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     By Jeff Eldridge (Jeff) on Sunday, November 12, 2000 - 02:31 am: Edit |
Thanks, Chris, for another perspective on the evening at Claytons. The truth seems to always lie somewhere in the middle. Maybe that's why the truly great dancers always dance from their "middle", I mean...uh..."center". |
| By HepNat (Hepnat) on Sunday, November 12, 2000 - 04:46 pm: Edit |
"And by refusing to listen or dance to it because it isn't in 6-track Dolby Hi-Fi Surround-Sound, then you're limiting yourself just as much as the Swing Nazi that I have been accused of being would." - Dennis Um, but I'm not refusing to listen or dance to it. |
| By Spawn of Satan (Melbamoose) on Sunday, November 12, 2000 - 11:39 pm: Edit |
Ian, did you go? |
| By Ian Campbell (Ian) on Monday, November 13, 2000 - 02:19 pm: Edit |
Actually I was all set to go, but didn't get off work till 9:00 pm- weekly reporting can be a pain. Plan to be out a bunch this week, practicing new Jeremy and Alicia stuff. |
| By Ron (Ron) on Tuesday, November 14, 2000 - 11:02 am: Edit |
I'll be DJing at the Firehouse this Thursday. Not sure what I'll be featuring. I'll try to mix it up, as usual... But I'm having an urge to mix in some fast ones. But it depends on the crowd. |
| By CatThyme (Valorie) on Friday, November 17, 2000 - 09:37 am: Edit |
Fantastic job last night, Ron! I had a really great time last night. |
| By HopMichael (Mhwang) on Friday, November 17, 2000 - 05:39 pm: Edit |
Yeah, I'll second that. Especially liked the fact that many tunes came from the CD you made for me: Playful Tunes for HopMichael. Love that tune: Here We Go Again. Thanks for that dance, Krista! -HopMichael |
| By Spawn of Satan (Melbamoose) on Saturday, November 18, 2000 - 04:28 am: Edit |
Any time! |
| By CatThyme (Valorie) on Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 12:50 pm: Edit |
Howdy! Does anyone know who's dj'ing tomorrow night? |
| By Adminorama (Adminorama) on Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 12:58 pm: Edit |
Just Meeshi! (I'm on the phone with him now.) |
| By Valorie (Catthyme) on Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - 01:00 pm: Edit |
Thank you! Cool timing! |
| By Andy (Hitman) on Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 11:58 am: Edit |
What's happening at the Firehouse tonite? Class? DJ? I'm outta the loop now.. someone help me! ~8^) |
| By Meeshi (Meeshi) on Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 12:23 pm: Edit |
I was supposed to be DJing at the Firehouse tonight, but I've still got some major papers to write. So Ron will be spinning in my stead. I'll probably hang out after the Swing Movement class for a bit, so I might see you tonight. Ciao, Meeshi |
| By Adminorama (Adminorama) on Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 12:29 pm: Edit |
What time does the Swing Movement class start...and can we just drop in for it? |
| By Ron (Ron) on Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 01:16 pm: Edit |
He's teaching a routine, building week to week, I think. |
| By Laurel (Laurel) on Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 01:44 pm: Edit |
He does the routine only at the very end of class so it'll still be worth it to go for the other stuff. Maybe if newcomers show up, he'll go slower on the routine so *I* can get it! I was an idiot last week. |
| By Andy (Hitman) on Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 02:02 pm: Edit |
what time is class? and the routine.. is it a swing movement or a lindy one (ie does a person need knowledge of lindy to take it?) i have a friend who doesn't lindy. would the class be inappropriate for her? |
| By HepNat (Hepnat) on Thursday, December 14, 2000 - 04:27 pm: Edit |
Come to the Corvette diner at 7.30 for a group meal. Or Andy, if you want to do the class and your friend doesn't, deliver her into our care. |
| By Blackrider (Blackrider) on Friday, December 15, 2000 - 12:12 pm: Edit |
Ron...you suck. if ever there would be a book or directory, if you will, to refer to suckiness, you would be on every page, thus fitting every damn description of suckiness. But I had a good time tonight. I had a good time tonight despite your dumb ass. I mean, please...in the parlance of our times, a swing dj, if you will, who plays worthless shit to begin with...HOW IN THE •••• DO YOU NOT HAVE ANY FUCKING CHARLIE FUCKING CHRISTIAN???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, please...you...you...tweed!!! CHARLIE CHRISTIAN!!! Have you never heard of him before? Has his name somehow eluded you in your vast search for "good" swing music? How in the hell do you...just how do you justify this? How does one claim to be any sort of swing dj at all, and NOT own one SINGLE FUCKING CHARLIE CHRISTIAN CD?????!!!!!! ok...i didn't mean that. cussing and swearing up a storm is not becoming...i mean it's unbecoming. but ••••...•••• me...no Charlie Christian. that's sick. it's not even the fact that I had a Charlie Christian c.d. with me that you refused to play because of your pissy rule of not playing other peoples c.d.'s (which I do not care to hear any justification for if you dont mind) but it's the fact that you didn't have any Charlie Christian of your own on hand to begin with. that, and toppled with the fact that you actually offered up Benny butt •••• Goodman in his stead. you fucking fascist. blech. crazy bitch. do your dumbass a favor and buy some charlie christian. ANY charlie christian...any at all. any will due. if the c.d. says "Charlie Christian" then buy it. buy it or I will summon the almighty powers of Sydney Bechet to strike your weasily ass down with the palsy. either that, or I'll beat you senseless like the prissy little school bitch you are. by the way, your slow music was 100 times better that ANY of the fast shit you played, so dont go around thinkin you did anybody a favor by playing uptempo bad music. save it. i could listen to that slower shit all night...but who the hell wants to dance slooooowwww allllllll niiiiight? please....you must work for the Art Association of La Jolla. |
| By Ron (Ron) on Friday, December 15, 2000 - 12:27 pm: Edit |
As far as I'm concerned, Jake, if you show up at place I'm DJing again, I'll do my best to play all the crap you hate, in an attempt to drive you out the door. And don't bother coming up to the DJ booth to ask me about something I've played or to make a request again. |
| By Blackrider (Blackrider) on Friday, December 15, 2000 - 12:42 pm: Edit |
hehehehehe no really, go buy some charlie christian. do your self a favor...you know, like a chritmas present from you to...you. besides, ron, what would you know about what I hate? in that case, I really hate the fucking eagles man, so if you played any of that shit, i would take my hat off to you. if i was wearing one. hahahaha, woa, you are a crazy bitch, you're probably fuming right now! |
| By Reuben Brown (Gurureuben) on Friday, December 15, 2000 - 12:45 pm: Edit |
Three things are funny about this: 1. Jake, Charlie Christian mainly played WITHIN Benny Goodman bands, it being his Big Band or more frequently his small groups... so why the ragging on Goodman? 2. Jake is right though, how could any "swing DJ" not have any Charlie Christian?!? I mean for Christ Jebus' sake, the most popular version of "Flying Home" (as loved by many Savoy influenced dancers) features Lionel Hampton and Charlie Christian playing with one of Goodman's small bands. 3. Jake asking about something Ron played. Yeah, that will happen... how funny is that? And Ron telling someone to not make any requests again... what an assshole of a DJ! Okay, carry-on in the land down under. |
| By Ron (Ron) on Friday, December 15, 2000 - 01:19 pm: Edit |
2. Then I probably do have Charlie Christian! But not a Charlie Christian CD. But hey, he died in 1942 and I don't claim to have a lot of pre-1945 stuff. 3. Reuben, the last time Jake was at the Firehouse, he asked me about the Wycliff Gordon version of "It don't mean a thing" that I played, and who did the version of "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" I played (Artie Shaw, 50's). I have been polite to him despite his flaming here on the forum, but I don't think I'll bother now. I don't think any of my Eagles swings, or I'd play it for you, Jake. |
| By Reuben Brown (Gurureuben) on Friday, December 15, 2000 - 01:24 pm: Edit |
Dude, everything "swings" to you. HA HA HA |
| By Reuben Brown (Gurureuben) on Friday, December 15, 2000 - 01:26 pm: Edit |
3. Perhaps he was just in a dazz of confussion from you playing some decent music. |
| By Kermit (Kermit) on Friday, December 15, 2000 - 04:25 pm: Edit |
O.K., so I don't know as much about music as the other posters on this thread, but I'm kind of curious how preferring Benny Goodman makes one a Fascist. - Kermit Goodman (no relation -- except perhaps through a thousand or so years of Ashkenazi in-breeding) |
| By Reuben Brown (Gurureuben) on Friday, December 15, 2000 - 04:40 pm: Edit |
It's a Coen thing... you wouldn't understand. |
| By Reuben Brown (Gurureuben) on Friday, December 15, 2000 - 04:41 pm: Edit |
...or hell, maybe you would understand. I don't know. To many strands going on in the Duder's head and all. |
| By Kermit (Kermit) on Friday, December 15, 2000 - 05:26 pm: Edit |
Oh, so Jake's a Coen? That explains a lot. :-) (See what you've started, Nat?) |
| By Kermit (Kermit) on Friday, December 15, 2000 - 05:32 pm: Edit |
Not that I have anything against Coens...some of my best friends are Coens. |
| By Blackrider (Blackrider) on Saturday, December 16, 2000 - 12:58 am: Edit |
1. I know Charlie played much with Goodman, and I wasn't raggin on Goodman. The issue here is not Goodman. The fact that he offered up Goodman instead is what infuriated me. Not because I dont dig on Benny, its just that if Ron, who just said he doesnt carry much pre 1945 stuff, were to play some goodman, there is a very very very veeeerrry small chance that the goodman he could offer up could hold a candle to Goodman small groups with Charlie Christian. 2. Ron...dont be an ass...wait, that's like telling a dog not to eat his own shit...hmmm, well ron, since you are, and probably always will be an ass, just keep being an ass, but do YOURSELF a favor and go out and pay the 11.99 for a Charlie Christian c.d. (one that says in great biiiiig letters, CHARLIE CHRISTIAN) 3. Yes Reuben, you are half correct. The second time I asked Ron about a recording was because I was in an absolute state of shock when I heard him put on a Wycliff Gordon c.d. I was stupdified. however the man (ron) had no idea about what band mr. Gordon had played in...figures. i was not surprised. But the first time I asked Ron about a recording was, as he said, in refference to a (very shitty) version of "Softly as a morning sunrise". It sounded very white-bill eliott-esque. I asked him if it was Bill. He said "nope, artie shaw, 1950's" same shit, different smell in my opinion. dont flatter yourself ron.....wait, again, that's like asking a pederast to lay off the kidie porn. nevermind. also, ron, lay off the "oh, i was so polite, but not anymore" shit. i could give a rats ass what you think about me, as im sure you could give a good hot damn what i think of you. you dont have to try extra hard to play shit i dont like, youre doing a fine job as it is. dont you get it? heh, it figures you would own an eagles album. to quote ToMwAiTs, "the eagles bore the shit out of me" you're middle name is boredom. you swear on and go by the boredom bible. hell, you WROTE the book on boredom. i could go on and on dissing you on the internet, but it has, not to my surprise, made me bored. |
| By Blackrider (Blackrider) on Saturday, December 16, 2000 - 01:05 am: Edit |
and just for the record, a good dj plays requests regardless of differences in tastes or opinions. once again, dont kid yourself ron, you are not a good dj, so telling me you will no longer play any of my requests (not that you ever have to begin with) does not surprise me or bum me out, and it does nothing more than substantiate the fact that you are a worthless dj whom the public has accepted as the opposite. you or others might call it opinion, i on the other hand call it as i see it; bad taste provoked by brain washing. |
| By HepNat (Hepnat) on Saturday, December 16, 2000 - 05:07 pm: Edit |
Dead horse. Stop beating. |
| By Ron (Ron) on Monday, December 18, 2000 - 10:01 am: Edit |
Boy, you can tell it just really bugs Jake that people actually like my DJing. His post made me laugh! |
| By HepNat (Hepnat) on Monday, December 18, 2000 - 10:17 am: Edit |
Both of you. |
| By Reuben Brown (Gurureuben) on Monday, December 18, 2000 - 10:19 am: Edit |
Would it be beating a dead horse if I said I still wanna see you in the nude? Just curious. |
| By Ron (Ron) on Monday, December 18, 2000 - 11:14 am: Edit |
And I think I own FOUR Eagles albums. |
| By HepNat (Hepnat) on Monday, December 18, 2000 - 12:28 pm: Edit |
Reuben, is this a subtle way of letting us all know about your sadistic, necromantic, bestial tendancies? |
| By Andy (Hitman) on Monday, December 18, 2000 - 12:47 pm: Edit |
Aw man, Hep, your post sounds really bad, since it's ambiguous whether you're referring to Reuben's comment about the horse, or um, er you he he |
| By HepNat (Hepnat) on Monday, December 18, 2000 - 01:06 pm: Edit |
Well seeing as I am neither dead, nor an animal, and since Reuben wasn't talking about beating me, I thought it was obvious I was referring to the horse. Come on, man, you're an engineer. Where's your logical reasoning. That said, I thought the ambiguity would make it amusing. |
| By Reuben Brown (Gurureuben) on Monday, December 18, 2000 - 02:11 pm: Edit |
HA HA HA HA HA! |
| By Spawn of Satan (Melbamoose) on Wednesday, December 20, 2000 - 01:02 am: Edit |
Does anyone know who is dj-ing this Thursday? |
| By Reuben Brown (Gurureuben) on Wednesday, December 20, 2000 - 10:22 am: Edit |
Jenn and Justin ;) |
| By Spawn of Satan (Melbamoose) on Wednesday, December 20, 2000 - 03:19 pm: Edit |
Yeah, thanks nerd. |
| By Ron (Ron) on Thursday, December 21, 2000 - 12:11 pm: Edit |
Krista, you are safe from my DJing. Merry Christmas! Meeshi is. Seriously though, the next time I'm DJing, come over and make a couple of requests. |
| By Andy (Hitman) on Thursday, December 21, 2000 - 12:15 pm: Edit |
watch out ron! they might request that you stop dj'ing ~8^) it's been a while since i've been to the Firehouse, but what time is the class and what time does dancing start? Emmy and I are leaving for skiing tomorrow, so we'll definitely be out dancing it up tonite! |
| By HepNat (Hepnat) on Thursday, December 21, 2000 - 01:24 pm: Edit |
9.30 for the start of dancing. I believe Meeshi's jazz class is at 8.30. |
| By Laurel (Laurel) on Thursday, December 21, 2000 - 01:46 pm: Edit |
You better not do laundry again, Andy, and fall asleep! There's plenty of time for laundry later. |
| By Spawn of Satan (Melbamoose) on Thursday, December 21, 2000 - 03:01 pm: Edit |
Alright! It will be a Merry Christmas afterall! |
| By Ron (Ron) on Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 11:24 am: Edit |
I'll be DJing tonight at the Firehouse, so come on down. I have 5 or 6 new CDs, and each has a track or two worth spinning. Basie, Ray Brown, Ray Charles, Oscar Peterson. Of course I'll be playing some old favorites, too. Speaking of which, are there any songs that you haven't heard for a while (maybe because they were overplayed and we all got sick of them) that you want me to resurrect? If you hadn't heard by now, Meeshi has decided to limit the Firehouse to just him and me for DJs, and we alternate weeks. This is my week on. So from now on you know the Firehouse will be consistent with a generally groovy, light on old big-band, music mix. I'll continue to play my eclectic mix of groovyjazz/vocals/blues/popswing&jump blues/R&B/R&R/bigband songs, with an emphasis on groovy jazz tunes, which I've been getting into more recently anyway. |
| By Spawn of Satan (Melbamoose) on Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 11:48 am: Edit |
Why would Meeshi do that???? |
| By Ron (Ron) on Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 12:57 pm: Edit |
You'd have to ask him. He started it a few weeks back. |
| By Jeff Eldridge (Jeff) on Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 07:39 pm: Edit |
I like the idea. Sorta guarantees that the Firehouse will be a place you can come to and "groove" since most of us can't get up to San Francisco very often. The Firehouse started out that way and became popular that way. I think beginners like it, too. |
| By Adminorama (Adminorama) on Friday, January 19, 2001 - 12:21 am: Edit |
I agree - as there are other places where different music can be heard in town. I just hope that everybody continues to be positive and keep recruiting so that our three regular SD venues can stay open. |
| By Spawn of Satan (Melbamoose) on Friday, January 19, 2001 - 12:59 am: Edit |
To me, it definitely guarantees that the music is going to suck at least every other week. As long as some people feel the need to get their "groove" on. Oh well. |
| By Adminorama (Adminorama) on Friday, January 19, 2001 - 08:41 am: Edit |
Oh please. You know that both Ron and Meeshi try to play a variety of music within the constraints of the Firehouse Groove! |
| By Ron (Ron) on Friday, January 19, 2001 - 10:19 am: Edit |
Next time I see you Krista, I'll have to play your theme song, George Gee's "She's Never Satisfied"... |
| By HopMichael (Mhwang) on Friday, January 19, 2001 - 11:30 am: Edit |
*LOL* |
| By Chris (Chris) on Friday, January 19, 2001 - 11:35 am: Edit |
| By Ron (Ron) on Friday, January 19, 2001 - 11:47 am: Edit |
Hey, this is totally off-topic, but did anyone lose a pager at my house? |
| By Reuben Brown (Gurureuben) on Friday, January 19, 2001 - 12:17 pm: Edit |
"Hey, this is totally off-topic, but did anyone lose a pager at my house?" Not going to say it... that one's just way TOOOO easy. |
| By HopMichael (Mhwang) on Friday, January 19, 2001 - 02:35 pm: Edit |
BTW, Happy Birthday Ron! and a Happy Birthday to the lovely Rachel! Celebratorily yours, -HopM |
| By Spawn of Satan (Melbamoose) on Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 02:44 pm: Edit |
That would figure, since that song sucks as well. Hey, what's up with the conspiracy, Shawn, that doesn't allow me to post on this forum?? |
| By Adminorama (Adminorama) on Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 11:11 pm: Edit |
Here's the scoop on the board...MY HOSTING COMPANY SUCKS!!!!!!!! They keep running out of disk space on my server. I don't get it. (Since I contend with similar issues at work and know that any idiot can check disk space  ). I am going to switch next week and the problems should (I sure hope) go away. In fact, I'll try to test the site on the new company's servers Monday and move the whole thing by Wednesday. So patience...it will be fine shortly. Thanks! |
| By Spawn of Satan (Melbamoose) on Sunday, January 21, 2001 - 12:57 pm: Edit |
I thought it was cause you're scared of me, Shawn. |
| By Adminorama (Adminorama) on Sunday, January 21, 2001 - 03:23 pm: Edit |
Scared silly. Silly I say. Silly! |
| By Blackrider (Blackrider) on Sunday, January 21, 2001 - 09:44 pm: Edit |
ron is a faggot |
| By Swingingsinger (Swingingsinger) on Sunday, January 21, 2001 - 10:41 pm: Edit |
To Michael and everyone else who danced with me- Thank you for making my birthday dances wonderful, and for making me feel special. I enjoy dancing with so much, and it's because of everyone who dances with me. Thanx! Ray |
| By Blackrider (Blackrider) on Monday, January 22, 2001 - 07:10 pm: Edit |
due to political correctness, and the fact that i do not wish to associate a dork like ron with the respectable gay community, I retract my statement "ron is a faggot". ron eats poop. |
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