Posted on 11/10/2006 12:25:15 PM PST by MplsSteve
Why was it never recovered? How deep is Superior, anyway???
Why is easy listening music so hard to listen to??????
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I'm sure your question is a tad tongue in cheek, but my serious as a heart attack answer is that by definiton, easy listening music means the listener doesn't actually have to really listen to it, it's just pleasant background noise.
Good music (IMHO) requires something of the listener. Those who find easy listening music hard to listen to actually have music in their souls, and as a result, actually listen to the easy listening music and find it repulsive because it doesn't have any depth to it. Did you get all that?
It's a shame that a pretty good representative of the singer songwriter tradition has been co-opted so.
But I can't for the life of me figure out why so much has been made of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It happened and that's all that matters. How and why are not relevant. The pathos of the ballad notwithstanding, there was nothing special about the ship, it's captain or crew.
Why, you're almost unique with your 'rather eclectic' musical taste.
May the crew, good men and true, rest in peace.
Gord's tunes have been covered by so many, you've probably heard quite a few of his tunes sung by others. Bluegrass guitarist extraordinaire Tony Rice did an entire record (showing my age) of his tunes.
Check out his "Cold on the Shoulder" (pretty good...not overplayed)
>>>Why was it never recovered? How deep is Superior, anyway???<<<
I don't know what the deepest part of superior is but where the EF wreck is, it's 550ft.
I would guess that a steel hull filled with 26000 tons of iron ore would be a tall task to recover from 550 ft under.
It wasn't an egotistical statement saying that I missed something.
Yeah, but he always sounded like his jaw had been wired shut...
don't worry too much about Doug. He likes pi$$ing in other people's cheerios.
The lake it is said never gives up her dead
The ship broke in half in the middle as the front and rear were riding waves and the middle was left unsupported. Ver quick, very sad!
When you refer to "...water infiltrating the cargo hold...",
do you mean from the topside OR the bottom of the ship?
There's a theory that the Edmund Fitzgerald may have scraped across Six Fathom Shoal and started taking water from below.
The captain of the Arthur Anderson even commented that he thought the Fitz was a little too close to the shoal.
What do you think?
Discovery, or some such channel, has a good documentary about it. Hope they show it tonight.
We had a moment of silence this morning in their memory.
I feel sorry for the DJs at that station. Listening to Christmas music every day for 2 solid months probably ruins their enthusiasm for the holiday.
I watched a docu on Discovery or History about how quick she went down. There are actually three theories that get serious consideration, the two wave theory as you described and similarly the one wave theory where the center of the ship was held aloft by the wave leaving the bow and stern suspended.
The third theory is that of a mega wave that the EF rode up and descended the other side so rapidly that the bow was driven to the bottom and struck the bottom with such force that the ship was snapped in two.
I personally am in the camp supporting the first two theories.
'Rather eclectic' is modifying an absolute, like almost unique. Either words mean things or they do not.
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