Board Performance Dropping Again...

[Anonymous]

I remember when no one liked the wings... I could have them all for myself. Of course, what I remember is that we were all kids & all everyone liked was the breasts. Later on, everyone grew up to like wings & I ended up appreciating breasts.

I always did liked a crisp butt, though.

Cheers! :bottle:

[Hardrock69]

I have had a lot of problems with the board lately as well. Though seems to me in my case it is usually when I am using Chrome. If I switch to Firefox, everything seems to be ok again.
Seems I am always blaming Chrome, lol. But in this case, if I use Chrome, I can't navigate or post. Seems like the fucker just times out. Like Zah said....

[ZahZoo]

Shit, yes. I remember having to walk to the record store (yes, record store) ten miles in freezing rain (up-hill, both ways) in order to purchase and later play my Van Halen LPs on a phonograph built from an old Estes rocket kit, using a pocket knife for a needle and my catcher's mitt for the speaker. Soon enough, the cassette player was invented, and people could then share the actual music they enjoyed, rather than having to hum examples to their friends. It was the dawn of social networking, a pox upon the planet that has lead to increased divorce rates and sadness world wide ever since. Crap, I miss those days, but I must admit I like the ease of accessing porn that has come about as a result.

Early 70's... tools of the trade for learning how to play the latest rock hits...



You tune in your local "Album Rock" FM radio station or Top 40's AM if you didn't have FM rock yet... tilt the built in microphone against the speaker of your parents AM/FM/Console Color TV and lay around for hours with your finger on the Pause button waiting for the station to play the latest hit. Once you got it to tape then play, stop, rewind, play over and over until you figured out how to play the song.

Took me and a buddy 3 days to figure out how to play Stairway to Heaven the week it was released using the old cassette player method. We were rock gods at high school parties back then...

[Bob_R]

There's nothing any of us can do, with the exception of Sarge... It's remotely possible Pojo could check on some stuff, but I don't think he has the "keys" in order to speed things up....

Since he has the only "keys" to the place that certainly makes sense considering Sarge hasn't been here since early February.

There's no way server costs are in the 3 figures a month for this place (read that in another thread) and since the new layout took awhile to incorporate and was taken down rather quickly and that was quite awhile ago with no new layout since. IMO asking for donations isn't exactly the right thing to do.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

Early 70's... tools of the trade for learning how to play the latest rock hits...



You tune in your local "Album Rock" FM radio station or Top 40's AM if you didn't have FM rock yet... tilt the built in microphone against the speaker of your parents AM/FM/Console Color TV and lay around for hours with your finger on the Pause button waiting for the station to play the latest hit. Once you got it to tape then play, stop, rewind, play over and over until you figured out how to play the song.

absolutely! identical memory, word for word.....weird.....where did you live?

[Diamondjimi]

Yeah it's slow as fuck. Who cares? In general this board sucks donkey balls anyway.

Really? Then why do you still post here then?

Roth Army is still the best forum on the net......

[hambon4lif]

Really? Then why do you still post here then?

Roth Army is still the best forum on the net......

It's a racial thing with him. Plain and simple.

I'm on six other messageboard communities, four of which have strict guidelines and rules as to what you can and can't say. If you've actually graduated high school and have read more than 3 books in your life, you're able to communicate with others within those rules without difficulty.

.......this place only has 2.
When you compare those 2 most simple rules with other messageboards, which have quite a few more in comparison, then you realize you have absolute free reign to do and say as you please.
For example, it's gone completely under the radar, but did you know that I have the record for most consecutive posts containing the word 'FUCK' in them?
Fuck Fuckity Fuck Fuck Fuck!

There's a hell of alot of ponderosa to run around in here, and you can say and do things here you would never get away with anywhere else.

One of these two rules is that you can't drop the N-word, which is perfectly fine with me, because we all know that anyone who drops the word here doesn't have the balls to utter the word in real life, either. FACT!

There are only TWO rules here, and Jag is having trouble with ONE of them. That's because he is a motherfucking idiot.
.....somebody had to say it.

That is all.
Have A Nice Fucking Day!

[chefcraig]

Early 70's... tools of the trade for learning how to play the latest rock hits...

You tune in your local "Album Rock" FM radio station or Top 40's AM if you didn't have FM rock yet... tilt the built in microphone against the speaker of your parents AM/FM/Console Color TV and lay around for hours with your finger on the Pause button waiting for the station to play the latest hit. Once you got it to tape then play, stop, rewind, play over and over until you figured out how to play the song.

What usually killed this would be after waiting for 4-5 hours for the one song you wanted to hear (there wasn't really a "rotation" of the same 8 songs every hour back then) would be the stupid DJ, who most likely got his start on AM radio would start rambling some nonsense over the instrumental opening up to the "post", where the vocals would start. Then he'd come back as the song fades, babbling more crap and again throwing in the station's call letters. So you'd repeat the entire drill for several days, until you had a version with the least amount of chatter stepping all over the tune you were trying to record.

The opposite of this was a character named Lee "Baby" Sims, a stoned degenerate that would often ramble in drug-induced stream of consciousness raps for up to 20 minutes at a time. During his 3 hour shift, you were lucky if the moron played 5 songs.

[ZahZoo]

absolutely! identical memory, word for word.....weird.....where did you live?

Monterey Bay area...

If your name is Bob... I want that Univox hollowbody ES-335 knock-off you borrowed in '73 back!!! Oh and the $10 you owe me for the 4-finger, dime bag lid of weed...

[Blaze]

Why did you not buy the sheet music?!
Such disreputable disregard of IP!
Actually the work would have been much easier.
Why not just get a copy of the sheet music? :puzzled:

[chefcraig]

Why did you not buy the sheet music?!
Such disreputable disregard of IP!
Actually the work would have been much easier.
Why not just get a copy of the sheet music? :puzzled:

Because in the 1970s, if a song was not a huge hit or at least in the top 10, there WAS NO sheet music. Publishing was very different back then, and finding scores for anything that rocked harder than Neil Diamond or the Carpenters was an impossibility.

[ZahZoo]

Why did you not buy the sheet music?!
Such disreputable disregard of IP!
Actually the work would have been much easier.
Why not just get a copy of the sheet music? :puzzled:

1. it didn't exist for most rock songs back then.
2. If it did you'd have to wait a year or more until it's published.
3. What you did get was some crap a piano player figured out for the melody and the cord notations were simple open chords played around the 1st fret. They couldn't even print the actual bar chords or power chords that actually made up the songs.

Most rock artists didn't put pen to paper... hell most couldn't even read sheet music.

[Blaze]

I was thinking about yesterday...
It is not very difficult to write an piece from audio for those that are literate.
Why would the revenue stream, albeit niche, of the literate market be ignored?


~ If not purposely mislead... I recall shopping for sheet music at the music stores (one of those delightful vivid recalls). The salesman laughed and said those (the score books I was looking at) were a waste of money. I asked why. He said they were wrong. He continued and said that he thought they were written wrong on purpose. I asked why would that be. He shrugged and said, he did not know. I looked at the music and was kind of sad.

[twonabomber]

you should quit thinking. you're going to hurt yourself one day.

[Blaze]

List of things to do:

1. Have coffee
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657,428. Listen to twonabomber concerning not thinking.