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83Horn

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  1. 2 hours ago, mooseoutfront said:

    Moose’s xmas present to himself this year is to upgrade his standard AR-15 (5.56).

    I’m not a gun geek and when I tried to go down the rabbit hole that is AR upgrades the sheer volume of choices hurt my head.

    So I figured I’d just ask Surly what they would add to my Windham Weaponry MPC?

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    Nothing...it's perfect as is.  Ok, maybe a sling, but I prefer simplicity.

  2. 10 minutes ago, 927 E. 41st said:

    What was the place off of south Congress? I think it used to be the convention center for a defunct hotel. Maybe the Terrace hotel? Caught Robert Palmer there. Foreigner at the Paramount when they were trying to get it restored. Man it was in bad shape back then.

    Yup...on Academy Drive, just east of S. Congress.

  3. 57 minutes ago, PTINS said:

    Music and Austin are synonymous. Always has been, always will be. Nothing like growing up in Austin in the 60's & going to UT in the 70's.  The Music, and the puurrty girls used to ooze out of the cracks in the ground.  

    Ok guys, do better.

    It was the Austin Opry House, not Opera.  Austin used to have the Coliseum (fight nights, some concerts) and the Municipal Auditorium, where I saw my first concert, Led Zeppelin in 1969. I still remember them playing Dazed & Confused as we migrated from the balcony to the lower floor. 

     

    Yes...at first, but they did change the name around 1978 or 79 to the Austin Opera House.  I think there was a convoluted lawsuit, or lawsuits, involving The Austin Opry/Opera House, the Texas Opry House in Houston, and the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville over the use of the word "Opry".  Anyway, after the name was changed, I saw Johnny Winter there in September 1981, with young Stevie Ray Vaughan opening.  Awesome night.

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  4. 1 hour ago, hookemATL said:

    The chances of a fatality in a motorcycle accident are approximately 30 times higher than in a car. Motorcycle accidents have a staggering 80% injury or death rate, while car accidents remain around 20%.
     

    numbers game bruh. I gotta get that  third kidney and backup taint from somewheres. 

    No argument on the organ donation thing, if that's what you choose to do, but if you're going to make it mandatory for people who choose to engage in higher risk activities like motorcycle riding, skydiving, etc., you should also ban alcoholics, smokers, drug addicts, etc. from receiving organ donations.  Take better care of your original set of organs, and maybe you wouldn't need that transplant.

  5. 12 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

    The Marines are kind of aggy-like in their cultishness.

    I don't like negging, but this one deserves a neg for associating that kiddie corps bullshit in College Station with the USMC.

    BTW, in honor of my parents, brothers and nephew, Go Navy, Beat Army!

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  6. Fabletics.  Any ad that starts with some douchebag saying, "Guys, let's be honest.  Buying pants sucks.  It shouldn't be this difficult", just guarantees that I will never buy your product.  What the fuck is so difficult about buying pants?  Do you not know your waist size?  Can you not operate a measuring tape?  Are you so much of a pussy that trying to figure out how to buy pants gets you so frustrated you resort to buying stretchy pants?

     

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  7. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    #whynotboth?

    I mean, the history of the blues is one of handing the torch to the next generation.  Johnny & Stevie Ray are both in that iconic chain of Texas blues guitarists.

    Absolutely.  No argument from me on that.  Johnny and Stevie are 1A and 1B on my list of favorite blues/blues rock guitarists.  Johnny was the first I was aware of, being introduced to his music at the tender age of 8, in spring of 1970, when my oldest brother returned home from the Navy on leave shortly before my family moved to Texas.  He brought with him a copy of Second Winter.  As I had learned the previous summer that our family would be moving to Texas, I was enamored with all things Texas-related, and although I didn't know yet that Johnny was from Texas, there is a song on this album titled Hustled Down in Texas, so my attention was grabbed.  Then I listened...it was eye opening, to say the least.  I've been a huge fan ever since.  Fast forward 11 years, or so, and I'm a junior at UT, and first saw Stevie live at the old Austin Opera House, opening for Johnny.  That was one of my all time greatest concert experiences, accentuated by the fact that I was front row, less than an arm's length away from Johnny and Stevie.  My previous post was really just a response to the fact that I believe Johnny gets overlooked too often when people discuss great blues artists.

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  8. On 12/4/2022 at 6:18 PM, tx 3 putt said:

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    Thank you for posting this picture.  I love me some Stevie Ray, but Johnny is the man, as far as I am concerned.  He put Texas blues guitarists on the map, and resurrected Muddy Waters' career, but is seriously under appreciated.

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  9. 15 hours ago, DeadArmadillo said:

    Me and my girl were taking her niece to Houston and stopped for a Happy Meal and some coffees at a College Station McDonalds.  The dang Happy meal came with a Newcomer of the Year Award

     

    4 hours ago, DaggerHorns said:

    So you’re saying he may have ran out of time?

     

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