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Topic: How would you answer this comment? |
Doug Beaumier
From: Northampton, MA
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Joe Elk
From: Ohio, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2019 10:59 am
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Humor is a nice way to begin the New Year.
Joe Elk Central Ohio |
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Fred Treece
From: California, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2019 12:09 pm
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David Matzenik
From: Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 31 Dec 2019 1:29 pm
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Its nice to see so many appreciative comments on that Youtube performance. They outweigh the stupid one many times over.
On the subject of the Internet's democratization of stupidity, we have to remember that it wasn't much better before the Internet, when whole nations could be fed the most heinous lies without contradiction. _________________ Don't go in the water after lunch. You'll get a cramp and drown. - Mother. |
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Dave Mudgett
From: Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 31 Dec 2019 6:38 pm
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Yes, I suppose one can "play" it on an acoustic guitar with some substitute for a regular steel bar. But it wouldn't sound anything like what you got there, Doug. And I don't see the point of saying it unless it's to be a deliberately annoying smart-ass.
So I wouldn't reply either. It wouldn't do any good anyway - you can't fix stupid.
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Earliest known reference to this that I know about is Steven Keats playing a gun runner in Bob Mitchum's movie "The Friends of Eddie Coyle", set in Boston 1973. Great quote, though.
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Doug Beaumier
From: Northampton, MA
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Mark McCornack
From: California, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2019 8:40 pm
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Doug, I’ve been enjoying your many YouTube offerings for a while now, and they’re always a true delight to me. A real inspiration!
I will say, if ANYONE could make delightful music with a guitar and a set of toenail clippers, it would probably be YOU.
I’d listen!
Happy 2020.
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Doug Beaumier
From: Northampton, MA
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Jack Hanson
From: San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 8:54 am
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Perhaps the best response would be none. Why dignify such an ignorant comment with a serious answer?
But if I could play like you do, I would be tempted to pull out an old acoustic, raise the nut, string it up for C6, pull out my trusty nail clippers, set up my recording gear, and play an abbreviated version of Apache. Then I would post it with an effusive response thanking the rube for the suggestion. |
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Phillip Vaught
From: Dallas,Texas, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 9:10 am sgf
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The comedic value of this forum is off the charts. But these days we can all use some of it..phil _________________ Georgeboards s8 colorshift, roland cube, goodrich, perfect touch, ernie ball, deluxe 34, Pandora px3. cegacegd |
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Rick Barnhart
From: Arizona, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 9:33 am
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Just leave him hangin’ he’s trolling for a response. The truth is...he knows he can’t match your performance, so slamming yours is all he’s got. _________________ Clinesmith consoles D-8/6 5 pedal, D-8 3 pedal & A25 Frypan, Pettingill Teardrop, & P8 Deluxe. |
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Jim Newberry
From: Seattle, Upper Left America
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 10:53 am
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Thanks for the reminder. It's New Years Day, time for my annual toenail trimming! Now, where'd I leave my Sawzall..... _________________ "The Masher of Touch and Tone"
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Mike Anderson
From: British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 12:23 pm
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Fred Treece wrote: |
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This is the first I’ve ever seen that attributed to Michael Crichton (one of my heroes, Harvard medical school cum laude, postgrad at the Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Sciences before he became a writer). I’d always heard it was John Wayne! |
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Fred Treece
From: California, USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 12:49 pm
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You know...it’s just an internet meme, so credit for its origination is completely arbitrary and not vital to the purpose of its content. |
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Mike Anderson
From: British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 1:27 pm
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Fred Treece wrote: |
You know...it’s just an internet meme, so credit for its origination is completely arbitrary and not vital to the purpose of its content. |
Hear, hear, absolutely right. Not trying to correct anyone, believe me. |
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HowardR
From: N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 4 Jan 2020 10:40 pm Re: How would you answer this comment?
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And when your set is over, you can stick a broom up your ass and sweep the floor on your way out...…. |
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Andy DePaule
From: Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 27 Jan 2020 8:27 pm Re: How would you answer this comment?
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HowardR wrote: |
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And when your set is over, you can stick a broom up your ass and sweep the floor on your way out...….[/quote]
That would be quite a show! _________________ Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project. |
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Doug Beaumier
From: Northampton, MA
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Andy DePaule
From: Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 27 Jan 2020 8:32 pm Doug forgot?
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All I can add is that I have three of Doug's tab books. Have not used them as much as I should have!
But he forgot the mention in any of those very good tab books about the toe nail clipper alternative!
Like me, I think he also didn't consider the broom part of the gig.
BTW, Thanks Doug, They are good, but I find myself drifting into other tunes every time something in the books reminds me of another song a lick you tabbed would work in. Being dyslectic I have the same problem with reading too! _________________ Inlaid Star Guitar 2006 by Mark Giles. SD-10 4+5 in E9th; http://luthiersupply.com/instrument-gallery.html
2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
1973 Sho~Bud Green SD-10 4&5 PSG, Restoration Project.
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Doug Beaumier
From: Northampton, MA
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Garry Vanderlinde
From: CA
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Posted 28 Jan 2020 9:05 pm
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Mike Neer wrote: |
Only a toenail clipper. |
Maybe a Tone-nail clipper |
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