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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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More or less made a career out of this ^
and persnickity on a scale best told over fine food and drink &c in person
but for the TL;DR version — words and music go together well
Did Odin have any treats for his birthday?
He prolly prefers @Morrighan 's slippers!Probably, a newpairquad of slippers for himself............
It’s not unusual for dogs to wear shoes in the snow. I suspect that they don’t chew their own shoes though. Another scent is always more desirable.
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Odin traded me a wool sock for a plushy raccoon toy.
I got out in late '74. I was mostly a traffic accident investigator, and there was plenty of typing to do after clearing a good crash. Or little fender-bender. But the Ft. Belvoir MPs only ever heard of manual Remingtons back then. MP desk clerks could make those things sit up and beg, when they weren't letting them cool off -- those guys could type juuust a bit fast -- and then there was me. Back in the traffic office at 0300, catching up on the paperwork. Slowly. Could have corrections, but no mistakes, strikeovers, ghosts or the like. Bad form, and the bird colonel Provost Marshal would let the major MP Ops Officer know, and he'd chew on the Traffic Officer 2nd looie that I reported to. It all flows downhill.
I was trying out the new Singsnap tonight. Just fooling around with this song...
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Sounds good! I never heard of that website.
Thanks @StereoPlayer ! I've been singing there for about 15 years. Sadly when they converted to HTML6 and got rid of Flash, they lost hundreds of songs I recorded. Ah well, time to move on I guess.... it's a fun place to sing.
Yup, the other songs wouldn’t load up. I’d probably break the site if I sang there!
Your voice adds to the ambience of an old club performance. The song dates back to 1934.
It was an Orthophonic Recording. They used a Western Electric microphone instead of an acoustic horn to capture the performance. Designed to play back on a Victrola.
Victor Orthophonic Victrola - Wikipedia
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Thanks beans! That's a cool old record. I do love the oldies. Funny, I played top 40 hard rock for many years for a living but as I've gotten older I've gravitated back to the songs of my parents, only updated versions.
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Singing and playing at the same time remains well beyond my capacity. There is a mike to be ordered, an SM58, so maybe 2021
Sadly don't know these guys.
I have four SM58's. I was the BL and owned the PA, lights and Econoline. For some reason guitarists and drummers never owned their own mic's. I have a couple Carvin SM58 style mics I got 25 years ago free with a full Carvin PA. They still sound great. The Carvin PA was donated to a church and to my knowledge it still works.
Have you ever seen the movie "Saw"?
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The SM 58 is pretty much the Countryman 85 DI of mics...or is it the other way around? My collection (I have at least 6) is easily 30-40 years old and they all work perfectly.
I also own a Sennheiser e935 which I found that some women actually prefer over the Shure. Something about its sensitivity at certain frequencies matches their vocal range in a way that just sounds/feels better to them. I've also got a couple SM57's I typically use to mic instruments, but have actually found a few folks who like them for vocals.
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