GorboGorboze

I've got an extra ticket for Anvil at Gino's in Portland Maine U.S.A..  Any Takers?

That's tonight, May 5th, and I'm not charging for it.

On 11/10/2014 at 9:47 AM, BlutAusNerd said:

Rainbow is killer, but I'm not sure how it couldn't be with Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio joining forces. One of the best vinyls that my dad passed down to me was Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, it may have had the most listens of any album on my record player.

That album spent all of this past winter in CD player in my mini-van just playing over and over again, especially after I severely compromised the antenna shoveling snow off the hood and was reduced to the local top 40 station and the lower quality classic rock station on the radio. "Catch the rainbow" is my favorite cut, also "Snake Charmer" really hold up to constant rotation. The one song about _If you don't like rock and roll, well it's too late now_ is not my favorite. It's a sort album by today's standards. "Self Portrait" also fantastic with constant listening. "Man on the Silver mountain" and "Temple of the Kind" were my favorites until about the hundredth listen. I can't say why I listen to an album over and over and over, but I've always been like that, even as a kid. I don't think it's actually healthy to ingrain the same recording in your head like that. It's better for the mind to hear new music all the time, and when I get the sensation where you start to hear the next song before it starts I feel like I'm doing a disservice to my mind.

Here is a little visual content for this page. I just watched "Last Days Here" which had been on my watch list a long time, can't say why I was so slow to the draw. Anyway, I totally recommend it, and wonder how Bobby is doing now. I brief check in with Wikipedia suggests not all that well.

So maybe the guy is not the most solid citizen rocker in rocker history, he still inspires me to wear more flamboyant silk shirts than I do, and also more silver jewelry than I do. How much silk and jewelry do I wear now... well, a little but not near enough. Thanks for asking.

23 hours ago, Parker said:

I miss you guys. Especially Deathstorm, GorboGorboze and Natassja7. I very much regret my outburst in December, but I had ALOT of very emotional things going on and felt like I was being harassed about the most trivial topic imaginable. I suppose I may have deserved a warning. Don't know if I'm allowed to post here after my regrettable behavior.

Hey Parker, nice to see you posting, hope you'r well and going to hang out on the forum. I have been off for a long time myself for no particular reason.

Since Judas Priest released Firepower I've been listening to lots of Priest since I was so far behind. That was after a long NWOBHM phase. In the last few days I've been listnening to thrash mostly, especially Over Kill. Never was big into thrash, but I've been listening to Grinding Wheel on CD in my car for a month now and love it, it hasn't left to CD Player once since I stuck it in there. No other decent CD in that particular car, but still.

Hey folks, hope you are all well. Nice to see several familiar posters right on the top page. All is well with me, and I'm enjoying the tail end of a Maine winter.

4 hours ago, Requiem said:

How many pigs have you shot in the head, and in what context did these killings take place?

 

a few dozen of my own hogs down on the farm over the years on their way to what we call "freezer camp".

Regardless of what I tend to eat I wish i could get my self to eat about half as much of it as I tend to. I like coffee but don't imagine it does me much good, especially that second cup. I feel like a chump when I get a headache on a day when I've had none (with enough water I can avoid that, but it takes an effort).

Meat is definitely murder, I've shot enough pigs in the head to know that for sure. Veganism is square one if you want to dial back on the monstrosity factor of being human (actually... getting off of fossil fuel is a bigger deal than that but who is planning to do that?), but I'm relatively comfortable with my monstrous meat consumption. One final thought... I'd hate to be in the position of controlling the food habits of a recalcitrant MoFo like BAN when I can't even get myself eating as I'd like to.

6 hours ago, Natassja7 said:

Wishing everyone a peaceful Solstice and productive and happy coming year.

My mom, who is getting a little quirky in her old age has been marking her wooden counter with a grease pencil at noon every day all week. She's no Tycho Brahe or anything, but she is making her mark.

Kadavar on my wife's Spotify and she is pissed I've been signed on to her account all day while not even here most of the time so she can't be listening to it at work.

Hey, not here to answer the question, just to announce that I just purchased a second bass on Saturday, and it has EMG pickups and everyone who has noticed them has been psyched for me.

I drank beer and ate peanut m&ms tonight. what the fuck was I thinking?

19 hours ago, Iceni said:

 

Good to see you too, Gorbo! You avatar is less weird than normal, did something happen?

I did my best to pick a weird one, but maybe it's time for a change.

18 hours ago, natassja7 said:

Premature reports and insensitivity here has been disgusting. The urge to throw my tv through the window grows daily.

When you are an Icon you will endure a little vulgar appreciation, but there is a lot of real warmth for Tom Petty in the world.

18 hours ago, Iceni said:

Man this album was such a disappointment after Time I. It was decent enough, on the level of your average Russian atmospheric BM bands on the Nihil Arts label, but nowhere hear the quality I expected given the previous album. Maenpaa set himself a goal and failed it because aside from the Winter track none of the songs really evoked the seasons. Occupational hazard of being a black metal artist? I wouldn't think so, Wintersun's not pure black metal by a long shot. It should have been relatively easy to do it on a basic level but harder to execute masterfully - and I figured it was well within Maenpaa's reach. Still think it is. Looking forward to Time II, if/when it's ever made.

How fun to return and see that Iceni is back!

Hello all, the forum is looking sharp. I haven't been around in a while, but I still love metal and I still love you all.

Welcome to the forum.

So excited to hear the new Pagan Altar album. I don't see it on youtube, but do see a 2016 live performance of the title track that doesn't kill my enthusiasm. really love the band.

Well the venus is fantastic for sure, and there was another I enjoyed even more with saints meeting or some such, lets see if I can place it.

OK so maybe not saints, but you can hear what the people on the boat are saying if you get up close to the canvas.

there were painted crosses that were strange and interesting, and his contemporaries were on the scene as well, which was cool.

Welcome, glad to have a broadening of the antipodal footprint on the forum. I hope you enjoy it here.

23 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

That sounds awesome. Hope you have a great time! I tried to get my son to go to see Botticelli's Venus with me last week, but he wasn't having it. Oh well. There are other artists I'd be more upset about missing, and with how he's been behaving lately he probably would tried climbing the sculptures or something, so I think it's for the best... 

Dude!! I was at that show!

On 7/8/2017 at 8:18 AM, natassja7 said:

Yeh like RO said a life simulator, you can make people and build houses, decorate and buy furniture.. there is a Sim Pets game too and you can create pets and look after them, buy them stuff at the pet store..Your Sims can even have babies !   I love them    Sim City was pretty cool too.

My Sim dude that I liked died tragically playing with fireworks, his main flaw was needing to have fun basically all the time. I regret not having made more steps into the pool, that might have saved him. He had a really cool pad with a western theme and was a monster on the electric guitar. I was devastated, and still miss him all these years later.

We die and die again. And in the end what do we have to show for ourselves?... Nothing but a stack of skulls.

Welcome to the forum. I hope you like it.

9 hours ago, deathstorm said:

Guys I got some bad news before you guys know me I had a cornea replacement back in 98 know my right eye could be rejecting the transplant now I may have to go another major surgery on my eye keep me in your prayers 

Wow Dude, I hope that goes well for you. You'll be in my prayers as you ask.

Welcome to the forum.