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  1. it will never cease to amaze me that texas fans - when pointing to the shittiest football years in history - always point to mackovic instead of mcwilliams. objectively speaking, while the teams were not elite, the 94-96 teams were somewhat fun to watch. mcwilliams was way shittier. way, way shittier. like so shitty that charlie strong's teams were the only ones that were competitively as bad since ww2. even the one decent season in 90 was a complete fucking farce of unbelievably shitty opponents that miami put on full dispaly to cap things off. but because he was a texas guy (and i guess the gardere outcomes against ou), mcwilliams gets off the hook while everyone points to mackovic. to me, mcwilliams and strong are the co-presidents of the texas football makes you suicidal club. mackovic won the last swc, the first big 12, and was responsible for my favoite horn ever in ricky. mcwilliams got abused by everyone except gary gibbs. sorry for football'ing (the single shittiest board on this site - kind of like mcwilliams) the cr. just needed to say that.
  2. for sure he's played it a billion times live but even for him, i suspect it takes a little practicing to get it nailed. if you watch closely in the video i posted, he looks extremely focused and is rocking back and forth to keep his tempo (he never really looked like that the rest of the show...he just walked around the stage completely loose and chill like it was a rock concert) because, as i figured out when i learned to play that riff, that 8th dot delay can really screw up your perceived tempo as you get deeper into it despite the left hand being extremely simple and the right hand not being too terrible. but then again, i'm me and he's edge so yeah...you're likely right.
  3. I think the Rattle and Hum tour was the best they ever did with it live but it was pretty solid at the sphere a couple of years ago. My seats were last minute so not great but still gives a good idea. I wonder how long Edge has to re-rehearse the riff to get back up to speed whenever they go out IMG_5685.mov eta: actually, i just remembered the super bowl halftime show right after 9/11 where they did mlk right into it...that was pretty fucking amazing.
  4. i'll be honest, i looked them up to see if there songs were all protest songs against bushy cooch. it was even worse than that. holy shit, what a shitty lords of acid ripoff.
  5. and of course, very few songs throw their dick on the table with a bang after a crazy sonice start like sledgehammer.
  6. lots of good ones in here already...some of my favorites that have not yet been mentioned.
  7. While your point is 100% valid and applies you at least 90% of Texans (I.e., idiots), bateshorn lives in Maryland or Virginia. though given his career, I still find it surprising he’s not that familiar with Paxton’s general awfulness given the national profile he’s tried to cultivate in being on the vanguard of the race to the bottom.
  8. this isn't really the right thread for it (there is no such thing on this site) but over the last few months, due to a lack of creativity on the original songwriting front, i worked on my production and post-production skills doing some HZ mockups from ear. i did one for time from inception, a suite from interstellar, a track from the dark knight rises, and a small section of the pirates of the carribean suite. all done from scratch with midi with a few exceptions (i recorded acoustic and electric guitar for the end of the inception mockup as well as interspersed in the pirates mockup). anyway, not my music to share but my production and they were really fun to make.
  9. there seems to be some significant confusion as to the sonic profile of the oboe in this thread and the prominence of its use in the inception score/cues.
  10. however, it unfortunately won't make fsd or robotaxi work.
  11. i had not read the thread of the rains thread in quite some time but saw the series of exchanges in this thread and thought they were simply strange. after going back and reading the separate thread of the rains through the weekend and seeing how emotionally he was pushing back on the notion that the camps were not sufficiently monitoring the conditions through the night given the proximity to the river from the absolute get-go, he clearly has more than just a passing interest in this notion.
  12. Our kiddos are at Camp OTX outside of Bandera this week. They aren’t near a river…they have a little man made lake that dams upstream of a tributary (at best). They are communicating that everything is fine there and I believe it knowing how it is situated but reading about these other camps is making me sick to my stomach.
  13. Indeed. It is glorious. Very mellow, much like Taylor Swift’s voice on the song “tolerate it.”
  14. Trying to get guitar porn thread back on track by: 1) I don’t think anyone believes that TS has an iconic or even “great” voice. That said, she is extremely effective at using it to do white girl tricks in conveying different tones in her songs. Her first two albums have a very nashvilly sound vocally, 1989 is the definition of teeny bopper, while reputation is quite strong in conveying bitterness and anger, and then a very mellow and pretty sound for folklore/evermore. Creating those different album feels is not as easy as she makes it look, despite the fact that she’s not a technical or pitch perfect iconic voice. But at the end of the day, the chick can write some fucking hits and is a very good instinctual musician. She’s also quite smart in her collaborative choices. While being an attractive white girl may have given her a “leg” up in the beginning, her talent and songwriting is plenty organic is is ultimately undeniable. The stadiums of 90,000 people singing along every word for THREE AND A HALF fuckkng hours in every city around the world out front should have told you and I’d sell all of your guitar collections combined in a heartbeat to have 25% of that ability. She’s been wildly oversaturated for the last five years so I get the pushback and it’s time for something different but she’s an all time songwriter and a very talented musician and it’s silly to say otherwise. 2) thanks to consulting you guys, I didn’t do something idiotic and drill a hole in the Martin. Got a really nice strap from them to connect to the neck and it’s working out great so thanks to all for stopping me from doing stupid things.
  15. you know, sometimes paul...sometimes...you make me feel like a narcissist because i read your posts and i can't help but think you are talking about me. she's obviously great as a collaborator, can write a hit like very few people have ever done, has some really good songs, and is a force of nature in terms of being prolific and the magnitude of her tours. deej is obviously way off base saying her isolated vocals are bad as he's just being a hater. that's insane. i have stem split about 40 of her songs for my girls to study...her vocals are incredibly good at connoting different emotions of songs. she's not adele, whitney houston, or maria callas but she's a plenty good singer to go along with songwriting ability. that said, i sent my wife and older daughter to one of the shows in houston and my wife and younger daughter to one of the shows in new orleans and in retrospect, i probably would have rather used that same amount of money to buy out the entire town of tremezzo and build a house on lake como. lifetime memories for them though. and they both have that shirt.
  16. god damn, do you ever do anything on this board besides follow this same little routine of yours? jesus christ what a fucking whiny bitch you are. just jump to your fucking obvious grievances next time and save us all the time of reading your dumbfuck posts trying to construct your strawman so you can finally say TDS and imply feigned superiority. "rampant TDS" gives away the game skipper...even if you try to do a rex and say "he's a buffoon and i don't give a shit what that idiot says." anyone that actually feels that way would never use an absolutely idiotic term like "rampant TDS." next time, just go eat another 50 donuts or some shit.
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  18. It’s actually not available. Even when the expense was put forth. I was significantly involved in litigation between Antero and a French company called Veolia that spent a quarter billion building a “state of the art” facility in West Virginia called Clearwater to try and clean up all the saltwater typically disposed in disposal wells in Marcellus. The idea was to stop injecting and instead create river quality water. They spent a ton of money and then spent a ton more money…and then a ton more trying to make it work. It ultimately led to them just having to buy up the global supply of fly ash because the shit didn’t work. And even then they had to transport all the radioactive shit coming off the water (to Texas by the way). they put the money in, hired the global leading firm to build it for them, and it did not even come close to working. we are still not able to technologically achieve the processing of SWD water into river quality water. This bill is utterly fucking insane and will absolute make some lawyers rich after some people die. edit: if you want to read about it, long story here (as someone more than intimately familiar with the facts and issues of the case, I’d say this article gets it about 95% right which isn’t bad for these type of advocacy websites): https://www.desmog.com/2023/09/19/radioactive-fracking-waste-west-virginia-veolia-antero-clearwater/
  19. Kind of a short presentation. we’re gonna have to upgrade tariffs on all the Chinese fireworks even more to get this American manufacturer a level playing field.
  20. some background for you, roma. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/19/the-worst-person-you-know-the-man-who-unwittingly-became-a-meme
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