MLT Club Member Tim Arnold
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Yikes, that doesn’t sound like fun. We got about 1′ today but all melted off by this afternoon. Crazy it was 70 degrees last week and right now I have 24 F. Stay safe and warm Mike.
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Here’s one from back before my time. Maybe the first shock rocker. What a great showman, it would have been fun to see him back in the day.
https://youtu.be/7kGPhpvqtOc?feature=shared
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Happy Halloween Jacki, I dressed up Friday and went out to see a band. Here’s what I looked like, even had a MLT hat.
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Ok it’s Halloween so I guess I have to post my favorite shock rocker of all time. I got to see Alice in concert in La Crosse WI and what a great stage show, blood and body parts all over. I kept thinking the clean up crew was gonna be busy the next day, what a mess, Lol. Funny thing years later Alice played outside at the Fort McCoy military base as part of their Army Concert series. They would bring in some great bands to entertain the troops that were training there. I was working on the base at the time and sometimes I would sign up for clean up duty in exchange for free tickets to the show. I couldn’t go that night because I was working 2nd shift maintenance at the base that night and took some extended breaks to sit in a nearby parking lot and listen to the music and the crowd and being thankful I wasn’t cleaning up the next day. A great showman with some great music.
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After posting a clip of Jim Stafford in another forum I remembered Jim had a big record about some creepy crawly things that he somehow thought would win the affections of a lovely girl. I really liked this record back in the day and it is still very cool. A song fitting for this thread is Jim’s monster hit from 1974, Spiders and Snakes
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Jung, I listened to the Duo Sessions II through some good headphones last night and in the first song, Everybody’s Talking, Mona is playing Papa Rudi’s Hofner bass. Watching the video many times I never noticed how good the bass sounded in that recording. Maybe too many other distractions in the video like the vocals and Lisa’s finger picking, but with just the audio track that bassline really stands out. In the Livestream Mona used the Hofner on Paul’s song For No One and stated she is new to the bass. For being new to the bass she is a very fine player. I would urge anyone following this forum thread to go listen to just the audio.
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Jurgen and David, I n my profile I listed American Graffiti as my favorite movie and mainly because of the soundtrack. The movie was about recently graduated teenagers enjoying their last summer days together and contemplating their futures apart from each other. Basically facing the bridge between youth and adulthood. Ronnie Howard, Richard Dreyfus and Cindy Williams were the known stars with pre stardom roles for Harrison Ford, Suzanne Somers and McKenzie Phillips.
It was made by George Lucas and was his successful attempt at making enough money to work on his dream project of making Star Wars. I loved all the music and especially like how it was formatted to the movie. All the kids that were cruising the streets and hanging out at the local drive in restaraunt were listening to the same radio program hosted by the legendary Wolfman Jack who also appears in the movie when Dreyfus attempts to get a note read on the airwaves to the blonde in the white T-Bird (Suzanne Somers).
Anyway, it’s my favorite movie and favorite soundtrack and hears a video and tune I found that really gives the feel of the movie. Funny, it’s even an MLT cover, those girls know what’s good.
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Daryl, Have you ever watched any of these Big Rundown videos. They usually run through all the equipment the bands use on their tours. I’ve watched the one on Alice Cooper’s guitar players including Nita Strauss. Even a non-guitar guy like me finds them interesting. This is one with only Nita talking about her signature model Ibanez (the one my nephew has). It really has a great sound, perfect for A.C.’s music. She seems like a very intelligent woman and an awesome guitar player.
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Hi Daryl, I still like Halloween and seeing all the costumes and decorations but it seemed a lot more fun when I was a kid. Seemed to be a lot more trickery back then, soaping windows, toilet papering the trees and such. Many of the treats we got were homemade cookies or cupcakes or apples. Most of the costumes were homemade too. Just seemed a lot more wholesome than today.
I’ve loved Alice Cooper since the 70’s. So glad he defeated his demons and continues to play shows and make good music. I used to listen to his radio show every night when I was working and loved listening to his stories. He is quite the musical historian and obtained most of his knowledge first hand. I love Nita Strauss too. I have a nephew who is obsessed with her and has seen her on several occasions. He bought a brand new Nita Strauss custom Ibanez and took it backstage and had it autographed. Anyway, don’t scare the kiddos too bad, Happy Halloween.
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Yeah he put on a great show when I seen him. I think I counted 7 or 8 murder victims including Alice himself being decapitated by the guillotine. Not counting the many dolls that got sliced up during Billion Dollar Babies, it was a great show.
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Jurgen, yeah it sucks you have to be of age to watch the video, it is just a battle between the Alien and Sigourney Weaver. I like that guitar, I remember KISS used a few specially designed guitars. I found a picture of on of Gene Simmon’s basses that is signed and in the Smithsonian institute.
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Jung, I love all your eloquent words to describe this music. To be honest I’m pretty much at a loss for words, especially after listening to Duo Sessions II 5 or 6 times now. I’ve heard most of these songs many times already but when they play back to back it is something magical. They are only getting better and that kind of scares me, Lol. I am ready to take all my other cds to the Goodwill and tell them I’m just not going to need these, they are just collecting dust.
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Yeah Chris, that is exactly what I’m talking about. Back in the day, before cable TV, MTV, and of course the internet all we got was the recorded music on records or tapes and the music really had to stand on it’s own without the distractions of the videos. Don’t get me wrong because I love watching Mona and Lisa play on their videos and usually watch them a few times to catch what they are doing with their instruments and vocally. But, when the music alone turns me on and makes me replay it to hear everything, that is something special. I spend a lot of time working on projects outdoors with my phone tucked in my shirt pocket and headphones, listening to the club jukebox. Many times I stop working to replay a song just to hear a harmony or a guitar solo. I have never heard a song that I don’t like. I can’t even say that about the Beatles.
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Yeah David, Jim’s best songs weren’t very heavy lyrically, he had a sense of humor in his songs. I can remember a couple other of his songs called Cow Patty and My Girl Bill. He was another one of those country boys that could really play a guitar and was a great entertainer.
I like all the songs about swamps and bayous of the American Southeast. The songs about voodoo and black magic to me they were as freaky and scary as ghosts or aliens. Here’s another one you might remember David from a Louisiana boy named Jerry Reed and a monster hit called Amos Moses. When your Daddy uses you for Alligator bait, yeah that’s kind of creepy, nice parenting, Lol.
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Thanks Jurgen, I was waiting for this one to come up. That was a great movie theme song and a very big hit for Ray Parker Jr. Very funny and very iconic movie. If no one posted this before Halloween I would have posted it, thanks
Sigourney Weaver was in a lot of cool horror and Sci-fi movies. Here’s a clip from Aliens, also in the 80’s. It’s funny how the special effects that seemed so real back then are kind of mild by today’s standards. I see the whole movie is available for free on YouTube. It might be a good one to revisit on Halloween. The link says the video is restricted so it may not work in this forum.