axolotl
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I was reading through reviews of the G3 Live In Concert album, with EJ, Steve Vai, and Joe Satriani, and I came upon this commentary:
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I was reading through reviews of the G3 Live In Concert album, with EJ, Steve Vai, and Joe Satriani, and I came upon this commentary:
Nickyboy
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When should we launch the Eric Johnson Fan Club?
Didn't Vai play with Zappa for a while? I think it was him. He had a song called "Go Fuck Yourself" that was a 100% Zappa aural tribute.
Quick check. Youtube tells me it was Vai.
axolotl
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Goodbye, Van Morrison
(RNS) — A veteran rocker goes antisemitic on us. I'm so done.
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Trigger Alert / Disclaimer: This article may contain mentions of other music stars or celebrities who have similar or dissimilar theories or concerns regarding Semitism, Zionism, or related ethnic or racial issues.
Unsomnambulist
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Goodbye, Van Morrison
(RNS) — A veteran rocker goes antisemitic on us. I'm so done.
Trigger Alert / Disclaimer: This article may contain mentions of other music stars or celebrities who have similar or dissimilar theories or concerns regarding Semitism, Zionism, or related ethnic or racial issues.
Sorry to get political, but Roger Waters supporting human rights for the Palestinians does not equate to being anti-Semitic.
axolotl
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Understood. Applying that basis, I would be considered anti-Semitic.
Nickyboy
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Unsomnambulist
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That looks like it would be terrible with warped records.
axolotl
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The second (animated) graphic causes me to fear its anti-skating capabilities, as well as its ability to remove the tonearm from the record's surface after playback.
Unsomnambulist
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Have you ever had a record playing during a sudden earthquake?
axolotl
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No. Somehow, I have avoided that.
Also, a quake has never shaken my CDP off its isolation roller balls.
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Unsomnambulist
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Death threats against John Denver? Now I've read everything.No. Somehow, I have avoided that.
Also, a quake has never shaken my CDP off its isolation roller balls.
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Ojai Sam
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I’m agnostic on the question of whether Van Morrison is or is not anti-Semitic. However, I don’t think this particular song lyric by itself justifies Rabbi Salkin’s conclusion that he is. Van took a lot of richly deserved media criticism for his outlier response to the pandemic. I see the song as a push back against the media based on what he sees as its lockstep conformity. It certainly sounds petulant and it may even be Trumpian, but I would need more evidence to call it anti-Jewish.Goodbye, Van Morrison
(RNS) — A veteran rocker goes antisemitic on us. I'm so done.
Trigger Alert / Disclaimer: This article may contain mentions of other music stars or celebrities who have similar or dissimilar theories or concerns regarding Semitism, Zionism, or related ethnic or racial issues.
axolotl
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I tend to agree with you, Sam. Van has had any number of songs with lyrics that might tend to disturb. Some entrenched ideas, persons, or things could use a bit of disturbance in their force.
Nowhere does Van expressly mention Jews or any ethnic group in the verses that Martini Judaism Rabbi Salkin announces that he does. If Salkin wants to ditch Van's music into the Mystic, so be it. But, this is hardly a clarion (or shofar) call for anyone else to do it.
It strikes me as a reaction piece loosely akin to a Dennis Prager opinion piece, which itself is loosely akin to a logical argument.
axolotl
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Mind you, I tried to use all appropriate protections for the time. Still, there were songs for which I held a moderate disdain.
P. S. I think my mom turned me in.
P. P. S. Turning in The Monkees was not my schtick.
Ojai Sam
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Dennis Prager! Now there's an interesting analogy. Back at the dawn of his career, Prager's semi-rabbinical style helped me work through some of the mysteries of Christianity that my Presbyterian upbringing left unsolved. Unfortunately, he jumped the shark many years ago. Perhaps it was when he filed a lawsuit to prevent the removal of the cross from the Los Angeles County Seal, seen here before and after its decrucifixion:
Ojai Sam
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More trouble for Van The Man:
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Van Morrison fans claim signed CDs of the new album are ‘stamped’ – SuperDeluxeEdition
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Unsomnambulist
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More trouble for Van The Man:
Van Morrison fans claim signed CDs of the new album are ‘stamped’ – SuperDeluxeEdition
The dot over the "i" in each signature looks different to me. But I'm not a handwriting expert.
Unsomnambulist
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Zeeba Neighba
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FWIW: Your Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees are In:
Jay-Z
The Go-Go's
Tina Turner
The Foo Fighters
Carole King
Todd Rundgren
Additional:
Kraftwerk (Early Influencer)
LL Cool J (Musical Excellence Award)
I think I've said this before, but it's an odd era we've moved into where those one would normally think Hall of Famers are already in. What's left, as music has changed are worthy non-rock performers (Jay-Z, LL Cool J) or rock/pop performers that are nice but hardly tremendous (the Go-Go's) or artists that have been honored by the HOF before (Tina Turner, Carole King) but whose solo careers I'm not sure stand on their own as monumental (tough for many to name a King album outside of Tapestry, and Tina was great in the 80s but again hardly Floyd or the Stones as far as her discography). Then there's the Foo Fighters (in their first year of eligibility) who I can't get excited about - I can't help thinking they're in because a lot of people like Dave Grohl and he plays at all the HOF ceremonies.
Todd Rundgren is, I suppose, deserving but all to often bores the hell out of me
So as a celebration of movement, hell, let 'em in - but let others in - The Smiths, Jethro Tull, Joe Jackson, Iron Maiden. Lets celebrate them all, because we're getting past the point where we're gonna put in someone on par with The Beatles, Nirvana, or Elvis (or even, sadly, I suppose KISS and Cheap Trick)
And get off my lawn
Jay-Z
The Go-Go's
Tina Turner
The Foo Fighters
Carole King
Todd Rundgren
Additional:
Kraftwerk (Early Influencer)
LL Cool J (Musical Excellence Award)
I think I've said this before, but it's an odd era we've moved into where those one would normally think Hall of Famers are already in. What's left, as music has changed are worthy non-rock performers (Jay-Z, LL Cool J) or rock/pop performers that are nice but hardly tremendous (the Go-Go's) or artists that have been honored by the HOF before (Tina Turner, Carole King) but whose solo careers I'm not sure stand on their own as monumental (tough for many to name a King album outside of Tapestry, and Tina was great in the 80s but again hardly Floyd or the Stones as far as her discography). Then there's the Foo Fighters (in their first year of eligibility) who I can't get excited about - I can't help thinking they're in because a lot of people like Dave Grohl and he plays at all the HOF ceremonies.
Todd Rundgren is, I suppose, deserving but all to often bores the hell out of me
So as a celebration of movement, hell, let 'em in - but let others in - The Smiths, Jethro Tull, Joe Jackson, Iron Maiden. Lets celebrate them all, because we're getting past the point where we're gonna put in someone on par with The Beatles, Nirvana, or Elvis (or even, sadly, I suppose KISS and Cheap Trick)
And get off my lawn
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