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Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  | I dared watch that video this time ... OMG ... how is that entertainment? I was going to suggest that the reason comments had been disabled on the one
DED just posted was that they might be getting death threats from Islamic Fundamentalists, but why would they be disabled on that last one Bonny
posted? And, the concept of a young woman wearing a costume with fake breasts, that still aren't actually being shown, is ... bizarre.
Anyway, there go several minutes of my life I'll never get back. 
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I tend to switch off commentary just because there's a huge amount of infantile people making nasty comments on it. "Adje" is, or was, pretty big he
was a character from a very popular TV show. The tune he sings is from that enormous fantastic Dutch theme park Efteling. It's a big budget thing even
though you wouldn't guess it from the quality, and it's definitely bigger than its quality. So in Adje's case there would be a lot of people making
horrible comments, on something that's supposed to be kid-friendly.
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Dad, it's "loser". "Looser" means "more loose".
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I'm on chromium a version of chrome for ubuntu
listened yesterday to
1984 10 08 Milan
today it's
1984 10 14,15,16 stint in Roma
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I knoow
but soometimes it happpens to me
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Soomtimes, things get so lose around here I end up completely loosing my perspective.
 
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Ah-Ha!
1984 10 14 Rome show has three direct quotes of 'Sleep Dirt'!
1) in King Kong in the guitar solo
2) in Let's Move To Cleveland, he uses it to rev himself up for the big tortured guitar end-of-the-solo
3) in the Illinois Enema Bandit, in the solo, but just a line or two
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Neat spots Punky!
Went to town today, notably to buy a book about the sorely missed theatre 't Speelhuis.
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Nothing much happened today, but tomorrow my wife and I are going to see Zappa Plays Zappa.
They're playing at the Rio Theatre here in Santa Cruz. It's about a five-minute walk from our house.
This will be the third time ZPZ has played there. As you might expect, we're rather proud of that...
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I can imagine that! In retrospect I could've begged ZPZ to play 't Speelhuis... 
Man I miss that place.
Still haven't heard from Unica.
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MTF, ZPZ are playing a cool set at the moment, too. I'm jealous. They're not coming to Adelaide when they visit OZ this time.
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Just got home from ZPZ; and boy, are my arms tired...
They had Scott Thunes on bass. I don't know what happened to Pete Griffin. Maybe Stewie got him...
Good show, as always. Scheila did a killer sax solo during "Eat That Question."
At the end of the encore they played "Whipping Post." That was when we left...
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Pete quit the band and they have a replacement lined up so he won't be back.
How was Scott Thunes?
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I picked up the Tucson zpz show w/ Scott on dimeadozen.
Haven't listened to it yet.
Instead I shifted gears and started to listen to the early 'B' grade or better rated '77 shows I haven't heard.
Yesterday it was
1977 01 26 Munchen and today it is
1977 01 27 Dusseldorf
exact same setlists, except 26jan has I'm the Slime and 27jan has a long City of Tiny Lights.
tomorrow, you guessed it,
1977 01 28 Brussels
all is well here
sun hits the front of this little house with the ground all frosted over under a dappled light blue sky
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Went to De Efteling. Dad stayed home sick. Pictures are coming.
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I'm officially enrolled at uni as a student now and the fee hassle has finally been sorted out. Next week I find out how much work I'll be getting and
sign up as a casual employee, so it's all coming together, gradually. I'm enjoying and getting right back into my study of maths. I've been doing a
little work on a couple of new music compositions as well and tinkering around on the piano. When I'm not working on something, which is nearly all
the time I'm awake, I still watch a tiny little bit of TV and last night I read a little more out of Zappa the Hard Way, which is turning out to be an
interesting read. Also, of course, I'm still finding time for forum stuff.
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A funny thing happened at the ZPZ show. I didn't mention it last night, because it hadn't really sunk in yet.
A friend of mine is the assistant manager of the theater. Part of his job is to escort the performers from the green room to the stage.
I hate sitting down for longer than necessary, so before the show I was out in the lobby, talking with my friend. Then the manager gave him the nod.
He went off to the green room to get the band, and I went to the bathroom.
When I got back, I figured they'd be backstage, so I was sort of hurrying to get back to my seat. Then I looked up to find myself face-to-face with
Joe Travers. I did a double-take and mumbled "Hey Joe." He gave me the silent, this-happens-all-the-time laugh and said "Hey."
I would have loved to talk with him for an hour or three, but this was definitely not the time. So I just kept walking. I looked around, and I noticed
I was surrounded by the entire band. I stopped dead in my tracks.
Most of them were just standing there fidgeting, and looking at the ground. But I could feel the energy. They were like a bunch of racehorses lined up
at the gate. They had waited all day for this, and they were ready to go.
I felt like I was invading their space, so I turned to walk toward the theater door. I heard Dweezil say "Let's all follow this gentleman," to which I
replied "Don't follow me: I'm lost too."
I held the door open, and they all filed past me into the theater. Although it was dark, a few people realized what was happening and started
clapping. As my friend led the band down the stage-right aisle, the applause slowly built to a crescendo. Then they got to the stage, Dweezil said
hello, and Travers kicked them into "Sexual Harassment In The Workplace."
I thought that was pretty cool...
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Sounds cool to me MTF, something to remember the night by for sure. What was the volume of the concert like?
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Haha MTF!
aren't those little in-between moments great?
hahaha
I'll probably get to hear the Tucson show later on tonight
by the way that 1977 01 28 Brussels show of zappa was recorded very well and the sound on playback leaves little to be desired except maybe a hotter
set of vocal mics and a bit crisper on the bass which gets a bit rumbly
but the sound is if you were there in the first few rows. You get to hear what they played rather than how it sounded in that hall or with that crowd
etc. Little interference of the shape of the hall or noise of the audience. Remarkable sound! Makes the variations in arrangement stand out
pleasingly. Like in Pound For A Brown.
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Wow MTF, that's really awesome!
Hope the study finds you well, Poly! It sounds great anyway.
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I'm definitely a happier bunny lately than I have been for a long time. My illness in the middle of 2010 brought it all to a head and I've been
figuring out what to do with my life ever since. I tried starting honours back in 1989 but I was way too distracted. I'm very focussed this time
around and have my priorities sorted out, so it's all steam ahead.
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