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By the way, bootlegs came out years ago of some rough mixes, these are NOT on the box set, and are really interesting
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FYI the Pink Floyd youtube channel is running a WYWH 50 weekend, playing stuff off the new box set, right now they're playing the early instrumental version of Shine On, great stuff
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3 hours ago, RomaVicta said:
That's not how this works.
Those bastards shot down one of our helicopters! Let's make up for my personal insecurity by sending the Army to kill people and blow shit up for a few weeks to make me feel better about myself.
I'M A VICARIOUS BADASS, MOTHERFUCKER!
Remember how much everybody enjoyed the first weeks of the Iraq invasion? They loved seeing "our boys" in the combat zones paying psychological prices that we largely ignore when they return.
Then they got bored when the stories were boring about what a shithole we created. But we showed them!!!
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19 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:
I was there because my wife really like Mary Chapin Carpenter. I'm pretty sure that the Mavericks opened for Carpenter that night. One of those shows when you walk away knowing that the opening act was just better.
We saw the Mavericks a few more times and they were always great. Raul had an incredible voice.
You are probably right, because we had 4th row seats in front of the stage and I was one of the only men there. Lots of flannel that night.
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Knew this was coming but had hopes Raul could hold out a while longer. Fuck. Saw them back in their "heyday" at the Erwin Center with Mary Chapin Carpenter opening, fantastic show. Flaco joined them on stage, it was great.
About 10 years ago, they tried to start a music festival here in Taylor, the "Stomp n Holler" festival. They got the Mavericks to headline, it was incredible. My polka band played out in the gazebo earlier in the day, so I guess technically I can say I got to open up for the Mavericks.
Rest in peace sir.
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45 - 2: Janis Joplin "Me & Bobby McGee" and Johnny Cash "A Boy Named Sue"
LP: Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Cassette: Billy Joel - The Stranger
CD: Roger Waters - Radio KAOS (actually the first one I ever bought was 10cc - Greatest Hits 1972-78, didn't even have a CD player, just knew I would some day so I carried it from apartment to apartment until I got one, when I bought the Roger Waters CD (and Def Leppard - Hysteria), I also got my first CD player, put it on my Sears credit card, only $300+)
download: no idea, but 99% sure it was some Beatles bootleg outtakes
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Fuck yeah, send those fuckers back to gomerville with their tails between their legs, poooooo raggy
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Goodbye Willie Beans (don’t even ask, his real name was Charlie). I know you are running around again like the wild dog you were before we rescued you, chasing squirrels and making friends with everyone you ever met, just to get a scratch and a pet.
Endless sunny days laying in the grass and all the chew sticks you want.-
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Had plenty, this is hotel room, end of the day, night cap drinking, about to take our first-born and her husband out for a first anniversary dinner, will order something appropriately local and report herewith
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I’m on vacation, gimme a break, I’ll be back to quadrupel hazy triple hop bourbon-barrel red porter nitros soon enough, imo
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20 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:
Planes are really big and when you sit in them it barely feels like you’re moving, they aren’t going that fast. They have the whole sky up there too. It’s super easy not to crash, you just watch them on the screen and remind them to be careful lol.
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13 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
Almost complete thread jack, what the hell is going on with that locomotive and the flat overhanging roof at the rear?
Cooling air intakes for the diesel turbines, standard design on modern locos
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9 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:
Dad said the Fried Chicken at Westphalia was on point this year.
Missed it this year but it always is good
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SOYCD and Herbie Hancock, bring it back!
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On 10/8/2025 at 10:33 AM, bschoolprof said:
this right here. Takes you back . . .
I remember back in the very beginning, they would play stuff like the opening to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", really cool stuff.
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4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
I'm not surprised. I'm sort of the opinion that the people who've started running the lodge on the board are a bunch of pricks, based on their decisions. Like, they keep trying to grow the Czechfest here and then have a fucking hissy fit when they don't have enough volunteers. Like, it gets to be more of a shitshow every year, why do you keep trying to make it bigger? Getting "names" probably dovetails into that. "Lets make this rival Wurstfest!!" Why don't you try making it suck less, before you grow it?
You gotta lot of old people set in their ways, that's usually the problem. Volunteers is always a problem, especially if you don't make it welcoming for them. Seen it many times. Lotta politics involved, unfortunately.
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15 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
Y'all travel far? Based on your name, maybe you're playing the Lodge 88 Czechfest in Houston this weekend?
Nope, not us. We've played Lodge 88 before, been a long time, they like to get the "big names" (yes, there actually are some), the whole thing is who knows who, and over there is favoritism... Tough to squeeze into these handshake deals. Have fun if you go.
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Warning - very tldr, so just skip it if you're not into the whole reading thing...
Preface - I lead a Czech polka band, but we do a lot of Oktoberfests etc as well, just wrapped up our fall season.
Story #1 - We were playing in Round Rock on Saturday for an Oktoberfest. There is a couple that lives in Round Rock, our band actually played their wedding reception in Austin in 1997, the woman's family is from the Czech Republic so they wanted a Czech band. Their wedding dance song was a pretty waltz called "My Darling".
We run into them from time to time, usually at this one Oktoberfest we do every year, and I would always try to have that song in our book so we w could play it for them. Well, we hadn't seen them for a few years so I took it out, I do that from time to time, add new songs, pull old ones out etc. So we played a gig in Taylor back in May. Day-long festival on the town square. This couple showed up, was glad to see them but was crushed when they asked us to play "My Darling" and I realized I didn't have it in the book. I apologized and told them the next time I saw them, I would have it ready. No big deal to them, they were just happy to dance, but it bothered me.
So as I was getting our books ready for our "fall tour", I made sure I put in back in the books. Sure enough, Saturday we are playing and I look up and there they are, just hanging out with their friends. Told them it was good to see them again, they danced a few songs, and then left for a little while. I was kind of disappointed, but then they came back, guess they went to get some food or something. Anyway, I told the crowd that we were going to to a song, wasn't an Oktoberfest song but our friends were here, and this is their song so we're gonna do it, and everyone else can just pretend it's a German song (nobody cared, we have great crowds that like whatever we play...).
I could see the amazement on their faces when I announced it, they were not expecting it at all. So we played it, they danced, and at the end they came up to the stage and they were both crying, like tears running down their faces (big strong men...). Made me tear up as well. Just to know I could bring that much happiness and emotion to two people just by playing a song. Who knows what their lives have been like over the past 30 years, good times and bad, sickness and health and all that. So to bring that kind of joy to them, wow, made my day.
Story #2 - next day, Sunday, we're playing a church picnic down in Hostyn, outside La Grange. A lady comes up and askes if we could play the "Red and White" Waltz, classic Czech waltz, everyone knows it. Said sure, so the next chance we got, we played it. As soon as we started playing it I remembered why. We play this picnic every year, but it's our only gig down that way so I don't know all those people that well. But I look out and see this woman helping up an old woman with a walker, and it hit me. This lady asks for this song every year, it's her mom's (the lady in the walker) favorite song. Once I saw her I recognized them both, it all came back.
So the lady helps her mom stand up, and they begin just kind of gently scooting the walker around, "dancing". I thought, wow that is nice. So we're playing along, the next thing I see is a a guy, probably 60 or so, crazy guy, was running around all morning talking to people, had a home-made hat that he had made, took two of his favorite polka bands, cuts the hats in half and sewed them together, so a two-billed hat, like something you'd see on Hee Haw. Just a goof-ball. But a good guy, talked to him later, he has prostate cancer but is out there living his best life.
Anyway, I see him walk up and talk to the lady for a minute, and the next thing, they are setting the walker aside, the gentleman cradles the old woman in his arms and they begin just rocking back and forth, again, "dancing". Holy hell. I can see the daughter is crying, I'm trying not to choke up as I'm singing. To see that level of kindness and empathy, I didn't expect that at a polka dance.
TLDR: there's a lot of love and joy out there, it's just hard to find sometimes, but if you're lucky enough to see it, wow, it'll knock you down.
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And in case you want more, here are the Animals demos that came out at the same time