i cant get on the second page thats weird stuff like that happens all the time God testing me again,i wonder if this will show i cant get to the second page:)
i wonder where my post are going i cant get on page 2 ive been blackballed,i dont know if there showing up or not on a page it wont let me on page 2 ahhhhhhhhh.*&&&^%$#@
I played 18 yrs. in an old man's hardball league as a pitcher mostly. One year late in the season we were playing a very competitive game where I was pitching and the home plate ump was just all over the place. No consistency - nothing I could do to get to "learn" his strike zone. Late in the game I throw a 4 seam fastball right down the pooka and this guy calls it a ball. I'm rubbing up the ball for my next pitch wondering how to get this guy in the game and I see I'm getting a little sympathy by from the field ump just from his demeanor. So after the inning is over and it is our time to bat I ask my manager to let our worst catcher catch me the next half inning (knowing he has slow hands). Before I take the hill I make sure to remind my new catcher to keep the target low and on the outside corner knowing the ump sets up over his shoulder (and the catcher has slow hands).
I'm guessing you can see where we are going here. I throw a 4 seamer over the catcher's shoulder and square into the mask of the umpire. After getting the ball back I'm rubbing it up giving the ump a little time to collect his wits with my back to him and I look at the field ump and say, "are you in the game now?" The field ump looks down at the ground with a smirk. True story, but I should have been tossed. I was a little too big for my britches those days...
wow it shows that i just posted on the front page but i cant get on to page 2 it will go to page 2 but stops at Zack pemerleau talkin about crawlin king snake.Any other day i can get on page 2 ive either been blackballed from this thread which surely not,things like this happen to me daily its like theres a higher power controlling everything aint a damn thing i can do about it wheres my harp i guess im off this thread someone above me is in control,
that didnt work,crazy things like this happen all the time to me i thought a confession gave you a little forgiveness whats weird you all thinking im a nut,or just real stupid but i get on page 2 all the time is there a page 3 i might never know twilight zone is my life
theres 49 post i can read. theres 62 posted i cant get to the rest and i dont know why,BUT I HAVE NOT CUSSED God or the devil usually be now im at wits end with them both,ive confessed it all.im going to drink a beer smoke a joint light a cigar and just say the heck with it for tonight anyone ever have this problem either with computer,or spiritualy im not sure whats up but if so i wont know from this thread this is weird :(
when i first got into harp i seen jason an adams videos on youtube. i thought that was the extent of there fame. i sent jason a message saying "hey i like your videos, you and adam gussow are like the best ones on youtube!". he said thanks an what not. about two weeks later i found out they both had bands an albums an toured an they were both famous. i felt like the biggest idiot in the world. ----------
I have a foot drum with 2 tambourines mounted on it. I have a piezo pick up on each one so I can plug them in and play them louder.
I have fantasized about driving by Nasty's house on a flatbed truck playing electrified Mr Tambourine man at some ungodly hour--with the tambourine's cranked on fucking full bore.
Don't worry--my driver will be very well armed and a good shot. . . (hee hee).
I am a successful graduate of the Betty Ford Clinic. That's a proud confession.
Not so much:
Walking back to my hotel whilst on a job a long way from home, I once caught a guy abusing a dog on a leash. When I saw him, it was just as he swung this little dog by the leash into a newspaper vending machine. He then started jamming it down into the sidewalk and screaming at the poor thing. The impact had obviously hurt the dog. And the dude wasn't letting up. I lost it. All the control and composure that I've been trained in and prided myself on my whole adult life vaporized. I'm OK with my motives, not at all with my response. The guy never saw me coming. People spend long periods of life behind bars for a lot less.
Other than that I am guilt-free. Not sociopathically so. Just clear-conscienced.
lollllll all i can do is laugh i cant get there it wont let me and i very much would like to read and delect a few of my post so they wont put me in the nut house
Buzadero, Coming to the aid of others less fortunate or incapable of defending their own is not to confess it's something to take pride in. Doesn't matter how bad you busted him up he deserved that lesson. Good on you.
As for Betty Ford, Double good on ya'. ---------- "Keep it in your mouth" - XHarp
Well, Nasty--that kind of screws up my plan to put up a rendition of Amazing Grace with electric Tambourine--I wouldn't want to get your nightmares working overtime. . .
Buz-I don't blame you one bit. I just hope the assclown dog-beater understands why you lowered the boom on him, and changed his behavior after the incident. ---------- Todd L Greene. V.P.
I have a hard time with people who hold strong opinions over items they have no evidence of being correct about.
I feel most harp players live by a certain cliched code related to blues that does more damage to harp/blues than good and defeats the reason humans should be playing music to begin with. ---------- Mike Fugazzi vocals/harmonica MySpace YouTube Twitter Facebook Album Ordering
Geez, I don't know what all the fuss is about...I think tangerines are pretty tasty... ---------- I used to be young and foolish. Now I'm not so young.
I am....a...tounge blocker....I really didn't know there WAS another way until I started watching Doc's vids. I am now in treatment.
I suffer from a lack of confidence....If someone tells me I sound great....I think that they are just saying that so they not "hurt my feelings"
I started playing in my teens....Bob Dylan , Neil Young and the Beatles were my inspiration. Mike Bloomfield / Butter / John Mayall / got me interested in the Blues. ---------- Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. - Charlie Parker
*I am still learning to take compliments properly(when it comes to my playing), instead of stating to the complimenter what I did wrong or making excuses for not being better. I am not ungracious in the least;rather, I often don't feel worthy of the praise given, especially when I am doing something that is effortless to me.
I'm scared to play for anyone else. I know I don't have the skills or chops (yet) that I think I need. If my wife tells anyone that I play harp, I say "I don't play 'em, I just collect 'em". I fantasize that someday I'll "amaze my friends". In the meantime, more woodshed, and more lessons.
---------- I used to be young and foolish. Now I'm not so young.
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i tried and tried to "get" the whole harp thing for years. interestingly enough i never did until i quit all the drugs and alcohol i had been deep into from a fairly early age. i saw drugs kill directly and indirectly several people around the home town starting in the 70's. that never fazed me since i was so smart and careful. right. until i almost died a couple of times doing crazy stuff while high or drunk. meanwhile my harp playing was very poor mostly. i was good enough to get invited into a band in the mid 80's but i was too terrified of people realizing how bad a player i was and i turned the opportunity down. my last days of active using were lonely ones. i was at a point where i didn't know how to live without several crutches in my daily life and didn't think i could live with them any longer. i all but decided it was time to end it all. not to be dramatic but i was very close to killing myself and leaving this cold cruel world behind. instead i found someone to talk to, who suggested i try a less permanent solution to my living problems, and i ended up in a rehab for a month and have been clean for a long time now, a day at a time. odd to think sometimes, but it was only after i let my mind clear up and my sanity halfway return that i began to actually learn how to play harp and sound decent. but just because i straightened up nothing miraculous happened with my playing. i had to slog my way through a lot of bad notes and some really excruciating times to get where i could actually play something and get genuine positive feedback from peers and audience.
i totally love and respect little walter even though he probably didn't have to die when he did. it was a case of hard living meeting his skull with a harder object and who knows what we lost the day he passed? you can use any yardstick you want but for his time and place he was one of the most brilliant innovators of harp ever. you can also hate 12 bar blues and i don't even fault you for that. but someone has to keep the old stuff churning and that's been my mission for awhile now. i'll even do some dylan but i guaranfrikkintee, the harp parts will be worlds better than what he did. ironically, he had to really work to get the sounds he wanted on harp. try matching him note for note with an open mind and you'll get a surprise.
i'm in probably the best place musically i've ever been in at this point. i'm in a roots/blues duo with my wife and we're having the best of times with it even with the usual trials and tribulations, and i'm also working with a good electric band at least once a month and usually more. best of 2 worlds between straight up acoustic harp and overdriven fully amped harp heaven.
bottom line for me is, i couldn't get anyplace while i was staying loaded all the time, and it nearly killed me. and since then, with sweat, inspiration, work, and some blessings, i'm at a place where i like my playing and my life. i'll get on stage with anyone. i'll teach what i can and learn what i can. and i will have a great time with music every chance i get for the rest of my life.
Jbone said "totally love and respect little walter even though he probably didn't have to die when he did. it was a case of hard living meeting his skull with a harder object and who knows what we lost the day he passed? you can use any yardstick you want but for his time and place he was one of the most brilliant innovators of harp ever. you can also hate 12 bar blues and i don't even fault you for that. but someone has to keep the old stuff churning and that's been my mission for awhile now. i'll even do some dylan but i guaranfrikkintee, the harp parts will be worlds better than what he did. ironically, he had to really work to get the sounds he wanted on harp. try matching him note for note with an open mind and you'll get a surprise"
