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1 Irenicum  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:29:52pm

Greetings my salubrious brethren and sistren!

2 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:32:01pm

It's nice to see somebody with good right hand technique. No pinky on the soundboard.

3 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:32:06pm

Thanks Charles


After the last few hectic hours at work hearing/ watching that was just the tonic needed!

4 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:32:34pm

needs more cowbell

5 Cathypop  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:32:44pm

Dam! I had to stop and look up salubrious.
Another guitarist I like

6 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:34:30pm

re: #2 Killgore Trout

It's nice to see somebody with good right hand technique. No pinky on the soundboard.

those useless pinkies just get in the way

7 Irenicum  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:34:32pm

Thanks Charles for the music. A good tonic indeed!

8 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:34:38pm

re: #5 Cathypop

Dam! I had to stop and look up salubrious.
Another guitarist I like

I'm still stuck on GREETINGS!

9 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:34:52pm

That was really nice.

10 Cathypop  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:35:25pm

re: #8 sattv4u2
Me to. Dammit!

11 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:36:17pm

re: #7 Irenicum

Thanks Charles for the music. A good tonic indeed!

really...imagine this place if Charles played a French horn

12 Irenicum  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:38:28pm

I posted this on the sninoffs, but though it was worth mentioning here too. Religion Dispatches is a progressive religion site that I've come to really enjoy. The analysis in this article is spot on.

13 ryannon  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:38:54pm

re: #11 albusteve

really...imagine this place if Charles played a French horn

re: #11 albusteve

really...imagine this place if Charles played a French horn

LEAVE FRENCH HORNS ALONE!!

Youtube Video
14 Irenicum  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:39:03pm

re: #11 albusteve

This place would be even more horny?

15 cliffster  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:40:57pm

That was great. I've noticed that the older I get, the more I like acoustic guitar.

16 freetoken  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:42:31pm

re: #14 Irenicum

This place would be even more horny?

This t-shirt might apply here...

17 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:42:54pm

re: #15 cliffster

That was great. I've noticed that the older I get, the more I like acoustic guitar.

Not to mention naps

18 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:43:33pm

actually, speaking of French horns...through my friends dad, I met an Englishman who recorded on Sgt Pepper...he was a dud and didn't seem to want to talk about it...that soured me on French horns...life is so unfair

19 cliffster  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:43:46pm

re: #17 sattv4u2

Not to mention naps

I would kill to be able to nap. I can't even sleep at night, much less during the day.

20 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:44:54pm

re: #19 cliffster

I would kill to be able to nap. I can't even sleep at night, much less during the day.

Insomnia? Apnea? Noisey Neighbors??

21 Charles Johnson  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:44:54pm

re: #2 Killgore Trout

It's nice to see somebody with good right hand technique. No pinky on the soundboard.

He's got an unusual technique -- seems to use a pick along with his fingers.

22 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:44:55pm

re: #15 cliffster

That was great. I've noticed that the older I get, the more I like acoustic guitar.

unplugged is cool...to bad it took so long

23 brookly red  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:45:49pm

re: #19 cliffster

I would kill to be able to nap. I can't even sleep at night, much less during the day.

getting e-nuff exercise?

24 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:45:55pm

re: #4 albusteve

I didn't catch you before you bailed last night. Are you okay? You sounded rather dire in your sign-off.

25 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:47:51pm

re: #21 Charles

He's got an unusual technique -- seems to use a pick along with his fingers.

he does use a flat pick rather than a thumb pick...not really typical...maybe for him it's easier to up stroke with a flat pick, but he loses his index finger

26 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:48:04pm

re: #21 Charles

I think that was the same thing Mark Knopfler did with a flat pick/finger style combo thing.

27 Cathypop  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:48:22pm

re: #16 freetoken

If he was still alive I would send that t-shirt to my uncle. He had 14 children. Pity his wife.

28 cliffster  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:48:22pm

re: #20 sattv4u2

re: #23 brookly red

Just don't sleep that much. When I do get a lot of exercise, I get to sleep easier, but I still wake up constantly. Just one of those things...

29 Bagua  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:48:52pm

Dear lord the blog direction has changed, again!

It's back to acoustic, all the electric guitar partisans will soon flounce.

30 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:48:58pm

re: #24 The Sanity Inspector

I didn't catch you before you bailed last night. Are you okay? You sounded rather dire in your sign-off.

I didn't mean to sound dire, I try to be a jolly guy...what do you mean?

31 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:49:43pm

Hot Airhead sez...

Fsck LGF and Killgore Trout gently with a chainsaw. Anybody who couldn’t see their “Hotair Quote of the Day” is taken way out of context is a hopeless Kosling anyway.

Sekhmet on October 25, 2009 at 8:21 PM


I'm in yer head (hey, it's roomy in here)

32 cliffster  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:49:45pm

re: #25 albusteve

he does use a flat pick rather than a thumb pick...not really typical...maybe for him it's easier to up stroke with a flat pick, but he loses his index finger

He seems to have plenty of fingers left over.

33 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:50:09pm

re: #6 albusteve

those useless pinkies just get in the way

Seriously! Just look at Django Reinhardt, whose left hand was partially crippled:

Youtube Video
34 brookly red  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:50:45pm

re: #28 cliffster

re: #23 brookly red

Just don't sleep that much. When I do get a lot of exercise, I get to sleep easier, but I still wake up constantly. Just one of those things...

well you said it your self exercise helps... I don't wanna preach but think about it, OK?

35 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:51:03pm

re: #28 cliffster

re: #23 brookly red

Just don't sleep that much. When I do get a lot of exercise, I get to sleep easier, but I still wake up constantly. Just one of those things...

Try a natural sedative, like chamonile tea? Or an unnatural one, like Benadryl or Nyquil?

36 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:51:15pm

re: #26 Killgore Trout

I think that was the same thing Mark Knopfler did with a flat pick/finger style combo thing.

Knoffler uses a thumb pick or none at all here with Atkins...

Youtube Video
37 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:52:04pm

re: #36 albusteve

whoops, obviously a thumb pick

38 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:52:33pm

re: #36 albusteve

I stand corrected. Looks like he's just finger picking. No flat pick.

39 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:52:40pm

re: #37 albusteve

he even picks his nose!

40 cliffster  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:53:02pm

re: #34 brookly red

well you said it your self exercise helps... I don't wanna preach but think about it, OK?

Thanks for the advise. Exercise is the cure for a whole lot of things. It's ridiculous how much most of us get "too busy" for it.

41 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:53:38pm

re: #38 Killgore Trout

I stand corrected. Looks like he's just finger picking. No flat pick.

I like Tootsie Rolls

42 brookly red  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:54:50pm

re: #40 cliffster

Thanks for the advise. Exercise is the cure for a whole lot of things. It's ridiculous how much most of us get "too busy" for it.

well it couldn't hurt. i find that i can't sleep if i am not tired... well you know.

43 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:56:00pm

re: #29 Bagua

Dear lord the blog direction has changed, again!

It's back to acoustic, all the electric guitar partisans will soon flounce.

no way...acoustic guitar is the grand daddy...we're not talkin Nine Inch Nails here

44 Bagua  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:56:11pm

It's a Hoax.

He's hiding a little elf in his right hand.

45 Cathypop  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:57:42pm

re: #40 cliffster

Thanks for the advise. Exercise is the cure for a whole lot of things. It's ridiculous how much most of us get "too busy" for it.


FYI for the Lizard Ladies. It stops the hot flashes.

46 freetoken  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:58:25pm

Speaking of hoaxes... um, er... anyway, Red State's latest headline?

"Carbon Credits for Condoms"

Yup, they are following their Saint in piling on Revkin for his article.

47 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:58:34pm

re: #33 The Sanity Inspector

Seriously! Just look at Django Reinhardt, whose left hand was partially crippled:


[Video]

Les Paul's right arm was locked in 45 degree, pickin position due to a car crash...factoids abound

48 Achilles Tang  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:58:35pm

re: #12 Irenicum

I posted this on the sninoffs, but though it was worth mentioning here too. Religion Dispatches is a progressive religion site that I've come to really enjoy. The analysis in this article is spot on.

Worth repeating. But there is nothing in there about what it is that makes people want to become Mormons. Nothing about the belief in the ridiculous (invisible gold plates etc. All well documented). Nothing in the belief of the good (whites), and the bad (darkies). Nothing about how many, none, members are not pure whites. Nothing about how bigamy (polygamy) was abolished at the threat of a gun, by the US military, with their god's approval under duress.

Romney is no doubt a good administrator, but I will be interested to see how he deals with Beck and the other loonies in his "church" if he runs again.

Hell, the racist called Rev. Wright didn't screw up Obama. Maybe assholes like Beck don't matter either. We are really screwed; maybe.//

49 Bagua  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 5:58:50pm

Definitely using a pick.

50 freetoken  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:01:32pm

BTW, at that Red State article... winning comments as always, such as this one:

Lefty contradictions
DerKrieger Sunday, October 25th at 8:30PM EDT (link)
More insanity and contradiction from the loony Left.

Who is pushing for amnesty for 20 million carbon footprints with high fertility rates?

Who subsidizes poverty and the production of carbon footprints by the poor via countless support prohrams for the poos such as SCHIP, Medicaid, free lunch programs, free immunizations, etc that don’t provide any disincentives for the poor to not have little carbon footprints.

Who subsidizes poverty throughout the 3rd world allowing 3rd world nations to produce populations higher than they would be able to sustain without aid.

[...]

Want to control US population? Demand the deportation of illegals, strict border controls, and stop subsidizing poverty.

Notice that the Left only demands that white, middle class US and European families limit their children.

[...]

The Left should do Mother Earth a big favor and commit mass suicide. If they’re serious that is.

[...]

51 Bagua  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:02:43pm

In the first 5 seconds one can see him swap the black pick between his forefinger and thumb twice as he taps the Guitar.

52 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:03:12pm

finger pickin with a slide on a flat top is the sweetest sound you'll ever hear...especially the blues...like this...(encore)

Youtube Video
53 austin_blue  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:03:35pm

re: #21 Charles

He's got an unusual technique -- seems to use a pick along with his fingers.

Absolutely.

54 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:03:55pm

re: #46 freetoken

Another hoax from Instapundit (piling on Glenn Beck's Onstar conspiracy from last week)...

ONSTAR IS WATCHING YOU: “On its way to doing the 1/4-mile in 11.07 seconds at 128 mph, a Hennessy-tuned 700-horsepower Cadillac CTS-V hit .99 longitudinal G as it left the start line. By the end of the run the phone inside the car was ringing, and it was your friendly neighborhood OnStar representative wondering ‘What the hell do you think you’re doing?’ Ok, not quite… but they did have some questions.” So is this comforting or disturbing?

Even though it's clear that g forces set off an automatic alarm Reynolds thinks big brother is watching.

55 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:04:47pm

re: #52 albusteve

whoops wrong vid...no slide

56 ryannon  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:05:17pm

At minute 03 between frames 14 and 20, you can see an alien spacecraft whoosh out of the hole in the soundboard...

57 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:05:36pm

re: #50 freetoken

Yeah, a lot of conservatives are yearning for a white nationalist party these days. They just might get it.

58 Varek Raith  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:06:50pm

re: #54 Killgore Trout

Another hoax from Instapundit (piling on Glenn Beck's Onstar conspiracy from last week)...

Even though it's clear that g forces set off an automatic alarm Reynolds thinks big brother is watching.

Why am I not surprised that Beck has an OnStar conspiracy?...
You're absolutely correct about the sensor being tripped by g forces.

59 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:07:04pm

re: #30 albusteve

I didn't mean to sound dire, I try to be a jolly guy...what do you mean?

Pain, whiskey, like that. That was you, wasn't it? Just hoping nothing's going seriously awry with you, is all.

60 austin_blue  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:07:15pm

Also referred to as Hybrid Picking:

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

61 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:08:06pm

Jeb Bush: GOP Must Be More Than The "Old White Guy Party," "Party Of No"

Bush said he believes the Republican Party needs to cater its message to include everyone in America, and become more than the "old white guy party."

"You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that in order for a political party to be successful it has to reach out to everyone," Bush said. "In politics, you never win when you say 'us and them.' We need a more welcoming message."

"I sense that our party is kind of in a nostalgic mode where we look back to the good old days," Bush said. "However good they were, and there were some good days, is completely irrelevant in 2009."
He added, "We just can't be the party of no."

It's not the first time either:

In May, he said Republicans need to look to the future and "beyond the heyday of the Reagan era."

"You can't beat something with nothing, and the other side has something. I don't like it, but they have it, and we have to be respectful and mindful of that," he said at the time.

He seems to get it.

62 Varek Raith  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:08:45pm

re: #61 Sharmuta

Jeb Bush: GOP Must Be More Than The "Old White Guy Party," "Party Of No"

He seems to get it.

RINO!11eleventy!
/

63 Irenicum  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:09:12pm

Whenever I think of the re: #48 Naso Tang

Um, no. That's not at all what the article is about. It's about far right rhetoric influencing mainstream conservativism and radicalizing it. I think you must have read a different article than the one I posted.

64 sattv4u2  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:10:15pm

re: #61 Sharmuta

He seems to get it

He always has, but no matter what he does there's no way the country would elect a 3rd person from the same family in this day and age

65 Irenicum  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:10:37pm

re: #63 Irenicum

oops, I was going to post something different and apparently forgot to delete what I began writing at the beginning! Just ignore that first semi sentence.

66 Decatur Deb  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:11:41pm

re: #54 Killgore Trout

Another hoax from Instapundit (piling on Glenn Beck's Onstar conspiracy from last week)...

Even though it's clear that g forces set off an automatic alarm Reynolds thinks big brother is watching.

Some recent GM cars have been collecting a lot of data for design purposes.
They have tried to protect the data, with mixed success. Privacy advocates
have been insisting that the owners be informed.

[Link: www.encyclopedia.com...]

67 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:11:57pm

re: #59 The Sanity Inspector

Pain, whiskey, like that. That was you, wasn't it? Just hoping nothing's going seriously awry with you, is all.

there is something seriously wrong with me...my right leg has conked out, my blood clots and I've had four surgeries to fix the problem...femoral bipass...the last one seems to be working, but it is very painful and last night I had to take a bunch of vicodin...it's just a scratch

68 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:13:08pm

re: #67 albusteve

there is something seriously wrong with me...my right leg has conked out, my blood clots and I've had four surgeries to fix the problem...femoral bipass...the last one seems to be working, but it is very painful and last night I had to take a bunch of vicodin...it's just a scratch

Oh, hey! Good thing you're a jolly guy, then. That could get irksome for us more dour types.
/

69 reine.de.tout  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:13:25pm

woosh!
that was beautiful music.

70 austin_blue  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:13:46pm

re: #52 albusteve

finger pickin with a slide on a flat top is the sweetest sound you'll ever hear...especially the blues...like this...(encore)


[Video]

Leo Kottke was a famous practitioner. Slide plus finger picking above the slide:

Youtube Video

Silly amount of sound.

71 Irenicum  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:13:53pm

re: #68 The Sanity Inspector

That sounds awful. Feel better!

72 Irenicum  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:15:27pm

re: #71 Irenicum

Man, I can't seem to type anything accurately tonight! I meant to reply to #67. Sorry!

73 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:15:32pm

re: #70 austin_blue

Leo Kottke was a famous practitioner. Slide plus finger picking above the slide:


[Video]Silly amount of sound.

our friend Sonny Landreth does the same thing...getting as much sound as they can with all ten fingers...maybe nine

74 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:16:06pm

re: #61 Sharmuta

Jeb Bush: GOP Must Be More Than The "Old White Guy Party," "Party Of No"

He seems to get it.

OTOH:

"The media would like the American Right to be represented by the likes of Bob Dole and John McCain, decent old sticks who know how to give dignified concession speeches. Last time round, we went along with their recommendation. If you want to get rave reviews for losing gracefully, that's the way to go. If you want to win, look at whom the Democrats and their media chums are so frantic to destroy: That's the better guide to what they're really worried about."

75 Achilles Tang  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:16:32pm

re: #61 Sharmuta

Sometimes they get it sometimes they don't.

The quotes may or may not be from the heart, but his daddy once said an atheist could not be a patriot, and junior also once said, in this context, that he had political capital and was going to spend it, regardless of other opinions.

For every quote one way there could be another, out of context or not, in the other direction.

The proof takes time. History.

76 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:18:23pm

re: #64 sattv4u2

He seems to get it

He always has, but no matter what he does there's no way the country would elect a 3rd person from the same family in this day and age

I always thought that if he did run, the ironies would multiply like onion skins, after people started crediting him with his leadership during Florida's frequent hurricanes in his governorship.

77 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:18:43pm

Lowell George was a master at picking above the slide...and he taught Bonnie Raitt his technique, altho she was uncomfortable with the slide on her pinky, the Delta style

78 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:19:19pm

re: #71 Irenicum

That sounds awful. Feel better!

Thanks! But it's albusteve that's ailing, not me.

79 Liberally Conservative  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:19:24pm

re: #74 The Sanity Inspector

OTOH:

"The media would like the American Right to be represented by the likes of Bob Dole and John McCain, decent old sticks who know how to give dignified concession speeches. Last time round, we went along with their recommendation. If you want to get rave reviews for losing gracefully, that's the way to go. If you want to win, look at whom the Democrats and their media chums are so frantic to destroy: That's the better guide to what they're really worried about."

I think this is the best argument for why Sarah Palin should or should not become president. Since educated people in the media think she isn't smart, we should pick her because that makes her qualified.

80 Decatur Deb  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:20:59pm

re: #79 Liberally Conservative

Assuming sarc. ding

81 austin_blue  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:23:39pm

re: #77 albusteve

Lowell George was a master at picking above the slide...and he taught Bonnie Raitt his technique, altho she was uncomfortable with the slide on her pinky, the Delta style

A Craftsman 5/8" long socket...

Here's another classic from an *old* Prairie Home Companion.

Leo and Chet Atkins doing "Sleepwalk".

It's killer bee.:

Youtube Video
82 The Sanity Inspector  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:24:35pm

The vid's out of focus, but the sound isn't. Bireli Lagrene was "the next Django" when he first appeared on the scene. At age 13! Here he is all grown up.

Youtube Video
83 albusteve  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:27:00pm

re: #81 austin_blue

A Craftsman 5/8" long socket...

Here's another classic from an *old* Prairie Home Companion.

Leo and Chet Atkins doing "Sleepwalk".

It's killer bee.:


the legendary socket...and nice grab

84 Achilles Tang  Sun, Oct 25, 2009 6:33:28pm

re: #63 Irenicum

Whenever I think of the

Um, no. That's not at all what the article is about. It's about far right rhetoric influencing mainstream conservativism and radicalizing it. I think you must have read a different article than the one I posted.

You are right. I apologize. I fast clicked on this sub link within your link
How Mormonism built Glenn Beck

One of those things. Want to start a new sub thread? :=)


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