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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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thinking is the best way to travel
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bryan howell
Big Wall climber
truckee,ca
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ah yes, the blues that aren't so moody as we all thought.
my first concert. SDSU, somtime in the 80s.
also my first experiece with pot. Not that I partook. . .more that first "wiff" and asking mom. . . "whats that smell?" nothing like a bunch of old washed out hippies re-living the days of past.
great song though. still a great band.
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climber
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Cool. I was listening to that album just last night.
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the Fet
Trad climber
Loomis, CA
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More Cowbell!!
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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[url="http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp"]The lyrics were written before most of us ever even heard of the internet[/url]Yup. Because they were written '67 or earlier, before even ARPANET existed.
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climber
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YEp, Lois. Nights in White Satin is probably their most famous song. It's cool. Do you like Queen? I love Bohemian Rhapsody.
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bryan howell
Big Wall climber
truckee,ca
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more cowbell = Blue Oyster Cult
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Dingus Milktoast
climber
NorCal
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Moody Blues was at one time the number one wedding song played in America, of all time, though I don't know if that is still the case. I stopped attending all weddings after my own, so I don't know what goes down now.
We played Black Sabbeth. Ironman. Now THAT is some SERIOUS BURT BRONSON wedding tunes.
DMT
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climber
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I don't know, Lois. I can't see the music today taking anyone back to anywhere other than a street gang and driveby shootings.
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climber
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Funny, BURT BRONSON conjures up an image of a little dude about 5'2" who got terminal wedgies everyday at school. Maybe it's just me.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Musical associations -
first high school girlfriend - Tiny Dancer
my wonderful wife - Cinnamon Girl
high school blues - Lola
high school subversion - The Mud Shark
undergraduate memory - Blows Against the Empire (the "real" Jeff. Starship)
...also Who's Next
graduate school memory - anything by Bruce Springsteen
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Ouch!
climber
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Terminal wedgie....when a bully grabs the back of your underwear and tries to pull them up over your ears.
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ladd
Trad climber
near Fresno - land of fruits, nuts and flakes
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LEB.. Here's more for your edified memoir - amazingly good fit, and perhaps in accordance with today's virtual world... cheers:
Moody Blues - In The Beginning Lyrics
First Man:] I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think.
[Establishment:] Of course you are my bright little star,
I've miles
And miles
Of files
Pretty files of your forefather's fruit
and now to suit our
great computer,
You're magnetic ink.
[First Man:] I'm more than that, I know I am, at least, I think I must be.
[Inner Man:] There you go man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles
And piles
Of trials
With smiles.
It riles them to believe
that you perceive
the web they weave
And keep on thinking free.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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If you want to know about the ARPANET you could get some details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
I was actually involved in working between LBL and Stanford when I was an undergraduate at UCB on the ARPANET... in fact, the map of 1977 is vintage my involvement (just slightly after)...
I had access to the CDC7600 at LBL, it was glorious, what a machine! (10 MFLOPS, 60-bit words, I can't remember the memory size, an optical punch card reader and a really rocking line printer)
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David Nelson
climber
San Francisco
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Great reply, Ed, but only to us techies that already knew the answer. Could you please give her a simple, non tech answer to "What is the ARPANET?" I will defer this to you, since I know only third-hand, and you obviously know first-hand.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Yes, who would have known, certainly not us..
...the ARPANET was a system of networked computers, sort of a notion that something like that would be useful. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored the construction of the network, basically to see if it could be done. Linking computers throughout the country was the basic goal. I could sit in an office at LBL in Berkeley and compute at Stanford, where the data for the experiment I was working on at the time resided.
Later I remember visiting the High Energy Physics (HEP) lab in Geneva Switzerland, CERN a decade after my ARPANET use and seeing a computer terminal sitting in a hallway with the invitation printed on a nice card "Visit the World Wide Web", I remember thinking "why?" simply because we had network connections sufficient to do our work, who needs pictures and hyperlinks and all that?
So I guess I can say I was there at the begining and doing this same sort of stuff for 30 years...
... and just like back then, I still listen to the Moody Blues
David should give his answer, my involvement was through the HEP end of things.
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426
Sport climber
Shuford's pork plate with okra & slaw, TN
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Speaking of wedgies, don't forget the dreaded "rear admiral"
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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LEB. What is the ARPANET and how come (this is not intended to be sarcastic) you know so much about everything? I am impressed (sincere)
Sincerity at last, thank god almighty, sincerity at last.
The following *is* intended to be sarcastic - who are we today?
Today I am old enough to be your mother (since you never told me what you wanted me to be) - Actually I just got back from a wonderful party (that I did not organize, never did figure where you came up with that idea...) It was a friend's retirement party. Not that I would expect you to believe that - well actually, now that I think about it, you always believe the last thing I say. Oh well. I know a bit about many things, but hardly a lot about - mandatory asterisks - *everything*.
You are such a troll. I can't believe you got this much out of the Moody Blues. Juan must be pissed. BTW. Was that you, experimenting with the Susan thing. Very creative, first attempt if it was. Strangely LEB was on the sidelines at the time. Heehee. LOL.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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"high school blues - Lola"
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Got to be more of a story than that!
When asked about this song in an interview, all Ray Davies would say was, "um yeah, based on a real incident."
"I remember that I desparately wanted to go out with him but I was playing "coy" and "hard to get" to fuel his interest"
-Now THAT is trolling. Then and now, but especially then. Selective truth for one own's end.
I disagree with you guys about the importance of specific music to kids today. They get it the same way we do. It's different tunes, than ours, but it means the same stuff to them; our kids are, among other things, us. I know my 16 yr old daughter has special, sentimental, comfort songs, some of them are from the Beatles.
This in spite/light/because of the fact that the first concert we took her to at 10 months was The Ramones.
Never a big Moody Blues fan,but I get what you're talking about; not everyone 'digs,' St Stephan, a song the does the same thing for me.
Also, I always thought the Cream song "Pressed rat and Warthog," (or whatever it's called) sounded Moody Blues-esque.
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