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Thermos H. Christ

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  1. Uh huh. Sure. Just like how all those brainwashed liberals pitch a fit when you go to the open mic night at your neighborhood coffeehouse and play a few lively banjo numbers while wearing some whimsical clown makeup.

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    Black people don't actually look like that, so clearly anyone who looks at that makeup and sees a racist caricature of a black person is revealing their deep-seated racism. Right? Because everything you do and say is in a vacuum. You're just innocently closing your eyes and punching the air, if anyone gets hit that's not on you.

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  2. Got my tickets to Camp Cope/Petal at Barracuda on July 12. I went to Red 7 a few times but I don't think I've been since it changed hands. Very pumped, at the moment Camp Cope is probably top 3 on my list of current bands I haven't seen but want to. Don't know why they're not headlining, but Petal's perfectly fine too.

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    16 hours ago, futureman said:

    obama is just a man like trump or anyone else and calling him an ape holds no extra meaning because he happens to be black.  spinning racism into it reveals to everyone exactly where your mind goes when presented with an otherwise innocuous comparison.  black people are not apes; take your racist bullshit somewhere else, hitler.  

    Yeah dude totally the entire idea of "context" is a liberal conspiracy. Nailed it.

  4. 1 minute ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Had an Uber driver named Jesus the other night. He was born and raised in El Paso and has 4 siblings that still live there. He works for a Methodist hospital near Katy and all 4 of his kids are college graduates. Really nice dude.

    I brought up Beto's name, and he literally had never heard of him.  Bah. 

    

    That's why I've been throwing some money Beto's way, and would encourage others to do the same. Beto's biggest obstacle to victory right now is that people haven't heard of him. Money is a particularly effective tool for solving that specific problem.

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  5. 4 minutes ago, TornACL said:

    That's all fine and well but there's no fucking way Trump was ever going to invite the Warriors out there this year after they didn't go in 2017. And after Kerr has been so vocal about his thoughts on our dipshit in chief.

     Our president is a small, petty man who makes small, petty gestures to appear strong to his ignorant fanbase of simpletons. The truth is abundantly clear  to anybody who actually gives a fuck.

    And I mean from practically day one, too. His campaign had just barely begun when he spent multiple entire news cycles railing about how he was going to destroy everyone at NBC for fucking with his off-brand beauty pageant. At the time I foolishly thought that was a sure sign of a candidate totally unable to stay on-message, unable to avoid flashing his glaring personality issues, and utterly doomed to failure on the big stage. I hope and hoped - oh how I hoped, that his whole campaign wouldn't crash and burn before I had the pleasure of watching him attempt to participate in a televised debate. And boy, he was every bit as bad as I had imagined. And he went on to do one thing after another that should have instantly and permanently doomed his political aspirations. But somehow we're in opposite land now, and none of it mattered.

  6. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Editor, Harvard Law Review

    2-time national champion, collegiate debate

    Top 4 in world, collegiate debate

    HS Valedectorian

    Clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist

    Associate AG, Department of Justice

    Solicitor General, Texas

    9 appearances before SCOTUS

    US Senator

    Can't really answer a question about the constitutionality of a Presidential self-pardon.

    See this is what really brings it home how shitty of a person he is - he's super duper smart. He knows better.

  7. Of course Nirvana was punk, especially live Nirvana which is their best output imo. But punk is rock. Most punk probably has more in common with Chuck Berry than bands like Yes or Pink Floyd did. 

  8. The argument about whether Nirvana is the best is all well and good. I’m still amazed at someone’s hot take that Nirvana isn’t rock.

    Also: it’s wild that I’m maybe the only one that even mentioned more than one contender from the early aughts indie/garage rock resurgence. I think that’s the latest stuff that has had a chance to stand the test of time, but there’s still great rock music being made.

    Rock is quietly having a moment right now. Women are getting in on it to a greater extent than before and it’s largely based around a DIY scene/ethos rather than being a commercial juggernaut, but young people are listening to rock music and making rock music for each other, getting inspired by each other just as much as by rockers of yore. Rock is not the defining sound of American culture like it once was, but it’s very much alive and healthier than it’s been in like a decade or more.

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  9. Nirvana obviously.

    Neutral Milk Hotel made one album amazing and influential enough to be right up here.

    Some honorable mentions with smaller,  less consistent, or less influential overall catalogs who nonetheless made some of the very best rock songs and albums:

    The Breeders (“Pod” is insanely good, and arguably the purest example of Steve Albini doing his thing)

    The Unicorns (only four years in existence, dropped one of the best albums ever in year 3)

    The Shins

    The White Stripes

    Green Day (in the mid 90s)

    Smashing Pumpkins (in the early-mid 90s)

    The Distillers

    The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    The Strokes

    The Decemberists

    Voxtrot (purely on the strength of their first EP)

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  10. I've heard a million stories about their horrible quality control in recent years, and their prices are outrageous. They're putting out guitars with serious fit and finish issues, often playability issues, that cost as much as Fender Custom Shop stuff. Morale within has been notoriously low for years (seriously read glassdoor about working at Gibson, it sounds like a nightmare). See also endorsers jumping ship because they can't be bothered to listen.

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    Earlier this month, a high-profile former Gibson endorser, Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher, revealed why he stopped working with Gibson and instead jumped ship to ESP—just like Metallica frontman James Hetfield before him.

    "They kept fucking up my guitars that I was asking for," Kelliher said in no uncertain terms to Ultimate Guitar. "I didn't ask for a lot – I just had a few certain things that I would like with my guitar – I told them I didn’t want it chambered and they made my second guitar chambered."

    He goes on, painting a picture of disarray at Gibson, saying the A&R department was constantly turning over making it impossible for him to maintain a relationship.

    Further, Kelliher's signature guitars were being shipping without being properly set up. He says he would regularly get messages from fans asking why their guitars didn't sound right.

    "They weren’t even tuning the guitars to my settings or specifications – just little things like that." 

    Plus apparently their minimum buy is outrageous if you want to sell them, to the point that many mom n pop shops have had to drop them entirely. And on the side they're trying to be a general consumer electronics company. Sure, guitar-centric music isn't the all-encompassing cultural juggernaut it once was, but people are still buying and playing guitars. Plenty of them.

    This isn't that hard. Follow the Fender plan. Sell versions of all your iconic models at basically every imaginable price level, and take advantage of the advances in CNC to deliver really high quality instruments at a price point previously undreamt of. By all accounts, Epiphones are pretty decent. But you gotta get people talking about them the way they talk about Squier Vintage Modified - having their minds blown by the professional-quality instrument they got for $300. You can still sell $3,000-$5,000 guitars to a tiny number of people, but the boomers are dying off and millennials are poor as shit. You have to make it where people can buy an LP worthy of the Gibson name for like $600. And you definitely can. Other people are doing it. The "Standard" Les Paul should not be $4,800. And when you're asking someone to pay $4,800 for a guitar, it has to be perfect. It has to be beyond perfect.

  11. On 4/10/2018 at 10:48 AM, Deej said:

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    John Mayer is so awful that he singlehandedly makes Dead & Co. completely unappealing to me. He's obviously very technically proficient but his voice and even his guitar tone are just nauseating. Actually now that I think about it he is kind of the PRS of guitar players. Sure it's well made, there's clearly skilled craftsmanship and attention to detail going on, but somehow it all just adds up to being really bland and offputting at the same time.

    Look at this thing. Fuck this thing. It looks like how John Mayer sounds.

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