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(Message started by: barry_sword on Aug 31st, 2007, 6:45am)
Title: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by barry_sword on Aug 31st, 2007, 6:45am
What is everyone doing this long weekend? Angie and I finally got a long weekend off at the same time.

The weather forecast is calling for sunny skies and warm temps so looks like three days of biking for us. ;;D

Have a great LONG weekend all.

  Barry
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Karla on Aug 31st, 2007, 6:50am
family reunion this weekend.  Also going to see the Moving Vietnam Vetrans Memorial Wall in La Crosse WI.  
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by chewy on Aug 31st, 2007, 6:57am
Easy.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/bgull2/HPIM0876.jpg?t=1188557790
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by sandie99 on Aug 31st, 2007, 7:44am
What we're up to? I'm guessing walking, watching movies, taking care of the guinea pigs... things like that. :)

Have a great time folks! :)

Sanna
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by jimmers on Aug 31st, 2007, 7:56am
1. Tomorrow I cut the long overdue lawn and clean the garage. Go to Church (Hopefully the roof doesn't fall in)

2. Sunday go to Maxwell street days in Cedarburg Wi. (Huge antique fair) Note to self: Look for a SAFE BOATING pamphlet for Chewy!

3. Monday, maybe do a shrimp boil. Not sure yet.

4. Tomorrow, Sunday and Monday. Beer ;;D ;

Have fun everyone!! Hope its completely PF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Brewcrew on Aug 31st, 2007, 8:15am
Chores around the homestead. Learn my parts for Thank You by Led Zeppelin and Into The Mystic by Van Morrisson for a wedding we're playing next weekend (the wedding couple requested these songs - how cool is that?). Band picnic on Monday followed by rehearsal.

Busy enough for Labor Day.
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by ClusterChris on Aug 31st, 2007, 9:26am
I'm with chewy, I think i'll be hitting the shores.

Chris
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Rosybabe on Aug 31st, 2007, 9:58am
we are going to the Home school library and then we will spend time in a friend's pool and  take our little one to the children's museum.  :)
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by George_J on Aug 31st, 2007, 10:28am
Finishing the interior painting.  Carpet installers get here on Tuesday.

We usually never go fishing on the Labor Day or Memorial Day weekends, unless we're going to some place that's remote.  Too many people.      

The trout streams bloom with cigar-chomping, scotch-swilling yuppies who slog cluelessly through the riffles and runs, whipping the water to a froth, scaring fish in all directions--or with gap-toothed worm flingers who festoon the river with flourescent marshmallows.  

At least that's how it seems to me--but I've been told that I'm a curmudgeonly old fart who thinks if he sees another fisherman, he's being crowded.  

Be that as it may.

I'll go fishing next weekend.

Best,

George

 
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by nancyc on Aug 31st, 2007, 11:53am
Stay in bed....got a broken rib and TMJ is triggering off my clusters after all this time of being pf.....My 5 year old grandson, Tristan, is taking care of me LOL...what a way to spend the weekend...i usually work every weekend but the Doctor put me out of work....I am sure all the nurses at work are saying "Sure, Nancy is on bedrest..LOL...on a holiday weekend.."  What a way to get a weekend off....Hope everyone has a safe and fun weekend....smiles,nancyc ;;D
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by echo on Aug 31st, 2007, 12:15pm
I will sit in the corner and be three dimensional.

Might go to the Ren Fest if the weather is good.

May go to the lake if the weather is hot.

Might shit my pants if I pass another gall stone.

It's nice to have options.
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Charlie on Aug 31st, 2007, 8:13pm
Finish my weed eating, look at the preps for the big fireworks display a couple of blocks from me and then hopefully go later on. Monday, I'm supposed to drink beer with my cousin.

Everbody enjoy. http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/dancers.gif

Charlie
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Kevin_M on Aug 31st, 2007, 8:46pm
Starting Saturday evening with a gathering of non-laboring holiday partying with the majority of co-workers, festooned with lots of drunken emotional hugging and non-letting-go into the night, as our 150-person office closed today.  The joy of leaving and freedom to move on will overcome thoughts of new career searches for the night with prolonged severance pay provided.  No interviews planned for Sunday, could be a stumper knowing what day it is.  Lots of great comradrie.
 I'll probably be a designated driver for those wanting to leave by seven o'clock.  ;;D

Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Paul98 on Aug 31st, 2007, 9:02pm
Getting together with family and jetskiing on the lake with my brother.  Oh yea, and eating something I don't have to cook!

Enjoy, folks!  The weather in the NE is supposed to rock!

-P.
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by barry_sword on Aug 31st, 2007, 9:06pm

on 08/31/07 at 20:46:39, Kevin_M wrote:
Starting Saturday evening with a gathering of non-laboring holiday partying with the majority of co-workers, festooned with lots of drunken emotional hugging and non-letting-go into the night, as our 150-person office closed today.  The joy of leaving and freedom to move on will overcome thoughts of new career searches for the night with prolonged severance pay provided.  No interviews planned for Sunday, could be a stumper knowing what day it is.  Lots of great comradrie.
 I'll probably be a designated driver for those wanting to leave by seven o'clock.  ;;D


I am very sorry to hear this. May you find employment soon. Sounds like you guys were really close.

 Barry
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Kevin_M on Aug 31st, 2007, 9:14pm

on 08/31/07 at 21:06:43, barry_sword wrote:
I am very sorry to hear this. May you find employment soon. Sounds like you guys were really close.

 Barry


Thanks bud,


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Labour Day Long Weekend_ _


Longer than most this year, the irons with marshmellows are in the fire.  ;)
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Linda_Howell on Aug 31st, 2007, 9:17pm

  Going to a Motorcycle rally/festival/ with the Patriot Guard Riders up in Mount Shasta where I hope it will be cooler than where I am at in the valley. (106)

It's only an hour drive but riding along with almost 100 other guard riders is an awesome thing and I guess I wouldn't care if it was just as hot there.

BBQ in the park afterwards.
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Aug 31st, 2007, 9:43pm
Leaving town for a week.  Heading due West - no particular destination in mind.  Golf clubs in the trunk.

I love trips where you just fly by the a$$ of your pants - no reservations - no plans - no idea where we might end up by the end of a day.

The best part - somebody else cooks the meals and makes the beds!  Now that's a holiday.

Be good y'all

Carol
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Linda_Howell on Aug 31st, 2007, 9:57pm


California is west Carol.   ;;D
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Aug 31st, 2007, 10:03pm
Heck - so is Calgary!  Only going for a week Linda - California would take a tad longer. ;;D
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by assaultme on Sep 1st, 2007, 12:56am

on 08/31/07 at 08:15:25, Brewcrew wrote:
Chores around the homestead. Learn my parts for Thank You by Led Zeppelin and Into The Mystic by Van Morrisson for a wedding we're playing next weekend (the wedding couple requested these songs - how cool is that?). Band picnic on Monday followed by rehearsal.

Busy enough for Labor Day.


Hey Brewcrew

 Great version of "I am the Walrus" .....complete with correct horns & everything. I really liked it !!! Very hard tune to pull off convincingly, but y'all did a bang up job on it....kudos.
Dave
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by assaultme on Sep 1st, 2007, 12:58am
Snagged up on some over-time...yipee !!!
  Gonna play drums, house stuff, detail truck, labor kind of stuff  [smiley=laugh.gif]
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by UN solved on Sep 1st, 2007, 4:06am
Doing the Histamine Drip. No, it's not a dance !

Stuck here @ the <> clinic in Chicago  :-/

Have fun you guys ! Someone plz eat some grilled food for me !!

UNsolved
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by LeLimey on Sep 1st, 2007, 7:23am
Well its a lovely day here so I think I might just take the kids to either Sherwood Forest or Stratford upon Avon for the afternoon, tomorrow we can take a picnic to Kenilworth Castle and Monday is last-minute school uniform shopping as the little buggers darlings are back at school on Tuesday - the holidays have gone far too quickly, can we rewind a couple of weeks please?!!
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by barry_sword on Sep 1st, 2007, 7:37am

on 09/01/07 at 04:06:27, UN solved wrote:
Doing the Histamine Drip. No, it's not a dance !

Stuck here @ the <> clinic in Chicago  :-/

Have fun you guys ! Someone plz eat some grilled food for me !!

UNsolved


I will grill something in your honor. Anything special you would like? Sorry you are stuck in a clinic. :P

 Barry
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by barry_sword on Sep 1st, 2007, 7:43am

on 09/01/07 at 07:23:01, LeLimey wrote:
the holidays have gone far too quickly, can we rewind a couple of weeks please?!!


You can say that again Helen. This summer has zipped by way to quickly. Seems like yesterday we were swatting the spring blackflies and now we are going shopping for fall riding gear. Sheeez! :-/

I am sure looking forward to the fall colors though. Breathtaking where we ride.

  Barry :)
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by LeLimey on Sep 1st, 2007, 8:07am
I'll tell you what then Barry - you and Angie take some pics of YOUR weekend and I'll take some of mine and we'll swap? Fair?!!  ;;D
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by barry_sword on Sep 1st, 2007, 8:22am
Done deal!!! ;;D

  Barry
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Brewcrew on Sep 1st, 2007, 8:23am

on 09/01/07 at 00:56:06, assaultme wrote:
Hey Brewcrew

 Great version of "I am the Walrus" .....complete with correct horns & everything. I really liked it !!! Very hard tune to pull off convincingly, but y'all did a bang up job on it....kudos.
Dave

Hey there, Dave - Thanks! And thanks for noticing. That one took awhile in rehearsal, but it's still one of my faves.

Do you have any recordings on the web anywhere? I'd love to give a listen.

We've got a rehearsal today for a gig at the end of Sept. - 80 or so Harley-Davidson exhaust pipe salesmen and their dates, playing inside a HD dealership. I'm thinking: lots of blues.
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by LeLimey on Sep 1st, 2007, 8:59am
Well if you're taking requests ANY Van Morrison will do for me but especially Moon Dance - pretty please?!
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Brewcrew on Sep 1st, 2007, 9:06am

on 09/01/07 at 08:59:40, LeLimey wrote:
Well if you're taking requests ANY Van Morrison will do for me but especially Moon Dance - pretty please?!

Well, if we're playing at your wedding sometime soon, we'll always consider requests of the bride.... ;;D

(You set yourself up for that one.)
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by LeLimey on Sep 1st, 2007, 9:08am
ROTFLMAO - looks like I'd better get my arse down to the record shop then doesn't it?!  :P

Here's a request from the "Bride" then...

I'll have "Save me from the ball and chain" by XTC  ;;D
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Charlotte on Sep 1st, 2007, 10:17am
After my other half Joe mows the lawn, we are going to Santa Cruz to see our son James.  I'm taking him an easle because he is starting to draw with pastels (chalk).  We'll be doing a lot of walking.  I need to put new batteries in my camera.  

Charlotte

ps  Unsolved, I will definitely eat something grilled, in your honor, and think of you.  Wish we could share.
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by assaultme on Sep 1st, 2007, 4:13pm

on 09/01/07 at 08:23:38, Brewcrew wrote:
Hey there, Dave - Thanks! And thanks for noticing. That one took awhile in rehearsal, but it's still one of my faves.

Do you have any recordings on the web anywhere? I'd love to give a listen.

We've got a rehearsal today for a gig at the end of Sept. - 80 or so Harley-Davidson exhaust pipe salesmen and their dates, playing inside a HD dealership. I'm thinking: lots of blues.


Got nothing out on the web at all. I started playing late in life. I play with a friend of mine on & off. We do our own original stuff. He writes it, I put the groove to it. We need a bass player now. Seems like I am too busy at work to really give it the proper attention.

  If yer gonna go out & play, my attitude is you better be damn good. We arent tight enough or have done any of the things necessary to get us out there like y'all.

 I'm in no big hurry cause I know when I am ready, everything will be good. Just taking our time and Dave is giving me time to sort out the short circuit in my cabeza.

It's all good. Just love music and beat the drums any chance I get.

Yup, Harley riders want ZZ TOP, Skynard (sp?) , Canned Heat, Steppenwolf etc.

 Good luck at your HD gig!!!
Cheers, Dave
 
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by DennisM1045 on Sep 1st, 2007, 4:16pm
I'm working my second job most of the weekend.  Trying to earn enough to remodel my kitchen.  Right now it's bare studs and rough lighting.

-Dennis-
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Brewcrew on Sep 1st, 2007, 4:35pm

on 09/01/07 at 16:13:10, assaultme wrote:
  If yer gonna go out & play, my attitude is you better be damn good. We arent tight enough or have done any of the things necessary to get us out there like y'all.

 I'm in no big hurry cause I know when I am ready, everything will be good. Just taking our time and Dave is giving me time to sort out the short circuit in my cabeza.

It's all good. Just love music and beat the drums any chance I get.

Thanks for the kind wishes. And you just keep beatin' the hell out of those skins. Like Del Paxton said in That Thing You Do:

Quote:
Bands come and go. You gotta keep playin', no matter with who.
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by assaultme on Sep 1st, 2007, 4:45pm
 Brewcrew, I forgot.....tell your drummer he sounded great and did a fine job of not "over-playing" it. I mean to say, he did this thing on the hats that was different than Ringo, yet kept the 8 notes intro on the snare with the rest on the 5th note....just like Ringo. PERFECT....added some of his own, kept it smooth.

  Someone else here mentioned "Moondance" by Van Morrison. Remember who Van Morrison was with before he was solo?
That is a very kool tune. A very big reason it has that "texture" or jazzy feeling is simply because the drummer used "swung" eighth notes. The little rest in the measure gives a totally different "feel" to the melody of the song.
 
If it were played straight 8th notes, it would feel completely different.
   Yeah, I think the drummer counts too :) :) :)
Cheers, Dave
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by LeLimey on Sep 1st, 2007, 5:03pm
Couldn't agree more - Drummers can make or break a band and as for listening to the Massed Corps of Drums of the Household Division here - that sends shivers up my spine every time! Love it to bits. Dummers seem to be the least noticed members of a band and I'll never work out why
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by Brewcrew on Sep 1st, 2007, 5:07pm

on 09/01/07 at 16:45:52, assaultme wrote:
 Brewcrew, I forgot.....tell your drummer he sounded great and did a fine job of not "over-playing" it. I mean to say, he did this thing on the hats that was different than Ringo, yet kept the 8 notes intro on the snare with the rest on the 5th note....just like Ringo. PERFECT....added some of his own, kept it smooth.

I'll let him know. He'll be thrilled.


Quote:
  Someone else here mentioned "Moondance" by Van Morrison. Remember who Van Morrison was with before he was solo?

Of course: Northern Irish band called Them. Big hit = Gloria (around 1964 or 1965).


Quote:
   Yeah, I think the drummer counts too :) :) :)

Absolutely. So do I. Being a bass player, I have always tried to form some kind of musical bond with whatever drummer I'm playing with. And I always insist on setting up on stage to the drummer's hi-hat side, so we can have eye contact whenever necessary, and so I can see his bass drum foot. We need to function as one.
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by assaultme on Sep 1st, 2007, 7:29pm

on 09/01/07 at 17:03:13, LeLimey wrote:
Couldn't agree more - Drummers can make or break a band and as for listening to the Massed Corps of Drums of the Household Division here - that sends shivers up my spine every time! Love it to bits. Dummers seem to be the least noticed members of a band and I'll never work out why

 Hey LeLimey:

 Funny you say that. Before I started playing, I was absolutely un-impressed by drum corps. Never thought it had much to it. I couldn't have been more wrong!! The skill level is far beyond MANY rock drummers !!!! They do stuff I don't know if I'll ever be able to master. I had a drum teacher a few years ago. He was a 24 year old kid and he was FIRE !!! He started showing me some of the marching band stuff and I was amazed. The patterns they play are very fast and precise. Since then I have learned to appreciate anything percussion.

  Just goes to show, the older you get, the less you "think" you know  [smiley=laugh.gif]

 Bravo Brewcrew  ;;D  
Title: Re: Labour Day Long Weekend_ _
Post by LeLimey on Sep 1st, 2007, 8:38pm
When I was a lot younger I worked for the MOD (Ministryof Defence... although some maintain I considered it the ministry of Defiance...  ;;D )

I was based with the Household Division and got to know many of the Corps of Drums who should never be confused with bandsmen. Both are soldiers first but bandsmen are stretcher bearers or medics in time of war whereas Drummers are Assault Pioneers.

The motto for the Coldstream Guards is Nulli Secundus or Second to None and that really applies to every drummer since they literally clear the way for the others to follow.

The precision with which they march, change pace AND play never fails to impress me or thrill me. They unceasingly make me so very proud of my heritage each and every time I see the Changing of the Guard or the Trooping of the Colour.

The Colours arepresent every year by the Queen to a different regiment of foot. There are five regiments of foot,  Coldstream Guards, Grenadier Guards, Welsh, Scots and Irish.

The Coldstreamers are the oldest regiment but they were on the wrong side in the Civil war (Grenadiers were Roundheads) and so are relegated to "second" in the ranking HOWEVER - Coldstreamers are second to none and so if not first will be last which is why when you see the bands lined up with the Corps of Drums behind it will always go Grenadiers, Scots, Welsh Irish and then Coldstream Guards. Y

ou can tell which is which by the colour of their plume and the side of the bearskin its on and by the button pattern or frogging on the drummers tunics. Grens have it in "ones, Coldstreamers in "twos" and so on.

The Frogging is also a battle honour, earned by drummers in wars gone by. Amongst their other duties is the defence of the colours or battalion honour and the Guards Chapel in London is where ALL old colours are laid to rest and hung. Its the most amazing and humbling place to see. I love it.

The Trooping of the Colour exists so that the Drummers parade the new colours to the battalion so all see and recognise them so they can rally to them in times of war.

Its an amazing ceremony, it's every June and its also known as the Queens Birthday Parade

Now who's coming to see me next June so I can take them huh?!


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