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Rush never recorded a song that they couldn't play live as it sounded. I appreciate that as a fan. But I also appreciate bands, like the Allmans, who would go off whereever they felt like going during a song. SRV was here a few weeks before he died... oh to have been there. His death really got to me. I was 17 and was probably the first celebrity/musician that I really liked to have died. Just numbing. He had turned his life around and damn, he was only 35. He is credited for making guitar cool again and reintroducing blues based rock after what we went through in the 80's. Yes we had EVH but that wasn't blues based. Vaughan's success specifically led to the Allmans deciding they could keep doing it and he inspired a generation that it was cool again to do that.

When your defense is a pivot to whataboutism with Hamas....

That was probably the best time to see them, before the hard drugs took over. The Knebworth show in either 79 or 80 was their curtain call and a peak where they could have gone if Bonham didn’t die. That’s out there to watch.

Ford is a publicly traded company with shareholders to answer to and a board of directors. She has no position in the company. It’s not a family run business. Ford advertised with the NFL becaise it’s good business to do so. To threaten that because a family member is unhappy about their own business could open the door to shareholder lawsuits. They don’t give a **** about the Lions. They want the stock price to go up and dividends paid.

I know she has it in her because I know of a long time employee who was let go after she took over, along with dozens of others. They basically went through the offices cleaning house. These weren't football ops people. I suspect it was a lot of dudes just chilling out and coasting along in cushy jobs with no accountability.

I was thinking about this last night as I had Valenti's show on briefly and they were sticking up for the morning host, and for Dan Campbell inviting "The Question". Basically saying the media's soft now and questions like the morning show asked are considered "controversial". The media today is basically partners with the leauge. THey are all business partners. The franchises, the TV networks, and the press. They have to protect the NFL brand. Some criticism will slip through, like Rex Ryan, but they will monitor how much. Will the NFL Good Old Boys listen to "a girl"?

this is footage from Zeppelin's show at the Silverdome. Recently remastered footage from an 8MM camera and synced up with audio. It's all over the place in terms of songs but still amazing to watch. So little quality live footage and sound of this band exists.

"Two time Acadamy Award Nominee Martin Weir"

This is all new to me so bear with me: If the ref didn't screw up and announces Decker as eligible... doesn't that mean that Dallas is more likely to cover him and the play doesn't work? So yeah, the ref screwed up but without the screwup do the LIons even score? Did his screwup make it more likely they had succeeded?

To expand on this as it's something I was thinking about last night.... there are far more ignorant people out there than I realized. That's what social media has taught us. I belong to a lot space related facebook groups and a big challenge they face are deniers. When you snoop around you'd be shocked how many people think the moon landings were fake. They still exist. Given the # of people that worked on Apollo (400,000 when you count contractors), faking the moon landing would be a bigger achievement than the landing. There's people who think the earth is flat. I've seen the pages where it's discussed. These idiots become influencers and with the fancy lighting and microphones and backdrops they appear more legitimate than before and gullible people are more prone to believe them. After all there they are with a fancy background and graphics... looks just like CNN or MSNBC doesn't it?

old people get their news from facebook memes and chain emails from outfits like freedom patriotz for jeezus dot net

I was excited when Phoenix got the Johnny Cash role in his approved movie... but the movie itself... I don't know. It's fine but his performance in that stripped all the emotion from him. He made him look like a serial killer. Johnny had a gentleness to him in addition to the darkness when he was doped up. It could just be his eyes. I remember telling a friend "He was born to play that role". I think I was wrong.

our issues post 9/11 became so much bigger. I recall a few days before Bush went on TV to defend a policy about embryonic stem cell research. It was a’ national nighttime address to the nation. That seems like such small potatoes now. Wouldn’t even register with most people today. Hindsight for sure but the 90s were fun and they ended on that day. How much of an impact did spending on the wars have on our economy?

He said they hit his car. This is quite funny. It would be hilarious if someone sped it up a little and played the Benny Hill music.

I don't think young people are going elsewhere because people bashed the media before those young people were born or aware of what they were doing. They are going elsewhere for the same reason they ditched cable, quit going to movies, and listening to FM radio. It's easier, quicker, and they control what they see or hear.

I had a well endowed Aunt, who was quite the partier in the Nashville music and bar scene in the 60s and 70s, she says that Jimmy Buffet slept on the floor in her trailer for a week. When she would hug me as a kid she would shove my head into her cleavage. She was always telling me "Robert, come over here and hug my neck" Everyone thought it was funny. Even I was self aware enough to know that it wasn't really a good thing.

I think that the sentiment is in that ballpark. 9/11 to now is like the Iranian Hostage crisis was in 2011. Younger people would be more familiar with the aftermath of the invasion and response to 9/11, all 20 years of it, than the event itself. And for people like my son who is 23 9/11 has always been there. In that situation you can’t fullly appreciate the shock of it. I will claim right now to have done more reading on the JFK assassination than anyone here but even I cannot grasp at the impact of it because to me he was always the guy who got shot. That was the first thing I learned about him. I didn’t know him as the candidate and living and breathing leader giving press conferences who suddenly was gone. the shock of the US being attacked on our soil go that degree is not there for people who lived in a world where that event always existed.

This is a big one. I feel like the tide is turning. Maybe because I am older but I know a lot of people who just don’t drink anymore. on a similar subject… hugging. Don’t ask people to hug. Not everybody is an hugger. Figure it out. If they side hug you then learn that they aren’t into that. Especially younger girls. Don’t even initiate it with them. I just ran into this last night. A 40 something repeatedly asking a 7 year old for a hug. Nothing malicious about it but it needs to be taught that we all have to understand that when girls say no then accept it. That will help them late on. They will learn they can say no.

“Your trick play tricked us even though you told us about it before the game and again when it happened. It’s your fault” so they are admitting their refs are stupid ?

I still do a double take when I see the Brewers in the NL playoffs or Astros in the AL playoffs.

There are 3 kinds of “mistakes”. The first is when the body doesn’t do what the mind wants it to. A bad throw. Dropped pass. Missed putt. Etc. When I hear fans try to downplay the importance of this call by pointing out “well if Goff hits his guy…”. That misses the point. Those are execution errors that’s based on skill level. Both sides are competing hard to win. Sometimes you execute and sometimes you don’t. No amount of practice or prep will deliver 100% results. The players know immediately they messed up. The second kind are judgement calls. Either you didn’t see it or saw something and didn’t feel at that moment it rose to the level, or vice versa. Snap calls made on the spot. Those are somewhat forgivable and there’s replay to help out. this kind of mistake is just a flat out screw up. I don’t even know what to call it. The only analogy I can think of is a baseball manager telling the umpire of a lineup change in the 8th inning then they get called out for batting out of order.

This is a huge story.

Whoever does that for Fox has good taste. Lots of foam bands. Just a few seconds can alter a bands year.

Pistons are going to win tonight…FYI

Didn’t even bother showing the replay.