Kanada Kev

Did that ticket not work out from Carla?

Would be interested to hear your take on it if you watch it. I really don't know that much about the metal scene and it's countless sub-genres. I have a metalhead coworker who I ask about stuff. Whether or not one likes/appreciates metal, this doc is worth the time to watch.

Sound started out a bit "thin" but picked up just fine from where I was. Mind you I was 2 rows off the floor just behind the soundboard where the dude controlling the sound was hearing it. I could have used more bottom end at times but it was still present from my seats. Did you try moving around at all? I always do that and then be able to determine if it's the whole house or just a bad pocket that you were stuck in. I was glad I wasn't hearing a "hits" show start to finish. I've had those before and I don't want to hear the same songs every tour. The new album is great and I'm happy they played it. I really don't know what the string section brought to the show. They didn't do it for me. Give me a HORN SECTION to spice it up R U S H Another fantastic live Rush experience. I'm f'in tired today but it was all worth it. I love the way that they incorporate awesome video footage on their massive back screen. Also some really cool ways of displaying the band members as they perfrom. They also do more of those "skits" like a couple of posts above. I was there with my son and a friend of mine with his son. Rush initiation night. I help coach my son's hockey team with this guy. We had to bail on a practice to go to the show. Asking a few other parents to step up and run the practice for us in our absence. We end up running into one of them preshow and he's hanging with one of the musicians who join Rush on stage in the second set. Never would have guessed this dude played violin :::: Three hours. Three incredible musicians. Three hundred dollars spent last night : My kid LOVED the show and can't wait to go to more in the future. He had no problem standing, jammin', playing air guitar/drums/bass for the full 3 hours! And he got up and went to school today. Here's a couple of mediocre pics/vids from last night. Videos: 20121016 Tom Sawyer 20121016 Spirit of Radio Rush Air Canada Centre October 16, 2012 Subdivisions The Big Money Force Ten Grand Designs Middletown Dreams Territories The Analog Kid The Pass Where's My Thing? (With Drum Solo) Far Cry With the Clockwork Angels String Ensemble Caravan Clockwork Angels The Anarchist Carnies The Wreckers Headlong Flight (With Drum Solo) Halo Effect Wish Them Well The Garden Dreamline Drum Solo Red Sector A YYZ The Spirit of Radio Encore: Tom Sawyer 2112 Part I: Overture 2112 Part II: The Temples of Syrinx 2112 Part VII: Grand Finale

Just watched a fantastic documentary last night. I grabbed this one totally on a whim. I'm not a big fan of the underground metal scene, but you don't have to be to enjoy this at all. Amazing story of some fascinating characters. Similar to the Anvil documentary from a couple of years ago, but a bit more heavy and serious. Ollie, you probably know about Pentagram. Give it a try: Last Days Here Plot: Documentary follows Bobby Liebling, lead singer of seminal hard rock/heavy metal band Pentagram, as he battles decades of hard drug addiction and personal demons to try and get his life back. http://www.rlslog.net/last-days-here-2011-limited-dvdrip-xvid-an0nym0us/

Contemplating the line for the pit. Tempted. It may depend on the weather that day too. Nothing wrong with beers in line Damn, missed that drop for my buddy. Oh well. I'm sure there will be more. Thanks for the heads up.

There is no current law in Canada that makes circumventing geoblocks illegal. Breaking a company's TOS is not criminal. You're not getting Netflix, Hulu, etc for FREE by doing this. You still pay them, they happily take the money. Read about it here: http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=151107 I like the analogy: What we are talking about is the electronic equivalent of a Canadian buying something from amazon.com rather than amazon.ca and using a mail forwarding service.

Thanks to you ... I'M IN!!! Preshow puffs & pints?

Told ya so http://www.jambands.ca/sanctuary/showpost.php?post/679508/ Not only does it open up a whole new Netflix universe, and Hulu, Pandora, etc. it also opens up all that contents on US tv broadcast sites. You can watch the extended interviews on The Daily Show!! I haven't renewed my Netflix yet, but will soon. With a 300gig cap now with start.ca (like TekSavvy) I don't have to stress about bandwidth. Absolutely LOVE streaming baseball on MLB.TV too!

Teksavvy and Start.ca are sweet high bandwidth and fast speed at a good price. I use Vonage for phone and Start.ca for internet. No Bell. No Cogeco. No Rogers.

I'm going to try. Was a blast the last time I saw them at Lee's.

Love having playoff ball on the TV at work NHL was supposed to start tonight? Big whoop. PLAY BALL!!!

My tickets are for Tuesday. Hmmmmm ... i'm tempted. Maybe I'll go in on Sunday and see if I can get on the CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP! How varied are the alternating sets?

There are some good seats avail through a Q107 promo right now. I just scored 2 in the second row of Sec 103 for a third off the normal price ($93 instead of $137 and down low). Go to this link and enter Q107 in the promo code. http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/100048AA9BEA6510?did=q107

Agreed. These playoffs have been wonderful so far. Is it me or is there a crazy number of home run balls being snagged by leaping outfielders compared to "normal"?? Looking forward to seeing the Yanks spanked!

LOL ... i'm wayy too tired ... need to go home and :bonghit: :relax: Those Bruce tix are available.

Stoked for the shows in Nov! Here's the Central Park gig; http://www.jambands.ca/sanctuary/showpost.php?post/701257/ Hey phorbesie, just waiting to hear back from that person if that Ottawa ticket will be yours ... fingers crossed.

Can't wait to see Neil again next month. NOTHING like Neil with the Horse. http://bit.ly/Qbf3BJ Neil Young & Crazy Horse - 2012-09-29 Central Park, New York City The headliner was Neil Young with Crazy Horse, the band that has perfected rock as a primordial stomp. Mr. Young’s set was molten and unkempt, yet it had his own kind of finesse. He and Crazy Horse, on their first tour since 2004, often huddled near the center of the stage, bobbing back and forth until their heads nearly touched, and their songs sometimes welled up out of a caldron of drone and distortion. But Mr. Young’s voice was pure and precise, and his lead guitar could peal with straightforward melodies, or scrabble with frenetic intensity, or plunge to grapple with subterranean forces. The set included three songs from Mr. Young’s next album, “Psychedelic Pill,†due Oct. 30, and they were openly autobiographical. “Walk Like a Giant†was also a pithy eulogy for 1960s idealism: “We were ready to save the world,†Mr. Young sang. “Then the weather changed and the white got stained and it fell apart/And it breaks my heart to think about how close we came.†It ended with blast after slow blast of the closing chord, dozens of times, turning into slabs of abstract noise. - NYT mp3@320 Tracklist 1. Love And Only Love 2. Powderfinger 3. Born In Ontario 4. Walk Like A Giant 5. The Needle And The Damage Done 6. Twisted Road 7. F*!#in’ Up 8. Rockin’ In The Free World (w/Dave Grohl and Dan Auerbach) http://bit.ly/Qbf3BJ

Here's a great recap of what these scammers attempt to do. Fun to waste their time: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/i-am-calling-you-from-windows-a-tech-support-scammer-dials-ars-technica/ "I am calling you from Windows": A tech support scammer dials Ars Technica Cold caller from "Windows Technical Support" asks for remote access to my PC.

gotta love Bettye. See her live if you ever get the chance. One of the most powerful voices I have ever experienced live. http://bit.ly/O7WAHA Bettye LaVette – Thankful N’ Thoughtful When most other artists do them, they’re cover versions. But when Bettye LaVette does them, they’re “interpretationsâ€, such is her talent for getting inside a song and extracting a depth of soul and meaning that might even surprise the original artists. In 2010, LaVette put out a collection of renovated British rock numbers. And now it’s the American songbook’s turn, with the notable exception of Ewan MacColl’s Dirty Old Town. It’s here in two versions, of differing intensity, the first being the deepest southern soul that is LaVette’s stock in trade. But the ‘slow version’ is all about a muffled drum riff and minimal guitars, pushing the narrative forward and giving the song new poignancy. Her ability and experience is so great that when this selection of songs is reworked into the kind of southern soul meets contemporary blues she does so gloriously, it’s only Dirty Old Town and The Black Keys’ I’m Not the One that stay within expected parameters. Elsewhere, she finds room to stir in other flavours. Dylan’s Everything Is Broken is appropriately grumbling, livened up (barely) by a few guitar twiddles into gutsy blues-rock. Yesterday Is Here (Tom Waits) takes her to New Orleans and the roots of jazz, while surging organ and delicate guitar work in Time Will Do the Talking (Patty Griffin) transforms it from gentle acoustic to the best Memphis soul Willie Mitchell had nothing to do with. Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy gets the same treatment and almost hits those heights. Neil Young’s Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere takes on a country tinge, and Sly Stone’s title track becomes an intriguingly noodling blues-rocker. Elsewhere, Fair Enough (Beth Nielsen Chapman) is blues as it was perceived in the mid-1970s, Albert King-style. It’s a marvellous, spine-tingling journey around some not-so-obvious American songs, and also a stunning tutorial in different American music styles, strung together by LaVette’s sensuous singing. With each of her albums improving on the last, Thankful N’ Thoughtful continues the upward curve. It is, possibly, the best set of songs she’s ever recorded. - BBC mp3@320 Tracklist 1. Everything is Broken (Bob Dylan) 2. I’m Not the One (Daniel Auerbach/Patrick Carney) 3. Dirty Old Town (Ewan MacColl) 4. The More I Search (The More I Die) (Kim McLean) 5. I’m Tired (Chris Youlden) 6. Crazy (Brian Burton/Thomas Callaway/Gian Piero Reverberi/Gian Franco Reverberi ) 7. Yesterday Is Here (Tom Waits) 8. Thankful N’ Thoughtful (Sly & The Family Stone) 9. Fair Enough (Beth Nielsen Chapman) 10. Time Will Do the Talking (Patty Griffin) 11. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (Neil Young) 12. Dirty Old Town* (slow version) http://bit.ly/O7WAHA

Woohoo!! I'm in for Copps with 2 GA floors :)

I FINALLY got around to watching the fantastic documentary Texas Thunder Soul about the fantastic stage bands that came out of Kashmere HS in the 70s. It's a touching, and musically inspiring, doc and I highly recommend it: Here are the preserved recordings of the band that just blow me away. A bunch of teenagers with this much talent, drive, FUNK AND SOUL!!! http://bit.ly/SXuyRj Kashmere Stage Band - Texas Thunder Soul (1968-1974) “In Houston, Texas, Conrad O. Johnson pursued a lofty goal with his stage band at Kashmere High School, a predominantly black school located in the city’s north end (referred to in Houston as “Kashmere Gardensâ€). He wanted to lead not only the best high school stage band in Texas, but the best high school stage band in the world. Our opinion is that he succeeded, and we’re thankful that he thoroughly documented his band’s progress, so that we can present to you the Kashmere Stage Band’s musical legacy. In the mid ’60s through the ’70s, in Houston’s bustling metropolis, Johnson (known by many as “Prof.â€) made a career of producing leagues of musicians capable of playing competitively with any band in the nation, professional or otherwise. More than simply a product of the big band era (his childhood friends and early musical peers included legends like Illinois Jacquet and Arnette Cobb), Johnson bestowed a living history to his young students. And while many band directors simply tolerated the use of popular rhythms in their stage bands, Johnson embraced the funk movement that enveloped his kids. He encouraged composition – both by writing original funk songs for his band to perform and by allowing the Kashmere Band to play songs written by band members. Never one to succumb to novelty, Johnson didn’t simply throw funk beats beneath a jazz song to please his kids. He instructed his band to play funk because he respected the funk idiom in the same way he respected jazz. Nor did he simply borrow charts from progressive big banders such as Herman, as was common amongst high school bandleaders from the era. He arranged nearly every one of his band’s songs himself, and those that he didn’t arrange he allowed his students to arrange. He worked year-round with his eager charges, constantly pushing the limits as to what their band could accomplish. He built the Kashmere Stage Band from scratch and his winning combination of powerful funk rhythms beneath expertly executed jazz solos quickly influenced those bandleaders directly within his sphere and those he met – and almost always bested – in competitions across the world.†- http://www.nowagainrecords.com mp3@v0 Tracklist CD 1: 01. Boss City 02. Burning Spear 03. Take Five 04. Super Bad 05. Keep Doing It 06. Thunder Soul 07. Do You Dig It, Man? 08. Headwiggle 09. Do Your Thing ** 10. Scorpio ** 11. Thank You ** 12. Al’s Tune 13. All Praises 14. Shaft 15. Kashmere 16. $$ Kash Register $$ 17. Zero Point – Parts 1 & 2 (45 Version) * 18. Getting It Out of My System CD 2: LIVE RECORDINGS (all previously unreleased): 01. Intro 02. Zero Point 03. All Praises / Zero Point (Reprise) 04. Intro 05. Do You Dig It, Man? 06. Don’t Mean a Thing 07. Thank You 08. Ain’t No Sunshine 09. Do You Dig It, Man? 10. All Praises ALTERNATE TAKES: 11. Thank You (45 Version) 12. Zero Point (LP Version) 13. Do Your Thing (Instrumental) 14. Getting It Out of My System * * previously unreleased ** previously unissued extended version Researched & compiled by Eothen ‘Egon’ Alapatt Original recordings produced & arranged by Conrad O. Johnson http://bit.ly/SXuyRj

The sites aren't what you pay for, it's the "premium accounts" on one of the services that you see the links for. Some of the big ones are: Rapidshare.com Megashares.com netload.in Uploaded.net putlocker I really only have experience with the first two and they have been SOLID. All those forums I mentioned in the previous post use these services. If you use Firefox be sure to get the FlashGot and JDownloader plugins. Once you configure those it's so streamlined just clicking on links and getting your content.

Seriously, if you need access to tv, movies, music, books, etc. then it's so much easier to may the nominal fee for a premium membership to one of many download services and then find links on the countless forums out there. Using http for getting files doesn't get throttled the same way that torrents do and isn't dependent upon there being a bunch of people actively sharing. Just that you have a link and a download manager. Also, you don't waste any bandwidth on uploading. Easy. Here are a few sites that I frequent for this sort of thing. http://theextopia.com/ http://www.ddlvalley.eu/ http://rapidmoviez.com/ http://www.rlsbb.com/ http://bolt.cd/ http://tehparadox.com/ http://rlssource.net/ http://tv-release.net/ There are TONS of these out there.

mmmmmmmm-goooooooood http://bit.ly/Vl9402 Garcia & Saunders: Keystone Companions (The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings) The recordings that made up the original Live at Keystone albums by Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, John Kahn, and Bill Vitt took place over two nights in July of 1973. The band had been playing a regular gig at the famed San Francisco venue for some time, but it was here that it gelled. Their program was a wide range of covers from Jimmy Cliff’s “The Harder They Come†to Motown numbers, Bob Dylan songs, jazz standards, and even a wholly improvised jam. Recorded by the Grateful Dead’s sound engineers Betty Cantor and Rex Jackson, the first release was issued in late 1973, compiled from the “best†of both nights. In 1988, two volumes called Keystone Encores were released on three discs. This deluxe four-disc package contains remastered versions of all the material from both those concerts presented in original running order. In restores the three-and-a-half-minute jam “Space†with the full, nearly 14-minute version, now entitled “Merl’s Tune.†In addition, there are six more previously unreleased selections. All are different takes of songs that were featured on the earlier sets, including “The Harder They Come,†“It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry,†“My Funny Valentine,†“Merl’s Tune,†“How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You),†and “Someday Baby.†Taking it all in, it’s fascinating to hear how complementary Garcia and Saunders were, and the degree to which they trusted one another in moving a set arrangement in another direction on the spot. Contrast the two versions of “My Funny Valentine.†On the latter one, Saunders shifts tonalities from a straight, subdued reading toward a more modal and exploratory one. Garcia responds by extending the tune’s entire harmonic reach. The rhythm section, too, is unshakable — check their astonishing interplay and shifting time signatures on the first version of “Merl’s Tune.†There are many surprises to be found here, not the least of which is the remastered sound by Paul Blakemore, who retained the atmosphere that made the original recordings so appealing. His attention to detail in dynamics, textures, and presence is noteworthy. This box also includes a poster, a pin, a coaster, and a “scratch book†— it seems matchbooks are no longer allowed. The definitive presentation of these recordings underscores what a historic — if low-key — partnership this was. The music, by any standard, is simply excellent. - Thom Jurek mp3@v0 Tracklist Disc I: 01. Hi-Heel Sneakers 8:14 02. Keepers (Previously Unreleased Take) 7:54 03. The Harder They Come 6:23 04. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (Previously Unreleased Take) 6:21 05. It’s Too Late (She’s Gone) 7:47 06. My Funny Valentine (Previously Unreleased Take) 18:14 07. Mystery Train 11:37 Disc II: 01. I Second That Emotion 10:59 02. Someday Baby 10:15 03. Merl’s Tune 13:34 04. It Ain’t No Use 9:36 05. Positively 4th Street 7:45 06. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) (Previously Unreleased Take) 8:09 Disc III: 01. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 7:06 02. Keepers 6:34 03. One Kind Favor 6:39 04. That’s All Right, Mama 4:11 05. The Harder They Come (Previously Unreleased Take) 10:09 06. My Funny Valentine 18:05 07. Money Honey 8:21 Disc IV: 01. Someday Baby (Previously Unreleased Take) 10:15 02. Merl’s Tune (Previously Unreleased Take) 12:21 03. Like A Road Leading Home 11:02 04. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) 10:20 Personnel: Jerry Garcia - Guitar, Vocals Merl Saunders - Keyboards (Organ, Piano, Clavinet, Synthesizers) John Kahn - Bass Bill Vitt - Drums David Grisman - Mandolin (on “Positively 4th Streetâ€) http://bit.ly/Vl9402

A bit late in the day (but it was my sis's bday too) but Happy Freakin' Bday BOB!! :bonghit: Look forward to partying again soon at UM or DSO man