It's my turn to roll out the welcome wagon: Hi Newbies! Check in here!

[Duncan Grant]

Every now and again we like to invite you to introduce yourself and practice your 'reply' button skills. You're gonna want to start posting sometime - it might as well be tonight! :D :hi: :grouphug:

We need a topic that encourages the exchange of a few replies, so let's try this:

What historical/fictional character would you like to meet? You're eligible for the bonus round if you can say why you'd like to meet them! (Oldtimers encouraged to practice their reply button skills, too. ;) )

[Duncan Grant]

1. Testing. Testing 1, 2, 3 (blows on mic) tap, tap, tap. Is this thing on?

That's odd. Can I get some tech assistance up here on the stage, please? The call for newbies isn't working. :blush:

[Duncan Grant]

2. Kittens! I got kittens.

God, I feel so cheap. :+

[Initech]

3. I've only been here a couple months...

Does that count?

[bettyellen]

4. welcome to DU!

:hi:

i haven't done that in a while!

[Duncan Grant]

5. Welcome to DU, EOO!

Your reply button skills are superb! :hi:

Please feel free to offer an equal opportunity offense in this thread! :D (God knows, it's dying a slow death...)

[Initech]

6. Gracias!

I post on IGN a lot, but I'm getting really tired of that place.

At least I'm glad there's a board on the internet where people have similiar political views as mine!

edit: And I've been lurking here way longer than I've been posting. And it's mainly because I've read every Top Ten Conservative Idiots list.

[enigmatic]

7. Welcome!

That's how I started, too; I didn't even know there was a discussion board until a few months after reading the top 10..

[banjosareunderrated]

8. I've always wanted to meet James Marshall Hendrix

I was born in 76 and didn't hear one Experience song until I was 12 but the inspiration his music provides to this day, for me, is unparalleled. IMHO, he bridged the storytelling of the folk-singers with the immediacy of RnB, the virtuosity of prog-rock and the genius of recording technology. He's the only musician, other than Beethoven, to put the orgasm to music. I have no proof of this, but I think he invented rap with Crosstown Traffic and he pipered in the Chevy of guitars by, mostly, playing strats right out of the box and he never worried that he'd break one by trying something different. That gave a lot of people the confidence in their utilitarian instruments. Imagine Federer winning with a catgut racket and you see why Jimi James was so important to the idea that talent makes the instrument, not the other way around. He combined Charlie Christian with TMonk by playing his chord changes and leads at the same time and he never worried about shaking things up. He inspired a lot of artists that went on to shape our lives, and not only musically. He was the muse to men and women that wanted to take their instrument to their most dizzying heights and also to the men and women that wanted to just have fun making music.

He was the anti-pop star. He crossed and created lines. He had no fear of being righteous and wrong at the same time and if I could've even heard his voice next to me I think I'd be a better person.

[Duncan Grant]

9. Thanks for the insightful post.

I appreciate the significance you give "Crosstown Traffic"; it's always been a favorite.

My insights into music would bore you but I would think you and progmom would have much to discuss. I will say that as a cultural figure, his 'power' terrified the status quo (politically and culturally) and I love that he endures.

Welcome to DU - I hope you'll offer us all a few music threads in the future! :hi: :thumbsup:

[banjosareunderrated]

10. your musical insight do not and would not ever bore me or anyone else

i've ever known that just liked music. The Ode to Joy is based on the same chord progression as Crossroads. Holy cow, that's just fricking cool.

I've listened to progmom's radio show many times and I think she has a truckload to teach me without any words. I'd love to talk to her about music but it would be the equivalent of a Jedi Knight talking to a an empty bottle of St. Ides. And I'd be the malt idiot.