Many people keep their consoles in areas of a house where there is no internet connection and they are not interested in it. They will happily play garage band/guitar hero or other party games.

xbox1 will be completely unusable to military personnel that are deployed overseas. On military bases internet connection is usually available only in designated locations and at designated times(think internet cafe-type setup).

A game can be EVER run on only 2 consoles. If you like to trade/exchange/lend your games with your friends, forget about it.

You can lend the same game to the same person only once.

In order to lend or sell/give away/trade games with somebody they must be in your friends list for at least 30 prior days.

If you want to play games you must pay Microsoft $60/year for as long as you use the console. $60, $120, $180, $240, $300. After 5 years you paid MS almost as much as the console itself for nothing.

Can't got wrong with 60's garage band music! Mrs Howell certainly can groove for an older broad =oD

The Ark website launch video is AWESOME!! Imagine these same talentless rich kids singing without the post and without the autotune!! It's truly epic.




Also the announcer... he says stuff like "this girl has more talent than I have in my little toe". The band looks like high school garage band.


they put the Factory in Music Factory.

Cubase, Logic, Digital Performer and Pro Tools are common, popular pro digital audio workstations. They all cost several hundreds of dollars and are fairly complicated to use, especially if you are new to digital audio. Cubase and Logic seem to be popular in the remix/electronic music scene. Digital Performer is popular among film composers. Pro Tools is a popular choice for TV/Film sound design and mixing. I use Digital Performer and like it a lot. It's slick and powerful.

There are cheaper, simpler options out there. I believe Apple's 'Garage Band' is to music editing, what 'iMovie' is to video editing, though I've never tried it.

>> ^Duckman33:

For ridiculous as he looks playing like that, I have to give him credit for not missing a beat.


Yeah, I thought it was gonna be some crappy garage band video but, it's pretty obvious the drummer (at least) knows what he's doing.

The socio-genetic experiment has worked well-Gone are the days of bashing people over thehead with mallets and blowing them up with TNT-I watched Sesame Street for the musical numbers-The best cartoons were ones with no message whatsoever rather, the renderings and animation always held preeminence over the scripting. Mornings before public school programming were spent with the 3 stooges and Bugs, Woody Woodpecker and re-runs of Twilight zone and Outer Limits at night...

I grew up listening to music more that suckling of of the cathode ray nipple-Lot's of Zappa, obscure garage bands, and selective pop. Television was clear as a fucking bell to me- An insidious programming glow for those whose minds were already forming into a mass of putty easily manipulated and influenced to do the bidding of the advertisers, financiers, and criminal politicians bent on turning everyone into easily managed robots.(I did watch every Charlie's Angels episode each week, and had posters of all of em, on the wall opposite the black light posters!)

Fast-forward to the now and it would seem that the shit worked better than expected. The last couple of generations are as gullible and susceptible as ever to the machine.

Art, music, performance, and the artisan trades are dying-the third-world is polluting the first(by design), and regurgitated, hackneyed scripts have replaced what was once a higher more inspired art.

More power to ya BF, as you do battle in the exclusive arena you have chosen....The passion is what is important.

>> ^thinker247:
Porn and Christianity.


Ah, that will do it. Strange bedfellows.

Or a great name for a garage band.

I wonder how good SiftBot is at Garage*Band.

^ yw, and no sweat!

yeah. those first couple sifts can be tough, finding something new to contribute.
try garage bands, or oldies, if you're into music.

obscure stuff that you really dug, but never hit the big time.
and historical stuff, like this, is a good choice, because most people are trying to contribute more contemporary sifts, and you won't bump heads.

oh, and unless you're talking to someone that uploaded the clip, or has it bookmarked, ping them with a 'profile reply' after you've written your reply here. that way they know to come back to read it.

Hi Swampgirl (sighs, blushes) When these guys came out with their album, it was all like hard edges looking, more like a punk-er Bowie,(than ELO), but before punk. Hard to believe, looking at their glammy selves from today's perspective. Also, no one had ever heard of Freddie Mercury, or his somewhat gay habitus that he became known for. The sound was a heavily produced sound just like Journey or someone like that.. wonderful FAT guitars and heavily produced vocals. This electronic overload, to alter anything like a natural sound, cost money, was fake, and sounded really cool! Garage bands and punk were in reaction to this later: poor, couldn't reproduce the production sound, Pissed off at its fakeness. etc. And so we got punk. Which is also cool! WOOT Now I'm all hopped up!!

Funny, this is actually the very first song I was required to learn for a garage band when I picked up the bass guitar when I was 16 y/o. We knew this was a Canadian band. Music transcends borders.. nationality never really meant anything to us regarding music.

From Wiki:

"Gloria is a rock song written by Van Morrison and originally recorded by Morrison's band Them in 1964 as the B-side of "Baby Please Don't Go", which reached #10 on the UK charts. It later reached #71 on the U.S. charts in 1966.

It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

The song quickly become a garage rock staple and a rock standard, part of many rock bands' repertoires. It is particularly memorable for its "G-L-O-R-I-A" chorus. It is very easy to play (three-chords) and thus is popular with those learning to play guitar. Humorist Dave Barry joked that, if you drop a guitar down a flight of stairs, it will play "Gloria" on its way to the bottom.

The timeless popularity of the song may be best explained in a review written by Bill Janovitz(All Music): "The beauty of the original is that Van Morrison needs only to speak-sing , in his Howlin' Wolf growl to convey his teenage lust. "Them" never varies from the three chords, utilizing only dynamic changes to heighten the tension."[1]

Them's version of the song is included in Van Morrison's 2007 compilation album, Van Morrison at the Movies - Soundtrack Hits.

The song continues to be played by thousands of bands from famous recording artists to unknown garage bands.

dudeman got me sifting for Transmet and spider...only thing half interesting -

the beginnings quite good...but you really yearn for the real thing instead of some garage bands words.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhjzzb-TlB4

Yep-Soprano Sax-Coltrane took to it, for a lot of his waxing years works-
Hey swampchick, its never too late, I learned to play the sax, by ear, at age 24, did not get virtuosticalted on it, but can play twelve-bar blues in most keys, and had plenty fun giggin' with blues bands, in several towns, and giggin' with garage bands, who needed the horn-

Fav. Coltrane, Live In Japan-four disks, three little-words:
Pier-to-Pier!

i would be willing to bet that kim jong has seen Team America (he is supposed to be a movie buff, and i guess his son still goes to school in europe). that said, this is pretty awesome, like some crappy anarchy-punk garage-band from the mid 90's had a hand in writing it.