It was 32 years ago today that the GREATEST live rock and roll album was recorded at Chicago's International Amphitheatre (The AMP!): UFO's "Strangers in the Night".

Phil Mogg behind the mic stand, Michael Schenker wielding his axe, Pete Way pattin' the four string, Paul Raymond tickling the ivories and Andy Parker pounding away on the skins.

Take a moment out of your hectic day to bow down in reverence to UFO! Lights light.... lights out Chicago!



What made The Amp 'international' is beyond me. But a pancake joint was also 'international' back in the day.

The Amp was originally built to host the International Livestock Exhibition, hence International Ampitheatre.

Also, UFO sucks.

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Jim DeRevolting = Mac

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

No, its Gridiron Beef Rockmore


Never knew that til today

Facebook backfires again!

Boy, you guys are a bunch of regular Encyclopedia fuckin' Browns.

For what it's worth, I'm Mild Bill Scott also. A reference that will be lost on those under the age of 35.

What's an encyclopedia?

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It's that thing that Wikipedia replaced.

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Mac uses the term Jim DeRevolting no doubt

or is that a Harryism?

You don't really believe that do you? What if you just happen to check the Wu-Tang entry right after RPB has adjusted it to say that Barack Obama was an original member?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu-Tang_Clan

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Don't take it personally.

No. I really don't believe that. I was, as is my want in life, being a smartass.

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Hey, I didn't know Jimmy Reardon was an All In Together guy too!

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Don't take it personally.

That is funny as shit

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Of course he was.

Everyone has been in Wu Tang at one point

Except 50 Cent


Carried over from another thread.

Jorr, do you believe Ghostface here?

I do.

I saw life for what it's really worth and took a step back
Family ain't family no more, we used to play ball
Eggs after school, eat grits cause we was poor
Grab the pliers for the channel, fix the hanger on the TV
Rockin each others pants to school wasn't easy
We survived winters, snotty nosed with no coats
We kept it real, but the older brother still had jokes
Sadly, daddy left me at the age of six
I didn't know nuttin but mommy neatly packed his shit
She cried, and grandma held the family down
I guess mommy wasn't strong enough, she just went down
Check it, fifteen of us in a three bedroom apartment
Roaches everywhere, cousins and aunts was there
Four in the bed, two at the foot, two at the head
I didn't like to sleep with Jon-Jon he peed the bed
Seven o'clock, pluckin roaches out the cereal box
Some shared the same spoon, watchin saturday cartoons
Sugar water was our thing, every meal was no thrill
In the summer, free lunch held us down like steel
And there was days I had to go to Tex house with a note
Stating "Gloria can I borrow some food I'm dead broke"
So embarrasin I couldn't stand to knock on they door
My friends might be laughin, I spent stamps in stores
Mommy where's the toilet paper, use the newspaper
Look Ms. Rose gave us a couch, she's the neighbor
Things was deep, my whole youth was sharper than cleats
Two brothers with muscular dystrophy, it killed me
But I remember this, mom's would lick her finger tips
To wipe the cold out my eye before school wit her spit
Case worker had her runnin back to face to face
I caught a case, housin tried to throw us out of our place
Sometimes I look up at the stars and analyze the sky
And ask myself was I meant to be here... why?
Yeah, yo

I believe every word every Wu-Tang member has ever spit.

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