I have a love/hate relationship with the gym. Everyone does. For me though, it’s a personal test of my own impatience for both results and boredom. Rippling muscles don’t come overnight, and you can’t get your cardio done in 5 minutes. Though, I feel modern medicine should be looking for ways to make both of those happen. Far more important than curing the common cold...
But it’s free …
Yay for Radiohead! Yay for NIN! Yay for the millions of other people who gave their music away for free. Free is good, free is easy, free is … well, free. Wait a minute. Is it good? What happened to the expression “you get what you pay for?” Since when do we walk into a store, look at a shirt, and say “oh, you know, wearing this shirt means supporting the company that...
Facebook in real life … kinda scary.
April 15th …
RockGeek Fact of the Day #1109
On most CD pressings of “Dark Side of the Moon”, a barely-audible orchestral version of The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” is audible after “Eclipse”, playing very faintly over the heartbeats that close the album. It is unknown why this was included, but it may have been the consequence of a mastering error. The bootleg recording A Tree Full of Secrets...
RockGeek Fact #836
Social Networking? Just go DO stuff!
The big trend across music and people and seemingly life itself is “social networking sites.” You know, MySpace, Facebook, and a million others. The theory is that since you can’t meet, find, or keep friends in real life, you need a way to do it virtually. How refreshing! Now I don’t have to actually have friends, I can just have cyberfriends. This way, I can have...
Anthemic Rock – or a lack thereof…
Yesterday evening, I went to an NFL game at [Big Corporate Sponsor] Stadium. Alongside the $8 beers, and the $7 hot dogs, I noticed that the music predates many of the attendees. This got me to wondering: doesn’t anyone today write the bone-rattling, crowd maddening, stadium shaking tunes that incite our teams to win? Last night I heard lots of Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, and a bit o’ Led...
RockGeek Fact of the Day #237
Back from the dead?
It’s a great time to be old in the music industry. No really, it is. The Billboard Top 200 albums (week of 11/3/07) showcases a number of acts who are grandparents, eating early bird dinners, or have to monitor their fiber intakes. Here’s the list: Bruce Springsteen at #1 (age 58), Santana at #8 (age 60), Eric Clapton at #20 (age 62), John Fogerty at #29 (age 62), Bob Dylan at #65...