Posted on 05/01/2021 6:49:30 AM PDT by SamAdams76
ATM's seem to have gotten very sophisticated since I first started using them back in the early 1980s. Back then, ATMs were a simple affair, you stuck in your card, punched in a four digit code, and out came a little bit of cash depending on the numbers you punched in. It seemed a magical thing at the time.
I would rarely take out more than $40. Back in those days, it was a lot of cash to have in your wallet at one time, at least for me. On rare occasions when I took out more, I would furtively glance around me, making sure that I was not likely to get robbed with all that cash on me. It seemed quite dangerous pulling all that money out of an ATM and I always feared that the machine would malfunction and not spit out the money and yet my account would get charged as though I did. That never did happen though. Nor did I ever get more cash than what asked for. The machines seemed pretty reliable in that respect. They never seemed to make a mistake in dispensing cash and never jammed up (why can't they make copy machines as reliable)?
And for years and years, I would never dare deposit money into an ATM. I just didn't trust them to take my money. What if I deposited cash and then the bank tried to say that they never received it? How would I be able to prove to them that yes, I did stick cash money into their stupid machine. I guess there must have been cameras but back in the 1980s, security cameras were still mostly primitive and probably wouldn't deliver a decent picture even if they were actually turned on. Does anybody remember those Patty Hearst bank robbery stills? Not the best quality though Patty did look sort of hot with that weapon slung over her shoulder.
So I just didn't trust ATMs back on those days to take my money (or even checks) as deposits. Like a chump, I'd have to go into the bank (during banking hours) and wait in line between those velvet ropes like you see in fancy movie theaters. I'd even fill out the deposit slip trying to use that cheap pen that was always chained to the tables. I always wondered about that. Why couldn't banks give away free pens to their customers. Pens with the bank's name stenciled on the outside? Free advertising!
Well now I don't worry so much about putting cash deposits into the ATM. Those machines do an excellent job of sucking in all that cash and finding a way to count it properly so that it can go right into your account. Though not without a big show of whirring noises that go on for as long as 90 seconds. I must say that I hold my breath every time as the machine does whatever it does with my cash while it's being sorted out. I wonder if the guy behind me withdrawing money will get some of the very same cash I just deposited? Or does deposited cash go into a separate bucket than the cash that is dispensed out? I just don't know the answer to that question but I aim to find out one of these days.
Well anyway, I like to listen to the Yacht Rock station on Sirius/XM from time to time (Station 311). Pretty much all the time, it is male singers. Bertie Higgins, Rupert Holmes, Michael McDonald (a lot of Michael McDonald by the way), Christopher Cross, a band that call themselves Poco, Little River Band and Steely Dan. All guys.
Well that it until I heard "Chuck E's in Love" by Rickie Lee Jones on the station. Well that was a treat. I'm a big fan of the jazzy rhythms of Rickie Lee Jones and her 1979 debut album was just outstanding (it also yielded the Top 40 hit "Youngblood"). But I never considered her music to be part of Yacht Rock.
Anyway, it was almost like the Yacht Rock station read my mind because over the next few days, they inserted other songs sung by women into their playlist. I heard "Lotta Love" by Nicolette Larsen (written by Neil Young I believe) and then "Sara" by Fleetwood Mac (written and sung by Stevie Nicks). There were a few other female sung songs that I now cannot remember. But the females appear to be finally making some inroads with regard to Yacht Rock.
Speaking of Rickie Lee Jones, I've been rediscovering her music and she actually has a lot of good stuff out there. You just need to be in a mellow mood to really get into it. She's right up there with Emmylou Harris in my opinion with regard to consistently good albums over a long period of time. If I wasn't married already, I would consider marrying either one of them because I think they are mighty fine women. (Please don't post their politics here, I don't know where they stand and don't wish to know).
“Yacht Rock” formats are doing to Steely Dan what “Muzak” did to Pat Metheny.
Who puts filet mignon in a sausage grinder?
I’ve heard Phoebe Snow and Joan Armatrading.
Right. Transportation music to get you to Margaritaville.
(I confess I like a fine sausage as much as filet mignon...)
I’m a girl. And own a 40 ft sailboat. And there are actually quite a few women in my marina that own boats as well.
It was a joke, playing off a common phrase. Most of my boat time over the last few years has been on a female friend’s. (But very boyish of you pulling out the measurement for credibility.)
You can submit suggestions.
I put the measurement in simply because there is quite a difference in running a 40 ft sailboat vs. a daysailer.
There is something "cool jazzy" or "smooth jazzy" about some of it, and there's some overlap with Kenny G. type music, but doesn't "Jazz Rock" refer more to music like Herbie Hancock's or Chick Corea's? I think of something a little livelier and funkier. I also think, probably wrongly, of Chicago and its brass section.
Yacht rock is kind of a stupid label, and it has cultural associations that would be considered problematic nowadays, but it was probably considered less insulting than "Easy Listening" or "Middle of the Road."
We don’t listen to music much on our yacht. Sometimes when we are cruising we’ll have something in the background, but, I prefer the sounds of the boat moving, the wind in the sails, the conversations with my wife, and, no other sounds.
I LOVE RLJones. She is a true storyteller. Nicollette Larson & Neil Young made a great album together. No way they weren’t in love back in the day.
Nicolette Larson?
Amy Holland (Wife of Michael McDonald)
A book written by Rickie Lee Jones telling stories about her life and music was published recently (Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour). If you like her music, and I have since listening to her as a busker on Main Street in Santa Monica in the 70’s, you’ll really enjoy her book.
...well she is intimidating evidently. 12 years ago had a house for sale and a Beverly Hills broker told my wife to clear out as a client wanted to tour the property. Wife worked for HP out of the inhouse office and said take a hike, she can come in and take her time, but we’re working here... Ricky comes in and then wants to take pictures but can’t get her digital camera to work. Wife volunteers to take her pix and gives her the card, Ricky bought the house and the realtor had to buy her our fridge cause she was afraid to tell Ricky that she couldn’t have it in the sale!
Thanks Ricky, sold just before the price dropped in 2008!
A band that calls itself Poco......did u write this Sam....
Knows Bertie Higgins but don’t know Poco
Three gems.....very influential band
Rocky Mountain 70s music
The later stuff is pop ballad
Influential, but underrated.
3 good tunes.
Her voice is STILL sweet and angelic
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