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DougO

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  1. Had lunch at Petty's in Killeen today.

    Ribs were tight, needed another hour or two on the pit, but chewable, and the seasoning and flavor were good. I ordered moist brisket, but it was dry as fuck. It was cut the wrong way (rookie bullshit), had no fat in it, and every bit of it was chopped off near the edge, and none of it in a good pointy burnt end kind of way.  I'm still belching up smoke from that brisket. Petty's won't back down.

     

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    Still better than the last three experiences I had at Rudy's, and it was cheap by today's barbecue standards, $12/lb brisket and $10/lb for ribs. It's easy to see why.  I've never seen the place busy. They seem to have the ability to smoke meat with wood properly but they don't give it the proper attention.

  2. 4 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    i need to clean off my duosonic.  It's in rough shape.

     

    Rust on hardware - what do y'all use?  Diluted dish soap and a clean rag?

     

    I have read vinegar, but do some research before messing up something nice. It may depend on the finish.

    I once took a really rusty set of Pearl Drums I found in a garage sale and used Coke and aluminum foil to get most of the rust off of the legs and rims. More than doubled my money after cleaning them up.

  3. 3 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

    We would have never gave him a chance anyways. Witten had a monopoly on the position and no one was going to break through that. Not saying he did not have any fault of his own but if you don't even get the guys behind Witten a chance, then they are never going to progress. We spent resources on getting all these other TE's in here and then put them up in the attic never to be see from again. I remember Escobar had a monster game his rookie year against the Giants and then he disappears. 

    I seem to remember him being on the field quite a lot until he kept screwing the team with poor play.

     

  4. 3 hours ago, EvilCaseMcCoy said:

    I'm not sure Marty B is the best comparison.  He was the top TE in the state of TX coming out of HS and a 2nd round pick.  I believe his situation at the Cowboys was more about his poor attitude, politics surrounding Witten being the guy, and less about his ability.  Yes, the coaching staff is probably to blame for not sorting those issues out, but it is what it is. 

    Rico is still trying to learn the position.  He needs to have that down before showing up at practice and camp or at least be showing significant growth from year to year.  Maybe hiring a position coach in the offseason would do him some good.  As unfair as it is, it's equally unfair to take reps away from guys likes Swaim, Jarwin, and Shultz if they are more reliable options than Rico.

    That said, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Rico was claimed off waivers by the Pats and turned into an 800+yd receiver. 

    Dropped balls and missed blocks where the problem. OK, I can surely blame some of that on Cowboys coaching. But it seems Fartsmellus wasn't serious about learning pro football until he got cut a couple of times. He was terrible in Dallas.

  5. 7 hours ago, ousux said:
    15 hours ago, DougO said:
    People with too much power sure love fixing what ain't broke. Gonna feck it all up just like every other sport.

    Like any other workplace, the NCAA has people who like to justify their existence and salary by "doing something"... even if that something is useless or counterproductive. Not saying this move is, just saying..

    That's why we're about to get touchbacks for kickoffs fair caught inside the 25 yard line, for example.

  6. I like it. I've killed about half a dozen of them black bastards in my day. They love the shit out of water meters. Never stick your hand in one without a thorough look.

    Never had a camera handy at the time, though.

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  7. 19 hours ago, BoomMF said:

    NAD

    Marshall Astoria Custom head

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    The Marshall Astoria line might go down as a crown jewel of the Marshall line. I don't know exactly why it has been a failure, but I have my guesses (Pricepoint and fuckin Nick Bowcott, for example).  If you can get past the sticker shock for a 30w amp made by a company not called Friedman, and get to the amp itself, I think people will find it contains the culmination of all of Marshall's best ideas, some great new ones, all in a package that both pays tribute to Marshall's rich heritage and forges its own path. 

    Apart from the media blitz when it was announced back in 2015 there has been almost nothing, not a drip, from Marshall regarding these amps.  Curious, I searched around for people who might know the history of where it came from because I'm fascinated by the entire line and there just isn't much information available online.

    It seems that before Jim passed he gave the green light to Steve Dawson to create an amp of amps for gigging musicians.  Dawson, himself a gigging guitarist, was given carte blanche and he went all out. Steve was the lead designer for some of the greatest amps to come out of Marshall, including the JTM45/100, Class5 (!), Super100JH, JMP1 (!), 50th Anniversary Bluesbreaker (Holy damn, what a killer amp!), 2245THW, JMD1, and the Vintage Modern.  I mean, come the fuck on. And the Astoria makes a solid case for being his greatest achievement.

    Steve designed all three Astoria amps (Custom, Dual, and Classic), but Chris George came up with the looks.  He wanted something that looked nothing like any other Marshall, but retained some stylistic cues from the past as well.  Chris was also an F1 fan, so thus the Astoria has a racing stripe.  Whatever, I think they look fantastic - even the green one. Now, I'm not a big fan of Chris's demo style, and hell, I don't even like watching his left-handed ass playing a backwards guitar because it is an affront to nature, but dude crushed the aesthetics here imo.

    I picked up the Dual combo awhile ago and it's been the amp that has been the most inspirational when I want to jam or when I want to sound better than I am.  Its tone runs the gamut from smooth Marshall clean to biting distortion but with all that wonderful articulation you get when you plug into an up-level boutique (looking at you Friedman Dirty Shirley, BE-50 Deluxe, et al.). Wonderful tone for days. Since then I've been looking for a deal on a Custom version because, while I really dig the Dual, I wanted a grown-up version of an amp that does that overdriven snarl that Marshall is known for. Finding an Astoria in the wild is hella hard, but while at the Sam Ash in L.A. I finally got to jam on a Custom and have been lusting ever since. As luck and patience would have it, this one is a B-stock that came up for a price that's tantamount to highway robbery. I was forced to buy it. Forced!

    I might never buy another amp that's not cathode biased again.  If I want to try something other than the KT66's it ships with, like EL34s (which it was originally designed for), you just plug and play.  No biasing. That's just the shit. Another little bit that I enjoy is that the effects loop is tube driven, and when it's empty and engaged it acts as another volume, so you have a volume boost at the press of a footswitch. (Of course, disengaged it's completely out of the tonal path)

    My only critique of the line is that the Classic, designed to be a pedal platform, has NO effect loop.  That's a head scratcher to me. I'm still keeping my eye out for a deal on that one, too, regardless. The Astoria Classic might be considered as Marshall's first and only "blues amp."

    The Astoria line was officially cancelled this month and will probably be remembered as a failure. Hopefully time will allow the line a better perspective. Crown jewel, I tell you!

     

     

    I'm guessing it wasn't popular largely because it looks more like a bowling shirt than a classic Marshall amp. Consumers gonna consumer.

  8. 16 hours ago, PilotsError said:

    Only two episodes left.  I don't see a satisfying conclusion.  Season one had a plan.  Season two is directionless.  

    The first season was starting to wane in a similar way at the same point, but the ending bumped it back up. But it really is uneven. A good series should have some consistency throughout the episodes. A big lull for weeks an a knockout conclusion isn't really how it's supposed to work.

     

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