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  5. songs about secrelty loving someone and not being

    in Questions and Answers

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    I always found the best song about loving someone from a distance was "My Eyes Adored You" by Fankie Valli and the Four Seasons. I'm biased, though, because that was popular when I had my first crush. Probably 11-12 years old. Had no clue what girls were for, but I knew it wasn't just playing right field when we were short players.

    Anyway, it's a wonderful song, and it always makes me smile when I hear it. It used to crush me, though, back in the 70's.

  7. Looking for the latest Metal recommendations

    in Get the Word Out

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    I think my favorite album is a combination of those.

    Sometimes I like Piece of Mind best, then it'll be Number, then Powerslave, etc.

    One of the best shows I've ever seen was at Hammerlien (sp?) Hall in Germany. Motley Crue opended for them. Ity was like a big gymnasium, not seats. Well, my army buddies went in there about 8 strong and just gorillaed (is that a word?) our way to the front.

    Had my hands right one the stage. It was beautiful. When Crue was done, they came and did their bow, and Tommy Lee bent over and handed me his Heinekin. If I knew about STD back then, I probably would have thought twice about drinking it.

    Anyway, there's a big fight between acts, the whole crowd moving like the ocean, but we all hung tough. You get to the stage, you stay there, no matter what. So, the fight dies down, and next thing, a tap on my shoulder. Me and my buddy turn around, and there's this girl with aleopard skin body spandex thing on, holding a giant cup of beer. She had obviously used her, shall we say, womanly charm and worked her way to the stage.

    So she doesn't speak english, we don't speak german, but it's obvious, she wants us to let her in front of us, to get to the stage. "Yea, right.", and we turn our backs on her. I mean, this is Maiden, man, like, 10 minutes away.

    So she offers up her big cup of beer to let her in front of us, so we accept.

    Then the lights go down, smoke rolls out....Churchill begins, and suddenly, I'm in the midst of Aces High, with Dickinson and Steve Harris so close, I can see that Bruce Dickinson has double knots tied in his boots. I mean we were right there,man. So, anyway, after three songs, we decided she had got her cup of beer's worth, and we tossed her up on stage. A roadie came and hauled her off, and we had our spot back. Gentlemanly? No. But this was Maiden, man.

    Anyway, I came out of that show with a Tommy Lee beer bottle, a Nicko McBrain drumstick, (used, and that's important), and an Adrian Smith sweat band. Oh, and I also high fived with Dickinson maybe 1/2 dozen times. He's walk along the egde of the stage and high five everyone.

    I lost the sweat band in the train station, I guess while pulling off my sweatshirt. I don't know what happened to the beer bottle. Any I bestowed my Nicko drumstick to my youngest brother, when he discovered Maiden. He's 28 now, and still displays it proudly in his office.

  12. Looking for the latest Metal recommendations

    in Get the Word Out

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    Is that the one that has Rime of the Ancient Mariner on it? One of their more truer masterpieces, I find it more convenient to type this out & ask, then to get up and dig it out to find out :laughing:

    Yes. It's actually a poem by Samuel Coleridge. It's quite an epic. I got the book (yes, book), complete with illustrations and side bars. It's a wonderfully eerie story.

    Wow, this is great. I mention Iron Maiden, and come back an hour later to see them being dicussed. I stopped listening to them for a while, right after Seventh Son. I thought they were getting a little "Synthy". I just recently went back to check on them, and Dickinson has been back for 2 albums, and I'll tell you my friends, it's pure, old school Maiden. Their latest is called Brave New World, and it's an ass kicker.

    Still love the old stuff best, though.

    Flight of Icarus

    The Prisoner

    Los'fer Words

    Flash of the Blade

    Sun And Steel

    Hallowed be thy Name :rockon: YES!

    Still Life

    Iron Maiden

    Two Minutes to Midnight

    Aces High

    Oh, man, I could go on and on.

  17. Worst band ever live.

    in Concerts

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    The Fabulous Thunderbirds were very boring live. Might as well have been mannequins with speakers in their stomachs.

    I saw them open for Stevie Ray Vaughan. They weren't bad, I suppose. Of course, anyone playing opposite SRV would be a pale comparison, anyway. Jimmy did come out and do a few tunes with his baby brother, though.

    I miss Stevie Ray :(

  20. All about Halloween!

    in Random Thoughts

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    Sadly, my kids are at the cusp of their teenage years, so Halloween won't be as much fun for me in a few years.

    They've already informed me that I'm Santa Claus, so the jig is up there, as well.

    Oh well, I've had a pretty good run of 10 years, living vicariously through the eyes of my children.

    Oh, sorry to hijack, but just the thought of only a few more years of trick or treating made me meloncholy for the days when I brought a wagon along and would have to pull the kids home because "Daddy, I'm tired".

    Now I'll have a dormant period while waiting for grandchildren.

  24. Movies you don't get...

    in Movies and TV

    Posted

    I don't get how horrible drek like Cocktail ever gets a-go-go from Hollywood producers. Here's some more:

    Road House with Patrick Swayze (what the hell?!)

    Days Of Thunder: You know that a Jerry Bruckheimer movie with an orange and black poster will earn big bucks, but it still doesn't deter from the fact this is about a nonsport joke called NASCAR :jester:

    Navy Seals: For the same obvious reasons that it was pointed out in Clerks :beatnik:

    You're not seeing the forest for the trees. Those trees being Tom Cruise and Patrick Swayze. That's how those movies got the go-go from Hollywood execs. Blissfully, I have not seen any of the aforementioned movies.

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