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  1. 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

     

  2. 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!!!

     

  3. 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.

  4. 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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  5. 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

  6. 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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  7. 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.

  8. 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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