[QUOTE]Pardon my ignorance on modern music but, who is OAR?[/QUOTE]
A jam band (arguable) similar to DMB that all the frat boys and preppy highschoolers are in love with.

Does OAR stand for something? I've started liking this new band called The Shins. They are more of an alt rock band, but they have some really strange songs...and they are great.

I love playing hacky sack...I bought a monstously large hacky sack in Spain. It gets tiring to play with after a while because it's so huge.

[QUOTE]Does OAR stand for something?[/QUOTE]
Of A Revolution.

[QUOTE=lunch998]Indeed, I wish the ending to Tales of Brave Ulysses would last another minute or so. It's so orgasmic.[/QUOTE]
... 123? There aren't enough numbers on the keyboard for my agreeing...

[QUOTE=WalrusGumboot]Tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers, and you want to take them with you to the heartland of the winter

Some of the best phychedellic lyrics I have heard are in that song[/QUOTE]
What I love about the lyrics to that song is that they skirt that line so finely. On one hand you get deliciously psychedelic lines like that, on the other hand, you get the wonderfully poetic lines about the "sparkling waves are calling you to kiss their white laced lips," and all the other really catchy alliteration.

[QUOTE=WalrusGumboot]I have been known to play hacky sack/play guitar/ listen to CR/ have long hair (which is not too special since I am supposed to being a girl and all)/play harmonica during classes but besides that I am prety much a bookworm, so I really have nothing in common with most of my friends except homework, so I am their pet hippie, you see.

/life story[/QUOTE]
Don't worry dear, being a bookworm is fun! /English nerd We've got an AP english class in my school, and we're all such nuts. Our teacher is majorly cool, though. I was talking with him about Abbey Road.

Just how does this make you a hippie? ;)

[QUOTE=slowhand]And I'm a meat-eating, shower-loving hippie. I hate vegetarians food. Can't eat that stuff.[/QUOTE]
It's difficult to do the vegetarian thing. I'm all right with people who want to try it, but I think it's a bit crazy myself. The problem is that so many people do the vegetarian thing for whatever reason and they end up having crappy diets and getting really bad nutrition. That's the most ironic thing, people who go vegetarian who are such picky eaters that they're little sticks. (Don't get me started on picky eaters ;).)

hacky sacking is awesome.

[QUOTE=thickasabrick]Does OAR stand for something? I've started liking this new band called The Shins. They are more of an alt rock band, but they have some really strange songs...and they are great.

I love playing hacky sack...I bought a monstously large hacky sack in Spain. It gets tiring to play with after a while because it's so huge.[/QUOTE]

Very cool band, they aren't that new though :/

I hang out with "cool" kids most of the time(who like I said earlier, idolize bands like OAR), so when I had long hair and wore band t-shirts I was always called a hippie. Or like that time when I tried to convince them that The Who was better than 311....

I do enjoy 311, but I take them for what they are, high energy, party music. I saw them live and had a blast, but I wouldn't say they are better then The Who.

[QUOTE=ArrestThisMan]I do enjoy 311, but I take them for what they are, high energy, party music. I saw them live and had a blast, but I wouldn't say they are better then The Who.[/QUOTE]

Exactly. I never said I hated them, in fact I do enjoy listening to them sometimes. I even own two of their albums. But come on, The Who.

The Who!

I think it's just because we have grown up with classic rock, that we have the perspective to understand these things better then the average person does.

Def Leppard is one of my favorite classic rock bands

A drummer with one arm... who woulda thunk it? :confused:

I usually hate the people at my school who play hacky sack...

All of my friend's musical taste differ from mine, but it doesn't make a difference.

The Who > j00

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[QUOTE=ArrestThisMan]I think it's just because we have grown up with classic rock, that we have the perspective to understand these things better then the average person does.[/QUOTE]

You sound like a classic rock fanboy right here, no offense.

Def Leppard are classic rock? :/



It's so strange, on our local classic rock station, they have started playing Nirvana, RHCP, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, and other bands like that from the ealy 90's.

Def Leppard sucks, hackey sack sucks, and I concur with ATM: classic rock stations have gotten REALLY liberal with the definition of "classic rock".

that's weird, I've always wondered how classic rock stations will develop over time.

[QUOTE=ArrestThisMan]I think it's just because we have grown up with classic rock, that we have the perspective to understand these things better then the average person does.[/QUOTE]

Good point, that is certainly true for me and The Who

[QUOTE=wanton]You sound like a classic rock fanboy right here, no offense.[/QUOTE]

You don't have to be a classic rock fanboy to recognize that The Who>311, which was what ATM's response was referring to.

[QUOTE=lunch998]You don't have to be a classic rock fanboy to recognize that The Who>311, which was what ATM's response was referring to.[/QUOTE]

It sounded like he was saying people who grew up with classic rock recognize better music than people who didn't.

[QUOTE=wanton]

You sound like a classic rock fanboy right here, no offense.[/QUOTE]

Yea, I realized that after I wrote that. But I don't mean it in an elitist way at all, in fact people on MX know that I listen to all genres and have a very open mind about music. I just meant that since a lot of us here in this thread have grown up with classic rock, we have more knowledge of music then the average person. A lot of huge OAR fans might have never sat down and listened to DSOTM, etc.

I wouldnt say that Classic Rock people have more knowledge then a Blues lover of a Jazz lover, or even a metal lover, but the fact is that most teens this day and age havent been expsed to true music. All they know and have ever known is bands like DMB, Mayer, etc. The reason why they may badmouth a genre you like is because all they know about that is the stereotypes.

[QUOTE=ArrestThisMan]Yea, I realized that after I wrote that. But I don't mean it in an elitist way at all, in fact people on MX know that I listen to all genres and have a very open mind about music. I just meant that since a lot of us here in this thread have grown up with classic rock, we have more knowledge of music then the average person. A lot of huge OAR fans might have never sat down and listened to DSOTM, etc.[/QUOTE]

This is also true. Also, a lot of OAR fans wouldn't be OAR fans if they heard other/much better jam bands.

OAR are the worst Rastafarians ever.

[QUOTE=Badmoon]OAR are the worst Rastafarians ever.[/QUOTE]

Yea, agreed.

[QUOTE=Illmatic] classic rock stations have gotten REALLY liberal with the definition of "classic rock".[/QUOTE]

Yeah. I was listening to my local classic rock station the other day, and they were playing good stuff, like Bowie, Stones, etc., etc., and then a f[COLOR=White]u[/COLOR]ckin' Motley Crue song comes on.

I like OAR. And DMB. And Mayer. So STFU.

Whos ever heard of the Meters?

Thick: It stands for Of A Revolution

[QUOTE=thickasabrick]Does OAR stand for something? I've started liking this new band called The Shins. They are more of an alt rock band, but they have some really strange songs...and they are great.

I love playing hacky sack...I bought a monstously large hacky sack in Spain. It gets tiring to play with after a while because it's so huge.[/QUOTE]


:eek:

I forgot to ask you, how was Spain? (!!11!@@!) I am going there this summer ...gimme details (what's the music scene like!?) Who would have thought they have massive hacky sacks in Spain :lol:

[QUOTE]Whos ever heard of the Meters?[/QUOTE]

George Porter Jr. = Great bassist.

[QUOTE]So STFU.[/QUOTE]

No

Ah, feels good to be back.

[QUOTE=Walrus Gumboot]:eek:

I forgot to ask you, how was Spain? (!!11!@@!) I am going there this summer ...gimme details (what's the music scene like!?) Who would have thought they have massive hacky sacks in Spain :lol:[/QUOTE]

Spain was amazing. There was so much cool stuff there, just a much cooler atmosphere (than where I live anyway). Mark Knopfler and Gov't Mule are really big there. I dunno what the local scene is like though, all the music we saw was like Spanish music (Flamenco and stuff). It's a cool place though, I definitely wanna go back.

[QUOTE=ArrestThisMan]Very cool band, they aren't that new though :/[/QUOTE]

Well I call anything that isn't from the classic rock era new :p

ok so iv been playing the guitar for about 5 years now and iv just started getting into led zeppelin a lot. Iv always liked them but now iv been really listening to them. I finally got out of the Nirvana stage. Does anyone know how Jimmy Page configures his amplifier? How he sets the gain/treble/middle? And how I can get a fuzz effect with my 50 watt Marshal Amp? Also what is a good fuzz pedal for playing Led Zeppelin?
Thanks for your replies, I appreciate it.