Remember life back when...

[shickma0]

Staring at a tiny screen and exercising their thumbs. Boy isn't modern life awesome! Back in the day you had to watch a concert by looking at a stage. Thank God we can now go to the show and hold up our phones to watch on the liitle screen.

Respectfully, I do disagree with this one. I consider myself a pretty big concertgoer, I’m coming up on my 5th concert of the last 4 months now which encompasses a total of 9 artists. I always try to get there 2 hours or so before doors so I am RIGHT at the front. I am one of those people who will totally take my phone out and get a pic or video. Albeit, I’m not recording the whole set like some people, but I think it’s really cool to get pictures and videos of the people who inspire me to make music doing their thing. Here’s some from the concerts I’ve gone to recently
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[shickma0]

ya things have changed.

when I got into trouble I was sent to my room.

when kids get into trouble these days you got to put em outside.

I dont have cable at home or internet and I have become comfortably numb.

Haha seriously! Back when I was 10 or so and all the way until middle school when I got more trust and responsibilities from my parents I used to get grounded for going out and fishing or exploring the woods with my friends for too long and forgetting to tell my parents where I was. I used to work at a sports camp in the summer where kids would get sent as punishment for playing too long on their iPads at home, and then they would bring their iPads to SPORTS camp times have changed haha.

 

[MrCrowley]

Respectfully, I do disagree with this one. I consider myself a pretty big concertgoer, I’m coming up on my 5th concert of the last 4 months now which encompasses a total of 9 artists. I always try to get there 2 hours or so before doors so I am RIGHT at the front. I am one of those people who will totally take my phone out and get a pic or video. Albeit, I’m not recording the whole set like some people, but I think it’s really cool to get pictures and videos of the people who inspire me to make music doing their thing. Here’s some from the concerts I’ve gone to recently
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So not one Les Paul, huh?

 

[SteveGangi]

I can't believe I learned how to play the guitar in an age when you had to move a record needle around on a platter of spinning vinyl, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over,

and over again.

Yep, we all did it. Now, too often, folks just don't learn how to play by ear. This was how we did it.

 

[integra evan]

 

[dc007]

Yep, we all did it. Now, too often, folks just don't learn how to play by ear. This was how we did it.

If we had youtube my records wouldn't be all scratched up

 

[Dilemma]

I hate to be a contrarian in this feel good post but here goes.

Most of us here -not all of course- but most of us here are boomers. (I'm on the tail end of all that being born in '62) WAS life simpler? For some it certainly was. If you were a middle class white guy for example. If you were a black person it probably wasn't the good old days, for gays it probably wasn't. You could probably toss women on that list too to some degree. And lets not forget the Cold War.

Medical and technically we're FAR more advanced than where we were in the good old days. Notice I said advanced, not to be confused with better off.

We all have these feelings of nostalgia ping-ponging around in our heads but in many cases these feels are tied to our childhood. We had no real idea what was happening in the world of grownups. None.

YMMV. You do you.

 

[LtDave32]

This is so true. When we still lived in the Detroit area before my job took us to northern MI, I had Fox News and One America News on 24/7 and would sometimes find myself screaming at the TV , literally screaming at the TV.

ALL news networks. Every stinking one of them.

When we moved we decided to go with Fire Stick instead of cable and my TV watching has decreased to a fraction of what it was, and no news watching. I'm more calm, don't drive aggressively as I did before and play the shit out of my guitars. Wifey told me she was getting ready to give me the old heave-ho for being so uptight.

Now I know the shit is still out there and it's more likely than not things will get bad at some point and I'll deal with it when it happens, but I no longer worry about it and that's added years to my life. I like this relaxed feeling.

When the bastards are marching up the street to get me, then I'll go to defcon 1, but for now it's chill with my bros on MLP.

Cheers.

See? Almost instant results. Everything and everyone is better. By far. The trick is to recognize the "by design" hooks and drama for the shitty tactic it is, and know they imbellish and lie every day. With a straight face.

Worthless.

And guess what, the sun will come up tomorrow like it always does . And the great piles of BS will still be there if or when you return, they will still be pitching the same story line and running it into the ground , riding it until the wheels fall off , just like they always do. You go away and you miss nothing.

And if it's truly important, you'll hear of it through some other way. Really, you are missing nothing.

Think what would happen if everybody turned off the network news and cited the lack of honesty and inegrity as th reason?

Network news bosses / BOD / owners would do a 180 overnight, fire their anchors and copy chiefs. After one week, they would do anything to get their viewers back. They're whores.




And NO, people.. Do NOT attempt to foist your personal politics by championing one network and / or trashing another. Cheap tactic for a losing game. This goes for everybody.

 

[LtDave32]

I hate to be a contrarian in this feel good post but here goes.

Most of us here -not all of course- but most of us here are boomers. (I'm on the tail end of all that being born in '62) WAS life simpler? For some it certainly was. If you were a middle class white guy for example. If you were a black person it probably wasn't the good old days, for gays it probably wasn't. You could probably toss women on that list too to some degree. And lets not forget the Cold War.

Medical and technically we're FAR more advanced than where we were in the good old days. Notice I said advanced, not to be confused with better off.

We all have these feelings of nostalgia ping-ponging around in our heads but in many cases these feels are tied to our childhood. We had no real idea what was happening in the world of grownups. None.

YMMV. You do you.

I hate to be a contrarian in this feel good post

lol.

Yeah, don't worry about us doing us. We will. Happily.

Now you go and do contrarian you.

 

[Pop1655]

We used to all agree on titties and argue about cars.
Wasn’t much else to talk about.

 

[mdubya]

Everything is great here. Life is better than I could ever have hoped for. And I still have plenty to look forward to.

I have lived through enough ups and downs to always beware of what is coming next.

I thoroughly enjoyed the good times, and I look back on the tough times as what got me to where I am today.

I look forward to the future. I do not long for the old days, good, bad, or otherwise.

 

[Fritz]

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Here. I wrote this song for you:

 

[spoony]

Nothing like seeing a Coexist bumper sticker cut you off, or not let you in, or turn, and in fact go out of their way to make sure none of that happens. Just one example.

Or having the guy driving the Prius with Coexist and all the various other virtue signaling stickers flip you off for honking at him, as he runs the 4 way stop sign. Got to laugh!

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[OHIOSTEVE]

Or in between "sets", while they monopolize a piece of equipment at the gym for 10-15 minutes. I put "sets" in quotes because the amount of time they spend staring at that phone, they are no longer sets. Yes, I have my phone with me at the gym, some in case work calls, as I am 24/7 on call, but mostly to feed my bluetooth headphones with music.

Older guy at the gym I go to..... comes in and cleans a machine.... sets down, gets his pho e out and just sets there. I can remember seeing him do one set the entire time I have been going. I have seen him set 30-45 minutes on his phone .

 

[cybermgk]

Or having the guy driving the Prius with Coexist and all the various other virtue signaling stickers flip you off for honking at him, as he runs the 4 way stop sign. Got to laugh!

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Or race from behind in a merge lane, to cut you off as they force over, and force you to brake hard, HOPING person behind you is paying attention, then go bat sh*t Karen crazy when you honk as they almost hit you.

 

[edro]

Let me toss this in from my perspective over my bit over six decades....influenced by lessons I learned from my dad... I tried to pass this on to my kids... repeatedly.... I think it stuck. They have done well in life...

1. Life ain't a straight road. Plenty of curves and switchbacks. Nobody ever said it would be straight. Nobody ever even hinted as such. Pay farking attention.
2. Life ain't a flat road. There are hills, valleys, bumps, and potholes... Lots of em.... Gillions of em.... Pay farking attention.
3. Life does not include a free luxury Cadderac to glide through life in.... Want a Cadderac, then go your ass and earn one.
4. The world, the great pumpkin, your family, friends, Odin, or the spirit in the sky does not owe you shit. Period.
5. The first step in getting anything accomplished is getting off your ass.
6. Geography. Everything revolves around geography. Pay attention to everything and everybody around you 24/7. Any deviation will light itself up in neon if you know the geography of your environment....


Some stumble through life a drunk armadillo on acid... I chose not to and taught my kids the same.... I wanted them to drive their own damn train instead of being just a generic zombie commuter on a generic subway of a generic life....

You only get one ride... Ride it with your hair on fire....
tao of edro

 

[spoony]

Or race from behind in a merge lane, to cut you off as they force over, and force you to break HOPING person behind you is paying attention, then go bat sh*t Karen crazy when you honk as they almost hit you.

Or punch it as soon as you, courteously, put your turn signal on to change lanes. Same dicks that will run your ass over while they are texting and driving.

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[TheX]

This thread started as a pic of me and my dad on an empty beach 60 years ago.

Now it's...*stuff*

 

[edro]

This thread started as a pic of me and my dad on an empty beach 60 years ago.

Now it's...*stuff*

This is the Mule. It simply is.

 

[dc007]

This thread started as a pic of me and my dad on an empty beach 60 years ago.

Now it's...*stuff*

You reminded us of a simpler time