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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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But sometimes, like here, a post could be a follow-up of a post on another thread. [Click to View YouTube Video]
The sense or the form is all in my head.
You're not after a man, you're after a revolution.
You won't lift a finger to protect us.
When I got back he wasn't here anymore.
I hate politics...
It's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
FYI, that's a hand-cranked mimeograph and an old telephone booth if you've never seen one. Awesome!
Please don't turn around, there's a girl watching you.
She probably mistakes you for Redford. The young Redford, silly.
[Click to View YouTube Video]When after all, it was you and me.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Andy Y nita...
Mice are all trapped and calm.
Liz, goodnight, and it's nice to see you on your rocker once more, you crazy!
One and all thank you and to all a good night and Happy 360 Days of New Year!!!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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This is a showcase, is what this is, this "thread we got."
Welcome to Jay, who is and always will be LostInShanghai, and to his "scanner". He and I met at Facelift 2012 at Degnan's, where so many old friendships took route. The adventures we've shared since are treasured, man.There's a lot of trivia here, and a "bait" of history, a "smidgen" of climbing content--it's all around, so who needs all that much here, to my way of thinking--and seemingly silly unrelated garbage.
Let's face it, it's not designed to appeal to anyone in particular...because it's not designed in the first place!
Say X Tempore Games. I dare you.
I'm from Generation Ex. Former. Back-dated. Not current, but hanging on. Still and all, looking forwards as well as backwards. And vice-versa.
Pre-mutations abound.
Plans are not our specialty here, though they are useful in the rest of the world.Like Camp 4, it can be a bleak place or a happy place. No one is really controlling that. This is not the Outer Limits.
The finger of fate is fickle and I can't even control it's cuticle.
Right now Camp 4 is cold as an icicle.
This is a niece place to be, near to the Flames.
THE Niece, the nice kindergarten teacher, let me lead her as far as the FAT PACK would let her.We don't like selfies, though they are quite the thing. We limit them, but that's understandable when you see my mug.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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The Flames is a car club for guys and mamas who don't got wheels. I don't no longer gots wheels, mon. I'm flamed out on drivin' and traffic lights and gas wastin' guzzlers goin' by not cruisin' like I.
What's the rush? Yer all gonna die, why get there that much faster and with piles to boot, which I've noticed, too much cribing can gib you piles and that reminds me of Raider fans. Sorry for the detour, amigos.
"There may have been drugs drugs involved," as they are in some postings here, "there may have been drugs involved."
There were definitely.
A fact of my life. Suck it up, I do.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=739225&msg=739225#msg739225
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I never get any summit shots anymore, as if I ever got many in the first place. But there are sun shots. Orbs fascinate and abound.Bang the drum and light the joss sticks.I try to be inspiriting, welcoming, and an not the wild boy of Camp 4 days except in my mems.
I've learned some things. I've heard some things, yeah. Marty talks too much, and I heard some things.
Some things, sure, but my lips are sealed. It's all in the vault.
"Serenity is a cow..."
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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I'll do my best to stay on topic and contribute a summit shot... though not from Merced, it's from Mandela-land...
I think I'll soon start a new thread - "The not-your-own-pictures thread".
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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It's someone's idea already, you know that.
Why not a duplicate thread on that topic of universal appeal?
It's the norm here and there's no better plagiarist for the yob than y'all, Oslow.
Takk for ontipik og er det via Via Fer Ratta han fór eller annen rute?
Do Norwegians, not norwegian, always talk in Italics?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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I can't keep up. My eyes are killing me. Well not literally, but I got the frontal attack of cataract and the back door of epiretinal membrane.
When will it end?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
I swear that Dr. Harold C. Bryant, lived in Bonita before fathering Don & Phil's father Ike (not Turner, though he died in San Diego.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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When, oh when, will IT end?
What? When?
When the last blues song is sung
When your bones, etc.
Who am I to know?
Plenty here to keep a Cream, et al., fan happy.
Yardbirds Members
Current members
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals (1963–1968, 1982-1983, 1992–present)
Anthony "Top" Topham - lead/rhythm guitar (1963, 2013–present)
Ben King - lead guitar (2005–present)
David Smale - bass, backing vocals (2009–present)
Andy Mitchell - lead vocals, harmonica, acoustic guitar (2009–present)
Former Members
Keith Relf - lead vocals, harmonica (1963-1968)
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, bass, percussion (1963-1968, 1982-1983, 1992-2013)
Paul Samwell-Smith - bass, backing vocals (1963-1966, 1983)
Eric Clapton - lead guitar (1963-1965)
Jeff Beck - lead guitar (1965-1966)
Jimmy Page - lead guitar, bass (1966-1968)
John Knightsbridge - lead guitar, backing vocals (1982-1983)
Mark Feltham - lead vocals, harmonica (1982-1983)
Joe Allanson - bass (1982)
Rod Demick - bass, harmonica, backing vocals (1992-1993)
John Idan - lead vocals, bass, lead guitar (1992-2009)
Ray Majors - lead guitar, backing vocals (1994-1995)
Laurie Garman - harmonica (1994-1996)
Gypie Mayo - lead guitar, backing vocals (1995-2005)
Alan Glen - harmonica, percussion (1996-2003, 2008-2009)
Billy Boy Miskimmin - harmonica, percussion (2003-2008)
Jerry Donahue - lead guitar (2004-2005)
1963–1968
Original lineup
(Late May 1963 - October 1963)
Keith Relf - lead vocals, harmonica
Anthony "Top" Topham - lead guitar
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar
Paul Samwell-Smith - bass, backing vocals
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals
Clapton replaces Topham
(October 1963 - February 1965)
Keith Relf - lead vocals, harmonica
Eric Clapton - lead guitar
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar
Paul Samwell-Smith - bass, backing vocals
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals
Beck replaces Clapton
(March 1965 - June 1966)
Keith Relf - lead vocals, harmonica
Jeff Beck - lead guitar, backing vocals
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar
Paul Samwell-Smith - bass, backing vocals
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals, percussion
Page replaces Samwell-Smith
(June 1966 - September 1966)
Keith Relf - lead vocals, harmonica
Jeff Beck - lead guitar
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, bass
Jimmy Page - bass, guitar
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals, percussion
Beck is fired
(November 1966 - July 1968)
Keith Relf - lead vocals, harmonica
Jimmy Page - guitar
Chris Dreja - bass
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals, percussion
New Yardbirds
(September 1968 - October 1968)
become Led Zeppelin *
Jimmy Page - guitar
Robert Plant - lead vocals, harmonica
John Paul Jones - bass
John Bonham - drums
NOTE: Led Zeppelin, while deriving from the final lineup during the original tenure of "The Yardbirds" is considered a completely different group from the "Yardbirds" dominated by Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty. However, this article views Led Zeppelin as a continuation, in sorts, of The Yardbirds, due to their billing as "The New Yardbirds" for a few live dates during the late 1960s.
1982–1983
First reunion including original members
(1982)
Mark Feltham - lead vocals, harmonica
John Knightsbridge - lead guitar, backing voclas
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar
Joe Allanson - bass
Jim McCarty - drums, vocals
Samwelll-Smith rejoins reformed group
(1983)
Mark Feltham - lead vocals, harmonica
John Knightsbridge - lead guitar, backing voclas
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar
Paul Samwell-Smth - bass
Jim McCarty - drums, vocals
1992-present[edit]
First lineup of reformed group
(1992)
Chris Dreja - guitar
Rod Demick - bass, harmonica
Jim McCarty - drums, vocals
Idan Joins
(1992–1993)
John Idan - lead guitar, lead vocals
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Rod Demick - bass, harmonica, backing vocals
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals
Idan replaces Demick, Garman and Majors join
(1994–1995)
Ray Majors - lead guitar, backing vocals
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
John Idan - bass, lead vocals
Laurie Garman - harmonica
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals
Mayo replaces Majors
(1995–1996)
Gypie Mayo - lead guitar, backing vocals
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
John Idan - bass, lead vocals
Laurie Garman - harmonica
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals
Glen replaces Garman
(1996–2003)
Gypie Mayo - lead guitar, backing vocals
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
John Idan - bass, lead vocals
Alan Glen - harmonica, percussion
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals
Miskimmin replaces Glen
(2003–2004)
Gypie Mayo - lead guitar, backing vocals
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
John Idan - bass, lead vocals
Billy Boy Miskimmin - harmonica, percussion
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals
Donahue replaces Mayo
(2004–2005)
Jerry Donahue - lead guitar
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
John Idan - bass, lead vocals
Billy Boy Miskimmin - harmonica, percussion
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals
King replaces Donahue
(2005–2008)
Ben King - lead guitar
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
John Idan - bass, lead vocals
Billy Boy Miskimmin - harmonica, percussion
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals
Glen returns to the band
(2008–2009)
Ben King - lead guitar
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
John Idan - bass, lead vocals
Alan Glen - harmonica, percussion
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals
Idan and Glen leave the band
(2009–2013)
Andy Mitchell- lead vocals, harmonica
Ben King - lead guitar
Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
David Smale- bass guitar
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals
Topham replaces Dreja
(2013–Present)
Andy Mitchell- lead vocals, harmonica
Ben King - lead guitar
Anthony "Top" Topham - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
David Smale- bass guitar
Jim McCarty - drums, backing vocals
This page was last modified on 24 October 2013 at 14:12.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I have this homeless gent named Dan with me tonight, snoring away.
He has the guitar that he tried to murder? Forty-some knife wounds?Any way, he likes our thing, this thing we got.
So I thought fast.
Fewer than 30,000 views, not counting the four I saw tonight.
Osman on Bear's Reach (always a sick video) at the Leap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfjLrB5h958
The more I see of Dan, the more...
I feel inadequate?
Well, I try, anyway.[Click to View YouTube Video]Don't renew me.
I can't make it without myself.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Fahey at his earliest, more or less.
John Fahey's music saved my life.
Dancing with Death played by John Fahey, RIP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlqyCfsYjOs
FUNNYSIDE OF LIFE
Hiya, Blind Joe! I see ya...
Yer an old man and so am I.
I got one life...I had three wives.
How many lives does that make?
Two plus an old flame.
The two boys were hers.
The one girl was mine.
Janey Doh,
who was unclaimed by me
makes four.
I was a child of all three gals.
That's five.
What a class!
I'm enjoying being around for the grandkids.
I hope one of them takes after me,
starts in climbing.
That'd be real righteous.
Help me make that happen.
I'll follow and you lead.
I haven't got your moves, though.
But I think I just want to have fun.
Getting up is the good part, not the top.
That's for dessert.
The kid might like to have fun,
With an old fart like me.
With ice cream on top.
And a cherry or strawberry.
and the sun also rose on this pile of t'words
There was an old man from Boston
Who bought himself a new Austin
It had enough room for his ass
And a gallon of gas
And his balls hung out and he lost’em
It's all I can do.
I'm all flamed out.
Hell's an empty Bic.
Hell's an empty ....
The hell of it is
Nothing beats it
Short of dying itself.
You'll go blind, Pud,
If you go and climb
Spank Your Monkey--MCR apron.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Khanom and Vicky the Looker/Lurker...Hoppy NEW YEAR!
Today's the Feast of the Epiphany. Have you any fresh epiphany? We're having a sit-down with Mrs. STewart tomorrow, with some local bakery's cranberry loaf, if we have any left.
And Blue Moon finishes so well with this scrumptious cake!
I got Mr. Dan here again tonight. It's good to have a friend.
I know it's like blowing my horn, I'm such a nice good dude to give a guy a crash...it's just that now I'm not young, so trusting of pals as I was. And the rest of the solioquy is cant.
I can, so I do. All I need to say, except that Dan's a remarkable man.
A stonecutter, having served a ten year apprenticeship and then having a career...all the rest of the story is entertainment and learning, a didactic experience, my raison d'etre.
And he's never heard Mr. Fahey.
Good things abound, Martha, wherever you appear.
Cake?
Want a glass for that beer?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
There was a picture of Lenna on a door-to-door photographer's pony my dad had on the dresser.
Something about this suggests this is her pony for real. She has the outfit. She has the look.
She's been profiled.
Meet Annie Beech.
And HossJulian.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Lots of retsina, then lots of rest.
Retinal tests indicate shutting the eyes and more Greek beverage in your diet.
You may go blind, it may cure what ails you, or you may not care.
As the swamp swami told me when I went to see him--I was a young man, too blind to see, too stupid to know I was blind--in the stinking bog of self-concern that I was traversing at that time in my life, for he was at the center of it--and looked just like Millis, come to find out--as the swami told me,
and he said,
"Mouse," he said, "I went on a bling hunt late one night, Mouse. I found this chart. Look at this eye chart, take it with you when you leave, then come back in two weeges and then tell me what you don't see there. Remember, come back in two weeks, and bring me a sixer of Keystone Light. I'd appreciate that, Mouse. I may be able to help you, but only if you follow my instructions. If they haven't got any Keystone Light, I'd be surprised, but I'm OK with Coors. But not the Budweiser stuff."He fell out when I told him. We smoked a doob and drank the Bud Light (they were stoned out of EVERYTHING!) and had some laughs.
I got in the jalopy and drove back to the store, but they were closed, so I just went home and crashed.
There are eight million stories in the ST. This is one.
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