Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

In 1960, a reviewer couldn’t specify a 0-60 time because they couldn’t get it up to that speed.

This Scirocco is the car I lust for in 75 as I drive my fiesta orange Golf.

Pretty good blue there, looks close to French blue. Would make a good finish on a bass, yep. How about one bass in this blue and one bass in that same fiesta orange. I'm expecting both at the door now, k thanks bai

 

[mikeoso]

This Scirocco is the car I lust for in 75 as I drive my fiesta orange Golf.

Pretty good blue there, looks close to French blue. Would make a good finish on a bass, yep. How about one bass in this blue and one bass in that same fiesta orange. I'm expecting both at the door now, k thanks bai

...and check the VW Thing in back! I bought that in the orange color in 1974 when I graduated and got my first teaching job. Ran it all over the desert in southern AZ.

 

[Haroldo]

Not sure when the video was produced but the song was recorded May 3, 1960, written by Johnny Kidd. Mini skirts had not risen to prominence in 1960. Bands tended to not record their own material at the time.

I am here for the entertainment and the education (and truth be told, the company).

I was 8 years old in 1960 and the closest I got to the devil's music then was a single that George, a close friend of my parents and a Coke product rep, brought over. It seemed to be (and this video seems to verify that) a Coke marketing tie-in. Ladies and Germs, I give you 'The Madison'! (Sorry 'bout the Pat Boone, but Maynard G. Krebs, Ed Burns, and Annette Funicello!):



And here is Ray Bryant's infinitely hipper instrumental that started the whole thing.

 

[GwenOnBass]

There are bassists who dance with their instrument and bassists who just stand there and rock 'yer socks off. Reasonably certain I hold no personal stake in learning to do the Madison and play at the same time. It could be entertaining, though.

Nice feel the Ray Bryant thang has.

Oh wow and looking at 45s reminds me there is a pair of sterling earrings just like the 45 inserts we use to listen on the family console.

 

[GonePlaid]

Friday On My Mind

I recognized the song but for some reason I couldn't understand the lyrics.

 

[GonePlaid]

I am here for the entertainment and the education (and truth be told, the company).

I was 8 years old in 1960 and the closest I got to the devil's music then was a single that George, a close friend of my parents and a Coke product rep, brought over. It seemed to be (and this video seems to verify that) a Coke marketing tie-in. Ladies and Germs, I give you 'The Madison'! (Sorry 'bout the Pat Boone, but Maynard G. Krebs, Ed Burns, and Annette Funicello!):



And here is Ray Bryant's infinitely hipper instrumental that started the whole thing.

Ah, yes! Big band rock'n'roll.

 

[GonePlaid]

Wave 'hi' to my many sisters-in-law in Stuart as you drive by (if that's your route). And drive safely, please.

I live across the river from Stuart. Defensive driving here is driving as crazy as everyone else-to stay outta their way.

 

[beans-on-toast]

This Scirocco is the car I lust for in 75 as I drive my fiesta orange Golf.

Pretty good blue there, looks close to French blue. Would make a good finish on a bass, yep. How about one bass in this blue and one bass in that same fiesta orange. I'm expecting both at the door now, k thanks bai

...and check the VW Thing in back! I bought that in the orange color in 1974 when I graduated and got my first teaching job. Ran it all over the desert in southern AZ.

Looks like a good teacher's car. They were later to be well afflicted by rust-bucket-itis. Probably everywhere but Arizona.

Sky blue is a good bass finish color. The national color of Finland is white and blue.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I live across the river from Stuart. Defensive driving here is driving as crazy as everyone else-to stay outta their way.

Places where older folks live must have higher accident rates. A light changes, everyone sits there, slow to react, two cars make it through the intersection. The third stops in anticipation that the light is going to change. On approaching a light, they slow down in case it's going to change. If they need to break suddenly, slow to react and bamo. But pulling over to exchange information affords social interaction so it's a plus.

 

[Passinwind]

For awhile I was an instrument scientist working with the USGS. We did primarily geochronology. My boss, though, noted that 'hard rock' geology was not necessarily fitting in with the direction the Survey was headed in around the turn of the century, so went out to find new customers. We ended up doing a bunch of otolith work, spatially resolving the chemical composition of the 'earbones' in hopes of fingerprinting these salmons' lives, the better to get a feel for various populations' migration, breeding grounds, etc. Biologists are different from volcanologists I learned. Or at least their vocabularies are.

Did you make the ultrasound source, pulser, and antenna that made the l'i'l fishies flinch?

Cool. I worked as a contractor with USGS a fair amount myself, mostly on 3-D acoustic mapping of salmon smolt behavior just upstream of the dams. USGS did the acoustic receiver arrays and software processing and one of my bosses developed 30 day active transmitters that the fish could eventually pass. Really challenging and fun stuff. Seattle has a whole subculture of little mom and pop tech shops that spun off of the biomedical imaging industry up there. I spoke their language, so I got to tag along a lot. Most of my MI related DIY build ethos is related to what I learned from those guys, but I still have a long way to go to match the quality level that many of our vendors provided.

So for the little shad project I linked I was able to just grab production SONAR bits off the shelf that were otherwise used for fish tracking. In a normal season we'd have 80+ hydrophones arrayed all over Bonneville Dam, and similar arrays on at least a couple of other dams. I was responsible for all the data collection hardware (60+ PCs in the field), but that was just one of out several contracts I worked under. My main thing was installing and running high res SONAR video appliances like these: Sound Metrics - Products . I think the footage of the fish spooking experiment is still on their webpage gallery. It was a fairly big deal at the time, and the instruments were originally coming out of the University of Washington Applied Physics Lab, where I also had a friend. Doing hydroacoustics work was a whole lot like audio field service in many ways, so it came pretty easily to me.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I am here for the entertainment and the education (and truth be told, the company).

I was 8 years old in 1960 and the closest I got to the devil's music then was a single that George, a close friend of my parents and a Coke product rep, brought over. It seemed to be (and this video seems to verify that) a Coke marketing tie-in. Ladies and Germs, I give you 'The Madison'! (Sorry 'bout the Pat Boone, but Maynard G. Krebs, Ed Burns, and Annette Funicello!):



And here is Ray Bryant's infinitely hipper instrumental that started the whole thing.

I got tired just watching the dancers. It struck me that Annette was shorter than the others. She might not be be cast today, everything has to be perfect.

 

[Haroldo]

Seattle has a whole subculture of little mom and pop tech shops that spun off of the biomedical imaging industry up there.

Sociologically I think this is really interesting - the technological subcultures that grow up organically around largish hi-tech environs. They disappear, too. The Bay area (hell, just about everywhere) has seen this as more manufacturing is sent either abroad or to other, cheaper parts of the country. All lot of knowledge and wisdom is left to wither.

 

[Passinwind]

Sociologically I think this is really interesting - the technological subcultures that grow up organically around largish hi-tech environs. They disappear, too. The Bay area (hell, just about everywhere) has seen this as more manufacturing is sent either abroad or to other, cheaper parts of the country. All lot of knowledge and wisdom is left to wither.

It's a very fragile ecosystem, for sure. So many of the outfits I dealt with were just one or two man shows, really.

 

[beans-on-toast]

It's a very fragile ecosystem, for sure. So many of the outfits I dealt with were just one or two man shows, really.

Often academics with an incubator company trying to capitalize on a niche idea and hope to eventually be bought out. Having worked in medical imaging, you’d see a jump in technology quickly wash out what was previously accomplished by algorithms using brute force computing. The approach changes with better hardware available. It’s hard to compete with big industry with massive research budgets. When they get interested, they quickly move in and take over the field.

 

[LBS-bass]

Oh wow and looking at 45s reminds me there is a pair of sterling earrings just like the 45 inserts we use to listen on the family console.

Guitarist in one of the bands I'm in has that 45 insert tattooed on his forearm. He's a schoolteacher and the kids are always asking about it, no one ever knows what it is.

 

[Passinwind]

Often academics with an incubator company trying to capitalize on a niche idea and hope to eventually be bought out. Having worked in medical imaging, you’d see a jump in technology quickly wash out what was previously accomplished by brute force computing. Everything changes. It’s hard to compete with big industry with massive research budgets. When they get interested, they quickly move in and take over the field.

Yep. I was lucky enough the be able to work with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory quite a bit. If the DOE liked and wanted your widget you probably wanted to get out right now. But OTOH, if you could get in on a spinoff from their research projects there was often a lot of hay to be made. The quality of their fabrication work is still my gold standard, it was just a joy to receive stuff from them.

 

[beans-on-toast]

RCA introduced 45’s with the larger holes. Why they used that format is described here:

Why is the Hole on a 45 RPM Record So Big? - A Journal of Musical Things

Then someone came along with the 45 record adapter. Although obvious, RCA hadn’t thought about that possibility. Doh!

 

[the harp unstrung]

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Early report: No gigs for our regular group this weekend, off to visit family in Orlando area. Back in time for Sunday afternoon outdoor open mic/jam, noon 'til T-storms.
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Drive safe, brother.

Besides @GonePlaid making an early report, please front and center report in that all appendages, attachments, etc. accounted for. Carey and I are going to a fish and chips fund raiser tomorrow. The local fishermen donated fresh never frozen halibut and scallops. Hand cut fries. We won't do much outdoors because the weather report calls for drizzle all weekend. Good day to catch up on inside stuff. Sometimes in the morning I'll get up early, cook breakfast, and Carey will get up and while we eat we'll watch a corny whodunnit on the Lifetime movie channel. Watching those low budget movies sometimes are really a hoot. We laugh and pick out all the inconsistencies...

So what say ye, GOF's what are you up to this weekend? And @GonePlaid pleeeeze try to behave yourself at the in-laws!!!

 

[alaskaleftybass]

...and check the VW Thing in back! I bought that in the orange color in 1974 when I graduated and got my first teaching job. Ran it all over the desert in southern AZ.

I think all of us GOF's owned some form of a VW in our young lives.... they always seemed cheap and available...