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And after n repetitions, what happens? :shock: Nothing... In other words universes form over and over. The universes could or could not be the same as any other given universe. There is an infinite number of these universes, but only one exists physically at any given time. For any universe there is an infinite number of identical ones. They are linearly arranged, but because there is an infinite number of any given one we can return to any universe or visit any given one by going only one direction - forward. Backwards time travel might not be possible because of the possibility of paradoxes.

Personally I believe in an infinite amount of linear universes. That is, once our current universe collapses, another will form. Statistically speaking, it could be the exact same as ours save for precisely one minor difference, no matter how minute the difference is. And once that universe collapses another could appear with any n number of differences, n being an impossibly high number that we could definitely think of as infinity. And so this cycle repeats an infinite number of times with new universes being formed that may or may not be the same as one that came before it. In this manner if we gain the ability to jump forward in time we could jump to any "alternate" universe, and then jump forward again to a universe that is precisely the same as the one we are currently in, since statistically speaking there is bound to be one, although it would be a mind-bogglingly large amount of time later than the one we are in now. Dunno if I explained that clearly or not.

Their bassist/keyboard player fails at it though. He has the distorted Hammond sound down but it's just like WAKLJFLK:ASJDF:LKSJDFLK:DJF and a bunch of noise. At least on Woman.

ac/dc IS classic rock, and if not, classic metal. nirvana has no chance in hell of being classic rock though, at least not for another 20-30 years. Look at you. AC/DC most certainly is not classic metal. At all.

I don't see what that has got to do with the quality of the music though. But yea, those Jazz kids usually think they're very cool, interesting and know much more then the rest of the world. It doesn't. It's just not my thing. But because of them it's that much more difficult for me to endure it ;).

Grammar much? But on topic I would say that since school started I've been on cloud nine. No idea why since things aren't exactly ideal but I seem much happier than usual.

i've searched for a bit...but.. i've got nothin' Theres 2 pages of posts relating to his name.. only a few are on OT, and none of them shed any light on the subject. fook-a-ji, registered on june 20th 04, has a relatively low post count for someone who registered that early.. most of his recent posts are on either RS general or RS classic... I've got nothin'... Robbed a bank.

Even if you don't like me thanks very much for teaching me modes xD (I think it was you). I was off on some arrogant tangent about something or other and you made a reply about them having different tonal centers, and at first I was like "wtf?" but after I played the mixolydian on the G string I was like "wait a second.... that's all naturals!" And then I figured out that major was C and minor was A and all that good stuff.

Darn right it does! And I commend you for reading each one. I realize that from everybody's end I do seem a bit whiny and such but I totally disagree with the comment that Hawk said about people deserving respect because they're your parents. That's like saying your government deserves respect because it's your government, or saying that they have a right to spy on you because they need to protect you (I'm trying to draw a parallel with the whole Patriot Act thing). The bottom line in my mind is that if they want me to treat them nicely then they should stop doing things like calling people "dingleberries" on the highway for no apparent reason other than frustration, telling me how I can spend MY money that I make at MY job, stop telling me that I suck at music, and stop putting me in a position to fail. Once again I kept asking for the conversation to be over but my dad kept trying to pick it up. I don't believe I can be faulted for that. Come to mention it Barihawk, I don't recall my saying that I am "righteous" anywhere. I'm far from perfect, but at the very least I can admit when I'm wrong. I screw up every day and say 100 things I don't mean to say. I don't pretend to know everything about anything, even though I know I used to. I can think of 100 times I've said brash things to people I care about and respect, including my teachers, coworkers, and various other adults. On the other hand, my parents see it fit to pretend that they know all about everything. My dad tried to tell me that if I played jazz instead of rock on guitar that I could make 2000 dollars a night playing at clubs, and he is no sort of musician. My mother told me that Crazy Train has a "double beat." These once again are just minor examples, but it serves to point out the fact that while they seem to get on their high horses and say things like "You must think you're right all the time!" they fail to realize that to no matter what degree I possess that attitude they have it worse. If they did anything at LEAST positive, like say "Gee we're proud of you for pulling a 3.5 and taking all the highest classes," or "Wow we think it's great that you decided to try and play music even if we don't like it" (even if I am incredibly mediocre) instead of "You need to get a 4.0" or "You can't buy a new amplifier despite the fact you worked 5 extra hours per week over the summer and got a $500 bonus expressly for that purpose" I might be nicer to them. But right now all they seem to be able to muster is contempt, scorn, and blame in the form of "Alex, you are the reason this family is disintegrating." That's an exact quote regarding the possibility of my parents splitting up, and it came after I didn't check to see if a sheet of stickers went upside down or right side up in a printer.

Hello everybody! I am making this post primarily to vent, but also to see if it's me or my parents who are crazy. This post is angsty and involves going to see a "show," but please take it at face value if you are going to reply. Let's rewind to exactly one week ago. My family and I are eating dinner sans my brother who is sick. Somehow the topic comes up of how I am not especially fond of my high school principal because he institutes various policies that make little sense and serve only to give staff something to do (these include making parts of hallways one-way only so that when you need to go from one end of the school to the other you end up being late every other time no matter how hard you try, not being able to listen to music even during free periods or lunch, making late buses in the afternoon queue up and wait until all the others depart so if your bus driver is a minute late all the time then you end up being 10 minutes late home every day, etc.). My dad seems to be on some personal crusade to change student opinion of staff members who seem to not be doing a very sensible job, since after all he is the one that has to deal with them every day and not me :roll: , so he asks why I don't like him. I say I don't want to go into it several times, then I ask to stop talking about it, but he pursues. So eventually I mention "we cannot listen to music." Knowing very well what I mean because I have mentioned this point before, he said "so does the band and choir practice in silence? Or do you mean that you can't listen to iPods?" I respond to this by saying "If you had to guess what would you guess?" This resulted in him calling me a smartass and leaving in a storm of fury. Call me crazy but I usually respond to sarcasm with sarcasm. --- So now one week later my mom says "Gee you should apologize to your father." Long story short I tell her that I refuse to apologize to somebody with such a glaring double standard and ignore the the social rules of civilized society to appease somebody who made me buy an $800 laptop because the speakers sounded "fuzzy" when they were turned up all the way (but that's another story). --- So today I'm getting ready to be picked up by a friend to go to this big festival with a bunch of local bands. I am going to see my friend's band because I owe him a lot for helping me out with guitar, etc. as well as to see my friends. His band is playing in the morning and another is playing at 4:00. I plan to stay for 12 hours and I have a ride home (this costs $20 per day so I want to get my moneys' worth even if the music sucks). I worked this out four days ago. However, today my mother tells me that since I was so disrespectful I can only stay for 4 hours or so. She is telling me this an hour before I am set to leave. I mention the fact that perhaps this information might have been more useful to me on a day before today, since now I have to work around her BS. I also mention that I am now paying $20 for 4 hours and missing one of the bands I wanted to see. I can't help but also point out the fact that what I did to warrant such a "punishment" happened a week ago, and her reply was that "she was so stressed out that she just now thought about it." --- So call me crazy and angsty, but am I the only one that finds it strange that my parents send me to an adult job and expect me to kiss their [wagon] but turn around and tell me that I have to spend my money a certain way and talk to me in a demeaning manner?

80s rock lacks depth IMO, but the pop and dance and anything synthesizer has such sonic texture.

If I had five noses I'd try to commit suicide too. Sorry but honestly I can't stand Wilson.

If people consider Nirvana classic rock, then I will eat my shoe. And try as I might I can't seem to get into this whole jazz thing. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like everyone around here who listens to it has a holier-than-thou attitude, more so even than the shredder kids.

I'm in a similar situation. I hacked together two 100 watt JBL speakers and a Logitech 5.1 surround system for effectively a 7.3. Considering I paid around $100 for it all said and done I'm more than happy. And How2PK, when I can't sleep I lay in bed and listen to music through headphones. It is for this reason that I started ripping all my MP3s at 320kbps - because I can hear the difference and I enjoy the sonic nuances when I do that ;).

Mustaine could beat up all of Metallica single handedly. Not to mention the fact that anybody who plays their bass this low deserves approximately zero respect: XD I dunno how he even manages to play that low and have any kind of control.

That might be it then... seeing as how many vintage Marshall amps are pretty mid-voiced and heavy (which also unfortunately contributed to pooper-scooped metal tones *COUGH*METALLICA*COUGH*).

My funeral songs would be: Blue Oyster Cult - Perfect Water Boston - Don't Look Back and to top it all off... Styx - Come Sail Away. I already told my parents about that last one, and said that if at all possible to get the golden era Styx lineup to regroup and perform it live. And for those who call me weird, you can't deny that the tapping part of that song is awesome to the tenth power.

That makes me think you discount it on the basis of age alone. Yeah, real great. "I can't listen to new music because it's so new." Whee, this is fun. **NOTE: I could make a "Yo mama" joke here regarding discounting on the basis of age, but I think I'll refrain.

Honestly, there's a whole world of B-list classic rock acts. They generally fall into four categories: Were a really awesome band to begin with but were corrupted by fame Probably the best example of this would be REO Speedwagon. REO Speedwagon was essentially American Midwestern hard bar rock and a great live act with some virtuous playing on the part of Gary Richrath until they scored a hit with "Take It On The Run," "Time For Me To Fly," and so forth. Real sad in my opinion. The J. Geils Band would be another one. They started out as an amalgamation of boogie-in' white R&B and rock and stayed that way for the better part of a decade, but once they hit it big with Centerfold it all went down the tubes, with the band effectively breaking up. Bands that had a few singles and were big acts but are not critically lauded today Blue Oyster Cult would fall into this category. They had three big hits but nobody even bothers to pick up any of their albums besides Agents of Fortune (which has "Reaper)," Fire of Unknown Origin ("Burnin' For You"), or their Greatest Hits which draws primarily on those two plus Spectres (which has "Godzilla"). Real shame - they put out some freaky stuff with some of the best damned guitar work ever, and not even half bad keyboardage either! Boston would be another example, but to a lesser extent because of that stupid "More Than A Feeling" song. Bands that never got their break Montrose comes to mind. Montrose has been called by critics "the first US-bred hard rock group to challenge British supremacy of the genre," and although that really is a bunch of BS, they rock. Sammy Hagar got his start in Montrose alongside guitar maverick Ronnie Montrose (the group's namesake), putting out hot and heavy rockers such as "Space Station #5," "Bad Motor Scooter," and "Rock Candy." Sammy was replaced after one studio album (maybe he did one live one too? Can't remember), and although the second singer (his name escapes me) was serviceable, the band essentially dissolved a few albums later. Riggs also comes to mind - they were an 80s hard rock band fronted by Jerry Riggs (who later joined Pat Travers) that contributed a few songs to the Heavy Metal soundtrack. Bands from Europe that Americans were largely ignorant of I can think of quite a few here such as Budgie and Nazareth, but perhaps the most important is Slade. Slade was largely a hard rock/glam band from England headed by vocalist and rhythm player Noddy Holder. Although best remembered for the pop song "Merry Xmas Everybody," they had a string of hits in their native land but pretty much just one in America: "Run Runaway." However their influence on music was felt when post-Randy Rhoads era metal band Quiet Riot covered "[bleep] on Feel the Noize" in the 1980s. In sum: Slade rocks. Deep Purple also qualifies because the only damned song anybody knows by them is "Smoke on the Water," so everyone I know runs around like "llololol deep purpl sux lol". For the record, Deep Purple pwns, just because of Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore. Pick up Made In Japan if you don't believe me. Ritchie Blackmore is also the Yngwie Malmsteen of the 70s... think about it, larger than life ego, scalloped fretboards, Fender Strats though Marshall Super Leads, classical influence, black stage suit... the resemblance is striking. But that's something else altogether. --- My playlist consists largely of music like this, and it's great because when you play it for people they say "I never knew this was so awesome! Give me more!" And also just because it's something different from the generic plodding AC/DC or Led Zeppelin that all kids seem to like nowadays. It just plain rocks. I might also add that I don't understand how people say that Led Zeppelin is metal when the percentage of their electric, heavy, dark songs is actually quite low compared to their acoustic or bluesy numbers. Or how Jimmy Page is a visionary for nixing old blues riffs royalty-free on their albums. They're an alright band, but the very nature of them frustrates me. So yeah. My long winded rant basically says "Lesser known classic rock is awesome. Go check it out!"

Apparently Guitar Hero 3 will have Blue Oyster Cult's song "Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll" in it. I'm pretty excited, primarily because now people will know a song by them besides the big 3 ("Godzilla," "Don't Fear the Reaper," "Burnin' For You"), but now I'm dying a little bit on the inside because I'm that much less trendy and more conforming for liking them. They're my favorite band and I seem to make a big deal out of liking pretty much all of their material to some degree (except for Mirrors... even Club Ninja had its' moments, but disco metal is lost upon me). In fact I would probably qualify as liking them a tad too much, seeing as how I have almost all their records on CD plus a t-shirt, hoodie, poster, and having seen them live. The point I'm trying to make here is that I'm a rabid fan and that I now have internal conflict XD. I also don't like Guitar Hero because about 3/4 of the people I know are disillusioned by it and believe that playing guitar really is that easy, and that playing Guitar Hero somehow trains you to play real guitar, when you don't even get the callouses or finger strength. But that's just me. I'm no professional but at least I know my majors and minors and triads (and a handful of modes) to a certain degree, and don't make use exclusively of the pentatonic blues or minor in my pathetic attempts at soloing. And I take pride in the fact that I don't abuse the whammy bar as many of my EVH-wannabe peers do. Either way, discuss. And I know I probably said something I'll regret saying but I'm in a rush because I'm just so overwhelmed between this and my new guitar that will be here as soon as the eBay guy I bought it from ships the darn thing: http://www.jemsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66037

Heh. My life sucks. The last girlfriend I had was an ugly lying backstabbing attention [bleep]. The one I was sorta/hoping to hitting it off with I haven't seen since school let out. I'm still stuck with a $100 guitar because the one I want was supposed to be in stock May 31 but the date keeps getting pushed back, now it's August 15. My parents didn't believe me when I said I wanted to play guitar and put more faith in my lazy brother just because he played violin, and now that I'm good they keep badgering me to hear me play with my friends. I'm borderline overweight. I have acne. People make fun of me for my curly hair. I failed my driver's permit test because the computer marked a question I answered correctly wrong. I still don't have a car. I had to buy an $800 laptop from my dad because he thought the speakers sounded blown out (other than that the computer's fine). My GPA dipped to 3.4 so now I'll get hammered by my parents for not being able to join the Honors Society (a largely BS academic organization for preppy kids with not much else to do). My day is getting up at 10:30, getting on the computer, practicing guitar, scrounging lunch, optionally going on a bike ride, maybe going to the pool on the odd day, more guitar, more computer, dinner, more music, more computer, then bed. Wash rinse repeat, unless it's one of the 3 days a week I have work, where I go to work and deal with morons. But I wouldn't have it any other way because if I was where I wanted to be there'd me nothing for me to do. I used to think that I would give anything to be able to play guitar like Joe Satriani or keyboards like Jon Lord, but then I realized that it's the journey, not the destination. So there, despite my life being fairly substandard I'd consider myself relatively happy. Quit whining, because being a kid is supposed to be fun and if it isn't for you then you sure as hell better be living in poverty or something like that. If you have a stable family and living situation there's no reason for things to be boring. Get a job.

I work at a corporate helpdesk and people are pretty stupid. One guy called up and said that he had a "blue rectangle" in his My Documents and that it appeared there by itself. It turned out to be the task pane, and he wanted it "gone because it just showed up there by itself" ... right. A nice but rather clueless lady called up and said that she couldn't print to any printers. After checking to see that the printers she had were online and that she had an IP address she asked me "should I try restarting maybe? I haven't restarted this computer in... oh a few weeks." :wall: Sure enough that fixed it. The same dude from my first story once called us up an hour before closing on the day before Independence Day (in America that's a pretty big patriotic celebration, and the office is closed that day) telling us that his electronic timesheet numbers had expired. We don't handle that so we transfer him to one lady who handles timesheet issues, but she isn't there so he calls us back. Unbenkowst to us he left a message on her machine. Getting fairly upset now, he asks for somebody else, so we transfer him to the other person. However by this time the first person we transferred him to put in a trouble ticket. When a user has a trouble ticket they get automatic emails regarding the status of their issue, and the first email they get when it is opened is that "the problem has been submitted successfully." Having had over 30 tickets in the past this moron has the audacity to email us and tell us that "I don't know what submitted means but my problem has not been solved," despite the fact that the ticket says for him to call the aforementioned woman he left a voicemail with to work out the problem. So one of my coworkers has to take 10 minutes of his utter BS about us being incompetent. This is all because his program manager or whomever didn't inform him of his numbers running out, not to mention the fact that it's Tuesday and he has to have his sheet complete FRIDAY! :roll: One of my personal favorites: For background I'm 15 years old but I look 17-18. I was picking up a computer at 4:30 in the afternoon from an employee who had left the company. I'm in their office putting their stuff on a cart when presumably his supervisor walks in and asks what I'm doing there. I tell him that I'm picking up his old employee's asset, but this guy tells me that he was "never informed of such a major change." A ticket was put in under his name, so he received an automatic email informing him of the pickup. Not only this but he "wondered what a kid was doing here this late banging around." I effectively told him he could suck it and that if he had a problem he could talk to my manager (one of the most awesome people I know who'd stomp this moron if he had to). I tell the dude "have a nice evening!" with a menacingly sarcastic smile, walk back upstairs to my office, close the ticket and say "Asset retrieved." And just a week ago I was down in the dude's office doing some work for him and I ended up trying to not talk to him but he seems to have changed his tune quite nicely XD. One other time a lady called me because she wanted her home machine fixed. Since the helpdesk (obviously) does not fix peoples' personal computers free of charge everybody else is kind enough to send contracted work my way. I work comparatively cheap to Best Buy and it's a win-win. One girl calls me up and says that she wants me to reload her computer, but her boyfriend "borrowed her modem" so that I might not be able to. I asked her what she meant, and she said "isn't that where you put CDs and such in?" She was nice and well meaning but relatively clueless as far as things go. However it turned out later that that same boyfriend had gotten it fixed for her. Oh well. --- It really baffles me why a company of hundreds, possibly over a thousand of employees across upwards of 10 sites ends up hiring people that don't know how to use computers. These people develop or support people that develop fighter jets, tanks, shuttles, and life support systems, and they can't even manage a Dell desktop. This also requires us to maintain a training department. Agh. I could rant forever on how skewed corporate budgeting is but I don't think I shall.

If the mere fact that he's already talking himself in circles is any evidence I'd say you're right.

BOC? I didn't even know they were still alive. That would have been awesome. They sold their souls to Lucifer by 1974 at the latest. They can never die. Ever. But they can boot their drummer out XD.

I stood in the rain for 20 minutes without an umbrella so I could see Blue Oyster Cult. It was worth it \