A guy who normally plays upright bass brought a bass uke to my party on Saturday. Everyone thought it was pretty cool. He seemed to have a hard time with the scale and the frets.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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It was the golden era of fusion jazz in many ways though, with tons of guitar and bass heroes. So naturally, my contrarian nature made me only play acoustic music during much of that time.
I’ve found that you can play them different ways. You can plink on notes to add accents. You can also use percussive strumming and adding to the kick drum beat of the song. But for sure, with a short scale you don’t want to wonder too far up the neck. A baritone uke with the linger neck helps a bit.
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Geddy Lee used to play midi pedals, bass guitar, and sing at the same time. That sounded pretty good. I tried tapping on hammond organ pedals while playing bass, not so easy to pull off.
I think he might have just bought it recently. I asked him why he didn't bring his upright and he said he thought it would take up too much room. This is a guy who practices in my studio weekly with his band and he knows there's plenty of room in there for an upright
. But it did give him a chance to play with the U-bass, which I think was fun for him.
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Back from the doc with good news, a great A1C! Much better than 6 months ago, during recovery from back surgery. Back to what it was before the pinched nerves had me debilitated. Hooray!
Looks like upping my weight lifting from the li'l Vox to the Rumble Studio is paying off ...
Back from the doc with good news, a great A1C! Much better than 6 months ago, during recovery from back surgery. Back to what it was before the pinched nerves had me debilitated. Hooray!
Looks like upping my weight lifting from the li'l Vox to the Rumble Studio is paying off ...
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Weird what bigger-than-cataract-surgery-that's-nothing-to-worry-about can do. Those bigger surgeries like, oh you know, hips and bones and stuff is kind of hard on the system. That's what a friend says, anyway, by cracky.
Played back the message on my answering machine - hey you know when you can actually buy a telephone Sony makes telephones with these cool little micro-cassettes to record your own greeting. Funny how it used to be when we were out nobody answered and friends and others seem to be okay with this. Today after my doctor's appointment I check the phone service thing where people record messages when I can't answer the phone because I'm seeing a doctor
and it's my doctor and she wants me in Wednesday for a CAT scan, I"m all, wait, didn't we just see each other? Different doctor well thank goodness for this answering machine, by cracky.
Played back the message on my answering machine - hey you know when you can actually buy a telephone Sony makes telephones with these cool little micro-cassettes to record your own greeting. Funny how it used to be when we were out nobody answered and friends and others seem to be okay with this. Today after my doctor's appointment I check the phone service thing where people record messages when I can't answer the phone because I'm seeing a doctor
and it's my doctor and she wants me in Wednesday for a CAT scan, I"m all, wait, didn't we just see each other? Different doctor well thank goodness for this answering machine, by cracky.
Off-topic: I just saw a numpty walk by!
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Looks more like a mammogram to me 
Thought it was a lab test...looks like a retriever to me!
Maybe a lab would perform a PET scan.
Looks more like a mammogram to me
Yet another reason to dislike waffles and pancakes.
Always liked this version.
I am exhausted.
But I manage to get on the keyboard and clarify: My dear wife owns a pharmacy (OK, sick of druggie jokes, don't even attempt)... which is a State-licensed business here in Finland. She got appointed to a new location closer to our two homes (half-way between our city flat and country house) but the place of business was out of the way for customers. First thing, she negotiated a deal with the local supermarket where everybody goes anyway and opened in their premises yesterday (Monday). So the whole weekend and beyond has been transferring stuff from the old location to the new, salvaging what we can use at home (steel-frame shelving for storage, etc.) and dispensing trash to the landfill... running errands for her fetching stuff for installations and so on. Most of my time I spent on ladders putting up LED lighting for shelf signs and some of the shelves themselves (cosmetics display) so I used my "expertise" in electronics, balancing the LED load over several odd-designation power supplies (only blew one of them).
Towards the end of Sunday I felt I could not go on anymore, and fortunately everyone else stopped work as well, as the chaos mode had shifted through the panic phase and things seemed manageable.
Granted, I wasn't the hardest-working guy, one of the employees spent a whole night loading the storage robot with medicine packets.
I just definitely felt I couldn't quite manage what, a few years back, would have been easy. The reserve in my capability to exert myself has dwindled to near zero. Could be my illness, but could be the grinding wheel of the years as well.
I am so exhausted I can produce very little in my day job. I'm glad I didn't have any gigs lined up for 1st of May celebrations...
But I manage to get on the keyboard and clarify: My dear wife owns a pharmacy (OK, sick of druggie jokes, don't even attempt)... which is a State-licensed business here in Finland. She got appointed to a new location closer to our two homes (half-way between our city flat and country house) but the place of business was out of the way for customers. First thing, she negotiated a deal with the local supermarket where everybody goes anyway and opened in their premises yesterday (Monday). So the whole weekend and beyond has been transferring stuff from the old location to the new, salvaging what we can use at home (steel-frame shelving for storage, etc.) and dispensing trash to the landfill... running errands for her fetching stuff for installations and so on. Most of my time I spent on ladders putting up LED lighting for shelf signs and some of the shelves themselves (cosmetics display) so I used my "expertise" in electronics, balancing the LED load over several odd-designation power supplies (only blew one of them).
Towards the end of Sunday I felt I could not go on anymore, and fortunately everyone else stopped work as well, as the chaos mode had shifted through the panic phase and things seemed manageable.
Granted, I wasn't the hardest-working guy, one of the employees spent a whole night loading the storage robot with medicine packets.
I just definitely felt I couldn't quite manage what, a few years back, would have been easy. The reserve in my capability to exert myself has dwindled to near zero. Could be my illness, but could be the grinding wheel of the years as well.
I am so exhausted I can produce very little in my day job. I'm glad I didn't have any gigs lined up for 1st of May celebrations...
Chippy the Chinese Restaurant? Like, stir fried cow chips?
Or, more like, bok choy with potato chips in lobster sauce with water chestnuts?
Will you stop! You’re making me hungry!
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