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  1. 2 hours ago, BearSchlong said:

    Great book.

    The Creation of AA and Its Iconic Text | Blog & New Postings | William L.  White

     

    It's great hearing the behind the scenes truth on a product Bill packaged so well.  He had to write it the way he did otherwise it wouldn't have fit into 164 pages.

    Cool, will check out. I've always liked reading the original unedited manuscript to see what had to be changed-- it had a lot more of a "DO THIS OR YOU'RE FUCKED!" tone

  2. 44 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    @sidis, @jimmyjazz, @Paul Wesley, @SwanderedTalent@Bogeywon, @phdhorn and anyone else.  Are you distributing your music in any way?  All I've ever done is share through soundcloud, but I would like to get onto itunes, spotify, etc...  Not with any idea I'll make money, but more to just make it easier to get out there in front of people.  I've seen two platforms recommended, Distrokid and Soundrop.  Distrokid costs $20 a year or something, and takes no cuts from any profits.  Soundrop is free to use, but they take a decent cut of any profits.  So I guess if you aren't making money, soundrop is better.

    Would be curious what, if anything, others are doing for guerilla distribution.

    https://soundrop.com/

    https://distrokid.com/

    You're way out ahead of me. It only occurred to me last year I might want to share these with anyone, thus the SoundCloud, but even that is 100% private (I only send out links to a few people for advice/affirmation, and post stuff here sometimes). Just hearing "hey that doesn't suck" was a good start, but I haven't thought much about what else I might do with any of it. 

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  3. On 5/27/2021 at 1:15 PM, sidis said:

    i am curious if you ever did anything further with this.  i really liked this track a lot and think it could be excellent with a little tinkering.

    have not even touched it-- mostly because I had "finished" it something like six months before I posted it here, so the desire to work on it further isn't there right now

    I did see your offer to retreat the track(s) and am genuinely appreciative of the offer, and may take you up on it at some point. 

  4. 12 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

    I heard they played Georgia once. 

    "whooped 'em, too, 13-19! ever'one thought they's gonna beat us real bad like 42-14 or somethin but we was only down six when we run outta time!"

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  5. 1 hour ago, Randolph Duke said:

    their recent capital campaign. It's goal was $4B. Last I looked they came up short on that goal.

     

    quintessential A&M-- who in the fuck else ever comes up short on a capital campaign? I don't follow these closely but whenever I hear about them, it's always "surpassed goal" and "record fundraising". 

  6. 1 hour ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    No shit and twice on Sunday. 

    yes, from an athletics standpoint, I'd rather be Ohio State than Stanford

    Ohio State has teams in tons of sports (they had more than thirty varsity programs at a time when we were capped at I think 20) and competes nationally in most of them, but "ooh we're really good at water polo and our girls teams won five national championships last year" will NEVER mitigate "our football team went 8-4" there. 

  7. 20 hours ago, DeadArmadillo said:


    Robby Childress is gone. Official from the AD that he won’t be renewed.

    Texags thinks they have a legitimate shot at Corbin, Tadlock, and the Tennessee coach, Vitello. Like they just need to pick the one that meets their standards

    No, I’m not kidding. Go look it up

    never underestimate an Aggie's ability to outbid himself

    "hey, y'all wan' come coach our baseball team?"

    "no"

    "well lemme ask another way, there, boy-- how much would it take to git you to come coach our baseball team?"

    "ten million dollars"

    "MAKE IT ELEVEN MILLION! NO TWELVE, TWELVE'S A MAGIC NUMBER!"

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  8. I don't personally think Haynes King will be better than Kellen Mond over the courses of their respective careers, but sure, he could.

    This season? He'll be better than Mond was in 2020...? I mean.... the chance of that isn't zero, I guess, but when you analyze what might happen, you tend to focus on logical potential developments.

    Our revenue growth target for 2022 is 11%, unless we invent a pill that creates a 24-hour continuous orgasm, in which case I would revise that slightly upward to 11,000%. 

    Bob, we make industrial machinery.

    Well, yeah, but it could happen.

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  9. 19 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    He probably could use the cash, and I suppose it might interest some fans that rolled their eyes at the Robinsons and a bunch of new guys going out as the Crowes.

    Based on Gorman's book, Sven came off like the kind of guy that could more or less get along with anyone.

    well, to be fair I never believed the "too much baggage" thing in the first place. They fired Marc Ford in 1997 and then he was writing songs with Chris Robinson less than five years later. Chris jettisoned the band's $1m V2 record deal in favor of his solo career and Rich, supposedly, told Jimmy Page "no thanks" to his songwriting ideas and yet they got almost the entire original band back together in 2005. Marc Ford quit the band two days before the 2nd leg of the 2006 tour via fax, but was in the Magpie Salute with Rich. Clearly grudges aren't always held as long as we think they might be. 

    I think they didn't want to go into a person-by-person rundown last year when the SYMM tour was announced, but it was simple. Most of the people who have been in the Black Crowes didn't matter anyway-- your Greg Rzabs, Adam McDougalls, etc. Of the ones who did matter (Marc Ford, maybe Sven Pipien initially), there were probably some hard feelings about the way Rich torpedoed The Magpie Salute, but they weren't going to admit THAT. And obviously bridges were permanently burned with Jeff Cease and Johnny Colt and especially Gorman, so they were sort of artificially lumped into the first category of "former employees". And old weird Ed died, so he's out. 

    So they said "too much baggage" but what they meant was "who the hell cares about anybody but the two of us being in the band?" I was just laughing at how transparent they're being at this point. It doesn't mean the tour won't kick ass. I just draw amusement from what they say publicly and then what they do.

    At this point, I'm just hanging out waiting for their next record. I'm very interested to see what they come up with and what impact working with George Drakoulious has on it.

  10. 14 minutes ago, realgreggym said:

    You have to be a real piece of crap to try to make fun of cancer. You don't have the intellect to understand that your comment is a 

    horrible reflection on you and not me.

     

    it was a serious question, your posts in this thread have me concerned sir

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