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This story had caused me to look at my pets in a new light. At this time we have 1 cat, and 7 tropical fish. There's also at least 1 neighborhood rabbit, big gray guy. Or girl, haven't checked. Cat's female. And the fish, gender's unclear, although I'd assume the ones that leave the filter screen up, those are the guys. So now, I'm watching everybody close. REAL close.

Sorry Garth. You know I love ya man. You're the Prophet, The The Man. Bait. Switch. This is vaguely like the guy who wants you to pull his finger so he can fart, big joke, right? The first 100 times but at this point, it's kinda stale. The joke, never mind the gas. "Come on, pull my finger. Pull my finger! Come aaaaawwwwwnnnnn.....pull my FINGer! Pull it! Pull my finGER! Do it! Do itdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoit!!! "No thanks". "Baby! You won't pull my finger! Scaredy cat! S-KARE-DEE CAT! Pull it!!! Pleeeeeezzzzzzzz, pull it pull it pull it pull it pull it - pull my FFFFFINNNNNNGERRRRR! Pull - my ...." "Sigh, okay. If I do then will you...." "A HA HA HA HAHAAAAHAHAHA!!!! SEE? You pulled my finger and I farted!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You pulled my fing-er! You pulled my fin-ger!!! HAHAHAHA!!!" "Sigh"

Crabs. Season just opened! Salmon. Local salmon right off the boat - great. Gilroy garlic - really tasty.

Spike! Buy it by the box and it goes in a shaker. Good stuff, as stated. Kosher salt! Use it for brining chicken, and of course, on food, anything. A dash of it with some lemon on salmon is tasty. Garlic. Gilroy is a few hours south of us, grows lots of great garlic. Use a fair amount of garlic around here. I always have at least two bottles of virgin olive oil going - straight, and one with a few cracked garlic cloves in it to add flavor. Good for quickie sautee's. Also like to mince several cloves, mix in butter or a substitute, to use on bread. Pepperocini's - I don't like hot spicy foods, but use these mildly warm little guys like a condiment. Chopped and diced finely, added to the top of anything from salads, eggs, sandwiches, etc.

Aw c'mon Garth. There's gotta be better proof than this, I can't get my dander wrapped around this one, sorry. Granted those look like some extremely cute puppies, cute enough to be kittens. But a story of a woman in Brazil finding some doggies with her cat in a field - are you serious? You're not serious, right? This is a joke. File it next to the "Bowl of Chili Gets the Finger" story, the woman that said she found a finger in her food at a fast food resaurant. Remember that? These people may be well intentioned buuuuuut... If this turned out to be true, I doubt anyone's going to be running out first thing and yelling "SEE? PFAL was WRONG!" I'd be more concerned about the Pet Shop industry. Any puppy I buy is gonna have to have some serious paperwork. SERious paperwork.

Vince Gill, Chatty, any tunes in particular you're diggin'? I love his playing on "Worlds Apart", and "Whenever You Come Around" is a killah. "Pretty Little Adriana" - some very tasty playing and really a nice sound. An artist that goes way back that Gill reminds me of is Jesse Colin Young, of the Youngbloods. We've seen him many times, he still performs and is around Nothern California, lives out by Point Reyes. He used to split his time between there and Hawaii. His voice has a really sweet sound, like Gill's. Young had a unique country-folk-rock sound when he went solo - "Love On the Wing" is really worth a listen. If I can find it I'll post it up online. I played with him on a bill with the Youngbloods and the band I was in at the time named "Cosby". :) He was a pretty nice guy and sounded as good live, backstage, in the parking lot, as he did on record. Just a truly natural talent.

Boy, we're covering some ground here today! On the PPL front, Dean played some with Craig Fuller in the early days, probably around late 60', don't think it was in PPL itself though. Dean was and is a fine guitarist, does great work on the acoustic. Played a Les Paul Jr. when I first met him, had a real nice style. I had my Les Paul gold top at the time. He had a little bit of Steven Stills and Dave Mason mixed together with a country feel, is how I'd describe it. He also played a Gibson acoustic flat top, don't remember the model but he had it for years. Chatty, I'm glad you caught that song and liked it! I've about 3 versions into it at this point. It's taking shape slowly. I've got a rhythm version of it that I'm using in lessons too, so that's interesting to hear other people learning that song for the first time. It's instantly recognizable and has instant vibe, even for people who weren't born then! :)

dMiller, you've got your weekend stacked! Good luck. I've often wondered about instruments in shops like that. I remember many years ago, pawning an Ampex sound on sound deck I had, and an old acoustic guitar. Leaving them there that day was a mixture of happy and sad. Happy that I was getting some quick cash for a couple things I didn't need at the time, sad because I was leaving them there and knew I wouldn't be back for them and I would have just as soon kept them, they had a lot of memories. Theres' got to be some interesting stories out there in shops. polar bear, those AKG's are good mic's, yup. Congratulations! New gear, always a good thing. :) What's your studio set up like?

Yeah, violence over a game system seems a little overkill, to say the least. My son and I were talking about it this morning, he's finishing a degree in digital animation arts next year, and he was giving me the rundown on PS3 - according to him there are quite a few features that make it superior. Their site gives more information for anyone else not familiar with it. He had a friend offered a similar price on the way out of the store Friday. Daughter says they're going for 2500 on eBay now. Probably will go higher. And they run about 500.00 bucks off the shelf. Cu-razee!

Depends dmiller - Fender has more models now than Revell. Might be a good buy. Can you get anymore information?

Yeah, that's nice stuff A la. Now, Tom, that Air Guitar dealie is ... not sure what that is. What is that? Totally cool, Chas! We got a mascot.

Love that tune, and Dan Ross. I really like the opening figure. That kind of sound is cool. Thanks! He does some nice harmonics about midway through. SuWEEt! Cool Atkins/Kotke/Watson tune too. I'm off to check out Cockburn. Y'know I did some checking around on how the Youtube videos are set up and there's a program that will allow you to download the Flash videos. You can run them and then save them with a link that it creates. I've tried it and it works well. You end up with a file that you rename, to whatever you want .flv, with the .flv at the end. It's saved on your computer. You can then open that file and view it in their software. It's pretty cool. Check it out here.

I know this discussion isn't solely dealing with homosexuality but I have to say - the only thing I don't dig about male homosexuality is - there's no chicks. Thanks for that video dmiller! I rest my case. Reggie's - well, anyone who finds him attractive has to be a woman who still has their little torn up stuffed bear from when they were 5, the one with the arm torn open, distended tummy from too many pillow fights and one eye going up and one down and thinks it's just the cutest thing in the whole wide world. If you're a guy and you get that giggidy feeliing from Dwight - sorry, no deal. We need to go to a pro-football game and see some real hiney-slapping. Those boys know tush. I don't think religion's going to get banned as long as Elton's voice is heard on the matter. Sorry, he's just too weird for me. Weird as Benny Hinn. Almost as weird as Pat Robertson. Maybe they can all get together and start a religion. Benny can 'heal' Elton, who will then marry Liza Minelli who will drive him gay again after two years and he'll split off to form a splinter group named "The Hair Club for Manly Men" and the slogan will be "I'm not just the president of the Club, I'm your Daddy!" Robertson will get a revelation that Judas was really gay, and Judas really drowned in a Bathhouse and push through legislation banning all Spa's in the U.S. Between them they'll make enough money to buy the Middle East and that'll be that.

Well, Garth, ears being what they are I guess this tells me one man's gold is another man's god. Y'know? EJ's heading for retirment. With all the music out today, it's hard to even stay current but there's some serious music being made and it's worth hearing. Enjoying Tiny Dancer doesn't have to mean you're stuck in a Time Warp, it could just mean it was a good song then, and it's still a good song now. Y'know? Popular music is quantifiable in certain ways. Popularity isn't hmmmm as easily, as what you like someone else might not, for no other reason necessary than they don't and you do. But there's a case to be made for good songwriting, and EJ's gotten in the middle of quite a few over the years. Lyrics are often kinda gobbeldy and the melodies usually server the musical style rather than the music, but that's pop music. But back to his opinions, he's got 'em. No boudadoubt it. Hmm. Hmm. Oh yeah. I like "reasonably organized" religion, and totally dig Chaos Christianity specifically. Kind-of organized, but not neurotic and won't get suicidal if the pictures on the wall are a little crooked. For awhile.

Tiny Dancer - one of the classic tunes of an era Garth. "Almost Famous" uses it in the bus sequence to great effect. Sweet tune. For the record oh yeah, oh yeah that's what's so good about GS - not only do we get definitive information and factoids, yes factoids, we get music puns! Real, actual music puns. Lyrics to the verse in question read: Jesus freaks out in the street Handing tickets out for God Turning back she just laughs The boulevard is not that bad And see, that's the whole deal, the whole thingie here. For certain things, Reggie is going to be the Man. In his arena of expertise, he's got deep chops. Never mind that you have to be British to rhyme god with bad.....(think "Oh, he was the naughtiest boy, that one. He could be so bawd") But all this time, I thought he was singing - "handing tickets out for Ga-ah-wad", that being an ancient icon of Aztec origin. I've put a lot of energy and effort into that particular deity. Now I feel so - so, robbed. Dirty, almost. Where's People magazine when I need it!

EJ is no slouch on the piano and he's got that English version of American blues voice down. An interesting note on Reggie: The son of a former Royal Air Force trumpeter, Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in 1947. Dwight began playing piano at the age of four, and when he was 11, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. After studying for six years, he left school with the intention of breaking into the music business. So he's a talented high school dropout who done good. But I kind of agree with you George, he's become something of a hack. Famous, well-paid, connected and a kind of musical environmentalist the way he recycles his patented sound. "Personality" probably describes him best, entertainer. Of global interest to the People magazine subscribers who need a Cult-fix every month. (what's my Elton doing now?) Is he refrencing the war in Irag, 9/11, the general opinion of a lot of religions that homosexuality is wrong? All of the above? Is it the accumulated wisdom of his life that leads him to this opinion? He's not alone it seems. Who cares what Elton John thinks? I like a lot of his tunes but he's hard to endure as a performer. Sort of a strange combination of Barry Manilow and Liberace. I'd vote to outlaw professional use by any entertainer of glasses larger than 6 inches per lens. Max.

Just an assortment of spaced Smileys, dmiller. Smileys, spaced out. Or well spaced. Or sumpin. waysider did one ----- :) ----- and I realized by making them white you could make 'em look like they were hanging out in space, all over. So props to waysider, what is for me new Smiley territory. Going where no Smiley has gone before - to Space! And Beyond! But I have noticed the phenomena of which you speak - there's a limit to how many you can put up. That's probably why you got the message. Alhtough there may be a way to push the Smiley envelope and go postal with them, using dashes and line spacing. Dunno. But we want Happy Posters and Smileys are high value additions to any thread! There's something about that basic little guy :) that's universal yet esoteric in presence. It says it all, by saying nothing. :)

As far as Craig and the Way goes, they didn't invent the timecard. :) And there is such a thing as being "late for work" when there's no reason for it other than - you're late. If other people depend on someone being on time, that won't work very well for very long. But a lot of jobs and work environments don't live and die by the clock. There's accountability to the work that needs to be completed and the salary being paid, but businesses find that in today's world if you can't flex time a little to accomodate good employees you're probably going to have unhappy employees. Work and life can conflict. Instead of allowing them to build frustration with each other it's better to try and do what makes good sense for everyone, within the constraints of what has to get done for business to succeed, the state laws, etc. etc. Harping about 5 or 10 minutes as being "dishonest" assumes the worst of the person, that they aren't going to make the time up, or do the job they're supposed to and be honorable employees. That gets old quick. I'm sort of old-school. If the start time is 8, you be there at 8, coffee in hand and ready to go. There's really no "getting away with it". An honest person does what needs to be done and if they adjust their time here, they adjust it there. If you're getting paid for a job completed, you complete it. If X amount of hours is part of that, you put those hours in somewhere. But yeah, somehow I'm sure Mr. Craig told himself he worked so hard all the time anyway his own "adjustments" weren't the same as for the Regular Joe. Just a guess, but it's S.O.P. for the "spiritually mature", a phrase I can barely type with a straight face.

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Of possible interest, Chas - a unique duo named Toastmachine Bass player and drummer, just the two. My kids saw them locally about 6 years ago, and really liked them. I've got a CD of their early stuff around somewhere that they bought. Cool concept.

Early Beatles, to another version of the song You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - nicely done, check it out till the end ... It definitely shows that some guitar manufacturers owe a huge debt to the Beatles - Gretchs, Hofner and Rickenbacher's - the classic Beatles lineup.

Thanks T-Bone! It's an early version of a draft of a rendering, but hopefully it will take shape. waysider, the jams sound nice. There is an etiquette to jamming, as you say. Local customs are always a factor too, and generally the idea is to be cool, be there and bring some courtesy along. :) Nothing worse than everybody walking all over each other every time there's an open bar. Tom, you read my mind. :) Thus offering solid proof - it's there, pistons - well pistoning. Or something. There's so many Beatles tunes.I was thinking it would be nice to redo some in ways that expound on the feeling that reconstructs, and let the music flow towards that. We'll see. Any requests? That tune is on Youtube.com by the way, from the movie Help HERE - check it out! Enjoy that puppy! As the little guy said "Ad hoc, ad loc, quid pro quo! So little time, so much to know!" And to play! Welcome Mssr. polar bear! Orchestra hey? Very nice. While this is a Guitar thread, as you'll see it careens off into adjacent real estate frequently. Feel free to contribute and please do, often! dmiller is right. Someone's gotta go "boom chuck boom chuck". Which reminds me, I've always had a thing for "country" sounds, the sounds that populate the country and bluegrass musics. Yet, I don't really like most popular "country" music and often feel that Bluegrass is like bad jazz, when it impersonates Bebop and goes "beedle deedle beedle deedle beedle deedle bop. De bop a bop. Bop." over and over in the same scale. Yet I do like a lot of the music that comes out of those genres. I was just thinking of Vince Gill, a not-so-typical country crooner. Love his stuff and he's an electric guitarist of rare sensitivity and taste. Or to my ear anyway, y'know. It's the scales, and the various tunings used I really like - the 6ths and 9ths, the "add 2's" where the A is added to an open G chord, or right above the root in a tight clustered triad. Those are beautiful tones, sweet sounds that hold the root in little pillowy cradles, floating. Or sumpin. They can sound really strong too. But those puppies bark in these woods. Mixed with the blues minor 3rd and 7ths - killer alternating sounds. Killhahs! But you're weeding in my patch with the Beach Boys "Wouldn't It be Nice". Great tune, and it would be, nice. That and "Don't Worry Baby" - classic stuff.

A la, I haven't in awhile, but thank you - there's parcels there! Thank you. I am. Do you believe in lightning striking in a clear sky? I read once it happened somewhere, can't recall the actual location. This is as good a place as any though. Tom, thank you for asking. The Girl has become a Woman before my very eyes. I guess I never saw it coming, or didn't want to for some reason, sometimes. It's weird with kids though - they never get bigger than that little wad of life that's the first time you see them. She was really influenced by her teachers, two in particular. M.I.'s filled with gun-slingers, 6 stringers itchin' for the next show down. The instructors fight that to a degree, to get students to drop the chops and listen, think. Hear. Daughter really responded to that message and is becoming a very thoughtful musican. Clear, she's clear. She likes a munchy tone, but one that's naturally clear and naturally complex, not over effected and beefed up. Biggest influence was learning so close to experts that the feeling comes from the hands, not the equipment. She struggles, same as me, but she's knows The Path now and it's very very very wonderfully nice to be on it with her. We are working on a couple tunes, she's got one that's a killah, she wrote while in school. The other is one of mine I posted here, Caress and she's working up the bass for it. Latest is the Beatles song "Hide Your Love Away". That - wow, that is a beautiful song. We've got a bunch of ideas for it, some of them are roughed out here. - Hide Your Love Away - 2 guitars and a dub There's a sound we're trying to get on it, this has way too many notes wandering around, but the essence of the idea is there.

Yeah, two outta 3 would have been nice, but no takers I see. Everyone plays the innocent when they're a kid, usually the parents pay for lessons, but so often it's set aside and ends up in a closet or garage, usually after a first Report Card, or that first date. I'd bet good money, actual cash dollars, USD, that right now there's an innocent or two gathering dust in many a closet right here. I'll have to rustle mine up, see if I can remember anything on it. I tried to take it up but the fingerings - whooo! Scarey! Didn't know that, Tom, there's stuff for sale alright. Guit's and Amps and all manner of strung things. More space to peruse...Thanks! I've enjoyed the recounts and photos of the Texas Gathering. Happy looking peops, all. If I'd been able to make the journey it would have been fun, no doubt! Where did ChattyKathy get off to? What kind of mischief is afoot? Played most of yesterday evening with the Girl. Fun pickin'. :)