No need. It's not like I've got a copyright on things from Lost or BOC.

Can't decide if I like your avatar or if I'm mad because mine's no longer unique.

Fair enough. I prefer ELP over everything you listed except Floyd (though I love The Yes Album from start to finish) and don't care much for Genesis (though I probably unfairly judge their early work based on the later Phil-Collins-y stuff).

Wait, ELP was shitty prog? What's good prog, then?

I saw Loverboy a while back and was shocked at how damned good they were. And I was never a big fan or anything, just aware of their hits from back when they were big.

My wife met Paul Di'Anno a few years ago when he stayed at the hotel she was working the overnight shift at. He was waiting for his opening act to arrive and sat talking with her in the lobby for a while. Seems like he's a nice down to earth guy, but his life sounds awful. First off, the hotel was 20 miles from the…

Calling that movie 'Beavis' REALLY needs to become a thing.

If you have a high credit score, financial institutions will behave in really irresponsible ways. I was out of work for nearly two years and went to the Toyota dealer to buy a car. When filling out the paperwork, I even wrote "N/A" for my employer. It only took 2 minutes to get approved for the full price of the…

The Red and the Black definitely would work in a CBGB style punk band. I love Buck's playing (obviously), but I can't play anything like him. I usually say that I play in the style of Jimmy Page, but that's just because my playing is sloppy.

When I saw them in '91 there was an hour and half break between Soundgarden and GnR, so I'm really glad that was the peak of the "get girls to flash their boobs on the jumbotron" era.

I'd be willing to bet that if you covered something off of High n Dry, your CBGB style punk band audience would love it. (Though they might not admit it afterwards.)

I'm currently building a Les Paul replica. I ordered all the same electronics that Slash has in that Les Paul (which is also a replica, not an original Gibson).

I consider Appetite to be the best hard rock album of all time. I don't know that the UYI crack the top 25. There are great songs (Estranged and Dead Horse among them, for sure) but as a whole, they're lacking. And I don't think boiling them down to a single album would fix that.

I was into Cheap Trick before everyone else I knew, before Budokhan broke really big. That's the last time I was hipper than anyone about anything pop culture related.

I assumed that they made the change in order to stop the Maxims of the world from eating away at their profits. Since Maxim makes their money from mostly B list actresses posing in their underwear, I figured Playboy would go the route of getting an A list actress to pose in her underwear and just destroy Maxim with…

My father actually let his subscription lapse when Playboy began showing bush. Luckily for us, Playboy kept sending the mags for 3 more years anyway.

You're history's greatest monster!

Absolutely. I'm very happy being married to Mrs. Initiative (today is our 20th anniversary!), but I loved that short period in my life when I was single and in a band and strange women just threw themselves at me.

I've always thought of stuff like Dave Matthews as "dad rock" - i.e. rock that's so bland and boring that even my dad would listen to it. The Stones are way too heavy for my dad.

How do you do, fellow kids?