Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Jeff Scott]

I have an original Phase 100. The day I got it, I drilled a hole in it and installed a power supply connector so I wouldn’t need to use a battery. Then I tested it for the first time only to find that it didn’t work. It turned out to be a simple fix, a resistor leg wasn’t soldered.

I did something similar to my Phase 90, but far more crudely than your elegant solution. I scut a notch into the case with a triangular file and ran the battery clip to the outside of the case with it!

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My SO had to wear a rabbit suit for an even at work in the 80s. She got a bit claustrophobic in it so she pulled the head off, just like in your photo!

 

[GonePlaid]

Opening day of baseball season and the Marlins are already 3 games out.

 

[GonePlaid]

Toast *points*??!?!? How precious. We were lucky if they set the toaster dark enough to not get merely warm bread.

Yeah, well, it was either burnt to a crisp or slightly warm.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I did something similar to my Phase 90, but far more crudely than your elegant solution. I cut a notch into the case with a triangular file and ran the battery clip to the outside of the case with it! !

Have you put vintage knobs on your new one yet?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Opening day of baseball season and the Marlins are already 3 games out.

are they allowing fans in the stadium?

 

[Charlie Tango]

are they allowing fans in the stadium?

Now, that's funny! They didn't have enough fans to field two football teams for games last year when there wasn't a pandemic, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that governor there urged people to go to games now. But I think it's a decision by MLB. What a hoot it would be to see more than a couple dozen people there for a Marlins game.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Now, that's funny! They didn't have enough fans to field two football teams for games last year when there wasn't a pandemic, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that governor there urged people to go to games now. But I think it's a decision by MLB. What a hoot it would be to see more than a couple dozen people there for a Marlins game.

Then there are paper fans with it being hot in Florida and all. But they would just blow the covid around.

 

[GonePlaid]

are they allowing fans in the stadium?

There weren't any before so to them it seems normal.

 

[GonePlaid]

Now, that's funny! They didn't have enough fans to field two football teams for games last year when there wasn't a pandemic, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that governor there urged people to go to games now. But I think it's a decision by MLB. What a hoot it would be to see more than a couple dozen people there for a Marlins game.

My daughter and I like the (Devil) Rays. They, like some other teams, have a deal where they'll put your pic on a cutout and put it in the seats. We're thinkin' about it. I'm hoping we could get them to put them in our favorite seats out in left field. We'll see.

 

[steve_rolfeca]

My SO had to wear a rabbit suit for an event at work in the 80s. She got a bit claustrophobic in it so she pulled the head off, just like in your photo!

I was in a crappy rock band in Toronto in the late '70's. The guitarist/keyboard player's borrowed gear kept crapping out on the gig, we kept getting stiffed for our cut of the door, and all the usual drama.

The final straw came when they hooked up with the original promoter for the Mynah Birds.

He promised us all kinds of gigs, as long as we did a few favours for him. The gigs were a nightmare, because he didn't give a flying @#$! about where we played.

We were a straight-ahead hard rock act, and our first date turned out to be a flashy disco in Burlington. Our James Band and Bad Company covers didn't go down very well.

The next was three nights at a punk club, on Bloor St in Toronto. We began our set, and the skinheads started spitting on us and throwing beer bottles. On the third night, I cut my hand on broken glass that had landed on top of my amp. That was also the night we found out that the band was responsible for their share of the PA rental, so most of our money went up in smoke.

I was getting a double cut because I was the only band member with a van, but even then, I ended up with $13 for three nights. I immediately quit, and went back to playing weddings in Hamilton.

Anyway, it turned out that promoter's main schtick was engagements at department stores. He had two mynah's that he billed as "killer mynah birds", a Mynah Byrd mascot suit, and a red carpet.

He would have his bands walk around downtown in their stage outfits, handing out pamphlets for the show. Then he'd walk them up the red carpet ("Folks, please put your hands together for the amazing Mynah Birds, fresh from Las Vegas!!!"). With that bit of theater out of the way, he would spin a story about how the male mynah bird only mates once because the female kills him afterward, and then invite the audience to pay $5 each to touch the birds for good luck.

The first of these engagements was in Kitchener, but the new bass player refused to go. They offered to buy my girlfriend and I lunch and pay me $50 up front if I would fill in, and I agreed to go- but only if I could wear the mascot outfit.

They all thought I was crazy to volunteer, but there was method to my madness. Standing up on the runway while a bunch of little old ladies stared at them was extremely embarassing, but that suit made me completely anonymous...

 

[GonePlaid]

Here's a story from the 'less permissive' days of the early 60's. A group of college girls was given this scenario: you've just stepped out of the shower when a bunch of frat boys stage a 'panty raid'. You are completely unclothed and the only thing at your disposal is a hand towel. Do you cover your upper portion or your lower? One girl answered "Neither. I'd cover my head. They'd see everything, but not know whose it was."

 

[Jeff Scott]

Have you put vintage knobs on your new one yet?

Not, yet. I think it has a vintage style knob, already, but there is this "speed thingy" over it that I haven't bothered to remove. All I have done so far was to plug in, turn on, and do a quick test to make sure everything worked and sounded as expectorated® [sic].

 

[GwenOnBass]

Now it seems to me there is a discussion of what we have worn / will wear again? on stage. And some discussion of Annie Oakley's ill-begotten wages of sin Talks to an Empty Chair Guy. So it would seem today I ran a touch of laundry for my rauna, gifted me by a Colombian friend these 40 years ago. It is not a Sears poncho! What it is is right here, drying in the sunshine

 

[bobyoung53]

RIP Peter Green

 

[ahc]

RIP Peter Green.

Fleetwood Mac blues guitarist Peter Green dies at 73

 

[ahc]

Oops... hit reply just after @bobyoung53 posted.

 

[bobyoung53]

Oops... hit reply just after @bobyoung53 posted.

Ya gotta be quick around here

 

[bobyoung53]

Live at The Boston Tea Party, really good version, great sound.:

 

[ahc]

Ya gotta be quick around here

I'm grumpy, old AND slow.

 

[bobyoung53]

I'm grumpy, old AND slow.

I'm grumpy and old, but quick!