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Genrepalooza Presents: FG Radio - Tons of Lithium but very little Chill (7 Viewers)

Dr. Octopus said:
Bastille Day may be my favorite Rush song though - [ insert some probably inappropriate joke making a comparison here ].
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Oh God, I can hear my friends mimicking Geddy Lee's voice in "Bastille Day" in late middle/high school now. Brian M. with the falsetto. They loved Rush. I was never roped in. 

See them marching to Bastille Day

 
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Dr. Octopus said:
I’m neutral on Rush. I don’t love them because - vocals, but I don’t hate them because the music rocks and it was my first concert. Marillion was the opening band so that’s the answer to who was the first major live band seen by dr. octopus.
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I'm teasing with the 😮 face. I listened to Rush growing up. I only like to listen to them in doses these days, but if they come on the radio, I'm ready to rock with my air drums. 🥁

 
Count me as neutral, too. I'm listening to the London mix right now and just got through the Rush as part of the rock/Guetta/rock block with minimal damage. 

 
rockaction said:
Count me as neutral, too. I'm listening to the London mix right now and just got through the Rush as part of the rock/Guetta/rock block with minimal damage. 
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If I had to choose one Rush song for the radio to play forever it would be "Limelight."

 
I only think you were kidding because that is most likely the Rush song you're going to hear hear every time they play Rush on the radio. 

 
Dr. Octopus said:
I’m neutral on Rush. I don’t love them because - vocals, but I don’t hate them because the music rocks and it was my first concert. Marillion was the opening band so that’s the answer to who was the first major live band seen by dr. octopus.
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Madly jealous.  I 💖Marillion - at least their original lineup.  By the time I had heard of them though, they had just booted Fish from the band.  I have seen Fish solo a few times though - good but undoubtedly not the same.

Rush, OTOH, was the third major concert I ever went to (Presto tour).  Unfortunately, Mr. Big opened.

 
Last time it was RA that drew me in here.  This time it was getting summoned by the google alert I receive whenever Marillion is mentioned in the FFA.  So with that, let's see if I do this correctly.

Round 583

Category: I See London, I See France 

Lily Allen - LDN

For the record, I love her madly.

 
scorchy said:
Last time it was RA that drew me in here.  This time it was getting summoned by the google alert I receive whenever Marillion is mentioned in the FFA.  So with that, let's see if I do this correctly.

Round 583

Category: I See London, I See France 

Lily Allen - LDN

For the record, I love her madly.
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scorchy! Welcome in! 

Willkommen

You did it correctly. Nice form, sweet substance. We'll judge your stamina around round 650 or so. 

 
scorchy said:
Madly jealous.  I 💖Marillion - at least their original lineup.  By the time I had heard of them though, they had just booted Fish from the band.  I have seen Fish solo a few times though - good but undoubtedly not the same.

Rush, OTOH, was the third major concert I ever went to (Presto tour).  Unfortunately, Mr. Big opened.
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Fish was there, because Kayleigh was their big hit, and it was Power Windows tour for rush. Truth be told - I don’t remember much but liked both bands.

 
First concert - Statler Brothers with Crystal Gayle. Wicomico Youth and Civic Center circa 1979.

First concert where I actually had agency about attending: Billy Joel. Capital Center in Landover, MD. March 3, 1990.

ETA:  My favorite Statler Brothers' song at the time.  Never realized it was We Didn't Start the Fire for the country rube set.

 
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First concert: Metallica, Danzig and Suicidal Tenancies. Either June 21 or 22, 1994 outdoors at Pine Knob. 

 
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scorchy said:
First concert - Statler Brothers with Crystal Gayle. Wicomico Youth and Civic Center circa 1979.

First concert where I actually had agency about attending: Billy Joel. Capital Center in Landover, MD. March 3, 1990.

ETA:  My favorite Statler Brothers' song at the time.  Never realized it was We Didn't Start the Fire for the country rube set.
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You win

 
simey said:
My first concert will make all of you music lovers jealous. It was this guy in the 70s.  My first concert without the parentals was the Bee Gees in '79.
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I still have the 45" RPM of Hey Deanie somewhere in my basement.  I was more a fan of him as Joe Hardy in the short-lived Hardy Boys TV series than the music.  Or at least that's what I tell myself.

Edit: I was wrong. It was That's Rock 'n' Roll

So Dreamy

 
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scorchy said:
Actually, my first crush was the decidely un-goth Pam Dawber.  I had a Mork & Mindy lunchbox in 1st grade and I would definitely kiss her picture on occasion.  The lunchbox, unfortunately, is not in my basement.
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I watched that sometimes, and the biggest thing I remember from it is a scene where Mork and Mindy were in a bar, and Mork ordered a Shirley Temple, and he asked the bartender to hold the curls, because he didn't want a hairball in his throat.   :lol:

 
scorchy said:
The lunchbox, unfortunately, is not in my basement.
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That would be a quick hundred on eBay at least. 

Speaking of which, I just sold Lorde's Melodrama deluxe vinyl package for about 190 dollars all said and done, before fees. Ask me what I'm doing with Lorde vinyl and then ask why it's about 190 dollars all told, and I'll simply smile and say I made a bang of a buck on it. Like about $150. 

I still dig the album. It's going to be hard to part with, though it was really just sitting in my record bin, taking weight from being one of the last towards the end. There's absolutely no difference in the quality of analog vs. streaming in this case. 

Semi-pro tip: Keep that vinyl in dust jackets and the records outside so they don't get ringwear and you may stumble upon a gem that you pretty much ordered while drunk and stupid. And I've been not drunk for 3 1/4 years now, so that tells you how long ago that record actually came out. 

I'm still sort of floored that anybody wanted it. I sold it for a very low price, too, comparatively. I might have marked it down by about forty or so dollars, but these things are so illiquid that one doesn't truly know but for the stats Discogs lists. 

 
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simey said:
I watched that sometimes, and the biggest thing I remember from it is a scene where Mork and Mindy were in a bar, and Mork ordered a Shirley Temple, and he asked the bartender to hold the curls, because he didn't want a hairball in his throat.   :lol:
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Classic.  All I remember was that Shazbot supposedly meant #### in whatever language was spoken on Ork.

 
rockaction said:
Speaking of which, I just sold Lorde's Melodrama deluxe vinyl package for about 190 dollars all said and done, before fees. Ask me what I'm doing with Lorde vinyl and then ask why it's about 190 dollars all told, and I'll simply smile and say I made a bang of a buck on it. Like about $150. 

Semi-pro tip: Keep that vinyl in dust jackets and the records outside so they don't get ringwear and you may stumble upon a gem that you pretty much ordered while drunk and stupid. And I've been not drunk for 3 1/4 years now, so that tells you how long ago that record actually came out. 
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My John Prine S/T album has ringwear on it. Is this the first album you have flipped?

 
rockaction said:
That would be a quick hundred on eBay at least. 

Speaking of which, I just sold Lorde's Melodrama deluxe vinyl package for about 190 dollars all said and done, before fees. Ask me what I'm doing with Lorde vinyl and then ask why it's about 190 dollars all told, and I'll simply smile and say I made a bang of a buck on it. Like about $150. 

I'm still sort of floored that anybody wanted it. I sold it for a very low price, too, comparatively. I might have marked it down by about forty or so dollars, but these things are so illiquid that one doesn't truly know but for the stats Discogs lists. 
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That's good business.  And I would never judge you for owning Lorde on vinyl.  Only if you referred to records themselves as vinyls.

The most valuable in my collection is a limited edition (150 copies) Joy Division bootleg that @bigbottombought for me as a Secret Santa gift in 2003 or 2004.  Discogs says $300 but a guy offered me $500 for it a year or so back (I didn't sell).  I sure hope biggie didn't drop that much coin on me.



 
scorchy said:
That's good business.  And I would never judge you for owning Lorde on vinyl.  Only if you referred to records themselves as vinyls.

The most valuable in my collection is a limited edition (150 copies) Joy Division bootleg that @bigbottombought for me as a Secret Santa gift in 2003 or 2004.  Discogs says $300 but a guy offered me $500 for it a year or so back (I didn't sell).  I sure hope biggie didn't drop that much coin on me.
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😎 No way brother! It’s apparently aged very well!

 
simey said:
My John Prine S/T album has ringwear on it. Is this the first album you have flipped?
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Ringwear is the devil. I have a Raw Power that would be worth a decent penny but I brought it home from the store and it had the dreaded ringwear.

As for the record flipping, this is really the second and probably last. I actually thought about it and started think about paring down my collection of worthy but expensively valued records I don't listen to anymore. I flipped Weezer's Blue Album on Mobile Fidelity for a meager profit. Like thirty bucks. This one was a bit different due to pricing.

I'm not really in the market to flip records, but this was a no-brainer for me. I am going to miss its cover, but I never saw its cover anyway. It was obscured by about fifty or so other records. So yeah, goodbye Lorde. Melodrama, for all its praise, wasn't really even that close to the stark beauty of Pure Heroine. 

 
scorchy said:
I didn't even know Sha Na Na was a real band for the longest time - I just though they were a bunch of Fonzies with a TV show.  All my friends loved Bowser.
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I was like 8 or 9 when I started watching their TV show. Not until I was 14 or so did I realize they were a real band that played Woodstock. 

 
Round 584

Category: Public Transit 

Song: Wreck of the Old 97

Artist: Vernon Dalhart 

The earliest of the best-sellers of the many to record this song, which was about an actual event. One of the progenitors of the tradition of great country/blues songs about train wrecks. I've been listening to a bunch of versions of this and another traditional train wreck song, and went with this for authenticity's sake. An interesting article (that digresses into alcohol) can be found here:

https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2015/04/the-old-97/

Oh, yes, and Cash did do this one on either the San Quentin or Folsom Prison recordings. It rocks. 

 
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Don't remember dates, but pretty sure my first 2 were at The Rave/Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee: 

Primus with opener Melvins

Pantera with opener Crowbar

 
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