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I think it's probably some buddy of Fuck Kevin Morgan's, or maybe Fuck Kevin Morgan himself, who imagines himself a football expert. I can guarantee badmofo doesn't know jack shit about sports (look at his few replies to the 2 or 3 semi-active threads there in the past 3 months), and I doubt he even went to UT. He's just a sad little troll with a one-track mind hard-on for "hildabeast". Looks like they are up to about 4 posters over there now, though. Hope they don't blow the server once the game threads start.

Some decent responses here...

^^^^ Interesting story as to how this song even came about... "Neanderthal Man" is a song by Hotlegs, an English pop band that was later relaunched as 10cc. The song, initially created only as a studio exercise to test drum sounds on new recording equipment, sold over two million copies and reached No. 2 in the UK and No. 22 in the US. It reached No.1 in Italy and Germany and was also a Top 20 hit in Australia, Canada, France, Ireland and Japan. The song was the first to be recorded at Strawberry Studios inStockport, England, on new four-track Ampex equipment purchased by studio owners Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman and Peter Tattersall. It featured a simple repeated chorus and a heavy drum rhythm that Gouldman's manager, Harvey Lisberg, has claimed became influential in pop music. He said: "I think a lot of people were very influenced by 'Neanderthal Man', which was something new in drum sounds, using four drums on a four-track machine. When Gary Glitter came along with his records, I thought I could hear the same sort of sound deep down in there. I think there were a lot of other people who copied the sound, maybe unintentionally."[1] Stewart recalled that when the recording equipment had been set up, Kevin Godley set up his drum kit, Lol Creme got out his guitar and Stewart sat down at the control desk. "It was the first time we'd had a real control desk with a four-track machine and we were excited to try it all out," he said. "The whole thing was just an experiment because Kevin wanted to lay all sorts of different drum beats down that he hadn't recorded before, and there was this crazy sort of nursery rhyme that had just got into our heads." "As we laid down the drum tracks, Lol was singing in the studio with Kevin keeping time – and after we'd laid four drum tracks down Lol's voice came through at a very high level, sounding like something none of us had ever heard before on a record. It really sounded very strange, so we carried on working on the number, adding little bits of piano to it."[1] He said there was one further hitch before the song was released: a loud metallic burst towards the end of the song blew a ₤1200 cutter head as the track was being mastered in the Phonogram cutting suite. He explained: "We had a sound on that track that was something that had never been recorded before. We'd made the sound by taking a large 6 ft by 4 ft sheet of steel into the studio. It was actually a sheet we were going to fireproof one of the doors with – and then at the right moment we had hit it with a hammer. The hammer blow gave it such a shock frequency-wise that the equipment just couldn't take it. At the time this was an embarrassment to all of us, but that faded into insignificance when we found ourselves with such a massive hit on our hands.

I saw something a while back, don't remember if it was a tweet or at some panel, where someone speculated that Kim, having left her hometown as fast as she could (her words), might not have had the best family life, and Rhea Seehorn replying, "yeah, I could see that". So it might come up again in the future where she's upset because she never had a sibling/family member show her that kind of love. Or she lost someone close to her as well a long time ago and can't understand how Jimmy could just dismiss Chuck's feelings.. Or it could be total bullshit. Just spitballin.

I have an old Rolling Stone with Mick Jagger on the cover with the heading "Mick at 40!". Like it was the end of the world...

Checked back yesterday, her twatter is back open. No real craziness though, but give it a few weeks.

Speaking of, who pissed Meemaw off and made her set her twitter to private? Hopefully Longhorn Frenzy or someone has a mole on the inside. I need my Norman updates!

Couldn't really find any great videos, but Chester Thompson and Phil Collins dueting on Dance on a Volcano/Los Endos or the In the Cage medley is beyond awesome, check out Genesis Live at Knebworth 1978 or 3 Sides Live, I'm not a drummer but I'll air-drum the shit out of that. Previously mentioned, but Kenny Aranoff, with both John Mellencamp and John Fogerty, just pushing/driving those bands. Awesome. Stewart Copeland, every time I listen to the Police, I hear something new from him. And Bonzo, I stupidly posted on the shag that I thought he was doing all that bass drum work with two bass drums, because (being a brass player) I could not fathom any human laying out those bass drum lines with only one foot/leg, just amazing. Honorable mention: Chris Slade, laying down the law with the later AC/DC; Ringo, who is so maligned, just listen to Sgt Pepper if nothing else, not only the monster grooves he lays down on With a Little Help or Sgt., Pepper reprise, but the job he does following John's rhythms on Good Morning, Good Morning; Hal Blaine, just for what he did on Pet Sounds

How I miss those days Prince, ZZ Top, and Unplugged Let's see Martha's tits

I got a chuckle out of Mike signing the birthday card as Barry.

I 'm in the process of converting all my old cassettes to digital and trashing them, just getting rid of some clutter, and came across this one, had it forever, the Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack. I remember renting Koyaanisqatsi back in high school and being blown away by both the cinematography and the music, my first introduction to Philip Glass. I actually scored and analyzed this piece for a Music Theory class at UT. My prof said he hated Glass' music because it made him "edgy", to me it's just the opposite, it almost puts me in a trance. Then, after moving to Austin, discovering the greatness of Vulcan Video and all the great cult movies and documentaries. This one changed my life, and again, Philip Glass, whose soundtrack has become THE model for documentary soundtracks to this day, I still hear knockoffs constantly. Been an fan ever since. Does all his music pretty much sound alike? Yeah. OK with me, I enjoy it all, kind of classical easy listening. For a while I bought everything he put out. This was interesting, a collaboration with just about everybody in the indie/art world in the mid 1980s - Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, the Roches, Kronos Quartet, Suzanne Vega. Glass wrote the music, pairing up with lyricists, these by Paul Simon. It's got just about every Glass musical cliche in it, but I still enjoy it.

Never figured out why they don't play this one, little too Gaelic I guess, and not enough of a hit, but it fits the channel perfectly.

Petey Greene says fuck that!

Browse is the only drop-down box that does work. None of the others do.

Woof. I bet they were something before electricity.

But don't forget mofo's hot sports takes (well, his only sports take...)! You can't get that in-depth analysis here...

Nice, let's go back a few years, includes a full "Supper's Ready". I also enjoy the original Wall shows. Roger's version was good, but nothing can top the original. Someday Roger will release the cleansed up version of these, maybe... and I can watch the King anytime, actually remember watching this as a kid...

Buncha meanies! Chased swam all the way back over to the shag. Leave swam alone!

Didn't even realize I'd received a confirmation e-mail til I looked at my spam this morning, #105 holla!