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Location: Dallas | Cliff mentioned playing acoustic rock covers that weren't meant to be played as such. Anyone here ever heard of "Hayseed Dixie"? (bluegrass acoustic AC/DC) It's freekin coooool. :D |
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Location: NJ | i have heard them and they are worth a listen |
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Location: NJ | They have ANOTHER album out too of them doing blugrass versions of PINK FLOYD songs!!!
Pretty cool. (till the "Wild Turkey" wears off!). |
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Location: Dallas | I'll bet the title track to "Wish You Were Here" could work out pretty well as Bluegrass... :D |
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Location: NJ | They do a pretty frenetic version of "Hey You" replete with some brilliant mandolin work!
Not being much of a bluegrass fan, I've given them a listen once or twice just for the sheer "novelty" factor. I'm a bit more of a fan of the "symphonic" versions myself.
If memory serves me correctly, there's a whole series of "Pickin' On..." albums of blugrass renditions out there. "Pickin' On Beatles", "....Eagles", "....Police", etc. |
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Location: Scotland | The Austin Lounge Lizards did a bluegrass version of "Darkside Of The Moon" on a live album a while back.
n a similar vein the Run C&W bluegrass/motown stuff is good for a laugh |
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Location: Dallas | Well, being from Texas...irregardless of musical tastes one might favor....Austin is a golden city...replete with EVERYTHING....and much of it original in one genre or another. You guys would like a tour on 6th Street with me. In the "Outstanding" catagories, we would find: Music, Food, and University of Texas underdressed Lovelies..... Very much worth a visit, and before you leave....hit the River Walk in San Antonio....
Hope Ya'll kin git own daayown heer,
KD
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Bluegrass bands doing covers of rock songs isn't a new phenomena, and is not a bad thing by a long shot. The bluegrass band the Country Gentlemen's biggest hit in the 70's was "Fox on the Run", written by Manfred Mann which was covered by the story teller Tom T. Hall, they also did a very good version of Dylan's "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" mixed in with some traditional songs that got them a stint at Carnegie Hall. They legitimized taking a modern song and making it bluegrass, but that trend fell by the wayside with people like Bela Fleck trying to turn bluegrass into interminal jazz instrumentals without the drive or vocals of bands like the Country Gentlemen. I've always felt that the mistaken attention on technique over entertainment and emotion of bands like Bela Fleck and Newgrass Revival destroyed bluegrass in the 80's. Tell me I'm wrong.
I visited 6th street in Austin in '54 when it was a row of sleazy country music joints off limits to us GI's because of fights etc., when I was stationed at San Marcos AFB in San Marcos, a pretty town with a college whose girls looked down on us GI's. I also visited the San Antonio river walk, and that's all it was then, a pathway along the river without all of today's attractions, but it was nice. I spent some enjoyable time in that part of Texas and saw "Miles and Miles Of Texas".
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Location: NJ | Perhaps Austin could be a contender as a possible "host city" for a future OFC Convention? |
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Location: Dallas | Bailer - Toooo Coool. 6th Street is of course completely revamped (as is the Riverwalk - big time), but I am entertained and humbled by your historic description of it's roots, and I suppose the heritage thereof makes it all that much more a bitchin' place to party. There are SOOO many artists that have "made it" who used to play those beer joints. I appreciate your service to our Country! The first river I ever floated was the San Marcos. I think the girls at the college there nowadays would probably chase young studly servicemen.
Cliffer - San Antone is a great place to hold a convention....but I wouldn't do it in summer here. Dallas would be a glad host too. Galveston would be fun...Padre' Island exotic....hmmmm....let me think about this fer a while....
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I loved that area of Texas and it would have been my first choice to live when I left Ohio except I went to San Diego. That was one of the first places I visited after I left home at 17 years old and it had a effect that is not the same today. It was actually so different than the Ohio I had grown up in as to be like a different country. In the 50's the country still had differences and it was an experience to travel to different states that is hard to describe in today's McDonald's homogeneity. I went down their at Army expense on a Katy (Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Line (MKT)) Line train with Negro Porters who treated us money deprived Army guys really well as we travelled through stations with "white" and "colored" waiting rooms, restrooms and drinking fountains, things I had never seen in Ohio. I saw my first cotton fields in that east Texas place, travelled to Nuevo Laredo, saw boy's town, bought my first cowboy boots, black and polished to a mirror shine in Nuevo Laredo. bought a 1941 Ford convertable that I cruised the hill country highways in until it broke an axle and I left it parked on San Marcos AFB as I had to leave on orders. I also figured out how to travel the Texas road circles to get on and off the highway. Went to German polka dances in New Braunfels, and as mentioned before went to Austin and San Antonio (there was an A$W root beer stand just outside San Antonio that served it's root beer in frozen mugs, a great treat on a Hot Texas day). In between I learned how to maintain helicopters, every morning we were awakened by about 50 Piper L4's being run up by those Air Force losers who were too dumb to work on choppers and were relegated to fixed wing. Great country.
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Location: SoCal | I went the college in Austin in the mid 70's. I'll always remember seeing B.B. King at the Armadillo World Headquarters (now closed). |
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Location: Dallas | ...you guys are bringing tears to my eyes. I would love to retire to more temperate climates (Carolinas, Virginia, Colorado), but I can't bring myself to leave Teksis...family figues into that. I LOVE helicopters (rotary wing aircraft). The only thing more exhilirating than flying in them (with the doors off/open, and your legs hangin' out), is RAPPELLING or FASTROPING out of them! Or RIDING ON THE SKIDS! Better than sex! (the helo-ops last longer for me....I dunno 'bout you guys). One of my buddies with whom I work is an expert UH1 & Chinook mechanic..rumor has it, he can repair one & make it fly with bailing wire & duct tape : )~ |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | KD
No mechanic uses baling wire and duct tape, you can't correct a sloppy repair job when you are up there flying so you generally follow well proven practices. You can see what happens to the "cowboys" if you read how Senator Wellstone's pilot lied about his experience and training and was allowed to take other peoples life in his hands. When military helicopters first went to instrument flight in the late 50s, more than one went down with the pilot radioing plaintively that his instruments were wrong and he was going to override them as he flew into an attitude that was fatal, it was called a type of vertigo. Helicopter pilots were particularly subject to it as flying one normally depends on the seat of pants feeling about attitude and position much more than fixed wing. I can attest to that as my first attempt at hovering, as allowed by a kind pilot, damn near wrecked the bird as I alternated between pointing at the ground and pointing at the sky sort of like a bucking horse only scarier fortunately he wasn't laughing too hard to get us under control.
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Location: SoCal | We're way off subject here. Bailey, Have you ever read the book Chickenhawk? It was written by a helicopter pilot in Vietnam in 65. When he was first learning to fly, the instructor took him out to a field and had him try to hoover in one spot. He said that he was all over the field, but when he was done that day, the instrutor said he was a natural. When he protested that he was all over the field, the instructor replied that they would just start working with smaller and smaller fields.
Some of the stuff they made Hueys do in Vietnam was increible... |
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Location: Dallas | The "bailing wire/duct tape" comment is a joking tribute to the mechanical aptitude of this guy. I completely understand that one doesn't muck about with any aspect of aviation when lives depend on it. From what I have read...the Warrant Officer grads at Ft. Rucker *always* said that learning to hover was one of the most difficult skills to master. I enjoyed reading the comments from both of you. It appears that you guys fly em....I only had to jump out of em & get on the deck in one piece...no prob....although fastroping terrified me....I did it anyway :cool: |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | swat274
I figured you were kidding but I had to get in a plug for good maintenance as there are more and more stories recently of plain carelessness, for example Aliya, and I'm afraid the X games mentality is causing people to think unnessecary risk is cool which is OK on skis but not on flying machines.
And Al, some of the Vietnam helicopter crews were true American heroes from stories I've heard, and it seems many a soldier is alive today because of their courage. I was out of it a few years before Vietnam, most of the choppers I worked on can be seen in MASH.
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unplugged - hey Cliff
