Gonzales "Come and Take It" Flag on Hat of Rolling Stones reporter interviewing Taylor Swift

[QuietDan]

You beat me to it.  She looks like she needs a series of good meals.  Don't care for bony women.

 

If I was about 30 years younger, I'd gladly sit her on my knee and feed her strawberries and cream out of a big bowl with a small spoon.

 

I don't think there's anything wrong with her figure that a three-month pregnancy bump and the onset of milk production wouldn't improve . . .

 

Surely there's some rich, smart, handsome 30-something guy out there that'll fix that for her in the next five years . . .

Edited July 25, 2014 by QuietDan

[glowdotGlock]

[quote name="kingarmory" post="1171697" timestamp="1406235787"]Can't stand her music, have heard she's a bitch in real life.......but I would do dirty things to her if given the chance :devil:[/quote] Something along the last line of this....

[musicman]

The Battle of Gonzales was the opening act of the Texas Revolution. Some refer to it as the "Lexington of Texas."

The town had a cannon that the Mexicans wanted, and they said, "Come and Take it." Just like the Greeks with Molon Labe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gonzales

Thanks for answering! I wasn't familiar with that particular historical event, and now I am. :-)

[Dad03]

I heard the same that her folks were already well off and had to front some real dollars for her to get a shot. Give her credit that she hit a real fan base with the younger crowd and has made a fortune. Unfortunately that fan base is short term as they grow up and she becomes no longer 'cool'.

[Dustbuster]

She does absolutely nothing for me.......I've asked several times, she still won't do anything for me...
:rofl:

 so youre the one who keeps getting the window fan left on the front step...... <efg>

[monkeylizard]

Don't call and tell the editors of Rolling Stone what that symbol means. They'll fire that guy.

 

Unless he's also known to wear a Che Guevara shirt, in which case they'd be totally confused about what to do with him.

[BigK]

I don't see why everyone doesn't love this gal. She's the American dream come true. She grew up in what most of us would call an upper-middle class single-income family, admittedly dad was a stockbroker, not a fry-cook, but still...I don't see how you call it a wealthy family. Her first record deal was with a label nobody heard of. She only shot up so fast because of how good a writer she is. Her music has a little too much pop in it for my taste, but I respect her level of talent and hard work. Regardless of what fame and fortune has made her into, she earned it, IMHO.

 

Real country music is only played on classic retro channels now, what the write,sing,play now is some kind of generic pop they claim is country. It is not, they need to call it by a different name.

 

Whatever you call what's played on 98 WSIX for example is bringing a lot of fans to the genre. I'd bet more than a few hang around to check out some Johnny Cash and Hank Jr while they're here. I like both and admit they are NOT the same, but I don't care what they call it. As Shakespeare put it..."A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." 

[bersaguy]

Oh Boy!

 

A rare opportunity to combine two of my favorite topics: The Second Amendment, and Taylor Swift, Princess of Nashville.

 

Taylor Swift in NYC's Central Park being interviewed by a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine. The reporter is wearing a camo hat with the Gonzales "Come and Take It" Flag.

 

http://tswiftdaily.com/image/92751820171

 

[edit] And here's a better picture, where the Gonzales "Come and Take It" Flag is not obscured . . .

 

http://tswiftdaily.com/image/92795543881

 

 

Of course, Taylor's midriff-baring camo-shaded skirt and top are worth a look as well . . .

Is she colored blind or did her fashion person take the day off?????    Beige outfit Yellow Purse and Pink Shoes?????......... :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

[monkeylizard]

You misunderstand fashion. Taylor Swift doesn't wear whatever is fashionable. What is fashionable is whatever Taylor Swift wears.

[bersaguy]

You misunderstand fashion. Taylor Swift doesn't wear whatever is fashionable. What is fashionable is whatever Taylor Swift wears.

 

You misunderstand fashion. Taylor Swift doesn't wear whatever is fashionable. What is fashionable is whatever Taylor Swift wears.

Oh!!! ok............................ :hat:

[56FordGuy]

Whatever you call what's played on 98 WSIX for example is bringing a lot of fans to the genre. ... As Shakespeare put it..."A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

They're fans we don't need if their only interest is the the crap spewed forth by the Nashville music machine. For the last five years or so, country music has been "girl beer truck". How drunk can you get in your truck at a party with a girl with your "flat bill flipped back." There's no story, there's no emotion, there's no connection. It's generic noise that will be long forgotten by this time next year, replaced by another batch of media machine singers shakin and gyrating to a pop music beat with a cowboy hat on.

Country music: Lost Highway, He stopped loving her, Whiskey Lullaby, yeah. Call it country, call it Texas red dirt music, call it Americana. By any name it's as wonderful music as its ever been and always will be. There's nobody in the pop country scene standing around to fill those shoes. The country scene in Nashville has nothing to do with music, it's just another component of the tourist trap this town is. There's no substance, no soul, and no connection. You're getting a whole lot of sizzle, but there's no steak.

Robbie Fulks said it well: "As long as there's a moron market, and a faggot in a hat to sign..."

[BigK]

They're fans we don't need if their only interest is the the crap spewed forth by the Nashville music machine. For the last five years or so, country music has been "girl beer truck". How drunk can you get in your truck at a party with a girl with your "flat bill flipped back." There's no story, there's no emotion, there's no connection. It's generic noise that will be long forgotten by this time next year, replaced by another batch of media machine singers shakin and gyrating to a pop music beat with a cowboy hat on.

Country music: Lost Highway, He stopped loving her, Whiskey Lullaby, yeah. Call it country, call it Texas red dirt music, call it Americana. By any name it's as wonderful music as its ever been and always will be. There's nobody in the pop country scene standing around to fill those shoes. The country scene in Nashville has nothing to do with music, it's just another component of the tourist trap this town is. There's no substance, no soul, and no connection. You're getting a whole lot of sizzle, but there's no steak.

Robbie Fulks said it well: "As long as there's a moron market, and a homosexual in a hat to sign..."

 

So, what I'm hearing you say is you don't like it, huh? LOL But seriously, I understand, it's a totally different style and it seems nobody is writing/performing the traditional country music any more. If they called it something different, you'd still have no new music that is traditional country...might get boring at the CMA Awards every year.

 

IIRC folks said the same thing about what was called Outlaw Country when I was growing up. Your average Conway Twitty or Loretta Lynn fan hated Hank Jr and Waylon and them and said they'd ruin country music. You might even ask the average Buddy Holly or Elvis Presley fan what they think of AC/DC and Led Zeppelin being the same genre as them too.

 

It's just the nature of change, I guess?

[56FordGuy]

It's just the nature of change, I guess?

Pretty much. I've accepted the fact that my taste in music is outdated, dead, etc. For better or worse, the country music business isn't making it anymore.

Thank heavens there are some other ornery outdated folks though, and most of them are making good music in Texas. :)

[MacGyver]

They're fans we don't need if their only interest is the the crap spewed forth by the Nashville music machine. For the last five years or so, country music has been "girl beer truck". How drunk can you get in your truck at a party with a girl with your "flat bill flipped back." There's no story, there's no emotion, there's no connection. It's generic noise that will be long forgotten by this time next year, replaced by another batch of media machine singers shakin and gyrating to a pop music beat with a cowboy hat on.

Country music: Lost Highway, He stopped loving her, Whiskey Lullaby, yeah. Call it country, call it Texas red dirt music, call it Americana. By any name it's as wonderful music as its ever been and always will be. There's nobody in the pop country scene standing around to fill those shoes. The country scene in Nashville has nothing to do with music, it's just another component of the tourist trap this town is. There's no substance, no soul, and no connection. You're getting a whole lot of sizzle, but there's no steak.

Robbie Fulks said it well: "As long as there's a moron market, and a homosexual in a hat to sign..."

All the best country right now is coming out of Texas and the Carolinas.  And, I take it as a good sign for the future that there are a lot of really hard working bands in the Americana space right now.

 

Music Row probably quit being relevant in the '90s, and they sold out long before that.  I think it's interesting and really sad that all of the developers are trying to turn music row into condos right now.  I get it that developers have no respect for anything they can't flip and make a buck on - the sad part to me is that the country music labels can't even find the voice to offer up a defense as to why music row should stay. 

 

I guess at the end of the day, part of the reason for that is that the music labels are really just "developers", too.  They're looking for talent they can exploit, turn a fast buck on and move on to something newer and shinier.

[tnhawk]

They're fans we don't need if their only interest is the the crap spewed forth by the Nashville music machine. For the last five years or so, country music has been "girl beer truck". How drunk can you get in your truck at a party with a girl with your "flat bill flipped back." There's no story, there's no emotion, there's no connection. It's generic noise that will be long forgotten by this time next year, replaced by another batch of media machine singers shakin and gyrating to a pop music beat with a cowboy hat on.

Country music: Lost Highway, He stopped loving her, Whiskey Lullaby, yeah. Call it country, call it Texas red dirt music, call it Americana. By any name it's as wonderful music as its ever been and always will be. There's nobody in the pop country scene standing around to fill those shoes. The country scene in Nashville has nothing to do with music, it's just another component of the tourist trap this town is. There's no substance, no soul, and no connection. You're getting a whole lot of sizzle, but there's no steak.

Robbie Fulks said it well: "As long as there's a moron market, and a homosexual in a hat to sign..."

"Who's gonna fill those shoes?"

[maroonandwhite]

"Who's gonna fill those shoes?"

Well the "who's gonna play the Opry?" question has been answered. Whoever the heck wants to!  :rofl:  Think I saw that Lorde was there recently.

[monkeylizard]

She's playing at The Grand Ole Opry House. That's not the same thing as playing The Grand Ole Opry.

 

I get my older country fix listening to some really good music coming from the singer/songwriter and Americana genre right now. Music City Roots features some excellent musicians (and some not so good ones). Lightning 100 plays stuff that's closer to real country than the pop-tart 98/95.5/103.3 stations.

[strickj]

For the last five years or so, country music has been "girl beer truck".

 

Before that it was beer, cheating wife and dog.

 

Taylor isn't singing about any of that...

[maroonandwhite]

Dog one's are the best! Bull riding is my favorite though. George and Garth have the market on bull riding now.

[MacGyver]

Ben Folds' recent open letter is one that I hope every label head read:

 

 

Dear Nashville,

 

Last week, on the day that would have been Chet Atkins’ 90th birthday (June 20, 1924), my office received news that the historic RCA Building on Music Row is set to be sold. This building, with the historic Studio A as its centerpiece, was Atkins’ and Owen Bradley’s vision and baby, and had become home to the largest classic recording space in Nashville. Word is that the prospective buyer is a Brentwood TN-based commercial development company called Bravo Development owned and operated by Tim Reynolds. We don’t know what this will mean to the future of the building.

 

First off, kudos to the estates and descendants of Atkins and Bradley for doing their best to keep the building alive. They’ve owned the property all these years and could have at any point closed it up or mowed it down. Sadly, it’s what happens in the name of progress. Studio A, which turns 50 years old next year, has a rich history.

 

Here are just some of the artists who have made hits here:

Peter Bradley Adams, Gary Allan, Brent Anderson, Anika, Arlis Albritton, Asleep at the Wheel, Sara Bareilles, The Beach Boys, Ben Folds Five, Tony Bennett, Amy Black, Jason Blaine, Blind Boys of Alabama, Joe Bonamassa, Wade Bowen, Eden Brent, Jim Brickman, The Brothers Osborne, Rachel Bradshaw, Brentwood Benson, David Bullock, Laura Bell Bundy, Ken Burns, The Canadian Tenors, The City Harmonic, Steven Curtis Chapman, Chocolate Horse, Brandy Clark, Brent Cobb, Jesse Colter, Elizabeth Cook, Wayne Coyne, Margaret Cho, Billy Currington, Matt Dame, Danae, Ilse DeLange, Rebecca de la Torre, Steve Earle, ESPN, Jace Everett, The Fabulous Headliners, Dani Flowers, Danny Flowers, Ben Folds, Colt Ford, The Frog Sessions, Eleanor Fye, Cami Gallardo, Billy Gibbons, Sarah Gibson, Vince Gill, Alyssa Graham, Peter Groenwald, Harlan Pepper, Harper Blynn, Connie Harrington, Hunter Hayes, John Hiatt, Faith Hill, JT Hodges, Adam Hood, James House, Sierra Hull, Alan Jackson, Joe Jackson, Casey James, Jenny Jarnigan, Jewel, Jamey Johnson, Josh Jones, Kristin Kelly, KESHA, Anna Krantz, Ben Kweller, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Sonny Landreth, Samatha Landrum, Mark Lanigan, Stoney LaRue, Jim Lauderdale, Frank Liddell, LIfeway, Meagan Lindsey, Longmont All Stars Jazz Band, Lyle Lovette, Luella and the Sun, Tayla Lynn, Amanda Palmer, John Pardi, Rich Parkinson, Alan Parson, Charlie Pate, Kellie Pickler, Pistol Annies, Pretty Lights, Mike Posner, Sean McConnell, Scotty McCreery, Kate Miller Heidke, Ronnie Milsap, Miss Willie Brown, Danny Mitchell, Allison Moorer, Kacey Musgraves, Musiq Soulchild, David Nail, the Nashville Symphony, Jerrod Neimann, Willie Nelson, Joe Nichols, Sierra Noble, Natalie Noone, The Oakridge Boys, Jake Owen, Rainfall, Johnny Reid, Thomas Rhett, Lionel Richie, The Robertson Family, Henry Rollins, Shannon Sanders, Jader Santos, Alejando Sanz, Mondo Saez, Kate Schrock, Bob Seger, Sera B., Brian Setzer, Nikki Shannon, William Shatner, SHEDaisy, Jordyn Shellart, Joel Shewmake, Sleeping With Sirens, Jake Shimabukuro, Mike Shipp, Kevin Shirley, Anthony Smith, Joanna Smith, Dr. Ralph Stanley, Chelsea Staling, Steel Magnolia, Tate Stevens, Jay Stocker, Rayburn, RED, RockIt City, Jeff Taylor, Justin Towns Earle, Josh Thompson, Those Darlins, Josh Turner, Bonnie Tyler, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Ben Utecht, Phil Vassar, Venus and the Moon, Andy Victor, Amanda Watkins, Chuck Wicks, Hank Williams Jr., Williamson Country Youth Orchestra, Alicia Witt, Lee Ann Womack, Word Entertainment and Charlie Worsham.

 

I had no idea of the extent of legacy of this great studio until I become the tenant of the space 12 years ago. Most of us know about Studio B. Studio A was its grander younger sibling, erected by Atkins when he became an RCA executive. The result was an orchestral room built to record strings for Elvis Presley and to entice international stars to record in one of these four Putnam-designed RCA spaces in the world. The other three RCA studios of the same dimensions – built in LA, Chicago and New York – have long since been shut down. I can’t tell you how many engineers, producers and musicians have walked into this space to share their stories of the great classic recorded music made here that put Nashville on the map. I’ve heard tales of audio engineers who would roller skate around the room waiting for Elvis to show up at some point in the weeks he booked, stories about how Eddy Arnold recording one of the first sessions in the room and one of the songs was “Make The World Go Away,” Dolly Parton (Jolene) and The Monkees recorded here, and so on. Legendary songwriter John D. Loudermilk and his bride were serenaded by a session orchestra hired by Atkins who were recording here for an artist. He recalled that they danced all the way to the loading doors and into their limo, reminiscing about the beautiful floor tiles which still line the entire space. He co-wrote countless numbers of songs with Atkins and many others in this studio.

 

To this day, Studio A remains a viable, relevant and vibrant space. In recent years these artists and filmmakers have recorded or worked here, to name a few:

 

Sara Bareilles, William Shatner, Kacey Musgraves, Ken Burns, Kesha, The Beach Boys, Wayne Cohen, Tony Bennett, Willie Nelson, Kellie Pickler, Hunter Hayes, Charlie Worsham, David Nail, Jamey Johnson, Joe Bonamassa, Word Music, Gary Allan, me and Ben Folds Five.

 

While we Nashvillians can feel proud about the overall economic progress and prosperity we’re enjoying, we know it’s not always so kind to historical spaces, or to the legacy and foundation upon which that prosperity was built.

 

My motivation for spending over a million dollars in rent and renovations over these past 12 years was simple. I could have built my own space of the same dimensions with that kind of investment. But I’m a musician with no interest in development or business in general. I only want to make music in this historic space, and allow others to do the same. I’ve recorded all over the world and I can say emphatically that here’s no recording space like it anywhere on the planet. These studio walls were born to ring with music. I just wanted to keep it alive.

 

Before the news of the sale I had been in recent talks with other entities on how we could collaborate on allowing visitors to Music City to see the space firsthand and hear its rich history, while also making sure that it stays busy making music history of tomorrow. No one can say now what will become of that idea.

 

Selfishly I’d love to remain the tenant and caretaker of this amazing studio space. I love it dearly. But if I must let it go in the interest of change, my only hope is that it remain intact and alive. A couple of years ago my co-manager, Sharon Corbitt House, promised the late, great producer Phil Ramone, while he was in town recording Tony Bennett and an orchestra LIVE in this space, that she would do what she could to keep the studio doors open. Ramone had watched the former New York RCA studio transform into office space for the IRS and couldn’t bear to see the last of this incredible acoustic design fade away.

 

So here’s where we’re coming from. Historic RCA Studio A is too much a part of why such incredible business opportunities exist in 2014 in Nashville to simply disappear. Music City was built on the foundation of ideas, and of music. What will the Nashville of tomorrow look like if we continue to tear out the heart of the Music Row that made us who we are as a city? Ultimately, who will want to build new condos in an area that has no central community of ideas or creatives?

 

We are Music City-the only city in the world truly built on music.

 

My simple request is for Tim Reynolds or whoever the next owners might be of this property, before deciding what to do with this space, to take a moment to stand in silence between the grand walls of RCA Studio A and feel the history and the echoes of the Nashville that changed the world. I’d like to ask him and other developers to listen first hand to the stories from those among us who made the countless hit records in this studio – the artists, musicians, engineers, producers, writers who built this rich music legacy note by note, brick by brick.

 

I don’t know what impact my words here will have on anything. But I felt the need to share, and to encourage others who also care about preserving our music heritage to speak up as well.

 

I believe that progress and heritage can co-exist in mutual respect. Maybe this time we can at least try to make the effort.

 

Yours,
Ben Folds

[maroonandwhite]

I've always liked Ben Folds.

[Smith]

Taylor Swift is hot like Hillary Swank is beautiful :ugh:  That being said my 10 year old like her and my family has spent some time with her and she was pleasant enough. I've heard the horror stories but she has always been good to the people I know that have met her.

[TMF]

I think she's a good role model for young girls, especially when you consider the Lindsey Lohans and twerking Montanas of that market. I like any role model for girls that isn't defining herself by her sexuality, whorishness or dependency on drugs and alcohol. As for her music, it blows. Of course, I know every word to every song featured on Sofia the First and Frozen, so I suppose if my daughter was old enough I'd know all the Taylor Swift songs and would be happy for it; could be a lot worse. As for her looks, I don't suppose I care much, since she is practically a baby, but she is a gorgeous woman. I just don't understand all the dudes that find her so sexually appealing. She has the body of a bulimic Ethiopian. With all that money she could afford a few extra meals in her diet. But really, the idea of being intimate with someone her age sounds like more trouble than it's worth. I was annoyed by chicks her age when I was that age. Can't imagine it has gotten much better. Perhaps that is just a mental block for me which prevents certain objects of desire from being batch material. Felt the same way about Megan Fox and Angelina Jolie when they we the big thing going. Hard to find them hot after you hear them talk. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[TGO David]

Taylor Swift is hot like Hillary Swank is beautiful :ugh:  That being said my 10 year old like her and my family has spent some time with her and she was pleasant enough. I've heard the horror stories but she has always been good to the people I know that have met her.

 

Hillary Swank has a tragically down-turned smile and that makes her appearance somewhat polarizing, but she's smoking hot in all other physical aspects.  Taylor looks like she needs to go on the Atkins diet just to put on some healthy muscle weight.

[TrickyNicky]

Swank > Swift. IMO.