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Wonder if the good Dr. can fly as well?

It seems to happen more often. I remember some years ago it was anounced in the news, but the newsreader had some difficulties how to call it: the dutch word for sheep is "schaap", and the word for goat is "geit". But "scheit"  sounds like shit in dutch, so they kept in on "gaap" which is the dutch word for  "yawn". Which doesn't mean by the way that our favourite  Dr. is boring.

regards,

Bopper.

ok...I thought the Geep was a cartoon character in Popeye...but what do I know?...;)
-another grumpy 50-year-old..;)

Well, I turned 50 as well a few weeks ago! Guess we need to start a club?

(But stay the HELL off my lawn!)

The grumpy old man club?

Well, my bottomline is just a joke: it reminds me not to be too grumpy, because I caught myself recently in complaining too much and honestly I want to avoid that. I'm glad I can have a laugh here now and then.
By the way, we had some age-dropping here some months ago and I noticed there are a lot of folks here  around 50.

regards,

Bopper.

Quote - Well, I turned 50 as well a few weeks ago! Guess we need to start a club?

(But stay the HELL off my lawn!)

I'm not quite 50, but I'll be turning 46 on March 1st. Can I still join or is the club exclusive? :P

Same here... I honestly don't look, act  or feel 50. I see other 50 year olds, and wonder who that "old man" is... LOL!

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

Ya ain't a 50 year old codger yet...

Damned uppity kids....

And keep that cat outta my garden!! ;)

I just noticed I ain't got no signature, and there's no place under profile to enter one.

Am I getting jypped?

Hey! that's my cat you're yelling at!

okay... I turn 50 in a couple weeks.... been grumpy lately.  I look in the mirror and say "Dad?"
you kids these day... with your Brit Knee music and yer hippity hop.... when I was your age.. we had music, that spoke to us, that spoke to a whole generation... our hearts, our souls, our dreams... our experience.
we had this music... it was ours, and we had a name for it... we called it....

DISCO!

I thought of changing my tag-line but in that  case this whole thread is starting to be nonsense(if it isn't already!)

Disco! now I remember how it was called!

Disco? Is that what you called it?

We had another name for it. LOL

! full year as of last week before 50.

Just turned 54 in January and feeling it...lol
Can a grumpy ole lady join the club?

Feeling it??? Ya need more caffine, chocolate or sugar then!

Heading out to the kitchen right now to make a mocha....ayummmm!

Wow... I have no excuse for my grumpymess :(
It's whatever gets my grumpy goat...

Quote - I just noticed I ain't got no signature, and there's no place under profile to enter one.

Am I getting jypped?

You edit your Signature by clicking that link at the top of the forums called "My Forum Options". Ya grumpy ole' coot! I'll be 45 this month. :tt2:

OMG! 1358 is 50! I thought you were a kid. I'm 56. I tried to hide it with my youthful avatars, LOL! Acadia is a mere child! Well, you might have had Disco - Think John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever". I was a HIPPIE! A Flower child! I wore bellbottoms and had long hair and love beads - so THERE! That beats disco any day, LOL!

It sounds like most here had a dislike of Disco. LOL

There's nothing like Hendrix, Joplin, Morris, Mama Cass, Lynard Synyrd, oh wait, there seems to be a theme there.

Some did survive. Grace Slick, Jim Dandy, Kieth richards, though the way he looks you would swear he should be in the first group. LOL.

May I have the envelope ... please ... and the winner is ...

Ask and ye shall receive, n'est pas?

;=]

I was more an inbetweenie : Too young to be a hippie and too old for disco.  My favourite music in those days was the progressive rock of Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the early Genesis albums, but no-one seems to remember that music anymore allthough I still listen to it.
Sometimes it feels like I was born in the twilightzone. Some of my friends and relatives with the same age have the same feelings, we were a bit of grey or more to say colorless. When you read above that all that we belong to a lost generation, the whole picture is complete.
But I hear myself complaining again, when I look (and listen) at the brainless music of today with its hip-hop, acidrock, techno-house, trance and what more even disco doesn't seem that bad.

Hey, I was was just listening to Brain Salad Surgery the other Day. I listened to the same stuff too. But I'm a rock freak, I love just about any kind of rock, jazz and blues.

I can't stand rap. I rank that right there with people who talk in movie theaters and child molesters. LOL.

after doing pics with takeoffs on Yes, ELP, and Genesis (did Lillywhite Lilith a month or so ago), I can't say they're being ignored..;) granted, no one looked at most of them, but still. What other person would model a modular Moog?...;)

As for Disco...

Rock was about fun
Soul was about love
Disco was about #$%^ing...sorry, but there it is...;)

Brain salad surgery... i have two vinyl records of it, one that's turned grey and one that has never been played, I bought that one on a sell-out of a recordshop, I think it's the last record I bought, together with "black&blue" of the stones.

Speaking about flying sheep, Pink Floyd did some concerts with a giant flying pig.

Quote - It sounds like most here had a dislike of Disco. LOL

OMG! I love DISCO!  I wasn't quite old enough to go to the clubs during the height of the disco era (Turned 18 in 1980), but when dressed up in my finest spandex and polyester, hair and makeup, I managed to look old enough. So I started going to discos in 1978. So I did manage to enjoy some of it.  I had a huge collection of LPs, then Cassettes and now CDs with all of my favourite disco MP3s on it.    I even bought Time Life's disco series,  LOL

I absolutely loved the BeeGees... still do, hehe 

Any of these ring a bell?

http://www.disco-disco.com/other/vh1.shtml

I loved (and still do love) Disco as well. How can you match the timeless lyrics of classics like "Push, Push in the Bush", or "Disco Duck"?

Ok, I gots a signature now! Yay me! Can the animated gifs be any size? (I see some animated ones, and a animated gif one could be pretty cool.)

The animation still has to fit into the sig and avatar size limits.

Very nice sig!

@ Pakled - the character in Popeye was "Jeep", not "Geep".  Pronounced the same, as it happens, unlike the hybrid goat/sheep thingy, which has a hard "g".

Thanks that's my daz store banner, and after I wrote that in a previous post here, it just kinda made sense to keep it here as well.

I might try a 5 or 10 frame gif animation, just to see if it actually works.

Disco was just a phase most of us went through.... I listened to ELP, Mike Oldfield, Kraftwerk and the like in High School... just to *&%s off the bangers....  'course, the 80s swung around....flock of seagulls, simple minds.... although I still listen to Oldfield, ELP, Kraftwerk, The Floyd... just  to *&^s off the kids.    80's music.... sing with me,
"You can dance if you want to,
you can leave your friends behind.
Cuz your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance,
well, they're no friends of mine....".

age is a state of mind... where they still let old people drive!

a friend of mine once said.... if you couldn't find it on 8 Track... it ain't Rock and Roll

I disco danced too. I had huge platform shoes and wide bellbottom. There was a place called Uncle Sams that had a light-up dance floor. That was fun.  remember the favorite Y M C A!!!!!! by the Village People?

Aaargh, I was just trying to forget that! Now I can´t get it of my head! (another greta hit by ELO BTW) LOL

you can dance, you can dance, everybody look at their hands...;) Yeah, the 80s had some cheesy stuff (That music's lost it's flavor, try another flavor, ant music...;)

I was listening to stuff like U2, the Jam, the Clash, etc., when the disco balls were turning. The 80s were a breath of fresh air for me, 90s even better.

As a musician, I had a natural jones against disco, because, frankly, disco meant they didn't need us anymore. Some musicians looked at rap with a gimlet eye for the same reason..;) At least until they started using something besides turntables...;)

Disco was just too limited in scope, you could only do so much with it. It burned itself out in about 4 years or so. I remember when they burned all the disco albums in that baseball field all those years ago...;)

Disco was the first exclusionary music. It was all about if you were 'good enough' to get in the club. Partly I wasn't (they let in more women than men, and the men had to be 'cool enough' to get past the bouncers. I'll admit, I wasn't cool enough..;) but still, if you deliberately limit people enjoying your form of music, you're going to create some animosity.

I don't really have anything against the rave scene, or trance, or trip hop, or anything like that. It was mainly that 70s stuff. One of my favorite quotes (by a band that played something called 'queercore')  was "a lifetime of Disco is too high a price to pay for your lifestyle"...;) cracks me up. Just nice to know that I wasn't alone in despising it.

Sorry, just been waiting a few decades to say that. We now return you to the thread in progress...;)

speak the truth... Brother Pakled!
side note:  In Yorkton Saskatchewan (you really have to have a map handy) they hold the Yorkton short film and Video Festival (the oldest short film festival in North America).  One year, I hooked up with a bunch of other art-film makers and we were looking for a bar to go to after the ceremonies.  One of the locals said "You should go to Holly's, behind the Holiday Inn (and across the RR tracks)"  We get there and on the outside, it looks like your typical small town Farmer Bar.... fake western motif... but once you go through the doors... it looked like the owner had gone to NYC, packed up a Disco that went out of business and set the whole thing back up in the middle of the prairies... complete with Travolta-ish light up dancefloor, mirror balls, smoke machines, the works... the bar area was a raised ring above the dance floor where the guys could drink and watch their girls dance..... so, if you're ever in Yorkton for a film festival... check out Holly's, the Farmer Dance Bar!
small prairie towns... where discos go when they die!

Quote - speak the truth... Brother Pakled!
side note:  In Yorkton Saskatchewan (you really have to have a map handy) they hold the Yorkton short film and Video Festival (the oldest short film festival in North America).  One year, I hooked up with a bunch of other art-film makers and we were looking for a bar to go to after the ceremonies.  One of the locals said "You should go to Holly's, behind the Holiday Inn (and across the RR tracks)"  We get there and on the outside, it looks like your typical small town Farmer Bar.... fake western motif... but once you go through the doors... it looked like the owner had gone to NYC, packed up a Disco that went out of business and set the whole thing back up in the middle of the prairies... complete with Travolta-ish light up dancefloor, mirror balls, smoke machines, the works... the bar area was a raised ring above the dance floor where the guys could drink and watch their girls dance..... so, if you're ever in Yorkton for a film festival... check out Holly's, the Farmer Dance Bar!
small prairie towns... where discos go when they die!

So that is where my Studio 57 Memorabilia went too!

I may not be old as some of you but I was (made) at Woodstock, so my momma says.

46??? 50???? Bl**dy Kids!!

<---------------- Diolma stomps off knocking the heads from snowdrops with his walking stick whilst whistling "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" (Spike Jones version..)

Cheers,
Diolma

I suppose you're a Bing Crosby fan
 Or didn't he sing that?
Oops I'm mistaken that was "White Christmas"

Looks like quite the same perspective for us musicians on Disco.  

diolma, Andrew Sisters?

Then again, they were an early form of rock. Like Chet Atkins for guitar.

All I want for christmas....

"The song was originally recorded by Spike Jones and the City Slickers on December 6*, 1948 (that version reached the top of the charts in early 1949).*" (Wikipedia)

And yes, I was born before it was 1st recorded (but not before it was written).
BTW - if you've never heard any of Spike Jones records (or have never heard of Spike Jones, for that matter) then you've missed out. As long as you like "absurd", that is.

Cheers,
Diolma

My Andrew sisters was not an answer to the song, it was the era i was refering to.

Actually I was very young when Spike Jones was at his peak.

My favourite ever band is Pink Floyd.

My musical tendencies were started by the Beatles, somewhat skewed after I learned to play the guitar and wandered into the UK Folk arena, became more skewed when I fell in love with early blues and from that learned about US bluegrass and country music, and later "country rock" (or whatever the pundits call it).
My era? 1900-1980 (approx). (That's where I find music interesting - not when I have lived.)

I must say I didn't really like a lot of the (popular) music of my youth, but I was too young at the time to know that. After about 1975 I didn't like much of the popular music either - but I was, by then, old enough to realise it.

Cheers,
Diolma

I had to listen to what the parental units were listening to until the early 70s; things like Oscar Peterson, Sarah Vaughan, etc. Don't have anything against it, but I sometimes wish I could find new good music without having to shell out $16 to find out what's good..;)

Elvis was on the radio when I was born ('57..;)

I really think rock needs a good shake up. It's seems a bit stale these days.

The advantages of have niece and nephew. When ever they visit they bring thier Ipods and I get a chance to hear whats new for them. I have to admit, they have pretty good taste for rock, they don't like rap either. LOL

Right now I'm listening to one of my Mp3 mix.
Our Lady Peace - Tomorrow Never Knows
Pixies - Monkey Gone to heaven
Letters to Cleo - Dangerous Girl
Buzzcocks - Why can't I touch you
Smiths - How soon is now
Jennifer Warnes- version of_ First We Take Manhattan
REM - Lossing My religion
Earshot - Get away
Mixed with Nina Hagen, Soundgarden, Clash, and Bauhaus.

I'm sure you all would remember some of that. LOL

Call it the Highlander's Club. There can be only one. Which one was first off of the ark.  :)

Just for the record. I'm old enough to know better yet still to young to resist. :)

Jeez, I thought I was an old guy but now I feel better knowing that so many of you are in or near your 50s. I'm 52 and I actually remember laughing to Spike Jones 'Cocktails For Two' when I was a kid :)

As a hard core rock & roller it was obligatory to hate disco. In the gang I hung with if you didn't hate disco you would be shunned and banished. I finally went to a disco when I was married and in my mid-twenties and although I wasn't crazy about the music I really loved the glamorous dress of the ladies - very different from how the women (and guys) dressed at the local rock clubs :)

I've been waxing nostalgic for the late sixties too and have been re-watching a lot of documentaries about that era: The Sixties, Berkeley In The Sixties, Two Days In October, The Summer Of Love and The Weather Underground.

Woodstock, demonstrations, bombings, rioting in the streets - sigh I miss the good ol' days :) lol :)

• Rick

Aww I feel like a baby now with my mere 42... BUT I remember most of the music y'all been referring to. I'm a major Pink Floyd fan myself and Sheep is one of my favourite songs ever. (heh and thus we are returning at least slightly to the start of this thread) - I've always had a feeling that I was born 10 years too late. I was a hippie in the 80'ies.. just to be opposite...