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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • I went to high school with a psychopath. He was a friend of an idiot friend. He beat up a quiet kid on the bus once and later tried to steal my car. He disappeared for awhile, and I later learned he’d been locked up. I searched him on the internet a few months ago because I had a feeling he’d be in prison.

    Yep. He raped a girl, beat up her boyfriend, and was being hunted down for burglary when the cops cornered him (I think on the rooftop of a 2-story house). Then he said some stupid line and backflipped off the roof.

    After awhile in prison he managed to get hold of the tool the prison guards use to slide the food trays while the new guard was in the cell with him. He beat the guard to death with it, then acted casual about it. There’s a video of the aftermath.

    So he’s on death row now, trying to play the Jesus card.

    There’s a shitty Amazon doc about him, name is Billy Tracy.

    EDIT: When you mentioned knowing a truly evil person, that’s what Billy is. I could see it in his eyes from the moment I met him, just a void. When I searched him up his parents weren’t mentioned much, but what was there seemed to indicate they were as baffled as anyone about how he turned out. Maybe, who knows.













  • I agree, and beyond that I don’t care for SRV’s cover at all.

    I find it overdone as with most of SRV’s stuff. The chugga-chugg hand hand rake trick he puts in everything all the time just kills the vibe, especially at the turn. When he does back off and give the song some space he seems lost.

    I think the song was special to Jimi and he felt that less is more, so he didn’t fuck with it. The result leaves you wanting more from the original…but that’s the hallmark of a great artist.