 'Black Friday' rush as my wife and eldest daughter opted...they were up at 3:30 that morning and arrived at the Wal-Mart by us just in time for the 4am opening. It was (by all description) very quick and busy...but the most out of hand region of the store seemed to be reserved to the electronics department (thank Christ). Her only M.O. for going there at all was because of the 75%+ off savings that were going on with some of the young miss/adult ladies' clothing....jeans, tops...shit like that. The girls have been needing some new clothing for some time now, and my wife managed to capitalize on the sales quotients...picking up said items for both of our daughters, a quick peruse through toys for some of the younger children in the family, hopped upon a line that was quite small and quickly moving..and got the hell outta there. I later joined my wife to set up the lay-away business we had to take care of at K-Mart...which went surprisingly smooth...but it's some of what I witnessed there, and the things I heard about later that day that really got me to thinking. I just can't excuse or rationalize such Cro-Mag behaviors as I learned about in Valley Stream (and anywhere else this had happened). It was a stark reminder of the madness that took place back when the 'Cabbage Patch Kids,' 'Tickle Me Elmo,' 'iPods,' and other high-demand items that emerged in the last 25 years to better tempt the consumer dollar. I'm sorry....but when something like that deduces the "..most advanced race" of this planet to mindless, careless, heartless frenzies....it behooves the ENTIRETY of those of us left with SOME semblance of decency and respect to set a new example and tell these retailers/manufacturers to take their 'must-have' items and shove 'em clean up their chocolate wizz-ways. Yes...I know how ironic that just sounded....LOL!!!
....it's a lot less harmful than hearing about store employees who won't be able to join their own families for the holidays because they DIED in the name of trying to make OTHER people's holiday "....happy and prosperous." [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Monday, December 01, 2008 11:53:48 AM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
So very well said (as usual) Justin. I can imagine that you see more than your fair share of public nimrods.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, December 01, 2008 11:58:00 AM
Rest assured of ONE thing...for as long as THIS kid graces this asshole planet, you will NEVER...EVER...hear me say bad word ONE about the magnificence of Rush. Among the most amazing marriage of musicians this world has ever known, and consistently top-shelf in what they offer. I finally had the chance to see them live as recently as 2002 in support of 'Vapor Trails,' and I gotta tell ya...I honestly do NOT know what prevented me from ever seeing them prior to that (save for financial obligations). I never heard a crowd so rapturous in their ovations after a drum solo as they were with Neil Peart once he completed his...I know I myself was utterly dumbfounded and equally as vocal as the 14,000 others that were on hand that evening!!! Tighter than a gnat's ass and they looked like they were having an absolute BLAST together, which infected everyone in attendance.
I love...love...LOVE this band...and I honestly hope to get a chance to see them at least ONE MORE TIME before they call it a day.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, December 01, 2008 11:49:16 AM
Bev...your privacy will always be respected (at least...by me and others of those you've known for some time), and your input here (however discretionary by you) will always be heralded and valued by those who know you best....there'll always be a newer 'community' of users (as it were)...but I don't let that slow ME down (don't let my low post count fool you....I'm more of a chatroom haunter m'self...LOL!).
[Justin Kenny] Monday, December 01, 2008 11:41:34 AM
Lord...it never ceases to amaze me what can transpire in a matter of 4 days or so....seems once again this site is in danger of losing otherwise GOOD people because more of the proverbial shit has begun to needlessly annihilate the 'fan' for which it invariably targets.
Add to this, the events of the last three days on a more grand scale. I simply cannot get over the non-sensical bull-rush ethic I heard about this past weekend once 'Black Friday' hit. I mean...my God...an older, part-time employee of a Wal-Mart branch in Valley Stream, NY (which is about 40 minutes from where I used to live on Long Island) gets trampled to death just trying to open the feckin' store!!!?? Then I hear about two employees of another store that were shot (whether or not it had anything to do with the shopping rush has yet to be determined at this time)??
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!!!???
Alright...I know...it's the biggest shopping day that gets the holiday shopping kicked off in earnest. It's a pathetic time economically, and a lotta retailers are trying in vain to compete for whatever spending dollar consumers are willing to shell out...I get it...honestly, I do. But fer Chrissakes...does it REALLY gotta be about life and death?? Must this reduce otherwise rational, sane (I think?) people to regress some 10,000 years in order to obtain one or two coveted items?? I sure hope those who espouse the beliefs of the 'big-bang/evolutionary' theories have re-tooled their thinking as to just how advanced a race we humans have evolved into...because some of what I saw and heard would make me wonder like a sonuvabitch were I of the same order of thinking/belief...lemme tell ya! The only things missing were the overtly hairy bodies, a few mace clubs, and some added grunts and other guttural noises as a means of communicating (and while I think about it, I did see some of that too)!!! Know what gets my goat too?? The fact that once the Valley Stream police got the Wal-Mart evacuated, people had the nerve to complain.....you believe this!?? COMPLAIN....even after they heard about what had happened!!! Then, my wife tells me she overheard that there was a fight in the electronics department in the Wal-Mart by us because someone had the nerve to swipe a TV clean out of the shopping cart right in front of the person who had it in there in the first place!!!
Unreal....I mean that....absolutely UNreal. And people wonder why there are some of this world who have this abject hatred when it comes to holidays. I don't...I know what it's supposed to represent and what it's supposed to mean, and it will always be that way...but there are a vast number of people who really need a goddamn clue and in a bigger goddamn hurry.
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:21:11 PM
Congrats on the new digs! Beats the holy bejeezuz outta where you all were, no doubt? [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Necroticist from Tuesday, November 25, 2008 10:11:45 AM)
Necroticist wrote:
Hi MG & DF - the move was just about bearable, i may have even enjoyed it if i hadn't been spouting buckets of blood all over...don't ask...But the new place is great - we love it here. still some things to do, but we should be straight by 2010...lol.
It's good to be back.
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, November 25, 2008 10:50:42 AM
LOL...MG...it might crack you up to know when you post cute pictures of cute widdle kitties like that, that I often look quite silly to some of my co-workers making 'pinchy' motions toward the computer screen by the kitty's face saying things like, "Oh my God he's SOOO CUTE!" thru clenched teeth...
...if it cracks the rest of you up too...fine...sue me....cute cats/kittens have a way of doing that to this kid.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Monday, November 24, 2008 8:43:36 PM)
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 24, 2008 11:12:35 AM
Hm...okay....that's one for a bad 'uppity...' (for which, I can't blame you...Mondays have a way of doing that). [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Head banger from Monday, November 24, 2008 11:05:28 AM)
Head banger wrote:
well, since Canada had thanksgiving 6 weeks ago, I feel upity, since its monday, and its predicably going crappy.
Justin Kenny wrote:
It may be Monday...but it's gonna feel a lot more like Wednesday...as I only have today, tomorrow, and Wednesday itself to worry about...then it's a nice 4 day weekend for me...
Hey...someone's gotta feel uppity today....may as well be me....
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 24, 2008 10:48:42 AM
It's alright if y'all just woke up or whatever...have your coffee/tea...breakfast...a shower...whatever...then guage whether or not you're feelin' the 'uppity' I'm talkin' about...I can wait....I'm patient....
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 24, 2008 10:16:42 AM
Hey...in spirit is totally valid....
...good...so that makes TWO uppity people today...any other takers??? Hah?? Hmmm??? o_O
(and yes...I mean a GOOD 'uppity') [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Monday, November 24, 2008 10:04:44 AM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
I am with you, Justin. If only in spirit, I am with you!
Justin Kenny wrote:
It may be Monday...but it's gonna feel a lot more like Wednesday...as I only have today, tomorrow, and Wednesday itself to worry about...then it's a nice 4 day weekend for me...
Hey...someone's gotta feel uppity today....may as well be me....
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 24, 2008 10:01:17 AM
It may be Monday...but it's gonna feel a lot more like Wednesday...as I only have today, tomorrow, and Wednesday itself to worry about...then it's a nice 4 day weekend for me...
Hey...someone's gotta feel uppity today....may as well be me....
[Justin Kenny] Friday, November 21, 2008 7:53:25 PM
After having just read something relatively upsetting, my last words to you all before embarking on another weekend furlough are the following:
Life is short kids....we do not know the hour, day, or minute of our demise or any other. Like the song says:
'In these days, when darkness falls early...
and people rush home...to the ones they love...
...you better take this fool's advice..and take care of your own...
...'cuz one day they're here, the next day they're gone...'
I try and take as many opportunities as I can to let those I love know that they matter to me, and that I'm ever grateful they are who they are to me. I suppose that's why I was able to get through the losses I've endured without too much grief. That isn't to say I'm not sensitive to loss, nor does it mean I don't miss those I lost...I miss them all terribly, and would give ANYTHING to have them all back...but there's a lot to be said for knowing there are no misgivings...no discord...no bones to bury or axes to grind with those who matter to you.
Yea, though the holidays are coming, I say DON'T WAIT until Thanksgiving or Christmas to go up to someone you love and hug them....DON'T WAIT until someone's birthday to call them just to chat and catch up... DON'T WAIT to say the things that need to be said....especially if what you want to say is 'I love you...' not only will you feel better for having done it...but when that fateful hour, day or minute comes, you'll also feel better for knowing that any/all doubts, misgivings, or anything else hanging in the balance were QUELLED due to the actions you took while they were still here to receive it.
It matters....believe me.
To those I know here and know well (or, have gotten to know), you're all a part of the fabric that is my life, even if it does seem momentary in scope. I celebrate your successes, and feel the pains of your failures/foils. Like MG often greets upon entry or leaving...."..to my lovely metal family...." when you think about it, that's really what a place like this is. It isn't just the music or the band that unites us (though, it did help, didn't it?), but it's also the knowledge that it's people relating to people....REAL people...REAL time....even with the buffer of a computer screen, we put out there what we want, and hope it's of some quality that generates laughter, kindness, sympathy/empathy, and the general camaraderie we'd probably enjoy were we all physically in the same room; much like a large bar during happy hour. Some of you have seen me use that 'happy hour' analogy, especially in the chat room...but the NB is no different in that respect. I relish coming here and engaging the way I do with those I've befriended...and I'm not the least bit against involving more.
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:32:20 AM
*sighs* I'm sorry to hear that bit of news MG...
...incidentally, why does news like this (or worse) seem to be occurring more and more on major familial holidays!? Is it just me?? I mean, this Thanksgiving (and to the actual date, I might add) will mark the 11th year my father succumbed to a heart attack, then,...3 years later my Aunt lost one of her cherished schnauzers a week before Thanksgiving.
I'm sorry...I don't mean to bring a tragic theme into all this....after all...MG's mom is battling this head-on, and will recover....I can certainly remain hopeful about that. I just.....I dunno...I had to make that cerebral thought known, was all.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:01:15 PM)
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
The truth... Very Un-eventful, boring and depressing... LOL I found out last nite my mom has breast cancer. she is having a full mastectomy the day after thanksgiving..
Vaillant 3.0 wrote:
Oops!! I thought you were going to be at the Sinful thread!!!
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:39:55 AM
Here's another difference, I too..check the roll before I plop my ass down on ANY toilet....after all....with what's in the news nowadays, it might not BE worth wiping my ass with!!! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by devils_child from Monday, November 17, 2008 7:29:25 PM)
devils_child wrote:
LOL.... here's the difference, women will check to make sure there's loo paper before starting anything.
Justin Kenny wrote:
Now you know why men bring a newspaper into the bathroom with them....'cuz DAMNED if we're gonna get caught in THAT uncompromising situation (especially in PUBLIC bathrooms!!!).
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 17, 2008 12:05:39 PM
That's terrible!!! Here's hoping she can defy the odds and get back into it!!! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by ronhartsell from Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:31:43 AM)
ronhartsell wrote:
Whiskey Woman had surgery on her hand on Halloween and is recuperating...I believe she is having a bit of a time right now as she is a musician who has lost part of her hand and now must learn all over again how to play (or if she even can play music again)...my thoughts and prayers are with her.
lana wrote:
Whiskey Woman sent me a happy birthday email but other than that I haven't heard from her & I sure do miss her !!
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 17, 2008 10:22:40 AM
Now you know why men bring a newspaper into the bathroom with them....'cuz DAMNED if we're gonna get caught in THAT uncompromising situation (especially in PUBLIC bathrooms!!!). [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Monday, November 17, 2008 9:47:13 AM)
[Justin Kenny] Friday, November 14, 2008 8:09:18 PM
Right...well...I'm off..yet again, to enjoy yet another weekend. I thought, however, since most of my verbosity and exchanges are in fact done in the chatroom (which is why my post count in the NB is so low even after some 5+ years here), I thought I'd use my departures on Friday nights to share some of my more irreverent cogitations that would ordinarily get shared with those who frequent the chatroom.
As some of you know, I drive for a living...and while I'm as conscientious as I can be at what I do, there are times when I have nothing but time to think...and this is a very dangerous thing for someone with a mind like mine. Don't misunderstand what I say here...I'm not implying I'm some uber-intelligent summamabitch, or that I'm a potential threat to society as a whole. Whether or not I'm either/or is that which I'll leave to the interpretations of all who read whatever rants/postulations/suggestions/questions/answers/ what have you that I offer here. Please trust me when I say...the true aim I have is to entertain...to amuse....with that having been said...I offer this random thought that occurred to me earlier this morning: **clears throat** I find irony to be an interesting study. See...Alanis Morrisette got it all wrong with that pathetically dopey-ass song "Isn't It Ironic?" Give ya a case in point...see, she sings about how a black fly in your white chardonnay, rain on your wedding day, good advice that you just can't take, etc..etc...are all ironies....these are NOT ironies...a black fly in your chardonnay means either the fly has a penchant for alcohol, or you're too busy holding the glass while standing outdoors...rain on your wedding day is just an unfortunate circumstance if you had plans of getting some choice photos taken outdoors (in some cultures, rain on a wedding day is actually a good omen), and good advice that you just can't take means it's either advice you just can't use, or you're a thick mutherfucker who won't listen to anyone else but yourself. So...now that we know what irony isn't... let me offer an example of what irony IS. Irony...is naming an airport 'Reagan International' after the very President who laid off all those air traffic controllers. See? There's an association going on there with a result or a twist you wouldn't rightly expect.
Having said that...here's an irreverent, and ironic thought.... imagine if you will a Christian-coalition group who are advocates for waiting until you're married to have sexual relations. Wouldn't it be ironic and funnier than fuck-all if they called themselves 'G.R.A.B.A.S.S.?' Distilled, the acronym would stand for:
Generations
Rallying
Against
Beelzebub
And
Sexual
Suggestion
....by all means....ponder whilst you chuckle....and I'll see y'all on Monday. Edited at: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:24:06 PM
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:07:25 PM
Cripes...between talkin' about skinny-dipping when it's hot, and winter's approach, along with any/all Aleutian skinny-dipping contests...I don't know whether to sweat or freeze...
...guess I'll log out and go home...that way, I'll KNOW I'm contending with chilly air 'til the heat builds up in the Jeep.
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:28:43 PM
The BEYOND FEAR project is quite good...and it was good to see Tim exercise his own writing abilities and arrangements with a whole 'nother band...but...songs like "Scream Machine" is testament to Tim's need to grow as a writer...to get away from the usual kitschy metal schtick and find deeper things within to put out there. And he'll get there...that kind of thing takes time and a lot of thought.
With Fight, you had a seasoned, experienced song-writer in Rob Halford, who clearly had a vision with the "War of Words" album. It sounds angry...discontent...disenfranchised...it puts into the hot seat all that which belongs in the hot seat and does so convincingly. I'm just sorry it couldn't continue for another album or two, although, what Rob did with the HALFORD project more than made up for it!!
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:17:51 PM
See Kendall...that's what bothers me too....the fact that there are people in 'control' who were NOT elected to be in that position, and seem to hold more sway over what goes on than what we're privy to. I've often wondered just how some of these high-falutent government officials (elected or otherwise) would take to living on a fixed income of less than $18,000 a year, or; they were the sole bread winner of the household with 'wolves' at the door because the one income just doesn't cover all the expenses and their spouse(s) were simply unable to find quick, sustainable employment anywhere. I'm not the least bit convinced that people seeking political favor are in touch whatsoever with the WORKING class....never mind the middle class for a moment...because when someone talks to me about the "middle class," I get the picture of a double income totalling more than $75,000 annually, which could easily float a family of three or even four if they live within their means. To me, it's the WORKING class and those who bust their humps earning maybe a buck more an hour than minimum wage...these are the groups of people that most politicos are extremely out of touch with. While I do agree that anyone less than happy with their circumstances ought to do whatever they can to try and improve their own status, it's not always feasible when choices are so limited...and when those already limited choices are made more so due to program cuts and other "..money-saving" maneuvers, just how much improvement can one procure? Most times, people of the poor/working class are relegated to working more hours or more days instead, which compromises time with their families; a factor which gets brought up often in divorce proceedings! A mere example, to be sure...but it's nonetheless negative and counterproductive, and it doesn't stop there. Honestly...how do you think Newt Gingrich or any of the Kennedy family would do were they to find themselves in any of those situations? I'll tell you....they'd sink before they took one stroke to swim. Maybe it's unrealistic to assume any of the political bigwigs out there could ever even think along those lines or imagine themselves in more dire straits, but is it any MORE realistic to assume that these politicians should acquire so much support and exercise those of society they're so out of touch with to actually go forth and VOTE?? It's like my father used to say whenever anyone would ask him if he was going to vote.... "....for what?" I didn't always understand that sentiment growing up...but now I kinda do!
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:57:38 PM
Chalk a look outside...maybe she hung the American flag... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Monday, November 10, 2008 11:00:18 AM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I do understand, my friend. The Princess is quite the decorator! She insists on decorating for every holiday! I am surprised she did not do anything for Veteran's Day tomorrow!! HAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!!!
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:55:44 PM
Don't feel bad...I too have a wicked love affair with the snooze button...
....oh Lady Snooze....why do you tempt me so!!??? [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:24:29 AM)
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
Good Morn/ Afternoon Metal Family... I hope everyone has a good tuesday...............
I would like to thank all our Military, for the great job they have done, and continue doing.. God Bless Them
OMG.. I keep shutting my alarm clock off.... I dont even realize that Im doing it???? I do it in my sleep.. Instead of hitting the snooze.. Iam shutting it off... LOL This is not good...
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:53:30 PM
To any/all veterans here, or to the veterans related to the members who participate here...and to all the unspoken heroes who are currently serving....I humbly offer my thanks and respect.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 10, 2008 10:51:28 AM
True enough...eat they must...they must also adorn their bathrooms with $4,000 shower curtains and $2,000 faucet fixtures...LMAO!!!
I dunno...I just think it's too much too soon...and it all seems to get pushed on us a few days earlier each and every new year. Is it any wonder we (by we, I mean me and my family) refuse to decorate for Christmas until mid-December?? I mean...by then, we're at least feeling more geared toward the holiday and are more prepared to set up for it! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Monday, November 10, 2008 10:45:06 AM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
Well Justin, I know what you mean. It is so sad that holidays are commercialized in such a way but hey, That's Capitalism!!! HA!!!! I too recall the days, long ago, when Christmas was a special time. Perhaps it does have to do with age? My grandsons certainly are excited! Sadly, we are barraged by the endless attempts of merchandisers to seperate our dollars from our wallets. I suppose there is no getting around it. They have to eat too!
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 10, 2008 10:45:10 AM
My God...the man has only won the election less than a week ago...and already, there have been plots to assassinate him. Two youths (ages 20 and 18) have been arrested for plotting an assassination hit on Obama, as well as a few other local people within their neighborhood or some shit. I haven't seen/heard all the details...but there it is...quick as history (of sorts) has been made, is as quick as someone or another is hot to try and end it before it's begun.
I'd like to say I did my part and voted...but I gotta tell you...I haven't voted since I was legally old enough to take part in the privilege. All told, I'm about as political as a cardboard box, and I can't say I'm hip to every issue that there is...I have enough to do and more than enough to worry about, and most--if not all of that--is under the very roof I live in. From where I sit, it's pretty difficult to be civic when I've become such a cynic to what goes on within the political system. So many people are quick to blame the presidents we elect when shit goes wrong...and while I'm sure there have been presidents who've used their position for their own gains (as well as the gains of those with their fingers in the proverbial till), what a lot of people seem to forget is that the president is nothing more than a figurehead. I mean...presidents have all these advisors...their Cabinet, speech-writers, et, al...who basically spell it all out for him before he makes a speech, arrives at a foreign country, addresses the nation, appears before the media...what have you. When you also consider the checks and balances system between the two major parties (Democrats and Republicans, natch), and the wealth of power as distributed between the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and Congress...is it any wonder so many once good ideas suddenly seem to get all but forgotten about??
Every new candidate that comes along seems to offer the same speech...the same promises...the same glib layouts and plans. What they too forget is everything I spelled out already. Seems once they're in office, they quickly realize that there's many more chefs stirring the pot already, and have that much more work to do to try and change the way the pot gets 'stirred.'
I'll admit...it's been a while since I've actually read any books that divulge an honest sense of how things are done in D.C., and because of that, I do have a certain naivete when it comes to all things politics...but, if there's something I'm missing here or there's something vast I've left out in this equation...by all means...educate me...inform me of something I've not given any thought or credence yet. I'll impart an honest set of eyes, at least...lol.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 10, 2008 10:27:55 AM
What's shakin' DF? MG...et, al...I got me a rant...gotta get it out there...and it's one you all have made once or a few dozen times throughout your lives...as I have...but I'ma make it known here...right now....grab a seat...'cuz here goes...
...can someone tell me please just WHAT THE HELL is wrong with all these got-damn retailers out there pushing Christmas since BEFORE Halloween!!?? I mean..MY GOD...my wife and I were milling about early Halloween morning picking up a few odds and ends; as well as making sure we had enough candy for the trick-or-treaters. We go into one of SEVERAL 'Dollar Stores,' and what are we inundated with once we get inside?? CHRISTMAS STUFF!!! You got it! Decorations, knick-knacks, garlands, figurines, and everything else under the sun!!! All the Halloween stuff was relegated to one half-wall display (arguably since the holiday itself would be over by the end of the business day as far as they were concerned!)...and we're looking around just shakin' our feckin' heads like, 'Can you believe this shit....Halloween's just today, and Thanksgiving isn't come and gone yet!!!'
Look...I know Christmas has become this overly-syndicated holiday, and I know most of the push is to try and incite consumers to start spending...but Jesus..is it ANY wonder that people have been dreading this holiday over the last 20 years or so?? I mean, I'm hearing Christmas holiday songs in WAL-MART already!!! What the hell!!? By the time my birthday comes and goes (Dec. 14th), I don't wanna hear another Christmas carol or any other holiday oriented song for ANOTHER year!!!
It doesn't surprise me that this holiday has become so commercialized...it's been that way since I was a kid...but as I get closer and closer to my 40th year of living (which will be realized in '09), I've begun to realize the very cynicism my own parents had exhibited as each Christmas came and went...it's overkill...pure and simple, and it's taken the piss out of a holiday I once enjoyed. The only saving grace is seeing the joy and anticipation on the faces of my daughters; who, now 14 and 12, are seeing the holidays a bit differently than they did several years ago, but they're still innocent enough (thank Christ!!!) to enjoy it for what it is.
I know it's not just me...but how many of you out there have begun to really tire of getting beaten about the head and neck when it comes to various holidays that have begun to lose all meaning courtesy of all the commercialism and media attention?? I mean...thank God 'Crazy Eddie' is no longer the consumer inviting entity it used to be...'cuz those summamabitches used to run that "Crazy Eddie's Christmas in August" ads way back when...and even as a pre-teen, I'd shudder a little...'cuz the shit just didn't seem right...
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 10, 2008 10:10:06 AM
I hear ya kitty....BIG time...
**yawns..then sips coffee** [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Monday, November 10, 2008 10:08:09 AM)
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 10, 2008 10:09:30 AM
Hey...don't laugh..I've seen that sign once or twice...**snickers** [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Monday, November 10, 2008 10:07:43 AM)
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
some smart ass at the motor vech dept................... LMAo
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 03, 2008 12:25:59 PM
Jeez Loueeez....y'know what's funny?? For all the promotion afforded AC/DC at virtually every Wal-Mart nationwide, and the frequency with which their material is played on a station near me, I haven't even heard the first SINGLE yet!!!
It's something....I mean, between the Wal-Marts here in Ithaca (where I work) and the one closer to home, the areas of the stores all adorned with the AC/DC merch looks much like a 17 year old's bedroom circa 1982-'83...
...it'd have been nice if Priest had gotten the same attention with "Angel of Retribution" and "Nostradamus..."
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 03, 2008 12:19:45 PM
My nick on the ~Q~ is 'setibevol88...' which was supposed to be my nick here too...but somehow, it didn't pan out that way. I use 'setibevol88' in the chatroom here, and when the chat finally opens up in the ~Q~, I'll use it there as well...
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 03, 2008 12:15:50 PM
Welcome Melissa!! It's never too late to discover the might of Judas Priest's music...and you got your introduction in a most RIGHTEOUS fashion--by seeing them live!! I think you'll find that Priest are a very enigmatic (as they are energetic) band. I've been into Priest since '81, and I've not been disappointed with ANYTHING they've done. There's a great wealth of opinion from fan to fan, as you'll find contained within these threads, but that's part and parcel of the Priest experience. They've done so much with heavy metal music and while the genre itself owes its soul to Black Sabbath, the HEART of the genre is kept beating loudly and proudly by Priest.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 03, 2008 11:57:18 AM
Yeh! Really! Who would I be to piss on a seal's right to get down!?? And they CAN dance too...you've been to SeaWorld!! C'mon!! Those wobbly summamabitches got them some rhythm!!! Dig it!!! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Monday, November 03, 2008 10:53:29 AM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
JUSTIN!! Great to see you and welcome back!! So you want to know what is happening, huh? Well, some guy came to my front door and wanted me to sign a petition banning "seal clubbing"... I declined. I mean, I didn't even know they could dance, what with those flippers and all. Besides, who am I to judge how a seal spends its evenings??? HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Edited at: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:54:34 AM
[Justin Kenny] Monday, November 03, 2008 10:27:49 AM
A MOST metallic Monday to my METAL CONTINGENT!!!
Alas...I've returned after a full week off from work (vacation). Come mid-December, I get to do it again...
Can't wait to show y'all this righteous fuckin' coffee travel mug a fellow metallianess sent me (she's commonly seen on the Halford Quorum). Soon as my oldest daughter uploads the pic of me she took on her myspace, I'll hijack the summamabitch and put it in the 'picture of you' thread....this mug holds 44 GLORIOUS ounces of coffee and keeps it hot for upwards of 5 hours....I've already put it to the test on its pilot run this morning...and I give it two ROYAL thumbs-up... 'Tis the ONLY way to cart coffee around...dig it.
So...wha's haaa-aapp'nin'?? Anything cool take place in the week I was away?? Hah?? Hmm!?
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:32:29 AM
"Whatcha smokin'??" Hehe...sounds like something a few people have asked me in the chatroom a few times...(those who know my penchant for lunacy in there know exactly what I'm talkin' about).
[Justin Kenny] Friday, October 17, 2008 11:50:39 AM
Well....I'd LOVE to know what you're driving at MG...but this 'Fisher Price' toy of a computer doesn't seem to like showing much of ANYTHING people put up under 'youtube' links....
...we're getting our internet turned back on by/before this weekend...so...soon enough, I s'pose.
I hope everyone's having a Hoops and Yo-Yo style "I Don't Care, It's Friday!!!" kinda Friday, and early good wishes to all for a nice, restful, enjoyable weekend!!!
(no...I ain't goin' home just yet...just makin' it known now so I don't forget) [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Friday, October 17, 2008 11:28:39 AM)
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
Well Iam afraid this will be me in a couple of weeks...LMAO
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:39:17 PM
'Bout time there, chief!! You and the missus have been living in that footlocker long enough!!!
Cheers! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Necroticist from Wednesday, October 15, 2008 5:40:12 AM)
Necroticist wrote:
YES! after 16 months of living in a no-bedroom accomodation - the authorities finally came thro and it looks like we're getting rehoused! Happy? i am bloody ecstatic!!
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:37:33 PM
There...see?? Didn't I tell you? No sooner you posted it, everyone is raving...
*does the 'I-Told-You-So' dance...'cuz I can* ;) [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by joedraper from Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:28:56 PM)
joedraper wrote:
OK so "Necrodamus" gave me the strength to post this pic... Here I am Faithful Defenders, I unvail myself under great trepidition...
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:10:38 AM
I've known for many years to simply trust Judas Priest with their own musical instincts. I don't put any 'wish-list' compromises when it comes to any new product they're looking to make. Every album they make has their own fingerprint...each one unique and individual from the other and completely different from anything else that's out there. They've done it all and without peer or apology....this is part and parcel of their legacy and its magnificence.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, October 13, 2008 12:14:25 PM
Ahhh.....green death flavored NyQuil....the very thing that has gotten me over every single cold I ever had....
...modify that shit just a little bit...you could have the cure for AIDS....(now wouldn't that be awesome?) [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Sunday, October 12, 2008 10:06:39 PM)
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
Okay but you must read the warning label first...LOL
Head banger wrote:
pass it over, coma I need. doesnt help that the master bedroom in this house faces the street. hot as hell in the summer, and noisy.
MG_Metalgoddess wrote:
Hmm take some Nyquil... HB youll be in a coma before ya know it.. lol
Head banger wrote:
right. shitty. well, my neigbour has 3 jacked up Diesel trucks, and decided to fire one up in the middle of the night. asshole.
whats the future prognosis?
Deep Freeze wrote:
I am so sorry HB! I completely missed your response. Yes, it was early for me but my darn back usually has me out of bed by 4 or 5 AM everyday. The Princess and I went out and bought a new, "Posturepedic" bed that has helped a lot but I still cannot sleep much past 5. Taking pain medication also affects my sleep since I tend to feel sick without it. By the wee hours of the morning, my body is in full "withdrawls" and I have to get up and take a pill. Pathetic really but that's my life now.
[Justin Kenny] Friday, October 10, 2008 5:17:34 AM
Pssh...on the whole..Judas Priest exude more energy and animation onstage than most bands HALF their age. Even for whatever subtle differences we can point out between 20 years ago to now, the bottom line remains...once those 5 gents take the stage, the roar of the crowd is heard....fists and devil-horns raise into the air as one, and the experience that IS Judas Priest is totally underway.
Rob can completely command any stage standing still....he exhibits more presence and charisma standing in ONE spot just as Mick Jagger can running all over the goddamn place. THAT'S power my friends. Way I see it, the only thing that would inhibit Priest's stage movement would be for them to have casts on their legs and be in wheelchairs.....and I think even THEN, you'd see Glenn and KK swaying together in tandem...(I'm just glad this isn't the case!!! )
It's fair to say that most of us know what to expect once Priest hit the stage....the fact they still meet and exceed those expectations says VOLUMES on Priest's behalf.
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:04:29 PM
When Jesus was three times tempted by Satan during his time of fasting and meditation, the only reason Satan got lost after Jesus said, "Get Thee Hence, Satan!!!" was because Satan saw Chuck Norris standing 'bout 3 feet behind Jesus...in a 'ready-to-fight' stance.
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:59:08 AM
My wife and I didn't know a whole helluva lot about the whole home-buying process either. As mercy would have it, the people we bought our home from just so happened to be real-estate attorneys....they knew the business in and out and literally walked us through it each step of the way.
My wife initially tried to score a mortgage lend through an online company....needless to say, we found out toot-sweet that it wasn't the best thing. Thankfully, she had enough tenacity and temerity to eventually tell them to go fuck themselves, and we consulted with the real-estate attorneys who were selling the home in the first place. The one thing we KNEW COLD...was that we wanted to be locked into a FIXED RATE....Don Coyles, one of the real estate attys who was selling the home on behalf of his deceased parents hooked us up big time...along with what I was able to borrow from my 401K, he himself ponied up an extra $1,600--which was broken down and incorporated with our mortgage payment every month so that he would be paid back. Not only did they want to sell the house in an expedient a fashion as possible, he (along with his sister, who works with him) wanted very much for a family to buy the home. They seemed to fall in love with the lot of us upon merely SEEING the house, and for each little failure that occurred before Don thought up a 'plan B,' they felt our pain and frustration. He'd done business with the lender bank we're dealing with (and will be for the next 28 years..LOL), and through his frequent dealings, they helped see everything through. Our rate hasn't changed one iota since, and isn't about to. Were we lucky?? Painfully... sadly, a lot of equally naive people who just want what's best for themselves and their families get taken for a ride because they didn't take appropriate steps/measures. But ...in all fairness, the companies out there who see the possible financial dangers people face once they begin signing their names and don't say a blessed thing about it...that's something I would find issue with. It's one thing to secure a deal...but it's another when that deal can no longer be honored because 3-6 years later, the shit hits the fan and these same companies just sit there shrugging their shoulders--talkin''bout...."...there's nothing we can do." [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:16:26 AM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
OK readers! It is finally time for my first, official rant since my return!
Most of you here in the US are aware of the "financial crisis" we are experiencing. I have ranted in the past on this subject and, LONG before it actually occurred, I said much of what I will say now. ( I mention this only as a foundation for credibility!!) People in this country are screaming about greed and capitalism. Financial turmoil! Government indifference. HOGWASH!! Let us look at the facts, people;
Can ANYONE actually produce the gun that was allegedly held to the temples of the borrowers that put little to NO money down on their homes, took a "teaser" (low) interest rate and then pleaded ignorance or victimhood when the lender- as stipulated in the friggin contract-jacked up their rate??!?!??! These people EXPECTED some kind of government or taxpayer intervention that would shield them from the consequences of their actions. This creates something I was taught in college as "moral hazard", which is behavior based upon the knowledge of protection from bad consequences or irresponsible choices.
Now folks are yelling for more regulation. We already have PLENTY of it! Anyone ever hear of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight???? This agency exisits for ONE reason; to regulate FREDDIE and FANNIE. That's right! Already in place! Wow! Regulation, people! I just do not see this as some kind of "indictment" of capitalism. Sorry. Not there.
What if we all just actually TRY real capitalism for once??? Capitalism has been defined as, "what people do if you leave them alone". Let them make their own mistakes. Suffer consequences. Sink or swim.
In the 1930's, before Roosevelt's New Deal, we paid about 12% of our income to ALL of government (state, local and federal). Today it is about 40%! *ouch* I suppose that in itself does suggest failure but I say it is a failure to practice TRUE capitalism. A failure to accept consequences and believe in real value. A failure to be RESPONSIBLE.
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:38:40 AM
Lord knows I try...now....as a bud...a metal brother....you must do me a favor...I'll keep it simple:
...if I should ever change.... ...mm...I'd say 'just shoot me,' but that'd be drastic...
Hmm.... Oh! I got it! Lock me in a room that plays nothing but Air Supply and other adult-oriented soft rock!!!
.... ...naw...on second thought...just shoot me. 'Tis quicker.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:34:14 AM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
HA!!!!! Same old Justin!
Justin Kenny wrote:
Cent and a half eh?? Is that rapper 'Fitty Cent's ne'er-do-well little brother??
Deep Freeze wrote:
OK, a cent and a half......
JUSTIN!!!!! So good to see you!!!!! Edited at: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:31:19 AM
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:32:15 AM
Cent and a half eh?? Is that rapper 'Fitty Cent's ne'er-do-well little brother?? [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:30:23 AM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
OK, a cent and a half......
JUSTIN!!!!! So good to see you!!!!! Edited at: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:31:19 AM
[Justin Kenny] Monday, October 06, 2008 12:34:58 PM
So did I...initially. I managed to get over that damn-near impossible hurdle after my first cup of coffee...which doesn't usually work that way....sometimes I gotta get 3 or 4 in me before I remotely begin to feel I'm getting my shit together. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Head banger from Monday, October 06, 2008 12:16:44 PM)
Head banger wrote:
monday morning here, and I wanna go back to bed.
Justin Kenny wrote:
*sips at his coffee...slowly pans the room giving a grin and a nod to those he knows* ....groovin'....on a Monday afternoon......dig it....
[Justin Kenny] Monday, October 06, 2008 12:31:58 PM
COUNTRY: USA
STATE BORN IN: New York
CITY BORN IN: Bayshore
OTHER CITIES LIVED IN: Lake Ronkonkoma, Coram, Patchogue, Bellport, Bluepoint, Hampton Bays, Ridge, Selden, Elmira, Elmira Heights.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, October 06, 2008 12:24:59 PM
Hey...ya gotta like that which moves you....if it doesn't move you or do a blessed thing for you...it's time to leave it alone and move on...
I myself fell outta favor with Metallica some 4-5 months after the 'Black' album...no matter where I went, there it was...on the radio...a friend playing it...I think I played my own copy of it some 4 or 5 times!! I have heard "Broken...Beaten...Scarred" recently...and while it certainly seems like a return to form...I can't say it hit me quite the way it did when I first heard "Ride The Lightning." But...I'm willing to give some other tracks off "Death Magnetic" a chance before making an ultimate decision.
Motley Crue...here's another band I lost sight of after 1987. I still get a boost outta tracks like "Looks That Kill," or "Dr. Feelgood..." but on the whole..if I never hear of these guys again, I seriously won't be all that heartbroken about it. Even saw 'em with Whitesnake (who opened...!?!)....and Whitesnake blew 'em the fuck away...hands down. Though...I must say...Tommy Lee's drum solo was no doubt quite the highlight.
I too am with Cobras on the whole Iron Maiden thing...not because they're 'dark...' (God knows there are FAR darker bands out there)...but NOTHING this band has done since "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" did a blessed thing for me. "No Prayer For the Dying" and "Fear of the Dark" were such disappointments to me...especially after such magnificent masterpieces like "Piece of Mind," "Powerslave," and "Somewhere In Time" (my favorite Maiden CD). I respect their stature highly....wouldn't mind seein' them live whatsoever...but I will not be sponsoring any new music from these blokes....sorry...just can't get by me anymore.
Seems limiting...but I've stuck with those bands who've consistently shaken my spirit with each new album/tour...those who don't, or fail to keep up with doing so get left aside....I have no time or $$ to waste.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, October 06, 2008 12:11:47 PM
No....Ratt's not metal either...but they're a lot more 'metal' than Bon Jovi...THAT'S for shit-sure....furthermore...I've seen Ratt (twice)...Bon Jovi--never...
[Justin Kenny] Friday, October 03, 2008 6:17:53 PM
Ahhh yes!! Pics from Priest's historic show at the Hard Rock this past summer...commemorating Eddie Trunk's 25th anniversary in radio!!
A healthy number of Quorumites were on hand that night...and there are pics there too... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MEDALGODDESS from Friday, October 03, 2008 3:37:14 PM)
[Justin Kenny] Friday, October 03, 2008 6:13:40 PM
Thanks MG and Vaillant!! And thank you again Vail...for your patient, step-by-step rendering...I'm slowly but surely making my way through the membrane that separates me from entering the 21st century... ...I'm feeling more and more ready for it....
...now the thing is...is the 21st century ready for me!??
[Justin Kenny] Friday, October 03, 2008 1:53:52 PM
Well...here's hoping this works...this is me and my lovely wife Peggy in June of '05...just prior to seeing Judas Priest tear Jones Beach a new one....even for the pic being 3 years old...I look no different...which may or may not be a good thing...
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:53:07 PM
Yeh...it's scary enough seeing some of my fellow drivers comin' at me from the other direction..reading their schedule paddles as the bus slowly....veers....into......my.....feckin'..........LAAAAANE!!!!!!!*honks the horn and shouts a veritable horde of obscenities* [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Head banger from Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:45:35 PM)
Head banger wrote:
LOL, didnt think so, bus driver surfing and driving, thats scary. well, at least you have something you can use.
Justin Kenny wrote:
LOL! Naw...that'd never happen....these are computers drivers here can use in the driver's lounge...I'm on the more favorable computer now (it just allows you to do a helluva lot more...that other one..pssh...fugheddaboutit )...
Head banger wrote:
crappy. might have something to do with Java, but, my skill is real low. this a pc on a bus??? LOL
Justin Kenny wrote:
Yeh, thus far it's been alright...though I've been relegated to using this piece of shit computer here at work...the other one is the one that allows you to do/see a helluva lot more (courtesy of the Windows setup on it...I couldn't tell you what runs this OTHER one...all I do know is that the manufacturing date on THIS thing is written out in Roman numerals). Vaillant has been a doll enough to offer me assistance with regards to posting pics and such...and...well....she poses one question requiring me to see some icon or another...and on THIS thing...ain't so much as ONE icon to be seen/found...LOL.
Sorry for the dissertation...this is my current issue...
Head banger wrote:
yep, that sort of thing happens. hope today is
Justin Kenny wrote:
Ehh...that was just my general mood for that moment....had nothing to do w/ anyone here in particular...
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:33:02 PM
LOL! Naw...that'd never happen....these are computers drivers here can use in the driver's lounge...I'm on the more favorable computer now (it just allows you to do a helluva lot more...that other one..pssh...fugheddaboutit )... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Head banger from Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:22:41 PM)
Head banger wrote:
crappy. might have something to do with Java, but, my skill is real low. this a pc on a bus??? LOL
Justin Kenny wrote:
Yeh, thus far it's been alright...though I've been relegated to using this piece of shit computer here at work...the other one is the one that allows you to do/see a helluva lot more (courtesy of the Windows setup on it...I couldn't tell you what runs this OTHER one...all I do know is that the manufacturing date on THIS thing is written out in Roman numerals). Vaillant has been a doll enough to offer me assistance with regards to posting pics and such...and...well....she poses one question requiring me to see some icon or another...and on THIS thing...ain't so much as ONE icon to be seen/found...LOL.
Sorry for the dissertation...this is my current issue...
Head banger wrote:
yep, that sort of thing happens. hope today is
Justin Kenny wrote:
Ehh...that was just my general mood for that moment....had nothing to do w/ anyone here in particular...
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:03:39 PM
Yeh, thus far it's been alright...though I've been relegated to using this piece of shit computer here at work...the other one is the one that allows you to do/see a helluva lot more (courtesy of the Windows setup on it...I couldn't tell you what runs this OTHER one...all I do know is that the manufacturing date on THIS thing is written out in Roman numerals). Vaillant has been a doll enough to offer me assistance with regards to posting pics and such...and...well....she poses one question requiring me to see some icon or another...and on THIS thing...ain't so much as ONE icon to be seen/found...LOL.
Sorry for the dissertation...this is my current issue... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Head banger from Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:25:28 AM)
Head banger wrote:
yep, that sort of thing happens. hope today is
Justin Kenny wrote:
Ehh...that was just my general mood for that moment....had nothing to do w/ anyone here in particular...
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:59:36 PM
Sure did!! "Grinder" was more often than not the 2nd song in the set during the "Painkiller" tour...the ol' Harley would still be sitting out there all throughout (usually), then, it'd be whisked off during lights out, just prior to "The Hellion" booming over the P.A., onsetting "Electric Eye" of course... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:44:18 PM)
Vaillant 3.0 wrote:
They played Grinder in '91? That's cool!!! The only videos I've seen from Rock in Rio are Hell Bent for Leather and Painkiller. I'll have to figure out how I can get my grubby little paws on that footage.
Justin Kenny wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, that looks like footage from the 'Rock in Rio' show back in '91(?) "Grinder," in particular.
Great footage, for those who haven't seen it.
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:47:18 PM
**gets a little dizzy**
Is it THAT imperative I have a photobucket account!? Jesus...you need an account with that site (it seems) for EVERYTHING...
....ain't that hard on the Q...tell you what....
*sighs*...thanks anyway MG...no one can say you didn't try. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MEDALGODDESS from Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:56:33 PM)
MEDALGODDESS wrote:
I downloaded it from my camera out to my computer then from there to my photobucket account, then cut and pasted the http from the photo's link itself. after clicking on the photo icon, in enter you text from j/p site.. Gees Iam not very good at giving instructions..LOL I wish I could just show you.. Iam terrible at explaining things.. Iam not Technical,,LOL
Sorry I hope that helped a little.
Justin Kenny wrote:
Hi ya MG! MY...but you're quite the stunner!! Now...much as I'd love to do the same here as so many others clearly have....at this crucial juncture I must pose a very silly question...errmm....how does one go about posting a photo in this hallowed site? I know there are instructions of how to do so kickin' around here....but damned if I can find it....
...oh...and whosoever might be so kind enough to impart their picture-posting wisdoms...please bear in mind...I'm a bona-fide tech-tard....so....treat me like I'm five, and explain it as such....please and thank you...
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:36:39 PM
If I'm not mistaken, that looks like footage from the 'Rock in Rio' show back in '91(?) "Grinder," in particular.
Great footage, for those who haven't seen it. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:50:54 PM)
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:32:09 PM
Hi ya MG! MY...but you're quite the stunner!! Now...much as I'd love to do the same here as so many others clearly have....at this crucial juncture I must pose a very silly question...errmm....how does one go about posting a photo in this hallowed site? I know there are instructions of how to do so kickin' around here....but damned if I can find it....
...oh...and whosoever might be so kind enough to impart their picture-posting wisdoms...please bear in mind...I'm a bona-fide tech-tard....so....treat me like I'm five, and explain it as such....please and thank you...
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:22:55 PM
Ehh...that was just my general mood for that moment....had nothing to do w/ anyone here in particular... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Head banger from Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:49:30 PM)
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:36:17 PM
I dunno why they call 'em oyster crackers either....basically, ya throw a handful of 'em in yer favorite soup and be done with it...they don't really look like oysters...to my thanks, they don't TASTE like oysters...and to my FURTHER thanks...they're not produced BY oysters...so...go figure that one out...'cuz I can't.
I now resume y'all to your sinful thread....already in progress.
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:02:15 PM
From what I see in the Tour Info, Priest so far have dates slated 'til mid-November...any missing slots could always be filled in potentially...and given that most of the UK missed out on what Priest started this summer, it's possible that they're trying to make up for it much the way they did back in support of "Angel of Retribution..." when Priest did eleven dates in the UK. The fact they have Megadeth and Testament opening up makes the package VERY worthwhile....it's the same lineup of bands that played here in the States back in 1990!! So, all told, those are going to be very historic shows!!
If no other shows come along after November 16th, Priest could very well take that time between then and the end of January off...since the holidays fall right in the interim....time will tell for sure....
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, September 30, 2008 6:39:36 PM
Priceless....in a word....
Just last night Peg and I were sharing humorous/cute stories about our daughters back when they were little...it isn't until you've finished a night of doing that--that you really appreciate just how fast time moves....always catches you when you're not looking.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by joedraper from Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:12:14 PM)
joedraper wrote:
Thought I'd share this with you to lighten your day bit of humour always wins:
Tonight, I read my kids their bedtime story, tucked them in and said goodnight. So a few mins later I hear loud giggles coming from my son's room. I choose to pretend to not hear it. Some time passes and some tears come from Zakk's room. So I head off and find his nightlight on the floor with the lamp shade off. Zoey is nowhere to be seen. I go to her room and she's lying in bed, suspiciously tucked in, covers up to the chin style, as if she's been there all the time. However, the rocking horse she used to climb into bed with is still rocking...
What is a parent supposed to do in such a situation?
All I could do was do my best to not pack up laughing in front of them.. then they'd have won lol...
God, I'm going to miss their toddler days...they grow way too fast for my liking..
[Justin Kenny] Monday, September 29, 2008 1:35:58 PM
Don't go by me folks....I'm about as political as a cardboard box....there are 2nd graders who are more up to speed on what's happening than I am...might sound a bit sad...but....this kid barely has time to read a paper or watch the news...much less exact any time to do much of anything about it....
[Justin Kenny] Monday, September 29, 2008 1:32:20 PM
For that matter....put a top hat on that kitty and paint King Diamond's face paint on it...and you'll have 'Cat' Diamond!!! Its expression is perfect!!
[Justin Kenny] Monday, September 29, 2008 10:47:42 AM
OMFG!!! LMAO!!! I have just the caption for that pic!!!
Cat: "Goddammit...if I've told that dog once...I've told him a MILLION times....to stop PEEING IN MY DAMN POOL!!!!" [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by MEDALGODDESS from Monday, September 29, 2008 9:42:38 AM)
MEDALGODDESS wrote:
Another wonderful Monday..LOL At least I can look forward to next Monday.. Thats my Joe satriani Concert.
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:20:35 PM
That IS an adorable shot...one I've seen a couple of other times....and still...I can't help but get the following dialogue to correlate to this shot:
Lion Cub: "Ma...d'ya think I'll ever get to be an astronaut??"
Mother Lion: "Honey.....c'mon now....you're a LION...."
....alright...it's silly....just giggle and make me happy...'k?? [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by momo from Wednesday, September 17, 2008 6:46:34 PM)
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:15:11 PM
"Wind Beneath My Wings" -- the rendering that Better Midler recorded several moons ago (featured in the "Beaches" movie). Initially, I felt the song was very sweet...and it was moving...however, when my sister Terry played this song on the last day of my mother's wake back in '90 (after making QUITE the eulogy to boot), it REALLY hit home....the hell my mother lived through (especially in her childhood...which wasn't a childhood at ALL) and the way it tolled on her emotionally...and yet, she saw to it that none of us (four daughters in her first marriage and me in her second) would EVER suffer the pains she did and she did her very best to shed light on us even when we felt our darkest. I still find it tough to listen to this song the whole way through, even though virtually every thought I have of my mother now makes me smile.
"Silent Lucidity" --Queensryche. This one never fails to make my eyes well up...even though the song is mostly perceived as a lullaby to a child awoken by a horrific nightmare, I also see the song as a message of love sent by those we've loved who've passed on...the idea being, even though they're no longer here physically, they still look upon us and are abundantly aware of what we're doing...how we're carrying on in their absence....they still know who we are to them and smile upon us even though we're missing them so terribly as they carry on a new life with no pain, no sadness, or any other ills we face here on Earth on a daily basis. I'm not the least bit ashamed to admit I wept openly upon seeing the video for the first time to this song...the scene near the end where the mother sits upon her son's bed and softly caresses his head...reminded me very much of something my mother would've done...and I saw the video a short time after her passing...so...you can imagine, I'm sure.
"Last Rose of Summer"-- Judas Priest. We all know the song...and while it's hardly a sad song...it's a song that lends more into the idea that 'good-byes' - though painful, are never permanent. Such a beautiful thought, and it unquestionably conjures emotion.
...there's a couple others...but these 3 come to mind the quickest. Oh...I should also add Steve Vai's "For TheLove of God" and "Sisters." This man KNOWS composition....even without a single vocal or lyric, his guitar does ALL the work and to GREAT effect!
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:48:51 PM
I just got an email from Meesh explaining all that....I hope it's nothing more than some mere cyber-glitch of sorts...'cuz the tumbleweed action brewing in there is getting all sortsa outta hand!! I'd gladly tell the others what's been happ'nin'...but uh.....ain't nobody else been in there as of late either!! MG was in there briefly the other day (was good to see her again), and I chatted with KKsguitar for a nice while on Monday. Otherwise, I've been regarding the JP Chatroom as 'The Badlands...' Yup! Complete with those blowing wind noises, howling coyotes, tumbleweeds, and a stray scorpion or two (relax...they're bent on getting under a rock or summat).
Well...may as well find me a saloon and see how the moonshine's tastin'....
Well, I'd love to join you in the chatroom but er.. I seem to be having some severe problems getting in of late. I think it's a network problem from my side or possibly a java problem but I'm working on it... that's why you'll notice Michele is also not there... it seems to have affected those of us south on the globe (lol) see you soon as we can.. 'til then, hold the fort and let them know we still exist ha ha ha h aha
Justin Kenny wrote:
This is how I know it's Monday....
...I'm in the chatroom...and it's severely depleted... Oh well...guess it'll serve as an apt room to practice solo arias or summat....
OOHHHHHHH SOOOOOOOOOOLLLEE MMIIIIIIIIIIIII-IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo.oo...*begins coughing up a storm*
[Justin Kenny] Monday, September 22, 2008 1:28:44 PM
*tsks tongue to self* FFS...me 'n my manners..I swear....
Happy Monday to my Metallian Famiglia!!! To which, I ask the following questions:
How are ya?
How's yer ass?
What's shakin'?
What's new 'n exciting?
Wha's goin on?
How ya doin'?
How ya BEEN? (there's a difference...don't be fooled!)
Que pasa/pasta? (pick one...I'm easy)
How are ya gonna BE in a few hours? (I believe in lookin' forward...dig it)
Didja piss anyone off today?
*whew* Alright...now that I've covered the bases...none of y'all have to necessarily answer all of those questions, unless'n you got answers to 'em all..then by all means...
[Justin Kenny] Monday, September 15, 2008 1:04:03 PM
Craigslist is only good for shit-stirrin'...or for tryin' to find someone within a given geographical location. Barring that, I don't really see the big deal with that site....(I DO know a lotta people bitch about us drivers in there!!! LMAO!)
[Justin Kenny] Monday, September 15, 2008 12:57:10 PM
Alright gang...thus far...this is how it's going.
Our current contract expired on September 11th (I know...strange). For a period of six weeks prior to that, our union leaders/representatives have been at the negotiation table with the Cornell Board of Directors and our manager(s)...hashing out what our new contract should contain. As negotiations were going on...various questions such as "So..how's it going so far?" have been met with answers like, "Very slow going..." or "...kinda like pulling teeth" (which is par for the course when it comes to labor contract negotiations anyway). Most of us were getting the feeling that a strike--which had been unanimously voted upon 3 weeks back, would be imminent. On the day of September 11th, while our union leaders and reps were still good and at it, a good number of us drivers were being asked by passengers if a strike was possible. Most of us shrugged...which was true....we didn't know any better than they did what was going to unfold.
At 3am of September 12th, a "tentative agreement" had been hammered out between our union people and the Board. Five hours PRIOR to that, a blanket email had been sent to the faculty, staff and personnel of Cornell that "...TCAT service will continue as normal on September 12th.."
Que!!?? How the hell did somebody figure that there'd be no strike before even our own union people/drivers did!? What if no tentative agreement had been reached!? How stupid would that person who sent the email have looked if we WERE picketing!? And just because a "tentative agreement" had been reached...that DOESN'T mean that it's been RATIFIED! I can't begin to tell you how many times a passenger or another would ask me that next day, "So...do you like your new contract??" I gave the same answer each time out..."Buddy, I haven't even SEEN the new contract yet...NONE of us have!"
I tell you this folks...something's SERIOUSLY up in Dodge. How the hell is it that a tentative agreement had been reached, after seventeen total hours spent bargaining, when for the six week period PRIOR to that, things weren't looking so good?? Things were going "..so slow..."?? Barring the underlying concern of a walk-out, and the knowledge that the deadline had come and gone...I gotta tell ya...before the last contract, almost a WHOLE year had transpired before we'd ratified what became the old contract! The sources of contention hasn't even really revolved around money...while that IS part of it all...the biggest sources of contention were the following:
1) The current Attendance Policy/Point system: Some of you already know what this is...for those who don't...TCAT management administers 'points' for each time you're late or call in sick. For that matter, you're given a point even if your car breaks down (either at home or en route to work), if you have a court date (barring jury duty), if you fall ill during your shift (ill enough to warrant being taken off the road), if you're late for ANY reason (including having to wait for a 150-200 car cargo train to pass the tracks we all gotta cross to get here--and there's no set schedule those cargo trains follow either...). Other than death, or that which falls under FMLA guidelines, or jury duty...you can obtain points for virtually any other attendance inhibiting infraction. The only way to "work off" any points accrued is to arrive to work on time for every day scheduled for 90 straight days, or...you can lose a point if a full year has passed since the first (or earliest) point you'd received (if you didn't lose any via 90 day perfect attendance notifications...which enables you to kill off 4 points a year and earn a 'free' day). All told...if you receive 11 points total...you're terminated. You receive written/verbal notices upon receipt of your fifth point, and every point thereafter. I don't think ANY of us realized just how EASY it'd be to garner 7, 8, or more points!! It was very quickly realized that there were NO safety nets of any kind...and the grievances filed by many drivers over the last 3 years proved that there needed to be some serious tweaks made to modify and improve this policy to buy some breathing room so that only select reasons given would warrant points. What really makes no sense with this policy at all, is that we all receive hours accrued for sick time, personal leave time, vacation time, etc..etc. What good are these accrued hours if we're given the impression that they can never be used??
2) Our health insurance company: Simply put...we're paying way too much. Nowhere near as much as we respectively would had we all obtained our OWN insurance, to be sure...but our international representative of our Union sees the rates we're paying as "..utterly unacceptable," especially since the hikes in our rates would damn near annihilate each pay raise we'd receive (and wouldn't you know it...these rate hikes came along JUST as our raises came!). In fact, the meeting we're supposed to have to go over the terms that had been "tentatively agreed" upon is on October 5th. The reason for the lapse is, our union and our HR people want some time to drum up quotes and info from alternative health insurance companies to see who could provide equal or better coverage for more reasonable rates...
3) Split-shifts and their 'premiums' : Split shifts are paid in quarterly fractions...if you have three working days with 4 hour split shifts in them, you'll get 4-5 hours of that time paid in straight time. The problem is, those work assignments with 4 hour splits in them amount to 13-15 hour days....in reality, you're only getting paid for 8-9 hours. Sometimes those splits are handy for errand running, or honoring medical/dental appointments without worrying about obtaining points or trying to schedule a date...but for most of us....we're stuck here...especially those of us who don't live close enough to the job...why shouldn't we get paid MORE for those splits?? Who says our work has to be strictly relegated to DRIVING!? We could be training people who are holding CDL permits...getting them familiar with the buses and maybe some of the routes, we could be pre-tripping buses for those drivers scheduled to come in between the hours of 10am-1pm so that they can just hop in and drive away...thereby saving time and adding efficiency...there's a whole slew of work that can be done!!
Lastly, comes the economic stakes. We knew LONG before the time for negotiations began that the Board/TCAT would be crying "poor boy" given the rising costs of diesel fuel (we're six figures behind the 8-ball there), as well as the rates being paid for our fleet insurance (admittedly, the # of accidents incurred this year outweighs last year by 13). We knew getting a fair, equitable raise would be (arguably) the toughest issue...it might be interesting to note here, however...that Cornell was given a grant of some $20M geared to assist transportation and some other related issues. We wonder now, if ANY of that grant $ had been divided and apportioned toward TCAT for the extensive service we provide to Cornell.
We'll know more come October 5th...but man...I can't help (STILL) but wonder how it is they managed to hammer out a deal worth pawing over in 17 hours that six prior weeks found so trying to accomplish...
[Justin Kenny] Monday, August 25, 2008 10:57:03 AM
My latest conquests include:
"Temples On The Other Side" -- Sylvia Browne
"Cell" -- Stephen King (so far, so good)
"The Exorcist" -- William Peter Blatty ( nowonmai --figure THAT out!! )
[Justin Kenny] Monday, August 25, 2008 10:52:34 AM
AWWWWWW!!!!!!! Wookit da widdle puppy!!! He's so cuuuuute!!!!!!!
...alright...yes...I could've said that much WITHOUT the 'baby-talk...' but....what can I tell you...cute babies or animals...it brings it outta me.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by joedraper from Sunday, August 24, 2008 3:51:05 PM)
joedraper wrote:
Hi Here's a pic of Derek for you all to go 'ooh, aah, what a cute little guy' lol He's still not too cool with the toilet training but I'm trying Spa's advice..anything is worth a try righ now. There's two more in the pets thread if you all want to see more of him (proud mama that I am lol)
LORD of TEXAS wrote:
This cat loves dogs....or thicks he is a dog...he got no tail...??
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:52:01 PM
The whole "...those who can show up, do" ethic is the same here in the States...let's face facts...seeing concerts these days (as opposed to say, the '80s- early '90s) is something of a luxury expense. With the cost of fuel now (especially diesel, which is needed to fuel the trucks and semis that lug around a band's stage & equipment), tickets are at an all-time high. Furthermore, if said band(s) don't come close enough to given areas, fans find it that much harder to migrate toward a show...tougher still when a lot of fans are now supporting families and have to mind their finances more carefully than they did 15-20 years ago.
When I saw Priest last, it was the summer of '05 at the Jones Beach theater in Wantagh, NY. The place can now fit a little over 14,000 nowadays (after it had been modified). I'm pretty confident that there were at LEAST 10,000 fans on hand that night (I saw empty seats..but not vast amounts!). They even sold out a few arenas on that tour, whereas others were half-full at best. It's a much different climate, like I said...but the die-hards definitely do the best they can to make it....and even if they don't...there are still more than enough of us out there to represent the spirit of those who can't make it for whatever reason!
As for a lot of those other bands who tour and seem to sell out every place they play...let's just wait and see how many of them enjoy the kind of legacy and history Priest have. Integrity and grit will always win over a few blockbuster tours and several multi-platinum albums. Priest are all about the love of what they do....sure, they might receive a nice paycheck for it in the process...but you can't deny the feeling of hearing 5,000-10,000 fans screaming your praises on a nightly basis and wanting to make those screams louder and louder!! Priest have done this so consistently over the last 35 years (especially in the last 28 of those 35 years)...it's no wonder they still command a more than respectable draw ....fans remember the bands that defined their youth and were the soundtrack to their lives. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by WhiskeyWoman from Monday, August 18, 2008 7:36:20 PM)
WhiskeyWoman wrote:
I am *so* glad to know I'm not the only one who has noticed this! JP concerts are very special & different, much because of the fans themselves...
Q: How full do your arenas get down in the states, and in other countries? I would imagine Europe & Asia would put Canada's turn-out to shame, I am ashamed to admit. Do all/most of your concerts get sold out? States people can speak up too...
(The same day of a concert in Winnipeg, MB, Canada I was still able to buy 1st row tix -- but not able to make it on time... But it amazed me the tix were available in the first place!!! Embarrassing, quite frankly.)
This is in no way an insult to Canadians! I know those who can, do show up... But it does kind of bug me that other bands (who will remain nameless) sell-out -- but those people who buy all their tix can't show up to say thanks to the "Godfathers of Heavy Metal".
I dunno... just an observation and my humble opinion.
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:38:29 PM
Just make sure the copious amounts of poop in question are kindly left OUT of the pics, eh?? [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by joedraper from Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:02:06 PM)
joedraper wrote:
I'll be getting some pics up in the next few days, just gotta take some good shots of the little critter. Wow, brave cat! (lol)
Nothing here y'all probably haven't read already...but I'd have to say that it's difficult for me to pin down which of the two are better. There's quite a contrast in style between them, and yet, you can hear the differences in each guitarist's approach to soloing. They've been equal strength right from word 'go,' and the growth they've each endured has been quite parallel....after all...if it weren't, they probably wouldn't work quite as well together as they have!!
As a player myself...I'd have to say that stylistically speaking, I'd probably lean more toward Glenn's style....as it's been said, he makes it look so damned easy (and fun!!)...and never was that more prevalent than the first time I witnessed him performing his solo to "Electric Eye" from the Memphis concert back when it first aired on MTV. I remember thinking...VIVIDLY....'God...now THAT'S how at ease a player should look....strident..confident...without being arrogant about it.'
...but then...you hear the sheer lunacy of KK's solo work in "Dissident Aggressor," or that tasty-as-a-sumbitch solo in "Jawbreaker," or the wild and atonal tribute to Hendrix in the solo he does to "Sinner" from the same Memphis concert...and it becomes really difficult to better one over the other....much as I might understand the reasoning for those who might find it easier to pick one over the other. Guess it depends on whose style moves you more. For where Glenn & KK are concerned...they've affected me quite the same for many, many years!
To this day...I STILL rank "Animals" as being chief among Floyd's work. There are some songs of theirs I've grown weary of hearing (thanks a LOT, modern-rock radio...THAAAAAAANNKS!!!!!)...but...when I hear a more obscure track...I never turn it away.
Hmm...lessee....the two big non-metal shows I'd seen were Steely Dan on their tour in support of "Two Against Nature" in '02 (which fuckin' ruled), and in '05, my wife and I saw our two respective favorite bands a month apart from one another in the same arena (Jones Beach)...she went with me to see Priest...and I went with her (and our youngest daughter) to see Duran Duran....who impressed the hell outta me. I never thought they were all that bad as it was...but live...just like the adage says...the ONLY way to see if a band has true grit and merit.
Some years long before then, I accompanied my father who wanted desperately to catch this contemporary a capella group called M!Pact in this quaint club in NYC. He'd had this group appear live on his radio show a few days prior, and they sounded absolutely amazing (this ain't your Daddy's a capella group...LOL). The night we saw them they really pulled out all the stops and had a sizeable little crowd of about 100 or so on their collective ear....most impressive! This was back in '96, I think.
Judas Priest concerts are the ONLY concerts I've attended where the fans are even cheering their praises while they're LEAVING their respective areas of any of the arenas I've seen Priest play. I mean....that's how you know a group of fans are utterly ebullient with what they've witnessed....even if they have been privy to it several times before! I've seen many other bands....lotsa shows....and NONE of 'em...where the fans did anything quite like that.
Priest are truly in a class by themselves....that's been my feeling about 'em since 1981....and it's still that way.
[Justin Kenny] Friday, August 15, 2008 11:33:05 AM
I maintain it was a superficially large individual bent on finding him a Popeye's chicken franchise and perished in his quest......shame really....
....goddamn KFC and their monopolizing ways....LET THE LITTLE GUYS HAVE A CHANCE!!!
*this post really ought not to be taken TOO seriously, as the person who posted it is caffeinated beyond measure or belief and had nothing formidable or substantive to contribute to the whole bigfoot thing....so...this disclaimer's directive is just to have a laugh, place an order for some franchise chicken of your choosing (as we're sure you're now hankering for some) and let the "Weekly World News" publication handle issues of this nature. We thank you for your time, patience and understanding.*
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:48:19 PM
OMFG!!!! Upon closer inspection of that listing DemonCat was good to share here, I just realized AMY GRANT lyrics are on there!!!!
See?? It can even happen to artists within the Christian music sector!!! Like Dime was saying....total fluke...other than those artists who PURPOSELY set out to make a backward message (like Slayer did in the intro to "Hell Awaits," or the brilliant message "Do not meddle with things you don't understand" on a track off Iron Maiden's 'Peace of Mind' album), no artist/lyricist has the kind of time or understanding of syntax to fabricate forward lyrics that would intentionally have satanic implications when heard backwards...
....now...on an ironic note....wouldn't it be a bitch if you heard messages like, "Goooo to chuurrch....saaay your praaaayy-errrs....Jesus loo-ooovves yooouuu" upon playing Deicide tracks backwards!!???
[Justin Kenny] Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:38:38 PM
Hmmm...time to assess the events to come in the next coupla weeks....lessee here...
....tomorrow's Friday (blessed be!!!)...got one more week of this horseshit bid package to go....new one starts August 24th...college kids start comin' back to both campuses next week... ...then...in 5 weeks time FROM the 24th ...we get to bid...YET AGAIN...once this asshole outfit figures out where to put 5-6 new runs that have been coughed up (like a hairball) from a ne'er-do-well associate transit outfit...and we keep whatever we pick until January. Union meetings will start cropping up soon, as our current contract expires on (of all frickin' dates) September 11th....and we's gon' have us a fight on our hands....
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:52:31 PM
I should think it'd be redundant as fuck to suggest that any lyric that appears to have any satanic alliegance when played backwards is nothing more than a coincidental, random event of happenstance. As it is, the very complexity of the English language--given its syllabalic cadence, various ways words might get said or sung are BOUND to have a certain cadence when heard backward as well...I don't know about other languages of the world when it comes to this "...metaphysical" phenomenon, but as DemonCat shared with that layout of lyrics that have their backward-masked counterparts, it certainly happens with the English language!
Having said this much, there's just as much to be said for potential innocuous messages that can be heard when playing select lyrics backwards. Never was this better proven (along with what I'd said above about just how interestingly complex the syntax of the English language can be) than the time Rob Halford took the stand during the "Vance/Belknap vs. Judas Priest/CBS Records" trial of 1991. Right there...on the judge's bench, with a large boom-box, Rob Halford took some of the research he himself had done (along with sound experts that represented the band) with lyrics from the "Stained Class" album, and showcased how other songs on the same album had rather humorous effect when heard backwards. He played the choral line of "Exciter" -- which we all know is "Stand by for Exciter...salvation is his task..." he informed the courtroom and all in attendance of this, and played it so everyone could hear it....THEN...he played it backward....to which, everyone heard, "I asked for a pepp'rmint....I asked for her to get one." Another track (Rob seems to think it was "Invader") had a lyric that when played backward sounded TOO much like, "Hey Ma! My chair is broken!" For those who may have seen the "Dreamer Deceivers" documentary about that very trial, along with the nature of modern struggles and the youth that face them and the ongoing day to day struggle that the Vance family were contending with (at that time), you could literally see the judge's face dutifully assessing what Rob was demonstrating to be true...that whole bit of Rob's testimony pretty much put to rest what the plaintiffs had been trying to build about Priest's lyrics being less than family-oriented and satanically inclined.
[Justin Kenny] Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:13:21 PM
I'm kinda surprised no one else made note of this here yet...but, I was dismayed to learn the untimely passings of both comedian Bernie Mac on Friday(?)/Saturday and musician/actor/ Isaac Hayes on Sunday.
Bernie Mac is best known for his eponymous hit TV show, as well as his shoot-from-the-hip stand up comedy (comparable to that of Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, et, al...), his skills were especially showcased on "The Original Kings Of Comedy" tour; a successful jaunt that also featured fellow comedians (and friends) D.L Hughley, Cedric The Entertainer, and Steve Harvey. He also wrote, his notable releases "I Ain't Scared of You," and his most recent, "Maybe You Never Cry Again," both featuring his sharp wit and street-wise sensibility.
He'd also been seen in various films, "Oceans Eleven" was among the most recent, and a new film soon to be released, "Soul Men" that also featured the departed Isaac Hayes. Bernie Mac was 50 years old, and succumbed to a long bout with pneumonia.
Musician/songwriter Isaac Hayes was a self-taught musician who came to prominence courtesy of Stax records in the mid '60s...penning the Sam & Dave hit "Hold On, I'm Comin'," and scored national acclaim for his "Shaft" theme song (for the movie of the same name) in 1971....a hit that would score him both a Grammy and an Oscar. Hayes was also well-known for his vocal role as "Chef" on Comedy Central's biggest hit, "South Park." Hayes backed out from the show, citing fault with South Park creator's stab against Scientology, which Hayes studied and participated. He'd also appeared in films such as "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka," and "Tough Guys." Hayes was also inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. Hayes was 65.
[Justin Kenny] Monday, August 04, 2008 11:02:37 AM
I certainly do love the music these gents have made over the years...but....to be perfectly honest with you...if I never hear another Led Zeppelin song again (save for obscure live stuff, or album cuts RARELY played on the radio), it'll be too soon. I've heard virtually everything these guys have done backwards and forwards over the last 30 of the 38 years of my life...I think I get it...absolute legends...absolute giants.
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:20:02 PM
Just read that bit of news Scott...truly dreadful news...especially for an area of the world that seems to wait an eternity for their favorite entertainers to come around!
The news post suggested it was due to logistics and freight issues....is it a cost thing? I'm sure it's not exactly cheap to hork around all that equipment and shit from place to place...but does it make that much of a difference with NZ??
No one is making the argument that Ratt is NOT Metal, just that they are NOT HEAVY METAL. Let me see, Megadeth, Slayer, Priest, Maiden, Ratt, and Pantera; which band don't belong?
Ratt, Motley, Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Priest, and LA Guns; which band don't belong?
It still eludes me how some fans just haven't absorbed the idea that Priest are a band that are about CHANGE....is it any wonder that no two Priest albums sound alike (the only possible exception being the similarities in style and approach between "S.F.V" and "D.O.T.F")? Granted...everyone's opinions are going to be just that...opinions...but I still get a twinge of discontent when I see some fans bringing up "Painkiller" as the cornerstone of all things Priest and the absolute standard by which any/all future Priest-releases will be measured. Priest are all about taking risks and leaps of faith when it comes to what they create...consequences be damned. It hasn't hurt them TOO goddamn much...clearly....they're still at it...fans by the thousands are still attending their shows (evidenced by the reviews I've read and the numbers, however approximate--have been stated), and most importantly...the band STILL looks extremely happy and honored to be in front of their faithful night after night. They've never been media darlings...they've never made a tremendous commercial stink about ANYTHING they've done...at this juncture, they know that those who want to be there most will show up.
Furthermore...at this stage of the game...Priest have nothing to apologize for....nor WILL they. So...if you're that disgruntled about "NOSTRADAMUS," and you think Priest owe you something for such a shortcoming or "..downfall" ...you've got one, long-ass wait.
Being Judas Priest means never having to say you're sorry (speaking strictly in terms of creativity).
At this stage of the game, I think Priest are just trying to capitalize on summer concert attendees and making it an attractive enough package to help bolster the numbers. Priest have made it known long before the tour began that they would be infusing songs from their catalogue that hadn't been played in a very long time (if at all), as well as a 'few' new numbers from "NOSTRADAMUS" ....which is probably why there have only been 2 or 3 songs from it in their sets thus far.
Another interesting tidbit of info I came across featured a quip from KK Downing, who stated that they'd learned from some time ago that infusing too much of a new album right off the bat tends to lose fans' attention spans...after all...a band as seasoned as Priest knows by now that just because 2 or 3 months have gone by, not EVERY Priest fan in attendance at any one of their shows necessarily HAS the new album that's out at that time (I mean, here it is...better than a month after "NOSTRADAMUS' " release..and I STILL don't have it). Now...magazine interviews are done a considerable amount of time before the magazine actually hits the store shelves...so, since that quip was made, I'm sure Priest have reached a viable enough solution, as the consensus now is that the entirety of "NOSTRADAMUS" will be played, but just later into the tour once this summer package with "METAL MASTERS" is said and done. By that time, more fans will know how the album sounds and will know even more about it and will be more prepared (perhaps) to absorb the entirety of it in a live environment. But..we all know this...minds can change...whether or not Priest will have a change of mind about doing the entirety of "NOSTRADAMUS" is something only time will tell. Given the risks Priest are renowned for taking though, I'm pretty sure that if they still have it in mind to do the whole monty, then they will....I know they're very proud of what they've done this time around, and I think they owe it to themselves to show EVERYONE who'll attend that they ARE just that. Edited at: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:31:50 AM
Well...my Monday has been pretty peaceful thus far....good got-damn thing too...after the weekend I had... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by joedraper from Sunday, July 27, 2008 4:40:54 PM)
joedraper wrote:
I hope everyone had a fantatic weekend and I wish a happy, peaceful week ahead!
I know charts aren't the biggest focal concern for most fans...it's not even a concern for me...however..I was curious to see where this would end up, and how high up it might get. Now..sure, it may have nose-dived considerably since (most Priest albums do that, courtesy of radio stations who just won't play ANYTHING from Priest post-SFV), but still....quite the achievement for a veteran band in this day and age of downloading availability.
....umm....remind me to AVOID that thread....be it on THIS board..or any other... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Soylentgreen4u from Sunday, July 27, 2008 10:09:58 AM)
Soylentgreen4u wrote:
HOW ABOUT...'COOKING AND SPANKINGS WITH MARTHA STEWART'...OH I FORGOT...I'M ON THE WRONG BOARD........
tasnam1 wrote:
There are three threads that are discussing the same topic about the new album.
(Downfall of priest, Review of new album, and what do you think)
I propose merging them into one.
I do not believe "The downfall of Priest" is an accurate thread in ANY way since I don't believe it will be even close to their downfall.
I would love to continue this discussion but I am tired of jumping to each of these threads and posting (and reading) the discussion in tandom.
I will stop posting on the "down fall thread" - but which topic should we continue on?
MORMONTHUG IS THE BOSS!!!
Not only are those pics just utterly kick-ass...I think it's the coolest friggin' thing how he and his father attend these shows together....he shared similar pics back in '05, where you see pics of his father talking with Ian Hill (during a meet & greet, I'm sure). [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Jeanine from Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:11:25 PM)
Jeanine wrote:
Hey there Bev! Everybody, check out the sinful thread to see pictures of the Seatle show courtesy of mormonthug over at the Q.
I have no moral beef with this... ...only, if August 9th is a day I have to work, I won't be able to take part until I get home (we bus drivers hafta wear REQUIRED uniforms while working... ).
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:16:01 PM
Great CD....total classic.
I'll say this much too...the live rendering of "Rock Forever" on the "Unleashed In The East" re-issue is among THE best live tracks I've ever heard in my life. It just fuckin' rolls; Halford's voice sounds massive, and Glenn & KK reproduce that tasty-as-fuck solo note for blessed note!!
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:12:02 PM
I dunno really. I mean, the METALWORKS DVD all by itself is certainly an open book about Priest from their humble beginnings, right up to where Halford's departure is discussed. The VH-1 "Behind The Music" episode (which chronicles Ripper's induction to the Priest fold as well as Halford's solo efforts by that time) was also more than adequate.
I'm not quite sure I'd be overtly hot on the idea of various actors (well known or not) portraying past/present members of Judas Priest....if the band were totally in on it and INTO it, and had creative input for making sure the story were told CORRECTLY (quotes, feelings and all)...then, maybe. Given the debacle of 'Rock Star,' I'd rather hear the story of Judas Priest directly from the men IN Judas Priest.
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:04:55 PM
I love both versions equally. And yes...Tim's vocal performance on '98 MELTDOWN' (as well as seeing and hearing him do it for myself) was absolutely eye-popping. The sound on that is unabashedly brutal!!
But consider too the original recording....other than maybe Iron Maiden, and CERTAINLY Motorhead, there weren't a whole wealth of bands in the metal realm writing songs quite like that! "Rapid Fire" is certainly head-banging, fist-pumping bliss...start to finish.
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:55:09 PM
Whoa...whoa!!! Heavy1706....take it easy there!
I mean...sure, I can understand you being miffed or upset that you couldn't see Priest on the night that was originally slated...it's always a disappointment when something like this happens....but to get utterly banal about it to the point where you're telling the entirety of Judas Priest to go fuck themselves?? S'a bit extreme, don'tcha think??
Glenn Tipton was undergoing tests for what could possibly be appendicitis. Now..I've never had this affliction, but from those I know who have, they tell me that when the appendix flares up, it can be excruciatingly painful and uncomfortable. Seems that Tipton had already done a number of shows in that shape already. Now, you might be thinking, "Right!! So why not Zagreb!!?" Well...let's face it...if you went to work Monday through Wednesday with your guts feeling like Gene Simmons was practicing his fire-breathing techniques inside of you, and it felt even WORSE come Thursday morning....would YOU be so bent on showing up for work that day? I'd have to say; odds're better than excellent that you WOULDN'T.
Moreover....should the appendix actually burst from the inflammation and flaring up that appendicitis causes, the bursting releases various numbers of toxins and poisons throughout the bloodstream that can cause an even harsher sickness and (if I'm not mistaken) even death! The only sure-fire way to prevent this horrific occurrence is to have the appendix (which is a useless organ anyway) surgically removed. I think the tests Glenn underwent recently proved that he's not in any immediate danger...which allowed him to resume performing until said time permits him to address the issue more aggressively without costing the band (or their fans) any more missed shows or time.
I'm sure Priest have it full in mind to make up for the shows they couldn't honor so that those ticketholders get the chance they'd missed. Be patient, and you'll see. Edited at: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:56:20 PM
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:44:12 PM
KISS were my introduction to the hard rock world. At that time, I was maybe 5 or 6 years old...and maybe they didn't have the same effect on every 5 or 6 year old kid back in 1975 like they did on me, but I was hooked. I thought their image was just too cool for school, and I liked how the songs sounded. In the years that followed, I became more familiar with bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple courtesy of older kids in my neighborhood as well as older family members who listened to one or the other. Once I discovered Judas Priest around the fall of 1980 or so...that was the REAL start of my interest in heavy metal. I was also loving how Black Sabbath were sounding with Ronnie James Dio by '81, and by 1982...I was WELL inducted.
Since that time, the bands that rocked my world are the bands I still listen to and love to this day....most of which include, but aren't limited to: Priest, Sabbath, Rush, Queensryche, King Diamond, KISS, Purple, Rainbow, Pantera, Godsmack, Drowning Pool (when they first emerged...not too crazy 'bout what they're doing these days).
Again...there are several others...but those bands largely comprise my metal diet.
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:14:29 PM
I remember this vividly.
I knew Priest were pretty good and finished with a new album by the early Spring of '86. I used to listen to "Finger's Metal Shop" RELIGIOUSLY for any news, updates, or...possibly, the unveiling of a new track by any band I was interested in. Finally, one Sunday night (about a week before "Turbo" was released), Fingers played "Locked In." Long before then, I'd acquired my own copies of "Sin After Sin," "Stained Class," "Unleashed In The East," "Point of Entry," "Screaming For Vengeance," and "Defenders of the Faith." So, I knew how diverse and interesting a band like Priest could be.
Upon hearing "Locked In" for the first time, I liked it, and in a way I didn't. It wasn't that I found it 'pop-ish,' necessarily, but I think the general idea (lyrically) was something I felt had been sung about to death. Usually, whenever Priest touched upon the idea of 'love' or 'lust' in any of their songs, it was dealt with in more classy, or more lascivious ways ( "Fever" and "Burnin' Up" respectively, come to mind). Musically however, the song had a good vibe, and I thought Glenn's solo takes (interspersed with KK's) were very tasty.
Well...the following week, I took my paycheck...cashed it, and went right to a music store to buy both "Turbo" and Ozzy's "The Ultimate Sin." Naturally, I listened to "Turbo" first. I felt Priest's use of the guitar synth effects were very cool...very innovative. "Turbo Lover" actually blew me away. I loved the intro...the build-up...and even though I felt the lyrics were (again) less than poetic, Rob's delivery was perfection personified. I remember after hearing Rob singing "...and then in sheer abandonment...we SHATTER, AAANND EXPLOOODE!!!" I'd let out a rather exultant, "YEH!!!" I still felt the chorus was a bit goofy...but then, I thought back to the same thoughts I had about the chorus to "You Say Yes," and I just chalked it all up to it being part and parcel of the Priest experience.
Upon hearing "Locked In" again, I was already familiar with it, and found it more enjoyable. And as the rest of the album played on, I saw Priest's attempt to broaden their horizons (as well as the horizons of us...their fans) as something of a triumph. It was at that point I learned that these British gents were not the least bit intimidated or afraid of taking chances and taking risks with the music they'd create, and I respected the absolute shit out of that.
On a related note, but more singularized..."Reckless" made me want to climb into a Harrier Jet and just start flying the sumbitch!!! Whatta track! Glenn's solo in that one is still one of my favorites of his. Edited at: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:19:08 PM
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, July 09, 2008 5:53:52 PM
I didn't score the fortune of seeing Judas Priest until 1986, when they were in support of "Turbo." The "Defenders..." tour COULD'VE been my first...but my parents just didn't think I was old enough, plus, there was no one older enough who'd accompany me.
I STILL have the tour shirt I bought from the souvenir stand. It has the members of Priest on the front, and the logo on the back with "Fuel For Life" & "Turbo" flanking it above and below. It's very worn...no big holes or tears, but it's damn near transparent...LOL...my wife thinks we oughtta frame it!
Well...not having heard "Death" in its entirety...I couldn't rightly make suggestion as to which of the two songs are better....but then, without the doom-laden riffing of Tony Iommi and the powerful influence the song "Black Sabbath" was on heavy metal all by itself (never mind for a minute all the magnificence that followed), a song like "Death" (and any others like it) could never be written...and the first who would vouch for this would be Rob Halford himself.
Priest's respect for Sabbath is immense...and what's nicer is that for those few and in between times Priest hark back to their own doom-oriented approaches in their writing, you can hear the influence...yes...but you KNOW it's Priest.
I've still no clue on how to post a pic in here...so...best I can do is say that I want to visit the UK before I die. All the areas of it where all my musical heroes call home; Walsall, Aston, (The Midlands), London, Sheffield, etc...
Like my grandfather used to say, "Opinions are like assholes...everybody's got one...."
I haven't let any discouraging words from those who've not been able to embrace "NOSTRADAMUS" dampen my spirits or my interest in what this opus sounds like start to finish. At best, all I've been able to do is get 30 second long snippets courtesy of those "Have A LIsten" booths at Borders...where you scan the CD you're interested in sampling, and you get at least a taste of what's happ'nin'. Mind you...I've only gotten those snippets from the first CD, as it doesn't permit you to get snippets from the second CD.
In spite of that, I'll grant everybody this much....sure...it's different. Wanna know what? I expected it to be different. Priest have been all about BEING different from word 'go...' it's what has helped separate them from their peers and KEPT them separate from every other metal band that's emerged since.
As for "NOSTRADAMUS" being Priest's downfall?? Psh...HARDLY. Those of you who've been into Priest for 20 years or better might recall much the same thing being said when they released "Turbo." I remember the flak they got for how different an album like "Point of Entry" was from "British Steel." So...all in all, people have been tossing the proverbial "coffin nails" at Judas Priest as far back as 1981...and yet...here they are in 2008 supporting a Top 40 album and STILL touring to the adoring throngs that attend. Go figure....hardly sounds like a band suffering any real "downfall" to me.
Given Priest's penchant for expanding their own horizons, as well as the parameters of heavy metal music itself, I've long come to expect there to be some discord and variance in thought and opinion from one release to the next....know what else? So do Priest....they themselves know better than anyone else that pleasing every Priest fan en masse is next to impossible...let's remember something folks...Judas Priest are artists in every sense of the word...as such, whatever it is they create and put out there simply HAS to please them FIRST....if anything about "NOSTRADAMUS" didn't please them, they'd still be working on it. As for producing it themselves, well...that's their right and prerogative....when you consider what producers want for their time and efforts these days, I can't say I blame 'em for taking the reins creatively on every front imaginable. Thus far, I've found no real fault in how the songs sound, and for all this talk about Ian's bass being utterly lost in the mix....I dunno....I haven't heard Ian's bass THIS forward since "Defenders of the Faith."
Priest know what they're doing folks...a band doesn't last and survive some 35 years being aloof and devil-may-care about their efforts. You might love or hate what they do as it comes...but one should never deny a band's opportunity to grow and change.
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:08:23 PM
OHH YE-E-EHH!!! GET PUMPED PEOPLE!!!
Yup!! You read right my fellow Metallians!!! Judas Priest's "Nostradamus" has officially debuted at #11 on the Billboard Top 200!! This eclipses "Angel of Retribution's" chart debut of #13 within its first week of release, even though the figures for "Nostradamus" amounted some 15,000 copies less than its predecessor.
This is the time where all of us (especially those of us here in the USA) need to rally and lend further support to our heroes and make it known that "Nostradamus" is out there, and that Priest are VERY much alive and well!! To get this majestic double-CD set into the Top 10 would be TREMENDOUS in scope, and frankly, I think it can be done!!!
Alert your friends in myspace...facebook...or any other forum you might participate...promote, promote, promote!!!
The only reason Nazism and other 'supreme race' ideals even exist is for the same reason they existed at any time throughout history: IGNORANCE. The knowledge of this does conjur the old adage "...those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it..." but I should hope with the education, and awareness that's out there nowadays in spite of those who insist on pushing such negative ideals--that there are enough people out there to put stops to said injustices BEFORE they have a chance to get out of control.
It's still rather scary to think...the NEGATIVE power of influence we can have on the minds of the young...our children...who look up to us for guidance and their INITIAL education of the world at large and the people who inhabit it. Those who are currently members of various hate groups (I'll kindly leave the names of said groups out of this post....certainly NOT out of respect, but merely for discretionary purposes) suffered the ignorance of generations before them and took the values they learned from those earlier generations far too close to heart. The only real way to combat this is to learn and teach tolerance and acceptance....to learn and teach that kindness is always the best virtue, and to teach our children to do their best to just walk away from those who do NOT idealize said virtues. The stronger we make our children now, will yield stronger and more unified generations to come. Will it happen overnight? No. For that matter, it may NEVER come to fruition at all...but I do believe it can be squelched considerably more than it ever has. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by hareem8 from Monday, June 02, 2008 1:21:49 AM)
hareem8 wrote:
The world is NEVER going to let Germany forget....and according to the tube, Nazism is alive and well in America, damn! What do you think about that?!
The reason you couldn't find "Angel of Retribution" on that listing is because it hasn't sold enough copies yet to be certified GOLD. Having seen the overview you posted, I was quite surprised to see that it took some 4 years before "Defenders Of The Faith" was certified platinum!! Here's hoping it won't take that long for "A.O.R" to see Gold status... [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by spapad from Monday, June 23, 2008 6:02:09 PM)
spapad wrote:
The weird Part is Angel of Retribution is not on the list. Either that or I'm blind.
Ahhh....DF...you used the word that had eluded me....RISK. And what heavy metal band could pull off a risk any better than Judas Priest!? Praise you for conjuring it...for that is exactly the factor that Judas Priest have utilized (however intentional or not) when it came to making ANY album that now graces their repertoire.
I remember vividly...the very banter that was tossed about back in 1986 when Priest released "Turbo." It's interesting to see just how many fans who couldn't stand the album upon first listen that now have a more relenting attitude and a better scope of understanding of what the album was trying to do all these years later. That's not to say there aren't still a contingent of fans that wish Priest never released "Turbo," but that RISK....that almighty leap of faith to take a step OFF the beaten path and try something new...something DIFFERENT...THAT my friends is the true mark of ANY artist...I don't care what art they create. Is it all still subject to personal opinion? Of course...and Judas Priest (like any other artist before them) have taken their share of "lumps" with an incredible degree of grace...forging ahead, consequences be damned; a factor (among a myriad others) of the very admiration and respect and devotion I still have to this band!! They exhibited and STILL deliver the very kind of art I myself can only DREAM about....through them (vicariously or not), I see and hear that which I could not bring forth.
GOD, I can't wait 'til I can buy "Nostradamus" for myself!!! [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Monday, June 23, 2008 5:31:56 PM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
Ah Justin! As usual, well thought out and well written. Very well done, my friend. I have mentioned the very same thing in previous posts. I was not expecting Painkiller II or British Steel Redux and so I am not the least bit disappointed.
This album is a departure. It was meant as such from the beginning and it succeeds. I cannot really recall a "concept" album that was not at least somewhat different from a band's usual effort. Sure, The Wall is clearly Pink Floyd and Operation Mindcrime is classic Queensryche, but Nostradamus was never going to be a typical Priest endeavor. Apart from the obvious attention to detail that one would expect from Judas Priest, this album takes the Band in a new direction. It is not the least bit "Spinal Tap", as has been suggested. It is a work of complex nature and a huge risk. The fact is, I would have been very upset with a Screaming for Vegeance sequel. I truly expected something very different and that is what I got. Honestly, I expected grief from some as well. It is not surprising. One of the many reasons I love this Band is that they have guts. They are incredibly talented and I believe they could pull off just about anything, musically. This album is a winner for me. I do not even need all the fancy packaging and booklets and whatnot. It stands on its own and that works for me quite nicely, thank you.
Justin Kenny wrote:
Well....speaking as one who has heard all of 3 tracks thus far from "NOSTRADAMUS," what I'm about to address here is really a response (and albeit, an impartial one) to some of the negative criticisms I've stumbled across between here and the HALFORD QUORUM.
I've been abundantly aware of the fact that Judas Priest are the type of band that strives to do something different with each and every new output of music they create. The only two albums they've made that share any real similarities (in a back-to-back sense) are "Screaming For Vengeance" and "Defenders Of The Faith." Even for having said that, the production of both albums are even different, and the latter album seems more ethereal somehow; "Rock Hard, Ride Free," and "The Sentinel" seem to have a different resonance and atmosphere.
There's no question about it folks....when presented with the idea of making a conceptualized piece about a REAL individual (won't find any cybernetic mythology ala "Painkiller," et; al), the undertaking had to have been massive in scope. Much has been written and exposed about Nostradamus' life and his works, and Judas Priest clearly had it in mind to pay homage to his LIFE and the very tragic undertones that he'd experienced. Some have argued that a conceptual album about some of the quatrains of his most celebrated and infamous of prophecies would've been more appropo....I'm prone to disagree with this. Judas Priest took the right path in telling about this man's life and times....his pains and his woes....from the time he was aware he had this 'gift,' to being exiled from France to avoid any further charges of heresy...the loss of his wife and child....I mean, talk about a challenging life!
When confronted with the issue that Priest dropped the ball musically/lyrically (as I've seen discussed at times)...I sometimes think that some of those who've stated such things really didn't think this effort through upon listening to it. Nostradamus, after all...lived in the 16th century. Metal music (quite obviously) didn't exist way back when...and in terms of tackling the issues of his life, Priest were clearly sensitive to what they learned, and thought long and hard as to how to convey those emotions both musically and lyrically. Whether or not you think the lyrics contained on "NOSTRADAMUS" are indicative of the genius exhibited on albums like "Sin After Sin" or "Stained Class" is frankly....irrelevant. This is clearly an album meant to be FELT....EXPERIENCED....as well as heard. Thematically, after all...we are dealing with the story of a real man!! Is it any wonder then that even Priest themselves have encouraged us to give this effort a FEW listens?? It surely WASN'T because they question the judgment of having gone through with this effort...nor is it because they doubt whether or not what they created was any good (yes...these summations have been brooded about by some fans...ffs), 'cuz let's face facts....if they had any problem with the final outcome...it STILL wouldn't have been released.
Sure it's different....it's SUPPOSED to be. I for one would never have found Judas Priest to be as consistently interesting as I've known them to be for the last 28 years if all they did was "British Steel" or "Screaming For Vengeance" over and over and over and over and over and over again!!! There are emotions and sweeping cross-sections of a man's psyche that's being talked about on this effort. Consider this much before making any real determined judgment.
Recommending this to DF would be redundant...but for those who've not seen or heard much of the genius (and that IS a word that works and lasts when it comes to all things Carlin) of this magnanimous individual, may I pass along the book title "Brain Droppings." Not only will you laugh...you'll THINK. Such was Carlin's gift to the world.
...if there was ever a time I may have promised to stop breaking your collective chops about finding a way to break your historic performance at the US FESTIVAL back in 1983 free from its vault and put it onto a DVD resplendent with a few extras....then umm.....well...I lied!!!
We know this footage exists in its entirety...and it simply must be shared...please consider. I thank you in advance...
Duly noted DF...Carlin was a massive influence on me as well. He was truly a poet laureate of comedy and made his genius seem attainable to all; it certainly was accessible to everyone who'd hear it. The news of his passing was NOT something I was prepared for today...that much is for sure. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Monday, June 23, 2008 12:09:23 PM)
Deep Freeze wrote:
To All a most glorious Monday morning. I woke this day to the very sad news that I see has been mentioned in another post; George Carlin has passed.
Anyone that actually reads any of my prose will clearly see the tremendous influence Carlin has had on me and my life. His inspiration has helped mold much of how I see this world. I cannot begin to tell you what a profound effect his death will have on my life.
Carlin saw things in a very special and unique way. For example; his thoughts on religion, while certainly much darker than mine, are a measure for me and my opinion on a "god" or deity. I have used his words, or at least his thought-pattern in this area many, many times.
I feel a great, personal loss. Carlin was a master of words and a genius not only in comedy but in grammar and proper English. One need only spend some time reading any one of his many books (of which I own all!) to see that this man knew the English language better than most. Certainly far better than me!
I realize this is a Priest site and I do hope that each of you will bear with me as this man meant so much to me, I feel as though I have lost someone very dear even though we never met.
We all grieve in our own way. I have shared much of myself with you and , at this most sad and difficult time, I come to you for the comfort I have found in the past. If you were not a fan of George Carlin, I can accept that....but I do not understand it. He was larger than life. He was a master. He was incredible. I will miss him more than words can say.
Well....speaking as one who has heard all of 3 tracks thus far from "NOSTRADAMUS," what I'm about to address here is really a response (and albeit, an impartial one) to some of the negative criticisms I've stumbled across between here and the HALFORD QUORUM.
I've been abundantly aware of the fact that Judas Priest are the type of band that strives to do something different with each and every new output of music they create. The only two albums they've made that share any real similarities (in a back-to-back sense) are "Screaming For Vengeance" and "Defenders Of The Faith." Even for having said that, the production of both albums are even different, and the latter album seems more ethereal somehow; "Rock Hard, Ride Free," and "The Sentinel" seem to have a different resonance and atmosphere.
There's no question about it folks....when presented with the idea of making a conceptualized piece about a REAL individual (won't find any cybernetic mythology ala "Painkiller," et; al), the undertaking had to have been massive in scope. Much has been written and exposed about Nostradamus' life and his works, and Judas Priest clearly had it in mind to pay homage to his LIFE and the very tragic undertones that he'd experienced. Some have argued that a conceptual album about some of the quatrains of his most celebrated and infamous of prophecies would've been more appropo....I'm prone to disagree with this. Judas Priest took the right path in telling about this man's life and times....his pains and his woes....from the time he was aware he had this 'gift,' to being exiled from France to avoid any further charges of heresy...the loss of his wife and child....I mean, talk about a challenging life!
When confronted with the issue that Priest dropped the ball musically/lyrically (as I've seen discussed at times)...I sometimes think that some of those who've stated such things really didn't think this effort through upon listening to it. Nostradamus, after all...lived in the 16th century. Metal music (quite obviously) didn't exist way back when...and in terms of tackling the issues of his life, Priest were clearly sensitive to what they learned, and thought long and hard as to how to convey those emotions both musically and lyrically. Whether or not you think the lyrics contained on "NOSTRADAMUS" are indicative of the genius exhibited on albums like "Sin After Sin" or "Stained Class" is frankly....irrelevant. This is clearly an album meant to be FELT....EXPERIENCED....as well as heard. Thematically, after all...we are dealing with the story of a real man!! Is it any wonder then that even Priest themselves have encouraged us to give this effort a FEW listens?? It surely WASN'T because they question the judgment of having gone through with this effort...nor is it because they doubt whether or not what they created was any good (yes...these summations have been brooded about by some fans...ffs), 'cuz let's face facts....if they had any problem with the final outcome...it STILL wouldn't have been released.
Sure it's different....it's SUPPOSED to be. I for one would never have found Judas Priest to be as consistently interesting as I've known them to be for the last 28 years if all they did was "British Steel" or "Screaming For Vengeance" over and over and over and over and over and over again!!! There are emotions and sweeping cross-sections of a man's psyche that's being talked about on this effort. Consider this much before making any real determined judgment.
Hi ya Valiant!! And to the entirety of our hallowed, inner sanctum better known as the Judas Priest Noticeboard, I bid you all a fond greeting to this particular Monday afternoon....hope today has gone better for you all than it has for me thus far... ....detours suck monkey-nuts...and it makes travel 'round here utter HELL...
....'tis why I tell people that 'Ithaca' really means 'detour.' It doesn't really...it's Indian for something far more earthly and innocent than that....but...it may as WELL mean 'detour...' 'cuz every summer, that's what happens. The city and county decide to band together and tear the bejeezuz outta every street, bridge, and thoroughfare that we transit drivers rely on heavily to get our ridership to and from places...LOL!!
I dunno...I guess SOMETHING has to come about to make up for the lack of ridership...what with 90% of the student body enjoying their summer breaks from either of the two campuses here.
Alice Cooper has certainly proven himself to be among the absolute greats. While he may certainly be known more for his outlandish, prop-heavy live performances...there can be no mistaking his influence on virtually EVERYONE who would utilize their stage in more theatrical forays. Bands like KISS, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Slipknot, King Diamond, et; al...all owe a nod of respect and credit to Alice Cooper (born Vincent Furnier).
I've had the pleasure of witnessing Cooper live on the "Operation: Rock And Roll" tour when he co-headlined with Judas Priest back in '91. I'd already seen (and taped) live footage that was featured on MTV one Halloween night; the footage was from a live show in Cooper's home city of Detroit, MI in support of the album "Constrictor." The show he gave in '91 did better than merely mirror some of what I'd already seen; he'd clearly had a few other tricks up his sleeve, and the band accompanying him were even more proficient.
Errr...you'll kindly forgive the 'HP Touchsmart' advert that managed to neatly nestle itself in that post....such are the perils of cutting and pasting, I s'pose....
LOS ANGELES - Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television. Some People Are Stupid. Stuff. People I Can Do Without. George Carlin, who died of heart failure Sunday at 71, leaves behind not only a series of memorable routines, but a legal legacy: His most celebrated monologue, a frantic, informed riff on those infamous seven words, led to a Supreme Court decision on broadcasting offensive language.
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The counterculture hero's jokes also targeted things such as misplaced shame, religious hypocrisy and linguistic quirks ? why, he once asked, do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas.
"He was a genius and I will miss him dearly," Jack Burns, who was the other half of a comedy duo with Carlin in the early 1960s, told The Associated Press.
The actor Ben Stiller called Carlin "a hugely influential force in stand-up comedy. He had an amazing mind, and his humor was brave, and always challenging us to look at ourselves and question our belief systems, while being incredibly entertaining. He was one of the greats."
Carlin constantly breached the accepted boundaries of comedy and language, particularly with his routine on the "Seven Words" ? all of which are taboo on broadcast TV to this day.
When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, freed on $150 bail and exonerated when a Wisconsin judge dismissed the case, saying it was indecent but citing free speech and the lack of any disturbance.
When the words were later played on a New York radio station, they resulted in a 1978 Supreme Court ruling upholding the government's authority to sanction stations for broadcasting offensive language during hours when children might be listening.
"So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of," he told The Associated Press earlier this year.
Despite his reputation as unapologetically irreverent, Carlin was a television staple through the decades, serving as host of the "Saturday Night Live" debut in 1975 ? noting on his Web site that he was "loaded on cocaine all week long" ? and appearing some 130 times on "The Tonight Show."
He produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, a few TV shows and appeared in several movies, from his own comedy specials to "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" in 1989 ? a testament to his range from cerebral satire and cultural commentary to downright silliness (sometimes hitting all points in one stroke).
"Why do they lock gas station bathrooms?" he once mused. "Are they afraid someone will clean them?"
In one of his most famous routines, Carlin railed against euphemisms he said have become so widespread that no one can simply "die."
"'Older' sounds a little better than 'old,' doesn't it?," he said. "Sounds like it might even last a little longer. ... I'm getting old. And it's OK. Because thanks to our fear of death in this country I won't have to die ? I'll 'pass away.' Or I'll 'expire,' like a magazine subscription. If it happens in the hospital they'll call it a 'terminal episode.' The insurance company will refer to it as 'negative patient care outcome.' And if it's the result of malpractice they'll say it was a 'therapeutic misadventure.'"
Carlin won four Grammy Awards for best spoken comedy album and was nominated for five Emmys. On Tuesday, it was announced that Carlin was being awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which will be presented Nov. 10 in Washington and broadcast on PBS.
"Nobody was funnier than George Carlin," said Judd Apatow, director of recent hit comedies such as "Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin." "I spent half my childhood in my room listening to his records experiencing pure joy. And he was as kind as he was funny."
Carlin started his career on the traditional nightclub circuit in a coat and tie, pairing with Burns to spoof TV game shows, news and movies. Perhaps in spite of the outlaw soul, "George was fairly conservative when I met him," said Burns, describing himself as the more left-leaning of the two. It was a degree of separation that would reverse when they came upon Lenny Bruce, the original shock comic, in the early '60s.
"We were working in Chicago, and we went to see Lenny, and we were both blown away," Burns said, recalling the moment as the beginning of the end for their collaboration if not their close friendship. "It was an epiphany for George. The comedy we were doing at the time wasn't exactly groundbreaking, and George knew then that he wanted to go in a different direction."
That direction would make Carlin as much a social commentator and philosopher as comedian, a position he would relish through the years.
"The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things ? bad language and whatever ? it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition," Carlin told the AP in a 2004 interview. "There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. ... It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have."
Carlin was born on May 12, 1937, and grew up in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, raised by a single mother. After dropping out of school in the ninth grade, he joined the Air Force in 1954. He received three court-martials and numerous disciplinary punishments, according to his official Web site.
While in the Air Force he started working as an off-base disc jockey at a radio station in Shreveport, La., and after receiving a general discharge in 1957, took an announcing job at WEZE in Boston.
"Fired after three months for driving mobile news van to New York to buy pot," his Web site says.
From there he went on to a job on the night shift as a deejay at a radio station in Fort Worth, Texas. Carlin also worked variety of temporary jobs, including carnival organist and marketing director for a peanut brittle.
In 1960, he left with $300 and Burns, a Texas radio buddy, for Hollywood to pursue a nightclub career as comedy team Burns & Carlin. His first break came just months later when the duo appeared on Jack Paar's "Tonight Show."
Carlin said he hoped to emulate his childhood hero, Danny Kaye, the kindly, rubber-faced comedian who ruled over the decade Carlin grew up in ? the 1950s ? with a clever but gentle humor reflective of the times.
It didn't work for him, and the pair broke up by 1962.
"I was doing superficial comedy entertaining people who didn't really care: Businessmen, people in nightclubs, conservative people. And I had been doing that for the better part of 10 years when it finally dawned on me that I was in the wrong place doing the wrong things for the wrong people," Carlin reflected recently as he prepared for his 14th HBO special, "It's Bad For Ya."
Eventually Carlin ditched the buttoned-up look for his trademark beard, ponytail and all-black attire.
But even with his decidedly adult-comedy bent, Carlin never lost his childlike sense of mischief, even voicing kid-friendly projects like episodes of the TV show "Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends" and the spacey Volkswagen bus Fillmore in the 2006 Pixar hit "Cars."
Carlin's first wife, Brenda, died in 1997. He is survived by wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin McCall; son-in-law Bob McCall; brother Patrick Carlin; and sister-in-law Marlene Carlin.
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Associated Press writer Christopher Weber contributed to this report.
Tim does have an album of full-blown original material out there..."BEYOND FEAR." It's not THE most ground-breaking stuff...but the material is solid, and Tim's voice of course is the highlight.
Again...my sincerest hope is that he keeps working...the man has the talent and the right attitude. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by spapad from Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:26:10 PM)
spapad wrote:
Not to slam Tim. He has an excellent voice I would place up there with maybe 10 Metal singers who can do what he does and he would be on the low end towards the finer talent like Dio and Rob.
I just hope Tim finds his own true voice and gets together his own band to showcase the true tallent he has! Lose the name Ripper and become the Tim Owens experience!
He has my respect, (He has Rob's repect) I am just waiting for him to step into the light on his own. It will be a great album when he does. I can not wait to hear it!
Hehe...one time while doing one of my routes, I picked up this one lady who rides our buses often. When I'm driving, I don't tend to talk to the passengers. As it is, I have to DRIVE...I have to stay frosty and alert to what's going on (especially in THIS asshole city!!). I DO greet them...say "How ya doin'?" or whatever will work. Anyhoo...she gets on...pays the fare, and sits in the first section of seats. She was my only passenger on this particular trip, and after a bit, she comes right out and asks, "I think you're quite possibly the quiestest bus driver that works here...why don't you ever talk to people?"
My answer...given with a rather sardonic grin as I realized what I was about to say:
"It's no offense to anyone dear...it's just that 'I've often found that silence helps to keep me and my kind alive.'" She just kinda laughed at that...citing, "Oh..I hear ya...loose lips sink ships, eh?"
Ya..whatever. Here's a few more ways:
When you draw the entirety of the "Screaming For Vengeance" album cover on your school desk within the last 2-3 days of the school year...and come to find the following day that someone wrote below it... "....nicely done!"
When you're a guitarist in a band playing a genre of music that isn't heavy metal, but you emulate the movements of KK Downing and Glenn Tipton anyway.
When sitting idle at a stoplight, your fingers invariably drum (either upon the steering wheel or the dashboard) the opening salvo to "Painkiller" or the final drumming exit run in "Delivering The Goods."
When you were known in high school as "Mr. Priest."
When you still have a Judas Priest tour shirt dating some 22 years back...
...I'll think of more...not to worry....as for these five, well...they all apply to me.
After reading the initial post, for starters, I'm sure some fans will (at the very least) look into this book...but I have a problem that I found that I might construe as a flaw...from which, if anyone can substantiate, I'll relent:
....among the notes listed, it's cited that Priest opened up for bands like Budgie and Black Sabbath... Umm....when was this? Are there any Priest professors out there that might have insight to when exactly this was PRIOR to Priest's co-headlining stint with the original Sabs at OZZFEST '04? 'Cuz near as I can figure...that was the 1st and only time Priest and Sabbath shared a stage together...thereby making it such a momentous event!
I've even scanned Maddrakkett's "JP INFO PAGES" site, and can't readily recall ever stumbling across anything about Priest and Sabbath sharing a trek together between '70-'73.
In keeping with the tradition of the thread, I actually DO love to write, and admittedly...I don't get very many chances to do it. Given the pace of my 'day job' and trying to balance that with the love I have for my family who wait patiently for my nightly return, Lord knows it isn't easy! I have, however...considered very seriously the idea of writing SOMETHING....just don't know what yet. I have certain considerations in the back of my mind, but..like anything else--it's all about timing. The time to be able to sit down...organize my thoughts and get 'em all down in a manner that makes it a worthwhile read.
Time will tell gentlemen...if it's meant to happen, it'll happen...
In the meantime and in between time, I thank you for the kind critique!!
Oh Lord....there are just way too many phenomenal bass players out there to categorize just ONE as being 'best of the heap...' Let's keep in mind too here gang...just because a given bass player can be fluid as water on the fretboard (and admittedly, on such thicker strings), my feeling is; much like overtly fluid guitarists, there is a very fine line between being fluid, and being overtly noodly and masturbatory. A good bass player understands and appreciates the difference between the need to be melodic and fluid from the need to provide ample bottom and rhythm intensive structures. For my money, the bass players who best exhibit these skills would include (but are not limited to):
Geezer Butler
Geddy Lee
Greg Lake (E.L.P)
Steve Harris
Cliff Burton
John Taylor (Duran Duran....yeh, I said it!!! XP )
...any bass player who's worked with Steely Dan...(for which, there have been many)
Ian Hill
Gene Simmons (he has more skill than most people would credit)
...like I said...there are others...their names either escape me, or I can't remember what names of the bands they once occupied....as they occur to me...I'll give 'em mention...
This is how all 4 bands have stacked up for me for the last 10 years or so:
Slayer
Megadeth
Metallica
Anthrax
Still enjoy them all to some extent or another...but I can't tolerate anything Metallica have done since the 'black album,' and while Anthrax impressed all hell outta me when I saw 'em opening for Priest back in '02 (the first time I'd seen Anthrax since they opened for Ozzy back in '87), I can't say I really listen to them very much at all otherwise....it's not that I think they suck or anything...I've just gotten more involved with other bands that truly do it for me.
In spite of it all...Slayer are fuckin' KING... (no pun intended). Powerful to a fault!
Wow....that's a toughie....honestly. AC/DC are one of a precious few bands that have had to replace a well-loved vocalist with another, and managed to find equal, if not greater success for having done so (let's face facts here folks...Bon would've wanted it that way for the band...AC/DC was just as much HIS baby as it was for the brothers Young). Brian Johnson came along at a very crucial time, delivered the best vocals he felt he could for the "Back in Black" album, and spent time afterwards pondering whether or not he overdid it...or, worse yet..blew it somehow!! When he finally got word that he made it, a new chapter for AC/DC began, and it hasn't slowed or suffered much at all since!
No fan of AC/DC will ever overlook, deny, or question the credibility of Bon's time with the band. Too many great, straightforward albums, and a great many classic songs that we still hear to this day...proof that Bon hadn't died in vain (in spite of his tragically young age/circumstances), and Brian picked up the 'reins' and gave those classic songs the respect and energy needed....Bon would be MOST proud, and I'm sure for wherever it is from Home he resides, that pride is evident and prevalent as he looks upon them and the incredible legacy AC/DC enjoy.
Having said as such....I simply cannot choose. Bon may have been THE original spirit, but Brian infused his own while keeping the integrity of original said spirit alive for new and old fans alike.
I dunno if this will thoroughly answer DF's questions (however poignantly asked...as I've pondered much of the same things), or..for that matter...ANYONE'S questions...but this is how I see it:
Love is fathomless. We truly do NOT have dominion over love and its fathomless, most ambiguous of meanings. Capturing it is difficult enough...defining it is tougher. But if you think about it, love is a rather primordial emotion. We love our family, we love our closest friends, we may have even loved one of our teachers that really made an impact on us at one point or another. If you ask me...the REAL challenge is-- do you LIKE a given person? What is it about them you LIKE?? Do you like that person enough to want them around day in and day out?? I'm sure a healthy number of us have said something along the lines of, "....I dunno...I love (so-and-so) and all...I don't wish him/her dead or anything...but right about now, I don't like him/her." So...does this mean that liking someone is a bit more important than loving them??
We feel the burn of losing one we love (be it by death, a breakup, or what have you) because of the time and energy we invested in that person. Yes..it may seem like a futile, hopeless waste of time when we are grappling with the emotions of having lost the one(s) we love(d)...but what keeps us coming back for more (I think) is what our souls resonate to our conscious minds. It is our souls that yearn to feel and give the love we're capable of administering...especially when we've had the qualitative time to grieve and get over the loss of a love we once enjoyed. Think about those among us who lost a spouse. As time goes on (and its time that varies from individual to individual), the one who survived the loss could find themselves in love again and could marry again for it. Does that mean they've forgotten the one they loved and lost? Of course not. The memory of that person is very much alive and well. Often we hear people lament, "...I'll never love another person again the way I loved so-and-so..." Well, of course you won't. The next person you fall in love with (or find love with) will be a whole 'nother individual--with their own personality, humor, character and idiosyncrasies; the love given that person in turn will be different in dynamic and energy from the way they felt 'love' for the person they lost...and yet, if the relationship is good and complete...and they LIKE that new person...it will still have a feel of completion. It's our souls that tell us whether or not that completion we seek has been found....hence the answer to the age old question, "How do you know you found it!??"
[Justin Kenny] Wednesday, June 04, 2008 5:14:20 PM
Wow....that shirt is in PRIMO shape!! The seller must not have worn it very much!!!
The one I used to have had the front, and the back had the 'hand' giving the finger....on top it said "RAM IT DOWN" and under the hand it said "SHOVE IT UP"
...I will say this much, however; I'm very glad the Westboro Baptist Chur....um...I mean CULT, neglected to show to protest Hanneman's Memorial service as they'd initially vowed....it could've gotten very ugly (in spite of Slayer's urgings to merely ignore the lot of them and spend time instead queuing up to get inside and celebrate Jeff's life and music). I caught some pictorial and other visual accounts of Hanneman's service...I'd say they did a wonderful job celebrating his legendary career in heavy metal and honoring the very person he was.
Oh man...I didn't have a 'puter w/ audio at the moment I watched this...but the only thing that went thru my head half the time was MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This..." LMAO!
Wha's happ'nin'? What's shakin' & quakin'? What's movin' & groovin'? What's new 'n exciting? Hah? Hmmm?? o_O (Yes...you guessed right...I'm too feckin' lazy to be reading through the last 10 or so pages of posts...LOL!!)
If you've all seen the Bill Murray movie "Groundhog Day," you pretty much know my story...so...I'm depending on y'all to render some news/info/low-down/skinny/what-the-hell-have-ya that might make this kid smile/laugh/celebrate with you/what-the-hell-have-ya.......as a caveat though, the following is just a sample of some news I could do very well without:
Moreover, I hope you've all been happy, healthy, laughing, livin', lovin', touchin', squeezin' (Oooh, a Journey reference, dig it!), and all that happy horseshit... **nods**
Holy fuckoli!!!! That "Angel of Retribution" tatt she's got just RULES!!!!!! 
JUUUUSST kidding MG.....saw that last line, and...well....I just HAD to....
Hope she's better DF...that had to be painful...
....
What a horror show
I know what you're thinking..."Well..Justin, it was probably early in the morning...give 'em a break..." for some of what they'd watch, this may be true...but it'd be even like this LATER in the day sometimes!!! I dunno...maybe humor itself has gotten so subjective, they probably saw "The Fairly Oddparents" as mere 'room filler,' rather than something to actually be entertaining.
...WATCHING IT NOW...GOOD RETELLING OF THE ORIGINAL,AWESOME JOB WITH THE MAKE-UP....I'LL STILL TAKE THE '68 ORIGINAL OVER IT THOUGH.....FEEL LIKE A BANANA ALL OF A SUDDEN...
(this should please Kinison fans...LOL)
Edited at: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:48:30 AM
...'s'been a rough 5 months...
*still thinks that Sirius is some kind of space satellite or constellation or.....SOME shittin' thing....*
That's terrible!!! Here's hoping she can defy the odds and get back into it!!!
This cat loves dogs....or thicks he is a dog...he got no tail...??
Umm....when was this? Are there any Priest professors out there that might have insight to when exactly this was PRIOR to Priest's co-headlining stint with the original Sabs at OZZFEST '04? 'Cuz near as I can figure...that was the 1st and only time Priest and Sabbath shared a stage together...thereby making it such a momentous event!