Where have all the grumpy people gone?

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Permalink Reply by Allan Midgley on August 23, 2011 at 1:42am

I think so Toni, I thought about a small bodied headless bass like a Spirit or Hohner etc.

Permalink Reply by Greg Moore on August 23, 2011 at 3:06pm

The other day I told a real musician about following the "click."  I could barely get myself to pronounce the word in public.  Hmmph.  Eight-note de -- no.  My mother trained me better.

Odd -- I don't consider using reverb to be cheating (creating a Gothic cathedral in a teeeeeeny little worship space). Why do I have this thing about 8th-note de --

Permalink Reply by Greg Moore on August 23, 2011 at 8:43pm

Seen from a grumpy overlook, all musical instruments are artificial extensions of us.  The human voice, unamplified, is the only thing that is truly clean, dry and given by God.  God supplies the materials for our clever minds to put together -- sheep gut for strings, bones and reeds for flutes, and so on, and eventually the ability to dig for ore and oil and chemists' brains to figure out how to manufacture reverb units.  

Playing a keyboard without reverb in a dry room can be frightening -- the tone just ENDS when you let your fingers up.  This means your are RESPONSIBLE for every white space in the music, as well as the tone itself:  no reverb to fill those empty microseconds.  It's like when you're playing an acoustic grand and the pedal cotter pin comes off and suddenly all is dry and plain and out there in the open, with no pedal-acoustic-reverb from the sympathetic strings.  

Curious -- my spell check does not recognize "reverb" as a word.

Permalink Reply by Greg Moore on August 25, 2011 at 9:05pm

Where have all the grumpies gone? / Long time passing

Where have all the grumpies gone? / long time ago

When have all the grumpies gone? / Back-row pews are wide and long

When will they ever learn? / When will they ever learn?

Permalink Reply by Allan Midgley on August 26, 2011 at 6:31am

Your singing that in the wrong key and the wrong tempo, to match my whinging and whinning.

 

Anyway, who gave you permission to use one of them hippy songs here........ What is the world coming to? humph!!!!!

Permalink Reply by Greg Moore on August 26, 2011 at 6:36am

Wrong key, wrong tempo, and with a fake folk-country accent.  Hmph.

Permalink Reply by Paul Stoakes on November 26, 2011 at 11:30pm

Try Reverberation!

It's a bit like trying to spell check guit for guitar, just add the word "reverb" to your dictionary and it will be OK from then on.

Permalink Reply by Greg Moore on August 30, 2011 at 7:06am

They've gone the same way as all of the other six spiritual Dwarves:

Sleepy  --    He's got Sardis in his eyes. (Rev. 3:1)  Better wake up!

Dopey  --    blown here and there by every wind of doctrine  (Eph. 4:14)

Bashful  --   "if you deny Me in front of your friends, I will deny YOU..."  (Matt. 10:33)

Doc   --    "...twelve years she bled, and bled as well by her doctors for all she had." SHAME.  (Luke 8:43)

Sneezy   --  "many of you are weak and sick, and some have died" (failing to recognize Christ among them, even as they shared communion together)  1 Cor. 11:29-30

Happy  --   Heigh-ho!  Height-ho!  Away with the noise of your songs!  Woe to you who are complacent in Zion... you put off the evil day and bring near a reign of terror.  (Amos 5:23, 6:1)

Grumpy doesn't look so bad against this lot!  But even so, the Word reminds us not to grumble, as some of them did (1 Corinthians 10:10) and were destroyed by the Destroyer.

Permalink Reply by David Bull on November 26, 2011 at 8:02pm

I'm not sure quite where we fit in with the Dwarfs but it does look as if a lot of us have died.

 

David B.

Permalink Reply by Paul Stoakes on November 26, 2011 at 11:27pm

Talking of Dwarfs, did you here the one about the password:

‘I needed a password eight characters long, so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.’

All the grumpy people are still here just asleep and waiting to be poked.

Permalink Reply by David Bull on November 26, 2011 at 11:46pm

I'll have a look and see if I can find a sharp stick!

 

Then I may be able to poke a few!!

Permalink Reply by Lorraine Doswell on November 27, 2011 at 8:59am

Hi David,

 

I'm still here, but not as grumpy as I once was..........haven't got the energy!

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