Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[beans-on-toast]

Wednesday (whatever that is) is as good a day for a proper grump

because I'm freshly back from the doctor's office and a diagnosis of moderate arthritis in my left elbow. Not a great deal to be done. There's physical therapy, and a brace. Have instructions for the PT, and some complimentary surgical tube. On the plus side (I guess?) the x-ray technician remembers me. Pretty much the same arthritis that took both knees and a foot.

Arthritis is a pain. Lift your full pint (for the weight) Guinness with your left hand. Exercise, sedate, exercise, sedate.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Anybody ever get a wild rabbit up your donkey?

I do have all my ducts in a row.

 

[ahc]

Wild (sounds like "hare") up your uhhh, posterior?

 

[GwenOnBass]

Wild (sounds like "hare") up your uhhh, posterior?

And in 1520. And 1620, apparently.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

 

[Jeff Scott]

I learned about this site this morning:

Building Technology Heritage Library : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

Now I know what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my life!

Some examples:

Physical Instruments Apparatus and Supplies : Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Apparatus Co., c1931. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Catalogue of billiard and bar supplies, saloon fittings furniture and general information : comprising the latest recipes ... intended as a standard book of reference for the billiard and bar trade / compiled by Geo. H. Stevens. : B. A. Stevens Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Ramsay's architectural catalogue : a compendium and filing system of catalogues of manufacturers and suppliers of building materials and equipment / edited by Ramsay Standard Catalogue Service. : Ramsay Standard Catalogue Service : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Manufacturers of engineering, surveying, mining and nautical instruments : drawing materials, field equipment. : A. Lietz Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Street lighting catalog, 1936-1937. : General Electric Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Street lighting transformers. : General Electric Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

 

[BassmanPaul]

I remember my Lionheart days. Moving all our gear was an adventure.

Large set of drums.
A pair of Altec A7 Voice of the Theatre cabinets each with a massive Altec horn atop.
PA rack with IIRC BGW power amps.
Twin 15 bass speaker cabinet with my 150W tube amp.
Fender Twin guitar amp.
Fender Rhodes piano
Massive ARP Synth .
Smaller ARP Synth.
Hammond Porta B organ and Leslie.
4x12 speaker cabinet with a 100W amplifier.
Light stands one for each side of the stage with three floods for each side.
Light control box I built with such switches for each colour.
Four 12" vocal monitors.
Bunch of different stands.

AH! Those were the days!

 

[Jeff Scott]

I remember my Lionheart days. Moving all our gear was an adventure.

Large set of drums.
A pair of Altec A7 Voice of the Theatre cabinets each with a massive Altec horn atop.
PA rack with IIRC BGW power amps.
Twin 15 bass speaker cabinet with my 150W tube amp.
Fender Twin guitar amp.
Fender Rhodes piano
Massive ARP Synth .
Smaller ARP Synth.
Hammond Porta B organ and Leslie.
4x12 speaker cabinet with a 100W amplifier.
Light stands one for each side of the stage with three floods for each side.
Light control box I built with such switches for each colour.
Four 12" vocal monitors.
Bunch of different stands.

AH! Those were the days!

How about four sets of these?

 

[beans-on-toast]

I learned about this site this morning:

Building Technology Heritage Library : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

Now I know what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my life!

Some examples:

Physical Instruments Apparatus and Supplies : Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Apparatus Co., c1931. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Catalogue of billiard and bar supplies, saloon fittings furniture and general information : comprising the latest recipes ... intended as a standard book of reference for the billiard and bar trade / compiled by Geo. H. Stevens. : B. A. Stevens Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Ramsay's architectural catalogue : a compendium and filing system of catalogues of manufacturers and suppliers of building materials and equipment / edited by Ramsay Standard Catalogue Service. : Ramsay Standard Catalogue Service : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Manufacturers of engineering, surveying, mining and nautical instruments : drawing materials, field equipment. : A. Lietz Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Street lighting catalog, 1936-1937. : General Electric Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Street lighting transformers. : General Electric Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Cool isn’t it. I can only imagine the acres of servers that they must occupy.

I find that the wayback machine internet archive (http://web.archive.org) is particularly good when web sites have disappeared. They can be found there.

 

[GonePlaid]

I learned about this site this morning:

Building Technology Heritage Library : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

Now I know what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my life!

Some examples:

Physical Instruments Apparatus and Supplies : Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Apparatus Co., c1931. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Catalogue of billiard and bar supplies, saloon fittings furniture and general information : comprising the latest recipes ... intended as a standard book of reference for the billiard and bar trade / compiled by Geo. H. Stevens. : B. A. Stevens Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Ramsay's architectural catalogue : a compendium and filing system of catalogues of manufacturers and suppliers of building materials and equipment / edited by Ramsay Standard Catalogue Service. : Ramsay Standard Catalogue Service : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Manufacturers of engineering, surveying, mining and nautical instruments : drawing materials, field equipment. : A. Lietz Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Street lighting catalog, 1936-1937. : General Electric Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Street lighting transformers. : General Electric Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

 

[GonePlaid]

New self portrait:

 

[beans-on-toast]

I remember my Lionheart days. Moving all our gear was an adventure. AH! Those were the days!

Roadies can be high maintenance.

 

[Jeff Scott]

I find that the wayback machine internet archive (http://web.archive.org) is particularly good when web sites have disappeared. They can be found there.

I'd only gone to the WBM in the past to look for old Stickley catalogs, and to see if they had my old photo lab pages (they do).

black and white film developing and processing and custom black and white printing photo lab Labwork - The Black & White Lab

Bye, all y'all, I got a lot of "catching up" to do!

 

[Haroldo]

Anybody ever get a wild rabbit up your donkey?

Occasionally, along with the odd bustle in my hedgerow.

 

[LBS-bass]

I remember my Lionheart days. Moving all our gear was an adventure.

Large set of drums.
A pair of Altec A7 Voice of the Theatre cabinets each with a massive Altec horn atop.
PA rack with IIRC BGW power amps.
Twin 15 bass speaker cabinet with my 150W tube amp.
Fender Twin guitar amp.
Fender Rhodes piano
Massive ARP Synth .
Smaller ARP Synth.
Hammond Porta B organ and Leslie.
4x12 speaker cabinet with a 100W amplifier.
Light stands one for each side of the stage with three floods for each side.
Light control box I built with such switches for each colour.
Four 12" vocal monitors.
Bunch of different stands.

AH! Those were the days!

And the three trucks to move it all!

 

[LBS-bass]

Roadies can be high maintenance.

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All those guys would be working at Guitar Center today (referencing most recent GC bash fest).

 

[BassmanPaul]

And the three trucks to move it all!

Actually we bought a used Chevy van and brush painted it black!!

 

[BassmanPaul]

Roadies can be high maintenance.

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We didn't have any just the four of us in the band.

 

[Polish Thunder]

Roadies can be high maintenance.

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Roadie?

I thought this was a picture of a younger Axel Rose when he was not an egotistical jerk...

 

[beans-on-toast]

Actually we bought a used Chevy van and brush painted it black!!

At one time bands used to covet a milkman’s type delivery truck. They could be had for a bargain price.