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Dunno. Every generation complains about that - same three chords played at high volume could be said about Chuck Berry and a good portion of rock and blues in general. Never mind the 4 chord vamp of do wop. Etc.
Those are for sissies. We used to cut off the ground prong
IIRC Otter had a leather bag. Mine was made from heavy canvas. I got it second hand from a monster mega military surplus warehouse full of used military gear from all over the world.
No doubt. I never needed the kind of gear he had so i couldn’t carry whati didn’t have.Otter’s bag was full of “gear”, too.
Some of my very favorite music comes from this period, but to compare '60s musicians in general to the best classical composers is just way over the top, IMO. That is nostalgia in action, isn't it?
Yep. Seems you can’t talk about anything that doesn’t involve some people without them feeling all threatened and defensive because they can’t accept that it’s not somehow being directed at them.
Like Oscar Wilde so aptly put it, when it comes to some people, the only thing they think worse than being talked about is not being talked about at all.
Yeah. So it goes around here sometimes. You start a thread where people get together to celebrate and laugh at themselves and their old foibles a bit and it’s only a matter of time before someone with, as you noted, no sense of humor - (and who is seldom within the demographic of the thread) shows up. And having no fun stories of their own to add to the slush pile, decides to be all offended and troll it.
It’s kinda the web equivalent of someone who crashes a party and tries to pick a fight with one of the guests. What can I say? You get ‘em.
Wow, so many assumptions about others, followed by a lecture on netiquette. That is just precious.Contrasting opinions are always welcome. State your thesis, present your evidence, and make your case if you’re feeling contrarian and nobody will have a problem with it.
Snarky one-liners and comebacks, or “sniping” to use another social media term (which is the preferred modus of a small group of TBers whose handles I’m sure many of the regulars here already recognize) aren’t contributing anything to the conversation.
FWIW, my roots in the online world go back before the Internet when I was one of the early subscribers (or “Well Beings”) on The WELL and hosted a few of my own dial-up online bulletin boards. Back then there was a set of generally accepted guidelines regarding what constituted acceptable behavior that was referred to as “netiquette.” And for the most part, they were pretty well adhered to.
One of the netiquette guidelines suggested that if you ever found yourself in a conversation where you had nothing of value or interest to add, and you didn’t feel like chiming in as a supporter, you either be a “lurker” (i.e. reader) or exit it and go find another conversation you could constructively participate in. As the guideline put it: Avoid playing devil’s advocate unless there’s a serious and compelling reason for you to do so. Most differences you’ll encounter online are differences of opinion rather than actual substance. Learn to recognize the difference.
There’s been many topics and threads I’ve encountered here where I disagreed strongly with the trend in the discussion or didn’t have any skin in the game so to speak. So I just moved into other threads where I could more profitably spend my time. Spared me dozens of circular arguments and wasted keyboarding.
Wow, so many assumptions about others, followed by a lecture on netiquette. That is just precious.
You took far more digs than I.Thank you Greg! Here’s a nice shiny star to put on your collar for completely missing my point. Couldn’t resist putting that last little dig in either, could ya? Nice when a comment serves as its own example.
Ah, ok. I get it now. Yep, these became necessary around the time we began grounding things and ubiquitous sometime after that. I think the grounded plug became a standard thing sometime in the early 70's. I'm guessing, going by memory, as I was born in 1959 and I quite recall seeing them when I was a fairly young thing but I don't remember how young. So there was a time prior to that when you wouldn't have needed it. I just didn't see Paula's original post as excluding everything that was done after that date, though.
In 1972, my band went to see Bobby "Blue" Bland at a little club in Topeka. Apparently his contract called for the venue to provide a PA. What the club provided as a speaker was a single one of these, and we could tell he was not happy about it:
I expect that, in 1972, people were still figuring out what was sufficient for music sound reinforcement and I wonder if that term was even out there. We always called them PA systems, even though there's a clear difference between what's needed to call Bingo and what's needed to hear a band well. I doubt the venue made this mistake again, though you never know!
The Shure Vocal Master system came out in 1968. So, yeah, I think the whole concept was pretty new still in '72. I was still running into Vocal Master systems in the late 70's though by then they were being replaced by larger component systems.
In 1972, my band went to see Bobby "Blue" Bland at a little club in Topeka. Apparently his contract called for the venue to provide a PA. What the club provided as a speaker was a single one of these, and we could tell he was not happy about it:
