This morning driving into work Tom Petty's Free Falling was on the radio, always takes me back to three days stuck in LA after missing a flight. Not a bad thing, I wasn't not in a hurry to be anywhere else and it gave me a chance to look around and this song was always on the radio.

Glyn Barnes


This morning driving into work Tom Petty's Free Falling was on the radio, always takes me back to three days stuck in LA after missing a flight. Not a bad thing, I wasn't not in a hurry to be anywhere else and it gave me a chance to look around and this song was always on the radio.

Not sure if I'd want to hear "Free Falling" when I'm supposed to be on a flight though...  LOL!

I guess most people here are really old?

SwedishPete


I guess most people here are really old?

Some of us are.  [sigh]

SwedishPete


I guess most people here are really old?

Positively ancient in my case.

SwedishPete


I guess most people here are really old?

Define "old..."

This one really takes me back to when I started working as a technician.  I'd been on the job almost a year in 1978.  

Some friends at work decided to put together a band to do a few tunes for the company Christmas party in the cafeteria.  They asked me to help out.  I'm not a musician. I've done roadie stuff, sound, some recording, and some CD mastering.  I have had a keyboard or two just to mess around on.  At the time, I had an Elka Rhapsody string synth and they talked me into trying to play Nights In White Satin.  They had a really good flute player and the song was perfect to showcase him and they thought I could muddle through the string parts.  
So, we're playing the song.  It didn't sound half-bad.  We're in the middle of the flute solo and someone in the cafeteria turned on this conveyor belt that takes dirty dishes to be washed.  Well, that belt wasn't supposed to be in use and we had several amps placed on it!  We had a momentary train wreck while people scrambled to save the amps.  But the flautist and the bassist kept playing and the rest of recovered fairly  quickly and the belt got turned off right away.  I think I have a cassette of the performance around here someplace.  I should find that thing and  transfer it to digital.  

craigb

SwedishPete


I guess most people here are really old?

Define "old..."

Here I am.  

Old55


This one really takes me back to when I started working as a technician.  I'd been on the job almost a year in 1978.  

Some friends at work decided to put together a band to do a few tunes for the company Christmas party in the cafeteria.  They asked me to help out.  I'm not a musician. I've done roadie stuff, sound, some recording, and some CD mastering.  I have had a keyboard or two just to mess around on.  At the time, I had an Elka Rhapsody string synth and they talked me into trying to play Nights In White Satin.  They had a really good flute player and the song was perfect to showcase him and they thought I could muddle through the string parts.  
So, we're playing the song.  It didn't sound half-bad.  We're in the middle of the flute solo and someone in the cafeteria turned on this conveyor belt that takes dirty dishes to be washed.  Well, that belt wasn't supposed to be in use and we had several amps placed on it!  We had a momentary train wreck while people scrambled to save the amps.  But the flautist and the bassist kept playing and the rest of recovered fairly  quickly and the belt got turned off right away.  I think I have a cassette of the performance around here someplace.  I should find that thing and  transfer it to digital.  

A truly moving performance then?

craigb

Old55


This one really takes me back to when I started working as a technician.  I'd been on the job almost a year in 1978.  

Some friends at work decided to put together a band to do a few tunes for the company Christmas party in the cafeteria.  They asked me to help out.  I'm not a musician. I've done roadie stuff, sound, some recording, and some CD mastering.  I have had a keyboard or two just to mess around on.  At the time, I had an Elka Rhapsody string synth and they talked me into trying to play Nights In White Satin.  They had a really good flute player and the song was perfect to showcase him and they thought I could muddle through the string parts.  
So, we're playing the song.  It didn't sound half-bad.  We're in the middle of the flute solo and someone in the cafeteria turned on this conveyor belt that takes dirty dishes to be washed.  Well, that belt wasn't supposed to be in use and we had several amps placed on it!  We had a momentary train wreck while people scrambled to save the amps.  But the flautist and the bassist kept playing and the rest of recovered fairly  quickly and the belt got turned off right away.  I think I have a cassette of the performance around here someplace.  I should find that thing and  transfer it to digital.  

A truly moving performance then?

  Yes, indeed.