Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[mikeoso]

Nothing like turning a bunch of 18 year old recruits and draftees from 21 year old drinking states loose on 3.2 beer in the PX/BX. What an unpleasant way to start one's drinking career.

When I was in San Diego, the E-club couldn't serve alcohol to under 21s. That made Tijuana very popular.

 

[GonePlaid]

When I was in San Diego, the E-club couldn't serve alcohol to under 21s. That made Tijuana very popular.

There was one bar we found where you went down stairs from street level. It was there that I 'discovered' Carta Blanca. I'll remember the joint's name tomorrow-or next week-or not*. It was a block or so from another underground place that had a 'live animal' show.
*EDIT: Boing! Coronado Club

 

[Jeff Scott]

A tale of two bassists.

 

[biguglyman]

When I was in San Diego, the E-club couldn't serve alcohol to under 21s. That made Tijuana very popular.

EM club on the ASW training center served 3.2 to under 21...they also had beer machines (just like pop machines) in the barracks rec room. 1975

 

[beans-on-toast]

A tale of two bassists.

The pickup adjustment screws on the back of the 2030GF are a bit different. Do you feel them at all?

Seamless editing.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Some believe eating hot cross buns protect the house from fire. Romans baked phaus shaped bread in the springtime. Breads in that shape were baked for Easter in the town of Saintonge as recently as the 19th century. Russian Orthodoxes still bake Kulichi at Easter.

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The most famous reference to these suggestively baked Roman breads is an epigram by Martial

"Si vis esse satur, nostrum potes esse priapum: Ipse licet rodas inguina, purus eris."

The executive summary for hot cross buns and its antecedents is: better to eat the bread. Likely there's a reason the frosting is kind of meh.

 

[Winslow]

The executive summary for hot cross buns and its antecedents is better to eat the bread.

Well, it makes sense, really. You knead it a little bit, then it warms up and rises...



















The BREAD DOUGH, you filthy miscreants!

 

[mikeoso]

There was one bar we found where you went down stairs from street level. It was there that I 'discovered' Carta Blanca. I'll remember the joint's name tomorrow-or next week-or not*. It was a block or so from another underground place that had a 'live animal' show.
*EDIT: Boing! Coronado Club

Our usual hang was The Jockey Club on Avenida Revolucion. The norm was to order a pitcher of Carta Blanca or Tecate and drink straight from that, no glass. The cigarette vendor sold rolls of ten white crosses wrapped in foil for a dollar. Take four of them, you're awake for twenty four hours, grinding your teeth and looking for someone to read the phone book to. Gave me a taste for speed. Overseas the corpsmen handed out very small yellow tabs that had the same effect, plus creating a pre-psychotic rage....which the Marine Corps encouraged. Jeez, the things you can survive when you're 18.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Orthodox easter is always later, April 16 this year. Blessing of the bread the night before is a tradition that many follow. The bread was very fancy. I particularly liked the large round loaves of raisin bread. My more artistic Ukrainian family members would hand paint easter eggs. A tradition that died with the folks from the old country that arrived at the turn of the last century.

 

[beans-on-toast]

"Si vis esse satur, nostrum potes esse priapum: Ipse licet rodas inguina, purus eris."

The Strange History of Hot Cross Buns

 

[GwenOnBass]

"Si vis esse satur, nostrum potes esse priapum: Ipse licet rodas inguina, purus eris."

The Strange History of Hot Cross Buns


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There's "frosting" on both ... looks like it was dripping

 

[Winslow]

There's "frosting" on both ... looks like it was dripping

I'm starting to wonder if you're trying to bait us all into getting TO'd or banned.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I'm starting to wonder if you're trying to bait us...

Spring is a time of renewal and growth. The old rituals and stone henge were replaced with coffee shops as a gathering site.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I'm starting to wonder if you're trying to bait us all into getting TO'd or banned.

Carrie went to the prayer closet for impure thoughts.

 

[Winslow]

Carrie went to the prayer closet for impure thoughts.

Only a closet? Seems awfully confining. I'll just use the whole house.

 

[gtmalone]

Maynard was great. What a talent! Saw him a couple of times, once in a small theater with super acoustics. Fantastic sound. So good, we in the audience got to listen to his entire conversation with the trombone player stage left while the keyboard player stage right was playing a solo.

One of my favorites.

 

[GwenOnBass]

One of my favorites.

and reminded of the loss of Bill Chase. About that time seems to me the tail end of horns and rock. Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears stopped producing hits as tastes changed.

 

[gtmalone]

and reminded of the loss of Bill Chase. About that time seems to me the tail end of horns and rock. Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears stopped producing hits as tastes changed.

 

[Charlie Tango]

and reminded of the loss of Bill Chase. About that time seems to me the tail end of horns and rock. Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears stopped producing hits as tastes changed.

I always wanted to be in a horn band, a la The Blues Brothers.

 

[gtmalone]

We've had a couple of Maynard alumni at jazz camp a few times. Stockton Helbing, drums and Denis DeBlasio, bari sax. Good guys and excellent musicians. Stockton was Maynard's music director for a while. They both did Maynard impressions - lol.

We've also had alumni Bobby Shew (super nice guy) and Peter Erskine.