In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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I bet a lot of that stuff would be on youtube. It gets kind of sketchy with older performers though since they had a lot more control over the rights of their stuff than the last 20 or 25 years. But if it's up there, there are a few sites that you can use to easily convert the video to an mp3 online and download it. It's a lot easier than converting a record to mp3, but with your new hi-tech player it might be a lot easier than it was back in the day.
I knew you didn't have a phone. I was just saying that you could pick up an old mp3 player dirt cheap these days since most people are walking around with mp3 players on their phones.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I bet a lot of that stuff would be on youtube. It gets kind of sketchy with older performers though since they had a lot more control over the rights of their stuff than the last 20 or 25 years. But if it's up there, there are a few sites that you can use to easily convert the video to an mp3 online and download it. It's a lot easier than converting a record to mp3, but with your new hi-tech player it might be a lot easier than it was back in the day.
I knew you didn't have a phone. I was just saying that you could pick up an old mp3 player dirt cheap these days since most people are walking around with mp3 players on their phones.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Ah, I see what you are saying. My apologizes Jack. Think I forget all these cell phones can do nowadays.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I bet a lot of that stuff would be on youtube. It gets kind of sketchy with older performers though since they had a lot more control over the rights of their stuff than the last 20 or 25 years. But if it's up there, there are a few sites that you can use to easily convert the video to an mp3 online and download it. It's a lot easier than converting a record to mp3, but with your new hi-tech player it might be a lot easier than it was back in the day.
I knew you didn't have a phone. I was just saying that you could pick up an old mp3 player dirt cheap these days since most people are walking around with mp3 players on their phones.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Ah, I see what you are saying. My apologizes Jack. Think I forget all these cell phones can do nowadays.
No need to apologize.
I'm only vaguely aware of what they can do, having only ever owned an early one for a few months before I got rid of a cell phone service entirely and lived without it.
MP3 players are really cool though, if you put the time into getting your music put together. Over the years, I'd only owned some crappy off brand ones that are a huge pain in the ass to set up and maintain, and have crappy little screens that don't allow you much freedom in how you want to listen to it.
Two years ago though, while helping my parents move, we dug out an old iPod that had hardly ever been used. It's a bright purple color that wouldn't have been my first choice, but it still had the receipt inside the box and it cost nearly $200 when they bought it!
I haven't done anything with it yet since my life has been so disorganized and I lost a network storage hard drive that apparently had my only backup of the tens of thousands of mp3's I'd collected over the years.
I'm slowly re-building my collection and organizing it. It will be nice to listen to music when I'm out doing yard work or working on the house in the spring.
If you'd like to get started, let me know. You can probably find a really good mp3 player for pennies on the dollar if you ask around. I've got a few websites that will rip the audio to a folder you specify on your computer hard drive with the exact name it was given on youtube. The names are easy enough to change however you'd like too. As long as you get a decent mp3 player it should be easy to transfer the music and (more importantly) it should be very easy to set up playlists or easily get to a specific song that you want to listen to.
BTW... a cursory search on youtube has a lot of results for the performers you mentioned earlier. A lot of it is live stuff, which usually is never removed for copyright violations, but there are quite a few studio versions of tracks too. It just might be hard to get some of your favorite "B Side" material in this fashion from that long ago. But you never know. You might be surprised.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I bet a lot of that stuff would be on youtube. It gets kind of sketchy with older performers though since they had a lot more control over the rights of their stuff than the last 20 or 25 years. But if it's up there, there are a few sites that you can use to easily convert the video to an mp3 online and download it. It's a lot easier than converting a record to mp3, but with your new hi-tech player it might be a lot easier than it was back in the day.
I knew you didn't have a phone. I was just saying that you could pick up an old mp3 player dirt cheap these days since most people are walking around with mp3 players on their phones.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Ah, I see what you are saying. My apologizes Jack. Think I forget all these cell phones can do nowadays.
No need to apologize.
I'm only vaguely aware of what they can do, having only ever owned an early one for a few months before I got rid of a cell phone service entirely and lived without it.
MP3 players are really cool though, if you put the time into getting your music put together. Over the years, I'd only owned some crappy off brand ones that are a huge pain in the ass to set up and maintain, and have crappy little screens that don't allow you much freedom in how you want to listen to it.
Two years ago though, while helping my parents move, we dug out an old iPod that had hardly ever been used. It's a bright purple color that wouldn't have been my first choice, but it still had the receipt inside the box and it cost nearly $200 when they bought it!
I haven't done anything with it yet since my life has been so disorganized and I lost a network storage hard drive that apparently had my only backup of the tens of thousands of mp3's I'd collected over the years.
I'm slowly re-building my collection and organizing it. It will be nice to listen to music when I'm out doing yard work or working on the house in the spring.
If you'd like to get started, let me know. You can probably find a really good mp3 player for pennies on the dollar if you ask around. I've got a few websites that will rip the audio to a folder you specify on your computer hard drive with the exact name it was given on youtube. The names are easy enough to change however you'd like too. As long as you get a decent mp3 player it should be easy to transfer the music and (more importantly) it should be very easy to set up playlists or easily get to a specific song that you want to listen to.
BTW... a cursory search on youtube has a lot of results for the performers you mentioned earlier. A lot of it is live stuff, which usually is never removed for copyright violations, but there are quite a few studio versions of tracks too. It just might be hard to get some of your favorite "B Side" material in this fashion from that long ago. But you never know. You might be surprised.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I actually did own an mp3 player a few years ago but gave it away as I couldn't do anything with it at the time.
I know I can find Cher on YouTube. Songs like "Halfbreed" and some of her later stuff from the late 80s and 90s. Think I found some Bay City Rollers. Might find some Jerry Reed too.
Never know Jack. For now I just like listening to my music sometimes during the week in the afternoon and on Sunday afternoon. And now I have a choice of what I can listen too.
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Yeah...
I forgot to install an alternate browser when I did my PC setup initially and I used my own youtube account to listen to some music the other day.
That's always a huge mistake. I don't usually ever listen to music through youtube and I have very specific videos that I like coming up in my feed based off of my tastes. All it takes is a few hours of straying off of those subjects with other things like music and now my Recommended feed is 50% music videos that I have no interest in watching.
OPPS
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Hey Brenda - that sounds really enjoyable.
Just to share some humor - and don't take this the wrong way - I enjoy Cher's stuff and I like the persona she projects ... but some time ago I stumbled into an obscure website called 'misheard lyrics' (or something like that). Anyway, one of the misheard lyrics was ...
... but every night all the men would come around
And lay the monkey down.
Another one I remember - not Cher - was ...
dirty deeds, dunder sheep
I wish I could remember more. I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe.
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My favorite video for misheard lyrics on a song that I believe to this day has never actually been translated by Eddie Vedder.
One of my all time favorite songs, although I only have a vague idea of what it's about.
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Back is a ton better today, BTW. Still a minor tweak in it, so I'm not going to do anything crazy, but hopefully this week it's as if it never happened.
Dodged another bullet. 
Thanks for the heating pad suggestion, Sigs. It completely slipped my mind that I found one during the de-hoard and had the foresight to stick it in the linen closet even though it's missing the cover. I wrapped it with a towel and it seems to have done the trick.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Hey Jack
I'm glad you're feeling better!
However ... and not to be a Debbie Downer but ... if you caused actual injury to your back the first time (and it sounds like you might have) you are likely to have the issue return ... again ... and again ... in one form or another. And what worked the first time might not work the second time.
I'll give you some examples ... when I was in my early 20's (I believe) I tore a few small muscles - like perhaps part of the pyriformis near the sacroiliac joint - and the pain was excruciating. And I never had it looked at. Fortunately, after I took WAY too much aspirin (salicylate toxicity induced permanent tinnitus which I have to this day) and tylenol for a few days, I remembered I had some co-tylenol from a wisdom tooth extraction that I never took. Ahhh ... blessed relief. Anyway, a few years later I was awkwardly trying to put a desk drawer on its tracks, and the pain in 'that spot' came back. Fortunately it was at work, and it was all part of a big move we made from one city to another, so they sent me to a work-rehab place they had a contract with. That place did heat (didn't help) but also TENS - which was like magic. To the point I actually ordered one. So I used that on and off whenever I had pain, but after a couple of years it stopped working. I just kind of learned to live with pain. Then one day I was at work and I awkwardly stood up. I felt something in 'that spot' subtly go bonk. And within a few minutes I was literally on the floor writhing in pain and groaning out loud and completely unable to move in any meaningful way - not to turn over, or sit up, or anything. They were going to call 911 for the reason that there was no other way to help me up. But FORTUNATELY one of the people at work also with back pain had some serious (darvon?) pain meds. I remember he looked at me and said 'you're going to need two'. Well, I tried just one just to see, and nothing much happened but the second one did the trick. I went home and went to bed with significant apprehension I wouldn't be able to get back up again when the meds wore off. But the next day, which happened to be a weekend, while I was pretty sore, I wasn't incapacitated. So I thought I'd pull some weeds. I was thinking 'this could really put me in a lot of trouble' but oddly enough the rocking back and forth on my knees and stretching and relaxing helped a lot. After a few hours, I was all better. But a few weeks later I was outside my car door and knelt on the driver's seat to reach over to the passenger side and grab a really small grocery bag and BAM. I tweaked 'that spot' all over again. Fortunately I wasn't incapacitated, so I prescribed for myself some more weed pulling, thinking that since it helped that last time, it would help again. That was a mistake. I couldn't stand up straight for weeks. I ended up getting myself a cane so I could push myself upright when I walked.
And so on. I've had many, many adventures with that spot in my back that I injured many decades ago.
ETA: you might think of me as a dumpy old decrepit woman - and you'd be right! But as recently as 15 years ago I was pulling wiring, installing drywall, taping and mudding and sanding, painting etc. And when I was younger I was extraordinarily fit and athletic. It was pain that ground me down over the years.
And I think the lesson I learned - from seeing myself and other people age - is that the injuries you get when you're younger don't -really- go away. I believe that when you're younger relatively high levels of 'human growth hormone' aka HGH allow you to carry them. But as you age the HGH level drops severely, and that scar tissue you have ends up hurting. (The same is true of bad diet, lack of exercise, bad genetics, and so on. High levels of HGH are protective in earlier years, but HGH drops with age.)(BTW, AFAIK the ONLY tissue that heals by making more of itself is bone. Everything else is knit together wi
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I guess I'll just have to play it by ear.
It's really strange that it came out of nowhere like that. I think while I was working that job for a year and a half I could easily say that I lifted 15 to 20 lbs easily a half million times, and by the time I was laid off I could pull 20 pallets of water hundreds of feet without breaking a sweat. And this summer and fall I did a lot of very strenuous jobs on my back without any issues out of regular soreness and muscle cramps.
But even before I had that job it never bothered me... and I was 60 lbs heavier and extremely out of shape. I'm not in excellent shape now for sure, but nowhere near as bad as I was before I worked there.
I'm just going to have to face the fact that I'm 4 years older now. If I'm not currently working a physical job that's going to keep me in shape, I'm going to at least have to do some stretching and light back exercises.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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