General Music Chat

It's getting hot this weekend! Three days of craziness! Both of my bands are jamming, hosting a pool party on Sunday and then I have a golf outing on Monday. Whatever you do have fun and support local music!

Hitting a close-by open mic tonight, watching sportscars all tomorrow on SpeedTV (24 Hours of Lemans), and trying to get some recording time in with the new Taylor sometime, too.
Happy summer!

Do you prefer Indy cars or do you watch stock car races too? My dad was the biggest car race guy, if it had wheels and they were racing he was into it!

Sportscars (think Corvettes, Porsches, etc) over open-wheelers or NASCAR, but I watch any of it on tv, when I can. Bad start to LeMans this year - fatal accident in the first hour.

Open mic Friday night, only 2 miles from my house, so just a few minutes of my time wasted. Went to the door, looked around, a guitar leaning against the wall next to a PA system, no one playing (15 minutes after posted start time), one guy sitting at the bar, empty room. I went home.

Did some recording with the new Taylor Saturday night, tried mid-side mic-ing as well as DI (so 3 tracks on each pass), sounded real good, but wearing headphones after closing all the windows and turning off the fans sucked!
95 degrees yesterday, and about 86 inside (only have the a/c cranking in the upstairs bedrooms), so only played a little, but did some more work on the CD jacket artwork with a big fan blowing full speed on me!

Wife gets back from Ottawa tonight, her mom passed this morning, after going to hospice last week. Our old dog is not doing too good. And the heat continues. Not going to be a great week.

Condolences Mike . . .

While my wife and I were in Kansas my youngest son ( 17 ) pulled a dumbass with some fireworks and ended up in the ER.

Severe burns to the left hand & arm, less so to the right.

He's lucky he did not lose the left hand altogether.

Equally lucky his family is all in medicine with expert experience in wound care.

When his hand is fully healed, God willing.
I'll try to get my boot out of his ass . . .
No, seriously, he knew better, now pain is his master teacher.
One of life's best.

Geeze Sans! You gotta be one of the most stable guys around to put up with that sort of stuff. Sorry about your kid.

George

Sorry to hear this.

I just read a book called 'influencers' which used pretty reasonable data to prove that you cannot convince anyone of anything by talking / preaching at them and so on - but a story told well or experienced will convince them.

Sounds like your boy was in a story. I don't think you have to do much but sympathize and he'll get the message. Hell - he's gotten it. God love him.

I guessing you already figured that out!

Talbot

George I hope your son recovers quickly. Maybe it is a good lesson, fireworks can be dangerous. I couple of years ago a woman here was killed when she went to check on a bottle rocket that failed to launch.

On another subject, I golfed for the first time in two years today in a golf outing and damn am I sore! It was at a private country club and the food was first rate.

Thanks guys.

His mother and I will take good care of him.

He knew better, he's had all the training I could provide, and demonstrations.
But like Talbot said . . .
You know, he's my boy through and through.
Just has to learn the hard way.

Speakin of food Jimmy. Out to eat with my eldest, her husband, and some friends this eve.
Little place in Tyler . . . best Crab bisque I have ever eaten.

I'll be bach . . .

Hoping for quick healing for your son, George. I don't mess with any fireworks anymore.
Kid was killed at the racetrack (Lime Rock) several years ago. They're illegal in Connecticut, but people get them in NY and bring them in all the time. Same thing with Mass and New Hampshire.

When I was a kid I picked up a block of firecrackers at 'Pedro's South of the Border' (South Carolina) on a family trip back from Florida - parent's wouldn't let me get anything stronger than crackers.
If you remember those days, they sold them in blocks of a couple hundred with the fuses all twisted together. So when I got home, I laid out some newspaper on the floor, and proceeded to untwist the fuses. When I was done, I had a paperbag full of loose firecrackers and a newspaper covered in black powder.
Stupid kid that I was I thought 'wonder what would happen if I touched a hot incense stick to this powder?' Luckily we didn't have smoke detectors in houses back in those days!

Wow I know some dummy kids that got badly hurt by fireworks, but no one that had a decent family like yours, George.

It was just a bad mistake, I hope he heals up with no issues.

I was playing with fireworks a long time ago and someone gave me an explosive with a short fuse. I lit it and just barely got it out of my right hand when it exploded (next to my ear).

Long story short, check his hearing after it's over.

My right ear is severely impaired and sometimes people ask why I turn my left ear to them. "It's cause I can't hear what's going on sometimes if I don't turn my head to reflect what I want to hear". Voices don't give me problems depending, music on the other hand, can be difficult to hear in a certain range depending.

Hope your boy is ok.

"Everything is a learning experience, you just hope that the thing you have to learn doesn't render you unable to experience anything else subsequently"..

Wow I know some dummy kids that got badly hurt by fireworks, but no one that had a decent family like yours, George.

It was just a bad mistake, I hope he heals up with no issues.

I was playing with fireworks a long time ago and someone gave me an explosive with a short fuse. I lit it and just barely got it out of my right hand when it exploded (next to my ear).

Long story short, check his hearing after it's over.

My right ear is severely impaired and sometimes people ask why I turn my left ear to them. "It's cause I can't hear what's going on sometimes if I don't turn my head to reflect what I want to hear". Voices don't give me problems depending, music on the other hand, can be difficult to hear in a certain range depending.

Hope your boy is ok.

"Everything is a learning experience, you just hope that the thing you have to learn doesn't render you unable to experience anything else subsequently"..

Thank you.
His hand looks better daily. Less drainage, healthy color returning.
Follow up with our family MD tomorrow. Mostly to get some more, not so strong pain medications, but also to get him in the loop with the goings on.

I got hit with a firework in the leg a few years ago at a 4th of July parade. Some idiot teenagers were shooting them off and I walked right into it. Hurt like hell.

Some of my friends and I used to have bottle rocket fights, up until we were in our late 20s, yeah I know dumbass's.

I cant help it I still like to blow sh*t up for some reason!

Some of my friends and I used to have bottle rocket fights, up until we were in our late 20s, yeah I know dumbass's.

I cant help it I still like to blow sh*t up for some reason!

Yeah . . . we'd have keg / bottle rocket parties.
Some of us would use a short piece of pipe like a bazooka LOL
Every year 4th of July and around New Year.
Even after Texas outlawed them we'd gather money and send a runner to Louisiana before the party.
Few burns, no one ever got seriously injured. Just dumb luck though.
Had my bandana knocked off my head once, and I knocked one of the lenses out of my brother in laws glasses.

Dumb luck I tell ya.

Whew !