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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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Billy's bass techniques and style of music is not really my thing, but he seems so down to earth. Very articulate and interesting. Plus a great story on his basses and references to the old days. Thanks for posting.

He can play straight bass as well. Watch him in the studio, he works fast and hard to nail it.

 
From another thread, but useful here too.
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Life was dangerous enough building the railroad. The rain, the snow, and pumas in the crevasses. At $1 a day for a chinese worker and $1.50-$2.50 for a white worker, it’s surprising that protesters today aren’t out tearing down the railroad lines. I suppose it’s because there aren’t media cameras* out in the wilderness.

* I saw a protest last weekend. Never seen anything more scripted. The group was quietly standing with the placards. As soon as the cameras starting rolling, they erupted with their anger and chants. The instant the media started to leave, they disbanded. At first I thought it was a movie set but it wasn’t, it was in the news. It’s amazing how sheep have a need to follow and be manipulated. No conviction. All for a media moment. What does that say about anything in the media.

Back to the pumas, there are always predators like C.M.O.T. Dibbler on the stump selling low grade subsistence products to those that have very little.


My wife and I vacationed in Buenos Aires a few years ago for a week, and one night we were eating in a little restaurant and all of a sudden we were smack dab right in the middle of a big protest. We had noticed that there had been a lot of people walking around that evening but that had seemed kind of usual in that city anyway. All of a sudden thousands of people showed up banging big drums and chanting, yelling etc but in unison. The restaurant filled up with people yelling and shouting and the protest itself was on TV while we were there and they loved it. It was VERY entertaining for a while but we did get sick of the noise and jostling after an hour or so and left, we had to walk probably a mile from the area until we could get a taxi home, the streets everywhere were mobbed with people. They were really into it too:laugh: and I guess they are fairly common there. I forgot what it was about, something like the government had put some crooked politicians in jail and were now letting them out early. It's a beautiful city by the way, really nice antique, classic looking architecture.
 
My wife and I vacationed in Buenos Aires a few years ago for a week, and one night we were eating in a little restaurant and all of a sudden we were smack dab right in the middle of a big protest. We had noticed that there had been a lot of people walking around that evening but that had seemed kind of usual in that city anyway. All of a sudden thousands of people showed up banging big drums and chanting, yelling etc but in unison. The restaurant filled up with people yelling and shouting and the protest itself was on TV while we were there and they loved it. It was VERY entertaining for a while but we did get sick of the noise and jostling after an hour or so and left, we had to walk probably a mile from the area until we could get a taxi home, the streets everywhere were mobbed with people. They were really into it too:laugh: and I guess they are fairly common there. I forgot what it was about, something like the government had put some crooked politicians in jail and were now letting them out early. It's a beautiful city by the way, really nice antique, classic looking architecture.

The joke as I heard it goes — in communist countries, politicians go to prison before they become politicians.
 
My wife and I vacationed in Buenos Aires a few years ago for a week, and one night we were eating in a little restaurant and all of a sudden we were smack dab right in the middle of a big protest. We had noticed that there had been a lot of people walking around that evening but that had seemed kind of usual in that city anyway. All of a sudden thousands of people showed up banging big drums and chanting, yelling etc but in unison. The restaurant filled up with people yelling and shouting and the protest itself was on TV while we were there and they loved it. It was VERY entertaining for a while but we did get sick of the noise and jostling after an hour or so and left, we had to walk probably a mile from the area until we could get a taxi home, the streets everywhere were mobbed with people. They were really into it too:laugh: and I guess they are fairly common there. I forgot what it was about, something like the government had put some crooked politicians in jail and were now letting them out early. It's a beautiful city by the way, really nice antique, classic looking architecture.

Well, what we are going thru here, at present, makes me want to stay at home and hope it all passes really soon.
 
இது மிகவும் நன்றாக இருந்தது. பகுதிகள் ஒரு வாரத்திற்கு ஒரு குடும்பத்திற்கு உணவளிக்கக்கூடும்.
Same to you, buddy! :D (I have not run it through the Universal Translator, yet)
 
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