That's it, I'm out. The ADS ARE RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GHT]

I managed enough speed on here this morning to watch an IHOP video ad. Oh joy! Before now speed was slow enough that all I saw was the pic of the guy standing on the IHOP roof, not realizing that was a video.

For any fellow Brits or others not familiar with American food chains: IHOP means, International House Of Pancakes. And let me tell you, the egg nog variety are to die for.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

IHOP means, International House Of Pancakes. And let me tell you, the egg nog variety are to die for.

After your post on vaccine side effects maybe you should try their Bran Pancakes.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Digital? What's digital? Vinyl, is there anything else?
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Just can’t get into those new fangled vinyl records. Music went down the drain with the passing of wax cylinders...now that was music!

 

[Rmccamey]

You strike me as an 8-track tape afficianodo, Brent,

Just can’t get into those new fangled vinyl records. Music went down the drain with the passing of wax cylinders...now that was music!

 

[johnnycanuck]

You strike me as an 8-track tape afficianodo, Brent,

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Nice. I have that one in LP. Now I feel like breaking out my record player.
I don’t find the ads unreasonable but by the decreased traffic I am guessing more than a few people have issues still.
Johnny

 

[Frunobulax]

Just can’t get into those new fangled vinyl records. Music went down the drain with the passing of wax cylinders...now that was music!

Music has gone downhill since Gregorian chants.

Nice. I have that one in LP. Now I feel like breaking out my record player.
I don’t find the ads unreasonable but by the decreased traffic I am guessing more than a few people have issues still.
Johnny

At least with the LP, you can drool over the inner gatefold.

 

[MrProper]

Since the changeover to the new advertising provider, this dialog has come up every few days, with which you can "manage" the data privacy settings. In reality, this is programmed so user-unfriendly that it is a farce.
Because many of the advertisers work with "legitimate interest" and still get all the information they want.
With this form you have to click through each individual provider hundreds of times and explicitly switch off this legitimate interest.
Once that's okay, but not once a week.
I would rather do without the forum than allow myself to be blackmailed by this dialogue all the time.
I have no problem with advertising, but with being constantly tracked by all kinds of frameworks.

 

[Edward]

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Gorgeous set-up! I'll bet that sounds amazing!

Duck Duck Go, fellas! Duck Duck Go! No ads! Break the Google Chrome addiction!

Good search engine, recommended.

I envy your Pistols experience.

It was the stuff of my fifteen year old self's dreams! I was, among other shows, there the night they recorded the "There'll Always be An England" show in Brixton for the 30th Anniversary of the album. Cracking show. I was too young to see them first time around, but for me the reformation was well legit. Sounded great, all the original members, and there was something quite joyful about them coming back and daring in a way to smash their own legend.

Just can’t get into those new fangled vinyl records. Music went down the drain with the passing of wax cylinders...now that was music!

A few years ago at one of my club's meetings there was a presentation by a theremin player who had recorded a wax cylinder album. Apparently she did it with a label dedicated to only releasing things on 'obsolete' formats! I can see why an easier-stored, possibly easier to protect vinyl record lasted over the fragile cylinders, but it would be really cool if they could bring them back with some sort of super-strong modern polymer.

Music has gone downhill since Gregorian chants.



At least with the LP, you can drool over the inner gatefold.

Heh. Didn't recorded music kill live performance anyhow?

That's another thing I love about vinyl: the big sleeve really encouraged attention to be paid to the artwork. I suspect that sort of thing will become less important as downloads become more common.

Since the changeover to the new advertising provider, this dialog has come up every few days, with which you can "manage" the data privacy settings. In reality, this is programmed so user-unfriendly that it is a farce.
Because many of the advertisers work with "legitimate interest" and still get all the information they want.
With this form you have to click through each individual provider hundreds of times and explicitly switch off this legitimate interest.
Once that's okay, but not once a week.
I would rather do without the forum than allow myself to be blackmailed by this dialogue all the time.
I have no problem with advertising, but with being constantly tracked by all kinds of frameworks.
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I think that's location-based - probably how the site interacts with your location owing to GDPR issues. I'm not getting that (possibly a Brexit thing, though for now our laws have yet to be changed). It springs to mind as I remember when the GDPR first came in, a few US-based sites wouldn't allow EU-based access at all.

 

[Just A Hat Rack]

Duck Duck Go, fellas! Duck Duck Go! No ads! Break the Google Chrome addiction!

Just downloaded it and I gotta say, it's quite nice. Not one ad anywhere, and it also blocks trackers. I may have to permanently say adios to Chrome after getting this. Thanks T.

 

[T Jones]

Just downloaded it and I gotta say, it's quite nice. Not one ad anywhere, and it also blocks trackers. I may have to permanently say adios to Chrome after getting this. Thanks T.

You're very welcome buddy. It definitely makes navigating a lot easier and more enjoyable.

 

[Blackthorn]

Just downloaded it and I gotta say, it's quite nice. Not one ad anywhere, and it also blocks trackers. I may have to permanently say adios to Chrome after getting this. Thanks T.

I got all excited reading this and used duck, etc but all the ads are still there. So I'm not.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Heh. Didn't recorded music kill live performance anyhow?

It sure did for me and my crowd, Edward.
If you couldn’t perform it live on stage and it sound like the original it was just fake noise.
And if you tried to lip-sync...you were done forever. And if you let your songs be used for advertising...you were a sellout...worse the finished.
Exit most “music” since forever, but hey, we were just a bunch of stoned barefoot longhairs trying to get laid.
Simple times.
B

 

[Frunobulax]

It sure did for me and my crowd, Edward.
If you couldn’t perform it live on stage and it sound like the original it was just fake noise.
And if you tried to lip-sync...you were done forever. And if you let your songs be used for advertising...you were a sellout...worse the finished.
Exit most “music” since forever, but hey, we were just a bunch of stoned barefoot longhairs trying to get laid.
Simple times.
B

"Live music are better; bumper stickers should be issued." - N. Young

 

[Zombie_61]

It was the stuff of my fifteen year old self's dreams! I was, among other shows, there the night they recorded the "There'll Always be An England" show in Brixton for the 30th Anniversary of the album. Cracking show. I was too young to see them first time around, but for me the reformation was well legit. Sounded great, all the original members...

All the original members? I wonder where they dug Sid up...

 

[Frunobulax]

All the original members? I wonder where they dug Sid up...

The Filthy Lucre tour had the original bassist, Glen Matlock, on board.

 

[GHT]

Since the changeover to the new advertising provider, this dialog has come up every few days, with which you can "manage" the data privacy settings. In reality, this is programmed so user-unfriendly that it is a farce.
Because many of the advertisers work with "legitimate interest" and still get all the information they want.
With this form you have to click through each individual provider hundreds of times and explicitly switch off this legitimate interest.
Once that's okay, but not once a week.
I would rather do without the forum than allow myself to be blackmailed by this dialogue all the time.
I have no problem with advertising, but with being constantly tracked by all kinds of frameworks.
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MrProper puts into words, a description of my sentiment, in an eloquent and skilful way that I envy. My compliments to him.
Moderators, can we not just return to what was so enjoyable about The Fedora Lounge? Others have made their objections far more articulate than I could aspire to, yet their cavil has, in the main, been ignored. On behalf of all of us who are not tech savvy, please heed this impassionate request.
Flounce means to stomp, or stomp off in disgust. I feel a strong empathy with that emotion but I wouldn't engage with such a protest because it shuts the door to negotiation. Here's hoping that you're listening.

 

[Zombie_61]

The Filthy Lucre tour had the original bassist, Glen Matlock, on board.

Ah, my mistake. Thanks!

 

[MrProper]

Since the changeover to the new advertising provider, this dialog has come up every few days, with which you can "manage" the data privacy settings. In reality, this is programmed so user-unfriendly that it is a farce.
Because many of the advertisers work with "legitimate interest" and still get all the information they want.
With this form you have to click through each individual provider hundreds of times and explicitly switch off this legitimate interest.
Once that's okay, but not once a week.
I would rather do without the forum than allow myself to be blackmailed by this dialogue all the time.
I have no problem with advertising, but with being constantly tracked by all kinds of frameworks.
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I hope I've solved the problem for myself by only using fedora with Safari's privacy mode.
The form comes up every time you log in, but I can agree to it because the data is all deleted again after the session. So I hope to withhold at least some information from this user-unfriendly framework.

 

[Edward]

All the original members? I wonder where they dug Sid up...

The Filthy Lucre tour had the original bassist, Glen Matlock, on board.

Yeah, Vicious was entertaining in his own, odd way (quite a tragic case, really), but Matlock was the original bassist. Also songwriter: Matlock wrote most of the key riffs and quite a lot of the music that they would release. In many ways, his departure in 77 before the album was recorded marked the beginning of the end. They didn't get on well, him and Rotten (mostly because of Malcom Maclaren stirring it up as part of the "performance art"), but they were the core of the songwriting side of the Pistols. Sid could barely play a note - and was in hospital for most of the album sessions. He does have some lines buried somewhere on Bodies, but for the most part bass on the album was played by either Steve Jones or Matlock, who came back in as a session player for some of the numbers.

I think how I'd put it best is that Matlock was like a combination of Stu Sutcliffe and Lennon, while Vicious was like a Yoko Ono who actually joined the band when he quit. (An ironic comparison, given that after Matlock quit, Talcy Malcy immediately issued a press release stating the band had thrown him out "for liking the Beatles".)

 

[Edward]

It sure did for me and my crowd, Edward.
If you couldn’t perform it live on stage and it sound like the original it was just fake noise.
And if you tried to lip-sync...you were done forever. And if you let your songs be used for advertising...you were a sellout...worse the finished.
Exit most “music” since forever, but hey, we were just a bunch of stoned barefoot longhairs trying to get laid.
Simple times.
B

Years ago I used to post on a guitar forum where bitter guys who couldn't make a living on their original music would sneer viciously at covers bands and basically imply that unless you wrote a song you performed you were no better than a jukebox. Always sounded to me like the argument of people who didn't see any value in live performance, which is rather a shame. Different skillsets, of course. I mean, Paul Anka deserves all the credit he gets for writing the lyrics to My Way, but would we know the number at all now without the iconic interpretations by Sinatra, Presley, Vicious - none of them songwriters?