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"Deadlifts are a damn good way to get a *back attack* for the older folks, like me (67)."

Only if you use poor form. Done right they are the best exercise, bar none, for strenghening the back. With regard to curls, you are spending a lot of time working a single muscle the size of an orange. (biceps). Close grip chin ups will work your biceps every bit as much as curls as well as working your lats, shoulders, serratus and traps. I do only one or two sets of curls a week and think I'm probably overdoing it at that. Curls are probably the most overused exercise in the gym but everyone thinks that's the key to having big guns like Arnold.

Being 67 and having some arthritis setting in has a lot to do with it.
Did a whole lot more just 10 years ago to keep my weight down and didn't worry about diet.
Lumbar trouble, knee trouble, rotator cuff trouble on right arm, probably lucky I can still do what I do.
All those little things you were able to *walk off* when you were younger do come back to bite you in the a$$ when you get older.
You get limitations as you get older, chin ups and pull ups are great, but you best not have arthritis starting in your knuckles.
Doing curls don't bother them, yet.