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Just a quick gloat: Me and the wife are off to see the Red Hot Chilli Peppers tomorrow (With James Brown in support!).

The weekend starts in approximately 84 minutes...

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I can understand the excitement over RHC but, JB? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Have fun!

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That will be an awesome concert. RHCP are a good band.

I am trying to learn about to play Californication on Bass guitar, I just can't seem to get it down as good as Flea can. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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I think James Brown just has sto be seen to believe. He's about 140 years old, but they still wheel him up there to perform- kind of like the Pope. I think he may be almost completely animatronic by now. ALso, I've heard that he had his hair laminated in 1972 and I want to see it up close.

Seriously, the guy is a legend, and in his time he was an awesome performer and gave us a whole stack of songs that are just as good now as they ever were. Even if his show isn't as good as it might once have been, it will be a privelege to have seen him live.

James Brown/ scifi trivia: Danny-John Jules cites James Brown as his inspiration when deciding how to play the Cat in Red Dwarf.

"OOOoooooWWWW! I'm gonna eat you little fishy, I'm gonna eat you little fishy..."

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That's true, Dogs. Yes, true. But you show your age (smile). You know, he lives in the next state over and if he can JUST stop shooting at women...LOL.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah? How old am I then? (No peeking at the "how old are you" thread...)

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah? How old am I then? (No peeking at the "how old are you" thread...) </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Gotta be in your 40's. If you're younger than that, you also are open-minded enough to watch B&W movies, I'm guessing.

BTW, I need to look up one song of his that used to be the "wake-up" song on one of the radio channels here.

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You're way off Slynky but thanks, I'll take that as a compliment. You may now consult the other thread=-)

I don't watch B&W films much, but I appreciate their worth when I see them.
B&W films I like:
Way Out West
THe Ladykillers

B&W films that sucked (imho)
Brief encounter
uhh... I need to watch some more old films.

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There are a ton of great movies out there that are in b&w, but with today's generation of movie watchers used to the latest computerized special effects in color, I don't think that most of those old flicks hold much appeal to them. I still think most of them are worth watching, even the old outdated Harryhausen films with the stop-motion photography.

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preaching to the converted- SE4 players are ppl who appreciate quality gameplay over flashy graphics (not that there's anything necessarily wrong with flashy graphics) so it stands to reason they will be ppl who appreciate story/quality/comedy/content over special effects in films (not that special effects in films are necessarily a bad thing.)

The biggest problem with old films is the culture gap- old language, attitudes, ways of life- some of these things do not always translate well into the modern age.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Said very well!

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I'm off to a 3 day gig to see some of the following Groups:

Action In DC
After Forever
Agnostic Front
Anathema
Anthrax
Backfire
Blood For Blood
Brides of Destruction
Children of Bodom
Chimaira
Circle II Circle
Cooper, Alice
Cowboys And Aliens
Cradle Of Filth
Death Angel
Destruction
Dillinger Escape Plan
Dimmu Borgir
Discipline
Do or Die
Dying Fetus
Epica
Evergrey
Exodus
Fear Factory
Hatebreed
Hypocrisy
Iced Earth
Ignite
Ill Niño
In Extremo
Jackson United
Judas Priest
Killswitch Engage
Life Of Agony
Malevolent Creation
Morbid Angel
Motörhead
My Dying Bride
Oomph!
Pleymo
Queensryche
Saxon
Scarve
Seven Witches
Shadows Fall
Slipknot
Soulfly
Suffocation
Terror
Testament
Therion

There's a lot of those festivals in the summer in europe, always a lot of fun with some other 30000 idiots. I leave in 3,5 hours, but still need to sleep http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I know nothing about James Brown, but what little I know is doesn't he have a song called "Get up" or similar. That would seem to be a god bet.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I know nothing about James Brown, but what little I know is doesn't he have a song called "Get up" or similar. That would seem to be a god bet. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hope I have the right singer but some of the words were something about "shouting" or "make you shout". Maybe it was Little Richard.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Said very well! </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I suppose that's all too true. I can't even get my son to watch the old sitcoms that come on TV Land. Shows that I grew up watching, such as Andy Griffth, The Munsters, The Addams Family, Green Acres, etc. If they can't interest a 3 year old, I can imagine the lack of appeal for something like High Noon, King Kong, or Psycho.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I know nothing about James Brown, but what little I know is doesn't he have a song called "Get up" or similar. That would seem to be a god bet. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hope I have the right singer but some of the words were something about "shouting" or "make you shout". Maybe it was Little Richard. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, I satisfied my curiosity and found the song I mistook for one of James Brown's. It's called, "Shout", and the Version that was most famous was recorded by Otis Day and the Knights for the movie, "Animal House". The lyrics are here.

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I hear ya, Greg! WIfe and I purchased a boxed set of the "Little Rascals". One day, the kids didn't have anything to watch and we offered that up. Only took them 5 minutes to be knocking on the bedroom door...

"Mommy, it's not in color!"

So much for that. Sheesh!

(not that the Little Rascals is something great that shouldn't be missed but...)

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I remember watching the Little Rascals/Our Gang. You're right. They weren't so great that I have ever see them again. Heck, most of them are dead anyway, except for Robert Blake. Now, the Three Stooges, I could watch again. I was burned out on them for years, but recently have been watching them periodically, and still get a chuckle or two from them. I'm sure my son wouldn't like it, though. Although I am surprised by his insistance the other day on watching The Wizard of Oz. He wanted to watch it, and I let him, and he did watch it. I think he's seen it 2 or 3 times now, but there must be something about that movie that appeals to the young at heart. I still enjoy watching it too, even if there is an occassional blasphemous thought of how George Lucas and ILM could redo the special effects.