Death Or Glory
By The Back Office on Nov 18, 2008
ALERT: There's something happening here. Rock Town Hall is growin' up. They said sit down and we stood up.
Welcome to RTH v.3: StickyRhino. The ever-changing world in which we live in. (StickyRhino is best viewed at a screen resolution of 1280 or higher.)
You won't have to look too hard to orient yourself. The Rhino is a direct budding from DirtWeed and should in fact put to rest the long and hard fought flame wars of the AARP skin.
The gates of steel are being crashed Towsfolk. Hourly, by the throngs, rabid fans hell bent on devouring our unique brand of pablum are arriving. We are stardust. We are golden. We are half a million strong.* We can no longer fly under the radar. This is a call to action, fellow Townsfolk.
How you gonna come? With your hands on your head?
Follow up:
I don't think so.
Revolution rock.
The time is nigh and we're holding on.
The flag of piracy flies from our mast; our sails are set wing to wing.
RTH is a rolling stone that may not be gathering moss but is gathering up fun, knowledgeable voices like chips from a chocolate fireball.
In our ongoing mission to spread the word and offer sanctuary to like-minded rock fans we have entered into a firm handshake and a sudden look in the eye with the MOG Music Network. In exchange for adspace (which will either feature goods targeted to music freaks or public service announcements--fear not, there will be no shoot-the-monkey ads on our hallowed ground) RTH will be featured on the popular MOG blog. Teasers of our content on MOG will include links back to The Hall. Check them out if you so desire. MOG.
Treat me nice, says the party girl.
For those of you with a history in the Halls of Rock for even as far back as 1 year, imagine a Rock Town Hall without the contributions of newer Townspeople, like 2000Man, Alexmagic, Diskojoe, and Northvancoveman... Sure we attract an asshole here and there, shawnkilroy, but the net is a gain for all. Ask yourself how many more intelligent rock lovers are out there, seeking just the community we've created? By god, it is our duty to offer aid and comfort to these folks. This is a continued effort to bring in fresh voices and tap new perspectives on the music we spend an inordinate amount of time examining.
So trash those pictures of Chairman Mao, take up arms and fight the good fight gents (and ladies?). To infinity and beyond.
There are going to be bugs to crush so this is the place to expose them. In fact there is much that we were unable to test until we went "live." So take it easy and don't let the sound of our own wheels drive you crazy.
Here comes the sun, Townsfolk. Have faith.
After all, we are all
So very small
And the time that we have here
Should not be spent in fear
And to prove it, here's Chandler from Friends to sing it to you.
*Metaphorically speaking. Not intended to represent actual viewership.
28 comments
My Rock Rown Hall is shaping up nicely!
If you are looking for suggestions, then I'd request putting the links to navigate to the prior thread or the next thread back up top, not at the bottom. This new way I have to page down to find the link; the old way it's right there.
I like Opera, and it looks like a million bucks on that.
If you are looking for suggestions, I'd kind of like to see "tags" on posts some day. Sort of like the Categories on the left side, so somone could go to a list of all posts about, say, Rock Hair or Cities, or get a collection of all the Last Man Standing or Lou Reed As He Was Meant To Sound posts.
I see what you mean about the YouTube windows not fitting, Alexmagic. That's weird. It didn't look that way during the testing phase. We'll look into that and other suggestions, such as Tags, which The Back Office probably knows about but I do not. From what you describe it sounds like it could be useful to a lot of us rock researchers.
Al, I didn't realize the previous/next links were now on the bottom. During testing, I didn't see them at the top and had a note to see if we could restore them altogether.
2K: U da man. Your David Sanborn box set is in the mail.
cdm: Can you tell us what plugin you requred in case someone else has the same issue?
Al: Putting those links back up top is on the to-do list.
alex: The YouTubes are fitting for me but some do show a scrollbar with a tiny bit of room. And then some don't. So I get the gist of the problem. This issue is at the top of the list.
hr: Of those labels I think Mercury is the only active one but only as a subsidiary of Island which is probably a subsidiary of something else. But if we're going for label analogies, I'd say we're aiming much higher:
Somebody get this old man a cane.
http://www.jbox.com/SEARCHES/licca/
It's a Japanese papier-mache good luck doll.
My wife and I come here all the time and I'll tell you that the gaucho steak is won-derful.
Again - still plenty readable. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Carry on. Nevermind.
”Impossible to understand beige, unless you stare at him hard, stare him right in his Whys. Unless you see beige in the serious beige-ness of being its beige self. More than anything, beige is careful, insanely so really, almost as careful as that shade of yellow that’s afraid. But beige is much sneakier than yellow, wants the entire everything to be as safe as yesterday is, now that right now is here. You know how flamboyant red can be? Humph, wouldn’t last a minute with beige, probably wouldn’t get past his secretary, miss always-light tan. Beige even thinks orange is a little too far out, the way its streak sunrise and sets. And the just the mention of green and beige sees purple, which also drives him into a rage…of course its only a beige rage. Not much strength to it. To be honest as lily white, the truth is that beige is anti-color, unless the color is right, unless the color is, beige. About as average as you can get away with seeing is the gray way beige likes to have things being.”
All credit goes to Mr. Nordine. He still regularly does his radio thing, last I knew.
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