I noticed that in the "Little Drummer Boy" performance after I wrote my reply, and with regard to the Amadeus Electric Quartet, I save my envy for the cello, but then it's just a matter of taste, I suppose.Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
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I noticed that in the "Little Drummer Boy" performance after I wrote my reply, and with regard to the Amadeus Electric Quartet, I save my envy for the cello, but then it's just a matter of taste, I suppose.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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I'm flexible, I could go either way
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Yer saying yer bi-instrumental?...I'm flexible, I could go either way...Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Yes sir---and i can play more than one at a time as wellYer saying yer bi-instrumental?...
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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If that's true, I may have to try that paleo diet after all...Yes sir---and i can play more than one at a time as well...Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Like this?Yes sir---and i can play more than one at a time as well
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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Since this is my real name, I think I shall exercise an appropriate amount of discretion with respect to any further comment on this particular issue
Added in edit: Mike, my first thought on watching that video was how long must it take him to get into that rig---then I wondered how long it took him to develop that rig
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Moved from another thread:
..... this has made me think about some of my earliest memories of anything other than church music--which for us was mostly sung in German. We were not allowed TV or radio---but my father said he needed to be able to get the weather so he knew when he could cut hay and not have it rained on. We had an old combination radio and 78 record player in a wooden cabinet. It had turned legs and a bow shaped stinger between each front and rear leg. Between the center of each stringer ran another connecting one side to the other. I would lay under there on the stringers and listen to the few records we had---and this was my favorite.
....and from my player the Band Played Waltzing Matilda.
Some ballads demand the listener take an active roll in listening--and this is one.
Last edited by Dave Grubb; 12-27-2016 at 04:04 PM.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I grew up sitting at the foot of our big console radio/record player in the early fifties too. Oddly, my first recollection of that experience is "Ghost Riders In The Sky" also (but the Burl Ives version), plus the one below — Peggy Lee's Mañana.
https://youtu.be/7ikUCavp2yA
Of course, that song is highly politically incorrect now.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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WOW! I'm speechless.
Thanks, Dave.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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Thanks for listening Mike.
While we are in that mode I have another one of these ballads that haunts me---I guess because of my own demons. I posted this a long time ago but I think it is worth doing again.
I first heard this at a Clancy Brothers concert years ago. I was reduced to a basket case---it caught me completely by surprise. The people with me (wife and one very close couple) know very little of what you now know and were understandably confused by my reaction. I still find it difficult to get through without my emotions coming out.
The last part which says:
Still gores me til this day.And I can't help but wonder, no Willie McBride,
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?"
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.
Please take a few minutes to listen and reflect.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I wonder if we will ever learn.........
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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I pray that we will but fear that we won't.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
Charter Member
As long as we are exploring the more morose ends of music —
https://youtu.be/RzJXr8kuefY
(Dave Matthews — "Gravedigger")
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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Well, that ought to end that little foray into reflection
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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