For Mark Brown

[Jon]

I love it so much when people disparage rap, as a whole. It is such a diverse genre with some very talented artist, some of which are literal wordsmiths of epic proportions. Not to mention that there is some very unique understanding of musical theory and patterning that goes into its creation.
I was like you once, then I discovered that my ignorance was unbalanced against a veritable tsunami of talent and once I was introduced to some of the finer sides of hip-hop I realized there was some amazing music over on that side of the fence.
Problem is most of what you hear is garbage and voila, enter judgement.

Mark how many types of music are there?
The trouble we found running discos was that say at a wedding the oldies, relations, wanted to talk as they hadnt seen each other for years whereas the youngies wanted the top records of the day and party which needed to be played louder. The young ones would come up at the beginning wanting their songs and I would say wait until the oldies go then I would crank out the likes of ACDC but they would still hassle The oldies would come up and say its too loud but when they hear a song they like turn it up
is is one of the reasons we gave up doing discos
Now on a night cruise on the boats the passengers went to look at the pretty lights and other boats on the harbour with just background music playing so dancing as an added bonus for them which usually happened at least half way through the night
But if you went to a night club situation we had to play loud top songs so that the people would come in instead of moving to another night club, no people no money for us
Doing discos wasnt easy to keep everybody happy

 

[DarisMulkin]

Give me Marty Robbins or give me death

I'll second that, saw him a coupe of times.. Went to his museum in Nashville and tried to see him but he was a couple hours away and the people we were with didn't want to wait and he died shortly afterward.

 

[highup]

You spelled that wrong, it is "c rap"

You say tomato, I say spaghetti..... Same thing.

 

[highup]

I love it so much when people disparage rap, as a whole. It is such a diverse genre with some very talented artist, some of which are literal wordsmiths of epic proportions. Not to mention that there is some very unique understanding of musical theory and patterning that goes into its creation.
I was like you once, then I discovered that my ignorance was unbalanced against a veritable tsunami of talent and once I was introduced to some of the finer sides of hip-hop I realized there was some amazing music over on that side of the fence.
Problem is most of what you hear is garbage and voila, enter judgement.

I won't disagree some have talent.
...Laurance Welk was garbage too.

 

[Floorist]

I'll second that, saw him a coupe of times.. Went to his museum in Nashville and tried to see him but he was a couple hours away and the people we were with didn't want to wait and he died shortly afterward.

Only ones I ever saw were Charlie Pride and Waylon & Willie.

 

[Mark Brown]

I did it.
1997 Strat Plus, Inca Gray. She is a dream


I'm not good at taking pictures... but here is a side by side of the twins.

I always loved my electric.... until 4 hours ago when I got this one.

I have to set the action up a bit and raise the trem and get the indents I want but it sounds a plays like a dream. That rosewood neck plays like butter and again with the Fender Lace Sensor golds it just rings like a bell.

 

[Don Monfils]

Nice, congratulations !

 

[Mark Brown]

Nice, congratulations !

This is, in fact, all your fault

 

[havasu]

Marty Robbins is my favorite!

 

[DarisMulkin]

Only ones I ever saw were Charlie Pride and Waylon & Willie.

Never saw Waylon and Willie but did Charlie Pride a number of times. Excellent performer.

 

[Floorist]

Saw Waylon, Willie and Jessi Coulter at the Missouri State fair many years ago. Saw Charlie Pride in KC when I was a teenager.

 

[Don Monfils]

I saw Johnny Cash when I was about 10 years old , playing outside at a park when I lived in Tennessee. I didn’t even know who he was.
I walked right up to the stage and took his pic and he shook my hand.
I also met nurse goodbody from hee haw around the same time.

 

[Don Monfils]

Here he is. Pretty low quality pic.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Don send that picture to Hi he maybe able to clear it up, he is into stuff like that.

 

[highup]

Don send that picture to Hi he maybe able to clear it up, he is into stuff like that.

Can't do that anymore, Daris. Photoshop was on my computers that died. It's a bit like.....
...when they took my Kodachrome away sort of thing.

 

[highup]

Here he is. Pretty low quality pic.View attachment 13759

Dang, that's a Polaroid. Haven't seen one of those for a long time

 

[Don Monfils]

I don’t think it’s a Polaroid.
It was a regular 35 mm photo from around 1977.
I took a pic out of a photo album with my phone.

 

[highup]

I don’t think it’s a Polaroid.
It was a regular 35 mm photo from around 1977.
I took a pic out of a photo album with my phone.

I'm not as good as I thought I was.
I thought the edges looked like poloroid film.
Neat having such a cool photo and brush with greatness to go along with it.

 

[highup]

Wait a minute...... that's one of those 1980's 'magnetic' photo albums.