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I think that with ANY band, it's hard to recreate the initial shows where the band itself is fucking fired up! Before the sex, drugs, rock and roll tour, endlessness takes its toll. Sammy Hagar is a better musician and has a better voice. But David Lee Roth early on knew how the fuck to put on a Show! I young athletic guy running around like a manic doing air splits is just better to watch juxtaposed against the same music. I've seen both and the fact of the matter is you just can't recreate the buzz and thrill for both band and audience when they were promoting their initial album. Supposedly this is the set list from that show in '78. It's short but they were the warmup, and I felt sorry for Black Sabbath having to follow this shit up. here is a link where you can click on each song. The band poured their energy and excitement into this to PROVE they were the real deal, and they were! 1978 set list link with clickable songs. Click on that set list. It will run through each song. I think you will find it extremely hard to argue that seeing an early show with a band trying so hard to make a name for themselves supporting this particular group of songs from their first album is not actually the pinnacle for seeing the band live. Ice Cream Man Eruption You Really Got Me Runnin' With the Devil Jamie's Cryin' Little Dreamer Guitar Solo Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love I'm the One Atomic Punk On Fire I guess my analysis of VH as a longer term band is that Hagar was a better fit. And if there is one integral thing to being an exciting front man over time it's... hair. Roth rocked the shit out of his when he had it, and for me the show and the youth and excitement were irreplaceable by Sammy Hagar. But without Hagar's professionalism and affability Van Halen might not have even had anything to debate about. Hagar has the better voice IMHO at least in vocal range. But Hagar simply wasn't there for this tour and album. And no other Van Halen album never caught as fully that lightning in a bottle as their early touring, when the band was hungry. I just listened to that entire set list, and no wonder I remember it as one of the greatest concerts I have ever seen (and I have seen some doozies). Which reminds me, go see some young guns, who are trying to make a name from themselves. That's how bands like Van Halen find their way, with a little local support at first.
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Saw Van Halen open up for Black Sabbath in 1978, walked out on Sabbath. Used to play that shit so loud in high school it was crazy. 30 years later I am going to meet a buddy who I know is playing basketball outside with his son. His son is a guitar god and total ripper but I knew he wasn't familiar with Van Halen. There is a long downhill to his place in Great Hills and I roll down the windows and blast the living crap out of the opening of "Eruption." His son bought the music the next day and became a big enough fan to drag his Dad to see them in San Antonio a few years back. My Buddy still thanks me for turning his son onto them, as does his son. Generation after window shaking generation! TURN IT UP LOUD!!!!
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It's Fetch!
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I can still remember sitting around listening to "Our House" as 6th or 7th grader off their Deja Vu album and 8 miles high by the The Byrds, We had some eclectic taste back then, probably as our albums were mostly hand me downs from older kids, or our parents. I remember a rotation of Deja Vu, Emerson Lake and Palmer Targus(?) David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars, Genesis (can't remember the album), Jimmy Hendrix, The Experience Album, as well as a sprinkling of Stones, Beatles, Zepplin and whatnot. The two songs that are burned into my soul from that time period of youthful uncertainty was "Our House," and "Suffragette City" (probably my all time favorite). I didn't know until this weekend that David Bowie offered Mott the Hoople "Suffragette City" to keep them together when he heard they were about to break up. Instead they chose, "All the Young Dudes." Another of my favorite songs, and I saw Alejandro Escovedo close with it at Continental last weekend. I know that somewhere out there, Crosby is likely rolling a joint... Still Smiling...
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I think I am going to start using the word "Republican" as an adjective. It might be a fun way to change the world and inform today's youth in a more humorous manner the dangers of a party that no longer cares much for democracy, honesty, integrity, principles nor courage. IF you can get Ginormous into Webster's Dictionary then maybe we can add another line under republican? When a part fails on your car - that's so republican. When a bridge fails - that's so republican When there is any man made disaster - that's so republican When the Federal Government voluntarily stops paying the bills and scrubs billions off the stock market - That's so republican When you get a slapped together sandwich - man that's republican When a team loses a 24 point lead - that was republican When a state loses power to the electrical grid - that's so republican When an innocent person is executed - that's so republican re·pub·li·can. adjective 1. (of a form of government, constitution, etc.) belonging to, or characteristic of a republic. 2. of very low quality, inferior, improperly designed (see: crappy) noun 1.1. a person advocating or supporting republican government. 2.2 a member or Supporter of the Republican party
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He fucking punted on Jack Ryan, that enough is a gauge of his over-self worth. He has a pretty good defense just pointing at the armorer, unless there are communications showing he had concern the the Armorer's competency. The fact he hired the armorer is where the water gets muddied. Of course I am only going on what has been out there in the public. Baldwin did himself no favors in recording testimony in an interview about the matter. How the fuck any live ammunition got on the set tends to show a casual nature, that was likely accepted by the producer. That's where he faces the exposure. For me I would never point a gun at anyone (unless I was going to shoot them). But I am not an actor. If somebody did want me to point a gun at someone I would be compelled to check to be certain that the gun was not loaded. I don't trust other folks on this. It will be interesting to see all the communications behind the scenes that will most certainly come out at trial.
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Fuck. You! 😉
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There is no bottom to the lack of quality politicians there are REPRESENTING Republican voters. And even more terrifying, the Republican party as a whole does nto give a shit. As they can simply pretend whatever they need to pretend to justify the need for the GOP to have a majority. Which do you think is more likely regarding the Republican party officials? A) There was no research done at all, and there are simply no quality control on candidates in the GOP. B) The GOP establishment knew what a scumbag this guy was, but decided that nothing matters but a potential GOP vote. I will say that the Dems really dropped the ball in NY, and this is part of the problem. The only folks that give a shit about the quality of their candidates is the Democratic party. Hell it is almost laughable to look back and see The Democratic Party push Sen. Al Franken out of office, because for Dems principles matter! For Republicans? Fuck you have to be kidding, even asking the question.
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My buddy now tells me that he does go to Grumbles and says they have a stout Pińa Colada, but too sweet and heavy for my taste. I guess one day I will break down and walk in, but right now they are still on my fuck the takeover list. My "go to" is still La Playa for Fajitas or Fish Specials, Virgina's for Smoked tuna dip, and fish Sandwisch, Kody's for Garlic Fish and a decent drink away from the crowds (other food is solid too), with a splash of Lelo's tossed in for their burgers and Hummus plate. I really wish I liked the Blue Water Cowboy more, maybe I will give them another shot just to for the upper deck view. There is other good food on the island for sure, but that's a great short list. Red's Patio Bar at the Golf course is decent as well and usually not crowded. have fun as give us a report!
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I think 2019 was the last year in the alley. Saw a great set of Uncle Lucious there as the last I saw I think. Yard Dog takes over ABGB now, or did last year. Seems like Bloodshot records was a sponsor at least one of the days. With that moving I started looking a little more to Lucy's as they had full days of music I think Wednesday through Sunday. In fact Lucy's usually has a pretty solid Sunday lineup with everyone else has called SXSW over at that point.
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Come one come all and give your personal suggestions and sleeper finds among what I think is going to be an explosion of more "unofficial" shows around this time. Covid scrubbed off a lot and I think this year is going to include a lot more music sound town this year. For years SoCo has been our go to, but slowly but surely a lot of the old music venues have gotten displaced, and moved or downsized in covid. My current pattern is mainly a drift back and forth between Continental Club and SXSJ (South by San Jose) with an occasional walk down to C-Boys or Lucy's fried Chicken for a particular band. Yard Dog in the Alley is gone now but I they have reincarnated their shows at ABGB (Austin beer Garden and brewing) so they still have a presence just not walking distance. I did not realize for some reason that KLBJ has day shows at Cooper's on Congress until last year. Still missed Zach Person, but it's on my day list this year. We also went to a great day show called Floodfest in 2019 at Cedar Street what was good solid via RSVP. Last year I went to some Day outdoor shows at Hotel Vegas on Saturday and then made the mistake of trying to cross the highway to get south for a band and it would have been easier to go east to Pleasant Valley to cross the river from the Ease 6th street area. So feel to put in any SXSW travel logistics. Done some Dogwood shows as well. For me it's trying to find a couple of solid bands grouped together. The other thing I see more and more is RSVP shows. Mainly I want to see good music in smaller venues! Up and comer bands is what SXSW is all about. I'm still pissed at the wife for missing Courtney Barnett at Buffalo Billiards a couple years ago. And at my sister for making me eat a $25 chicken fried steak instead of watching the black Pumas for more than the last couple songs. There are real gems to be found each and every SXSW and most of them are at the non-official gigs, because haven't made a name yet for themselves and they are playing 3 shows as well as a single small venue official show. I know that most of the Unofficial shows don't firm up until February. But tell me what you favorite venues have been over the years during SXSW, and help me expand my range a bit. When the good shows firm up let us know when and where!
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OK. What I used to do was use tiers of sponsorship. Where a top tier $500 sponsor might get a banner for the outfield, a 1/4 page coupon or ad on the advertising flyers given to each kid with their uniforms, and a pop up in rotation on the website. A $300 banner only since you have already been selling those, and add a 1/8 page ad as a bonus. But you can pull stacks of $100 dollar donations, if you can somehow tie it advertising. Uniform kit flyers are super cheap and allow sponsors to get some advertising into the hands of each kid (parent). So maybe for $100 you get to include a 1/8 inch ad/coupon in the flyer. I used a gold, silver and bronze sponsor level. Hit up the trophy place, the decal place, the team photo place, the uniform place, anyone that makes a dime off of the kiddos. I don't know about your ability to run tournaments, but I think my best fundraiser was like $17,000 after the tournament fees, T-shirt sales, and clean profit sponsorship dollars. Good Luck! My tag line to close sales was a grinning, "it's for the children!" Most everyone can part with $100 to help out. The sponsorship sales were actually easier than I thought, because damnit sponsoring kids is an easy product to sell. The way I looked at it, was every dime I raise past the costs of producing the even were pure profit to the association. But find ways to add advertising opportunities to the donations and you will sell a shit ton. And be a hero! Thanks for doing this for the kids. I know how much time and effort it takes, but it really is worth it!
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I didn't know that South Austin was a sponsor?
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Let me see if I can reincarnate my 9th grade self and let's rumble! 😉
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First, you are talking about spending money for the raffle. You go sell sponsorships to area businesses, whose name can appear on the ticket or on your promotional website!!!! You can get a shit ton of nearby businesses to give you $100 bucks or at least $100 in product. You just need to explain how their business will be recognized. If the drawing is at an event? If there is an event for the drawing then the ways to get sponsorship dollars go up dramatically. You are honestly thinking too small! You have a great product and I would start with every place where the kids and parents might go post game for sponsorship money. You will be shocked at how many folks will be willing to help you out in money or product because they see your kids in their places, or just want to support kids. Dentists and orthodontists, can be easy $3-500 a pop if you can get them on. I would sell sponsorships based on being part of a coupon flyer. They give you sponsorship money CASH, and you print their name on a coupon and they get some advertising and hopefully some foot traffic for their goodwill. Gotta find something to put their name on, coupons, banner, T-shirts or whatever. Good luck, but you can raise an easy $2K by knocking on a few doors. I used to sell $500, $200, and $100 sponsorships for the back of Soccer tournament T-shirts. We were selling the shirts for $10, that were more than paid for by the sponsorships. A raffle is different, but figure out a way to get some advertising for sponsors (on the website?) and knock on a few doors. HOW are you going to sell the tickets?
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The new guy transplant that DJ's on Sun Radio played this tune and I fell in love with it. It's sort of my personal party anthem now, (without the IV drug use!). And yeah the video was not at all what I expected, something DIFFERENT!
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I think I would like to see Die Spitz and The Viagra Boys on the same bill. I heard this Viagra Boys song, and they also have opened for Amyl and the Sniffers.
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HA! Die Spits is one of the bands I have had on my radar but haven's seen yet. Girl Punk band that fits into my old Club Foot days music profile. Heck at first I just liked the name. It's not my wife's cup of tea, so I may shoot you a PM and see if you are at the gig I try to go to. Starting to get into my Spring music push. Finally saw Carolyn Wonderland and Shelly King at an early Tuesday continental club show. They seem to have had a monthly on and then off residency there. Anyhow they were great together, not only killer music but a good show. Highly recommended, and at a 6:30 slot it's what I call "geezer hour!" Also hooked up with my "captain Kurt" from my old club foot and soccer days and saw Love and Chaos for an early 6:00 show at Saxon. AJ Vallejo and his wife? in a band that leans a bit more into the country side but still ripped. Then we walked down to High Ball as saw "The Saddle Sores" and some folks enjoying dancing to them. I just liked the name but the band was good even though country is not my preferred genre. The big show for me was Alejandro Escovedo and the Rant Band at Continental last night. It was fucking great. They played the Paramount with a tribute to Mott the Hoople, playing the Album Mott from start to finish. Since I loved Mott the Hoople and love Alejandro it was a nice mix of songs and I always enjoy the Continental. Jeff Beck's recent passing reminded me of how old Alejandro is getting and how much I missed his SXSW closeout shows every year on Sundays. I'm gonna cry when that fucker goes. Go out and see a band in a small venue! Support the young bands! Nothing better than seeing a young up and comer in a club, when in a few years later they are playing arenas...
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Here is the basic problem. The only power you EVER have negotiating ANYTHING is simply the ability to say NO! No, I won't accept that salary, those hours, that severance package, or as in Congress the terms of any deal. This power is honestly exactly why the framers of our constitution were so brilliant with checks and balances. Little levers to in essence "say no" to legislation, the legality of legislation, the limits of executive power, etc. The GOP is the party of NO and they are going to exercise their power. It is honestly about the only thing the GOP does well. The other thing the GOP does exceptionally well is have absolutely and completely no shame. If you are parent, and your kids are worth a shit, one of the best tools in your toolbox to guide them in life quite frankly is shame. I for example can remember nearly 50 years ago, faking being sick so that my Dad would bring me home a G.I Joe. That lie ate at me, and I was compelled to tell my parents the truth. While perhaps at some point in the lives of the elected members of the Republican Congress, this may have been a possibility, but you simply cannot say that today. There is no shame at all in standing up and telling a lie that you KNOW to be a lie. There is no shame in taking completely hypocritical stances again and again and again. There is no shame, when a newly elected congressman with a completely fraudulent resume gets elected, because you need his vote. You have no shame it proclaiming from the top of your lungs that something is about a "principle" when in reality you are devoid of any principles at all. When you combine this lack of shame, with the ability (and dare I say glee )to say no in controlling our government, it is a very, very dangerous spot to be in. Then you combine that with a Speaker who will say yes to literally anything to remain speaker, and the power of no becomes even more powerful. This is going to be the biggest cluster fuck of a congress we have ever seen. About the only thing that I can think of that would reign in the extremists of the GOP is economic collapse. And that is unbelievably scary, as I see not a single reason to think that the GOP bomb throwers empowered my McCarty's unwillingness to simply say no and use his only negotiating power has proven he can't lead. I pray in the end that cooler heads prevail and some sort of compromise is reached. But I see nothing that tells me than anything but the pressure of actual default and the aftermath that could make this GOP controlled Congress act patriotically. Again, this should scare the shit out of all of us! Because it's designed to, that's the tool of terrorists.
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Conversion of Armoire into Bar... mostly for whiskey!
horn4life replied to horn4life's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
I am basically going to cheap out with the 1/4 and use the acrylic as a decorative accent. Use it to cover the bottom for a cleanable lit work surface, and use 1/2 thick shelving with the glowing acrylic on top for sure and potentially on the bottom of the shelves as well for additional lighting. I am thinking that if I just light the tops of the shelves against the mirror I will get enough light for ambiance. Then white light from the top to illuminate the bottles and glassware. I am toying with maybe doing routed edge on the shelves, but that may be more work than it's worth. -
Conversion of Armoire into Bar... mostly for whiskey!
horn4life replied to horn4life's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
Well I guess I maybe should have posted this in one of the other forums... but I think I have made some decisions. At least on the lit acrylic shelves. I bought a sheet of the 1/4 acrylic that still have the protective coating on it, and taped LED lights to the edge of it to see how well it might illuminate after a good sanding. Looks pretty good honestly, and my idea of perhaps trying to light the entire base of the display area with frosted acrylic. Part of my concern is the durability of the base area. If I frame it out and use edge lit acrylic here I can have a cool illuminated base. The 1/4 acrylic is so much cheaper and I can get it at lowe's or home depot. If you look at the pic, one of the problems (more of just an annoyance) is the two clips in the middle of the base that hold the doors in place when closed. They are only about a half inch tall but I really would prefer a smooth surface. So maybe swap the clips out with cabinet door magnets to have a smoother look and integrate them into the edge of a lit base. The great thing about the acrylic base is that it provides the durability and ability to cleanly wipe down that I was looking for, and I hope will look cool. Plus with the cheaper acrylic if I screw up it's not $100 a mistake. Here is a daylight pic of the edge lit glass in the daytime. I taped the lights to the edge and covered the edges to get an idea of how it might look. it would be cool if I could light one big panel up for the base. Need to make sure the LED's would be waterproof there for the eventual drink dump. But a little silicone sealant around the frame and I should be golden. But could be a really cool base and nice complement to a similar design on the shelves. ! -
Awesome build and great forum link rage-a-holic!!! I clicked your link and went down a guys from scratch build rabbit hole Ford Transit 2020 350 AWD "sportsmobile" build The detail that poster used on his build is simply fantastic. He's got skills, for sure, but his documentation of the build out is inspiring, along with your 4x4 build.
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oops thought I did an edit: I would make sure that if you buy a sprinter spring for the extra to make it 4x4. Simply to reach more remote fishing, and for safety in snowy/icy conditions. The size might be an issue, but the flexibility to use it some nearby while doing the build might make me pull the trigger. I would insure the shit out of it, especially in a remote location, with construction folks around. Build a gravel pad with electrical for the rig to stay warm and build an outhouse. Or maybe your wife is different from mine, and this may be an option for you instead of the outhouse.
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And your shit bucket looks to have sturdier handles!
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CFP National Championship Game: #1 Georgia vs #3 TCU.
horn4life replied to FartingDreamer's topic in Football
What team like TCU would you say Georgia has played this year? TCU is an oddball and as has been said they just keep after you. IF Georgia does not get up and pile on early I think they will get really fucking nervous. TCU has won more than one game by the hair of its chin. But so did Ohio State and Michigan who I thought were both overrated all season based on the competition. So TCU does have a chance. I am actually mainly rooting for TCU to keep it close. I would have a hard time betting on Georgia with the spread at 13-1/2. I just hope it's a good game and I can be happy no matter who loses!
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