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  1. 52 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    Charlie Watts was the most proficient musician in the Rolling Stones by miles.  Mick Taylor is a more technically proficient guitar player than Keith.  And the Stones keep rolling because, in the end, it's Mick and Keith.

    Yeah, that's not much of an argument.

    That said, the Stones best work came with Mick Taylor.  He was the perfect foil for Keith, IMO.

  2. 35 minutes ago, dcbc said:

     

    *not counting George Martin

     

     

    Holden? ;)

     

    I never read much about his personal issues, but there's no excuse for that sort of thing. 

     

    On the musical side of the equation, I'd say that if you're the third or fourth best Beatle, that's not for nothing.  That is to say, I'm perfectly comfortable with the idea that he was the least musically-talented member of the band.  But it would not have been the Beatles without him.  And to whatever extent he made noteworthy contributions over the years, it made a difference.

    I'm not saying that he was useless to the Beatles and that they would have been as good with someone else, but I AM saying that the credit he gets is excessive.  George and Paul were better musicians, singers, and songwriters.  Ringo was a better musician and singer.  To many people, John Lennon is the definitive Beatle.  To me, he's the guy that brings the least to the band.

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  3. 9 hours ago, Paul Wesley said:

    At worst, Ringo was the second-best instrumentalist in the band.  He was way more proficient on his instrument than was George or John.  

     

     

     

     

    *not counting Billy Preston

    My Beatles take for this thread is that John Lennon is the worst member of the band, and not all that compelling of an artist in general.  He was a self absorbed sociopath who hit women and somehow became the face of "peace and love, man".  He was third place (at best) in everything he did for the band (guitar, vocals, songwriting) and was the worst musician overall of the 4.

    Everything he did in the Beatles, multiple other members did better.  And he was a shit person to top it off.

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  4. 17 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

    At what cost? Those are big co2 bottles, right? And they have to be (or is it "can" be?) refilled? 

    They're big co2.  I honestly don't remember the cost, but it was cheap as hell for the amount of uses.  IIRC you didn't have to refill it, but the cost of a new bottle really cut into the savings.

  5. 2 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

    I've not done any seltzer makers in a good while, but is there some advantage to this soda stream type over the old seltzer bottles with a small co2 bottle for a liter at a time? I think the old ones work out to around 60 cents a liter, and you don't have to trade in the bottles. 

    You got a lot more than one liter out of a fill on the soda streams.  At least as I recall it.  It's been 5-6 years at this point.

  6. 23 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

    Not me, but my business partner:

    About 13 years ago his daughter and last remaining child living in the house was finishing up medical tech school and was planning on moving out.

    In anticipation of not having tuition or a child in the house to pay for, he started work on his dream man cave. He tore down the old garage and rebuilt it and redid all of the drive with some pretty cool hard scape work. Inside he had a kitchen, bath, and open area where he put his new pool table. All surfaces were hard and could be washed down with a hose if need be. It even had floor drains. The fridge was stocked with plenty of beer and nothing else. Antlers and other hangings not suitable for the house were placed about the room and got it just like he wanted.  He even beat cancer during this time. Life was good.

    Well, the daughter did not move out, so while she was living there no crazy parties were allowed.

    Eventually, daughter met someone and he had to fork over a bunch of money for the wedding. Like 30 grand or something. But it would be worth it he thought, just so she could be out on her own with her husband making their way in the world.

    Unbeknownst to him, his wife promised them they could live at home to save money.

    So the man cave had to be converted to a residence. All new flooring, new kitchen, new bath, new bedroom walls, closet walls, and lighting. Pool table had to go to storage along with all of the other trappings.

    He thought it would be ok after  a few years when they moved out after saving some money for a house.

    Well, that day never came because his daughter freaked out and got a divorce 6 months after getting married. So daughter moves back into the house and garage apartment sits empty.

    So after about a year when the coast is clear, business partner converts garage apartment back into a man cave. Walls are torn down, new flooring, new kitchen, new bath Yada Yada yada. All the while, daughter is still living at home.

    He has been enjoying his man cave for a few years now worry free. His daughter even met another guy a few years back and he has a good job so her days at home are numbered.

    So last week on Thursday, he doesn't show up for our usual beer drinking meeting even though he says he would be coming right over (he basically lives across the street from our office/yard).

    So I walk on over to see what's up and he and his wife are under the man cave patio-talking. I can tell I am interrupting, so say my hellos and leave.

    The next day I apologize for interrupting and he just shakes his head. He says his wife told him that his daughter wants to buy a house and move out and wants to move in with her boyfriend to save money. He asked where they were moving and his wife tells him, she said it would be ok if they moved into the man cave, after it was converted back into an apartment. Face palm.

    This might be an unpopular opinion, but at this point it's on him.  

    And who in their right mind would want to live with their parents while married?  I barely understand single people over the age of 18 living with their parents.

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  7. 1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Stanford needs to start caring about football and mens basketball IMO or they may be on the outside looking in.

    And that's kind of the rub with them at the end of the day.  They have a history of excellence, but so few people give an active shit about Stanford athletics.

    I understand why the Big 10 wouldn't want them, I'm just making the comment that by having that game in the fold of the Big 10, there would be almost nothing left in terms of opponents they care about for the Domers not to come willingly.

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  8. 21 hours ago, CustersDoctor said:

    So if the B1G takes UNC & Virg. And the SEC takes FSU & Clemson. Then the Big12 cherry picks the ACC. So here's a first look at the final three conferences.

     

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    Something like this seems really likely to be the final result.  The football playoff model will look similar to the way it currently does (SEC and Big 10 will retain the bigger payouts) and they'll probably fuck up March Madness to make it heavily (like 80%+) out of these 3.

    1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Nah....the Big 2 will force them into one of them.

    If the Big 10 just added Stanford they might finally join willingly.

  9. 4 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    So you don't like selzer or topo specifically? The former makes sense, the latter does not. I bought a soda stream and just add lemon and/or lime juice. Way cheaper and just as refreshing.

    We had a soda stream and loved it, but my wife quit working in a town with a Wal Mart where we can refill it, and now refills are inconvenient to the point where we just went back to cans.

  10. I'm in the camp of Season 9 not quite measuring up.  It still has quite a few classic episodes and absolute series defining moments.  I think it lacks the same quality of dialogue as the Larry David years, and while I get what they were doing with the whole meta-absurdity thing, it just doesn't work for me.  They introduce some new ancillary characters that just don't quite develop like the earlier ones did and almost distract.  Like FDR - why even bring him in?  Newman was already the perfect overweight foil.

    It's still really good, and mostly suffers by comparison to the greatness leading up to it.

  11. Yeah, I've never understood why anyone would pay a bunch of money to go to a concert and talk.

    If some dude's playing guitar in the corner of a bar for ambiance?  That's different.  But an actual concert?  The fuck's wrong with you.

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  12. I probably drink more seltzer water than any other beverage.  It's all straight up crack to me.  Topo is among the best, but far and away the priciest other than the European stuff.

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  13. On 12/1/2023 at 8:54 PM, dcbc said:

    I've got Sticky Fingers on the HiFi right now.  We as a people didn't deserve the Rolling Stones.  But I'm sure we all got to live in the time of said Rolling Stones.

     

    I tend to forget how damned special Wild Horses is.

    Although I grew up with the Stones always around, the only album my old man had in CD format (his preferred format in my memory span) was Let It Bleed.  I knew and loved every note of that album, plus all the radio hits, but never actively started listening to the rest of the Stones' catalog until I was 18 and started moving past music being made FOR younger people.

    "Wild Horses" blew me away on the first listen and has remained my favorite song of all time ever since.  I don't know I had avoided it in the first 18 years of my life, but whatever.  When my wife and I got married, she walked down the aisle to it.  It always moves me.

    On 12/1/2023 at 10:01 PM, dcbc said:

    I just rolled into Exile.  Just tremendous from playing to production.  Everyting from 1968--1972 from them is next level by any standard of that time period or this one.  

     

    I once said that if anyone released anything approaching Full Moon Fever today, it would blow people's minds. But even though it was tremendous, even in its time, there were a lot of good albums back then, and we were used to it.  Looking at it restrospectively, really makes me appreciate how good the overall level of music was in the 20th century.  

    What they did in that period is the absolute pinnacle of rock and roll, full stop.

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  14. 6 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    Remembering the spreadsheet app with feeding/poop information -

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    My wife diligently tracked this until she went back to work and then all of a sudden it was all "who cares?  Kid's fuckin' fine."

  15. The timeline for this is awful for me.  Every western Midwest show is either during harvest, or on a weekend I have previous commitments.

    This should be an absolute blast if you can go though.

  16. On 3/20/2024 at 6:54 PM, YGIFS said:

    Bob was such a rare cat, he could play it so dry and so straight for decades and then also play it really physical and goofy (a la Super Dave).  He was so underrated as a comedic actor, but I treasure his scenes on Curb.  

    But it's just another great facet to the show.  Some celebrities come on and play themselves as people Larry knows IRL, but they play it different (square v. goofy or straight v. heel).  Then other actors come on there and play some fictional character in Larry's orbit but they're still basically being themselves.  While others come on as fictional people Larry knows and totally goof it up for effect and are nothing like their real-life persona.  And then the icing on the cake is Larry's ability to cast regular actors he doesn't know for an episode or a few and just hilariously compliment the rest of the cast.  I mean, there are hundreds of examples of 'small-time' actors on both Seinfeld and Curb that just nail their fucking scenes within a well-established cast that's obviously hilarious and comfortable with one another.  That's a whole other skill-set Larry has in working with Casting Directors.  And that sometimes some of those people play people he knows in real life, is yet the final layer to the onion.  This is not typical Lobo hyperbole, his genius will be unpacked for a century.  It's up there with Twain and Wilde.  We are lucky to have lived to seen't it.

    His role as George Sr.'s translator on Arrested Development was incredible as well.

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