The Adventures of MDawg (in progress)

[Gottlob1]

"When we were on the tour bus in 1996 or 1997, David said, ‘Somewhere in the late 70s I met this psychic, who told me I was gonna die around the age of 69 or 70,’ and he said this with total certainty. It didn’t sound like the ramblings of one of these crazy people: it was something which he absolutely didn’t doubt at all. I never told anyone about it, but it never left my mind," wrote Garson.

Oh, and on page 183/184 of the MDawg adventures thread, for day-183/184 as the midpoint of leap years, at the stroke of midnight heading into 2 July. And, spot #3661 = [√(1000000*9) + 661] ---> 1961.

The music legend was 69. The news was released late Sunday on his official Facebook page. A statement to fans read: "Jan. 10, 2016 – David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18-month battle with cancer."

10 Jan., 2016 ---> 11 in 2061

[MDawg]

Three of my favorite bands were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and David Bowie. The Beatles and the Stones pre-dated me, although I still liked them and still do like them.

Bowie pre-dated me too, although he kept making new music. I didn't listen much to anything that came after Let's Dance though, and actually Let's Dance was a little poppy I liked Scary Monsters more.

I noticed that two '80s bands played at The Palms, Vegas this weekend, The Psychedelic Furs and Squeeze. The Furs are fairly well known due to their hit from Pretty in Pink, also their songs like Love My Way, All That Money Wants, and President Gas.

Squeeze is probably less known but they have some great songs including,



and


You wish you had a motor boat
To pose around the harbor bar
And when the sun goes off to bed
You hook it up behind the car

But behind the chalet
My holiday's complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from a shell
Pulling mussels from a shell

"Tempted [by the fruit of another]" is another Squeeze song.

[MisterV]

I have and still listen to two Bowie LP's from his early days, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust" and "Space Oddity."

Never much cared for his work after that time.

I grew up on rock but my tastes opened up with the advent of new forms, e.g. disco, punk, and of course New Wave.

The Cure and New Order helped me veer more toward electronic music which has been my preferred genre for decades now, from the early days of house and trance to the current days of eclectic choices.

Recently I've been listening mainly to CD's and LP's from three current artists: Rufus du Sol, Bob Moses and Fred Again.

Music is an integral part of my life.

[MDawg]

From "Pulling Muscles from a Shell"

Squinting faces at the sky
A Harold Robbins paperback
Surfers drop their [waxed not oiled] boards and dry
And everybody wants a hat

[MDawg]

I have and still listen to two Bowie LP's from his early days, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust" and "Space Oddity."

I like Ziggy [to be played at maximum volume] more than Space Oddity (which SO was a single not album), but Bowie had many fabulous albums after those two.

If you like Space Oddity you should consider


The shrieking of nothing is killing, just
Pictures of Jap girls in synthesis and I
Ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair
But I'm hoping to kick but the planet it's glowing

The Cure and New Order

Now The Cure is definitely awesome. Most every album, including harder core ones like Pornography. But I'm not sure that I have listened as much to albums after Disintegration.
V, do you like their first two, Seventeen Seconds and Faith? Those two are great.

As far as New Order, yes, great, I like some Joy Division too, such as Love Will Tear Us Apart. New Division is one of the only (maybe the only) band to have recovered from the death of its lead singer (suicide of Ian Curtis).

A Moby cover of New Dawn Fades was used in the Movie Heat with Al Pacino / Robert DeNiro.

[MisterV]

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V, do you like their first two, Seventeen Seconds and Faith?

Not sure I've ever listened to them.

The Cure CD's I own and am familiar with are "Standing by the Sea: the Singles;" "Disintegration" and my favorite, "The Cure: Mixed Up."

One of my all time favorite songs is on "The Cure: Mixed Up:" a remix of "A Forest."

[Gottlob1]

Music and drugs both create pleasure by acting on the brain's opioid system. Singing can release endorphins, which many drugs do as well. Many drugs, like prescriptions, can dull pain. Music has also been shown to provide a sense of relief in stressful or painful situations like surgeries.

I don't think that I've, ever, bought a record. A few cassettes from the bargain shops, for 99 cents, many years ago. The only music I listen to now is the occasional stuff I post up here. I guess, like spending a couple of hours to watch a movie, it's a fairly solitary activity, as if trapped (by peers?), or damned if you do, damned if you don't.

But, hearing some of the above, I have to add that I won't feel so bad, anymore, when turning on the radio to hear today's indecipherable garbage. That stuff existed in the past, too. Ha.

[MisterV]

Hey dawg, all bullshitting and flaming aside, it seems we both share a common interest in similar types of music.

I can't recall if I asked you specifically before, but as a "man of means" you should be in a position to own some absolutely killer stereo equipment.

Me, I've been an audiophile and owner of some serious high end equipment for many years.

Good music is one thing, but when heard through really good gear it can go to the next level and approach being sublime.

[Gottlob1]

Well, that first line just about says it all.

Hey dawg, all bullshitting and flaming aside, it seems we both share a common interest in similar types of music.

---> List of multimedia franchises originating in games, toys, and merchandise.

https://anagram-solver.net/%20Hey%20....?partial=true


The very first franchiser, or, is it franchisor, listed at that link was, "Ace Attorney".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...nd_merchandise


P.S. Interesting, though, how it always seems that the first line, of a piece of writing, is tentative, but, the last, with the bullshit. Ha.

[MDawg]

I never got a pure class A system like I believe you have, V. At our main home, the system has NAD “Monitor Series” amps that are what are referred to as Class AB. 150 watts RMS per channel.

My system itself is the Sony “ES” line from the 1990s including a 5 CD rotating CD player and a mini disc player / recorder (never actually used the mini disc player, stopped using the FM/AM tuner years ago).

Also of course a turntable with a moving coil cartridge.

And a couple of very high end Sony headphones.

My speakers are the Dahlquist DQ-10s with the Dahlquist DQ-1W subwoofers. I had someone modify the Dahlquists a little to make them sound even better. I have that special braided speaker wire to keep the tweeter fuses from blowing out when playing certain songs at higher volumes.

When it comes to speakers, the highest end ones I ever heard came from some company in Arizona I believe it was, and looked like the interior walls of Space Mountain at Disneyland with the rows of metal perforations, and were the size of big windows. When those things played, you could reach out and touch each instrument in the room in its distinct location in the orchestra. But those things were just too big, and the Dahlquists are classic old school speakers that get close to, but definitely not quite, that level of synesthesia.

HOWEVER, my wife who is of the youngest generation when she noticed that I don’t even use my stereo much anymore, got some wireless speaker system all Bowers and Wilkins set up in several rooms it’s nice but it’s not as good obviously as my system or the one you’ve described. I actually didn’t even know she bought it packages arrive at our homes almost daily and as you know it’s hard to tell a wife to stop spending. I mean I do but she won’t stop. She might cut back temporarily and really my objection to her spending is not necessarily over the dollar amount but over the duplication of that she tends to buy things I don’t think she needs.



Still the things she buys in the scheme of things aren’t much at all and she leaves the high end purchases such as jewelry, watches to me she won’t order a $45,000 bracelet or buy a mink coat on her own, etc. whatever, she knows I won’t pay full retail or anywhere close for anything I buy. Still, all those packages add up and her sound system arrived in quite a number of those boxes and was set up before I had time to object to that we already have a stereo system.

I never did get around to making my stereo work with an iPhone so therein lies the issue for her. But again - you and I know that digital music downloaded or played straight off whatever app can’t compare to the fidelity of a CD or vinyl record.

[MDawg]

This is one of the newer Bowie songs (2013), that I actually like a lot.

Let me know what you think. You have to listen to it past the 2 minute mark to appreciate it.



Bowie and his manager made the music video at home with no real production at a cost of $12.99

https://www.davidbowie.com/2013/2013...video-here-now

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...assion-238060/

[MDawg]

Of course, I like classic songs too.

Such as both the original (Roger Miller) and cover of this song.

[MDawg]

One of my all time favorite songs is on "The Cure: Mixed Up:" a remix of "A Forest."

V, "A Forest" comes off the Seventeen Seconds album. I hate to encourage that sort of thing, but if you fire up one of your biggest joints or bowls or however you do that stuff, and put on that entire album, it should make you a believer.

Don't let anyone interrupt you and listen to it quietly all the way through.

[MisterV]

Dawg: Good posts; I'll digest them and respond later. but for now I gotta (actually, I CHOOSE to) go wrench on my old Volvos.

Working on old cars seems a cross between solving puzzles and DIY mental health therapy.

[kewlJ]

MrV and Mdawg are having a nice discussion here. But I can't help but notice that Mdawg needs to inject his wealth or perception of his wealth into the discussion as he always does, by mentioning high end this or high and that, and dollar amounts. Mdawg if you really are as wealthy as you want everyone to think, you are very insecure. You just are.

Even in mentioning you wife, "of the youngest generation", which I guess would make her 6 . I am sure Mdawg meant to say younger, not youngest, but even that is an attempt to hold his wife out as a trophy wife, as he has done before when saying things like she could be a model.

Come on dude, what is wrong with you?

[Gottlob1]

I guess that you missed that post of V's with Daffy Duck or whatever jumping into a pot of gold and gems. Or several posts about V's stereo components. Rich people are funny, get themselves in odd spots. I know one now who's ninety something. The older he gets, the more he tries to squeeze a buck out of someone. Piss on him. Ha.

[MisterV]

I'm not rich: I am "comfortable."

KJ, I don't fault Dawg for mentioning the term "high end" as it is the correct way to describe the audiophile hobby.

We strive to achieve the best sound possible from our stereos, to experience the "high end" of sound.

The term has been in use for many decades now.

Most of the high end gear I own has been purchased used: no disgrace in that.

It does take quite awhile though to learn the ins and outs of the hobby, to know which brands are good, and what to look for.

Sure, some guys spend insane money on stereos but that is not always a guarantee of great sound; but a properly sorted out high end stereo will demonstrably trounce a mid-fi system from Bose and other mainstream, well-known makers.

Dawg, Sony makes some good high end gear, and the Dahlquist speakers have a good rep (never heard them).

Here's a taste...



I'm not as extreme as the guy who had a special utility pole installed: I did however have an electrician run completely separate circuits / feeds, including grounds, to the listening room, the home theater, and the master bedroom to maximize sound quality; I pair this improvement with stand alone power conditioners for the electronics, to filter the electricity.

No regrets at all.

I encourage all of you who enjoy music to investigate "the high end" on your own terms; for me it started in college and over the years I gradually improved to the point that "I am there."

[MaxPen]

MrV and Mdawg are having a nice discussion here. But I can't help but notice that Mdawg needs to inject his wealth or perception of his wealth into the discussion as he always does, by mentioning high end this or high and that, and dollar amounts. Mdawg if you really are as wealthy as you want everyone to think, you are very insecure. You just are.

Even in mentioning you wife, "of the youngest generation", which I guess would make her 6 . I am sure Mdawg meant to say younger, not youngest, but even that is an attempt to hold his wife out as a trophy wife, as he has done before when saying things like she could be a model.

Come on dude, what is wrong with you?

Sounds like you are jealous from having to deal with broken down sugar daddies on their last leg.

[MDawg]

A guy's in a bar talking to a girl (in the 1970s or so, I presume).

"Here's a picture of my dick, and my stereo. Wanna cum back to my place?"

[kewlJ]

Sounds like you are jealous from having to deal with broken down sugar daddies on their last leg.

Is that what it sounds like MaxPen?

My current BF is a full 10 years younger than me. He is actually a high school classmate of my brothers.

Nice try though.