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  1. 23 minutes ago, 4th and 5 said:

     

    Bryant Westbrook, the Herald of Demise

     

     

     

     

     

    Damn, I don't know what the hell I was thinking and now that you bring it up... Randy Kinder was a dude in Waco that you didn't want to come across in any setting.  Eventually, HE ended up actually murdering someone.  I was there for the killing of the other Randy Kinder, though.

  2. Just now, BrickHorn said:

    Those aren’t mutually exclusive. Want to learn fingerpicking? Learn a couple of songs that feature finger picking. Want to improve your soloing? Learn a few songs with your favorite solos. 

    I think this what I need to come to grips with and just do it.  On the soloing part though, I want to develop my own style but this is still the best approach to doing that.  Wouldn't hurt to brush back up on shapes\Forms and maybe scales and sequences.

  3. Melissa Ledger\Northrup - Killed by Kenneth Wayne McDuff.  She and her family lived down the street from us.  Little thing.  She was a sweet kid too.  If any one was outside at my house she would always stop as she was walking past and visit for a bit.  I always kidded her about something - like a big brother -  and she always had the best girly giggly response.  Breaks my heart to this day.

    The other side of the coin...

    If I am wrong on the order of events, sue me.  A head washes up around the twin bridges in Waco.  Some time after that, Bosque County sheriff's department or local guy pulls over a vehicle for routine traffic stop.  As the officer was approaching the vehicle, driver caps himself.  The head belonged to an old lady.  A real estate agent had been after this old lady to sell her property to him.  She kept refusing.  So, obviously, he escalated the matter.  Anyway flashback to 1983, this same dude was the real estate agent for my folks when they sold their house.  I met the man on several occasions.  Marshall Carraway was his name.

  4. I picked up the guitar in 2015.  I started out with online courses - another vote for justinguitar - and noticed I was probably picking up some bad habits so I took some private lessons for over a year.  I have also picked up the bass and I play (was playing) a couple of times a month with the church praise band.  

    Several things have happened while just playing the bass... I have a better command of the fret board as well as a better understanding of music theory regarding major and minor scales and chord progression and transition(walking up and down).

    As far as guitar playing is concerned, I have no idea where to focus right now.  I want to build my song list, build up my lead chops, learn finger picking methods, build rhythm techniques and strumming...  

    I am thinking I might just go hang out on justinguitar again and plow threw lesson plans and songs.  

     


     

     

  5. 18 hours ago, El Diablo said:

    It was built when I was in the Navy I think but there was a pawn shop on one end maybe? Pretty sure Behringer owned that too.

    I do recall the pawn shop now that you mention it.

  6. On 5/3/2020 at 11:09 AM, El Diablo said:

    News from the Trib and Mike Copeland -

     

    That building was originally a jewelry store or it sold jewelry among other items.  I worked as a bar back at Mr. B's for brief time in the mid 80s myself.  Couldn't remember a soul that I worked with though.

  7. I was getting my haircut the other day and there was a lull and the stylist started talking about Netflix shows.  This one came up.  I remember watching it when it first came out and I don't remember anything that struck me as anything I was not already aware of when all of this was sorted out.

    Probably my main gripe, a small one, was how they portrayed Jack Harwell the McLennan County Sheriff.  He always wore his stetson tilted to the side along with a tan leather jacket.  You can see him in some clips with that Henry Lee Lucas bio pic that Netflix did.  He seemed larger than life if you ever met him.  

    The main thing I remember was watching all of this unfold in real time about 15 minutes away from where I lived.  It was about 2-3 miles away from my parents house.

    Another side to this is I knew other local law enforcement officers that were in contact with the Davidians the day of the raid.  Firefighters that were on scene the last day. And finally, 4 people I had met in a laundromat back in 87, including Vernon Howell.

    Apologies if I have l brought this up before.  

  8. It was pretty great when it first started.  I remember it being a premium service.   You made sure you had a circle of friends that had it if your folks didn't.  Also, it made for a cheap date if your girlfriend had it - MTV that is.  

     

  9. 16 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    I was at the game when Erxleben set the NCAA record against Rice in 1977.  If I recall it right they set the hold up an extra yard or two back from the line of scrimmage.  The kicker from Arkie tied it two weeks later.

    I remember following Erxleben, Little from Arkansas and Franklin from A&M.  They were all trying to outdo one another.  Back then, if you missed the field goal and it ended up in or through the end zone, the opposing team got the ball back on their own 20 just like a touch-back.  

     

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  10. 3 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    I don't get it.  I mean I do, but I don't.  

    Wife and I watched podcast of our old church in The Woodlands the past 2 weeks. Message was great.  praise and worship was great. We still tithe.

    Yeah we miss some of the fellowship, but the safety and wellbeing of the congregation is worth protecting, if nothing else.

    Sad that folks think they have to meet in THAT building... to be a church.

    This is what we are doing at my church.  I played this past weekend.  Just band, pastor and skeleton tech teams for Facebook live.  Still had a couple of old folks show up anyway.  

  11. Got to go to Yellowstone and Grand Tetons with my granddaughters this past summer.  It snowed while we were there and it really added to the experience. Granddaughters got to have a snow ball fight in June.   I will treasure that experience the rest of my life.  Also made it to the top of Haleakala a few months later.  It was coooold and beautiful in a other worldly sort of way as mdmost mentioned.

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  12. On 3/14/2020 at 11:29 PM, futureman said:

    I love warm bread with lots of butter. 

    This.  Back in the day my grandma would buy these frozen packs of bread dough (maybe frozen maybe not).  She would let it sit for a few hours\a day and then bake it. I circled that oven with a butter knife in one hand a large tub of margarine in other.  Best stuff ever.  If I had to choose one source of food to live on the rest of my life, it would be bread and butter.

  13. Went to Hays City Store yesterday for curbside.  Actually had to wait for a little bit.  Spoke to one of the managers and said everyone that has been there this week has been very generous with their gratuities.  The vibe was that they were managing OK.

    They are delivering mixed drinks, btw.  

    On a side note, as we were waiting, a super car club was making its way from Driftwood to Wimberley 20-30 cars.  When I got back towards my house, I saw 1/2 dozen cyclists.  

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