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Post by Marty on May 28, 2023 17:00:06 GMT -5
Well, the Indy 500 was exciting as all get out and had a crazy finish. Long-deserving Josef Newgarden of Nashville won it, with second place going to last year's winner, Marcus Ericsson, who as a Swede was characteristically sour and dour in his postrace comments. A fair number of crashes, but no injuries. The scariest moment came when Kyle Kirkwood of Andretti Racing was the victim of an accident in front of him, was flipped onto his top at speed, and in the process lost a rear tire/wheel that bounced over the high grandstand fence -- which almost never happens -- and crashed into a parked spectator's car, thankfully injuring no one. In 1987 a tire killed a fan in the top row. It came off one car and was punted into the stands by another car. Sort of like Hockey but with cars.
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Post by Marty on May 28, 2023 17:02:23 GMT -5
If DaWife will make cuke salad I'll make a steak tonight.
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Post by james on May 28, 2023 17:08:59 GMT -5
"I'm Not Saying" was played in dropD. I never realized that. I've just been mucking around with that on my 12 string. Not as nicely as the chap in this YouTube. The left hand is nice and easy though.
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Post by John B on May 28, 2023 17:45:28 GMT -5
We went to a two man Glen Campbell tribute show last night. The performers were very good musicians but bad sound kind of ruined it. The second guitarist was a seasoned pro session player but all the cool stuff he played was completely drowned out by the singer’s painfully loud rhythm on an Ovation type guitar eq’d with the abrasive slider maxed out. The opening act was a family band of kids where I saw a first. When a song modulated one of the kids would quickly grab the rhythm guitarist’s capo and slide it up to the proper fret. Not quite seamlessly .
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Post by TKennedy on May 28, 2023 19:19:05 GMT -5
That’s it! Except her sister moved it for her. It was a Kyser too. (And a Taylor of course -)
In regards to the bad sound, they were using the venue’s system and the board was on stage with no one on it. Set and forget and it was not set well. The monitors must have been different as I saw the singer reach for the volume control on his guitar and thought “thank God he’s turning down”. Actually he turned up!
With a tower system so easy to transport and use and self mix I can’t figure out why a two man touring act wouldn’t do their own sound in small venues rather than take a chance on the local rig.
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Post by Marty on May 28, 2023 20:39:20 GMT -5
If DaWife will make cuke salad I'll make a steak tonight. She agreed to make the cucumber salad so I did a wonderful Ribeye with caramelized onions. Man! that was good.
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Post by Marty on May 28, 2023 20:41:29 GMT -5
I was down the rabbit hole on Reverb and found this. We did get to play an interesting Yamaki, which I’ve never heard of but sounded great and played well. Nice looking straight grained Indian rosewood back and sides, but the finish was hazy and so the price would reflect that. Interesting to hear his take on the higher quality of woods Japan could get in the 70’s and 80’s due to different laws, and that Europe has discovered the old Japanese guitars but they are pretty much sleepers here in America. So, we didn’t get to play a bunch of guitars, and the Yairi I was interested in was in storage. My first job as a apprentice luthier was for one of the two Yamaki distributors for the US. One was Coast-Bruno out west and the other Meloway in Minneapolis. I set up every guitar before being shipped out. The pay was crap, barely livable, but I did get a Yamaki 130 that had a flaw, the back was blushed. Much later I learned that quite often you could get rid of that blush by giving it a good hard polishing. The blush is moisture stuck under the poly finish and wood, and polishing on a buffing wheel heats it up and drives it back into the wood. Yamaki made a darn good guitar, probably Yairi. Meloway marked their guitars with a white inspection label just inside the soundhole. So you may just find one with a MRR sign off on that label. This one was signed by Miles, can't remember his last name. There is also labels with a Chuck Orr signature.
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Post by billhammond on May 28, 2023 21:12:46 GMT -5
If DaWife will make cuke salad I'll make a steak tonight. She agreed to make the cucumber salad so I did a wonderful Ribeye with caramelized onions. Man! that was good. Just back from Barb's, where we enjoyed her legendary Persian cuke salad, Lebanese cabbage salad from Zakia, wild rice pilaf and beautiful bone-in pork chops done on the Foreman grill, meat I rescued two minutes earlier than she wanted it to cook and which turned out perfect, just a hint of pink and flavorful as hell. Close call on that one! She still lives by her German grandma's admonitions on pork -- cook it until it's dark gray or risk a horrid trichinosis death.
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Post by billhammond on May 28, 2023 21:31:03 GMT -5
On this, I could not help but wish that the flyover jets were a lot louder:
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Post by Marty on May 28, 2023 22:21:02 GMT -5
She agreed to make the cucumber salad so I did a wonderful Ribeye with caramelized onions. Man! that was good. Just back from Barb's, where we enjoyed her legendary Persian cuke salad, Lebanese cabbage salad from Zakia, wild rice pilaf and beautiful bone-in pork chops done on the Foreman grill, meat I rescued two minutes earlier than she wanted it to cook and which turned out perfect, just a hint of pink and flavorful as hell. Close call on that one! She still lives by her German grandma's admonitions on pork -- cook it until it's dark gray or risk a horrid trichinosis death. That is so true. Our mothers cooked pork into shoe soles, mine certainly did. But then my mother was a horrid cook. We usually get Iowa chops unless they have pork tomahawk chops. These are cut thicker and I have to cut the long bone out of them so they'll fit the pan.
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Post by jdd2 on May 28, 2023 23:43:54 GMT -5
On this, I could not help but wish that the flyover jets were a lot louder: Wrong context/setting for the way she did it. That needed a sing along like america the beautiful. I think it sounded okay, given its quality as a song.
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Post by Marshall on May 29, 2023 9:21:57 GMT -5
So, how was the race? Any excitement? I saw there was a fun crash and a tire almost crushed the crowd. Our next door neighbors, who are Danish citizens were amongst the 300,000+ attendees. He's a car guy. Owns a Jeep, a Volvo, a Porsche, a Harley, and a BMW motorcycle.
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Post by billhammond on May 29, 2023 9:26:53 GMT -5
So, how was the race? Any excitement? I saw there was a fun crash and a tire almost crushed the crowd. Our next door neighbors, who are Danish citizens were amongst the 300,000+ attendees. He's a car guy. Owns a Jeep, a Volvo, a Porsche, a Harley, and a BMW motorcycle. You must have missed my postrace post: "Well, the Indy 500 was exciting as all get out and had a crazy finish. Long-deserving Josef Newgarden of Nashville won it, with second place going to last year's winner, Marcus Ericsson, who as a Swede was characteristically sour and dour in his postrace comments. A fair number of crashes, but no injuries. The scariest moment came when Kyle Kirkwood of Andretti Racing was the victim of an accident in front of him, was flipped onto his top at speed, and in the process lost a rear tire/wheel that bounced over the high grandstand fence -- which almost never happens -- and crashed into a parked spectator's car, thankfully injuring no one."
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Post by John B on May 29, 2023 12:23:40 GMT -5
Hey, how was the race?
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Post by billhammond on May 29, 2023 12:52:57 GMT -5
Why does everything have to be about race?
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Post by jdd2 on May 29, 2023 16:49:05 GMT -5
...a rear tire/wheel that bounced over the high grandstand fence -- which almost never happens -- and crashed into a parked spectator's car, thankfully injuring no one." I wonder if the spectator can keep it as a souvenir? The odds of getting hit by lightning, or a meteorite, might be higher than an indy car wheel hitting your car.
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Post by millring on May 29, 2023 20:36:48 GMT -5
"I'm Not Saying" was played in dropD. I never realized that. I've just been mucking around with that on my 12 string. Not as nicely as the chap in this YouTube. The left hand is nice and easy though. Rather than the Dmaj7, I do 000232 000453 000675, and Em instead of his G
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Post by Marty on May 29, 2023 20:46:34 GMT -5
That’s it! Except her sister moved it for her. It was a Kyser too. (And a Taylor of course -)In regards to the bad sound, they were using the venue’s system and the board was on stage with no one on it. Set and forget and it was not set well. The monitors must have been different as I saw the singer reach for the volume control on his guitar and thought “thank God he’s turning down”. Actually he turned up! With a tower system so easy to transport and use and self mix I can’t figure out why a two man touring act wouldn’t do their own sound in small venues rather than take a chance on the local rig. Match made in Heaven.
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Post by Marshall on May 29, 2023 22:32:45 GMT -5
Why does everything have to be about race? You’re our resident racist.
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