Reviving this old thread. News today:  Average rate on a 30-year mortgage drops to lowest level since October - August 14 " Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners refinancing their home loans, also fell. The average rate dropped to 5.71% from 5.75% last week. A...

The Perseid meteor shower is peaking Tuesday - CNN August 12 " These meteors shoot out in all directions from the constellation  Perseus , which is located in the northern sky...however, due to Perseus appearing low on the horizon at this time, much of the meteor activity will be blocked from ...

Terry Reid - Rolling Stone August 5 Famous for having postponed joining Jimmy Page to found Led Zeppelin due to prior commitments and recommended Robert Plant instead. Still had an interesting career. River - Terry Reid (1973) Full Album Ij9dUW5WUtA The Other Side of the River (2016) u4phvfToIk4

Another little AI test. I asked: "Which philosophers have influenced heavy metal music?" And here is what I received as an answer: " Many philosophers have influenced heavy metal music, particularly certain subgenres. Here are some prominent examples: Friedrich Nietzsche:  Nietzsche's...

Ideally, there is some tie between posts and thread titles, at least some of the time. Imagine a library with no cataloguing system! I think the connection of a Danish drummer was ok l, but I looked around for Danish rock/metal bands and did not find too much. Sweden is more stronger on the metal f...

and on the Live music front - this is here somewhere, but as a pair with Metallica:

Thunderstruck - AC/DC Live at River Plate 2009
You can also find an amusing tribute to this song on the Danish Delights thread - AC/DC fans find musical connections in everything! : D

Worthy of Melodic Metal - found this yesterday when looking for high-quality recent concert footage that highlighted each member of the band - bingo!

So, cross posting from Danish Delights for posterity. The Unforgiven - Metallica Madrid 2024

But when they're good, they're very, very good and when they're bad, they're better!

Bringing Denmark back into this equation, here we have a familial gathering with Danish drummer Lars Ulrich on the hot seat with his band mates in Metallica.

It's not always fun back there and, as Lars is contentious and stirs up controversies, some people love to hate him. :' ( (LOL)

@track, any oil barrels in yer back yard?

Aye, fair to say I sold a few barrels of Exxon Mobil to buy my drums and a new truck with which to move them around.

Climate change be damned!

Inspiration from The Who - sometimes the concert movies don't focus in enough, but here you can really see what is going on.

I have a ways to go before I can do it all, but I'm nailing down pieces here and there!

same era!

[youtube]HykF5KX4STA[/youtube] Denmark, land of faity tales (pauperesque)[/font] yes, ppauper was So here is what I think: 1. Extremely talented applied mathematician - yes 2. Marathon runner - yes 3. Deep knowledge of geography/history - yes 4.Racist/whte supremicist - no, i think this was an extr...

  Like everyone else in the developed world, I have been playing with AI lately. I haven't, sorry. What's it like? Ice cream?? is that Greenwich polo grounds, or worse, Nantucket?? It's a struggle over here for us. surprisingly good results in creative categories. and it makes fun suggestions on wh...

Same 1978 - junior high and really getting into rock, pop, with my little FM radio.

One of my favorites, staying with the lost at sea theme: