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jimmyjazz

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  1. Not in my time, but every HS band played some Bill Chase for sure.
  2. CSO -- that's badass. My horn prof at UT (Wayne Barrington) was 3rd chair under Fritz Reiner.
  3. The bar was "good" sports, and Illinois has a fighting chance of winning the B1G in football this year (if you don't mind the lardass coach).
  4. Who are you referring to? Elias Haslanger went to Austin High, same class as my wife, he played sax with Maynard for a cup of coffee. I'm not familiar with too many trumpets from Austin other than Ephraim Owens.
  5. Actually it's not that boring. I've spent a lot of time in Champaign-Urbana. My cousins grew up there and my sis went to grad school there. It's an outpost but those kids have a lot of fun.
  6. Illinois is pretty kick-ass.
  7. I'm holding onto the hope that UT's rep will still be decent when my 2 kids graduate within the next year. I know that's incredibly naive and their degrees (and mine) will slowly become tarnished. I don't care about my degree, but theirs? It's over.
  8. I wonder if the last two national champions might suggest otherwise.
  9. BD was basically an NBA team playing against Austin High.
  10. Those shows were what led me to join Phantom for about a minute and then switch to Cavaliers.
  11. A little old school drum corps in tribute:
  12. It's funny, Maynard & Chuck were the two biggest influences on almost every young trumpet player back then and yet they could not have been much more different. Both very talented, but Maynard was a screamer jazz-rock guy and Chuck was so smooth he might as well have been lumped in with the yacht rockers.
  13. "A" should be capitalized, regardless.
  14. I'm seeing hatch chiles show up at local stores. Any roasting going on anywhere? I don't find them special in any way to pay the extra for raw, but if someone will roast for me, that's a different story.
  15. For the better part of a year in the late 1970s you couldn't miss this tune on radio. I actually met him once, as he went to college with one of my horn teachers so we went to a big outdoor concert west of Chicago. Nice guy.
  16. Both sides! Drink!
  17. Thanks, the rest of the album isn't nearly so metal. Lots of psychy shoegaze influences, emo, punk, etc. Still, pretty heavy hitting.
  18. Yup, at his studio (Studio 4) in Philadelphia. In particular, the drums sound extraordinary, but the whole thing is massive. The drums were actually a kit he built and apparently markets -- aluminum shells! Sep 12 release date, but the first single is out, you can see the video on the "heavy" thread. I knew he did the Turnstile record but I was surprised to see them starting to pop up on celestial radio here in Austin. He has some pull for sure.
  19. This guy (Will Yip) produced the upcoming full length LP for my daughter's band. He's a fucking wizard.
  20. We play 3 road + 1 neutral site SEC game before we have our first conference game at home. We have a total of 3 home and 4 road conference games.
  21. That said, I really enjoyed York, but I did it as a stop on the way to Edinburgh. I'm not sure it's great as a destination, but it's really interesting.
  22. Partial rec: you mentioned Cambridge. I haven't been, but I have been to Oxford, and it's awesome. You might want to dig into recs on which might match your preferences better.
  23. They pushed them off?
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