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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Yes I do! But I'm gradually getting rid of the first F and back to just a GOF. Doesn't help the extra sound effects and olfactory attacks.Hey! Us shorts-wearing GOFFs resemble that remark!
It's Taco Tuesday in Sitka, and our local supermarket has all the fixin's to make a total taco dinner. Guess who's cooking tonight? Not mom! 
- Feb 12, 2006
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Headed out for taco Tuesday lunchIt's Taco Tuesday in Sitka, and our local supermarket has all the fixin's to make a total taco dinner. Guess who's cooking tonight? Not mom!
Luv Taco's and I'm willing to pay the price. My wife's not.. she sleeps in another room on those nights. She can't handle the SBD's.It's Taco Tuesday in Sitka, and our local supermarket has all the fixin's to make a total taco dinner. Guess who's cooking tonight? Not mom!
- Feb 12, 2006
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- 221,002
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- Development Engineer-Mesa Boogie, Development Engineer-Genzler (pedals), Product Support-Genz Benz
I've been digging:
Seems they were still going at least as late as 2004.
Of course, the zoo version is better:
But you can't beat the studio version:
Seems they were still going at least as late as 2004.
Of course, the zoo version is better:
But you can't beat the studio version:
We hit a small but powerful chain called Bush’s Chicken this evening. Best non-home made fried chicken a SWB (silly white boy) and his hot wife could ask for.
Chef
In Memoriam
I like to dig back in time and find "new" or forgotten bands here: The Hermit Rambles!
On the right you can go back through years of weekly shows, about 2 hrs each. Then there is reading below the show, nifty facts and history.
On the right you can go back through years of weekly shows, about 2 hrs each. Then there is reading below the show, nifty facts and history.
Sheesh, what's a song have to go through just the chart these days?
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Artist: Tommy James And The Shondells
Title: Hanky Panky
Source: Mono CD: The Best of Tommy James And The Shondells (orginally released as 45 RPM single)
Writer(s): Barry/Greenwich
Label: Rhino (original label: Snap)
Year: 1964
Once upon a time there was a girl group called the Summits who released a song called Hanky Panky as the B side of their only single in 1963. The song, which was also released as a B side by Brill building songwriters Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich's studio creation The Raindrops a few months later, started getting played by cover bands in the midwesterm US, including a South Bend, Indiana band called the Spinners. A Niles, Michigan high school kid named Tommy Jackson heard the Spinners play the song and taught it to his own band, the Shondells, getting some of the lyrics wrong in the process. In early 1964 the Shondells recorded their own version of Hanky Panky at the studios of WNIL radio, releasing it on their second single for the local Snap label later that year and pressing 2000 copies of the record. It's not entirely clear whether that recording of Hanky-Panky, credited to Jackson, was intended to be an A or B side, but it did get a decent amount of local airplay before fading off into obscurity. The original Shondells broke up in 1965 following graduation from high school, but a local teenager managed to get his hands on several copies of the record, trading them to Ernie's Record Mart in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for store credit. A local DJ, Bob Mack, picked up a copy of the record and began playing it as part of his "dance party". The song became a local hit, but by then Snap Records was out of business, prompting local Pittsburgh entrepeneurs to press new copies of the single. Meanwhile, a search for Tommy Jackson eventually prompted the singer, who by then was calling himself Tommy James, to show up in Pittsburgh...with no band. This led to Tommy hiring a local band called the Racounteurs to become the new Shondells, who soon signed with the New York based Roulette label, which reissued the original Shondells' recording of Hanky Panky in 1966. The song went all the way to the top of the national charts, prompting a series of successful followup singles for Tommy James And The Shondells over the next three years or so. And that, my friends, was how one became a rock star in the mid-1960s."
The Hermit Rambles!: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era # 1815 [B 15] (starts 4/11/18)
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Artist: Tommy James And The Shondells
Title: Hanky Panky
Source: Mono CD: The Best of Tommy James And The Shondells (orginally released as 45 RPM single)
Writer(s): Barry/Greenwich
Label: Rhino (original label: Snap)
Year: 1964
Once upon a time there was a girl group called the Summits who released a song called Hanky Panky as the B side of their only single in 1963. The song, which was also released as a B side by Brill building songwriters Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich's studio creation The Raindrops a few months later, started getting played by cover bands in the midwesterm US, including a South Bend, Indiana band called the Spinners. A Niles, Michigan high school kid named Tommy Jackson heard the Spinners play the song and taught it to his own band, the Shondells, getting some of the lyrics wrong in the process. In early 1964 the Shondells recorded their own version of Hanky Panky at the studios of WNIL radio, releasing it on their second single for the local Snap label later that year and pressing 2000 copies of the record. It's not entirely clear whether that recording of Hanky-Panky, credited to Jackson, was intended to be an A or B side, but it did get a decent amount of local airplay before fading off into obscurity. The original Shondells broke up in 1965 following graduation from high school, but a local teenager managed to get his hands on several copies of the record, trading them to Ernie's Record Mart in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for store credit. A local DJ, Bob Mack, picked up a copy of the record and began playing it as part of his "dance party". The song became a local hit, but by then Snap Records was out of business, prompting local Pittsburgh entrepeneurs to press new copies of the single. Meanwhile, a search for Tommy Jackson eventually prompted the singer, who by then was calling himself Tommy James, to show up in Pittsburgh...with no band. This led to Tommy hiring a local band called the Racounteurs to become the new Shondells, who soon signed with the New York based Roulette label, which reissued the original Shondells' recording of Hanky Panky in 1966. The song went all the way to the top of the national charts, prompting a series of successful followup singles for Tommy James And The Shondells over the next three years or so. And that, my friends, was how one became a rock star in the mid-1960s."
The Hermit Rambles!: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era # 1815 [B 15] (starts 4/11/18)
Shadow, my beautiful boy, and wife Carey's baby, left us today. He was 13 years old. That's a long life for a large dog. He was the best friend I have and Mom's baby. He was spoiled, sometimes didn't behave, but he loved us more than we ever would know. He used to come to the porch and watch for me every day when I got back home from work. If I had groceries he would always sniff the bags and block the way until he was done 'inspecting' the bags.
When I had steak every payday he always got half. It was his fee for being a good boy. He would sit real pretty for me and Mom and I would hand over about half the steak to Mom and she'd cut it up just the way he liked it and he'd gobble it down. Then he'd have a bone biscuit for dessert. He knew us so well, and Carey said he always knew the sound of my car when it came home. He would sit up and his ears would lift up and head tilt, then go to the door.
Part of Shadow allowed me to be a little boy again. I have such a splitting headache-- I can't believe I'll go home and he's not going to be there. Carey and I did our share of crying already, and we're probalby going to cry through the weekend. I need to say...
I love you Shadow, you were a good boy, my son, and Mom's baby. We will see you again on the Other Side beyond the Pearly Gates. You'll be young and healthy, smiling to greet us.
Thank you GOF's for listening. Here's Shadow in his favorite park where he and Carey walked twice a day.
When I had steak every payday he always got half. It was his fee for being a good boy. He would sit real pretty for me and Mom and I would hand over about half the steak to Mom and she'd cut it up just the way he liked it and he'd gobble it down. Then he'd have a bone biscuit for dessert. He knew us so well, and Carey said he always knew the sound of my car when it came home. He would sit up and his ears would lift up and head tilt, then go to the door.
Part of Shadow allowed me to be a little boy again. I have such a splitting headache-- I can't believe I'll go home and he's not going to be there. Carey and I did our share of crying already, and we're probalby going to cry through the weekend. I need to say...
I love you Shadow, you were a good boy, my son, and Mom's baby. We will see you again on the Other Side beyond the Pearly Gates. You'll be young and healthy, smiling to greet us.
Thank you GOF's for listening. Here's Shadow in his favorite park where he and Carey walked twice a day.
Oh God, I'm so sorry, brother. When I read the first line, my own eyes watered.
I was just thinking today I should ask how the pup was doing. He was family to you and nothing less. Please share my thoughts with your dear Carey. Hug her, hold her, my heart bleeds. I've been there many times myself. I'm sorry and I'm sad. Thanks for letting us know.
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