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Nope. I'm a girl with an "uptightness" problem.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Tephra Rising from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:14:16 AM)| |  | Tephra Rising wrote: | | I had a nice shoulder-length 'do until about 2000 when my "inferior genetics" (thanks Mom) took over and it was either cut it short or apply to Colonial Williamsburg to play Ben Franklin. I keep it short these days but just can't quite bring myself to go "chrome dome" quite yet. (I really, really miss my hair.)
Is Vaillant suffering from lady trouble? If so, I feel for ya bro, 2 failed marriages under my belt and at 40 it isn't exactly getting easier to find Miss Right. Had a fantastic date with a great gal about 2 weeks ago, one of the best dates I think I've ever had, was really crazy about her but she let me know on no uncertain terms she didn't have those kind of feelings for me. So I can relate. I still search against all odds for Miss Right. Love sucks sometimes......(oh well, we were 200 miles apart anyway. Long-distance never seems to work for me.) |
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| [Tephra Rising] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:19:23 AM | |
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Yes, I am a male (last time I checked anyway).......yup, still there.
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:18:43 AM | |
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Where to start ? As for the hair, I choose to go down with dignity. If some of my personal heroes ( Rob Halford, Mark Martin, etc. ) can handle it so can I.
As for Vail, unless there is something she hasn't mentioned to me ( and that's entirely posible ) I don't think there is lady trouble, but only she can answer that.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Tephra Rising from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:14:16 AM)| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | I had a nice shoulder-length 'do until about 2000 when my "inferior genetics" (thanks Mom) took over and it was either cut it short or apply to Colonial Williamsburg to play Ben Franklin. I keep it short these days but just can't quite bring myself to go "chrome dome" quite yet. (I really, really miss my hair.)
Is Vaillant suffering from lady trouble? If so, I feel for ya bro, 2 failed marriages under my belt and at 40 it isn't exactly getting easier to find Miss Right. Had a fantastic date with a great gal about 2 weeks ago, one of the best dates I think I've ever had, was really crazy about her but she let me know on no uncertain terms she didn't have those kind of feelings for me. So I can relate. I still search against all odds for Miss Right. Love sucks sometimes......(oh well, we were 200 miles apart anyway. Long-distance never seems to work for me.) |
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| [DemonCat] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:16:18 AM | |
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Please excuse me a moment Vail for this next comment please.
I'm assuming we're talking about baldness? Also assuming Tephra Rising's a male. Let me tell you what my teacher said to me one day that may make you feel better. He was proud of his baldness, because he blamed it on his wife rubbing his head while he ate her out over all the years!
Yeah he was a cool person, and my favorite teacher. The same teacher who saw Led Zeppelin open for The Who back in the early 70's. |
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:15:08 AM | |
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Nice ! Bit of schoolin' for us. I guess we've all got another thing comin', heh ? 
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:13:14 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | You're right. There's only one life... gotta live it up, right?
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | It's best to let little things like that go Vail. Life's short, and she won't always be there. One day you may find youself looking back, and when you do...be thankful that she even listened, or read something that means so much to you. That's one way to make it a positive instead of a negative for you. Maybe you won't get so mad next time as a result, and may even see the humor, or whatever it is from her point of view. Most important is that you do have moments with her like that, which will build up memories. Some people don't even have that.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Yeah, although I sometimes get too worked up and get mad if she makes fun of something important during a song (lyrically, most of the time). Its a little flaw of mine I still need to work on.
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | Then it's a special thing between the two of you, and a good thing!
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I do that sometimes too, making fun of little quirks in the music she hears. We do that to each other every once in a while as our strange way of bonding.
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Maybe it's one of those things where she saw the seriousness of it, and threw out some sarcasm. Try to look at it that way, and see if it that's not what it was. Then maybe you can appreciate it better, and share more. I may be stepping out of bounds here, and be dead wrong, but it's better to share what's important to you w/her, than to drift apart, from a misunderstanding.
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She knows English pretty well despite being from Mexico, so she understood the lyrics. Only problem is she likes to poke fun at anything that's supposed to be serious. Its one reason why I don't share most of my music with her.
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You may do better by showing her the lyrics. At least that's how I connected w/my mom w/Ozzy's Miracle Man. She'd seen the story on the news, and I shared Ozzys funny poke at them. It was certainly "a moment".
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I think my mom is pretty tolerant to it, but she wouldn't hear it on a daily basis. She allows me to listen to what I like, as long as I do well in school. I only showed her Nostradamus CD because she knew about the prophet and thought he was very wise. If anything, she made fun of one of the songs. 
As far as having something in common with your son at that level, I think its great!! The more you have in common with your son the more you two can bond, IMO.
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Is your mom usually hip to heavy metal? I mean...I know my son thinks I'm a cool dad, and he also understands that I'm still his parent, and NOT his friend, but we have a blast so far together in life with each others company. That's been very important to me...that I could identify with him in whatever he may be going through. Am I taking that to a more intense level? Is it too much?
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I'll ask her in a little bit. She's in the living room watching a Mission Impossible movie en Español. (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:57:48 PM)
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| [Tephra Rising] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:14:16 AM | |
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I had a nice shoulder-length 'do until about 2000 when my "inferior genetics" (thanks Mom) took over and it was either cut it short or apply to Colonial Williamsburg to play Ben Franklin. I keep it short these days but just can't quite bring myself to go "chrome dome" quite yet. (I really, really miss my hair.)
Is Vaillant suffering from lady trouble? If so, I feel for ya bro, 2 failed marriages under my belt and at 40 it isn't exactly getting easier to find Miss Right. Had a fantastic date with a great gal about 2 weeks ago, one of the best dates I think I've ever had, was really crazy about her but she let me know on no uncertain terms she didn't have those kind of feelings for me. So I can relate. I still search against all odds for Miss Right. Love sucks sometimes......(oh well, we were 200 miles apart anyway. Long-distance never seems to work for me.) |
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:13:14 AM | |
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You're right. There's only one life... gotta live it up, right?
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:07:40 AM)| | | DemonCat wrote: | | It's best to let little things like that go Vail. Life's short, and she won't always be there. One day you may find youself looking back, and when you do...be thankful that she even listened, or read something that means so much to you. That's one way to make it a positive instead of a negative for you. Maybe you won't get so mad next time as a result, and may even see the humor, or whatever it is from her point of view. Most important is that you do have moments with her like that, which will build up memories. Some people don't even have that.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Yeah, although I sometimes get too worked up and get mad if she makes fun of something important during a song (lyrically, most of the time). Its a little flaw of mine I still need to work on.
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | Then it's a special thing between the two of you, and a good thing!
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I do that sometimes too, making fun of little quirks in the music she hears. We do that to each other every once in a while as our strange way of bonding.
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Maybe it's one of those things where she saw the seriousness of it, and threw out some sarcasm. Try to look at it that way, and see if it that's not what it was. Then maybe you can appreciate it better, and share more. I may be stepping out of bounds here, and be dead wrong, but it's better to share what's important to you w/her, than to drift apart, from a misunderstanding.
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She knows English pretty well despite being from Mexico, so she understood the lyrics. Only problem is she likes to poke fun at anything that's supposed to be serious. Its one reason why I don't share most of my music with her.
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You may do better by showing her the lyrics. At least that's how I connected w/my mom w/Ozzy's Miracle Man. She'd seen the story on the news, and I shared Ozzys funny poke at them. It was certainly "a moment".
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I think my mom is pretty tolerant to it, but she wouldn't hear it on a daily basis. She allows me to listen to what I like, as long as I do well in school. I only showed her Nostradamus CD because she knew about the prophet and thought he was very wise. If anything, she made fun of one of the songs.
As far as having something in common with your son at that level, I think its great!! The more you have in common with your son the more you two can bond, IMO.
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Is your mom usually hip to heavy metal? I mean...I know my son thinks I'm a cool dad, and he also understands that I'm still his parent, and NOT his friend, but we have a blast so far together in life with each others company. That's been very important to me...that I could identify with him in whatever he may be going through. Am I taking that to a more intense level? Is it too much?
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I'll ask her in a little bit. She's in the living room watching a Mission Impossible movie en Español. (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:57:48 PM)
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:10:15 AM | |
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Ha ! Got the same "hair affliction" myself. If nothing else, after having it halfway down my back, it's so much less trouble !
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Tephra Rising from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:07:21 AM)| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | No worries, DC. Actually I was only poking mild fun, I thought Rob actually looked really cool with his mullet, although I think I liked him best with the British Steel "Living After Midnight" shoulder-length 'do (a style I emulated myself for a while in high school). I suffer Rob's same affliction these days but haven't broken down and shaved it all off yet.......did I mention I'm not only the Hair Club President I'm also a member!!!???
Don't worry about Dokken. I have found in the metal world you either love 'em or hate 'em. I will say for the record that out of all the "hair bands" (Poison, Warrant, etc.), I found Dokken to be more concerned with the actual music they were playing and not how much lipstick and hairspray you had on. |
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| [DemonCat] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:07:40 AM | |
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It's best to let little things like that go Vail. Life's short, and she won't always be there. One day you may find youself looking back, and when you do...be thankful that she even listened, or read something that means so much to you. That's one way to make it a positive instead of a negative for you. Maybe you won't get so mad next time as a result, and may even see the humor, or whatever it is from her point of view. Most important is that you do have moments with her like that, which will build up memories. Some people don't even have that.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:58:50 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Yeah, although I sometimes get too worked up and get mad if she makes fun of something important during a song (lyrically, most of the time). Its a little flaw of mine I still need to work on.
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | Then it's a special thing between the two of you, and a good thing!
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I do that sometimes too, making fun of little quirks in the music she hears. We do that to each other every once in a while as our strange way of bonding.
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Maybe it's one of those things where she saw the seriousness of it, and threw out some sarcasm. Try to look at it that way, and see if it that's not what it was. Then maybe you can appreciate it better, and share more. I may be stepping out of bounds here, and be dead wrong, but it's better to share what's important to you w/her, than to drift apart, from a misunderstanding.
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She knows English pretty well despite being from Mexico, so she understood the lyrics. Only problem is she likes to poke fun at anything that's supposed to be serious. Its one reason why I don't share most of my music with her.
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You may do better by showing her the lyrics. At least that's how I connected w/my mom w/Ozzy's Miracle Man. She'd seen the story on the news, and I shared Ozzys funny poke at them. It was certainly "a moment".
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I think my mom is pretty tolerant to it, but she wouldn't hear it on a daily basis. She allows me to listen to what I like, as long as I do well in school. I only showed her Nostradamus CD because she knew about the prophet and thought he was very wise. If anything, she made fun of one of the songs.
As far as having something in common with your son at that level, I think its great!! The more you have in common with your son the more you two can bond, IMO.
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Is your mom usually hip to heavy metal? I mean...I know my son thinks I'm a cool dad, and he also understands that I'm still his parent, and NOT his friend, but we have a blast so far together in life with each others company. That's been very important to me...that I could identify with him in whatever he may be going through. Am I taking that to a more intense level? Is it too much?
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I'll ask her in a little bit. She's in the living room watching a Mission Impossible movie en Español. (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:57:48 PM)
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| [Tephra Rising] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:07:21 AM | |
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No worries, DC. Actually I was only poking mild fun, I thought Rob actually looked really cool with his mullet, although I think I liked him best with the British Steel "Living After Midnight" shoulder-length 'do (a style I emulated myself for a while in high school). I suffer Rob's same affliction these days but haven't broken down and shaved it all off yet.......did I mention I'm not only the Hair Club President I'm also a member!!!???
Don't worry about Dokken. I have found in the metal world you either love 'em or hate 'em. I will say for the record that out of all the "hair bands" (Poison, Warrant, etc.), I found Dokken to be more concerned with the actual music they were playing and not how much lipstick and hairspray you had on. |
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:05:52 AM | |
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The songs weren't the greatest when compared to Priest or Queensryche, but the guitar playing and that nasty violent sound George got just captured me.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:03:52 AM)| | | DemonCat wrote: | | You're gonna lose me talking about Dokken. Never got into them, and Rob's mullet was one of his best hairstyles IMO, but don't let my opinions discourage you from continuing. I respect anyones opinion, and you'll just have to excuse my ignorance about Dokken.
| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | I don't know if you've had the chance to listen to the latest Dokken CD which was released last month. It's called "Lightning Strikes Again" and it's fucking incredible. Dokken back and firing on all cylinders. I must have listened to it 100 times and it sounds just like they did 20 years ago. Lynch isn't in the lineup anymore (too many pissing contests with Don, I suspect) but their current axe man can play just like Lynch and the riffs will bring him to mind. I imagine that's an easier thing to do than replace Don, but then again this band was always Don's baby. Oh those rock star egos. What is one to do???
Vaillant already knows my story of Priest with Don Dokken opening that I caught on the Painkiller tour in Alaska in 1991. I think Priest/Ryche 3 years ago is about the closest one to that. Another spectacular concert.
My "live baptism of Priest" was during the Turbo tour in Tacoma, WA, 1986 (Rob with a mullet, hahaha) The opener: Dokken. |
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| [DemonCat] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:03:52 AM | |
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You're gonna lose me talking about Dokken. Never got into them, and Rob's mullet was one of his best hairstyles IMO, but don't let my opinions discourage you from continuing. I respect anyones opinion, and you'll just have to excuse my ignorance about Dokken.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Tephra Rising from Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:58:46 AM)| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | I don't know if you've had the chance to listen to the latest Dokken CD which was released last month. It's called "Lightning Strikes Again" and it's fucking incredible. Dokken back and firing on all cylinders. I must have listened to it 100 times and it sounds just like they did 20 years ago. Lynch isn't in the lineup anymore (too many pissing contests with Don, I suspect) but their current axe man can play just like Lynch and the riffs will bring him to mind. I imagine that's an easier thing to do than replace Don, but then again this band was always Don's baby. Oh those rock star egos. What is one to do???
Vaillant already knows my story of Priest with Don Dokken opening that I caught on the Painkiller tour in Alaska in 1991. I think Priest/Ryche 3 years ago is about the closest one to that. Another spectacular concert.
My "live baptism of Priest" was during the Turbo tour in Tacoma, WA, 1986 (Rob with a mullet, hahaha) The opener: Dokken. |
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:02:04 AM | |
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True it was Don's baby, but Don got his deal in Germany and had to actually get a talented band to keep it. He really should have been more open to the band's input as Don's ideas got pretty dated quick.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Tephra Rising from Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:58:46 AM)| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | I don't know if you've had the chance to listen to the latest Dokken CD which was released last month. It's called "Lightning Strikes Again" and it's fucking incredible. Dokken back and firing on all cylinders. I must have listened to it 100 times and it sounds just like they did 20 years ago. Lynch isn't in the lineup anymore (too many pissing contests with Don, I suspect) but their current axe man can play just like Lynch and the riffs will bring him to mind. I imagine that's an easier thing to do than replace Don, but then again this band was always Don's baby. Oh those rock star egos. What is one to do???
Vaillant already knows my story of Priest with Don Dokken opening that I caught on the Painkiller tour in Alaska in 1991. I think Priest/Ryche 3 years ago is about the closest one to that. Another spectacular concert.
My "live baptism of Priest" was during the Turbo tour in Tacoma, WA, 1986 (Rob with a mullet, hahaha) The opener: Dokken. |
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:58:50 AM | |
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Yeah, although I sometimes get too worked up and get mad if she makes fun of something important during a song (lyrically, most of the time). Its a little flaw of mine I still need to work on.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:53:19 AM)| | | DemonCat wrote: | | Then it's a special thing between the two of you, and a good thing!
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I do that sometimes too, making fun of little quirks in the music she hears. We do that to each other every once in a while as our strange way of bonding.
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Maybe it's one of those things where she saw the seriousness of it, and threw out some sarcasm. Try to look at it that way, and see if it that's not what it was. Then maybe you can appreciate it better, and share more. I may be stepping out of bounds here, and be dead wrong, but it's better to share what's important to you w/her, than to drift apart, from a misunderstanding.
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She knows English pretty well despite being from Mexico, so she understood the lyrics. Only problem is she likes to poke fun at anything that's supposed to be serious. Its one reason why I don't share most of my music with her.
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You may do better by showing her the lyrics. At least that's how I connected w/my mom w/Ozzy's Miracle Man. She'd seen the story on the news, and I shared Ozzys funny poke at them. It was certainly "a moment".
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I think my mom is pretty tolerant to it, but she wouldn't hear it on a daily basis. She allows me to listen to what I like, as long as I do well in school. I only showed her Nostradamus CD because she knew about the prophet and thought he was very wise. If anything, she made fun of one of the songs.
As far as having something in common with your son at that level, I think its great!! The more you have in common with your son the more you two can bond, IMO.
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Is your mom usually hip to heavy metal? I mean...I know my son thinks I'm a cool dad, and he also understands that I'm still his parent, and NOT his friend, but we have a blast so far together in life with each others company. That's been very important to me...that I could identify with him in whatever he may be going through. Am I taking that to a more intense level? Is it too much?
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I'll ask her in a little bit. She's in the living room watching a Mission Impossible movie en Español. (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:57:48 PM)
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I don't know if you've had the chance to listen to the latest Dokken CD which was released last month. It's called "Lightning Strikes Again" and it's fucking incredible. Dokken back and firing on all cylinders. I must have listened to it 100 times and it sounds just like they did 20 years ago. Lynch isn't in the lineup anymore (too many pissing contests with Don, I suspect) but their current axe man can play just like Lynch and the riffs will bring him to mind. I imagine that's an easier thing to do than replace Don, but then again this band was always Don's baby. Oh those rock star egos. What is one to do???
Vaillant already knows my story of Priest with Don Dokken opening that I caught on the Painkiller tour in Alaska in 1991. I think Priest/Ryche 3 years ago is about the closest one to that. Another spectacular concert.
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[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Tephra Rising from Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:49:54 AM)| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | | Hey Vaillant and DC, I wondered if it's too late for me to jump into this discussion regarding the Mighty Ryche which is in my top 3 metal favorites (Dokken in a head-on tie with Priest always, always being #1). I was born in Seattle and so grew up with Queensryche. Matter of fact I got to see Geoff and Co. open for Priest in Vancouver WA during the AOR tour in 2005. What a show!!!! Also can relate to parents not relating to my love of metal. My dad (now passed on) once declared that I would "outgrow" Priest and metal by the time I was 20. I'm 40 now. I love Priest and metal more than ever. |
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:54:20 AM | |
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Oh shit, if you're bringin' the mighty George Lynch ( aka THE MAN ) into the convo, you're never too late.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Tephra Rising from Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:49:54 AM)| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | | Hey Vaillant and DC, I wondered if it's too late for me to jump into this discussion regarding the Mighty Ryche which is in my top 3 metal favorites (Dokken in a head-on tie with Priest always, always being #1). I was born in Seattle and so grew up with Queensryche. Matter of fact I got to see Geoff and Co. open for Priest in Vancouver WA during the AOR tour in 2005. What a show!!!! Also can relate to parents not relating to my love of metal. My dad (now passed on) once declared that I would "outgrow" Priest and metal by the time I was 20. I'm 40 now. I love Priest and metal more than ever. |
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| [DemonCat] Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:53:19 AM | |
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Then it's a special thing between the two of you, and a good thing!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:42:28 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I do that sometimes too, making fun of little quirks in the music she hears. We do that to each other every once in a while as our strange way of bonding.
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Maybe it's one of those things where she saw the seriousness of it, and threw out some sarcasm. Try to look at it that way, and see if it that's not what it was. Then maybe you can appreciate it better, and share more. I may be stepping out of bounds here, and be dead wrong, but it's better to share what's important to you w/her, than to drift apart, from a misunderstanding.
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She knows English pretty well despite being from Mexico, so she understood the lyrics. Only problem is she likes to poke fun at anything that's supposed to be serious. Its one reason why I don't share most of my music with her.
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You may do better by showing her the lyrics. At least that's how I connected w/my mom w/Ozzy's Miracle Man. She'd seen the story on the news, and I shared Ozzys funny poke at them. It was certainly "a moment".
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I think my mom is pretty tolerant to it, but she wouldn't hear it on a daily basis. She allows me to listen to what I like, as long as I do well in school. I only showed her Nostradamus CD because she knew about the prophet and thought he was very wise. If anything, she made fun of one of the songs.
As far as having something in common with your son at that level, I think its great!! The more you have in common with your son the more you two can bond, IMO.
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Is your mom usually hip to heavy metal? I mean...I know my son thinks I'm a cool dad, and he also understands that I'm still his parent, and NOT his friend, but we have a blast so far together in life with each others company. That's been very important to me...that I could identify with him in whatever he may be going through. Am I taking that to a more intense level? Is it too much?
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I'll ask her in a little bit. She's in the living room watching a Mission Impossible movie en Español. (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:57:48 PM)
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| My mom would have never made it through the first chord. Yer lucky! Gonna have to ask her opinion sometime, and share it w/us.
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| [Tephra Rising] Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:49:54 AM | |
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| Hey Vaillant and DC, I wondered if it's too late for me to jump into this discussion regarding the Mighty Ryche which is in my top 3 metal favorites (Dokken in a head-on tie with Priest always, always being #1). I was born in Seattle and so grew up with Queensryche. Matter of fact I got to see Geoff and Co. open for Priest in Vancouver WA during the AOR tour in 2005. What a show!!!! Also can relate to parents not relating to my love of metal. My dad (now passed on) once declared that I would "outgrow" Priest and metal by the time I was 20. I'm 40 now. I love Priest and metal more than ever. |
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:48:52 AM | |
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I just wish I could have seen that. I may not even be able to catch this Priest tour. Money is tight and business is down. We are just circling the wagons and trying to ride it out.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:46:42 AM)| | | DemonCat wrote: | | Geoff Tate was always my 2nd favorite heavy metal vocalist for that very reason. That's why see Queensryche open for Judas Priest last tour was soooooo special to me.
It brought me to a memory I had with my favorite teacher. He had seen Led Zeppelin open for the Who. I was envious at the time, and have since dismissed such feelings from my life. However, I have now had what I believe to be an equal experience as a result!
| | | TIMBONI wrote: | | Yes, and dare I say, one of the only vocalists to actually approach Rob's range and abilities.
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | One of my favorite albums...oops CDs. LOL
I've always said Queensryche was "thinking mans" heavy metal. Most people don't understand it, yet it seems they did, and still put it down. Sad IMO.
| | | TIMBONI wrote: | | That can be frustrating. I had a similar experience when I tried to share Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime" with my parents. They called it "subversive counter culture paranoia". As you can tell by the fact that I remember that, it left an impression. I had always thought my parents were more intelligent and open than that.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | She knows English pretty well despite being from Mexico, so she understood the lyrics. Only problem is she likes to poke fun at anything that's supposed to be serious. Its one reason why I don't share most of my music with her.
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | You may do better by showing her the lyrics. At least that's how I connected w/my mom w/Ozzy's Miracle Man. She'd seen the story on the news, and I shared Ozzys funny poke at them. It was certainly "a moment".
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I think my mom is pretty tolerant to it, but she wouldn't hear it on a daily basis. She allows me to listen to what I like, as long as I do well in school. I only showed her Nostradamus CD because she knew about the prophet and thought he was very wise. If anything, she made fun of one of the songs.
As far as having something in common with your son at that level, I think its great!! The more you have in common with your son the more you two can bond, IMO.
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | Is your mom usually hip to heavy metal? I mean...I know my son thinks I'm a cool dad, and he also understands that I'm still his parent, and NOT his friend, but we have a blast so far together in life with each others company. That's been very important to me...that I could identify with him in whatever he may be going through. Am I taking that to a more intense level? Is it too much?
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I'll ask her in a little bit. She's in the living room watching a Mission Impossible movie en Español. (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:57:48 PM)
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| My mom would have never made it through the first chord. Yer lucky! Gonna have to ask her opinion sometime, and share it w/us.
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