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  1. I don't know. I feel bad for the victim, of course, especially since he was trying to help out as a Good Samaritan. But on the aggregate, big boys that carry guns seem to have this idea that guns will help in these kinds of situations. They get puffed up and have bravado because of them. Then they wind up escalating a situation because they are wielding a gun, and shit goes sideways, and then they get hurt or die. If he hadn't busted out his pistol and tried to go Clint Eastwood, there wouldn't have been multiple bullets flying around the Burger King parking lot and there wouldn't have been an out of control driver speeding through an area packed with cars and pedestrians. It's a miracle that no one else got hurt.
  2. I'm a huge Macca apologist and an admitted Beatles honk, so I won't argue the genius of Paul McCartney's songwriting. I was only saying that Lennon's material IS complex and interesting in many cases, and it's certainly not "usually just piano." I've actually been on a project in which I am playing every guitar part of every Beatles song in chronological order (as well as many other instruments in their songs). It has been a cool project to see the songwriting of John, Paul and George develop from a musicianship angle. I'm just about through with the White Album and it's clear that John is the most straight-ahead rock musician in the group, but some of his stuff is really intricate. But yeah, McCartney went into entirely different genres and soundscapes after the Beatles, and often went complex, whereas John kept more true to standard rock and roll songwriting. Still, I think Lennon was at his best when he kept it simple, TBH. His best album is Plastic Ono Band and that's about as simple and straightforward as a musician can get.
  3. It's well established that while Lennon and McCartney co-wrote many of their early songs together "eyeball to eyeball" as Lennon stated in a later interview (I Want to Hold Your Hand was written by both of them while they sat at each end of the same piano, for example), but much of the middle years and most of the late years were written solo and then brought to the rest of the band for improvements. There are many songs credited Lennon/McCartney that were written and performed without the others' input. DixonHur is also wrong about Lennon's musical talent and song arrangement, saying "it's usually just a piano." It's very trendy to shit on his music these days, but the "Lennon was the lyrics guy while McCartney was the music guy" is an old trope that conveniently ignores complex songs like Strawberry Fields, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Day in the Life, I am the Walrus, Steel and Glass, Whatever Gets You Through the Night, Starting Over....there's a long list. But it is the unpopular opinion thread, so keep it up.
  4. I was partial to "ooooOOoooo ooooOOOoooo ooooWeee" but to each his own.
  5. I was in OKC this past Monday and this was a photo I took out of the side window of my Uber ride. Kinda says it all about Oklahoma. This is maybe 1 minute outside of downtown OKC.
  6. The only reason 6th Street should be mentioned in anyone's list of things to do in Austin should be to say "don't go to 6th Street."
  7. I was an undergrad when Full Moon Fever came out. I had never cared for his 70s catalog, but FMF totally changed my opinion on Tom Petty -- so much so that I started liking his earlier catalog. Funny how that can happen. Been a fan ever since. Oh, and fuck you for the "I was in preschool when FMF was released" comment. Asshole.
  8. honolulu horn

    Power Pop

    What an incredible album.
  9. honolulu horn

    Power Pop

    Cheap Trick will always be the answer to "who's the best power pop band ever?"
  10. At least you had some redemption. And you got to see some great stuff he put out between 06-17.
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