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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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...but if you do.....no tongues!....
Eeeeeewwww.
That deserves a double
Eeewwww!
Thank gawd my late wife was with me when we visited O'Briens keep. I was half way out to maintain tradition.
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My back’s way too bad to even consider bending over backwards to attempt a stunt like that. And I don’t even like inserting my bank card into an ATM. You never know who’s been in there before you.
Or what the Cork teenagers did to it to get back at the tourists.
;[)
Hey, I played that Gretsch in a rehearsal tonight; she played and sounded great, and went over well with my bandmates, too. Drummer liked the sound. So I'm convinced I should keep her and her case arrived today.
I'm feeling a few limitations; I can't get much pop out if it, there's just not much real estate for me to work with under the strings to really pop with, if that makes any sense. But my string popping needs are few. The fingerboard radius is extremely flat, and that gets a little weird, but nothing i can't get used to. And the tonal range is good, but the usable range for what I do and the way I like to sound is pretty narrow. She sat pretty well in the mix tonight, but I'll be looking at some of those TV Jones replacement pickups at some point, I think, because of that.
Out of the box it's pretty useable and I think I'm going to take it to my gig on the boat this weekend, and also the one next weekend that I was rehearsing for tonight.
I'm feeling a few limitations; I can't get much pop out if it, there's just not much real estate for me to work with under the strings to really pop with, if that makes any sense. But my string popping needs are few. The fingerboard radius is extremely flat, and that gets a little weird, but nothing i can't get used to. And the tonal range is good, but the usable range for what I do and the way I like to sound is pretty narrow. She sat pretty well in the mix tonight, but I'll be looking at some of those TV Jones replacement pickups at some point, I think, because of that.
Out of the box it's pretty useable and I think I'm going to take it to my gig on the boat this weekend, and also the one next weekend that I was rehearsing for tonight.
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Given to understand the fingering on the flute is close to a sax? That's my recollection. Band seems so long ago. Probably a good thing we didn't listen to ourselves
Our client contacts for my first major account were known in as Good Doug and Evil Doug. Also known as Doug the Weasel.
Funny old thing, Evil Doug treated me to lunch in the park one day, Chinese takeout, to talk to me about my career. He did so in the knowledge of having done exactly my job before he got all promoted into infinity. He asked why are you still doing this? and I had to admit I didn't know what else to do. <shrug>
Last I looked Evil Doug is a minister now. And I don't do that now
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You said "case".
Gave up on hard shell cases so long ago. The original case for my Stingray served only for storage for years and years as I looked after my life. The Music Man gig bag in vinyl I bought in Hollywood (and it was a replacement for the first one) developed rusted zippers. That long.
Now using a Reunion Blues for the Ray, and convinced it's far better protection than the original case ever offered.There was a puma in the crevasse.
This should be strictly left to truckers!
If ever deserving of a Three Stooges boink
It takes me a while to get used to new instruments, especially if the neck is much narrower or the scale is different. In some cases like a Ric 12 string, mandolin, banjo, or uke, I have to work out different fingerings. There isn’t room to get your fingers in there. It can be like learning a new instrument. But you figure it out fairly quickly.
I don’t pop much either but I find that the strings make a difference. Bright round wounds seem to work best.
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Plenty of room to pop on a Stingray, and now they're available as short scale. (I'd rather have the Junior Jet. Wouldn't turn down a free Thunder Jet)
Last year I saw a nice place called Horse Island for sale in West Cork. A lovely area. It’s nice to dream.
Horse Island - Ireland, Europe - Private Islands for Sale
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A lot of Germans build summer cottages in remote areas of Ireland. Sometimes the cottages are let for off months. Even the Romans thought it was too cold and wet to stay long.
...has kissed the Blarney Stone 6 times...
It’s all about creating antibodies, kids.
Toughen the £¥€# UP!
Those of us with the correct lineage have no need to lay a liplock on that lithosphere.
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