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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Speaking of bum deals ...
"I don't bake".
Tried and failed.
My physical therapy when I got out of surgery last year included baking a cake. I baked confidently and frosted with aplomb. Prefer the "change strings and adjust for proper intonation" physical therapy. That is not but should be part of physical therapy!
"I don't bake".
Tried and failed.
My physical therapy when I got out of surgery last year included baking a cake. I baked confidently and frosted with aplomb. Prefer the "change strings and adjust for proper intonation" physical therapy. That is not but should be part of physical therapy!
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In truth, I don't bake. Someone wants dessert? I buy it. Bread? I buy it. Nevertheless, she persisted. There is no escaping physical therapists.
How it appeared to me is exactly the same as junior high where guess who learns to bake cupcakes and you-already-know-who goes to shop class. And would you see the butcher job I completed today .... yeah let's talk about old
This here Stingray came new with individual foam mutes. As a 20-something who is, you know, rockin' (or something like it) has no time for mutes what with Rotosounds. Now four decades later, what remains of the original foam mutes are small, petrified hunks of, of whatever 40 year old foam is. Hard as rocks.
A perfect piece of packing foam later and new mutes are sort of cut sort of straight and sort of the right width. Doesn't do to look too closely but they work.
Probably a good idea to have been a shop class reject. When it comes to setting up the bass, if the work requires some shop class stuff ... solder, power tools ... it's off to Santa's Workshop. .... and as a junior high school student (they even ruined that) only the girls took typing because, you know, every executive needs a typist ... what nobody in junior high suggests at the time is there's fair coin at university for someone who can type someone else's term paper ....
How it appeared to me is exactly the same as junior high where guess who learns to bake cupcakes and you-already-know-who goes to shop class. And would you see the butcher job I completed today .... yeah let's talk about old
This here Stingray came new with individual foam mutes. As a 20-something who is, you know, rockin' (or something like it) has no time for mutes what with Rotosounds. Now four decades later, what remains of the original foam mutes are small, petrified hunks of, of whatever 40 year old foam is. Hard as rocks.
A perfect piece of packing foam later and new mutes are sort of cut sort of straight and sort of the right width. Doesn't do to look too closely but they work.
Probably a good idea to have been a shop class reject. When it comes to setting up the bass, if the work requires some shop class stuff ... solder, power tools ... it's off to Santa's Workshop. .... and as a junior high school student (they even ruined that) only the girls took typing because, you know, every executive needs a typist ... what nobody in junior high suggests at the time is there's fair coin at university for someone who can type someone else's term paper ....
For bread and cakes, it takes practice to figure out what to do. Same goes for instrument maintenance. If all else fails, get a leprechon to help.
It’s always good for a musician to learn how to maintain their instrument. Bridge height and intonation adjustment, truss rod adjustment, adjusting pickup height are good skills to have.
Some people are too nervous to try these things. Once they try it, they figure it out. There are a lot of helpful youtube videos available.
This guy used to be my tech but he charged a pot of gold and used to turn my amps green. Now I do it myself.
It’s always good for a musician to learn how to maintain their instrument. Bridge height and intonation adjustment, truss rod adjustment, adjusting pickup height are good skills to have.
Some people are too nervous to try these things. Once they try it, they figure it out. There are a lot of helpful youtube videos available.
This guy used to be my tech but he charged a pot of gold and used to turn my amps green. Now I do it myself.
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Pretty comfortable here with bridges and saddles and truss rods. Once we work our way up to files and things that plug in that aren't amps or their ilk, exit stage left.
Did setup the flying bridge and it is actually kind of fun. For some reason nailed the 5/64ths at the 17th fret on first try.
Wherever I may appear to be physically, here is where I hang, speaking of Eire
Did setup the flying bridge and it is actually kind of fun. For some reason nailed the 5/64ths at the 17th fret on first try.
Wherever I may appear to be physically, here is where I hang, speaking of Eire
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I have a little bit of Eire in me. Me grandmother’s family left Ireland during the potato famine in the mid 1800’s.
Looks like a place I'd hang out at.
Whenever I can get there I like to hang out here:
At Point Lobos.
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Exterior: Creepy old mansion on a dark and stormy night.
Title credits and somber funeral music plays over Exterior scenery with intermittent lightning bolts.
Camera slowly zooms in to the only lit window in the mansion.
Narrator (in Bogart voice): "It was a dark and stormy night. I remember it well. Professor Plum and his siblings had just attended the reading of their father's Last Will and Testament. And there ensued the worst argument any of the family could recall. It was over which of his kids would inherit the patriarch's greatest treasure."
Interior: Lavishly decorated Drawing Room where the surviving siblings have gathered.
Miss Scarlett (crossing right): "Well, of course brother Professor hated daddy's music! Shoot! We all did. (shaking her head) But I never thought he would commit suicide rather than inherit daddy's banjo! Did you, Greeny?"
Mr. Green (jumps out of the overstuffed chair and stands threateningly over Miss Scarlett): "I've told you time and time again not to call me that, Red! And you don't know that he killed himself. It could be (musical note) murder!"
Mrs. Peacock (brandishing her cigarette holder like a maestro's baton): "Well, at any rate, it's the Colonel's problem now. And he better take it, too!"
Mr. Green (crossing left): "That's true, Lady-bird, as second eldest child it now passes to him. And I certainly understand your feelings, since you're third eldest."
(a blood curdling scream is heard offstage, all look stage left as Mrs White enters, pale and trembling with shock)
Mrs. White: "It's the Colonel! He's ... He's . . . . "
Mrs. Peacock: "Don't say it!! He's NOT . . . . DEAD!?!?"
(cut to kitchen where Colonel Mustard is lying on the bloodsoaked floor, impaled on a butcher knife, both his hands clutching the handle)
End Act 1, Scene 1
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It's a thousand pages, give or take a few. I'll be writing more in a week, or two.
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Passinwind
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Missed Ornette Coleman's birthday yesterday. In penance I'm gonna post one of the mid-80s double trio cuts with some Ornette violin. Very possibly my favorite live band I've ever seen. They scared a whole lot of people out of the Seattle Opera House right quick.
My mom's mother's family left Carlow during the famine in 1845. Her father left Meath rather suddenly in 1921. The town mom grew up in is called Emmetsburg. The statue of Robert Emmett in front of the courthouse has a noose around his neck. In the schools there, when arranging students alphabetically, they dont use any Os. I'll stop there out of respect to forum rules about politics.
As soulful a song as I can come up with...
I Always try to follow directions.
I’ve been married for a very long time; 39 years as of yesterday!
I Always try to follow directions.
I’ve been married for a very long time; 39 years as of yesterday!
Happy anniversary! I have to disagree about it being a very long time, though...it'll be 50 years for us next month. Of course, I was only 4 years old when we married.
Talk about hitting the ball out of the park with your debut album. It’s such a powerful song that keeps being covered. Written by Floyd and Steve Cropper in 1966. And what a lineup.
Isaac Hayes keeps coming up as a musician and songwriter of Stax material. Most people know him for the double album entitled Shaft which was used in the 1971 movie of the same name. A time when music moved more into disco.
Knock on Wood musicians.
- Eddie Floyd – vocals
- Booker T. Jones – keyboards, piano, organ
- Isaac Hayes – keyboards, piano
- Steve Cropper – guitar
- Donald Dunn – bass guitar
- [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] – drums
- Wayne Jackson – trumpet
- Andrew Love – tenor saxophone
- Floyd Newman – baritone saxophone
I can’t read any more but those that can will find this of interest.
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More Dunn transcription from that album here:
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A long way through the passage of time from there to here. In some respects, some things haven’t changed.
Happy anniversary! I have to disagree about it being a very long time, though...it'll be 50 years for us next month. Of course, I was only 4 years old when we married.
Born on a leap year?
Congratulations. It’s amazing how quickly time passes.
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