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The original band members were control freaks and didnt want Gaines for anything other than background guitar and vocals. Sound guys convinced the band members to let him come up front. This is rare with Gaines and Ronnie duet harmonizing and then incredible guitar solo by Gaines later in the song:

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That’s not exactly true. Ronnie was the control freak, the original band members were mostly younger than Ronnie and saw him like an older brother. Ronnie wanted the songs to sound like the record each night and would become belligerent if anything didn’t go the way he expected. Gaines replaced Ed King, who was from California and didn’t really fit in and didn’t take Ronnie’s abusive behavior very well and eventually quit the band over it. King was brought in to to play bass and add polish and wrote a lot of the licks the band was known for (sweet home Alabama, working for MCA, Saturday night special, poison whiskey, Curtis Lowe and ask no questions slide licks…also most of the first two albums bass lines). So he was the other creative “leader” in the band and clashed with Ronnie at times. No doubt he was a gifted composer, and his absence is notable on give me back my bullets, which just wasn’t very creative or diverse (several songs, including the title track, have that exact A power chord position as I Ain’t the One which to me illustrated the limitations of the original 2 guitar players, who were great players but not the best composers).

Gaines was the sister of one of the backup singers, and had pushed for him playing for a while, the band was surprised about how good he was when he finally auditioned. Ronnie was more accepting of Gaines having an elevated role and was clearly less controlling with him. Gaines was also a good composer, but was the best performer of all the guitar players they had. So I don’t think it was so much him making Ronnie up his game as much as recognizing and embracing the different energy and creativity he brought to the band, knowing he chased off the last guy that held that position, albeit unofficially.

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So now we're at 5 Only 29,999,995 left to go

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Or, we could extrapolate these errors across the population and determine that the number is obviously more than 5.

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Like her politics or not the host is pretty solid at her job.

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She is very good at acting like she is inviting reasonable debate. Seriously. I agree with you in the sense that her job is performing and she can play the part. Most people on these shows are just blowhards, she provides contrast to that

Well said. Their views are inherently focused on breaking what has already been built. It doesn’t align with productivity or anything a nation could be built on. It is in fact regressive.

A rational person doesn’t need to make it past the first name on the list.

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In 2017, police said a Buddhist monk was arrested in Myanmar after authorities found more than 4 million meth pills in his car and in his monastery.

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This is not a big deal whatsoever. It isn’t even misleading…people that understand how percentages work know that a decrease won’t be over 100%.

Now, I see people using percentages to mislead people every day. I see them use incorrect benchmarks. I see them ignore percentages and use gross figures if it improves framing. Seen some people from this thread do this before. And in a way, that is what this thread is doing. The materiality of the misstatement of 600% is insignificant, but lots of weight being thrown at it. You are comparing Trump to Biden in terms of intellect…so I suppose your posting history would support that you are just calling balls and strikes?

People have been exhausted from the criticism of Trump since his first term. It has galvanized his support. These types of threads are nothing more than circle jerks for people that don’t have enough conviction to risk being labeled a supporter of a political movement, but nevertheless find themselves consumed by political matters.

School just isn’t that hard. You can do well in school while not developing any real skills or ambitions in life. Being radicalized is a lot easier than facing the monotony and grind of an honest living

It’s way past time we stop giving so much credit to which school someone went to. It’s becoming a much smarter decision for young men to bypass college altogether.

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I have to use 2 different authentication apps all day. It drives me insane.

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Same. I have a fob for a specific bank login that I need to keep on me for that extra factor, and I got randomly locked out today that was fun.

I mean I am cursing MFA to strangers instead of talking about the weather these days.

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We just crying over anything now I see

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Seriously. Let’s bitch so much about the franchise that we are questioning absolutely trivial shite that we have no idea about. We are very prepared for hard decisions to be made, but Big Shot was a man of tenure!