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B.A. Bearacus said:

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Blungld, buddy, thank you for sharing this and for the specificity, which I relished. Lots of relating on the music level. I have to limit my Smiths shoutouts on here to once a year to not be too alienating.

Curious: what amp and speaker setup did you have in the frat house when you were laying down those tracks? I'm 100% confident you know this, down to the woofer size. Was your sound system, as they say, bumping?

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Sadly, it wasn't my setup. The house had a system so I would slip my tape (yes cassette tape that I had to record from vinyl) in at the end of the night.

That said, I did have a Rickenbacker 2002 bass guitar and a pretty heavy Peavy amp that I would jam along to The Jam, The Clash, The Smiths, and Talking Heads. Being young and self-centered (still am?) I didn't even think just how loud and obnoxious that was. I feel bad in retrospect for anyone trying to study, but that said there really was music blasting out of almost every room. I loved it when the guys who were fans of The Who and Rolling Stones started catching onto Unforgettable Fire, London Calling, Elvis Costello, and REM. Finally, I could walk into other guys rooms and we would scream along to entire albums.

One day I met a girl from a sorority literally two blocks away. She asked who the annoying guy who always played the bass on our street was. I shrugged I don't know, and then privately gulped and thought TWO BLOCKS!!!

Same thing happened another time when a sorority girl asked who the crazy dude who was always singing in our house was. I used to take showers in the afternoon in our frat when it was typically empty and it had great tile acoustics and I would belt out Smiths songs not realizing the window faced the sorority next door and was basically blasting them with my acapella numbers.She said they all groaned each afternoon and it was a thing over there.Oh man, I am embarrassed now just remembering.

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Good stuff, Blungld! Thanks for breaking off another slice for our consumption. Bass and shower observations some funny shiit.

B.A. Bearacus said:

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Good stuff, Blungld! Thanks for breaking off another slice for our consumption. Bass and shower observations some funny shiit.

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oh yeah, and good enough to be on tv, as already happened. #BearTerritory.

Professor David Romer said:

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I prefer the Killing Joke version.




Or even better the Pretenders:

A former UCLA professor's band:

*Featuring CJ Elleby on lead guitar

I like this piece from that band, OST from "The Trip" circa 1967:

okaydo said:

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A former UCLA professor's band:

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My favorite album from a UCLA alum, circa 1968:

*Featuring counselor Barry Melton on lead guitar:

http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Licensee/Detail/104700

Taj Mahal. Best cover of a Monkees' song. Ever.

From the infamous Target music playlist...listening to Jim and Debbie float down from the heavens to my eas while I scour the wasteland in search of Clorox wipes or an unplundered cache of other paper goods because the wife won't accept that using a bleach cleaning spray and a towel is a simple and cheap alternative to these damn wipes...

Anarchistbear said:

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Or Kill the Poor

We are about due for a new CA ber Alles (Dead Kennedies, Disposable Heroes, ???)

"He also made a whistlestop campaign tour along the BART line.
His platform included unconventional points such as forcing businessmen to wear clown suits within city limits, erecting statues of Dan White, who assassinated Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978, around the city and allowing the parks department to sell eggs and tomatoes with which people could pelt the statues,[45] hiring workers who'd lost their jobs due to a tax initiative to panhandle in wealthy neighborhoods (including Dianne Feinstein's), and a citywide ban on cars.[38] Biafra has expressed irritation that these parts of his platform attained such notoriety, preferring instead to be remembered for serious proposals such as legalizing squatting in vacant, tax-delinquent buildings and requiring police officers to run for election by the people of the neighborhoods they patrol.[44]

He finished third out of a field of ten, receiving 3.79% of the vote (6,591 votes);[46] the election ended in a runoff that did not involve him (Feinstein was declared the winner)." Wikipedia

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I always love these, I mean, what could be better than questlove rocking the scissors and Kamal Gray playing the connect four.

Neil Young City theme:

> The Who - Don't Get Fooled Again

featured performer's final day, swiped from..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Entwistle#Death_and_legacy

> Entwistle died in Room 658 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada, on 27 June 2002, one day before the scheduled first show of the Who's 2002 United States tour.

> He had gone to bed that night with Alycen Rowse, a local stripper and groupie, who awoke the next morning to find Entwistle cold and unresponsive.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Entwistle#cite_note-18][18][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Entwistle#cite_note-IndUK-19][19][/url] The Clark Countymedical examiner determined that his death was due to a heart attack induced by a cocaine overdose. He already had heart disease and usually smoked 20 cigarettes a day.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Entwistle#cite_note-20][20][/url] Entwistle had undergone a medical for insurance purposes before the Who's tour had started. This noted high blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Entwistle 's authorised biographer Paul Rees has suggested that if a physical examination had been undertaken this would have revealed that 3 of his arteries were blocked which neceesitated surgery.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Entwistle#cite_note-21][21][/url]

> Entwistle was 57 years old