Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Passinwind]

It's the sea of Spandex I noticed at my single visit to a Formula 1 race (~ 2000). I'd kind of imagined Spandex as an NASCAR sort of thing (the taxis turning left races).

NASCAB has always been more about the Daisy Dukes. The F1 styles tend to mirror the individual countries quite a bit, from what I've seen. Not too many women at the USGP ca. 70-71 IIRC. But if you can recall correctly you weren't really there, or even really not there.

 

[Haroldo]

NASCAB

Typo or genius?

 

[Passinwind]

Typo or genius?

Not my doing, I think it may have been Brock Yates.

 

[Haroldo]

Not my doing, I think it may have been Brock Yates.

Budweiser = NASCabernet, I reckon.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Now that the Dean Girls are no longer the thing they once were, NAMM could use a blast of, well, something. I'll have my people get with some other people and see what they come up with, I guess.

Demo Dollies (the "I don't mind working at Hooters" look) were primarily employed at Japanese-owned exhibits in the pre-press trade shows. But that's 10 year old infos here, having not been in a bit.

Looks like he needs the ground on the amp fixed...

WIN

Oh, there are still plenty, just not in the Dean booth. And that's genuine progress IMHO. I mostly look at NAMM as an extension of Disneyland, but viewed through a Hunter Thompson filter set. When the going gets weird...

Happy birthday Jerry

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I have a Mesa 112 amp with a furniture finish. I take care of it but it has stood up well over many years. The slip cover that it came with has saved it from some damage. It really is a must. An ATA case would be better. It kind of defeats the purpose of a small combo.

There’s a dark oil finish on the cab. Seel wool a scratch and apply a bit of oil is all it takes to fix it. Although I’ve never had to.

Not mine below but the cab is like this one.


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And for us bass players: Rat Fur.

Thanks. I'm considering laser etching for the front panel and colored epoxy is the standard infill medium. But if I can do a tasty pasta dish and front panel graphics at the same time I'm all over it.

Squid ink is best reserved for risotto. Which is one dish that is, ultimately, too rich for me at my age. The other dish in the "oh my word that is too rich to finish" is something ordered in New Orleans. The Holy Trinity in New Orleans is: onions, bell pepper and celery. Amen.

I still know a guy who believes that. He's recently come out of retirement tp play again and is getting a rude awakening that, in 2019, nobody wants to deal with his mismatched stack of four Marshall combos and cabs. "But it's how I get my TONE, man!"

Yeah, you might want to figure that one out. I walk into a venue with my <5 lb head and <35 lb cabinet and just laugh at him. He brought a passive monitor to a show once and didn't understand why we couldn't hook it up when all we had for PA were powered speakers on sticks. I'm like, um... did you bring an amp for it? No, that's not gonna work here. Sorry.

It's too bad because he's a pretty good player but he's just stuck in his ways from the good old days and resents being expected to come up to speed.

<--- delighted to offer a sacrifice to the Marshall Gods. There is certainly a Neil Gaiman story here. What we need are Neil Gaiman lyrics.

They can do some neat laser etching stuff today.

Metalphoto

They did the LABSERIES panel.
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"Where Permanent Identification is Critical"

All upper case words means Important.

I have an opinion on the Oxford comma, and it is the correct one. (<--- joke)

The Concert Amp I had a few years ago got way louder, and still clean, for my ears.

Sadly, the controls only went to 10.

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I love amp pron!

 

[LBS-bass]

Budweiser = NASCabernet, I reckon.

Or this:

 

[GwenOnBass]

Is that anything like 'recalcitrant plebney'?

Al Jaffee sees all.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Hey, watch the baudy humor!

I see what you did there.

:: smack ::

 

[Haroldo]

Or this:

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Thank you for seeing through my initial misspelling. Also, big fan of visual aids in learning.

 

[LBS-bass]

Thank you for seeing through my initial misspelling. Also, big fan of visual aids in learning.

I think the NASCabernet has distinct possibilities!

 

[Haroldo]

I see what you did there.

:: smack ::

And me, too, finally. I'm dumb, but I'm slow.

 

[GonePlaid]

If he would. But he won't. Edit: Replacing the video with a screen shot

This mess is what he believes he needs at every single show in order to get the sound he wants. I forget if that's another combo at the bottom to the left, or just another cabinet. He won't even consider taking half of this to a small room. And, no surprise, the sound at this show was awful.

Something like that is gonna be either(A)WAY too loud for the room, or(2)too squished to get the full tonal spectrum. I feel for you.

 

[beans-on-toast]

All upper case words means Important.

It also allows one to read a small font on a pedal.

Re the Oxford comma....Red, green, and blue. Without the oxford comma, I see green and blue as grouped together. It also allows for a pause after green. Red (pause) green (pause) and blue makes more sense to me than red (pause) green and blue. The former establishes a natural cadence when the words are spoken.

There’s a viral math problem

I see the answer as 1. Evaluate what is in brackets first, then what is directly outside the brackets. Two plus two is four, times two is eight, eight divided by eight is one. Others feel that the correct answer is 16. Eight divided by two is four, four times four is sixteen.

It comes down to how you evaluate the expression. An extra set of brackets 8 ÷ (2 (2 + 2)) would make the grouping clear and unambiguous.

In a similar way, I see that the Oxford comma allows the sentence to be expressed in a more precise form.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Blue PMS 294 on the Navy Emblem

Why'd you have to bring up PMS? My guess is nobody in this thread needs to worry about that (anymore).

 

[LBS-bass]

It also allows one to read a small font on a pedal.

Re the Oxford comma....Red, green, and blue. Without the oxford comma, I see green and blue as grouped together. It also allows for a pause after green. Red (pause) green (pause) and blue makes more sense to me than red (pause) green and blue. The former establishes a natural cadence when the words are spoken.

There’s a viral math problem

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I see the answer as 1. Evaluate what is in brackets first, then what is directly outside the brackets. Two plus two is four, times two is eight, eight divided by eight is one. Others feel that the correct answer is 16. Eight divided by two is four, four times four is sixteen.

It comes down to how you evaluate the expression. An extra set of brackets 8 ÷ (2 (2 + 2)) would make the grouping clear and unambiguous.

In a similar way, I see that the Oxford comma allows the sentence to be expressed in a more precise form.

There is a formulaic approach to arithmetic like this, and your answer is correct.

• • Parentheses (simplify inside 'em)
  • Exponents.
  • Multiplication and Division (from left to right)
  • Addition and Subtraction (from left to right)

So the problem is pretty simple. What's in the parentheses is 4, then you are left with two expressions that have a value of 8 because 2(4) is an expression that still gets simplified down to the number 8. So the first 8 is an expression, the second "8" is expressed as 2(4) and the answer is 1. If it were written as 8/2x4 it would be evaluated differently, but the parenthetical indicator of multiplication implies a complete expression. At least that is how I remember it from my old math days, which were admittedly many years ago.

 

[Haroldo]

It also allows one to read a small font on a pedal.

Re the Oxford comma....Red, green, and blue. Without the oxford comma, I see green and blue as grouped together. It also allows for a pause after green. Red (pause) green (pause) and blue makes more sense to me than red (pause) green and blue. The former establishes a natural cadence when the words are spoken.

There’s a viral math problem

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I see the answer as 1. Evaluate what is in brackets first, then what is directly outside the brackets. Two plus two is four, times two is eight, eight divided by eight is one. Others feel that the correct answer is 16. Eight divided by two is four, four times four is sixteen.

It comes down to how you evaluate the expression. An extra set of brackets 8 ÷ (2 (2 + 2)) would make the grouping clear and unambiguous.

In a similar way, I see that the Oxford comma allows the sentence to be expressed in a more precise form.

I will fight for the Oxford comma up to and including my last dying breath. It's that useful.

 

[LBS-bass]

I will fight for the Oxford comma up to and including my last dying breath. It's that useful.

I believe there was a legal case recently that threw out something or other for lack of an Oxford comma. I don't recall all the details, but a lot of my writer friends were very smug about it. I prefer it, as well, but I got into the habit of dropping it when I worked in a job that required AP Style and I'd get dinged by my boss over every Oxford comma I used. Also double spaces after periods, which I will never stop doing because it's ingrained in my fingers.

 

[Haroldo]

I believe there was a legal case recently that threw out something or other for lack of an Oxford comma. I don't recall all the details, but a lot of my writer friends were very smug about it. I prefer it, as well, but I got into the habit of dropping it when I worked in a job that required AP Style and I'd get dinged by my boss over every Oxford comma I used. Also double spaces after periods, which I will never stop doing because it's ingrained in my fingers.

Ditto on the spaces. It really drives some folks 'round the twist, tho'.

 

[GwenOnBass]

No boys in typing class at school because boys grow up to be executives and girls grow up to be their secretaries ....

 

[LBS-bass]

Ditto on the spaces. It really drives some folks 'round the twist, tho'.

Right. When I worked for the dragon lady editor I would run all my copy through "find and replace" searching for the double space and period and replace them all with the single space and period before I gave her my work. I caught holy heck if I forgot, which I often did.