Re: Charlie's World

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Mon Dec 07, 2020 3:44 pm

I had to upgrade MY MIC STAND, to protect my investment in that $600 Sennheiser CONDENSER MIC.
The new stand is GREAT. It cost $150. So with mic & cable, it was $800 total for a good vocal mic.

THE OLD STAND had an obtrusive length of counter-balance
which was making the mic wobble, and putting it at risk for being knocked over.
In a constricted space, that had to be replaced.

NOW: almost no overhang at all, yet very stable!

So I started with junk: a Shure SM58 on a tripod stand in, 2014.
And now I've got the flagship Sennheiser studio mic. YES!! Cool

Actually ALL my equipment is top notch now. I've done it. Wanna jam?

Oh come on, you want to jam the scary clown song, you know you do.

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:49 am

HOT ALBUM FINDS!

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Tue Dec 22, 2020 1:37 pm

I bought a second Sennheiser condenser mic..because they were $200 off, and I'll now have
TWO IDENTICAL MICS which hear the entire frequency range perfectly, for my 16-track recorder.

If I borrow them from the guitar and piano, where they're used as vocal mics, that is.

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Thu Mar 04, 2021 3:09 pm

I wish I could sing and play music out loud.

And not have to eat garbage.

I wish I could safely go outside to walk.

And drive a car and have friends and a life.

But instead here's something that never happened..

I spent the last 3 years telling jokes at Yahoo Answers
because I can't play and sing out loud here. I'm not free to live my life.
There's never money nor privacy enough, and my health declines now.

____________________________________________________________________________

But I did enjoy creating characters and humor at YA. cheers

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Sat Jul 10, 2021 4:38 pm

This is a mixing board, 22-track recorder, and DAW interface. All-in-one easy. $1,000

Click the photo to see it at Sweetwater. Or click HERE to learn more at Zoom.

I'd like to get this. My R16 is outdated. But unless I start playing regularly, there's no reason to buy more stuff. I'm just
bored because Yahoo Answers closed so I have nowhere to hide telling jokes anymore. But that is forcing me to do things
OFF THE COMPUTER, so I may start playing or working in music in some way, and this could be a needed upgrade for that.

I need examine what I could do IN LIFE now, and with all this stuff I bought.
I'm vaccinated, and have a budget for going out a couple times a week, plus some bigger trips.
I'll check out the Union open mic, August 5. And keep looking and expanding, finding things and people.

Maybe there's a useful place I could land and feel happy.

in post-pandemia renaissance

IN THE TWENTIES

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Sat Jul 10, 2021 4:56 pm

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Mon Nov 08, 2021 12:19 pm

Oh, I wanna go back! Sad

--> MORE!! (click to see at youtube, it's a list) --> their debut 1965 album! COOL BABY~ YEA! <--

--> MORE!! (click to see at youtube, it's a list) --> their 1970 album! Sounding quite Beatle-ish! <--

You've been listening to THE PRETTY THINGS (aka The Electric Banana).

Music from the 60's. Groovier than you at WMAN Manchaug, 110 on your FM fucking dial.*

*Thanks Dave Hemingway

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Wed Dec 29, 2021 5:42 pm

Every go a place, leave a place.
I know a place, there's no more place.
I'll go again in sorrow, collapsed without morrow. Sad

Come back Bushy! Come back John Huntington. Come back Fish and those people too. Come NOW! Michael Jacques. And old Bill too.

Don't just leave me here with nowhere to go, nothing to do, no friends to have, no car even too.

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:53 pm

Total cost - old school Strat, with Floyd Rose, Pink Floyd EMG's and case $1,457.57

(But don't get a Strat. It's not a guitar, just wires stretched across a board!)

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:54 pm

ALSO looking at:

It's a freeze and gliss pedal.

With that and my Memory Man
an other world of accompaniement is made.

(And I'll recreate the Land of The Lost sound with boxes I have,
since the Soundblox pedal I sought is discontinued.

USING:

EHX Cocked Wah

Malekko trem & swell

Flange

Some screech & rumble dirt. (Pre-OD the Sputnik, and use Freqout.)

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Thu Mar 03, 2022 3:45 pm

THE KILLS! Hold on to yer pants Jethro!

The Dead Weather. Jack White. Allison Moss. Fuck yea. What a Face

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Sat Nov 19, 2022 12:02 pm

-- unposted, at defunct FAIR DEPARTMENT STORE facebook group --

WORCESTER FAIR IN THE 70'S... @Roseann Perrault

It's you! Hey lady! (No, this isn't Jerry Lewis

) I'm the 17-year old who'd retrieve your layaways, 1976-1977.
And I'd come to work an hour early and shovel the sidewalk. (It really messed up my hair!) (No. I'm not John Travolta.)

I'm Paul. I worked for Linda Meservey in Toys, Christmas 1976.

(She later started the Pan Mass Challenge, big annual bike ride for cancer...

Linda was great. (And hi Beana! Smile

)

Then I worked in the warehouse and drove the small truck for a year.

Remember Mark and Kenny, Shipping & Receiving? Mark'd say Reggie McPhierson wrong on the intercom, to piss him off.

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrr..rrrrrr..Reggie McPhierson call 4-6 please! Rrrrrrrrr..rrr..rrrrrrr.rrrrrrReggie McPhierson! .. frr'p!! FOUR SIX!!"

And we'd listen to intercom antics!

And you'd call Hascal Gordon "Rascal" Razz

On a serious note..our Lawn & Garden manager was caught stealing. (he was my biology teacher's husband) (scandal!)

Moron stealing: We hired some temps Shocked

to unload trucks. So I'm 17, listening to a psych patient talk about the "dark tunnel" he'd been in, when
another temp takes off down Greenwood Street with a two-wheeler full of chainsaws. Where was he going? Catch the bus? We don't know!
Cops picked him up.

And sad and terrible, our truck driver was squashed by his tractor trailer he was loading, one morning before we arrived.
Ellen from the snack bar was inconsolable. She'd seen him all blue, and the medical folks let her believe they'd revive him! Reggie had to tell her.

Remember Ellen? She had red hair, up, and drove a blue Mustang with what looked like bullet holes, but from a snow plow. She took care of us!

Ellen wasn't the only one affected hard by our driver's death. I've grieved 46 years myself.
I alone was in the parking lot with him as he died, but I didn't know. He was in his trailer when the brake slipped
and either tried to jump out or was thrown..but didn't make it and got squashed between truck and fence. He couldn't breathe.
As I listened to The Lemon Song so loud in my car..he must have heard it too as he died. The memory disturbs.

I left The Fair in Fall 1977. By 1984 I was older and making triple the money, and I went back to ask Ellen out. But she was unfindable. Neutral

At The FAIR..

I bought a 1972 Charger with an 8-track, and took up with a couple fellow 17-year olds in the warehouse (Wayne Landry and Isaac 'Fuzzy' Grant).
We had nothing but fun that whole year I was 17, exploring being mobile and partying. We saw real 1976 Lynyrd Skynyrd at Cape Cod Coliseum. Checked out
the Marlboro Flats (an industrial park where people raced their cars). We saw Blazing Saddles & Young Frunkensteen at Oxford Drive-In (it's Wal-Mart now).
Crashed graduation parties, the beach arcade, carnivals, fireworks, beer, music, girls, driving. Oh life was grand then!

I took up guitar & singing and wrote 400 songs in the 80's.
I've been telling jokes in recent years (just on Yahoo Answers, which closed now).

I had to say hi to you, Rose! *hugs* How's it been for you? Alright?
I'm 63 now and had a stroke in May. It slowed me a bit but I don't stop. I'm a lot of creativity seeking outlet as always.
It was a great surprise to turn a corner after all these years, and there's Rose!!!!!

I remember that face! those kind eyes.

PICTURED: Me, a year later. Now 18, I'd gotten a better paying job and started buying a few toys.
Music was to be everything to me. I was playing Freedom, by Bread.

'MARLBORO FLATS' IN THE 70's:

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Sun Jan 01, 2023 4:15 pm

Found another one of these. Good!

(I take it as an omen that 'change' is afoot.)

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Mon Jan 02, 2023 6:17 pm

I had a stroke in May, and spent the last half-year recovering use of my arm & leg.

I promised me in the hospital I'd clean up and do something with whatever I have, while I can.

Well I've replaced my TV and surround system and reordered the living room. So I've cleaned up.
And it was the needed physical therapy. So now is when I planned to 'do things while I can'...

But I don't feel I want anything! It takes energy. And all my fires have gone out. *~^

I've felt quite positive till this point, but there's no longer building towards something to content me.

I could go out a little, but I can't be bothered. I'd actually prefer to watch sitcoms and eat cheeze-poofs.

I have a 50/50 chance of living past the next 6 months. But if I do, I could then live 5 more years, but it's iffy.

But I still don't know how to have no life without Yahoo Answers. Sad

I have no outlet, no people, no fun.

Why have I no intelligent funny musical friends? And where is my car friend at least?

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Thu Oct 05, 2023 3:38 pm

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Thu Oct 05, 2023 3:39 pm

The longstanding view, as summarized by the philosopher Imannuel Kant, that
"without man the whole of creation would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final end"
is revealed to be self-indulgent folly. - Carl Sagan

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Thu Oct 05, 2023 3:40 pm

by **Charlie FiftyWatts** Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:17 pm

As CAPTAIN PANTS on Yahoo Answers!

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