War_in_D
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C'mon down, or over.. or up. Not sure where you're located currently from my vantage point. LOL
RT ADVENTURE RPG GUITAR CONTEST DAY 2
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C'mon down, or over.. or up. Not sure where you're located currently from my vantage point. LOL
Techdeth
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I’m in Ohio lol
War_in_D
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Oh dang!! That's going to be a hike then! LOL
Monkey Man
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Breakfast of Champions is mandatory.
Yin and Yang.
Yin and Yang.
japetus
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Eureka Springs, AR was always a strange place to me growing up...my grandparents lived in the Branson area for awhile and we would drive to Eureka Springs. You are driving around and there isn't much...and then all of the sudden there is this hippie town with gay pride flags and all that. And this was the late 90's when you didn't see that so much in the Midwest yet. I always remember stopping at a McDonalds on the way that looked like a 1950's diner.
sondoke
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Yep, just going with what I’d actually do
IRL here
Smash
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Yeah. I live in austin. So i am already surrounded by people proud of how progressive they are. And i go.to eureka springs and people are so loud about it there too.
But it is beautiful. And the weather is way better than here.
rottingcorpse
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I'm in DFW and am angry we haven't met. Will channel that anger into the next time I get to plug in.
Smash
Hack
Everytime i pass a semi, I wonder could it be you?
Smash
Hack
She did say she was divorced. She punished your greed and betrayal of Love.
That said. I think almost every married man here flirted with that option. The explorer was just too sweet to pass up for me.
Also, I think the key phrase was, "and then leave" That right there was not a linear path to greatness. You are leaving the axes and amps to other broke musicians.
The LP was a good buy, and you got an amp...But it isn't metal as fuck.
Asking the deaf clerk for advice on music is a very unique route to go. It makes sense that type of person becomes a bassist. They aren't real musicians, but are the smartest guy in the band and know way more music theory than a guitarist.
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VonBonfire
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Not to brag but I gotta pretty kickass porch so I spend a lot of time out there so I'm headed out to the porch for some fresh air.
I have found that for all the hype about Austin being the San Fran of the south it's not even remotely that progressive. Yeah there are some retards in south austin and the west lake big money socialist snobs but mostly there are still a lot of TX country folk who moved there to work and aren't all that progressive at all.
Smash
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I don't mind westalke at all, but i stay away from the bowels of CALIaustin. The real progressive tendency is how shitty Austin has become over the years.
VonBonfire
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I actually grew to love dirty 6th. I know a lot of people down there, homeless and otherwise. What I hate is everything north of downtown. I refuse to gig Round Rock or Pflugerville any more unless big $$$$ cause they are shitty suburb gigs (and i hate flat lands) where no one gives a shit or even tips. Last gig I did in RR I had to wait a week and a half for them to venmo the paycheck. I hate suburb gigs. I don't play in Kyle for that reason, lame ass place. Basically it's downtown Austin, Leander, Jonestown, New Braunfels, and occasionally Wimberley and San Marcos or I'm not interested. I have to go to Cibolo this week. Never gigged there. I also hate San Antonio. I've never seen such a huge city with so little happening for nightlife.
Smash
Hack
Dirty 6th reminds me of highschool where you have guys that smoke weed and think that makes them in this secret club, even though almost everyone smokes and most just don't make a big deal about it.
Typical hipster mentality. We are so different that we are exactly the same.
But i can see from a gigging perspective how it could seem.
I just wish austin was dominated by blues bands still. That was the time to be here
VonBonfire
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I never hang out with hipsters though Rainey Street and E and W 6th are packed with them.
I just found weed and weed vapes pretty much ever present along 6th. I have known a couple dealers down there, one of which got thumped over the back of the head with a blunt object and killed for his stash over at the Quad on Riverside, RIP. I haven't played on dirty sixth since before Covid but I have done stuff on E and W 6th qutie a few times, plus Rainey street. I'd like to expand over to the Congress area but I'm not a hipster so that will take some time. It is amazing how close the scenes are together physically but how far apart they are people wise, each little area seems to mostly have it's pocket of of regulars that don't seem to operate in other parts of Austin.
Smash
Hack
I think you are probably more versed in it than I. I have been out of the bar scene for years now besides the occasional debauchery. 12 years ago, I used to bounce for Boomerz. We used to have some cool bands there. But that is a very clicky bar. Not in that the people there are bad or all the same. But it is a neighboorhood bar that had regulars that become lifers, kind of like rig-talk.
VonBonfire
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Yes I played Boomerz a year or two ago after hitting Angel's Icehouse out in Spicewood earlier in that day. I remember it because we actually had an indoor gig, which made it nice and cool in there, there was about 15 people there all night, and I was dimed and the soundman was all enthusiastic and was blasting large PA stacks like it was 1990. The club was supposedly going to short us and the soundman, who I think was feeling like he was being made out to be the biggest jerk, said he was coughing up the extra hundred from his own pocket. At the end of the day there was no problem but I think that is a dying club, no bueno so I haven't been back.