Quote from: Slim on Today at 08:08:37 PMHelped myself to a bit of retro LCD fun. At £8.25 including delivery on eBay, I was half expecting it to be a fake!



_{.. and actually, it is}

I like it. I recall I had a Casio back in the early 80s I think that had 7 different alarm tones, one for each day and a Christmas song (can't recall which, probably Jingle Bells). Monday was When the  Saints go Marching in.
Must have lost it at some point because I don't have it anymore.

Long weekend ahead, been waiting for and looking foerward to the Ayreon live LP and Blu Ray and the Plan Nine LP (another Lucassen thing) to come on Friday. Just got an e-mail: Ayreon vinyl delayed, so they hold the entire package 
The Manic Eden LP a couple of weeks ago was also delayed by weeks, Mascot not doing so well with the pressing plants...

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Well done to the 23 year old PP brother. Watched the last part, it's a good thing there was no wind. The lad weighs 52kgs.

Bardet 2nd, not bad.

This took forever. It was the only word I could think of, luckily it fit.
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Contrary to what I thought before (using my mortality as an excuse to not buy it because I would not be able to properly listen to it due to my demise being closer now than it was yesterday), I ran into it for a fair price at the right time. On top of that I maintain my motto that I am immortal until proven otherwise and in doing so buying the time to let it sink in fully, I bought the massive Camel boxset.

So that's a 34 disc trip through the Latimer Landscape ahead.

Gov't Mule - Life Before Insanity

Couldn't decide whether use it for line 3, went another route. Oh well.
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And todays' release:

1990 - Maiden Voyage - indeed the debut, 4 track demo. not the best soundng, it was transferred from tape. 3 studio tracks, 1 live.
All 4 of them sound rough, a real demo then. A try out. The band would evolve a lot over the years. Still I like the studio tracks. They have a very punky alternative edge to them. Track 4 Blueberry Daydreamshows the bands love for acoustic, and it's already quite an accomplished song, very kuch as the band would remain to sound when doing acoustics with vocal harmonies. Clearly the highlight from this tape.

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/maiden-voyage

1998 - Hey Jane
This is one of the singles off of Trust Us and it's a lovely tune. Sitar driven in the verses it's one of the shorter songs on the album.
Mellow Muffin' Stomp and Celestine are eerie or dreamy (depending on when you kisten to them I suppose) songs. I like them a lot, they have a sort of free floating quality about them. Valis is an alternative type of banjo tune, minute and a half and it's over.
The track that actually comes for the album sessions here is The Ballad of Pat & Put, it sounds like a re-worked piece from Blissard but it's good, downtempo. not the cheeriest of EPs, then again not everything's always cheerie now is it?

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/hey-jane

I need to do a deep dive again here. I have the Lifehouse Chronicles boxset Townsend had for sale on his Eel Pie website. It's a 6cd set. It has all the original demos for the project, orchestration and even a radio play. I can imagine it drove him insane..

The album then: it's one of the my all time favourites, a classic example of what Arena rock sounds like.
Moons opening break to Bargain is to me perfection in how to play an opening break. In timing it's only rivaled by the Back in Black riff, but thats guitar..

I don't think Roger ever sounded better than on this album, he is so incredibly powerful it feels like he could full a stadium with his voice alone.

It has only 1 flaw this album: the omission of Pure and Easy. It's on most of the latter day Re releases though.

Great win, his first stage in a grand tour. Pogi taking a page out of MvdPs book trying to help Molano to the win.
And Milan, well.. Someone should teach him what aerodynamics is. He will win even more then.

that was alright, line 2 helped me a lot, still needed one more to get it.
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Getting a bit predictable. But he did well if course. I hope he thanks Majka.

Statement from the Avrotros (Dutch organizer of the Eurovision event in the Netherlands).

English: We have taken note of the disqualification by the EBU. AVROTROS finds the disqualification disproportionate and is shocked by the decision. We deeply regret this.

An incident occurred after last Thursday's performance. Against clearly made agreements, Joost was filmed when he had just gotten off stage and had to rush to the greenroom. At that moment, Joost repeatedly indicated that he did not want to be filmed. This wasn't respected. This led to a threatening movement from Joost towards the camera. Joost did not touch the camera woman. This incident was reported, followed by an investigation by the EBU and police.

Yesterday and today we consulted extensively with the EBU and proposed several solutions. Nevertheless, the EBU has still decided to disqualify Joost Klein. AVROTROS finds the penalty very heavy and disproportionate. We stand for good manners -let there be no misunderstanding about that- but in our view, an exclusion order is not proportional to this incident.

We are very disappointed and upset for the millions of fans who were so excited for tonight. What Joost brought to the Netherlands and Europe shouldn't have ended this way

Quote from: Slim on May 11, 2024, 11:49:45 AMIn other news - I must say I find it distasteful that Israel have been allowed to take part, in the present circumstances. Classic Israeli selfish disregard for other people of course, considering the trouble they've caused. Hopefully the crowd will make their feelings known.

Don't be surprised if they win. Sympathy votes and all.
*Eurovision is not political* it's a joke.