Sunshine
1903 posts
Jan 25, 2010
1:55 PM
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Okay, y'all. lets give Hollis a run for his money!! He is one of the most knowledgable folks when it comes to JJ Grey & Mofro. (Hollis if you don't wanna play, just let me know and I will delete the post)
Lets see iffin any of y'all can come up with a question that can Stump the Mayan. You'll will win Braggin Rights!!
Good Luck Contestants!!!
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"If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
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skotdee
472 posts
Jan 25, 2010
2:14 PM
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I'll try, but this is probably much too easy:
Whats the significance of "Hercules Powder Camp" from the newsletter title?
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UHollis
284 posts
Jan 25, 2010
4:20 PM
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thanks for the flattery, but i think i'll pass. would rather just help out when i may know something.
Gotta come bigger that HPC SD. I think just east of HPC there was a camp in Fiftone. I have a buddy Mark, who actually did his dissertation on Turpentine camps from the turn of the century. He was mad about that stuff.
SO. No more STH game.
for fun, and an easy one.....
What is the old intro to Blackwater?
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Sunshine
1904 posts
Jan 25, 2010
4:43 PM
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that's cool....I think I would want to save your kindness to answer our questions for when we really need it, thanks for being cool.
:o)
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"If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
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skotdee
473 posts
Jan 26, 2010
3:58 AM
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Well that was fun while it lasted ;)
Old intro to blackwater: Home Sweet Home
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Sunshine
1905 posts
Jan 26, 2010
4:51 AM
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lol, yes it was Skotdee. Better to play for a little while - than to not have played at awl.
:o)
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"If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
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UHollis
285 posts
Jan 26, 2010
5:42 AM
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OK. I'll play, SOME, but it has to be a back and forth.
Two more questions. one hard, the other easy.
Where did JJ get his first electric guitar(pretty sure it was his first from past accounts), & what color was it?
Where did the infamous car wreck occur, and who was in the car? And when?
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oh, and i miss Home Sweet Home.
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skotdee
474 posts
Jan 26, 2010
6:21 AM
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Lovin' me some Mofro Trivia this morn...
I know the guitar came from Western Auto, can't remember the color. Im thinking it was red if memory serves me correctly. I loved when he would break that thing out at shows back in the day...
Not sure of the location of the wreck, but I do know it was back in 2001 and they were on their way home from a tour, and JJ's wife was in the car and suffered the worst injuries.
Back Atcha:
What song inspired (and provided the back beat for) Ho Cake?
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UHollis
286 posts
Jan 26, 2010
6:30 AM
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Western Auto guitar for sure, I think it came with an amp back then. And yes, it was Red. I'll look around for any pictures i have here at some point.
2001 is the year. still need a city, and car full .
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"Big John Jeeter" by Snatch & The Poontangs
"they call me needle dick daddy with a candy lip.
i can look at a pussy man, it'll start to drip"
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UHollis
287 posts
Jan 26, 2010
6:35 AM
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yo SD. do you have this show? i know i do, but not sure where. sure a lot of folks around here would injoy it.
"Full Circle Presentation"
11/16/2002
New Daisy Theater-Memphis TN
Disc 1 (Set1)
1. Hotel
2.Reacharound
3. Paranoid (Sabbath) - JJ sings
4. The Great Stagger Lee-JJ sings
5. Dressin' Up For The City (Stevie Wonder) JJ sings
6. Daisy Jam #1
7.Free Your Mind Jam
8. Daisy Jam #2 (this is a 20th Congress tune, don't know the name)
Disc 2 (set 2)
1.Hip Hug Her (Booker T and the MG's)
2.Daisy Jam #3
3. Daisy Jam #4
4. Cissy Strut
5. House of the Rising Stun (Stones) JJ sings
6.Can You Push the Daisy Bubble Jam
7. Godzilla (Blue Oyster Cult) JJ sings
Band:
Robert Walter (20th Congress- Organ)
Brian Jordan (KDTU - Guitar)
Eric McFadden (P-Funk- Guitar)
Rob Derhak (moe. - Bass)
Alan Hertz (Garaj Mahal- Drums)
Other Guests
JJ Grey (Mofro-Vox)
Cecil Daniels ( Sax)
Sean Lang (SP?- Guitar)
{trumpet}
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skotdee
475 posts
Jan 26, 2010
6:57 AM
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Heck no, I've never even heard of that show! Looks freekin rediculous though, JJ singin Godzilla? Paranoid? Living for the city? (lol at "dressin up") Daaaaamn. Let us know if you can dig it up...
and for the record ya'll it might take JJ himself to stump Hollis, he's knockin my shit out of the park :)
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UHollis
288 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:00 AM
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stan? do you have this show?
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skotdee
476 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:11 AM
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Whats JJ's childhood nickname?
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UHollis
289 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:15 AM
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i think i know that one, but let's tsee if anyone else does first.
anyone?
anyone?
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Sunshine
1906 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:18 AM
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1st of all, was it a Suzuki in Jacksonville?
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"If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
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skotdee
477 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:19 AM
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Hits home for me, my dad used to call me the same damn name. Must be a Jacksonville thing...
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UHollis
290 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:19 AM
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jacksonville. yes. suzuki? IDK what type of car, but i do know who was in it.
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Sunshine
1907 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:20 AM
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oh and I remember from a post not too long ago what his childhood nickname is....Buckshot!! ha ha, I can't beleive I remembered that.
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"If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
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UHollis
291 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:22 AM
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interesting scott. i may not know it then.
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UHollis
292 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:23 AM
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nice SS. nice.
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Sunshine
1908 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:24 AM
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I beleive it was a Suzuki Samari.......all 4 were thrown from the vehicle.
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"If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
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Sunshine
1909 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:24 AM
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here is probably an easy one.......what is JJ's favorite color?
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"If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
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UHollis
293 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:25 AM
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yep.
next question. stan, quiet!
What was the "Bamboo Room Fiasco"?
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UHollis
294 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:26 AM
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i got work to do, so i'll check in later this adternoon. peace.
keep quizzing each other.
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Delerious Tyme
624 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:33 AM
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Is this JJ's first guitar, the Western Auto?
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Delerious Tyme
Mofro for life in Arizona
The Rhythm Room is exactly that when the boys are kicking it here.
"Walking on Moonlight in the Day."
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Sunshine
1910 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:54 AM
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wasn't JJ's 1st guitar a Christmas present he received when he was like 10 or 11 - that got ran over by a neighbor the very next day?
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"If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
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Sunshine
1911 posts
Jan 26, 2010
7:59 AM
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Here is one for you:
What was JJ's first album and as a bonus question, who gave it to him?
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"If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
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UHollis
295 posts
Jan 26, 2010
8:02 AM
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notice i put 'pretty sure" for the first "electric" guitar, b/c i recall the run over story also.
i think thats the western auto DT. i can't read the head stock.
it used to make the wildest sounds, and not work sometimes. wow. crazy memories flooding back.
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jimbo
182 posts
Jan 26, 2010
8:03 AM
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wreck,
Normandy blvd(hwy.228) 1/2 mile west of
Cecil Field Jax.,FL JJ,SAMONE,NATHAN,KEN PARKER,in a
SUZUKI JEEP.
DARYL drove OLD WINNABEGO to JIMBO'S
house & was not Involved.Accident occured around
3am oct.20-2001,however Mofro just completed a
gig at the MARQUEE THEATER at 5 Points in JAX.
OCT.19-2001
FROM- FILE:BLACKWATER UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
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Sunshine
1912 posts
Jan 26, 2010
8:06 AM
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yese, yes you did state "electric".......sorry
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"If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
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UHollis
296 posts
Jan 26, 2010
8:16 AM
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nice jimbo. the ole Blackwater Uni Archives.
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skotdee
478 posts
Jan 26, 2010
8:21 AM
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I know Otis' Live at whiskey a go go was an important album to JJ, but not sure if it was his first... you got me there. Also no clue on his favorite color. Sometimes the most simple are the hardest ones ;)
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UHollis
297 posts
Jan 26, 2010
8:25 AM
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i dont know the color either. nor the first album, oh wait, was it the first Lynyrd Skynyrd album?
my first album was Talking Heads Remain in Light. My cuz gave it too me.
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mofrofans1
Admin
3167 posts
Jan 26, 2010
8:30 AM
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Damn this is a fun thread!!
I'll toss one out, but I think it's too easy. What does "JJ" stand for?
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TN_Cracka
143 posts
Jan 26, 2010
8:36 AM
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JJ stands for John John.
I think the first album was Gold & Platinum. His sister bought it for him.
Favorite color is purple.
Speaking of JJ's story telling, is K.D.'s nite limit or minute still open? It is the jookhouse he talks about in Baldwin Florida next to his grandparent's trailor park, I think.
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skotdee
479 posts
Jan 26, 2010
8:44 AM
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Ah, now I remember, yes, I think it WAS a Lynyrd Skynyrd album, but Im thinking Hollis is right, it was "Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd". Not 100% sure though.
K.D.'s isn't open anymore, but the building is still there. Last I heard JJ mention it, there was a daquiri type bar there now called Frozen Paradise or something to that effect.
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jimbo
183 posts
Jan 26, 2010
8:45 AM
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close to his UNK'S.RES. &
RR Tracks behind KD'S where
he put nickles on rr tracks.
FILE- FROM OBUA
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jimbo
184 posts
Jan 26, 2010
9:04 AM
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OK, I stand to be corrected,it's
been a while since I've been there,
probaly 6-8 yrs since Daryl & I sat
outside under the Oak Tree's around
large Electric Wire Spools with the
Old Local Black Brothers sipping &
reminising & snapping a few PICS.
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UHollis
298 posts
Jan 26, 2010
9:14 AM
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so anyone got a notion of the "bamboo room fiasco"?
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jimbo
185 posts
Jan 26, 2010
9:17 AM
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I've got 11-16-2002-NEW DAISY THEATER
if needed-set 1 & 2
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UHollis
300 posts
Jan 26, 2010
9:19 AM
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u must be super organized Jimbo.
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skotdee
480 posts
Jan 26, 2010
9:22 AM
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Bamboo Fiasco - Seems like I remember a story he told about it in one of the shows, but those brains cells are loooooong gone. Something about a fight? Outside? For some reason Im picturing a junior type incident, or maybe a junior reference when he told the story. Who knows though, this is all a stab in the dark...
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jimbo
186 posts
Jan 26, 2010
9:25 AM
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yea, but slower than
a female dog going into heet!
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UHollis
301 posts
Jan 26, 2010
9:32 AM
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not cheap beer.
not really a fight SD.
BBRoom Fiasco is an intricate, yet super easy story to tell. let's see if anyone shows up with a funny interpretation.
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UHollis
302 posts
Jan 26, 2010
9:33 AM
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not cheap beer.
not really a fight SD.
BBRoom Fiasco is an intricate, yet super easy story to tell. let's see if anyone shows up with a funny interpretation.
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mofrofans1
Admin
3168 posts
Jan 26, 2010
9:36 AM
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Goddam y'all got me busting at the seams laughing.
I got another one. Jimbo, skot, Hollis and stan are excluded...too easy for them.
How many female band members have there been in Mofro (touring members, not studio)?
Can you name her (or them)?
What instrument did she (or they) play?
Bonus: when was she/they with the band?
Bonus bonus: who replaced them?
Bonus bonus bonus: are there any recordings with her/them?
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mofrofans1
Admin
3169 posts
Jan 26, 2010
9:37 AM
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Hollis that ain't the show where Daryl got so drunk he fell off his stool in the middle of a song was it?
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jimbo
187 posts
Jan 26, 2010
10:03 AM
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WHOA !
WHAT THE F IS "HELICONIAS????
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skotdee
483 posts
Jan 26, 2010
10:09 AM
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LOL Jimbo, this trivia takes an interesting turn! They're some kinda funky tropical plants... I had to look it up!
I don't wanna tell ya'll what my first thought was ;)
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swkelley
602 posts
Jan 26, 2010
10:18 AM
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Ah, the Bamboo Room Fiasco. The owner of the club and JJ got pissed because a bunch of people (actually a bunch of my friends...I wasn't there as I was living in Athens, Ga at the time....saw the show the night before, but had to leave the next morning) were making a bunch of noise.....one of the groups Bday party that night (the wife of a Bamboo Room employee). Both the owner and JJ told them all to "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"...although JJ later apologized in an email to the old mofro listserver. Sumpin like that anyway.
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any groove is reason to move
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