A theme song that I pray doesn’t have to be...Can I get a witness
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Just saw roll call. I'm here. Got a show tomorrow night which I am expecting to be another snore-fest. This time we're again playing late, but, as an added bonus, we get to travel 45 minutes to a place where no one else will ever go in order to do it. I love playing to these empty rooms.
However, we were asked to split this bill by another band that's very good, and I'm in another band with their bandleader, so they might bring in a few people and we might have a few stragglers hanging on, and our other band mates might show up to heckle us both. It'll be an interesting night, however it goes, and at least I get to play some music.
Otherwise, it's the same as it ever was.
However, we were asked to split this bill by another band that's very good, and I'm in another band with their bandleader, so they might bring in a few people and we might have a few stragglers hanging on, and our other band mates might show up to heckle us both. It'll be an interesting night, however it goes, and at least I get to play some music.
Otherwise, it's the same as it ever was.
A good song to awaken to.
Those 70’s prog songs always set a mood and take me back to a state of mind in past.
Rick Wakeman always looks so serious. He has an interview show on the BBC, he comes across as a regular guy.
I think he was just annoyed 90% of the time.
Been seeing ads for the Samsung QLED 8K tv’s.
Prices at B&H range from a reasonable $5K for a 65” to $100K for a 98”. No end of ways to blow a big wad of cash. Nobody really broadcasts in 8K so you’d have a fancy monitor with nowhere to go.
Prices at B&H range from a reasonable $5K for a 65” to $100K for a 98”. No end of ways to blow a big wad of cash. Nobody really broadcasts in 8K so you’d have a fancy monitor with nowhere to go.
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If I may be so bold as to join the roll call....
No gigging (nor is any on the near horizon), but I do I have my first pair of hearing aids, as befits a GOF. It's really something to hear frequencies over 2 kHz. So I plan to listen to music - such fun.
No gigging (nor is any on the near horizon), but I do I have my first pair of hearing aids, as befits a GOF. It's really something to hear frequencies over 2 kHz. So I plan to listen to music - such fun.
Just call them in ear monitors. It would be neat if you could stream directly to them.
There are higher end models which allow for such new-fangled goings on. That typically will run a person x2 the cost (other bells and whistles are part of this, too). I am too much of a Luddite to indulge in such things. Vastly increased computing power has made hearing aids pretty remarkable.
I highly recommend Costco - great audiologists and very, very good prices on these things.
.The original IEMs.
imagine gigging with them and getting an FOH feed! Like killing two burgers with one bite(I don't like killing birds).
And other appendages shrink.It's true, your nose and ears keep growing as you get old(er).
I don't think "Like" is the proper response to that!And other appendages shrink.
Also, sag, flop, squirt, disappear, colorize, decolorize, distend, hang, opaque, irritate, run, lose and snort are but a few other descriptors that may be applicable.
Oh, also cloudy, blurry, cough, gargle, expectorate, apply 3 times a day, side effects, sample are but a few others.
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What is this Club of Rumble how you talk?
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We have a theme song? No one told me...or maybe they did? Awesome...anyone remember what it is?
Must be is this, maybe! No?
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Heh!
Back in fourth grade my report card arrives: "At some point Charles will have to decide between English and Math." Of course I had other ideas, and college turned out not to be one of them, at least not for long.
My bogey was pensmanship. Being a converted lefty or actually more like ambi, I had to work quite hard just to get to "doctor on Ludes." And being a skinny somewhat awkward kid, only a heavily weighted written test on the rules of soccer kept me on the honor roll in junior high. Someone must have talked to that PE teacher, because after that I was suddenly like a B+ PE student. That was right around when I discovered a reasonable talent for skiing too though, happily.
But with all my awkwardness, the worst memory is winning the "best male math student" award in 8th grade. Had to accept it in the scary Senior High gym in front of their graduation shindig, sitting next to my female classmate who was demonstrably better at math and pretty much everything else, and who probably won every other award. She was gracious enough to decline the 20 buck prize I offered up. I just may have bought a slide rule or a hard cover book, don't really remember. A new slot car would have been more in character, and probably more relevant to how things have unfolded as well.
Lefties are grateful for the folks who figured out instantly drying, non-smearing ink. Hey didn't you young fellahs have to take mechanical drawing?
Skimming over what Mind tells us is too unrelated to what we need to know to bother is how thread drift is born
I was somewhat surprised to realize I was able to read and comprehend this easily. The only thing that slowed me down was the 'e'-instead of 'a'-in "iprmoetnt".
I can read this but it doesn't make me happy, wealthy or wise:
"I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC
It highlights for my review
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I ran this poem thru it
I'm sure your pleased to no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My checker told me sew."n
^ Practically older than the internet and still true.
It seems only weeks since John Cleese quipped Gaelic names are an assault on the innocent. Yes, he took a great deal of flack for that. Wish I could recall his exact words, his elocution is superb.
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Good morning GOF's! Happy Friday. Please report that all appendages toes etc accounted for. The heat has gone down and the smoke has dissipated so Sitka finally started cooling down yesterday.
In other minor news, I received my new bass cab from one of the kind TB'ers on TB, and I'm totally blown out of the water. It was economical enough for me to afford it, even with shipping. It's a copy of the DNA DNS112 Micro. The thing weighs 29 pounds and because of its extra large port it sounds HUGE! I'm puzzled because the cabinet looks brand new and was even wrapped in its original plastic wrap. The cab pairs perfectly with my MB200 because it's a 4ohm speaker, so I can coax the full 200 watts out of the 4ohms that the GK MB200 offers.
My Ibanez SR100 P-bass copy cost me $179. It was in such bad shape the seller refunded my shipping which was $40. Now it sounds awesome since I cleaned it up, put new strings on it, and gave it a good going over for neck and bridge adjustments.
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Verah naice, congra rats
^ the brain is able to figure out this spelling, somehow, don't ask me?
I think we're going to get together with some friends and start planning an "end of season" city wide dance at the local convention center. It's when everyone who's visiting--college students, young people, etc.-- get ready to leave after their seasonal jobs end. There's always a lot of food and people there. Looking forward to wishing all the kids a safe journey home!
So what say ye, GOF's? What are you up to this weekend?
Wait, what, a GOF theme song?
Okay present and accounted for. Started the day at the doctor's office. Later took in the sun over an espresso affogato to replenish some of the fluids they drew
Our old Deadhead band always seemed to drift into NRPS territory, even if we were playing Let Me Take You on a Sea Cruise. Where's the blame shifter?
Our group has a trio gig tonight-my turn to be off. Might go in and harass them by requesting "Edmund Fitzgerald" or "Alice's Restaurant" or, better yet, "Frank Mills".
We have a reunion gig tomorrow night-all 4 of us, then I have my Sunday afternoon charity thing.
A third possibility (one that hadn't occurred to us, according to Arlo) is successfully requesting Wildfire. That's sure to empty a room.
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