My name is Todd and I'm 35 This is my first post on emusers.org I live in Utah I've been happily married for a long time I have two kids I'm a graphic designer by day, super villain by night I'm a HUGE Green Bay Packers fan My first concert was NOMEANSNO w/ Victims Family My favorite concert so far is probably The Avett Brothers last August The Albums that changed me were The Real Thing by Faith No More, Shine by Mother Love Bone and To Defy The Laws of Tradition by Primus My favorite album so far this year is Japandroids
welcome virgil. i've always been amazed at the elevated passion that faith no more fans have - i've never given the band serious consideration simply because of the video that made a hit for them - and most FNM fans usually throw that one out.
by the by, the nfc central seems well rep'd here...vikings, bears + packers. i have to admit i was at the worst sporting event ever - the halloween monday nite game that farvrerer single handedly dismantled the bears. i finally left and went to a bar where i stripped down to my gymmies because i was such a pathetic frozen/drowned rat.
Not to derail this topic into a football topic, but I think the NFC North is going to be tough this year. I'm just glad Favre didn't sign with the purple.
August 27, 2000 in Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, MO, the Iowa Hawkeyes (coming off a 1-10 season) play the #8 Kansas State Wildcats in the Eddie Robinson Kickoff Classic. I'm there with the Hawkeye Marching Band. It is so hot that the thermometer on the field registers 142 degrees at halftime (you read that right). The Kansas State band wusses out and wears shorts and tee shirts. The HMB is hardcore, however, and wears their standard 100% wool uniforms (but did take the jackets off while in the stands). Between 10 and 15 members of the HMB pass out from heat exhaustion and need emergency IVs, including one trumpet soloist who played his solo at halftime (flawlessly), marched off the field and promptly passed out (when he woke up he had no memory of playing his solo). Your humble narrator survived without losing conciousness, but barely.
Oh and the Hawkeyes lost 27-7.
I can't even begin to describe how awful that day was.
Ok, Ill jump in. My name is Dave. hoosfoos comes from the Dr. Seuss story Too Many Daves. In grade school, I'd often be one of 3 or 4 Daves in my class. It sill continues today with 3 Daves in my work group.
I live in Northern Colorado. Fort Collins to be exact. Home of New Belgium Brewing Company and Fat Tire Ale. Also home to a few other micro breweries and also Anheuser-Busch. Great place for beer tours.
Music ability: Low. Tried both guitar and trumpet twice. Can usually tap my foot or clap in rhythm.
First album: Elton John's Greatest Hits
First concert: Cheap Trick.
Most recent concerts: Wilco at Red Rocks, Mary Gauthier in FC (amazing she came here, only about 30 people in attendance) and Otis Taylor CD release party. For Otis, I didn't have a lot of cash but stashed $15 for the new CD and spent the rest on beer. He charged an outrageous $20 for the CD so I left empty-handed and wishing I had drank more beer. Good concert anyway. I'll pick up his new album on emu.
My music evolution:
High school: I was mostly into heavy metal and whatever was big on the radio. I havent had an urge to go back to this stuff.
College: I got into the New Romantic / synth-pop scene (Duran Duran, ABC, Thompson Twins, Tears For Fears, etc). Embarrassed by most of it now but some of it has held up ok (Tears For Fears). I think Haircut 100's Pelican West is still some great funky / jazzy pop. And now it's on emu (1st 12 tracks are the good stuff). MTV and 91X radio in San Diego were my bibles then.
20's: I later got in post-punk, 4AD, goth-rock and then harder edge stuff. I still find myself returning to this stuff (e.g. Volcano Suns) and a lot of it hasn't gone away (Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth). New bibles became the Trouser Press Guide To Records, Option magazine and college radio. Was a DJ myself and wrote for a small fanzine.
30's: I think John Zorn was my bridge from post-punk to jazz and avant rock/prog. Also discovered world music. Penguin Guide to Jazz, Rough Guide to World Music and the Wayside Music catalog were my bibles. Later delved into blues, reggae, funk, soul and roots music (Americana, zydeco, tejano). I shunned most indie rock during this phase.
Now I'm in my 40's and listening to a big variety (though I have yet to delve into classical). With emu, I rediscovered indie rock. I'm somewhat proud that my oldest daughter learned about her favorite music from me (Decemberists-her first big concert, Devotchka, Sufjan Stevens, New Pornographers, etc). My youngest daughter is a different story. She likes stuff from the Disney channel (Jonas Brothers-her first big concert) and big name country acts like Tim McGraw.
Daughters. Gave mine an eMu subscription about two years ago for a birthday present. Sizzling email from the sizzling South - what you want to give me a crappy present like thaaat for? There's no Fiona Aaaaaple!!!!!!!
Gave my daughter a subscription a few years ago also and she has been lovin' it. Big indie fan had the 90 download for $20 plan, and she loved impressing her friends with her vast ipod indie collection. She loves the new Sony stuff for some bands she couldn't get, but hates being cut to 50 downloads - just like so many others. My son never could find enough of his music on emusic to join - hip hop/rap. But one of my best musical accomplishments in life was convincing him that you can't understand a style of music without learning its roots, can't appreciate an artist without listening to whoever it was they listened to. Now instead of hearing Eminem and 50 Cent we are hearing Public Enemy, Run DMC, and A Tribe Called Quest - he now likes the roots better than the branches. And the Sony drop has made some of his artists available (which means he'll be stealing some of my downloads).
My daughter just sponges off me. I tried to get her started with her own subscription with the CC booster crack cards, but she disappointed me by not using up all her downloads in the 60 days. That's a mortal sin in my book. She has decent taste in music but doesn't put too much effort in seeking it out. For me, I enjoy the discovery as much as the listening. Maybe I spend too much on it...
brittleblood, I'm trying to place who you are on emusic. What is your emu nickname? My kids too cracked up on Oliver Boliver Butt.
Yeah, I like Nick Cave. I first got into him through the Birthday Party. I saw him in concert with the bad seeds in '86 but didn't fully appreciate him then. I still need to go back to his early solo work. I really like his recent stuff on Anti (Abattoir Blues, Grinderman). Too bad that emu doesn't have any of his stuff anymore.
Ah, 68. I knew you seemed familiar. I just reread your bio (nice btw) and noticed that you already had exposed yourself. Sorry for not catching it earlier. You'll be missed on emu. Hopefully you'll still hang around here.
I searched for "jack's shadow" and could only find it on a live vhs/dvd. Is that the version you're speaking of?
that is the 5.1 version recently released - i just picked it up and plan on playing it on "the system" tonite. that release of "your funeral, my trial" includes the cd + dvd music vids...so two discs.
which reminds me, sigur ros did a decent job of releasing a recording with a supplemental dvd.
back to "jack's shadow" i'd secure the lyrics if you plan on tracking the song down.
i should be here as a regular. sorry for all those who had hoped otherwise.
My name is Daniel, a 41 year-old attorney who lives with my wife and daughter in Coral Gables, Florida. After spending a few years in the Boca Raton satellite office of a large, old-world New York law firm, I moved to a small Miami firm in 2000. I've been a shareholder here for about 5 years. Here's a (sideways) picture of me in Boston on New Year's 2009:
Unshaven and freezing and otherwise disheveled, obviously.
With the width of my browser your face is cut off directly below the nose. It comes off as a brilliant self-portrait that way. You should turn it into an avatar.
Speaking of which - you people need to get with the avi making. I'm not big on cluttering message boards with lots of random images, but avatars definitely help follow conversations much more easily.
What a cutehead! Looks like you're ready to eat some tacos, with your head sideways like that.
Get with the avatars? Hmmm. mommio, you need to put an image somewhere on the web and link to it in your user profile settings.
edit -I just put one on imageshack. When you upload an image to ImageShack, there is an auto setting to create a small avatar size.
Then copy the "Direct" URL and put it in your emuser account's > Personal Information > Icon section.
Mine is coming from gravatar, too. It'll probably change soon since the current pic is from my wedding. Then again, it might be nice to keep using that one as my "global mug".
Me, Rastamon, because of my being an apostle for Bob Marley back in HS (Class of '75) and the ability to roll one hell of a splif in college (Michigan State, '80), a skill I have long since lost...at least south of the 45th parallel, that is...
First big show: The Guess Who, of all bands (I just used up some of my last DL's on their fantastic Live at the Paramount) in a small hockey arena that ended way past curfew with an "American Woman" encore, Burton Cummings wearing the local team's jersey, standing on his grand piano playing a black Les Paul, as the house lights came on and the police tried to shut us down...I haven't looked back since...
Big into prog rock in the '70's: Pink Floyd > Gabriel-era Genesis (caught 'em at GVSU on the incredible "Lamb..." tour) > Hatfield & The North and the entire Canterbury scene, then punk (hung out with David Johannson at Max's KC and with Stiv Bators and the Dead Boys at the Chelsea for a while in '78, talked with Patti Smith on a sidewalk in the Village) and really got into Pere Ubu and probably have accumulated the largest collection of Ubu-tiques in Michigan...then into a great appreciation for the Art Ensemble of Chciago and other AACM bands...
...which led to putting myself through a self-taught Masters of Jazz appreciation program in the early 90's thanks to the local NPR station, WBLV, which led to getting into Ken Vandermark and the incredible Chicago new music scene and catching many of the bands including Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet on tour...
Oh yeah, one thing led to a mother, my wife, then two brilliant daughters the oldest of which heads to Ann Arbor this fall...both into music as band geeks and appreciators of what is hip...
Now days I sing "Non-Alignment Pact" to my fellow trout bums on the banks of certain trout waters in upper Michigan, and when I'm nervous walking out of the river bottoms late at night I find myself whistling the first eight bars of Miles' "Walkin' "...over and over...it's been a great ride so far...
rastamon - great to see you sign in...i saw the pogues in town...long story, but i missed the opening act. as the evening progresses, the crowd behind me is "parting" - that can be the only word for it. standing next to me is this massive guy. + it dawns on me to x out who the opening act was. pere ubu. dave's freaking large. kicking myself for missing the performance to this day as i dig them...i'm thinking my first exposure was "tenement years"...when that came out.
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This is my first post on emusers.org
I live in Utah
I've been happily married for a long time
I have two kids
I'm a graphic designer by day, super villain by night
I'm a HUGE Green Bay Packers fan
My first concert was NOMEANSNO w/ Victims Family
My favorite concert so far is probably The Avett Brothers last August
The Albums that changed me were The Real Thing by Faith No More, Shine by Mother Love Bone and To Defy The Laws of Tradition by Primus
My favorite album so far this year is Japandroids
what brings you to emusers?
Bear down.
by the by, the nfc central seems well rep'd here...vikings, bears + packers. i have to admit i was at the worst sporting event ever - the halloween monday nite game that farvrerer single handedly dismantled the bears. i finally left and went to a bar where i stripped down to my gymmies because i was such a pathetic frozen/drowned rat.
pure misery.
August 27, 2000 in Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, MO, the Iowa Hawkeyes (coming off a 1-10 season) play the #8 Kansas State Wildcats in the Eddie Robinson Kickoff Classic. I'm there with the Hawkeye Marching Band. It is so hot that the thermometer on the field registers 142 degrees at halftime (you read that right). The Kansas State band wusses out and wears shorts and tee shirts. The HMB is hardcore, however, and wears their standard 100% wool uniforms (but did take the jackets off while in the stands). Between 10 and 15 members of the HMB pass out from heat exhaustion and need emergency IVs, including one trumpet soloist who played his solo at halftime (flawlessly), marched off the field and promptly passed out (when he woke up he had no memory of playing his solo). Your humble narrator survived without losing conciousness, but barely.
Oh and the Hawkeyes lost 27-7.
I can't even begin to describe how awful that day was.
Craig
I live in Northern Colorado. Fort Collins to be exact. Home of New Belgium Brewing Company and Fat Tire Ale. Also home to a few other micro breweries and also Anheuser-Busch. Great place for beer tours.
Music ability: Low. Tried both guitar and trumpet twice. Can usually tap my foot or clap in rhythm.
First album: Elton John's Greatest Hits
First concert: Cheap Trick.
Most recent concerts: Wilco at Red Rocks, Mary Gauthier in FC (amazing she came here, only about 30 people in attendance) and Otis Taylor CD release party. For Otis, I didn't have a lot of cash but stashed $15 for the new CD and spent the rest on beer. He charged an outrageous $20 for the CD so I left empty-handed and wishing I had drank more beer. Good concert anyway. I'll pick up his new album on emu.
My music evolution:
High school: I was mostly into heavy metal and whatever was big on the radio. I havent had an urge to go back to this stuff.
College: I got into the New Romantic / synth-pop scene (Duran Duran, ABC, Thompson Twins, Tears For Fears, etc). Embarrassed by most of it now but some of it has held up ok (Tears For Fears). I think Haircut 100's Pelican West is still some great funky / jazzy pop. And now it's on emu (1st 12 tracks are the good stuff). MTV and 91X radio in San Diego were my bibles then.
20's: I later got in post-punk, 4AD, goth-rock and then harder edge stuff. I still find myself returning to this stuff (e.g. Volcano Suns) and a lot of it hasn't gone away (Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth). New bibles became the Trouser Press Guide To Records, Option magazine and college radio. Was a DJ myself and wrote for a small fanzine.
30's: I think John Zorn was my bridge from post-punk to jazz and avant rock/prog. Also discovered world music. Penguin Guide to Jazz, Rough Guide to World Music and the Wayside Music catalog were my bibles. Later delved into blues, reggae, funk, soul and roots music (Americana, zydeco, tejano). I shunned most indie rock during this phase.
Now I'm in my 40's and listening to a big variety (though I have yet to delve into classical). With emu, I rediscovered indie rock. I'm somewhat proud that my oldest daughter learned about her favorite music from me (Decemberists-her first big concert, Devotchka, Sufjan Stevens, New Pornographers, etc). My youngest daughter is a different story. She likes stuff from the Disney channel (Jonas Brothers-her first big concert) and big name country acts like Tim McGraw.
Dave
interested to know if/when nick cave ever entered into your stream.
imho - BIS, nereffid, froggie, amclark + tim are about the deepest + wigged out-est source to take a run at classical. nuzzle up to them.
My daughter's a troll.
My son never could find enough of his music on emusic to join - hip hop/rap. But one of my best musical accomplishments in life was convincing him that you can't understand a style of music without learning its roots, can't appreciate an artist without listening to whoever it was they listened to. Now instead of hearing Eminem and 50 Cent we are hearing Public Enemy, Run DMC, and A Tribe Called Quest - he now likes the roots better than the branches. And the Sony drop has made some of his artists available (which means he'll be stealing some of my downloads).
brittleblood, I'm trying to place who you are on emusic. What is your emu nickname? My kids too cracked up on Oliver Boliver Butt.
Yeah, I like Nick Cave. I first got into him through the Birthday Party. I saw him in concert with the bad seeds in '86 but didn't fully appreciate him then. I still need to go back to his early solo work. I really like his recent stuff on Anti (Abattoir Blues, Grinderman). Too bad that emu doesn't have any of his stuff anymore.
68stationwagon...since retired that nick and jackassing as zypressenweg until i get my 15 freebies. then it's exodus.
dbd may debate me on this but i insist his best work is "jack's shadow"...wicked nick, indeed.
clink.
I searched for "jack's shadow" and could only find it on a live vhs/dvd. Is that the version you're speaking of?
which reminds me, sigur ros did a decent job of releasing a recording with a supplemental dvd.
back to "jack's shadow" i'd secure the lyrics if you plan on tracking the song down.
i should be here as a regular. sorry for all those who had hoped otherwise.
Unshaven and freezing and otherwise disheveled, obviously.
Speaking of which - you people need to get with the avi making. I'm not big on cluttering message boards with lots of random images, but avatars definitely help follow conversations much more easily.
Really, it's the width of my face -- not the width of your browser -- that's causing the problem.
Daniel, my screen cut you off just below the eyes. Scrolled to the right -- Oh! What a handsome young man!
Get with the avatars? Hmmm. mommio, you need to put an image somewhere on the web and link to it in your user profile settings.
edit -I just put one on imageshack. When you upload an image to ImageShack, there is an auto setting to create a small avatar size.
Then copy the "Direct" URL and put it in your emuser account's > Personal Information > Icon section.
Blast back kudos all around!
Craig
First big show: The Guess Who, of all bands (I just used up some of my last DL's on their fantastic Live at the Paramount) in a small hockey arena that ended way past curfew with an "American Woman" encore, Burton Cummings wearing the local team's jersey, standing on his grand piano playing a black Les Paul, as the house lights came on and the police tried to shut us down...I haven't looked back since...
Big into prog rock in the '70's: Pink Floyd > Gabriel-era Genesis (caught 'em at GVSU on the incredible "Lamb..." tour) > Hatfield & The North and the entire Canterbury scene, then punk (hung out with David Johannson at Max's KC and with Stiv Bators and the Dead Boys at the Chelsea for a while in '78, talked with Patti Smith on a sidewalk in the Village) and really got into Pere Ubu and probably have accumulated the largest collection of Ubu-tiques in Michigan...then into a great appreciation for the Art Ensemble of Chciago and other AACM bands...
...which led to putting myself through a self-taught Masters of Jazz appreciation program in the early 90's thanks to the local NPR station, WBLV, which led to getting into Ken Vandermark and the incredible Chicago new music scene and catching many of the bands including Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet on tour...
Oh yeah, one thing led to a mother, my wife, then two brilliant daughters the oldest of which heads to Ann Arbor this fall...both into music as band geeks and appreciators of what is hip...
Now days I sing "Non-Alignment Pact" to my fellow trout bums on the banks of certain trout waters in upper Michigan, and when I'm nervous walking out of the river bottoms late at night I find myself whistling the first eight bars of Miles' "Walkin' "...over and over...it's been a great ride so far...
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