Steve Smith smoking a cig (Houston DVD)?

[Rockindeano]

Thats what I get for typing in the dark
Don;t let it bug you
Get used to it
I took the 2 finger typing course
and I'm just about the worst typist on earth
well except for Chucky
I see he uses one finger

You did it again..It has nothing to do with one finger..you need to hit the key to the left

[Penny]

Just because you're ignorant of who Ville Valo is, that doesn't mean he can't sing. Thousands of people think he is a good singer. He's the vocalist of HIM. Lauri Ylonen is the vocalist for the Rasmus. Perhaps you need to broaden your horizons.

[Shadowsong]

rockadeano

You did it again..It has nothing to do with one finger..you need to hit the key to the left

Did anyone ever tell you
You can be a pain in the ass?

[Shadowsong]

For heavens sake and for the life of me
I can't see why in this day and age
anyone would promote & defend smoking.

Sorry I don;t care if they are Kiri Te Kanawa singing Ave Maria like an angel....


Go ahead and defend the smoker all you want
When you have to watch a loved one suffer & die from lung cancer you might just not be so pro smoking

[Rockindeano]

Just because you're ignorant of who Ville Valo is, that doesn't mean he can't sing. Thousands of people think he is a good singer. He's the vocalist of HIM. Lauri Ylonen is the vocalist for the Rasmus. Perhaps you need to broaden your horizons.

What exactly in the FUCK are you talking about?

Who the Fuck are these "singers?" Broaden my horizons? WTF are you babbling about?

[Rockindeano]

God, I am SO sorry, I have/had no idea who the Hell the rasmus were! Excuse me.

You know what Aussies(sorry Andrew, they are fair game), this is a Journey board, and in my mind, EVERYONE else is below us, so take "The Rasmus" and shove em up your bunghole. Come on Penny, make an argument for Christs' sake(soory, Abitaman).....

Naming some shitrock singer in a consversation involving Steve Perry is insulting to me, and I am sure the rest of the fans and the band.

The Rasmus? LOL...I am going to paint that on some nearby Porta potty..

[Penny]

I'm not promoting or defending smoking. I merely commented that plenty of good singers smoke. I don't see the big deal. And not all smokers get lung cancer, and not all people who die from lung cancer are smokers. I don't smoke and I have lost loved ones to cancer.

Penny wrote:
Just because you're ignorant of who Ville Valo is, that doesn't mean he can't sing. Thousands of people think he is a good singer. He's the vocalist of HIM. Lauri Ylonen is the vocalist for the Rasmus. Perhaps you need to broaden your horizons. Very Happy


What exactly in the FUCK are you talking about?

Who the Fuck are these "singers?" Broaden my horizons? WTF are you babbling about?

Forget what I said. The world will be better off if you just stay in your little hole.

[Rockindeano]

Forget what I said. The world will be better off if you just stay in your little hole.

No, I am sorry..

I researched and found they are Finnish(HIM)

All I am saying is bring a notable name to the argument..

Sorry to be so harsh, Penny.

[Penny]

Apology accepted. I happen to like the Rasmus.

[junky]

Sorry to "butt" in on your conversation but didn't Elvis smoke, and Billy Holiday?

[Rockindeano]

Not be an "non caring American", because I am Canadian, but I just have never heard of them..

So, let's take a negative and turn it in to a positive.. Who do they sound like? Any Journey influence at all?

[Rockindeano]

And not all smokers get lung cancer, and not all people who die from lung cancer are smokers. I don't smoke and I have lost loved ones to cancer.
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Tell me about it..I lost my wife to cancer...Throat/esphaugas cancer..never smoked a day in her life..24, dead..Go figure.

[Penny]

Tell me about it..I lost my wife to cancer...Throat/esphaugas cancer..never smaoked a day ibn her life..24, dead..Go figure.

Wow! Nasty. Sorry to hear that.


umm, no, I wouldn't think that the Rasmus had any Journey influence. None at all. They're Finnish too. My favorite genre. Oh, they're not a genre? Ok, well I just like most things Finnish.

This is a review I found

By now you can't have missed The Rasmus. The band's breakthrough album Dead Letters received great reviews and ensured these four now 24-year-old Helsinki guys Top 10 spots in over 11 countries. They were almost buried in awards and sold over one and a half million copies of the album. Now it is time to do it all over again! Their 6th album Hide From The Sun was recorded in Stockholm's Nord/Hansen Studio with the same producers as on "Dead Letters", Martin Hansen and Mikael Nord Andersson. The Rasmus stick to their guns and make a better, harder, tighter and catchier Dead Letters. The formula is present throughout - big riff, softer verses, big overblown sing-along choruses - but it's their formula now, and it's well executed. The Rasmus are like a giant musical sponge that seem to have spent years absorbing everything about overblown soft metal, synth-pop, the new romantics - heck the entirety of the 1980's Top 40 - and it feels like they've finally managed to squeeze the crap they don't want back out of the sponge, leaving them with their own defining sound. It's a bit like Hysteria-era Def Leppard with haunted house atmospherics, fronted by Morton Harket of A-ha, but it's more just like The Rasmus.

From the opening salvo of Shot, this is a much more assured affair. Dead Letters took until Time To Burn for the big riffs to come in, but they're here from the word go, as is all the gothic melodrama and atmosphere we've come to expect. Yes, it's definitely heavier than most of Dead Letters, and it's also even more assuredly infectious with an audacious sleigh-bell chorus that will have their haters screaming in agony. Night After Night (Out Of The Shadows) is next, a deliberate follow-up to last year's catchiest single and, although not quite as dangerous, it's a better song. The flimsy disco groove that underpinned In The Shadows is gone for good on this record, replaced with yet another huge riff and perfectly judged chorus. The real sequel, however, is the single No Fear - it's almost as catchy and it will be on the radio forever. Dead Promises has Finnish heavy-metal-cello-band Apocalyptica ramping up the atmosphere, which builds up nicely to Immortal. This is probably the nearest Hide From The Sun goes to courting traditional metal-heads, and then only due to the splash of Iron Maiden guitar harmonies in the middle.

There's no real denying that this is The Rasmus' best album to date and it's very good indeed. Hide From The Sun is pop music, and rock music, that's utterly lacking in cynicism, egotistical posturing, sarcasm or irony, replacing all of the above with big emotion, bittersweet romance and dreams of better days. This record will be huge, and you won't be able to avoid it without serious strategic planning. If you're a Rasmus fan, then start celebrating now because Hide From The Sun is as good as you could possibly want it to be. The Rasmus don't need to hide from the sun - they are here to rock the world.

[Monker]

Penny, check yourself..you are throwing out names of smokers..NOT good singers who smoke.

I don't see Perry, Augeri, Cronin, DeYoung, Bono, Twain, Ryhmes, or any other GOOD singers, puffing cancer sticks...

You misread what I asked.

I asked for good singers who smoke...NOT smokers who can't sing..

Sorry, but Farnham is one of the best singers I have ever heard...and he absolutely smokes. He is the same age as Perry and absolutely blows him away nowadays, and has for years now. If you want to hear what a Perry R&B album could have sounded like when he still had a voice, look up Farnham's 33 1/3...awesome.

And, yeah, the US hasn't heard of him...But, down Andrew's way, he was absolutely HUGE.

[Rockindeano]

Well fill us in Monker...

What band? send a link bro..

But in "his day" IMO, NO oNE blew Perry away....

[Penny]

Farnham is a legend in Oz.

[Monker]

Farnham is a legend in Oz.

And, what is his nickname down under?

[Rockindeano]

Thanks Penny..

I am all over this..


Will look up their info, thank you.

By the way, they are "buried" in awards? How do you think we feel with a stellar band buried under Britney, Christina, and whoeverelse blonde and hot...


I feel your pain...(someone famous muttered those words)

Thanks Penny

[Penny]

Jack?

[Penny]

or maybe whispering Jack?

[Rockindeano]

no no no... try President Clinton.. no worries

[Rockindeano]

If you all look back on this toilet turned thread..

The question wasn't who sang and smoked..

It was a drummer who smoked on ONE song...

Funny how trains turn down dirt roads eh?

I am as guilty as anyone

[Penny]

Monker asked what John Farnham's nickname is in Australia, hence my Jack or whispering Jack posts. I wasn't guessing at your quote. Nothing President Clinton has said interests me in the least.

[Shadowsong]

Perhaps we all got off topic
The question was open to interpretation

Good singers who smoke
First of all there is nothing good about smoking unless you are a tobacco grower or a cigarrttte company

I do think Deano meant top world class recognized singers but he didn;t specify so I guess your answers are valid
Congradulations guess you've proven him wrong....

In his defense I also have never heard of any of these groups
and in so I couldnlt say if they were good or not and how long there voices will stand up to the smoking

I donlt think he thought about the question
just looking for a reaction.
Certainly a few names that most people in the US have never heard of
got more of a reaction than expected.

Its true not everyone who smokes dies of cancer
sometimes there loved ones get sick due to second hand smoke
Some smoke til they die of something else

My neighbor is now hacking with emphazemia and using an inhaler
Well she brought that on herself but whats really sad is her dog is starting to cough too.
I donlt know how she stands it
I can;t even go in her apartment
I have to run out and get air
The smoke is so thick and nauseating
Still there are many people that think that a cigarette in there hands is cool. Those yellow burned callouses, ashtray breath & stained teeth is cool



I can;t tell you in all my years the number of inconsiderate smokers that have assualted me with the stench & carcinogen of there so called right to smoke.
It is an assault on the senses and health
just as much as slipping arsenic in a drink or hitting someone over the head

I'm sorry if offended you inadvertently
Its true your answering the question with some singers who smoke does not necessarily mean you condone smoking.

Goodness even the Govenor of CA is one of them
Errecting a smoking tent on public property so he can exercise his right to smoke his Havava's

I'll blow smoke back

Truece just please don't blow smoke in my face...oooh I found it
or smoke up Deano's ass

[Rockindeano]

Monker asked what John Farnham's nickname is in Australia, hence my Jack or whispering Jack posts. I wasn't guessing at your quote. Nothing President Clinton has said interests me in the least.

ok, well you want President Bush instead? he is really colorful..

On behalf of the rest of the USA, I hereby apologize for electing a retard to lead the free world....TWICE!

[Shadowsong]

Monker asked what John Farnham's nickname is in Australia, hence my Jack or whispering Jack posts. I wasn't guessing at your quote. Nothing President Clinton has said interests me in the least.

I'll have to ask my parents if they ever heard of Farnham
Thats my dads name
Jack

I doubt they have
even though they;''';;;;;;ved lived tthere about 10 years
They live in a very small town of 4000 in NSW

OOOH Clinton
always tooting his horn
LOL

[Penny]

One of my pet hates is walking out of a shopping centre into a crowd of smokers. I think tobacco should be banned. I don't condone smoking at all.

And no, I don't prefer Bush


Shadowsong, if your parents have lived in NSW for 10 years, they will definitely have heard of Johnny Farnham

[Monker]

Well fill us in Monker...

What band? send a link bro..

But in "his day" IMO, NO oNE blew Perry away....

He was in LRB in the mid-80's. He went solo in the late 80's but built his career in Australia. Quite honestly, after his first solo album after leaving LRB, he didn't need to go anywhere else.

You download MP3's....and I think you said you like the soft stuff...

Do searches for Farnham as the artist and these songs:

Please Don't Ask Me
When the War Is Over
A Touch of Paradise
Angels
Walk Away
Soul Reason
Burn For You
Don't Let It End (Just to freak out the Styx fans here)

And, in Little River Band:
Forever Blue
When Cathedrals Were White
Down On the Border
And, there is a live version of "Cool Change" out there that is incredible.

BTW, anything live he does live is amazing...another level from the studio, just as it used to be true for Perry. There is a version of the Beatles "Help" that is awesome.

[Monker]

or maybe whispering Jack?

The Voice.

[Rockindeano]

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And no, I don't prefer Bush

I would NEVER have guessed..He is SOOOO loved...like not at all.