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I have no idea what the dream means but the thought of someone other than an old guy like me knowing about "skitchin'" is really kinda scary. Shall we take a poll of how many "skitchers" there are at GSC?(or ex-" skitchers")

Ummm------This foot washing class ------Is it offered at UT? :blink:

There is a BBQ joint near Cinncinati named Burbanks Real Barbecue. You can buy T-shirts and ball caps there that say"I got my pork pulled at Burbanks". Huh? Oh yeah. Pressure cookers. Nope. Don't know how to use them but they sure preserve alot of flavor and juiciness. I've heard they cut cooking time as well.

Would that be a reference to a touch down?

This Note's For You---------Neil Young Nowhere is there warmth to be found Among those afraid of losing their ground Rain gray town known for its sound In places small faces abound

dmiller I don't want to stray too far from the topic at hand(J.E. Stiles,etc.) so I will try to be brief. There seems to be some degree of misunderstanding of "public domain". When a work is in public domain, no one can claim ownership of said work. Take"Mary Had A Little Lamb", for example. You can not copyright this song because it is in PD. You can,however devise your own version and copyright your recording of said song. Stevie Ray Vaughn did this with "Mary Had A Little Lamb". You, too, can record this same song in your own version and copyright that recording. Now, your songs are not truly in the public domain because someone could ,in fact, copyright them and claim ownership. While I understand that you would be delighted to have someone think highly enough of one of your works that they would choose to use it, I doubt it would please you to find someone had been granted a copyright and declared the legal owner. This would take on even greater importance if they then used the work in a manner you strongly disagreed with. I don't claim to be any kind of expert on this subject but I think your best course of action would be to obtain copyrights. If you then choose to allow people to freely use your material, it is being done because you gave permission not because someone took liberty with your creativity.

Back in the late '60's I wrote tons of music, most of which is now out of style and dated. I still have the copyright certificates. Because copyright law at that time allowed me to claim ownership for a limited time of 28 years, these songs have long since entered public domain. If someone wanted to use this music I would be thrilled. If, on the other hand, they wanted to not only use it but also claim authorship, I would be NOT thrilled. Formal copyrights are simply one avenue of proving ones' claim to authorship. Just because Stiles did not have formal copyright certificates on this work does not mean it was "up for grabs". It simply means Stiles had one less avenue to prove authorship if he desired to do so. Accessability is also a factor in proving authorship. In other words, if someone in New Zealand claimed to have coincidentally written the same song I did in America, whether or not they had accessability to my work would be a factor that would come into play in proving authorship. I think it is clear that VPW had access to much of the work he claimed to be his own, including that of Stiles. If you want to use my music, you need only ask but don't look for loopholes that will allow you to claim authorship and for goodness sake don't say God gave it to you.

"I think there aren't many folks here who remember the original song." Dooj, are you saying that they are too young to have heard it or just too dang old to remember that far back?

OFM---------Remember the old joke with the Camel pack? You hand someone the pack and ask them where they would stay if a sand storm comes up. They usually comment about taking shelter behind the pyramids or palms or the camel itself. At that point you take the pack back, flip it over and say "I'd just go around the corner and stay at the Taj Mahal."( which is pictured on the back side). Good to hear from you, Smokey. OK, back to health tips.

I had an opportunity to pick up an Epiphone Viola Bass at a really good price so I grabbed it. I know it "ain't no Hofner" but I really like it. It has a short scale(30.5) and a 1.65 nut. It's semi hollow body so it is very light and I can sit and play it without having to plug in. It came with flat wound strings and when I plugged it in, I really liked the warm tone it has. It's much more inviting than my Squire P-Bass. Blues harp is still where my heart is at but I suspect I'll find myself hoisting this new(to me) bass over my shoulder frequently. If I ever get to a point where I can post pics, I'll post it along with a shot of my buddys' Micro Frets Spacetone. It's a green sort of sunburst color. I think it was called Martian Sunrise or something like that. They are also very light weight. Funny how you don't think about weight and neck size so much until the years start adding up and work starts to take its toll on the hands and wrists.

More lyrics I got a good reason for loving you. It's an old fashioned sign.

It seems like sometimes people want to put VPW on some kind of lofty pedestal and find some profound wisdom in his words and actions. (Why in session three at exactly the 7 minute and 7 second mark did he scratch his nose 3 times with his right hand? Was he giving us some privleged signal alerting us to some deep truth? )WAKE UP! No one wants to admit they have been conned, but that is what happened to us. I work with someone who was involved with a cult I had never heard of at about the same time I was involved with TWI. We compared notes on several occasions and the similarities between the two were astoundingly similar. Somehow even if we accept that The Way was a cult we want to think it was superior to other cults. Maybe VP started out with good intentions,I don't know, but for a long, long time he lived the life of a con-man and we were the willing suckers. There are some people who will never simply accept that they were flim-flammed and exalting VPW makes it easier to hold onto that belief.

I'm not sure if these words are 100% correct but this is how I always heard them: I remember once, hearin' the old" folks sayin'" "Love's an ageless old rhyme." Now a days ya know the sayin' depends so much on The kinda woman that you find. Intertwining AND overlapping in play! ps-----Cletus(that's his name) says "You old folks sure gotta lotta "sayin's".

Almost as bad were the "ministering" sessions that listed every known part or function of the human body. " And Father God I just thank you at this time that all toe nail fungus will completely disappear and the disgusting halitosis will just vanish immediately. And Father may all flatulance cease right now in the name of Jesus Christ."

Buffalo Springfield---------Not too sure on the title----"Hello, Mr. Soul"? Intertwining is Neil Young. Is the title correct? edit: to add Stephen Stills to intertwining.

I believe this one was a solo effort.

Ah,yes. Romper Room. Miss Barbara would look through the magic mirror and say" I see Tommy, I see Georgy,-----------" Actually, I'll accept any cover but the original would be cool. Here in the afterglow of day, We keep our redezvous beneath the blue. Here in the sweet and same old way, I fall in love again as I did then.

That would have to be that wacky Doo-Wopper from The Bronx, Dion Dimucci along with The Belmonts----------Donna, The Prima Donna. Same era Deepening shadows gather splendor as day is done. Fingers of night will soon surrender the setting sun.

OK, let's do the math here. There are ,what, about 47 or 48 of them left? What are the chances of one of them finding you grabbing a Biggy Burger at the Burger Biggy and striking up a conversation at the condiment table? Man, if that happens to me, I'm going to buy a Lotto ticket ASAP while the odds are still in my favor.( Hey, how much are you supposed to ABS on gambling profits?)

HaHaHaHa--Yeah, now I remember the "empties" thing. It was a shortened form of "empties floatin' by".(like an old tin can in a river) I guess it never occurred to us that maybe WE were the ones who were at the mercy of the current.

During my first year in Fellowlaborers, Howie Y. was the limb leader and therefore the Fellowlaborer coordinator. It was he who "turned us on" to the sweet sounds of The Sons. Well whatta ya know----- I guess something good came out of that program after all! (and the Django Rhinehart stories were pretty cool too.)

Even though she's the girl next door.

"She slaps policemen like Zsa Zsa Gabor."-------

I just asked my grandson Cletus(that's his name) and he said" Crimanitlies, Grandpaw!, Of course George should get the next one!" Now where do you 'spose that young 'un ever heard a word like crimanitlies? Disclaimer-------No one from the Spencer Davis Group was mistreated or injured during the posting of this here post.

I think much of what we did in our early days of involvement will be honored by God because we did it out of a genuine desire in our hearts to serve God and his people. Now, as time progressed and we did things just because it was required or some type of fear was involved, I can only say this: Just one guys' wacky opinion.