Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[beans-on-toast]

When I was a kid, trucks used to go up and down the streets spraying malathion into the air. If the bugs didn’t get you the insecticide would.

 

[Jeff Scott]

When I was a kid, trucks used to go up and down the streets spraying malathion into the air. If the bugs didn’t get you the insecticide would.

We had trucks and low flying aircraft!

 

[GonePlaid]

We had trucks and low flying aircraft!

More than one morning in Miami, we heard the roar of radials(Wrights)as a B-17 flew over at maybe 250' spraying the little beasties.

 

[LBS-bass]

I have a friend, an ex (shoulda married that guy, and you'll know why in a moment) who hires a helicopter to fly him to some mountain in Alaska every year so he can ski down it.

Yeah, that guy was the love of my life and our timing was off. Both of us know it. In the interim he made a boatload of money. I'd be set for life, but alas, I needed to know I was loved.

I was, he just didn't know how to say it. Oh, well.

 

[GonePlaid]

I have a friend, an ex (shoulda married that guy, and you'll know why in a moment) who hires a helicopter to fly him to some mountain in Alaska every year so he can ski down it.

Yeah, that guy was the love of my life and our timing was off. Both of us know it. In the interim he made a boatload of money. I'd be set for life, but alas, I needed to know I was loved.

I was, he just didn't know how to say it. Oh, well.

We'd hafta open a whole new thread for "the one that got away" stories.

 

[Jeff Scott]

More than one morning in Miami, we heard the roar of radials(Wrights)as a B-17 flew over at maybe 250' spraying the little beasties.

Were you one of the little beasties?

 

[LBS-bass]

We'd hafta open a whole new thread for "the one that got away" stories.

Not worth it. I am trying my best to let that one die a dignified death, but he keeps texting me anyway.

 

[SoulReflection]

An extension of Soulful Sunday...GOF's content:

Is Nostalgia a good reason to buy a bass?

 

[LBS-bass]

An extension of Soulful Sunday...GOF's content:

Is Nostalgia a good reason to buy a bass?

I have little nostalgia for any of the basses I've owned, though I had a few classics. I sold them because they didn't work for me, so... happy to have them sold. But if I'd held onto them, they'd be worth a few dollars today. Especially the slotted headstock EB-0 and the Kramer 650B.

 

[GonePlaid]

Were you one of the little beasties?

Well, I was little(maybe 11-12 y/o)and some may have considered me beastly.

 

[beans-on-toast]

An extension of Soulful Sunday...GOF's content:

Is Nostalgia a good reason to buy a bass?

Absolutely! Sometimes it can cost. There are amps and instruments that I’ve sold and deeply regret. It always costs way more to purchase them again. I always take care of my gear and when I sell, it’s generally in mint condition.

See how much it costs to find a mint anything from years ago. Some things are rarified unobtainum.

 

[Passinwind]

An extension of Soulful Sunday...GOF's content:

Is Nostalgia a good reason to buy a bass?

Great first post and cool thread, although I don't really roll that way much at all.

 

[GonePlaid]

Absolutely! Sometimes it can cost. There are amps and instruments that I’ve sold and deeply regret. It always costs way more to purchase them again. I always take care of my gear and when I sell, it’s generally in mint condition.

See how much it costs to find a mint anything from years ago. Some things are rarified unobtainum.

Sold my 66 EB3 'cos it wasn't being used-let someone play it. Less than a month later I needed a short scale. Couldn't even find an Epi EB0 or 3 that I liked. Settled for a Squier VM Jag SS. It's OK but it ain't no 66 EB3.

 

[GwenOnBass]

And yes, once again Blues Monday

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[beans-on-toast]

 

[GwenOnBass]

What a great voice.

 

[the harp unstrung]

Blues Monday you say?!!

 

[El Güero]

 

[sharkbait130]

Buckle up fellas , the Seahag saga continues.
When we last left Seahag , she had ditched Sharky and jumped on her bike to go visit their son in Denver. This was during Sharkys busiest musical week of the year (but that's another story.) She stopped along the way to visit some friends and do some sightseeing and arrived in Denver a week later. Spent a week there and did a lot of sightseeing with Gatorbait. Ok , two weeks out and she finally decides it might be time to head for home. BUT WAIT.....THERE's MORE. The Sturgis bike rally is going on and only 6 hours out of the way , so she heads there. Figured she'd see Deadwood while she was in that neck of the woods. It's only about 15 miles up the road from Sturgis. All was going well till Saturday afternoon when she ran into some rain. Finally decided to bag it for the afternoon but on a wet ramp , somewhere in Wyoming , she laid the bike down. I got the call around 4PM. She said she was OK but the bike got banged up a bit. She wasn't sure if it would go anymore and she was talking about renting a U Haul to bring it home. Just about that time , the police and EMT's show up so she said she was going to deal with them and would call me back.
Fast forward about an hour and the phone rings again. The cop wrote it all off to the wet road , the EMT's decided she wasn't hurt (just a bump on the knee) and some guy stopped and helped her fix the saddlebags (one top broke off) and get the windshield back on. Three mounts still worked for the windshield and a couple of tie straps supplied by said stranger did the rest of the job.
"Well , it seems to be running fine" she said "so I'm headed for Deadwood and Sturgis. See ya sometime next week."

 

[GwenOnBass]

That Seahag returns safely!