I like this time at night on HBT

[passedpawn]

I don't think @passedpawn has popped in here for a couple weeks. Hope he is well. Apparently he's an experienced harmonica player.

I suck at harmonica! I also blow at it I guess that's a joke if you know how a harmonica works.

I used to play it a lot. I can still play some basic stuff, and it might impress the uninformed, but certainly I'm not good at it.

Harmonica is a pretty easy thing to master. It doesn't take long to get good at it. Anybody wanting to find a way to groove their musical energy, grab a Lee Oscar "C" harmonica and let it rip. So nice to have a musical instrument fit in your pocket.

 

[Kent88]

Triumph. My very first concert. Must have been around 1980

Some advertising will probably come first. Hang in there. Music wil come

That's cool that you remember your first concert. My county fair was blessed with some pretty good talent scouts who brought in some good acts. I'm sure my first concert must've been at the county fair, but I was too young to remember.

Besides that, I went to a concert or two through the youth group I attended in middle school, and I went to one or two at ffa convention. The last big concert I attended was Garth Brooks, before our first kid came along. It's been a few years.

 

[Kent88]

I suck at harmonica! I also blow at it I guess that's a joke if you know how a harmonica works.

...

Harmonica is a pretty easy thing to master. It doesn't take long to get good at it. Anybody wanting to find a way to groove their musical energy, grab a Lee Oscar "C" harmonica and let it rip. So nice to have a musical instrument fit in your pocket.

Lolz.

Humble brag about how easy it is... I still can't get the hang of tongue blocking. My jaw is a little messed up for reasons I don't understand, so I get kind of tired of practicing that way.

I do pretty well after practicing on my hohner and forcing myself to slow down. I also don't know how to bend yet.

After buying a couple standard diatonics I found one of these on sale, and it's really a different beast that wears out my jaw in a hurry:


(and no, that absolutely isn't me)

 

[passedpawn]

Lolz.

Humble brag about how easy it is... I still can't get the hang of tongue blocking. My jaw is a little messed up for reasons I don't understand, so I get kind of tired of practicing that way.

I do pretty well after practicing on my hohner and forcing myself to slow down. I also don't know how to bend yet.

After buying a couple standard diatonics I found one of these on sale, and it's really a different beast that wears out my jaw in a hurry:


(and no, that absolutely isn't me)

I'll bet you're a lot better at it than you let on. Anyway, I want to impress this on the permanent record: I'm not a great harmonica player.

 

[Kent88]

I'll bet you're a lot better at it than you let on. Anyway, I want to impress this on the permanent record: I'm not a great harmonica player.

I'm still very much a beginner. Give me a short-ish piece (I think one of the longest songs I've learned was back in November or December I learned O Holy Night) that doesn't require bending, and a couple days to practice, I can probably do a passable job on it.

 

[Dan]

Passedpawn, I just saw a note I’m ignoring your replies?? Don’t know how that happened. A one off?

 

[Dan]

Starting a new job

Something in my head reminded me of an Olivia Newton John song


Let me be there in the morning let me be there in the night
Let me take whatever’s wrong and make it right..make it right
Let me take you to that wonderland that only we can share
All I ask it ooh ooh ohh is let be there

Lol

Real thing

 

[Dan]

 

[Dan]

I don’t take the word’s of Olivia’s song direct. I believe she truly talks about love

I’m not going to get mushy on the subject of love…but even the burliest, man -man among us needs love in their life. Without it. We suck!

 

[Dan]

Their is a song I truly love, Waylon Jennings Did it…

Shoot!
So many great songs across the music realm.
The greatest thing about music is that it’s beautiful in the eyes of the person who likes it. I ask for you to share your favorites here.

If you play please share your music here

With dignity and respect
Dan Dawson

 

[Kent88]

I’m not going to get mushy on the subject of love…but even the burliest, man -man among us needs love in their life. Without it. We suck!

Liking this post isn't enough

 

[Dan]

Wew!

I’ve come to the realization that I’m 58 years old. If I live to be a ripe old age of 88 I got 30 more years. My mom and dad died of cancer in their mid 60’s. Cancer sucks ass.

They both were the youngest of their siblings of four. The brothers and sisters less one of my moms sisters died in her late eighties are all stil alive except my dad’s oldest brother, My uncle who died at 96

The rest are all kicking it into their 90s

I recently broke my upper right leg. Effing stupid accident. Broke it near the top of the right femur. Surgeon tried to put it back in place, then he would screw bones back together. Didn’t work. He did wats called a total hip replacement. From what I’ve read good for 20-30 years. I’ll post a pic of mine

 

[Dan]

I’d show the whole Xray but you can see my nutsack in it. Lol

 

[Dan]

I’m a little humble

You don’t realize how wonderful a human body is until you mess it up

I believe, the break was not good but a blessing in disguise. I’m a hard headed SOB and took for granted my body. Now I have to rebuild muscles to regain strength.

 

[Dan]

In my experience health is taken for granted.

Looking back I doubt I’d change much. If I said I would I’d be a hypocrite.

If I’m being honest I took decent care of my body. Not great care but decent

Dan Dawson being honest

Aloha

 

[Dan]

I’m not sure what I think about God. To many religious different aspects all have some take on it. That’s as far as I go on the god subject less this thread gets blocked

I will say that the greatest engineer ever imaginable, beyond imaginable created life. So many intricacies.

I do believe in a creator. The greatest creator ever.

Aloha
Dan Dawson

 

[Kent88]

Looking back I doubt I’d change much. If I said I would I’d be a hypocrite.

If I’m being honest I took decent care of my body. Not great care but decent

Dan Dawson being honest

Aloha

There are worse things than being called a hypocrite. Like not learning from your mistakes. Hypocrisy is worth calling out at times, but sometimes it's just a tool to lock people into old ways of thinking and smear them.

 

[Dan]

In keeping with music on this thread. Let me try and post

 

[Dan]

: - )

 

[Dan]

Around 1985 I was young. Lol. I was stationed aboard the USS MIDWAY. Had a cassette player. I’d go to sleep every day (I worked nights (1800-0600)

Each day when I went to sleep I had one cassette tape. Styx. Man oh man

 

[CKuhns]

I have not posted to this thread but have been an avid reader / lurker for years.

@Dan Sure do appreciate your life stories, ramblings and musings.

Just thought it was time to say as much.

 

[Dan]

Oops I meanthttps://youtu.be/e5MAg_yWsq8

 

[Dan]

Oops I meant

 

[Dan]

Over the past 10 years I’ve shared much on this thread This Time at Night

One thing I’ve learned in my life. Honesty, humbling honesty is good for the soul. We are all subjected to life’s troubles. I truly believe in there is goodness among us human beings. Hard to see it at times.

 

[Dan]

But it is true

 

[Dan]

But it is true

With Aloha,
Dan Dawson

 

[Dan]

Ok. One more song. It’s by Lois Armstrong

Hope the link works

 

[Dan]

He is one of my heros

 

[Dan]

God night my friends
Dan

 

[Dan]

One last couple of words. Mymom said. ( I know it’s not original but that’s ok)

May the road rise up to meet you.

May the wind be always at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields
until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.