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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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99Z3 said:
I am sure that you learned pretty quick that the biggest word in the world in that environment is "NO"!
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Yep, I was well schooled before I went in there. No eye or vocal contact with the general population, nothing but straight business. My trusty escort had to maintain something like a 10 ft. distance from me at all times, all tools logged in and out, the whole 9 yards.
 
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agedhorse said:
I did a gig at a prison about 30 years ago, providing sound for Bonnie Raitt as part of a Bread & Roses tour. Not a place I would want to stay for one second more than I had to.
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Passinwind said:
Yep, I was well schooled before I went in there. No eye or vocal contact with the general population, nothing but straight business. My trusty escort had to maintain something like a 10 ft. distance from me at all times, all tools logged in and out, the whole 9 yards.
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Try 8-16 hours a day!
 
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I missed a whole page of posts...

Jerry Garcia played Oklahoma State Prison I believe it was. One of the better sounding reals floating around in the open. I always wondered who was in the prison that brought him there. IIRC, one of the historians placed the date of the event different than what the recording is typically labeled, and it meant he played three different locations. That would take some motivation which leads me to believe something motivated him, possibly a friend in the clink.

It's starting to come back to me, the website Jerry G's middle finger I think documented the three gigs one day theory.
 
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agedhorse said:
I did a gig at a prison about 30 years ago, providing sound for Bonnie Raitt as part of a Bread & Roses tour. Not a place I would want to stay for one second more than I had to.
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spankdaplank said:
I had a musician friend (really) who did some time. There was some musical instruments in their rec room - medium security joint, I think. Anyway he started a prison band. Which of course begs the question - Did they play JAILHOUSE ROCK? I actually asked that question while talking to him on the telephone handset through the glass.

Well... Yes! Of course.
Epilogue: He's on the straight and narrow now and has been for 10 years.
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My cousin's been working at B&R for a few decades now, great organization.

I did a few service calls many many years ago at a county lockup in CT for their intercom system, it did make me really want to get my work done extra fast, for sure.
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Passinwind said:
Yep, I was well schooled before I went in there. No eye or vocal contact with the general population, nothing but straight business. My trusty escort had to maintain something like a 10 ft. distance from me at all times, all tools logged in and out, the whole 9 yards.
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Never played a prison. But I had my first book published by Mississippi Prison Industries. When I went to pick them up it was funny. I told the main guy that all the prisoners who worked on the book could get a free book. He replied "They already have." HA HA
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
I've got a 2003 Toyota Corolla LE. It's got 90,000 on it and all it's ever asked for is new oil and windshield wiper fluid. Oh wait. I have changed the tires and the battery once. And it was questionable that I needed to change the battery. In our family, when cars start requiring excessive maintenance we sell and buy up. I'm the least mechanically inclined you will ever meet.
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My cousin, Jimbo, sold me a 1979 Toyota Corolla hatch back for $300 in 1989 when I was in college. Indestructible; had to change the brake pads once. I worked industrial roofing in Texas during the summers and got paid mileage between jobs. Called it the 'Ginni as in Lamberginni… Best investment ever, got more tail in that thing (seats lean all the way back!).
Also, easy to break into if your so drunk you lock your keys in you're car,
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fnordlyone said:
My cousin, Jimbo, sold me a 1979 Toyota Corolla hatch back for $300 in 1989 when I was in college. Indestructible; had to change the brake pads once. I worked industrial roofing in Texas during the summers and got paid mileage between jobs. Called it the 'Ginni as in Lamberginni… Best investment ever, got more tail in that thing (seats lean all the way back!).
Also, easy to break into if your so drunk you lock your keys in you're car,
f!
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I like your style!
 
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BadExample said:
and a few that didn't work on it, and a few for friends, and...
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Yeah, and I was cool with that - one way to get a book out there instantly.

It was strange, I had had no luck finding a printer at the time - at least one without outrageous shipping charges and delays, and never could seem to get the connection with the right printer. So I was practicing neigong meditative form and it all of a sudden came to me, "Turn a negative into a positive" and the book will be printed. Of course I said to myself, "WTheck does that mean?" The next morning I picked up the telephone book and opened it up and right there in front of me, on the page I opened it to, was an ad for the prison industries printer. Then I had a "DOH" moment; Turn a negative into a positive - it went like clockwork. This was back in 1999.
 
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I don't watch the news.. but I was watching the recorded drag race quals from this past weekend.. it is today that I found out that a Navy Blue Angels past away! I am sad.. I can remember when I was in Pensacola Fl. I would watch them practice almost every day!

Capt Kuss USMC
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