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Location: SoCal | Hold on to your money until Wednesday. Then watch this board.
Talking about old fartism, I stopped buying Guitar Player magazine about 20 years ago when I stopped recognizing who was on the front cover. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Well I guess I resemble the old fart thing.
I never recognized anybody on the cover of Guitar Player, I just bought it for the guitar pictures after I forgot what Playboy and Penthouse were all about.
My wife asked me today if we should buy a gun as we get older and less able to protect ourselves in a home invasion, I say no for now as we might invite the ones we are trying to avoid to break in and steal our gun. A BIG dog still seems like a decent way too discourage intruders, at least the dog won't be abused by a grandchild playing with a gun causing an accidental shooting. I haven't completely ruled it out as I was very impressed by the video of a store clerk banging away at an armed robber winging him and causing him to crawl and beg before he surrended.
Laws against guns, IMHO, are about as effective as laws against the personal use of pot, especially in a nation where many of us are veterans trained in the use of weapons, I was even taught how to impale another person on a bayonet if necessary. Self defense is seldom as pretty as karate movies.
Back to guitars, the reason we are having this discussion is because a guitar player was killed for no reason and it is a concern for the rest of us who play in public.
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Location: SE Michigan | What's all this about "happiness is a warm gun" being about Lennon's penis?
"when I feel my finger around your trigger, I know no one can do me no harm"
Did his penis protect him? Like some kind of super-hero attribute?
If the song was about John's penis he was spending way too much time alone with the thing.
Just curious, the song sure sounds like it's about guns to me. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Brian T:
....If the song was about John's penis he was spending way too much time alone with the thing....
Uh, say, have you *seen* Yoko Ono?
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Isn't her trigger her ... Wait a minute you're pulling my ... chain! |
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Location: Tennessee | "Happiness" was an anti-gun song. Lennon saw a gun magazine with the cover headline "Happiness is a Warm Gun", so he decided to use the line in a "make love, not war" way. By the way, the line is "and I feel my finger ON your trigger".
Acutally, "Happiness" is four little ditties strung together to make one song. The last piece is the one that's being discussed here. The third piece is "Mother Superior jumped the gun". Methinks some here could come up with some seriously twisted thoughts on that one. ;) |
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Location: Las Vegas | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
The third piece is "Mother Superior jumped the gun". Methinks some here could come up with some seriously twisted thoughts on that one. ;)
And nothing that Lennon didn't already think of, either!
Les
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Dime's best friend?........
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Funny how there's only 20 of them and last week it was only $300. He also had just ended his relationship with Washburn. |
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Location: south east Michigan | About that e-bay offer.
Tacky...tacky...tacky |
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Location: Tennessee | Music123 has been running a promotion for a signed Dimebag Darrell guitar (one of the good ones, worth a couple of grand I think) the past month or so. Upon Dime's untimely death, they completely closed the registration, put a heartfelt condolence message up, and stated they would pick a winner at some point in the future from entries already received. Classy outfit. |
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| 1. I had heard of Dimebag but only because of his signature guitars and stuff. I don't suppose it was my kind of music in a thousand years, but what a ridiculous waste of a human life. But, as usual, if you are famous it's a big deal and a terrible tragedy. The truth is that every US, Brit and Iraqi who's died is just as big a loss to humanity and just as big a loss to their loved ones. Who really did more for America - a marine who served his country and made the ultimate sacrifice or some dope-addled millionaire? This celebrity obsessed world is now so far out of kilter I despair of sanity ever getting a look in again.
2. Old Farts. I am obviously one and would like to offer 3 pieces of advice to anybody arriving at that stage of life:-
1 If you get an opportunity to pee, take it.
2 Never trust a fart.
3 If you get an erection use it immediately. You never know when the next one might come along.
3. Guns. Just give the muggers/robbers/burglars your stuff. I'm assuming you didn't go out and kill someone to get it (which would actually make some kind of sense) so why bother to kill someone to keep it? The big dog sounds a better idea to me.
I love this club. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | i'm sure dimebag will gain much more fame in death as he might have gained through his music. but as woody allen said, "i don't want to gain immortality through my work. i'd rather become immortal by not dying" me too!
senor kaman, i sure hope to get a ride with you someday in that sooper benz. i have been driving the diesels for so long sometime i forget that some speedometers have 3 digit numbers on them.
if anyone wants to do something that makes death seem like a plausible option, deal with the mexican tax department as they try to become part of the computer age. i spent the last two days in the state capitol to do what was supposed to take 2-15 minute appointments. i was one of only 300 businesses that have been successful so far in registering under the new system. the deadline is the end of the month. and then--------? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | de car ees ready anytime, Senior Russ. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | i can't tell you how much i'd like to do that. i have always been a big fan of something innovative and well made. i guess i wouldn't be posting here if i didn't. someday amigo i just might show up on your doorstep wearing my racing goggles and ready for some g force. the fastest i've gone so far was a sustained 135 in my 70 454 vette on the vallejo cut off in cal. the next morning the car was sitting in the driveway with a flat. i sold it and bought a mercedes 220 diesel. been a slow lane guy since. my son let me use his vette last summer in santa fe and the spark re kindled the old fire. |
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