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"When I Let Go" was my first record, which hulla was generous and gracious to mention. https://music.apple.com/us/album/when-i-let-go/304922304 I wanted my next record to be less "reflective songwriter" and more electric-guitar album rock... like a Stones record somewhere between "Sticky Fingers" and "Some Girls" (I'm not saying that's where the songs are all gonna land, but that's what I'm aiming for). About four years ago, when I was about eight songs into this rock album, I was feeling frustrated at the pace of my songwriting. On a lark, I decided to get the studio pros (who are brilliant and who I had already booked for a session) to use that day on some different original material -- one Philly soul track and one disco number. So on that day in late 2016, the disco project started with me going to South Austin Music and buying a wah pedal and a vocoder. Then there were nine more songs, four+ years of string arrangers, hired orchestras, horn arrangers, marching bands, gospel choirs, multiple percussionists, and an extensive search for the right vocalists... It is about as ambitious as a musical project can be. Last week I handed off a hard drive of the final disco/funk sessions to the mix engineer. Edit: obviously I was not successful enough for iTunes to disambiguate me from everyone whose name is remotely similar to my own. The only songs that are mine on iTunes are the ones listed under that album title. If you click on my name, none of those other people/songs are me/mine.
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Thank you. Much appreciated.
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The player who was the most out-of-control on the court was (by far) Ben Wallace. Yeah, he took a hard foul... but I'm not sure that foul merited his complete lose-your-shit meltdown. He was out of control for way too long, ending with him throwing things at Artest -- definitely making the Detroit fans feel empowered to *also* throw all kinds of shit at the Pacers (which they did).
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Agreed, and I am looking for some tonal inspiration to help me write the last few songs of a guitar-centric album rock project. I'm about to order (Warmoth) the semi-hollow electric with P90s that I've been wanting.
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How about making your biggest fans the unsuspecting victims of the joke? Is that a dick move?
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When the longhorn games were on the country station (?98.1), I would often get in my truck the day after a game, and get immediately assaulted by Bro country. And I’m not even sure that station is especially focused on a younger “country” audience. I would listen for a minute, then think to myself: “*This* is the worst song ever written. And I would open my SoundHound app just to find out who it was. That happened so often that if a stranger were to look at my search history on the app, they would conclude that I have a strong affection for modern country that has loops of sampled drums and auto-tuned white guys singing about trucks, blue eyes, and the praises of simple people in small towns.
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There are definitely a lot of guys on this thread better than me at amplifying acoustic guitar. My non-expert impression is that a lot of the built-in factory pickups have come a long way in last 20 years.
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All six open strings would be rolled off. https://fretsuccess.com/what-are-the-guitar-string-frequencies/ And a POG generates octaves from all the strings… not just the low strings. I’m all for forging your own path and defying convention, but I’ll bet this would sound awful.
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All that, plus a healthcare premium surcharge of roughly 10k/year per unvaccinated person who wants the rest of the insurance pool to pay for their personal choices. And hospitals should double the bills of the unvaccinated and give the money to all the housekeepers, clergy, cafeteria workers, and nurses — who are quitting instead of being needlessly put in harm’s way with no end in sight.
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Guys, I want to be in this club.
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Pretty sure SEC wanted to keep a numerical balance while simultaneously adding the Texas footprint with the addition of A&M, and it made geographic sense. Their league expanded to the west. Mizzou was in the right place at the right time (their football team was in a good place at the time as well). I don't know if they'd have been admitted without an Aggie program eager to get out from under the shadow of UT.
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Exactly what Skipper said. The smaller schools in the Big 12 have focused 100% of their anger on the last two locomotives to give up on pulling the fucking train, and not the numerous other schools (the three you mentioned plus Mizzou) who ACTED ENTIRELY IN THEIR OWN BEST INTEREST AND SPLIT A LONG TIME AGO. I have never held any personal ill will toward Oklahoma State, Tech, or Iowa State, but the more I have to listen to hysterical and irrational bullshit about mean ol' greedy Texas, the less I fucking care about the fate of their athletic programs.
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Not much of a baseball mind, but it seems to me like you'd send they guy who just struck out the side back out there.
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I think Sammy Hagar had a similar quote about being at a sound check and Eddie wasn't around, so he plugged into Eddie's rig... and sounded like Sammy. But yeah, we don't think about "tone" as much with bass players, but I'm sure the sound is just as much in the hands as the rig.
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I'm sipping coffee and scrolling this thread, with ESPN on in the background. ESPN just did a segment with Finebaum (I know, I know) and Dinich, and they nodded their heads in agreement as the host said, "We may remember this as the biggest day in the history of college football," and went on to say how OU and Texas joining the SEC was going to cause massive and permanent realignments. I think there was a chyron that made the same statement. I mean... try to reconcile that actual, real-time national ESPN reaction to Liucci's contemporaneous claim that Aggie going to the SEC "elicited the same coverage." No, it fucking didn't. He's just hilariously and objectively wrong to claim that Aggie got the same coverage.
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This cannot be quoted enough. Aggies were coming off multiple NCAA sanctions and were known to be major offenders. FOUR DAYS after their most recent sanctions had been announced, they FedExed cash (obvious hush money) to a disgruntled former running back, who took it to the Dallas Morning News to open it. The return address was from the Aggie coaching staff, for fuck's sake. I mean, it's no different than Clements' "we had a payroll" shit at SMU. They were going to keep right on cheating as long as the program existed (which they obviously did).
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I would like to keep Texas Tech game on the schedule
Paul Wesley replied to The Earl of Texas's topic in Football
Haha. I was actually going to reference Maryland and BYU. We played Arkansas for purely nostalgic reasons (?2003), and they came in here and whipped our ass. I’m certainly not advocating for Incarnate Word or Chattanooga State, but our SOS in this theoretical new SEC won’t need any marginal lifts by going back to the altar to flirt with a jilted Stillwater, Ames, or Manhattan (as opposed to playing regional teams like Tulane, Rice, or *maybe* SMU). -
That guy is an idiot. UH and SMU at numbers one and two? So the Big 12 should try to *exactly* replicate a financially non-viable SWC (which we already started by adding TCU)? I just wrote a long post about this on the "What killed the SWC" thread, then clicked around to see this tweet. Ugh.
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I would like to keep Texas Tech game on the schedule
Paul Wesley replied to The Earl of Texas's topic in Football
With regard to OOC scheduling, I seem to recall a poster (?Scipio) who once accurately advocated for either (A) you play home-and-home with a blue blood like USC, Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame. ***or** (B) you play a patsy -- maybe in a 2-for-1 series -- with a. regional team like Rice or Tulane, so that your team gets a few wins and your alums get some home games (or de facto home games), and the players get to play in front of their families at Rice stadium or wherever. But as I recall, and I think this was the phrase used, "Don't mess with Mr In-between." i.e. don't travel far away to play mid-level teams who aren't marquee opponents, yet they're still good enough to beat you. And though I like a lot of those fan bases (Oklahoma State, Iowa State), playing those teams 5 years from now really does nothing to sell your program to recruits ("Hey, Johnny Five Star! If you come here, you'll get to be on TV when we go to AMES/STILLWATER/ETC!!!!!!"). And those schools might have a proven head coach (Patterson, Gundy), who will fucking hang an out-of-conference "L" on you in a night-time, biggest-home-game-of-their-year upset. Outside of nostalgia, there would be very little upside to playing almost all the teams in your poll. -
Yeah, the original Big 12 was a good league, with a high % of teams that could carry their own weight. Nebraska was one of the best two or three teams in football at the time, Colorado was not too far removed from their own national championship. Missouri had a well-run basketball program, etc. The Aggies still had a good football team (undoubtedly benefitting from the previous 15 years of cash-filled FedEx envelopes under Sherill and Slocum). The modern Big 12 is pretty meh. We really started turning back into the SWC, which a lot of people (including me) warned when we added TCU -- it did nothing to expand the footprint... it just added more boxcars to the conference train being pulled by fewer and fewer locomotives (Texas and OU). Maybe.... ***maybe*** the Big 12 could have survived the defections if were able to expand the footprint... maybe adding BYU and Utah in the west, Cincinnati and Louisville in the midwest, etc. I type that with the full realization that those would still be enormous downgrades from Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri, etc.... I'm just saying, it *might* have kept the league viable. Anyway, it looks like the final chapter of the Big 12 is getting written, and the reasons for its demise are very similar to those of the SWC.
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I've seen that too. It's silly. Lots of good answers on this thread already. I think we were just starting to see TV money start to wag the dog (dictate everything that happens in college football). And Texas was stuck in a tiny little 1-state footprint with a lot of schools that commanded zero television sets. It became an undeniable factor in watching Texas high school talent leave the state. It didn't help that, at the time (mid- and late-80's) we were not only competing with bigger, better network deals, we were also competing with some of the most flagrant cheaters in the history of college sports (Switzer's Sooners, Sherill and Slocum's aggies, the fucking governor's SMU Mustangs). If you were to make a list of the top 100 things that killed the SWC, "Texas" wouldn't be on it. edit: stuck in a 2-state conference until Arkansas bailed... then a 1-state conference with no hope of generating TV money like the Big 10, SEC, and PAC10.
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I'm sure this has been covered in this thread... but the aggies just cannot fucking decide if the LHN is a death-star-level advantage for UT that gives us an unfair monetary and recruiting edge (they consistently named the LHN as a primary reason for leaving the Big 12), or if the LHN is a national embarrassment, a financial disaster, and a punchline within the world of sports media ("dumpster fire" in that thread title).
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Exactly. So Tech is going to do what's best for Tech. Crazy concept.
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Agreed Every school does what's best for themselves.... Arkansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Aggies, Missouri, Notre Dame, TCU, West Virginia, etc.... they left/joined/stayed in various leagues over the last 30 years -- basically they were all self-interested. Except when Texas even hints that when this TV deal is done in five years, then we might be acting in our own best interest, and then suddenly there's this deafening chorus about how we're bullies, or impossible to live with, or how totally unfair we are. It's silly.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
Paul Wesley replied to Francisco 2.0's topic in Cloak Room
Yeah, I've been clueless and wrong so many times in the last 5 years in my understanding about who we are as a nation. I didn't think evangelical christians would lustily endorse a man who is so obviously and profoundly immoral, and vote for him even after hearing him brag about sexual assault. I didn't think they'd take his side during the election when he repeatedly insulted the parents of an American soldier who died for this country. I didn't think we'd have an American president publicly kneeling before Putin while dismissing our allies. I didn't think an American president would find it impossible to denounce David Duke (pretending not to know who he was after speaking about him in numerous interviews) or be so visibly angry when forced to denounce the Nazi who killed someone in Charlottesville ("Both sides!"). I didn't think those same American white people would take the side of the pro-authoritarian mob who broke into the Capitol instead of supporting the officers who they killed or the democracy they wanted to overthrow. But it turns out that your pro-Trump consultant understood America much better than you or me. I'm still kind of in shock, to be honest.
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