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  5. Geezers check in

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    59 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

    I think you can get a sense of that by going back a little further (maybe on YouTube) and search for top songs in the era from WWII to the early 60s.  Music changed very, very quickly.  Big swing bands featured singers during WWII.  Singers like Vaughn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, etc., were huge during WWII and the postwar era.  Eventually the bands moved to the background as accompanists for the singers.  The formula was at first imitated by the next generation (people like Bobby Darin).  The bands started to play a little jazzier, and eventually country music and the blues worked there way in, culminating in Elvis.  Suddenly large bands were replaced by small combos featuring guitars.... electric guitars.  Elvis was really a fusion of pop, rock, jazz and blues and at that point all bets were off.  You saw Elvis imitators and associates like Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, etc.  Pop music was being consumed by teenagers more than ever before, with the advent of vinyl records (much more durable than glass 78s) and  much more affordable, especially 45s.

    All that was before I was born (so the previous is just what I've picked up along the way) but it set the table for the Beatles who came to the States when I was very, very young.  The early Beatles songs are among the first I recall as pop music.  The first few hits they had were still not as rock-and-rolly as Elvis was was, they were still in the pop vein I think- songs like Love Me Do, Please Please Me, From Me To You, progressed toward She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Can't Buy Me Love, and Hard Day's Night, the latter grouping putting the Beatles solidly into the rock genre.

    If you want to get a sense for how quickly it changes, cue all those Beatles songs up in order on YouTube and then play them, and they go from mellow ballads to straight up rock, dragging mainstream pop music along for the ride, in less than two years.  The cool crooners were overtaken by the young and wild upstarts.

    Maybe @Radar remembers it differently; he was there, but I think that might give a sense of it.  Then you can follow all the later movements- Mowtown, The Sound of Philadelphia, Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, Hard Rock, Disco, the Second British Invasion, etc., etc.

    The technology is there with YouTube and Wikipedia to wind your way through the music, move back and forth through time.  I've personally been paying attention to the Wrecking Crew, the loose band of session musicians behind a lot of the pop music of the 1960s and early 70s.  A young Glenn Campbell got is start with them as a session guitarist before making it big as a country singer.  Pianist Leon Russell was prolific, almost the backbone of pop music from that era. 

    There are so many movements in music; even if you weren't alive then you can get some appreciation of them by diving down wormholes on the internet.

    My intro to rock I suppose was Buddy Holly, who , I think was  pioneer in rock although his career was very short due to his tragic death along with the Big Bopper. There was Bobby Darin and many others. Then , of course, Elvis, Roy Orbison. Elvis first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show only allowing above the waist filming. Country music for me was Jones, Haggard,Lefty Frizzell and who could forget Patsy Cline many others. Motown was huge also. Favorite group for me was the Platters. Remember Brenda Lee hitting big at something like ten or twelve years old. I grew up in a home favoring classical music which is all I listen to now.

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  18. GDT: Bruins @ Sabres - 7:30 pm, Dec. 27, 2023, TNT/Max📺 WGR 550 AM 📻

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    1 hour ago, Pimlach said:

    No.  I am surprised you believe this?   Adam’s is all set as long as he will continue to execute the Pegula EEE plan, he will hold his job.  They still have a half dozen prospects to try to rush into the NHL in the next year or two.  That is the plan because no one of any consequence will come to play for Buffalo.   None of this plan has anything to do with winning those games you mentioned, or even making the playoffs this season.  None of it matters.  Pegula prefers to have no more turnover but he might get rid of DG if he absolutely has to.    Fan unrest might push that along.  
     

    This is not an organization that wants to win.  Do you know what the last straw was on the Blues firing Betube?   It was their 6-4 home win against Buffalo.  The owner had a fit because Buffalo tied the game and totally outplayed his team for about 40 minutes.  Berube called a timeout and the Blues scored two quickies but the owner knew they barely beat a bad team with an AHL goalie (UPL), and he saw a pattern that teams were dictating their game to his team in his arena.   He was afraid the team was getting soft.  He was afraid of missing the playoffs two years in a row.  Being outplayed by Buffalo, even in a win, was the last straw.  It took him a few days to get the GM on board but the Buffalo game was the end for Berube.  
     

    Terry Pegula is the opposite.  His hockey knowledge is extremely limited, and he overrates himself on top of that.   He runs other businesses that are more important to him than the Sabres.   His wife is ill.  He just wants Adams to keep the status quo while the prospects cook.  

    Agree totally. I admit I had hopes for KA and DG. No longer do I and my hope for our ownership dwindled about four years into his reign. Don't remember lasting all the way through too many games in quite a while. Pretty much don't care all that much anymore.

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  19. GDT: Sabres @ Arizona - Sat. 9 pm ET, Dec 16, 2023, MSG-B, SCRIPPS 📺 WGR 📻

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    16 minutes ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:

    He does manage to take in Bills games, or at least show up in the locker room at games end.

    I am not critical of the owner.  

    This appears to be KA's show.

    When your roster depth is iffy, at best, it's a recipe for disaster.

    When you pretty much put all your goaltending eggs in the basket of a rookie, it's a recipe for disaster.

    6K was fine last night and gave the Sabres a chance to win, but the others didn't want it badly enough.

    In many games the goalie is not really the problem.

    There is a lot of skill in the top half of the roster, but very little heart.

    The owner controls who the GM is who normally controls who the coach is. It begins and ends with ownership. Truman said "the buck stops here". 

  20. GDT: Sabres @ Arizona - Sat. 9 pm ET, Dec 16, 2023, MSG-B, SCRIPPS 📺 WGR 📻

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    44 minutes ago, MISabresFan said:

    If something changes, GM - Coach, I would let the new team determine the fate of the players.

    Could possibly add owner to the group of changes. Where is our owner by the way. I know with Kim's health ect. it's been a tough period but you still need to once in awhile be in the same area code. Second thought maybe absence isn't necessarily bad.

  23. Do you care about the Sabres anymore?

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    8 hours ago, Flashsabre said:

    I think the organization needs a fresh start. 13 years of no playoffs on Pegula’s watch is simple incompetence from the top down. There is no way tickets sales for next season will be anything but ugly. The arena needs repair.
     

     

    Well, not all under Pegulas watch but get your point.

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