On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:08:54 -0800 (PST), wrote:



Honest truth:
I was at a flea market in Tampa, and talking to a vendor who happened
to have some sort of little monkey. Dude drops the leash and asks me
to pick it up for him, as he was on a bar stool. I reach down to get
it, and that freakin' monkey was on me like a fat lady on a donut!
That sob was all teeth and claws! In a couple of seconds that thing
had bit my arm twice and scratched the hell out of me. I was ****ed at
the vendor guy for that one!

Did you get shots for possible infections?
I try to stay from monkeys. Not hard to do, really (-:
Hitchhiking in the Navy, I found myself in the monkey trailer
of Joe Lempke of the Shriner's Circus with a female chimp hanging
onto me. Damn strong. But she didn't bite me, just gave me a kiss,
so it wasn't too bad.

--Vic

On Feb 13, 6:43*pm, HK wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:15:29 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

I'm looking forward to having a lot of fun with these out on the boat
next summer. I like to do "colors" at sundown, and blow taps on the
shuttle pipe. That manages to annoy everybody for 30-40 yards around.
With a great highland pipe, I will be heard for about half a mile in
all directions. :-)

I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I've always wanted to
learn how to play the pipes.

If only for the annoyance factor. *:)

You think your annoyance factor is not high enough already? * :-)

See...a non-boating related post.

On Feb 13, 8:50*pm, HK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
wrote in message
.. .
On 14 Feb 2008 00:56:44 GMT, "John Q. Public" wrote:

In , Eisboch is
alleged to have said:

This is the exact model:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...on_cardiff.jpg
Blackie rules.
That ain't blackie!

The one I got is a "Blackie". * *And the one in the picture is. *It's
Clapton's main ride.

Eisboch

I like the current Lucille:

http://www.gibsoncustom.com/flash/pr...e/lucille....- Hide quoted text -

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See...a non-boating related post.

wrote:

I am starting to like playing my electric with no pick. Although I
play through a 15 amp practice amp (got a Boss DS1 too I am able to
pull some nice (to me) sounds out with my fingers.. I am a real
beginner though, so I don't have a lot to compare to. When I watch my
G3 CD I get a little idea.
It's funny. With all my rock and roll background and I worked around
music a lot as a vocalist, I never really paid much attention to the
individual sound or feel of different guitars. I heard them, but never
really listened, ****es me off now as I had so many opportunities and
willing teachers when I was a kid.

I think Mark Knopfler is a great example of nice touch with
bare fingers. Also check out Dereck Trucks if you get a
chance to see him. I caught him a few years back opening
for Eric Johnson at a local club.

wrote:
... I also
really wasn't that fond of the neck on my Jaguar, as it was a short
scale. Probably intended to make it easier for small hands to reach
difficult chords, but it really hurt the playability and tone as far
as I was concerned. That guitar was also where I realized that slide
switches don't belong on guitars.

My first electric was an old Mustang... same problems, the
damn slide switches were always intermittent.

Tim wrote:

Tremlo bar = idiot stick.

Never saw Jeff Beck live I'm guessing...

On Feb 15, 10:24*pm, -rick- wrote:
Tim wrote:

Tremlo bar = idiot stick.

Never saw Jeff Beck live I'm guessing...

Rick, look at what my reply was to approx the same quesiton.

On Feb 15, 10:24*pm, -rick- wrote:
Tim wrote:

Tremlo bar = idiot stick.

Never saw Jeff Beck live I'm guessing...

But to answer your question. No, but I've seen Robin Trower and
VanHalen many times,

Tim wrote:
On Feb 15, 10:24 pm, -rick- wrote:
Tim wrote:

Tremlo bar = idiot stick.
Never saw Jeff Beck live I'm guessing...

Rick, look at what my reply was to approx the same quesiton.

Someday I'll learn to read the whole thread before replying...

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:23:59 -0500, HK wrote:

Been a long, long time since you posted anything useful or original
about boats. What sort of boat do you have, and where, generally, do you
boat? Got anything on topic to add here?



The righteousness of the newly converted can be truly amazing.