Yeah, we do "Girl with Emphysema" and a bunch of other bossa/samba/rumba tunes for dinner-type bg music.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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I don't have the squiggly thing on my keyboard(AFAIK) so I went for the 'English' title.
Country does a lotta stuff in D so they want the low one.(also "D#"-D w/ a capo)Never one to be out-grumpied
Monday sees me first for my weekly coffee date (woo woo), off to the doctor's and then off to the hospital where I have a hot date with Ultrasound. Hm good band name there, likely taken. The scan is to confirm everything is working to spec, not to see if there's anything out of spec. Was just there a week and a half ago for an x-ray that confirmed that is working to spec but dang sure hurt for a good while.
Now what's all this about five string and country - what we hears is New Country needs a fiver. No complaints about a bit of extra coin, hey
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There are some who wear a hat really well. I don't count myself among them. Yeah pigtails will work for your audience, well seen.
Cowpokes are kind of uncommon sights here about 20 minutes drive from a golf course that's been in the news these past few days. It's horse day in the village.
Could be done military style:"Fighters,Foo,F_________.
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Just looked and there it was <shrug> so I have no clue.
:: laugh ::
Yep! And as a former horse-owning kind of person, I have a few in my closet and I also know where to buy more
Different horse world. Those early pictures of a considerably less massive /me might include what I consider proper show attire. White breeches, black show boots with a Spanish top. That 15-year-old me is horse-crazy and it's dressage and one day gonna grow up and ride three-day eventing.
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You all are cracking me up this morning, by cracky!
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BTDT. It was fun, and it made sense logistically since the singer's main instrument squeeze was flute.
My late brother Tom played the cowboy, I was always the Indian!
Who used to win?
FL is loaded with Western wear stores(lotta ranches and real cowboys in FL).
From Wikipedia (edited for TB):
The nonsense word "foo" emerged in popular culture during the early 1930s, first being used by cartoonist Bill Holman, who peppered his Smokey Stover[3] fireman cartoon strips with "foo" signs and puns.[4][5][6]
The term "foo" was borrowed from Bill Holman's Smokey Stover by a radar operator in the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, Donald J. Meiers, who (it is agreed by most 415th members) gave the foo fighters their name. Meiers was from Chicago and was an avid reader of Bill Holman's strip, which was run daily in the Chicago Tribune. Smokey Stover's catch-phrase was "where there's foo, there's fire". In a mission debriefing on the evening November 27, 1944, Fritz Ringwald, the unit's S-2 Intelligence Officer, stated that Meiers and Ed Schleuter had sighted a red ball of fire that appeared to chase them through a variety of high-speed maneuvers. Fritz said that Meiers was extremely agitated and had a copy of the comic strip tucked in his back pocket. He pulled it out and slammed it down on Fritz's desk and said "... it was another one of those ****in' foo fighters!" and stormed out of the debriefing room.[7]
According to Fritz Ringwald, because of the lack of a better name, it stuck. And this was originally what the men of the 415th started calling these incidents: "****in' foo fighters". In December 1944, a press correspondent from the Associated Press in Paris, Bob Wilson, was sent to the 415th at their base outside of Dijon, France to investigate this story.[8] It was at this time that the term was cleaned up to just "foo fighters". The squadron commander, Capt. Harold Augsperger, also decided to sanitize the term to "foo fighters" in the historical data of the squadron.[7]
Seriously. I spent a glorious week in Florida riding gaited horses with a friend of mine that I met online. I should have bought that Tennessee Walker I rode down there and brought her back to California. I'd probably still be into horses if I had; she was a total babysitter horse whose spook was pretty much just "uh, what?" while other horses were bucking and rearing all around.
But I didn't. Later I inquired and found out the person who'd had her up for sale was riding her daily as her main mount. Not surprised.
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They're here too, just exponentially more expensive than the thrift shops used to be. My jam host's wife works in the equestrian fashion trade (note to self: must resist low hanging fruit), I'm sure she could hook me up if I somehow got another gig that it'd work for.
There are a couple that I've been to that have working wear and also non-working(read 'costume')wear. Then, of course, there's S.A.(not Sam Ash)and GW.
Our band wears 'Aloha'/Hawaiian shirts-$3.89 @ GW.
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I looked all over Maui for some good Hawaiian shirts. Best shirt and best deal was at the airport, go figure.
Here you go, Plaid.... you can have one of mine... ã
Oddly our playtimes frequently didn't end with a conclusion. However, one time Tom took a hammer to my head and knocked me out! Dr. checked me out and I was fine... just had a lump on my head....
Kids do those sort of things without thinking. He wouldn’t have done that to Billy Jack.
I’ve had my head split open a few times. I used to box. Back then there were gloves but no head protection. Broke my nose, sprained wrists, nothing serious like being knocked out like you had.
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Been playing with Liquid Optical Clarity Adhesive (LOCA)
A couple of years ago I used a Loctite windshield repair kit to fix a chip in the glass. You had to apply it and then let it sit in the sun for a while. It dried hard and worked well. Recently it occurred to me that this was a probably LOCA plastic adhesive.
I see this stuff being effectively used to repair laminations on cell phone and pad screens.
Turns out that it works well for building up nut slots. When you go with a lighter gauge string, the slots may need to be adjusted. It’s important to build up thin layers. Preliminary tests seem good.
I can see this as being good for repairing instrument finish chips. I usually use thin layers of CA glue for that, then buff it out. It takes days to build up a deep chip. It has to dry well before each layer. UV works faster.
Dentists use VU curable adhesives as well.
A couple of years ago I used a Loctite windshield repair kit to fix a chip in the glass. You had to apply it and then let it sit in the sun for a while. It dried hard and worked well. Recently it occurred to me that this was a probably LOCA plastic adhesive.
I see this stuff being effectively used to repair laminations on cell phone and pad screens.
Turns out that it works well for building up nut slots. When you go with a lighter gauge string, the slots may need to be adjusted. It’s important to build up thin layers. Preliminary tests seem good.
I can see this as being good for repairing instrument finish chips. I usually use thin layers of CA glue for that, then buff it out. It takes days to build up a deep chip. It has to dry well before each layer. UV works faster.
Dentists use VU curable adhesives as well.
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Who'd believe getting hit in the head is not good for you?
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