You know you're old when ...

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:58 am

......you play an "antique" horn and you are older then it !!

Just had the realization today that my 40 year old 1966 B&H Imperial is still 4 years younger then me !!

Dang!!!! I feel old ....... where's my cane ?

dmmorris · Post by **dmmorris** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:22 am

I solved that problem by simply buying an older horn!

Teubonium · Post by **Teubonium** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:33 pm

...when your instrument goes flat during a performance!

Hey, the edit button's back

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:36 pm

...when you're wearing socks older than the guy playing next to you.

greatk82 · Post by **greatk82** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:08 pm

Where's your cane? What if you are 24 and already need one. Stupid back...

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:05 pm

richland tuba 01 wrote:what do socks have to do with anything?

If you've never heard the retort "I've got socks older than you" you're too young.

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:21 pm

Getting back to topic, my 1940 King is one year older than I am.
One way to tell that you're getting old is, every where you go this guy with a shovel follows you.
Heaven may be my happy home but I sure as taxes am not homesick.
Don't rush me.

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:00 pm

Ok,Ok .... I corrected the spelling of "you're" ......*@#*^& !!!!!!! spelling nazis .....

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:42 pm

Here's one for you:
My wife (1969) is younger than my convertible Jaguar E-type (1967), which I had before we were married, and both are younger than me (1961).

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:54 pm

When the synthesizers you bought new (and you weren't all that young when you bought them) are now "vintage" synthesizers.
Roland Juno 106
Korg DW6000
Akai AX60 (genuine analog! gotta let it warm up, tune it, and all that -- the lovely brilliance of real analog)
Yamaha DX100 (49 mini key version of the DX9)

My first synth was a MicroMoog. But it got stolen.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:26 pm

Oh, yeah -- I forgot to add -- in this day of fuel injected computer controlled cars that you diagnose by plugging them in, I'm one of only a handful of people left in this area that can actually rebuild the SU carburettors and linkage, and tune them so evenly, literally only by listening to the intensity of the intake hiss and the pattern of the occasional blats at the exhaust, that while running at idle you can balance a nickel edgewise on the cylinder head.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:42 am

SplatterTone wrote:My first synth was a MicroMoog

Hell, mine was a Moog, patchcords and all. Man, my joints ache!

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:42 am

My Vietnamese bride was born two years after I graduated from high school. When I went to my 30 year high school reunion in 2005 (Hanh is still only 29 now), this became one of the favorite topics of discussion.

When I was in high school:
- Video games were played with square balls.
- Cable TV was only used for remote areas that didn't have their own TV stations.
- TalkRadio was only heard in the evening on only one radio station in Los Angeles (we couldn't get KABC where I lived, which had it 24 hours).
- My lunchtime allowance was 75 cents. I was able to buy a sandwich, chips, and a drink for that price.
- AM radio had mostly Top 40 music.
- More about radio, I could tune in radio stations from as far away as Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas sitting in the family Studebaker in the middle of the night. And no one thought that was strange. Every radio station was different back then.
- Girls' clothing for school was very skimpy. We had virtually no clothing code.
- Band geeks were not considered geeks back then.

tofu · Post by **tofu** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:11 am

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:40 am

I can remember an old TV show I saw in which an "old man" married a young girl of 25. The elderly gentleman was all of 45 years old!

Brucom · Post by **Brucom** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:47 pm

I remember when
"Cable TV is better because if you pay for cable, then you get to watch TV without commercials."

ken k · Post by **ken k** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:16 pm

that is why i bought a 1926 helicon!

k

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:05 am

When people began buying those parabolic satellite dish antennas for TV, pictures weren't scrambled. If it came on TV and it was within your reach (and within whatever TV system you were using), you could watch it.

I can remember watching the ABC News with Peter Jennings with a satellite antenna in the 1980s (in Oklahoma).

When the news broke away for a commercial, they didn't show the commercial. Pete slumped in his chair and lit a cigarette. He talked to the stagehands. Then a makeup girl came and took his cigarette. He sat up straight and she dusted his face with a powder puff.

Yup, those were the days.