I knew an Ian in Jr. High/ High School, and the guy was a complete douche nozzle for no good reason. Last I heard, he's living in the Houston area, so he probably won't get hit with this, but fuck that guy.
Was friends with a guy named Ian in middle school, then he decided he was tough and wanted to hang out with the tough kids. He tried to intimate a lot of the other guys, including me. Except he was clocking in at 5’5” in 9th grade and never grew another inch. Then he tried dropping onto the ping pong table in our senior study hall like a wrestler. He fucked his back up and spent 6 months recovering. Retard.
I've had a couple of reps about the pool popping out thing... so I'll explain. The pool is almost like a boat in the ground. It wants to float. A lot of what keeps the pool in the ground is the weight/pressure of the water that fills the pool. If you remove that water, it will "float" on any water that is present in the ground... and will pop up as a result.
It's not a problem in areas where the groundwater or any perched zones are deeper than 40 feet, but Florida water table is often just a few feet deep. Same thing will happen with any container that displaces water - you did it as a kid in the bath tub or pool with a cup or something. Sewage pump stations and riser structures for sediment ponds have to have concrete ballast poured at the base. I tried to explain this to a Contractor one time, when he asked why I had designed so much ballast. He faxed me a copy of his calculations and why he thought it should be less. I was like, well you're not accounting for the weight of concrete in water . . Do it like I said. I've seen structures pop out of the ground.
if he's living in houston, he's already in hell. The only Ian I know was also from jr/high school, and was a douche as well.
This is also why people are "buried" above ground in places like New Orleans...coffins will pop out of the ground due to the water table
I debated between the Stevie Wonder version and the RHCP version, but I had to give it to the original. The RHCP version is the one I grew up on though.
The last time Tampa was hit by a hurricane was over 100 years ago, so to be fair I don't think Stevie Wonder ever saw this coming either.
I follow an online guitar teacher, Michael Palmesano, who did a reaction video to this a few months ago... great tune.
Yep... the RHCP is the first version I heard, and love it. Stevie did so many great tunes that had great covers.... my other all-time Stevie cover was by SRV...
I miss SRV so much. He covered Hendrix, too. It's not like he was covering John Denver. And he did it so well, he won a Grammy for it (Little Wing), lol.
SRV is my all time favourite player. Cranking up the volume, you can hear the amp buzz when he plays Little Wing. It was an impromptu recording that made history. So many great tunes... And as Denis Leary said... "really? Jon Bon Jovi couldn't get in the fucking helicopter? really?"
One of my favourite videos of all time was the original SRV, at the El Macambo... a legendary place in Toronto. It was from the 80's, when he was still hammered and just a raw player. The vibe in that club show was just mind blowing. This just popped up yesterday: A Fender Custom Shop Strat made from the reclaimed wood of the El. Macambo. The YouTube algorithm is too on point.
Ian 2 mph shy of a cat 5 now. They’re now expecting it to make landfall as a cat 5/high cat 4. Holy fuck.
You have to be some kind of freak where you interrupt your solo to turn your guitar backwards over your head, playing it blind with your wrong hand…. and make the solo sound even better. SRV is proof that god hates the deaf.
This is still one of my favourite SRV videos... dude is just waking up, hung over as shit, and does a sound check.