I'm finally listening to Slaves and Masters and I like Joe Lynn Turner's voice way better than David Coverdale's. What do you think would have been different about the band's history if he had been the singer in Mk3 instead? I really wish he could have been in the band longer than just one album.
I have been wanting to check out Tommy's stuff, couldn't believe they had this! Wasn't planning on reading Ian's book but I couldn't pass it up for $7! Haven't listened much to Purpendicular properly yet.
I've been hearing a lot about Ibotta however I can't find the answer to my question so hopefully you guys can help me! I don't want to download the app and start using it only to find that it won't work for the way that I shop.
I often go shopping at the last minute when I am out and about, like with friends or family. I keep hearing that you have to go through the app and pick things before you actually go and buy these things. Does this mean I would not be able to use it if I am shopping first? If you are uploading your receipt afterwards why would it matter if you did the rest of it afterwards, too?
I think this is such an underrated Deep Purple song and I just read the lyrics and I love it even more. But I don't understand what these lyrics mean. What is the Shield? What is the song actually about?
This has happened so many times, I would be rich if I had a dollar for every time it happened. I will post something on Facebook and I will have tons of friends responding either telling me why something is happening or correcting me or giving me unsolicited advice. It always puts me in the position of being either naive or stupid or clueless.
The latest example is I was walking in a nature arboretum and a bunch of trees were making this really high pitched noise and I figured it had to have been insects or birds but I didn't know what it was, so I posted the video on Facebook and everybody had the correct answer which was cicadas. I felt really stupid because I probably would have thought they were cicadas too but I thought they only came out of hiding like once every 10 years or so? I have never heard them in my life and I'm 53!
So I felt really dumb because all of my friends are younger than me and they know more than I do about life and this happens all the time.
I stayed in a hotel recently that had the softest sheets I have ever touched in my life! I even took pictures of the tags so I could find them and order some for myself. Unfortunately, this particular brand is only available from bulk companies that only sell to hotels and you can't get them in less than packs of 12. The brand is 1888 Mills and this particular line of bedding is called Flourish. It's 100% polyester. But I've had 100% polyester bedding before and it was not this soft.
I tried ordering some sheets from CGK Unlimited (who actually made the soft comforter that the hotel had), it says they were "hotel luxury bed sheets, extra soft, 100% polyester, softer than Egyptian cotton" but I was disappointed. These are maybe half as soft as the ones in the hotel.
How can two sheets be made out of 100% polyester and both feel completely different? I have done my research and I know that thread count is misleading and not how they rate sheets nowadays so I'm sure that's not the problem here.
Can someone help clarify this and maybe tell me how I can get the sheets that I want even though I'm not ordering for a hotel? Is there another brand that is equal to these? How do you shop for material when the same material feels different depending on where it came from?
I started junk journaling a year ago, and I've made probably 25 different journals and they're all decorated. But they just sit in my closet and I don't know what to do with them.
I want to make things for people but nobody is going to want a completed junk journal and if somebody's not into junk journaling they're not going to want even an empty one. The whole point of them is to make them yourself. But I am completely lacking inspiration and motivation now because what good does it do to have a bunch of these junk journals?
I don't use them as journals, I use them as ways to decorate with paper and all of the things that we love like stickers, washi tape, etc. Do other people use them as actual journals to write in? Because that isn't what they look like when I see pictures of other people's journals. They just look like art and that's what I like about them too. But it's not like a painter who can actually sell their work. So I'm stuck with all of these things that nobody wants and I don't even want anymore because the fun was making them, not using them.
I've tried making things like notepads but they're a lot of work and they don't come out looking professional, and there's no creativity involved in that because you're just slapping together a bunch of lined paper. And it seems like people don't even use notepads anymore, I gave my mom one probably five or six years ago and she still has it! I've made bookmarks for everybody I know but nobody needs that many bookmarks, I couldn't even use all the ones that I've made for myself!
I have tons of 12x12 papers and probably even more copy paper sized decorative papers and tons of 6x6 papers and piles and piles of ephemera and I just look around and hate that I've spent all of this money and I don't know what to make with this stuff anymore. I want to make something that people would actually want and use, but it doesn't seem like there are really that many things you can make with paper.
I don't necessarily need to start a business and sell things, I just want something that I can give to people that they will use and my time making these things wasn't wasted. Does anyone else struggle with this or have any suggestions about things to make?
Mk1 deserves more love than they get. I feel like it's hard to find people that are into the earlier stuff as much as I am. And I don't just mean Hush, either. I think Shield, Anthem, April, Shadows, and Emmaretta are amazing songs, right up there in my top 10 favorites.
I know there's such a drastic difference in sound from Mk1 to Mk2, and poppier '60s music might not be everyone's cup of tea. I'm actually wondering now what percentage of Deep Purple fans even like Mk1 at all!
Do you like them, and if so, what are your favorite songs?
I feel like both of these bands are similar enough to do a poll, who do you like better and why?
I like Aerosmith better because their music was more catchy and not as gritty as the Rolling Stones.
I do like the Rolling Stones, but for the most part their music seems too raw for me. Aerosmith's music seemed more "big" sounding, if that makes sense.
Also, even Aerosmith's biggest hits were as good as other songs, if not better (especially Dream On and Sweet Emotion).
A few decades later, I still get goosebumps listening to Aerosmith but not the Rolling Stones.
I don't know how many times this has happened to me and it just happened again and I need to know if this happens to anyone else and how you deal with it.
I made a post on Facebook saying that it was 96 degrees in here (I don't have AC). One of my friends who I've known for 8 or 9 years said they felt bad for me. Then they asked me why I can't get AC, and I responded with a huge paragraph explaining in detail why I can't get it. Their response was to not give up and stay positive. I said I've already given up and I'm not being negative, I'm just being a realist. Their next response was that they can't help me if I'm unwilling to help myself.
Why do people say this!? Especially to someone who is neurodivergent and has depression and anxiety!? I'm always talking about how I am going through menopause which basically makes everything about autism and ADHD worse to the point where I am basically dysfunctional. I can't work full-time, I can't even get myself to do fun things I want to do. It's hard to take a shower, it's hard to cook a meal, it's even hard for me to listen to music and that's my favorite thing in life. And this person is saying that I am unwilling to help myself, knowing all of these things is true about me.
The other thing that bothers me about this is I wasn't asking for advice! I was simply stating a fact that it is 96 degrees in here and it turned into them trying to tell me what to do, and then I get accused of not being willing to help myself!?
I know we shouldn't let what one person say bother us but this bothers me because I have encountered this multiple times throughout my whole life and it pisses me off because we can scream and shout how difficult even easy things are for us and they still say ableist things like this. Can anyone else relate?
Is there a collection of all of the b-sides/unreleased/bonus tracks the band recorded? It sounds way too overwhelming to go search for each album separately because there were so many versions of all the albums and it's just confusing to know which ones were which so I'm just wondering if they ever released an album that was full of previously unreleased tracks that weren't on albums, and if not, what would be the easiest way to go about finding them all?
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I want to eat more burrito style meals and wraps, but I've always shied away from them because I haven't been able to find one that is completely healthy. Most of them are made from wheat or flour and I'm trying to avoid those. I found some Ezekiel wraps on Amazon (I do like their bread) but they've only got one star, most of the reviews were only one star so they must be absolutely horrible. Any suggestions for good brands to look for?
Since we are in a heat wave, I can't eat hot food. I don't have AC and I am not turning on the stove or the oven to cook anything. So I need some ideas for cheap healthy summer meals, what are some of your favorites?
Here's one example of something like what I'm looking for. Something filling that can actually be a meal and not just things like chips and salsa or apples or a sandwich, leaf salads, those things are getting old. Black bean salad is my newest favorite meal and I want more stuff like this. It just involves throwing together black beans, canned corn, cucumber, green pepper, and onions, with a dressing of lime juice, garlic, parsley, vinegar, olive oil, and salt and pepper. So if you have any other ideas similar to this one, that's the stuff I'm looking for.
I only ask because this might be a hot take but I think Tony Martin was their best singer. I'm even a huge Deep Purple fan and I don't even like Ian Gillan and Glenn Hughes voices as much as I love Tony's. (with the exception of Child In Time, of course)
This might be a hot take but I think this version kicks the crap out of Deep Purple's album version! I have spent so many hours listening to every live version of this song that I could find and the one from Rainbow's show in Munich in 1977 is the best one overall, this version is my favorite piece of work by Ritchie out of anything he's ever done. Aand then there's one from the Millennium Collection Best of Rainbow that has a version with the most beautiful guitar intro! It's so short but so beautiful and it seems like this is the only version he does that on. I want to download both of these versions and splice them together so they can be combined to make it even more perfect!
I can barely form words right now! What the hell did I just hear!? How can humans even do that!?
I thought Child In Time and The Mule were amazing enough but then then there was the 20-minute long Space Truckin' extravaganza! *insert mind blown gif here*
How can Paicey keep playing drums like a madman with barely any breaks!? He is really the star here, I mean I like Ritchie's playing of course but honestly most of the time he just sounds like he's randomly experimenting which is cool but Paicey really stole the show for me here. How did he even have enough arms and legs to do all of that at the same time!?
How do they know when to make changes when every song is different from the original as well as different from every other time they've played it!? What kind of magic is this!?
This band is nuts! I've been to hundreds of concerts and I thought they were all talented but this takes it to a whole new level!
I'm struggling to put this into words but I hope you know what I mean. All over the Internet when people make comments or responses, they just use the words only and they don't convey any light-heartedness or clues that they are being funny. I feel like I do this even for things that are not intended to be funny but just to be light-hearted. Like I will type "LOL" often or I will make sure I insert a giggling or laughing emoji because I feel like just saying the words only gives off a sense that I am crabby or something even though I'm saying something funny. I really don't know if this is making any sense and I hope somebody knows what I mean by this. Maybe I just find things funny and they're not?
This happens on Reddit more than anywhere else, actually. Like somebody makes a post and all of the comments are really funny responses but nobody is typing "LOL" or any emojis there whatsoever, it's almost like they are bored or devoid of emotion or feeling and they just type the words and send it and it just seems so minimal to me, it seems like a robot said them.
Am I weird or does anybody else hate this?
Just saw the post about best guitar solo ever, what about underrated guitar solos that nobody ever mentions and you are shaking your head why!?
For me it's definitely David Gilmour's guitar solo in Fat Old Sun. I seriously think it's 99% as good as Comfortably Numb, and better than Time.
