>>>Wouldn't a teacher say he writes pretty "well" not pretty "good"<<<
I've never taught English and I'd never want to. It's a clunky language with WAY too many rules. Freakin' rules.
And yes I did go to the old San Jose Saddle Rack a handful of times when I was young. It was NOT my scene at all at the time (or ever really) especially because I didn't drink way back then. We went because it was a place to go... and maybe because there were LOTS of young ladies there.
It was impressively huge though, with two stages on opposite ends of the very large room, so when one band would finish their set another would start up on the other stage. It was VERY "active", very much like the place depicted in the movie Urban Cowboy.
Because it was never my scene I never paid any attention to what went on there so I missed all of the few good shows I would have been interested in. I didn't know about that Jerry show until after it happened, but I wasn't too disappointed because the place was huge and a dive in general.
I had a few friends that liked going there, but for me there were too many drunks, too many fights and I wasn't a California Cowboy (i.e. a wanna'be). It's funny that 20 years later I often found myself in the middle of much larger, much more drunken and thus MANY more fights California Cowboy situations that made the 'Rack look minor league.
That's what I'm saying! I try my best, and in general I think I do it pretty good.
And yeah, while I'm not a big fan of her musical style Gwen Stefani is damn talented, and I've had a couple of opportunities to be around her & interact with her a bit, and she was super cool. She went out of her way to be really nice to some kids, and being nice to kids is the fast-track to my good side.
And I have ALWAYS loved a crowd. Even as a kid I've always been at ease in large groups, I love the energy and I love watching people. You're all pretty damn funny.
Right now it's those ballgames and the roar for the home team that I'm missing most, but there is really nothing like when a crowd has been waiting for a concert to start and then the house lights go down and the ROAR goes up!
The buzz of the crowd that gradually intensifies until it boils over when the lights go down and the performer takes the stage with a thunder that blows your mind and rattles your bones.
Getting together with friends and recounting every detail of a show...15 years in the past and knowing that you will be with at least some of those friends at a show 15 years in the future.
Seeing an unknown band open up for a favorite and after the show searching out all you can find out about the band as well as buying all their records because you realize that your world was missing something.
Watching a performer on stage that you have watched many times before and being able to predict where they will move and the movements they will make just by visual tells and still being excited when they do it.
The post-show glow that has you recounting the moments so they are burned into your memory for life.
I could go on with these for a long time but probably not as long as I will love rock
Hey Lance. I saw on another thread that you're retiring? If so, congratulations and well done. I'm sure they're going to miss you at the old homestead.
I would say now you have more time for shows, but not so much right now.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: long live the dead love matters
on Monday, May 11, 2020 – 05:49 pm
Wouldn't a teacher he say he
Wouldn't a teacher say he writes pretty "well" not pretty "good"
jeeze ok now tell me to FO
OK I'll go read it now
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: long live the dead love matters
on Monday, May 11, 2020 – 06:05 pm
When you look out at the
When you look out at the audience,” he wrote, “you should see yourself in them, just as they should see themselves in you.”
we are not alone. We are imperfect. We need each other
I too need that sonic cathedral
in two days it will be two months since my last live show. I am still wearing the disintegrating wristband
cuz I can't / won't let go ..... Some might say I am unstable
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Localcountyline Localcountyline
on Monday, May 11, 2020 – 06:37 pm
The Saddle Rack in Fremont is
The Saddle Rack in Fremont is now closed for good. Not my kind of deal, but guess they drew big crowds for decades.
(Country Western bar, line dancing, mechanical bull, etc).
When they were at the original location in San Jose, Garcia and Neil played there, among others.
I've heard it was a very weird scene for a JGB show; I'm sure it was.
One more hangout for a lot of people, gone.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Woz Paul_woz
on Monday, May 11, 2020 – 06:39 pm
Definitely a Bay Area
Definitely a Bay Area institution gone.....
Great article by David Groh!
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Localcountyline Localcountyline
on Monday, May 11, 2020 – 06:39 pm
Aren't you from San Jose,
Aren't you from San Jose, Lance? I imagine as a younger man you rode that bull at least once.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: long live the dead love matters
on Monday, May 11, 2020 – 06:52 pm
I believe I saw James Brown
I believe I saw James Brown at the San Jose location
But I've been known to be confused with some of my memories from time to time (because of time)
ok it is very likely https://donmussell.smugmug.com/Music/James-Brown-1982/
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: long live the dead love matters
on Monday, May 11, 2020 – 06:57 pm
Hmmm
Hmmm
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/new-riders-of-the-purple-sage/1990/saddle...
lance : https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/herbie-hancock/1984/saddle-rack-san-jose-...
hy fuck that was a venue BOC and so much more check it out
https://www.setlist.fm/venue/saddle-rack-san-jose-ca-usa-73d7d631.html
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MarkD ntfdaway
on Monday, May 11, 2020 – 07:47 pm
Gee, how did I know it was a
Gee, how did I know this was a Tom thread?.....
Good article.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry heathentom
on Monday, May 11, 2020 – 07:50 pm
>>>Wouldn't a teacher say he
>>>Wouldn't a teacher say he writes pretty "well" not pretty "good"<<<
I've never taught English and I'd never want to. It's a clunky language with WAY too many rules. Freakin' rules.
And yes I did go to the old San Jose Saddle Rack a handful of times when I was young. It was NOT my scene at all at the time (or ever really) especially because I didn't drink way back then. We went because it was a place to go... and maybe because there were LOTS of young ladies there.
It was impressively huge though, with two stages on opposite ends of the very large room, so when one band would finish their set another would start up on the other stage. It was VERY "active", very much like the place depicted in the movie Urban Cowboy.
Because it was never my scene I never paid any attention to what went on there so I missed all of the few good shows I would have been interested in. I didn't know about that Jerry show until after it happened, but I wasn't too disappointed because the place was huge and a dive in general.
I had a few friends that liked going there, but for me there were too many drunks, too many fights and I wasn't a California Cowboy (i.e. a wanna'be). It's funny that 20 years later I often found myself in the middle of much larger, much more drunken and thus MANY more fights California Cowboy situations that made the 'Rack look minor league.
I never did learn to like it.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: long live the dead love matters
on Monday, May 11, 2020 – 11:57 pm
Too clunky to like?
Too clunky to like?
let go when doing music
tighten up when speaking English, OK?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry heathentom
on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – 01:23 am
You first.
You first.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: long live the dead love matters
on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – 01:33 am
I would love to see live
I would love to see live music and let go
i suspect that you have no doubt that I would let go..... (possibly regrets, but there would be no doubt (and no Gwen stefani ))
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry heathentom
on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – 02:20 am
Don't discount Gwen Stefani.
Don't discount Gwen Stefani. She's excellent.
But I actually do have some doubt about your ability to let go, because letting go implies that one initially has a grip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zXDo4dL7SU
Either way, I was talking more about 'you first' on tightening up your English.
Let's just say you're not at the front of the line for critiquing anyone else's writing skills.
(Rules or no rules, punctuation is our friend)
Whatever, I really miss being in a crowd.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: treat island judit
on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – 03:01 am
I love commas.
((( punctuation is our friend )))
I love commas.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: long live the dead love matters
on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – 07:43 am
I like being an idiot
I like being an idiot
we need it
It's ecstatically part of our bond
fuck punctuation you group mind controllers
(jk?)
I idiot more than you, you big brim downer
https://youtu.be/H2fVjXoYmxM
and one could, and does, argue that one can be lost, and lose it more, or be gone, and let go more
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: nebulous nelly Orange County Lumber Truck
on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – 07:51 am
>Don't discount Gwen Stefani. She's excellent<
Really?
>I know being out among the people is what I'm missing most from all this<
I don't miss that one bit, but I'm not very gregarious.
While I would enjoy going to a show, I won't be attending any until there is an effective vaccine.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary Rasmataz
on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – 09:14 am
Its all in the receptors
Its all in the receptors
A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry | Wellcome Collection
https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/W9hIBBAAAHAb74ma
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: ogkb pyramidheat
on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – 09:58 am
i still can't read LLTD's
i still can't read LLTD's posts.
i think you need to be on acid -- which is fine, kinda cool actually.
interesting posting style for sure.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry heathentom
on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – 04:09 pm
>>>I like being an idiot<<<
>>>I like being an idiot<<<
That's what I'm saying! I try my best, and in general I think I do it pretty good.
And yeah, while I'm not a big fan of her musical style Gwen Stefani is damn talented, and I've had a couple of opportunities to be around her & interact with her a bit, and she was super cool. She went out of her way to be really nice to some kids, and being nice to kids is the fast-track to my good side.
And I have ALWAYS loved a crowd. Even as a kid I've always been at ease in large groups, I love the energy and I love watching people. You're all pretty damn funny.
Right now it's those ballgames and the roar for the home team that I'm missing most, but there is really nothing like when a crowd has been waiting for a concert to start and then the house lights go down and the ROAR goes up!
DAMN I love that shit!
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: intentionally blank mikeedwardsetc
on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – 04:22 pm
I don't know that I love rock
I don't know that I love rock and roll so much as I lust for it.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: skifurthur AMSaddler
on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – 04:54 pm
I know that I do.
I know that I do.
The buzz of the crowd that gradually intensifies until it boils over when the lights go down and the performer takes the stage with a thunder that blows your mind and rattles your bones.
Getting together with friends and recounting every detail of a show...15 years in the past and knowing that you will be with at least some of those friends at a show 15 years in the future.
Seeing an unknown band open up for a favorite and after the show searching out all you can find out about the band as well as buying all their records because you realize that your world was missing something.
Watching a performer on stage that you have watched many times before and being able to predict where they will move and the movements they will make just by visual tells and still being excited when they do it.
The post-show glow that has you recounting the moments so they are burned into your memory for life.
I could go on with these for a long time but probably not as long as I will love rock
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: A Bit of a Goddess jlp
on Thursday, May 14, 2020 – 12:50 pm
let's eat gramma!
let's eat gramma!
let's eat, gramma!
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Mike Dalton Dalton
on Thursday, May 14, 2020 – 02:00 pm
Hey Lance. I saw on another
Hey Lance. I saw on another thread that you're retiring? If so, congratulations and well done. I'm sure they're going to miss you at the old homestead.
I would say now you have more time for shows, but not so much right now.
Cheers.