Seriously, seriously badass!
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For a deeper dive, check out how an Austin crowd reacted to this smokin’ LA band.
A match made in heaven.
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My daughter (11), loves this movie currently and I don’t know how many times she watched it.
I sat through it once with her and it was bearable but no Metal Lords.
I don’t really mind how many times she watches it however, she is a keen singer, in the Primary Rock Band at school and we just found out they have given her a Performing Arts Scholarship.
I kind of think she likes singing.
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MY first ‘job’ after school in 1985( more of a time fill before college) was a Youth Training Scheme in retail. My placement was at a Hi-Fi shop that sold Technics, Panasonic, Bang & Olufsen and other hi fi equipment. I was really impressed that some of the tape decks could stop FFWD at the end of a track.
I also heard the Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms CD all day every day as it was the go-to CD player demonstration CD.
I was really surprised to see cassettes on sale again last year. I bought Duff McKagan’s Lighthouse album. Purely because I have owned my Hi Fi for 15 years. It has a tape deck, and I no longer had any cassettes to play on it 
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A Bit of Bass VI goodness
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Yeah a sh*tty one , I was so delighted when MD came out
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I started a whole thread for this, but my friends and I have been having fun with this:
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I think I had never seen those (or at least can’t recall), but it’s a wonderful feature. I really disliked trying to find the beginning of the tracks.
This kind of thing could drive one crazy, depending on the song. Fortunately Dire Straits is not bad. But imagine if it had been Abba. Though some of their songs are great, they are catchy, in a bad way (the “can’t get out of my head” kind of way). 
I was surprised as well. I still have two cassette players (the walkman kind, one is a recorder). But I don’t miss listening to cassette tapes, though they bring some nostalgia.
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I was surprised and kind of annoyed when hipsters brought back the second worst recording media ever widely sold (vinyl), so when neo-hipsters brought back the absolute worst one (cassette tapes) I just laughed.
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Being Dutch you should have hated MiniDisc and prefer the one and only Philips Format: DCC!
DISCLAIMER: it s#cked!!!
Amen!!! Vinyl ist soooooooooooooo sh#tty … I once dreamed about vinyl, and my last words before I woke up were: “Analoge Scheisse!”
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I do miss the album art and liner notes though. But not enough.
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I do miss that too. Specially for fans, the album art was something precious! The CDs came with tiny covers but a huge improvement in sound, so losing the beautiful album art possibilities was an acceptable compromise.
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Yeah CDs also kind of had liner notes, but not as good.
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I also have always hated some CD boxes in which the inside part (to which the CD is safely encased) is made of a hard plastic, those that feel like either the box or the CD is going to break when we press the middle to remove the CD. I had some that just wouldn’t give and would “fight back”, and the CD was almost dangerously bending before it came out. CDs and DVDs have been around for decades already, but some CD boxes are still designed like that.
I find your lack of 8 track a little disappointing. I’d do Vinyl or cassette before I ever owned another 8 track.
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Ahh yeah I never owned an 8-track.
I sure owned 8-tracks.
After graduating high school, my buds and I put together a light show: strobe lights, black lights, slides, film strips, overhead projector and flashing lights of various colors (towers that shown on the crowd and footlights that were synced with the towers, shining up at individual band members).
We would set up our show at dances, charging not much for our services. But after gaining some local fame, I got a call from a high school in a neighboring town. They wanted us for their homecoming dance, with a particular new condition: they wanted us to provide the music as well as the lights. That was a gamechanger for us.
At the time, I had tons of albums on 8-track, so I first curated the songs to play from each one, then I placed them in the order I wanted them to play throughout the gig. So, yeah, it was a set list.
The bitch of it was that I had to play through each 8-track until the song I wanted was set to play the very next time I inserted it in my player. Without knowing it at the time, I had essentially created the process that radio DJs would eventually use to play tunes and commercials: by inserting carts.
The next problem was that I had no PA system. So I trekked down to Radio Shack and bought horns and speakers, which were to go into the massive cabinets I would build. Needless to say, I had no idea what I was doing, but no one told me I couldn’t do it, so I did.
The black spray paint was still tacky on the cabinets when we loaded in at the high school gymnasium, but we made it with a few hours to spare. Luckily, one of my partners in crime was not afraid of heights, so he gamely carried one of the heavy strobes up the tallest ladder I’ver ever seen, to the very top of the gym’s center, where he tied it and ran the power cord to our command center, such as it was.
Finally, the football game ended and kids started pouring in to the gym for the dance. Now, we had never tested my 8-track system or my theoretical 8-track set list scheme. But I had my legal pad with the names of the songs scrawled on it, my 8-tracks stacked (hopefully) in order, and a flash light so I could read my list.
Somehow, despite each and every odd in the world, both the lights and sounds worked flawlessly. Don’t ask me how or why, but we rocked the living helll out of that cavernous room throughout the night and a good time was had by all.
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A little music related fun is over there —>
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