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Location: 6 String Ranch | You get the new issue of a guitar magazine and the only people you recognize are in the "Final Note" column.
While meant to be funny it is too close to the truth. I just got the new Vintage Guitar mag and it's less than half, maybe even less than a quarter, of the featured people I've heard of. Either I need to get out more or the world needs to spend more time coming to Amelia. |
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Location: GA USA | Try looking back in your old guitar mags. I was looking at some the other day. Big hair Bon Jovi holding an Ovation. There's the kind of coverage you can sink your dentures into. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Hey Beal, I'm with ya!
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Location: south east Michigan | Well... your little clinic is bringing new folk to the island. Wether it's the type of folk your are looking for is yet to be seen. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | you're definitely Over-The-Hill when you listen to more dead musicians than living. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | ...When you need a neck reset and your braces become unglued. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Debanjo is on the island for a couple of days. Will play on Wednesday at the Frickin Mermaid, subject is Mobil home. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | When you're stopped at the crosswalk in your male menopause mobile, trying to look cool in case the hot babe notices you,...and her daughter runs up and says, "Hey, Mom, look at that old Porsche."
Or when a band plays the oldies and they're all from the era when you were singing nursery rhymes and Sesame Street tunes to your kids.
Or when you're telling a story to someone who can't figure out why you didn't just call someone on your cell phone or look it up on your computer.
There are too many examples for me. |
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Location: NJ | I still think about the time I said "wow that girl's mom is hot!!!" |
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Location: South of most, North of few | I may be old, but my mind is still..... wa....where am I and who are you guys? :rolleyes: |
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Location: closely held secret | What was the question again? |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | .....when your son's friends (all musicians) see your Ovation and Adamas collection and remark that they have never heard of that brand before. :( |
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Location: NJ | Halfway through a gig last year, this Under30 hottie sachets-up t'make a request and says:
". . Wow! . . y'know, you can really SING. . for an, . . an, . . . . ."
I said "SAY it!! . . . for an "OldGuy"!!"
(I secretly wished a YeastInfection on her . . .) |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Old is when you realize that you have not only lost your dignity, but that you're not really bothered by the loss. Yesterday in a staff meeting, a lady sitting next to me passed a note to me that my zipper was down. I felt very little embarassment, and was actually more impressed that she noticed. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Did you leave it down? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | That reminded me, "You know you're getting old when you forget to zip up your fly. You know you're really old when you forget to zip it down." |
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Location: NJ | Did she offer t'pull it up?? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I did thank her for noticing. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Once upon a time I swore I would never get so old that I didn't know what was current in the music field. In the last 10+ years I have had to rely on young people to find new music worth listening to because I don't have the patience (or the social connections) to find the new artists....or the memory to recall all their names. (Took me forever to remember to listen to Jack Johnson.) |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | You know you're old, when some kids, 18 years olds, say, within earshot, while your playing a guitar in a music store:
"Man, I love listening to these old guys play the blues, they've really lived."
Or when your niece says, Uncle Rick, why do those cd's have such big covers, and you say, sweetheart, those are record albums, and she says, oh, I've heard of those. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by cliff:
Halfway through a gig last year, this Under30 .......... Y'need to rework the Offspring song/rap into a folkie arrangement that would go:
"N'everybody says I'm pretty fly
For an old guy" |
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| I don't know what you guys are talking about, I'm not old (OW, my back! Now what was that song I was trying to learn yesterday? Oh, wait, I hafta go pee.) |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | as long as you have fresh minds and good health, age doesn't matter.
There are 25 years old guys who are older and more tired by life than 60 y.o. grandpas. As long as You feel young, you're young. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I once read, "You're only as old as the women you feel."
But my wife wouldn't let me buy the book. |
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Location: Chicago | All that follows at one point was NOW, but presently might as well be Civil War-era: cassettes and players (don't even start on 8-track!), vinyl LP & cover art, bands that age with you, cool nonsense lyrics, bombastic faux -classical prog-rock, headshops, MIA-POW memorials, (for me, a CA native: "righteous" "far out" "right on" "gnarly" etc. but NOT "like" and "awesome" or any trailer-English) one/two good FM ecclectic stations, LP-oriented, with stony DJs (might play some Coltrane, then some Floyd, maybe some Waylon or Willie), a few TV stations (color TV optional), thinking and READING was the best way to travel, The Dead had not gone to Europe yet with their "Wall of Sound": they were fresh and inspired, Rolling Stone was a newsprint "foldie", Paul was dead... I think. Your music DEFINED you in every way because it was evolving in a clear, coherent and vivd manner right along with you, month by month, album by album, song by song, concert by concert, band by band, genre by genre! |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by fillhixx:
I once read, "You're only as old as the women you feel." That was Groucho. He described old pretty well.
Here's another one:
"I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government. I'd give it all up for one erection." |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ... and it was Harpo's |
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Location: enid, ok | Now I know why he kept beeping that horn. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Driving... And you are telling that Old Fart to move his butt, and you realize that 'Old Fart' is your age.
Just saw a news clip about Eddie Van Halen's house getting Mud-slid...
The kid is 52 years-old! [And looks worse than me, I might add...]
Realizing that all of Led Zep is dancing around 60...
Hey, but 50 is the new 30!
[51 is the new 29!] |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | You know you're getting old when you start spending half your time at a doctor's office, and the other half is spent going to the bathroom. ... And when you walk out of the doctor's office feeling like you just spent the weekend in prison with Bubba. |
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