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The closest I came to that was playing at a party many years ago and the power cut out. We had a ton of drunken revellers desperate for music so I started playing some simplistic Afro rhythms on my toms (any excuse will do :) to there was something for people to dance to. The others in the band picked up the cowbell, maracas and tambourine. The partygoers were stomping along to the beat so hard that we had to tone it down because the host was worried that the balcony would collapse.
Totally agree with you re: Innagaddadavida too. Was it Ron Bushy drumming? He wasn't strutting his stuff but maintaining and developing the mood of the track. It's the difference between being a drummer and being a musician, which strikes me as what Ken was driving at with the Morello quote ... a top quote, especially good coming from someone with a quality single stroke roll ...
PS. Steel, you DO know what Steely Dan was in William Burroughs's Naked Lunch, don't you? :)
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Only on DW do you have two people at each other's throats and then registering in the same thread.
I think people may not understand the grand narratives that play out in popular music, and how often seemingly innocuous music is full of these references. It my be better topic for the cloaked reference thread. But when people say theory, there is harmonic theory, rhythmic theory, but also race and gender theory. Theory is a big word.
You and I have played this out many times. I would say that race is the grand narrative of American popular music in the 1940s and 50s, whereas gender is the grand narrative of the 1970s and 80's, even into the 1990s with Lilith Fair. In the mid-1970s you had many bands who became huge who went from a male dominated audience to a female dominated audience, Genesis and Journey are the biggest I can think of that mark that shift, and also Styx, Kansas, and the Hair metal of the 80s fit in here. With this shift came the invention or reinvention of power pop and the power ballad. That is where you most readily see the social dynamics of gender play out in music. A lot has been written about the swell against disco in racial and gender parameters; but personally I think the the movement against disco had more to do with over commercialism. I am pretty sure you would agree with my summation. I think you and I are the two people who beat this to death.
But here is the question, What do you think was the grand narrative of rock music in the 1990s and 2000s? I have some ideas; but nothing set in stone. I'll share it but I want to get your unfettered input first.
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The grand narrative of rock music from twenty years ago onward is a hard thing to pin down.
Recently, there have been many things in pop culture that lack originality, like remakes of movies from decades ago, film adaptations of classical super heroes, etc.
Music might have that same cancerous problem, but there are gems I think. Lady Gaga sure has the originality thing going on(At least with fashion).
So, to put it in a single term that seems more like a good thing than bad, I'd say the grand narrative of 1990-2000 rock is 'Reflection'.
"At the end of the day you just draw pretty pictures on a field and play some rimp ska dimps."
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My first thought with your post was that you missed the 60s ... and wasn't that a grand narrative? :)
Ken, you may have to help me out here because I had a bit of a breakdown in the mid-90s and stopped playing from the late 90s through to 2007.
My impression as a non-musician at the time was that the 90s were mostly about globalisation and the 00s about technology. Governments - shifting heavily to the right - have increasingly handed power to giant multinationals, and they have taken on the role of our (tacit) unelected leaders.
Just today our nation's leader was removed after proposing additional taxes on mining companies ... they have high foreign ownership so our PM was trying to get Oz a greater share of the non-renewable resources being dug up at warp speed. The companies' and their (well-funded) public campaign saw him sacked. He made the mistake of not reporting to his corporate masters for veto before enacting policy.
The rise of the Net in the 00s has seen a greater increase in the influence of the media. Increased commercial influence is inevitably reflected in the arts. All this points to homogenisation. Music is increasingly technologically based and produced more cheaply and efficiently, with songs spending their short lives trapped in the battery hen cages of mechanised beats before being rapidly replaced by another on the production line to serve wired young people leading largely digitally-based lives (there was an extended chat about this in the Drummer vs Computer thread).
Sorry, more musing than grand narratives :)
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In my opinion the current "grand narrative" back to at least the 90's is self promotion. It seems like most "artists" these days are just talking about themselves. Their experiences, their lives, their possessions, their bitches and hoes, etc. The pop scene is all about self promotion and even more so, self indulgence. Hm. Maybe I should change my answer to that. Self indulgence. There, I said it.
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Maybe things were easier back then . . .
I don't think that some of this is actually new. Globalization, you had reggae and Indian influences in the late 1960s and 70s. The Afro Cuban thing goes back into the 1940s and 50s. the Beatles and The Police traveled all over the world. Technology, prog dealt with these issues in the 70s and 80s, ELP, Genesis and Rush, esp. Homogenization, I would say you need to have it to have popular music. Without it ever one is listening to something different and nothing would get "popular." But I think all these narrative do play out in a grand narrative. They are and have always been at the heart of rock music.
As Steely states, one of the big shifts of the last 20 years is reflection. So much of rock music is prefaced on generational conflict. The Velvets wrote about that. That is what the hippies were about. Punk and Rap wanted to start at Zero, and get back to a time when rock had no past. But by the 1990s, rebellion was a great marketing tool, rather than having any real efficacy. If rebellion is a marketing tool, does it have any efficacy at all, and did it ever?
Reflection sets itself against generational conflict, which is one of the major narratives of the 20th century, going back to WWI, which was a war prefaced on erasing the past, a war prefaced on the heralding of technological future (Futurists) against a romantic past, which would again play out in Nazism. Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters and Peter Sinfield really tackle this in their lyrics with Genesis, Crimson, Floyd and ELP. All those public school brats.
I would say that rock has historically defined nihilism in its generational conflict. I hate my parents and want to die. "We gotta get out of this place." Nihilism was a major part of the the rock music of the 1990s and grunge. Pearl Jam's Jeremy comes to mind. I hate you all and want to die. The Velvets and the roots of punk were the models. Nihilism plays against self-indulgence. But being overly self-indulgent is a form of nihilism, isn't it? It's self-destructive. I think that the answer sits somewhere between reflection and nihilism; honoring the past vs. destroying the ego and the past with it. I think rock music has always had a "problem" with the dichotomy, as well as self-indulgence. They're all fundamental artistic conflicts.
In the 1990s, the big shift came when kids started listening to their parent's music. One of the aspects of Alt rock and grunge was that it took its mantle from the singer -songwriters of the 1970s and heavy metal, genres that was criticized as being overly self-absorbed. They often say Neil Young started grunge, and Patti Smith. Cobain loved Lennon. Cobain exemplified the alt rock narrative, and named his band Nirvana, extinction of self. In alt rock, lyrical content was prefaced above musical ability, and energy (emotionalism) was extolled above technique. The idea of the song was to tell a story or capture a mood. REM's Night Swimming comes to mind, and later Radiohead, Paranoid Android is a good one. "I am paranoid; but no android," (If you haven't heard OK Computer, it's time) and Blur. There was a quest for authenticity against corp rock of the late 1970s and 1980s. But everyone thinks their music is "authentic," and perhaps everything else is crap.
again, no answer just more musings. where's Duncan?
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As a kid growing up in San Francisco, I was in awe of the music of the late 60's. And as I became a teen, I got too see a lot of "20th anniversary" celebrations of assorted 60's events. Classic rock was huge.
And as an under aged teen, I saw everything that was going on in the 80's. And yes, while a lot of it was cheesy, it was at least fun. I looked forward to finally being able to old enough to go out and experience this fun.
And then I turned 21, and grunge took over. And suddenly, it wasn't about fun anymore.
And it wasn't a return to the social reflection of the 60's. It was all about self loathing. Cut your hair, stop standing out, and write songs about how much you hate yourself.
I thought it was pretty much a big bummer.
Granted, there were some great albums in the early 90's, but overall, it was a bummer.
And the funny thing (or not) was grunge was considered a reaction against the fact that 80's hair metal had become a parody of itself with a million cookie cutter bands (which was 100% true, and I hated much of it), but by 1995, grunge had become a parody of itself as well, with a million cookie cutter bands, while Cobain killed himself and Lane Staley was having problems keeping it together. It seemed to be a case of grunge saying to hair metal "hi, we're going to rebel against you by doing the exact same thing you did." Just replace spandex with flannel. Obviously record companies had a lot to do with it, by singing a million cookie cutter bands, but still, the bands were there to be singed.
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@DD, sweet jesus, man...
@DED, Lady Gaga is more like Marilyn Manson with a side order of Madonna. Marilyn Manson was just the spawn of Alice Cooper and KISS. She's just the next wave of shock pop. Incidentally, my 2 year-old daughter loves Paparazzi. :p
I think this whole narrative thing needs to be broken down by genre. At least my views of it. I think hip hop and rap are almost completely about narcissism. Look at me, foo, I gots mad bitches rollin' on dubs! I'm not really sure what rock (in general) is about anymore. I listen mainly to QotSA and TCV. Their lyrics are all over the place. If you look at the way they produce, long jam sessions then plug in some lyrics afterward, they seem to be more about the music itself than the words or the message. They're pushing a mood, how does the music make you feel, the words are an afterthought that usually fits the mood of the music. I've tried listening to some emo stuff (which seems to be all the rage these days), but I find most of it annoying. Fall Out Boy, AFI, and 30 Seconds To Mars seem to be about self pitty. My life is so hard no one loves me. I tried to kill myself but I even screwed that up. If I become a different person will you love me?
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I did want to say something about the self-loathing aspect of alt rock. In the early 1980s, U2 were considered an up and coming alt rock band. They were influenced by all the right bands: The Velvets, The Ramones and The Clash. By Rattle and hum, they were porraia, and part of it was Bono's huge ego. In alt rock, you had to be self-loathing, you couldn't be boastful or prideful. Maybe it rebelled against 80s excess in that way.
From my perspective, I never hated corp rock, and I know you are a big Journey fan. Corp rock was the derogatory word alt rockers used for Arena rock. But those guys could sing and play their instruments. I don't want to go there .:p but living in the world, you have to adapt, which could be construed as selling out. Otherwise you can live in a commune or the desert. People eat pork even if you don't. It's somewhat immature to not want to adapt and be able to live in the world with others in a peaceful manner, to live with others who disagree with you. The question I always asked alt rockers is, "what if I don't agree with you?"
motojt yeah, I've thought about this sh*& a bit.
you may be right about breaking it down to genre. But as a question, couldn't modern rock and emo be said to deal with the notion of alienation? I don't know what rap is about anymore; a lot of it used to be about race. But even the notion of Getting rich or dying hard trying speaks to Marxist view of Capitalist alienation where the only thing that matters is material success. For young black men who had been denied that in racist America, that became an empowerment narrative.
I was checking my youtube and it said that this video was selected for me. How did they know? It's pretty scary. . .
Dee Snider at Congress . .
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P.S: In the spirit of the nickname hijack in the Little bit of Theory thread, feel free to just call me jt. I don't particularly care for it because it reminds me of Justin Timberlake, but most of my coworkers use it regardless.
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In retrospect, it's easy to see where there influences came from, but at the time, they seemed rather different. And to me, they had that lost late 60's era attitude about them, signing about trying to find your place in the world, political and social commentary.
The funny thing is, I remember being the only one in my Jr High who knew who they were. I visited my family, and my cousins had no clue who U2 were. Which didn't make sense, because I discovered them by watching MTV, who played "Gloria" and "New Years Day" all the time. But then "Pride" became a huge single a few years later, and suddenly everyone claimed to be a fan.
But I agree, after Rattle and Hum, Bono's ego got huge, and it was a huge turn off.
Someone comped me a ticket to see them on the Pop tour, and I walked out, they had become such a bad parody of themselves, and they even seemed to make fun of their old material.
But I never tire of hearing the "Boy" album.
Many other so called "corp rock" bands had similar stories of humble beginnings. It's not as if were assembled by corporations with writers handing them pre-fabbed hit songs like New Kids on the Block, Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were.
There were a few exceptions. When Paul Katner left the Jefferson Starship, the remaining members did abandon writing their own material for pre-fabed crap and were re-born as the "Starship".
Anyhow, there is more to this post, but I really have some stuff I need to go do.
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speaking of hijacking . . .
An overall or dominant narrative need not pertain to everything that is recorded during a time period. Not every song recorded in the 1950s was about race. But overall, the context of music making during that period dealt with the cultural preconceptions about race, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and of course, Elvis all are performing in a racial context, as are The Stones and Beatles in the 1960s. Gender and sex roles play a dominant role in 1970s music the moaning or Robert Plant, the dress up of Bowie and NY Dolls, as well as in the Corp rock or Arena rock of the 1980s. You can read these cultural codes into the music.
It may very well be that music of the last 20 years is incapable of begin codified in such an all inclusive context. But I don't think so. I think you and Polly are on to something with the idea of the way the internet has allowed for a greater freedom in expression. I think that this has become the major narrative of music today. What is the the implication of having that freedom, and how does it play out in the music?
Again, I think a big part of music over the last 20 years is the preference of emotion over technique. Something I personally don't think is a plus. I would say that nihilism is a big part of that music, and it would be interesting to try to come to a deeper understanding of why there have been so many prominent suicides, and perhaps an increase in very destructive behavior. Part of that is just part of the business. Judy Garland, Elvis and Michael Jackson all died the tragic self-destructive deaths.
I have wondered how much in intrusion of such theories can assist in musicians pursuit of creative expression. As Steely said, the notion of reflection or historical context plays a big role in music today. Something it didn't do as much back in the 1960s because rock just did not have a history.
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Early rock, even though the early 80's, there was a lot of innovation of people playing things that couldn't be compared to generations past. Where as more modern rock has 50+ yuar history to be compared to.
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James, your observation about reflection really rings home to me. I've lost count of the number of songs in the recent decades that young people think is a cool new thing and it's clearly a remake of an old classic.
Rock simply ran out of fuel and started consuming itself. The evolution of metal parallels that of horror films - always moving towards greater extremity. I can see that heading the same way as rock - just remaking itself in its own image. Extremity can only go so far.
Also agree re: rap. Disadvantaged kid finds his place in the world and gloats about his gross abuse of his new-found empowerment. Especially about his ability to put down women in the same way as he felt put down. Schadenfreude born of unresolved trauma masquerading as empowerment.
You see the same trend in the print media. A reduction of studied and dispassionate analysis of current affairs (in comparative terms, anyway) in favour of cynically hysterical, faux-emotional sensationalism.
It's all about chasing the LCD dollar with the realisation that the standards gatekeepers like university professors etc are a small minority and not big spenders, whereas over half the population is of average or below average intelligence.
Ironically, corporate use of technology (following in the heels of the near-perfect studio musos in the 70s and 80s) has resulted in increased emphasis on technique over emotionality. Not virtuoso technique but an emphasis on perfect "professional" product with massive, glossy production where human inconsistencies have been tweezed out through use of machines, pitch correction, Pro Tools etc.
I suspect record company majors wanted to squeeze out the indie opposition by conditioning people's ears to only accept production standards that the underfunded and idealistic indie couldn't and wouldn't match.
Yet it feels right for the times - people are increasingly being reduced to high consumption worker bees with minimal time for reflection. Worship mighty Mammon.
Poo to that, I say! My mother was an author and a total ratbag and I'm her daughter :) So I refuse to play that game. I reserve the right to be reflective, analytical, to look and listen rather than follow, to ensure I have work/life balance and guilt-free downtime. I refuse to pander to the anti-intellectual LCD and I do what I can to use the system rather than let it use me. In other words, I'm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8
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Well said Polly. Well said.
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Polly, despite the fact I only quoted a single, initial line from your essay-like post, I did in fact read it all and I believe you deserve a fist-bump for that.
Also, one more observation that matched up with another post about self-absorbed metal: concerts and gigs from the metal from the 80's and the like are normally more flashy, huge venues, lots of reverb, big kits, shiny clothes, etc.
Nirvana completely reversed that. It's what i call "modest rock", where the bands themselves aren't as flashy in materialistic ways but still puts on a good show. It proves the hair metal bands wrong.
Which is awesome.
"At the end of the day you just draw pretty pictures on a field and play some rimp ska dimps."
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Ditto on that Polly. You are a girl after my own heart. I almost cried when I read that post. lol
This line could be right out of a Brecht text . . .
"I see "emotion over technique" as being part of the corporatisation of the music industry. It's actually manipulated emotion over technique, not emotion with any great depth."
For many artists, art was the only true expression of emotion; but maybe to some degree, all art is faux emotion. The role of music is certainly to manipulate emotion. For Brecht, that was not a positive thing under capitalism for the reason you stated. It was pure exploitation to create an army of worker bees for the Capitalist system. Brecht was a real rogue but I suspect that one hundred years hence, he will be seen as one of the most important writers/thinkers of the 20th century.
Getting back to the idea of homogenization of music, I have wondered if the internet will lead to the demise of popular music. If you don't have a unified production system, you can't have a popular system. Certainly there's a lot of indie music out there today; but it seems like the industry is having a comeback.
As far as standards, who is going to set them? The industry, the academic, the artist the audience. I don't know that academia has ever had a role in setting the standard. Seems like it should be the artists themselves.
MGMT . .indie labels are so passe. "The Rolling Stones weren't an Indie Band"
I lvoe it when being a radical becomes so commonplace that the only thing to do is rebel against it.
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Hey, sorry Steely for not giving you the credit for pointing out that rock music is increasingly looking backwards at itself. Good observation.
The 'net - especially YouTube and MySpace - does raise my hopes that the power of the industry will be reduced. However, I've seen more and more high quality clips appearing on Youtube, headed by advertising. Again, corporations are using their advantage of high quality production.
I hate how we've become so hung up on production. Think of all those jazz recordings from the 30s right through to the 60s - Satchmo, Duke, Goodman, Bird, Miles, Trane etc. Or rock from the 60s - Beatles, Stones, Jimi, Janis, Doors, Floyd, Turtles. The production is total crap when compared with today's pop music but who cares? The music was FANTASTIC!
Yet plenty of younger people do care because their ears expect "better" - very discerning about the things that cost $$, so much so that it matters more to them than the things that money can't buy.
This is no criticism of any generation - people are just people, no matter what era they were raised in - but we can only respond to what we're exposed to. If most of what you hear is the soullessly perfect chunka chunka of a machine then it's not soulless to you, just usual.
So what do drummers like Elvin, Tony, Mitch and Keith sound like to younger people with their regular variations and low tech sound? Dull (not glossy), messy (not tidy like a machine) and weak (where's the dancey pulse?). How often do you hear drummers say that those guys were sloppy - as though standards have been raised. WTF? lol Today we'll hear players who are more precise, whose tempos are more even than those older guys but I don't think that in any way makes the new players any more satisfying.
We oldies are anachronisms but with an ageing society there's still plenty of us to maintain the demand for organic music - along with a surprising number of young 'uns who understand the vibe of retro music. As we oldies start falling off the perch the young retro fans will carry the torch into their middle age, but there will be an increasing army of virtual music fans also reaching middle age ... unless there's a big turnabout. I can't see it myself, but who can be sure what twists and turns the music scene will take?
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Again, Kurt Cobain. He hated the "rebels" in punk and he fought them, but ended up being a 'true' rebel. Nirvana had an interesting impact on music...
Well, Abbey Road sounds pretty good, even for today's standards... ._.
Ah, those Audiophiles.
I think another observation made in this thread was the ever-evolving definition of "shocking". Years from now Marilyn Manson and Slipknot will be like Judas Priest and Ozzy, in the "Nostalgia Radio" library.
It makes you wonder what will be next, what will be considered shocking after the current shockers are outdated.
"At the end of the day you just draw pretty pictures on a field and play some rimp ska dimps."
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Organic music is not dead and will not die! There are many of us who will keep it alive, not just the older generations who grew up with it. The only reason younger people go for it is because they don't know any different. They can and will learn. This has been my personal experience, and I see no reason why it shouldn't be duplicated for many others.
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As I said horror moves have gone the same way. What happens when screens are totally awash with violence and gore? My guess is the extremities will remain - once a standard is established then the barriers are down so they'll always be there. There will always be classical, jazz, C&W, folk, blues, rock'n'roll, psychedelic, RnB, soul, prog, hair metal, rap, shiny pop, techno, extreme metal ... just that each has faded - or will fade - slowly into minority interests as new stuff takes its place.
I can't even imagine where music will go from here ... apart from glossy mechanical pop, which will get ever more glossy and mechanical until the human element is negligible. There will always be retro/nostalgia movements too because each genre has intrinsic values that will always touch certain types of personalities.
There also seems to be a strong shift from the aural to the visual with the increased ease of home video production. Video is getting bigger and bigger. Pop fans increasingly want to "see" the music, to the point where bands are now putting how high production dance shows and mime to recordings.
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and if you get a chance to see this on late night cable, part of the film gets into this as well:
Yes, I do wonder where music will go. No one had heard of jazz at one point. We can pinpoint when rock and roll was invented. So from a historical perspective, it seems any day now something new will be invented that has nothing to do with rock and roll. Although some say rap/hip-hop was indeed that new invention.
As for "seeing music" I'm actually getting more fascinated by the idea. In the 80's and 90's, you couldn't make a music video without a huge budget, and even then, you weren't sure where it would get played. If you made a cheap video, you were probably going to get laughed at.
Then Youtube came along, and it became perfectly acceptable to make a music video using whatever cheap camera you have laying around. Quality was no longer a factor, because youtube is going to compress the hell out of the video file anyway.
I found this rather eye opening. And so my band made three videos, and all it cost me was $80 in video editing software.
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You have bands going back to Dave Matthews, Radiohead, Dream Theater, Tool or Arcade Fire. That virtually came up on their own two feet. You see so many of these indie bands, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, and so many of these Brooklyn bands. I don't really listen to that music, and although they are right here near me, I never hear about them until they are big in London. lol
In the 1970s you had The Grateful Dead, The Band, King Crimson, Yes or Rush who were largely cult phenomena and remained as such. these notions of mainstream, indie, cult phenomena become so politicized. in the end, is the music any good?
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For me, making eye contact with the crowd takes second stage to making sure I do what I need to do so that the audience can feel exactly what me and the band feels when we play this music.
Music is all about delivery of feeling, expressing whatever it is you wish to express. If you can get the audience moving and feeling with you, they arn't going to give two shits what you look like. Albeit stage presence is important, but for a drummer, just laying down the beat and holding things together is about as much as you can do.
To quote a band i mention a lot on this forum, Circa survive,
"It's the talent, not the promo shot."
In order of importance for a band:
Feeling then stage presence THEN looks/eye contact.
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In years past, people had the radio and word or mouth. Then they could add in MTV. Many things became popular in part because people had no where else to focus their ears, so if something good came along, people knew about it.
Today, internet, myspace, satellite radio, etc, the options are so wide. One can focus on whatever they want and ignore what ever genres they want. There are so many different scenes that people can be a part of.
When I was a teen, I could pick up Modern Drummer and I'd knew who almost everyone was, because I saw them on MTV or heard them on the radio, or they were jazz legends. Today, heck, I don't know who 1/2 these bands are, nor do I even know where they would be featured, and I wonder why they don't mention the bands who's albums I am buying, because it's not like I only listen to classic rock.
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Speaking from a rock perspective, in the early 1990s the things that I thought were really hot were Primus and then The Red Hot Chili Peppers. I never was big on the Seattle seen, and really stopped listening to rock by the early 1990s.
From a selling point, it was Mariah Carey and then Celine Dion who were the big sellers, and Dianne Warren who wrote so many top 40 hits. By and large it was the women's movement, Sarah Mclachlan and Lilith Fair that it was making it happen. When I look at the artists I liked in the 1990s: TLC, Lauryn Hill, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morrisette, all women. Dudes weren't doing much but moaning and groaning about their awful lot in life. Many people say that is what led the way to the Disney revolution. No one wanted to hear everyone whine after a while. When you are a rich and famous rock star and you're still moaning and groaning, no one really wants to hear it.
Lady Gaga seems like an attention hound. perhaps she should go see a shrink and spare us all. Artists need to be open minded. But is there a point at which musicians just need to call it for what it is and be pissed that people are using this art form solely for that kind of self-glorification?
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But per the RIAA, her albums have gone 3 times platinum. Which is a lot of sales, and most artists would cut off their right arm to have 3 million in sales.
But compared to Micheal Jackson or the Beatles, 3 million in sales is a drop in the bucket. The average Aerosmith album sells more copies.
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"Arguing against globalisation is like arguing against the laws of gravity," stated Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the UN, Nobel Peace Prize winner – and Ghanaian national. He could have easily been referring to Accra, an ever expanding city in a country with immigration levels only just below the expat-haven of Singapore.
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In 1873 the British attacked Kumasi, and declared Ghana a British Crown Colony. Accra was captured the following year and in 1877 was named capital of the British Gold Coast. Eighty years later the British relinquished control of the region and an independent Ghana was born.
Modern day Accra has remained the capital of Ghana and is home to four million residents, comprising 100 different ethnicities and speaking 47 languages. With a sizeable expatriate population, Accra's dusty streets are interspersed with leafy suburbs full of westerners and tourists looking to enjoy the city's superb nightlife, and an excellent springboard from which to explore the rest of this African nation.
Accra's National Museum offers a fascinating glimpse into Ghana's past, such as the evolution of Ghanaian currency from shells and gold coins through to modern banknotes. It also documents the development of West African musical instruments, the symbolism of local textiles and the historical importance of fishing to the region.
To see how modern day Ghana works, visit Makola Market. This vast market – almost entirely run by women – sells everything from shoes, fabric, sunglasses, beaded jewellery, bags, hats, food and furniture. The market spills into Ussher Town from Victoriaborg and makes for an interesting, yet slightly chaotic day trip.
Residents of Accra, known locally as 'Gas', are also concerned with their future: visit the Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop in Teshie to discover what constitutes their perfect coffin. Nowhere near as morbid as it sounds, this workshop has been carving 'design' coffins since the 1950s which represent something important to the eventual inhabitant. This can be anything from onions, pineapples and fish to aircraft, tractors and mobile phones – each turned into a full size coffin in the shape of the chosen item. It may sound bizarre but examples of the coffins have been exhibited as far afield as the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Dining and Nightlife
Dining out in Accra is varied and offers everything from Ghanaian, Indian, Chinese, French and Italian cuisine. Restaurants can be found throughout the city but the more upmarket establishments tend to be centred around Osu, a suburb of Accra favoured by tourists.
Throughout Accra visitors can sample traditional Ghanaian food at the numerous chop bars; chop means 'eat' and these informal stands serve delicious tomato-based stews served with rice, yams and plantains or soups with corn dough and cassava chips.
Osu is also a popular nightlife destination and visitors can discover the city's solitary Irish pub, karaoke and sports bars, radio café, trendy lounges, open air jazz spots and late-night dance clubs.
Beyond Accra
Three hours by bus and 160kms southwest of Accra is Cape Coast, the capital of the Central Ghana region. Captured by the British in 1664, the centre of the city is lined with neglected colonial buildings but the real highlight is the massive Cape Coast Castle. This whitewashed building, originally erected by the Swedish in 1653, has been rebuilt and restored several times by successive colonists and is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. The castle now houses a moving museum which depicts the city's infamous history as West Africa's slave-trading hub.
Thirty kms inland is Kakum National Park, 350 square kilometres of beautifully preserved tropical rainforest. Seven connected bridges suspended at 40 metres are known as the Canopy Walkway and allow visitors to view the animals – which include Forest Buffalo, Pygmy Elephants and Mona Meerkat – from a novel vantage point.
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It's time for a new level of tablet performance with the latest Intel® AtomTM processor designed and optimized on Intel's 22nm SoC process technology using revolutionary 3-D Tri-gate transistors providing both a significant performance increase and improved energy efficiency over the previous generation Intel® AtomTM processor.1 Great tablets have Intel Inside®
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- Latest Generation: Intel® AtomTM Processor Z3770 (4T4C, up to 2.4 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache) measured on Intel® Reference Design 1.4.1: Memory: 2 GB; OS: Microsoft* Windows* 8.1 RTM; Browser: Chrome* 29.0.1547.57; Graphics driver 10.18.10.3266; Display size: 10"; Display Resolution: 2560x1440; Battery size: 38.5 WHr; Storage: 64 GB
- Prior generation / existing tablet: Intel® AtomTM Processor Z2760 (4T2C, up to 1.8 GHz, 1 MB L2 Cache) measured on Acer* Iconia* W510: Memory: 2 GB; OS Microsoft* Windows* 8; Browser: Chrome* 29.0.1547.57; Graphics driver: 126.96.36.1992; Display size: 10.1"; Display Resolution: 1366x768; Battery size: 26.6 WHr; Storage: 64 GB
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- Intel® AtomTM Processor Z3770 (4T4C, up to 2.4 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache) measured on Intel® Reference Design 1.4.1: Memory: 2 GB; OS: Microsoft* Windows* 8.1 RTM; Browser: Chrome* 29.0.1547.57; Graphics driver 10.18.10.3266; Display size: 10"; Display Resolution: 2560x1440; Battery size: 38.5 WHr; Storage: 64 GB
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2. Measured by TouchXPRT* 2013 overall score and Convert video for sharing sub score. TouchXPRT 2013 is a benchmark for evaluating the capabilities of your Windows* 8 and Windows RT devices. TouchXPRT 2013 runs tests based on five user scenarios (beautify photo album, prepare photos for sharing, convert videos for sharing, export podcast to MP3, and create slideshow from photos) and produces results for each of the five test scenarios plus an overall score. Find out more at http://www.principledtechnologies.com/benchmarkxprt/touchxprt/.
4. Measured by SYSmark* 2012 Lite overall score TabletMark*. SYSmark 2012 Lite is an application-based benchmark that reflects usage patterns of business users in the areas of office productivity, data/financial analysis, system management, and web development. SYSmark 2012 Lite features the latest and most popular applications from each of their respective fields. Find out more at http://bapco.com/products/sysmark-2012-lite. TabletMark is targeted specifically for touch-enabled devices. With support for Windows* 8 and Windows 8 RT, TabletMark measures performance for two different usage scenarios: Web & Email and Photo & Video sharing. Find out more at http://bapco.com/products/tabletmark.
5. Measured using 3DMark* Ice Storm, a 3-D graphics benchmark that measures 3-D gaming performance. Find out more at www.futuremark.com.
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7. Battery life is measured using a 1080p 10Mbps h.264 Elephants Dream video. Configuration: In the device settings, disable all radios except Wi-Fi. Disable Intel® Display Power Saving Technology (Intel® DPST), set up the system to ~200 nits screen brightness using a full screen white background, and re-enable Intel DPST. Turn OFF the adaptive brightness setting under Power Options in Control Panel. Set "Dim the display" to never on both battery and AC. Set "Put the computer to sleep" to never on both battery and AC. Wait 15 minutes after boot. Launch the default Windows* 8.1 Style UI video player, start the workload video in a loop, and disconnect the AC plug to start the test. Measure the time until battery is exhausted.
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Saturday, May 3, 2014
The most recent cold snap may be a setback for the states watermelon season. Clemson University plant disease specialist Tony Keinath points out that a repeat performance of last years spring could create problems.
The recent cool weather may delay this years South Carolina watermelon crop.
Because of the wet, cool spring, there will be more disease problems on young plants than normal, similar to what we saw last year, said Keinath, a researcher and Extension Service specialist at the Coastal Research and Education Center in Charleston.
Keinath remembers last year well.
The cool spring slowed watermelon growth after transplanting, he said. My watermelons did not grow at all the first three weeks after transplanting, which delayed harvest by one to two weeks.
Because of the late start to the growing season, the first South Carolina watermelons likely will be harvested in mid-June. In some years part of the crop has been ready in early June.
A delay can be a headache for growers, but if the weather spawns more disease problems, that can put a dent in the $30 million-plus crop. Diseases mean losses and higher costs to control them.
Fungus is the biggest problem. Fungi cause five serious plant diseases.
Fusarium wilt, gummy stem blight and anthracnose are the most severe, followed by powdery mildew and, in some fall crops, downy mildew, said Keinath.
Keinath and Gilbert Miller, the watermelon Extension specialist at the Edisto Research and Education Center in Blackville, coauthor a watermelon spray guide for commercial growers. Fungicide recommendations for anthracnose, powdery mildew and downy mildew were updated for 2014.
Keinath has been working with watermelons for 23 years: Every year since I came to Clemson in 1991, he said.
More than two decades of working the watermelon patch has given Keinath some insights. When it comes to selecting varieties to grow, I still like the flavor of Charleston Grey watermelon. Crimson Sweet has a little more disease resistance than Charleston Grey, he said.
Watermelons grow best with full sun in well-drained soil, such as sandy loam, making the Carolina coastal plain an ideal region for commercial watermelon growing.
For professionals and amateurs alike, Keinath recommends that early crops should be set out as transplants to give them a head start in cool soil. Because it is difficult to weed around the vines, the ground should be covered with mulch to block weeds and to conserve moisture when the weather turns hot. Watermelons should be sprayed with fungicide at least every other week, starting when the first flowers appear and continuing until the first fruit are ripe.
Ripeness raises another issue: how to select a sweet, ready to eat melon? Keinath offers these tips. Look for fruit with a slightly wavy or uneven surface and, most importantly, the belly of the fruit should be a creamy yellow color, he said. To pick a fruit that is sweet, the fruit should be heavier than other fruit that are the same size. To pick a ripe melon from the plant, the tendril closest to the stem of the fruit should be dried or dead.
For more help with watermelons, commercial growers should contact their county Extension agents or Keinath or Miller. Home gardeners should check the Home and Garden Information Center or a contact a Master Gardener in their county Extension office.
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With the official announcement from BMW of the New Navigation Professional and iDrive/ConnectedDrive, many of you have inquired when the technology (both a software and hardware [cpu, graphics processor, hard drive] upgrade) would be implemented on the various models.
Below is the scheduled rollout for the new navigation and iDrive. These dates do not apply to the new iDrive Touch system, which will have a separate rollout and application schedule.
[b]]July 2012 Production:[/b]
3 Series touring and Activehybrid 3 (F31/F30h)
5 Series, 5 Series GT, 5 Series LWB (F10/F11/F07/F18)… CONTINUED
BMW ConnectedDrive has been setting the pace in the field of automotive connectivity for many years now, and is renowned for forward-looking in-car concepts and technologies that maximise customer benefit. The new functions mark another milestone in the BMW ConnectedDrive success story and once again demonstrate how the BMW Group is striving to retain its status as the leading innovator in this area.
Starting as of July 2012 production, the next generation Navigation Professional system (609) will be available on the 5 Series Sedan, 5 Series Gran Turismo, 7 Series Sedan and ActiveHybrid 3. Although the link above doesn't mention the F30, it will also be available on the F31 touring and should be available on the F30 3 series as of July.
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Friday, January 17, 2014
The search for a boater missing from the Sampit River intensified today after clothing believed to belong to him was found.
Keith Edward Sullivan, 45, of Emerald Isle, North Carolina was reported missing Wednesday, according to Georgetown County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Carrie Cuthbertson.
Sullivan's sailboat, named Saga, remained empty near the Harborwalk boardwalk Friday afternoon, two day after he was reported missing.
Cuthbertson said the Sheriff's Office has utilized a plane, helicopter, marine patrol units, side scan sonar, and personnel in the search for Sullivan.
Cuthbertson said articles of clothing, similar to those described as being worn by Sullivan, were found on Goat Island at the mouth of the Sampit River Friday morning. That is when the Department of Natural Resources joined the search.
"Goat Island is being searched by boat and aircraft with the intentions of locating Mr. Sullivan," Cuthbertson said.
Sullivan was last seen Sunday by some friends from Canada, who were also visiting the area, said Chris Carroll, manager of Harborwalk Marina on Front Street.
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Earlier this week, a Google employee named William Chan published a post on Google Plus about the way his team was planning to solve some problems that the Chrome browser was having delivering Web addresses.
The issues, and the solution, are highly technical. But they boil down to this: in order to deliver pages faster, Google is going to make it possible for the browser to resolve Web site addresses like www.google.com into IP addresses like 22.214.171.124 that machines on the Internet can read.
Currently, Chrome follows standard industry practices to resolve Web addresses: Chrome sends a request to the underlying operating system which reaches out to another computer on the Internet known as a DNS server. This process gives a computer user control over which DNS server to use.
At this point, even if you have a moderate interest in technology, you will probably be wondering why this is news.
The changes to Chrome matter a lot because they mean Google will be in a position to steer all the traffic from Chrome browsers to Google's own DNS servers. This could provide Google with vast insight into what is happening on the Web, including on competitors' sites like Facebook.
Google's response: while this is technically true, they would never do this. (Remember the whole "don't be evil" motto.) One thing I was told, but wasn't able to confirm officially, is that doing this could potentially cause problems for Chrome users in corporate environments.
Updated 6:02 p.m. 3/16/2012: Google spokeswoman Lily Lin sent an email that clarifies that Google is not going to do this. For the techies out there she said: the DNS stub resolver that Google is building "will use the OS-configured DNS servers by default. These are the same DNS servers that the existing mechanism (calling the operating system's getaddrinfo() function) uses."
Lin also confirmed that overriding a user's settings would break a user's VPN. "We have not at all considered switching to Google Public DNS by default as it would break for many users. For instance, many users browse the web from within a corporate intranet, whose hostnames Google Public DNS does not recognize. Therefore, if we ever switched to Google Public DNS, hostnames would fail to resolve."
For the non-techies out there this means that the code changes won't put your privacy at risk. For investors, it means the new code won't be giving Google a competitive advantage. And for readers keeping score, it means I pressed the publish button too early. I apologize for being confused and for confusing you!
Depending on your perspective, this gives Google a great competitive advantage, or raises questions about the applicability of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
There's also a user privacy issue. Now, I use Google Public DNS and I'm not worried about Google secretly spying on my Internet traffic. But there is very little to stop Google should it decide there is a compelling need to closely inspect unencrypted packets hitting its DNS servers.
Author's Note: At this point it's worth clarifying a misunderstanding I had when I wrote this post that was identified by one of the readers. The way the Internet works, not all content in a communication packet is sent to a DNS server. If you are interested, I'll be explaining this in a later post, thanks to Paul Mockapetris, the founder of the domain name system, who has agreed to do an in-depth interview with Qubits.
The issue was pointed out to me by David Ulevitch, whom I interviewed last month for my post "A Closer Look at Google Public DNS." Unlike most people on the planet, Ulevitch has skin in this game. He runs a service called OpenDNS, which competes with Google Public DNS. The implications for David are that Chrome will now be able to override his users' choices. Instead of allowing the operating system to resolve an address via OpenDNS, Chrome would, at least in theory, ensure the address is resolved by Google Public DNS.
"It's a dangerous combination when you control the browser, search and DNS," Ulevitch said. "It's like Microsoft back in the day when it controlled the browser and the desktop operating system and dominated the market for office apps."
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By Sig Christenson : January 8, 2013 : Updated: January 8, 2013 11:28pm
Photo By Billy Calzada/San Antonio Express-NewsAir Force Tech. Sgt. Jaime Rodriguez, middle, who is accused of rape, forcible sodomy and adultery while assigned to the Lake Jackson recruiting office from August 2008 to November 2011, arrives for an evidentiary hearing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland on Tuesday morning, Jan. 8, 2013.
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Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jaime Rodriguez, middle, who is accused of rape, forcible sodomy and adultery while assigned to the Lake Jackson recruiting office from August 2008 to November 2011, arrives for an evidentiary hearing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland on Tuesday morning, Jan. 8, 2013.
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Tech. Sgt. Jaime Rodriguez, seen in an undated photo provided Friday Jan. 4, 2013 by The Bay City Tribune, has been accused of illicit involvement with 18 women, many of them hoping to join the service, and allegedly raped one of them. The allegations against Tech. Sgt. Jaime Rodriguez, who faces an evidentiary hearing Tuesday, Jan. 8 in San Antonio, include forcible sodomy and adultery, and go back to March 2009, a little over a year after he became a recruiter.
Photo By John L. Mone/ASSOCIATED PRESSTIMELINE: The sex abuse scandal centered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland has become the worst in Air Force history with 33 basic training instructors under investigation for allegations of misconduct with 63 recruits and technical training students. The following photos depict the still-unfolding investigation.
Photo By William Luther/San Antonio Express-NewsMarch 2, 2012: Air Force trainees at Lackland Air Force Base listen as officials explain to them about sexual misconduct and their responsibilities to report it.
Photo By Lisa Krantz/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSApril, 2012: Staff Sgt. Peter Vega-Maldonado, 32, pleaded guilty to two charges stemming from his relationship with a 21-year-old airman he supervised in basic training. In exchange for a reduced sentence, he agreed to testify against two other trainers he said had illicit relationships with women. The judge gave Maldonado 90 days in jail, 30 days hard labor while restricted to the base, reduction from staff sergeant to airman and forfeiture of $500 a month pay for four months. Read more: Two more Lackland AFB instructors implicated in sex scandal
Photo By COURTESY PHOTOJune 20, 2012: Lt. Col. Mike Paquette lost his job as commander of the 331st Training Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, where most of the accused instructors had worked. He had led the 331st Training Squadron for two years. Read more: Training boss ousted in Lackland sex scandal
Photo By Billy Calzada/Associated PressJuly 20, 2012: Air Force Staff Sgt. Luis Walker arrives for the fourth day of his trial at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Walker was accused of sexually assaulting 10 basic trainees, with charges ranging from rape and aggravated sexual assault to obstructing justice and violating rules of professional conduct. Read more: Staff Sgt. Walker found guilty on all charges of sexual misconduct
Photo By Tom Reel/San Antonio Express-NewsJuly 21, 2012: Staff Sgt. Luis A. Walker is taken away in chains from the 37th Training Wing Headquarters after sentencing. Walker, called a "sexual predator" by Air Force prosecutors, was given 20 years in prison. Read more: 'Sexual predator' gets 20 years at Lackland trial
August 1, 2012: Tech Sgt. Christopher Smith, 33, was convicted on two of four counts of misconduct with basic trainees and sentenced to 30 days in jail and a reduction in rank to airman first class, a penalty that will permit him to remain in the Air Force. Read more: AF trainer given 30 days behind bars, loss of rank
Photo By William Luther/William firstname.lastname@example.com 10, 2012: Col. Glenn Palmer lost command of the 737th Training Group, which trains more than 35,000 airmen a year at Lackland. Read more: Lackland training chief is ousted
August 22, 2012: Maj. Gen. Margaret Woodward submitted the Command Directed Investigation, which took a deeper and wider look at basic military training, to AETC Commander Gen. Edward Rice. Her recommendations will become an important blueprint for actions that will be implemented throughout basic training as well as technical training. Read more: Major general to investigate 'systemic issues'
Photo By COURTESY/USAFSept. 4, 2012: After a little more than a year on the job, Air Force Col. Eric Axelbank stepped down as head of a training wing here that has been rocked by a growing sex scandal. The command change occurred one day before another instructor, Master Sgt. Jamey Crawford, goes on trial on charges of having sex with a trainee. Read more: Col. Axelbank exits Lackland for the Pentagon
Photo By Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-NewsSept. 10, 2012: U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Kwinton Estacio arrives for the start of his court marshal at Lackland Air Force Base. Estacio was initially tried on charges that he sexually assaulted a female basic training student, violated a no-contact order and asked several trainees to lie about his contact with them. Read more: Lackland sergeant pleads guilty to less serious charges
Photo By Tom Reel/San Antonio Express-NewsSept. 12, 2012: Staff Sgt. Kwinton Estacio is led away from the 37th Training Wing Headquarters after sentencing in his trial at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. He was sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to charges of obstruction and having sex with a trainee in violation of Air Force conduct rules. Read more: Former Lackland trainer receives 1-year sentence
Photo By Billy Calzada/San Antonio Express-NewsSept. 21, 2012: Col. Deborah Liddick marches with military drill instructors during her change-of-command ceremony at JBSA-Lackland. The fourth woman to oversee the Air Force's boot camp since 1996, she takes over amid an investigation that is scrutinizing 33 basic training instructors for misconduct. Read more: Woman now heads AF training at Lackland
Photo By Billy Calzada/San Antonio Express-NewsSept. 21, 2012: Col. Deborah Liddick, left, salutes new military training instructor Staff Sgt. Abigail Rodriguez, after taking command of the Air Force basic training program at JBSA-Lackland.
Photo By Billy Calzada/San Antonio Express-NewsSept. 21, 2012: Col. Deborah Liddick, new commander of Air Force basic training at JBSA-Lackland, is applauded by by presiding officer and commander of the 37th Training Wing Col. Mark Camerer during a change-of-command ceremony.
Photo By Marvin Pfeiffer/ Express-NewsSept. 24, 2012: Staff Sgt. Jason Manko (right) is led from the courthouse to a waiting pickup on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland after being sentenced to 45 days in jail and another 30 days of hard labor on the base for having an illicit relationship with a female trainee. Read more: Lackland trainer gets 45 days in jail in sex case
Photo By Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-NewsOct. 2, 2012: U.S. Congresswomen from California, members of the House Armed Services Committee, Loretta Sanchez (from left), Jackie Speier and Susan Davis hold a press conference outside Lackland Air Forc e Base. The committee members met with personnel at the base to investigate the ongoing sex scandal. Read more: Lackland's 'culture' blamed for scandal
Photo By Bob Owen/San Antonio Express-NewsOct. 23, 2012: Air Force Secretary Michael Donley gives comments on the Lackland AFB sex scandal now involving 33 instructors having inappropriate contact with 60 women and three men. Read more: AF training likely won't see sex segregation
Photo By Sig Christenson/San Antonio Express-NewsNov. 14, 2012: Gen. Edward Rice Jr. and Maj. Gen. Margaret Woodward met with the media at a press conference in the Pentagon as Col. Steve Clutter stands nearby to field questions. The commanders met with reporters to outline the results of an investigation into sexual misconduct among basic training instructors at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. Read more: Lackland leaders cited in scandal
Photo By BOB OWEN/San Antonio Express-NewsNov. 24, 2012: Former Air Force instructor Staff Sgt. Craig LeBlanc, center, who was facing 52 years in prison on charges of misconduct with three trainees, threatened to jump from a local overpass after becoming overwhelmed by his legal problems and travel restrictions. Read more: Lackland instructor's legal woes cited in apparent suicide tries. He remained in the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland lockup after a hearing Dec. 4 in which the Air Force said he committed four new violations. Read more: Lackland trainer jailed after release
Photo By Courtesy photoJan. 3, 2013: A military judge found Staff Sgt. Christopher Jackson guilty of having sex with two women trainees and telling one to lie if investigators asked about them. He received a 100-day jail sentence but will stay in the Air Force. Read more: AF instructor is sentenced to 100 days in jail | Sex case witnesses depict Lackland trainer as a true friend
Photo By Billy Calzada/San Antonio Express-NewsJan. 8, 2013: Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jaime Rodriguez, middle, who is accused of rape, forcible sodomy and adultery while assigned to the Lake Jackson recruiting office from August 2008 to November 2011, arrives for an evidentiary hearing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. Read more: Air Force recruiter pursued girl for sex
Photo By Susan BiddleJan. 23, 2013: House members sharply criticized two Air Force generals for a culture that allowed pervasive sexual abuse of recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, and for "significant" delays in reporting the crimes. Lawmakers from both parties took turns at a congressional hearing voicing their displeasure and pressed the generals about steps the Air Force is taking to stop sexual abuse. Technical Sergeant Jennifer Norris wipes a tear as she testifies during the hearing. Read more: Panel criticizes handling of Lackland abuse
Photo By Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-NewsJan. 31, 2013: A day after jurors cleared Staff Sgt. Donald Davis of the most serious charges against him, he was sentenced to three months of hard labor and a bad conduct discharge for having sex with a trainee in technical school. Read more: Air Force instructor sentenced to hard labor
Photo By Billy Calzada/San Antonio Express-NewsFeb. 14, 2013: Air Force Staff Sgt. Craig LeBlanc, in chains, is led from a JBSA Lackland courtroom after being sentenced to 2 1/2 years after he was found guilty on all but one of nine charges that included a 2011 tryst with a recruit. Facing a battery of allegations that included sexually assaulting a woman, he was at risk of going to prison for 52 years. Read more: Lackland trainer gets prison for sexual misconduct
Photo By Bob Owen / San Antonio Express-NewsFeb. 20, 2013: A judge threw out a case against Tech. Sgt. Samuel Wicks, who was charged with pursing illicit liaisons with three women, saying prosecutors relied on evidence taken from a stolen cellphone. Read more: Judge tosses case against Lackland trainer
March 4, 2013: Former Air Force trainer Ryan Deraas was sentenced to three months in jail and given a bad-conduct discharge for assaulting a pair of recruits and pursuing five illicit relationships. Read more: Former Lackland trainer sentenced to 3 months in jail
March 16, 2013: Air Force Staff Sgt. Eddy Soto got four years in prison and a dishonorable discharge after being found guilty of raping an airman he'd led in basic training. Soto, 30, is only the second trainer at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland to be convicted of rape since trials began last spring in the growing instructor misconduct scandal. Staff Sgt. Luis Walker was given 20 years in July. Read more: Lackland trainer handed 4 years in rape
March 21, 2013: Former Air Force basic training instructor Master Sgt. Jamey Crawford was given seven months in jail, two months' hard labor and a bad-conduct discharge for having sex with two women and later lying to investigators about it. Read more: Trainer gets 7 months in Lackland scandal
Photo By MAX WHITTAKER/New York TimesApril 1, 2013: Virginia Messick is the first victim of a still-unfolding sexual assault scandal at Lackland Air Force Base to speak publicly about what she has endured. Read more: Lackland instructor's victim speaks of trauma, fear
Photo By JERRY LARA/San Antonio Express-NewsApril 2, 2013: Staff Sgt. William Romero was given 30 days' hard labor, restricted to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland another 30 days and reduced to airman after pleading guilty to charges that he had illicit relationships with four women and committed adultery. Read more: Lackland trainer, an Iraq vet, gets 60-day sentence
April 24, 2013: Tech. Sgt. Bobby Bass, who faced up to 33 years in prison, was convicted on multiple counts of misconduct with recruits four years ago at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland and sentenced to six months in jail and a reduction in rank by a single stripe. He was acquitted by the jury of two officers and four NCOs of a rape charge involving an airman while in Kyrgyzstan. Read more: NCO gets 6 months in abuses at Lackland
Photo By JOHN DAVENPORT/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSApril 25, 2013: Staff Sgt. Robert Hudson pleaded guilty to having sex with a recruit in basic training and also sickening airmen in a boot camp flight he led after pouring two gallons of bleach in a latrine. Read more: Lackland instructor poured bleach on floor, sickened recruits
Photo By SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSMay 2, 2013: Staff Sgt. Emily Allen, who pleaded guilty to having sex with a recruit, was sentenced to three months in jail, 30 days' hard labor and reduced to airman first class. The Air Force could move to discharge her after she is released from jail. Read more: Female Lackland trainer gets jail sentence
Photo By JOHN DAVENPORT/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSMay 22, 2013: The Air Force says basic training instructor Michael Wladischkin had improper relationships with seven women in technical training on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. He faces an Article 32 evidentiary hearing Wednesday, May 22 at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph on allegations of indecent acts, assault, adultery and unprofessional relationships with technical training students.
Photo By Scott M. Ash/U.S. Air ForceJune 7, 2013: Maj. Gen. Margaret Woodward takes over as the head of the Air Force's sexual response. She replaces Jeffrey Krusinski, a lieutenant colonel who was arrested and charged with sexual battery. Read more: Lackland critic to target AF sex abuse
Photo By SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSApril 21, 2014: Military judge Col. Donald Eller Jr. found Airman 1st Class Nathan Wilson-Crow, a photographer, guilty of four charges and five specifications of misconduct, one of which carried a possible 15-year prison sentence. Wilson-Crow was tried making sexual contact and exposing himself to at least two girls from O'Connor High School at a youth camp in April 2013. Read more: Airman guilty of some charges in Lackland sex case
Photo By San Antonio Express-News / File photoSeptember 1, 2014: Former Staff Sgt. Luis Walker, given 20 years in the Air Force's worst sex scandal, dies in a Kansas City, Mo., hospital. He hanged himself in a prison cell at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks.
Photo By Express-News file photoSeptember 9, 2014: Following an analysis of instructor misconduct at Lackland, the Government Accountability Office reports that six recommendations have not been implemented, including one to increase the number of training instructors to 528. Read more: Changes driven by Lackland scandal not complete
Photo By JERRY LARA/San Antonio Express-NewsJanuary 29, 2015: A jury finds veteran Air Force Master Sgt. Michael Silva guilty of raping a recruit he was charged with training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lacklandin 1995. He was found guilty of twice raping the recruit, and also raping a third woman, a member of the military, in Wyoming during February 2007.
A woman testified Tuesday that a Houston-area Air Force recruiter doggedly pursued her in 2011, when she was a 17-year-old high school senior, sending her lewd text messages and naked photos of himself.
Now in the Navy, she accused Tech. Sgt. Jaime Rodriguez, 34, of trying to coax her into a sexual relationship and later told her not to talk with people about it.
"'If anyone found out, you do realize that both of us would get into trouble?'" the woman, identified as Female 15, recalled him saying.
An Air Force investigation began after her mother found the text messages and photos.
Agents tracked down 18 women who claim Rodriguez, a 13-year Air Force veteran, tried to initiate sexual relationships with them.
Eight witnesses took the stand Tuesday in a Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland courtroom for a hearing that could lead to court-martial.
The hearing continues today.
Prosecutors have lodged six charges and 35 specifications of misconduct against Rodriguez, who's accused of adultery, forcible sodomy and rape.
He could receive a life sentence if convicted of the rape charge.
Rodriguez is thought to have had sex with four women, one of them an applicant and another on active duty while assigned to the Lake Jackson recruiting office south of Houston since August 2008.
The active-duty airman, identified as Female 1, said Rodriguez and another recruiter began asking sexual questions on her second day on the job.
The second recruiter has since left the Air Force.
"I was very innocent and naïve, if you would. I didn't know how people treated other people," she said, when asked how she responded. "I had never been in a situation like that before."
Rodriguez, whose recruiting squadron is based in San Antonio, never sent emails or messages to her. But he allegedly pursued relationships with 14 other women via email or text messaging — in three cases sending graphic naked photos of his genitals.
At least one of the women, Female 15, was 17 and in high school at the time. Military law says 16 is the age of consent for sex, said Lt. Col. Mark Hoover, an Air Force's training command lawyer.
The Navy enlistee said she opted not to join the Air Force because of her experience. Most of the women listed as victims did not join the Air Force, but a few were recruit applicants. Two were recruiter's assistants, one of whom said she was raped.
Recruiting service spokeswoman Christa D'Andrea said it's not clear if those who decided not to join did so because of their experience with Rodriguez.
Female 15 said Rodriguez was professional during a screening session, but things turned sexual later.
They never met, but the woman said Rodriguez would text, call and send Yahoo instant messages to her phone. They became frequent, and graphic.
In one exchange, she said via teleconference at the hearing, Rodriguez talked of having sex with her in his office. She said the conversations also led her to feel as if she should not tell anyone.
"It became more, like, predatory," she testified.
Air Force Special Agent Mark Ryan said his investigation found numerous women who received text messages and emails from Rodriguez.
He said records show Rodriguez made 934 phone calls or text messages to Female 15 from September to October 2011on his government cell phone, and that she logged 515 phone calls and text messages on her phone.
There also were exchanges on a Yahoo instant messaging service. Her mother discovered photos of her daughter on the phone, one with her wearing a bra without a shirt, and later found images of Rodriguez in boxer shorts.
The mother said she found a photo of him naked after one of Rodriguez's supervisors asked her to send him all the emails the recruiter sent. "This was very disturbing," she said of the image.
A Marine recruiter in Lake Jackson, Sgt. Richard Lecompte, said Rodriguez came to his office in November 2011 and asked him to create an email from a new account purportedly from the girl's parents, saying they wouldn't press charges.
"I told him I didn't want anything to do with the situation," Lecompte said, adding that he was ordered to file a report about the incident.


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Five football JCJC Bobcats ink with senior collegesDecember 20, 2012
By Shawn Wansley, JCJC Sports Information Director
ELLISVILLE – At least five Jones County Junior College football players signed scholarships with senior colleges on Wednesday.
Offensive tackle Fredrick Moore, linebacker Damien Wilson, defensive ends Chavez Sims and Felton Collins and defensive tackle Cameron McLeod all inked with Division I schools on the opening day of the mid-year signing period.
Moore, a first-team NJCAA All-American, signed with the University of Southern Mississippi, becoming one of the first signees for new head coach Todd Monken.
Moore is a 6-foot-5, 325-pound sophomore from Heidelberg High School. He was a two-year starter at offensive tackle for the Bobcats. He was named the MACJC South Division's Most Valuable Offensive Lineman, All-MACJC South Division first-team and All-Region 23.
Wilson, an honorable mention NJCAA All-American, signed with the University of Minnesota of the Big Ten Conference.
Wilson, a 6-foot-3, 230-pound sophomore from Amite County High School, was named the Most Valuable Defensive Player for Region 23, the MACJC's South Division Most Valuable Defensive Back, All-MACJC South Division first-team and All-Region 23. He led the MACJC and was fourth in the nation in tackles with 76 solos, 46 assists and 122 total tackles. Wilson transferred to JCJC from Alcorn State University prior to his sophomore year.
Sims, an MACJC All-South Division first-team performer, and Collins each signed with Murray State University of the Ohio Valley Conference.
Sims, a 6-foot-2, 237-pound player from Mize High School, was sixth in the state in quarterback sacks with six. He finished with 36 solo tackles, 26 assists and 62 total tackles. He played in the MACJC All-Star Classic.
Collins, a 6-foot-4, 250-pound sophomore from Laurel High School, had 17 solo tackles, 10 assists and 27 total tackles. He had 2.5 sacks, 1.5 tackles for loss and two fumble recoveries. He played in the MACJC All-Star Classic. Collins played tight end on offense and basketball during his freshman year at JCJC.
McLeod, a 6-foot-3, 285-pound sophomore from Greene County High School, signed with Ohio University of the Mid-American Conference. He had 15 solo tackles, 12 assists and 27 total tackles. He had .5 sacks and 1.5 tackles for loss. McLeod played in the MACJC All-Star Classic.
Several more players from head coach Ray Perkins' 2012 team are expected to sign with senior colleges over the next few weeks.
JCJC players who signed with senior colleges:
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–LB Damien Wilson, Minnesota
–DE Chavez Sims, Murray State
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