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jimmyjazz

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  1. What brands/models? (I'm not looking for cymbals per se, but you never know. I'd definitely get in line behind the other two posters if anything was interesting and left over.)
  2. It's too bad, because A&M just now ramping up their Ag NIL program. He could have scored one of those sweet new Lambo tractors:
  3. My problem with Albini was his insistence that his way was the only true way. I don't have any problem with an engineer or producer advocating a certain work flow, certain techniques, etc. but to dogmatically assert that there are no other options is arrogant in the extreme. For instance: I hated his drum sounds. I don't know if it was his room, the fact that he used about a dozen mics on a kit, the way he chose and placed those mics, or what, but I didn't like the outcome. That doesn't mean Nirvana or Pixies or Jesus Lizard didn't love what he did, and I hope that was the case. In a similar way, some artists may really want creative input, either because they simply don't like where they are and haven't learned how to veer from that path, or maybe they have some vague idea in their head but they need help getting there. I really would have loved to see Albini tell Quincy Jones he was doing it wrong.
  4. Your nails definitely look better than the food.
  5. Westwood HS grad. He was supposed to finish up his RTF degree at UT this spring, but I don't know if that happened.
  6. Klubnik and Leavitt are the two I thought were out of place. King might work for GT. The rest? Spares. Congrats to Marcel for being 10th on a list of a bunch of mostly "eh" guys.
  7. Call me crazy, but isn't that list mostly loaded with spares?
  8. It feels like Trader Joe's has been doing that forever. A couple of times I'd double take at (for instance) bananas "holy smokes $0.24/lb?" and then I'd realize it was $0.24 per banana. (That's a far cry from $10/banana, though.)
  9. Anecdotally, my daughter's band did a full pre-production effort for their debut full length in Austin and sent the tapes to Will Yip so he would know what was coming. He sliced and diced, which initially made the gals uneasy but when they listened to his new arrangements they agreed that he zeroed in on the hooks and cut the chaff. When he was alive, Steve Albini would tell you that a producer is evil, but I don't think that's universally true. A good one can make a ton of difference. I've heard it for sure.
  10. It's impossible to push back on you hyperbolic assertions without you going nuts. He wasn't "scared to death to get hit", as evidence by him getting clobbered multiple times while completing a pass. He wasn't "inaccurate", not by a long shot. He had more than "zero" pocket presence. You are what you accuse others of. I honestly don't think there is some sort of Major/Chris cult going on. Quinn was good. People saw him for what he was. Well, you don't. End of story.
  11. LMAO you are high. I noticed you ignored my other points.
  12. My main point is that I disagree with your assessment of Ewers. For one thing, I don't think Simms was "much better" nor do I think he got treated "1000X worse". I think they were both good to very good college QBs who played a position for which Texas fans are notorious for criticizing a great deal. Among other things, I disagree with these assertions you put on Ewers: * he had zero pocket presence * he was scared to death to get hit * he was inaccurate So if you want to defend those statements, be my guest, but this has been going on for years and I seriously doubt you have evidence to prove any of them true in the aggregate.
  13. I don't need the ashes. A pawprint is an awesome idea, she has the best paws in the world.
  14. Well you see, someone on the internet disagreed with Derka and he went nonlinear. Lather, rinse, repeat.
  15. Had "the talk" with a mobile vet today. It may be time for Gumbo, our 13.5 year old catahoula mix. She's such a sweet dog but her quality of life has gone way downhill. I want to do the deed at home with my wife and kids in attendance. Anybody know the options for dealing with the body? The vet will cremate but I'm not a very sentimental guy. I feel bad for Gumbo but I also feel like I took responsiblity for her and I owe her some dignity.
  16. I'm kinda the opposite of you guys . . . I've spent a ton of time in the studio recording really great songwriters who may or may not sing all that well, but it all sunk in and that's pretty much the only stuff I want to write. It might be country, classic rock, Americana or alt rock, whatever happens to pop out, but I could not be less interested in demonstrating any kind of chops, I just want to record a reasonably tight band with hooks. Not that y'all don't like hooks, but I could never do some of what y'all do. It's just not in me. Stick a French horn in my hand, OK, I'll go nuts, but those days are LONG gone.
  17. Uh, their fries kick ass?
  18. I'd put Knopfler in that camp. He's super proficient but he has a way of connecting with big audiences who aren't guitar geeks. I suspect it's (a) superior songwriting and (b) very pedestrian singing.
  19. I just wrangled the kit I built my daughter back from her, since she's playing Gretsch Renowns these days. Small (20" kick) Keller maple shells, "hand-stained" matte black (meaning I did a shitty job). She has an Istanbul cymbal endorsement so I might get some of her hand me downs, but I need recs for hardware (pedals, stands, throne). Nothing road-worthy needed, I'm thinking PDP or the like?
  20. Good old Mensa Tom. I'd bet half of surly is smarter than that guy. Here are Mensa's requirements for membership via the SAT:
  21. It took me approximately 5 seconds to look up how much farmland exists in the United States: 900 million acres (2017 ag census). This dingbat is whining about 300,000 acres, or 0.033% of that land. I eagerly await next week's manufactured controversy.
  22. Hopefully we can get Brooks plenty of snaps in the 3 games after tOSU.
  23. Yeah, even with his relative struggles against Oklahoma, Mack was 7-9 in those games.
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