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Status: Married
City: PHILADELPHIA/NEWARK, DE
State: Pennsylvania
Country: US
Signup Date: 5/20/2005

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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 

Current mood:  imaginative

So your man has a new job. I'm working the door a local bar (don't want to blow  them up like that, if you're where I am you'll know when you seee me there). It's much different than where I was a year ago, but overall I might just be happier. That said, peace to my people at UD and especially in the Office of Judicial Affairs.

This new job has me thinking alot about of couple of things. I need your help on this one people, cause there's some shit i just don't get:

1.INTOXICATION: Let me preface this by saying that I have never been drunk or high. The closest I ever came was when I had so teeth pulled and I woke up still groggy from the anesthesia. I was not digging it at all! I never understood how purposely distorting your senses and judgement was a good thing. Dudes get all dumb and want to strap on ther beer muscles and fight cats over the pettiest shit and jawns get even worse, flopping around and often finding themselves in dangerous situations that they would normally avoid while sober. What's the appeal? I need to know

2.COVER BANDS: You go out and pay good money to hear cats play music that you probably either have at home or wouldn't listen to if you were in any other situation. Bands make a living travelling around playing other peoples hits!? You couldn't do that as a HipHop artist. Yeah, we'll spit over classic beats, maybe even do some dope kind of homage to a classic track. (think,Snoop's Childrens' Story or the Roots' BOOM!) But can you imagine dudes on stage just spitting a bunch of other MC's lyrics for a whole show and getting paid for it? I can't see it. Maybe there's a niche market not being tapped, who knows? It blows my mind.

That's all for now. Stay tuned for continued updates of the dumb shit that cats do at bars that keeps me amused. Y'all be cool. Peace.

The Voice

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By De La Soul
Release date: 1996-07-02
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Cimer Amor. Download free mixtape.

 
its called self destruction, or mindless escape that brings out all your true feelings that you hide.

cover bands in hiphop hell no. everyone is out to prove their 10 times better, and to give homage is to say your weak. there is too much ego for that in hiphop. but then again, roots have world wide aclaim doing covers. so who really know?
 
Posted by Cimer Amor. Download free mixtape. on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 5:43 AM
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Rob Patey

 
R-Dog

I miss face-to-face pontificating.

On the drunk/high thing, as someone who has partaken copiously in both, it’s a chance to escape. The distortion allows you to alter your perception and if you can remember it, you get revolutions like the 60’s. if you just use it to knock yourself unconscious you get the past forty years. In either case, is it the right course for a life? Prolly’ not. Remain secure in the knowledge that you are on the side of angels with the choices you’ve made in life. The rest of us will stoke the fires in Hades.


On cover bands, I have to admit that was what I exposed myself to in the 90’s. However, it was more the venue than the bands. While they did an admirable job emulating my favorite tunes, I was really just there because that place had the hottest women, the cheapest drinks and was close to my house.
 
Posted by Rob Patey on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 4:00 PM
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ANTHONY

 
That was some true to heart deep facts bro.
 
Posted by ANTHONY on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 7:30 PM
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[Jen]

 
Agreeing with the previous comments...
-mindless escape
-etc, etc.
-and...can be fun....at times....under the correct circumstances.

Bands? Mmmm. Cannot comment, never has quite been my thing. Babies to feed & such. But if one was good enough (ahem!), i'd pay.

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WHAT HAPPENED TO *THIS* SHIT?

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Posted by [Jen] on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 - 10:11 PM
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((BiGsExY))
Fat Mama

 
Well, I personally miss the crap out of this lady ^^^^

so im going to sit here by her.


People get fucked up to self medicate. They don't want to face reality, and they are too proud/stupid to see a doctor to get something to help. It's an escape.


cover bands can be good. i played in one for a while, and our thing was... playing the songs with a little rearrangement. I have a super Janis Jopliny type voice, but i'm versatile, so we did a lot of different things. it was important to us as a group to not sound exactly like a record, so we switched stuff up - short leads and longer intros...i dunno. it just has to be done right.
 
Posted by ((BiGsExY)) on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 7:39 AM
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Darren
Darren Parker

 
1. Altered states- same as spinning around as a kid..fun..and not everyone gets beer muscles or does dumb shit...just the dumb people..

2. hmm..people want to hear the songs but prices on ticektron are too high? A message to the music industry about limiting costs? Or maybe one to the stars about fans caring more about the music instead of gossip and celebrity bullshit that passes for talent? Who knows...but people do have cover bands at weddings and bar/bat mitzvas so it cant be all bad.
 
Posted by Darren on Thursday, September 04, 2008 - 12:58 PM
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Ken

 
1. Some do it as an escape from perceived "pain." Easier than dealing with things face to face sometimes - though I find that a bit cowardly. Stimulation of the mind, from a creative standpoint. That's more along the line of some of the drugs than the alcohol. It's not for everyone. Plus, you usually pay for it the next day.

2. Familiarity isn't a bad thing for a lot of people - a song you know is like comfort food. You can sing along. It certainly has a place. Agree about HipHop - but I look at the freshness and creativity of HipHop as part of what makes it amazing. Each genre has its own approach to it. Classical is entirely about playing "someone else's stuff." Jazz and Blues can be a great mix of the "someone else's stuff" relative to a standard, yet then adds in the artistry and creativity of improvisation...and both genres also can be about something new and different. It really comes down to the role of the music/art within the setting and to the audience. I certainly wouldn't want to watch dudes re-doing some other MC's lyrics. But I also wouldn't want to go watch the PhilHarmonic Orchestra try and invent the never-written "Beethoven's Tenth Symphony" - I'd rather hear them play the ones I know from movies, or playing along with them on guitar or what not.

Off topic - watching the Giants-Skins game, and Fred Smoot just got kneed in the back.
 
Posted by Ken on Friday, September 05, 2008 - 1:20 AM
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R-SON and Ad-Liberal are...The Flight Brothers

 
Thanks for all the insight. keep it coming folks!
 
Posted by R-SON and Ad-Liberal are...The Flight Brothers on Friday, September 05, 2008 - 5:21 PM
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♫NoWhere MaN♫

 
Intoxication:

A new outfit for a night out: $50+

Cover Charge: $10

Booze: $30+

Looking and acting like a complete ass: Pointless!!

You can send well over $100 in one day to not remember a thing the next day.



Cover Bands:

Compeletly terrible and useless it theyre performing the songs of bands that are current and/or still around.

Now I've heard many great cover bands where all they do is songs from the 50's/60's. In that situtation they work and it can be a really show and set.
 
Posted by ♫NoWhere MaN♫ on Sunday, September 07, 2008 - 3:23 AM
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