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    Fun Times with Craigslist

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    4 hours ago, jedzep said:

    I agree. Much depends on where you live and making wise use of whatever intuition your age and experience has given you.  I've got the big dog thing, cameras, and fail-safe tools, but reading the nuances of interactions with strangers before harm gets in your face is a first line wall.

    I once, 7 or 8 yrs. ago, threw my house and land (upstate NY) on CL, listing on LI, NYC, and northern NJ.  While very entertaining, I only showed the property once, to a lovely older local woman with her niece in tow.  One of the more interesting window shoppers was a Syrian single mom, who was a former health minister for the Assad gov't.  I was able to verify, and we communicated via her 30 min/day use of UN provided internet at the Damascus refugee camp she was sequestered in.  She stated she had stashed $160,000 and wanted to make the buy.  I had to explain the process of closings, lawyers, banks, payouts, etc., and as she became more frustrated, I jokingly suggested that if a suitcase with my name on it containing $160,000 showed up at the Albany airport, I'd pack my stuff and leave a key.  The result was a 10 paragraph jihadist rant calling me infidel (which I am proud of being) and accompanying threats.  For a couple days I half-expected to see a line of black Toyota pickups coming up the driveway.  That would be when the fun started.

    Actually, if you look up the definition of "infidel" you'll find it only means someone who believes in a different religion that someone else does.  And according to that, I married an infidel, since I'm an Episcopalian and my wife was born Catholic.  Same with the ex, as she was Lutheran.  [wink]   

    Jed, that joking suggestion was a bit in bad taste, but too, the woman's reaction was over the top.  And did she actually believe selling/buying a house is no different than selling stuff at a yard sale?   But then,  you might have suggested a huge cash transaction with stating after the cash is in hand you'll sign over the property on a quitclaim deed.

    3 hours ago, NighthawkChris said:

    @jedzep I’m a proud infidel too. I wish someone would acknowledge me as one. I lived in Dearborn MI for many years, and I know all about them kind. Glad I don’t live around that sand crap anymore. 

    "Sand crap"?

    That's quite a generalized disparaging  remark.    Now, I've never lived in Dearborn, but am quite familiar with it.  Orville Hubbard must be really spinning in his grave at the result of this past election, eh? [wink]

    1 hour ago, Larsongs said:

    Not talking about Cameras or Acoustic Guitars.. Please stay on topic.

     

    The topic being the problem someone had selling an item on Craigslist.   Personally, I've never dealt with Craigslist until 10 years ago, when I did a "walkaway" from a house and had to find somewhere to rent fast!   Found this place.  And started actions to purchase it just a month or two before my wife died when the landlord said he wanted to sell it and get out of the landlord thing.  As far as selling anything, I haven't had anything I wanted to sell for quite a spell, and then it was an old freezer I just put a card up on one of those "bulletin" type boards you used to see at the entrances and exits of supermarkets or such.  

    Years ago('71 to be exact) a guy offered to buy my car which wasn't for sale.  But(get this) because he was an uncle of a guy I knew, he told me if I let him have the car, he would pay me the money the following week!  [flapper]  Asking that friend about it, he told me I could toss my car further than I could ever trust his uncle!  Proving you never needed Craigslist to have scammers come around.  Craigslist just gave them an extra venue in which to ply their trade.

    Whitefang

    Fun Times with Craigslist

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted

    The guy who cuts my grass took on the guy across the street as a client.  But a couple or so weeks ago that guy gave the lawn guy the old line; "I lost my wallet"  and offered to pay him through zelle.   The lawn guy turned him down.  You gotta wonder though....

    Since this guy knew your price before showing up at your place, why couldn't he call and say he couldn't pull all the cash from the ATM so could you please wait until the next day?   What difference would one day make to either of you?   At any rate, the fault isn't with Craigslist,  this would have probably happened regardless the sales venue.

    Whiefang

    Let It Be (Remixed) Out Tomorrow

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:

    Sometimes it just to much trouble to actually go through the taxing process of putting on street clothes. Aw screw it . . . my Family Guy sleepy pants, AC/DC - Back In Black T-shirt (even thought I don't listen to them), Chewbacca fuzzy slippers and my shower cap is good enough to go on an excursion to get my 4 gallon tub on Blue Bunny Bunny Tracks Ice Cream.

    You THOUGHT you don't listen to them?  [omg]  How could you not know?   [wink]

    Whitefang

    WTH did you do today?

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted

    2 hours ago, fortyearspickn said:

    No, you mis-read it:   HIS wife and daughter.     

    Huh?  Sorry.  Now I have to assume you meant his wife and STEP-daughter(?)  Might not be a case of me "misreading", but your "miswriting!"  [wink]  I mean, if it's YOUR son you're talking about, and if it was HIS wife and daughter, then wouldn't that daughter be your GRANDDAUGHTER?  Unless the girl is the issue from your daughter-in-law's previous marriage or relationship.  And so then, WHOM is doing the "misreading"?  [wink]

    Whitefang

    One song or piece of music that influenced your playing...

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted · Edited by Whitefang

    Hell.  Over the years many influences for different things.  First

    SANDY NELSON'S :Teen Beat" and "Let There Be Drums" inspired me to want to be a drummer.  [omg]

    That not working out, then those prominent electric guitars in his records and the Ventures' "Walk Don't Run" put the guitar bug in my ears.  But it wasn't until I was about 13 that my step-sister and her great record collection had a multiple effect.  Some folk, some country (Hank Williams' "Move It On Over" was the first song I learned to play all the way through,  and Eddie Cochran's "Cut Across Shorty"  influenced my early strumming style), and lots of Carl Perkins and some old blues discs were a treasure trove for me( I was already "into" the blues-long story-but at that point had no records).   In other words....

    No one song was the only influence.  They kept popping up.  From Sandy Nelson to Chuck Berry, The Ventures, then those old records of my step-sister's, then Lonnie Mack's "Memphis", to Travis Wammack's "Scratchy",  then The Beatles, Hendrix, Clapton and on and on.....

    Whitefang

    Troll alert

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted

    50 minutes ago, gdecant1 said:

    The only bad thing i have found about retirement is continually reminding my wife that her honey do list and my gonna do list don't match! Never goes well for me!

    I found that to be true too.  And now, with the wife gone and my health and physical issues, my "gonna do" list has become my "probably never get around to" list.  [wink] 

    But in my case, I never had one of those "clean" type specialty jobs, working near 30 years for GM before receiving a medical retirement.   I don't mean to gloat, but most of the guys I knew in high school, who were so proud to claim, "I'm NEVER gonna work in any filthy factory!"  are now around my age(70) and CAN'T retire since all those non factory jobs they took were in companies the closed up, moved out of the country or weren't unionized so no provisions were availed to them, so they're still working for minimum wages at jobs that may or may not be there tomorrow.  And their wives too, at an advanced age, are still working in order to afford to live.

    But as far as guitar playing goes, I do think I've mentioned to all here that since a mini-stroke 7 years ago, I'm still working on my finger dexterity and endurance.  

    Whitefang

     

    Let It Be (Remixed) Out Tomorrow

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted

    Well, pick a decade, and you'll find musically, each of them had their lemons.  Even the "mighty '60's' weren't always all that great.  I mean.....

    Remember "Henry The Eighth"?     The 1910 Fruitgum Co.?  The COWSILLS? The ARCHIES?? And  The Ohio Express?    And of course, THE MONKEES!  [wink]

    Yeah, but me and a lot of my buds liked The Monkees.  Not the music always, but the TV show was a hoot.  And too, we knew it was all a put on, and THIS appearance confirmed it!

    Whitefang

    Let It Be (Remixed) Out Tomorrow

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted

    3 hours ago, SteveFord said:

    I meant in general, not any specific band.

    I'm a dinosaur so wasn't really paying attention to what was being released, last night I listened to The Beatles, Frank Zappa and Pink Floyd so...

    PJ Havey came out in the 90s, I'm really not sure who else was doing what.  Tom Waits went off the rails in a good way, Jeff Beck came back, Lou Reed came back, I think the Chili Peppers were making it big, Mose Allison switched to the electric piano, Frank Zappa died, that's about all I paid attention to.  I think Oozee Oozeborne was on the radio along with AC/DC, Guns and Roses, some other stuff that they played to death.

    Truly, after the Mtv idiocy of the '80's and the emergence of Madonna, Boy George, Flock Of Seagulls and all that electronica driven pseudo punk I was glad to shed it all in the '90's.   And like any other decade in music, it too had some I couldn't hack(think Smashing Pumpkins,  Oasis, Greenday)  My favorites then I guess were STP,  Our Lady Peace, The Wallflowers, Live and Dave Matthews. And that short-lived "swing" period was fun too.  BRIAN SETZER blew that outa the water.   And there were a couple/few in the '80's that kept me a bit afloat.  I liked the Thomas Dolby FLAT EARTH album, and some Billy Squire.  But was really upset that after "Mad At You", Joe Jackson did that cheezy "Steppin' Out" thing.  And with Foreigner doing soft-rock love ballads   along with REO Styxwagon,  it was odd times. really.

    Whitefang

    Let It Be (Remixed) Out Tomorrow

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted

    Really Sarge, I never heard ALL the critics say that about double albums.  Especially ELECTRIC LADYLAND.

    And true too, I didn't like ALL the tunes on that one either.  Same as single albums. And I guess too, that many double albums might be better pared down from four sides to two.  Except Johnny Winter's SECOND WINTER, as you recall, a double album with only THREE sides of recorded material.  [wink]  And besides...

    It's all pretty much subjective.   As to the "White Album",  I know a few who didn't like ANY of it, and some who thought it was their "masterpiece".  I don't agree with that, but personally, I too like other Beatles albums a bit better.  But not too much better. 

    Now, I don't know Cody's age, but  I think it's much younger than mine, since if not he'd remember what rock and "pop" music was like in the U.S. before The Beatles.

    One of the biggest hits on the pop-rock charts in '63( a few months before The Beatles got heard around here) was TIE ME KANGAROO DOWN, SPORT.  I liked that tune as a novelty, but ROCK?  Nope.  Then there was a TOMMY ROE tune,   and TRINI LOPEZ was big in '63.  So were THE FOUR SEASONS  and LESLEY GORE.  Yeah, we dug it all, but the closest thing to real rock was JAN AND DEAN and THE BEACH BOYS.  And for me, Lonnie Mack's instrumental version of MEMPHIS was an  epiphany.  Then one night in Dec. '63, the local "top 40" station I listened to played a new tune from some band from England called  I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND, and it was like the clouds parted and the Gods were singing!  

    Yeah, that is a bit dramatic but you get what I mean.  The early stuff by The Beatles(with an "a") changed the WHOLE GAME for DECADES!  Not only music, but our culture. 

    Whitefang

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