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Tell me you're old without telling me you're old

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-It's amazing how many times, and at totally unexpected times./ '"Uh...Clem" has popped into mind over the years.

-John Lennon was a huge fan of the The Goon Show and said at a couple of times that if he could do anything other than music, he would have liked to be a part of something like that. One of the best clips of him doing his Goon Show best was when a show the Beatles in early shows - reacting to the screaming, it was driving him crazy. "They just keep screamin' through the whole thing, they can't even hear us sing."

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DownRound said:
My brother (now living in England), was and is a huge W.C. Fields fan.
He used to have this poster up on the wall. Got it from a "head shop" in Portland called the Ides of March.

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Okay....maybe I got the wrong Mikey.
Still bugged about what happened to this Mikey, though.

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Big WC Fields fan here. DRAT!!!
 
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DownRound said:
-It's amazing how many times, and at totally unexpected times./ '"Uh...Clem" has popped into mind over the years.

-John Lennon was a huge fan of the The Goon Show and said at a couple of times that if he could do anything other than music, he would have liked to be a part of something like that. One of the best clips of him doing his Goon Show best was when a show the Beatles in early shows - reacting to the screaming, it was driving him crazy. "They just keep screamin' through the whole thing, they can't even hear us sing."

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Lennon was right. I saw the Beatles at Civic Arena in Pittsburgh in '64, was perhaps 100 feet away dead center, in front of stage, couldn't hear a thing. You could only hear the overtones of the songs and see them playing, vocals totally drown out by screaming.
 
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BigBoneRed said:
"Fireball"
Bally 1972
..an awesome table~ when the round kicker is spinning, it pitches a nasty knuckleball in any direction.
Great game. Spent a few hours, (and quarters), on this one.:thumbsup:


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Ohhh maaan, I remember that one.
The spin part was great.
I was anything but a wizard at pinball, but the few times I won a round, that solenoid pop was satisfying as heck.

And double memory score on that Jethro Tull song, one of their many great songs.
The lyric "Skating away on the thin ice of a new day" always triggers a memory of the (lesser-known) song by Captain Beyond, "Dancing Madly Backward on a Sea of Air" (1972).

BassicJazzy said:
Lennon was right. I saw the Beatles at Civic Arena in Pittsburgh in '64, was perhaps 100 feet away dead center, in front of stage, couldn't hear a thing. You could only hear the overtones of the songs and see them playing, vocals totally drown out by screaming.
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No fair. You got to see them.
My family lived in N. California at that time, we begged our parents to let us go to the Bay Area where our cousins lived, the Beatles opened the tour in the Cow Palace in San Francisco. We'd been down to visit a few months earlier, and our cousins had Meet The Beatles. I can still see the album cover leaning on the table that the record player sat on. Indelible image and sound. We played that thing non-stop. The songs still generate the same feeling - the freshness, the harmonies, an amazing thing.
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And, as a public service: a Captain Beyond song. (Different album).
More prog rock-ish than their hard rock stuff.

 
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DownRound said:
Ohhh maaan, I remember that one.
The spin part was great.
I was anything but a wizard at pinball, but the few times I won a round, that solenoid pop was satisfying as heck.

And double memory score on that Jethro Tull song, one of their many great songs.
The lyric "Skating away on the thin ice of a new day" always triggers a memory of the (lesser-known) song by Captain Beyond, "Dancing Madly Backward on a Sea of Air" (1972).


No fair. You got to see them.
My family lived in N. California at that time, we begged our parents to let us go to the Bay Area where our cousins lived, the Beatles opened the tour in the Cow Palace in San Francisco. We'd been down to visit a few months earlier, and our cousins had Meet The Beatles. I can still see the album cover leaning on the table that the record player sat on. Indelible image and sound. We played that thing non-stop. The songs still generate the same feeling - the freshness, the harmonies, an amazing thing.
........

And, as a public service: a Captain Beyond song. (Different album).
More prog rock-ish than their hard rock stuff.

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Abbey Road was one of the only albums I wore out. It was my first album, in what became a pretty large record collection.

Not familiar with Captain Beyond. Gonna check that out. Love early prog.
 
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I must be getting old... Discord gives me a HEADACHE.
How the heck to navigate that platform, I will never know... totally counter-intuitive for my brain
I have had the misfortune to have to join a few of those, and can never figure out how to track my posts or replies or just generally what the heck is going on in their Bizzarro-Universe
 
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mikewalker said:
I must be getting old... Discord gives me a HEADACHE.
How the heck to navigate that platform, I will never know... totally counter-intuitive for my brain
I have had the misfortune to have to join a few of those, and can never figure out how to track my posts or replies or just generally what the heck is going on in their Bizzarro-Universe
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With a name like Discord....

I know I'm getting old. I'd never even heard of Discord, have never used Pandora or Spotify.
But in my view, with age also comes a certain legitimate perception that much of the stuff that become a normal part of life aren't improvements, and many are just plain pain in the necks: e.g. ridiculously complicated phone trees, convoluted internet platforms, and ridiculously gimmick-laden electronic devices of all varieties that contain dozens of useless applications that are mostly worthless and never used. (My wife and I inherited a flat screen monitor to replace our CRT when we used to get DVDs from Netflix. Came with a 57 page manual in illegibly small print that required multi-step programming simply to specify that all you wanted was full-screen rather than multi-image options. Why not just start with that as default setting?)
A simple design dictum that is routinely ignored now: Just because you can devise a programmed feature doesn't mean that you should.
 
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BassicJazzy said:
Abbey Road was one of the only albums I wore out. It was my first album, in what became a pretty large record collection.

Not familiar with Captain Beyond. Gonna check that out. Love early prog.
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In 1981, I idiotically sold almost the whole Beatles U.S. catalog (Columbia and Apple) that I had built up over the years. I was clearing out old rock stuff, of all sorts (prog, all of the Asylum label stuff, the Doors, lots of 70s albums. Kept the Hendrix, though.) $1 for each vinyl album for everything. Two apple crates worth. Making room for post-punk. A dumb, dumb thing to do. "Aah, Beatles records are always going to be around.". The White Album, numbered with four Beatles photos and the poster, went for $2. The woman who bought it was very happy.

But I kept Abbey Road, the only original Apple release I still have.

"Sufficiently Breathless" is to me the best song by Captain Beyond. Some of the others okay.
 
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DownRound said:
Andy Griffith, the undisputed King when it came to endorsements.
Just a few of them.

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Below is reputedly the last known recorded image of Andy.
The King to the end.

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While watching Andy Griffith show with my 95 yr old mom she remarked how Opie seemed so familiar.
I reminded her he grew up to be Ritchie Cunningham.
 
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