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Posted on 10/05/2014 5:02:06 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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Hi everybody!
((((HUGS))))
How did it go at church today?
Hi Ma! Made it back home safely to Oregon. Now in 2 Weeks I’m heading to Yakima to look for a new home. Still planning a move there end of the month. I hope all goes well. Thanks for tonight’s Canteen (((HUGS)))
Good evening, Pro...((HUGS))...glad you are safely home.
I’m fighting with my computer. I’ve saved 2 pictures for this thread, they are in the folder, but I can’t get them to load. GRRRR!!
Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...you are quick today!
You and Lynn-Dah enjoy your day? Does she enjoy choir practice?
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Oh wow...I gotta tell ya...The drummer locked right into the groove, the rhythm guitar player cooked, and my bass playing was better than at rehearsal! and the singing, which is syncopated and contrapuntal to the bass line, was all in synch.
I actually couldn’t believe it was coming together the way it did.
There was applause at the end of the song (unusual in church) and the pastor said...Could you email me the lyrics so i can sing it with you next week?
I suspect you were sending kindly musician thoughts my way, and I appreciate it!
Say...have you ever heard of Blues Musician Paul Pina? He was the inspiration for the bass line.
If you don’t mind praying for pets...please pray for Lynn-dah.
She seems to be suffering from some kind of allergic reaction to something (I have no idea what it is!) and has been chewing on her belly causing a horrific rash and “hot spot”. the vet is not open today, and i don’t know if I should give her a Benedril or put ointment on it or what. Dogs are different than people,. so I am afraid to give her human medicine.
I don’t have the $$$ to take her to the ER, so I have to wait for my own vet to open...I hope tomorrow. In the meantime, i have to keep her from messing with it!
Aaaarrrggghhh!!!!
I'm glad it worked perfectly. It's quite wonderful when everything just clicks.
It's a damn sight better than the train wreck at my mother's funeral in 2002.
Paul was a good friend of my bass player in my first band. (1975) They worked together in a bind workshop that did wicker and cane furniture, and he shared the baseline with my bass player who could not do it and sing at the same time. So my bass player (Gary) taught it to me so I could play and he could sing. Gary had a Gibson SG Bass which was a short scale and very easy to play.
For years, it was the only thing I could play on bass, until I picked up the instrument again in 2007.
Then, it bounced around in my head until last month when i wrote the new song.
You are right...it IS terrific when it all comes together!
So sorry to hear of the “train wreck”. i sure do hate it when that happens.
The soprano improvised her way around her memory problem. What she sang wasn’t in Cesar Franck’s score, but it wasn’t bad either. I was the only one in church who noticed the mistake.
Prayers on the way for Lynn-Dah to leave the “spot” alone.
Can you wrap an ace bandage around her tummy to help her not chew on it?
As long as you were the only one who noticed, then no harm done.
This has happened MANY times to me! I notice, but no one else does.
So every one else is BLESSED, while I am grinding my teeth!
It is a small sacrifice to make when one is commemorating a loved one’s life in song!
(grind grind grind grind grind)
I don’t have an ace bandage, but a hand towel might help.
Thank you for your kindness.
“bind’ = “BLIND”.
seriously. BLIND.
My bass player was an authentic Blues man..,right down to being older, Black, and BLIND.
guess who carried and set up the PA?
It sounds like Gordon was part of the old “Solid South”. My Granddaddy would have died before voting for a Republican. Daddy was the same way until Jimmy Carter finally converted him to a Republican.
He voted for Reagan and never went back.
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Gordon practiced law in his hometown of Morrilton before joining the Navy in May 1941. After qualifying as a naval aviator, he was sent to the southwest Pacific Ocean, where he would serve more than two years. By February 15, 1944, he was a lieutenant, junior grade, in command of a PBY Catalina flying boat named the "Arkansas Traveler", part of Patrol Squadron 34 (the Black Cat Squadron). On that day, in the Bismarck Sea off the island of New Ireland, Gordon piloted his aircraft through heavy Japanese fire to rescue the survivors of several downed United States Army planes. He was subsequently promoted to lieutenant and awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions. He served in the Navy until 1945, when he was released to inactive duty.
Islands, Lt. (then Lt. j.g.) Gordon unhesitatingly responded to a report of the crash and flew boldly into the harbor, defying close-range fire from enemy shore guns to make 3 separate landings in full view of the Japanese and pick up 9 men, several of them injured. With his cumbersome flying boat dangerously overloaded, he made a brilliant takeoff despite heavy swells and almost total absence of wind and set a course for base, only to receive the report of another group stranded in a rubber life raft 600 yards from the enemy shore. Promptly turning back, he again risked his life to set his plane down under direct fire of the heaviest defenses of Kavieng and take aboard 6 more survivors, coolly making his fourth dexterous takeoff with 15 rescued officers and men. By his exceptional daring, personal valor, and incomparable airmanship under most perilous conditions, Lieutenant Gordon prevented certain death or capture of our airmen by the Japanese.
