Apparently bands got tired of playing it but the audience didn't (and still hasn't).
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Apparently bands got tired of playing it but the audience didn't (and still hasn't).
I’ve noticed that too. But I stopped suggesting it myself a couple of decades ago because it always came off lame. I would like it much better if (at jams especially) it was played with at least some semblance of soul. Too many musicians just seem to crash it and not care. I can count on my fingers how times it was played right.
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Agreed. That song can sound awful if not played with soul!
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A selfie at the lady doctor's
want to hear a grump? My hair is reasonably long without the curls. It takes me at least twice as long to reach midback length
I'd be there now and beyond if not for a madwoman with shears 
there is an instructional poster on the inside of the door to the exam room with three rows of labeled illustrations of effective birth control. The most effective on top, less effective on the bottom. (an illustration of a champagne cork) Likely best I stop here.
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left with lab orders and prescription renewal. That's all there is to this appointment.
want to hear a grump? My hair is reasonably long without the curls. It takes me at least twice as long to reach midback length
I'd be there now and beyond if not for a madwoman with shears there is an instructional poster on the inside of the door to the exam room with three rows of labeled illustrations of effective birth control. The most effective on top, less effective on the bottom. (an illustration of a champagne cork) Likely best I stop here.
NoWaitTheresGoodNews
left with lab orders and prescription renewal. That's all there is to this appointment.
How do you keep your glasses from fogging up?
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I don't. Maybe I buy some Fog-X.
Wearing glasses is highly overrated. I’ve seen it all before.
Vespa shirt for an HD gig? You should get a Kawasaki shirt.
That bass sounds good, big sound, you don't sound like your straining to me. Still got that bass?
What happened to his suntan?
I used to think it was his cousin or something or some relation.
Times like this when we could really use a blow hole on the back of our heads. They are right about dolphins.
I've had a hobby of listening for long distance AM stations (AM DX) since I was a kid. In Massachusetts with good receivers and antennas you can pick up a lot of European stations, BBC is fairly easy, course they broadcast 9 kHz apart so you pick them up in between our stations, ours runs 10 kHz apart from 540 to 1700 kHz, theirs runs from 531 up to a little over 1600 kHz. I've gotten a lot of different countries and states. I even had a 1000' long dipole at one time for long wave stations. For BCB I used 500' dipoles.
A selfie at the lady doctor's
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want to hear a grump? My hair is reasonably long without the curls. It takes me at least twice as long to reach midback length
there is an instructional poster on the inside of the door to the exam room with three rows of labeled illustrations of effective birth control. The most effective on top, less effective on the bottom. (an illustration of a champagne cork) Likely best I stop here.
NoWaitTheresGoodNews
left with lab orders and prescription renewal. That's all there is to this appointment.
Nah. The Vespa thing is just fer laffs.Vespa shirt for an HD gig? You should get a Kawasaki shirt.
Yes, I am. I hadda back way offa the mic to hit some o' those notes. I normally 'eat' the mic.
Oh, yeah, that one(95 Gibson LPB2/5)will be the next to last to go. Last will be the 67 NR THUNDERBIRD.
I've had the Les Paul since mid 96; the 'Bird since 73.
I used to listen to WBZ Boston from Michigan when was younger.
We used to get WLS Chicago in this area of a summer's night.
The first night I tried AM Dxing was sometime during the mid 70's, I had an old console radio, RCA 811K, which was really an excellent AM radio, I put up a big long wire antenna stretched across a schoolyard over to the next street behind our apartment. This was right in the middle of Worcester, MA. I went up the dial from frequency to frequency and noted each station, that was back when there were sill clear channels, a lot of daytimers would shut off at sundown and there would be one or two dominant power stations and they were called clear channels which is where Clear Channel got it's name. I parked on 1160 with my little magazine that had all the AM stations listed by frequency in the country. KSL, Salt Lake City was there on 1160 so I waited for about 20 minutes with just background noise and it gradually started coming up, very softly at first but over maybe a 5 minute period it faded up to full volume and stayed there for maybe ten minutes, long enough to ID it, it then faded back down to background noise again. that was one of the big thrills of my life and I've never lost that feeling. Domestic AM DX is a lot harder now though, there are way too many stations on the air and very few of them shut off at night, so on most channels all you hear now is a cacophony of noise, that's why I switched to Foreign DX.
FCC deregulation ruined the AM band and every time they try to fix it they make it worse. Some things just need to be regulated I guess. their latest genius idea is to allow AM broadcasters to broadcast in pure digital which will just sound like noise on a conventional AM receiver. AM HD flopped but while it was around it took out the two adjacent channels with hashy noise plus the frequency it was broadcast on with analog normal receivers., this new thing will totally wipe out anything on that same channel. I don't see anyone going out to buy a new Digital receiver for AM radio besides a few hobbyists. But in the meantime it will make the band even more noisy that it is already which is the way it is because of deregulation.
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