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36 minutes ago, Beer Baron said:

I’m listening to rain!!!

We finally have a bit of rain and I forgot how good it smells. Hopefully the farmers and fire areas get some of this awesome rain. I don’t live in the country but sometimes we all take something as simple as rain for granted. 
I’ll drink to that!!

Truly Spoken the Baron!  What a beautiful sound.

And we have had some storms and showers maybe helping slow down the massive Wollemi - Yengo NP and surrounds' 188,500ha fire...

 

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14 hours ago, Beer Baron said:

I’m listening to rain!!!

We finally have a bit of rain and I forgot how good it smells. Hopefully the farmers and fire areas get some of this awesome rain. I don’t live in the country but sometimes we all take something as simple as rain for granted. 
I’ll drink to that!!

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Wow, you actually have green grass. Our yard looks more like a barren wasteland. Not even the weeds are growing well 🙂 

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12 hours ago, Aussiekraut said:

Wow, you actually have green grass. Our yard looks more like a barren wasteland. Not even the weeds are growing well 🙂 

I used to have the best grass in the whole suburb but dry weather, empty water tank and impending water restrictions have made it look very very poor

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13 hours ago, Aussiekraut said:

Wow, you actually have green grass. Our yard looks more like a barren wasteland. Not even the weeds are growing well 🙂 

I have artificial grass. I have an artificial Jim's Mowing man come to maintain it for me. I pay him in Monopoly money. 

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I see there are a few Mark Knopfler fans among us. I'm one of them too. 😉

I love watching & being present live when really good bands "jam". This is a clip of Mark Knopfler & his band with well known slide guitarist Sonny Landreth "jamming".

What's often great about these types of songs is that the whole band are involved having solo parts or prominent parts & really enjoy playing it collectively. The expressions on the guys playing here during & at the end of the song, certainly shows their own enjoyment of playing this particular song along with the end crowd appreciation. 😎

If you haven't seen or heard this one, enjoy.

Lusty.

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Went to see U2 in Perth last night. Perth crowd was its usual casual self, despite Bono trying to get everyone on the same energy level. Didn't work, never would. They've been here before (as have I) and would have known... You couldn't even get the mosh pit bouncing on Elevation FFS. What crowd doesn't do that? Perth.

Still - one of my favourite albums from start to finish, and great to hear it played in full. Everyone loves the hits, but Bullet the blue sky was the highlight for me, they really put on a stellar version of this, much like the live version on Rattle n Hum, which was a benchmark imo. On this track the whole band are doing something interesting and making it fire up. When U2 were edgy, dark and said something truthful. Sadly, it's still relevant.

 

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U2 were in Adelaide last week. I don't think ticket sales were that good. The local FM station was giving them away like Uber Eats flyers on a city street corner. Kiss were also supposed to be on in Adelaide the same night but cancelled due to (alleged) health reasons. I suspect it was poor ticket sales. Poor programming by the promoters. These two bands would have been fighting for many of the same punters' dollars.

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1 hour ago, Shamus O'Sean said:

Maybe for some folks.  I would love to see Kiss again, but could not care less if I ever saw U2 (apart from their early stuff).  Sad for the folks in Adelaide who wanted to see Kiss.

Yeah, Shamus. I know where you're coming from. I'm a Kiss fan more than U2 but there'd be a crossover of fans for sure. Both acts on the same night in little old Adelaide  was always going to be a test.
BTW, I think the whole Aussie Kiss tour was cancelled.

Footnote: First concert I ever attended was KISS at Adelaide Oval, 1980. I was 14. Didn't know much about public transport back then and decided not to board the full bus home. I'll wait for the next one. The full bus was the last one. Whoops! I now drive public transport.

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Promoters also need to stop announcing ticket sales for big events a week before they go on sale too, considering how expensive they are these days. We don't all have a spare several hundred dollars just sitting around waiting to be spent on concert tickets. 

I'm missing out on iron maiden this time around because by the time I could save enough for it, the tickets would be gone. And approaching Christmas. FN shit form by the promoters. They should be announcing ticket sales 2 or 3 months before the on sale date. Might give people a chance to actually get some money together. 

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10 hours ago, Shamus O'Sean said:

Maybe for some folks.  I would love to see Kiss again, but could not care less if I ever saw U2 (apart from their early stuff).  Sad for the folks in Adelaide who wanted to see Kiss.

This would have been the one to go to, pretty much a greatest hits tour.  It was 3 parts, the first was the early stuff from Boy, October, War and Unforgettable fire, then Joshua, then the best of the later albums. Even they knew they were pushing it including one from Songs of Experience. They gave 2 1/2 hours which is good by modern standards.

Perth wasn't sold out, but it was busy. They haven't been here in 9 years, so a good crowd is guaranteed. I can see why they don't come often though, Perth is a dull crowd to play to, I remember Pop tour in 95 and Bono was frustrated. A bad venue mostly seating, and Perth sat. 360 at Subiaco in 2010 was good.

Bands live for the gig that goes off, and they'll get a lot of those elsewhere. But U2's biggest demographic is now as old as they are, and we don't mosh much anymore. Maybe they get younger crowds in other countries?

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On 11/26/2019 at 11:07 AM, Otto Von Blotto said:

Ours is just dirt, thanks to the dogs. Although bugger all rain didn't help. I'll be returfing it in January though. 

Wouldn't bother unless you got loadsa water to be watering it cobber.

The darker the brown the worse the outlook is.

I'm saving me water for brewing.

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@Otto Von Blotto Go and see the next best thing. The Iron Maidens are playing at the Zoo in April. Saw them last year and thought they were great. Nicer to look at than 6 over 60yo too 🙂 And they cost less than half of what IM is asking for 🙂 

I have tickets for IM too but they didn't come cheap and were breaking the pain threshold. Then again, it is Iron Maiden 🙂 

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13 hours ago, Otto Von Blotto said:

We have mains water but no tanks. It's only a 35m² area anyway, and I'm sick to death of everything being covered in dust and shit every time the wind gets up. Plus it looks ugly as hell. 

Agree big time re dust and aesthetics... and it is a small area and besides pouring drinking water on the ground, nice green grass is a beautiful thing.

And guess -- if you can fit them in -- maybe some tanks might help...   And maybe turf like Sir Walter might require slightly less water, survive and still look good.

Also if you use an underground irrigation system like "Netafim" you will not waste water that spray irrigation does... but if you hook up to mains you need appropriate backflow prevention devices which might end up being all a bit too much for 35 square metres.

Had a mate years ago in a hot dry spot in Q who had a 3x4m patch of beaut grass out the front he had in perfection... was a beautiful thing.

But you might have to bar your dogs from the area ; )

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I hate Sir Walter. It's in our front lawn and it's just crap. Can't mow it short, and here at least its drought tolerance is worse than blue couch. I grew up with couch grass and worked on a golf course out of school where there was couch and Tifgreen 328 on the greens. Much prefer fine leaf turf. It looks and feels a lot nicer than broad leaf stuff. 

Found a hybrid Bermuda grass called TifTuf, hard wearing, drought tolerant, fine leaf. Looks great and checked out a real life sample at the local landscape place earlier this week. Perfect for our yard

 

https://www.jimboombaturf.com.au/product/tiftuf-bermuda/

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52 minutes ago, Otto Von Blotto said:

Found a hybrid Bermuda grass called TifTuf, hard wearing, drought tolerant, fine leaf. Looks great and checked out a real life sample at the local landscape place earlier this week. Perfect for our yard

Check out Lawn Porn on YouTube. The guy on there has TifTuf and it looks amazing. 
I have some type of fine leaf couch out the front and it dries out and goes brown well before my buffalo

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