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08-14-2004, 07:32 PM
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I am the only one among my friends and family who is a Todd Rundgren fan , or even knows who he is. Cmon People , this guy is a music legend. Please someone , tell me that im not the only Rundgren fan . PLEEEEAAAAASSSEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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08-14-2004, 07:35 PM
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Rundgren Rocks, You are not alone!!!
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08-14-2004, 08:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Let me just say that you can never be to obscure. If you really want to impress people, talk about bands they've never heard them. And whenever someone talks about band say, "Yeah, I like _________... well at least their early stuff, before they got all commercial."
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08-14-2004, 10:25 PM
|  | <-- That guy looks like me, but old. | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Arlington TX | | I referenced Todds' most-known song in an email once and our singers husband thought I was flirting with her. I got her in trouble by quoting from 'Hello It's Me."
My taste often comes across as much more obscure than I think I am. I merely prefer musicians who are actually musicians, and not celebrities that have great PR departments behind them. There is a range of style vs substance. I see many people that are having great success without much in the way of real musical talent. Choreography yes. Music, not so much.
Last week I referred to this as the Scofield-Spears Continuum of Skills(tm). Apparently the nurse I was talking to (who CLAIMS to be a jazz fan) had never heard of John Scofield. Or Birelli Lagrene. Or Jean-Luc Ponty.
Now I was less shocked that she knew none of my favorite Folk artists to speak of. But she didn't claim to be a huge folk fan.
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08-14-2004, 11:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt Till Let me just say that you can never be to obscure. If you really want to impress people, talk about bands they've never heard them. And whenever someone talks about band say, "Yeah, I like _________... well at least their early stuff, before they got all commercial." | never be too obscure? remember coypu? it was pretty much "LIKE CYNIC OR ELSE!"
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08-14-2004, 11:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | I'm so underground that I don't know what you are talking about...
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08-15-2004, 09:03 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | Obscurity = coolness.
Person A: "Dude, have you heard the new Sun City Girls CD? It's awesome!"
Person B: "No. I only listen to Tool, because they are the best band ever. I haven't taken Lateralus out of my CD player since the day I got it."
Now, which of these people are cooler: Person A or Person B? Revel in your obscure tastes, freind. So nobody appreciates Rundgrun as much as you. It could be worse; you could have been one of those fanatics that think Tool is obscure. |
08-15-2004, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange It could be worse; you could have been one of those fanatics that think Tool is obscure. |
Dude, I saw them, and they were playing like, in some weird time thing, and it was crazy. I couldn't even dance to it, I looked like and idiot. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I've got Kenneth Nash (Carribean Jazz) next to Napalm Death (First Grindcore band) in my cd collection. Variety and Obscurity give you freedom really to listen to whatever you want. Some people don't listen to anything unless is "radio approved." So they are trapped.
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08-15-2004, 09:23 AM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | I loved the stuff he did with Utopia. With songs like "Hammer In My Heart" and "Feet Don't Fail Me Now", man Todd's kinda underrated! BTW, his son Rex plays minor league baseball.
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08-15-2004, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Woodchuck Todd's kinda underrated! | Only disagree with the word "kinda". Should have used the word "VERY" IMO... 
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Originally Posted by Tigger It's hard to argue with a word like 'fraught'. | |
08-15-2004, 09:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Darwin, Australia | | | tool= not obscure. Try dancing to "spiral architects" or "watchtower"..... I would pay money to C that. |
08-15-2004, 01:08 PM
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Person B: "No. I only listen to Tool, because they are the best band ever. I haven't taken Lateralus out of my CD player since the day I got it."
| I actually know people like this!!! |
08-15-2004, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by peteroberts I actually know people like this!!! | Which once again proves my theory that Germans love David Hasselhoff. |
08-15-2004, 04:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange Which once again proves my theory that Germans love David Hasselhoff. | Only because they associate him with freedom. I believe he was there when they tore down the berlin wall.
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Originally Posted by Chris2112 I've never known any martial art to feature fisting! | My gear: Schecter Stiletto 5
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08-15-2004, 06:00 PM
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08-15-2004, 08:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas, USSA | | | Hey Bard, she claims she's a jazz fan??? Never heard of Sco? I bet she knows who Kenny G is though..!!! |
08-15-2004, 08:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Austin, TX | | | I'm so obscure, even I've never heard of the bands I like.
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08-15-2004, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Bassic83 Hey Bard, she claims she's a jazz fan??? Never heard of Sco? I bet she knows who Kenny G is though..!!! | 
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08-15-2004, 09:11 PM
| | TalkBass Secular Progressive | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Murr Town, California | | | I love Kenny G. Ever turn off the lights, line up some scented candles around a bubble bath, and turn his music on. Orgasm!
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Originally Posted by Chris2112 I've never known any martial art to feature fisting! | My gear: Schecter Stiletto 5
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08-15-2004, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Bassic83 Hey Bard, she claims she's a jazz fan??? Never heard of Sco? I bet she knows who Kenny G is though..!!! | I think she was mostly just up on the current 'Smooth Jazz' artists. We had a few that we both could enjoy, like my shameful secret guilty pleasure Spyrogira.Spirogyra? Spiroagnew? How do you spell that?
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