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  1. Had a hard time finding this one.  Not sure if the link will work, but this is Jimi Hendrix and Band of Gypsies practicing before their New Year's Eve gig at the Fillmore East in December 1969.  It's a medely of Little Drummer Boy, Silent Night and Auld Ang Syne, with a little Taps thrown in for good measure.  It's a little rough, as it is just a practice session that was not intended for release as a recording, but eventually was released a few years after Jimi's death.  Still, his mastery of feedback is incredible.  I'm usually a traditionalist when it comes to my Christmas music, but this is Jimi.

    https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/fromthevaults/5423/jimi-hendrix-little-drummer-boy-silent-night-auld-lang-syne-1969/

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  2. 6 hours ago, horn4life said:

    I was looking back as come of the other games I remember fuzzily (I have never been to a game without a flask) that Fred made me happy with.  And please do not let this thread evolve into a personal advocation for current coaching change.  Let's fucking for one God damn time honor the man. 

    He was overall a class act, and gave me some damn fine memories, even if they are hazy.  (I had to look up the details)  Sophomore year the opener for the 1980 season was vs Arkansas, another big damn game with Texas at Memorial Stadium. As I looked back at 1980, it reminded me of what Akers faced, ranked #10 in opener vs Ark #6 , comes out on top. Moves to #2 on five wins including OU, then loses the CHEATING SMU, a very good Baylor Team.  Baylors legitimate rise I think was perhaps the final straw pay for A&M's move to a semi-pro model.  I would be a shitty Longhorns if I did not point out that A&M is of course the team that immortalized their willingness to cheat with "The 12th Man." They cheated and A&M beat Akers as well.  So a team that went from #2, and fell out of the rankings going 7-5.  (insert your Fire Fred chant here) Yet in 1981 he gives me a fantastic year, going 11-1 and ending the season ranked #2.  Arkansas... was the one L, I still hate them.

    The next season December 1982 Ark was #6 and we were #12, we kicked their ever loving ass in the revenge rematch 33-7.  I still remember being horse as hell from yelling "poor Hoggiesssss!"

    Anyhow a good coach who gave me a lot of fine memories, and who did it with class.

     

    You and I were on campus during the same time, and I'm sure we attended many of the same games.  I was going to highlight these same games in remembering coach Akers.  The 1980 Arkansas game had been moved by ABC-TV to Sept. 1, a Monday night, because they wanted the first televised college game of the new decade to be the Texas-Arkansas game.  The atmosphere was awesome, the stadium was rocking, and it was an epic ass-kicking of the piggies, highlighted by Jeff Leiding going full Superman and destroying an Arkie kickoff returner.

    One thing to mention about the 1979 OU game; this was the game where Billy Sims' bid for a second Heisman died.  Texas D, led my Steve "Bam Bam" McMichael was in OU's backfield all day.  I was sitting behind an older OU couple who turned to each other about mid-way through the third quarter and said, "I've never seen OU dominated like this".  The score did not indicate that domination, but it was a dominant performance.

    Should also mention the 1981 Miami game.  Miami had not yet become "The U", but they were on the rise, and had a QB named Jim Kelly.  A great game, I most remember for a pass from Rick McIvor from UT's own end zone, about 65 yards on the fly to Herkie Walls, who juggles the pass, pins the ball against his face mask, before falling down, but he made the catch, and Texas went on the score a TD on the drive, winning the game 14-7.  Defense made many, many stops, as they always seemed to do when we needed it most.  I never worried when the opposing team would get a first and goal, because I knew there was a better than even chance that they would not score, or would be held to a FG.  Our defense during this era was just dominating, year after year.

    Should also point out that the 1981 team finished 10-1-1.  Had to come from 14-0 down to pull out a 14-14 tie against Houston.  I often wonder what would have happened if we won that game.  If my memory serves me correctly, we were ranked in the top 5 above Clemson going into that game, but dropped with the tie.  Clemson finished the season undefeated and won the National Championship, but if we had beaten UH, what are the chances we would have remained above them in the rankings?

    Coach Akers' teams, especially during his first 6-7 years, don't get the recognition they deserve.  Coach definitely did the University proud.  Hook 'Em, coach, and RIP.

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  3. So many to choose from:

    Monterrey Pop - 1967

    Stones - Madison Square Garden November 27, 1969 (Taped for Get Yer Ya Yas Out)

    Cream - Winterland Ballroom and/or Fillmore West 1968

    Johnny Winter - Vulcan Gas Company, any time from 1968-1970, when he was still playing with Tommy Shannon and John Turner

    Led Zeppelin - Pretty much any show from 1969-1972

    Willie - Any show at the Armadillo

    Frank Zappa - Ditto above for Willie

  4. On 11/22/2020 at 10:27 AM, Horn80 said:

    Don’t think so.  Since this show is prequel to Breaking Bad, if something tragic happened then Jimmy wouldn’t  be the person he is in Breaking Bad.  He wouldn’t be able to live with himself and probably be a broken mess.

     

    On 11/22/2020 at 12:42 PM, RPM said:

    This. 

    I don't know.  I never watched Breaking Bad, (I know, I know...I was out of the country most of the time it was on, so never heard of it until it was almost finished) so I don't know what the Jimmy/Saul character was like in that show, but based just on what I've seen in BCS, I think you may be underestimating how much of a self-absorbed prick Jimmy/Saul may be.  Then again, I might be wrong.

  5. On 11/21/2020 at 11:19 PM, mdmost said:

    That's quite the Mack Brown-like record Gundy has going.

     

    To be fair, even Mack was 7-9 against OU.  It just felt worse than it really was, because most of those 9 losses were complete ass rapings.

  6. The Popeye's commercials where they have random regular folk doing video reviews while eating their chicken sandwiches; especially the one with the guy who has a mouth full of food and his face all in the sandwich saying, "Oh baby, you put a SPELL on ME."  Shut your pie hole you fuckin' knob.  It's a freakin' chicken sandwich, not some life altering experience.  Two slices of white bread bun, deep fried slab of chicken breast, mayo and maybe some pickle slices.  Yeah, that sounds spell binding...moron.  All told, this shouldn't make me ragey...but it does.

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  7. 9 hours ago, Helobious said:

    That raucous 25% capacity Jones stadium crowd is intimidating no doubt. And good point on the COVID angle, no other team in the country has had to deal with it, only Texas.

    I don’t have a problem calling the game what it was. A bad team played shitty against a good team that played extremely shitty. Texas came out on top in the end, which is what ultimately matters. Not super encouraging to see though. I truly thought Texas was going to cakewalk to an unbeaten season. I don’t know about that after today. 

    You unwittingly self-diagnosed your problem.  Cakewalks to unbeaten seasons do not exist...ever...for anyone.

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