Happy New Year You Surly Bastards!
Everything posted by jimmyjazz
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
Texas is easily the best HC job in college football. Some of you people -- YOU PEOPLE -- are fucking idiots.
- 2025 Citrus Bowl - Texas vs. Michigan - 2:00pm on ABC
- 2025 Citrus Bowl - Texas vs. Michigan - 2:00pm on ABC
- Burgers
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Van Halen Appreciation thread
Based on that video alone, if I were looking to hire a drummer, I'd go with Wolf over Alex. Granted, Alex wrote those parts, but Wolf's kit sounds far better and frankly I like the toughness of his groove more.
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Top 10 2025
Good deal, try to check them out.
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Top 10 2025
Yeah, things got better. I probably attributed some things to the band that were out of their control. Ultimately the tour went off well and the bands are now buddies.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
You're not foolin'.
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AI and suggestion
My only caveat with "new" music is that what you hear on the recording might be a highly sterilized and optimized version of what the artist can really pull off. More than ever, the live show is where you really get to see what they can do.
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Foo Fighters or The Killers?
I'm not going to suggest you shold like the others, but "Monkey Wrench" is a bitch of a song to write. Those little hooks seemingly came out of nowhere. Show me another song prior to that which had those litle riffs and then the melodic hook. It's just an amazing, super original rock tune. HOF worthy on its own.
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Foo Fighters or The Killers?
It's astonishing. Just the heavyweight 1-2 punch of "Monkey Wrench" and "Everlong" puts it in, oh, maybe top 100 rock albums of all time? Then you have "My Hero". Is it "Nevermind"? Nope, and you alluded to that. In MY world, The Killers have never made a record close to that, but that's why we all get to buy what we buy and think what we think.
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Shit HEB Makes (when its open).
They're OK. They're not worth the price.
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Trump’s America
Yes Rob, the reason Mark Ruffalo can get work as an actor and you can't has nothing to do with the fact that he is truly gifted and you are a C-level hack. It's all politics.
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Check out these fucking chips
I see I'll be stopping at Trader Joe's later today.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
Quinn also suffered a bunch of injuries at Texas, some of which he played through (ankle, oblique, etc.). He's now had nearly a year to heal up.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
And not to diminish the Chicks, they are awesome musicians, but any session musicians in the room might have thrown out that option for the descending chord progression out of "wine". Those guys live that stuff. When you hear it it's hair-raising, like the chaser after the shot. I have to force myself to write with those changes, and it almost always ends up sounding forced.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
I'm not sure the question. It's pretty standard I-IV-V country, with the minor 6th and the major 3rd thrown in passing (to their credit). Is it the chord they hit in the chorus coming down from 6m to 5 to ? that's puzzling? This is what I love about great pop (Beatles) and country (a zillion examples). The deviation from 1-4-5 to include 4m and 2 and 3 etc. If the writer doesn't have the ear all those chords are nonsense. The greats make them work. Anyway, the question again?
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RIP Bridget Bardot
"banger" uh no. It's his worst song by far. BB, on the other hand, was smoke.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
It's not like we've been cranking out QBs in the last 25 years. VY flamed out, Colt never really got going, Simms had some moments.
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AI and suggestion
That sums up my "top 10" experience pretty well. w/o hyping #1 on their list (lord knows I do that enough) I know nothing about the Chronicle's top 10 album list other than Will Johnson. I mean, really? These are the best 10 albums to come out of Austin this year? I guess I appreciate that it's not all Robert Earl Keen or whatnot, but it feels very precious to me. The Austin ChronicleThe Top 10 Austin Albums of 2025 • The Austin ChronicleI fell back in love with Austin music in 2025. Our city has been rife with talented performers since long before I came around, but it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the embarrassment of riches – and by
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
fify
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Shit HEB Makes (when its open).
HEB needs a little quality control on their in-house tortilla chips. I bought a bag a while back and it was WAY under-seasoned. I went back to my regular brands (Santitas, etc.). This week my wife picked up another bag of the in-house chips, and they were saltier than seawater. Nearly inedible. I powered through, because queso.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
So you signed up on September 11, 2025 with your first handle yet you recall Derka's crusades against Sam and Quinn? Make that math work for me, Rex.
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AI and suggestion
Oh yeah, if I hear one more old fart my age saying "I just don't find modern music compelling" I'm going to pull what's left of my hair out (and I still have a shit ton for my age). What a lazy, lazy take. What you really mean is "I just want to listen to 38 Special and Def Leppard". (Unrelated to this thread.) Sorry for the minor threadjack.
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AI and suggestion
I don't think I have a problem with inorganic ways of discovering new music. Maybe that jump will start a whole new organic tendril of music for @ztejas . As an aside, regarding the Phoebe Bridgers song, dang but if KEXP doesn't get some great live sounds.