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    Wow! From Feb.- 15- 2015 to Mar.- 7- 2022 Just over 7 years.

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    On 3/11/2022 at 8:52 AM, fortyearspickn said:

    I'm wondering if, as they ban 'fossil fuel'  and stop making gas powered cars, boats, busses, motor boats (engine boats?)  if the demand for electricity to charge all those batteries every night will cause them to ban electric guitars ?   

    (OK, I'm fishing here.   trying to get to 10K before they stop giving away free guitars.) 

    Maybe someone will develop an amp that's powered by similar batteries.  Or perhaps one you can hook up to a Generac type generator that's powered by natural gas and not gasoline.

    Or perhaps even a stationary bicycle type thing you can sit on to play while pedaling for power.  [wink]

    11 hours ago, Retired said:

    I think sometimes my wife thinks I'm one for my lack of hearing?  If I say huh? What? Or ask her to repeat what she said, I get a dirty look and she yells loudly, sometimes screams repeating it.  So it is better to just pretend I heard her and let it go.  Except, a month or weeks later I get, very loudly: "I TOLD YOU BACK A WEEK AGO OR SO, DON'T YOU REMEMBER?" Haha. Can't win.

    That seems like my late sister in law and her husband Stan, who is hard of hearing too.  No matter how loud she said something to him he always came back with, "HUH?"  real loud. Drove her crazy.  And he still does that regardless of how loud we talk to him.  Even after his supposedly new "improved" hearing aids.

    Whitefang

    Cowboy chords

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    57 minutes ago, fortyearspickn said:

    Just read thru this a 2nd time.  Apologies if I missed anyone's erudite expose - but I did not see G7.   I even have a freekin CAPO that says 'G7' on it.  How can you play  in "C", with 'F'  barred or not - if you don't have G7 to complete the trilogy ?   

    Sure.  Likely an oversight by most of us.  So to revise....

    "Cowboy chords" are just your basic major chords and their variants(there's that nasty word again!) like minor and 7th.  Them saddle tramps probably never bothered with a lot of Bach or Albeniz anyway.   [wink]

    Whitefang

    Obi-Wan Kenobi | Teaser Trailer

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    6 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said:

    The first two were good, the one with the teddy bears and beyond are ridiculous. Star Wars came out when I was 11 or so.

    I was 26 and usually went to those type of movies in an altered state.  Which I quit doing long before the newer SW franchise flicks started up.   Which could also be a reason I didn't care for them.  [wink]

    Whitefang

    Scratching another off the bucket list (warning: California content)

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    21 hours ago, ksdaddy said:

    ^^

    They no longer make the AVRI stuff except in the Custom Shop. They do, however,  make the American Original 60s Jazzmaster at $2149, which is tempting....but apparently they're still covidified and they aren't available at the moment.

    Jazzmaster for the 25.5 scale and cleaner glassy pickups.

    I grew up listening to the Ventures and they were certainly talented and the most commercially successful instrumental group playing that type of music. However their stuff is hit or miss with me. I guess I lean more towards the darker stuff like Pipeline or Point Panic (Chantays, Surfaris). More angry reverb than fluff instrumental pop. I never much cared for D-ikk Dale but I've watched a couple videos from the 90s and the man was insane.  I need to dig deeper.

     

    Jeez.  I never thought of "Pipeline" and "Point Panic" as "dark".  :rolleyes: I thought they both sounded like they were written by the same "one trick pony" type of guy they were so similar,

    Whitefang

    Cowboy chords

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    My guess would be that "cowboy chords"  are mostly the major chords as seen in your MEL BAY guitar chords book on pages 6, 7 and pg 9 for B.  And of course, all corresponding minor chords.

    Y'know...   C-Cm, F, Fm, G-Gm,  A-Am, D, Dm,  E-Em etc.

    Whitefang 

    Things That Make Me Go . . . Hummm

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    Personally, I thought they lost their "edge"(no pun intended) when Bruford left.  And he left largely(I heard) because he got tired of the unreliability and other nonsense bassist Squire displayed throughout the CTTE recording sessions.  Basically the same reason Noel Redding gave about Hendrix(during the Electric Ladyland sessions) as his reason for leaving.  But now, since Squire is no longer, I don't see Bill as having a reason for not getting in on this thing.  Unless he has no desire to come out of retirement.

    From the late '60's to the '80's and beyond Bruford has been one of my three "tied for first" favorite drummers along with Aynsley Dunbar and Mitch Mitchell.

    Whitefang

    Don McLean - American Pie

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    1 hour ago, fortyearspickn said:

    Interestingly ironic ... we were all (with a few obvious exceptions) that young and innocent in 1972.   Additional comments seem to confirm the music did die.  Along with the innocence.  Paradise Lost, Milton?  

    [wink]  Why ask HIM??

    Whitefang

    My in laws

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    39 minutes ago, Larsongs said:

    Are they Aetheist like you? Just curious… In any case I’ll say a pray for them & you…. 

    Well, Lars...

    It may be due to Evelyn Wood, but Tman, you might (or might not) have noticed,  did state his in laws joined a Presbyterian mission in the Ukraine.  Doesn't sound too atheistic to me.

    Whitefang

    Things That Make Me Go . . . Hummm

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    Really, Howe was with them in '71 for TYA and Fragile.  And Wakeman in '71 for Fragile.  And CTTE was the last LP with Bruford as drummer.   And such a fan was I ...I actually shelled out good money for Topographic Oceans.  :rolleyes:

    Oh.  At first I thought "the Trevor years" meant you LOSE your lunch because of Trevor Rabin, who replaced Howe, and I think is a very decent guitarist.  But you had to mean Trevor horn, who was a sad replacement for Jon. 

    Whitefang

    Things That Make Me Go . . . Hummm

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    3 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:

    There is not one original member in the group. It’s one of my 5 favorite albums of all time, but some of these Dinosaurs need to stop. 
     

    https://www.loudersound.com/news/yes-announce-theyll-celebrate-50-years-of-close-to-the-edge-this-june

    Well of course we're all aware that when CLOSE TO THE EDGE was recorded and came out the group wasn't all "original" members, right?  [wink]

    But I getcha.  If there's absolutely NO "original" members, then it basically IS a "Tribute band". 

    I saw Yes in '72 and they announced the release of that LP, but only played "And You And I" from it.  And IMHO.  considering all that came out afterward, although good, just wasn't anywhere near as good and I consider "Close To The Edge" to be their swan song.

    Whitefang

    Don McLean - American Pie

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    20 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:

    Am. Pie has gotten to Stairway status to where I change the station when I hear it. Its a good song, just like many anthemic type songs are hard for me to listen to now. I'm getting tired of Kashmir and Bohemian Rhapsody as well. Of course there is the Free Bird and as big a Beatles fan as I am I loath Hey Jude.

    I rarely hear either so if and when I hear "American Pie" I'll sit through it as I always liked it.  But when "Stairway" comes on I always switch the station because I never could stand that song.  Same with "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the live "free Bird".   And yeah, "Hey Jude" can be a grind.  I might listen for so long but will switch stations before that "never ending' ending starts.  [wink]

    20 hours ago, Tman said:

    I remember being on vacation on Pensacola beach in 1972  and the song was played on the radio. As soon as the song finished the DJ said that was so good he was going to play it again and then he did. It was the first and only time in my life that I ever heard that happen. Not even with the Beatles.

    btw thanks for posting. I am going to a meeting in San Diego this weekend and am going to get together with a few other guitarists and do an acoustic jam for the after meeting beach party. I'll download these lyrics and we'll play this, not sure why I didn't think of it. Any other suggestions? 😁

    Actually, the only time I personally heard that done was back in '65 when a "race station" DJ played Roy Head's "Treat Her Right" back-to-back-to back-to-back because he liked it so much.  Idid too, so I was OK with it.

    And as for acoustic "sing-a-long" tunes, me and some buddies would occasionally get together and do this tune---

    And of course, we would take that advice.  [wink]

    Whitefang

    Stupid Jokes

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    18 hours ago, MissouriPicker said:

    Well, my girlfriend left me.  She said that I’m too “old fashioned.”  Then, two days later I find out she’s been trifling, courtin’ and playing pitch n’ woo with some rambler.

    Rambler?    I had one of those!  [wink]

    Whitefang

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