Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GonePlaid]

In the Elder Times before caller ID, perchance I might ask a telephone scammer "can you hold a moment, please, while I turn off the stove?" Put the receiver down and .... wait. The record before they hung up approached 30 minutes.

"Receiver". How quaint.

I still have a landline[for the alarm system]. I almost never answer it but if I do-and it's a sales call- I tell them to hang on while I get a pen to write this down. Then I grab my conch shell.......and I know how to use it.

 

[LBS-bass]

Yeah I stopped looking at that thread. Lime goes well with gin and tonic water. They served that in frappe glasses at Maddy's in the early 70s but pretty sure I don't know how to get to Marblehead without a guide.

I must have missed that thread. I've been busy with work and practice and general malaise. Ever have days when you just feel like it's not worth trying to keep this music thing going anymore? Yeah, this is one of those days. Weeks. Years, really. Ugh.

 

[LBS-bass]

I still have a landline[for the alarm system]. I almost never answer it but if I do and-it's a sales call- I tell them to hang on while I get a pen to write this down. Then I grab my conch shell.......and I know how to use it.

We just cancelled our landline yesterday. I felt like we were getting enough spam on our cell phones.

 

[GonePlaid]

I must have missed that thread. I've been busy with work and practice and general malaise. Ever have days when you just feel like it's not worth trying to keep this music thing going anymore? Yeah, this is one of those days. Weeks. Years, really. Ugh.

A friend in my Navy days would say "it's been a bad decade".

 

[beans-on-toast]

I still have a landline[for the alarm system]. I almost never answer it but if I do-and it's a sales call- I tell them to hang on while I get a pen to write this down. Then I grab my conch shell.......and I know how to use it.

Can’t they simply cut your phone line where it enters your house to disable the alarm?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Ever have days when you just feel like it's not worth trying to keep this music thing going anymore?

 

[GonePlaid]

Can’t they simply cut your phone line where it enters your house to disable the alarm?

Wireless backup.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Wireless backup.

This is a job for Archibald Tuttle.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Wireless backup.

That can be electronically jammed with a flip of a switch. It’s pretty scary.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Seen fobs that let anybody turn off any television. That's including televisions in places were the television is on forever, and is certainly perma-tuned to a channel you detest.

 

[GonePlaid]

That can be electronically jammed with a flip of a switch. It’s pretty scary.

They'd be going to a lotta trouble to steal a coupla old amps and basses.

 

[spiritbass]

Here's my bad luck story...

I may have to go into hiding...

I find these scams ludicrous and entertaining. Lately, this area has been getting Chinese robocalls in Chinese. What's the point? We no speakee Chinesee...

 

[beans-on-toast]

They'd be going to a lotta trouble to steal a coupla old amps and basses.

Thankfully, most crooks are idiots and not up to the task. But a double naught spy might be.

 

[Passinwind]

That can be electronically jammed with a flip of a switch. It’s pretty scary.

I'll take a dozen.

 

[SoulReflection]

I find these scams ludicrous and entertaining. Lately, this area has been getting Chinese robocalls in Chinese. What's the point? We no speakee Chinesee...

I get them as well but, considering those who get victimized, I am not entertained.

 

[spiritbass]

I get them as well but, considering those who get victimized, I am not entertained.

Some in my family have been taken in. It is malicious considering it is aimed at those with weak mental faculties...

 

[LBS-bass]

Seen fobs that let anybody turn off any television. That's including televisions in places were the television is on forever, and is certainly perma-tuned to a channel you detest.

My husband has one of those. He likes to stealth-interrupt sports programs. I tell him this is why nobody likes him.

 

[Passinwind]

I must have missed that thread. I've been busy with work and practice and general malaise. Ever have days when you just feel like it's not worth trying to keep this music thing going anymore? Yeah, this is one of those days. Weeks. Years, really. Ugh.

Ouch. There seems to be a lot of that going around lately. I've actually been strongly contemplating going back to guitar as my main focus for a while now, or possibly even keys. I used to swap primary attention between bass and guitar every few years for quite a number of years and I have a really nice Heritage guitar just collecting dust these days.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Ouch. There seems to be a lot of that going around lately. I've actually been strongly contemplating going back to guitar as my main focus for a while now, or possibly even keys. I used to swap primary attention between bass and guitar every few years for quite a number of years and I have a really nice Heritage guitar just collecting dust these days.

At the 4th of July gig I did some friends came up and asked me why I quit doing a single act on guitar. I told them I got busy. Well, I'm getting caught up and I'm considering restarting my solo act with my trusty Telecaster lefty. I really enjoy doing that show, I can pick all the music I like and the audience always appreciates the older 80's rock stuff.... I do need to buy a pair of 115's for my PA though.. or maybe nowadays 112's might be enough....

 

[beans-on-toast]

At the 4th of July gig I did some friends came up and asked me why I quit doing a single act on guitar. I told them I got busy. Well, I'm getting caught up and I'm considering restarting my solo act with my trusty Telecaster lefty. I really enjoy doing that show, I can pick all the music I like and the audience always appreciates the older 80's rock stuff.... I do need to buy a pair of 115's for my PA though.. or maybe nowadays 112's might be enough....

It never hurts to have the option of playing another instrument.

Loopers can be fun and entertaining for the audience from a performance perspective. You can play a bass part, loop it, put the bass down and pick up a guitar to lay over it. All without missing a beat.