Anyone else NOT obsessed with their precious cell phone/iWhatevers?

Got Steely Dan, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Vanilla Fudge, Chubby Checker, Bee Gees and many more. I'll add Rush and Toto to the list for sure!

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Scott can picture Andrew rocking out to "When the Levee Breaks" in his bedroom with abandon....

Cogent said:

Got Steely Dan, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Vanilla Fudge, Chubby Checker, Bee Gees and many more. I'll add Rush and Toto to the list for sure!

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I remember like yesterday the first time I nailed Bonham's "When the a levee Breaks" beat on drums. I was in 8th grade. It wasn't a complicated rhythm, but just syncopated enough to be a challenge for a child. I learned to play every Rush album up to Permanent Waves by heart, but the Steely Dan songs that featured Steve Gadd were considerably harder. Ditto Vanila Fudge - A) Carmine Appice is seriously underrated as a drummer, and B) their self-titled record is as good as psychedelic rock got. The pinnacle.

I'm a guitarist. Been playing for 25 years. But my good friend in high school and college and off and on in the past decade is an INCREDIBLE drummer. He could nail any Neal Peart tune with perfection.

My favorite drummers:

Jeff Porcaro, Neal Peart, Simon Philips, Bill Bruford, Alan White, Stewart Copeland, John Bonham. That's to name a few.

MikeK said:

I remember like yesterday the first time I nailed Bonham's "When the a levee Breaks" beat on drums. I was in 8th grade. It wasn't a complicated rhythm, but just syncopated enough to be a challenge for a child. I learned to play every Rush album up to Permanent Waves by heart, but the Steely Dan songs that featured Steve Gadd were considerably harder. Ditto Vanila Fudge - A) Carmine Appice is seriously underrated as a drummer, and B) their self-titled record is as good as psychedelic rock got. The pinnacle.

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I'm a guitarist. Been playing for 25 years. But my good friend in high school and college and off and on in the past decade is an INCREDIBLE drummer. He could nail any Neal Peart tune with perfection.

My favorite drummers:

Jeff Porcaro, Neal Peart, Simon Philips, Bill Bruford, Alan White, Stewart Copeland, John Bonham. That's to name a few.

MikeK said:

I remember like yesterday the first time I nailed Bonham's "When the a levee Breaks" beat on drums. I was in 8th grade. It wasn't a complicated rhythm, but just syncopated enough to be a challenge for a child. I learned to play every Rush album up to Permanent Waves by heart, but the Steely Dan songs that featured Steve Gadd were considerably harder. Ditto Vanila Fudge - A) Carmine Appice is seriously underrated as a drummer, and B) their self-titled record is as good as psychedelic rock got. The pinnacle.

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Cogent said:

My man! Another vinyl junkie, what's your flavor? I've essentially inherited my parents collection, everything from the Beatles to Michael Jackson to Artur Rubenstein and Jefferson Airplane. I have some James Brown, Mumford and Sons and Ray LaMontagne on order.

Ah yes Instagram... I love social media. I know the feeling too, I've had a cell phone since I was 16 (parents got me one when I got my license). Nowadays if I forget it I feel naked.

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My current selection is basically inherited from my parents, with a few I've added. Off the top of my head... Def Leopard, The Decemberists, Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac.

Why is it that so many people who think that they are technologically advanced cannot figure out the technology of a turn signal? They do not impress me at all. And when someone cuts in front of me or hits the brakes to make an unsignalled turn their bumper stickers advertising their parish, Mary or the pro-life movement is their witness to me. Good witness.

wondrousgnat said:

Why is it that so many people who think that they are technologically advanced cannot figure out the technology of a turn signal? They do not impress me at all. And when someone cuts in front of me or hits the brakes to make an unsignalled turn their bumper stickers advertising their parish, Mary or the pro-life movement is their witness to me. Good job.

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I am not obsessed with mobile phone. Mine is not a smartphone, it's at least 5 years old.
Those so called smartphones can waste us a lot of time. When the phones are too smart,
the users become stupid.

ivebeenshown said:

I use my iPhone all the time. I would like to start using my new Nokia Lumia 1520 because of the larger screen. Text and call of course, not constantly texting or anything, but I enjoy these things moreso because I have the best library in the world at my fingers -- the internet. I'm aways researching something.

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I use my smartphone all the time, too, as a library at my fingertips for all kinds of research.
I pay 50 pr month for no contract T-Mobile for it with unlimited text and calls [and data plan up to 500 somethings, but I never use it all as I use the wifi] and free wifi calling and browsing, plus a horrid 8.00 more in awful fees so that Obama can give away phones to get votes for the destruction of the USA. I am thinking of going back to no contract not smart phone, and keeping my android phone for a wifi tablet only.

I have a Galaxy note android which I bought out of the contract price so I could go with the no contract price, but daughter gave me an iphone when she changed companies and hers would not work on the new system, and it was unlockable, so I did unlock it through the company and use it to keep in touch with my 3 girls. If I call them they probably will not answer the phone cause it is an interruption to their lives, but if I text them they almost always, without exception, text me right back.

I like the instant access to information that I may want when I am doing a project and the computer is not available. Youtube is amazing in that you can find out how to do anything you need to do to fix up or change things in your home or garden, and I like that.
If my kids were young and at home, I would not allow them to be on the phone or computer "social networking" except for limited periods, which is what my grandchildren are kept to, and it works well.

Annabel Lee said:

Look Up - YouTube

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Absolutely Great!!!!!

Annabel Lee said:

Look Up - YouTube

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Shared on Facebook. Absolutely great. Use doesn't automatically mean shut in though, and we can easily become hypocrites by shoving this video in the face of others, a video we ourselves watched on our own devices. His video could also be seen as hypocritical, though I don't believe it is. Using technology is different from being addicted to it and building relationships solely through it and not in real life.

I ught it great too.

I thought it great too.