[Dan Penny]

Heh. Thanks for the morning chuckle.

Re: the tunes, yeah, just getting my brain (and fingers) back into it. I've only been teaching and playing cover material (Floyd, Beatles, McCartney, The Who, Bon Jovi, (many more) etc) for the last four or five years with Kelly (the "student"). But with the addition now of the newest "member" (Kevin) of a twice weekly jam/practice session, the writing is coming out of the woodwork.

We're starting to devote the majority of our session time (3-4 hrs) to original material. We'll spend the first thirty minutes warming up doing cover tunes , then devote the rest to working out individual ideas and expanding on them with other members thoughts/ideas. This has been good for Kelly as he's now competent enough to start to come out with ideas.

I like the way it's turning out. I haven't written for quite a while, but Kevin is quite apt on an axe (guitar) and he likes some of the original material I'm resurrecting from the past. Things I started twenty+ years ago and never finished. The ideas for extending the music are flowing. The big plus is that Kelly is getting better. He's still a "rhythm" player, but it's getting better. (Kevin and I playing makes him keep up.) The music theory I've taught him is coming out. He's surprising himself. The things I've burned into his brain are now making sense to him. He'll pick the next chord automatically. "Let's see, we're in the key of A, so a relative minor, or a third, or a fifth will work here". He makes me proud. ;>)

I've been in touch with Barry (the bass player/keyboardist who is on the material I uploaded for you and a few others here) and I'm soon going to offer him a stint in a few sessions. He'll be a fine addition.

OK, I'm rambling here so I'll stop.

[AphJN]

Glad to see you again Dan. I fear that my usefulness is limited until I can get back to a broadband connection. I tried getting the sat. net re-established that we had back in 03 and 04 but the backers are leaving to go back to NZ so that is out of the question. We are looking to move into our own house this summer so I am hoping that will actually come to fruition.

I still have a couple of machines running Dos and 98. The last of my Dos machines is actually running very strong. My Last 98 box is also strong. Both are off of my internal network as diagnostic boxes. I built a few ISA and PCI diag cards to link into an XP or W2k machine to see what was happening without actually interfering with the OS. the Dos box, strangely, does this better than the windows box. My Dos box is an old Zeos Pentium 60. My last 98 box is a Dell Latitude XP 4100 (486 DX3 100)

I blew up my Linux boxes by attempting to program my own driver for the diag board, guess I am not a good enough programmer for that! They were updated to Ubuntu Linux and Suse. Now I have my "New" computer, my Server which is a W2k EE test box and my old "Frankie" that has gone to Hades and back for me. Hard to believe that Breetai has gone from a Dos 5 box to a Dos 6.22/Win3-3.11WFW to a Win95 to a Win98 and now an XP PRo. I will NOT take her to Vista yet. But the new computer, maybe.

[DJDK]

i see this thread is still going strong then.

[paulthomasno6]

Who's in charge tonight? I didn't see any moderators listed on the home page. Hmm... where does D-A-L hide the liquor around here?

I went to see HOLLYWOODLAND a couple of weeks ago. Anyone else here grow up watching the old Superman series? I remember my mother telling me that George Reeves committed suicide by jumping out of a window; someone I know from another forum heard the same story at school, so perhaps there was a big conspiracy among grown-ups at the time! It was quite a well-done film in the way it explored the circumstances of how George Reeves died (shot in the head, by the way). I liked Adrien Brody as the private detective who tries to solve the mystery, but in the end, you're left to decide for yourself.

300 opens next week in Perth, just in time for Easter.

[Kaistar]

watching 300 now. soooo cooolll....

[madmikejt12]

I heard 300 was really good, havnt seen it personally. Will have to go and watch it sometime.

[paulthomasno6]

And I just noticed that this thread was two years old on the tenth of March. Sorry it's late, but...

[Kaistar]

yeah it seriously rocks. really cool. definitely worth watching it on IMAX or something.

[paulthomasno6]

I think it's coming to the Piccadilly which is one of Perth's very few 1930s-vintage cinemas. Huge screen!

[Kaistar]

haha that's cool. sadly for me the experience of watching on the big screen was slightly bad. annoying lady opening up who knows what packets, this guy kicking my seat and another uncle talking business on the phone.

hell-o? cinema? silence? sheeshhh...

luckily i got the DVD to re-watch it lol~