So is he packing it as well as set up and tear down?....
Well, we're expected to help. I figure it's worth a gym workout.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Well, we're expected to help. I figure it's worth a gym workout.
Something very wrong about that. I've been playing in bands since the 70's. I was never told I couldn't use my own amp unless it was a show with FOH and backline. For most club situations the bass player should bring their own equipment that they're comfortable playing. As @SoulReflection so aptly pointed out-- is he carrying the bass amp too?
A band ‘leader’ once told me that the pair of 2x10s I was bringing in was a ‘big’ amp for a small place. Stacked vertically two take the same amount of stage area as one. It ended up with the band playing as loud as it ever had since I joined.
He also mentioned that I didn’t move much on stage. I guess he didn’t notice how the arc of his instruments in front of him restricted my movements. I don’t think he would have been happy if I’d knocked one over!!
He also mentioned that I didn’t move much on stage. I guess he didn’t notice how the arc of his instruments in front of him restricted my movements. I don’t think he would have been happy if I’d knocked one over!!
Ummm ....................... Yea ...................
I s'pose that's why our (and the previous) generation tried to change so much .........
cause we like respected the way things were???????
Change is inevitable...but change should accomplish something positive, not just change for its own sake. We seem to have forgotten that in all aspects of existence, but sticking to music for the moment...
Are ANY of us better off than we were in previous years? (Again, professionally speaking only)...hard to say. Granted, our toys might be lighter, easier to lug, and definitely more affordable, but do they sound better - the reason we have them? Do we play songs from today’s generation or from ours?
Do we get paid pretty much the same as we did in previous generations?
I could go on, but it’s time for my Geritol, and Myron Floren is on FIRE in this rerun
Are ANY of us better off than we were in previous years? (Again, professionally speaking only)...hard to say. Granted, our toys might be lighter, easier to lug, and definitely more affordable, but do they sound better - the reason we have them? Do we play songs from today’s generation or from ours?
Do we get paid pretty much the same as we did in previous generations?
I could go on, but it’s time for my Geritol, and Myron Floren is on FIRE in this rerun
Kids in the US apparently have equal or a shorter life expendancy than their parents. First time in the last 200 years. This is attributed to not exercising or eating well.
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There’s so much more to it than that. Lack of exercise and diet are convenient scapegoats, but face it: people need optimism, and that has been woefully in short supply. The species as a whole seems miserable
It doesn’t help when jobs are being exported. Hopefully things are turning around.
If I made money with music, I'm sure it would be a big fat no. In my current profession, I'm up 50K from NAVAIR, up 15K from my last job (ended 2004), plus 15% of pretax income is contributed to an annuity out of the bosses pocket. The money is not worth as much, but I'm way better off because of working hard after hours to keep outcome minimal and get and stay out of debt. I was saving $1000/month until a year ago, then I upped that to $1500/month sometimes $2000 AND I have my wife working part time which is better for everyone, even you. Otherwise, she gets stressed out, stresses me out and I make rude comments, like "Don't forget the preparation H, Ken (but I'll refrain
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They're fat before they get out of school. Indiana syndrome. Last time my mom went back to the homeland (Iowa), she noticed how much thinner people are.
I don't like it when punk ass kids who don't know me call me man. I don't care if they are in their 20's, still punk ass kids if they ride a scooter or worse, a bicycle (like a BMX bike or a little bike with a banana seat like a stingray they don't fit on). I tell tehm all the same thing, when their short hairs grow out they can call me man. Last time was a kid on a bicycle that asked, "Hey man, do you know where such and such street is?" And I replied, "My name is not man. You can call me that when you get your short hairs. What the !@#$ do I look like? A !@#$ road map?" He was well into his 20's. No respect and not enough responsibility to get a car. Dumbass. Now, for some music:
Then the sad ending:
The video's reminded me that Matt "Guitar" Murphy just passed at 88 years old. R.I.P. Matt.
I met him in the 1970's when he was playing with James Cotton before Blues Brothers. Matt was a happy gentle spirit. When our guitar player told Matt that he played too, Matt grabbed his left hand and inspected his finger tips and says "yeah, okay I GUESS you are". Big laughs all around.
Smokin band. Check out "Live and On the Move" album. One of my favorite bands at the time.
I met him in the 1970's when he was playing with James Cotton before Blues Brothers. Matt was a happy gentle spirit. When our guitar player told Matt that he played too, Matt grabbed his left hand and inspected his finger tips and says "yeah, okay I GUESS you are". Big laughs all around.
Smokin band. Check out "Live and On the Move" album. One of my favorite bands at the time.
Thanks for everyone's support, once again. We are a great bunch helping out each other. I hope I can rise to the occasion any time the situation calls for it, as well.
Pretty interesting conversation. We all have choices when we get up each morning if we are going to have a good day or a bad day. What we can conceive we can achieve. We do it every day and don't realize it sometimes. We want a new car, bass etc we find a way to make it happen. Our goals can be streached a little each time we set them. Famous Amous had a great outlook on life. "Happiness is a inside job". I've seen miserable rich people and happy, positive and optimistic poor people. Just person observations.☺
To a degree, yes. I’m not talking about the nose lengths stuff though. As I’ve gotten older (didn’t say matured...) things like having a sustainable water supply, an increasingly intellectual society, reliable food supplies, etc etc...all of which are historically necessary for societal growth, are in decline.
Won’t affect my corpse’s ashes, but my grandkids will likely suffer from it. This weighs on my mind considerably. Society has forgotten or just doesn’t care to engage in civil discourse, opting to use knowingly false words as weapons, without consequence. Manners and etiquette are scoffed, laughed at...
Enough of this. Let’s go back to fart jokes.
Won’t affect my corpse’s ashes, but my grandkids will likely suffer from it. This weighs on my mind considerably. Society has forgotten or just doesn’t care to engage in civil discourse, opting to use knowingly false words as weapons, without consequence. Manners and etiquette are scoffed, laughed at...
Enough of this. Let’s go back to fart jokes.
But not fat fart jokes?
I'm here!
So, this fat guy with bad gas goes into a bar wearing shorts, oops, sorry beansy.
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