My rant for today

Mike B

I am officially mad this morning. :x :x

I got in my car started her up hit my station on the radio memory and oh what did I hear. My favorite eclectic Americana/Texas style country was replaced by some jibby-jabby floppy-moppy crap. I just set there and shook my head and cursed the bean counters.

peace.

shredd

I HATE jibby-jabby floppy-moppy crap. :?

Seriously though, I can relate. The modern demise of over-the-air radio is dismal. I remember living within 50 miles of 5 or 6 major a/o/r stations and not even bothering to buy albums, 'cuz they played so much good stuff. Their jocks were awesome and fun to listen to.
Now, you've got satellite radio, which has each channel completely dedicated to a single sub-genre and is so homogenized that one song is indistinguishable from the next. And over the air radio is SO bad that it's unlistenable. If I'm stuck with nothing but a radio, I listen to NPR. :shock:
Thank gawd for iPods... :roll:

Mike B

The thing that really set me off is that this was the second station this week that changed their format. The other station was on the AM band (yes I know, AM) where I could still get my Tammy Wynette fix. (I sure miss her ), boom it's gone replaced with another news talk format.

I guess Shredd is right about the Ipod/MP3 player. I'll probably get me some kind with the soon to be here tax rebate check.

So I decided to plug in the geetar and wail on it and discovered I left my two favorite Fender premium cables at church Sunday. Oh well stuff happens.
Well I'm still mad but just a little less. :x :roll:


peace

shredd

Sounds like yer havin' yerself a Monday. Breathe deep, put on a Tammy CD, and imagine being the groupie herder for Bon Jovi. :twisted:

Now, meself...I don't even listen to the radio anymore...besides the fact that they play CRAP (jibby-jabby floppy-moppy), I can't stand the commercialized format, endless advertising, repetitiveness, boring jocks, etc etc.
I've gotten a nice iPod, which I have loaded with the bulk of my CD collection, which I ripped quickly with AudioGrabber (great freeware...). So even if I listen to the same 2500-2600 songs over n over, at least they're GOOD songs. 8)

Mike B

the theraputic value of a good, long hot shower should never be overlooked. :oops: :roll:

Showered, picked up the two cables from church, rehearsed the phrasing for my upcoming next post and all seems well again.

Shredd I was driving home and started thinking about what it would be like to be a groupie hearder, I started laughing outloud in the car. Someone drove by and gave me the strangest look. Like what is this guy some psycho. Shoot that made it even better

Rock on, Raytheon has me for the next eight or so hours

peace

philflood

While i find the iPod to be a great thing, I always worry about losing it or having it ripped off or some such thing. I am quite grateful that GM had the foresight to equip my car with an in-dash player capable of playing mp3s on CD. I can get well over 100 tunes on a CD that way, put the thing on random, and I'm set.

Mike B

OK here's what happened it all makes sense.

Last night there was very severe weather in the Dallas Ft. Worth area and my favorite radio station was knocked off the air. This morning the atmospheric conditions were favorable for the signal from an FM station sharing the same frequecey, but in Lawton, Oklahoma, to reach the Dallas FT.Worth area, unusual but it happens.

Later this morning the skies had cleared, the signal from Lawton could no longer reach this far and \"my\" station repaired their problem and began transmitting again. So how 'bout that.

But I think I'll still get myself some type of MP-3 player.


peace.

shredd

\philflood\ wrote:

While i find the iPod to be a great thing, I always worry about losing it or having it ripped off or some such thing. I am quite grateful that GM had the foresight to equip my car with an in-dash player capable of playing mp3s on CD. I can get well over 100 tunes on a CD that way, put the thing on random, and I'm set.

I LOVE CD players that play MP3's. 8)

Cobaltblooz

\Mike B\ wrote:

I am officially mad this morning. :x :x

...replaced by some jibby-jabby floppy-moppy crap. I just set there and shook my head and cursed the bean counters.

peace.

I much prefer the \"jabby-jibby moppy-floppy\" crap myself...

Mike B

I admit it I probably over reacted :oops:.

And really jibby-jabby floppy-moppy is not really that crappy anyway

It was just a weird series of events that all fell together at the right time. Kind of like that old movie/novel Fate is the Hunter.

peace

thehootman

What's on the radio gives me nausea. I completely sympathise with you there. Australia's current music scene is about as good as a squashed cabbage leaf.

Cobaltblooz

No different here in the US Hoot....the radio is unlistenable...I listen to news & weather, then put in a CD.....

shredd

Where I live, NPR is the best station on the dial. :shock:

iliace

\shredd\ wrote:

\philflood\ wrote:

While i find the iPod to be a great thing, I always worry about losing it or having it ripped off or some such thing. I am quite grateful that GM had the foresight to equip my car with an in-dash player capable of playing mp3s on CD. I can get well over 100 tunes on a CD that way, put the thing on random, and I'm set.

I LOVE CD players that play MP3's. 8)

My Hyundai has an MP3 CD capability. I never listen to the radio; too many commercials and not enough to show for it. With an MP3 CD, I can have my eclectic compilations: everything from Symphony X and Dream Theater to Aria (russian version of Iron Maiden http://www.aria.ru), to Stevie Wonder and Jamiroquai to Dr Dre and Lil Kim, through Alice in Chains and Eve 6, followed by some Vic Wooten and Gap Band, complemented by some Django, Bach, Bartok, Guns'n Roses, Pink Floyd, The Who, Greg Howe, or Yngwie; back to Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Dio, topped off by custom lists of MP3s (for instance, my collection of off-the-wall covers) ... who needs the freaking radio? I can hear any song I like, any time I want!

Rawb

I reckon I'll be on the no radio side. Radio is only fer talk show's and ball games. Or it is one of the discs in the magazine. Just like tv, commercials every 7 min.. :twisted: It's a shame that they have to use \" seven songs in a row with no commercials \" as a selling credential. Then they come on in the middle of them songs and tell you that their playing several songs in a row with no commercials, so what's that! a commercial! :evil: :twisted:

thehootman

\iliace\ wrote:

My Hyundai has an MP3 CD capability. I never listen to the radio; too many commercials and not enough to show for it. With an MP3 CD, I can have my eclectic compilations: everything from Symphony X and Dream Theater to Aria (russian version of Iron Maiden http://www.aria.ru), to Stevie Wonder and Jamiroquai to Dr Dre and Lil Kim, through Alice in Chains and Eve 6, followed by some Vic Wooten and Gap Band, complemented by some Django, Bach, Bartok, Guns'n Roses, Pink Floyd, The Who, Greg Howe, or Yngwie; back to Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Dio, topped off by custom lists of MP3s (for instance, my collection of off-the-wall covers) ... who needs the freaking radio? I can hear any song I like, any time I want!

I commend your choice of bands. Can you play any Symphony X/Yngwie stuff? Its worth the effort - it's a treat for the fingers once you manage to 8)

cyclonic

\iliace\ wrote:

With an MP3 CD, I can have my eclectic compilations: everything from Symphony X and Dream Theater to Aria (russian version of Iron Maiden http://www.aria.ru), to Stevie Wonder and Jamiroquai to Dr Dre and Lil Kim, through Alice in Chains and Eve 6, followed by some Vic Wooten and Gap Band, complemented by some Django, Bach, Bartok, Guns'n Roses, Pink Floyd, The Who, Greg Howe, or Yngwie; back to Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Dio, topped off by custom lists of MP3s (for instance, my collection of off-the-wall covers) ... who needs the freaking radio? I can hear any song I like, any time I want!

With music like that playing ..........I'm riding with \"iliace\" from now on :P 8) .................so where are we going????

Radio has stunk for years

Mike B

Well here it is another beautiful spring day in North Texas, storms again last night but today is cool, sunshine and gentle zephyr of a breeze.

I had to over to the high school to check with my 15 year old daughter about her guitar recital tonight and the oufit she was supposed to wear (orders from her mom). Check in at the office and they page her class, then I find out she is not in class and has not been there for that period. :x :x Not the first time either, so much for trusting her decisions.
What happens to the brain function of teen age girls? Does the brain and good sense area go into hibernation or something like that?


peace

Rawb

I don't bame her, I would want to get out and enjoy a gentle zephyr of a breeze on a sunny day too! :roll:
End of the school year, spring fever, etc.. Was it just that class or an all day thing? So Mike you telling me/us that back in the day you never forgot you had a class?

Once when I was 14 we skipped the last two classes of the day, walking down the road and what ya know my dad drives by. Talk about a panic attack! Cuz of course he did a u-turn Since it was the begining of the year he bought or didn't pursue the excuse \" we had no classes scheduled for the end of the day yet! \"

Have mercy Mike!! 8) Is she the drummer in your pics?

Mike B

Hi Rawb, I wish it was that simple. But it is not in this case. My wife and I have been served with an order to appear before a city judge because of her truancey.

Apparently Gdub's \"no child left behind\" now includes punishing the parents for the child's poor judgement.

She is going to counseling now, we have talked to her many, many times each time it is I won't do it anymore. So now it is going to escalate. In all probability she will end up taking this whole school year over.

Rawb, I was not perfect by any means, but I learned from my mistakes, especially when they were \"pointed out\" to me. For some reason she is not or chooses to ignore and do what she wants to.

No the drummer girl is the older sister


peace