Pioneer Musical Appreciation Society

[Geraldine]

Oh no! Not Emerson too! :girlimpossible: This has been a terrible year for losing great artists.For me, this is what I will remember him for..

[Cody]

I was lucky enough to see The Nice back in '69 (I think), and I saw ELP at the Royal Festival Hall in 1970 - an awesome concert.Keith playing that massive pipe organ at the RFH was incredible, and The Three Fates remains one of my all-time favourites! 

[Geraldine]

RIP[/url] Gareth Thomas for being in one of the best sci-fi shows of all time. :queen:

[Cody]

Ah yes, a great series for its day! Down and safe!

[Geraldine]

Another month and another update uploaded to Mod DB :girlcrazy:Time for a little look back with King Haggis's groovy original 2010 vid he made? I think so....with plenty of Vangelis goodness of course! This video still makes me cry at the sheer beauty of it. :girlcray: At the time this was a very sore sight for this old Elite II fan.

[Cody]

Another subject indeed... but ED could've been a real humdinger of a single-player game! Tragic... 

[Potsmoke66]

 OK, friends, time ist tight (yeah that's from Booker T) you might have wondered what i'm up to, don't you? short:[attachment=3507:IMG_20160923_143741.jpg] [attachment=3508:IMG_20160923_143726.jpg] [attachment=3509:IMG_20160923_144149.jpg] of course that's a vintage bicycle (a Raleigh)i love to fix them,but mainly i'm up to fixing bicycles for Africa (the chaos you see in background of the 3rd pic)let's care about the living ones :)that's my actual jobi doesn't earn any money with itbut it's part of the way to get back in workdue to the fact that we fix them for no moneyafricans are able to buy them for 40 €and this grants them a living http://velafrica.ch/en/What-we-do[/url] --- i fixed one Raleigh for myself, it was the first project in this kind, a swiss army bicycle.the brakes was labelled "John Bull", isn't that nice? 

[Cody]

Hello Gernot - lovely to see you! 

[walterar]

Gernot! Today is the happiest day of the year for me! :russian: :fans: I want one of those bikes! :yahoo:

[Geraldine]

Yaay! Great to see you posting Gernot! :girlcrazy:You have been missed! :girlsmile:For you Gernot, these guys might be old here but they still got it! :queen:

[Marcel]

It's good to see your shining avatar again, my friend. And you're doing something positive as well. :imsohappy:

[Cody]

October is upon us... 

[Guest]

[Cody]

US singer Bob Dylan has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first songwriter to win the prestigious award.The 75-year-old rock legend received the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". Cool! Hard to find a usable Dylan song on YT - but the Hendrix cover of All Along the Watchtower will do nicely!  Of which Dylan said: "It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn't think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day."

[Geraldine]

Legend is such an overused term these days but to Dylan and Hendrix it is totally true!

[Cody]

Legend? Good track, that! 

[Cody]

Another one gone! <sighs> 

[Potsmoke66]

 Gernot! Today is the happiest day of the year for me! :russian: :fans: I want one of those bikes! :yahoo: easyjust make yourself to Rapperswil/Jona (CH)and buy a Raleigh for a lousy 250 bucks. expensive?yes they are!we need the money to keep the price low in africa,else it wouldn't be possible to offer them a bicycle for € 40.-that's even not enough to ship the container to africa (about 500 bicycles are stored in one container, recently we got the 2nd ready for this year). that's why we fix some good to sell for the market here,vintage bicycles are always wanted,likewise racing bicycles which i modify to a street/city bicycle.and of course all old swiss made bicycles which are still better as many new once i overhauled them. personally i prefere any old "touring bicycle" rather any modern mountain bike,if you don't use them for sport they aren't really good and by far not as fast and easy to ride as a "touring bicycle". though, if anyone of you likes to buy a bicycle, my suggestion is a old "touring" or racing bicycleand your "persecutor" has to eat rubber - almost at least. fact is, if there is a slight slope or some wind from behind you won't have to pedal, compared to a mountain bike where you have to pedal on the same slope.mainly it's because of the far to fat rubber for a mountain bike and the shorter diameter of the wheels.you loose a lot of energy, that's all.(erm yes i'm not a big fan of mountain bikes - never was, it's a sports utility and not suitable for everyday purpose.seems like several decades everyone must have a mountain bike regardless that they won't use it in the mountains.besides many of the so called "city bikes" are to heavy and have even very broad rubbers, not good as well, that's why i prefere"old touring bicycles", big wheels, small rubber, lightweighted) see, i made myself such a good reputation that it's been suggested i should hire for fixing vintage cars,because "doesn't works - doesn't exists". thus my friends - cross fingers and let's hope next post is a picture of a vintage car i fixed (ok, that's still written in the stars). let's see...do i have some music in petto?  have phun!

[Geraldine]

Welcome back Gernot! :queen: Always good to see you posting and that was certainly interesting music you have there in Switzerland! :girlcrazy:Now, a bit of the sound track from a space sim I've been playing recently: Rebel Galaxy

[walterar]

Thanks Gernot, I just sold my car because in my city there is a lot of traffic and it is impossible to drive. First I thought about buying a bicycle, but now I'm thinking of something that sounds better. What do you recommend me?  :laugh: