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Title: Really????
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on August 11, 2020, 02:32:11 PM
I get a "Trivia Question Of The Day" in my e-mail (twice a day, actually), and it just asked me who had the most-streamed song on Spotify.
The choices were Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, and Adriana Grande.


I am proud to say I didn't know..........


Peter (who is beginning to think his father may have been right all these years; the whole world is, indeed, turning to horse manure)
Title: Re: Really????
Post by: JimmyJ on August 11, 2020, 02:39:28 PM
And the followup trivia question:
How much money did the Artist make? $0.03, $0.30, $3.00 or $30.00?

Jimmy J
Title: Re: Really????
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on August 11, 2020, 03:40:31 PM
And the followup trivia question:
How much money did the Artist make? $0.03, $0.30, $3.00 or $30.00?

Jimmy J

That one I could probably guess; when figuring artist's pay, always look for number with the decimal farthest to the left, alas.

Peter
Title: Re: Really????
Post by: paulman on August 11, 2020, 04:08:06 PM
"I used to be with it!  Then they changed what it is, and what I was with wasn't it, and what was it was weird and scary.   It'll happen to you!"


 Grandpa Simpson
Title: Re: Really????
Post by: elwoodblue on August 11, 2020, 04:39:11 PM
  :)
Title: Re: Really????
Post by: edwardofhuncote on August 11, 2020, 06:07:35 PM
I posted this on Talkbass the other day, in a tangential thread.

"I can't remember who it was I heard say this, but it was during my time in Nashville, trying to make it as a bassist. The Musicians, they said, are at the bottom of the economic food chain. Eventually, I figured out what that meant."


I've thought about it since then, and I'm pretty sure it was either my benevolent boss at Nashville Custom Case, or an acquaintance of our booking agent I happened to know, socially. It bugs the livng daylights out of me that I can't remember which, but it was one or the other of them. And hey, if you can narrow an offhand comment down to two folks after 25 years... <shrug>   ::)
Title: Re: Really????
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on August 11, 2020, 08:34:35 PM
"I used to be with it!  Then they changed what it is, and what I was with wasn't it, and what was it was weird and scary.   It'll happen to you!"


 Grandpa Simpson

"I used to rock and roll all night and party ev-er-y day.  Then it was every other day.  Now I'm lucky if I can find one night a month in which to get funky."

Grandpa Simpson's son Homer

Peter

Title: Re: Really????
Post by: StefanieJones on August 12, 2020, 07:48:21 AM
For the times they are a changing...


the one thing that never changes is how musicians are treated.
Welcome to the machine.
Title: Re: Really????
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on August 12, 2020, 08:19:54 AM
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

Hunter S. Thompson


Peter
Title: Re: Really????
Post by: edwardofhuncote on August 12, 2020, 12:39:16 PM
"I used to be with it!  Then they changed what it is, and what I was with wasn't it, and what was it was weird and scary.   It'll happen to you!"


 Grandpa Simpson

"I used to rock and roll all night and party ev-er-y day.  Then it was every other day.  Now I'm lucky if I can find one night a month in which to get funky."

Grandpa Simpson's son Homer

Peter




A glimpse of the artwork in the Office of Edward of Huncote...
Title: Re: Really????
Post by: lbpesq on August 13, 2020, 08:20:34 AM
I am familiar with Munch’s “The Scream”.  Is that “The Groen”?

hehehehe

Bill, tgo

Title: Re: Really????
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on August 13, 2020, 09:35:07 AM
I am familiar with Munch’s “The Scream”.  Is that “The Groen”?

hehehehe

Bill, tgo



Boo!  Hiss!  Foul!  (I love it.....)

Peter
Title: Re: Really????
Post by: edwardofhuncote on August 13, 2020, 09:46:37 AM
It makes me grin a little every morning.  :D

That was left to me by our Chief Electrician, an old friend who reached his 30-year pin and retired last Fall... it used to hang outside his office. He also left me a coffee-maker and a microwave, and just enough wits and toughness to make it to my 30-year finish line.

"Greg, dontcha' go an' grab no nekkid wires tudday, buddy-ro..."   ~Jack E.
Title: Re: Really????
Post by: lbpesq on August 13, 2020, 10:55:28 AM
I am familiar with Munch’s “The Scream”.  Is that “The Groen”?

hehehehe

Bill, tgo



Boo!  Hiss!  Foul!  (I love it.....)

Peter

I wasn't sure if anyone would get it.  Goes to prove we have some sharp (though often a little twisted) minds around here!  lol

Bill, tgo