Robben Ford Discussion

elizabeth · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:07 pm Post subject: You are safe...

Sorry, my dear, it is a private party, so you wil be spared the pain and torture of the whole ordeal.

So, are you saying those speakers mounted at the edge of the stage, which I would have assumed were vocal mics, were for recording? Hmmmm, I thought it was to fill out the mix. (Remember the days when people such as Ginger Baker had to pound like there was no tomorrow...until they realized there was a better way.) Amazing that Baker could do what he did, and we were positive he would be dead in 5 years. Still going strong! Very Happy

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rainmkr63 · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject:

If someone gets me a good recording of the best of these shows I will sign up for one of Robben's clinics in 2008.

Rob

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nineacres · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject:

Apropos (and I checked the spelling in a dictionary) "rinse and spit", I always find this acutely embarrassing. There you are in a dentist's chair with your mouth completely numb and you try to heave yourself forward and to one side and then somehow try to pucker you lips - feeling for all the world like a 90-year-old-who's lost his false teeth - and spit into this tiny sink-like apparatus.

And all this in from nt of a pretty young dental assistant ...

PierreL · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:09 am Post subject:

Actually, there's a gap between "A" and"propos" Smile

diatonicdude · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:59 am Post subject: Re: Awwwwww shucks!

[quote="elizabeth"]

And DAMN IT, when will the world get it that English/History teachers do not go around looking for grammarical mistakes or historical inaccuracies? If you see your dentist at a restaurant, does he or she ask you to open wide, or rinse and spit?????? And would you, if they did? NO, you would find a new dentist![quote]

OK Elizabeth, I catch your drift!!!!

I suppose it is the natural human response when people feel humbled in the presence of someone superior in a certain skill or art form. I am sure some of the guitarists here who class themselves as average in their playing ability, and who are confident in front of their normal regular gig audience, would feel humbled, apprehensive, nervous, even apologetic if asked to play with Robben in his band! Shocked

Maybe I feel my mediocre writing skills are in this context when a teacher is present. But you are right, it's time to let what hair I have left down, and throw caution to the wind and not worry about my mistakes. Thanks for your words of wisdom Liz, and it's great to have you back!

DD
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JohnnyZ · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:48 am Post subject:

I hope no one in here is a proctologist. MilliBobs? Laughing

elizabeth · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:56 am Post subject: WHAT???????

AIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! You guys are too funny! I forgot how fantastic all of you are. Thank you for the laughs...I neeeeeeed them! I have been spending a lot of time in the corner, eating worms lately.
love, elizabeth

MilliBobs, say it ain't so!
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edpesco · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:16 pm Post subject:

Millibobs · Senior Member Joined: 25 Apr 2007 Posts: 291

Let us not confuse 'rectification' with 'proctology'........

Millibobs · Senior Member Joined: 25 Apr 2007 Posts: 291

I know this preacher and his job is exhalting. When it's all too much he cries off a night down at the wine bar with please of, 'enough, I'm exhalted'.......

oh oh, I think I'm having a childish outburst....hush mah mouth and pass the Les Paul.....

I'm presently building a pedal board that is rapidly assuming Ninth Wonder of the Word Proportions. It is bloody enormous. I have these Egyptian guys working shifts and using a complex sytem of ramps, pulleys and personal lubricant to get stuff to the top of the towering edifice that now occupies much of my garage. I will post pictures when it is sufficiently advanced. Standing guard at the base of this masterpiece of musical architecture will be two 'Sphincters' which as my old lady said when I was 10, came free with every pyramid. You can see where I get it from......

When it's finished, it will have a 140bhp motor with all-wheel drive and a built-in Jacuzzi. I will hire it out on prom nights to ferry local kids to the high school hop whilst playing a selection of riffs from the 70's and 80's.

Better sneak off to bed now - up in 4.5 hours to go and do something vaguely strategic which will earn money for more pedals.

Keep smiling folks, there is a large meteor due to strike us in 2029 according to my pessimist offspring, so you have no time to waste........