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@jimmyjazz's post reminded me that both Nazareth and Blue Oyster Cult played at the '79 Texxas Jam. I was not there, but went to the first one in '78. Eleven big-time bands for $12.50, plus Cheech & Chong. It was 104 degrees in the Cotton Bowl. The heat cured me forever of wanting to go to summertime stadium concerts, but it was a hell of a lineup.
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Great remake that came across my feed today on a platform that shall not be mentioned (but Keb' Mo' posted the link, so it's OK; here's a direct link, without commercials). https://playingforchange.com/videos/everyday-people-turnaround-arts-collaboration-song-across-the-usa
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Can't imagine they ever would have played it on the Central Texas radio stations I grew up on. Austin stations may have been another matter after MTV started playing it ... that's the part I really would like to remember if I could. KLBJ and KGSR were my staples during the '80s and '90s. Being stuck in College Station when reception was bad was no fun.
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Had forgotten about that. Giving you a ha-ha instead of the next option over, but it was a close one. 😁 -
80 is the new 20. It better be for us old guys, or who's gonna remember when "Won't Get Fooled Again" came out? Not me, I guess. Had to look it up, although I was around.
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Great version of "Won't Get Fooled Again." Townshend brought a whole different level of energy to that. At one point it looks like Entwistle is just wondering what's going on. Not too long until The Song Is Over ... Man, I had forgotten that "Hair of the Dog" was from the same album as "Love Hurts," or that it was that old (freshman year in HS, so yeah ... I'm up there, too). I always associated it with my undergraduate days. And I have to admit to never looking up the verses of the lyrics, because the chorus was most of it and that's part of what makes it a great "bring it" song, but of a little different nature. And I was also a little surprised to find them on this list of one-hit wonders, along with a bunch of much milder stuff (except for "Mississippi Queen"). On a slightly related note: AI really sucks sometimes. MTV is probably what made me aware of "Hair of the Dog," but I guess it needs to train the bots a little better.
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Somehow I missed this response earlier this morning. I'm just one of those guys who likes to hear some extra story most of the time. But just the songs are good, too. Was listening to Hornet's Nest again while reading about Riley Gale on Wikipedia and my wife came in and said, "Why is that so loud?"
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If you're just going to have one, it's probably better for it to be visceral and animalian (good word -- a variant I haven't seen much, so good to be reminded it's out there). Part of the interest factor of this thread is seeing how many metal and urban/rap songs there are. As I've noted, not really where my tastes lie, but it's great to see the way different genres use things like lyrical approaches (including extensive profanity), instrumentation, volume, tempo, and various characteristics that many others on this thread are far more knowledgeable about. The stuff I started off with seems kinda tame in comparison. Also, I think you should tell everybody what happens when you put this on. 😁
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Maybe? But is that a bad thing? -
Here's more on that story. Sounds like Tech is trying to buy next year's title. I'm not one to bet on sports, but I might take the early odds on them. https://www.si.com/onsi/softball/news/how-an-nil-loophole-is-transforming-texas-tech-into-a-softball-powerhouse
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Tech may not be spending more money on football than others, but they may be spending more on softball than anybody else ... and it looks like they've bought several more All-Americans (apparently, before the portal was even open). https://www.si.com/onsi/softball/news/how-an-nil-loophole-is-transforming-texas-tech-into-a-softball-powerhouse I'm going to go cross-post this on the softball thread if it's not already there, but the thing I find really fascinating about this is that Cody Campbell is chair of Tech's board of regents. Gotta wonder how his very strong interest in sports success is going to affect the way he views the way the rest of the university is run.
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
This comment inspired me to read a little about hops that impart pine notes. I get why some earthy-herbaceous taste can be too much in a beer -- and how difficult it is to pull off the right combinations in brewing. I've had three or four beers that incorporated spruce tips and generally was not impressed. I recall there was one decent one, but I ain't gonna track it down in my untappd history. It wasn't that good. Sometimes there's a fine line between a subtle reminder of a great camping trip in the mountains and being smacked in the face with a hospital-bathroom mop. -
So many great songs about summer and youth on that album and their others. One of the first things that came to mind on reading this was Neil Young's lyric in "Long May You Run." Several others have already touched on Wilson's influence, and Neil Young got that. What an evocative set of lines: Maybe the Beach Boys have got you now With those waves singing "Caroline" (Oh "Caroline, No") Rolling down that empty ocean road Getting to the surf on time
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Those two are a study in contrasts. Good stuff. Hadn't heard the name Soulhat in a long time, but I left Texas right around the end of their heyday. "A song for my mother ... " -- the lyrics are a hoot: I got a Ph.D. in knife fighting and saying fuck, yeah ... Got a big long middle finger, shaped just like a ball-peen hammer.
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The release does say "exclusive streaming rights" so I'm wondering if it's just an additional platform. I can't imagine they'd remove it from broadcasts. I've never understood those regional blackouts, which weren't part of the HS sports environment 10 years ago but seem to be now. Before I cut the cord from DirectTV and then Spectrum, I could get FoxSW (and the rest of 'em) and watch these games. Streaming packages stopped carrying Fox/Bally, and whoever else, at some point in the last 6-8 years -- I can't even remember when my access got cut off and I couldn't get it back without DTV. Regardless, the release also says this is a "major step forward in elevating the visibility and accessibility of Texas high school football ... statewide and beyond," so I'm hopeful I can stream those state games come December.
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In my first reporting job, I once sat with Fred Akers in the press box at Leander HS. Can't remember who he would have been there to see. It was a small press box so I introduced myself and tried for about two seconds to exchange pleasantries, but he was having none of it. I get not wanting to talk to reporters -- I poked fun at journalists myself about six pages ago -- but I was not impressed. Interviewed David McWilliams a number of times in his office, and he was a lot more down-to-earth and surprisingly unguarded. The last time I talked to him, he prefaced something with, "When I'm gone ..." and I remember being taken aback. He was fired a few months later.
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I have a hard time listening to those guys. Most of their stuff takes me to some pretty dark places. It's a conundrum of music -- why some painful, even tragic stuff is easy to listen to over and over, yet other stuff makes me want to jump off a building. I'll listen to "Club XIII" any time, though. And "Ugly Buildings, Whores and Politicians" is a great album name.
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"It's better to burn out than to fade away" is definitely in the ballpark. Maybe even standing at home plate. I've seen some interviews with Neil Young about why he wrote that; in one he talks about "fighting the corrosion," and I think a lot of folks see resistance as a theme in that song. A great deal of music is the personal stories behind these songs, both for the musicians and the listeners. Surly posters always have great stories, and a lot of those can be told in a line or two, or maybe a paragraph or two. That's part of what I hope comes out of this. A lot of it is clearly personal interpretation -- somehow, I've never heard Lennon's "God," so I'm curious about what is going on in that one for @honolulu horn. But the lyrics in "Perseverance" are easier to link -- they are my daily life since our stuff started back in the late teens. That kind of anger and disappointment aren't something I can allow to consume me, but I maintain a low-level, background rage that sustains fighting back while staying sane. My colleagues and I are in a unique position of being able to resist in ways that others can't. Without music it would be harder. Family, friends, finally having the Horns back where they belong ... all that stuff helps. I know your fear of loss And your struggles with faith And how it takes everything that you have to face the day The virtues you possess now bring you eternal pain All you have is contempt for a life you can't obtain All your heroes have failed you Yet you try and prevail Face your torment and dismantle your doubt Refuse this legacy of shame and deceit Cause the only real truth in your life that you know is hostility Your world is coming apart Remain steadfast Perseverance Against all opposition Crushing all limitations Pure strength through solitude Discipline and determination
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Never a big RATM fan, but I occasionally listen to Morello's radio show on Sirius XM and like it. My son and his buddies went to the opening session of the reunion tour for RATM three years ago. Again stuff that's not in my normal wheelhouse, but definitely classics that I've always been aware of, and listening to them all now in this context increases my appreciation of them. Lots of good stuff. Time to get out of the rabbit hole for a while, though.
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That is indeed the obvious response and often pops up on my mental soundtrack. Interestingly enough, I thought I had it on the aforementioned playlist but don't. Adding it now. 9/11 made us hear a lot of songs differently. Bought this CD when it came out and several of those live versions still move me. Springsteen's "The Rising," too. Wonder how many albums like the latter were in response to that day.
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I was driving back home from Pardeeville on a fine Wisconsin summer afternoon when I first heard "American Ride" and thought, "who's that guy?" Been hooked ever since.
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For me, it's a song about not backing down from the assholes. Persevering, standing on principle ... but much of the fun is what it means to others. I listened to all four of @Iceman's contributions above and there's less of that and a lot more . But I think the Willie Nile song from @G650 is a little more FAFO-for-everybody vibe -- a little less in someone particular's face. But I missed some of the lyrics on my first go-round and there doesn't seem to be a good place to find them right away. I'm sure they're out there somewhere, so I'll probably run over to evil Spotify and see if they've got 'em posted (not my streaming choice -- it's for our kids, so I got the family plan; their reliance on Spotify may be my biggest failure as a parent, but fortunately, they've got a lot more good points than bad).
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Sounds like these games are supposed to be free. I'll believe it when I see it, but I'd pay for them anyway. "The change to Victory+ (https://victoryplus.com/) will be the first time all of the Texas High School State Football Championships will be available for free and outside the cable bundle that was the main distribution platform for the Regional Sports Network model who was the carrier for the last 3 decades." Kind of an odd news release. It's from DCTF, and it says they "brokered" the deal.
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Hallelujah for all of us out-of-staters who don't want to get satellite, which I believe has been the only way to access these games for several years now. Could be wrong, but I certainly haven't been able to purchase whatever regional service would let me get the games. Haven't heard of these guys before, but happy they're doing this. Seems it may be attached to Dave Campbell's. https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2025/06/10/victory-uil-football-dave-campbells
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Yeah, I'm actually kind of worried about that, too. I don't come to this particular forum as much as I could, or would like to, and partly because of that. There's a hell of a lot of great threads on this one and I've enjoyed a few new things, but it's a little too easy just to click on a video and suddenly find my wife hollering at me from next Tuesday. See above. I don't know, but I'm probably going to be late for dinner just clicking on your links. Not much of a metal guy myself, but I can appreciate it. Sorta like IPAs for you.
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