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You know you're old when ...

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:58 am
by oldbandnerd
......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 ?

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:22 am
by dmmorris
I solved that problem by simply buying an older horn! :wink:

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:33 pm
by Teubonium
...when your instrument goes flat during a performance!


:shock: :shock:





Hey, the edit button's back :!: :!:

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:36 pm
by Chuck(G)
...when you're wearing socks older than the guy playing next to you.

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:08 pm
by greatk82
Where's your cane? What if you are 24 and already need one. Stupid back...

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:05 pm
by Chuck(G)
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. :P

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:21 pm
by tubatooter1940
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. :D

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:00 pm
by oldbandnerd
Ok,Ok .... I corrected the spelling of "you're" ......*@#*^& !!!!!!! spelling nazis .....

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:42 pm
by iiipopes
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).

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:54 pm
by SplatterTone
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.

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:26 pm
by iiipopes
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.

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:42 am
by windshieldbug
SplatterTone wrote:My first synth was a MicroMoog
Hell, mine was a Moog, patchcords and all. Man, my joints ache! :shock:

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:42 am
by LoyalTubist
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.

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:11 am
by tofu
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:40 am
by LoyalTubist
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!

:lol:

Cable TV

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:47 pm
by Brucom
I remember when
"Cable TV is better because if you pay for cable, then you get to watch TV without commercials."

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:16 pm
by ken k
that is why i bought a 1926 helicon!

k

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:05 am
by LoyalTubist
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.

:wink: