a reality TV show i'd watch

[rone]

Yngwie fuckin' Malmsteen taking the full brace series of Guitar Craft courses.  Special non-appearance by Robert Fripp in the series finale (working title: "Waiting for Unca Bobby").

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[marknau.livejournal.com]

Back in the late 80s, I went to a Yngwie/Dio concert. Ynqwie had broken his arm just before, but came out to do a solo anyhow.

Good Times.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

Late 80's?! I went to one of these in 2002, man. The potbelly just gets rounder and the long, greasy dirty-blond perm just recedes further back on the dude's head.

Good Times indeed.

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

2 things:

A radio station in Chicago (RIP, sadly) that played actual rock (not just nu-metal, tho nu-metal was just starting then) had a fellow who was a DJ but mostly just a creative NUT named 'Ned Spindle.'

Hmm, must google...
Anyway. Ned did commercials for them. At one point they had a contest which involved getting tickets to something. I forget what, but it was big. One of the non-Lollapalooza rock gigs in Chicago I think. Anyway Ned made a character for this who was a combination of Conan the Barbarian and Banjo the Clown, and he was the guy who told us about what had to be done to get to the concert. He had the whole Schwarzenegger accent to an extreme. He would always approach someone, ask a question about rockfest (I think that was what it was) and then:
PREPARE TO DO BATTLE!
followed by smashing noises.

So one day:

[extreme guitar noodling]
WHAAT ARE YOU DOOOING?
- I am playing my guitar.
WHY YOU ARE DOOOING THAT?
- I am Yngve Malmsteen.
PREPARE TO DO BATTLE YNGVE MALMSTEEN!

Which is the GREATEST QUOTE EV
AH

EV
AH!!!!

Anyway. Conversations we've had at work while listening to various rock (coworker is good friends/produced some Hanoi Rocks stuff, so, ya know, good guy to have conversations about rock with) have concerned how if he'd just not been so full of himself... but, that woudln't be Yngve, would it (:

Anyway, is this real or did you make it up? Cuz, I hate reality shows, and, yeah, I'd want to watch that one.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Of course i made it up. It's way too obscure and cool to be real.

[nothings.livejournal.com]

I had a totally confused moment until I saw the subject line, yeah. For some reason I tend not to even notice those.

I didn't know it was a joke either.

[joepro.livejournal.com]

I was going to say, this show will either be really good or really bad. I mean, it could be great, even though I'm not sure if these classes are painfully boring and stupid.

Many say that reality tv is "dying," but the truth is, it will always be with us. It may be "declining," where there are fewer reality shows on tv, but classics like MTV Real World show no signs of extinction. Now I really feel old, calling the Real World a "classic."

[wisn.livejournal.com]

...and then the ghost of Jimi Hendrix materializes, lights up a big spliff, tells Yngwie and Bob that they're too white to understand, and lays down a three-minute groove that encapsulates every reason why the previous twelve weeks of guitar-wank scholasticism was a waste of everybody's time.

dammit dammit

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

Now what was the name of that artless lightning guitarist that Manfire brought up a long time ago? He had a ginormous webbage and I think he was from Houston.

Totally off topic and less than 80 percent rhetorical question

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

What's "the full brace of" mean?

As far as I know "a brace of" something means two. As in a brace of quail (one quail being too tiny to make a full serving).

Does "the full brace of" mean "two, and definitely no fewer than two"? Or something else?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

This is what happens when i use a word i don't use all the time and neglect to look up its definition.