Fun with Metal!

[redfly]

hehehe
(stolen from elsewhere on the forum)

Ha! Fantastic.

 

[Slammed]

It's a nice cover, I hope they re-release it

 

[redfly]

... Teehee.

 

[Slammed]

From the days when he fronted Suicidal Tendencies (obviously)

 

[redfly]

Hahaha, nailed.

 

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Any takers?
Circa 1985,
Louisiana,
Left: Guitars and Vocals
Right: Bass and Vocals
Band also included brother of left on drums.

 

[redfly]

Mmm blood and brain stew.

 

[redfly]

Any takers?
Circa 1985,
Louisiana,
Left: Guitars and Vocals
Right: Bass and Vocals
Band also included brother of left on drums.

Louisiana is what's messing me up. I give up!

 

[Slammed]

Mmm blood and brain stew.

It might be a pleasure to cook but I'm not sure it's a pleasure to eat.

 

[redfly]

I'm sure!

 

[Slammed]

Louisiana is what's messing me up. I give up!

Neptune might know them. Some people consider them Christian thrash/death, but they aren't really, they've got a few songs that border on the subject, but they've got more on evil stuff.

I've never seen one of those cable boxes on the TV. We never had cable TV like America did. When it arrived here the box was smaller than a VCR and didn't have any buttons on it because it was all remote.

 

[redfly]

I still got nothing lol. Neptune probably knows.

I'm not even sure that's a cable box. My grandparent's had some weird thing on the top of their tv just to get local because they lived slightly in the boonies. Not exactly like that but similar. Considering the year and the state it might just be for regular tv?
But I could be wrong.
A lot of cable box here still are the size of a vcr!

 

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We had a Beta video that was about twice the size of that thing, but it didn't have that bunch of buttons all together like that. Even the first VHS VCR that had a corded remote was huge but didn't have than many buttons on it.

The last cable box I saw (I don't subscribe) was about half the size of that one on the tv and had a small display on it big enough to see the channel number and that was it. Although these days I believe some of the companies offering a service via satellite do offer boxes with HDD recorders in them.

 

[redfly]

I'm happy to be done with cable. I miss a couple things but over all it's not really necessary.

 

[Slammed]

We didn't really have a cable system like the US and when a system was introduced it was really only in the cities. By the time people began to get conditioned into paying for TV cable was being replaced by satellite. Take up of that was initially huge but then the companies offering it got greedy and shit got expensive and pay TV take up was less than 8% of the country at one stage. By the time the net took over with what we currently have with everything streaming down to our PC's the pay tv companies here were screwed and cried poor but no one listened.

 

[redfly]

They always come in at a reasonable price and jack it way up don't they?!

 

[Slammed]

Yeah, the only time I ever bothered having satellite tv was when an ex girlfriend of mine worked as a tech installing the system and we got free tv to go with it. Back then (the 90's) it was about $100 a month for the full package. Now days there is 5 or more different packages offering slightly different channels with a few channels like CNN, Nick, etc on all packages and each package can cost $100 a week if you get it complete. There is significantly more channels, but really more channels just means more shit to me.

 

[redfly]

Yeah I was watching like 4 channels and paying $189 a month. And they still wanted to go up more. Screw them.

 

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Yeah I can't see how such services exist any more. I know we've still got at least one company offering a satellite system and claiming their deals are more amazing than ever but the cost of the infrastructure alone means they have to charge more than a streaming service does. When my ex used to install the satellite dishes and the boxes they used to do it "free" to the customer. But for every customer who signed up for free installation the company had to keep them subscribed for more than 24 months to break even. It made for many bullshit long term contracts where people would sign up for the service for up to 5 years on a lock in contract.