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#182,427
PillO said:
It is not Thunderbird Thursday here, it is Percocet Thursday. Yesterday was surgery Wednesday. I'm splinted up real good, but it seems like surgery was a success as fingertips move! :hyper: That means in a few weeks I'll be able to play again! :bassist:
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Awesome! So happy for you, my friend.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
Awesome! So happy for you, my friend.
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I'll be back to molesting watermelons in no time...

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PillO said:
It is not Thunderbird Thursday here, it is Percocet Thursday. Yesterday was surgery Wednesday. I'm splinted up real good, but it seems like surgery was a success as fingertips move! :hyper: That means in a few weeks I'll be able to play again! :bassist:
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That's fantastic! Take it easy and heal up, there's Thunderbirds in your near future!
 
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TBird1958 said:
That's fantastic! Take it easy and heal up, there's Thunderbirds in your near future!
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Indeed! Murphy has not yet delivered my NR, but soon! Even if it were, I will not be driving until I am 24 hrs off narcotics. But I think I will delay picking it up until I am out of the cast.

And I feel no need to have to have the surgery revised. Although it went well, I have what feels like 5lbs of plaster holding fingers, hand, and wrist immobile. It comes off in 13 days and I can start rehab (for the surgery, not the narcotics).

The surgery was done under a nerve block. In theory, I was there for it, but the wonders of modern chemistry means I don't recall anything after establishment of the sterile field. The amusing thing about the nerve block (well, there are several) was after the surgery, I lifted my arm to take a look and there was no muscle control at the elbow, so I whacked myself in the face with the cast.
 
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GBassNorth said:
I don’t mind listening to SSP, it kinda falls into the background music category for me (easily forgettable, mild, low key, maybe even low T). What I have difficulty doing is watching one of their video clips. The lead singer, who doesn’t have a bad voice for the type of music they play just kills me with his cross eyes. I assume he’s not doing it on purpose, and I feel for individuals that have that or a lazy eye problem, but combined with his voice and looks and lyrics it comes across as more of a weird Al Yankovic parody more than anything else. Maybe if he wore sunglasses or spent less time looking directly into the camera it might be better.

@KaraQ turned me on to the The Warning a few weeks ago. Now there’s a band with energy, style, vocals, guitar bass and drum chops and interesting songs. Kind of the Go Go’s with an attitude on steroids. I like to look for new groups to follow and so far I’m liking about everything they’ve done. Sure they’re selling a lot of sex with their image (as did the Go-Go’s, the Bangles, Heart, Pat Benatar, Tina Turner, Blondie, Joan Jett, heck even little bitty PJ Harvey makes a go of it). But unless they’re pulling a Milli Vanilli they’ve got a ton of talent. Check em out.





A lot of classic hard driving rock there, all in my rock short list as well. Without turning my back on those classics I’m also venturing down several other musical paths right now that include The Warning for newer stuff but also Caro and Melody Gardot and Gary Clarke Jr. for swing and blues; Darius Rucker and Midnight Cattle Callers for country western; Concrete Blonde and Mazzy Star for alternative; and even Peter White, Paul Hardcastle and Sade for smooth jazz.

Drives my wife nutz when I put my Pandora on thumbprint (random) play - you just never know what gonna come up next.
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Background music? Low T? Well that's kinder than what you've said about Neil. I still listen to both of them.
 
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GonePlaid said:
Kinda like LSUG on Sirius/XM.
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I cancelled my Sirius/XM. They hit my credit card for $249. I'd lost track when it was up for renewal. And I'm hardly in the car where I listened to it. Made them refund that and they kept going lower and lower to get me to stay. Then the calls began. One day $4.99 a month. The next day $6.99 a month. I told them they're going the wrong direction and they were back to $4.99. Would have done it but, I was still annoyed at the auto renewal charge without so much as an email warning me about it. And I got two or three emails from tham about programming. Now get off my lawn.
 
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dagrev said:
I got to admit shredding is interesting--for a little bit and once in a while--but after that I personally don't find it interesting. Starts sounding all the same in some ways to me. But fully realize it takes skill. (Haven't watched the clip yet.) But more power to those who love it, and music I don't like.

Here are two I find interesting musically. I admit, I like the music much better than the (male) singing. It's just not me and I realize that.


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I tire of his voice quickly, but enjoy the music for the most part.
 
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GonePlaid said:
Liked Cinderella's sound, didn't GAS what they looked like. Did care what Vixen looked like.
Sorta wondering why there's not more love for Kelly Ogden(Dollyrots):
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I like her and enjoy listening to her on the Underground Garage.
 
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PillO said:
Indeed! Murphy has not yet delivered my NR, but soon! Even if it were, I will not be driving until I am 24 hrs off narcotics. But I think I will delay picking it up until I am out of the cast.

And I feel no need to have to have the surgery revised. Although it went well, I have what feels like 5lbs of plaster holding fingers, hand, and wrist immobile. It comes off in 13 days and I can start rehab (for the surgery, not the narcotics).

The surgery was done under a nerve block. In theory, I was there for it, but the wonders of modern chemistry means I don't recall anything after establishment of the sterile field. The amusing thing about the nerve block (well, there are several) was after the surgery, I lifted my arm to take a look and there was no muscle control at the elbow, so I whacked myself in the face with the cast.
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:laugh:Ya shoulda been wearing yer melon helmet. Seriously, hope everything is taken care of for you.
 
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Had some time to kill on tour today so we went to a music store. Guitar player bought a new amp. They had 3 different Darkglass amps and two Darkglass cabs, so I gave em a test drive with some new ‘select’ high end P bass. The P bass played and sounded fantastic, though a bit fancy for my tastes. Gold hardware and fancy wood. Great bass, but not for me.
The Darkglass stuff? I dunno. Kinda sounded like an ok sounding amp with a built in ok sounding dirtbox and a not so ok sounding compressor
 
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