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Lou Gehrig Charles

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  1. Lou Gehrig Charles
    For anything work-related or related to any hobbies or activities I'm passionate about, I'd rather just buy the stuff myself. Gift cards are good! I used to drive my parents crazy when they asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I'd ask for socks and underwear.... Then I'd go out and buy myself some toy or something with my own money. They'd ask, why didn't I put it on my Christmas list? Because they're likely to get me a lesser, cheaper version of what I really wanted. This continued well into adulthood and I'd buy myself some fancy piece of camera gear (or whatever) and I could never let them see it. Musical gear would be the same issue I am sure!
  2. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Oh, cool I'll look on Flickr. Are you Ken Lee there?
  3. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Speaking of which - that guy's other hand is bigger than his head! In all seriousness..... My dad worked for General Electric when I was a kid, and everything in the house was from GE. I am sure if GE made musical instruments we would have had them. Come to think of it, a GE organ is somewhat more believable than a Rheem organ, so who knows? Maybe they did.
  4. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Awesome! I'm so glad you posted these; I had seen a few of Tim's but they were on Facebook and I am unable to leave comments there. This must've been the full moon where we were supposed to be in Georgia. You shot this one at the right time. Dig that texture on the front of the building!
  5. Lou Gehrig Charles
    I remember it also was back in the days of "allow four to six weeks for delivery". Imagine if that was the norm nowadays! Now, when I order something I get annoyed if I don't get a tracking number later the same day. How things have changed!
  6. Lou Gehrig Charles
    All the best for a speedy recovery! Your post reminds me I need to get on my doctor and/or Walgreens to refill my BP meds, which are supposed to renew automatically but all too often don't unless I make a few calls. It's not supposed to be that way!
  7. Lou Gehrig Charles
    If it gets cold enough, I wear my Carhardt coveralls, but they're the total opposite of "packing lightly".... They're super bulky! I also have one of those yellow High-Viz parkas. If I wear that plus the coveralls, I look like I'm just a guy from the city or the gas company, checking on the utilities. It's the perfect disguise, which sometimes comes in handy if I'm shooting in some place I'm not supposed to be.
  8. Lou Gehrig Charles
    I never got involved in these programs, but used to pore over the ads and look at the albums. Remember the ones that had the little "postage stamp" sized stickers you could fasten to the order form? I turned them into posters for the buildings on my HO scale train layout.
  9. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Years ago.... Well, close to forty.... radio station WWCT in Peoria IL had a contest where listeners had to keep track of 106 album names (because it was 106 FM - get it?) announced at random at various times of the day, and then send in their lists for a chance to win a Cobra sports car replica. I've forgotten most of what was on the list but "Tormato" will probably remain in my memory forever, mainly because I didn't know how to spell it and had to check at the music store so I would know what to write on the list. Looking back, the contrarian in me would have chosen "Drama" instead, but whatever; at any rate I think it was the only Yes album on the list. At any rate, I didn't win the car, and neither did my friend. But we did try to improve our odds by hand-delivering our lists to the studio and they were nice enough to roll out the red carpet to us and give us a tour of the place. I miss that station.
  10. Lou Gehrig Charles
    We played Friday night.... My first time indoors at an actual bar (and not outdoors on a porch like when I posted my last picture). First time on a real stage. We're still setting up here so the teeming crowds haven't arrived yet. Drummer is invisible in the darkness to the right. I have now learned not to wear a black shirt - I am invisible in the videos! So is the drummer.
  11. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Does it have the ability to run on batteries? My Casios do..... But I doubt the Junos do that the school provides for the kids. AC Power only. The Junos have a bunch of lights that come on and I would not want to go without that even if I'm pretending to play.
  12. Lou Gehrig Charles
    LOL I'm just glad I wasn't the only one who remembered that guy. There's always a little voice in my head telling me it was something I dreamed up! Sadly I couldn't remember his name either but I am sure I've seen it somewhere.
  13. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Having two "C"s on there seems like an extravagance, like having two "E" strings on a guitar.
  14. Lou Gehrig Charles
    And didn't they also use a guy behind the curtain who played the piano when Freddie was away from the bench? Imagine the pressure THAT guy must've felt!
  15. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Interestingly, my dad somehow managed to keep his hearing extremely well his whole life, unlike so many older people who don't. When he eventually had health issues (cardiac issues mostly) he hated being in the hospital because the staff tended to shout at him like they did to most of the other old folks who were nearly deaf. My mother though had the usual old person's belief that "everyone else is mumbling". She eventually got hearing aids and then decided she didn't like them so she almost never wore them.
  16. Lou Gehrig Charles
    You're probably right; if all they need the KB player for is the synth parts in "Jump" and "The Final Countdown", that guy may as well go look for a different band! The audience probably won't notice if those are tracks but we do. There's a local band I like that does all 80s synth-pop and new wave stuff but for whatever reason they have recently moved to putting all their KB parts on tracks. They used to have a small KB on stage that the singer would use on certain songs ("Just Like Heaven", "Don't Change" by INXS, the strings part in "White Wedding", etc etc) but now those are on tracks. I'm too polite to ask Why, but maybe I should? Maybe I should ask to join. We are doing "Just Like Heaven" and I play it on two boards. But I don't sing or play guitar or anything else so I can devote all my gray matter to the KB. We play tomorrow night! First time ever indoors at an actual bar. Wish me luck!
  17. Lou Gehrig Charles
    But the newest ones glow in the dark! I have a picture I can post but it's not here on this computer.
  18. Lou Gehrig Charles
    I use a Knox "Z" stand and it's accessory Knox second-tier stand for the second keyboard. With that said however, I trimmed several inches off the second tier so it wouldn't be so monstrously high (I used a Sawzall to trim it). Seated or standing, the stock configuration was much too tall. I'm not trying to hide that much, just a little!
  19. Lou Gehrig Charles
    They quite likely could have said it. Other than their favorite teams (Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cubs, Red Sox and Yankees), the national sports media isn't too terribly concerned about getting the facts right for all those "other" teams.
  20. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Is that a real statistic? The 2005 White Sox were 11-1 in the postseason and their only loss came at home. But that's the only recent example I can think of. I think the 1976 Reds were undefeated in the postseason but that was without the wildcard series.
  21. Lou Gehrig Charles
    He's Always the Stranger to Me.
  22. Lou Gehrig Charles
    Our town has set limits on trick-or-treating hours; it's either 4-7 or 3:30 -7 which kind of splits the difference. Half of it is in daylight and the other half darkness, plus or minus obviously depending on cloud cover. But I usually get just a few stragglers after it gets dark. I get home from work about 4:45 PM and I suspect I miss a lot of kids that come by while I'm not home yet.
  23. Lou Gehrig Charles
    I bought three bags of candy, but only gave out less than 1.5..... I gave two pieces to each kid so I could do the math as to how many kids that adds up to. The remaining bag I brought into the office this morning where the secretaries will gobble it up in no time. I have a new cat at home and I fully expected him to hide under the couch as soon as people started ringing the doorbell. Not so; he sat on the couch totally unfazed by the commotion. But he is an old cat (14) so maybe he knows the doorbell is harmless.
  24. Lou Gehrig Charles
    I think a lot of people bought those cameras (Fuji Instax specifically) and quickly realized how expensive the film would be if they wanted to take a lot of pictures. I tend to think Fuji put all their eggs into the Instax basket, even going so far as to discontinue their B&W film and (later) their color print film, only to contract out their manufacture to Ilford and Kodak respectively, while meanwhile greatly expanding production of Instax film and cameras. And that is a bubble just waiting to burst. Fuji still makes color slide film, but it is perpetually out of stock everywhere and super expensive now. Many observers are wondering if they've already shut down the slide film factory and might just be selling off what's left from cold storage.
  25. Lou Gehrig Charles
    I wonder if a genuine Gibson Les Paul still costs $600?
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