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London has now experienced the ne plus ultra of Diverse Vibrancy: a drive-by funeral mass shooting, 0 dead 6 wounded.
The London funeral, near Regent Park about a mile from Mayfair, was for a Colombian mother and daughter. The daughter had been fighting leukemia, but gave up the struggle when her mother dropped dead at Heathrow on their return from a good-bye trip to Colombia.
Update: British Colombians, not a British Columbian like Terry Fox.
An iSteve reader comments:
He’s a hairy handed gent who ran amok in Kent
Lately he’s been overheard in Mayfair
You better stay away from him, he’ll drive-by your funeral, Jim!
Huh! His only law is Sailer’s!
For younger readers unfamiliar with 1970s references:
For readers with more musical ability than me: is Warren Zevon’s piano riff a complete rip-off of Lynrd Skynrd’s S weet Home Alabama guitar riff or is it slightly modified? I’m guessing Zevon’s is borrowed but simplified, which is the opposite of the usual practice.
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That may catch on.Replies: @Colin Wright, @Pixo, @epebble
Colombia, not Columbia. Unless they were from D.C. or BC. Which is possible too, I guess…
Diversity is Our Strength.
One day, the whole world will be so *diverse*, than London, Paris, Amsterdam, Colombia, Columbia, Cologne, will look *all the same*.
Increasingly, much of the world (especially the Western world) is becoming like America Demographically, culturally, economically, aesthetically. Globalization is a factor. So is English becoming the language of international business. So is the near universal usage of social media, which has spread Americanization even into the remote villages of Romania.
One friend mentioned that when he traveled through Western Europe, he found it remarkable how similar people (especially Euro Millennials & Zoomers) were to Americans. The more developed parts of Eastern Europe (like Poland) are trending in the same direction. Another friend mentioned that the affluent parts of Brazil, Argentina, and much of the rest of Latin America are becoming Americanized.
The days of traveling overseas to see something different are over in the West. Even the non-Western world is become Americanized, to an extent. There are factors that insulate against Americanization (poverty, civil war, Islamic fundamentalism), but even those places have social media. Lack of English fluency was one an important insulating factor, but even that's being eroded by more people (especially trendy young influencer types) learning English and translation apps/sites.
Increasingly, everywhere you go, you're in America. When people talk about "escaping" this country for something "different," that may not be possible anymore. Especially not if you want to stay in highly affluent & livable place.Replies: @R.G. Camara, @Anonymous, @HammerJack, @The Anti-Gnostic
Diversity is Our Strength.
One day, the whole world will be so *diverse*, than London, Paris, Amsterdam, Colombia, Columbia, Cologne, will look *all the same*.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Hannah Katz, @personfellowindividual, @JohnnyWalker123
Thanks.
It’s Regent’s Park, not Regent Park. Might as well get it right.
Start at 7:07
It was a shotgunning–don’t count. Then again as the guy says above an aimed shotgun at distance shotgun produces the effect of ‘Chicago S’ shooting.
“All Summer Long” by Kid Rock was an immeasurably cruder rip off of Werewolves that it was of Sweet Home
Further, the nostalgic nature of the lyrics I interpret as a tribute to Bob Seger's "Night Moves" as both Rock and Seger are from Michigan, and the themes are pretty much identical.
And it's possible he used the main riff from Werewolves exactly because it's so similar to SHA's riff.
A good example of a complete rip off is Bush's "Machine Head". It's pretty much the same music and structure as Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" There were a number of one hit wonders from the 90's that ripped off that style of 4 chord progression from Teen Spirit to give themselves a cheap hit.Replies: @Sean, @Sean, @Feryl, @I. Racist, @Anonymous
It was a shotgunning--don't count. Then again as the guy says above an aimed shotgun at distance shotgun produces the effect of 'Chicago S' shooting."All Summer Long" by Kid Rock was an immeasurably cruder rip off of Werewolves that it was of Sweet HomeReplies: @Redneck farmer, @Mike Tre, @Almost Missouri, @Malcolm X-Lax, @John Johnson, @ScarletNumber
No, watch all of it. Especially the description of shotgun users.
Let’s hope that the persons buried that day were quite dead too.
Just what the HELL are Colombians doing in the UK anyway?
Britain’s massive black African/Caribbean population, not to mention its vast subcontinental Indian population can be rationalized away by references to Empire and subsequent treaties.
Similarly the teeming millions from continental Europe can be explained by former EU membership.
But Colombians? There never was any treaty, colonisation or agreements. Supposedly, immigration from extra Commonwealth and non EU nations was *always* under the strictest control, since, at least the Aliens Act of the 1900s.
https://www.pinterest.com/amolatinacom/most-beautiful-colombian-women/Replies: @Colin Wright, @Not Raul
For the answer to your musical question, listen to the Kid Rock hit “All Summer Long”.
As for the riff, there are only so many things you can do with D, C, and G.
It was a shotgunning--don't count. Then again as the guy says above an aimed shotgun at distance shotgun produces the effect of 'Chicago S' shooting."All Summer Long" by Kid Rock was an immeasurably cruder rip off of Werewolves that it was of Sweet HomeReplies: @Redneck farmer, @Mike Tre, @Almost Missouri, @Malcolm X-Lax, @John Johnson, @ScarletNumber
“All Summer Long” isn’t really a rip off. It’s more of a tribute in medley form. Kid Rock actually mentions singing “Sweet Home Alabama” all night long within the lyrcis, complete with (presumably) fat negress back up singers. So it’s not like he’s trying to be sneaky about it.
Further, the nostalgic nature of the lyrics I interpret as a tribute to Bob Seger’s “Night Moves” as both Rock and Seger are from Michigan, and the themes are pretty much identical.
And it’s possible he used the main riff from Werewolves exactly because it’s so similar to SHA’s riff.
A good example of a complete rip off is Bush’s “Machine Head”. It’s pretty much the same music and structure as Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” There were a number of one hit wonders from the 90’s that ripped off that style of 4 chord progression from Teen Spirit to give themselves a cheap hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxqreCG0htQ
@Roland: If it's a suspension it's a 2, there's no such thing as a sus9. Terminology reflects function. B# and C? Same note, different functions.
@Right_On: That's not Lynyrd Skynyrd (sp?) that's a cash-in tribute band led by the late singer's brother playing morbid faggot-level dress-up. He is buttmounting his brother's legacy. Eff that guy.
@Pat Hannagan: I think Slonimsky has prior claim to the term "interpolation" and this is not that.Replies: @Ron Mexico, @Pat Hannagan
It was a shotgunning--don't count. Then again as the guy says above an aimed shotgun at distance shotgun produces the effect of 'Chicago S' shooting."All Summer Long" by Kid Rock was an immeasurably cruder rip off of Werewolves that it was of Sweet HomeReplies: @Redneck farmer, @Mike Tre, @Almost Missouri, @Malcolm X-Lax, @John Johnson, @ScarletNumber
I think Mumbles there was trying to say “Chicagoesque” shooting.
Post a news link or at least twitter post, Sailer.
Enjoy your violent schittskins! Pip, pip–jolly good!
Sadly, the Trader Vic’s in London also mentioned in the song has just closed, after somewhere around 60 years. Great place, although TV’s didn’t call their pina coladas “pina coladas”, They were “Bahias”
Lee Ho Fook’s on Gerrard Street is long gone, although it’s another Chinese place, so try your luck getting some beef chow mein.
oooooo-WOOOOOOH “Schittskins in London!” LOL.
The Skynyrd and ‘Werewolves’ riffs are both dominant-subdominant-tonic (V-IV-I) chord sequences. The ‘Werewolves’ riff gets its flavor from a 9th (or 2nd) tone suspension on each chord, while the Skynyrd riff is somewhat more elaborate, with arpeggios and single-note runs. The basic progression is common enough that it could be unfair to say that one is stolen from the other. Zevon said that he improvised ‘Werewolves’ as a joke in the studio, and was annoyed that it became his biggest hit.
Britain's massive black African/Caribbean population, not to mention its vast subcontinental Indian population can be rationalized away by references to Empire and subsequent treaties.
Similarly the teeming millions from continental Europe can be explained by former EU membership.
But Colombians? There never was any treaty, colonisation or agreements. Supposedly, immigration from extra Commonwealth and non EU nations was *always* under the strictest control, since, at least the Aliens Act of the 1900s.Replies: @Director95, @prosa123, @Wokechoke, @Corvinus
Are you joking? Nobody said she was Legal. That is soooo last century.
It’s such a simple musical motive that it isn’t really correct to say anyone ripped off anyone else. Lots of stepwise descending scales in the history of music.
Britain's massive black African/Caribbean population, not to mention its vast subcontinental Indian population can be rationalized away by references to Empire and subsequent treaties.
Similarly the teeming millions from continental Europe can be explained by former EU membership.
But Colombians? There never was any treaty, colonisation or agreements. Supposedly, immigration from extra Commonwealth and non EU nations was *always* under the strictest control, since, at least the Aliens Act of the 1900s.Replies: @Director95, @prosa123, @Wokechoke, @Corvinus
As immigrants go, you could do a whole lot worse than Colombians. In the US at least, they are a bit better off than other Latin groups in terms of poverty and educational levels:
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/09/hardships-wealth-disparities-across-hispanic-groups.html
https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/fact-sheet/u-s-hispanics-facts-on-colombian-origin-latinos/
I can’t find anything about crime, though given the above I would imagine their crime rate is below the Latin average.
As for the Colombians in Britain, while I couldn’t find statistics it should go without saying that they’re a MUCH better cultural fit than some of the other immigrants groups. For one thing, they don’t cover their women up from head to toe …. undoubtedly quite the opposite.
https://www.pinterest.com/amolatinacom/most-beautiful-colombian-women/
And what's wrong with a few shootings at a funeral?
A lot of the Colombians I’ve met have been educated White doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc..
One of my mother’s cousins used to be married to a Colombian consultant. Last I heard, he lived in London.Replies: @kaganovitch
So when will the useless allegedly Pro-Gun Republican Party move some legislation through the Congress and attach it to the next must-have-or-the-sky-will-fall legislation?
One of the Twitter comments: “The Hinjews are coming!”
That may catch on.
We need to suggest to at least one of the two that 'you and him should fight.'
Won't happen -- but it would solve the problem.
Indian fertility is ultra-dysgenic in every single important way: religion, income, education, caste, region.
https://www.opindia.com/2022/05/total-fertility-rate-in-india-declines-overall-here-is-how-education-wealth-tfr-religion-and-region-played-a-role-in-fertility-rate/amp/Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @HammerJack
It was a shotgunning--don't count. Then again as the guy says above an aimed shotgun at distance shotgun produces the effect of 'Chicago S' shooting."All Summer Long" by Kid Rock was an immeasurably cruder rip off of Werewolves that it was of Sweet HomeReplies: @Redneck farmer, @Mike Tre, @Almost Missouri, @Malcolm X-Lax, @John Johnson, @ScarletNumber
More an overt homage to both songs, I thought. It was the first time I noticed the similarities between Werewolves of London and Sweet Home Alabama. I thought it was kind of cool the way KR slides one song into the other.
Diversity is Our Strength.
One day, the whole world will be so *diverse*, than London, Paris, Amsterdam, Colombia, Columbia, Cologne, will look *all the same*.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Hannah Katz, @personfellowindividual, @JohnnyWalker123
I bet the police picked up more than 6 casings at the scene. More like 60.
Diversity is Our Strength.
One day, the whole world will be so *diverse*, than London, Paris, Amsterdam, Colombia, Columbia, Cologne, will look *all the same*.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Hannah Katz, @personfellowindividual, @JohnnyWalker123
Welcome to planet America. Please remember to wear your ballistic protection.
Further, the nostalgic nature of the lyrics I interpret as a tribute to Bob Seger's "Night Moves" as both Rock and Seger are from Michigan, and the themes are pretty much identical.
And it's possible he used the main riff from Werewolves exactly because it's so similar to SHA's riff.
A good example of a complete rip off is Bush's "Machine Head". It's pretty much the same music and structure as Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" There were a number of one hit wonders from the 90's that ripped off that style of 4 chord progression from Teen Spirit to give themselves a cheap hit.Replies: @Sean, @Sean, @Feryl, @I. Racist, @Anonymous
He was talking about those folks firing without looking and hoping a 3 year old was not hit. A six year old is in critical condition from the London shooting. There are so many cameras in London that they are as good as caught. Foreign hitmen get caught out that way a lot.
Some Colombian drug cartel link apparently.
They’re not sending us their best…
“And I'm hiding in Honduras
I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns, and money
The shit has hit the fan”
Further, the nostalgic nature of the lyrics I interpret as a tribute to Bob Seger's "Night Moves" as both Rock and Seger are from Michigan, and the themes are pretty much identical.
And it's possible he used the main riff from Werewolves exactly because it's so similar to SHA's riff.
A good example of a complete rip off is Bush's "Machine Head". It's pretty much the same music and structure as Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" There were a number of one hit wonders from the 90's that ripped off that style of 4 chord progression from Teen Spirit to give themselves a cheap hit.Replies: @Sean, @Sean, @Feryl, @I. Racist, @Anonymous
Part of a strategy to ward off a lawsuit from Zevon by pointing out where he got it from perhaps?
Sneaky can be good, if it is nicely done I would admire it.
Even worse is Bryan Adams’s Summer Of ’69 plagiarizing the much loved classic
I had wondered why he was such a tortured freak until I read that he, like show business whore Chelsea Handler, is the child of a Jewish father and a Mormon mother.Replies: @Curle
https://www.pinterest.com/amolatinacom/most-beautiful-colombian-women/Replies: @Colin Wright, @Not Raul
‘…As for the Colombians in Britain, while I couldn’t find statistics it should go without saying that they’re a MUCH better cultural fit than some of the other immigrants groups. For one thing, they don’t cover their women up from head to toe ….’
And what’s wrong with a few shootings at a funeral?
As usual, you dilletantes say nothing about rhythm.
That may catch on.Replies: @Colin Wright, @Pixo, @epebble
‘…One of the Twitter comments: “The Hinjews are coming!”’
We need to suggest to at least one of the two that ‘you and him should fight.’
Won’t happen — but it would solve the problem.
That may catch on.Replies: @Colin Wright, @Pixo, @epebble
Brahmins are at their mid-career demographic peak right now, the same way American Jews peaked in elite power around 1990-2000.
Indian fertility is ultra-dysgenic in every single important way: religion, income, education, caste, region.
https://www.opindia.com/2022/05/total-fertility-rate-in-india-declines-overall-here-is-how-education-wealth-tfr-religion-and-region-played-a-role-in-fertility-rate/amp/
I also wonder what, if any, cognitive difference exists between Orthodox and Secular Jews. Are there cognitive difference between Israeli Jews and American Jews? What about Jews in other parts of the world?
These are important questions.Replies: @Pixo
https://www.pinterest.com/amolatinacom/most-beautiful-colombian-women/Replies: @Colin Wright, @Not Raul
Given that the funeral was near Mayfair, the family might have been wealthy.
A lot of the Colombians I’ve met have been educated White doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc..
One of my mother’s cousins used to be married to a Colombian consultant. Last I heard, he lived in London.
I have a vague recollection that there exists an international industry in which wealthy Colombians are greatly over represented. Can't recall what it is offhand. Perhaps some thing to do with steel making?Replies: @Gary in Gramercy
I don’t know, and I don’t care, but I knew a girl who spent the night with Warren when he was on tour in Boulder. He made her bed in the morning.
A true gentleman.
Nah, dude, Mike’s right. Rock’s song was openly a nostalgia song with its references. Not trying to ward off any lawsuits.
Lots of nostalgia songs out there, many became hits. For example, Eddie Money’s “Take Me Home Tonight” openly referenced “Be My Baby” by the Ronettes so hard it actually had Ronnie Spector herself sing the refrain (netting Ms. Spector a nice little career resurgence).
Or Eric Carmen in “Make Me Lose Control” referencing several oldies songs that he and his girlfriend are cruising/dancing/making love to: “Uptown”, “Stand by Me” , “Back in My Arms Again” and, again, “Be My Baby” by The Ronettes.
Neither Money, Carmen, or Rock were stealing.
I thought the UK had banned guns! How did this happen? And in such a progressive city like London!
Must’ve been some NRA members sneaking across the UK’s sacred borders! Off with their heads!
This reply isn’t meant for me.
That may catch on.Replies: @Colin Wright, @Pixo, @epebble
But based on intermarriage rates, it is the Chinjews who are coming.
Britain's massive black African/Caribbean population, not to mention its vast subcontinental Indian population can be rationalized away by references to Empire and subsequent treaties.
Similarly the teeming millions from continental Europe can be explained by former EU membership.
But Colombians? There never was any treaty, colonisation or agreements. Supposedly, immigration from extra Commonwealth and non EU nations was *always* under the strictest control, since, at least the Aliens Act of the 1900s.Replies: @Director95, @prosa123, @Wokechoke, @Corvinus
Elite Panamanians and Columbians do live in London. I should know a relative of mine married one.
Apparently the woman’s husband was a Colombian drug lord, though I don’t suppose that had anything to do with the shooting.
Probably it was a case of mistaken identity and somebody thought she was connected to a member of the House of Lords.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11638079/Drive-funeral-shooting-links-Colombian-drug-trade.html
Further, the nostalgic nature of the lyrics I interpret as a tribute to Bob Seger's "Night Moves" as both Rock and Seger are from Michigan, and the themes are pretty much identical.
And it's possible he used the main riff from Werewolves exactly because it's so similar to SHA's riff.
A good example of a complete rip off is Bush's "Machine Head". It's pretty much the same music and structure as Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" There were a number of one hit wonders from the 90's that ripped off that style of 4 chord progression from Teen Spirit to give themselves a cheap hit.Replies: @Sean, @Sean, @Feryl, @I. Racist, @Anonymous
There’s a dude on YouTube who does joke covers of post-1992 songs in which he slightly modifies the verse and chorus melody to Smash Mouth’s All Star and grafts it onto a different song. It’s a commentary on how samey rock music has been since grunge went big.
Indian fertility is ultra-dysgenic in every single important way: religion, income, education, caste, region.
https://www.opindia.com/2022/05/total-fertility-rate-in-india-declines-overall-here-is-how-education-wealth-tfr-religion-and-region-played-a-role-in-fertility-rate/amp/Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @HammerJack
I wonder if fertility is dysgenic in China. We know there’s a sharp difference in the TFR between the affluent urban areas and deprived rural communities. Is fertility dysgenic in Chinese populations outside the mainland (in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Anglosphere)?
I also wonder what, if any, cognitive difference exists between Orthodox and Secular Jews. Are there cognitive difference between Israeli Jews and American Jews? What about Jews in other parts of the world?
These are important questions.
Further, the nostalgic nature of the lyrics I interpret as a tribute to Bob Seger's "Night Moves" as both Rock and Seger are from Michigan, and the themes are pretty much identical.
And it's possible he used the main riff from Werewolves exactly because it's so similar to SHA's riff.
A good example of a complete rip off is Bush's "Machine Head". It's pretty much the same music and structure as Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" There were a number of one hit wonders from the 90's that ripped off that style of 4 chord progression from Teen Spirit to give themselves a cheap hit.Replies: @Sean, @Sean, @Feryl, @I. Racist, @Anonymous
Of course, “Smells like teen spirit” has a riff borrowed from Boston’s “More than a feeling” and the drum part owes a lot to The Gap Band. And so forth and so on.
Diversity is Our Strength.
One day, the whole world will be so *diverse*, than London, Paris, Amsterdam, Colombia, Columbia, Cologne, will look *all the same*.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Hannah Katz, @personfellowindividual, @JohnnyWalker123
Back a few weeks ago, I had an interesting conversation with a well-traveled group of friends.
Increasingly, much of the world (especially the Western world) is becoming like America Demographically, culturally, economically, aesthetically. Globalization is a factor. So is English becoming the language of international business. So is the near universal usage of social media, which has spread Americanization even into the remote villages of Romania.
One friend mentioned that when he traveled through Western Europe, he found it remarkable how similar people (especially Euro Millennials & Zoomers) were to Americans. The more developed parts of Eastern Europe (like Poland) are trending in the same direction. Another friend mentioned that the affluent parts of Brazil, Argentina, and much of the rest of Latin America are becoming Americanized.
The days of traveling overseas to see something different are over in the West. Even the non-Western world is become Americanized, to an extent. There are factors that insulate against Americanization (poverty, civil war, Islamic fundamentalism), but even those places have social media. Lack of English fluency was one an important insulating factor, but even that’s being eroded by more people (especially trendy young influencer types) learning English and translation apps/sites.
Increasingly, everywhere you go, you’re in America. When people talk about “escaping” this country for something “different,” that may not be possible anymore. Especially not if you want to stay in highly affluent & livable place.
While French and German vied with English in the 19th Century for the international language, English always had the slight edge due to the vastness of the British Empire and the economic and intellectual firepower of her former colony the United States. But after France was obliterated in 2 World Wars and Germany taken over and the Yanks emerged as one of 2 superpowers, French and German receded way further.
Russian had a chance, but it was the language of communism, not business. And once the Cold War ended, Russian was gone.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Liger
https://i.imgur.com/C1dJVDL.jpgReplies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
Increasingly, much of the world (especially the Western world) is becoming like America Demographically, culturally, economically, aesthetically. Globalization is a factor. So is English becoming the language of international business. So is the near universal usage of social media, which has spread Americanization even into the remote villages of Romania.
One friend mentioned that when he traveled through Western Europe, he found it remarkable how similar people (especially Euro Millennials & Zoomers) were to Americans. The more developed parts of Eastern Europe (like Poland) are trending in the same direction. Another friend mentioned that the affluent parts of Brazil, Argentina, and much of the rest of Latin America are becoming Americanized.
The days of traveling overseas to see something different are over in the West. Even the non-Western world is become Americanized, to an extent. There are factors that insulate against Americanization (poverty, civil war, Islamic fundamentalism), but even those places have social media. Lack of English fluency was one an important insulating factor, but even that's being eroded by more people (especially trendy young influencer types) learning English and translation apps/sites.
Increasingly, everywhere you go, you're in America. When people talk about "escaping" this country for something "different," that may not be possible anymore. Especially not if you want to stay in highly affluent & livable place.Replies: @R.G. Camara, @Anonymous, @HammerJack, @The Anti-Gnostic
It’s been that way since WW2, and arguably back to the 1800s.
While French and German vied with English in the 19th Century for the international language, English always had the slight edge due to the vastness of the British Empire and the economic and intellectual firepower of her former colony the United States. But after France was obliterated in 2 World Wars and Germany taken over and the Yanks emerged as one of 2 superpowers, French and German receded way further.
Russian had a chance, but it was the language of communism, not business. And once the Cold War ended, Russian was gone.
According to the Beeb, “police have released details of a car… a black Toyota”. The Mail: “a 2019 model black Toyota”. Why?
At one time in Britain, proof that a car was taxed, insured and roadworthy consisted of a small disc-shaped badge displayed on the windscreen. About ten years ago, a combination of cameras everywhere and software capable of reading the licence plates made the discs redundant and they were scrapped.
Fake licence plates have not been abolished, but why on earth do the Fuzz want to be swamped with 10, 000 reports of black Toyotas? To eliminate 9999 of them and track down the 10, 000th to a hidden paint shop? Or can strong AI do things of which we have no conception?
In the investigation of the Idaho Massacre the police and FBI looked at the registration records of over 22,000 white Hyundai Elantras.
Now we’ve got a new one in Houston at Club 33. 50 plus shots fired in drive-by, just a few hits.
pop music is more enjoyable when you’re not trained.
eventually you get a feel for how the sausage is made but if you really know:
For readers with more musical ability than me: is Warren Zevon’s piano riff a complete rip-off of Lynrd Skynrd’s S weet Home Alabama guitar riff or is it slightly modified?
The technical term is “interpolation”: https://www.billboard.com/media/lists/best-interpolations-9651682/
It’s one of pop music’s most enjoyable parlor games, and one of its highest stakes: What old song does that new song sound like? Most often, such discussions are triggered by interpolations — sections of new songs that borrow melodic and sometimes lyrical elements from older songs, without sampling their original recordings.
…
Apparently Kid Rock interpolated both “Werewolves Of London” and “Sweet Home Alabama”:
Kid Rock, “All Summer Long” (2008) int. Warren Zevon, “Werewolves Of London” (1978) & Lynyrd Skynyrd (1974), “Sweet Home Alabama”
Get Lifted: The Kid deftly weaves the feline-footed piano vamp of Zevon’s biggest hit with the hot riffs and sweet soul “ahh-ahh-ahh”s of the latter rocker — fondly name-checked in the chorus — in what is also essentially a breezier rewrite of fellow Michigander Bob Seger’s “Night Moves.”
Why It Works: Signature sounds from two enduring, nostalgia-freighted ‘70s summer radio staples mashed up with Kid Rock in smokin’, swillin’ and chillin’ mode, jell into an enduring 21st-century cookout staple. (For those whose tastes run darker, though do listen to Zevon’s gothic 1980 deep cut “Play It All Night Long,” with its chorus of, “Sweet Home Alabama, play that dead band’s song” and distillation of “country living” to “sweat, piss, jizz and blood.”)
Bigger Than Originals? “All Summer Long” crested at No. 23 on the Hot 100 in 2008, falling short of both the No. 8 peak of “Sweet Home Alabama” in 1974 and the No. 21 high of “Werewolves of London” in 1978. — FRANK DIGIACOMO
Wait up, just read others have mentioned this one. Anyway, interpolation is a good term to remember and look up.
I also wonder what, if any, cognitive difference exists between Orthodox and Secular Jews. Are there cognitive difference between Israeli Jews and American Jews? What about Jews in other parts of the world?
These are important questions.Replies: @Pixo
Every large ethnic group and nation has dysgenic fertility right now, but the extent of it varies.
We nonhispanic US whites are only slightly dysgenic now, with male fertility actually eugenic but not enough to offset dysgenic female fertility.
US Blacks, Africa and MENA are exceptionally dysgenic.
NE Asia is probably closer to the US white situation: positive male selection slightly outweighed by negative female selection. With the giant Chinese and Korean male surplus and very expensive family formation, you probably end up with 1/3 of men not reproducing.
The problem with white and NE fertility now is it’s low and falling very fast, not the slight dysgenic trend. China probably fell below 1.0 tfr in 2022, and S Korea/Taiwan/HK/Chinese Thais and Malays are well below 1.0.
At one time in Britain, proof that a car was taxed, insured and roadworthy consisted of a small disc-shaped badge displayed on the windscreen. About ten years ago, a combination of cameras everywhere and software capable of reading the licence plates made the discs redundant and they were scrapped.
Fake licence plates have not been abolished, but why on earth do the Fuzz want to be swamped with 10, 000 reports of black Toyotas? To eliminate 9999 of them and track down the 10, 000th to a hidden paint shop? Or can strong AI do things of which we have no conception?Replies: @prosa123
Fake licence plates have not been abolished, but why on earth do the Fuzz want to be swamped with 10, 000 reports of black Toyotas? To eliminate 9999 of them and track down the 10, 000th to a hidden paint shop? Or can strong AI do things of which we have no conception?
In the investigation of the Idaho Massacre the police and FBI looked at the registration records of over 22,000 white Hyundai Elantras.
A comment under the YouTube clip of Werewolves (fantastic song) says similarly: “This feels like the Halloween version of Sweet Home Alabama.”
I can’t be the only naive youngster who assumed, back in the day, that “Lynyrd Skynyrd” must be the name of the lead singer. Here’s a clip which includes the obligatory Rebel flag . . .
Is there another line in rock and roll history that can rival ” little old lady got mutilated late last night” for most delicious alliteration/mouth feel?
Yes, I believe the data demonstrate this. With the rising cost of living & competition, I think White fertility might even become eugenic at some point. When this trend is combined with regression to the mean, I think the White population will be fine.
Latin America and India/South Asia too. I’m not sure if the immigrant populations demonstrate this same trend, but this is the situation in their homelands.
Probably the same situation exists in South East Asia. Their ethnic Chinese have fewer kids than the indigenous peoples.
I actually think that East Asian male fertility is highly eugenic. Just because East Asians place a strong emphasis on not marrying and having children unless you’re financially prepared. The problem is Asian females, who often won’t “marry down.” The other problem is that many East Asian men are now marrying foreign brides from Southeast Asia.
Yes, that’s a major problem. In the long term, you might night need to get up to ~1.5 to have a good shot at maintaining your population’s demographic integrity. There will also need to be substantial investments in automation/robotics, improving health span, enhancing human capital, and increasing worker productivity. More tribalism will be necessary too
Increasingly, much of the world (especially the Western world) is becoming like America Demographically, culturally, economically, aesthetically. Globalization is a factor. So is English becoming the language of international business. So is the near universal usage of social media, which has spread Americanization even into the remote villages of Romania.
One friend mentioned that when he traveled through Western Europe, he found it remarkable how similar people (especially Euro Millennials & Zoomers) were to Americans. The more developed parts of Eastern Europe (like Poland) are trending in the same direction. Another friend mentioned that the affluent parts of Brazil, Argentina, and much of the rest of Latin America are becoming Americanized.
The days of traveling overseas to see something different are over in the West. Even the non-Western world is become Americanized, to an extent. There are factors that insulate against Americanization (poverty, civil war, Islamic fundamentalism), but even those places have social media. Lack of English fluency was one an important insulating factor, but even that's being eroded by more people (especially trendy young influencer types) learning English and translation apps/sites.
Increasingly, everywhere you go, you're in America. When people talk about "escaping" this country for something "different," that may not be possible anymore. Especially not if you want to stay in highly affluent & livable place.Replies: @R.G. Camara, @Anonymous, @HammerJack, @The Anti-Gnostic
3, 2, 1, …
While French and German vied with English in the 19th Century for the international language, English always had the slight edge due to the vastness of the British Empire and the economic and intellectual firepower of her former colony the United States. But after France was obliterated in 2 World Wars and Germany taken over and the Yanks emerged as one of 2 superpowers, French and German receded way further.
Russian had a chance, but it was the language of communism, not business. And once the Cold War ended, Russian was gone.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Liger
The rise of computers also aided the dominance of English. Almost all the work was done in the English speaking world, so all the software and manuals are in English.
https://i.ibb.co/MMQZHV8/greta1b.png
https://i.ibb.co/frMx8w2/greta2.png
Indian fertility is ultra-dysgenic in every single important way: religion, income, education, caste, region.
https://www.opindia.com/2022/05/total-fertility-rate-in-india-declines-overall-here-is-how-education-wealth-tfr-religion-and-region-played-a-role-in-fertility-rate/amp/Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @HammerJack
When it comes to subcontinentals, quantity has a quality all its own. Between the four countries they have over two billion people. Just exporting two or three percent would swamp just about any other country on earth. Especially the European ones.
And that’s exactly what’s happening. Ride the Delhi to Chicago air shuttle some time, if you think you can stand it.
They're not sending us their best...Replies: @Curle
The following communication intercepted, allegedly:
“And I’m hiding in Honduras
I’m a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns, and money
The shit has hit the fan”
Did we just observe a “tell” in the averted gaze, the quaver of voice?
A lot of the Colombians I’ve met have been educated White doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc..
One of my mother’s cousins used to be married to a Colombian consultant. Last I heard, he lived in London.Replies: @kaganovitch
Given that the funeral was near Mayfair, the family might have been wealthy.
I have a vague recollection that there exists an international industry in which wealthy Colombians are greatly over represented. Can’t recall what it is offhand. Perhaps some thing to do with steel making?
I have a vague recollection that there exists an international industry in which wealthy Colombians are greatly over represented. Can't recall what it is offhand. Perhaps some thing to do with steel making?Replies: @Gary in Gramercy
Pharma Grande.
One of his later compilation albums’ liner notes mentioned that it was a real restaurant but did not have that specific dish. However Chinese restaurants in the time of the boomers were solidly on the Mexican model: you could ask for any meat with any preparation, paying a slightly higher price as necessary. The non-resolution of this “secret menu” practice is the basis of the breakfast scene in Five Easy Pieces, because obviously some restaurants wanted standardized ordering to be able to track costs.
Wow, yeah, just at a glance, with all the references here to riffs and melodies and rip-offs in POP, SHIT music, (which we all love) it seems, once again tiresomely, that yes, it’s pretty damned rare for anybody to come up with anything original.
And, it is equally obvious that it is not necessary to do so in order to create new entertainment for the public.
When all you have is a few notes and a few instruments, and a few beats, you know, it’s pretty unlikely that you will bang out anything truly new that isn’t at least constructed with building blocks somebody used before.
Everything in our lives is built upon things that came before. Do you really expect music to be any different?
You people are funny. You really are sometimes.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/woke-mlk-penis-statue-insults-black-community-coretta-scott-king-kin/ar-AA16nA1v?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=c3d18658bec24a7b891243f06ab5f338
To nitpick, while Zevon’s riff is clearly V-IV-I, Skynyrd’s is somewhat ambiguous as it could be V-IV-I in G but also sounds a lot like I-bVII-IV in D. Adam Neely has a video about the phenomenon:
Increasingly, much of the world (especially the Western world) is becoming like America Demographically, culturally, economically, aesthetically. Globalization is a factor. So is English becoming the language of international business. So is the near universal usage of social media, which has spread Americanization even into the remote villages of Romania.
One friend mentioned that when he traveled through Western Europe, he found it remarkable how similar people (especially Euro Millennials & Zoomers) were to Americans. The more developed parts of Eastern Europe (like Poland) are trending in the same direction. Another friend mentioned that the affluent parts of Brazil, Argentina, and much of the rest of Latin America are becoming Americanized.
The days of traveling overseas to see something different are over in the West. Even the non-Western world is become Americanized, to an extent. There are factors that insulate against Americanization (poverty, civil war, Islamic fundamentalism), but even those places have social media. Lack of English fluency was one an important insulating factor, but even that's being eroded by more people (especially trendy young influencer types) learning English and translation apps/sites.
Increasingly, everywhere you go, you're in America. When people talk about "escaping" this country for something "different," that may not be possible anymore. Especially not if you want to stay in highly affluent & livable place.Replies: @R.G. Camara, @Anonymous, @HammerJack, @The Anti-Gnostic
It has blown me away to see the primacy of English in places like towns in Mindanao, and villages in the Caucasus. Something real is being lost, and it may never return. People’s cultural legacy. As an aside, it occurs to me that the cultural imperialism we’re discussing will wokify the whole planet in time.
The shooter shot at people’s feet and told them to dance.
Where does the number of shots fired fit into Sailer’s Law?
1 person killed and 4 others injured in overnight shooting in Texas after more than 50 shots were fired
From the whiter side:
‘Many more people would have died’: Armed bystander killed gunman who had 3 guns and 100 rounds of ammunition, police say
Warren Zevon was an interesting artist.
Here he is singing about his untreatable lung cancer.
He died 3 years later.
1 person killed and 4 others injured in overnight shooting in Texas after more than 50 shots were firedFrom the whiter side:‘Many more people would have died’: Armed bystander killed gunman who had 3 guns and 100 rounds of ammunition, police sayReplies: @jinkforp, @Liger
What were Pinedas’ and Gomez’s doing in Indiana?
While French and German vied with English in the 19th Century for the international language, English always had the slight edge due to the vastness of the British Empire and the economic and intellectual firepower of her former colony the United States. But after France was obliterated in 2 World Wars and Germany taken over and the Yanks emerged as one of 2 superpowers, French and German receded way further.
Russian had a chance, but it was the language of communism, not business. And once the Cold War ended, Russian was gone.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Liger
Jerome K. Jerome wrote about how back in the 19th century inability to speak English was more or less a non-negotiable barrier to entry for many service jobs on the continent. The reason being the simple inability (or unwillingness) of well-heeled English tourists to learn local languages.
Such are the times that it is impolite to visit the continent these days. It is gross bad manners to speak English in a foreign country, but I am told that things have come to such a pass that even in France they respond to bad French in good English. Before the world went to the dogs, they made a pretence of not understanding you even when they did.Replies: @Liger
1 person killed and 4 others injured in overnight shooting in Texas after more than 50 shots were firedFrom the whiter side:‘Many more people would have died’: Armed bystander killed gunman who had 3 guns and 100 rounds of ammunition, police sayReplies: @jinkforp, @Liger
No pictures of Elisjsha Dicken on CNN.
I wonder if he's related to the Dicken-Bottum clan. You know, the "gentrifiers".Replies: @Liger
I wouldn’t characterize the piano riff as a ripoff of sweet home Alabama. It’s got its own logic. It sounds similar because of the descending inversions, but that’s the obvious choice for this chord progression and it’s melodically and rhythmically distinct.
In Israel jewish TFR was 2.9 in 2020.
Steve doesn’t agree.
Zevon’s been dead for 20 years.
I had wondered why he was such a tortured freak until I read that he, like show business whore Chelsea Handler, is the child of a Jewish father and a Mormon mother.
The London shooter used a shotgun IIRC.
Was it not a shotgun?
Increasingly, much of the world (especially the Western world) is becoming like America Demographically, culturally, economically, aesthetically. Globalization is a factor. So is English becoming the language of international business. So is the near universal usage of social media, which has spread Americanization even into the remote villages of Romania.
One friend mentioned that when he traveled through Western Europe, he found it remarkable how similar people (especially Euro Millennials & Zoomers) were to Americans. The more developed parts of Eastern Europe (like Poland) are trending in the same direction. Another friend mentioned that the affluent parts of Brazil, Argentina, and much of the rest of Latin America are becoming Americanized.
The days of traveling overseas to see something different are over in the West. Even the non-Western world is become Americanized, to an extent. There are factors that insulate against Americanization (poverty, civil war, Islamic fundamentalism), but even those places have social media. Lack of English fluency was one an important insulating factor, but even that's being eroded by more people (especially trendy young influencer types) learning English and translation apps/sites.
Increasingly, everywhere you go, you're in America. When people talk about "escaping" this country for something "different," that may not be possible anymore. Especially not if you want to stay in highly affluent & livable place.Replies: @R.G. Camara, @Anonymous, @HammerJack, @The Anti-Gnostic
It’s the language of international maritime and aviation as well.
"Every country in the world belongs to.... ?"
Further, the nostalgic nature of the lyrics I interpret as a tribute to Bob Seger's "Night Moves" as both Rock and Seger are from Michigan, and the themes are pretty much identical.
And it's possible he used the main riff from Werewolves exactly because it's so similar to SHA's riff.
A good example of a complete rip off is Bush's "Machine Head". It's pretty much the same music and structure as Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" There were a number of one hit wonders from the 90's that ripped off that style of 4 chord progression from Teen Spirit to give themselves a cheap hit.Replies: @Sean, @Sean, @Feryl, @I. Racist, @Anonymous
In my view the ultimate ripoff is Guns ‘n’ Roses stealing Sweet Child O’ Mine” which strangely is not about an Irish baby. The victim was a band called Australian Crawl, also on Geffen Records and their song “Unpublished Critics”. Fuck GNR. Kid Rock’s thing was an homage and his current drummer is a negress so cool your jets.
: If it’s a suspension it’s a 2, there’s no such thing as a sus9. Terminology reflects function. B# and C? Same note, different functions.
@Right_On: That’s not Lynyrd Skynyrd (sp?) that’s a cash-in tribute band led by the late singer’s brother playing morbid faggot-level dress-up. He is buttmounting his brother’s legacy. Eff that guy.
: I think Slonimsky has prior claim to the term “interpolation” and this is not that.
Read More: Did Guns N' Roses Steal 'Sweet Child O' Mine' From An Obscure Australian Band? | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/sweet-child-o-mine-australian-crawl/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
Wokism is worse than the spread of English. It’s weaponized toxic culture.
The whole song is three minutes of pure musical and lyrical joy.
Must be Swedish or Norwegian, with the -sj-!
I wonder if he’s related to the Dicken-Bottum clan. You know, the “gentrifiers”.
With only the idiosyncratic first name to go by, I guessed Elisjsha Dicken must be a black American military veteran, but thought odd that there was no picture. According to Microsoft Bing, Dicken is as white as they come. Perhaps his parents are Christians who couldn't agree on their favorite Old Testsment prophet and just smooshed together the names of the two top contenders.
It’s for the best.
Someone has to tell the 3+ billion future Africans what to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxqreCG0htQ
@Roland: If it's a suspension it's a 2, there's no such thing as a sus9. Terminology reflects function. B# and C? Same note, different functions.
@Right_On: That's not Lynyrd Skynyrd (sp?) that's a cash-in tribute band led by the late singer's brother playing morbid faggot-level dress-up. He is buttmounting his brother's legacy. Eff that guy.
@Pat Hannagan: I think Slonimsky has prior claim to the term "interpolation" and this is not that.Replies: @Ron Mexico, @Pat Hannagan
Rose cites a different inspiration, the same as Kid Rock. “I’m from Indiana, where Lynyrd Skynyrd are considered God to the point that you ended up saying, I hate this f—ing band!” he said. “And yet for ‘Sweet Child’ … I went out and got some old Skynyrd tapes to make sure that we’d got that heartfelt feeling.”
Read More: Did Guns N’ Roses Steal ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ From An Obscure Australian Band? | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/sweet-child-o-mine-australian-crawl/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
I had wondered why he was such a tortured freak until I read that he, like show business whore Chelsea Handler, is the child of a Jewish father and a Mormon mother.Replies: @Curle
Mormons think they are a lost tribe. Jos. Smith was a bank fraudster. Though they make a show of easy entry to the group their barriers to entry are eugenic. The Mormons copied a lot from the Jews.
Three Men on the Bummel?
Such are the times that it is impolite to visit the continent these days. It is gross bad manners to speak English in a foreign country, but I am told that things have come to such a pass that even in France they respond to bad French in good English. Before the world went to the dogs, they made a pretence of not understanding you even when they did.
It was a shotgunning--don't count. Then again as the guy says above an aimed shotgun at distance shotgun produces the effect of 'Chicago S' shooting."All Summer Long" by Kid Rock was an immeasurably cruder rip off of Werewolves that it was of Sweet HomeReplies: @Redneck farmer, @Mike Tre, @Almost Missouri, @Malcolm X-Lax, @John Johnson, @ScarletNumber
It was a shotgunning–don’t count. Then again as the guy says above an aimed shotgun at distance shotgun produces the effect of ‘Chicago S’ shooting.
No the rule still applies.
Minorities are more likely to use the ammo that is readily available which in Britain means birdshot.
A White criminal would know that it is easy to load your own shotgun ammo and that birdshot is a terrible choice for combat.
But watch as we see more shotgun shootings and the British left will demand an end to what remains of gun ownership which is a break action shotgun after tons of paperwork and proof that you are going to be hunting.
The British conservatives will huff and puff but will allow the change for the proles but will have an exemption for the upper class.
I wonder if he's related to the Dicken-Bottum clan. You know, the "gentrifiers".Replies: @Liger
We for benefit of those who haven’t read the CNN piece, we should point out that the murderer’s name is Sapirman. Dicken was the hero. The article you linked to linked to another CNN article that pictured Sapirman but not Dicken.
With only the idiosyncratic first name to go by, I guessed Elisjsha Dicken must be a black American military veteran, but thought odd that there was no picture. According to Microsoft Bing, Dicken is as white as they come. Perhaps his parents are Christians who couldn’t agree on their favorite Old Testsment prophet and just smooshed together the names of the two top contenders.
Mormons think they are a lost tribe. Jos. Smith was a bank fraudster. Though they make a show of easy entry to the group their barriers to entry are eugenic. The Mormons copied a lot from the Jews.
They have high fertility rates but their barriers to entry are definitely not eugenic. They operate more like a mafia for gamma men.
Their women are locked in and not allowed to date outsiders even if they are clearly better than the local mafia offerings.
The most incompetent men get jobs through their Mormon connections. I have seen this first hand and the results are shocking. They will cover the work of the biggest boob in the group even if it means the company suffers. They are highly collectivist and have no problem with being unprincipled with outsiders if it means serving the group.
The Mormons act like they are recruiting new men but take a close look at their requirements. No beer, no coffee and you are expected to cut off your non-Mormon friends. So men that are naturally social and good with women will usually find them to be unappealing. Intelligent Whites that are skeptical of Mormon claims are naturally excluded. Men that have strong Christian connections are also out. Who does that leave? Not many potential recruits and they don’t care. Their numbers come from their high fertility.
They only knock on your door because it is a requirement for becoming a Mormon. What they really want is to get their Mormon wife and not spend time knocking on the doors of heathens. I have a nice house and I always get resentful looks from them, especially in summer if I am in shorts and holding a beer. They don’t like it when non-Mormons have nice things. They really do see themselves as God’s favorites and believe they will rule over us in the afterlife. I see them at Walmart and they will treat the locals like dirt. I really don’t care if they have high fertility rates. They are a divisive cult that supports splitting up families if one spouse loses the faith. They bring in an army of lawyers and find a new Mormon mommy or daddy for the kids.
https://i.imgur.com/C1dJVDL.jpgReplies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
The American bully in panel 4 is wearing the wrong religious symbol around his neck.
“Every country in the world belongs to…. ?”
Designed by John Nash as a pleasure garden, paid for by public funds, one of the few worthwhile suggestions by the then (degenerate) Regent, later George IV, the 18th Century’s Harry . . .
Review of Who Really Wrote The Book of Mormon. Long, but worth the effort. Author is descendant of one of the Mormon Church founders. Says the whole thing was a money making scam.
http://www.truthandgrace.com/bookcowdrey.htm
According to this study, The Book of Mormon is really a clever adaptation of an obscure, unpublished novel written during the War of 1812 by a down-and-out ex-preacher named Solomon Spalding, a Revolutionary War veteran and bankrupt land speculator who died at Amity, PA., in 1816 and lies buried in the churchyard there. Prior to his death, Spalding had complained to friends and relatives that a draft of his novel, “A Manuscript Found,” had been stolen from the shelves of Pittsburgh, PA., publisher R. & J. Patterson, by one Sidney Rigdon. This same Rigdon later became one of the three principal founders of the Mormon religious movement, joining Joseph Smith, Jr., and Smith’s cousin Oliver Cowdery, an itinerant book peddler and occasional printer of questionable background. Evidence indicates it all began as an elaborate get-rich-quick scheme which Smith himself referred to in 1829 as “the Gold-Bible business.”
At the time of the alleged conspiracy, Smith and Cowdery lived in western New York. Rigdon resided in the Pittsburgh area until 1818, and then spent the next dozen years in various locations around western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. It was Cowdery who eventually brought Rigdon and Smith together, and then later served as Smith’s personal scribe during the process of creating The Book of Mormon from Spalding’s manuscript. Co-author Wayne L. Cowdrey, an ex-Mormon, is Oliver Cowdery’s second cousin five generations removed, and has been privately accumulating research on his family’s involvement in Mormonism for more than three decades.
Speaking of old, strange America, I watched The Highwaymen recently and enjoyed it very much. The "public enemy" era in sparsely populated 1930's America was pretty interesting. You could just commit violent robberies in a five-state loop, like Bonnie and Clyde did, and stay a step ahead of the judicial process. That's why it took an extra-judicial assassination in Louisiana to stop them.
One of the last remnants of American extra-judicial vigilantism was the assassination of Ken McElroy in 1981. The townspeople met with the sheriff and asked what are we supposed to do about this sociopathic bully who's got the local judge in his back pocket. The sheriff said well boys do not get into a dangerous confrontation with him and you should form a neighborhood watch. Now if you gentlemen will excuse me, I'm just going to get in my cruiser and drive 10 miles out of town and do some, oh, maybe some birdwatching, yes. Birdwatching. McElroy was shot dead in his pickup truck a few hours later. Forty-six people around the truck and nobody saw a thing.Replies: @jinkforp, @Curle, @Jonathan Mason, @Corvinus
Such are the times that it is impolite to visit the continent these days. It is gross bad manners to speak English in a foreign country, but I am told that things have come to such a pass that even in France they respond to bad French in good English. Before the world went to the dogs, they made a pretence of not understanding you even when they did.Replies: @Liger
Si, senor.
It certainly appears Skynyrd was okay with it. I’m guessing it all generated additional royalties for them. Kid Rock gave the introduction when the band went into the Rock & Roll hall of Fame.
Another interesting interpolation that really surprised me as I’d heard both songs a hundreds of times but never put them together until I stumbled upon this video.
By contrast:
Six dead, zero wounded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxqreCG0htQ
@Roland: If it's a suspension it's a 2, there's no such thing as a sus9. Terminology reflects function. B# and C? Same note, different functions.
@Right_On: That's not Lynyrd Skynyrd (sp?) that's a cash-in tribute band led by the late singer's brother playing morbid faggot-level dress-up. He is buttmounting his brother's legacy. Eff that guy.
@Pat Hannagan: I think Slonimsky has prior claim to the term "interpolation" and this is not that.Replies: @Ron Mexico, @Pat Hannagan
I think Slonimsky has prior claim to the term “interpolation” and this is not that.
Cheers, mate, never heard of Slonimsky and, now I do, it won’t help me at all unless he comes up as a clue in a crossword puzzle, or trivia night at the pub with both options highly unlikely.
When it comes to maths I’m somewhat of a dumb 2868 but, being that I am somewhat addicted to listening to music and drinking copious amounts of alcohol and a belligerent 2868, let me assure you when I say this is a musical term, it is a musical term.
For instance, did you know that Sting earns $2,000 per day (40 million over 25 years) for Diddy’s interpolation of “Every Breath You Take” on “I’ll Be Missing You” as well as for taking credit for Andy Summers’ guitar which Diddy also sampled, along with the interpolation of Sting?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tudxOuHDA0E
Here’s a few examples of interpolation you may recognise:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OgMYLnF1GTs
A masterclass in interpolation, 6 in one song:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zIFmFa4yRZ8
Check out Blake Robin’s channel for more. He writes some good music himself. Prost!
http://www.truthandgrace.com/bookcowdrey.htm
According to this study, The Book of Mormon is really a clever adaptation of an obscure, unpublished novel written during the War of 1812 by a down-and-out ex-preacher named Solomon Spalding, a Revolutionary War veteran and bankrupt land speculator who died at Amity, PA., in 1816 and lies buried in the churchyard there. Prior to his death, Spalding had complained to friends and relatives that a draft of his novel, "A Manuscript Found," had been stolen from the shelves of Pittsburgh, PA., publisher R. & J. Patterson, by one Sidney Rigdon. This same Rigdon later became one of the three principal founders of the Mormon religious movement, joining Joseph Smith, Jr., and Smith's cousin Oliver Cowdery, an itinerant book peddler and occasional printer of questionable background. Evidence indicates it all began as an elaborate get-rich-quick scheme which Smith himself referred to in 1829 as "the Gold-Bible business."
At the time of the alleged conspiracy, Smith and Cowdery lived in western New York. Rigdon resided in the Pittsburgh area until 1818, and then spent the next dozen years in various locations around western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. It was Cowdery who eventually brought Rigdon and Smith together, and then later served as Smith's personal scribe during the process of creating The Book of Mormon from Spalding's manuscript. Co-author Wayne L. Cowdrey, an ex-Mormon, is Oliver Cowdery's second cousin five generations removed, and has been privately accumulating research on his family's involvement in Mormonism for more than three decades.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @John Johnson
Antebellum America was a pretty strange place. I wonder if the religious fervor and crackpottery was a function of the geographic remove from the Old World religuous structures.
Speaking of old, strange America, I watched The Highwaymen recently and enjoyed it very much. The “public enemy” era in sparsely populated 1930’s America was pretty interesting. You could just commit violent robberies in a five-state loop, like Bonnie and Clyde did, and stay a step ahead of the judicial process. That’s why it took an extra-judicial assassination in Louisiana to stop them.
One of the last remnants of American extra-judicial vigilantism was the assassination of Ken McElroy in 1981. The townspeople met with the sheriff and asked what are we supposed to do about this sociopathic bully who’s got the local judge in his back pocket. The sheriff said well boys do not get into a dangerous confrontation with him and you should form a neighborhood watch. Now if you gentlemen will excuse me, I’m just going to get in my cruiser and drive 10 miles out of town and do some, oh, maybe some birdwatching, yes. Birdwatching. McElroy was shot dead in his pickup truck a few hours later. Forty-six people around the truck and nobody saw a thing.
Yes it was. With a lot of strange religious and mystical movements starting up, most now gone with the exception of the Mormons and one or two others. I enjoyed Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance for opening a door to the oddball social element in Antebellum life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blithedale_Romance
It is my impression that a lot of odd social movements stay under the radar in spite of the seeming attention they receive from the media. I recall being surprised by the fellow in my college dorm who was participating in Werner Earhart’s EST cult in the ‘80s and was spouting all sorts of crazy stuff. There were the hippies, of course, who acted stupid but got a pass I suspect because the girls were willing to display their boobs. And then at twilight on a summer evening while jogging a trail near my state’s capital in the ‘90s I stumbled upon what appeared to witch ritual of some kind, cloaks, pentagram, candles, that sort of thing. I kept on running. I was told later that witches like to put spells on places of power.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Speaking of old, strange America, I watched The Highwaymen recently and enjoyed it very much. The "public enemy" era in sparsely populated 1930's America was pretty interesting. You could just commit violent robberies in a five-state loop, like Bonnie and Clyde did, and stay a step ahead of the judicial process. That's why it took an extra-judicial assassination in Louisiana to stop them.
One of the last remnants of American extra-judicial vigilantism was the assassination of Ken McElroy in 1981. The townspeople met with the sheriff and asked what are we supposed to do about this sociopathic bully who's got the local judge in his back pocket. The sheriff said well boys do not get into a dangerous confrontation with him and you should form a neighborhood watch. Now if you gentlemen will excuse me, I'm just going to get in my cruiser and drive 10 miles out of town and do some, oh, maybe some birdwatching, yes. Birdwatching. McElroy was shot dead in his pickup truck a few hours later. Forty-six people around the truck and nobody saw a thing.Replies: @jinkforp, @Curle, @Jonathan Mason, @Corvinus
There was a made-for-TV show about this, called “In Broad Daylight”.
Speaking of old, strange America, I watched The Highwaymen recently and enjoyed it very much. The "public enemy" era in sparsely populated 1930's America was pretty interesting. You could just commit violent robberies in a five-state loop, like Bonnie and Clyde did, and stay a step ahead of the judicial process. That's why it took an extra-judicial assassination in Louisiana to stop them.
One of the last remnants of American extra-judicial vigilantism was the assassination of Ken McElroy in 1981. The townspeople met with the sheriff and asked what are we supposed to do about this sociopathic bully who's got the local judge in his back pocket. The sheriff said well boys do not get into a dangerous confrontation with him and you should form a neighborhood watch. Now if you gentlemen will excuse me, I'm just going to get in my cruiser and drive 10 miles out of town and do some, oh, maybe some birdwatching, yes. Birdwatching. McElroy was shot dead in his pickup truck a few hours later. Forty-six people around the truck and nobody saw a thing.Replies: @jinkforp, @Curle, @Jonathan Mason, @Corvinus
“Antebellum America was a pretty strange place.”
Yes it was. With a lot of strange religious and mystical movements starting up, most now gone with the exception of the Mormons and one or two others. I enjoyed Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance for opening a door to the oddball social element in Antebellum life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blithedale_Romance
It is my impression that a lot of odd social movements stay under the radar in spite of the seeming attention they receive from the media. I recall being surprised by the fellow in my college dorm who was participating in Werner Earhart’s EST cult in the ‘80s and was spouting all sorts of crazy stuff. There were the hippies, of course, who acted stupid but got a pass I suspect because the girls were willing to display their boobs. And then at twilight on a summer evening while jogging a trail near my state’s capital in the ‘90s I stumbled upon what appeared to witch ritual of some kind, cloaks, pentagram, candles, that sort of thing. I kept on running. I was told later that witches like to put spells on places of power.
8 shot and 0 killed at an MLK event in Tampa. I am sure tips from “the community” will be coming in heavy.
Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings is severely tested.
Yes it was. With a lot of strange religious and mystical movements starting up, most now gone with the exception of the Mormons and one or two others. I enjoyed Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance for opening a door to the oddball social element in Antebellum life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blithedale_Romance
It is my impression that a lot of odd social movements stay under the radar in spite of the seeming attention they receive from the media. I recall being surprised by the fellow in my college dorm who was participating in Werner Earhart’s EST cult in the ‘80s and was spouting all sorts of crazy stuff. There were the hippies, of course, who acted stupid but got a pass I suspect because the girls were willing to display their boobs. And then at twilight on a summer evening while jogging a trail near my state’s capital in the ‘90s I stumbled upon what appeared to witch ritual of some kind, cloaks, pentagram, candles, that sort of thing. I kept on running. I was told later that witches like to put spells on places of power.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Champions of one of the “twin relics of barbarism” decried in the 1856 GOP platform. (And, no, I don’t mean women’s suffrage, though the LDS was way ahead of the other churches in pushing that.)
Early America really was a barbaric place. One visiting Frenchman (!)– not Tocqueville but a similar figure– was horrified by the sexual mores he encountered on the frontier.
Oh, bite your tongue. Those people did crazy things like build opera houses in the middle of the frozen prairie.
Cliche (but quite real) sign common in frontier saloons: "Please do not shoot the piano player, he is doing his best."
My response is, Wait, whaaat? You guys have pianos out here in the middle of nowhere? And saloons?
It's sort of like finding a barbecue shack, a translation of Homer and a sauna on one of the moons of Jupiter.Replies: @Anonymous
What were the nationalities involved in that massacre in Tulare County, Goshen CA?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/california-killings-cartel-hit-goshen-b2263418.html?amp
I bet at one time white people used to move their families to the rural Valley, on the rationale that all the natural conservatives who shoot babies in the head and dissolve the corpses of their victims in lye would stay in the cities.
“Early America really was a barbaric place.”
Oh, bite your tongue. Those people did crazy things like build opera houses in the middle of the frozen prairie.
Cliche (but quite real) sign common in frontier saloons: “Please do not shoot the piano player, he is doing his best.”
My response is, Wait, whaaat? You guys have pianos out here in the middle of nowhere? And saloons?
It’s sort of like finding a barbecue shack, a translation of Homer and a sauna on one of the moons of Jupiter.
Well whatta ya know. It looks like the victims were mestizo/Meso-American drug dealers and their family members, so I’m going to go out on a limb and hypothesize that the shooters who put a well-placed round in each head were also mestizo/Meso-American drug dealers with families.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/california-killings-cartel-hit-goshen-b2263418.html?amp
I bet at one time white people used to move their families to the rural Valley, on the rationale that all the natural conservatives who shoot babies in the head and dissolve the corpses of their victims in lye would stay in the cities.
It was a shotgunning--don't count. Then again as the guy says above an aimed shotgun at distance shotgun produces the effect of 'Chicago S' shooting."All Summer Long" by Kid Rock was an immeasurably cruder rip off of Werewolves that it was of Sweet HomeReplies: @Redneck farmer, @Mike Tre, @Almost Missouri, @Malcolm X-Lax, @John Johnson, @ScarletNumber
When Steve made the comparison in his original post, I too immediately thought of All Summer Long. The song has EIGHT credited song writers: the three who wrote Sweet Home Alabama, the three who wrote Werewolves of London, and Kid Rock and Uncle Kracker under their legal names.
Speaking of old, strange America, I watched The Highwaymen recently and enjoyed it very much. The "public enemy" era in sparsely populated 1930's America was pretty interesting. You could just commit violent robberies in a five-state loop, like Bonnie and Clyde did, and stay a step ahead of the judicial process. That's why it took an extra-judicial assassination in Louisiana to stop them.
One of the last remnants of American extra-judicial vigilantism was the assassination of Ken McElroy in 1981. The townspeople met with the sheriff and asked what are we supposed to do about this sociopathic bully who's got the local judge in his back pocket. The sheriff said well boys do not get into a dangerous confrontation with him and you should form a neighborhood watch. Now if you gentlemen will excuse me, I'm just going to get in my cruiser and drive 10 miles out of town and do some, oh, maybe some birdwatching, yes. Birdwatching. McElroy was shot dead in his pickup truck a few hours later. Forty-six people around the truck and nobody saw a thing.Replies: @jinkforp, @Curle, @Jonathan Mason, @Corvinus
Very possible. Although that was a very intense religious revivalism movement in England in the 1840s. Even today you can recognize the grandfather clocks of that immediate era, because the faces were decorated with painted themes of religious fervor. It went that deep.
It was also the decade of the Irish potato famine and the publication of the Communist manifesto.
Oh, bite your tongue. Those people did crazy things like build opera houses in the middle of the frozen prairie.
Cliche (but quite real) sign common in frontier saloons: "Please do not shoot the piano player, he is doing his best."
My response is, Wait, whaaat? You guys have pianos out here in the middle of nowhere? And saloons?
It's sort of like finding a barbecue shack, a translation of Homer and a sauna on one of the moons of Jupiter.Replies: @Anonymous
Old time Americans (non-Puritans at least) were huge Shakespeare fans, moreso even than the English. The reason was the KJV which remained the standard bible in America long after it was discontinued from use in Britain.
Of course, there’s nothing strange or difficult about Shakespeare to someone familiar with the KJV. It’s exactly the same language.
Speaking of old, strange America, I watched The Highwaymen recently and enjoyed it very much. The "public enemy" era in sparsely populated 1930's America was pretty interesting. You could just commit violent robberies in a five-state loop, like Bonnie and Clyde did, and stay a step ahead of the judicial process. That's why it took an extra-judicial assassination in Louisiana to stop them.
One of the last remnants of American extra-judicial vigilantism was the assassination of Ken McElroy in 1981. The townspeople met with the sheriff and asked what are we supposed to do about this sociopathic bully who's got the local judge in his back pocket. The sheriff said well boys do not get into a dangerous confrontation with him and you should form a neighborhood watch. Now if you gentlemen will excuse me, I'm just going to get in my cruiser and drive 10 miles out of town and do some, oh, maybe some birdwatching, yes. Birdwatching. McElroy was shot dead in his pickup truck a few hours later. Forty-six people around the truck and nobody saw a thing.Replies: @jinkforp, @Curle, @Jonathan Mason, @Corvinus
Oh, you will applaud such a thing, but when push comes to shove, you’d chicken out if put on that situation. I get it. Living vicariously by shooting varmints and vibrants is your Saturday night bowling league. Drinks, spares, and musings.
Britain's massive black African/Caribbean population, not to mention its vast subcontinental Indian population can be rationalized away by references to Empire and subsequent treaties.
Similarly the teeming millions from continental Europe can be explained by former EU membership.
But Colombians? There never was any treaty, colonisation or agreements. Supposedly, immigration from extra Commonwealth and non EU nations was *always* under the strictest control, since, at least the Aliens Act of the 1900s.Replies: @Director95, @prosa123, @Wokechoke, @Corvinus
The same sentiment was shared by WASPs toward Italians, Greeks, and Poles in the early 1900s in the U.S. But don’t fret, magic dirt has a funny way of equalizing things.
http://www.truthandgrace.com/bookcowdrey.htm
According to this study, The Book of Mormon is really a clever adaptation of an obscure, unpublished novel written during the War of 1812 by a down-and-out ex-preacher named Solomon Spalding, a Revolutionary War veteran and bankrupt land speculator who died at Amity, PA., in 1816 and lies buried in the churchyard there. Prior to his death, Spalding had complained to friends and relatives that a draft of his novel, "A Manuscript Found," had been stolen from the shelves of Pittsburgh, PA., publisher R. & J. Patterson, by one Sidney Rigdon. This same Rigdon later became one of the three principal founders of the Mormon religious movement, joining Joseph Smith, Jr., and Smith's cousin Oliver Cowdery, an itinerant book peddler and occasional printer of questionable background. Evidence indicates it all began as an elaborate get-rich-quick scheme which Smith himself referred to in 1829 as "the Gold-Bible business."
At the time of the alleged conspiracy, Smith and Cowdery lived in western New York. Rigdon resided in the Pittsburgh area until 1818, and then spent the next dozen years in various locations around western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. It was Cowdery who eventually brought Rigdon and Smith together, and then later served as Smith's personal scribe during the process of creating The Book of Mormon from Spalding's manuscript. Co-author Wayne L. Cowdrey, an ex-Mormon, is Oliver Cowdery's second cousin five generations removed, and has been privately accumulating research on his family's involvement in Mormonism for more than three decades.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @John Johnson
I could look past the shady origins if I truly believed it was just a weird offshoot of Christianity like 7th day.
But the gold standard of a cult is whether or not people can leave at will and without any problems in the community.
For Mormonism the answer is no. You will be excommunicated if you leave and if you are married to an active Mormon then the church will prefer a divorce. Can you imagine a Christian church suggesting a divorce over leaving?
No.
It is entirely feasible that the church would prefer a member to divorce than for the church to lose the financial contributions of an affluent supporter.Replies: @Art Deco
“Can you imagine a Christian church suggesting a divorce over leaving?”
No.
A Polish man cleans your toilet, a Colombian kills another Colombian and you along with him. I have a feeling this magic dirt equalises nothing but misery.
Yes. A lot of Protestant churches are money-making operations that depend on brainwashing adherents into “tithing” or donating a significant percentage of their earnings to the church. Hence high income members are particularly valued.
It is entirely feasible that the church would prefer a member to divorce than for the church to lose the financial contributions of an affluent supporter.
You've confused Herbert Armstrong's operation with common and garden protestant congregations.
KJV Bible is the only one worthy of the name Bible. All the rest of the modern English versions are crap, although if one had to choose one, the Jerusalem Bible, which is a modern Catholic version, could be the best of a bad bunch.
It is entirely feasible that the church would prefer a member to divorce than for the church to lose the financial contributions of an affluent supporter.Replies: @Art Deco
Yes. A lot of Protestant churches are money-making operations that depend on brainwashing adherents into “tithing” or donating a significant percentage of their earnings to the church. Hence high income members are particularly valued.
You’ve confused Herbert Armstrong’s operation with common and garden protestant congregations.