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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Went over there to re-post but all the bas(s)es have been well covered.Thanks for the input. Click on the link to help the guy who created the thread.
I haven't read all 755 pages of this thread (apologies!) so I'm sure this has been discussed here before but it's been on my mind a lot. I came back into music after a long absence while I was doing other things, working a relatively lucrative job, etc. Now I find that I'm wanting to get as much out of the time that I have left as I possibly can. At 60, I am looking at maybe ten to fifteen more years of playing, if I'm lucky. And it feels like a dagger over my head. I want to play all the shows, I'm networking like crazy trying to get out there among other musicians that I'd like to work with, etc. etc. I suppose it's keeping me busy but it's also the antithesis of a relaxing retirement because it feels a bit stressful. I'm chasing everything I set aside when I was younger.
I know that the answer is to just relax and enjoy whatever I get. And I try. But I can't shake the sense that I need to get out there and do it all, right now, before it's too late. Anyone else?
I know that the answer is to just relax and enjoy whatever I get. And I try. But I can't shake the sense that I need to get out there and do it all, right now, before it's too late. Anyone else?
Apple has an app for iPads that I use with Logic. The pad acts as a slider control surface, the main screen runs Logic. I have tried using two monitors but just as a test. Still, I find that there’s nothing like having it all on one screen.
The problem with a big screen is where can I put it. I tend to work in different rooms, even the bathroom. Not what you might be thinking! The natural echo in a tiled room sounds good. Sometimes I record in there.
I’m not the only one. But unlike McCartney, I keep things out of the toilet.
Speaking of the flute, I am reminded of @Raymundo49 's post a few weeks ago on another thread...
Great tune, especially the guitar!
I appreciate life one day at a time. Try to recognize what’s important in life. Today I’m baking our daily bread and pizza dough for tomorrow. Nothing more important than fine eating in the right company.
I have a long bucket list but always did so that hasn’t changed. I get to what I get to.
Keep focused, don’t let distractions and things like sleeping get in the way.
What the heck are ya doin'? It ain't Sunday.
Good stuff. I have the vinyl(somewhere around)here.
The first few bars had me thinking, Mustang Sally. Memphis!
That album is apparently one of the biggest all time sellers in the jazz field. It’s easy on the ears.
A track in the album is listed as Hold On, I’m Comin — the bathroom song that ties in with my earlier post.
The story goes....
The song was written by the songwriting team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter, who came up with the title of the song spontaneously when Hayes was trying to get Porter to hurry out of the Stax Studios restroom and get back to songwriting. The original title was "Hold On, I'm Comin'", but some radio stations objected to its "suggestive nature", and labels on most copies of the single gave the title as "Hold On! I'm A Comin'".
What the heck are ya doin'? It ain't Sunday.
Isn’t soul music intended to sooth your soul? Some soul songs are inspired by church gospel, hence Soulfull Sunday?
What the heck are ya doin'? It ain't Sunday.
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There's a local diner that plays 50s-60s music on their system. I was there yesterday and Little Richard's "Good Golly, Miss Molly" came on. Considering the euphemisms in that song, it's amazing it got/gets airplay.Just checking to make sure you are paying attention
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Thanks Will. It's funny, I stop actively gigging and pretty much bail on pursuing my eons old Tone Quest, and BAM, there's the sound I've always been chasing. There's something to be said for letting it happen rather than trying to make it happen.
There's a local diner that plays 50s-60s music on their system. I was there yesterday and Little Richard's "Good Golly, Miss Molly" came on. Considering the euphemisms in that song, it's amazing it got/gets airplay.
Rock ‘n’ Roll was a euphemism for sex dating way back; in 1914, Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll".
rock and roll - Wiktionary
Little Richard was always flamboyant, what they called a dandy. As for Miss Molly, balling was a term that went out of fashion in the early 70’s. Maybe it was overused in the era of free love. Many probably don’t know what it means today.
More overt was Zappa’s Dinah-Moe Humm. I won’t link to that one. His goal was more about controversy and getting press.
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It's funny how meanings 'evolve'. These days a "baller" is one who's good at their sport.
Maybe not that great of a change.
There's a local diner that plays 50s-60s music on their system. I was there yesterday and Little Richard's "Good Golly, Miss Molly" came on. Considering the euphemisms in that song, it's amazing it got/gets airplay.
The mainstream DJs of the time probably didn't have a clue what all that stuff meant. A lot of the sexual innuendo came up out of African American culture as slang, and I would suspect much of it went over the heads of the people whose jobs were to program and play that music for middle class America.
At the management level, I'd agree. I suspect some of the younger DJ's knew and were laughing their heads off when the mics were off.
,nudge, nudge.I suspect you are right about thatAt the management level, I'd agree. I suspect some of the younger DJ's knew and were laughing their heads off when the mics were off.
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Suits (in my experience) tend to frown on frivolity, especially when sex is involved. Like a great deal of rock n' roll lyrics I know. Expect the same is true with greater military rank, as most of the suits at [Maynard_G_Krebbs] Work [/Maynard_G_Krebbs] were former officers.
Over where folks ain't so stuffy [a friend told me about] a new blog were the writer speculates on the sex lives of famous literary characters. Othello; Cathy Earshaw (Wuthering Heights); Elizabeth Benet (Pride and Prejudice); and Sherlock Holmes. And took me fewer than a couple seconds to speculate on Mary Poppins.
Back in the land of books we can take with us to [Maynard_G_Krebbs] Work [/Maynard_G_Krebbs] I notice this at the local brick and mortar
Birth of Loud will soon be pulled from the window display for my own reading pleasure.
Over where folks ain't so stuffy [a friend told me about] a new blog were the writer speculates on the sex lives of famous literary characters. Othello; Cathy Earshaw (Wuthering Heights); Elizabeth Benet (Pride and Prejudice); and Sherlock Holmes. And took me fewer than a couple seconds to speculate on Mary Poppins.
Back in the land of books we can take with us to [Maynard_G_Krebbs] Work [/Maynard_G_Krebbs] I notice this at the local brick and mortar
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