Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[beans-on-toast]

Old Fart of the Month, when do the polls close? Where did I put my spectacles?

There are so many during the day, it’s hard to remember at the end of the month which fart (post) was the best.

 

[GonePlaid]

Obviously not a "new" song as "The Katy"(Missouri, Kansas, and Texas)Railroad merged with the Missouri Pacific RR in 1988, well after Amtrak took over all passenger train service in 1971.
So many great songs referencing railroads that no longer exist by their well-known names.

I unapologetically confess to being a bit of a ferroequinologist(train nut).
I've been amused by the railroad references in "The Doobie Brothers" Long Train Runnin'. They mention the Illinois Central-actual rr-and "the Southern Central freight", an obscure line in NY that operated from ~1865-1895.

 

[lowplaces]

I've never won fart of the month.

Time for a new strategy.

Fart harder !

 

[GonePlaid]

I've never won fart of the month.

Time for a new strategy.

Fart harder !

But carefully

 

[Passinwind]

Old Fart of the Month, when do the polls close?

Poll? Hardly. I am Passinwind and some of you are not. Vote early and vote often, but this is no democracy. Let's make a deal...

Where did I put my spectacles?

Under the Group W bench?

 

[lowplaces]

But carefully

So that's why they make brown boxers !

I must say there were times that...
..uh, nevermind

 

[Jeff Scott]

Anybody here live in a Sir Edwin Lutyens home?

Gwendolyn, you do, right?

 

[GwenOnBass]

Anybody here live in a Sir Edwin Lutyens home?

Gwendolyn, you do, right?

Serious readminder stuff

Hey it's a Frank kind of Blues Monday here now

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[beans-on-toast]

I unapologetically confess to being a bit of a ferroequinologist(train nut).
I've been amused by the railroad references in "The Doobie Brothers" Long Train Runnin'. They mention the Illinois Central-actual rr-and "the Southern Central freight", an obscure line in NY that operated from ~1865-1895.

My grandfather was a railway man, plumber on steam engines. His father was a conductor, I have the pocket watch that he used to keep the train on schedule.

There was a real big steam engine in a park when I was a kid. I watched as they laid down track and drove it to it's final resting place. Back then, they allowed folks to climb all over it, up and down the ladders, work the leavers, even the glass steam gauges remained intact. Fat chance of allowing that today.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Blues Monday redux

A good version of a classic by Scrapper Blackwell (Scrapper Blackwell - Wikipedia)



A 1932 movie trailer for Big City Blues.

 

[BargeOn]

My grandfather was a railway man, plumber on steam engines. His father was a conductor, I have the pocket watch that he used to keep the train on schedule.

There was a real big steam engine in a park when I was a kid. I watched as they laid down track and drove it to it's final resting place. Back then, they allowed folks to climb all over it, up and down the ladders, work the leavers, even the glass steam gauges remained intact. Fat chance of allowing that today.

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Say Beans, there are a couple serious rail fans over on The Last Bass Outpost. Might be glad to hear from you.

 

[El Güero]

 

[El Güero]

It's great these tunes are being remembered...many of today's bass players weren't even born when these were hits!

So many of those songs had distinctive bass parts which identified them. You could hear just a bit and recognize the song from the bass line.

 

[GonePlaid]

My grandfather was a railway man, plumber on steam engines. His father was a conductor, I have the pocket watch that he used to keep the train on schedule.

There was a real big steam engine in a park when I was a kid. I watched as they laid down track and drove it to it's final resting place. Back then, they allowed folks to climb all over it, up and down the ladders, work the leavers, even the glass steam gauges remained intact. Fat chance of allowing that today.

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Most of the display engines are fenced in for protection of-and from-the people. And many have been so vandalized[taggers, etc]as to be eyesores.

 

[GonePlaid]

So many of those songs had distinctive bass parts which identified them. You could hear just a bit and recognize the song from the bass line.

Here's a thought: a version of "Name That Tune" from the bass line only. Most of today's tunes are 1/8th* notes on the root. "uhhh, any one of some 250** songs?" Then there's "Knock On Wood" for example; or "She's Not There"or "We Gotta Get Outta This Place"

*or 1/16th or 1/32nd, etc
**ETA-2500+ songs

 

[beans-on-toast]

Here's a thought: a version of "Name That Tune" from the bass line only. Most of today's tunes are 1/8th* notes on the root. "uhhh, any one of some 250 songs?" Then there's "Knock On Wood" for example; or "She's Not There"or "We Gotta Get Outta This Place"

*or 1/16th or 1/32nd, etc

La Bamba kicks off with a bass line.

 

[Fat Freddy]

I used to live in Totnes Devon in England....

We had a couple of fantastic live steam train routes running....

Also steam train/boat trip round robins.....

Have a look.....

Explore | Dartmouth Steam Railway

 

[Fat Freddy]

Live with me...Stones starts with a bass line....got a feeling that this could go on for some time though...

 

[LBS-bass]

Wichita Lineman. Carol Kaye's opening is iconic, if we're just talking openings.

 

[Jeff Scott]

My grandfather was a railway man, plumber on steam engines. His father was a conductor, I have the pocket watch that he used to keep the train on schedule.

There was a real big steam engine in a park when I was a kid. I watched as they laid down track and drove it to it's final resting place. Back then, they allowed folks to climb all over it, up and down the ladders, work the leavers, even the glass steam gauges remained intact. Fat chance of allowing that today.

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I used to have my maternal Grandfather's railroad watch; my nephew has it, these days!

Ball came into being from a need for an accurate railroad watch.

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