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#281362 by DainNobody
Mon Nov 27, 2017 2:22 pm
my first social security check is set to arrive Jan. 18th. I will be 62 in December.. I hocked all my guitars and will make rent.. living on macaroni and oleo..the burger king advice by obese is pure gold.. :)
#281363 by DainNobody
Mon Nov 27, 2017 2:28 pm
and I am in early preliminary talks with this guy.. he says he will keep me posted, we need a rehearsal spot.. my buddy has turned more reclusive again as of late... we dazzled them at the swap meet ..think I have expounded on that.. only females dropped dollar bills into tip "case" ..I still think of that and wonder why? sex appeal? I told this guy I actually play the correct 9th and altered 9th chords on his rendition of Stormy Monday..he took that well, and did not think my head was swollen claiming that.


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#281365 by J-HALEY
Mon Nov 27, 2017 3:11 pm
Dayne Nobody IV wrote:my first social security check is set to arrive Jan. 18th. I will be 62 in December.. I hocked all my guitars and will make rent.. living on macaroni and oleo..the burger king advice by obese is pure gold.. :)

Sorry to hear of your bad times Dayne. I am 59 and plan on working until 65 if my health allows. I will be eligible for retirement at 62 but why not work longer?
#281366 by DainNobody
Mon Nov 27, 2017 3:34 pm
will continue working, but will be able to focus on music, won't be tied down to swap meeting, can move to music center, thinking of Nashville, or Austin. ..people play for peanuts or free in these small communities, I will never play for free like at Murphy's Pub last August, but that was only for exposure to see if I could find musicians that wanted to play for pay, not peanuts.. ..social security rules allow a person to continue earning money, you just can't hit that critical threshold $37,000? then you pay a penalty of paying back 2$ for every 1$ earned?.. I will have to go look again, but it's something like a penalty if you earn too much money while drawing social security check.. I am so proud of my self never drawing SSI when I probably could have done so, with pain from injuries I acquired while working..blowing my knee out getting up off a creeper once.. for instance..
https://maximizemysocialsecurity.com/tags/earnings-test
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#281368 by Planetguy
Mon Nov 27, 2017 3:59 pm
Dayne Nobody IV wrote: can move to music center, thinking of Nashville, or Austin. ..people play for peanuts or free in these small communities,


while you might have many ops to play and hook up w other players, you won't make any money in Nashville. the best hot-shit session players there are happy to make $50 playing clubs/bars, often they're just playing for tips.

austin isn't much better. completely over saturated w tons of musicians all hustling for the same gigs.
#281372 by DainNobody
Mon Nov 27, 2017 4:45 pm
Planetguy wrote:
Dayne Nobody IV wrote: can move to music center, thinking of Nashville, or Austin. ..people play for peanuts or free in these small communities,


while you might have many ops to play and hook up w other players, you won't make any money in Nashville. the best hot-shit session players there are happy to make $50 playing clubs/bars, often they're just playing for tips.

austin isn't much better. completely over saturated w tons of musicians all hustling for the same gigs.

you are probably right Planetguy, but I still want to see for myself if I could hold my own against supposed ":big city" cultured players.. this would be found out by hitting the big city jam nights / open mic nights.. it has been said countless times here, nothing beats an open mic night to see if a guitarist can actually cut the mustard.. Sean Hunter Lally said so, complimenting my guitar skills. but it eventually led nowhere.. he actually unfriended me, on facebook after I made a rather negative comment about working with singing instrumentalists, and the must have thought I was speaking of him, he unfriended me a few hours after my comment, I was not thinking of him when I said it, he was actually a rare great singing drummer.. oh well, that is why I am not going on facebook for awhile.. you can't sayanything without alienating somebody, so many there think you are talking about them if you say something without being real specific.. oh well, sh*t on facebook and it's stupidity and foolishness..
#281374 by Vampier
Mon Nov 27, 2017 7:08 pm
Quite a wild Thread. Dayne ... Planet Guy is absolutely correct and also I think a bit concerned about your well being. Last year I connected with an excellent Guitarist who was substituting for a Band from Aridzona for the three gigs they did here. He was top notch and a bona fide Christian. I mention this because he was from a rural area, around 25 and even his Father came down with him. I spoke with both of them extensively and he was going off to Nashville to do some studio work. He was excited, naive and innocent ... and a damned good guitarist.
To cut a long story short ... Nashville ate him up, chewed him for a bit until he was broke, split him with his Father and Family and then cast him out. He lost EVERYTHING in one and a half years. Even his drive, discipline and inspiration.

Obviously I am not stating you will be marked the same way BUT I am warning you that under your circumstances you are in no way comparable to what he was. He was young, exceptional and had a very good support system ... you do not. Big Cities at this point in time should be avoided in my opinion. None of us want you to fail or become just another statistic of a person who in desperation went to a brutal city with unrealistic hopes thinking that by simply changing locations will make things better.

Planet Guy and I rarely agree completely on matters so this should carry some weight ... Yod and others should also state what they think as well ... this will help you in decision making. Regardless of what any may say I am firmly in agreement with Planet Guy on this ... My Father grew up in Nashville, thankfully nI never liked Country Western Music. I have been there a few times for Family visits ... I liked "The Hermitage" and the duplicate of "The Parthenon". If at all possible then delay any major moves until you have a chance to consider and think of what options exist ... there are always options.

Good Luck to you.
#281379 by DainNobody
Mon Nov 27, 2017 7:51 pm
when Steve Potts hosted the open mic at Lindbergh's 8 or 9 years ago? maybe longer? he invited me to it ..was on Tuesday nights as it is now, somehow we had met years prior somewhere some place? Prime Cut was even coming up on Tuesday nights for the jam.. but cutting to the chase, after the jam when I absolutely tore up Keep Your Hand To Yourself by Georgia Satellities I was offered gigs by Steve himself playing Tulsa at The Tiki Lounge on weekends and a club in St. Louis.. on Thursday nights, 50 a night I was working 2nd shift at Ryder truck Rental at the time.. and again I reiterate, if it's between music and a steady 40 hour a week job that paid very well for this area, it will be the 40 hour a week job hands down every time..music is too fickle and getting fickler as time goes by... and I also was approached by Mike Lehar that offered me a lead guitar slot in a band he was trying to formulate.. so it seems when I go to open mic nights and get to show my stuff I am absolutely a hot commodity or so it seems, even Sean left comments on facebook how great a guitarist I was.. think I even left some sort of link for you and others here to see what a non-biased fellow musician had to say about my ability..without hearing this exceptional guitarist you speak of I am left unimpressed, I could probably smoke him too..just sayin' ..LOL :)
#281380 by DainNobody
Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:06 pm
Vsamp in case you never saw the compliment by a non-biased musician.. (Sean Hunter Lally) (unlike here)
what sets me apart is my ability to play slide guitar
blues bent-note style
hybrid finger-picking
chords other than majors and minors
explosive minor and major scale runs etc.
but, lack of singing skill , but then I hate to sing.. it's effeminate to sing imo.LOL

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 8001647610
:)
#281381 by DainNobody
Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:10 pm
and I have dropped 35 lbs. from when that picture was taken.. although extremely masculine and handsome I am in actual star-power mode now!..LOL you gotta be good looking and have star power.. that's why Expose got rid of two of the first singers, executives were afraid the two fired had no star-power / quality.. look at the Beatles or Led Zeppelin. Def Lepard as examples.. nobody wants to see pudgy musicians with no star-quality to them. hard to explain this..

it's gonna be the best years ahead musically!.. no thinking about survival, just focus on getting in a band with star-potential players
#281390 by ANGELSSHOTGUN
Tue Nov 28, 2017 11:09 am
J-HALEY wrote:
Dayne Nobody IV wrote:my first social security check is set to arrive Jan. 18th. I will be 62 in December.. I hocked all my guitars and will make rent.. living on macaroni and oleo..the burger king advice by obese is pure gold.. :)

Sorry to hear of your bad times Dayne. I am 59 and plan on working until 65 if my health allows. I will be eligible for retirement at 62 but why not work longer?


Social Security has been the biggest socialist joke ever placed on the backs of hard working Americans.
Obamacare or whatever ever the pluck you want to call it is the second biggest joke placed on the backs of hard working Americans.
Medicare , Medicade. Just another reason to tax everyone at high rates. STEAL YOUR WEALTH!
This whole thing in my 60 years is looking more like a shell game at a cheap carnival... CONTROL AND SOCIALISM.

Well... You can keep my social security... I'll keep my FREEDOM!!!!!!
I do not need a government so busy trying to help me, when they are actually do nothing more than stealing my FREEDOM!!!!
Does anyone get it yet?

Retire... HELLL...I may be older and a bit more ugly, but... I'm just getting started... Now that I understand the rules.

Sorry about your situation Dayne.
This is what our loving government in the name of concern has brought too many ,many ,good people that DO NOT DESERVE THIS CRAAP!

That's socialism, communism and anarchy all wrapped up under the Christmas tree. We will just have to open it and see what we passed as a law. :roll: :roll:
#281395 by GuitarMikeB
Tue Nov 28, 2017 1:34 pm
Dayne: applying for SS benefits at age 62: •age 62, you will get 74.2% of the monthly benefit because you will be getting benefits for an additional 50 months.
•age 65, you will get 92.2% of the monthly benefit because you will be getting benefits for an additional 14 months.
For your birth year, you won't get full SS payments unless you wait until you are 66 years and 2 months old.
You've got the total earnings before 'penalty' wrong:
If you are under full retirement age for the entire year, we deduct $1 from your benefit payments for every $2 you earn above the annual limit. For 2017, that limit is $16,920.
•In the year you reach full retirement age, we deduct $1 in benefits for every $3 you earn above a different limit. In 2017, the limit on your earnings is $44,880 but we only count earnings before the month you reach your full retirement age.

Haley - for your birth year, •age 65, you will get 88.9% of the monthly benefit because you will be getting benefits for an additional 20 months. You need to wait until you are 66 years and 8 months old for full benefits.

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