Christian music
bop
Jerry B. Ray, Jr.
bop <tneagl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Are there any thriving Christian music newsgroups?
I think all the discussion has moved to various band-specific message
boards, for the most part. This is the only group on Usenet that I've
ever been aware of (outside of the alt hierarchy, at least, and going
back to the early 90s when I started reading Usenet). It's too bad,
really - there used to be some fun discussion here back in the day.
JRjr
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Michael A. Vickers
>It's too bad, really - there used to be some fun discussion here
>back in the day.
And most of it not about Christian music.
Michael
Jerry B. Ray, Jr.
Michael A. Vickers <mavi...@kings-x.com> wrote:
>>It's too bad, really - there used to be some fun discussion here
>>back in the day.
>And most of it not about Christian music.
There was plenty of tangential discussion, true. But there was a LOT of
discussion of actual music, too, as the (often quite embarassing) Google
archive shows. :-)
Michael A. Vickers
>There was plenty of tangential discussion, true. But there was a LOT of
>discussion of actual music, too, as the (often quite embarassing) Google
>archive shows. :-)
Um, yeah, maybe it's not so bad that this is a dying communications form.
My ISP (AT&T) is killing their nntp servers next month.
Michael
Jerry B. Ray, Jr.
Michael A. Vickers <mavi...@kings-x.com> wrote:
>My ISP (AT&T) is killing their nntp servers next month.
I saw that. Kind of a strange decision, I mean, how many resources can
Usenet POSSIBLY occupy, if the alt.groups and binary groups are excluded?
Solbu
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Jerry B. Ray, Jr. sent the following transmission through subspace:
> mean, how many resources can Usenet POSSIBLY occupy,
> if the alt.groups and binary groups are excluded?
I read a statistic once stating that the binary groups alone
occupy 99% of /all/ usenet storage space.
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TeRRY LeIFeSTe
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:01:36 +0000 (UTC) Jerry B. Ray, Jr. said:
> >There was plenty of tangential discussion, true. But there was a LOT of
> >discussion of actual music, too, as the (often quite embarassing) Google
> >archive shows. :-)
>
> Um, yeah, maybe it's not so bad that this is a dying communications form.
i just fired up my 386 laptop to connect via modem to a
vax and used trn to read these messages. what do you
mean dying? what could possibly replace usenet?
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Michael A. Vickers
>i just fired up my 386 laptop to connect via modem to a
>vax and used trn to read these messages.
The tools of a more civilized time.
Michael
Jerry B. Ray, Jr.
TeRRY LeIFeSTe <leif...@gmail.com> wrote:
>i just fired up my 386 laptop to connect via modem to a
>vax and used trn to read these messages. what do you
>mean dying? what could possibly replace usenet?
OK, first, "holy crap, it's Terry!" Terry, you should totally come
to Cornerstone next week. A decent bunch of former RMC (ir)regulars
will be there.
Now that that's out of the way...
I'm SSHing instead of dialing in, but I'm still in a text terminal on
a campus mainframe using TRN (in RN mode) to read these messages, which
I'm editing in VI. And in all seriousness, I still think this is a
cooler way to communicate than message boards and twitter and whatnot.
Jerry B. Ray, Jr.
Jerry B. Ray, Jr. <jr...@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
>OK, first, "holy crap, it's Terry!" Terry, you should totally come
>to Cornerstone next week. A decent bunch of former RMC (ir)regulars
>will be there.
Oh, and in reference to Terry's eminently cool .sig, the Crucified
are playing Cornerstone this year. :-)
TeRRY LeIFeSTe
> OK, first, "holy crap, it's Terry!" Terry, you should totally come
> to Cornerstone next week. A decent bunch of former RMC (ir)regulars
> will be there.
i went to c-stone with my brother back in...'04? we went on our
motorcycles. i meant to go to the rmc bbq, but we were staying in
macomb and i ended up getting to the tent late and there were only
a few people there, so i just sort of stood around a bit and then
left.
i'd even brought a copy or two of _sham pearls for real swine_.
to be honest, i felt like an outsider at c-stone for the most part
that year.
it just didn't hold the interest and excitement for me it once did. i
saw a
few cool bands and bought some merch, but i left thinking it just
wasn't
the place for me anymore. plus woven hand canceled, and that was
the main show we cared about.
> Now that that's out of the way...
>
> I'm SSHing instead of dialing in, but I'm still in a text terminal on
> a campus mainframe using TRN (in RN mode) to read these messages, which
> I'm editing in VI. And in all seriousness, I still think this is a
> cooler way to communicate than message boards and twitter and whatnot.
wow. i was just kidding. i'm on a dual-g4 power mac running os 10.5.
and using groups.google.com. although i still use terminal windows
and
vi all the time, as i'm a unix guy (both professionally and
personally).
twitter is interesting -- although i've never tweeted...i just have
followers:
my twitter burden is light. :)
> Oh, and in reference to Terry's eminently cool .sig, the Crucified
> are playing Cornerstone this year. :-)
oh. my. G-d. i completely did not know this. i'm dumbfounded. and
it's
wholly the original lineup. and t&n is releasing a boxset on june
30th of
their albums, included a remastered _pillars..._ album, the kgb demo,
video...*swoon*
i'm curious how their falling apart due to numerous issues and screw-
ups,
along with a lot of disdain for the xian market (well, by salomon at
least),
has affected their perspective on getting back together. it sounded
like
the crucified was a pretty sore spot overall and something they wanted
to
have buried.
perhaps time really does heal all wounds. or at least fog memories.
i can almost guarantee i am not going to c-stone this
year...but...this is
the freakin' third time i've missed a c-stone show since i started
going to
c-stone. i think i hit 91, 92, 94, 96?, 97, 98, 00, 04. and of
course the
crucified played their farewell show in '93, and the reunion show in
'95.
now this. i'm not sure how much more i can take.
Jerry B. Ray, Jr.
TeRRY LeIFeSTe <leif...@gmail.com> wrote:
>i went to c-stone with my brother back in...'04? we went on our
>motorcycles. i meant to go to the rmc bbq, but we were staying in
>macomb and i ended up getting to the tent late and there were only
>a few people there, so i just sort of stood around a bit and then
>left.
Yeah, the RMC BBQ is enough to make anybody feel like an outsider at
this point. It's really more of a press tent in-joke event than anything
else. There are a few folks there that I like to see, but I don't know
most of the people there and don't really spend a lot of time around the
press tent anymore.
>to be honest, i felt like an outsider at c-stone for the most part
>that year.
I still enjoy the fest experience, even in years like this one that were
good but not great. It's kind of evolved into a different experience
than it was when I first started going in 98 (or how I imagine it was
in the years before that), but for now, I still enjoy it enough to keep
going back. I have a handful of friends that I hang out with, and a larger
number of people that I enjoy bumping into, so even if I don't get some
profound community experience, I do get to see shows and crack jokes with
friends I don't see in person very often.
[re: the Crucified reunion]
>oh. my. G-d. i completely did not know this. i'm dumbfounded.
I've never heard them, but I sent out of curiousity. I got there a little
late but saw a bit over half of the show. It's not really my style, but
I enjoyed it quite a bit. Salomon's personality helped make it enjoyable,
and after years of Cornerstone, a little thrash metal doesn't sound as
heavy to me as it would have when the band was originally active.
>and t&n is releasing a boxset on june 30th of
>their albums, included a remastered _pillars..._ album, the kgb demo,
>video...*swoon*
Salomon seemed pretty jazzed about the remastered album - he said the
entire recording process originally took place in 6 days, and they were
disappointed with the lack of bass in the final product.