Dee Lux DX7's World of Hockey

I must admit, when the Vancouver Canucks drafted Jarred McCann I was really excited about McCann from day 1, and considering what I had heard about the type of game he plays and the fact he plays center, I considered him our most important prospect by far. I don't know where the disconnect was but the player I watched last years wasn't the one I heard about. In fact it was more than once I thought to myself "This guy reminds me of Jordan Shroeder. He's Mr invisible, doesn't seem to want to stand out" It wasn't because of the lack of offense. Virtanen wasn't scoring either but he looked like a guy who was trying to stand out and make a name for himself, I saw sparkle, I saw hunger for the spotlight, these are star qualities that lead me believe Virtanen has something. McCann? Nothing, couple of wrist shots and disappeared for the rest of the year, no pushback, no demand for the spotlight, just sank into the shadows. Sounds like he's doing the same t

 Jake Virtanen is DOOMED No fan should be able to say that about a prospect as recently drafted and as brimming with potential as the young man from Abbotsford. Stranger still to say it about a player   who has ascended to the rarefied air of the NHL, but in the case of this mismanaged youngster not only can fans say it, but they can point out the egregious mistakes that have pushed the young power forward onto hockey's death row. More inexplicable still is the inexcusable stubbornness that keeps him locked on a fatal crash course with the worst label a kid not yet 20 with NHL potential can be tagged with: Draft Bust.   Two key factors have led the 6th overall 2014 pick into a position where he is already feeling the need to demand ice time through the media. Two factors that were ignored by Canucks management as they whistled past the graveyard of another sure season without playoff revenues, on their way to destroying a promising career in the NHL.There are plenty of other fa

      Vancouver is a terrible place to live,  A nearly feudal economic situation has left those of us who remain in serfdom. As you may recall from social studies (Remember when we did stuff like that in Canada?) Serfs were bound to the land of their medieval lords by gigantic debts that were thrust upon them without their consent and virtually guaranteed that A. they would work themselves to death trying to pay it back and B. Their kids would too. Well, even the serfs (not the Smurfs dummy, stop humming the song) were allowed out to market every Saturday to trade cow dung amongst themselves, and apparently our new Shanghai sovereigns are generous enough to do the same. But unfortunately, like other economically disenfranchised peoples, we have turned our anger on to each other. Instead of helping one another and strengthening our economic position when we take to the modern market place, that bustling village square we know as Craigslist, we try to screw each other silly. Well, maybe

               CANUCKS FACE BLUES IN CRUCIAL CONFIDENCE-SHOWDOWN TONIGHT AT RODGER'S ARENA vs. ST. LOUIS BLUES   Oct 18th, 2016      0-82!!!!              00% on the PP!!! GM admitted to group living center for "Slow" adults! I'm barely exaggerating in bringing up the level of caustic prophecy the NHL'as media pundits unanimously claimed for the 2016-17 version of the Vancouver Canucks. One would think that instead of actually hockey players, management had decided to ice a  collection of sex dummies, three legged dogs and Vancouver's perpetual good luck charm, a 50-something Mark Messier, from the apocalyptic predictions carried by nearly all credible media outlets worth mentioning.... ....and oh! How they mentioned! Any jack-off with an Ipad and no girlfriend was taking time out of his day to tell the Canucks highly disloyal fanbase (The truth hurts?) their version of 16th-century poet, Dante's famous welcome mat to hell..... .... "

With the Boss RC 202 Looper, there is both good news and bad news Bad news first? Ok... Sounds like poo 16-bit digital mud farts in my opinion going under standard with sound quality is stupid, because the people using this aren't guitar players looking to have chords back up their solos at the local unemployment office talent show , the people who buy this (me) are writing songs in a studio environment and would prefer not to have to re-track things But the good news is this: it doesn't matter, this thing is magic. EXCELLENT creative/writing tool. Also, this is awesome for DJ sets. If your live DJ mixer has an FX loop then this is all you need for Live Remixing. And the front end FX cover all the standard DJ FX for non-remix standard set FX. I do a lot of TV cues, that have pretty standard formats. So this thing has allowed me to make full use of my Korg Volcas, which are a pain in the ass to integrate. But with this thing, I track em' out part by part sticking to

 Ok,   Here is what you Hippy's with your "It's about what you do with it maaaan" " "Make music not war" and "Who cares if it's analogue man, it only matters that it's groovey" augments don't get..... .....Many of us have tried to find free love with V.A synths, we found they left us limp flaccid and unable to fire our creative juices deep into the being-ness of others. In essence we agree, it's about the music you make with it, not how it works under the hood. But if you'll forgive me for sounding flippant....F$#king DUH!!! Of course it is......The problem is that through years of trail and error many of us have come to the conclusion that an Analog style synth needs to be analog or we aren't going to be able to turn on tune in or drop out. Let alone all three THAT is shy we lay bummers when stuff like this is released, we buy synths, a lot of them and it appears not only are our dollars being taken for granted

Recently read an article on "Making it" in the Nashville music world. I know nothing about Nashville by I know a fair bit about being a professional composer/Song-writer. Here's what I say to the cowboys scavenging for the elusive "Deal" A lot of you are full of s%^t, everyone wants to be successful in their chosen field, "I'd rather work 2 jobs?"Gimme a break! And that by being unsuccessful that means you are glorifying god? Oh PLEASE! Some make it some don't some have intermittent success, I'm not in the NAS scene but I make my living writing elsewhere. You want the answer? Here it is.... ALWAYS be ready to walk out on this business if it doesn't deliver what you've worked for, NEVER be sitting around waiting for scraps from the music biz, it's waaaay too fickle a mistress, and doesn't care if you starve. You must stay in a position of power and never let it think you need it for anything. Then Pitch your goods (Which y

Post-Hall of fame the spotlight has glared most harshly upon the lack of digestible Peter Criss solo material Why through the years has Peter commanded less attention and respect than fellow KISS outcast Ace Frehley? After all, Peter isthe guy who wrote and sang KISS's biggest hit and break-through song "Beth" also arguably the best singer of the origin al four. Yet success has run from him faster than Peter from a metronome during his 25 years outside the band since he helped found it in 1973. For Peter ,the damage was done in '78 That is when he was allowed to do a solo record sorepugnantt to his fans that it ireparably damaged his brand andleftt his stock him a rung below Ace and not on the same planet as Gene and Paul. Peter was in the best shape of any of the four-member to capitalize on his solo record, had he chosen material that referenced Beth, Hard Luck Woman and some Kiss, Cheap Trick, Ramones style energetic catchy simple rock n' roll.

Jeffrey Dahmer, The name conjures a spine-chilling shudder for most mayber the shudder they felt when first informed of his Canibal/Rapist/Murderer's exploits in  MMilwaukeedurring the 80's and 90's. On the heionous scale only John Wayne Gay comes close, these men and thier exploits are horror movies in real time. One almost subconciouly catagorized thiers stories as morbid entertainment due to the fact that the aveage human mind simply cannot concieve of the condition nessasary for one of thier like to do the things these men like Dahmer did. Once the shudder completes it's circut it usually whipsaws the mouth of it's host to spill forth terns like "Sociopath, Monster,even Pience of shit cock-cooking faggot have been said shortly after his name is mentioned, but does the unarguably meek and mild Dahmer REALLY have what it takes to cross the neutral zone of?all things held sacred and commit the worst crimes one could imagine, let alone commit?. I'm

          It sometimes seems that people think being sent down is like going to some never ending training camp where you can "Work on your skating" or "Develope your game" It's showtime down there as well, the coach needs to win to keep his job, the building needs to be full for people to be paid. In the minors your skills are assessed for what they are now and how they will best help the team make money. You can get pigeon-holed as a minor league role player really fas, and before you know it the NEXT wave of young guys come along and you are forgotten. You want to be a star? Act like your one! They send you to the minors, tell them to "F#$K off" You name stays in the news, people think you are important. Someone desperate for talent offers a deal. You get traded to a place where they give you an NHL contract. If you have precieved worth SOMEONE will be desprite enough to give you a shot, and sme money along with it. Every player of per

                             Linden Vey has cleared waivers via the Calgary Flames       This may be the end of a bumpy road upon which a promising NHL career has run over some rus nails and blown all tires, a road that may end in the Swiss league, Who is to blame besides the man him we self? Well, there's plenty to go around and to teach us all just what kind of damage can be done try to make ourselves feel better by dumping our negativity on someone else. One group that needs to look at it's pimple-scared Asian  face right in the mirror  the fan base of the Vancouver Canucks, A group notoriously voted the most obnoxious fan-base in all of sports a few years back. To this day, they mumble in broken English "What-a-made-a-anyone-give-a him-chance-in-first-place?" Though Van fans were having too much fun hating on him too notice, Vey has a level of skill with the puck that rivals some of the best in the league, you only see it every once in a while and I saw i

Screw you And screw us too, as we've sat by and done nothing as the baby boomer generation and it's criminal politicians have sold the very ground out from under us. I am looking into hiring an attorney (One who does not live in Vancouver) to assess the legality of what has been allowed to happen here. I for one think a class action lawsuit against the people who have presided over this bloodless invasion should be made to answer for this. The current Mayor has huge ties to Chinese money and when once queried he said the exact same thing as you "We must be careful about this kind of racism" I for one am no longer concerned with being labeled a racist by those who would seek to have me evicted from the place I grew up.  It would be one thing if the invaders were people who wanted to form some kind of community with those who were already here, but the Chinese strategy of economic and social isolationism leaves no room for that. The nati

Some might say the economics of Vancouver's demise and it unavoidable    Get offered a deal you can't refuse, you take it!! TThat's BS When taking a better offer deals a death blow to the entire city, that is when the government needs to step in and say, NO MORE Curiously our government did not, they stood by with their palms outpaced and a sheepish grin as if to say "What are we supposed to do? Were only the government" Even more curious is the fact that our mayor is dating a high profile member of this new Chinese bourgeois, whose mother apparently has been the cause of enough human rights violations to land her in prison in this country A mayor that visited the invading army in their own country to enjoy all the comforts of the financial elite while at home the people whose city he was responsible for were driven out. And as Vancouver was overrun by people who could care less whether we live or die (Take that to the bank) and it was too obvious an