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Crazy - Patsy Cline (Willie Nelson song) Notes ♫

"Wild Weekend" - The Rockin' Rebels Notes ♫

"Yes! We Have No Bananas" - written by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn It's one of the silly songs my dad used to sing to us while playing the ukulele when we were just little tots. Notes ♫

Wheels spin around ... so ... Will It Go Round In Circles - Billy Preston Notes ♫

Good Timing - Jackie Wilson Notes ♫

That's how they "sweeten The Deal" Notes ♫

Zombie Jamboree - Lord Intruder (Covered by Harry Belafonte) Notes ♫

When you start saying ____________ died. (Insert Jeff Beck, David Crosby, Charlie Watts, Leon Russell, Anita Porter, or anyone else you think of as a peer or influencer) I remember my parents doing that to the stars of their generation. Now I am my parents.

Deoxit is great. I like Deoxit Gold to coat phone jacks, and Deoxit Red will make a badly corroded connector work again. When the phone plug/jack makes the same crackle sound when disturbed, it's Deoxit Gold to the rescue. If it's been untreated for too long, I'll clean it with Red, wipe that off, and then apply the Gold. I live in Florida, and have a gig right next to The Atlantic Ocean, outdoors, under a canopy. Deoxit is my friend, because as Mr. Young stated, rust never sleeps. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

I definitely remember the Nairobi Trio and Ernie Kovacs, but I don't remember the Percy skit. Ernie was an innovator. I used to have The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection https://www.discogs.com/release/1455532-Various-The-Ernie-Kovacs-Record-Collection but someone stole it years ago. Nairobi was on it, as well as Saxophobia. ****** You know you are getting old when instead of lying about their age to seem younger, all your friends brag about how old they are. You know you are getting old when conversations with your friends frequently turn to doctors and ailments (I've been playing condominiums way too long now and am determined not to be 'one of those' folks.) You know your car is getting old when it has a carburetor in it, and you are old when you understand how it works. When you remember that almost every lounge had an upright or spinet piano that was out of tune and had cigarette burns on the surface

Working In The Coal Mine - Lee Dorsey (written by Allen Toussaint) Notes ♫

I'm not a big fan of Fender necks because on most models, the radius is too short. I like a 12" radius. I bend strings a lot. But that's me, and the shape of my hands. I do like the longer scale Fender necks. My Parker has the best of both. -- For me -- YMMV

"Man! I Feel Like A Woman" - Shania Twain Notes ♫

I guess I'm not old yet. I never heard of him.

'"Writing fan letters to Sky's niece, Penny" - Jimmy Buffett When you remember, nobody either sold or drank bottled water. Water fountains were everywhere, and a garden hose would do just fine.

I bought saxophones at M&P stores until they weren't around anymore. Buying a sax is trickier than a guitar, because no two are alike. Same brand, same model, close serial number, different horn. One will have better intonation than the other. Unlike a guitar, there is no adjustment, each note must be played in tune by adjusting your lip pressure on the reed, while you are playing. So a horn with better intonation is a plus. When I bought my Selmer Mark VI, I tried 3 and picked the best one. That was at Ace Music in Miami. Guitar Centers and other stores don't carry saxes anymore. A good sax can cost a few thousand dollars, and if it doesn't sell right away, it's just money tied up in stock for the store. So now I buy them via the Internet, and take the intonation I get. There are a lot of great things about the Internet, but it has its cons as well. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper Notes ♫

Georgia - Ray Charles Notes ♫

I guess I'm just old-fashioned, and miss the Mom & Pop stores where I got great service. Example #1 After forming our duo, I had a PA system left over from a larger band I was in. It sounded fine at the higher volumes I used to play at, but when turned down for a smaller venue, it was muddy. I went to my local M&P store, explained the problem, and the owner loaned me a BBE Sonic Maximizer. He told me to try it out over the weekend, and if it didn't work, bring it back unscratched. He didn't ask for a deposit, credit card, or restocking fee. It worked, The first set was a dinner set at about 75db and a regular customer said, "What did you do? You sound great today!". I went back Monday with the money. Example #2 I was using a Sure SM58 on my sax. I was recording my alto on an old reel-to-real 4 channel Teac tape deck, and it sounded more like a clarinet. Same store. The owner went into the recording studio in the back, came out with a Sennheiser 421MD and said try this on the job and on tape. Again, no deposit, no credit card, no restocking fee. We were doing an open-air bar in a yacht basin that Sunday, and a musician friend came along. She said my sax (I was playing the tenor) sounded much fuller and clearer than it did with the Shure. She said she heard the difference as soon as she pulled up in the parking lot. And it sounded like an alto sax on tape. I went back to the store, he said he would order a new one, and just keep this until it arrived. That took about two weeks. When it got here, I didn't talk price, just paid what he asked. A month or so later, a SamAsh catalog arrived in the mail with that mic in it. If I bought it from SamAsh, counting shipping fees, I would have paid a little more at SamAsh than my M&P store charged me. Example #3, I had the owner's phone number in my pocket, with a promise that if anything fails on the gig, I could call him, and he would go to the store and deliver whatever I needed to complete the gig. I could go on with more, but it'd be redundant. From my M&P store, I got the benefit of the owner's experience in solving similar problems for others, the owner's trust in me, "try before you buy", no restocking fee, and a good price. I know I paid 50¢ more per set of strings, but in the long run, I saved a lot of money and got great advice and service. The owner still gigs around here, but his music store is long gone, as the people went to the big box stores to save 50¢ on a set of strings or whatever. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

My apologies, I misunderstood your post. Notes ♫

The one in Port Saint Lucie Florida isn't much better. Miami used to have a great music store, Ace Music. In the late 1970s. They had guitars, saxophones, keyboards, and it was a place where a lot of musicians used to hang out, drink coffee, and talk shop. You could get gig leads from other musicians there. They had string and wind instrument repairs, and they would loan you an instrument when yours was in the shop. It was like Manny's of Miami in a way. The owners were getting old, Mars Music bought them out, ruined it, went out of business, and Guitar Center came in and though slightly better than Mars, they are still lame. There used to be a SamAsh Music on the Palmetto Expressway in Miami but I moved north to Ft. Pierce to get away from the crowds, so I don't go down there for a music store anymore. Notes ♫

Uptown - The Crystals Notes ♫

If that escalated, we Floridians would be in bad shape. I remember, before FIdel, when Havana was a great vacation spot. A friend of mine had a Pink T-Bird convertible that was sold to him as formerly belonged to Batitista's daughter I remember gigging in bars with ads on the walls, "Mixed drinks 35¢, top shelf 45¢." I was underage at the time.

I remember all that, and I also remember the A-Bomb drills, getting under our desk -- as if that would help. And every gas station had a mechanic there who could fix your car. And before recreational drugs hit the youth market, if the cops raided your party, they would confiscate the alcohol, and threaten to call your parents next time. I got caught once at a big beach party they raided. I hid in a tree everyone split, and started walking, met a girl who also hid, and the cops picked us up, drove us to the police station, and called our parents to come get us. We didn't get put in a cell, the police didn't have an attitude, they were more like uncles telling us we were disobeying than the attitude the police have now. Nobody got upset, excited, or even nervous. Back then, the policeman was your friend. Notes ♫

Our House - CSN Notes ♫