Posts posted by UTCzech III
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10 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:
Cheesy, but some of that Raspberries stuff was a precursor to great bands like Cheap Trick and the 'mats. RIP Mr. Carmen.
Fuckin A, let's get some up in here.
Loved this one when I was a kid. Listening just now, was struck at how it has the same electric piano sound and vocals as some of the songs on the Beach Boys 1977 album "Beach Boys Love You". Sure enough, both were recorded the same year and that is Brian Wilson and Bruce Johnston on backing vocals.
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This day can just fuck right off... Rest in peace sir
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10 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:
I was at the benefit show they did for your brother and cried when Rhett played the song he wrote for him. Sorry for your loss.
I appreciate you being there. Got to meet a lot of Joel's friends that night, an did a lot of shots/toasts, so there was some good mixed in with the sad. Thanks again for your thoughts.
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Truly sad. Hell he's 5 years older than my mom and she's in a nursing home unable to move basically, but still sharp mentally 5 years from now, who knows...). But Jesus, let's see, blowing your mind on drugs (luckily able to somewhat come through it unlike Syd Barrett), having both of your younger brothers die before you (as someone who has lost a younger sibling, yeah, that will fuck you up the rest of your life), a cousin who went nutso and took you to court, and a "manager" who controlled your entire life and tried to steal you blind. My mind would be mush too. I don't think he is near the end, but I do believe he is totally done creatively, or even as a "prop" on any kind of tour or anything. He was the ultimate man-child. Just never grew up, wrote some of the most brilliant music and melodies ever, but accompanied by just simple, juvenile even lyrics. He was just stuck in that "Great American Songbook" style of writing, from the 30s through the 50's, into the early 60's, but he could just never progress any further. A true savant, we will never see his likes again. Just a few favorites, again, the lyrics don't matter, it's the sound, the blend, the chords, the arrangements, that are true genius.
One of the most brilliant songs ever written, if you're musically inclined, just try to mentally figure the chord structure out as this is playing, where is the center? You can't do it..
again, such a deceptively simple song, but track where the chords go, every way you 'don't' expect them to go..
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57 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:
Don't remember how this one came about. Same song, different title/words.
The song was rewritten after Mike Love voiced objections to the lyrics.[16][17] Love stated in a 1993 interview that he found the original lyrics "so totally offensive [and] nauseating" that he refused to sing them.[18] He told Wilson that he was strongly opposed to drugs such as LSD and did not wish for the Beach Boys to be associated with its culture.[19] In his recollection, he was aware of the fact that Wilson had experimented with LSD and knew that the "prevailing drug jargon [suggested] that doses of LSD would shatter your ego, as if that were a positive thing... I wasn't interested in taking acid or getting rid of my ego."[20] He said, "The people that I'd seen indulge in those things exhibited behaviors and mannerisms that left much to be desired."[16]
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Not mine, but damned if I ain't gonna try making these soon...
QuoteFrom the bean and cheese breakfast taco to the raspa, the San Antonio culinary scene is known for a number of signature items. That includes the crispy dog, the 1950s-era diner favorite made by restaurants and grandmothers alike, according to Texas Monthly. Unfortunately, the crispy dog, a hot dog wrapped in a tortilla with cheese and then deep-fried, is now disappearing from menus, Jose Ralat, a journalist with the magazine, wrote on Monday.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/crispy-dogs-san-antonio-17768887.php
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4 minutes ago, bolverk said:
It's disgusting beyond all words, but let's please be more careful about tweets. This one's misleading in that it implies the case was in Texas with the mention of Abbott. It was not - although I wouldn't be surprised if there were cases like this here.
But this happened in Michigan.
It also happened in 2017 and the judge reversed the order after new shit came to light. Just a clickbait post unfortunately.
QuoteCRIME
Judge rescinds order granting rapist joint legal custody of victim's child
October 17, 2017 / 5:45 PM EDT / CBS/AP
SANDUSKY, Mich. -- A Michigan judge has rescinded a controversial order he gave last month granting a convicted rapist joint legal custody of the child conceived when he attacked a 12-year-old girl in 2008.
Sanilac County Judge Gregory Ross ruled Tuesday that 27-year-old Christopher Mirasolo won't have any parental rights in connection to the 8-year-old boy. But he's still on the hook for child support.
Michigan Supreme Court spokesman John Nevin told The Associated Press last week that Ross didn't know 27-year-old Christopher Mirasolo had two criminal sexual conduct convictions, including one concerning the woman.
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On 12/17/2023 at 2:10 PM, Eskimohorn said:
Comedian Brian Regan had a nice bit like this, except it was funny as hell:
I was gettin' out of a cab at the airport and the ddriver goes, "Hey have a nice flight!"
"You tow!"
"You too, you have a nice flight too, in case you ever fly someday."First think I thought of, they're just ripping off Brian Regan. "Take luck!"
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12 hours ago, Gil Bang said:
Joe Walsh did that all over the country. Walsh was on Stern so often, that he agreed to be in the house band when Stern had an audition/test show for a late-night TV show in NYC. Walsh was passed out under Howard's feet by the time the show started.
Yeah, he did that here on KLBJ as well. Dale Dudley used to play a phone message from Joe, Dale had slandered him on the morning show, saying he was high or something like that, and Joe found out, the left a message threatening to sue Dale "for everything you got! I love a war man! So get a good lawyer!" (still remember that word for word)
But yeah, RIP Jim. Only knew him from his projects with Roger Waters, and then later on his Sirius show. Classic DJ voice and excellent interviewer. As a radiophile, a good DJ could transport you anywhere, fill your head with things and sounds you never dreamed of. One of the best ever for sure.
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Off Grid Alaska
in Daily Texan
Yep, Fairbanks and North Pole. I shoulda honked. No shit about those skeeters too, jesus.