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Fat Freddy wrote:

Thanx fellers!

toho wrote:

And your comment about "Mr. Roboto" prompted a funny memory.  I've seen Styx 3 times and the last time was the tour promoting "Kilroy Was Here", the concept album "Mr. Roboto" is on.  You know that moment when you're at a concert and the main event act has kept you waiting and finally the lights go down and everyone in the audience goes nuts?  Well, that happened when I saw Styx on that tour.  Guess what the band did.  They promptly showed a 20 minute video about the whole "Kilroy" story.  After about 5 minutes the crowd was booing like mad.  When Styx finally took the stage, the crowed booed every song from the Kilroy album and only cheered for the earlier stuff (even "Babe").  That "let's open our show with a video about our new album" concept has Dennis DeYoung written all over it.

That's hysterical. They talk about that disastrous tour in Styx's "Behind the Music" episode. They were playing a summer outdoor festival in Texas or something, it was a thousand degrees outside, and the crowd was drunk, sunburnt and pissed off... and Tommy Shaw sez he was thinking, "...I have to go out there onstage and deliver a 20 minute monologue about robots before I even play a note? I'm gonna die." He sez the rest of the band begged Dennis DeYoung to let them drop the theatrical BS for the night and just go out there and rock, but he refused, and the resulting show turned out pretty ugly.

I have an old issue of Circus magazine with a concert review from that tour as well; the critic sez the audience was visibly disturbed by the Broadway-style sets and musical-theater style performance, till about halfway through the show somebody up in the balcony finally stood up and shouted "What th
e f*ck IS this?"

I actually left that show that I saw at Middle Tennessee State University because I was so upset.  At the time, Styx was one of my favorite bands and I just couldn't handle seeing them humiliated like that. 

I still have a soft spot in my heart for every album Styx released up to that point but "Kilroy" is where I totally jump ship. 

That said, "Babe" still battles Kiss' "Beth" for my "worst ballad ever recorded" title.

New one... here's a warning to my fellow beer drinkers to avoid this particularly noxious cheap brew!


http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Bad-Beer-Alert-BOXER-Lager

At least it looks good. And I agree with you on the Genny Cream Ale. We drank plenty of that in our garage parties.

007 wrote:

At least it looks good. And I agree with you on the Genny Cream Ale. We drank plenty of that in our garage parties.

It looks good but the taste =   

Love me some Genny Cream Ale, especially when it's ice cold on a hot day.

I found the so-called DISC GENIE "CD Repair Kit" at Walgreens' this past weekend and decided to give it a try on a couple of banged up discs I had laying around... I should've saved my money.

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Does-The-Disc-Genie-CDDVD-Repair-Kit-Really-Work

This line made me laugh...

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The Disc Genie's label also bears the famous red "AS SEEN ON TV" logo, though I don't remember ever seeing it on TV. Maybe I just don't watch the right channels?

I guess their marketing team hasn't approached the SyFy network for some product placement in the next 'Sharknado' feature.  

Probably a year or so ago, I picked up a cd cleaning/repair kit at a Five Below store in the mall. The "special cleaning fluid" was nothing more than watered-down rubbing alcohol and the "buffing pad" was a piece of orange felt. I don't believe the kit to be award winning or seen on tv either.

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Probably a year or so ago, I picked up a cd cleaning/repair kit at a Five Below store in the mall. The "special cleaning fluid" was nothing more than watered-down rubbing alcohol and the "buffing pad" was a piece of orange felt. I don't believe the kit to be award winning or seen on tv either.

Yep, I've seen kits like those too. My wife bought me one a couple of years ago at a flea market that came with a tube of "CD Repair Gel," which was some kind of paste with gritty stuff in it. I was afraid to put that stuff on the CD for fear of scratching it up even worse.

Sometime over the long holiday weekend when I wasn't paying attention, my HubPage articles cracked the 100,000 page-view barrier. Neat-O. Couldn't have done it without mah HOM-ies, so as the Bartles & Jaymes guys used to say, "Thank yew fer your support!!"

New entry ...though actually this one has been in the works for quite a while, I only just got around to finishing it yesterday.

A few months back I overdosed on a bunch of Italian gore movies by the infamous Lucio Fulci and this was the result:


http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Four-From-LUCIO-FULCI-Italys-Godfather-of-Gore

Been a while since I posted anything new...

I've been listening to a bunch of Cinderella this week so I sez to myself "Hey Self, how 'bout you do a HubPage about the Cinderella Discography?" ...and poof, it is done.

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/The-CINDERELLA-Discography-Hard-Rock-Heroes

Fat Freddy wrote:

New entry ...though actually this one has been in the works for quite a while, I only just got around to finishing it yesterday.

A few months back I overdosed on a bunch of Italian gore movies by the infamous Lucio Fulci and this was the result:


http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Four-From-LUCIO-FULCI-Italys-Godfather-of-Gore

I voted for Zombie on your page. The City Of The Living Dead (which I saw under the title The Gates Of Hell) was just okay. I never saw the other 2. I saw the Beyond (mentioned by someone in the comments) quite a few years ago and it seemed rather mundane from what I recall.

I'd like to check out some of his giallo flicks one of these days.

^^ I saw "The Beyond" years ago but remember very little of it. I should probably re-visit it sometime.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Been a while since I posted anything new...

I've been listening to a bunch of Cinderella this week so I sez to myself "Hey Self, how 'bout you do a HubPage about the Cinderella Discography?" ...and poof, it is done.

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/The-CINDERELLA-Discography-Hard-Rock-Heroes

Good shit.

I only have Night Songs.

^^ thanks!

So the new Accept album is out today. I don't have it yet, but I did update the crap outta my old HubPage entry about Accept (which was written prior to the release of Stalingrad - note the URL!) and brought it up to date:



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/ACCEPT-German-Metal-Legends-Return-With-STALINGRAD

Apparently Bradley "The Hangover" Cooper is in talks to portray long running paperback action hero Mack Bolan (aka "The Executioner") in a movie. I used to love that book series when I was in high school (and I still occasionally read one today) so I couldn't help myself, I wrote a quick fanboy blah-de-blah about it...



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Is-Mack-Bolan-FINALLY-Coming-to-the-Silver-Screen

Slow Day at Work = New HubPage.

This is about my experience thus far with walking to lose weight, aided by the "Runkeeper" fitness app:



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/My-RUNKEEPER-and-Me

Cool read ! Keep up the good work ! Now, what will you do over the winter ? Still do it outside ? I live in the northeast as well and know it can get rather nasty out there.

^ thanx...as for winter, I haven't thought that far ahead yet, haha. I guess I'll keep on truckin' as long as I can, weather permitting. I've got plenty of sweatshirts and hoodies.

New one... my Mom recently uncovered a scrapbook from my junior-high days, full of clippings and pix from when I almost made it to the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. - seeing all that old stuff inspired this piece.


"I WAS A SPELLING BEE WASHOUT!"
http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/I-Was-a-Spelling-Bee-Washout

Succotash is awful. Great story!

Witchfinder wrote:

Succotash is awful.

...well, yeah, that's true. I was never crazy about the stuff in the first place, so it hasn't exactly been hard to keep my word that I was never gonna eat it again.

Two new entries in as many days! I must be inspired.

Anywhoo, last night I was mostly unimpressed by SyFy's new zombie show "Z Nation" so I figured I'd post some thoughts on it...


http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/SyFys-Z-Nation-Lacks-Bite

Nice review and it sums up my feelings on the series as well. I will say this for Z-Nation, at least the characters do SOMETHING, unlike on many episodes of The Walking Dead where the characters just stand around yapping about their feelings and what not. I gave up on that series and hoped all the characters were eaten. I say this as someone who followed the comic for years.

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I gave up on that series and hoped all the characters were eaten. I say this as someone who followed the comic for years.

I thought "TWD" rebounded nicely this past season, but yea, it was really kind of a drag the year before. I'm looking forward to the new episodes next month.