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Stone
n
: a concretion of earthy or mineral matter:
a : such a concretion of indeterminate size or shape (2) : rock
b : a piece of rock for a specified function: as (1) : a building block (2) : a paving block (3) : a precious stone
stone
noun (Concise Encyclopedia)
In building construction, rock cut into blocks and slabs or broken into pieces. It comes as hard as granite and as soft as limestone or sandstone. Where available, stone has generally been the preferred material for monumental structures. Its advantages are durability, adaptability to sculpting, and the fact that it can be used in its natural state. But it is difficult to quarry, transport, and cut, and its weakness in tension limits its use. The simplest stonework is rubble, roughly broken stones bound in mortar. Ashlar work consists of regularly cut blocks with squared edges. Building stone is quarried by sawing if it is soft, and split apart with wedges or by blasting if hard. Many devices are used to shape and dress stone, from handheld tools to circular saws, surfacing machines, and lathes. Some stones are strong enough to act as monolithic (one-piece) supports and beams; and in some styles (e.g., ancient Egyptian temples) stone slabs are employed even for roofing, supported by many closely spaced columns. Before the arch, builders were handicapped by the tendency of stone to break under its own weight. But stone in compression has great strength, and the Romans built huge stone bridges and aqueducts. Though stone has generally been abandoned for structural use in the 20th century, it is widely used as a thin, nonbearing surface cladding.
Like most subgenres of music, the origins of stoner rock are hard to trace and pinpoint. Nevertheless, it has its known progenitors and signatures that help shape the genre. Stoner rock updates the long, mind-bending jams and ultra-heavy riffs of the early proto metal and psych bands by filtering their psychedelia-tinged metal and acid rock through the buzzing churn of an early style grunge resulting in thick monolithic slabs of sound lending weight to the genres title. This descriptor, like its origins are elusive but given the heavy fuzz that predominates the overall feel that is typical of the music and the cerebral topics it entertains – one need look no further than the states achieved from the billowing bowls of the water bong. Though not overtly progressive in general, the stoner rock scene draws inspiration of wide variety from decades of heavy psych and prog rock that preceded it; like neo alchemists – the stoner artisans boil, draw off, refine and reduce those musical elements to a primal quintessence. Heavy and loud like a parade of marching dinosaurs from the ancient past – so come the Movements of Metalithic Stone.
ston·er (stOn - er)
n.
1. One that stones.
2. Slang
a. One who is habitually intoxicated by marijuana.
1. Amphibia - The Kings Of Frog Island
2. Too Stoned - Gas Giant
3. Master Of Universe - Hawkwind
4. Apangraha - My Sleeping Karma
5. Ancient Android - White Witch Canyon
6. The Amazing Voyagers - Stonebride
7. Mountain - Datura
8. Strange Waves - Quest For Fire
9. Flat Earth - Lowrider
10. Leone - The Kings Of Frog Island
11. Stonerized - Ponamero Sundown
12. El Paraiso - Causa Sui
