Is there a High Life Guy mult yet? Cuz..........yeah.

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-"God is great. Beer is good. And People are crazy!"

Wouldn't a blow up doll float?

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Spiegs description of the "Crispy Creme Burger" made me physically nausauted on my drive to work.

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" THis poster said it's 90% that Bernstein goes national. He put a percentage on it. " - Beardown

Wasn't the crispy creme burger on Diners, Drive-Ins, Dives or Man vs. Food?

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@audioidkid

Doesn't look appetizing to me.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Spiegel strikes me as more of a double down sandwich kind of guy.

Man Vs Food. It looks good.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

If I just turned on the radio and heard this, I would assume he was desribing a fantasy

So whats the deal?

If there is one thing, and I mean there is probably only ONE thing that bacon does not go with, its donuts.

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Does he then go back in time with Craig Robinson and John Cusak and have wacky adventures in 1985?

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I would bet that Spiegel is still a virgin.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

If you can get laid, then anyone can.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

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Is it still called a hot tub after accounting for the water displacement after Spiegs gets in?

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I got more poon in College than one Man should be allowed to get.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

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Scorekirkhead + Mr Garrison = match

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M v F

Richman may have knocked dwn a few, but yes, was on MVF

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Any guy who consistently wears a green turtleneck is not getting laid, sorry.

I had one at the ballpark in Sauget, Illinois. It was damn good. They also had a battered and deep-fried White Castle. That wasn't so great.

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Don't take it personally.

never underestimate the power a lead singer wields...

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@audioidkid

I was wondering about your opinion of cover bands.

Some people in real bands, or whatever, have some hate for the covererererers

It is my opinion that it is more difficult to write a new song (that is good ~ however you wish to quantify that) versus playing an existing song that "everyone" already likes.

my friends and I know we could be one of the best 90s-00s cover bands in Chicago if that was what we wanted to do. But, we choose to write our own material and make hybrid/samples of the one "cover" song that we do...which is really just a sample of a Rakim track.
Have we played covers in the past? yes...we had to in order to fill 2:30 hours at McHenry Fiesta Days in the summer of 98. But, that was a long marriage ago...er, time. a long time ago...

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@audioidkid

I wouldn't exactly call Tributosaurus a cover band although they do try to faithfully recreate the work of other artists. They're more like a symphony treating the rock canon as if it were classical pieces.

War Pigs- now that's a cover band. Come on out to see them at Paul Revere Park this summer!

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Don't take it personally.

Well, here's a chance to offer unsolicited opinion! YES!
You HAVE to play covers, generally speaking, to be making any kind of money.
Doug's band is slightly different in that they do not rely on the band as their primary source of income. I bet if he did that he'd be doing exactly what he just said, being one of the best cover bands in town.
Right now, the guys making the money are guys like Modern Day Romeos or 16 Candles or Sofa King.
If art is what is important to you, you can afford to play solid originals.
That's not to say you can't create your own thing and make tons of money doing it but that's a hell of a lot further down the odds line than making a decent living doing covers.
For us, we're going to be more or less forced into covers to get paying jobs. Maybe our originals aren't that good. I don't know.
But I doubt that any serious musician would scorn a "cover band" because for many serious musicians, just being there playing in front of your crowd is more important than what you're playing.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Sellout!

I keed, I keed. A mix is always a good idea, especially when first starting out. You can gradually phase out covers once people start liking originals.

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-"God is great. Beer is good. And People are crazy!"

I don't get the popularity of these guys. We saw them at Nellies on Halloween, and IMO they were not good. Another one of my buddies saw them within the last couple of weeks...same opinion.

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Cover bands suck.

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I have to admit that when I was playing I looked down at cover bands. They always did make way more money than we did though. I just thought of cover bands as Illinois Entertainer stuff. Very suburban. There were no cover bands in the scene I was in. Though bands did play covers.

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Don't take it personally.