Don't Black Out at PJ Shows
soulsinging
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I stumbled across a site with a ton of shows for download and grabbed the two shows I saw on the VFC tour... Toledo and Grand Rapids. As I listen I realize "Not one note of this music sounds familiar." Neil Young was onstage jamming with the band before my very eyes, and I have no recollection of it whatsoever.
So the lesson is... be very careful about how you mix your drugs kids! Don't want to erase a show like that from your memory!
Also, anyone got any tips on places to find FLAC downloads for shows? I've been using the Present Tense website, but they don't have the Detroit show I attended or one or two personal favorites I'm trying to track down.
So the lesson is... be very careful about how you mix your drugs kids! Don't want to erase a show like that from your memory!
Also, anyone got any tips on places to find FLAC downloads for shows? I've been using the Present Tense website, but they don't have the Detroit show I attended or one or two personal favorites I'm trying to track down.
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This thing is a trip, the history of PJ:
http://qualityboots.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... -flac.html
I drunked away a Sonic Youth show, however, that burns me to this day.
made him ... want to be everywhere
there's a ... lot to be said for nowhere."
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
I think it was during New Garden....or Rats.
Funny shit
Scott
8/25/00 8/27/00 8/29/00 8/30/00 9/01/00 9/02/00
4/28/03 4/29/03 4/30/03 5/02/03 7/05/03 7/06/03
7/08/03 7/09/03 7/14/03 <---front row shook hands with ed.
10/3/05 5/13/06 5/27/06 5/28/06 6/01/06 6/3/06
6/24/06 6/19/08 6/20/08 6/24/08 6/25/08 10/27/09
10/28/09 10/30/09 10/31/09 5/15/10 5/18/10 5/20/10
5/21/10 9/7/11
I guess at least I wasn't falling over or annoying other people at those 2 shows... just have no memory of them.
Now Cleveland/State College 03 is another story... I remember the shows, but also some rather embarrassing behavior :oops:
Thats not true Im a God In torrent land!!!!
Drink and smoke I can balance. But at those shows I was mixing the smoke with something else. From what I hear, you couldn't even tell I was buzzed. It just wiped my memory. So it wasn't so much saying when or not hanging... just have to learn what things you can and can't mix!
I don't believe you. This is my understanding of torrent:
Download a torrent program
Then you download the torrent...
BUT... that doesn't mean you have the songs!
No, once you've downloaded the torrent, you have to plug that into something else that will download the actual songs...
So whatever you want has to be downloaded twice
Oh yeah, and none of it will ever work... so once you've downloaded the torrent, you will spend months waiting for someone with the actual songs because the torrent you downloaded won't work with the torrent program/service you use.
How did this gibberish ever become popular?
aXXo is the only god in torrent land!
State College you say? Embarassing behavior you say? My daughter (8 at the time and now 14) remembers the following about State College - some girls barking like dogs, and some guys in the next section repeatedly chanting 'Eddie Ved'.
Regarding torrents - you just have to understand how to do it - there is decidedly a learning curve, several little details you have to take care of, and you have to have good leech behavior, and good torrent community behavior, for everything to work well for everyone, but BT is a very helpful thing to aquire large (legal of course) files. You first have to have a 'client', such as Bit Tornado or Azureus on your computer. Then you have to connect to the tracker that's keeping track of the files you want. Then you start to download and upload at the same time. There are several tweakable things that will make it all go faster.
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I wasn't one of those people at State College, though I was swaying a bit and for some reason got it into my head that I HAD to keep offering to put this little girl in the row ahead on my shoulders as I was afraid she couldn't see. My buddy kept talking me out of it... I think.
I've given up on torrent. There's too much downloading and tweaking and nonsense with it, and I don't download much. I just remember once I stumbled across a "package" of a ton of Oasis b-sides I'd been trying to get for ages. I spent 2 weeks trying to figure out how to get the damn thing to work and it infuriated me that I had a large file on my computer (like a .rar file) that was the same size as 30 songs would be and took as long to download... but that WASNT the songs, it was the torrent so that I could then wait days for someone to turn up with it (or never turn up with it in my case) so that I could then download ANOTHER file of the SAME size that actually DID have the songs and call it a torrent. It made no sense to me... why not just put the actual songs on the website if you're going to host a file of that size on a website anyway?
ok you DL the torrent Program (transmission in my case)
next Download .torrent file
open in transmission.
The only hard part is finding a good community
I get 4gigs files in less then a half hour!
Setting your ports is key too... :ugeek:
That's what I don't get though... why download a torrent file just so that you can download other files? Why not download the files directly? It seems to me like wasting time and unnecessarily complicating things.
that file is like a key to the other people who have it open (seeders) the more seeders you have the faster it goes.
Unlike save a server, the more users thats downloading the file it gets slower. You feel Me?
I think so. I don't know what the fuck that Oasis torrent I had was then. It was a lot bigger than 12kb and nobody on the service I used seemed to have it.
that file is like a key to the other people who have it open (seeders) the more seeders you have the faster it goes.
Unlike save a server, the more users thats downloading the file it gets slower. You feel Me?[/quote]
I think so. I don't know what the fuck that Oasis torrent I had was then. It was a lot bigger than 12kb and nobody on the service I used seemed to have it.[/quote]
well once you open the .torrent file it creates the folder say (oasis) to the original size (say it was a show, and the full size of that show was 1 gig.)
thats where the music will be when its done downloading.
But there has to be a good number of people seeding or it does take time
I got pretty wasted at PJ Chicago 03. 5 hour road trip/toke, combine with double fistin a couple of the big beers once we got there. I was as wasted as I get. Only time I missed anything was when I leaned over to puke in my cup. After that, was great.
I have an uncanny ability to keep my focus in times of vomit. I was playin a gig with my old band. Did a jaeger bomb onstage. About half way through the next song it came back up. I kept the song goin, without a hitch.
I've gotten sensory overload at a few shows, in smaller places, with crazy lights, from havin too many puffs of the sticky icky and beer. Nothin a little deep breathin couldn't fix.
I'll throw in my two cents on the "don't get too drunk/whatever" at PJ shows. We were at night 2 in Boston for the VFC Tour 2004. There were four girls behind us in loge. They were clearly off their tree and during "I've got a Feeling", one girl fell down on top of me, depositing her full beer on my bandwagon t, essentially pushing me forward about three rows ahead and pissed off about a dozen people. This was probably the most awful thing I can remember happening at a PJ show. Oh, no, I guess there were others, but that was pretty bad. It pissed me off so much because that's like the only time they ever played that song and it's like the greatest Beatles song out there.
So, if your out there drunk girl who ruined that song for me 5 years ago, I'm still mad.
It's both... I like to multitask
I dropped 2 lit cigarettes on the guy in the row ahead of me at Cleveland in 03, because I was too fucked up to hold them properly. He's probably saying the same thing about me.
Get a buzz but not so shitfaced you can’t remember.
But the right amount of alcohol and drugs can enhance a show. I.e. Showbox 2004 my buddy and I each ate a magic mushroom and had a few beers and smoked a J. That was the perfect amount of enhances and to date, this was one of my favorite PJ shows.
The whole world will be different soon the whole world will be RELIEVED
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I've cleaned up my act quite a bit since then
Hey I hope you didn't take it too seriously. I just thought the irony was so funny. Nothing against you
The whole world will be different soon the whole world will be RELIEVED
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#standingman #duranadam
Not at all. I'm just glad I pull off the look. I felt like a kid playing dress up all last summer.