BTW, I got a reply from the Mod. Squad...
They told me fer a name change ya gotta see the boss about that. I didn't want to bug Jim Rob to do this,
but...I did.
Posted on 02/10/2003 3:26:55 AM PST by Mudboy Slim
"Stranglehold!!"
(To be sung to Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold")
Here we come again, Bill Clinton...
Gonna RE-Impeach!!
Medyuh FReaks got No SAY, Slick Willie!!
Clinton's Gonna Git FReeped!!
Slick, Right's been stalkin' you so long...
You know Truth's here to stay!!
Got you in a stranglehold, Willie...
RINOS, Git Outta OUR Way!!!
Slick, you married a bitch now, din'tcha?!
What were YOU thinkin', you hound?!
Soiled OUR House, You Villainous TRAITOR...
Dig Mudboy's Righteous Sound!!!
Folks, Yer Forefather's DIED fer you to be FRee...
Socialism's sooooo passe'!!
Got RATS in a stranglehold now, Country...
Let's DETHRONE Slick TODAY!!!
(The BigMan kickin' it on guitar like only GONZO hisself can!!)
FReepers, we gotta Git JUSTICE!!
Limbaugh, it's time YOU said so!!
The Sheeple think Right and Left are the same...
They're CONFUSED...Slick's TREASON Shall Be Shown!!
Come on...FReepersUP!!
Come on...FReepersUP!!
Come on...Fight RAT's SCUM!!
Come on...Slick's a BUM!!
Come on come on come on come on, Patriots!!
Come on come on come on come on up!!
Come on come on come on come on, Nation!!
Come on, ASHCROFT, COME ON!!!!!
Leftist views are fer PhatCows!!
DemLib'rals LUST Fer RAT-Power!!
If Ashcroft gits in our way, Dubyuh...
You know Right'll force him OUT!!
Good Patriots they died to protect me...
Yes, FReedom's Here To Stay!!
Got Slick in a Stranglehold, Lib'rals...
Right's Gonna Whup Yer A$$!!!
(Gonzo Jammin' 'til we're done!!)
Heh heh heh...MUD
FReegards...MUD
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...with legal fund-raising down for the RATS, look for them to aggressively court ILLEGAL sources again!! And notice how they are courting filthy-rich Senatorial candidates so that the DNC won't haveta finance them...this is gonna further erode the RATS' laughable claim that they are the Party of the Little Sheeple!!
FReegards...MUD
Lemme know when that's happenin' and I'd roadtrip up fer it in a heartbeat...heck, we might even convince Landru to leave his beloved state of Indianny fer that, although he's already seen Dickie Betts last fall...MUD
Could work well with my fledgling plans to bring the Missuz up to check out "Les Miserables" on Broadway...sure lookin' forward to Spring!! I've had more than enuff winter fer the year!!
FReegards...MUD
Y'know I've heard more than one person say that.
Still, I'm a big (goon) & the weight never bothered me; although, the thing's never hung around my neck for three hours, either. In fact lately it hasn't been doing much *hanging* anywhere.
"Nothing beats a Les Paul through a Marshall 100 and a 4x12 cabinet for a classic rock sound."
Well I'll take your word for that; still, Toy Caldwell was the A#1 influence for me, & in all honesty??
I had my Martin SPD16-R first, before getting the itch to try electric.
So truthfully I didn't know one electric from another.
That Fender Strat's an extremely popular, great sounding, & reasonably priced instrument which has a fabulous sound all its own.
I actually entertained the notion of adding one of these to my collection, once.
"I'm a strat guy, but I use one of those deluxe or fat strat things(I don't know what the hell they call it). It's got a humbucker(for the big distortion sound) and two single coil pickups."
Sounds beautiful.
Best part about it is that it's a working instrument which pays you a check every week or so, eh? {g}
On that thought, I must mention a correspondence which took place with a musician gal I know.
One whose opin I respect greatly, I might add, and after having told her -- essentially -- the same concerning my *rut* as I've told you?
She sent me a poem.
I'm fairly certain this magnificent, generous, most wise Lady wouldn't mind me reposting it for a fellow musician, a'tall...
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"The Touch of the Master's Hand."
Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer thought it scarcely worth his while to waste much time on the old violin, but he held it up with a smile.
"What am I bidden, good folks," he cried, Who'll start bidding for me? A dollar, a dollar -- now who'll make it two -- two dollars, and who'll make it three? Three dollars once, three dollars twice. Going for three"...but no!
From the room far back a gray-haired man came forward and picked up the bow.
Then wiping the dust from the old violin, and tightening up the strings, he played a melody, pure and sweet, as sweet as an angel sings.
The music ceased and the auctioneer with a voice that was quiet and low, said, "What am I bid for the old violin?" and he held it up with the bow.
"A thousand dollars -- and who'll make it two? Two thousand -- and who'll make it three? Three thousand once, three thousand twice, and going -- and gone," said he.
The people cheered, but some of them cried, "We do not quite understand. What changed its worth?"
The man replied, "The touch of the master's hand."
And many a man with life out of tune, and battered and torn with sin, is auctioned cheap to a thoughtless crowd, much like the old violin.
A 'mess of pottage,' a glass of wine, a game and he travels on.
He's going once, and going twice -- he's going -- and almost gone!
But the Master comes, and the foolish crowd never can quite understand the worth of a soul, and the change that's wrought by the touch of the Master's hand. ----------------------------
This Lady, through her magnificent mind's eye, was trying to tell me -- amoung other things, I suspect -- it isn't the instrument, rather, the Master's Hand I must seek.
She was right, too.
Then again, this Lady's not only a "Master" in her own right, but she's almost always right to boot.
"My wife got me a Martin for Christmas. It is an awesome sounding acoustic. I love it."
As well you should.
What's more, I *read* your bride pretty well.
My Martin came to me, for Xmas, from my gal, too. (~of course, so did the LP)
"BTW. When I was a kid in the 70's MTB was HUGE on Long Island. I've seen them a dozen times. One of my favorite Southern rock bands!"
They have no equal.
There's a poster here going by the name of, "sneakypete."
Pete's a hell of a good guy & a BIG MTB fan, too.
Like you he's seen these guy -- the original group - not the Doug Grey iteration -- many, many times.
What I wouldn't give to be able to look back through either of your eyes, my friend.
BTW, just a FYI...there're several VHS & one CD out there of the MTB; but, it's not of the original members ie Caldwell brothers, McCorkle, Eubanks & Riddle.
Grey still sings but it's not the same; nor, worth the money spent acquiring these things. As I said, just a FYI.
OK, a question for you right outa left field.
Given what I'd wrote you privately concerning the state of the industry, today?
Have you *ever* heard the first album by a group calling themselves simply, "The eels"??? (debuted in '93)
If you have, what do ya think??
If not send me your snail mail addy & I'll see to it you *will*.
OK?
These 3 youngsters, "The eels," proved to me -- without a doubt -- it wasn't so much there weren't any more talented white R&R musicians out there as much as it proved the good ones were not being played.
Call it one facet of the "redistribution of wealth" scheme if you like; but, I prefer to think of it as a tremendous loss, for everyone.
Be that as it may...
"Gotta check out guitar.com."
For Heaven's sake, yes.
Moreover, this site has a "registry" where guitar instructors (hint-hint) can register, by geogrphic location, their availability, specialty, hours & other things they've to offer. A simply supurb way of advertising, for free, extended to intructors courtesy of the folks at www.Guitar.com. Pretty neat, eh?
Just wait'll you READ what some of the -- more successful -- instructors are offering their students!!
Totally innovative ideas coming from these gutar teachers.
For exmple, at specific times during a month, they'll get all their guitar students together along with drum students, keyboard students (& what have you) to form "bands" just to jam.
These students are afforded actual hands-on experience opportunities which I think is absolutely fantastic.
Means (to me) tomorrow's R&Rs are in the pipeline as we speak, my friend.
...regardless of *what* the social schemers are attempting to perpetrate.
Good deal...I e-mailed yer comments to the BigMan and Fingers/Mordecai/Time and will tell the rest of the fellas that we've got a focus. In Black XVI, I'll bump you to most of the SouthernRock songs I've FReeped to date...there's gotta be 50 or more at least to choose from.
"Man, I'd love to make it down on the first, but I'm playing in Boston that night. It's a BIG money gig, and they are tough to come by these days.LOL. You know, gotta come home and pay the rent!"
Take the money and run, dude!! Where in Boston are you playing that night?! We can put out the word to some FReepers as well as a few buddies I know up there. Also, I told my good buddy who lives on Long Island about yer band and he wants to know when yer gonna be in or around Manhattan again.
Hmmmm...then again, I can just get him to look at "The Cosmic Box Concert Schedule"...LOL!!
"You have my word that I'm gonna come down to your neck of the woods as soon as the schedule permits. I wanna meet the DC FReepers and jam with the boys at the Mudcave Annex! The people down there are so dedicated to the cause I feel like I'm livin' in the wrong place. (No offense to my fellow NY FReepers!)"
I don't know how y'all Northeastern America conservatives stand it with all DemLib'rals controllin' stuff up there...LOL!! However, yer welcome to come down and hang out whenever yer schedule permits--which I notice doesn't seem to be very practical on most weekends.
"BTW. Is there enough action there for me to make a livin'?.I only do one thing real well, ya know.LOL"
Between Richmond, Virginia Beach, Nags Head, and DeeCee, I reckon y'all could find plenty of work, especially if we could git the Limbaugh crowd interested!!
FReegards...MUD
Great story, dude...thanks fer sharing...MUD
BTW, I got a reply from the Mod. Squad...
They told me fer a name change ya gotta see the boss about that. I didn't want to bug Jim Rob to do this, but...I did.
Hell I'm so uncultured I wouldn't have found that poem if I'd been given a million years.
I assure you a monkey c/would (accidentally) pen the Gettysburg Address, first.
All credit must go to the amazing, Mrs.f.
...make sure she knows that now, too.
Well truth be known Mud, I'd leave this stinking place for a lot less reason. {g}
But yea, going to see the Allman Bros would make an excellent excuse to throw the old red girl into the young red girl for a road trip. ;^)
"...although he's already seen Dickie Betts last fall..."
NO!!
Remember Betts & Haynes were scheduled the SAME night I had front row center stage tickets to see Leo Kottke?
That's what I was bitching about...that this awful, pissant town would have the audacity to schedule TWO acts like those on the same night.
I'm up to my naval in pathetic bush league hicks, I swear.
On top of that I found Kottke to be stuffy & uninspired albeit talented.
I'd have much rather have been in attendence at the ourdoor asskicker featuring those two icons having at it on lead. Absolutely. No doubt about it.
Of course, had I gone to see those guys I would've had to be prepared to get severly stoned just breathing in everyone else's exhaust, though. :o)
Definitely would've had some kind of -- out of the ordinary -- religious experience I suspect.
...silliness. {g}
This is such propaganda, sultan. (albeit TRUE propaganda...)
You people are just whistling past the graveyard if you're thinking this filthy, shameless theif will ever be brought to anything remotely resembling, "justice."
We'll all live to see "Global Warming" before that'd ever happen.
Read the Sludge Report today, by any chance??
Yea...the slug McA has plans to continue doing what he's always done -- completely unimpeded -- by anyone.
Least of all unimpeded by the toothless *GOP* powers-that-be. (~God bless 'em)
The weasel McA knows this, I know it, you know it & I suspect Mud [now] knows it, too.
...the date of August 13th, 2003 rapidly approaches, y'know.
"After every election political parties have the opportunity to listen to the American people and adjust accordingly. Without compromising our core values, both parties must outline our policies in a way that reflects the American people’s voice. It is a process of adjustment and renewal that gives life and endurance to our democracy. Some Democrats argue that in 2002 the problem wasn’t their message, but that they couldn’t or didn’t get that message out. From complaining about a conservative media to decrying turnout tactics, these Democrats would rather blame someone else. Yet election day polls consistently showed that the public did hear, and in nearly every case reject, the Democrats’ message. The problem was the message was almost completely negative - from dealing with the economy and Social Security to a variety of other issues. The Democrats thought the best message was to just attack without offering a real alternative. Despite the American peoples’ clear verdict, recent hyperbole by Democrat party leaders and Presidential candidates suggests that too many Democrats still don’t get it. Democrats assail the President on everything, including the war on terrorism going so far as to allege that the one person who is most responsible for the safety and security of all Americans, the Commander-in-Chief, has underfunded the war on terrorism."
RATS're SCUM...MUD
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