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Post by the4thpip on Jul 28, 2014 6:00:09 GMT -5
I'm mostly a soul fan, so my main thing about the Beatles is that I really like Gladys Knight's earthy version of "Yesterday" and that the Beatles themselves covered the Marvelettes' "Please Mr Postman" and brought acts like Mary Wells over to Europe as their opening act because they were such big fans of her. For the years 1964 thru 1966, The Beatles and their fellow English Invasion bands along with the R & B soul from Motown and Atlantic records ruled pop music in America and Europe. (there was still a smattering of Beach music and folk rock as well).There was a ton of cross-pollination between English Rock and Soul. Each of their albums whether it was the Beatles,Stones,Supremes,Stevie Wonder etc would do cover versions of the other type.All the big AM radio stations played both forms of music.The greatest concert from the mid-60s, The T.A.M.I. show that became the first music festival movie was also the best of both worlds. Rock and Soul music was never as close, side by side, as it was during the mid to late 60s Personally, I find the Supremes' "Liverpool" album pretty cringeworthy and one of their weakest efforts (along with the Christmas album).
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Post by the4thpip on Jul 28, 2014 6:00:35 GMT -5
Off to my triple fusion surgery. Hopefully talk with you guys soon. Fingers crossed and all that. Talk soon!
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Post by Confessor on Jul 28, 2014 6:34:23 GMT -5
Off to my triple fusion surgery. Hopefully talk with you guys soon. Best wishes! Hope to see you back posting here soon.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2014 6:56:20 GMT -5
Off to my triple fusion surgery. Hopefully talk with you guys soon. Hope to see you back here soon hale and hearty. Good luck! -M
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Post by Pharozonk on Jul 28, 2014 8:52:36 GMT -5
Off to my triple fusion surgery. Hopefully talk with you guys soon. Good luck hondobrode!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2014 9:33:19 GMT -5
Indeed, hondobrode -- can't wait to read your report on your own personal miracle of modern medicine.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 28, 2014 9:51:06 GMT -5
Break a leg, hondo!
Just kidding. Best of luck, buddy. Come back with good news!
Cei-U! I summon the better days ahead!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 28, 2014 10:07:25 GMT -5
Good luck with the surgery, Hondo.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 28, 2014 10:31:30 GMT -5
Best of luck, hondo!
May you come back as good as new, or at least with freakish superhuman powers.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 28, 2014 10:34:17 GMT -5
Well...alive, for another thing. Doh! You got me there! BTW, how was the camping trip? We had an interesting experience with your evil doppelganger while you were gone. I have to admit, if our site was going to get trolled and my identity impersonated, I'd be hard-pressed to think of a funnier scenario than the one that occurred Camping trip was all right. There were fun moments, as well as a surreal concert put on by a Neal Diamond impersonator with a karaoke machine. When a trip gets that surreal, it's hard to complain
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Post by Jesse on Jul 28, 2014 10:48:33 GMT -5
Hope you have a speedy recovery hondo
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Post by impulse on Jul 28, 2014 11:17:30 GMT -5
Get well soon, Hondo! So I finally broke down this weekend and bought lawnmower and an edger/trimmer. I had been paying someone, but realizing how much more I would pay in the long run made me angry. Also, this is my first house, so I'm far more willing to do work myself. This was probably the first time I've mowed a lawn in about 14 years give or take. Thanks to this experience and a very friendly and helpful neighbor, I have a few takeaways and have made a few realizations: - Mowing is a lot easier when you realize the back wheels have height adjustments, too. Much smoother when your mower isn't sputtering to a halt every other step. Also, my poor lawn on the areas before I realized how to raise it.
- I am terrible at edging. It looks like a drunk hobo gave it a bad haircut with rusty clippers.
- The battery powered edger is going back to Home Depot straight-away. Corded model plus a really long extension cord are in my near future.
- I need to buy a blower. Much better than a broom. Thank you, neighbor, for the loan!
- While not nearly as hot as FL, summers are still really hot elsewhere, too.
- I am a MANLY man! While my mower is self-propelled, I didn't use that feature. I opted to push it for the exercise. That idea seemed much better at the time and before the 90 minutes of edging.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 28, 2014 11:25:52 GMT -5
Get well soon, Hondo! So I finally broke down this weekend and bought lawnmower and an edger/trimmer. I had been paying someone, but realizing how much more I would pay in the long run made me angry. Also, this is my first house, so I'm far more willing to do work myself. This was probably the first time I've mowed a lawn in about 14 years give or take. Thanks to this experience and a very friendly and helpful neighbor, I have a few takeaways and have made a few realizations: - Mowing is a lot easier when you realize the back wheels have height adjustments, too. Much smoother when your mower isn't sputtering to a halt every other step. Also, my poor lawn on the areas before I realized how to raise it.
- I am terrible at edging. It looks like a drunk hobo gave it a bad haircut with rusty clippers.
- The battery powered edger is going back to Home Depot straight-away. Corded model plus a really long extension cord are in my near future.
- I need to buy a blower. Much better than a broom. Thank you, neighbor, for the loan!
- While not nearly as hot as FL, summers are still really hot elsewhere, too.
- I am a MANLY man! While my mower is self-propelled, I didn't use that feature. I opted to push it for the exercise. That idea seemed much better at the time and before the 90 minutes of edging.
I use an electric mower and edger because I find nothing more frustrating than trying to get those ripcord motors going, or having to drain and responsibly dispose of the oil each season. I also learned a long while back that not all mowers were created equal and now research reviews online before buying. Loews and Home Depot make a lot of money by exclusively selling only a few brands, and sometimes all of those brands are junk. The first electric mower we bought lasted ten months. We researched the second, and it lasted six years.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2014 11:36:42 GMT -5
I mowed yards for at least 5-6 summers, & maybe a few more than that, as a kid. Only time I ever used a self-propelled mower is when a one-time client had me use theirs. The 4 or so mowers I've owned as an adult, including the one I bought about 3 months ago, aren't self-propelled, either.
Same goes for electric mowers. I think I've used one once; my first set of in-laws had one in Phoenix.
I own an edger but haven't used it in decades. (I inadvertantly left the cord in North Little Rock when I moved here.) I suppose it still works, but I don't much care. I'll start worrying about such ephemera when I start worrying about whether to hire an interior decorator -- i.e. never. The same applies to blowers, except that I've never owned one.
I did buy my first ever electric hedge-trimmer (corded) a few weeks ago. Used it last night for, I guess, the second time. It's not ideal, but then neither are manual clippers.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2014 11:40:38 GMT -5
Get well soon, Hondo! So I finally broke down this weekend and bought lawnmower and an edger/trimmer. I had been paying someone, but realizing how much more I would pay in the long run made me angry. A co-worker of mine is finally coming to this conclusion. Around here, I figure that for what you pay someone to pay your yard maybe four times, tops, you can buy a cheap lawnmower ($170 or so with tax). I was 25 before I ever owned a mower with height adjustment. The feature is worth its weight in gold. Before that, changing heights meant taking off & putting back on every damned wheel with a wrench, then waiting for the gas & oil levels to return to normal from having had the mower on its side or at an angle or whatever.
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