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"We just cracked," said Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy

Yes coach it's time to panic...or strangle someone. Not sure what he's doing in this pic, but either way the Rockets are out.

Rockets Mavs
The margin of victory surpassed the record of 39 set by the Philadelphia Warriors in an 85-46 rout of the St. Louis Bombers in Game Seven of the 1948 league semifinals.

The fourth-seeded Mavericks became only the third team in NBA history to win a best-of-seven series after dropping the first two games at home. They open the Western Conference semifinals at top-seeded Phoenix on Monday.

McGrady scored 27 points
Yao Ming scored 33
Rest of the Rockets scored 16

If McGrady would have had a better game, and we all know that he is capable of scoring way more than 27, they may have at least had a chance. It could have changed the momentum of the game. But their bench is horrible, 16 pionts. I think there are problems when you have a star like McGrady on your team. The rest of the players tend to rely on him too much. That definately happened in Orlando, guys were just waiting for McGrady to do something, and if did if he felt like it.

After the game McGrady said “All of this will make me (ME ME ME) stronger, and I love it, every bit of it because I will have the last laugh." Shut up!! I'm glad he's gone.

My Guitars

Frankenbass: Being re-built. It needs a new pickgard, and the electronics need to be re-wired. Other than that, it still plays. This was used mostly during the Black Cats & Bottle Rockets days, and in the begining of W.Breakneck. Lots of fake blood was just recently cleaned off from a Kiss tribute show at Wills on Mills six or more years ago. Dale filled in for me because I was out of town. He was Gene... I used this one when we played the side stage at Lollapalooza 1992. We played with the Genitortures and a bunch of other acts that I cant remember. One of the guys in the Genitorturers was arrested after the show for indecent exposure. He was getting soemthing pierced. YOWCH! Fond memories. I think that was the last Lollapalooza in Orlando, but I may be wrong.

Yamaha Acoustic: I didnt have an acoustic so I took a ride up to Sam Ash on Lee rd, and picked this one up. Played better than all the others in that price range. It sounds great, plays nice, but the intonation is a little off. Not too bad.

Squier Strat: This is a great guitar. In my opinion, it plays just like the real thing. I think that they may have made them better in the early 80's. I got this off of a friend of mine. I traded a Fretless Carvin for it. I think I got the better deal. My Dog Cleo took a nice little bite out of the headstock, I could have killed her, but it doesnt sound any worse from it.

Musicman Stingray Bass: Got this one when Frakenbass started taking a shit. I really needed something that was reliable. We (W.Breakneck) were playing as many as 4 nights a week out sometimes, with some pretty decent shows. So I went to the guitar store and played everything you can think of, and ended up with this one. I wanted a black one, but they didn’t have one in stock, so I went with the red one since I couldn’t wait for them to ship me a black one. It's been pretty good to me so far, a few minor issues with the input jack. But nothing major.

'78 Rickenbacker Bass: What a deal! Got this one off EBay for $690.00. I always wanted one of these, growing up I used to idolize Getty Lee and Chris Squire, though Geezer was my favorite. The tone is like no other, very easy to play. The only problem is the binding on the body, it cuts into your arm, that sounds worse than it actually is. I haven't gotten the opportunity to play this one on stage yet. Soon though if we get our act together. We will.

? Late 80's. Frankenbass...

Yamaha acoustic. Not bad for the price.

Dog mauling late 90's

Early 80's Squier Strat

2000 Musicman Stingray Bass

1978 Rickenbacker Bass

Tom Waits - Blood Money. Great gift idea for Mom on Mothers Day...

I love re-discovering good music. I bought this a few years back, and lost it for a year or so. Bill T burned me a copy...thanks Bill!! This is Tom Waits best record in my opinion. He released two in the same year. The other was Alice. Good, but not as good as Blood Money.

Manitoba Bigfoot video teaser

This is really poor quality. Horrible. I am pretty disappointed. This is only 49 seconds of the video that was taken. I hope the other 2 minutes that they didn’t show is better. A Current Affair is launching a search for the Bigfoot. They have one of the shows producers, the ex-singer for the Runaways named Jailbait, and some Bigfoot nut going after it. It's actually comical. Cant wait to see that footage.

Here's the clip from A Current Affair:

Bigfoot Teaser

A Current Affair purchased Bigfoot video

A Current Affair aired the Manitoba Bigfoot video last night. And I missed it!! They will be posting the video to their web site today.
http://www.acurrentaffair.com

It's not there yet, I'm sure they'll take their time posting it. Bastards!!

Mavs vs Rockets

haha!!

Not sure why I want T-Mac to fail this year, I guess it's because the Magic did so poorly at the end of the season. He was quoted as saying "look where they are and look where I am" when asked about the Magic last week. That was when his team was up 2-0 in the series. Now they're down 3-2. How did that happen.

If the Mavs win the series they will be only the 3rd team to recover from a 2-0 deficit. The '69 Lakers and the '94 Rockets are the only two teams so far to do this. I hope the Mavericks join them…

Rockets head coach Jeff Van Gundy was fined $100.000 Monday for accusing officials of targeting Yao Ming and refusing to tell the league which official was his source. And he may be banned forever from the NBA after this season. Wow, this is a pretty exiting series. Game 6 is Thursday night in Houston.

Alleged sasquatch footage reportedly sold to U.S. TV

Norway House, Man. -- Relatives say a ferry operator has sold a U.S. television show his video footage of a large, dark figure that some are describing as a sasquatch.

Langford Saunders, the uncle of videographer Bobby Clarke, said yesterday there were multiple offers for the two-minute, 49-second tape, but Mr. Clarke and his family chose to deal with people who were sincere and would not embarrass the community.

On April 16, Mr. Clarke was operating an automobile ferry on the Nelson River, about 40 kilometres outside of Nelson House, when he claimed to have seen a dark figure walking upright on the riverbank.

Mr. Clarke said he grabbed his camcorder and recorded the figure looking directly at him, then turning around and heading back into the bush. Relatives said the creature was at least 2½ metres tall.

Bigfoot exists!! This is the real deal

My friend Dave just sent me this link. There's a 2 minute video of Bigfoot walking around near a river in Canada.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0419rrbigfoot19-ON.html

Good practice last night

We got a lot accomplished. I wish we could practice twice a week instead, but this is better than nothing. We’re doing a cover of a song called Sin’s a good man’s brother. We learned the Monster Magnet version, but it’s actually a Grand Funk Railroad song. The big problem is the ending of the song, it just didn’t do it for me. So we ended up changing it a little by adding an additional Guitar solo at the end and wrote our own parts for it. It sounds way better this way.

We also worked on a new song. We got the pattern down, we just need to add at least one more part to it. We recorded it with just music so Matt can work on the vocals at home. We’re looking at resurrecting some of our older stuff. Some of the old stuff is still good, it may need some tweaking, but that’s easy enough to do.

Song list so far:

Bunker
Sin’s a good man’s brother
Profits of Doom
Behind the wall of sleep
New song (no name yet)
Old song (not sure what we’ll call it, needs some lyrics)

And we need a band name. This is going to be Matt’s job since he’s the singer of the band. I’m sure he’ll think of something cool…

True story – this is not made up, I swear!!

Dave asked if he could go to band practice with me last week, so of course it was okay by me. So he drove to my house, and we both rode together. So anyway, we’re driving down 434 in Longwood, and I said to Dave LOOK, that’s where Bill lives, pointing to the apartments that Bill is staying at, and then Dave says Hey, isn’t that Bill and Eva right there. And there they were pulling out of the driveway on to 434!! And of course I didn’t have a camera with me to prove this, but I swear it’s true.

Beatles Anthology DVD - old but new to me...

Trio jamming

When we were staying with John and Michelle (while house hunting), I bought The Beatles Anthology DVD box set. It’s 10 hours of Beatles footage on 4 DVD’s, and a bonus DVD that’s 81 minutes of mostly never seen before footage. Very cool…only for the hardcore Beatles freaks though. Others may just find it a bit long.

It was great watching the Beatles play shows in shitty little clubs in Liverpool when they were first starting off. I think one of the places was called the Cave. And my Wife liked their boots. Anyway, John and I watched 1 DVD a night until we were done. We both agreed that this is the most comprehensive Beatles documentary that we’ve seen (it being 4 DVD’s and all)The remaining Beatles actually get together for two more songs. The whole thing is captured on film. They even show then jamming on some stuff in between recording (old non-Beatles tunes) and some footage of them on the lawn with acoustics and a Ukulele.

Things they don’t talk about:
John and Paul’s bad relationship (made it seem like it really wasn’t so bad)
Paul is dead (nothing at all mentioned…Hmmm, I wonder?)

Things they do talk about:
John’s quote “the Beatles are bigger than Jesus” not exactly something you wanted to say back in the 60’s. And the redneck burned all their records.
Drug use
Almost getting killed in the Philippines.

There's a lot of concert footage, even a few song from Let it Be in the rooftop. I wish they showed more of that since there's not a lot of live stuff from that time in the Beatles career.

Things I learned:
John was not the serious artist type (all of the time) He was actually a pretty goofy guy most of the time.
Ringo was and still is a great drummer and will out live all of them.
George was the most level headed of the bunch.
George didn’t like Sergeant Peppers
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds doesn’t stand for LSD. Or so they say.
Paul was the best musician in the band, but seems very into himself. He does seem like a very nice person, maybe even approachable. I guess it's hard to not have a huge ego when you take who he is into consideration. One of the greatest songwriters in the history of Rock n Roll.

The Beatles were way better as a band than they were as solo artists. Even though McCartney and Lennon actually wrote by themselves and not as a team, there was chemistry between the band that just wasn’t there in the solo stuff. It was way too polished. They certainly complimented each other better than any of these studio guys that they hired ever could.

Beatles

Magic vs Bulls

Bulls rookie Andres Nocioni collides Magic guard Jameer Nelsons Penis in Wednesday's game at the TD Waterhouse Centre.