Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Haroldo]

For us in DC it was the Tastee Diner which, miraculously, still exists. Many a night was capped by a visit to the TD in the wee hours after all the gear was packed up and loaded. A good night's work was one that ended with a run to TD and still got me home in time to watch Rocky and Bullwinkle reruns at around sunrise.

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As a sprout in Green Bay, WI, we would have the Blackstone and George Webb Restaurants. A busload of skinny white kids playing soul and R&B gigs at country tavern / dancehalls / CYO dances. I don't associate the Blackstone with Boris and Natasha but rather their own version of poutine.

 

[GwenOnBass]

There is a particular day this made me recall of when the wind came up as the sole crew member of a racing sloop. The day is similarly enhanced as you describe and there is GFR on the tape player.

(By the way a racing sloop has no head. <ahem> )

Were there other folks on this sloop, Morrie? (Kinda rhymes with John B, eh?) My former wife was capable of using the road as her 'head' in a moving car. Most impressive, mama, sayeth J. Lennon. Be that as it may, I'm not sure if I would fondly remember that day, were I you, but I guess you had to be there.

A portable head is on board, but the captain says you use it, you clean it. So yeah, only me and the captain. It's a small contraption with what appears to me a bicycle pump mechanism. I truly hope my memory is flawed on this point.

Noticing Magic Carpet Ride begins to play as events take hold is teh besto.

 

[Haroldo]

A portable head is on board, but the captain says you use it, you clean it. So yeah, only me and the captain. It's a small contraption with what appears to me a bicycle pump mechanism. I truly hope my memory is flawed on this point.

Noticing Magic Carpet Ride begins to play as events take hold is teh besto.

" I like to pee (yes, yes). Right between the boom and gaff." I am but a clumsy landlubber, so forgive me.

ETA I also have, evidently, a strong sophomoric streak. Mea culpa, etc etc.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

When I lived in Seattle in the 80s there was a breakfast club near my house that many musicians would go to after their gigs, either to hang out or to play another gig. The music was mostly killer funk and/or R&B, and the food was really good too. It had a very long run, over 30 years I think.

Was it Beth's? I remember eating many early mornings after gigs in the 70's-80's when we played around Seattle.

 

[sharkbait130]

For us in DC it was the Tastee Diner which, miraculously, still exists. Many a night was capped by a visit to the TD in the wee hours after all the gear was packed up and loaded. A good night's work was one that ended with a run to TD and still got me home in time to watch Rocky and Bullwinkle reruns at around sunrise.

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I hit the Tastee in Laurel and S.S. a couple of times. Our hangouts were the Shortstop in Wheaton and the Steak and Egg Kitchen near Four Corners. I wasn't doing the band gig in those days. For us , it was after a long day and night of partying , riding , or building bikes in our garage with the bunch of bikers I was hanging around with. A bunch of us shared a garage off Layhill Rd in Glenmont. All from the Wheaton , S.S. area. Our favorite was The Shortstop on University Blvd. The lady that managed it nights was the mom of a girl a lot of us went to elementary school with. She remembered most of our names.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Here's Beth's Cafe on Aurora Avenue in Seattle. It's a popular nightspot for musicians and college students and has been open since the 60's. It's still there. Beth's was packed to the gills on Friday and Saturday nights in the 70's and 80's when we played in Seattle. I'm adding a picture of their famous 12 egg omelette! On top of a bed of hash browns, breakfast meat, and a stack of toast-- your choice of bread.

 

[GwenOnBass]

My older sister's husband would definitely dig that omelet.
Omlete du fromage
Witness to him as he polished off 9 dozen oysters.
Omlete du fromage
Witness to him as he polished off a 72 ounce steak.
Omlete du fromage
Yes, he definitely would finish a 12 egg omelet.
Omlete du fromage

 

[beans-on-toast]

The Apollo astronauts would eat steak and eggs for breakfast before a flight. The choice was because it produced "low residue". I guess it stuck with them and they wouldn't have to pull over at a gas station while in space.

 

[Haroldo]

Here's Beth's Cafe on Aurora Avenue in Seattle. It's a popular nightspot for musicians and college students and has been open since the 60's. It's still there. Beth's was packed to the gills on Friday and Saturday nights in the 70's and 80's when we played in Seattle. I'm adding a picture of their famous 12 egg omelette! On top of a bed of hash browns, breakfast meat, and a stack of toast-- your choice of bread.

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Holy moly! Truly a blast from the past. I have eaten the 12 egg omelet, if my GOF memory is not playing too many tricks with me.

 

[GonePlaid]

Holy moly! Truly a blast from the past. I have eaten the 12 egg omelet, if my GOF memory is not playing too many tricks with me.

Our late night post gig place in Northwest Miami was Jack Murphy's. We referred to it as 'the theater'. There was always a show of some kind-provided by the patrons. Late Halloween night was spectacular.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

The Apollo astronauts would eat steak and eggs for breakfast before a flight. The choice was because it produced "low residue". I guess it stuck with them and they wouldn't have to pull over to a gas station while in space.

 

[mikeoso]

The Apollo astronauts would eat steak and eggs for breakfast before a flight. The choice was because it produced "low residue". I guess it stuck with them and they wouldn't have to pull over at a gas station while in space.

Steak and eggs was a common breakfast for Marines about to launch landings during WWII.

 

[GwenOnBass]

My older sister's husband would definitely dig that omelet.
Omlete du fromage
Witness to him as he polished off 9 dozen oysters.
Omlete du fromage
Witness to him as he polished off a 72 ounce steak.
Omlete du fromage
Yes, he definitely would finish a 12 egg omelet.
Omlete du fromage

(kind of neglected to mention said brother-in-law was bio-exorcised on account of colon cancer.)

 

[LBS-bass]

I hit the Tastee in Laurel and S.S. a couple of times. Our hangouts were the Shortstop in Wheaton and the Steak and Egg Kitchen near Four Corners. I wasn't doing the band gig in those days. For us , it was after a long day and night of partying , riding , or building bikes in our garage with the bunch of bikers I was hanging around with. A bunch of us shared a garage off Layhill Rd in Glenmont. All from the Wheaton , S.S. area. Our favorite was The Shortstop on University Blvd. The lady that managed it nights was the mom of a girl a lot of us went to elementary school with. She remembered most of our names.

I played a lot of clubs in Bethesda back in the day (do you remember Durty Nellies, Malarkey's or the Psyche Deli?), and sorta sometimes lived there with one of my boyfriends, so we hung out at the B-town one quite a bit. The first house I bought with my music money was in Laurel, MD, but I didn't much hang at that TD because we'd hit one of the others on our way home usually, since we were already near there. My first apartment was in Silver Spring or, more correctly, White Oak, just on the edge of SS.

Guitarist that I played with was from McLean, not too far from Four Corners if my memory serves me. I spent a lot of time in that area too.

 

[sharkbait130]

I played a lot of clubs in Bethesda back in the day (do you remember Durty Nellies, Malarkey's or the Psyche Deli?), and sorta sometimes lived there with one of my boyfriends, so we hung out at the B-town one quite a bit. The first house I bought with my music money was in Laurel, MD, but I didn't much hang at that TD because we'd hit one of the others on our way home usually, since we were already near there. My first apartment was in Silver Spring or, more correctly, White Oak, just on the edge of SS.

Guitarist that I played with was from McLean, not too far from Four Corners if my memory serves me. I spent a lot of time in that area too.

That was seven corners in Va. Four corners was Queens Chapel in Md at University Blvd. and New Hampshire Ave. Yup , I remember all the places you mentioned. Don't forget The Twist and Shout. Don't think I was ever in any of them though. Saw a few movies at the old Bethesda Theater when I was a kid. Dinner at Bish Thompsons a few times. Great seafood. I think it closed in the late '90's. First place I remember living was somewhere off Bradley Blvd. in Bethesda. Then some place off E-W Hwy in S.S. Chevy Chase till I was about 8 , then moved to Wheaton. Sounds like we were following each other cause I lived in Savage for a couple of years too.

 

[Haroldo]

I played a lot of clubs in Bethesda back in the day (do you remember Durty Nellies, Malarkey's or the Psyche Deli?), and sorta sometimes lived there with one of my boyfriends, so we hung out at the B-town one quite a bit. The first house I bought with my music money was in Laurel, MD, but I didn't much hang at that TD because we'd hit one of the others on our way home usually, since we were already near there. My first apartment was in Silver Spring or, more correctly, White Oak, just on the edge of SS.

Guitarist that I played with was from McLean, not too far from Four Corners if my memory serves me. I spent a lot of time in that area too.

You get the guitarist from the Agency?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Musicians play a lot of dives. This song has a cadence like an auctioneer.




The master, Leroy Van Dyke

 

[LBS-bass]

You get the guitarist from the Agency?

Shhhh!

 

[LBS-bass]

That was seven corners in Va. Four corners was Queens Chapel in Md at University Blvd. and New Hampshire Ave. Yup , I remember all the places you mentioned. Don't forget The Twist and Shout. Don't think I was ever in any of them though. Saw a few movies at the old Bethesda Theater when I was a kid. Dinner at Bish Thompsons a few times. Great seafood. I think it closed in the late '90's. First place I remember living was somewhere off Bradley Blvd. in Bethesda. Then some place off E-W Hwy in S.S. Chevy Chase till I was about 8 , then moved to Wheaton. Sounds like we were following each other cause I lived in Savage for a couple of years too.

Thanks, my memories are fuzzy after so many years. I spent a good decade in the DC area between '79 and '89 but I haven't been back that way but a few times since then. I remember when the Old Bethesda reopened and was one of the first movie theaters to do second-run films with beer and comfy seats. That was a fun experience.

Bradley Blvd: Wow. We lived right at the corner of Old Georgetown and Battery Lane. Big old Mission style house that's probably worth a few million by now. My ex rented it and subleased rooms out to a bunch of his friends. Some great memories from those days.

Me and the Ex: Halloween at the Mission House in Bethesda with the hounds. I joked with him recently that we were trying hard back then to look as old as we are now.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Steak and eggs was a common breakfast for Marines about to launch landings during WWII.

My dad had steak and eggs in the Asian theater during WWII in the Army. He went on R and R in Australia where they called it.. staaek and aaeegs.. you know, with an Aussie accent. He made some lifelong friends in the Army that were Australians...