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Post by t-bob on Apr 30, 2012 3:24:37 GMT -5
Just eight days shy of... Hurray hurray The eighth of May Outdoor fucking Starts today (Thanks Doug, for reminding me of the proper date) But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's do the best we can with with the fifth Monday in April, yes?  |
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Post by brucemacneill on Apr 30, 2012 4:00:56 GMT -5
Good early morning. It's our 42nd anniversary today, Monday being a dumb day to have your anniversary but it is what it is. So, we're going down to Virginia Beach to see some sights, aquarium, maybe museum, and have dinner at a Japanese steak house we noticed while down there last week. Japanese steak house is an anniversary tradition of sorts when I can find one. In any case, it will beat yard work. Do the best you can with a Monday. Of course, best of luck to Bill with the surgery today.
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Post by millring on Apr 30, 2012 5:29:06 GMT -5
Good luck, Bill. Happy anniversary, Bruce.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2012 5:46:49 GMT -5
Happy Anniversary, Bruce.
Up and awake. Trying to levitate up and get headed toward work.
Fooey.
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Post by Lonnie on Apr 30, 2012 5:46:55 GMT -5
Good luck, Bil. Happy anniversary, Bruce (pass that along to your wife, too.).
I attended Braham's "Eine Deutsches Requiem" yesterday. A friend of mine is in the choir. Mostly marvelous.l
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2012 5:49:22 GMT -5
PS: It's 24 degrees outside. WTF?
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Post by Kramster on Apr 30, 2012 6:19:43 GMT -5
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Post by Tamarack on Apr 30, 2012 6:38:19 GMT -5
Good Morning Good People
Rainy and windy and warmer. Rain is welcome.
Spent Sunday evening dining on squash enchiladas, brownies, and microbrews with some old friends, make that "friends of long standing", nah ... make that old friends. Laughed uproariously about incidents that happened 30+ years ago that are only funny to those who were there.
Got some real work to do for a client this morning, followed by a couple of meetings.
Happy Anniversary to Bruce and his beloved!
Have a moderate Monday one and all.
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Post by secondroy on Apr 30, 2012 6:47:27 GMT -5
Morning. Jane is home from the hospital and is doing fine. Home Health Care will be coming by every day for a while to make sure she gets back on her feet OK and to check on her lungs to make sure they are working like they want them to.
On a different note, (pun intended), for me the Stratacaster has never been a good jazz guitar. I am taking lessons now using a Taylor T5 and it would be hard to beat this guitar for jazz. But this subject came up in one of my lessons and my teacher pretty much said the same thing and added that the Tele would make better jazz sounds.
Any thoughts on this? I pulled out my old Tele and gave it a try. Not bad for me, better than what I had been getting out of a Strat.
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Post by Cornflake on Apr 30, 2012 6:55:52 GMT -5
Good morning, all.
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Post by Marshall on Apr 30, 2012 7:06:23 GMT -5
Jazz was invented before the humbucker pickup was around. Single coils, like the Tele are probably more centric to the jazz sounds you're used to hearing.
Not that I know anything.
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Post by drlj on Apr 30, 2012 7:40:48 GMT -5
Have a good morning and good luck Bill.
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 30, 2012 7:46:43 GMT -5
Morning. Jane is home from the hospital and is doing fine. Home Health Care will be coming by every day for a while to make sure she gets back on her feet OK and to check on her lungs to make sure they are working like they want them to. First, good to hear that your wife is doing OK. Ted Greene is the only jazz guy I've ever known that played a tele. Guys like Steve Morse play strat-like guitars and I'm sure there are others, but they tend to be heavily rock-based jazz fusion guys. Mainstream jazz has always been about archtops pretty much since they displaced banjos in big bands. Archtops give you really nice big punch in the middle of the fretboard from about the 3rd fret to the 10th. Most mainstream jazz playing happens there. Of course since Charlie Christian electrified the archtop and Gibson added a center block to a thin archtop in the late 50's, the most versatile jazz instrument tends to be the ES335 and related clones and variants. With it you can go from full traditional jazz with a decent acoustic archtop-like voicing to full rock screaming without the feedback problems of a full archtop. But that's just my 2 cents. |
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Post by dradtke on Apr 30, 2012 8:40:19 GMT -5
Morning, all. Happy anniversary, Bruce. Good luck, Bill.
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Post by mnhermit on Apr 30, 2012 8:43:40 GMT -5
G'mornin' - Great to hear Roy! Congrats to Bruce and his lovely bride! Steady hands to chili's doc and good vibes to Bill himself.
And may it stop raining and clear up like it did yesterday (washington dreaming)
Today in History:
1492 - Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
1598 - 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
1722 - Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant
1763 - London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower
1789 - George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
1803 - US doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
1857 - San Jose State University forms
1864 - New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
1889 - 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
1889 - George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ opens
1900 - USA annexes Hawaii
1904 - Ice cream cone makes its debut
1911 - Portugal approves woman suffrage
1935 - World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
1952 - Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
born today:
1651 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theorist/saint
1770 - David Thompson, English/Canadian explorer (Columbia River)
1896 - Gary Davis, Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith)
1933 - Willie Nelson, Abbott Texas, country singer (On the Road Again)
1943 - Bobby Vee, Fargo ND, (Devil or Angel, Night has a Thousand Eyes)
1944 - Richard Shoff, rocker (Sandpipers)
1945 - Mimi Farina, rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
1956 - Richard Farina, folk singer (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2012 9:00:37 GMT -5
Morning. Jane is home from the hospital and is doing fine. Home Health Care will be coming by every day for a while to make sure she gets back on her feet OK and to check on her lungs to make sure they are working like they want them to. First, good to hear that your wife is doing OK. Ted Greene is the only jazz guy I've ever known that played a tele. Guys like Steve Morse play strat-like guitars and I'm sure there are others, but they tend to be heavily rock-based jazz fusion guys. Mainstream jazz has always been about archtops pretty much since they displaced banjos in big bands. Archtops give you really nice big punch in the middle of the fretboard from about the 3rd fret to the 10th. Most mainstream jazz playing happens there. Of course since Charlie Christian electrified the archtop and Gibson added a center block to a thin archtop in the late 50's, the most versatile jazz instrument tends to be the ES335 and related clones and variants. With it you can go from full traditional jazz with a decent acoustic archtop-like voicing to full rock screaming without the feedback problems of a full archtop. But that's just my 2 cents. My 2 cents The original Broadcaster/Telecaster was wired much different from its modern version and was probably more suited to jazz tones. In the original set up the 3 position pickup switch never blended both pickups. 1. Bridge pickup only. 2. Neck pickup only with variable tone control pot. .05mfd cap 3. Neck pickup only with fixed/all on .05mfd tone cap. A .05mfd cap is a really deep cut on the treble, almost bass like. Standard guitar tone caps these days are .02mfd and I usually put .033mfd for the tone pot and a .0047mfd fixed cap in jazz guitars. |
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Post by Don Clark on Apr 30, 2012 9:08:51 GMT -5
Mornin'.....
All the best to Bill and Bruce. New things tomorrow for both. New year for the MacNeils, newness of life for the Gaults. Cool.
Quiet morning here, first with no sibling bickering for a long time. I made sure I told them how wonderful it was. So glad to wake up this morning to the sound of Shay's hair dryer. I'm not sure if her vocal quietness is from knowing he isn't coming or not knowing he isn't coming.....she hasn't said anything yet. I would suspect that if she knew I had communicated with him, I would have heard about it by now. One day at a time.
Should get an email or call from Oasis CD Mfg. that the CD's shipped and get the tracking number.
Desk work, website work, a lesson to teach this afternoon, and the 2012 Cimarron High School Sports Banquet and Awards tonight.
*Best guitar I ever had for jazz stuff was the '68 Gretsch Chet Atkins.....the bright Orange one with the gold Bigsby tailpiece and hardware..
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Post by majorminor on Apr 30, 2012 9:18:17 GMT -5
Morning all. Kinda grey and blah here this morning weather-wise. Sipping coffee and perusing the best little website ever.
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Post by david on Apr 30, 2012 9:21:09 GMT -5
Good morning. Best of luck Bill.
I attended the stringed instrument show with our own Mike Wonder ysterday and had a great time. We took 5 different guitars from John Greven and one from John Mello into a quiet room to test drive. Lordy, lordy were they all nice. Greven's Brazilion backed, Lutz topped dreadnaught was the one that knocked my socks off. Clear, deep, sparkling, distinct, . . . . Wow, what a guitar!
Mike left to tend to home tasks, and I went to hear local artists play. Most impressive were Doug Smith playing the little Mello guitar that Mike and I had sampled, and Scott Kritzer playing a Jeff Elliott classical. A delicious little concert.
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