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I knew what this was thread gonna turn out like.
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Got in late last night from a double header.
Played as a trio with my buddies Steve and Quinny at a nice dock bar in Kent Island. Great crowd and show. Watched the Os win as we played. 😎 We played til 7 and packed up and were playing The Rams Head with a full band by 8.
For Rams Head, we added a drummer, bass player and dude named Elvin on guitar. No rehearsals at all for us. Elvin arrived halfway though the first set with a bad *** Dr Z amp and his modded Tele. He plugged in and we went right into Folsom Prison Blues, but he forgot we were all tuned down a half step. 😦We quickly realized something was wrong, so the rest of us just played that one in F. He tuned down after that and we continued to rip it up all night, to a very small crowd. That part was a shame.
I can't overstate how good this guy Elvin is. He recently played the Lincoln Center in NY with The King Of Latin Soul , Joe Bataan. Then he comes down to play an empty show with a hack like me. But we had a great time playing. Mainly jammed and improvised all night. It's amazing to play with these great musicians, who are above my level.
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Best to you John. Hope you're playing some more gigs soon.
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On 4/23/2024 at 11:57 AM, Californiaman said:
Yeah, not funny anymore. Although it does have it's moments.
It's become a reflection of the woke world, a dark shadow that has crept across our land.
The US certainly wasn't "woke" in 1941.
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When my buddy Steve and I play acoustic duo show ( and also when we add more people and play as a full band) one of the songs we always do in the last set is You Can't Always Get What You Want. To take up time, I always do an improv jam over the C and F chords. A few years ago I somehow spontaneously came up with a way to fit the Jessica riff in there. Of course it's not in the same key and it's a slowed down version but it works. It's become a "thing" in our set now, where I will do an extended jam in the style of Dickey and eventually come back to You Can't Always Get What You Want I'm sure we will extend that jam even further at tomorrow nights gig.
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I heard about this from one band mate tonight while I was at practice with my other band.
He was one of my favorites, and I definitely cop a lot of his style in my own playing. Of course nowhere near his level.
RIP
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RIP. He was one of my favorites.
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On 4/14/2024 at 9:39 PM, Sgt. Pepper said:
Thomas Dolby - Aliens Ate My Buick
Saw him on that tour.
That a good song. I remember jamming with my buddy on that song back in the late 80s/early 90s.
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Wynona's Big Brown Beaver - Primus
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Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict - Pink Floyd
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Like everyone else here, I'm sorry for your loss.
I know, in the scheme of things, they don't compare. But that is a beautiful guitar you have. Hopefully you will have a happy memory every time you play it..
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These days, I just use a Morley AFX-1 Analog Multi Effects for all my gigs. I'm too lazy to hook pedals up at home.
I also use a Morley ABY pedal in order to switch between 2 guitars and a Peterson StobosStomp Mini for tuning.
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Welcome back. Sorry to hear about your dad.
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I was in a band for about 10 years called Eclipse. Would have been cool to get a gig that day if we were still a band. 😎
Now there's another local band with that name and they are pretty much a Journey cover band.
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1 hour ago, ghost_of_fl said:
Should have posted it on April 1st.
- The product name is, and always had been, properly rendered as WD-40 (or WD*40)
- Reference to a “red knob” that wasn’t yet a feature of the product in 1964. (the distinctive red cap that we all associate with cans of WD-40 today was originally black)
- Clean text on wrinkled paper.... etc etc
Yeah. I didn't think it was real either. The US might not have been PC in 1964, but it was pretty sexually repressed .
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Whenever I played with my full band, it was a bout a 50/50 chance I'd cross the Key Bridge to get to my gig. That will no longer be an option.
When I play with my buddy Steve, there's about a 50/50 chance I drive over another iconic bridge in Maryland, The Chesapeake Bay Bridge. That was the case tonight. The bridge was backed up with beach traffic tonight, so it took me about an hour and a half to get there. I couldn't help but looking over the water to see if any huge ships were crossing under. There weren't any. 😬
Once I got there, it was a pretty routine gig. Nice crowd. We played well. Nothing too memorable, other than the sort of ominous feeling upon approaching the Bay Bridge after witnessing the footage of the Key Bridge collapse. Kinda like the way airplanes appeared ominous for the first few weeks after 9/11. The drive home was much quicker with little traffic.
Here is an older photo of the Bay Bridge taken from the spot of another gig a few years ago.
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6 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:
So the US was the only country to ever have slavery? Not by a long shot.
I wonder what the Egyptians who built the pyramids for the Pharaoh were paid? Oh, that’s right they were slaves they got nothing.
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Actually the Egyptian pyramids were built by a skilled working class and they were compensated.
The race bating I hear is coming from other circles trying to tie the accident to DEI .
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On 3/27/2024 at 8:52 AM, SteveFord said:
The government will probably get the project going and then apply the insurance payment towards the costs.
If it's anything like the bridge repairs in PA, this is going to take years to complete.
This. If we wait for the insurance claims to be worked out, it will sit there for 3 years.
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Now I'm waiting for the conspiracy theories to start. 🙄
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The bridge is part of I-695 Beltway which circles Baltimore. I could get on at Exit 1, cross the Key Bridge and if I didn't get off, be back where I started in 1-2 hours depending on traffic. My gig commutes are gonna get worse, I know that. For about all my band gigs, I would either go 695 East or West. East will no longer be an option for a long time.
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I took this photo of the Key Bridge on March 10 from Ft Smallwood Park.
The National Anthem was written at about that spot.
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Jesus! They are searching for 7 people.
I live less than 10 minutes from the Key Bridge and cross it several times a month.
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These guys were a popular band around Baltimore/DC back in the 80s. Local radio used to play their songs. This video was actually one of the first videos played when MTV came on. It was shot on The Block, which is the name for the seedy area of Baltimore Street full of strip clubs and prostitution. 😎
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1 minute ago, merciful-evans said:
I thought this was going to be videos the members had made. I admit to being disappointed.
What does worst best mean anyway?
I took it to mean, videos that were so bad, they're good. Or maybe so bad, they're just bad. Like this
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Message for the forum from JDGM
in The Gibson Lounge
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Thanks for the update. Keep staying positive.
P.S. keep staying.....is that redundant?![[smile]](//content.invisioncic.com/p286412/emoticons/default_msp_smile.gif "[smile]")