Hiya,

re: at 6:09 this morning there were 17 guests online.

I've noticed recently that either your Latvian, Chinese, Korean & Sri Lankan fan base is growing enormously, or the site has been garnering quite a lot of attention from robot spammers of late... but all is not dark... ;o(

I haven't done this for a while so here are the latest site statistics (for June 2008, not counting robot spammer crapola...):

Unique visitors: 2,598 (our best month to date!!!)

Number of visits: 6,092 (again far & away the best month we've had so far!!!!)

Pages Viewed: 35,675 (our best month so far was April 2008, with 85,109 page views)

For the first half of 2008 we've had

Unique visitors: ±13,299

Number of visits: 32,493, with an average of 2.44 visits/visitor

Pages Viewed: 263,333 with an average of 8.1 pages/visit

Popular? Golly gee, gosh, you betcha!!!! :o)))

_{(ahem... now, if only we had some new music to put up to attract a little attention...)}

A+

RR

PS - hey Tom, thanks for the number chart explanation - took me back a few years...

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Hmmm...Sounds like a band name..."My Harmony Rocket" A local band name that I love "Sorry About Dresden" Like...uh yeah sorry dudes.

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Tom...this is where the rubber meets the road here. Thanx Much. This is what can make this site super....always good and always exciting to talk music(with my limited ability and knowledge...but I'm always working on it!)and that is what can seperate this site from the "Also Rans". I hope some folk checked out the guitar linx I posted. The John Entwistle site has some of the best pix of his many basses and Amp and effect setups. RD? Can you take some detailed digital pix of your Sears Silvertone and the famous AMP/Case combo.....you should have taken it to Antiques RoadShow when they were in Louisville...OR Jimmy Brown At Guitar Emporium(if he is still alive and store is still running) You know that it is gonna be worth a tidy sum....I wish I still had My Harmony Rocket. GJL

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at 6:09 this morning there were 17 guests online.

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yes nancy its this fri at karems 8-11 and thanks for the phone message. hope you guys had a good time camping, speaking of guy....numbers chart is just functional symbols instead of chords. there isnt really a nashville system just like there really isnt a power chord except for your amplifier. upper case roman numerals are major ex): in C: (symbol for the key of c major) I = cmajor and    i = cminor (the ii chord of bVII) an altered chord. so the diatonic chords (with the key) are I ii iii IV V vi viio or in C: cmajor dminor eminor fmajor gmajor aminor and bdiminished. if you arent sure what key the song will be sung in until 3 seconds before the performance its probably a good idea to have a numbers chart so you can play it in whatever key the singer wants to sing it in as their range may be different that particular night. i hope this clears things up now start practicing and learn all your sharp key and flat key triads (please refer to the circle of fifths) next week we will try something different. youve got 168 hrs , get hoppin!

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We welcome you home!  (hey that would be a good name for a song!)  It looks like you and your beautiful girls had a wonderful vacation.  Glad you're back safe and sound.  When is your solo Karem's gig?  Is it this Friday?  Inquiring minds want to know.

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Sounds like the Browning-Mchenry vacation summit wuz a big hit. RD thanx fop the local music updates. I really appreciate them. I dig seeing what goes through Louisville...remember......I saw Steve Ray Vaughn At the old SOUNDSTAGE before he hit big...Lonnie Mack opened and played with him.....I saw a fledgeling(sp?) REM at the defunct BEAT CLUB on 3rd Street. I saw Govt. Mule featuring Warren Haynes at Tewligans (wot a dump!) Saw and introduced myself to Frank Zappa (he had on a full legnth saftey orange down coat) at Dutches Tavern after seeing him play at Louisville Gardens. Back in the day all kinds of stuff like that happend in the "ville...some friends of mine met Bobby and Brent at Highland Cyclery and have the pix to prove it.

Chick...for all of us who lived fought laughed and loved in the Highlands....for me at least there is still a special bond. We all go wobbly.....we are weebles! But we dont fall down...(depending on how much hooch we have in us at the time) Your a good soul bro!

Peace/Love/Honor  GJL  Tom.....is a numbers chart a tab chart...or Nashville system? or is it like the Fake books? thanx. GJL 

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also please remember to observe robot's rule of order:

1) never point a robot towards the sun

2) only oil and some graphite liquids allowed on or in robots

3)dont put gum on robots

4) never place a robot in a school bus (this can be rethandric at best and unlectorial in the least)

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hey dave, rico, and rd,

  please email me so i can send you details about the belle of louisville gig. that way i can hit the reply button and make sure you all are expecting it. there are load in and times, guests, pay schecule (this gig books out of florida), and other private band business i cant discuss in the guestbook( ARTICLEIII of the prankster civil code: sec 2. b3 "all inter business can not be discussed in any public forum whatsoever unless sanctioned by governing board and witnessed heretofore in not more than 3 countries or less than two providing any digital scrambling or recognized codex in two or more machine languages or legit human communication is and/or is not present on/or off said public forum"...)

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We were ready in 1984.........and for the past 24 years we have been simmering like a good pot roast. What say we serve it up, fellas?

Been sitting here crying and listening and reading.

Bro Randy did a wonderful job on the SUMMER info on the home page...and hes in frigging FRANCE!!!!!!

Perhaps it has become time for me to keep my mouth shut and my sticks do the talking..........

Love you Cletus!

Would love to do that tune Tom, it's the best one i ever wrote!

 Let's Rock it tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RMOS 

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As many of you know, I've mentioned(about a million times) that my wife's cousin is Joe Mauer, of the Minnesota Twins. He was the answer in one of the questions in the crossword puzzle. I also calculated that he makes around 60,000 bucks per game!  He's more famous, AND richer than Our Morning Jacket.

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"Hi, Chicken Noodle Soup! with Dolphins..." he he he he....I will never forget that...it was at the Derby party where we made hats, wasn't it?

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at fat cats in 1988, i would finish my jazz gig with the fat cats 4 at 1130 or so on sun night and hoof it on down to jockamos with my gtr and amp to sit in with MM&Y. what fun!!! started hangin with nettie there. chickie, you the man, just ask my kids.

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When my daughter(and several other little girls) were about 4 or 5 years old, they referred to Chick as "Chicken Noodle Soup" This would be followed by giggles.  Hee hee hee hee.     And Shannon still calls him that.          

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After sitting and talking about it with Thomas in a motel room in Niagara Falls last weekend, I have decided to put into print my own quotable version of my departure from the Merry Pranksters in 1991, after having dedicated some 12 years of my life to the project. It goes like this:

“In 1989, my marriage was going south faster than Dale Ernhart was doing a quarter mile. My father had become a quadriplegic, my cat had died, and the only woman I had ever truly loved had had enough of my shit and wanted desperately for me to find somewhere else to live and someone else to cause problems for. My brilliant solution to this dilemma was to drink even more heavily than my previous idiot self had managed and to embarrass myself, my friends, my family, and the band on various stages around and about Louisville to a point of mortification never seen before or since in the state of Kentucky. Unfortunately for all those involved, I was extremely successful in this endeavor. The band…it was pretty much of a consensus…offered me one last compromise. I would have to do the rehab thing…which was not nouveau chic at the time, as it is now. Again, in an incredible stroke of brilliance, I refused rehab and marriage counseling simultaneously and the band and my wife had no choice but to let me go be self destructive somewhere else. While some of the band members and extended family have a pretty good idea, no one will ever truly know the depths of my sorrow, guilt and shame derived from that portion of my life. To all of their credit, nary a Merry Prankster (past, present or future) nor a fan nor an employer of the band nor their children nor their parents ever turned their back on me or denied me the love and hope I so desperately need to this day. The Pranksters have always been and will always be my family. I can never express how blessed I have been to walk among them, nor how blessed I am to be in their hearts.” Please feel free to update the band histrory with this truth(as I see it) or not. Perhaps something in the history that is a little less resume and a little more reality will prove beneficial...but maybe not. I love and miss you all more than I could ever find words to express.

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oh my god its the jonas bros. im learnin" fondly on my way" from the video i saw on the website. wonderful tune! will have a number chart on it so we can do it in any key! dave...what a great song, we should do this sun night when i get back. got my parts ready to go. if you need lyrics let me know and ill have those ready too (gees does tom have some time on his hand). thats the thing about vacation.

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So we're walkin' down Queen Street to do a little shopping in downtown Toronto when we happen upon a gaggle of teens lined up behind a barricade. Nikki says 'what're they waiting for?'   I said "what're you waiting for, eh?'  they all scream ' THE JONAS BROTHERS' .  So on our merry way we go shopping ... found a cute dress made out of a UK sweatshirt. And then at 5 pm here they are ..... drum roll please.... THE BEATLES.... no sorry ..... THE JONAS BROTHERS.   All you old farts (and you know who you are - show this to your kids). Ok, I admit Tom & I & all the rest of the parents in this sea of screaming teens were looking around for John Lennon...

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After listening to my 12th generation VHS tape for years I didn't really notice how bad it sounded till I saw our posted videos. WOW, I think the audio is fantastic. Even the fake applause at the end sounded plausable.   PS For Guy, The Fourth party on the Waterfront will have Los Lobos and George Clinton and P-Funk for free. However I'm too lazy and crotchity to go. Traffic jams, 6 dollars berers etc.....

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Chickie, the overuse and misuse of "literally" will drive you nuts, once you start listening for it.

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First of all, I gotta agree with Wes Clark...getting shot down in a fighter plane isnt even a good item on your resume if you want to fly for Jet Blue, let alone if you want to be our Fearless Leader. Personally, I think it just means he wasnt a very good pilot...although he did fearlessly keep his mouth shut while eating gruel and taking some serious beatings. McCain never even bossed around other troops, as is the way with pilots. Also...I am afraid I may go postal the next time I hear someone say "at the end of the day"

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