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Back when Clay went by the name Wernhem Zackariah, he completely blew up the huge, 14 page thread on Frank Zappa. His posts, having just read some of them again, display a megalomaniacal streak and an obsessive attachment to Zappa's music that I don't think you could easily find outside of an A/V club in your local high school.

In posts like this one, he also ridiculously claimed to have played keyboards for Fugazi:


Claytron as Wernhem wrote:Let me put it this way. For many years, I couldn't get into King Crimson. Everyone would say "Oh, 21st Century Schizoid Man!" I don't think it's very good at all... When I heard "Red" I was impressed by how timeless it is (well, half of the songs). We all have our opinions, but I'm not the only one who thinks "In the Court" is not a good album, yet the vast majority of KC fans I have met think it's their opus.

I avoided Genesis for many many years. All I knew was the 80's stuff. I just started listening to the 1970-81 stuff maybe 2 years ago. I had no idea it existed... in fact, I was ignorant of all the great progressive rock (Magma, UZ, Present, Henry Cow, oh, I could go on and on...). Why? Because 75% of people that say they like "prog rock" are talking about the most obvious (and really not that good) stuff like ELP, Jethro Tull, King Crimson (in the court), Yes (the song "roundabout"), etc.

What can I say. I mean, Asslie Simeon proves that most people like shitty music. The most popular music tends to be the shittiest crap ever. There are exceptions. I don't blame the people so much as the industry that assumes that most people are idiots...

That said, I can understand the hatred of Zappa. I'm sure many Zappa fans are into the "You can't do that on stage anymore" or other shitty stuff.

When I played keyboards for Fugazi, we'd often play "Little Umbrellas" for a sound check. Those guys knew the real deal.

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I had an idea one time. It was after spending a long time reading and posting on this forum and thinking I'd just wasted a lot of time I could have been working. I shrugged, maybe only inwardly, and decided to waste some more time. So I came up with an idea for a story based on the forum. There would be this forum, on the site of a fictional famous underground musician/producer, and the protagonist would start posting on it while he was at work. Slowly, he would discover that all of the personalities on the board weren't really who the pretended to be. They were all actually the musician/producer, posting as different people, carrying this all on in the hopes that someone would one day stumble upon the forum and be completely confounded. That's what's happening now, right? You're all Steve? My head's just being fucked with over the internet by the dude from Big Black and Shellac. Wow man.

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steve wrote:
Jaffa wrote:In fact, Clayton Counts doesn't even live in Chicago, so I guess he doesn't "live like dog in Fred's shop." Unless Fred also has a shop in Denver?

Wait, you mean Fred's moving to Denver?

One more thing, are there any chicks on this forum? What the fuck guys, come on.

We're not going to help you score. You have to find them on your own. (Hint: They're the ones with vaginas)


Haha, no thank you - I'm a heterosexual female. So no, I'm not looking for the ones with vaginas. I was making the observation that there's a serious lack of women on this board. It's telling.

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Jaffa wrote:I was making the observation that there's a serious lack of women on this board. It's telling.

Then you seriously haven't got a clue. There are more women on this board than anything I've seen this side of Oprah.com
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h8 m0dems wrote:this board is like going to doodfest if doodfest was about music and recording instead of cars and strippers pretending to be promotional models. that's what I like about it.


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