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  1. Vinohradý is a great part of town that's easily accessible and totally worth it.

    Heading up to Letna was my favorite part of my time in the city -- super chill, beautiful views of the city and the Volga River.

    I rented a bike in town and just headed northeast along the river for a few hours; it was fantastic.

  2. One of the rare positives I've gotten from NDN is the old guy a block over who posts crazy shit just to get people riled up. I know the guy and he's awesome, and he loves stirring the pot. At one point he reported that the city was going to combat the Japanese beetle infestation by using drones with chemical deployment. He wrote it up in a convincing way, especially if you were a dumbass. The outrage and hand-wringing was awesome to witness.

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  3. Every 4th of July in our neighborhood, some real estate guy puts up small American flags in every yard near the sidewalks. Whatever. Anyway, some woman on NDN reported with great concern that she didn't have a flag. She then hypothesized that perhaps terrorists had taken it. Seriously.

  4. I met Hagar-era Van Halen at the FEC when I worked as a security guy for their dressing room around 1991. They were cool as hell. I thought it would be a wild scene but they were totally tame, professional, but fun and cool. Eddie came out and warmed up for the show in a folding chair across from me -- talk about a holy shit moment. I told him he was my hero and he just smiled and said, "Yeah, I get that a lot." He signed stuff and was just generally very cool.

    End humblebrag.

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  5. 7 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I've seen Sammy a couple of times, along with many interviews.  He is definitely the archetypal Wooderson 70's man-child.  That said, he has a phenomenal nose for business, he's a very talented guitar player and singer, and he seems to be an incredibly nice guy.  I have no problem with him.

    To be honest, VH was never going back, even with DLR, once 1984 came out.  It was just such a monumental shift in their sound.  I can't blame Sammy for helping them expound on that theme.  I just don't like it very much.

    Exactly how I feel.

  6. 3 hours ago, ernest_t_bass said:

    Thick milkshakes... I'm not trying to bring any boys to the yard, so I don't like them thick.  It's been about 30 minutes since I ordered the fucking thing, and I STILL can't drink it.  I'm seriously fucking ragey, to the point I thought about driving back to the shake shack and throwing the fucking thing at the window.  It's either the shake of the piece of shit fucking straw that collapses in every time I try to take a drink.  Serenity fucking now.

    Very trivial. Also totally wrong.

  7. 7 hours ago, Rollo Tomassi said:

    Mine too. I was 15. Do you remember Michael Anthony's "solo"?  He rolled around on the floor with his Jack Daniels bass guitar. Quite the contrast to Eddie's performance and skill. 

    It started with him chugging a bottle of Jack. That was the high point of his solo.

  8. McCartney and it's not close.

    But in second place is probably Jane's Addiction in 1988 at the Back Room. About 200 people and Jane's was going OFF. Slayer in Denver in '91 was by far the most brutal show I've ever seen. Lots and lots of blood.

  9. Van Halen, 1984 tour. FEC. I was 14 years old. Eye-opening experience.

    I remember David Lee Roth saying something like "Sorry we're tired tonight. I have the hotel room next to Alex and last night the girls were up all night banging on his door. I finally went over at 3am and LET THEM OUT AALLLLRRRRIIIIGGGGGGHHHHTTTTT!!!!! YYYYEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" Which for a 14-year old was pretty much the greatest story I'd ever heard.

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