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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Yeah, I almost edited that. It's a gig bag. I would be crazy to buy an actual hard case for a $300 instrument and hate them with a passion, too. All they do is take up space in my storage room.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.
If ever deserving of a Three Stooges boink
I'm sure you would......but, sadly, that particular Stone has rolled.....
My flute playing began with me using the flute that my dad kept in his tenor sax case. I used sax fingerings. Some of them are not the same. But they worked well enuff for my level of playing.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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My flute playing began with me using the flute that my dad kept in his tenor sax case. I used sax fingerings. Some of them are not the same. But they worked well enuff for my level of playing.
Isn’t clarinet fingering the same as a sax?
Almost. The upper register* is very close to being the same. The lower register is different by a 5th. This is why it's easy to learn sax after learning "squeak stick"; PITA the other way 'round. I started on clarinet, moved to bass clarinet-same an octave lower-then to the saxes, bari being my preference.
*notice I didn't say 'octave'.
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And grateful for Ian Anderson, speaking of flute. And a friend tells how she found herself kind of groovin' a bit, kind of wanting to tap her foot, in some public space (forgotten what, store, restaurant, &c). And realizes to her horror it is Locomotive Breath playing on the muzak. 
I'm good with the original, and did see Tull in concert "in the day".
I'm good with the original, and did see Tull in concert "in the day".
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There's apparently a market for vintage hard shell cases to go with the [Mr. Haney] Guaranteed [/Mr. Haney] pre-CBS Jazz Bass.
And grateful for Ian Anderson, speaking of flute. And a friend tells how she found herself kind of groovin' a bit, kind of wanting to tap her foot, in some public space (forgotten what, store, restaurant, &c). And realizes to her horror it is Locomotive Breath playing on the muzak.
I'm good with the original, and did see Tull in concert "in the day".
Saw "Tull" at the Miami Beach Convention Center ~69-70(?). Great concert. Double bill w/ "Mountain".
At one point, Anderson introduces their new piano player and says "we're gonna feature him on the introduction to our next song". Anderson is standing there, head bowed, kinda staring at the floor and realizes the follow spot is still on him. He looks up toward the back of the hall, gestures and hollers, "Hey! The Effing* piano player's over there!" The spot moved.
* he did not say "effing".
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And grateful for Ian Anderson, speaking of flute. And a friend tells how she found herself kind of groovin' a bit, kind of wanting to tap her foot, in some public space (forgotten what, store, restaurant, &c). And realizes to her horror it is Locomotive Breath playing on the muzak.
I'm good with the original, and did see Tull in concert "in the day".
That's funny - Muzak Tull.
Possible band name? A couple of friends and I decided at the last moment to go check out Ian and his cohorts. Walked in and bought SIXTH row tickets. It turned out that the promoter held back some nice seats for laggards such as us. It was a good show. Got to see and hear John Glascock on his precision bass - excellent. He played through a memorable Marshall rig in that it had folded horn cabinets. I never saw another...
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That's a killer bill! I never got a chance to see Mountain...
And grateful for Ian Anderson, speaking of flute. And a friend tells how she found herself kind of groovin' a bit, kind of wanting to tap her foot, in some public space (forgotten what, store, restaurant, &c). And realizes to her horror it is Locomotive Breath playing on the muzak.
I'm good with the original, and did see Tull in concert "in the day".
While being stationed at the Embassy in London my friend and I decided to drive north and attempt to see Mr. Anderson's bass (the fish) farm as we were avid bass (the fish) fishermen. Found the place easy enough but when I explained our reasoning we were summarily ushered back to our vehicle and told to leave. Two weeks later I was manning the welcome desk at said embassy and who should walk in but Mr. Anderson, Glen Corrnick, and Jeffrey wanting to get their passports updated. Being the huge Tull fan I was I knew exactly who was standing at my desk. I whipped out my Filmore West Jethro Tull ticket I carried with everywhere and explained about the visit 2 weeks ago asked them to sign it and I would have their updated passports post haste. Mr. Anderson looked at me and then broke into his grin and shouted "I love this guy! Bullocks and all!"
As they left Mr. Anderson broke into a rousing whistle chorus of Bouree.
My brush with fame.
Bob
I saw JT during the Passion Play tour (1973). The opening act was the other JT's brother, Livingston.
Here are 12 stringer guitars, 12/6 convertible guitars, madolins, thongs, mando guitars, bantars, banjolines..........
And, just for kicks, here's Chris Squire's rack gear from the 2013 Yes tour.
The above pictured Fireglo 366/12 belonged to David Bowie (recognize the fireplace?).
Here's something you don't see everyday, a prototype Rick 12 string guitar with an unual heastock and tuning key layout.
I don't recall Rickenbacker ever making a uke.
Here are 12 stringer guitars, 12/6 convertible guitars, madolins, thongs, mando guitars, bantars, banjolines..........
And, just for kicks, here's Chris Squire's rack gear from the 2013 Yes tour.
The above pictured Fireglo 366/12 belonged to David Bowie (recognize the fireplace?).
Here's something you don't see everyday, a prototype Rick 12 string guitar with an unual heastock and tuning key layout.
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And here is a replacement of said ticket. In 1990 our house burned and the original went "Poof". But what I paid for the replacement it might as well be the original. Oh and a pic of said Mr. Anderson.
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GOFs like to say By Cracky a lot
Rickenbacker/Electro String made an amazing variety of instruments over their history going back to 1931. Including electric (electrified) pianos, violins, EUBes, harps (Harpo Marx), archtop guitars (think Ken Roberts, Jazzbo, etc,), not to mention their vast array of lap, console, and pedal steel guitars (your favorite, I understand
).Quite an amazing company, and history, really. Even, connections in the early days to National resonators.
That Mando Guitar, above, is one of two that were ever made, the prototype 12 string guitar is the only one that I know of.
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We do, by cracky!
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