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Sounds like I need an officially licensed Calgary Rodeo shirt ... is there a way to order on line?

 

OK, I might as well fess up, I love rodeo and all things western, but I'm not really a rodeo star --- I'm a direct descendent of The Outlaw Josey Wales...and don't tell me he's fictional...that movie was a documentary !!!

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Keith...

 

My first "big" rodeo to watch was in '53 at Cheyenne Frontier Days, "The Daddy of 'em All." I almost hate to admit I'm so old I remember the parade and saddle bronc competition.

 

The Black Hills Roundup in Belle Fourche is darned near as old, and was mentioned as a special sorta event in the first real rodeo history book, "Man, beast, dust: The story of rodeo" published in 1947. The event's over 90 years old now. The South Dakota Miss Rodeo is selected during the June 30-July 4 Roundup. You'll also end up buying a burger or beer next to an older "cowboy-looking" guy and never know that the local rancher is a former world champion or well-known stock contractor - or that the nice older lady in jeans made her living as a rodeo contract trick rider. They're just "folks" here.

 

Up the hill in Deadwood, the Days of '76 rodeo is a year or two younger than the Roundup, but the late July event has a bit more cash for cowboys and the casinos in the town make it a little more tourist friendly. The Belle Fourche and Deadwood committees cooperate quite a bit.

 

Calgary draws more than a few "Badlands Circuit" competitors from the Dakotas south of the line. I think Lisa Lockhart won up there a cupla years ago and also won a Canadian barrel racing championship.

 

Any of these rodeos are the real thing and each has a different personality. Heck, the weekend before the Roundup is the South Dakota High School Finals Rodeo, the following weekend is a 4-H rodeo... there are ropings and such all summer. But if you wear snakeskin boots, watch out for the green mud.

 

Roundup's first: http://www.blackhillsroundup.com/tickets.htm

 

Calgary's next: http://cs.calgarystampede.com/tickets/

 

Then the "Days." http://daysof76.com/ - the "buy tickets" address is way too long for here.

 

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Wow thanks for the cool info...I'll definitely check all that out

 

Gotta scheme a way to make a road trip !!!

 

We're in East Tennessee which is more football, racing, meth labs and prescription pain pill abuse...

 

I have no illusions of being a real cowboy, though I sometimes toy with the idea of jumping on a bull

 

Everyone I talk to about it knows someone who used to ride, can't lift their arm over the shoulder, and had their face rearranged by the back of a bull's head, etc.

 

Maybe it's safer with all that equipment, but of course in my fantasy I got nothin' on my head but my Resistol 6X Beaver Prestige, forget that umpire mask looking thing --- if I get crippled I'm gonna look cool doing it !!!

 

With a career, family and a mortgage the mature thing to do is play dress up and sing about it..."Man, Beast and Dust" will make a great song title...

 

On a musical note, Texas Swing can get complex, fortunately there's lots of simpler Cowboy / Rodeo / Older Country stuff out there that gets the attitude across

 

Don Edwards "Coyotes" being Exhibit A

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Keith...

 

 

Ian Tyson... not necessarily the nicest guy I've ever met but he sure can write and sing a song and he's a good picker as well. I've been a major sorta fan since '63. This little piece kinda explains the real cowboy life. <grin>

 

A lotta the guys have gone to wearing the masks, although a stock contractor friend has suggested that it adds too much weight on the head for his idea of safety - better a broken face than a broken neck.

 

The vest is a different deal. It's likely the best idea since the bull rope was introduced to the sport.

 

As for the 6X.... Naaaaaah. You wear an old worn-out one unless you've been makin' the bucks. Then you put on the pretty one for the saloon afterwards. Heck, I take that attitude just for "shooting" rodeo.

 

BTW, west Tennessee can be ... interesting ... too. Friends there couldn't figure why I'd move back up here since I hadda have an electric connection to my vehicle's engine to keep it warm in winter. <chuckle>

 

As for being a "cowboy," I'll volunteer to help fix fence from a pickup. <grin> On the other hand, I was takin' rodeo pix in an 80-mph wind once - no kidding - and my hat stayed glued on. Miss Rodeo SD that year was out in the arena carrying the flag when calm sunshine turned into an almost opaque dust storm in roughly 30 seconds, and she kept control of both borrowed horse and flag. That's a real cowgirl, and that shot is one of my favorites of 45 years in photography.

 

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Karen...

 

With all due respect...

 

To say "Calgary does rodeo" is something of an understatement.

 

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Calgary has NOTHING on the SF Bay Area.... on my way home each day I pass Rowell Ranch...the home of the first "Gay Rodeo"!!

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Rob...

 

Hmmmm.... I assume you're not talking about former 8-time world champ bull rider and rodeo commentator Donnie Gay who's in the PRCA ProRodeo Hall of Fame?

 

<grin>

 

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No...I'm talking about a rodeo where "bareback riding" isn't always done on a horse!!

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OK, I listened to the Ian Tyson song --- at first it was kind of nursery rhymey without much cool guitar, but by the end it maybe kinda grew on me...maybe I'll fiqure it out wrong, change a few words and have an "original" cowboy song...

 

Speaking of my authentic rodeo career, a local western store under new ownership is clearing out old stuff ---

got a 4X Beaver Resistol George Strait Hill Country hat with 4 inch brim for $50 (list was $165)

 

Upgraded the band and I'm thinking about trying to relic it...keepin' it real for the Rangies

 

No comment on the San Francisco back door stampeders...

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Speaking of my authentic rodeo career' date=' a local western store under new ownership is clearing out old stuff ---

got a 4X Beaver Resistol George Strait Hill Country hat with 4 inch brim for $50 (list was $165)

 

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$50 sounds like a good price! I had to replace my Indiana Jones hat recently, (My SIL took a liking to my old one and took it with her!), cost me $100!

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Sheesh...

 

I wear a hat every day. I think the quality ain't what it used to was, though. I'm wearing a ratty looking 20-year-old hat that I consider my "winter" hat 'cuz it's got a lot thicker material than the newer ones. It's about time to switch to the spring Stetson.

 

Stetson, Serratelli or some local handmades mostly, but even the handmades largely come from mass-made blanks. They're all a lot more starched up than in the old days; the manufacture isn't up to the old quality 'cuz of environmental concerns. Sheesh.

 

Ain't what they used to was. Nope.

 

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Sheesh...

 

I wear a hat every day. I think the quality ain't what it used to was' date=' though. I'm wearing a ratty looking 20-year-old hat that I consider my "winter" hat 'cuz it's got a lot thicker material than the newer ones. It's about time to switch to the spring Stetson.

 

Stetson, Serratelli or some local handmades mostly, but even the handmades largely come from mass-made blanks. They're all a lot more starched up than in the old days; the manufacture isn't up to the old quality 'cuz of environmental concerns. Sheesh.

 

Ain't what they used to was. Nope.

 

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I find the trouble with my old hats is that my head has gotten bigger...what's up with THAT?

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Old hats do shrink, for one thing. I think hat sizes are less consistent, too, compared to the old days. Heck, I remember when every little town had at least one shop that would clean and block hats. Good luck now...

 

And... much as I hate to admit and don't care to accept it, I think guys may loose hair but add adipose tissue as they age.

 

#$%@#%#

 

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Old hats do shrink' date=' for one thing. I think hat sizes are less consistent, too, compared to the old days. Heck, I remember when every little town had at least one shop that would clean and block hats. Good luck now...

 

And... much as I hate to admit and don't care to accept it, I think guys may loose hair but add adipose tissue as they age.

 

#$%@#%#

 

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Leave my adipose out of this! (I'm having a tougher and tougher time buttoning my pants lately!)

 

I stopped wearing a hat all the time when I'm working in the vineyards or on the olive trees just because I was worried about losing hair. I don't need to speed up that process! I still wear a hat when it's hot or raining, (which accounts for about 75% of the days in my town!).

 

However, I normally work in the yard in the early morning, so I've been leaving the hat off.

 

Funny you bring up where to buy hats..... the place around me is Rowell's Saddlery & Western Wear.... "Rowell" being the same people who have Rowell Ranch, home of the Gay Rodeo!!!

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Albertjohn...

 

Naah. For generations, news photographers tended to refer to refer to themselves as "shooters." You'd have "writers" and "shooters" on an assignment.

 

Nowadays that's kinda politically incorrect, I guess, and proves I'm getting a bit on in years.

 

As for the goats, no way you'd use bullets on 'em, that's a ladies rodeo event called "goat tying." Little kids will do "goat tail untying." In goat tying, a goat has a long leash in the middle of the arena, a girl rides up, catches the goat and ties three of its legs. That is timed. Goat tail untying for kids: The kid rides up to the goat on a leash in the middle of the arena, then chases it to untie a ribbon tied to the goats tail. That's timed.

 

Naaah, nobody uses firearms at rodeos really nowadays. I can just imagine the howls if someone were to perforate a goat in the arena. Heck most folks have little idea that their steak came from a real live critter...

 

I could tell some tales about the olden days. Back before 1920 a wolfer might bring a critter in and they'd set hounds on him. One rodeo I know of the governor showed up with a regular "city" hat of the era. The boys swapped him for a western-style hat and proceeded to toss the gov's own hat into the air to create some revolver bullet perforations.

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I could tell some tales about the olden days. Back before 1920 a wolfer might bring a critter in and they'd set hounds on him. One rodeo I know of the governor showed up with a regular "city" hat of the era. The boys swapped him for a western-style hat and proceeded to toss the gov's own hat into the air to create some revolver bullet perforations.

 

 

I don't think too many people would mind if our Governor was tossed in the air and....um... "perforated" some!

 

As our Governator says, "I'll be back!"

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