Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

Sure seen a lot of dawns for one who doesn't care to be up that early. Chasing dawn on a fight can be pretty interesting. I do rather like the view from altitude.

 

[Jeff Scott]

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The 39 Steps, eh?

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Given that my day starts between 5 and 6, I already do that. It isn’t so bad.

In Alaska the days are much shorter during the winter and much longer in the summer. When the sun reaches solstice in Sitka, for weeks the sky is just dark blue. But we Alaskans are used to going to work in the dark and going home in the dark. We've seen a great change in that as Spring is upon us and the days and evenings are getting longer. We're a tough lot- throw anything at us and we'll give it a whirl! LOL

 

[GwenOnBass]

The 39 Steps, eh?

Feather light dumplings save the day from spies as well as reducing my husband's grouchiness? Sign me up.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Certainly I know how long it stays light on Achill. It's not as far north as Alaska, though.

 

[beans-on-toast]

In Alaska the days are much shorter during the winter and much longer in the summer. When the sun reaches solstice in Sitka, for weeks the sky is just dark blue. But we Alaskans are used to going to work in the dark and going home in the dark. We've seen a great change in that as Spring is upon us and the days and evenings are getting longer. We're a tough lot- throw anything at us and we'll give it a whirl! LOL

It’s never like Sitka out east. In early December, sunrise is around 7:15 and sunset around 4:10. But in the winter you could have weeks of dull cloudy days without much sun. On a dull day, you might want to turn the lights on at 3PM. With a long work day, you start and finish the work day in the dark. The cold and ice makes it worse to contend with.

Come spring, there’s nothing like being out enjoying a sunny day.

 

[GwenOnBass]

But the same temperature on a spring day and an autumn day are different for our bodies.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

It’s never like Sitka out east. In early December, sunrise is around 7:15 and sunset around 4:10. But in the winter you could have weeks of dull cloudy days without much sun. On a dull day, you might want to turn the lights on at 3PM. With a long work day, you start and finish the work day in the dark. The cold and ice makes it worse to contend with.

Come spring, there’s nothing like being out enjoying a sunny day.

Amen brudda!

 

[the slug]

The 39 Steps, eh?

man, and I thought 12 steps was hard...…….

 

[the harp unstrung]

 

[Bard2dbone]

I'll MOSTLY shut up about military-ish stuff, because we HAVE played out that part of the conversation. But I have to vent on this part because it drove me nuts.

I always hated and disagreed with that % body fat calculation program. The USN lost many a good man because of that program. I am 6 foot even and if I tipped the scales 2 pounds over 200 pounds I would be in the fat boy program with a 13% true body fat. That is leaning towards un-survivability territory. Luckily my HMCM was reasonable and arranged every 6 months to have me dipped in the chair at Camp Pendleton. After I made HMCS I turned 40 and it no longer mattered. I never said I agreed with everything but the game had to be played. Just like High Year Tenure. #1 worst program ever developed. Lost 65% of the senior enlisted population in one fell swoop. You can join my unit anytime.
Bob

They had a gym on the base at Norfolk where, every month I could do the wet and dry weights for an accurate body fat. But the other three weeks a month, I'd do the 'rope and choke' method of waist minus neck vs height.

Based on that systems body fat I apparently lost and instantly regained about forty five pounds of fat every fourth week. My BFP's were written as (Basically anyway. There might have been slight variation.) 22 - 22 - 22 - 9 - 22 - 22 - 22 - 9 - 22 - 22 - 22 - 9 - 22 - 22 - ...You get the idea.

I'm 5'11" and a smidge. They wanted me no more than 200 lbs. I'm pretty sure my bones weigh more than that. My high school coach called me "one of nature's interior linemen".

 

[Jeff Scott]

man, and I thought 12 steps was hard...…….

 

[Bard2dbone]

Are you familiar with a piece of slang where if someone is doing a 12-step program, people just say that that person "is counting to twelve"?

I mean it made sense after the fact. But I was confused when I first heard it.

Not a month after I heard someone say it, I heard it in a song. Berkeley Hart's "Twelve"

The chorus has a seeming string of near non sense that counts to twelve as the beat comes around. I may not remember it perfectly. But it is something very like:

"It's no WONder that you want to TUne out anoTHER REAson you've heard beFORE you've heard enough
IF I'VE made you SICK, sorry I waS HAVING one more lATE night aNd I NEver inTENDED you to LIVE IN this hell
Viola. Don't go. I'm counting to Twelve."

 

[GwenOnBass]

We sure can count 12 bars of a head here on Blues Monday. Unless it's eight bars, or sixteen bars, or has a bridge and second ending, or just as many bars as you feel should be there this time around.

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[beans-on-toast]

Blues Monday

They lead with a piano and strings, the bluesy organ doesn’t come in till later in the song to build anticipation.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I got no Blues today...

...our 40th Wedding Anniversary.

We paused the whole affair right before our Vows so that our friend, Gary Helsley, could play this song...Our song...



Gary played this



as the recessional.

Celebration!

 

[GonePlaid]

We sure can count 12 bars of a head here on Blues Monday. Unless it's eight bars, or sixteen bars, or has a bridge and second ending, or just as many bars as you feel should be there this time around.

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When I hear a lot of the solo blues cats and I attempt to count the measures............well, I just give up. It's like they thought "OK, I'll come back in.......uh,.......here!"

 

[GonePlaid]

Blues Monday

They lead with a piano and strings, the bluesy Hammond and Leslie don’t come in till later in the song to build anticipation.

We used to do this in our group(2 guitars, drums, bass)-until the one guitarist's EHX B9 organ simulator pedal took a .

 

[beans-on-toast]

We used to do this in our group(2 guitars, drums, bass)-until the one guitarist's EHX B9 organ simulator pedal took a .

I like the B9 demo where they feature that song. It sounds hard to play.

That’s too expensive a pedal to not get fixed. With software based pedals, sometimes all they need is to get reflashed.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Saturday Reprise.

A couple of weeks ago I highlighted some songs recorded in a recreated 50's style studio, Sugar Ray's Vintage Recording Studio (Sugar Ray's Vintage Recording Studio). This is how songs were recorded in mono at SUN Studios.

You know how recordings go, this is how they come. In this video, they talk about the studio gear and the recording process starting with a single mic and then moving to multiple mics and how it changed things. Drummers and upright bass players had to play differently than they do today.

A very instructive video.

and now I know the secret sauce is matching shirts and hats for the studio cats.