I don't agree with the whole "outgrowing music" thing anyway, but I seriously doubt you could outgrow Cheap Trick.

This made me want to dig out Samurai Rock Band, but when I went to get it, it is MISSING from my collection. I hope I just stuck it back somewhere else and it didnt mysteriously walk away.

I went hunting for the Neil Peart lyrics thread, but couldn’t find it in the archive. Sadness! However, Wayback Machine has preserved a key page.

steve wrote:

TheMilford wrote:Here's my favorite:

Sprawling on the fringes of the city...

Allow me to reduce that to haiku:

Suburban Ontarian
visits Toronto
Buildings! People! And Weed!

steve wrote:

TheMilford wrote: He're another fave:

We can move with savage grace
To the rhythms of the night
Cool and remote like dancing girls
In the heat of the beat and the lights

Put more succinctly:
When we fuck
I think of strippers

The whole thing’s great, but I’ve already spent 15 minutes wrestling with my phone to paste these quotes in a correct manner.

I didn't want to derail the other thread, but I did want to say it's fun to see old names posting again.
Welcome back, everybody.

MoreSpaceEcho in another thread, wrote: Mon May 13, 2024 8:32 pm Yeah it's nice to see the old faces and I'm glad to hear Marsup is doing well, some of his posts were amongst the funniest shit I've ever read.

Sometimes I think about specific posts and I laugh out loud. Sometimes in public, remembering stuff to myself, chortling.

There's so much from the old forum, it's really hard to remember specific things. One general thing I do remember was the year we did the summer BBQ and then immediately did an October BBQ where we all mopped a goat. The energy that we felt collectively between then was probably the high water mark for myself. There were a lot of great posts about how elated everyone felt. Great times, great friendships, great bands, great food, just great everything. A simpler, more innocent time looking back at it. So much has changed, even I'm not really the same person I was back then. I miss it, but I'll always have fond memories of it.

Most of my memories are more from the moments we got together. I remember the first time those of us in Chicago got together to see a show, though I've totally forgotten what the show was. I turned into a hazy night, smoking weed at my apartment. I remember hanging out on my back enclosed porch and this guy Sam nearly fell down the railing. The night went into the morning, the only people left in my house were Randall and John Albert. John eventually left as the sun was coming up, and it was just me and Randall. Randall turned to me and said, "Fucking John Albert." Those of you who know, know what I mean! Also, Randall confessed to me that night that he'd never seen Caddy Shack.

sparky wrote: Fri Apr 28, 2023 6:01 pm I went hunting for the Neil Peart lyrics thread, but couldn’t find it in the archive. Sadness! However, Wayback Machine has preserved a key page.

steve wrote:

TheMilford wrote:Here's my favorite:

Sprawling on the fringes of the city...

Allow me to reduce that to haiku:

Suburban Ontarian
visits Toronto
Buildings! People! And Weed!

steve wrote:

TheMilford wrote: He're another fave:

We can move with savage grace
To the rhythms of the night
Cool and remote like dancing girls
In the heat of the beat and the lights

Put more succinctly:
When we fuck
I think of strippers

The whole thing’s great, but I’ve already spent 15 minutes wrestling with my phone to paste these quotes in a correct manner.

It's in there, Sparks, you just have to know to search for squirrel+circuit:

https://www.premierrockforum.com/viewto ... el+circuit

This thread was a fun trip down memory lane.

The hot dog crawl was a standout, and maybe I missed it, but I don't think anyone mentioned it yet here.

I think, for my money, Waltermalling was the best troll of all time. He managed to tow this line where I felt like I was in on a hilarious joke because it was super obvious to me that he was just fucking with everyone, but he really pushed people's buttons who didn't realize he was.

Most trolls will just do it in a way where everyone knows they are being an asshole and it's just mean spirited assholery. This guy somehow managed to wink at you about it if you had enough of a bullshit detector to realize it was a bit. Like the joke he was playing on people was something that would be hilarious to you if you got it was a joke.

I remember when he had enough and "came out" that it was a bit and he was like "I fucking listened to the Dave Matthews Band (or some other ubiquitous bullshit band, I forget) to stay in character! This shit has gone too far!"

tbone wrote: Tue May 14, 2024 12:59 pm This thread was a fun trip down memory lane.

The hot dog crawl was a standout, and maybe I missed it, but I don't think anyone mentioned it yet here.

OMG, that was so much fun, even if it was painful. By the time we got to Duck's, Rich was still dead set on eating a whole hot dog at each place. He was choking the Duck Dog down and I remember him grumbling, "This tastes like dishwater."

Not everyone made it the whole way. I can't remember the place we went to on Montrose, but they only made veggie dogs on whole wheat buns. As we moved from there to Murphy's, my stomach started to grumble. I had to take the biggest shit and I was holding it in while trying to pedal the bike. I let loose in Murphy's before enjoying a great char dog.

EDIT: Thinking about this further, I think it was Turnbullac who offered to pay for all the dogs if Rich ate them (or some equally ridiculous challenge), and I'm pretty sure I egged him on. Either way, Rich ate 10 hot dogs and was the hero we didn't know we needed!

Rich looked like he was pregnant after that when we got home. And was also like huffing and puffing getting in and out of chairs like he was full term pregnant, too.

Whoever it was relating having to deal with Gallo in a Veleno sale and he turned up. That thread and the conman selling the frying pan guitars. Mangan or something? Those threads were solid gold.