Independence Day, 2026 - 250 Years

iblive said:
I'm not really that great a guitar player, but for years I've thought it would be a blast to learn to play it Jimmy style. Stick my 20w Traynor in a window like a window AC unit and serenade the neighborhood. So...... my suggestion is.... Go for it!!!!!
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I am of the opinion that Hendrix was "Going For It" off the cuff, winging it until he found the real groove with the crazy divebomb and wild harmonics then just kept pushing until it felt like a conclusion needed to be added with all the sentiment of the War and Rage and sliding into a nice outro. Captured the essence of what that anthem truly meant.
 
XTRXTR said:
I am of the opinion that Hendrix was "Going For It" off the cuff, winging it until he found the real groove with the crazy divebomb and wild harmonics then just kept pushing until it felt like a conclusion needed to be added with all the sentiment of the War and Rage and sliding into a nice outro. Captured the essence of what that anthem truly meant.
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And yet for the grief some folk heaped on him for being disrespectful...... Compared to current"entertainers" today that feel the need to embellish the crap out of the song..... in some ways, his version is easier to listen to. I've always sorta liked what he did.... and I was a freshman in HS, so i well remember being done.
 
iblive said:
So...... how many here are old enough to remember when we celebrated 200 years. Glancing thru the ages of some folk in TTR, some of you weren't born yet and others were maybe 10ish. As for me. I was 4 years removed from high school. Dating my eventual wife. Got on board with several other guys in town and grew a beard. Hated it. If memory serves, I may have shaved it off, just keeping the mustache, on July 5th.
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I was 13 about to get my first guitar. buiding my own small explosives using estee rocket motors, kitchen match heads in a film container with the old kodak flash bulbs as the ignitor connected to 30ft of some blasting cap wires and a battery switch, soaking tennis balls in gasoline and having a nice fire fight with my brothers and friends, along with dirt clots, and pop bottle rocket fights. That was fun stuff.

Once I got my guitar all my focus was playing until couldn't for about three years straight 16hrs a day :electric:except for food and making a pile in the toilet. :ROFLMAO:
 
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XTRXTR said:
I was 13 about to get my first guitar. buiding my own small explosives using estee rocket motors, kitchen match heads in a film container with the old kodak flash bulbs as the ignitor connected to 30ft of some blasting cap wires and a battery switch, soaking tennis balls in gasoline and having a nice fire fight with my brothers and friends, along with dirt clots, and pop bottle rocket fights. That was fun stuff.

Once I got my guitar all my focus was playing until couldn't for about three years straight 16hrs a day except for food and abolutions.
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My best friend and I were boring. We just did things like climb out a window on to the roof. Tape bottle rockets to paper airplanes. One time thought we were going to have to bail off the roof when the airplane did a 180 and was coming back at us. Dumb kids!!!
 
iblive said:
My best friend and I were boring. We just did things like climb out a window on to the roof. Tape bottle rockets to paper airplanes. One time thought we were going to have to bail off the roof when the airplane did a 180 and was coming back at us. Dumb kids!!!
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Back then the mountains had 7' or 8' of snow pack sometimes 10', when you skied you would only see the tips of trees, no grooming, no fake snow machines. By Summer there was never a worry about beetle kill or flash fires. When I was twenty we brought 3-5 kegs of beer to camp, sunk them in the ice cold stream and had fire work fights, fire crackers, bottle rockets, 8 ounce rockets, the only thing off the table was the tube cannon and ball types for fighting. That was only due to one of our dudes had a tent destroyed, basically it put several melted holes in it.

The next year we rolled a 500lb boulder into the same guys new tent while he was off fishing:ROFLMAO:
He came back exhausted from fishing, lots of trout, and entered his tent...OMG he was ballistic, but it was funny as fk. Everyone trying to keep a straight face...at first, then laughing hard.

There was no damage and we pulled it back out when he started laughing too.

Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness Maxxed out.
 
iblive said:
So...... how many here are old enough to remember when we celebrated 200 years. Glancing thru the ages of some folk in TTR, some of you weren't born yet and others were maybe 10ish. As for me. I was 4 years removed from high school. Dating my eventual wife. Got on board with several other guys in town and grew a beard. Hated it. If memory serves, I may have shaved it off, just keeping the mustache, on July 5th.
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In '76 I was 19 years old, and 15 years since moving from California to Vancouver B.C.
Let's just say... um... things have changed...
 
iblive said:
So...... how many here are old enough to remember when we celebrated 200 years. Glancing thru the ages of some folk in TTR, some of you weren't born yet and others were maybe 10ish. As for me. I was 4 years removed from high school. Dating my eventual wife. Got on board with several other guys in town and grew a beard. Hated it. If memory serves, I may have shaved it off, just keeping the mustache, on July 5th.
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I was fourteen, and I think in eighth grade. My English teacher was in one or the Revolutionary War re-enactment groups that would be at the Lexington Concord Green for Patriot's Day. We went on a ton of cool field trips that year. Lexington and Concord, The Freedom Trail, Paul Revere's House and The North Church, Old Ironsides, and many other destinations for the entire spring.
 
iblive said:
So...... how many here are old enough to remember when we celebrated 200 years. Glancing thru the ages of some folk in TTR, some of you weren't born yet and others were maybe 10ish. As for me. I was 4 years removed from high school. Dating my eventual wife. Got on board with several other guys in town and grew a beard. Hated it. If memory serves, I may have shaved it off, just keeping the mustache, on July 5th.
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1976 would have been when I graduated
 
Don O said:
I was living in Philly in 1976, attending Drexel University. Go Flyers !
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I was still in Washington D.C. in 1976 (it's my home town). I was just a kid at the time but old enough to remember that that was a hell of a party.
 
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