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Discussion in 'Los Angeles DODGERS' started by irish, Apr 2, 2017.

  1. CapnTreee

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    How're you gonna argue with that?

    You're not.

    Now take a moment and try to reconcile your last two posts. I'll wait... I know your age... you'll come around
     
  2. rube

    rube DSP Legend Staff Member Administrator

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    Yes I say selfish is a bad thing.
    Of course I am selfish, very much so. We all are and we all need to fight our selfish urges. Then you end up thinking things like all you have is faith in yourself. There is no way that selfish does not make you darker. Not every single selfish act results in negativity that you can palpate. But they build that neg meter up.

    BTW working through pain is what we should all be doing.
    Your job as a human is to inspect yourself all the time. All the time.
    Cathartic process should never end. You see the good in others and it helps find the evil in you by comparison.
    One thing you say does ring and has always run a little true to me.
    And that is that my proclivity to deny my selfish desires in certain forms may have sapped a little too much of my ego or will to power.
    I sometimes believe I have become too careful of accidentally hurting a fly so to speak. (not literal, I kill lots of flies daily lest you think me a buddhist fanatic).
    In other words like a movie with a a shy kid that had to take up arms and become a gunslinger with many kills but one day had a hard time making a kill because he felt something he had not felt for a long time and now is a little gun shy.
    I got a little of that working against/for me. All depends.
    Maybe I got in trouble with my gun a little too much so being gun shy is probably saving my bacon.
     
  3. CapnTreee

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    You enjoyed writing that too didn't you?
    And getting in trouble with your gun is part of the human condition,
    how many young men haven't? (refusing to answer personally:D)

    Your replies do tend to play to both yin and yang
    because you like it that way
     
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  4. irish

    irish DSP Staff Member Administrator

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    i remember kmet well
    ace young, paraquat kelly, etc
    do you remember the short lived kwst?
    good station
     
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  5. LAdiablo

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    speaking of great rock bands STP has a new lead singer
    never going to be the original but i'll check them out live given the chance
     
  6. Gebbeth

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    I used to listen to KLSX all the time until, for some reason, it felt like they were the All Guess Who And Yes All The Time station.

    It started to wear on me.

    Still infinitely better than talk radio.
     
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  7. irish

    irish DSP Staff Member Administrator

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    kwst was around in the late 70's
    played all the classic rock that kmet/klos played
    but also bluesy artists like robert cray and more obscure ones like kraftwerk and the fibonaccis

    i loved klsx
    in the early 80's they played all the edgier stuff kroq wouldn't play
    bands like bauhaus, gun club, violent femmes, the minutemen... and would then throw in something like dick dale
    i won several ticket giveaways from them, mostly for the country club
    kxlu was the same way... then
    now i think they're public radio lol

     
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    truly cruel
     
  9. MZA

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    Fuck, I forgot The Sound was changing to a Christian rock station.

    Didn't even know today was the sign off.
     
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    Bless you.
     
  11. Doughty8

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    Speaking of last runs. Mike and Mike ended their 18 year run together as hosts. They will still be around in separate corners so to speak so it's not a total goodbye but wow 18 years!!!
     
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    i loved all those radio stations
    remember i started out w KHJ on AM listening on a clock radio
    and i loved all the stations playing motown and dance as well, don't remember those stations
    but FM was the ultimate w all those late night introductions to new music
    i don't now if my musical knowledge or enjoyment would have been nearly as vast without those guys
    i like the Jonesy's jukebox when i catch it
    but anymore its all bluetooth and spotify
    its great but i really miss stories and feeling like you were hanging out w a friend
     
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    I had very little as a kid.
    I literally still had one those plastic little box transistor radios with a 9V battery hanging out the back.
    I had radio.
    I had Vin.
    I had Chick.
    I was alright.
     
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    i had one close to my head listening to every Laker game even on family road trips
    goodrich w the dribble up and down like a yo yo, drives, stops he sets he fires he gets
     
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    Someone in my family probably bought yours at a swapmeet or thrift store sometimes in the mid 80s.
     
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    lol i road the same little red transistor into the ground
    then i got the alarm clock radio
    no one could take away my transistor radio
    [​IMG]
     
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    i remember getting into my car after the dodgers won in '81
    no espn, mlb network or internet back then
    turned on the radio... think it was klos (if not kmet)
    and the dj, dusty street is screaming "yeah dodgers!!!"
    i found a dark street, pulled over and wept
    it was like the moment didn't hit me until someone if felt close to/trusted let me know it had really happened
    miss those days
     
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    remember when everyone would bring one to home games?
    you could literally hear vin wherever you were in the stadium
     
  19. irish

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    rip

    Malcolm Young, AC/DC guitarist and Co-Founder, dead at 64
    Rolling Stone Magazine — moments ago

    Malcolm Young, guitarist and co-founder of AC/DC, died Saturday at the age of 64. Young had been suffering with dementia for the past three years, an illness that forced his retirement from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band he founded with his brother Angus Young in 1973.

    "Today it is with deep heartfelt sadness that AC/DC has to announce the passing of Malcolm Young," AC/DC wrote in a statement.

    "Malcolm, along with Angus, was the founder and creator of AC/DC. With enormous dedication and commitment he was the driving force behind the band. As a guitarist, songwriter and visionary he was a perfectionist and a unique man. He always stuck to his guns and did and said exactly what he wanted. He took great pride in all that he endeavored. His loyalty to the fans was unsurpassed."

    Angus Young added, "As his brother it is hard to express in words what he has meant to me during my life, the bond we had was unique and very special. He leaves behind an enormous legacy that will live on forever. Malcolm, job well done."

    The Young brothers lost their older brother George Young, the Easybeats guitarist and AC/DC's longtime producer, in October at the age of 70.

    In an additional statement from Malcolm Young's family, the band said that Malcolm Young died peacefully Saturday with his family by his side.

    "Renowned for his musical prowess, Malcolm was a songwriter, guitarist, performer, producer and visionary who inspired many," the statement said. "From the outset, he knew what he wanted to achieve and, along with his younger brother, took to the world stage giving their all at every show. Nothing less would do for their fans."

    As rhythm guitarist for the legendary rock band, Malcolm Young served as an indispensable foil to Angus Young's arena-stuffing riffs. After forming AC/DC in 1973, the Young brothers would be credited as co-writers on every song the band recorded from their 1975 debut High Voltage through 2014's Rock or Bust. That final album marked AC/DC's first without Malcolm, who announced in September 2014 that he would permanently leave the band due to dementia.

    "We miss Malcolm, obviously," AC/DC singer Brian Johnson said in July 2014. "He's a fighter. He's in [the] hospital, but he's a fighter. We've got our fingers crossed that he'll get strong again... Stevie, Malcolm's nephew, was magnificent, but when you're recording with this thing hanging over you and your work mate isn't well, it's difficult. But I'm sure [Malcolm] was rooting for us."

    Malcolm Young last performed live with AC/DC when their tour for 2008's Black Ice concluded in June 2010 with a concert in Bilbao, Spain.

    Malcolm Young, like his older brother George and younger brother Angus, was born in Glasgow, Scotland before the whole Young family emigrated to Sydney, Australia in the early Sixties.

    Malcolm and Angus' first brush with rock stardom came courtesy of their brother George, who found global fame thanks to his band the Easybeats and their song "Friday on My Mind." Although Malcolm's two older brothers found success in the music industry, their father still made Malcolm work as a mechanic in a bra factory after leaving school at 15.

    "I've never felt like a pop star – this is a nine-to-five sort of gig," Malcolm told Rolling Stone in 2008. "It comes from working in the factories, that world. You don't forget it."

    In 1973, Malcolm recruited Angus to form a new band, which the brothers named after the "AC/DC" electrical current marker they spotted on their sister's sewing machine. After a few lineup changes, the Young brothers were introduced to singer Bon Scott by their brother George, who would serve as AC/DC's producer on their early albums, including their debut High Voltage in 1975.

    Throughout AC/DC's tenure, Malcolm and Angus Young served as the band's main creative force, crafting the unmistakable riffs that would make AC/DC globally one of the biggest bands in music. Together, the brothers would concoct the music for hits like "Back in Black," "Hells Bells," "Highway to Hell," "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)" and dozens more rock staples.

    However, Malcolm's time in AC/DC was not without some strife: A heavy drinker, he briefly left AC/DC in 1988 during the Blow Up Your Video Tour – his only absence from the band up to and until his dementia diagnosis – to go to rehab to curb his drinking problem. After a few months, Malcolm returned to the band and remained sober ever since. "I was not surprised," George Young said his younger brother's sobriety. "When Malcolm puts his mind to something, he does it."

    In the 2008 Rolling Stone profile on AC/DC, the Young brothers were asked "Who runs AC/DC?" "We both do, because we were there from the start," Malcolm replied.

    Megadeth's Dave Mustaine, who regarded Malcolm as one of rock's greatest rhythm guitarists, tweeted Saturday following Young's death, "I have to go...I am losing it that Malcolm is gone. I hate this..."

    This story is developing.
     
  20. irish

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    David Cassidy hospitalized in critical condition with organ failure
    by Rosemary Rossi and Umberto Gonzalez | The Wrap — 20 minutes ago
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    “Partridge Family” star David Cassidy has been hospitalized in critical condition and placed in a medically induced coma, as his organs are shutting down, his rep confirms.

    According to TMZ, Cassidy was rushed to a Florida hospital a few days ago and his condition has been rapidly declining. Their source tells them that the former teen heartthrob’s kidneys are failing and that he needs a liver transplant soon or he could die.

    In February, Cassidy made public his battle with dementia and announced he would retire from touring as a musician to concentrate on his health.

    “I was in denial, but a part of me always knew this was coming,” Cassidy said in an interview with People Magazine, adding that his mother and grandfather had also suffered from the degenerative brain disease.

    In an appearance on “Dr. Phil” shortly thereafter, Cassidy told his son,”I want you to promise me you’ll find a way to let me go and don’t let me live like that,” so that the singer doesn’t succumb to the disease like his mother did.

    “When friends or family members ask you, ‘Remember, I just told you this two days ago?’ and there’s no memory of it … that’s when I began to be very concerned,” Cassidy told McGraw.
     

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