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I’ve had about a dozen MOHS surgeries….not fun……But a piece of cake compared to the bladder cancer surgery I had 24 years ago…….The way they get to the interior of the bladder to cut out the cancer will make one HOWELLLL !!!
look up TURP…better yet don’t.
After consultation with a “Wizard of Smart ” member of this forum….I’m going to string the O.T. H with the D’Addario Nashville tuned strings……..I’ll let Y’all know how it turns out.
Thanks Matt….does the reduced tension on the instrument mean that one should NOT leave Nashville strings on for a long period of time ?
The “Lightest” build I have is ‘The Tree” OM , next would be the F.
I ordered a set of D’Addario ej38h acoustic as suggested by Indexless.
Damn…..That’s my problem, I don’t practice . ….But I do wander around in ” uncharted waters ‘ occasionally . I’m playing everyday and I am rediscovering the songs that I first learned to play . Mostly old Folk songs that I found in “Sing Out ” magazine by Peat Seeger and then later the Bob Gibson stuff and into the Byrds.
But now I adapt them to my 60 year of bad habits style of playing….different but it makes me happy.
I’ve also discovered that I wish to Play for myself and a few other drukkin pickin friends…. preferably under a rising moon by the lake and then late into the evening.
I’ve become aware that I am a SOC player and that I lack the focus to play well with others….. When asked to Jam or Dee asks me to perform with her well , I keep listening to everybody else riff and drum and sing and I lose my place or miss chords. It may just be old age but it no longer is something I want to do .
I do , however dearly love seeing what sound my hands can bring out of the Ramuda when the “In The Groove ” happens.
Yea TR, The Old Town scene was pretty unique. It was an area of the city that had become the “Beatnik/Bohemian” enclave in the late 50’s and morphed into the ‘Folk Music Revival” of the early to mid 60’s. If I remember correctly the Comedy club Second City was also in that neighborhood. We would go there and see such unknown aspiring comics as John Balushi , Steve Martin, Dan Ackroid , Gilda Rattner and many of the early Sat. Night Live cast who were getting their first “Chops” .
I left for college out west in 65 and found the folk scene thriving in Denver at the Denver Folklore Center. Many years later I purchased O.T.’s H from the DFC…….sort of a full circle thing.
When I was in High School in the western suburbs in the 60’s, I would drive into the “Old Town” section in Chicago.
This was the blooming center of the Folk Music scene at that time.
Coffee shops with guitar playing singer/songwriters were everywhere in the neighborhood.
The new and up and coming acts were mostly young guys with guitars who would do a couple of sets a night for tips and food.
I would go on weekends and listen for hours to John, Steve Goodman , Bob Gibson and Bob Camp , Chad Mitchell , The Limelighters and many others …good and bad.
It was an interesting time …..A time when I discovered how much playing a guitar allowed me to express myself in a personal way .
Try this….I have a problem copy and pasting here….sorry
