Back In Time in Music

[Dean Romig]

Call me "old fashioned" or call me "a nostalgic old fool" but there's not a much better way to spend the evening in the "gun room - library" cleaning, admiring, and fooling with nice ol' Parkers than with Pandora's "40's Music" or "50's" on the radio and an iced adult beverage of choice. It brings me back to the days when I was up in my room "doing my homework" (yeah, right!) cleaning and polishing that old Trojan twelve after a late afternoon's hunt - with my Mother's radio on downstairs playing some of those same tunes. I remember that Trojan was near perfect except for that 3/4" patch of rust scale on the left barrel right tight up against the breech edge.... oh, and except for that chip I broke off the end of the forend by pulling too near the edge. I've fixed a few of those over the years, and today there are better ways of removing a Trojan's forend.
But back to the topic.... Music can really take you back in time. Try it yourself sometime - it's a very pleasant way to spend an evening in the gun room.






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[Rick Losey]

and an iced adult beverage .


you put ice in whisky????????? :shock:

[Bobby Cash]

It has been said (and studies have shown) that,
"You are now who you were then".

The music that you listened to as a teen and young adult is
the genre of music you prefer and identify with for your entire life.

Fine for everyone except those who grew up in the 80"s:rotf:

[wayne goerres]

Gosh when I was a teen they didn't let us have adult beverages.

[Russ Jackson]

I enjoy that myself Dean , I tend to drift toward, Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius " Duets " or Doc Watson ! Usually just a cup of Coffee for me , I don't touch the Hard Stuff " Coca Cola " !!!:rotf:

[Dean Romig]

That's probably a good choice Russ. I respect a man who knows what he doesn't want in his life.






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[Bobby Cash]

Mr. Romig. May I call you Dean?
I'm sure you're a clever man but let me assure you,
you're much more clever without my glasses

When I read your last post, I thought it read,
"I respect a man who knows what he doesn't want in his ice".

[Dean Romig]

Most everybody calls me Dean.... some don't though ;)

I think you need to keep your glasses on... I have been attributed with saying things I never said - so it's 'life' not 'ice' in this case.
Now that you mention it though, I do respect a man who knows what he doesn't want on his ice. :rolleyes:







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[Jerry Harlow]

It has been said (and studies have shown) that,
"You are now who you were then".

The music that you listened to as a teen and young adult is
the genre of music you prefer and identify with for your entire life.

Fine for everyone except those who grew up in the 80"s:rotf:


Did not work for me. Grew up listening to real Country music by George Jones, Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash, etc. Soon as I got a Chevelle SS it was Led Zepplin, Rolling Stones, etc. making me deaf, until disco, then it was back to country with Waylon and Willie until that died and was replaced by pop. At the CMA awards which I did not watch was there a Country artist present?

So now other than leftover Gordon Lightfoot and Emmylou Harris, it is only BLUEGRASS.

[Dean Romig]

At the CMA awards which I did not watch was there a Country artist present?



My sentiments precisely!!! I mean really :eek:
There are very few pure Country artists anymore - it's just pop culture stuff these days with an affected 'twang'... its sad.

Emmylou has the voice of an angel - I have always loved her singing.I saw her in concert once back in the late 70's with Willie and Jerry Jeff at a very small venue. She was fantastic and was sooo pissed that Jerry Jeff was drunk and Willie was stoned... she could have done that concert herself she was so incredible!






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[Mills Morrison]

The 80's stunk. We have a classic country station here that plays country up to about 2000 which is good.

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Dean, I drink my bourbon on the rocks also'.
PayDirt, Bobby-make an appointment to see me, I'll take care of those vision problems.
I listen to all my music now thru Spotify app and my Bose Minisound link. Listening mostly to acoustic instrumental guitar players and the likes of James Taylor, Jim Croce, Lightfoot, and others of that genre.

[Eric Grims]

I sat by my first of the season cook stove fire a few weeks back tightening the forend screw of my 16 Trojan. One of the songs on the Bose was " Beyond the Sea" by Bobby Darin. We used to walk to grade school in Philly singing it and pretending we were him.

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Spent my early years with the likes of Chet Atkins, Les Paul, dad let me use his old Gibson, circa 1920, put flat wound black diamond strings on it so it would not squeak so bad, finally got an electric believe it was a Silverton, can not remember so long ago, have several guitars now but sad to say rarely ever play, or may I say play at it, Here is a couple photos of the old girl, 95yrs still sounds great, gary

[charlie cleveland]

i too grew up with listening to country and rock and roll ..use to sing you aint nothing but a hound dog on the banks of a small creek as we ran the set hooks..even tryed send me the pillow you dream on...patsy cline elvis buck owens and of courceloretta lynn...and many more....the days of fast cars a good radio and just crusing the block were good days...i still love a good song..nice guitar gary....charlie

[Jay Gardner]

I'm with you. I love listening to music from the 40's, especially on Sunday afternoons between coverts and while taking a break for lunch or a snack. Call it nostalgic but it just seems to fit. I think of my dad and all the old timers who loved their dogs and their doubles, drank rye and smoked pipes.

[Dean Romig]

I used to smoke a pipe a long time ago. To me it was more satisfying than cigarettes... (and I never got the hang of smoking cigars...:eek:)
I still have one of my pipes around here someplace... I may try it again, just once in a while. I did the 35-year smoking stint and that will never happen again - but I always liked the aroma of a good pipe.






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[Jerry Harlow]

My sentiments precisely!!! I mean really :eek:
There are very few pure Country artists anymore - it's just pop culture stuff these days with an affected 'twang'... its sad.

Emmylou has the voice of an angel - I have always loved her singing.I saw her in concert once back in the late 70's with Willie and Jerry Jeff at a very small venue. She was fantastic and was sooo pissed that Jerry Jeff was drunk and Willie was stoned... she could have done that concert herself she was so incredible!






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There was no pure Country female singer who could hold a candle to Emmylou Harris during her heyday (1970s), but she was very often overlooked at award time.

I had only one chance to see her and that was about ten years ago. By that time she had turned into an animal rights/anti-hunting spokesperson. I saved my money and imagined her as she was when I was young and she was not so off her rocker.

[Jay Gardner]

Not a fan of today's country music but I do like a lot of the Americana genra. Jason Isbel, Lucero, Hayes Carl, Townes VanZant, Robert Earl Keene. Jason Isbel may be the best songwriter in the country today. There is a lot of great music to be heard but you won't find it on traditional radio.

[edgarspencer]

you put ice in whisky????????? :shock:
I'm glad to see someone else knows how to spell Whisky correctly
So now other than leftover Gordon Lightfoot and Emmylou Harris, it is only BLUEGRASS.
My son, the Coast Guard pilot stationed in Kodiak Alaska, is a pretty accomplished Dobro picker, who learned from Rob Ickes and Jerry Douglas. The NPR station in Kodiak asked him to do a Bluegrass show, and the first show airs this Saturday, streaming on the web at KMXT.org, 5pm eastern.

I used to smoke a pipe a long time ago. To me it was more satisfying than cigarettes... (and I never got the hang of smoking cigars...:eek:)
I still have one of my pipes around here someplace... I may try it again, just once in a while. I did the 35-year smoking stint and that will never happen again - but I always liked the aroma of a good pipe.
I gave up the pipe 2 years ago, after smoking it over 40 years. I miss it every single day.

[Dave Suponski]

You were a kinder gentler man when you smoked a pipe Egger.

[edgarspencer]

You were a kinder gentler man when you smoked a pipe Egger.

You were more tolerable when I smoked a pipe. Even more so when I drank whisky.

[Dave Suponski]

:rotf::rotf::rotf:

[Phil Yearout]

Gary, now there's a guitar with SOUL!

[Jerry Harlow]

i too grew up with listening to country and rock and roll ..use to sing you aint nothing but a hound dog on the banks of a small creek as we ran the set hooks..even tryed send me the pillow you dream on...patsy cline elvis buck owens and of courceloretta lynn...and many more....the days of fast cars a good radio and just crusing the block were good days...i still love a good song..nice guitar gary....charlie

I do miss cruising around in a muscle car with a cold beverage between your legs (cup holder in a muscle car?). Now it's only old farts with these 60's cars at cruise ins, and we can hardly get in and out of them. But through my eyes, everything looks the same. Ah, the good old days.

[charlie cleveland]

i still crave a ciggerette or a good cigar from time to time i think the erge for a smoke hit me today and i ve been quit a long time...and another item i crave are good double barrels this happens quiet often too...think i ll go look at some rite now.....charlie

[Mills Morrison]

Double barrels are an expensive habit, but a good one too

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

I am not supposed to drink much so the Doc says but I love to go in the gun room cigar in hand and a shot glass of good bourbon, and listen to the sound of metal clinking when I take a gun a part to study it, Old guns and old guitars are good for the soul, like Mills says it can be expensive! but what is that old saying you get what you pay for! Gary

[Jim Pasman]

Reading everyone's comments, music, tobacco and whisky preferences, I've got to weigh in. I am certain whisky, cigars and guitars will be available in the afterlife just as "roots' music will be playing in the background from the heavenly lyres as we clean our Parker guns......originally from Michigan with my Dads' family from Kalamazoo my genes are Gibson based (1919 A2 mandolin and 1965 LG1). I'll drink anyone's whisky, smoke many cigars and listen to everyone from Son House and Robert Johnson to Peter Green, David Lindley and Ry Cooder. All things in moderation...of course:fg:

[Dean Romig]

Makes me wish even more that I had been at "Red Oak Farm" ;)






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[George Lander]

My all time favorite is "The Possum" George Jones who, I believe, passed away two years ago. He could crank out "That Hurting Music" like no other. A close second would be Hank Williams Sr. followed by "The Killer" Jerry Lee Lewis followed by "The Man In Black" Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie and Mother Maybelle Carter.

Best Regards, George

[Phil Yearout]

Reading everyone's comments, music, tobacco and whisky preferences, I've got to weigh in. I am certain whisky, cigars and guitars will be available in the afterlife just as "roots' music will be playing in the background from the heavenly lyres as we clean our Parker guns......originally from Michigan with my Dads' family from Kalamazoo my genes are Gibson based (1919 A2 mandolin and 1965 LG1). I'll drink anyone's whisky, smoke many cigars and listen to everyone from Son House and Robert Johnson to Peter Green, David Lindley and Ry Cooder. All things in moderation...of course:fg:

Oooh...nice! Here's my "three on a couch" and the corner of The World's Smallest Music Room: 1924 Gibson A Jr. mandolin, 1919 Bacon Professional ff banjo, and 1976 Gibson Mastertone banjo...

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[Jim Pasman]

VERY nice Phil!!

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Phil, raining like crazy here just thought I would get my guitars out for a photo, do not mean to hijack your thread, the guitar on the left Yamaha FG75, center Les paul Gibson, right dads 1920 Gibson, Gary

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

The big scratch in the Yamaha, came from the nursing home where dad was at, I left the guitar there so I could play some of his old time favorites to keep him occupied if you know what I mean, some patient came in on night in his room with a screw driver and put the mark on it. The nurse on duty saw it all but what you gonna do, Dad was ninety six when he passed, he lived a good life, was on the radio for ten years with the Carolina Boys, he loved music and was bad to the bone on a harmonica, I miss him very day, Gary

[Dean Romig]

Good stuff Gary.

There are three things that can never be taken from us... our date of birth - our integrity - and our memories!







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[edgarspencer]

Good stuff Gary.

There are three things that can never be taken from us... our date of birth - our integrity - and our memories!

I wish that was true, but, sadly, it isn't.

[Dean Romig]

Don't rain on my parade Egger :draw:






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[Phil Yearout]

Phil, raining like crazy here just thought I would get my guitars out for a photo, do not mean to hijack your thread, the guitar on the left Yamaha FG75, center Les paul Gibson, right dads 1920 Gibson, Gary

Neat Gary! And it was Dean's thread to start with; I think I'm the one who hijacked it, or maybe Jim. Sorry Dean!

[edgarspencer]

Don't rain on my parade Egger :draw:






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It's not all bad. At least I'll get to hide my own Easter eggs.

[Dean Romig]

All good Phil...

Egger, you're still in trouble :corn:






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[edgarspencer]

Egger, you're still in trouble :corn:

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