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  1. On 7/3/2025 at 2:34 PM, BrickHorn said:

    I fucking love that song. Outside of LZ and LZII, it’s the best blues-inspired song they recorded.

    But I’d lump it in with Bring it on Home (another favorite of mine) as a hybrid. The front half is heavy, reverb soaked blues, but the original parts are pure rock. 

    The first two albums include some straight up blues arrangements, just with a harder edge. Lemon Song, You Shook Me, and How Many More Times are good examples. 

    Your post reminded me of one the things about When The Levee Breaks harmonica that I love.  That’s just how big and raw it is, matching up to how big that beat is.  Much different than how typical blues harmonica is rendered.  Plant played it into a mic and through an amp and they recorded that so it had some saturation/overdrive to it.  It was also recorded a half step above and then taken down through tape manipulation to give it more of a deeper resonate timbre.  One of Zep/Page’s many clever production choices.

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  2. 10 hours ago, Planet Houston said:

    As far as positive news, there are a bunch of La Junta counselors that are absolute heroes. Stories will come out. Miraculous that there weren’t fatalities there. 

    This does not surprise me in the least.  Most of the counselors were former campers, and the development campers receive at La Junta is the kind of stuff that would make them capable of this as young adults.

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  3. Just now, South Austin said:

    It'll matter in that a group of wealthy families of deceased campers will lobby the legislature for some reform, and the legislature will pass some performative bill that won't do shit.  

    🤷‍♂️ We'll see.

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  4. 1 minute ago, Hagbard Celine said:

     

    if i were one of the parents my price would be "all heads roll or we turn the state blue"

    podium barbie had to look down while trashing the nws - the regime is concerned

    Exactly.  This is fundamentally different than Uvalde.  Kids from the wealthiest & most powerful families in Texas were in grave danger and some died.  It shouldn't matter, but it does.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I guarantee the overwhelming majority of families sending their kids to Mystic don't have Hunt money.  We're talking a lot of west Austin attorneys, etc.  They'll have a price.

    Well, obviously not everyone at Mystic has Hunt money, but there is a dead Hunt kid at Mystic and if that family wants real answers, they will get them.  Knowing some of them personally, I think they will.

  6. Just now, jimmyjazz said:

    I think the broad expectation is that these families will have a price.  It will be high, but they'll have a price.

    Maybe, but my experience with such families is that they generally don't have a price when it comes to their own.  The Hunt's have 25 billion dollars.  Money means very little to them.

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  7. 1 minute ago, Chad Fuck said:


    Hahaha.

    Man, you are the BEST at this thread! And life, apparently.

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    This is a sub $500 guitar (used), nothing to envy, but it’s a solid mahogany/spruce dread that sounds and plays really good.

    It’s gonna replace my cheap, old black Takamine that was my only guitar for a long time while kids were little.  The one I put them to bed with.  My daughter asked if she could have it and I’m giving it to her.

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  8. 43 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    SIAP but this is just one piece of the puzzle in this unfathomable weather tragedy. 
     

    From The NY Times:

    In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said the county did not have a warning system because such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending. 

    “Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” Mr. Kelly said. Asked if people might reconsider in light of the catastrophe, he said, “I don’t know.”

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    Kelly is the individual who early on Friday said all Mystic campers were accounted for. 

    I think that’s a significant point.  You see it all over Colorado, too.  The rural, non-resort areas have very low taxes, very few services and three out of every four people that live there likes it that way.  The right (wrong?) wildfire event would play out in much the same way in these areas.

    These local government officials are mostly guilty of providing the local government that locals want to pay for.  So who is negligent and responsible here?  That’s a debate for a different part of this site, but maybe people who disagree that emergency services are a cuttable cost should look to different areas for a sleepaway camp for their kids.

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  9. I’m in Denver this weekend for family reasons and fucked up and stopped at guitar store.  A used Guild D-140 that spoke to me is coming home.  Seriously good guitar for what I paid for it.

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  10. 22 minutes ago, GenXer said:

     

    I don’t see this at all. We must be in different industries.

    I hear comments about how it’s impossible to plan with tariffs looming/shifting. I’ve heard this directly from our CEO and from a guy several offices over that was walking around and promoting tucker carlson and joe rogan.

    The backlash about selling public lands was heard by congress and pulled out of BBB. This doesn’t happen if everyone is pleased with everything.

    It’s more that I live in rural America and the people around me that I’m talking about, none of them are involved in a work context like you describe.  They are rural, blue collar types, and they are as happy as a maggot in a warm pile of bullshit.

  11. 24 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    How many of them have been personally affected? That's all that reaches most of them. Something that directly causes them pain. Losing their job/insurance/ something bad happening to their kid(s). 

    Exactly.  I see no epiphanies happening among Trump voters like these memes present.  Medicaid cuts haven't happened yet, so no one is feeling the pain.  The Trump voters I know are happy with how he's running things, are fully convinced we're in the start of his promised Golden age and remain relieved that Kamala didn't win.  So I question whether anything in this thread that is presented as regret is real or indicative of any real movement in the minds of his voters.

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