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  1. Everything he did was gold. EVERYTHING. Would be considered an all-timer had cancer not ended him too early. Perfect example of an actor who makes the role - he often stole scenes despite being a secondary character. (Probably not a great casting, but a stellar actor who makes directors look good regardless of the role.) My list of actors and performances that define the character: F. Murray Abraham (and lifetime Longhorn) - Salieri, Amadeus (takes a villain without arc and infuses depth and sympathy in one of the most masterful performances ever to the point that another actor, Hulce, with a clumsy and trite performance gets elevated to an Oscar nomination just for being within Abraham's Salieri gravity sphere) Tim Curry - Frankenfurter, Rocky Horror Picture Show (good luck getting ANYONE else to turn in a comparable performance) Ryan Reynolds - Deadpool, Deadpool (there is no movie, much less franchise, without this casting)
  2. Ronnie Verrell was legit an animal on drums.
  3. God's plan. Lewl.
  4. Ironically, because they stay in tune.
  5. How I read his name every time.
  6. Probably never will.
  7. I got that guitar in high school sometime in '93. My family went into the Guitar Center on Westheimer in Houston and out of the blue dad asked which of the guitars was my favorite. Without hesitation I pointed at the Flying V. It was $1700, but it might as well have been $17,000,000. It was just my favorite, not anything I even contemplated owning, our family didn't have $1700 guitar money. Dad walked over to the salesman and after a few minutes the guy drags the ladder over, climbs up, and brings the most beautiful glossy midnight black Flying V down and my heart started doing backflips. Dad looks at me and says, "You better play it. A lot." I might have started breakdancing right there in the middle of the store. Dad had never done anything like that before and hasn't done anything like that since, for me or himself. I found out later the guitar wasn't paid off for several years after. It was a strain for him for some time, though he never let me know that. I don't sell things. I like to collect things or I might just be a run-of-the-mill hoarder. Who knows. What I do know is I'm not selling that guitar. Not THAT guitar.
  8. I was rooting around the garage and came across some pics of me in a high school band about 80lbs ago. It's like I slipped and fell and got covered in 90s. Nothing says metal like a calculator watch. Still have the V. "Cutlass Nogood" Or we might have been "Albino Meat Machine" at this point. We played the Abyss once, but that was it that I recall. We might have played a party, but that also might have been a slightly different lineup.
  9. I can hear the tone coming out of the picture. Have to wonder why no Corinthian leather lounger in the pic. Seems like the perfect time to drop that bad boy somewhere in the background.
  10. Waza, Waza everywhere. (A little literary humor because I'm well read as fuck.) Killer setup, man. Do you need to borrow my ruler to line the pedals up? DM me.
  11. David Gilmour is on the Mt. Rushmore of guitar and that dude bends every other note. Jimi, Stevie, Eddie, and Davie.
  12. You're welcome. I don't have the foggiest idea wtf guitar that is, and the backline looks all fucked up too (I see the Dumble, but that's about it.) Doesn't matter. Whatever his hands touch turns to soul stirring blues. Johnny Copeland, Houston's native son, destroys some shit too. EDIT: Ah, Charley. Always thought Charley was just a Strat with a hula girl image, some lipsticks, standard saddles, etc. Nope. Full on custom. This must be before the hula girl.
  13. Sounds like the studio version. Fuckin hell. Team Bend. Actually, more like Team No Rules. I hate rules. And I especially don't like them in my music. Don't have a "no bends" policy. Bend that shit. If it plays, rock on with it. If it doesn't, don't do it again. Unless you play jazz, in which case do it twice more.
  14. Looks like Shirley Manson's daughter.
  15. Does this mean I can overreact now? Asking for a friend.
  16. Yep.
  17. Sorry to hear that. Good luck with the pooch.
  18. Queue @MojoHand?
  19. Gonna have that stuck in my head all weekend. Thanks.
  20. I meant to address the seeming over estimation of the health of the blues genre (stagnant and moribund) but I might've got lost there at the end. Bruh it was late!
  21. Does that make 2 unaccounted for?
  22. As a commercially viable product, yes. SRV took was done and turned it on its head, revitalizing the genre in the process. Blues was cool again. Blues was mainstream. Blues made its way into Top40 Pop songs. Unheard of things in the decades prior. The closest we had before that was British Invasion type stuff. Blues inspired, but a wholly different genre. SRV was dropping blues licks, straight genuine blues, into radio-friendly Bowie tracks about dancing meant for moms! Just thinking back on the 80s and MTV: I recall interviews and shows with SRV. Don't recall any other blues artist getting ANY stong run, much less exposure like him. He did an Unplugged episode, the only one by a straight bluesman that I can recall. (Did Robert Cray get an Unplugged? I recall his Strong Persuader getting a lot of crossover juice and he might have swung an episode. That was already on the backside of the decade, regardless.) MTV played SRV videos regularly. Did any other blues artist get in the regular rotation? I don't recall any. Crossover chameleons like Clapton got play since, but it wasn't for his blues catalogue. Think about that - Blues was as strong as it's ever been, and the only act to really crack into MTV was SRV and Double Trouble. He was a giant. And the gap between him and number 2 was huge. It hasn't been as cool since. Blues, as a genre, is living in a shadow, trying to recreate a moment in time when a dude from Dallas made everyone care again. Or maybe the argument is SRV never revitalized the blues. All anyone ever cared about was SRV. I can see old school bluesmen taking exception to that...
  23. SRV progressed a stagnant and moribund genre with virtuosity and panache, but gtfo give me the 40s?
  24. It's always funny watching skilled drummers sit in with Metallica. When Jordison played with them about 10 years ago he would drive the set hard. Watching Kirk and James try and keep up is hilarity. Don't care though. It's no Metallica without the bitty Dane.
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