Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[alaskaleftybass]

Yes, the lucky ones went into movies and eventually TV. Many black performers lost their way of life. The vast booking network had allowed them to travel to different cities all over North America to work. Circuits continued but they were much smaller. Demand for that sort of live entertainment waned as movies too over.

Not the first time that corporate reorganizations destroyed lives.

There was a time when people were social and went out to events.... now everyone attends via smartphone... how social is that... rhetorical of course...

 

[GonePlaid]

What Did Vaudeville Performers Earn?

It’s interesting to note that in 1928 vaudeville theatres closed and the buildings were converted to present movies. Joseph P Kennedy Sr. acquired controlling interest of Keith-Albee-Orphum, the biggest string of 700 vaudeville theatres and circuit operations in the US and Canada, and then flipped the company a few months later to RKO motion pictures. Vaudeville died.

Keith-Albee-Orpheum - Wikipedia

Interesting-and depressing.

 

[GonePlaid]

and old, successful Vaudvillians worked guest spots on the Mickey Mouse Club ....


.... there's more than a grain of truth in The Day of the Locust - Wikipedia

and old, successful Vaudvillians worked guest spots on the Mickey Mouse Club ....


.... there's more than a grain of truth in The Day of the Locust - Wikipedia

Hmm. Homer Simpson?

 

[GonePlaid]

There was a time when people were social and went out to events.... now everyone attends via smartphone... how social is that... rhetorical of course...

Not me-I have a flip phone. It doesn't pick up diddly[not Bo].

 

[beans-on-toast]

You know that you are looking old when.....

We were walking through a park today when we passed a family sitting on a bench. They called to us and offered up the bench so the old people could sit down. We humored them and sat.

 

[GonePlaid]

Found another video:

 

[beans-on-toast]

Found another video:

Looks like a nice backdrop sound wise.

Why does the harp player have a fan blowing onto his backside?

 

[GonePlaid]

Looks like a nice backdrop sound wise.

But why does the harp player have a fan blowing onto his backside?

His fan, his choice of placement.

 

[Jeff Scott]

You know that you are looking old when.....

We were walking through a park today when we passed a family sitting on a bench. They called to us and offered up the bench so the old people could sit down. We humored them and sat.

Yep. Take advantage of the young!

 

[fnordlyone]

Yep, still mostly here, or nearby to that anyway. Six hour Friday night jam and no pain the next day from all that standing, which counts as real progress. I don't play sitting down much at all, especially not bass. Lead guitarist and I are working out harmony slide parts now, which we both find pretty easy. 60th birthday party upcoming for the host's wife next Friday. I'm sure it'll be an epic jam, as it usually is when we take things up into the main house and invite in an audience.

Only 60? Much love and life left, brother!
f!

 

[Passinwind]

Only 60? Much love and life left, brother!
f!

True, and the birthday girl defintely is feeling that.

 

[LBS-bass]

It's way too quiet in here. I have a plan to fix that.

 

[the harp unstrung]

 

[beans-on-toast]

I’ll make some noise as well.

 

[GwenOnBass]

It's way too quiet in here. I have a plan to fix that.

Seems I hear this song at every turn at a tender age from somebody's room

 

[beans-on-toast]

What will they think of next!

 

[GwenOnBass]

In my day, Deep Purple is considered the nuclear option.

​

 

[LBS-bass]

Seems I hear this song at every turn at a tender age from somebody's room

This record will never fail to take me right back to my formative years. Probably is partially responsible for me being formed in such a strange way

 

[Jeff Scott]

...take me right back to my formative years.

Here's a really early photo of me.

 

[ZonieBass]

Oh yeah, "Space Truckin" takes me back to my Marshall stacks and my Ampeg Fridge days. We played quite a bit of Blackmore. We would often open with, "If you don't like Rock and Roll" (It's too late now). Our other opener at that time was, "Been a long time since I rock and Rolled". High energy stuff for sure. The band name was "Ricochet" and our motto on our promo stuff was "Kickin Rock". Lot's of fun....

Many nights we walked into that restaurant that Bob Segar sings about in "Turn the Page".