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February 2

Steve Vai's religion

What is Steve Vai's religion, faith or lack thereof? NeonMerlin 01:33, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Not sure - his website bio says "SPIRIT & CHARITY -Throughout his career, Vai's creative impulses have been inspired by a deeply-held spiritual commitment to improving the world through his music and actions. "The most important thing in my life is trying to achieve some sort of spiritual balance because everything flows from that," explains Vai. "When I'm looking back on my life when I'm 70, I want to be proud of the contributions I've made to society, not just in terms of music, but socially too. That's what drives me these days." - there's no mention of any formal faith, so speculation would suggest a "spiritual but not religious" kind of thing. Exxolon (talk) 07:39, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Happy nowadays

What is Happy the dog doing these days since 7th Heaven has ended in 2007? Anyone know?72.229.135.200 (talk) 19:31, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

No clue, but according to a site I cannot link to because for some unknown reason it's blacklisted, but which is the first Google hit with this search, Happy was born on July 14, 1995, which would make her a good 13 years old now. For a dog, that's getting to be a pretty respectable age; from what I understand, that's pretty much when the average West Highland White Terrier tends to die of old age... So if she's still alive, she's probably down in Florida, complaining and playing bingo with all those oldsters. -- Captain Disdain (talk)

What is this melody?

A melody has been rattling around in my head for some time. I'm sure it's associated with American football, but that's all I know. It goes something like this (forgive my unorthodox notation):

              B
     A                A
                             G
 
E         E                        E

                                         C


                                                                   D
                                                            C             C
                                                      B                          B
                                               A                                                A
                                                                                        G

If anyone could tell me what this is called, my brain would be grateful. Lantzy ^talk 21:00, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Is that the theme from Monday Night Football. I tried to work it out on my guitar, and it came close to that. I don't know what rhythm you are going for, but that seems close. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 05:11, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't think that's it. All the You Tube videos I can find for Monday Night Football have a completely different theme. Lantzy ^talk 15:21, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Not sure if it will help, but it's worth nothing that MNF has two songs closely associated with it: Hank Williams Jr's "All My Rowdy Friends" (aka "Are You Ready for Some Football?") and "Heavy Action," an orchestral piece.Tomdobb (talk) 18:38, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

It's certainly neither of those. I guess it will remain a mystery. Lantzy ^talk 19:23, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

You will need to provide better notation. Your notation produces music that is nearly identical to the intro to the Hank Williams Jr song. -- kainaw™ 19:34, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

It may very well also be some of the work of Sam Spence, who scored most of the classic NFL Films of the 1970's and 1980's. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 06:01, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for putting me onto Sam Spence. It's called Roundup and is a Spence composition. Lantzy ^talk 18:58, 7 February 2009 (UTC)