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  1. 5 hours ago, Not that Bob said:

    Being a metronome is not a bad thing. Bands tend to speed up during songs and if a drummer can have them end at the same tempo that they started with, I would say that is a good drummer. Friend of mine used to say "Swallowed a clock". Charlie Watts was not a flashy drummer, but he kept the rest of the band on the same tempo. In some ways he "made" the Rolling Stones. Ringo, too. I like Frank Beard a lot. Some unique riffs that are integral to the song, more than just a straight ahead 4/4.

    Watts was another guy whose heart was in jazz. You hear it even more in later albums. Honky Tonk Women was a great example of tempo adjusting to feel. Mushy funk to R&B with a country/soul feel and back again. 
     

    And while I’m at the ol’ typewriter, a note on Phil Collins. Although it’s no longer considered witty or a provocation to talk about how great a drummer he was - and I say was because he was literally crippled because of his drumming setup - I advocate that he was one of the more significantly impactful artists of modern pop and rock music. Unbelievable as a singer, genre bending as a writer (or co-writer), and a drummer that helped smooth the transition between prog rock to prog pop to MTV pop.  I’d put him up there with Prince in terms of influence on overall importance during their active decades. 

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  2. You obviously haven't heard the middle school beginner French horn section.
    I'll go with "soprano sax".
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    I was gonna say alto sax. Why do we need this?

    And, I don’t hate it in every song and some guys are subtle masters of it, but I generally don’t like the harmonica - at least not as a “lead” in most songs.
  3. I won’t wade too deep on the previous conversation because I’m a little late and there’s a lot of merit in any of the answers above. But if we are just talking favorites (which I think is the only really fair way to discuss this topic), for me:

    - Gadd
    - Purdie
    - Porcaro
    - Manu Katche
    - David King
    - Chamberlain
    - Copeland
    - Chester Thompson
    - Vinny

    Bonham, Ringo and Moon all had profound impacts on the evolution of rock and had unbelievable individual creativity. As a drummer, I draw from them as musicians and stylists but not as technicians.

    Bozzio and Peart, et al. are impressive but every high school band has some dude in his basement who can replicate them; and l, more importantly, their inventiveness ceiling is directly correlated to the proficiency and creativity of their songwriters/bands, whereas the guys listed above help CREATE the sound of their bands and recordings.

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  4. So two quick that I’m sure have been covered but I’m going to ask like I’m 5 (side note, I had a procedure under anesthesia earlier so I am a little foggy anyway):

    1. If someone does “loan” him the money to cover the amount of a bond or whatever the cash surety would be, does that have to be disclosed? Even if it’s through a shell company or other type of laundering? Or can MSB, just be “oh, I found my checkbook and here you go…. Buy yourself something nice, Donald” and there’s nothing other than the appearance of impropriety (lol, GQP) to dissuade that?

    2. If shitbird posts no bond and has no cash out whatever he can of his assets (wildly generalizing), he has to pay taxes on those gains. But if the government says fuck off and begins collecting via asset seizure/forfeiture, who pays the taxes on those transactions? Are they deducted from the asset value as they would if he’d had to sell things off himself? That’s a lot of tax money. And maybe even more relevant for the EJC verdict because she’s not the state.

  5. I’m friends with and played off and on for a long time with some of the English Teeth. The guests for their set covering the Replacements you will not want to miss. (I don’t think I’m supposed to say who, but trust me).

  6. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I was quite literally thinking about playing the KOL angle, but they're just OU fans, not Oklahomans (to my knowledge).

    To my great shame, my dad band is playing one of their songs at an early SXSW thing.  Our fucking bassist insists.

    I’ll admit I listened to that one album of theirs a few times…. And they were quite good live at ACL around the time they were blowing up. Or maybe that was My Morning Jacket. I’m too old to remember. 

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  7. Haven’t watched but I’m about 3/4 through the book and while it isn’t narratively linear like I’d hoped it feels like a series of great insights and snippets from someone who loves Texas but is objective and, obviously, very smart. He gets it and wishes “it” wasn’t so bad in the state and is it’s a well crafted perspective on the ways and degrees that/to which Texas is a national political barometer.

    PS - god help us.

  8. 21 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    So we've gone over the past year or so from dismissing Smith altogether, to threatening Smith with legal action, to now reasoning with Smith to just drop all charges so the country can "heal":

     

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    Dim Witler

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  9. Don't forget loyalty oaths. A part of our history and useful weapons to bring around recalcitrant citizens.

    We need to create some authority to which fellow MAGAts can receive a reward for “turning in” false MAGAts - for RINO-like behavior or for supporting Haley or not weeping over the death of Toby Keith or not having enough bumper stickers or for loving their fellow man, etc etc.

    Kinda like how the Salem witch trials reached a frenzy or like, you know, how in Texas you can make a citizen’s arrest of someone seeking healthcare that might involve an abortion or whatever the fuck that law is….

    Root out and demonize any MAGAt who might dare to still be even slightly normal or decent and empower the meanest, least intelligent of the cult.

    WALLA! Hilarity and MAGA infighting ensue!
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  10. One of my favorite off-hand lines in the whole series.

    George: Yes, she’s pretty. What difference does it make?

    Estelle: Okay, I was just curious.

    Frank(essentially eavesdropping): She’s not pretty?!

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  11. I like their individual music better than the actual boygenius stuff but they are great. If Julien Baker ever wants to “switch teams,” I’ll be waiting.

    No opinion of the guitar other than that seems like an odd band to have a signature guitar for.

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