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I did that in my youth, but wasn't any good at it.  You must be alot better if you've been doing it for so long.  I spent three years in vigorous training, and didn't improve my placements whatever.  It seems that everyone else's times were improving as quickly as mine.  I was certain to come in exactly middle in every race.  If there were 11, I'd place sixth, if there were 101 I'd place 50th.  I did get to meet some interesting people and lift a track bike.  Those track bikes are amazing.  My sister was a track star at her college and she introduced me to this guy.  He offered to let me ride it, but I didn't want to take the risk of messing up a bike that cost about twice my annual earnings. 

I converted my race bike to a (very, very short) touring bike and haven't looked back. 

- Zurf

I don't think so.  We'd need a name to be a band.  And members. 

6th of June is out.  Scouting conflict.  I'm looking at the 13th now.  We've got two maybes, and I've got a few non-Chordie friends who're interested.  I think that's good enough for some backyard picking. 

I'll get this underway and post back with details. 

- Zurf

Johnny Cash's cover of 9 Inch Nail's "Hurt"
Luther Allison's cover of The Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Dr. John's cover of Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Cold Shot"
The Duhk's cover of Sting's "Love Is The Seventh Wave"
Joan Jett's cover of the theme song to the Mary Tyler Moore Show
Bonnie Raitt's cover of John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery"
Willie Nelson's cover of Billie Joe Shaver's "Fast Train to Georgia"
Ray Charles' cover of the classic "Georgia", also covered by Willie Nelson
Mavis Staple's cover of Bob Dylan's "You've Got to Serve Somebody"
And since we've got Bonnie Raitt and SRV mentioned in the same post, I'll add her version of "Pride and Joy" for consideration. 

Self-Covers:
Jimmy Buffett covered his own song "Son of a Son of a Sailor" on his album "Take Me To Margaritaville", and I like it far better than the original. 
Eric Clapton did an acoustic cover of his own "Layla" (from Derek and the Dominoes period), which I like very well.

I'm sure I'll think of some more.  I love covers.  It's always fun to hear how someone else interprets the same lyrics and brings an entirely different style and feel to it. 

- Zurf

Not June 6.  Scouting conflict. 

Yeah Russell, trains come close enough.  Little place in DC called "Union Station".  You may have heard of it...

- Zurf

I just put medium strings on my acoustic and my left fingertips hurt.

Sadly, I think most musical accidents are alcohol or drug related.  I suppose things like carpal tunnel syndrome are possible.  When I played horns, I chipped most of my lower front teeth doing horn pops while marching.  That's hardly a crisis.  Blisters, I guess.  If a string broke, it could cause a cut or injury if a body part got in the way of the recoil.  I don't think it's that dangerous of a hobby.  Except for the alcohol and drug connection.  When I was a teenager and it was time for me to choose which college to attend, I had to choose between careers in music or business.  I was playing some gigs in a playhouse orchestra then and got to see the behavior of so-called adults in the industry at cast parties and chose business over music.  Coke and pot and extreme quantities of booze abounded.  Acid was on its way out and heroine was popular back then, but I didn't see any of either one in use.  It may have been at the parties, but I was pretty naive and wouldn't have been looking for it.  I joke about booze from time to time, but addiction to it or any intoxicating substance is deadly serious and no joking matter.  People get badly messed up. 

- Zurf

Russell -

My college room mate cooked hotdogs like that, except he used forks instead of nails. 

aabb -

There are no GOOD recipes for 'possum.  They're edible and will keep you from dying of starvation, but there's no way to make them good.  Worst hillbilly recipe I've ever heard of is squirrel brain gravy.  No thank you.  A couple fellows I know love the stuff.  I'll pass. 

- Zurf

When in doubt, play loud.

- Zurf

Bungee jumping is not something I understand.  Terrible shame what happened to that kid. 

That aside, Americans are very superstitious.  However, not all are.  I have stayed on the 13th floor of hotels when travelling.  The building I work in is 18 stories high and has a 13th floor.  But for some of the older buildings, they did sometimes abide by that superstition.  Seven is considered lucky, so they should have just had two seventh floors. 

- Zurf

I don't remember any of these things.  There is no gray in what's left of my hair or in my beard.  The sky is bright green.  I drive a pickup truck. 

One of these statements is true. 

- Zurf

Forget the names for a moment.  Just think of the full scale as twelve tones.  Each tone represents the same interval. 

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13 starts the scale over
Put your guitar in hand and pick any string.  Pluck that string with no fingering on it.  Now put a finger down on the first fret and pluck it.  Second fret and pluck it, and so on up to the 11th fret.  That was a full twelve tone scale.

Now, the C major scale, the scale upon which all the names are based, includes only 8 tones.  Obviously, some of the tones out of the twelve tones of the full twelve tone scale are skipped.  If you play a "C" note where the 1 is above to start your scale, it would look like this:

1  C
2
3  D
4
5  E
6  F
7 
8  G
9 
10 A
11
12 B
13 C (starting over one octave higher)

Notice that 2, 4, 7, 9, 11 have no notes beside them.  Those are the tones of the twelve tone total scale that are not used in the major scale.  Those are also your sharps and flats.  Asharp/Bflat is the tone between A and B.  Each step, from one number to the next, is a semitone (UK terminology) or a half-step (U.S. terminology).  One semitone above A is an A sharp.  One semitone below B is a Bflat.  As you can see from the chart, those are the same note.  This also explains why you don't have a Bsharp or an Fflat.  Those would just be C and E, respectively. 

Hope that helps.  Also, if Russell or Jerome comes in and corrects something I've said, believe them over me.  I do.

- Zurf