Share your favorite pasta recipe. American Chop Suey is an Indo Chinese dish which is available in many Chinese restaurants in India. We have no clue as to why this is called American Chopsuey – it isn’t the same as the dish with that name in the USA. But it is one of my fav dishes to eat. The combination of crispy noodles, beef, chicken and/or seafood with crunchy vegetables topped with sauce and egg makes it look and taste appetizing.
Boil the noodles according to the package instructions or till the noodles is perfectly cooked. Do not overcook it. Make ‘bulls eye’ eggs – basically sunny-side-up. After draining the noodles, deep fry in oil little at a time till it becomes crispy.
Remove on paper towels to remove excess oil. For Making The Sauce. Put a wok or stir fry pan on high heat. Add 1-2 tblsp of oil. Add the chicken strips to this and stir fry on high heat for about 2 minutes. Add beef strips and any seafood if you want to add them.
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Add the finely chopped garlic, ginger and sliced onions. Continue to fry till the chicken gets cooked. Now add all the veggies and stir fry on high heat so that all the vegetables should be cooked but still retain their crispiness. In the mean time, take the corn flour in a separate bowl and add the chicken stock to it little by little so that it gets mixed up without forming any lumps.
Add the soy sauce, tomato ketchup, chilly sauce, salt and pepper to this. Add this mixture to the cooked veggies and let it cook for about 10 minutes till the sauce is reduced and thickened. Taste the sauce to check for seasonings. To serve. Place the fried noodles in a plate and crush it slightly with hands. Put some of the sauce with the veggies and meat on top of the noodles.
Garnish with a bulls-eye egg (sunny side up) on top and serve hot. Top the noodles with the sauce just before serving to retain the crispiness of the noodles. Delicious and filling and goes well with beer, vodka, rum and anything else. Do You Want to Write a Book?
Once upon a time, I always envisioned that I would end up writing atleast one book which will get published, maybe more. So far no go. But there was a time when I did write 13 chapters of this idea for a novel I had. It was a scifi concept of a guy who befriends a scientist/inventor who disappears and our protagonist investigates. When he finds the scientist’s secret lab hidden under the latter’s garage he stumbles onto a large device that transports him into an alternate universe – one in which after two more world wars, men are rare and women dominate the planet. The women keep men as slaves, for labour and for sex, and there are tussles between women in power to keep their quota of slaves.
One man is shared by several women, who have assumed a post-apocalyptic military lifestyle. Our protagonist is found and enslaved but uses his wits to keep himself at the top of the slave chain and he doesn’t have to do much physical labour due to his smarts being used to help the women in command. At one point – had I finished the novel – he would have escaped with a few women who are more gentle and kind and take a boat off to an island where they can live in peace with other like-minded men and women. But I never got that far. Do You Play Violent Video Games?
I don’t play video games at all. I used to and played quite a few but the only games I bought myself were a couple of FIFA & NHL from EA Sports. I however used to install a lot of demo games from various cds that I would get from computer magazines like PC Today and others.
Among these games I would often pick the first person style shoot him up like games, Duke Nukem and Doom in particular. There were 2 or 3 more but at this point in time I cannot remember the names of these games which I haven’t played since 2003 (Wolfstein something?). Yes these were bloody games with lots of gore and violence but because of the level of graphics at the time it did not look realistic at all. It looked like a game. I don’t play them anymore but I don’t find them to be very violent either but perhaps because they look very cartoonish at the time. I wonder how the graphics for the current versions would look. It would be interesting.
Share your favorite recipe that includes eggs. Hmmm, favourite recipe that includes eggs. For a guy who loves his eggs a simple way, like an omelet or bulls-eye/sunny side up, this can be hard.
So once in a while I like a spicy egg burgi or scrambled eggs (especially if it’s duck’s eggs) but I guess my favourite recipe for eggs could possibly be the beef omelet and French toasts. I love meat omelet and either ground beef or mutton would be great.
Cook the minced or ground beef/mutton separately with spices and then make an omelet, keeping the minced meat stuffed inside. It’s great that way and perfect while drinking some vodka. And ofcourse French toasts – who doesn’t love French toasts. Beat eggs in with some milk and salt – other ingredients also welcome – and then dunk your slices of bread in that mix.
Then you cook them on a frying pan. You got French toast. Tasty as hell. Episode 3 is the actual pilot for the show because episodes 1 & 2, as a two parter, serves as a prologue to Discovery in a way. We finally get the see the ship in question and which shares it’s name with the title of the show.
Episode Synopsis: Six months into her sentence, Burnham is on an unexpected prison transfer when an emergency forces her shuttle to be rescued by the USS Discovery. Spending several days on the ship, Burnham is ordered by its captain, the mysterious Gabriel Lorca, to assist with a scientific assignment. Burnham overhears Lieutenant Paul Stamets, an astromycologist who is leading the assignment, discuss an upcoming experiment with a colleague serving on another starship; Lorca is soon informed of an incident on the Discovery’s sister ship, the USS Glenn, that has killed the entire crew. Stamets leads a boarding party to investigate and finds the dead crew hideously twisted and malformed, as well as a group of Klingons killed by an unknown creature.
Lorca later asks Burnham to work for him, despite her sentence, explaining that he organized the circumstances that led her to him so she could help develop a new way to fly that could win the war she started by killing T’Kuvma. He also secretly has the creature transported aboard the Discovery. A shell of her former self Burnham is a defeated figure having accepted her fate and her imprisonment. She is though still a badass and takes no nonsense from two of the prisoners who seem to want to attack her as family of one of the prisoner’s were killed in battles with the Klingons. The shuttle carrying her and three other prisoners being attacked by a space spores and the pilot is lost but the shuttle is rescued by the Discovery – there is no way that captain Gabriel Lorca did not plan it? He is dark and mysterious, with the onset of war perhaps only enhancing what was already there. This episode marks the first appearance of series regulars Anthony Rapp (Paul Stamets), Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly), and Jason Isaacs (Gabriel Lorca).
Conrad Pla, Elias Toufexis, and Grace Lynn Kung, who respectively play prisoners Stone, Cold and Psycho in this episode, all play or have played roles in The Expanse, another science fiction TV series. The Discovery is working on a faster way to move through space or atleast Stemets is heading the project and Lorca wants Burnham to help as she is, in Saru’s words, the smartest person Saru ever met.
We are introduced to the bubbly Cadet Tilly, who seems to be autistic perhaps (She mentions “special needs” ) and who is assigned to bunk with Burnham. Tilly is a quick fan favourite as an adorkable character but one who also is more than she seems and is aware of the darkness in the ship. We also meet Landry, Discovery’s badass, no-nonsense, tough as nails head of security. Her colourful language when referring to the prisoners may not be what we have come to expect off from Starfleet officers but she definitely is a badass.
We also meet Stamets who is the gay main character and who is the arrogant scientist who rues Starfleet and the military’s stranglehold on scientific experiments in the name of creating weapons and in the face of war. He also butts heads with his captain, who he clearly does not like.
The question on many fan’s minds is – is the Discovery part of a covert operation run by Starfleet’s secret/black ops division, Section 31? That would totally make sense with the way things have been depicted. E also see a lot of black insignia on the ship, which is leaving many to speculate about Section 31’s involvement.
Lorca certainly has charm to boot along with his dark persona and he is the kind of captain who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. But are they his alone or his superiors’ too? We also get to see the Discovery’s sister ship, the doomed USS Glenn, on which Stamet’s work partner was stationed, Starfleet having separated them to get them to work more efficiently and to make room for more experiments. The experiments go badly and a boarding party which includes Landry, Burnham, Tilly & Staments along with secruity personnel is sent to investigate. No crew has survived and they also find several dead Klingons.
Tilly sees a live Klingon who sushes her and is then attacked by a large dangerous creature. The crew minus a few security personnel manages to escape but Lorca has the creature secretly transported aboard the Discovery and held behind a forcefield, before having the Glenn destroyed. Lorca also reveals some of his intentions to Burnham, enough to keep her on the ship (and he seems to have enough clout to keep a convicted prisoner sentenced to life on his ship and working on secret projects) and entices her by asking if she didn’t want to help him end a war that she started.
He is working on not a weapon to kill, but an organic propulsion system that would allow them to travel galaxies in a mere instant. This, he believes, will allow them to win the war.
To prove his point, he has her step into a chamber and takes her on a journey around the galaxy in a matter of moments. So what’s up with Lorca? What mysteries will unfold as the season goes on. The ratings have been pretty good for this episode and I too really enjoyed it.
It’s not my vision of Star Trek – or most fans vision either – but it looks to be a good show. 8.5 outta 10! Despite working from 5:30 pm to 2:30 am on Friday I woke up by 7:30 am today in order to go to Lulu Mall and watch a 10 am showing of the movie Blade Runner: 2045. Unfortunately they were showing the film at only the morning 10 am or the 4:45 pm show. Now, coming outta Lulu Mall in the late evening hours and trying to get back to my place on a weekend, especially with the Under 17 FIFA World Cup game being held at Kaloor stadium is not a good choice.
So I decided to go for the morning show. So I woke up at 7:30 am though I still lay in bed till 8. I then woke up and brushed my teeth and got some coffee. I then ironed my shirt and shaved and took a shower. I hailed an Uber at 9:15 am and reached Lulu Mall by 9:38 am as there was hardly any traffic this morning.
Then I went in and showed my e-ticket and go into the PVR and bought popcorn and Pepsi – my breakfast – and asked them to bring it to my seat. Unfortunately my seat was not good and I ended up sitting on the edge of my seat as the recliner was setup way too back and I just couldn’t get it to be proper.
Anyways after the movie, I went to get some nice chicken for lunch and then went to a Vodafone store in the heavy traffic and waited almost 2 hours for them to get me the new SIM for mum’s phone and for me to link my aadhar to my account. Then I bought a few snacks for the weekend and came home. This is my top 11 albums which were released in the year 1987 and are celebrating their 30th anniversary.
Hysteria – Def Leppard. Pride – White Lion. Whitesnake – Whitesnake. Appetite For Destruction – Guns n’Roses. Permanent Vacation – Aerosmith.
Electric – The Cult. Hold Your Fire – Rush. Bad – Michael Jackson. Into The Fire – Bryan Adams.
Kick – INXS. Girls, Girls, Girls – Motley Crue This is my list and from my personal collection of albums from various artists. I love this collection.
Will You Be Wearing a Halloween Costume This Year? I have never had the chance to dress up for Halloween and well that’s because we do not celebrate Halloween in India. Well, there are a few MNC’s across the country that do and they do it as best as they can but it is usually confined to the office or maybe an international school/college campus.
But there are no parties for Halloween and definitely no kids going out for Trick or Treat. We just don’t do that kind of stuff over here. But I wish we did because it’s a fun holiday, certainly the best kind of thing to celebrate. Forget those silly god and goddess worshipping holidays, this is a day of pure fun and enjoyment and playing out a little fantasy. I would want to dress up as Count Dracula or a similar kind of debonair & suave vampire with a cape, suit and top hat, fangs and all.
Or like a any character from fiction or film. A favourite Scifi character or superhero.
So, no I won’t be dressing up as a vampire, ghost or werewolf or zombie unfortunately. But I do like seeing people in other places doing so and even love episode or movies around this subject. The Circle is a 2017 American techno-thriller film directed by James Ponsoldt and written by Ponsoldt and Dave Eggers, based on Eggers’ 2013 novel of the same name. The film stars Emma Watson and Tom Hanks, with John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Ellar Coltrane, Patton Oswalt, Glenne Headly and Bill Paxton. It is the final performance of Paxton’s career, and was released just after his death in February 2017. It is also Headly’s penultimate performance before her death in June 2017.
The movie is set in the near future (it’s not really mentioned as such but from the look of things I’d guess in the next couple of years) where technology and social media is on the cusp of really taking over the world in a way that privacy can really take a back seat. I mean just look at movie stars and pop stars in Hollywood or any big city – they are hounded by the media and the paparazzi and at times you feel bad for them because they cannot even go to a cafe and enjoy some food and coffee in peace and without makeup on and looking at their best because pics would be splashed all over the internet. Mae is a person who finds herself working for a tech company called The Circle in customer service. The company comes up with these really small cameras, in a project called SeeChange, to provide real time videos anywhere and everywhere. So much so that connected to the online community, you can track someone – anyone – at anytime anywhere because there is always a camera around and there are people who alert you to spotting that person you are looking for. The company has a very strong social media and even physical community with weekend parties and other events planned and although Mae is at first overwhelmed, she embraces the life and soon rises in popularity in the company. Despite being warned by the man who created some of this tech, Mae soon finds herself taken in for special notice by the top brass – Eamon & Tom – and her family’s medical bills are taken care by her company insurance.
After an incident in which she almost drowns Mae is encourages to announce at a company meeting to be the first employee to go completely transparent – which involves wearing a small camera and exposing her life to the world. She is always connected and people see what she sees and can see her – except for when she needs to go to the bathroom. Her friend Annie, the one who helped her get the job, disapproves. The Circle soon becomes more powerful as voting could be done via people’s Circle accounts and suggestions are made that every citizen have a mandatory Circle account and vote in the elections.
With all these political and power connotations, it’s a more personal matter than changes Mae’s mind about the company. When a friend, Mercer, is hounded by company employees for a misunderstanding, the cameras find him despite him doing his best to go off the grid. While evading the cameras and the people who try to find him, he has an accident and dies. This devastates Mae who goes home for a few days. With the help of Ty, one of the creators in the company, she announces a radical change in the company – at the next company wide meeting, inviting both Eamon and Tom to go fully transparent. She explains how Ty has found all their accounts, even the accounts that their wives were unaware of, and exposes them as no one should be exempt.
Eamon and Tom, clearly upset, try to save face before Tom leaves the stage. Mae reiterates her point of transparency being good, with the support of the audience. Mae goes kayaking again, untroubled by the drones that surround her. The film serves as a kind of warning as to where the information age could be heading and though they make a good attempt, it fails in execution when compared to the novel. I would give it a 6.5 outta 10!
When was the last time you received a handwritten letter? A handwritten letter? Using a pen (or a pencil if you are a small kid) and writing on a paper, getting hand cramps and then taking an envelope, folding the paper and sticking the letter into it, sealing the envelope and then finding the appropriate stamp to stick on the right hand corner and then going to a letter box or the post office and then putting it there so a postal worker can sort it out and then deliver it to the person you want to read it?
Why waste all that time when you can just email them? I guess it was sometime during the late 1999 or 2000.
I don’t remember ever sending a handwritten letter since then. I had a bunch of penpals that I got from a rock magazine in India as well as from chatting online. Internet connections were quite expensive back then, so I only went online for a few hours a week at an internet cafe and chatted a lot on IRC. I made a bunch of friends – none of whom lasted for more than a couple of years – and as I didn’t have internet at home, I exchanged letters. I usually got a few from the Phillippines, Malaysia, Canada, The US, this one chick in the Azores and one hot girl in Finland. I exchanged letters with the latter two, more so with the Portuguese chick who became very demanding and that I make myself available online at certain times.
Which was difficult as I had to make sure I was free and got to a cafe ontime. The Finn was cool and free with me and she sent me some very tasty photos along with her letters. I shall leave it at that. A priest, a minister, and a rabbi want to see who’s best at his job. So they each go into the woods, find a bear, and attempt to convert it. Later they get together.
The priest begins: “When I found the bear, I read to him from the Catechism and sprinkled him with holy water. Next week is his First Communion.” “I found a bear by the stream,” says the minister, “and preached God’s holy word. The bear was so mesmerized that he let me baptize him.” They both look down at the rabbi, who is lying on a gurney in a body cast. “Looking back,” he says, “maybe I shouldn’t have started with the circumcision.”. An angel appears at a faculty meeting and tells the dean, “In return for your unselfish and exemplary behavior, the Lord will reward you with your choice of infinite wealth, wisdom, or beauty.” “Give me infinite wisdom!” declares the dean, without hesitation. “Done!” says the angel before disappearing in a cloud of smoke.
All heads now turn to the dean, who sits surrounded by a faint halo of light. “Well,” says a colleague, “say something brilliant.” The dean stands and, with the poise of Socrates, opines, “I should have taken the money.”.
The pastor asks his flock, “What would you like people to say when you’re in your casket?” One congregant says, “I’d like them to say I was a fine family man.” Another says, “I’d like them to say I helped people.” The third responds, “I’d like them to say, ‘Look! I think he’s moving!’ “. Well it’s always a bad time when you go back to work after a few days off. We had a 4 day long weekend and yesterday I went back to work for a 5:30 pm to 2:30 am shift.
I now work for four days this week, till Friday, and then —- only two days off? What the hell! I had to go the Vodafone store to try and get a replacement SIM for my mom’s phone but there was a huge section of people waiting their turn to try and get solutions for their problems and concerns that I knew that it might be a 2 hour wait for me.
Not wanting to be too late for work, I left after 5:15 pm and went to work, had coffee with a couple of colleagues before engaging my current batch of trainees. Not really happy with the current lot. A colleague of mine were watching them closely and not at all satisfied with their commitment to getting things finished.
Anyways, I completed my work and showed them some examples of what they are to do and then setup what they could expect for today and then by 2:30 am I made my way back home and watched 3 episodes of Frasier before I fell asleep. Rocker Tom Petty, whose vibrant guitar riffs, distinctly raw, nasal vocals and slick song lyrics graced such hits as “Refugee,” “Free Fallin’” and “American Girl,” has died following a heart attack.
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Petty suffered cardiac arrest and was found unconscious at his home in Malibu early on Monday morning and was taken to UCLA Medical Center but could not be revived, his long-time manager Tony Dimitriades said in a statement. He died peacefully at 8:40 p.m. Local time (0340 GMT Tuesday) surrounded by family, his bandmates and friends. Bob Dylan called his death “shocking, crushing news” in a statement to Rolling Stone magazine. Petty, best known for his roots-infused rock music, carved a career as a solo artist as well as with his band The Heartbreakers and as part of supergroup The Traveling Wilburys.
Petty and The Heartbreakers embarked on a 40th anniversary tour of the United States this year and last played three dates in late September at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The band was scheduled to perform two dates in New York in November. Petty formed The Heartbreakers in the mid 1970s, but it wasn’t until the band’s third album “Damn the Torpedoes” in 1979 that their music really took off, with hits such as “Refugee” and “Don’t Do Me Like That.” He and the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, when they were described by organizers as “the quintessential American individualists”, capturing the voice of the American everyman.
“Music, as far as I have seen in the world so far, is the only real magic that I know,” Petty once said during an interview with CNN. “There is something really honest and clean and pure and it touches you in your heart.” Petty also co-founded the 1980s supergroup The Traveling Wilburys with Dylan, Roy Orbison, George Harrison and Jeff Lynne, penning hits such as “End of the Line” and “She’s My Baby.” Petty dropped out of high school when he was 17 and joined Mudcrutch, a band with which he moved to Los Angeles in 1970. The band broke up and Petty drifted from band to band before joining back up with his bandmates from Mudcrutch in 1975. The group became Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1976, according to Allmusic.com.
The band, which recorded 16 albums, culled “the best parts of the British Invasion, American garage rock, and Dylanesque singer/songwriters to create a distinctively American hybrid that recalled the past without being indebted to it,” the site said. A 2015 biography of the singer, “Petty: The Biography,” revealed for the first time the rocker’s heroin addiction in the 1990s.
Petty married Jane Benyo in 1974, and the two divorced in 1996. Benyo disclosed to Stevie Nicks that she met Petty at “the age of seventeen.” Nicks misheard Benyo, leading to Nicks’ song “Edge of Seventeen”. Petty and Benyo had two daughters; Adria is a director and AnnaKim is an artist. 64 Petty married Dana York Epperson on June 3, 2001, and he had a stepson, Dylan, from York’s earlier marriage. What did you do the summer after high school?
Let me first say, like I have said before, that until about 15 years ago we had a lot of schools in India that finished high school at the 10th grade (so age 15 or 16 for some) and you did your 11th & 12th, called pre-degree, in a college before you went for a degree. In the central syllabus schools they did 11th & 12th in a school itself. Later that model would be adopted across the nation.
So my summer after high school was a full 3 months (maybe a little more) in the year 1992 after my 10th grade. After saying bye to my friends, I wanted to stay in at home or go out with my cousins. But I started missing my buddies really badly in a few days. I joined a 2 month basic computer course in DataPro.
I was restless and needed something to keep me occupied and make new friends as well. Besides it was only a couple of hours a day, 4 days a week. So this 2 month course at DataPro seemed like a good option and I had fun there.
I got fascinated by computers as well and during my lab hours I would try to make colourful images on MsPaint. Remember that this was back in the Windows 3.x years. I even remember on seeing my designs, a manager of the institute asked me to try designing for sarees!
I remember these two very gorgeous girls who were in my classes at Datapro. Their names were Zeena and Geena D’Couto and they were fraternal twins. And my eye was on Zeena but Geena was hot too. I spent much time with them and in the afternoons I would go to the record store nearby and go through the various album releases and check out some of the music at the store. Ofcourse I also went to various places visiting relatives. Those were good times. Discovery’s second part of the pilot episode is Battle At The Binary Stars, which serves as the second in the series’ two-part premiere that act as a prologue to the rest of the series, setting up a season-long story arc for Burnham.
Episode synopisis: T’Kuvma convinces the majority of the Klingon leaders that he can lead them to victory over the Federation, as reinforcements for the Shenzhou arrive. Georgiou offers to resolve the situation peacefully, but the Klingons immediately open fire.
Starfleet Admiral Anderson arrives and again offers peace to the Klingons, but his ship is rammed by another cloaked Klingon vessel. Anderson has his ship self-destruct, destroying the Klingon ship as well. Starfleet retreats, leaving the Klingons to collect their dead. In the remains of the Shenzhou, Burnham escapes her cell after encouragement from her guardian Sarek via a telepathic connection.
She convinces Georgiou to try to take T’Kuvma prisoner, and they create a distraction by sending an explosive into his ship with a Klingon corpse. Boarding the vessel, Burnham overpowers Voq. Georgiou attempts to capture T’Kuvma, but is killed. T’Kuvma is fatally shot by Burnham, who is transported to safety. Voq promises that T’Kuvma’s legacy will live on.
Burnham is later sentenced to life in prison for her mutiny. We see Burham’s warnings come true but because of her actions, Captain Georgioua is forced to put her in the brig.
Our flawed heroine raised in the most logical of cultures, the Vulcans, is acting out illogically due to her feelings about losing her family to the Klingons. After the Shenzhou is attacked Burham manages to convince the computer’s security features that she needs to be freed from her cell as the shield may collapse at any minute. She is now able to rationally convince the captain. The brig scenes are well done as is the fight scene and the transportation. However I do have an issue with the ships going into warp and they way they do a hard stop when they come to a point and come out of warp. It’s a dumb effect and makes for a rather abrupt halt.
Also what is with the hologram? What the hell, it is way too advanced for this point in the Star Trek timeline. And also how the hell is it possible to logically have the admiral’s hologram walk onto the bridge and interact with the settings? And Sarek too – his hologram sitting on a desk in Michael’s room but how in the world – aargh, this just infuriates me. There are two many flares as well but the rest of the special effects are stunning to say the least. Communicators are awesome and done well.
Ofcourse my biggest reason to knock off points for the show is the Klingons! There is no reason for the show to reboot the Klingons or atleast redesign them.
Leave the Klingons alone. Haven’t their look been tampered with enough? I think the ships look awesome and the battle scene was done well. Michael and Phillipa beam over to the sarcophagus ship and try to capture T’kuvma but Phillipa ends up getting killed by the Klingon leader and Michael kills him with a phaser shot to the chest.
Her fear comes true; after she is beamed back aboard the Shenzhou, a dying T’kuvma is told that his words and vision will live on making him a legend. The Klingons have a figure much like Kah’less now and the war between the Federation and the Klingons is on. Michael accepts her fate to be sent to prison on a lifelong sentence. She makes no excuse and is devastated that she could not save her captain and mentor.
This prologue of a 2 part episode sets up the remaining 13 episodes of the show in which the Discovery, not seen till now will take center stage. I give this episode an 8 outta 10; though I thought that the battle scene could have been done better. Do you wander when you go shopping, or are you focused on a prepared list? It kind of depends really. If I do go in with a list of things I need to buy then it usually means that I will not stray too much and spend more money that I intend to. Having a list makes you more organised and I have found that I spend less time wandering aimlessly in the various aisles that way. Therefore that can be very useful and better for you when you do not have a lot of time to get your shopping done.
Now, suppose you have some time to kill and are in no particular hurry to get your grocery shopping done. Well wander around and check the various shelves for new and interesting stuff that you have wanted to try or things that you have never seen yet but would now love to try out. There is a certain joy in finding something new and exciting and you can’t wait to try it as soon as you reach home. So it depends on you and your schedule really.
I find it helpful to keep a list handy but when you have some time keep perusing the aisles just in case you find something tasty and interesting.
I've seen/heard some people asking about tracks that they can drum to. Well I was looking for stuff like this too, and I finally found a conclusion. Use Midi files. They may not be the best, but they're there, and VERY easily found. Some of them do have drums in them, but all you have to do is download a program like Calkwalk or Music Creator, open it up and delete the drum track. There, now you have a song you know, that you can play along with.
To find midi's, just google it. Works for me. Hoped this helps at least one person. I brought this up a while back under whatever name it was that I cant remember anymore. I'm just dabbling with drums, although somewhat serious dabbling, but have been a guitar player/bass player and piano player for a long time. I picked about 5 Tool songs I like a lot, and asked someone (out of hundreds of people here and in several other forums) to find a singer that could lay down something close and similar to Maynard, at least in key, and I would record the 5-6 songs all the way through with a click ( I own a studio here in Louisville) including all double tracking and overdubs, a decent quality production, let the singer do his thing, and then make 2 copies of each song, one with audible clicks, and one without, and send them to everyone that wanted one for like $2 to pay for shipping and media.
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The thread sat there for awhile and just got bumped away I guess. I have several songs I've done this to halfassed, and its fun as hell to play to, and all of my original stuff I have tracked I can mute the drums to and play along with it through headphones. Its pretty cool.
I like to set up drums behind my mix station, and sit on the stool, and I can turn around, edit some stuff, press record, and spin on the stool and I'm sitting behind a kit. Anyway, I'll still toy with the idea, but now I'm way busier and dont ahve as much time to f. with it, so. Anyone interested? Hey Bernard, I just picked up Vol's. 1 & 2 but they didn't come with a book, nor any tracks with drums.
Fess up, that's you on the drums ain't it? Oh thanks for the flowers Oh thanks for the flowers Oh thanks for the flowers Oh thanks for the flowers Oh thanks for the flowers.noo, too much honour there is a book with CD and all tracks played with Drums: Turn it Up & Lay it down:::: from Joe Bergamini and Kevin Fuhrman available at Amazon Amazon book (Bernhard. Sorry i cant find the addresses toi the rest of em Can you say sweet? I think I've heard that last one before.
I think my drum teacher was using it as a way of helping me keep time. Hi, Some time ago LDguy posted a link with 2 Dave Weckl's tunes, they were: Island Magic & Garden Wall, both without drums. And these files are really important to me, because I'll probably use them in a selection test, to join an university, that will happen in a month. But now the links are broken, even though some members of the forum downloaded it in the past.
That's why I ask for someone to send me this songs; via E-mail, MSN, etc. I also would like to share some play-alongs from a cd recorded by Dennis Chambers and Tony Royster Jr. To the whole forum, but unfortunately when I tried to attach the files it didn't work. So I can trade these files with the one who help me with the Weckl's tunes.
My E-mail is: [email protected] Thanx a lot. And remember Gary Chester's words: 'You strive to be good. But be good is not good enough.
You've got to be better.' You can take vocals out usually by cutting the midrange a lot.I think my fourth grade music teacher had a tape player with a switch to cut vocals, but basically I think it just cut out the mids.for drums I don't see how you would take them out of a normal CD, there's just too many frequencies there, bass, cymbals, snare, there's no way to EQ it out. Unless the drums were very processed to begin with and you had a super duper gazillion band graphic EQ.
I downloaded a couple of drumless Rush tunes.It would be nice if they put a click on it. Even with big headphones it's hard to get any feedback from the song, acoustic drums are just too loud! I guess you just have to synch your own click to it in Cakewalk or something. Hey, I'm new here, apologies if i'm reposting, i've been scouring the net for some decent music without drum parts, I stumbled across these 2: and there are oceans of midi sites, but I just can't get a good groove with the music when I'm playing, there was another thread where a guy set up an FTP site but it appears to be down. Any help is grately appreciated, and who knows buddha might return the favour!! There are hundreds of MIDI big band/jazz songs.
There are also thousands of modern popular songs in MIDI format where the drums can be removed. Its pretty easy to take the drums out and then mix the midi into an mp3 ( I do this all the time so as to record my drums with the song ).
If your interested, let me know. I can show you how to do this using a software MIDI sequencer. I'd be interested in learning how to do this. Where do you find popular songs in MIDI form and what software do you use to edit the drums out and convert to mp3? Check out Billy Ward's page: Go down to Chart Tawk, and check out the videos of Billy and Barry (gtr player who wrote the songs). You can also download the songs minus drums, and the charts that they talk about. I don't play a lot of jazz gigs, but it's a great jazz play-along, that I've found has helped with my Rock and R&B playing.
Nice variety, track-wise (odd times, 8th note grooves, swing, ballads.) and having the charts is cool too. I've been recording myself, and have learned a lot from listening back to my grooves with the tracks - pretty cool.
Hi, I just started studying with a new teacher and he recommended 'meet the bass player' by allan cox. I went out and bought it and its really really good. Drumless tracks with double bass and some sort of funny guitar. Its aimed at jazz and blues players mainly. They play a number of 12 and 32 bar blues songs at different BPMs. It starts at 40 BPM (I like practising at this tempo, it really helps me focus) but goes right up to like 300 BPM.
Theres even a count in at the beginning of each track. They also do one track in 3/4 and one in 5/4. Its a great cd and much more fun than practising to the metronome.
You should check it out. Pat Petrillo's Hands, Grooves and Fills DVD comes with a book and an mp3 disc of play alongs. The play alongs are my fav part. As does Tommy Igoe's Groove Essentials. Haven't heard the Pat Petrillo stuff, but the Groove Essential play-alongs are the best I've ever heard (and there's like 50 of them). Many different styles, with charts. So, how much would you pay for a custom-created play-along track of any song you want?
And to whomever has trouble hearing the music through headphones while playing, get some good over-the-ear headphones from GC, or some in-ear monitors (M-Audio makes pretty good ones for, like, $60. Those iPod earbuds usually won't cut it. I posted this on another forum, but I figured some guys here might be interested as well.:) link: (257mb) Yea, so these are the drumless tracks I was talking about in my other thread (They're all just loops from GarageBand that are looped for 4-6 minutes. Some have multiple tempos. All the files in the zip file can be seen here: Hopefully you guys are happy with the ones I chose. I basically just chose whichever ones I liked. There aren't too many slower tempos (but 120 can be played at 60) mostly because if you slow a track down in GarageBand it gets all distorted and poopty.
And I only ended up making one 'song,' but I have a feeling it's gonna be kinda awkward to drum along to. So yea, enjoy? I might upload a track or two on soundclick or something if people are hesitant in downloading such a big file without hearing anything first. Hey everybody.
Mp3 tracks with the drums removed can be very useful and a hell of a lot of fun to play with, but are invariably difficult to find, as we all know. I was lucky enough to get my hands on around 70 or so good quality drumless backing tracks recently from a forum, and Id hate to have to keep them to myself! Here are the titles that I have plus their download links. Great post indeed; the first thing I noticed when I saw the list was that there were a lot of songs on there that are also from the video game RockBand. There is a practice mode where you can play any of the songs from the game as drummer and basically it plays the entire song for you without the drum tracks. This is why some of the songs on the list are not originals, but remakes because various artists actually played the songs, not all of the original bands.
Regardless, it's a great idea and i am trying to figure out exactly what i need in order to do this since i have both RB 1 & 2. Also, the songs are not all MP3's they are Mpegs 3 and 4 if that helps any.
The following songs were not part of the DL pack. Could you send those to me please? Enter Sandman (Minus Drums) Metallica Hysteria (Minus Drums) Muse Message In A Bottle (Minus Drums) The Police Go With The Flow (Minus Drums) Queens of the Stone Age Dani California (Minus Drums) Red Hot Chili Peppers. Hey everybody. Mp3 tracks with the drums removed can be very useful and a hell of a lot of fun to play with, but are invariably difficult to find, as we all know. I was lucky enough to get my hands on around 70 or so good quality drumless backing tracks recently from a forum, and Id hate to have to keep them to myself! In a nutshell, heres the list of titles that I have, if you fancy taking one or two off my hands, dont hesitate to message me ill send em to ya!:) enjoy!
Paul, Could you send me these? If not how can I get them? Sounds good I will take a few when you get the time. Paranoid (Minus Drums) Black Sabbath Dont Fear The Reaper (Minus Drums) Blue Oyster Cult Wanted Dead or Alive Bon Jovi Radio Nowhere (Minus Drums) Bruce Springsteen How Long (Minus Drums) The Eagles Greed (w/o drums) Godsmack Dani California (Minus Drums) Red Hot Chili Peppers Funk Bassline Pete Riley Jam Track Rock Bassline Pete Riley Jam Track Highway To Hell (Without Drums) AC/DC Jam Track Black Dog (Without Drums) Led Zepplin Jam Track Rockstar (Without Drums) Nickelback Jam Track Thanks.
I was downloading them anyways so I thought I'd help you guys out. I'm missing about 5-6 songs. Sounds good I will take a few when you get the time. Paranoid (Minus Drums) Black Sabbath Dont Fear The Reaper (Minus Drums) Blue Oyster Cult Wanted Dead or Alive Bon Jovi Radio Nowhere (Minus Drums) Bruce Springsteen How Long (Minus Drums) The Eagles Greed (w/o drums) Godsmack Dani California (Minus Drums) Red Hot Chili Peppers Funk Bassline Pete Riley Jam Track Rock Bassline Pete Riley Jam Track Highway To Hell (Without Drums) AC/DC Jam Track Black Dog (Without Drums) Led Zepplin Jam Track Rockstar (Without Drums) Nickelback Jam Track Thanks Couldn't find Dani California in the folder. Wow you're right it's impossible to get hold of tracks like these. =/ If you don't mind, can you send me Run To The Hills (Iron Maiden), Learn To Fly (Foo Fighters) and Hysteria (muse)? Will be GREATLY appreciated.
(: Tell me if you need my email or something like that. Couldn't find Hysteria in the folder. Thanks very much for all the hard work you've done on these tracks,drumless backing tracks are a bugger to get hold of. Could i get a copy of Run To The Hills and Highway To Hell please? I use a mac,not sure if that'll effect the file format.thanks!
Not sure if you'll be able to extract them on a Mac. You can PM me or whatever if you can't. And of course all credit still goes to Paul C. What about some drumless RUSH tracks? Carve Away the Stone Cut to the Chase Double Agent Fly By Night Limelight A Passage to Bangkok Subdivisions Tom Sawyer YYZ Red Barchetta (partial) http://www.rockdebris.com/audio/drum.adrumless.mp3. Hey everybody.
Mp3 tracks with the drums removed can be very useful and a hell of a lot of fun to play with, but are invariably difficult to find, as we all know. I was lucky enough to get my hands on around 70 or so good quality drumless backing tracks recently from a forum, and Id hate to have to keep them to myself! In a nutshell, heres the list of titles that I have, if you fancy taking one or two off my hands, dont hesitate to message me ill send em to ya!:) enjoy! Regarding drumless track archives there is a torrent here containing lots of tracks here: And I there is a great tutorial on how to record tracks from music games (rock band & guitar hero) WITHOUT the instrument of your choosing. I.e you can record it without the drum track or without the guitar track or both etc. You can find that here: Hopefully the archive of drumless tracks will start to grow even more! Nice forum anyway!
We should start a thread for that. We could call it 'Music tracks minus drums.' One of my students asked for some play alongs, so I searched this forum and the web and came up with a list. Drummerworld Play alongs From Roland Play Along Tracks from Vic Firth Drum Magazine Play Alongs Rush Play Along Tracks Rush, Queen, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots Tracks White Stripe's Play Along Jeff. There has got to be tracks without drumming to popular songs heard on radio.pearl jam stuff, Nirvana, Bob Segar. There are legal issues with that type of thing. But (does have lots of tracks that are similar to popular songs you're looking for - and some of the jazz stuff someone else was asking about.
There's a new release call Prog Metal X that was recently used in the Sam Ash drummer competition with some killer tracks on it. The best ROCK songs are on Turn It Up & Lay It Down Volume 3 and Prog Metal X.
I see quite a few people on this thread asking for jazz playalong tracks. Rather than use a playalong, I prefer to play with songs/albums with no drums. In general the quality of the music is much better and more interesting to play along with. One of my favorites right now is an album with Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, and Stephen Scott called 'Parker's Mood' which is all Charlie Parker tunes. Check out this video of me playing along: Another really obvious source of great drumless music would be the Oscar Peterson trio CDs with Herb Ellis on guitar. Here is the album: http://www.amazon.com/Parkers-Mood-Roy-Hargrove/dp/B0000046ZS. I am from Hungary!
I do not speak English. This letter was translated by machine, it might be weird. I read the list. If you have and can you send the e-mail address. Thank you, Peter QUOTE=paul c;491312Hey everybody. Mp3 tracks with the drums removed can be very useful and a hell of a lot of fun to play with, but are invariably difficult to find, as we all know. I was lucky enough to get my hands on around 70 or so good quality drumless backing tracks recently from a forum, and Id hate to have to keep them to myself!
In a nutshell, heres the list of titles that I have, if you fancy taking one or two off my hands, dont hesitate to message me ill send em to ya!:) enjoy!