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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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#283
I have been putting off joining in the fun, but you are havin way too much fun, and I am jealous.:p
I was born the year Leo introduced the P-bass so I qualify.
A few weeks ago a younger gal at a gig told me I looked like Clint Eastwood. My old fart answer was "you mean old and wrinkled?". :scowl::scowl:
Obviously over the hill, make jokes instead of trying to parlay that comment into something.
Well at least I get to gig once in a while. :):)
I like that comment above about being dead for a really long time, so enjoy playing while you can! Number please
 
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mntngrown said:
I have been putting off joining in the fun, but you are havin way too much fun, and I am jealous.:p
I was born the year Leo introduced the P-bass so I qualify.
A few weeks ago a younger gal at a gig told me I looked like Clint Eastwood. My old fart answer was "you mean old and wrinkled?". :scowl::scowl:
Obviously over the hill, make jokes instead of trying to parlay that comment into something.
Well at least I get to gig once in a while. :):)
I like that comment above about being dead for a really long time, so enjoy playing while you can! Number please
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Did she confuse you by having her natural teeth? :D

#68 mntngrown

What may have been exciting 20 years or so ago, now makes you wonder if you'll wind up on the evening news ;)
 
#285
Yeah, LOL, Sadly I'm at the point where the voice in my head says, "If she is interested in me, what's wrong with her?" A little more wine and I may get over that syndrome.
Old farts still boogie on the stage though. Check out Otis Rush on youtube. That old dog bass player was cool.
 
#287
Proof of 'Old': Got the black Ma Bell dial phone still in use - best sound quality in the house. Got the AM/FM tube radio still in use. Play the old albums on a 7' long Admiral stereo console record changer. Still have the first record purchased with my own money - Cream, Wheels of Fire.

Proof of 'Grumpy': A friend wanted to help his daughter out on a high school beauty pageant production with a theme of the 70's. We threw together Funk #49, LeGrange, and others. The named us 'the Geezers'. My 30 year old Pbass was the spring chicken amongst a couple of early 70's Les Paul Customs and an amazing late 60's Ludwig drum kit. Midway through final rehearsal the anemic little teeny boopers started complaining we were too loud. In order to vent, we sat in the back of the auditorium and heckled the old teacher that was running the show.

If this is quality GOFness, gimme my number.
 
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Ajapses said:
Proof of 'Old': Got the black Ma Bell dial phone still in use - best sound quality in the house. Got the AM/FM tube radio still in use. Play the old albums on a 7' long Admiral stereo console record changer. Still have the first record purchased with my own money - Cream, Wheels of Fire.

Proof of 'Grumpy': A friend wanted to help his daughter out on a high school beauty pageant production with a theme of the 70's. We threw together Funk #49, LeGrange, and others. The named us 'the Geezers'. My 30 year old Pbass was the spring chicken amongst a couple of early 70's Les Paul Customs and an amazing late 60's Ludwig drum kit. Midway through final rehearsal the anemic little teeny boopers started complaining we were too loud. In order to vent, we sat in the back of the auditorium and heckled the old teacher that was running the show.

If this is quality GOFness, gimme my number.
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You have won a special prize! As per my agreement much earlier you get a number closer to the top!

#35 Ajapses

As promised:

#69 wave rider
 
#289
I'm not sure what qualifies as "old" (though my three daughters constantly remind me that I am just that-- or maybe they are making me just that), though does it count if I sometimes get grumpy about my farts? I can fart, and my youngest daughter says "Eww". I say, "How do you know? You didn't even give it a chance to blossom!" But some, are truly "Eww" before I've even given them a chance. I just know they are failures. Does that count? :)
 
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Crazy_Climer said:
I'm not sure what qualifies as "old" (though my three daughters constantly remind me that I am just that-- or maybe they are making me just that), though does it count if I sometimes get grumpy about my farts? I can fart, and my youngest daughter says "Eww". I say, "How do you know? You didn't even give it a chance to blossom!" But some, are truly "Eww" before I've even given them a chance. I just know they are failures. Does that count? :)
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B-string said:
Do you know what a rotary dial phone is? Or that those 12" vinyl round things perceeded cassette tapes?
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Nevermind you are brave enough to list your age in your profile.

#70 Crazy_Climer
 
#293
When I was 30 I could pass for 23-24. When I was 40 I could pass for 30. By 50 I could pass for 45. Now at 64 (tomorrow) I might could pass for 58-60. Yeah, they say I look young for my age. Sure, if I manicure my beard I might not look a day over 60. Whoopee! And to think I was born twenty minutes ahead of my time.

Old and proud of it, I guess. I mean, whaddaya gonna do?
 
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B-string said:
Do you know what a rotary dial phone is?
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See my post above about a few years ago teaching my son and his friend how to use one. Add to the grumpy - just for grins, I lifted the receiver on my office desk phone to see if I could still pop the cradle switch to pulse dial. It won't do it. Damn the new phones!
 
#297
You've got to seize the line circuit which routes you to a Group selector. That operates the A relay that operates the B and C relays. This allows dial tone from a motorized generator to be induced into the line via the A relay coils. Dialling, or tapping the cradle, flaps the A armature, which has notches to lighten it's mass, which drives the Group selector vertical the same as dialled. It then hunts horizontally to find another available group and the sequence repeats for the second number dialled. And so on. Gawd I loved those days! Walking into a silent building full of racks of equipment and leaving behind a fully functional, and very noisy, telephone exchange.

<sigh> The good old days! Now that it's pretty much all electronic, pulse dialling is no more.

Edit for correctness: That B relay was slow to release and stayed operated while the A did flap! :D
 
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BassmanPaul said:
You've got to seize the line circuit which routes you to a Group selector. That operates the A relay that operates the B and C relays. This allows dial tone from a motorized generator to be induced into the line via the A relay coils. Dialling, or tapping the cradle, flaps the A armature, which has notches to lighten it's mass, which drives the Group selector vertical the same as dialled. It then hunts horizontally to find another available group and the sequence repeats for the second number dialled. And so on. Gawd I loved those days! Walking into a silent building full of racks of equipment and leaving behind a fully functional, and very noisy, telephone exchange.

<sigh> The good old days! Now that it's pretty much all electronic, pulse dialling is no more.

Edit for correctness: That B relay was slow to release and stayed operated while the A did flap! :D
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LOL I must be getting old. I think I actually know what he's talking about.
Food for thought. Put this same post in the effects thread and the young bucks will be scratching their heads for days trying to figure it out.;)
 
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