Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[agedhorse]

No little drum kit yet?

 

[FFTT]

Not this year, but on the list!

 

[sharkbait130]

Four kids here. eighteen years each of diapers , skinned knees , monitoring homework , boy scouts , girl scouts , trips to the principals office , teaching them to drive and wrecking my cars. I am buying every one of my grandkids a drumset. Hehehe.

 

[FFTT]

I'm glad my kids are old enough now where they actually get what it means to work your ass off and struggle and deal with responsibilities.

 

[chadds]

I'm glad my kids are old enough now where they actually get what it means to work your ass off and struggle and deal with responsibilities.

I played music and of course worked while raising my girls. I couldn't ask a kid or teen to get off the phone, go outside and play, do your homework, and find and develop a personal interest if I didn't demonstrate it.

 

[FFTT]

I sent my girls on a virtual "Freedom" shopping spree.
Worked like a charm when they found out how much it costs to keep a safe dry roof over your head, plus car, utilities, insurance etc.

$5000.00 per month before taxes and deductions, without room mates, spouse, mooching off parents.

 

[FFTT]

So as a full time pro musician, or any other job, you'd have to earn $1250.00 per week per man to live self sufficiently.

Only as a musician, you've got all those home fort costs in addition to hotel rooms and other travel expenses because you have to follow the work.

 

[beans-on-toast]

No question that you have to love the life to be a musician. A lot of people work the summer festivals and then look for non seasonal jobs and or go on unemployment insurance during the winter.

At oldies shows when you see folks in the audience bobbing their heads, I sometimes wonder if they are head bangers or just nodding off.

 

[BassmanPaul]

At oldies shows when you see folks in the audience bobbing their heads, I sometimes wonder if they head bangers or just nodding off.

LOL Nice one!

 

[ZonieBass]

So as a full time pro musician, or any other job, you'd have to earn $1250.00 per week per man to live self sufficiently.

Only as a musician, you've got all those home fort costs in addition to hotel rooms and other travel expenses because you have to follow the work.

Plus you have to buy your own tools...

 

[agedhorse]

Ohhh, I had to tell my wife to stay off the lawn... with her car. Grrrrr. She called me grumpy.

 

[Old man]

Where the hell is my number? I want in this club. I scare little kids all the time.

 

[B-string]

Where the hell is my number? I want in this club. I scare little kids all the time.

It's grumpy not b****y

#106 Old man

 

[Old man]

Could be both - just depends. Anyway I figured with a name like old man, this might be the right place!

 

[Jeff Scott]

Could be both - just depends. Anyway I figured with a name like old man, this might be the right place!

Old doesn't necessarily imply grumpy...................

Usually, but not always.

 

[1bassplayinfool]

Spent most of the day assembling toys... pfft!!!

 

[FFTT]

Yesterday I was in a MOOD! I was trying to coordinate elfin magic and my girls weren't returning calls or e-mails, texting when they know I've got a dumb phone, or taking days to get back to me when I needed a quick answer. Grrrrrrr!

Then my oldest sent me this..

Merry Christmas!

 

[fnordlyone]

In another 5 or 6 years, I think I'll be mature enough to have fun with babies. The only problem is finding a woman that I'd trust my children with (and within breeding age)!
gumpy holidays, you old farts!
fnord!
ps
Just so everyone knows this thread is about amps….
I just got a Peavey Mark IV from 1982

 

[FFTT]

My grandson will inherit my amps !

 

[B-string]

WTH?? Anyone know what that white stuff is? It is 33 degrees f at 9:30am?