So they are not your typical train fans…but their new EP is “train themed” One of my top 5 fav’s of all time…and a great group of dudes to say the least.
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Cale Nelson said:
So they are not your typical train fans…but their new EP is “train themed” One of my top 5 fav’s of all time…and a great group of dudes to say the least.(http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm307/theweddingmyspace/myspace/THE-WEDDING_01.jpg)
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What the H*LL is that thing on the smokebox door? Mr Churchward should be spinning in his grave this second… tac
that is the bands logo, of course!
and speaking of the smokebox…what kind of train is it attached to?
Checked out their MySpace page and a short audition of the music. I think one of my son’s T-Shirts says it best… “If my music is too loud then you’re too old”. 
Yup - I am.
Jon Radder said:I've never understood the notion that music has to be deafening to be "good". Usually it's just the opposite -- if the music is too loud, it probably sucks. Blow their eardrums out and they won't care that that the "musicians" have all the talent of a spastic chimp.
I think one of my son's T-Shirts says it best... "If my music is too loud then you're too old".
But then, I’ve also never understood the idea that if you’re a certain age, you’re supposed to like that kind of crap.
Ahh come on Ray, I know it ain’t the GVB, but that don’t make it crap
OK, to be fair - I still like loud music. But some of the modern rock styles and all of the heavy metal I can do without. Give me ELP, Santana, Tull or the Dead (to name a few) at full volume (as long as it doesn’t distort) and I’m loving it.
There’s even a bit of hip-hop that I can handle :o
ok Jon, not exactly what you ordered, but give these guys a listen!
“The Zeppelin-meets-Floyd production came through a painstaking transfer process. Using recording techniques from the late 60’s and early 70’s, the band tracked most of the record live, giving the songs a very natural and warm sound.”
Jon Radder said:
OK, to be fair - I still like loud music. But some of the modern rock styles and all of the heavy metal I can do without. Give me ELP, Santana, Tull or the Dead (to name a few) at full volume (as long as it doesn't distort) and I'm loving it.There’s even a bit of hip-hop that I can handle :o
I have a 10,800 watt PA that can blow you into the next room in Stereo without distortion :lol:
Ralph
All I can hear any more is loud music! Eh? Wazzat?
Cale Nelson said:
that is the bands logo, of course!and speaking of the smokebox…what kind of train is it attached to?
The LOCOMOTIVE [the train is what is hauled along behind it] is either a Hall or a Manor Class locomotive of the former Great Western Railway company of England and Wales.
Sorry I can’t be more precise, but British railways are not really my thang.
tac
Yes, Terry;
So many people use the word “Train” without knowing what in hell a “TRAIN” actually is.
…most don’t care, and know very little about a railway system of any type. They are just playing with toys and don’t give a sweet anything about what the models are modelled after, or what a railroad does in real life.
As far as so called music…to me anything that is too loud no longer is music, and is just irritating NOISE.
I don’t even care for the sound systems that the toy train gang seem to demand on their toys.
But that comes with suffering from real life experience, working in noisey conditions, and suffering the cocequences.
My main objection is to "noise pollution which most don’t realize is a fact of life, and most will suffer in the future due to it’s effects.
I wonder if anyone today has ever had the pleasure of silence, or silence with just the natural sounds of nature......Try that if you can find it, and then you soon realize what we put up with every day and take for granted.Fred Mills said:After 9/11 airplanes were grounded for a short period here in the states. Many people were staying home. I could go outside at night and look at the stars and enjoy almost total quiet. I can still do this, but for much shorter periods of time. Ralph
I wonder if anyone today has ever had the pleasure of silence, or silence with just the natural sounds of nature......Try that if you can find it, and then you soon realize what we put up with every day and take for granted.
Ralph Berg said:I can find that in my backyard.....just the birds and the rain coming down............very peaceful.Fred Mills said:After 9/11 airplanes were grounded for a short period here in the states. Many people were staying home. I could go outside at night and look at the stars and enjoy almost total quiet. I can still do this, but for much shorter periods of time. Ralph
I wonder if anyone today has ever had the pleasure of silence, or silence with just the natural sounds of nature......Try that if you can find it, and then you soon realize what we put up with every day and take for granted.
At my house a train consist of anything that is placed in front of something else in a line…could be chairs, hot wheel cars, training pottys, kids, etc…It’s all trains…
Tac found the CD you sent a while back…kids and I were watching earlier today!
Fred Mills said:It's awfully hard to find Fred. The closest I've ever been in the last twenty years was with you on the road to Brent, in Algonquin Provincial Park, when we stopped to climb the tower to view the Brent Crater.
[i][/i] I wonder if anyone today has ever had the pleasure of silence, or silence with just the natural sounds of nature......Try that if you can find it, and then you soon realize what we put up with every day and take for granted.
Cale Nelson said:Just to clarify, my comment was not directed specifically towards the group who's album you posted. I haven't even heard them. Just a general observation that too much of what passes for "music" these days is pretty lousy; and that "loud" doesn't equal "good".
Ahh come on Ray, I know it ain't the GVB, but that don't make it crap
BTW, am I the only one who’s noticed that a lot of pop singers whine instead of sing? These are often the same ones who slur their words, too. They sound like a bunch of whiny drunken slackers. Case in point: “How to Save a Life” by The Fray.
…and then there are the female “Screamers”, notably one from Canada…