Madison is a great town (my wife is from there). Phil – you would totally dig The Great Taste Of The Midwest beer festival they have. I have only been once, but it is considered second only to the big one out in Denver. Amazing selection of brews.Originally Posted by philsunset
Some day Geez, some day we'll get there.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Steve, I looked at last year's brewery list and definitely would dig going to Great Taste. It looks great. Thanks for the tip.
...from May through mid November.
Come to my section of frozen tundra in mid-January and you'll think Madison is Key West.
During the oil boom a few years ago a couple of guys with deep Alabama/Mississippi accents walked into a local machine shop. It was November, about thirty degrees above, and the wind was stiff. A guy I know works in that shop. He said the guys were bitching about the cold and one of them asked if it got colder than this. All the locals working there started laughing. The guy at the counter told them, "Oh yah, 'bout sixty-seventy degrees colder". It took them a while to process that. And the thing was I bet we only got down to minus twenty that winter.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
When I was in college I knew an exchange student from Sri Lanka. One day in November he came up to me wearing a ski mask and I asked why. He replied "It's cold!" It was around 40 degrees.
To which I shook my head and said: "Oh boy... Pat, you are in for a real treat in January."
The only bad thing is it is a tough ticket to get. It usually sells out really fast. We had an inside track on tix the year we went.
One of the coldest I have ever been in my life was at a University Of Wisconsin football game in November. It was around 0 degrees and the wind was whipping off that lake by the stadium. I had a ton of layers on, but by the start of the 2nd half I was so fricking cold, all I could think of was getting back to the car. I live in Michigan, so am used to cold weather, but man…..that day still sticks out in my mind. I don’t know how Wisconsin folks who go to Packers games outdoors in December and January handle it.
Back in the days when Wisconsin football was still a joke, I sat through a game in a friggin' blizzard with periodic horizontal snow & a temp of 12 degrees/wind chill -10. Made it halfway through the 4th quarter until I couldn't feel my fingers & toes. Minnesota won the game 45-7.
I wasn't 30 yet, however.
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Hey, at least you're still putting out albums!
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
When I was in high school I remember having to bring buckets of water to the horses. One year we got a real cold snap (1980?) and for a couple days it was -30 degrees F and the wind was blowing (we lived on top of a hill where it always snowed horizontally). My gloves would instantly freeze to the bucket handles. The fuel pump went in our Ford Escort and my father could only go outside and work on it for about 5 minutes before he'd have to run back inside.
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The name of the band is Beast.
Recorded in 1969 and available from Amazon for $5.82 new and definitely worth it if you love late 60s psych rock.
I'll play it for ya if you come to Madcity.
For additional boring trivia Beast info, this Denver band included bassist/flautist Kenny Passarelli, who would leave and find fame(?) as a member of Joe Walsh's Barnstorm, a sideman for Stephen Stills, Elton John, and more. I believe he is a Christian artist now, and still releases albums.
Also, Beast released a 2nd album in 1970 (also creatively titled 'Beast'). It's not out on CD but can be 'located'.
Last piece of trivia is that both albums were produced in New Mexico by Norman Petty, who produced a few discs by some cat from Lubbock, Texas in the late 1950's.
Another "You know you're getting old when"......you stop laughing at Bob Seger lyrics.
"Twenty years now
Where'd they go?
Twenty years
I don't know
Sit and I wonder sometimes
Where they've gone......."
Yup.....am I right? Just bad lyrics to me, 30 years ago......
Not that it is germane to the topic but I'd like to mention that I've always "Freak Brother-ized" a verse in "Turn The Page"...the one that goes
"Most times you can't hear 'em talk
Other times you can
It's the same old cliché
Is that a woman or a man ----- (you always seem outnumbered, you don't dare make a stand)....Freewheelin' Franklin' would say
Why don't you suck my dick and find out
It's right here in my hand"
Was I wearing my FFF Brothers t-shirt @ Progday?
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
I don't think so, but I wore my Fat Freddy "Spill Keeds" shirt to one of them!Was I wearing my FFF Brothers t-shirt @ Progday?
Ah! The synapses fired! I wore that FF shirt to "Progday School" in 2001 or whenever it was, and that was the show Giorgio Gomelsky showed up for. That was a particularly stressful weekend for me as Jay and I had to stage manage, I ended up ("charmlessly") introducing most of the bands, and then running up to run lights on a board I had never seen before.
Anyhow, Giorgio caught me backstage when I was swilling a beer to calm my nerves, and said "Ah....Fat Freddy. One of my heroes. And I must say, young man...you're a train tracker. If you were born 40 years ago in England, I would have asked you to work for me". A compliment I will NEVER comprehend. Or deserve.
Gary Busey, right?
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