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I was at that 2001 show too. Lost my mind and threw my “fuck you were from TX” tee on stage. Rhett noticed it was authentic an threw it back! That old tattered tee now 30 years old belongs to one of my daughters but she’s unlikely to wear it (for its vulgar)

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“Bands get the audiences they deserve, and these excitable nerds who came out for the Old 97’s and knew all the words to their songs seemed sweeter than the fans who shout Ben Folds’s lyrics.” I am proud to be one of these excitable nerds.

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'Quite handsome, in a stringbean kind of way' should be a song lyric.

I still have a stack of Creem Magazine issues from the '80's around somewhere in the attic; I adored his writing.

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