Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Polish Thunder]

Let me see...
... flying nun....
...someone walked off a cliff with a backpack on...
Are we talking about two different people?
I am confused....

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Let me see...
... flying nun....
...someone walked off a cliff with a backpack on...
Are we talking about two different people?
I am confused....

Things will become more coherent after we take our medicine....

 

[Polish Thunder]

Things will become more coherent after we take our medicine....

I DID take my meds.

Wait, maybe I took the wrong ones?

Now is it the red pill or the green pill I am suppose to take????

(Notice I did not say "blue" pill).

 

[the harp unstrung]

OK, Boomer...

 

[Polish Thunder]

OK, Boomer...

I think 911 started around 1968. Can you imagine if the emergency number was 900? Your house could burn down before you finished dialing the number.

 

[LBS-bass]

I was always impressed that the lead singer, Alex Chilton, was sixteen year old kid. Some people just have it. The same goes for Andrew Strong, he was sixteen as the lead singer when filming The Commitments.



The Letter (Box Tops song) - Wikipedia

Steve Winwood was about that same age when he was with Spencer Davis.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Any who were around to hear Gimme Some Lovin' (in stereo!) when new also know how to use a card index at the library.

There are certain books kids look for. Figuring out how to find those books means navigating the library without asking a librarian.

 

[2tonic]

And smart models never wear white bathing suits on a shoot. No more than anyone wears solid green on television ... And yet.

And yet there was a drag racing thing that made it to The Munsters. Herman and Grandpa went to the drag strip. Formula 1 racing peaked by the mid-50s.

Poor Marilyn.

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Every aging vampire researches the vagaries of mechanical fuel injection.....it's just something to pass the time.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Every aging vampire researches the vagaries of mechanical fuel injection.....it's just something to pass the time.

Have read tales of people who just fan hundred dollar bills (and prays it's enough) to pay the mechanic who keeps their V12 running.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Steve Winwood was about that same age when he was with Spencer Davis.

I looked it up, he was 14! when he joined The Spencer Davis Group. I won't mention Donny Osmond and Michael Jackson. They didn't write their own material in the early days.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Have read tales of people who just fan hundred dollar bills (and prays it's enough) to pay the mechanic who keeps their V12 running.

I saw someone today driving a white Porsche 718 Cayman GT4. Weather conditions were heavy snow/freezing rain, lots of salt, sand, and rocks down on the road and mixed in the foot high slush. They parked in front of the bakery, ran in, came out and drove to a deli that was next door. I don't think that the cared about the car and all the rocks that they threw onto the paint when the gunned it to drive ahead fifteen feet. It was more about people in the shops seeing them in their car. They'll just buy a new one in the spring.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Another kid, 21 years old and eager. First time playing an organ and the song was a number 1 hit. BTW, the session guitar player that he talks about was Mike Bloomfield.

 

[Pilgrim]

Just when I wondered how both the surf craze and monsters craze co-exist on the same timeline. The whole monster / surf thing also had a secret agent component to it. Now I'm afraid to post images I shoot

I like it - in addition to Munsters and Batman, work some Secret Agent Man into the Pipeline break!

Any who were around to hear Gimme Some Lovin' (in stereo!) when new also know how to use a card index at the library.

There are certain books kids look for. Figuring out how to find those books means navigating the library without asking a librarian.

Gimme Some Lovin' and I'm A Man are two of the hardest-rocking tunes ever recorded! They embody the words of the James Gang: "Made loud to be played loud."

 

[12BitSlab]

I DID take my meds.

Wait, maybe I took the wrong ones?

Now is it the red pill or the green pill I am suppose to take????

(Notice I did not say "blue" pill).

Just remember; one of them makes you small; the other, 10 feet tall.

 

[Tom Bomb]

My current prescription,

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Went the whole hog. … Didn't work.

 

[GonePlaid]

Another kid, 21 years old and eager. First time playing an organ and the song was a number 1 hit. BTW, the session guitar player that he talks about was Mike Bloomfield.

Little Steven tells that story on "Underground Garage".

 

[LBS-bass]

Another kid, 21 years old and eager. First time playing an organ and the song was a number 1 hit. BTW, the session guitar player that he talks about was Mike Bloomfield.

Oh, oh, oh. I cannot think of Al Kooper without thinking of this amazing song.

 

[GonePlaid]

Oh, oh, oh. I cannot think of Al Kooper without thinking of this amazing song.

Love(d) BS&T and CTA/Chicago. Saw both in 69 right after my time in the Navy. Always wanted Jim Fielder's gig-and his long fingers.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Al Kooper came and gave wonderfully interesting and funny stories of back in the day, at my now defunct local Borders Music store years ago.

 

[steve_rolfeca]

Steve Winwood was about that same age when he was with Spencer Davis.

Back in the early 60's, there was a large music shop in Birmingham, England called Yardleys. Charlie, the owner, ran the main store. My dad ran the guitar shop, which was a ratty little hole around the corner.

Yardleys was a common drop-in for musicians working in or passing through the midlands, and one of my dad's favourite visitors was Muff Winwood.

Dad was covering for the boss up at the main store one day, when Muff's little brother Stevie dropped in. Stevie was probably about 15 at the time.

There was an electric organ and a Leslie in the keyboard area, and he asked my dad if they could plug it in. While my dad was helping him set it up, Stevie explained that he'd always been curious about keyboards, and fancied trying one out.

Once they had it plugged in, Winwood began to tentatively pick out a few notes, obviously fumbling to figure out the pitch relationships between the white and black keys. After about 10 minutes, he began to falteringly pick out a few melodic phrases. Over the next while he gradually improved, until he was rocking out as though he'd been playing keys for years.

My dad was absolutely flabbergasted at how quickly this scrawny kid picked it up, and spent the next couple of weeks telling anybody who would listen about Muff's amazing little brother.

You can imagine my dad's embarrassment the next time Muff was in the store, and explained that his brother was something of a con artist. Apparently Stevie had been taking piano lessons for years at that point, and the whole thing was a charade that he liked to pull on unsuspecting salesmen...

After he got over the fact that he'd been so thoroughly conned by a teenager, my dad found the whole thing terrifically funny, and it became one of our favourite showbiz stories.