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Yeah my buddy’s office is at 27th and Cornhusker. It must have touched down right when he saw it cuz he said it looked like it was just a little bit east of the Home Depot between Cornhusker and
Superior.

My prayers go out to your sister. I hope their place is ok. I live about 3 miles east of Gretna a block south of 370. I think the tornado went a mile or so west of Gretna. That is way too close for comfort. I think we are supposed to have bad weather tomorrow but nothing like this. We have to go to a “diaper kegler” tomorrow for my friends son and girlfriend down in Syracuse. Fingers crossed that we don’t have anything like today.

Yeah my buddy’s office is at 27th and Cornhusker. It must have touched down right when he saw it cuz he said it looked like it was just a little bit east of the Home Depot between Cornhusker and
Superior.

My prayers go out to your sister. I hope their place is ok. I live about 3 miles east of Gretna a block south of 370. I think the tornado went a mile or so west of Gretna. That is way too close for comfort. I think we are supposed to have bad weather tomorrow but nothing like this. We have to go to a “diaper kegler” tomorrow for my friends son and girlfriend down in Syracuse. Fingers crossed that we don’t have anything like today.

That beast went about 4 miles west of my house if the local TV radar was correct. Was very nervous that it was coming in my direction for a while. My buddy down in Lincoln saw the funnel cloud that turned into that tornado about 8 blocks from his office. Lots of damage. Wiped out a large manufacturing facility a few miles east of Lincoln. Another one of my friends’ son drove 100 mph leaving work trying to get away from it. He said it scared the crap out of him cuz it was “really big and really close”

I have to admit that I have really never checked out UFO before. Not sure why other than living in a real small town in southeast Nebraska in the late 70’s didn’t expose me to a lot of music other than what KFMQ in Lincoln played. I will check out some UFO on Apple music and let you know what I think. I really enjoy checking out new (to me) music. Especially since there is not a lot out there that is new that is good or even tolerable.

Just a few comments towards the previous posts.

Saw all of the bands on that list except for Twisted Sister and Whitesnake. I would definitely replace Twisted with Quiet Riot or Night Ranger. Better bands with more good tunes and better albums. Otherwise this list is ok.

Van Halen was never a hair band. Their style spawned every one of the bands on this list but that was never their deal. They are my band. I was fortunate enough to see them 15 times between ‘79 and 2015 and have met Mike and Sammy. I know of what I speak. Metallica(seen 5 times) and Gn’R (seen twice) don’t belong on this list either. They are a different thing also.

I still love the hair metal. My favorite on that list is Dokken followed by the Crue and Ratt. The first two Crue albums are classic. Saw Poison open for David Lee Roth right after their first album came out. They were impressive. Saw Bon Jovi open for Ratt and they blew Ratt off the stage. The boys in Ratt enjoyed their party favors a little too much and were very sloppy. Def Leppard is a great live band. Have seen them a few times between Pyromania tour and last summer with Motley Crue. Still sounded great.

My favorite southern rock song that is missing from this list is “Train Train” by Blackfoot. Best southern rock tune ever in my book.

Also ZZ Top (who is in my top 5 favorite bands of all time) is not southern rock.

Sweet Home Alabama and Free Bird have been so over played on radio that I no longer get excited to hear them. Both definitely belong on the list, though. Actually there could be 10 songs of theirs on the list and it wouldn’t be an injustice.

This is a good list but I am not seeing that this is the top 10. Missing .38 Special is an injustice. Also “Fire on the Mountain” or “Heard it in a Love Song” are better tunes from Marshall Tucker.

My favorite southern rock song that is missing from this list is “Train Train” by Blackfoot. Best southern rock tune ever in my book.

Also ZZ Top (who is in my top 5 favorite bands of all time) is not southern rock.

Sweet Home Alabama and Free Bird have been so over played on radio that I no longer get excited to hear them. Both definitely belong on the list, though. Actually there could be 10 songs of theirs on the list and it wouldn’t be an injustice.

This is a good list but I am not seeing that this is the top 10. Missing .38 Special is an injustice. Also “Fire on the Mountain” or “Heard it in a Love Song” are better tunes from Marshall Tucker.

My step sister in law and brother in law live about 4 blocks from that C-store. Just to add a bit of context, this in an affluent upper middle class and up area, definitely not the hood. It seems very out of the ordinary for this to happen there. I guess this stuff is spreading into the nicer areas or this was planned. The previous post that said Omaha is a “s**thole was partially correct. There are some bad parts of town that the poster mentioned but there are some very affluent and nice parts of town and that is where this occurred.

I have read all the Reacher books up to #23 I think (I have had a real hard time reading since I had Covid due to a severely diminished attention span. Used to read 3 or 4 books a month and haven’t been able to finish one in a few years but that’s another story). The series “Reacher” on Prime is excellent and very true to the books. Definitely worth a try if you like the books and have Prime. The movies were crap. A 5 foot 6 guy playing Jack Reacher was a giant joke.

Mine is Bachman Turner Overdrive. I saw them in 1986 opening for Van Halen. I was on the floor at a Fillmore style show and worked myself down to the front of the stage and stood right in front of the bass players rig. Bad move. Couldn’t hardly hear for two days after and my hearing hasn’t been the same sense. Takin’ care of business my ass.

Boy that is heartbreaking. I would be nervous to let my dogs out if I didn’t have a fence. My neighbors lost a dog to coyotes a few years ago. My buddy’s mom in law also lost a dog to a coyote last year.

I live in a rural subdivision and have a huge open field about 2 blocks to the west of me and is regularly full of coyotes. My neighbor buddy sits on his deck which overlooks the field and takes shots at the coyotes after dark. He has a thermal scope on his suppressed rifle and he gets mad when the coyotes mess with the deer.

I’m surprised that no one brought up the story that has been going around the last couple of days that Arch Manning, the backup quarterback for Texas, supposedly makes more in NIL money than Brock Purdy, the starting quarterback for the 49’ers. Purdy makes $870k a year on his rookie contract and is a contender for the NFC MVP. To me that kind of illustrates how the whole thing is coming off the rails.

I love college football and have since I was a kid in the 70’s. I and my other football junkie buddies think the stuff that is happening now is repulsive. That being said my hypocritical ass is planning to contribute some $$ to the Husker NIL collective to help pay for our new 5 star quarterback. I don’t want to make the problem worse than it already is but that is how things are now. At least it’s above board now unlike the way it used to be back in the day. An acquaintance of mine back at dear old Nebraska U in the 80’s was a well known starter. He just happened to drive a brand new Cadillac that was provided by a local dealership. Also was friends with a couple other guys who had basically no show summer jobs that paid $12 bucks an hour 40 hours a week for three months. They showed up a few hours a week to make it look like they were earning their pay but that was it. Was told that was the normal deal with most big time programs by those guys who knew kids that has scholarships at other schools.

I’m surprised that no one brought up the story that has been going around the last couple of days that Arch Manning, the backup quarterback for Texas, supposedly makes more in NIL money than Brock Purdy, the starting quarterback for the 49’ers. Purdy makes $870k a year on his rookie contract and is a contender for the NFC MVP. To me that kind of illustrates how the whole thing is coming off the rails.

I love college football and have since I was a kid in the 70’s. I and my other football junkie buddies think the stuff that is happening now is repulsive. That being said my hypocritical ass is planning to contribute some $$ to the Husker NIL collective to help pay for our new 5 star quarterback. I don’t want to make the problem worse than it already is but that is how things are now. At least it’s above board now unlike the way it used to be back in the day. An acquaintance of mine back at dear old Nebraska U in the 80’s was a well known starter. He just happened to drive a brand new Cadillac that was provided by a local dealership. Also was friends with a couple other guys who had basically no show summer jobs that paid $12 bucks an hour 40 hours a week for three months. They showed up a few hours a week to make it look like they were earning their pay but that was it. Was told that was the normal deal with most big time programs by those guys who knew kids that has scholarships at other schools.

Read the book if you are so inclined. The series follows the book almost exactly. I think I have watched the series at least 5 times. “The Pacific” is excellent as well. I read both of the books that that series was based on and that one took a few dramatic licenses compared to the books but it is still great.

With the Old Breed: At Pelilu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge and Helmet For My Pillow by Robert Leckie are the two books that “The Pacific is based on and the book “Band of Brothers” was written by David Ambrose.

Im past crying, I just shake my head and mutter “WTF happened to our program?” to myself and then just move on with my day. Not like the week long meltdowns after a loss in the seventies through the nineties. The whole damn state would be grumpy. Now its just “Meh”, “maybe next year”

I cant believe that no one mentioned the end of “Saving Private Ryan” when the old guy is in the cemetery. My dad and my uncles and a bunch of family friends were all WW2 vets and they all dressed exactly like the aged Private Ryan at the end. Then they show the flag with the sun shining through it. Gets me every time. I consider the experience of what those guys went through and the sacrifices they made and the water works start.

I saw Albert 3 or 4 times in college at the Zoo bar in Lincoln Ne. The showbills for his appearances always said “Master of the Telecaster”. He was a great player and his shows were always epic. I can attest to what the previous poster said about him going out on the sidewalk in front of the bar and playing with that long cord.

Looking back on that time frame when I was hard in my “blues phase” I recognize that I was lucky to see a bunch of legendary players in a small dive bar. Albert Collins, Albert King, Robert Cray, Otis Rush, Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials, Chalie Musselwhite, Magic Slim, Smokin Joe Kubek, Lucky Peterson, Matt Guitar Murphy, Little Charlie and the Nightcats, Johnny Johnson, but the coolest show that I saw there was Buddy Guy. It was a one off show that he played there during the middle of the week. Normally the cover was 5 bucks but that show was $25 bucks and it was well worth it. That was a good chunk of money in ‘89. I think it was ‘89, things are a little cloudy from back then if you get my drift.

Love both these bands and saw both of them back in the 80’s. Gotta give the nod to one of my top 5 favorites which is Boston. It was tough though because I have so many great memories connected with both of those albums and I love the Cars as well.

The Cars were a very tight live band but were pretty boring to watch. My buddy that I went with (We saw the Candy-O tour) said that he could have pinned a picture of the band to his bulletin board to look at and listened to the two albums back to back and saved the $12.50 and the two hour drive from our little town to Omaha. I always thought that was pretty humorous. I do have to give them props because they put out 4 albums in a row that had nothing but great tunes.

Smoky here in the Omaha area also. Driving home last night from my buddy’s house in a small town south of here it was extremely noticeable. Driving across the Platte river last night you could see the smoke on the surface of the water (sorry about the Deep Purple pun) It really smelled like smoke when I was out on my deck earlier today. Even with the rain we had this morning.

Yep. Hawaii 5-0 is definitely the best. The opening sequence on screen with that theme song is also the best. The wife and I have been watching a lot of that show on Paramount Plus. When the little thing that pops up to skip the intro, we both alway say “hell no” the intro is awesome.

Some other favorites
The Sopranos
Magnum PI
Green Acres
Hogans Heroes
Star Trek (the original)
Justified
The old Monday Night Football before they had a singer sing a song

I had a female English Mastiff. She stood about 5’10” (same as me) on her hind legs and her top weight was about 210. She ate two cans of soft food a day and we went through about a 50 lb bag of dog food every couple of weeks. She lived to 11 and a half but our pets live a pretty cushy life. Our vet said that was the oldest mastiff that he had ever seen in his 25 plus years in the business.

She was an extreme alpha and would only behave for me. She was hyper protective of me and my wife and her little brother the bulldog. We had to have her put down in the summer of 2020 because of orthopedic issues. I really miss her at times because she was my dog only. I have a Frenchie and and an english bulldog now that was the runt of the litter. The two of them added together weight wise are barely a third of my Vivian at her playing weight. Small dogs are sure a lot more manageable.