Hey! No peeing in the yard. Welcome.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Hey! No peeing in the yard. Welcome.
After checking the extensive book of rules....It would appear that you're completely unsuitable for this club....
So.....
Guess you'll just have to change your ways......
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Skip the EB0.
If you're fighting arm problems, you want a nice short reach. That means no Beatle basses, and no short-horn body styles.
If I was looking for a shortie, I would be talking to Brady Muckelroy or Scott Beckwith (Muckelroy and Birdsong). Best SS basses I've ever seen. Brady is particularly good when it comes to ergonomics.
This may seem out of left field, but have you looked at any of the new guitar-scale ABG's?
I picked up an Ibanez last year because of back problems, and then swapped it for a Guild. The Taylor are OK, too.
They are crazy light, and the reach to the first fret makes them almost absurdly easy to play.
If there's any chance at all that your problem is temporary, they make a great way to rest your body and preserve shoulder and arm function for your long-scale basses.
They also make an interesting creative outlet, with a warm, woody tone that sits in a perfect middle ground between electric bass and upright.
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Never cared for Bridge over Troubled Water.
Welcome! You'll fit right in!
Floating Bridge Over Troubled Water?.....
Here's a faster song with a beat.
The kids did it first. Paul took the performance concept and ran with it.
The kids did it first. Paul took the performance concept and ran with it.
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Here's the antidote:
British composer Malcolm Arnold recalled that he had "ten days to write around forty-five minutes worth of music" - much less time than he was used to. He described the music for The Bridge on the River Kwai as the "worst job I ever had in my life" from the point of view of time. Despite this, he won an Oscar and a Grammy.
A memorable feature of the film is the tune that is whistled by the POWs—the first strain of the march "Colonel Bogey"—when they enter the camp. Gavin Young recounts meeting Donald Wise, a former prisoner of the Japanese who had worked on the Burma Railway. Young: "Donald, did anyone whistle Colonel Bogey ... as they did in the film?" Wise: "I never heard it in Thailand. We hadn't much breath left for whistling. But in Bangkok I was told that David Lean, the film's director, became mad at the extras who played the prisoners—us—because they couldn't march in time. Lean shouted at them, 'For God's sake, whistle a march to keep time to.' And a bloke called George Siegatz ... —an expert whistler—began to whistle Colonel Bogey, and a hit was born."
The march was written in 1914 by Kenneth J. Alford, a pseudonym of British Bandmaster Frederick J. Ricketts. The Colonel Bogey strain was accompanied by a counter-melody using the same chord progressions, then continued with film composer Malcolm Arnold's own composition, "The River Kwai March," played by the off-screen orchestra taking over from the whistlers, though Arnold's march was not heard in completion on the soundtrack.
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I get it
Here's the antidote:
Comet will make you vomit
Floating Bridge Over Troubled Water?.....
Looking now for a new floating bridge replacement in burl.
Jetglo Rocks!
Mapleglo if the wood is figured. Although I prefer a straight grain without tone suppressing nodes of any sort.
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