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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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This is true, but in this case, apparently this guy played drums in jazz band all through high school and for about ten years after that. He actually had chops. I was pleasantly surprised.
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We had a 70 year old guy show up and play drums at our Friday night jam this week. He played as a kid until age ten, stopped for 60 years, and just recently started again. He did a great job, easily as good as the regular guy who shows up once or twice a month.
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But of course. And to me an often functional synonym for drummer is headache.
Good morning GOF's. Thought I'd share a couple pics with you today.
This first one is of a movie called "Cry Vengeance" made in Ketchikan. It was a B-movie for sure, but it put Ketchikan as a backdrop and some of the scenery is great. I've walked in this area many times as a youngster and at this time I would have been 2 years old.
Here's a picture of where Tom and I were raised as kids in Ketchikan. It's called Alder Park, and it was a state-owned project for low income families. A couple other families who were my cousins also grew up here. There was so much to do and so much beautiful landscape that we didn't even know we were poor! LOL. Precious memories of growing up.
We used to dive off the logs in the log pond. Very dangerous-- one year when the tide was kicking up, a youngster dove from the logs and was caught between two logs crashing together. He was DOA on the way to the hospital. But that never stopped us from doing the same! Must have had guardian angels!
This first one is of a movie called "Cry Vengeance" made in Ketchikan. It was a B-movie for sure, but it put Ketchikan as a backdrop and some of the scenery is great. I've walked in this area many times as a youngster and at this time I would have been 2 years old.
Here's a picture of where Tom and I were raised as kids in Ketchikan. It's called Alder Park, and it was a state-owned project for low income families. A couple other families who were my cousins also grew up here. There was so much to do and so much beautiful landscape that we didn't even know we were poor! LOL. Precious memories of growing up.
We used to dive off the logs in the log pond. Very dangerous-- one year when the tide was kicking up, a youngster dove from the logs and was caught between two logs crashing together. He was DOA on the way to the hospital. But that never stopped us from doing the same! Must have had guardian angels!
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Seems to me the feeling of being poor among poor people is reinforced regularly (she used the word regular again), but nature helps restore us. But not much idea why little boys do some things ....
Male brains don't fully develop until well after puberty.
Kids being kids with nothing to do typically find a way to have some fun.
Today old growth reclaimed logs are dredged up from the bottom of rivers and the wood sells for a lot of money. I bought some pine to build a Fender combo cabinet. It was very lightweight.
Today old growth reclaimed logs are dredged up from the bottom of rivers and the wood sells for a lot of money. I bought some pine to build a Fender combo cabinet. It was very lightweight.
I grew up poor and didn't know it, mostly because my parents knew how to enjoy life and passed it along.
Tried to teach me music along the way as well. That's a story for another time.
As for development, it may be part nature. Taking a lesson from the birds, some people are just Link Removed. The older I get it seems more of them are.
Tried to teach me music along the way as well. That's a story for another time.
As for development, it may be part nature. Taking a lesson from the birds, some people are just Link Removed. The older I get it seems more of them are.
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Observing that as a whole, artists (including musicians) do not come from the upper classes. Elvis is still King, though.
Because boys have a built in thirst for adventure and excitement. Us boys used to climb up the inside of the towers of a local draw bridge. I guess the towers were 50 ft above the deck so maybe 70 ft above water level depending on the tide if you claimed to the top. When the operator did a lift for marine traffic the counterweights would descend inside the towers like 17 ton elevators. We were forced to jump into the water and avoid falling onto whatever watercraft requested the lift and then swim to shore and avoid the local constabulary in the near by swamp. Gasping with exertion and excitement we thought it was great.
A lot of poor kids fought to dig themselves out of their hole and dreamt of making it big.
Rich kids from liberal arts schools were more able to pursue music. Most poor kids couldn’t afford to indulge themselves, they were more practical and sought employment with a future. There’s a long list of rich kids that made it as musicians. Same goes for actors, writers, painters, tennis players, golfers....
Rich kids from liberal arts schools were more able to pursue music. Most poor kids couldn’t afford to indulge themselves, they were more practical and sought employment with a future. There’s a long list of rich kids that made it as musicians. Same goes for actors, writers, painters, tennis players, golfers....
We’ll drive away from home on Thursday morn, and spend Thursday night, Friday, and Friday night in Tupelo, MS!
I will never visit Graceland, but I cain’t wait to spend Friday touring the museums dedicated to Elvis Presley in the town where he was born.
Next week we’ll stop in
Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.
I've often said that if you peek into the background of the majority of successful artists and musicians you are more likely than not to find a rich or well-connected daddy, uncle, or other family member there. Strong careers in music and the arts are often about who you are and who you know, though there are many exceptions. That's not to take anything away from the talent of, say, a Bonnie Raitt (whose father was a well-known actor), or Carly Simon (father was a co-founder of Simon and Schuster publishing) or others who are similarly well-connected. It's just that there are also many talented people who don't have those connections and therefore don't have the the opportunities.
Yeah, like me!
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It's Monday again, of the Blues sort
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