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Fat Freddy wrote:

In case you missed it in the Queensryche thread, ToddRyche linked my HubPage about the QR/Tate mess on their official Facebook page today.... and it blew up biggy styley. Last I checked it had racked up 3000+ page views since this morning and is now my all time "most views" champ.

So hey, thanks to whoever sent the link to the band's attention (no, it wasn't me)!!!!

Wasn't me, but that is frakin awesome!!!!!

You should request some tix if they ever play near you.

Dark Horseman wrote:

You should request some tix if they ever play near you.

They were just in New Jersey a couple of weeks ago, I had an invite to go w/a friend but couldn't do it cuz I had a Cub Scout event to do with my son.

I swear, if I had known how much cool metal stuff I was gonna miss out on cuz of Cub Scouts I never would've let him sign up.

By the way, total page views for that HubPage are now over 8K. Daaaamn. It's gonna be hard to go back to posting stuff that only gets 200 or 300 views after this.

Fat Freddy wrote:

By the way, total page views for that HubPage are now over 8K. Daaaamn. It's gonna be hard to go back to posting stuff that only gets 200 or 300 views after this.

Next step: Fortune and Glory!!!

And here we thought noone cared about Queensryche anymore. 8,000+ views have proved otherwise.

Good job, Frodrick.

Well, hey, I just picked up Anthrax's Anthems EP today... maybe if I review that on my HubPage and put the link on Anthrax's FB page, history will repeat itself?

...somehow I doubt it. I did that with a review of Worship Music and it didn't get me diddly squat.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Well, hey, I just picked up Anthrax's Anthems EP today... maybe if I review that on my HubPage and put the link on Anthrax's FB page, history will repeat itself?

...somehow I doubt it. I did that with a review of Worship Music and it didn't get me diddly squat.

You never know. You could be this generation's Martin Popoff..........or at least this generation's Eddie Trunk.

SpectreFate wrote:

at least this generation's Eddie Trunk.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

Fat Freddy wrote:

In case you missed it in the Queensryche thread, ToddRyche linked my HubPage about the QR/Tate mess on their official Facebook page today.... and it blew up biggy styley. Last I checked it had racked up 3000+ page views since this morning and is now my all time "most views" champ.

So hey, thanks to whoever sent the link to the band's attention (no, it wasn't me)!!!!

Just saw the link via QR on Facebook as a recommendation. Good work!

Sutekh wrote:

Just saw the link via QR on Facebook as a recommendation. Good work!

Thanx. The article is creeping up on 10K views now.... until it started blowign up yesterday morning it had less than 1000. Viva social media!!

Fat Freddy wrote:

SpectreFate wrote:

at least this generation's Eddie Trunk.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

Yeah.... I think That Metal Show with Keith, Leo and Brian would be 100 times better!!!!

thejokeriv wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

SpectreFate wrote:

at least this generation's Eddie Trunk.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

Yeah.... I think That Metal Show with Keith, Leo and Brian would be 100 times better!!!!

Excuse me sir, you mean Manny's That Kick Ass Metal Show featuring Keith, Leo and Brian!

manny wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

SpectreFate wrote:

at least this generation's Eddie Trunk.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

Yeah.... I think That Metal Show with Keith, Leo and Brian would be 100 times better!!!!

Excuse me sir, you mean Manny's That Kick Ass Metal Show featuring Keith, Leo and Brian!

That sounds like a METAL version of the view, only with metal dudes! That could work!

Thanks to the boost from Queensryche, that page has now had more than 10,000 views (yowza!) and has helped pushed my total views on the site (for all of my pages) over the coveted 50,000 view mark. Woohoo!!

Speaking of weird cartoons from the 70s and 80s, remember Yogi's Gang? It was all the classic hanna-barbera characters inexplicably living together on a flying ark where they met up with numerous ecological and anti-social enemies with names like Mr. Bigot, Mr. Smog, the Greedy Genie, Phineas K Fibber (sadly, im not making these names up) and such. Its basically like all those PSAs at the end of cartoons stretched out to a half-houir. The intentions were admirable i suppose, but it was just bizzare and even as a kid it just seemed too preachy. Heres the first episode (Mr. Bigot) so you can see for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YARws8aC0k

Hadley wrote:

Speaking of weird cartoons from the 70s and 80s, remember Yogi's Gang? It was all the classic hanna-barbera characters inexplicably living together on a flying ark where they met up with numerous ecological and anti-social enemies with names like Mr. Bigot, Mr. Smog, the Greedy Genie, Phineas K Fibber (sadly, im not making these names up) and such. Its basically like all those PSAs at the end of cartoons stretched out to a half-houir. The intentions were admirable i suppose, but it was just bizzare and even as a kid it just seemed too preachy. Heres the first episode (Mr. Bigot) so you can see for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YARws8aC0k

Y'know, I saw an episode of this show on the "Boomerang" channel a while ago. I honestly had no idea what the hell I was looking at. It seemed like a transmission from another planet

So hey, two years ago I published my first three HubPage entries. They were reviews I'd originally written for Detritus e-zine but the editor there suddenly decided to close up shop so they were never published.

If anybody's curious, here are my three "firsts." Looking at 'em now all I can say is wow, I've come a long way baby...

Stryper THE COVERING review:
http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Stryper-THE-COVERING-Big3-Records-2011

Helstar GLORY OF CHAOS review:
http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Helstar-GLORY-OF-CHAOS-AFM-Records-2011

Texas Hippie Coalition ROLLIN' review:
http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Texas-Hippie-Coalition-ROLLIN-Carved-Records-2010

Thanx to everybody for their continued support of my deranged ramblings. Onward and upward!!

Just so's you know, in the Styper review you wrote: Their the busy schedule of recording and touring has...........
It's the second sentence and I know what a stickler you are for grammar.
Good reviews man.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Just so's you know, in the Styper review you wrote: Their the busy schedule of recording and touring has...........
It's the second sentence and I know what a stickler you are for grammar.
Good reviews man.

Thanks dude. Nice catch, will fix that Stryper goof. Geez, how did I not notice that one in two years??

First new one in awhile...

Bleecker Bob's Records, a landmark indie record store in NYC, closed up shop this past week. It was one of my favorite haunts when I was in college and the news inspired this trip through the many Record Store Tours my friend Sean and I used to do back in the day.



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/NYC-Record-Store-Memories

My brother and I used to take record store tours in Portland. Miss that.

Dark Horseman wrote:

My brother and I used to take record store tours in Portland. Miss that.

Those were the days....when there were enough record stores in any given area that you could burn an entire Saturday going scrounging from one to another... *HEAVY SIGH*

This week on 'As the Queensryche Turns," Geoff Tate goes batshit crazy and challenges his haters to tell him all about it on YouTube. Meanwhile, the Todd LaTorre lineup, quietly and in a sane and professional manner, unveils the cover art to its latest album, with nary an "F.U." in sight.

In other words, I updated my Queensryche HubPage yet again.



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Meet-QUEENSRYCHE-Both-of-Them

Of course, you all knew I was gonna write a piece about my Camp Crystal Lake Experience on my HubPage blog didn't ya?


http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/I-Survived-Camp-Crystal-Lake

I don't believe you.