Only Good Vibes Thread. Let's Go Sabres.

[Pimlach]

Brian Wilson making Good Vibration at Capitols Records Studio.  Conducting the session drummer, making multi-layered vocal arrangements - there were more voices than tracks to record on back then.  

 

Good Vibrations! 

 

 

[Doohicksie]

On 10/23/2024 at 4:37 PM, EM88 said:

The extra games played helps with points. Ultimately, when everyone plays the same number of games, its point percentage that determines where you finish.

Even taking that into account.... the Sabres are 1/2 game out of a playoff spot.  The Sabres are a half game below .500; Boston is in the last playoff spot at exactly .500.

EDIT:  They're actually one game out of a playoff spot.  Carolina is in 11th place but at a .600 pace, so that would drop Boston to 9th, a half game behind FLA.

The point is still the same:  Lots of teams are off to a slow start in the East and the Sabres are right there in the pack.

Edited October 24 by Doohicksie

[Weave]

39 minutes ago, Doohicksie said:

Even taking that into account.... the Sabres are 1/2 game out of a playoff spot.  The Sabres are a half game below .500; Boston is in the last playoff spot at exactly .500.

EDIT:  They're actually one game out of a playoff spot.  Carolina is in 11th place but at a .600 pace, so that would drop Boston to 9th, a half game behind FLA.

The point is still the same:  Lots of teams are off to a slow start in the East and the Sabres are right there in the pack.

Points are somewhat misleading. When you fall behind the biggest hurdle is how many teams you need to leapfrog.  As long as they can stay within a couple of teams of the cut line there is reason for optimism.  If it gets much more than that, you are probably done.

[Doohicksie]

5 hours ago, Weave said:

Points are somewhat misleading. When you fall behind the biggest hurdle is how many teams you need to leapfrog.  As long as they can stay within a couple of teams of the cut line there is reason for optimism.  If it gets much more than that, you are probably done.

I wasn't talking about points; I was talking about points percentage.  Different animal.

[nfreeman]

On 10/23/2024 at 5:58 PM, Pimlach said:

Brian Wilson making Good Vibration at Capitols Records Studio.  Conducting the session drummer, making multi-layered vocal arrangements - there were more voices than tracks to record on back then.  

 

Good Vibrations! 

 

 

Serious question -- and while I'm not a spring chicken, I'm not old enough to know the answer, and I don't know if anyone here is:  before this song, was "vibes" a thing?  Or did the Beach Boys coin the phrase?

[Doohicksie]

45 minutes ago, nfreeman said:

Serious question -- and while I'm not a spring chicken, I'm not old enough to know the answer, and I don't know if anyone here is:  before this song, was "vibes" a thing?  Or did the Beach Boys coin the phrase?

I dunno, but I learned just now that you shouldn't google the phrase good vibrations at work.  😮 

[Doohicksie]

In terms of the song itself, Brian Wilson said when he was a boy his mother used to talk about the vibrations people gave off.  The concept stuck with him and he decided to compose a song around the concept.

I also found this (I put the quote below in italics because the quote feature truncates quote display).  It sounds like the idea of "vibes" or "vibrations" meaning kind of an ephemeral energy a person gives off (good or bad) was a thing prior to the song, but the song clearly injected the concept into pop culture.

Q: Hi... can we talk about vibes?

A: Good ones?

Q: Good, bad, whatever. I just hear lots of young people these days describing something using “it’s a vibe”.

A: Ah yes, the youth of today – a constant delight.

Q: I know right?

A: So yeah, the phrase “it’s a vibe” (also a 2017 rap song by 2 Chainz and his buddies Ty Dolla Sign, Trey Songz and Jhené Aiko) is typically used to describe something or someplace positive. Of course, the noun “vibe” is not a new thing. Macquarie Dictionary defines it as colloquial, “a dominant quality, mood, or atmosphere”.

Q: So it obviously came from “vibration”, right?

A: Well, sort of. Long before batteries were invented, the word “vibration” turned up in English – around the 1650s – from Latin “vibratio” or “vibrare” meaning “to shake, brandish or set in tremulous motion”.

Q: That’s a rather shaky origin story.

A: Hahaha. Nice. Then, the Italian word “vibrato” was introduced in the 1860s to describe a tone that oscillates slightly in pitch, famously used by opera singers while holding a note. 

Q: Wait, are we finished already?

A: Um no. Why?

Q: Oh sorry, it’s just that the fat lady was singing and I assumed…

A: Uh huh. Anyway, well into the 20th century, “vibrations” remained just a physical or audio phenomenon – with none of the emotion we assign them today.

Q: When did this change?

A: It started in the 1920s, with the invention of the vibraphone.

Q: The what now?

A: It was also known as the vibraharp – a percussion instrument that looks like a large xylophone, yet has metal tubes hanging below that vibrate when you hit the bars on top. It played a big role in the emergence of the jazz sound.

Q: What does this have to do with vibes? 

A: Good question. By 1940, this instrument became commonly known as the “vibes” and by the 1960s, this musical vibe came to be slang for an “instinctive feeling”. It was no doubt helped in popularity by the Beach Boys and their 1966 song, Good Vibrations. 

Q: That gives me excitations.

A: Indeed. And from this time on, if you weren't sure about something, you’d get “bad vibes” about it. Conversely, “good vibes” were in ready supply, alongside peace and love. 

Q: And drugs.

A: No comment.

And this is what vibes (the instrument) sounds like

 

Edited October 26 by Doohicksie

[Stoner]

13 hours ago, nfreeman said:

Serious question -- and while I'm not a spring chicken, I'm not old enough to know the answer, and I don't know if anyone here is:  before this song, was "vibes" a thing?  Or did the Beach Boys coin the phrase?

On the night Olivia was conceived, Mother spoke of vibes being transmitted from the rail tracks into our sleeper car. August 48.

[Pimlach]

13 hours ago, nfreeman said:

Serious question -- and while I'm not a spring chicken, I'm not old enough to know the answer, and I don't know if anyone here is:  before this song, was "vibes" a thing?  Or did the Beach Boys coin the phrase?

Dunno.  When I google it I find that the slang “vibes” for vibrations was a popular term and a part of the mid 60’s counter culture. 
 

I can’t believe it was not ever used in 50’s by beatniks and/or Jazz musicians.  

[Idemo Buffalo]

There is actually a chance the Buffalo Sabres will be playing Monday night against the Stanley Cup Champions for 1st place in the Atlantic.

 

Edited October 26 by Idemo Buffalo

[Demoted]

 

Feeling good now!

[Rasmus_]

Happy for Quinn to find the back of the net.  Get your mojo back kid.

[Taro T]

Ignoring the horrid Eurostart against the team that could very well, at the end of the season, be the East's representative in the SCF, this team is 0.500 on the road and 0.750 at home.  Keep that up over 80 games and they end up with 100 points.  They'd be the only team in the modern era to be over 0.600 and miss the playoffs if that isn't enough to get into the dance.

So, that's pretty friggin' cool.  

[Pimlach]

On 10/26/2024 at 7:57 AM, Stoner said:

On the night Olivia was conceived, Mother spoke of vibes being transmitted from the rail tracks into our sleeper car. August 48.

[Idemo Buffalo]

The Sabres have won 3 of their last 4 games. If the Sabres win on Friday night against the Islanders, that will be 4-1 in our last 5 games after starting 0-3.

 

[bob_sauve28]

 

[Idemo Buffalo]

The Sabres will wear the Black and Red on Friday against the Islanders. 

 19-7-2 record in the uniform over the last two seasons, including 1-0 this year with the win over Detroit.

[Pimlach]

1 hour ago, Idemo Buffalo said:

The Sabres will wear the Black and Red on Friday against the Islanders. 

 19-7-2 record in the uniform over the last two seasons, including 1-0 this year with the win over Detroit.

I have a date with the Mrs on that night.  Gonna have to catch it after the fact.  

[Derrico]

Bringing my 6 year old nephew to his first game Friday.  We’ve got him an old jersey my sons outgrew and will get him a sabretooth or something at the game.  Should be awesome but I sometimes wonder if it’s cruel to get him cheering for the Sabres at such a young age lol

[Porous Five Hole]

27 minutes ago, Derrico said:

Bringing my 6 year old nephew to his first game Friday.  We’ve got him an old jersey my sons outgrew and will get him a sabretooth or something at the game.  Should be awesome but I sometimes wonder if it’s cruel to get him cheering for the Sabres at such a young age lol

You’re doing the Lord’s work. He will thank you.  Go Sabres ⚔️

[Idemo Buffalo]

Dylan Cozens finally scored and if we win tonight we could be tied for a wild card spot.  Go Sabres. 

[Goldseatsaud]

My buddy who was the chief engineer for the arena left to retire in Florida. 

[Idemo Buffalo]

22 minutes ago, Goldseatsaud said:

My buddy who was the chief engineer for the arena left to retire in Florida. 

Tell him not to worry. He will still get a ring when we win the Cup this year.

[John Tucker]

I’m still thinking…. I’ve got nothing

[SwampD]

28 minutes ago, John Tucker said:

I’m still thinking…. I’ve got nothing

Time to lock the thread?