mister slippery

tough, but goodbye Bobby

and the winner was???

thats better, jay.

see you there.

hey,

almost the day for the Bus.

in questioning the heading of this post, though isnt the show friday, and not saturday?

Jay? confirmation? friday, right?

anyway, looking forward to it, and to seeing lotsa cool folks.

i enjoyed em a lot at evolve.

that was just as we arrived, and dropped everything to head to the stage with Tone and Jonas.

cant wait to see em again.

apocalyptica are a lot o fun.

no longer exclusively metallica, though. second disc had some sepultura, live theyve covered "raining blood" and "black metal", and im sure some faith no more has shown up somewhere.

gotta go back and click on the beatllica link now.

um, ghostbusters?

"you killed Ted, you medieval dickweed"

well.....

maybe i'll go for half of it.

getting closer and closer.

wooo-hoooo!!!

on my way ,since its not raining.

how r ya, shain?

man.

i have stayed away from posting much on the 7000 posts existing over the last few days, each full of more conflict than the next, because im not feeling like the online drama right now. that being said, however, the only thing that, in my opinion, needs to be said by me is this...

I'm really sorry to hear that you got beaten on. i got stomped by a bunch of 17-19 year olds in a park about 7-8 years ago. no permanent damage, or even much real pain (guess numbness took care of that), but i still remember the fear. The fact that the guy who was at the forefront of the whole ordeal kept reachin back like he had a gun still sticks in my head on a semi-regular basis, and it sucks. I hope that, in the last few days since the attack, you have found a sympathetic ear, and that life feels better and better every day.

dave

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im there.

cant wait.

hooray!

its today.

dieselday.

with a thread title like that, i guess id better be there.

of course im in, wouldnt miss it for the world.

Amy,

the places on queen will not give you much at all.

on average, they sell vinyl betw 4-20 bucks.

figure on getting 25% of that.

probably not worth it.

no suggestions from me re ebay, i dont use it.

prob better listing em all here, and trying to unload em to us, for a fairer price.

have a jambands.ca silent auction for them, where we send PM's for bids.

did i help?

looks like i'll be there, after all.

woo hoo!

haha!!

dollar tonight sari?

I went back to my original post to see what you were all whining about (LargeMarge, MoMack and I am presuming Slippery is hiding behind an avatar). Seriously get off your high horse (and this is me talking for christ sake). I don't even want to bother quoting what I said but suffice to say you all did sh!t on the Dogs save for Marge who attempted to say she got it and just genuinely didn't like it. I did not get the same sense from the others. Let's try and appreciate that as a music journalist and lover I get very few moments like these - the moment of discovery of a great thing. I am genuinely struggling with whether as a community we have anything in common other than a handful of bands and drugs/alcohol. It strikes me more and more that we in fact do not have very much in common at all. This scenario was proof positive of that. I did in fact get drawn into this because I was not talking so much about the literal group I was with (who's the egotists now) as the phenomena. People I didn't know well who had the Grateful Dead's music in common didn't appreciate the uniqueness I perceived in the Golden Dogs. It's not a big deal but it is fascinating to discuss. I attributed it to not spending a great deal of time listening to new music and perhaps not knowing a great deal about the dynamics of musicians (of which I have rarely ever seen a lock such as the Dogs have and frankly I think it rivals a band like the Grateful Dead in their heyday as absurd as that likely sounds). There are so many facets to this, the ethics of being a good host, acquaintance vs. friendship, inclusion and exclusion. I am glad it has come to this but I would ask those throwing stones in glass houses to take a quick glance inward and acknowledge their complicity.

you figured it out!

my real name is not Mister Slippery.

and i aint hiding behind nothing. i was not there at the elmo, i was at rancho. i just didnt like the way you wrote what you wrote.

dave osborne

(not hiding)

Given that I hang around here to get away from elements of that culture I REALLY loathe getting drawn into semantic lame ass bickering that would never occur face to face. Now you are in for it.

You started all of this. You weren't exactly "drawn into" it.

Wanna end the bickering? Don't bicker.

Dave - Too bad you're not around when we need to hear that at other times.

I think that's some fantastic advice.

I should follow it. I think I will.

im here for you, rob.

how you doing, been far too long.

hopin yer well.

Some of you may have noticed that one thing I have a great deal of difficulty with is suffering fools. I have an ultra honed sense of decorum and what I perceive to be good humanity and when people don’t live up to that I really lose faith in the whole species. I am starting to realize that some people are just genuinely ignorant of situations because their knowledge base does not permit them to understand. I dealt with this through the jazz fest where these volunteer boards just didn’t get how involved these situations can get (artists and such), at work right now I am delivering a champagne conference on a beer budget and getting absolutely sh!t on in the process, or even this weekend I took some people to see the Golden Dogs and not only did they not get that it was absolutely mind blowingly good music they shat on it too. Ignorance. I am trying to accept my fault in all of this whether poor personal relationship skills, time or stress management or whatever but I think deep down I know that they are the ones who are fu©ked in the head not me. Of course they want you to think you’re fu©ked in the head because otherwise their precious little world falls apart. I am seriously going to kill someone soon I am just about to fu©king lose it on the species postal style.

well.....

theres nothing wrong at all with being narrowminded in regards to music, except what you miss as a result of not being open to possibilities.

(wow, lot of i's in possibilities)

-to lose faith in the species over the acts of a few is defeatist, and is not likely to cause a lot of good.

-work is tough. we do what we do, and hopefully the finished product comes out well, in whatever form it may be. was praise something once freely offered, and recently removed? otherwise, im sure theres a few of us around who dont feel we are justly appreciated. we deal, and we do the best we can, because thats work ethic mixed with a need for cash.

-i got a copy of the golden dogs cd couple weeks ago, and didnt care for it at all. wouldnt have gone to see em, certainly wouldnt have left jerry night for them. big deal, folks dont dig the band you like. who cares?

-the last three lines of this diatribe are kinda creepy, the "im not crazy, theyre all crazy, everyones crazy, but me" is really pretty odd.

.02

what a lot of self-righteous crap.

sure think a lot about your opinion, hmmm?

i remember taking friends to see Spiritualized a few years back, whom i love. my friends hated it, and i could not understand why, but i got over it.

there are other opinions besides your own.

you need to chill.

maybe, go for a walk.

.02

Sean, I scare myself sometimes. Last night I was talking to myself, and I had to stop because I knew exactly what I was going to say! It was creepy.

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Brilliance!!

hooray!!

after today comes.....

tonight!

wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow!!!

what a phenomenal show!

xavier rudd kicked a lot of ass last night.

the shoe was, as can be the case, crazy packed, so not a whole lotta room, but a great gig.

donbt really know a lot of song titles, but "a 4th world" was great, as was "GBA".

if the chance presents itself, im there already, the next time hes in town.

Sari- thanks for theeffort to make sure i got a ticket, i'll getcha back tonight at mark wilson &twii/wiser.