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[Travellin Dave]

This feels like a classic case of just because we CAN do it doesn't mean we SHOULD do it:

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/worlds-fastest-roller-coaster-japan-044128122.html

It looks a bit like Kingda Ka and I won't be doing that one again. Once was plenty.

Space Mountain is like that for me. Once when I was riding it, I had my hands in the air and my finger grazed some track as we were whipping by. Had my hands clutched to my chest the rest of the ride and said that was enough.

That's funny because if you saw Space Mountain in the daylight you'd be questioning what you were so scared about. Of course, I don't have that long ape-like arms like you do.

GFY, it's Tuesday!

I wouldn't call it scared, I'd call it a healthy respect for leaving a ride with the same number of hands and digits I started with.

On Space Mountain, I keep my appendages inside the ride at all times, just like the instructions tell me.

Not sure they tell you that on that ride, or I feel like I definitely would have.

Of course they do!

“Keep your hands and feet inside the car at all times and remain seated until the ride comes to a complete stop”

[Travellin Dave]

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dead at 80.

I didn't think he would be the first to go. They were supposed to resume there tour next year

He had already bowed out of the tour due to a recent surgery.

[Travellin Dave]

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dead at 80.

I didn't think he would be the first to go. They were supposed to resume there tour next year

Watts was the second-eldest of them.

They're all on borrowed time.

Not Keith Richards, he's clearly immortal.

Cruising on saved up chemical residue.

[Travellin Dave]

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dead at 80.

I didn't think he would be the first to go. They were supposed to resume there tour next year

Watts was the second-eldest of them.

They're all on borrowed time.

As are we all....

[Travellin Dave]

This feels like a classic case of just because we CAN do it doesn't mean we SHOULD do it:

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/worlds-fastest-roller-coaster-japan-044128122.html

It looks a bit like Kingda Ka and I won't be doing that one again. Once was plenty.

Space Mountain is like that for me. Once when I was riding it, I had my hands in the air and my finger grazed some track as we were whipping by. Had my hands clutched to my chest the rest of the ride and said that was enough.

That's funny because if you saw Space Mountain in the daylight you'd be questioning what you were so scared about. Of course, I don't have that long ape-like arms like you do.

GFY, it's Tuesday!

I wouldn't call it scared, I'd call it a healthy respect for leaving a ride with the same number of hands and digits I started with.

On Space Mountain, I keep my appendages inside the ride at all times, just like the instructions tell me.

Not sure they tell you that on that ride, or I feel like I definitely would have.

Of course they do!

“Keep your hands and feet inside the car at all times and remain seated until the ride comes to a complete stop”

And of course:

"Por favor, manténgase alejado de las puertas"

[Travellin Dave]

Wrapping this day up.

[Travellin Dave]

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dead at 80.

Charlie Watts was both a brilliant player and a total class act - a rare combination in the music biz.  If there's anyone in showbiz history that is truly worthy of admiration as a human being, it's Charlie Watts - and whoever's in second place is a long way back.

Fun anecdote for Charlie:

For all of his low-key skill behind the kit, Watts seemed well aware that he was an irreplaceable element of the Stones’ sound. As one famous story from the band’s heyday goes, Jagger once phoned Watts’ hotel room in the midst of an all-night party, asking, “Where’s my drummer?” Watts reportedly got up, shaved, dressed in a suit, put on a tie and freshly shined shoes, descended the stairs, and punched Jagger in the face, saying, “Don’t ever call me your drummer again. You’re my fucking singer!”

[Travellin Dave]

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[A Friend of Charlie]

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dead at 80.

I heard that. How sad. He's definitely not the one I thought would go first.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dead at 80.

Charlie Watts was both a brilliant player and a total class act - a rare combination in the music biz.  If there's anyone in showbiz history that is truly worthy of admiration as a human being, it's Charlie Watts - and whoever's in second place is a long way back.

Fun anecdote for Charlie:

For all of his low-key skill behind the kit, Watts seemed well aware that he was an irreplaceable element of the Stones’ sound. As one famous story from the band’s heyday goes, Jagger once phoned Watts’ hotel room in the midst of an all-night party, asking, “Where’s my drummer?” Watts reportedly got up, shaved, dressed in a suit, put on a tie and freshly shined shoes, descended the stairs, and punched Jagger in the face, saying, “Don’t ever call me your drummer again. You’re my fucking singer!”

That's a good story. I want to believe it's true.

[LuvTooGolf]

This feels like a classic case of just because we CAN do it doesn't mean we SHOULD do it:

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/worlds-fastest-roller-coaster-japan-044128122.html

It looks a bit like Kingda Ka and I won't be doing that one again. Once was plenty.

Space Mountain is like that for me. Once when I was riding it, I had my hands in the air and my finger grazed some track as we were whipping by. Had my hands clutched to my chest the rest of the ride and said that was enough.

That's funny because if you saw Space Mountain in the daylight you'd be questioning what you were so scared about. Of course, I don't have that long ape-like arms like you do.

GFY, it's Tuesday!

I wouldn't call it scared, I'd call it a healthy respect for leaving a ride with the same number of hands and digits I started with.

On Space Mountain, I keep my appendages inside the ride at all times, just like the instructions tell me.

Not sure they tell you that on that ride, or I feel like I definitely would have.

Of course they do!

“Keep your hands and feet inside the car at all times and remain seated until the ride comes to a complete stop”

You could argue that since the car has no top to it, that's ambiguous at best. If you ride a roller coaster without putting your arms in the air, what is even the point?

[LuvTooGolf]

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dead at 80.

I didn't think he would be the first to go. They were supposed to resume there tour next year

Watts was the second-eldest of them.

They're all on borrowed time.

Not Keith Richards, he's clearly immortal.

Keith Richards is Dorian Gray in reverse.  Somewhere there's a portrait of him that keeps getting younger, and when it is exposed he will instantly be transformed into a cherubic child.

That's as solid an explanation as any.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dead at 80.

I heard that. How sad. He's definitely not the one I thought would go first.

Sorry, catching up and I see that the same has already been said.

[razgueado]

And for your Birthday listening pleasure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mREi_Bb85Sk

When I saw the title, I absolutely expected a song filled with fart noises.

It was a bit before your time, but one I always enjoyed.  The guitar, not the farts.

Now we've got to get Mr. Raz to record us a version of it.

I can't improve on perfection.  Glen Campbell could.  But not me.

https://youtu.be/YPJRR74a9xE

No need for improvement.  Enough of an effort just to get through it.

It's not that complicated a piece to play it as Williams wrote it. Williams can play, and compose, much more complicated stuff. But Mike Post, the great composer of immortal TV themes, such as "The Rockford Files," "Hill Street Blues," "Magnum PI," and a number of others, knew a hit when he heard it.  Post booked the Wrecking Crew, who were at the height of their powers. The result was huge.

But it's really not that difficult a piece to play.  Unless of course, Tommy Emmanuel has gotten hold of it.

https://youtu.be/S33tWZqXhnk

[Travellin Dave]

Into the evening... sunset at 8:00...days definitely getting shorter.