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  1. There's nothing about the situation today that crushes my soul. We're in all these recruitments and winning many of them, adding more meat to a roster that is already nearly empty of fat. These are great days my friends.
  2. All right @G650, I'll do you one better. I'll argue in favor of what you're saying. And the reason I'm doing this is so that, instead of just going over the same points you've already repeated over and over that I already understand, you'll be able to take a step forward and see what I am trying to say. So here's Dave Mustaine playing with the San Diego Symphony. Now, I don't know about you, but it sounds like complete ass to me. It sounds like complete ass because of Everything Else. He's playing among instruments with massive and subtle dynamic range, among performers who have mastered that dynamic range. And on top of that, he's hitting notes out of tune that need to be bent into the right pitch. I don't think anyone's going to say that Mustaine is a bad guitarist, but in this environment, his skills are underdeveloped to the point of sounding amateurish. Why? Because he always only ever played or practiced his guitar with the gain cranked to metal levels. He doesn't have a lot of mis-hits in his playing, because that's how he practiced; but dynamics, tuning, subtlety... are completely absent. Again, because this is how he practiced. Until this concert, he never needed subtle dynamics, and being out of tune occasionally was acceptable for various reasons. But here? The guitar and symphony don't work together; it's jarring and painful to hear.
  3. @G650 I know what you're saying. And -- once again -- I've spent the past 45 years getting good at "everything else." I don't suck ass at everything else. Whereas the ghost notes/mis-hits are not just something I suck at, but something I've actively trained (over 45 years) to do on purpose, and have to re-train my hand to do differently. Of course you have to work on everything else. But saying you shouldn't do focused work at all on things you are particularly bad at -- or even saying that it's "bad musicianship" to work on exercises that build up different skills to improve ( @tigol) -- is singularly terrible advice.
  4. Yeah. Colt getting injured vs Bama was not a freak accident. It's the result of a sorry OL facing two real DLs in a row when your QB is also your best running back. now let us never speak of this again
  5. even broken squirrels find a clock twice a day isn't that chris hall
  6. ...you need to talk about anything?
  7. Goldens who were actually friendly to me are outnumbered by those who never wanted to have anything to do with me. But I've never met a lab who didn't want to be my new best friend. In fact I generally get along with dogs, even Chihuahuas, who are notoriously bag with strangers. Just not Golden Retrievers.
  8. I had a teacher tell us that this was, in fact, lazy behavior, and that we should all try to be this kind of lazy. He was great.
  9. was thinking about submitting "America" for this for sure
  10. Team Anyone But Looch
  11. You only gotta listen to the intros. 🤣 But uh yeah... Ted Templeman's bio was... eye opening.
  12. Including Hagar.
  13. I'm avoiding Van Halen songs because (1) I'm trying to cancel out my massive VH fanboyness and (2) you could pretty much just point to their entire discography.
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