I am very disappointed with some people in this draft.. It doesn't take a lot of time to make a pick in my opinion.
Especially when you see them participating in many other threads.
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I am very disappointed with some people in this draft.. It doesn't take a lot of time to make a pick in my opinion.
What I really fail to understand is why people bother to sign up to these drafts in the first place, if they're going to do this. It's so disappointing to see these drafts grind to a halt as they really are a fun pursuit. It truly doesn't take long to make a pick.
Can we maybe to a roll call and after 24 hours or something AK everyone that doesn't show up permanently? We gotta get this thing moving somehow. I'm not willing to quit.
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With our next selection Hot Banana Thrust is happy to select in the category of Canadian:
Voivod
Voivod is a heavy metal band from Jonquičre, Quebec, Canada. Their musical style has changed several times since the band's origin in the early 1980s. Starting out as a speed metal band, Voivod has added a mix of progressive metal and thrash metal to try to create their own unique metal style.
Influenced equally by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the burgeoning hardcore punk scene and 70’s Progressive rock, Voivod forged a distinctive brand of heavy music that often relied on lyrical themes such as Reagan-era Cold War politics, post-apocalyptic literature and science fiction.
Guitarist Denis D'Amour (Piggy) died at the age of 45 on August 26, 2005 due to complications from colon cancer. Their most recent record is Katorz (which is an "alternative" way of writing "quatorze", fourteen in French), released in July 2006. The album is based around riffs found on the laptop of Piggy. Just prior to his death, he left instructions for his fellow bandmates on how to use them.
Hey I don't mind you getting on others, but it's been just a little over 2 hours from when I had to make my pick... don't be jumping on my back about this, a little respect as we've never had to wait for me
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With the 14th Round pick in the draft, Hanna Sniper's EC and the G-String Band, selects in the "Wildcard Singer", from Newbridge, Country Kildare Ireland, Christy Moore
With my 14th round Pick, scwf's Creeping Death, proudly selects in the “Canadian” category, Robbie Robertson
I apologize if this is a fata - I was sure Robbie was picked but I searched through the draft board and could not find him. Anyway my favorite artist to listen to when driving at night
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One of the premier songwriters of the rock era, Robbie Robertson was born July 5, 1943, in Toronto, Ontario. The son of a Jewish father and Mohawk mother, Jaime Robbie Robertson's first brush with live music came at the Six Nations Reservation, his mother's girlhood home; at the age of five, he also gained exposure to the country music of rural America. Not long after, he began taking guitar lessons from a cousin, and gradually began composing his first songs. As time wore on, his musical interests evolved from country to big band to rock, and he eventually dropped out of school to pursue a career as a performer.
In 1958, he hooked up with rockabilly star Ronnie Hawkins' backing band the Hawks, joining fellow sidemen Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, and Richard Manuel. After remaining with Hawkins through 1963, the Hawks began working on their own; they soon came to the attention of Bob Dylan, and became the support unit on the singer's now-legendary 1965-1966 world tour. Continuing their affiliation with Dylan, the group, renamed simply the Band, went on to become one of rock's seminal acts; propelled by Robertson's acute, evocative examinations of American mythology and lore, they made a series of seminal LPs, including 1968's Music from Big Pink and the following year's self-titled masterpiece. The Band dissolved on Thanksgiving Day 1976 following an all-star concert filmed by director Martin Scorsese and later released as The Last Waltz. The project marked the beginning of Robertson's long affiliation with Scorsese, as well as an interest in dramatic acting; in 1980, Robertson produced and starred in Carny, co-starring Jodie Foster and Gary Busey. Also in 1980, he composed the score to Scorsese's brilliant Raging Bull, and continued to confine his musical activity to the film medium for the next several years, later working with Scorsese on the acerbic 1983 satire The King of Comedy and 1986's The Color of Money, the sequel to The Hustler.
Finally, in 1987 Robertson released his self-titled solo debut, which included guest appearances from onetime Band-mates Danko and Hudson as well as U2, Peter Gabriel, Daniel Lanois, and Gil Evans. Storyville, a conceptual piece steeped in the sounds and imagery of a famed area of New Orleans, followed in 1991. In 1994, Robertson returned to his roots, teaming with the Native American group the Red Road Ensemble for Music for the Native Americans, a collection of songs composed for a television documentary series. Contact from the Underworld of Redboy followed in 1998.
Hey I don't mind you getting on others, but it's been just a little over 2 hours from when I had to make my pick... don't be jumping on my back about this, a little respect as we've never had to wait for me
not directed at you, sir, but 1 pick in 5 days, you have to agree, is pathetic.
In the Instrumental Soloist category, I am pleased to select, on the ukulele, Jake Shimabukuro. (This guy actually makes really good songs. And with a ukulele).
With my 14th round Pick, scwf's Creeping Death, proudly selects in the “Canadian” category, Robbie Robertson
I apologize if this is a fata - I was sure Robbie was picked but I searched through the draft board and could not find him. Anyway my favorite artist to listen to when driving at night
You're fine. He was picked by bobblehead who was going to replace foofighter15 but foo got back just in time
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