NBA OFF TOPIC THREAD

[UK Cowboy]

His first game....

You're kidding! Oh wait, I did say in his debut lol. Still wasn't impressive

 

[bksballer89]

1, 2 and 3 seeds all out in the women’s draw at Wimbledon

Crazy how bad the top 2 are on grass. I don't think any of them made it to the QF yet here

 

[shopson67]

Wasn't expecting this to go Stevie Ray Vaughn

He got distracted away from rap by real music. It happens (if you're lucky).

 

[shopson67]

Aerosmith not exactly a bunch of bitches either.

They hurt their legacy by using outside songwriters from the mid 80s forward. To think of how many people know them from a Diane Warren ballad (Don't Want To Miss A Thing) or their crossover with Run DMC is kinda sad.

 

[shopson67]

Cool thing about Boomers....

We saw all of the best bands...no other generation comes close.

Covers nearly all genres too.

80s and 90s were pretty great too, but for a wide array of styles. 2000 and on have been a bit thin for me (GenX), but that should be the case lol. Metal keeps marching forward throughout though.

 

[shopson67]

Love Queen, like Fleetwood Mac, love the Stones, really never into Bon Jovi or Aerosmith. A couple cool older Aerosmith songs to me.

I'm a Peter Green Mac fan. The adult contemporary version afterwards had some great singles, but never did it for me.

Bon Jovi was a bit light for my tastes, but I liked the first few albums. They're basically a country band now.

 

[shopson67]

Only genre I like better today is country.

But to be fair, I haaaaaaaaaaated country music in my younger days.

I still hate it lol.

 

[shopson67]

I still fuck with Creed.

They got so overplayed in their original run, kinda like Nickelback did later. The Creed singer was insufferable though.

 

[shopson67]

Dream On is probably my favorite song of theirs. Toys in the Attic probably my favorite album.

Toys, Rocks, Draw The Line is a great stretch of their career.

 

[shopson67]

Ok you all got me trying to remember. My first concert was 1980, the end of The Eagles Long Run tour and their last for 15 years or so. After that, that I for sure remember:

Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd
Aerosmith
Iron Maiden
38 Special
Rush (at least 6 times)
Heart (more than once, a personal favorite)
Bob Seger (so underrated live)
Reo Speedwagon
Foreigner
ELO
Cheap Trick
Styx
Kansas
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jimmy Vaughn
BB King (3 times)
Robert Cray
The Strokes (2001 was in New York City and younger people drug me along)
Hank Jr (at least 5 times)
Garth Brooks
Willie Nelson
Marie Haggard
Johnny Cash
Dwight Yoakum
Buddy Guy

There were more I know. Memories.

Stunning lack of hair metal. I saw so many of those hair metal bands in the 80s, still love a lot of that shit (as long as it isn't overly cheesy like Poison).

 

[shopson67]

Classic rock is my true love I’d say but as a young adt in the 90s I also really love that era as well.

Stone Temple Pilots
Nirvana
Offspring
Alice In Chains
Soundgarden
Pearl Jam
Rage Against The Machine

Among many others..

Glaring omission of some of my all time favorite bands....Pumpkins, Jane's, Living Colour, King's X, etc. (I don't expect many to know King's X, lol).

 

[shopson67]

I will literally marry you right now for listing Genesis. My favorite band overall and very uncool to like them. You and I girl, let’s run away together and get Phil Collins to officiate

Which era? Gabriel or Collins? Very different styles throughout the years...

 

[shopson67]

Neil Peart is my favorite drummer followed by John Bonham.

Love them both, but I'm partial to Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience), gets pretty jazzy. Jimmy Chamberlain of the Pumpkins for similar reasons in a later era as well.

 

[msgkings322]

Which era? Gabriel or Collins? Very different styles throughout the years...

ALL of it up until the mid 80s. I love their evolution, great stuff throughout.

 

[shopson67]

Eh he wasn’t ever going to get to that level especially because his own band used another drummer on almost every song. But he was awesome

Grohl only played on the first 2 or 3 albums. It had been all Taylor since (RIP).

 

[shopson67]

Bronny had a less than stellar summer debut...

When the big performer in the game is a guy without even a two-way contract currently (Adonis Arms), it's hard to take too much away from summer league outcomes. You just hope to see signs of life. Bronny had a few nice steals and didn't look out of place, it's a start.

 

[thunderc]

Stunning lack of hair metal. I saw so many of those hair metal bands in the 80s, still love a lot of that shit (as long as it isn't overly cheesy like Poison).

Wasn’t into the hair metal, closest thing to metal for me was Iron Maiden. Saw them open for someone, can’t even remember who it was because Maiden blew them off the stage. They never should have even came on.

 

[shopson67]

Wasn’t into the hair metal, closest thing to metal for me was Iron Maiden. Saw them open for someone, can’t even remember who it was because Maiden blew them off the stage. They never should have even came on.

Maiden's great, but I never saw them live until later (Ozz fest).

 

[shopson67]

ALL of it up until the mid 80s. I love their evolution, great stuff throughout.

So you're not a fan of the really poppy stuff? I don't think I've even heard their stuff with the 3rd singer.

 

[msgkings322]

So you're not a fan of the really poppy stuff? I don't think I've even heard their stuff with the 3rd singer.

For sure. I haven't heard that last album either, it's a different band there. Not much a fan of the last Collins album either. Invisible Touch had a couple good songs but that's their first album I don't really listen to overall (I also rarely listen to the VERY first one they did in 1969, they hadn't gotten their sound yet). 1970-1983 I pretty much love that entire period with them.

I never minded them changing in a pop direction, good for them. Gets boring when bands just do the same thing for decades.