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Rendezvous ~UK I'm Gonna Leave You ~Journey (Hammond @2:43) Midnight Dreamer ~Journey (Rhodes starts at 1:27 then transitions into a Moog)

I had not seen that video and did not know it was Billy Squire from the still frame and his name was not mentioned. Took a while to get a Google hit but the words that worked were “dancing guitarist music video that ruined career.” I was on my iPad. I watched most of it with the sound off. I did not know the song by its title. In silence I thought the video was a take on the What A Feeling music video from Flashdance. His looks and some of his moves are a little like Jennifer Beals except he has white and pastels to her black clothing. His dancing demonstrates why most guys should avoid dancing. I’m sure you bandites have observed more than I have. Some of the quirkiest dancers believe they are good dancers. I remember a dude dancing something like this in a club a decade before Seinfeld aired.

Ripley's Game (2002 due to delays): When it was made Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cate Blanchett and Gwyneth Paltrow eclipsed chances of receiving warranted attention. During production financial problems delayed its completion. The initial director, Liliana Cavani, had another commitment to direct a play and was unable to complete the film. John Malkovich took over directing. It was his first time directing a film. As far as I can tell it is a seamless transition and Malkovich is definitely up to the task. Even though Malkovich directed as much as 30% it is credited as a Liliana Cavani film regardless. All things considered the film wasn't heavily promoted and practically went straight to video. Tom Ripley is a character who appears in a series of books by Patricia Highsmith. However the depiction of Tom Ripley in these two films is very different. They should have given the character a different name and released Ripley's Game in a manner which did not draw comparisons to The Talented Mr. Ripley. The name is the only recognizable trait they share. Whatever you think of The Talented Mr. Ripley, (IMO an excellent film and also highly recommended), Ripley's Game is excellent and absolutely theater release worthy. The stories in these two films are completely different. In Ripley's Game, Ripley initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local craftsman into a hit man. The man is dying of cancer. He has a wife and young son but he has nothing to leave them and is desperate. Ripley's Game stars John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone and Lena Heady

Here you go. ✅ The whole movie's on Youtube and here ✅ Description: Riveting

Taurus pedals, they didn't think of everything. I can imagine how much better that made this great song. What stood out most to me when this came out was how it was their first footstomping song that did not use weird for rock elements. Up to this point they had been doing things to be different it seemed. Now it was like they just dedicated themselves to writing good music.

My nomination for most cringeworthy music video of all time. Journey even realized they were so bad at the air playing they committed to fake concert style MV's going forward. These guys were into looking cool. I recall seeing an ad stating "no Journey types" referring to the stylish clothing. Yet they did not speak up and say the over the top air playing is not our thing. They all seem very self-conscious. That typically plays out unfavorably in a public display.

Some of those bagpipe jokes are funnier than the average accordion joke.

So to some people bagpipes are in the same joke category as accordions? I have always liked the unison and harmony of a bagpipe band.

Somewhere there is 8mm film of Richards being zapped during a performance in Sacramento. It melted his guitar strings. Some witnesses thought he had been assassinated. He ended up in a hospital. The shock story Apparently Kesha's zap contact was her vagina by a flame shooting chastity belt.

I wonder if he ever demonstrated this ability for the detractors. If he did not, why not? That stormy confrontation is a natural reaction for someone convinced it was impossible and feeling anger at his friend claiming otherwise. If they were that close and knew one another well enough the stormy reaction of the person would be that much more understandable and forgivable. And give him a chance to apologize.

He is a multi-skilled performer and artist who can act, sing, produce, direct and dance. If he says there is more to it than seeking opportunities to do it on the grandest stage he has achieved through cinema I'd wonder whether he was just trying to fill the time with a more elaborate response. In a way he did better doing A Star Is Born and Maestro than say J-Lo's starting and succeeding in a separate musical career after she was successful acting.

Has a biopic film been made that depicts the development and evolution of a musician plausibly? They tend to be sensationalized BS because most movie viewers are looking for a certain form of entertainment. Things have to be run through a conversion process to make them suitable for a film meeting acceptable guidelines as entertainment. Otherwise the general audience is not going to invest the attention span if they have it.

How much band can you fit on a small platform?

On the nose: When I look at Leonard Bernstein I don't go to his nose. Karl Malden, W.C. Fields, Michael Imperioli, Adrien Brody yes. Adrien Brody recently did a film, Wrecked, where it seemed to me as though they wanted his naturally large hooked nose to be taken as a broken nose in at least one scene. I suspect Bradley Cooper was concerned about his own recognizable face getting in the way of his portrayal of Bernstein. Also playing Bernstein at different ages he would have had to use make-up to look plausible no matter what. When Robert De Niro gained weight to play Jake LaMotta in his later years it worked and was superior to loading on make-up like Billy Crystal for Mr. Saturday Night. But Nicole Kidman did not need a nose to play Virginia Woolfe. She can change personas so effectively she in effect put a wart on her face and expected the audience to ignore it. Christian Bale has gone on an emaciating diet for different roles at least three times in his career. Sometimes he has not been able to return to his normal weight for a different role. He was still skinny in a Batman sequel. Just acting he became unrecognizable as Christian Bale playing a character in The Fighter. He really should pass on future roles where the character is emaciated. I remember reading a review of Collin Farrell's performance in Triage. There is a scene with him in a bathtub. He apparently lost a lot of weight for that stage of the film. The reviewer was commending his acting by citing how much weight he lost for the role. That is dieting not acting. In the film he played a photojournalist and I am not exaggerating by saying it was the most implausible performance as a professional photographer taking pictures. He looked surprisingly unfamiliar with using a camera. He should have put the time and energy into doing that convincingly instead of losing weight. The character's weight was trivial in comparison. To reiterate, Bradley Cooper might have been concerned about his own recognizable face getting in the way of his portrayal of Bernstein.

That is a nice look, even the simple orange t-shirt but it really pops with the matching pretty woman. In effect all black attire diminishes how out of shape everyone is while white turns you into a billboard. But the thread is gig pants not gig hats. 5 of your 6 pics don't show pants. 🙂

Cop Land- I had seen it years ago and thought it was a good film. It was about to leave Netflix so I am watching it again. Man the cast is full of greats in their career prime. Meaning, when this age they were in many of their greatest films and here so many are in the same great film. Ray Liotta, Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, Robert Patrick, lovely lovely lovely Annabella Sciorra, Michael Rapaport and I was generally not a fan of his but this is the one where Sylvester Stallone showed he was capable of acting and portraying a character other than an action paper doll or Rocky. Edit: There are a surprising number of actors who appeared in The Sopranos TV series: Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, Frank Vincent, Arthur Nascarella, John Ventimiglia, Bruce Altman, Tony Sirico, Max Casella, Frank Pellegrino, Robert Patrick, Felix Solis, Janeane Garofalo The opening few minutes set up the story and this is a perfect example of how to do it right. The pace, just enough time on characters and their activity, solid acting by people already settled into their characters and roles, etc. Contrast this with the opening few minutes and throughout the entirety of The Many Saints of Newark (The Sopranos prequel) which is a perfect example of the opposite. When done wrong you end up with a tough to follow jumble of activity. Instead Copland is a pleasure to watch as everything unfolds. Also I mentioned it in another thread but to give it due notice Loudermilk is a TV series currently available on Amazon Prime and will be available on Netflix soon. It is funny, has good acting and writing and does not suffer from noticeable short cuts or puffed up nothings like so many streaming network productions.

Golf pants must excel in the material department because the pros are wearing a narrow pant leg style that would be suitable for tucking inside boots. Especially when it comes to casual pants, no one except you will notice that you are wearing pants featuring "ultimate comfort and breathability" like these at $17:

Quick route to boredom is listening to comedians talking seriously about jokes. Chris Rock describing his index card layout has its moment though.

I sort of got to live that out rewinding time by not playing for decades then picking it up again. Guitar not keyboards. It was like I was naturally born with musical talent. I had some but the familiarity and agility of having played for years was significantly more accessible than what I had from birth. This time I had more patience to do it properly. First time around I wanted to play. I had energy and craving that needed sating and I picked up a lot of bad habits and techniques. Still just a piano noodler and will die that.

The typical music in the background of this show is Indie, (however if I were to rewatch the episodes I saw I might be wrong and it is just the Indie songs that stand out because I find them annoying). In this episode the song came on in the background before, I at least recognized, the episode plot direction unfolded enough to identify. Later the relevance was more obvious. At the moment the song played it seemed out of the blue to me so hearing it had no context in my mind and I thought how unique it was to use progressive rock in a TV show like that. All of a sudden there was this Emerson organ doodle doodle doodle riffing. If I had to guess I would have eventually thought of ELP. It did not have to be a famous band. It was not one of their songs recognizable to non-fans like me. (I liked them just not enough to buy anything and listen regularly). Had it been meant to be more of a sentimental memory trigger they surely would have used a portion where Greg Lake is singing. The TV show Is Loudermilk starring Ron Livingston. It was one of the middle episodes of Season 1. The main character is an ex-music critic. I think most of the bands ever focused on are fictional. As mentioned a lot of the background music is Indie, sounding and unfamiliar at least to me. They do sometimes mention actual famous bands briefly though. BTW, this show is funny, well written, acted and casted.

I had not heard progressive rock music used as a backdrop in a Sit-Com TV show. I never owned an album of theirs and only listened to them when aired on broadcast radio. I did not immediately recognize the band but my attention was drawn to the genre. Later I heard the reference and context which tied in the band, Emerson Lake and Palmer, to the episode. Without doing an internet search, does anyone know the TV show which featured ELP's music? It wasn't anything familiar like Lucky Man.

They make them EASIER to drop though.

I am not going to argue with you. I will suggest reading about subjectivity and objectivity in aesthetics and consider particularly mathematics and The Golden Mean additionally whether one attributes beauty to the item's nature or whether we personally ascribe beauty to things. Is it beautiful in and if itself or is it beautiful because we think it is and thus make something beautiful? Or can it be either and both?

Aesthetics isn't entirely subjective. That's just a common response when one does not align with your belief. Sure you can say there is beauty or even an art to anything. Another idea thrown out more frequently than is true though. If this were just anyone's house would so many here be drooling? There is at least one opinion Nazi who objects specifically to my view. I am not allowed to see and say differently than him. That has nothing at all to do with aesthetics.

It's an ugly treehouse with a 1960's grade school panel and color scheme.