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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 8, 2019 - 11:59pm PT
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It is at about 5,000' elev. so it's got lots of snow.
Photo taken on the move out the tinted bus window. Shiddy result.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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I want to live alone in the desert
I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe
I want to live on the Upper East Side
And never go down in the street
Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one[Click to View YouTube Video]
Holey Smokes Bruce Wayne & Dick Grayson,
Transverse City
the seventh studio album by Warren Zevon,
released in October 1989 (Virgin Records)
Don't think it sold well? It actually fell out of print.
More than partly due, I think, because of
the S.F/Loma Prieta earthquake
 On October 17, 1989, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake
hit the San Francisco Bay Area, (remember it well)
But, '89 was such a high water mark year for all of these musicians
This had to have been a fun studio gig!
Check it out !
Hot Tuna, Chick Corea ... Never work harder than a good cut/paste...
Personnel
Warren Zevon – vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, keyboards, harmony
Jorge Calderón – bass and harmony on "Networking"; harmony on "Gridlock"
*Mike Campbell – guitar on "Splendid Isolation"; guitar and mandolin on "Nobody's in Love This Year"
*Jack Casady – bass on "They Moved the Moon" and "Gridlock"
*Chick Corea – piano on "The Long Arm of the Law"
*Howie Epstein – banjo, mandolin on "Networking"; bass on "Down in the Mall"
(~Jerry Garcia – guitar on "Transverse City" and "They Moved the Moon"
*David Gilmour – guitar on "Run Straight Down"
*Bob Glaub – bass
*Richie Hayward – drums
Mark Isham – flugelhorn on "Nobody's in Love This Year"
Rob Jaczko – miscellaneous percussion
*Jorma Kaukonen – acoustic guitar and harmony on "Gridlock"
*David Lindley – saz, steel guitar, oud, harmony vocals, lap steel guitar on "Down in the Mall"
John Patitucci – bass on "Transverse City"
*J.D. Souther – harmony vocals on "Run Straight Down", "Turbulence" and "Nobody's in Love This Year"
Benmont Tench – organ on "Networking"
Waddy Wachtel – acoustic guitar on "Run Straight Down", "Networking" and "Nobody's in Love This Year"
*Neil Young – lead guitar on "Gridlock", harmony vocals on "Splendid Isolation"
Jordan Zevon – harmony vocals on "The Long Arm of the Law"
Production
Producers: Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich, Andrew Slater
Engineers: Duncan Aldrich, John Cutler, Andrew Jackson, Andy Jackson, Rob Jaczko, Tim Mulligan
Assistant engineers: Heidi Hanschu, Robert Reed, Ira Rubnitz
Mixing: Rob Jaczko
Talk about a fun gig or two
BB King with some guy named Eric
https://youtu.be/HzTlB-TjAzM
&
Buddy, Mic, Kieth, Ronnie, Charlie
https://youtu.be/hilliYFnCGo
o f f S - I think it was in 1989 Dave Luhan & I were climbing up in the Gunks when a prototype showed up. I was the person willing to be dropped by the new device, Dave belayed with 3 minutes of demonstrated instruction. I went up on a climb called The Throne, while Dave went ahead and held an animated conversation with the stunningly beautiful blond Jody & her already famous short partner who was the source of the scary new belay thing. Dave was combing his hair trying to look just a certain way for the gathering when I went to try to snatch a hold out left, and fell. everybody gasped as Dave was turned toward the climb, I did not hit the dirt, the thing worked it was tested by someone who had never seen one & me.
I think, so it is my opinion, that you can leg wrap or tie a knot or use a suitably thick rope so that the slip is just no big deal
it is a simpleton who needs to ask, I take after my mentors, Dr Hans K & His and my regular Climbing partner at SkyTop Fritz W-something or other who did not tolerate fools.
I would also like to say...... get a life ............ to those who would spend 3 pages saying very little new since the 1st post
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2019 - 05:19am PT
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Is that all ya got?
Th😒 Jones recalls the Leonids from '66.
I was in Navy boot camp in San Diego. I had 2 – 4 AM duty guarding the clothesline – who would want to steal someone’s underwear? I looked up and was blown completely away. I likened it to raining stars. The closest I’ve come to describing it is driving an empty road in the dark with a heavy rain. As you drive the rain is seemingly coming horizontally briefly illuminated by the headlamps. The bad part was I’ve been ruined for subsequent meteor displays. It’s like, “Is that all you got, gee,will you look at the time. I think I hear the drying paint calling”.
"Hey, dudes, let's go down and watch the laundry drying."
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Mexican Cowboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N49k4KkshAs
More stars here on The Flames than in Star Wars, folks.✨
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2019 - 06:03am PT
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Roger has a photo exhibit scheduled this month in Merced at the community college and is sharing the gig with Taco poster Paul Sousa, head of the photography instruction dept.
Beautiful shot, RW!!!!!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Lord, I rub my John the Conquer root
-Muddy Waters
Yes, son, but when was your last confession
-Fra Serra
Funny thing. I just discovered those "Low Sodium" Wheat Thins the other day.
Severely reduced price if you bought six boxes, so I did.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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The tank on our well was replaced on Tuesday with a sizable dent to our savings, but a reliable water supply is something we’re not willing to live without so long as we are paying the electric bill.
The insurance should pick up some of the tab but will take awhile longer to wring out of their greedy little mitts. Stuck pressure valve switch was the culprit and as an electrical malfunction it was covered. Best part was either way, nobody got hurt.
It’s been a busy week at work and the seat in my car has became so sciatically unbearable that I’m really grateful the weekend is finally here. Hope you’re outa the hospital and on the mend, Mr Mouse. As well I hope your health’s improving or holding up Mr z and Mr Milktoast.
This here is about the only writing I’ve mustered in the past few days...
The Birch’s Lament
Once upon
a midnight stroll
alit by moon
and all alone
I came upon
a moonlit knoll
a corner in a hidden dome
where hand jams fit
and sunk to home
a solace
and a quiet tome
a magic book
to call my own
a respite from
the daily drone
of ruinous labor
and haunts to roam
or crimes long past
for to atone
And there upon
that rocky jamb
I climbed up high
to where began
the difficulties
I’d not planned
both feet then slipped
on stone they swam
I feared the final
plunge and slam
With toes now set
I found a perch
in desperate need
for holds I searched
then saw nearby
there swayed a birch
the top of which
that I might lurch
lest I succumb
to bad research
The way above
appeared quite grim
with chances of
success more slim
as I judged I
might catch a limb
I conjured from
some strength within
then threw all caution
to the wind
The jump was short
so off I leapt
but felt my left foot
might have slipped
and through the fall
the trunk I kept
with arms looped ‘round it
while I whipped
as every cross branch
cracked and ripped
for forty feet
I spun and clung
down spindly birch
stripped rung by rung
the lowest branch
it caught and flung
me hard on grassy
shelf among
the detritus
that I had brung
Waves of nausea
and blurry eyes
when I would move
or try to rise
the pounding head
bruised arms and thighs
with racing pulse
I realized
all signs of life
a welcome prize
Waking once again
at dawn
although the headache
now was gone
the aching limbs
I leaned upon
and limped for miles
to make a home
behind the wheel and comfort of
my trusty old automaton
Some cars might drive
all by them self
but mine not steered
by gnome or elf
with remedy
the miles went by
one birch more worse
for wear than I
the incident
now on the shelf
-bushedman
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Somewhere there is a "Meme" ; A picture of a cell phone with the 'caller id screen' showing the name "Vinney"
Anyone remember, ? mfm wasn't that one of yours?
In Bushedmans share of the near denied survivor's tale,
There Is at once two well-told tales,
now three,'
One most famous to many of you who hail,
indeed from the great ditch,
is of one who also reached out to grasp a branch,
Held on tight and thus was saved from a crash
The amazing grace bestowed on one of the old
The fanatic tale of John his own self,
has oft been told
He who's story was too many
more of climbers lore
Was known to most who would tell it
as 'you know who'
That fantastic climber
prone to fisticuffs seemingly
With his own sanity, losing
who, one-time one punched
knocking out my non-belayer
then unbeknownst came up
seconding to me a total stranger,
I, his stranger belayer, was stunned
Shocked Right then and there
by the story he told me,
before even telling me his name;
The stooge who's name I never utter
was standing feeding rope while talking to another
with no belay on,
not one wrap around boot, waist or tree strap
was to be seen
as I was climbing far above
set off in silhouette on the holdless wall
far above, all a sheen, with far stretched gear,
just button-heads equal in distance from one another
As they were too equal in age to my own
So he, this specimen piece of gristle,
hearing the nasal twang of a New Yorker
Saying; oh, the leader never falls,
he was having none of it
not willingly walking past a dying man
he cold-cocked the rube who was not belaying.
With the thumping 'stoned head' fell
in a heap lying drooling and Concussed,
bleeding from the nose and mouth
in the glen below the aprons steepest line
Green Dragon was the 1st pitch
that ex entrance-gate collection-ranger
from Rocky Mountain National park
was thus dispatched from climbing.
I went on to climb Mr Natural and then followed on
As Yabo the great John Yablonski carried on
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Jim Clipper
climber
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For those who haven't been in a while...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2019 - 02:43pm PT
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"Like it or not, everyone's a critic.
Some are more hypocritical than others."
--St. Nun the Less
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2019 - 05:08pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Bushman
Keep a close eye on those insurance reps. One of my nephews is an attorney who knows a lot about insurance company bad faith.
They do not have your best interests at heart.
And thanks for your "get well". I am, aside from a weird case of the flu, doing just fine.
The only thing that is giving me pause is that Don Lauria, developed heart issues (afib) in his eighties.
There were several deaths in my family due to heart attack and I think I've been doing a good job taking care of my heart. But hearing Don's story was a bit unsettling.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Just when you are looking for a new one (on you)
One pops up
Not the blues, the blue sky
Ol' a Jack Pearson I pretty fine geetar man
.. just after Jerry died Dickey said just before Blue Sky he put together a new intro in honor of Jerry Garcia.
Franklin's Tower lead in
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2019 - 10:00pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2019 - 01:21am PT
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And after tea time, it's time for dinner.
Unmentionably hungry at one a.m. and with a leg cramp
I find solace with serving words up
in that images are equally descriptive, interesting, and nice
Above all, nice...Korean BBQ from T2
"Mmmmmm....food."--Homer
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 10, 2019 - 01:35am PT
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A choking SmokeFrom a chimneythat is too shortAnd a fire when it is 40degrees and raining out.
A nightmare,
the phook, has made assistant principal,
He teaches in the science department
A Marine Biology course
And doesn't seem to know what & how inversion happens
I went out took those pictures
As some car drove up at 5:30,
I stood at the property line and bellowed
you are a pollutant
second hand smoke kills
Tell him to put out the fire
All this pre=dawn
oh yeah, some sort of crazy
Ive still got to get a child through
but really if I don't have any,
and go outside at 3:30 or 5 or 6:1o
I lose what little mind is left me
It leaves me
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 10, 2019 - 01:59am PT
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the 1st one the whole headshot, looking to the right,
tilted downward, the one-eyed jack, Looking out,
it's eye highlighted by the line,
is easy enough to make out
but when I turn it to a more horizontal perspective it
is very hard to see againotheseAgain
It was an insane rant
and a share way to far were you quick enough?
Every deletion takes one back to your first page
your changes there are now registered with me
the fellow travelers of fancy may not ever go there
you know?
a thing or two,
That rocketman's pressure tank blew like it did
It did that while my hot water heater tank
mixed with high mineral count well water
corroded through the bottom, slow
Oh man, I cant tell the tale
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