The Shadows

I have a Shadows play along CD that I sometimes practice with.


Fun times.

I wonder if any of them have had to have their hips replaced yet 

You're equating The Shadows with elevator music? I suppose you're one of those "The Beatles are overrated" guys, too?

bitflipper

You're equating The Shadows with elevator music? I suppose you're one of those "The Beatles are overrated" guys, too?

I always thought Zepplin was way over rated.

I caught some of that concert on you toob (The Shadows Final Tour). It's really good.

mike_mccue

bitflipper


You're equating The Shadows with elevator music? I suppose you're one of those "The Beatles are overrated" guys, too?

I've had some pretty good times on elevators.




:-)

I must admit my personal experience of them has been a bit up and down.

Elevator experiences...

When I was 2 or 3 years old, while shopping in a department store with my mother, I stepped into an elevator by mistake - I thought she'd been heading for the elevator, but she wasn't. I realized my mistake as the doors shut and I was sent off to parts unknown, alone in the elevator. Mom could hear my cries of terror fading away but could do nothing but hit the call button and wait.
The entire episode was over in minutes, but I'd get sweaty palms in elevators for the next 20 years.

On another occasion, I left my desk at the office where I worked in order to a) hit the men's room and b) pick up a snack at the snack bar downstairs. Unfortunately, I decided to reverse that order and got my snack first. On the way back up, the elevator ground to a halt between floors. Sh*t, I was thinking, why didn't I go pee first?!? At least I wouldn't starve in there. Since then, I plan elevator trips better.

That wasn't the last time I'd be stuck in an elevator. On another occasion, we were delivering a new computer system to an insurance company. The large cabinet just fit into the car with me jammed in behind it. My partner took the stairs. But as soon as the elevator began to move, it became apparent that we'd exceeded its weight capacity - it groaned for a moment and then stopped at an altitude of six inches. Just far enough to disable the doors. I had to be rescued by building maintenance.

The Muzak, however, continued to entertain me through both ordeals.

Jonbouy

No good can come of this, I need to be soothed by the simpering strings of Mantovani immediately.

Mantovani is Beethoven compared to a contemporary "orchestra" call the 101 Strings.  This was the most wretch-inducing, cloying audio garbage ever conceived.  It was a given that going into a supermarket in the 60s you'd be forced to listen to it (at least in the Illinois backwater I was stuck in at the time).
 
Now when I go into my local Safeway in Northern CA, I hear Neil Young and ... yes ... sometimes even Pink Floyd!  Some things do get better with age.