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On 4/23/2016 5:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> I have passion for lots of music, but not Prince's.

So why is it necessary for you to blurt that out right after his death?

How ****ing self-absorbed are YOU that every damned thing that is said
here has to mesh with YOUR preferences?

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On 4/23/2016 5:11 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-04-23 5:19 PM, Je�us wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 07:27:40 -0300, wrote:
>>
>>> Ditto. I recall all the fuss at the time of Purple Rain and his
>>> announcement that in future he would be known just as 'Prince'
>>
>> I think his various names throughout his career went something like:
>>
>> Prince Rogers
>> Prince
>> Symbol
>> The Artist Formerly Known as Prince
>> Prince
>>
>>
>
>
> That sequence of name changes seems to indicate more of a flamboyant
> need for attention than talent and popularity.
>

Since you have the capacity to comprehend neither, shut your fat
cakehole, hoser.

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On 4/23/2016 5:15 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-04-23 5:32 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 4/23/2016 8:47 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> I know that there were a number of celebrity deaths that shocked and
>>> disappointed me. There was a sense of loss. But to make a pilgrimage
>>> and sit around sobbing like they had just lost a family member? There
>>> is something wrong with those people.
>>>
>> You mean like the people who flock to Graceland every year on Elvis
>> Presley's birthday or the anniversary of his death? Nearly 40 years
>> later people are still camping out, wringing their hands and crying over
>> him.
>>
>>
>
> Yep. The fact that it is almost 40 years and they are still upset over
> his death is clear evidence that they have a a few loose screws.
>
When it comes to "loose screws" you're a virtual hardware store of
chaotic non-sorts!

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On 4/23/2016 5:19 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-04-23 6:08 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> lucretiaborgia wrote:
>
>>> If I think great guitarist, I think Segovia or John Williams - they
>>> really had to play, no electrics making it easy for them!
>>
>> Precisely. Electric guitars are to music what paint by numbers is to
>> art. Nowadays with modern electronics electric guitars and keyboards
>> can be programed to play every note, those hotshot so-called musicians
>> may as well be lip syncing. Many of the rockers are all about
>> costume, hair, piercings, and tats.
>>
>
>
> Baalderdash. As a guitar player I can tell you that it can be more
> difficult to play an electric guitar well than an acoustic. The pickups
> and amplification also magnify mistakes.

Finally.

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On 4/23/2016 6:23 PM, Je�us wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 07:03:20 +1000, Bruce© >
> wrote:
>
>> The fact remains that we have a choice. We can live perfectly well
>> without eating meat.
>
> That implies eating more plants. In what way - aside from a human
> emotional perspective - is that preferable environmentally or
> otherwise? I prefer the impartial and logical attitude of nature
> myself.
>

It takes a lot of plants for animals to convert the nutritional portion
to a pound of meat. Not really very efficient. Pork is closer to
factory made than farm made the way the animals are bred, fed, and
processed and they generate many tons of waste. The ponds of animal
wast nears the farms save been serious problems at time because of leaks
and contamination.

If the world was 100% vegetarian it would be cleaner and healthier, but
knowing all of that, I still like a nice steak.

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On 2016-04-23 6:19 PM, Je�us wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:11:38 -0300, wrote:
>
>> If I think great guitarist, I think Segovia or John Williams - they
>> really had to play, no electrics making it easy for them!
>
> Electrics makes it easier??? That's news to me.
>


Electric does not make it easier. It amplifies mistakes as well as
amplifying the volume. However, it also allows the player to alter the
sound of the instrument. The switches and controllers on the guitar,
combined with the controls on the amp allow for a wide range of sounds.
Good guitarists know who to use those effects to make the instrument sing.

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On 2016-04-23 6:45 PM, Je�us wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:32:25 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
>
>> Yes, we can. Since we have a choice though, mine is going to be a steak
>> tomorrow. A 1 1/4" thick rib eye. Baked potato, salad, bottle of wine.
>
> I love a good steak, but I have never liked thick steaks like that.
> IMO they cannot be cooked how I like a steak due to the thickness.
>


You must like steaks cooked differently than I do. I like them nice and
thick so they can be well seared on the outside and then have a range of
doneness with a raw streak in the middle.

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On 2016-04-23 7:14 PM, Je�us wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:11:45 -0400, Dave Smith

>> That sequence of name changes seems to indicate more of a flamboyant
>> need for attention than talent and popularity.
>
> I always thought it was silly, self indulgent and pretentious... but
> whatever. Mainstream popular music is full of that, especially these
> days. He was still very talented, regardless.
>


I am not questioning his talent. It just wasn't my cup of tea,

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On Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 4:06:04 PM UTC-6, onglet wrote:
> On 4/23/2016 3:02 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
> >>>> All of music is crap, if you posit it just right.
> >>>
> >>> I wouldn't know. I don't find music entertaining. I don't listen to
> >>> music.
> >>
> >> Spare us your opionion about Prince or any other musician then.
> >
> > I don't care about his music, but as a living being he valued his life
> > less
>
>
> You have not the SLIGHTEST clue what was going on inside HIS body and
> HIS head, you worthless little insect.
>
> You best bugger off this group because I will RUIN the rest of your days
> here!

So a person can't express his thought or opinion about anything without you jumping on him/her...is that right?
You frickin' hypocrite...what makes your opinion better than others who express themselves?
Threatening people with your fiery retribution...how gauche...how totally juvenile. Even you should know better than to try and stifle debate...after all your country prides itself on the ability to speak freely.
====

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On 4/23/2016 5:27 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> I see no reason to idolize Elvis, much less make an annual pilgrimage
> all these years later.
>
> Jill

So who's ASKING you to?

****ing get over yourself!

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On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:15:48 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2016-04-23 5:32 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 4/23/2016 8:47 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> I know that there were a number of celebrity deaths that shocked and
>>> disappointed me. There was a sense of loss. But to make a pilgrimage
>>> and sit around sobbing like they had just lost a family member? There
>>> is something wrong with those people.
>>>
>> You mean like the people who flock to Graceland every year on Elvis
>> Presley's birthday or the anniversary of his death? Nearly 40 years
>> later people are still camping out, wringing their hands and crying over
>> him.
>
>Yep. The fact that it is almost 40 years and they are still upset over
>his death is clear evidence that they have a a few loose screws.

He was quite an asshole too, if you factor in his hypocritical
personal views.

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On 4/23/2016 5:40 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> You must like steaks cooked differently than I do.

Wow, you think?!?!?!

I mean good grief, it IS all about YOU, innit?

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On 4/23/2016 5:41 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> I am not questioning his talent. It just wasn't my cup of tea,

How many Goddamned times are you going to repeat that?

F_U_C_K O_F_F!!

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On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:32:00 -0400, S Viemeister
> wrote:

>On 4/23/2016 7:03 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> Bruce© > wrote:
>>> On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 08:38:06 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
>>>> I wonder if you can grate carrots with a guitar?
>>>
>>> Lay it on the strings and hit it?
>>
>> Yeah, punk rock style.
>>
>You could make noodles with a guitar... pasta alla guitarra.

Hah, you might have stumbled onto something there.
Sell your idea to the Hard Rock Cafe :)

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On 2016-04-23 23:36:49 +0000, Dave Smith said:

> On 2016-04-23 6:19 PM, Je�us wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:11:38 -0300, wrote:
>>
>>> If I think great guitarist, I think Segovia or John Williams - they
>>> really had to play, no electrics making it easy for them!
>>
>> Electrics makes it easier??? That's news to me.
>
> Electric does not make it easier. It amplifies mistakes as well as
> amplifying the volume. However, it also allows the player to alter the
> sound of the instrument. The switches and controllers on the guitar,
> combined with the controls on the amp allow for a wide range of sounds.
> Good guitarists know who to use those effects to make the instrument
> sing.

On the other hand, as a life long player, I have in recent years
stopped playing nylon-string as well as acoustic and archtop guitars
and settled on a solid-body electric. I can make the action very low
on the solid-body and the amoung of force needed to keep strings
fretted and for wide stretches is vastly easier on the wrist. In this
respect anyway, an electric is easier than a nylon or acoustic guitar:
tension. You can put very light gauge strings on these, but then you
lose all of its acoustic character.

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On 2016-04-23 23:19:14 +0000, Dave Smith said:

> On 2016-04-23 6:08 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> lucretiaborgia wrote:
>
>>> If I think great guitarist, I think Segovia or John Williams - they
>>> really had to play, no electrics making it easy for them!
>>
>> Precisely. Electric guitars are to music what paint by numbers is to
>> art. Nowadays with modern electronics electric guitars and keyboards
>> can be programed to play every note, those hotshot so-called musicians
>> may as well be lip syncing. Many of the rockers are all about
>> costume, hair, piercings, and tats.
>>
>
>
> Baalderdash. As a guitar player I can tell you that it can be more
> difficult to play an electric guitar well than an acoustic. The pickups
> and amplification also magnify mistakes.

Balderdash out of Brooklyn1? Is there any other else that comes out?

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On 4/23/2016 5:42 PM, Roy wrote:
> On Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 4:06:04 PM UTC-6, onglet wrote:
>> On 4/23/2016 3:02 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>>>>>> All of music is crap, if you posit it just right.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wouldn't know. I don't find music entertaining. I don't listen to
>>>>> music.
>>>>
>>>> Spare us your opionion about Prince or any other musician then.
>>>
>>> I don't care about his music, but as a living being he valued his life
>>> less
>>
>>
>> You have not the SLIGHTEST clue what was going on inside HIS body and
>> HIS head, you worthless little insect.
>>
>> You best bugger off this group because I will RUIN the rest of your days
>> here!
>
> So a person can't express his thought or opinion about anything without you jumping on him/her...is that right?

A person can't go off on a man who just died for NO good reason and get
away with it, period.

Don't like it, watch what you get!

> You frickin' hypocrite...what makes your opinion better than others who express themselves?

It's an INFORMED opinion.

I know the man, his music, his personal story, his succeses and failures.

AND I know music.

Sheldumb has admitted he doesn't even like music.

Nuff said!

> Threatening people with your fiery retribution...how gauche...how totally juvenile.

Oh boo ****ing hoo, you'll come limping back to me when I'm done with
you too, meatcutter.

> Even you should know better than to try and stifle debate...

There was no "debate".

That actually requires some informed discussion from the other party,
and we know that was impossible.

> after all your country prides itself on the ability to speak freely.
> ====

I just did!

Btw, Canuckleheads are real mouth-organs when it comes to OUR nation's
business.

Kindly **** off and mind your own walk-in freezer, eh mate!

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On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:36:49 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2016-04-23 6:19 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:11:38 -0300, wrote:
>>
>>> If I think great guitarist, I think Segovia or John Williams - they
>>> really had to play, no electrics making it easy for them!
>>
>> Electrics makes it easier??? That's news to me.
>
>Electric does not make it easier. It amplifies mistakes as well as
>amplifying the volume. However, it also allows the player to alter the
>sound of the instrument. The switches and controllers on the guitar,
>combined with the controls on the amp allow for a wide range of sounds.
>Good guitarists know who to use those effects to make the instrument sing.

Agreed. I can think of a few guitarists that do not/cannot make their
fingers fly up and down the fret board like some sort of finger
gymnast (which for some people is the benchmark for talent), but can
make their guitar express all sorts of emotions and sing beautifully.

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On 4/23/2016 5:45 PM, Je�us wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:15:48 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2016-04-23 5:32 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 4/23/2016 8:47 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I know that there were a number of celebrity deaths that shocked and
>>>> disappointed me. There was a sense of loss. But to make a pilgrimage
>>>> and sit around sobbing like they had just lost a family member? There
>>>> is something wrong with those people.
>>>>
>>> You mean like the people who flock to Graceland every year on Elvis
>>> Presley's birthday or the anniversary of his death? Nearly 40 years
>>> later people are still camping out, wringing their hands and crying over
>>> him.
>>
>> Yep. The fact that it is almost 40 years and they are still upset over
>> his death is clear evidence that they have a a few loose screws.
>
> He was quite an asshole too, if you factor in his hypocritical
> personal views.
>

Imagine, a human being with contradictions!

Wow.

First one?

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On 2016-04-23 23:02:32 +0000, Dave Smith said:

> On 2016-04-23 5:13 PM, gtr wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:25:43 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I just don't understand grown up people getting all broken up over his
>>> death.
>>
>> It's hard to explain something so simple. Most humans associate
>> significant events with the music that overlaid it. Of course there
>> hasn't really been much popular song in the past 15-20 years, but its
>> still there, even if it doesn't appeal to people our age. Pop artists
>> provide this background for times and places with most people. They
>> grow up with it, they *identify* with the artists of their youth. When
>> they broke up with a high-school love, they listened to an "I broke up"
>> song on a few albums. When they fell in love, or got a first kiss, or
>> more, they listened to, or noted the current "I fell in love" song
>> because it was playing on their radio at the time. There was a kind of
>> magnetism that happened. Sometimes even with artists you didn't
>> otherwise care for.
>>
>> So when they die, these people they felt they knew, it provides this
>> feeling of sadness and of grief. It's difficult to explain sadness and
>> grief for people who don't understand it, but it can be a painful thing.
>
>
> Or... they have just invested too much of themselves into an image they
> associate with.

"Too much" is a matter of personal psychology. I would be devastated if
I lost any of those closest to me; I've invested too much of myself in
them all.

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On 2016-04-23 21:31:38 +0000, Bruce� said:

> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 14:17:55 -0700, gtr > wrote:
>
>> On 2016-04-23 10:41:12 +0000, Bruce ? said:
>>
>>> People were reacting even more strongly to Bowie dying. They're iconic
>>> people whether you're a fan or not. Maybe rfc is too old to appreciate
>>> Prince.
>>
>> I think that's true, but there is a certain type of people that take
>> pleasure in ****ing on a singer, politician, writer, celebrity on their
>> passing. It's a casual spite thing, and likely a show of their
>> inability to connect with the feelings of others.
>>
>> If you really *hated* Prince's music--as for instance I really *hated*
>> the evil of "Fat Tony" Scalia--then when he dies you take some pleasure
>> in ****ing on his grave. But if you don't even know his music, and
>> when you dismissed it did so with almost no passion at all, then it's
>> really just social ineptitude.
>
> Yes, if the person and their music didn't mean anything to you,
> there's always the option of just shutting up when they die.

There you go: The polite way.

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On 2016-04-23 7:50 PM, gtr wrote:
> On 2016-04-23 23:36:49 +0000, Dave Smith said:

>> Electric does not make it easier. It amplifies mistakes as well as
>> amplifying the volume. However, it also allows the player to alter
>> the sound of the instrument. The switches and controllers on the
>> guitar, combined with the controls on the amp allow for a wide range
>> of sounds. Good guitarists know who to use those effects to make the
>> instrument sing.
>
> On the other hand, as a life long player, I have in recent years stopped
> playing nylon-string as well as acoustic and archtop guitars and settled
> on a solid-body electric. I can make the action very low on the
> solid-body and the amoung of force needed to keep strings fretted and
> for wide stretches is vastly easier on the wrist. In this respect
> anyway, an electric is easier than a nylon or acoustic guitar: tension.
> You can put very light gauge strings on these, but then you lose all of
> its acoustic character.
>


I don't think that the playability of an instrument with lighter gauge
strings and a lower action is what they meant about the electric guitar
being easier to play.

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On 4/23/2016 5:50 PM, gtr wrote:
> On 2016-04-23 23:19:14 +0000, Dave Smith said:
>
>> On 2016-04-23 6:08 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>> lucretiaborgia wrote:
>>
>>>> If I think great guitarist, I think Segovia or John Williams - they
>>>> really had to play, no electrics making it easy for them!
>>>
>>> Precisely. Electric guitars are to music what paint by numbers is to
>>> art. Nowadays with modern electronics electric guitars and keyboards
>>> can be programed to play every note, those hotshot so-called musicians
>>> may as well be lip syncing. Many of the rockers are all about
>>> costume, hair, piercings, and tats.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Baalderdash. As a guitar player I can tell you that it can be more
>> difficult to play an electric guitar well than an acoustic. The
>> pickups and amplification also magnify mistakes.
>
> Balderdash out of Brooklyn1? Is there any other else that comes out?
>
Yes.

hatred

lies

bluster

braggodocio

intolerance

derision

provincialism

uncouth remarks

photos


....I miss anything?

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On 2016-04-23 23:09:41 +0000, Dave Smith said:

> On 2016-04-23 5:17 PM, gtr wrote:
>> On 2016-04-23 10:41:12 +0000, Bruce � said:
>>
>>> People were reacting even more strongly to Bowie dying. They're iconic
>>> people whether you're a fan or not. Maybe rfc is too old to appreciate
>>> Prince.
>>
>> I think that's true, but there is a certain type of people that take
>> pleasure in ****ing on a singer, politician, writer, celebrity on their
>> passing. It's a casual spite thing, and likely a show of their
>> inability to connect with the feelings of others.
>>
>> If you really *hated* Prince's music--as for instance I really *hated*
>> the evil of "Fat Tony" Scalia--then when he dies you take some pleasure
>> in ****ing on his grave. But if you don't even know his music, and when
>> you dismissed it did so with almost no passion at all, then it's really
>> just social ineptitude.
>>
>>
> I am one of the old farts in the group. I wished him no ill will, but I
> was never a fan of is music. It stands to reason that I never
> understood his popularity. I don't really know his music. I heard some
> of his most famous songs and they did nothing for me. That is different
> from saying I hated it. I have passion for lots of music, but not
> Prince's.

I can sympathize completely with your experience. Three weeks ago or
three months from now, your assessment would be a lot more appropriate.

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On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:34:58 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 4/23/2016 6:23 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 07:03:20 +1000, Bruce© >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The fact remains that we have a choice. We can live perfectly well
>>> without eating meat.
>>
>> That implies eating more plants. In what way - aside from a human
>> emotional perspective - is that preferable environmentally or
>> otherwise? I prefer the impartial and logical attitude of nature
>> myself.
>>
>
>It takes a lot of plants for animals to convert the nutritional portion
>to a pound of meat. Not really very efficient. Pork is closer to
>factory made than farm made the way the animals are bred, fed, and
>processed and they generate many tons of waste. The ponds of animal
>wast nears the farms save been serious problems at time because of leaks
>and contamination.
>
>If the world was 100% vegetarian it would be cleaner and healthier, but
>knowing all of that, I still like a nice steak.

I must have been through this particular debate a thousand times by
now, there's many holes in your theory and all I'll add to that is I
disagree with your point of view.

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On 4/23/2016 5:53 PM, gtr wrote:
> On 2016-04-23 21:31:38 +0000, Bruce� said:
>
>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 14:17:55 -0700, gtr > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2016-04-23 10:41:12 +0000, Bruce ? said:
>>>
>>>> People were reacting even more strongly to Bowie dying. They're iconic
>>>> people whether you're a fan or not. Maybe rfc is too old to appreciate
>>>> Prince.
>>>
>>> I think that's true, but there is a certain type of people that take
>>> pleasure in ****ing on a singer, politician, writer, celebrity on their
>>> passing. It's a casual spite thing, and likely a show of their
>>> inability to connect with the feelings of others.
>>>
>>> If you really *hated* Prince's music--as for instance I really *hated*
>>> the evil of "Fat Tony" Scalia--then when he dies you take some pleasure
>>> in ****ing on his grave. But if you don't even know his music, and
>>> when you dismissed it did so with almost no passion at all, then it's
>>> really just social ineptitude.
>>
>> Yes, if the person and their music didn't mean anything to you,
>> there's always the option of just shutting up when they die.
>
> There you go: The polite way.
>
The antithesis of RFC.

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On 4/23/2016 7:00 PM, Bruce� wrote:

>>
>> It does to a degree, but I can't think of any sought after species
>> that are not endangered.
>
> Farmed fish?
>

Not endangered, but not healthy either. I won't eat farmed.

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On 4/23/2016 5:55 PM, Bruce� wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:41:53 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2016-04-23 7:14 PM, Je?us wrote:
>>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:11:45 -0400, Dave Smith
>>
>>>> That sequence of name changes seems to indicate more of a flamboyant
>>>> need for attention than talent and popularity.
>>>
>>> I always thought it was silly, self indulgent and pretentious... but
>>> whatever. Mainstream popular music is full of that, especially these
>>> days. He was still very talented, regardless.
>>>
>> I am not questioning his talent. It just wasn't my cup of tea,
>
> You need a whole lot of words to get that simple message across.
>
The DRONE never ends, he is a monument to his own preferences.

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On 2016-04-23 23:14:17 +0000, Jeßus said:

> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:11:45 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2016-04-23 5:19 PM, Je?us wrote:
>>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 07:27:40 -0300, wrote:
>>>> Ditto. I recall all the fuss at the time of Purple Rain and his
>>>> announcement that in future he would be known just as 'Prince'
>>>
>>> I think his various names throughout his career went something like:
>>>
>>> Prince Rogers
>>> Prince
>>> Symbol
>>> The Artist Formerly Known as Prince
>>> Prince
>>
>> That sequence of name changes seems to indicate more of a flamboyant
>> need for attention than talent and popularity.
>
> I always thought it was silly, self indulgent and pretentious... but
> whatever. Mainstream popular music is full of that, especially these
> days. He was still very talented, regardless.

Silly, flamboyant, pretentious, self-indulgent. It's amazing how easy
it is to mischaracterize things when you don't understand them. Just
like transgender folks apparently have been modifying their lives and
bodies so they can victimize children in bathrooms--who knew!?

The symbol and the phrase "Artist Formerly Known as Prince", was a
result of his record company, Warner Bros, taking his name,
trademarking it, so he was no longer legally allowed to use the name
"Prince". Somehow or other after a decade or more, he managed to get
it back.

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On 4/23/2016 5:58 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 4/23/2016 7:00 PM, Bruce� wrote:
>
>>>
>>> It does to a degree, but I can't think of any sought after species
>>> that are not endangered.
>>
>> Farmed fish?
>>
>
> Not endangered, but not healthy either. I won't eat farmed.

Many are plenty healthy, it all depends on how and where and which species.

The Chilean steelhead is extremely tasty and safe.

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onglet > wrote:
> On 4/23/2016 12:11 PM, jinx the minx wrote:
>> Brooklyn1 > wrote:
>>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 09:54:38 -0600, onglet > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/23/2016 7:47 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>> Now they have a sort of roadside shrine in honour of the the victims who
>>>>> were the authors of their own demise.
>>>>
>>>> And those who were NOT!
>>>>
>>>> Damn you are a total assbag!
>>>
>>> As though Prince didn't arrange for his own demise, he was a Percoset
>>> addict.
>>>
>>
>> You don't know that.
>>
>
> Think - how would he have arranged for his own degenerative hip
> condition AND written himself prescriptions?
>
> Of COURSE Shelly doesn't know that, or as in so many instances, much of
> anything.
>
> He went off on the man because he's a lonely old fart with a drinking
> problem and some considerable envy.
>
> He does this to get attention here, and sadly in the bully fish tank
> that rfc is, he gets it.
>
>

Prince lived 20 minutes from my house. For those of us here in Minnesota,
he wasn't some messed up druggie rockstar as the old shits here would like
to think. He was a valued, charitable member of the community. A hometown
boy that stayed true to his roots. It was not uncommon to run into him out
and about, but I never got the pleasure of that experience. Say what you
will about his music, but he was far more than just a guitar player. He
could play 27 instruments (self taught--he played all the instruments on
his first album himself) and he was a prolific song writer, writing and
producing albums for some of today's top performers. The guy was not a
mass produced product of a music label, he made his own way to the top on
his own merit. You don't have to like his music, but if you don't
recognize his talent, then you haven't even tried.

--
jinx the minx

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On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:40:16 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2016-04-23 6:45 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:32:25 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, we can. Since we have a choice though, mine is going to be a steak
>>> tomorrow. A 1 1/4" thick rib eye. Baked potato, salad, bottle of wine.
>>
>> I love a good steak, but I have never liked thick steaks like that.
>> IMO they cannot be cooked how I like a steak due to the thickness.
>
>You must like steaks cooked differently than I do. I like them nice and
>thick so they can be well seared on the outside and then have a range of
>doneness with a raw streak in the middle.

I think it's the 'raw streak' you mention that I object to. I find it
difficult to cook a steak any thicker than say ½" and get it just how
I want it... which is nicely seared *to the right thickness* on the
outside and medium-rare inside... without that raw streak and
*without* too much unrendered fat.

That's not to say I like steak much thinner than ½" either...

I like steak Tartare, so it's not merely that I don't like raw meat,
as such.

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On 4/23/2016 7:45 PM, Je�us wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:15:48 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2016-04-23 5:32 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 4/23/2016 8:47 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I know that there were a number of celebrity deaths that shocked and
>>>> disappointed me. There was a sense of loss. But to make a pilgrimage
>>>> and sit around sobbing like they had just lost a family member? There
>>>> is something wrong with those people.
>>>>
>>> You mean like the people who flock to Graceland every year on Elvis
>>> Presley's birthday or the anniversary of his death? Nearly 40 years
>>> later people are still camping out, wringing their hands and crying over
>>> him.
>>
>> Yep. The fact that it is almost 40 years and they are still upset over
>> his death is clear evidence that they have a a few loose screws.
>
> He was quite an asshole too, if you factor in his hypocritical
> personal views.
>
I never paid much attention to Elvis or his personal views. Celebrities
hold very little interest for me. Elvis was a bloated, drug-addicted
fool at the time of his death. I didn't see much to admire there, much
less hero worship.

Jill

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On 4/23/2016 6:00 PM, gtr wrote:
> On 2016-04-23 23:14:17 +0000, Jeßus said:
>
>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:11:45 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2016-04-23 5:19 PM, Je?us wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 07:27:40 -0300, wrote:
>>>>> Ditto. I recall all the fuss at the time of Purple Rain and his
>>>>> announcement that in future he would be known just as 'Prince'
>>>>
>>>> I think his various names throughout his career went something like:
>>>>
>>>> Prince Rogers
>>>> Prince
>>>> Symbol
>>>> The Artist Formerly Known as Prince
>>>> Prince
>>>
>>> That sequence of name changes seems to indicate more of a flamboyant
>>> need for attention than talent and popularity.
>>
>> I always thought it was silly, self indulgent and pretentious... but
>> whatever. Mainstream popular music is full of that, especially these
>> days. He was still very talented, regardless.
>
> Silly, flamboyant, pretentious, self-indulgent. It's amazing how easy
> it is to mischaracterize things when you don't understand them. Just
> like transgender folks apparently have been modifying their lives and
> bodies so they can victimize children in bathrooms--who knew!?
>
> The symbol and the phrase "Artist Formerly Known as Prince", was a
> result of his record company, Warner Bros, taking his name, trademarking
> it, so he was no longer legally allowed to use the name "Prince".
> Somehow or other after a decade or more, he managed to get it back.
>

Thereby becoming the Lou Brock of the musical world!

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On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:42:49 -0700 (PDT), Roy >
wrote:

>So a person can't express his thought or opinion about anything without you jumping on him/her...is that right?
>You frickin' hypocrite...what makes your opinion better than others who express themselves?
>Threatening people with your fiery retribution...how gauche...how totally juvenile. Even you should know better than to try and stifle debate...after all your country prides itself on the ability to speak freely.

And yet currently we have at least a dozen regulars replying to the
idiot. They clearly want him to be a part of our group, you included.
So either stop whining about him or stop encouraging him.

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On 4/23/2016 6:02 PM, jinx the minx wrote:
> onglet > wrote:
>> On 4/23/2016 12:11 PM, jinx the minx wrote:
>>> Brooklyn1 > wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 09:54:38 -0600, onglet > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 4/23/2016 7:47 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>> Now they have a sort of roadside shrine in honour of the the victims who
>>>>>> were the authors of their own demise.
>>>>>
>>>>> And those who were NOT!
>>>>>
>>>>> Damn you are a total assbag!
>>>>
>>>> As though Prince didn't arrange for his own demise, he was a Percoset
>>>> addict.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You don't know that.
>>>
>>
>> Think - how would he have arranged for his own degenerative hip
>> condition AND written himself prescriptions?
>>
>> Of COURSE Shelly doesn't know that, or as in so many instances, much of
>> anything.
>>
>> He went off on the man because he's a lonely old fart with a drinking
>> problem and some considerable envy.
>>
>> He does this to get attention here, and sadly in the bully fish tank
>> that rfc is, he gets it.
>>
>>
>
> Prince lived 20 minutes from my house.

Wow.

> For those of us here in Minnesota,
> he wasn't some messed up druggie rockstar as the old shits here would like
> to think. He was a valued, charitable member of the community. A hometown
> boy that stayed true to his roots.

That's just as I've read it told too, thank you.

> It was not uncommon to run into him out
> and about, but I never got the pleasure of that experience. Say what you
> will about his music, but he was far more than just a guitar player. He
> could play 27 instruments (self taught--he played all the instruments on
> his first album himself) and he was a prolific song writer, writing and
> producing albums for some of today's top performers. The guy was not a
> mass produced product of a music label, he made his own way to the top on
> his own merit. You don't have to like his music, but if you don't
> recognize his talent, then you haven't even tried.

And let's not forget what a generous and gracious mentor he was to so
many female artists.

He deeply cared for and respected women and would tolerate no ill
behavior to ward them.

Thanks again for the local insight.

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On 4/23/2016 6:06 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> Elvis was a bloated, drug-addicted fool at the time of his death.

You're actually using Prince's death to pile on Elvis?!?!???

WTF is wrong in YOUR head?

This group is SICK!

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On 2016-04-23 23:53:49 +0000, Dave Smith said:

> On 2016-04-23 7:50 PM, gtr wrote:
>> On 2016-04-23 23:36:49 +0000, Dave Smith said:
>
>>> Electric does not make it easier. It amplifies mistakes as well as
>>> amplifying the volume. However, it also allows the player to alter
>>> the sound of the instrument. The switches and controllers on the
>>> guitar, combined with the controls on the amp allow for a wide range
>>> of sounds. Good guitarists know who to use those effects to make the
>>> instrument sing.
>>
>> On the other hand, as a life long player, I have in recent years stopped
>> playing nylon-string as well as acoustic and archtop guitars and settled
>> on a solid-body electric. I can make the action very low on the
>> solid-body and the amoung of force needed to keep strings fretted and
>> for wide stretches is vastly easier on the wrist. In this respect
>> anyway, an electric is easier than a nylon or acoustic guitar: tension.
>> You can put very light gauge strings on these, but then you lose all of
>> its acoustic character.
>>
>
>
> I don't think that the playability of an instrument with lighter gauge
> strings and a lower action is what they meant about the electric guitar
> being easier to play.

I understood that, but I thought I'd point out the significant way
(other than volume) that the word "easy" really does apply. Yeah;
probably too obscure to mention if I wasn't obsessive over the process.

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On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 17:00:45 -0700, gtr > wrote:

>On 2016-04-23 23:14:17 +0000, Jeßus said:
>
>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:11:45 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2016-04-23 5:19 PM, Je?us wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 07:27:40 -0300, wrote:
>>>>> Ditto. I recall all the fuss at the time of Purple Rain and his
>>>>> announcement that in future he would be known just as 'Prince'
>>>>
>>>> I think his various names throughout his career went something like:
>>>>
>>>> Prince Rogers
>>>> Prince
>>>> Symbol
>>>> The Artist Formerly Known as Prince
>>>> Prince
>>>
>>> That sequence of name changes seems to indicate more of a flamboyant
>>> need for attention than talent and popularity.
>>
>> I always thought it was silly, self indulgent and pretentious... but
>> whatever. Mainstream popular music is full of that, especially these
>> days. He was still very talented, regardless.
>
>Silly, flamboyant, pretentious, self-indulgent. It's amazing how easy
>it is to mischaracterize things when you don't understand them.

Oh... it's because I 'don't understand' them. Okay.

>Just
>like transgender folks apparently have been modifying their lives and
>bodies so they can victimize children in bathrooms--who knew!?

Umm, yeah.

>The symbol and the phrase "Artist Formerly Known as Prince", was a
>result of his record company, Warner Bros, taking his name,
>trademarking it, so he was no longer legally allowed to use the name
>"Prince". Somehow or other after a decade or more, he managed to get
>it back.

I /know/ that. Jesus...

So he just *had* to choose a name such as 'symbol' and/or 'Artist
Formerly Known as Prince', did he?

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On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 07:19:04 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 07:27:40 -0300, wrote:
>
>>Ditto. I recall all the fuss at the time of Purple Rain and his
>>announcement that in future he would be known just as 'Prince'
>
>I think his various names throughout his career went something like:
>
>Prince Rogers
>Prince
>Symbol
>The Artist Formerly Known as Prince
>Prince
>
Lol, didn't know that, he must have had an identity crisis to say the
least :)