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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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GwenOnBass said:
My poultice today is brown paper and vinegar. And a boot. A plastic affair with a removable lining. Ski outfits thunk this up 50 years ago. What a modern ski boot manufacturer can kick off the line in no time at all is subject to a completely different set of rules and regulations as a medical device

Anyway it's a boot

(the difference between medical oxygen and industrial oxygen is the colour of the paint on the tank :speechless: )

and I can sort of walk in it and stuff. There's a pump so my right foot is in a mobile bouncy castle. Geriatric medicine and sports medicine is what's practiced all under one tent

The "coffee bad" meme didn't wash here, but I'm allowed to shower again. The super-secret writing on my shoulder is gone, courtesy of rubbing alcohol and a cosmetics pad. Leg to-morrow, when I remove the bandages.

Forgot to eat today but that's rectified. That red tomato sauce stuff by any name is :vomit: to me unless desperate. I really enjoy the tastes of some alcoholic drinks. What I don't so much enjoy is being drunk. Oh <ahem> that drunk. Same as eating. I enjoy some things to eat, but never to the point of holiday dinner full. That doesn't feel good to me, but on the chance it does feel good one day I have that capacity :drool:
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Reminds of Ron White's line when told he had the right to remain silent:"I had the right, not the ability."
 
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GwenOnBass said:
...And a boot. A plastic affair with a removable lining. Ski outfits thunk this up 50 years ago. What a modern ski boot manufacturer can kick off the line in no time at all is subject to a completely different set of rules and regulations as a medical device

Anyway it's a boot...
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Don't recall, left or right?

If left, I have a spare one you can borrow (pay me on Thursday). Hope you like grey...............
 
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Jeff Scott said:
IIRC, it was mentioned that it is a sensation(al) kind of thing more than it is audible. Like an audible illusion.

Audible Illusions | Music Excellence Pure and Simple

A friend of my has a Modulus 3B.
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A bass amp that has an extended high end allows harmonics to provide what I call some sparkle to the sound. You don’t hear it but it adds certain quality to what the brain processes to make a happy feeling. I kid you not.
 
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GwenOnBass said:
My poultice today is brown paper and vinegar. And a boot. A plastic affair with a removable lining. Ski outfits thunk this up 50 years ago. What a modern ski boot manufacturer can kick off the line in no time at all is subject to a completely different set of rules and regulations as a medical device

Anyway it's a boot

(the difference between medical oxygen and industrial oxygen is the colour of the paint on the tank :speechless: )

and I can sort of walk in it and stuff. There's a pump so my right foot is in a mobile bouncy castle. Geriatric medicine and sports medicine is what's practiced all under one tent

The "coffee bad" meme didn't wash here, but I'm allowed to shower again. The super-secret writing on my shoulder is gone, courtesy of rubbing alcohol and a cosmetics pad. Leg to-morrow, when I remove the bandages.

Forgot to eat today but that's rectified. That red tomato sauce stuff by any name is :vomit: to me unless desperate. I really enjoy the tastes of some alcoholic drinks. What I don't so much enjoy is being drunk. Oh <ahem> that drunk. Same as eating. I enjoy some things to eat, but never to the point of holiday dinner full. That doesn't feel good to me, but on the chance it does feel good one day I have that capacity :drool:
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So far, so good. Are you allowed to take it off at night when asleep?
 
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beans-on-toast said:
A bass amp that has an extended high end allows harmonics to provide what I call some sparkle to the sound. You don’t hear it but it adds certain quality to what the brain processes to make a happy feeling. I kid you not.
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Certainly. Similar principal to have an extended FR on any audio electronics as it feeds "downwind", so to speak.
 
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beans-on-toast said:
So far, so good. Are you allowed to take it off at night when asleep?
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Oh yeah, I can sleep with it off! (right foot)

While it remains to be seen if I truly have audiophile ears, I am perfectly willing to be a test subject :drool:
 
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Jeff Scott said:
Certainly. Similar principal to have an extended FR on any audio electronics as it feeds "downwind", so to speak.
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Geoff Emmerick used to tell a story about a Neve recording console installed at George Martin’s Montserrat studio. Rupert Neve describes it here, page 60. Geoff insisted that something was off on certain channels. They hooded up some test equipment and found that there was 3db peak at 54kHz. He could perceive it even though he couldn’t hear it.

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ahc said:
All this talk about organs reminds me of (no... not that) Virgil Fox. Way back in the stoned age it wasn't uncommon to alter one's state and delve into some "Heavy Organ".





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Heavy Organ was a bit of brilliance on the part of Bill Graham, of Fillmore East and West renown. In the late 60s he booked Virgil Fox, a classical organ virtuoso, into one of the Fillmores. On the marquee was "Heavy Organ - Virgil Fox - Pablo (or somebody) Lights." All the heepies saw that and resolved that they couldn't miss something like that. "Heavy, man. And a light show." The organ was a custom electronic classical organ made by Rodgers, that they called a Touring Organ. It had a blue quadrillion (a whole freakin' lotta, and some of them enormous) speaker cabinets set out on stage, and a huge screen at stage rear. In a cloud of pot smoke the house lights go down, stage lights up, and a spot hits one of the wings. Into the light bounds a rather diminutive older man wearing a tux, a formal cape with red satin lining and shoes with rhinestone-encrusted heels, the better to catch the lights as his feet moved over the pedals. Well, the heepies saw that and just had to disappointedly look at each other and say, "Oh wow, man." Then Virgil shed the cape, slid onto the bench, and blew them into the back wall of the auditorium, while blobs of light played on the screen. A mostly-Bach program, and Virgil Fox had them in the palm of his hand. He would explain the music between numbers in his inimitable and eccentric way, completely natural and genuine, and they ate it up. It was at one of the Fillmore concerts that what became a tradition began. In Bach's Fugue a la Gigue, also known as the Jig Fugue, or The Dancing Organist, the theme is played three times by hands alone, then it is repeated in the pedals. It's quite lively. After the pedals, the audience applauded they way they do after a solo in a jazz group. But then they clapped to the beat in unison for the rest of the entire piece. At the conclusion, they yelled and cheered. Virgil was controversial in the stuffy classical organ world because he offended the purists by playing Bach with feeling. To get such a reception as he got that night must have been revelatory, because Heavy Organ became A Thing. I saw him a couple of times. He would play midnight concerts at Wolftrap Center for the Performing Arts, nearby. Clap-clap-clap to the Jig Fugue. It was loud as hell, even back up on the hill. I think I have all of the above set out correctly. Those concerts were happenings.
 
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Charlie Tango said:
Heavy Organ was a bit of brilliance on the part of Bill Graham, of Fillmore East and West renown. In the late 60s he booked Virgil Fox, a classical organ virtuoso, into one of the Fillmores. On the marquee was "Heavy Organ - Virgil Fox - Pablo (or somebody) Lights." All the heepies saw that and resolved that they couldn't miss something like that. "Heavy, man. And a light show." The organ was a custom electronic classical organ made by Rodgers, that they called a Touring Organ. It had a blue quadrillion (a whole freakin' lotta, and some of them enormous) speaker cabinets set out on stage, and a huge screen at stage rear. In a cloud of pot smoke the house lights go down, stage lights up, and a spot hits one of the wings. Into the light bounds a rather diminutive older man wearing a tux, a formal cape with red satin lining and shoes with rhinestone-encrusted heels, the better to catch the lights as his feet moved over the pedals. Well, the heepies saw that and just had to disappointedly look at each other and say, "Oh wow, man." Then Virgil shed the cape, slid onto the bench, and blew them into the back wall of the auditorium, while blobs of light played on the screen. A mostly-Bach program, and Virgil Fox had them in the palm of his hand. He would explain the music between numbers in his inimitable and eccentric way, completely natural and genuine, and they ate it up. It was at one of the Fillmore concerts that what became a tradition began. In Bach's Fugue a la Gigue, also known as the Jig Fugue, or The Dancing Organist, the theme is played three times by hands alone, then it is repeated in the pedals. It's quite lively. After the pedals, the audience applauded they way they do after a solo in a jazz group. But then they clapped to the beat in unison for the rest of the entire piece. At the conclusion, they yelled and cheered. Virgil was controversial in the stuffy classical organ world because he offended the purists by playing Bach with feeling. To get such a reception as he got that night must have been revelatory, because Heavy Organ became A Thing. I saw him a couple of times. He would play midnight concerts at Wolftrap Center for the Performing Arts, nearby. Clap-clap-clap to the Jig Fugue. It was loud as hell, even back up on the hill. I think I have all of the above set out correctly. Those concerts were happenings.
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It's quite a bit to hold.

Sort of like a musical olympic torch goes from city to city over time and nobody knows where it'll light up next.
 
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Charlie Tango said:
Heavy Organ was a bit of brilliance on the part of Bill Graham, of Fillmore East and West renown. In the late 60s he booked Virgil Fox, a classical organ virtuoso, into one of the Fillmores. On the marquee was "Heavy Organ - Virgil Fox - Pablo (or somebody) Lights." All the heepies saw that and resolved that they couldn't miss something like that. "Heavy, man. And a light show." The organ was a custom electronic classical organ made by Rodgers, that they called a Touring Organ. It had a blue quadrillion (a whole freakin' lotta, and some of them enormous) speaker cabinets set out on stage, and a huge screen at stage rear. In a cloud of pot smoke the house lights go down, stage lights up, and a spot hits one of the wings. Into the light bounds a rather diminutive older man wearing a tux, a formal cape with red satin lining and shoes with rhinestone-encrusted heels, the better to catch the lights as his feet moved over the pedals. Well, the heepies saw that and just had to disappointedly look at each other and say, "Oh wow, man." Then Virgil shed the cape, slid onto the bench, and blew them into the back wall of the auditorium, while blobs of light played on the screen. A mostly-Bach program, and Virgil Fox had them in the palm of his hand. He would explain the music between numbers in his inimitable and eccentric way, completely natural and genuine, and they ate it up. It was at one of the Fillmore concerts that what became a tradition began. In Bach's Fugue a la Gigue, also known as the Jig Fugue, or The Dancing Organist, the theme is played three times by hands alone, then it is repeated in the pedals. It's quite lively. After the pedals, the audience applauded they way they do after a solo in a jazz group. But then they clapped to the beat in unison for the rest of the entire piece. At the conclusion, they yelled and cheered. Virgil was controversial in the stuffy classical organ world because he offended the purists by playing Bach with feeling. To get such a reception as he got that night must have been revelatory, because Heavy Organ became A Thing. I saw him a couple of times. He would play midnight concerts at Wolftrap Center for the Performing Arts, nearby. Clap-clap-clap to the Jig Fugue. It was loud as hell, even back up on the hill. I think I have all of the above set out correctly. Those concerts were happenings.
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I remember those shows at Wolf Trap but I never made it to one. IIRC I think the Fillmore light shows were by "Joshua". I could be wrong, I could be senile. :)
 
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