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Billy Corgan? Tiny Tim?

Tiny Tim used to frequent the corner store I lived next to in Minneapolis.

There is a shrine to him there.

It is weird. But so we was he. But evidently a lovely man according to the owner.

Dave Matthews Band is the late 1990s and early 2000s in musical and human form. Do you have a friend who wears cargo shorts with oversized pockets? Does he still wear a braided belt with his jeans? I bet you have talked to him about changing with the times, but he isn't going to change.

That's a Dave Matthews Band fan.

He really hit it big in the five years I left high school and finished college.

I rather liked the band and I admit to having gone to two of his shows and live it is a lot of fun.

But, I cannot abide them. Haven't been able to since about 2007.

That isn't to say they don't have talent, they do, good song writes and live act, but I just don't like that sound anymore.
 
Has anyone else stopped liking rock?

I don't listen to it at all anymore.

And I don't think it is just because the genre is failing.
 
I am both a Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan fan. Michael M changed both bands music because he is a great vocalist. Bands evolve, and I think the change extended the Doobie Brothers repertoire. But to each his own...

Mike is fantastic on Peg as a background singer. Like incredible. That’s where I like him.

As a lead, I just can’t stand that oversinging. It reminds me of Christina Aguilera.
 
He really hit it big in the five years I left high school and finished college.

I rather liked the band and I admit to having gone to two of his shows and live it is a lot of fun.

But, I cannot abide them. Haven't been able to since about 2007.

That isn't to say they don't have talent, they do, good song writes and live act, but I just don't like that sound anymore

When I was first dating my wife she scored free tickets pretty close to the stage. This would have been fall of 2007 or so. I'm glad I went but also glad I didn't pay. From all accounts he is a really good person. He would do things like loan out his tour equipment for free concerts in SF for local musicians like Spearhead. So, can't say a bad thing about him other than I would never spend money on his music.

Switching the topic to T Rex... I played the shit out of their greatest hits for about a decade.
 
When I was first dating my wife she scored free tickets pretty close to the stage. This would have been fall of 2007 or so. I'm glad I went but also glad I didn't pay. From all accounts he is a really good person. He would do things like loan out his tour equipment for free concerts in SF for local musicians like Spearhead. So, can't say a bad thing about him other than I would never spend money on his music.

Switching the topic to T Rex... I played the shit out of their greatest hits for about a decade.

I saw him at the Wallingford QFC the last month we were in Seattle.

I was able to cross that off the Seattle celebrity checklist.

I only have Tom Skerrit and Shawn Kemp left.
 
On DMB.. missed him entirely until late 2000's. My brother interviewed with them around that time so I started listening thier stuff. The style speaks to me. I do in fact own oversize pocket khaki shorts and a leather braided belt, and comfy sandals, so thiers that
 
On DMB.. missed him entirely until late 2000's. My brother interviewed with them around that time so I started listening thier stuff. The style speaks to me. I do in fact own oversize pocket khaki shorts and a leather braided belt, and comfy sandals, so thiers that

I get it. Sometimes you have to slip into comfy sandals and cargo shorts with huge pockets, walk to your local Quiznos bathroom, and spank it to an old picture of Jennifer Aniston to feel young again. We have all been there.

Nobody wants to talk T Rex?

 
When I was first dating my wife she scored free tickets pretty close to the stage. This would have been fall of 2007 or so. I'm glad I went but also glad I didn't pay. From all accounts he is a really good person. He would do things like loan out his tour equipment for free concerts in SF for local musicians like Spearhead. So, can't say a bad thing about him other than I would never spend money on his music.

Switching the topic to T Rex... I played the shit out of their greatest hits for about a decade.

Spearhead and his little buddy Franti are giant asshats.
 
Spearhead and his little buddy Franti are giant asshats.

I saw Michael Franti with Counting Crows and Augustana in Orlando back in like 2011 or so.

Crows were good. Franti wasn’t my style. Augustana sucked.
 
I saw Michael Franti with Counting Crows and Augustana in Orlando back in like 2011 or so.

Crows were good. Franti wasn’t my style. Augustana sucked.

Franti can't share a stage with anyone without trying to upstage the other act.
 
Has anyone else stopped liking rock?

I don't listen to it at all anymore.

And I don't think it is just because the genre is failing.

It's all blurring together, and the best "rock" acts are ones that are either tried and true (Jack White, Black Keys I suppose) or not getting any recognition or massive play. There was a Billboard list talking of the best rock songs of the last decade and Imagine Dragons and 21 Pilots dominated the top ten. There's your "rock".

Even the rock I listen to has more industrial and hip hop elements than your traditional rock jams of yesteryear.

I will say that I ride hard for Ghost though. Catchy rock with a bit of glitz and heavy devil worship. Basically, the KISS of the new millenium.

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Not impressed with the latest class of HOF inductees, but as a person who has attended every induction ceremony since the first one at Public Hall, I'll do my best to get here too. It's a real celebration and a very cool event regardless.
 
I'm just saying but thank god for Greta Van Fleet
I enjoy them specifically bc they sound like my favorite band. And annoy @Damage

But I wonder if they’ll have staying power considering they’re really imitating another band, albeit really well. They’ll have to change things up.
 
I get it. Sometimes you have to slip into comfy sandals and cargo shorts with huge pockets, walk to your local Quiznos bathroom, and spank it to an old picture of Jennifer Aniston to feel young again. We have all been there.

Nobody wants to talk T Rex?


I like T. Rex. Though I always thought that Bang a Gong was one of their crappier songs. Nothing really to it.
 

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