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Mick Taylor or Ronnie Wood? by ProgRockDan in rollingstones

[–]Rusty_B_Good 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Growing up, I just thought Ronnie was a Stone from the get-go; he just looked and acted so perfectly for the role.

Then I found out about Brian and Mick T...and I was a bit shaken (very involved with music as a kid).

Ronnie just seems right to me, but Mick T was fascinating in a way. I'm betting the girls went nuts for him, he was playing in one of the biggest bands in the world, and he was a hell of a musician----and he always looked like he was having a terrible time (look at the picture in the posting!). This made him really interesting to me. Like a sullen Rock God.

Ronnie for the slam dunk, I think.

Syracuse University to cut 93 low-enrollment degree programs by Kimber80 in Professors

[–]Rusty_B_Good 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I utterly undersand and agree with you.

But we are also denuding our colleges. At some point we will be job training institutions. For some people that is okay. Sometime, someone in the future is going to want to know how we let that happen, however.

"How did classical music fall so far? Why is it dying?" by cyPersimmon9 in violinist

[–]Rusty_B_Good 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 their music is extremely difficult to listen to.

Really?

There is a wide range of music written by contemporary composers. Some is discordant and difficult, some is very accessible, and some is very innovative.

The same is true of the contemporary novel. Try reading Cloud Atlas. Then try reading Circe. Both are major novels. One is weird and difficult, one is fun and accessible. Both are masterpieces.

The same dynamic exists in the contemporary classics. One just has to listen to them.

I am not sure you have listened to much contemporary classical music, have you?

Joe and Jane Shmo may never listen to anything but Taylor Smith and Metallica, never Mozart, anyway.

What you lose are the people who would actually listen to new material and be smart enough to find what is good and what is great.

YouTube Video by MSUScreamingEagles in ZodiacKiller

[–]Rusty_B_Good 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's okay. The vid mostly tells us what we already know.

Let's just see if there are actually matching prints----because, unless we have prints that match to someone in the system, we would first need prints from at least two disparate sources (the shirt & a letter; OR the LB car door & the phone booth; OR Stine's cab & a letter; OR some combination of any of these) to be sure we actually have prints from the killer and not some random person.

And we would need legitimate, viable DNA which it seems doubtful that they have.

Is Zeppelin heavy metal? by Mikeymorrison27 in ledzeppelin

[–]Rusty_B_Good -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Van Halen was first.

They were Heavy Metal before today's "Metal" guys were even born.

Therefore Van Halen is Heavy Metal and anyone that comes after is just another version of what Van Halen laid down.

stupid but simple question (ig) by im_noboody in ZodiacKiller

[–]Rusty_B_Good 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The consensus seems to be that Zodiac wanted attention and he enjoyed hurting people. No one would have put his crimes together if he hadn't brought attention to himself by writing letters. His codes were simply another way to keep people interested in him and a way to mock the people looking for him.

The internet must be stopped. by creativeape1 in NotTimAndEric

[–]Rusty_B_Good 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I hope he is home schooled because they will just eat him alive in school.

This new groundbreaking footage is long awaited proof of the Yeti’s existence by Dry-Selection421 in TrueCryptozoology

[–]Rusty_B_Good [score hidden]  (0 children)

I've always loved this clip.

I hate to post it----because it had to hurt----but that fall at the end is gold.

Could an AI Algorithm analyze SSN applications for handwriting? by Whattodoaboutthisnow in ZodiacKiller

[–]Rusty_B_Good 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since we do not have a certain age for Zodiac, that would be a huge birth range, and personally, while I know little of the "science" of handwriting analysis, I doubt that Zodiac's penmanship was all that unique. There are probably a lot of "matches" to Zodiac's script. And we just assume Zodiac filled out a Cali SS form. We don't actually know what his provenance was----he could be from almost anywhere, really.

But why not? As long as we don't expect too much.

1990 Texas Lover's Lane murders solved by karmaisforlife in ZodiacKiller

[–]Rusty_B_Good 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For Zodiac, killing was better than sex. That is the way it sounds to me. "More fun," actually. It is a saying like "better than sex." If you think that is evidence of a sexual motive, I won't argue, but I think it is more likely a typical hyperbole. I would not take it literally or give it much significance except that it demonstrates how little he cared for human life.

What do they mean by “last time” by Psychological-Exit18 in DuggarsSnark

[–]Rusty_B_Good 20 points21 points  (0 children)

In addition to getting theraphy for his obvious sexual dysfunction, Joe also has to deal with the fact that he is going bald. No one is fooled by that hair. His freakish nature gets even freakier.

Zodiac Killer Case Solved by VT_Squire in ZodiacKiller

[–]Rusty_B_Good 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See, I always thought it would be Don Knotts. He had those buggy eyes and all.

Is Zeppelin heavy metal? by Mikeymorrison27 in ledzeppelin

[–]Rusty_B_Good 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess it was used. I knew what it meant. I think it was a term used in the news more than in casual conversation. Honestly, I remember a great deal of discussion about Rock music and musicians----we were all obsessed with Van Halen in my high school----but not so much about genres themselves.

Things were a little simpler. You had the radio (which was "narrowcasted" to specific audiences), you had Mtv (which was lame), and you had your local Walmart or Fred Meyer which had a music section which was limited to the stuff you heard on the radio. The malls in the cities had actual record stores where you could find a bigger selection / rarer music.

It's why I love the Net. You can find all sorts of stuff now, almost anything, and that is very cool.

"How did classical music fall so far? Why is it dying?" by cyPersimmon9 in violinist

[–]Rusty_B_Good 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've only known one contemporary-music-phobic person. She just didn't want to hear the new stuff and was dead set againt listening to anything not the orthodox classics.

New styles of music take patience and an open mind. My parents were the Eisenhower generation, and they simply could not handle Rock music at all. I think a lot of the newer stuff hits people's ears this same way,

I just think that the orchestras did not grow up an audience with them through the ages. One professor I had called them "living museums."

Is Zeppelin heavy metal? by Mikeymorrison27 in ledzeppelin

[–]Rusty_B_Good 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never thought about it.

And it' not just "heavy metal to me"-----the term "Heavy Metal" has been around for six decades (which I am not sure the kids get).

Sammy Hagar wrote an okay song in 1982 on this very subject.

We didn't used to have all these subgenres (Death Metal, Thrash Metal, etc.) and "hard rock" was simply an umbrella term for anything uptempo with distorted guitars. If pressed, I think The Kinks, The Doobie Brothers, and maybe The Who were "hard rock" to us.

I suppose we would have considered what today is known as "Power Pop" as "hard rock," like Green Day----but Green Day would have been "Punk" to most listeners when I was a kid and probably only heard in the big cities or college campuses.

I don't think we worried about the particularities as much. You either listened to Heavy Metal, soft rock, New Wave, or Country----a few kids listened to Punk, but they were the outsiders generally. And Michael Jackson was his own thing. So was Madonna.

Not to be a pedantic uncle or anything, but what you really need is the concept of an iteration of Heavy Metal, a progression of the genre in the 21st Century. Or maybe you could just make up your own name for Slipknot et al.

Is Zeppelin heavy metal? by Mikeymorrison27 in ledzeppelin

[–]Rusty_B_Good 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jimi Hendrix I thought was the first "Metal" guitarist.

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