Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:48 pm
Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:08 pm
a fan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:02 pm
Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:58 am
a fan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:42 am
Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:04 am
Surprised you didnt jump all over "I would never tell anyone what they think" when we have eveidence to the contrary all over this joint. Of course he will claim he was joking or some nonsense but it's BS. He thinks he knows better, it's quite clear and this is a claim from someone alleging all sorts of other people are liars (which implies intent meaning he IS telling people what's in their heads but so delusional as to not understand this)
Didn't jump on it, because it's pointless. He has his lack of self-awareness set at "11".
I can't read JAMA articles and push back on errors of omission or commission. So I wait for consensus....which takes YEARS. Which is the whole point, as you and others here know: these geniuses were sure of their "lab leak theory" four years ago...and they're incapable of understand that THAT is where the pushback comes from.
TeamTinFoil thinks that having definitive proof of a lab leak in 2024 means that anyone who said we don't have evidence of a lab leak in 2020....or anyone who got frustrated at wild speculation pushed back and said "it didn't come from a lab leak" 2020.....was lying.
It's logic for toddlers. And I wouldn't care..... if their nonsense wasn't getting people killed, or tricking people into storming the Senate "because" the election was rigged.
Makes sense though you do take on tough luck cases around here an awful lot.
Yeah, that's on me. My flaw. I figure If I can get through to folks with logic here, there's hope for millions of Americans that believe that ONLY the Trump v. Biden part of thousand of different ballots are "bad".
Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:58 am
I think we all get the childish sophomoric nature of it. The lack of skin in the game. Lack of empathy for others and extreme arrogance to question without offering tangible solutions as a way of life. Why...Why...why. Well how do you know...Its petty and childish and doesnt add any value when it's more repetitive than watching a live version of Jessica by Allman and wondering when they're finally going to end the damn song 28 minutes in.
Well put.
When I was a kid, I once had a bootleg of a Allman Show from my brother in law (maybe they werent married then), and completed an entire Kid Icarus nintendo game while it played, no joke.
For those unfamiliar, Kid Icarus was an early Nintendo classic. Not metroid, Rygar level awesome but a fun game as a grade school kid. (goonies was a fund long one too back then)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd8-a0xr294
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Icarus
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Eric Bloom
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Background information
Birth name Eric Jay Bloom
Born December 1, 1944 (age 79)
Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Genres Hard rock, heavy metal, psychedelic rock
Occupation(s) Musician, singer, songwriter
Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar, keyboards
Years active 1959–present
Labels Columbia, CMC
Website ericbloom.net
Eric Jay Bloom (born December 1, 1944) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the co-lead vocalist, guitar and keyboard/synthesizer player for the long-running band Blue Öyster Cult, with work on more than 20 albums. Much of his lyrical content relates to his lifelong interest in science fiction.
Early life and education
A native New Yorker, Bloom was born in Brooklyn, the youngest of three children, and grew up in Queens. His mother was a housewife, active in local charities and family life. His father ran a picture frame and print company in Manhattan. Bloom is Jewish.[1] Bloom attended JHS 216 (George J. Ryan Junior High School), and then moved on to Woodmere Academy and Cheshire Academy in Connecticut.[2] It was there that he purchased his first guitar, a $52 Harmony full-bodied electric.
Bloom, known as "Manny" Bloom in college, attended Hobart College in Geneva, New York, studying modern languages.
The group "Lost and Found", 1966. F
rom left: Peter Haviland, Jeff Hayes, John Trivers, Bloom, and George Faust photographed at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Career
Soft White Underbelly: 1968–1971
Soft White Underbelly promo, December 1968
One day in late 1968 some members of the band Soft White Underbelly, Donald Roeser (later Buck Dharma), Allen Lanier and Andrew Winters, entered the store. One of them spotted a photo that Bloom had put up as a joke—he had placed an 8x10 glossy of his old band Lost and Found up on the wall with all the major bands such as the Rolling Stones and The Who.
One of the SWU members recognized it because Les Braunstein, their lead singer, had also been a Hobart College alumnus, and had told his bandmates about the other college band. As Bloom talked with them about the photo, they struck up a friendship. Bloom ended up doing some sound engineering for them at the Electric Circus in Greenwich Village, and they mutually impressed each other enough that in November 1968, the band's manager, Sandy Pearlman, asked if Bloom would like to become their tour manager. Bloom moved into the group's house in Great Neck, New York, in December 1968.[3][4]
Blue Öyster Cult: 1972–present
In April 1969, when lead singer Braunstein dropped out of the group, Bloom became the band's vocalist. The band went through several name changes, but in 1971 settled on Blue Öyster Cult. Their first album was released by Columbia Records in 1972.
In 1976, their platinum album Agents of Fortune with its hit "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" launched the band into international fame, though that particular song was sung and written by lead guitarist Buck Dharma. Both Creem readers[5] and Rolling Stone critics[6] voted "Don't Fear the Reaper" as the top single of the year.
Bloom bought his own house in Great Neck in 1976.[3]
Bloom performing with Blue Öyster Cult
Bloom has been one of the longtime members of the band throughout the decades, along with original member Buck Dharma. Bloom is credited as playing "stun guitar" on some Blue Öyster Cult works, a term the band uses for the distortion sound of his rhythm guitar.[7][8]
Outside work
Bloom is known for being an avid reader, especially science fiction and fantasy novels. He once sent a fan letter to English science-fiction author Michael Moorcock, and then collaborated with him on three songs. "Black Blade" was written from the point of view of Moorcock's Elric character, and the other two were "The Great Sun Jester" and "Veteran of the Psychic Wars", the latter of which was used in the original Heavy Metal movie.
Bloom also collaborated with author Eric Van Lustbader on the song "Shadow Warrior", and in 1998, 2001 and 2020 with cyberpunk author John Shirley on the Heaven Forbid', Curse of the Hidden Mirror and The Symbol Remains albums.
In 2006, Bloom began a partnership with artist Philippe Renaudin, to create and sell six elaborately painted custom-made guitars, each one of which interprets a different Blue Öyster Cult song, and each of which was played during BÖC performances.[9]