OT: 'Off topic' thoughts

[AllHeartNoSkill]

Any blues fans here? I've always known Slash as the guitarist for Guns and Roses which isn't my thing, didn't realize that he's also a solo artist and he has a blues album coming out soon. A few days ago I stumbled across this single from the upcoming album which was released only a few days ago I think and I thought wow, this is the best new thing I've seen in some time. Featuring Brian Johnson from AC/DC on vocals (who sounds most excellent singing in a lower register) and Steve Tyler on harp. I didn't know he played harp and you know what, his solo on this excellent. I also love the fact that they feature the original artist Howlin Wolf on the video, full marks from me for everything!

Re: Tyler on the harp; I can’t recall if it was Aerosmith or a Tyler solo album, but they (or he) released a blues album back in the 2000’s. Honkin’ on Bobo I think I was called.

I have no idea how good of an album it was, but you may find it interesting if you enjoyed his work above.

 

[Gary Nylund]

Also i heard this today after feeling a bit better and damn I LOVE IT!

Hell yeah! I think I've played this about 5/6 times by now, it's just perfect. I also grabbed tickets to the show this summer in TO, should be great.

While I'm at it, I'll share my favorite Keb Mo song (he's opening for Slash). I think it's cool that he's having an acoustic blues player open for him, good stuff Slash!

Re: Tyler on the harp; I can’t recall if it was Aerosmith or a Tyler solo album, but they (or he) released a blues album back in the 2000’s. Honkin’ on Bobo I think I was called.

I have no idea how good of an album it was, but you may find it interesting if you enjoyed his work above.

Thanks for the tip, if I remember I will check this out later (if it's on spotify or youtube)

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Why is it when you book a service and they give you a window of 12-5, they always arrive at 5 and never at 12?

I recently had the opposite problem.

I booked something at 9 am because it's after I drop off my daughter at school, and they got mad at me the day of when I told them they absolutely cannot come any earlier. Like, it's not my fault your other bookings are what they are. I booked a 9 am for a reason.

Sorry for what happened to you.

 

[therealkoho]

Some Girls is one of my favourite albums of all time.
I also went thru a long phase where I was listening to the album It's Only Rock n Roll, every single day. Just had an amazing vibe for me at the time I guess.
The thing I love about the Stones is they have SO MANY incredible songs/big hits, but their unknown songs on the albums are just as good.
I think it will sound crazy, but to me the Stones are an underrated band, because people don't dig into their collection. For 99.63% of people, there isn't that need to dig, because they have dozens of hits. There are so many hidden gems, and if you guys like the blues, the Stones have many 'unknown' blues songs.

There's an album called "Between the Buttons" 65 or 66, give it a spin, there's lots of candy on it.

Question for the rules guys.

I watching a kid's game the other night and our team was on the PK.

The opposing team scored on the PP, but after a bit of discussion the refs ruled that there was no goal because the team on the PP had too many men on the ice. However, they did not assess a minor penalty to the offending team.

I got it into it a little bit with one of the other team's fans who insisted that because the goal was disallowed there should be no penalty, while I argued that too many men is always a penalty and the only reason the goal was scored was because the ref didn't notice in time.

Who's correct?

I think the guy reffing should learn from his error

 

[ACC1224]

I recently had the opposite problem.

I booked something at 9 am because it's after I drop off my daughter at school, and they got mad at me the day of when I told them they absolutely cannot come any earlier. Like, it's not my fault your other bookings are what they are. I booked a 9 am for a reason.

Sorry for what happened to you.

All good, spent a pleasant hour plus with a customer service lady with Home Depot who took care of me.
Quick summary, bought an oven Jan 9, delivery Jan 16. Jan 15 they tell me it’s back ordered will come Feb 28. Feb 26 they tell me it’s discontinued and won’t be coming at all. Got them a week later to give me a higher end oven for the price of the discontinued one. They did that plus free delivery. Delivery came fine but then the installers didn’t show up.
Got my money back today for the installers $200, plus a $200 gift card for my pain and suffering. New oven is still sitting on the dining room floor lol.
To be continued.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

All good, spent a pleasant hour plus with a customer service lady with Home Depot who took care of me.
Quick summary, bought an oven Jan 9, delivery Jan 16. Jan 15 they tell me it’s back ordered will come Feb 28. Feb 26 they tell me it’s discontinued and won’t be coming at all. Got them a week later to give me a higher end oven for the price of the discontinued one. They did that plus free delivery. Delivery came fine but then the installers didn’t show up.
Got my money back today for the installers $200, plus a $200 gift card for my pain and suffering. New oven is still sitting on the dining room floor lol.
To be continued.

It is almost unfathomable in 2024 Canada to wait that long for a new oven and installation. Wild. You bought it over 2 months ago?

 

[TheGreatOne11]

Hey guys,

Probably a dumb question but all of a sudden when i come on HFboards on my phone its the desktop version and I can't get back to the mobile version. Could someone please advise this idiot on how to rectify this issue? Thank youuuuu.

 

[Squiffy]

All good, spent a pleasant hour plus with a customer service lady with Home Depot who took care of me.
Quick summary, bought an oven Jan 9, delivery Jan 16. Jan 15 they tell me it’s back ordered will come Feb 28. Feb 26 they tell me it’s discontinued and won’t be coming at all. Got them a week later to give me a higher end oven for the price of the discontinued one. They did that plus free delivery. Delivery came fine but then the installers didn’t show up.
Got my money back today for the installers $200, plus a $200 gift card for my pain and suffering. New oven is still sitting on the dining room floor lol.
To be continued.

Hey, Brian Hayes here, you know my favourite part of doing this job is I get to share with you guys this great info. Like the other day, new oven comes for delivery but the installers bail on me, I don’t stress it, no problem, I just do what I always do, hop on the Jiffy App and bang, my man Jim is there that afternoon and I’m baking wings for the game within hours.

 

[The Management]

Hey guys,

Probably a dumb question but all of a sudden when i come on HFboards on my phone its the desktop version and I can't get back to the mobile version. Could someone please advise this idiot on how to rectify this issue? Thank youuuuu.

Which browser are you using? If you click on the icon in the upper right corner and bring up options, there's usually an option for desktop versus mobile. Perhaps yours is ticked?

 

[ACC1224]

Hey, Brian Hayes here, you know my favourite part of doing this job is I get to share with you guys this great info. Like the other day, new oven comes for delivery but the installers bail on me, I don’t stress it, no problem, I just do what I always do, hop on the Jiffy App and bang, my man Jim is there that afternoon and I’m baking wings for the game within hours.

I have a buddy who’s a gas guy. Asked him if he had a guy to hook it up for cash. He said “why don’t we just do it ourselves?”
Finished installing it this morning.

 

[Squiffy]

Rolling Stones “Now” is a phase I go through a couple times a year listening cover to cover for days on end.

Just entered one of them thanks to this thread lol. This damn kitchen is getting cleaned up to it.

 

[Squiffy]

Just entered one of them thanks to this thread lol. This damn kitchen is getting cleaned up to it.

Every time I go down the “Now” rabbit hole I wind up on this boogie woogie version of “Down the Road a Piece”. Thought I’d share, it’s awesome, get through it, you’ll watch it again.

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[Mr_Fun]

And speaking of The Rolling Stones, here's a blues piece from John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers with a 19 year old Mick Taylor on guitar back in 1968. Taylor would join the Rolling Stones around 1970 to replace Brian Jones who had "croaked" in the swimming pool.

 

[rumman]

Any blues fans here? I've always known Slash as the guitarist for Guns and Roses which isn't my thing, didn't realize that he's also a solo artist and he has a blues album coming out soon. A few days ago I stumbled across this single from the upcoming album which was released only a few days ago I think and I thought wow, this is the best new thing I've seen in some time. Featuring Brian Johnson from AC/DC on vocals (who sounds most excellent singing in a lower register) and Steve Tyler on harp. I didn't know he played harp and you know what, his solo on this excellent. I also love the fact that they feature the original artist Howlin Wolf on the video, full marks from me for everything!

Call me a traditionalist, but I prefer this rendition………

 

[rumman]

Every time I go down the “Now” rabbit hole I wind up on this boogie woogie version of “Down the Road a Piece”. Thought I’d share, it’s awesome, get through it, you’ll watch it again.

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“I wish my brother George was here………”

Hell yeah! I think I've played this about 5/6 times by now, it's just perfect. I also grabbed tickets to the show this summer in TO, should be great.

While I'm at it, I'll share my favorite Keb Mo song (he's opening for Slash). I think it's cool that he's having an acoustic blues player open for him, good stuff Slash!




Thanks for the tip, if I remember I will check this out later (if it's on spotify or youtube)

Keb’s a fine picker, I’ve had the pleasure of seeing him perform a number of times……..

 

[Gary Nylund]

Call me a traditionalist, but I prefer this rendition………

Listening to this now, so nice!!

And while I'm listening, I'm reading about Colin Linden in wiki and I just came across this:


When Linden met David Wilcox, Linden decided to learn how to play slide guitar. Wilcox gave 140 blues albums to young Linden, to help Linden to learn about blues styles.[citation needed]


Citation needed - not sure if that means that this may or may not be true but I know stuff like this does happen, and what a wonderful story about an older, more experienced musician helping/inspiring a younger one. Love it!

 

[rumman]

Listening to this now, so nice!!

And while I'm listening, I'm reading about Colin Linden in wiki and I just came across this:


When Linden met David Wilcox, Linden decided to learn how to play slide guitar. Wilcox gave 140 blues albums to young Linden, to help Linden to learn about blues styles.[citation needed]


Citation needed - not sure if that means that this may or may not be true but I know stuff like this does happen, and what a wonderful story about an older, more experienced musician helping/inspiring a younger one. Love it!

Linden along with another Canadian bluesman Morgan Davis were in Wilcox’s band the Teddy Bears back in the day………

 

[Canadian Finn]

Saw Wilcox live a few weeks ago. He still has it!

 

[rumman]

Saw Wilcox live a few weeks ago. He still has it!

Clean and sober and still killing it, Canadian icon……..

 

[Canadian Finn]

he still has his "cocaine eyes".

not sure what's driving them, but holy hell, when he gives that big eyes look, you feel it deep!

 

[ACC1224]

he still has his "cocaine eyes".

not sure what's driving them, but holy hell, when he gives that big eyes look, you feel it deep!

He played the BPAC a few weeks ago. I wasn't able to attend but my neighbour went and his wife swore he was staring at her the whole show.

Legend, seen him a bunch of times, used to play my high school back in the early 80's.

 

[nsleaf]

Garrett Mason is a fav. You can catch him live at Bearly's House Blues in Halifax every Tuesday night. No cover charge.

 

[rumman]

Garrett Mason is a fav. You can catch him live at Bearly's House Blues in Halifax every Tuesday night. No cover charge.

Guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, his father Dutch was a great Canadian bluesman, since your out east do you ever get a chance to see Morgan Davis? He’s based out of the Maritimes……..

 

[nsleaf]

Guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, his father Dutch was a great Canadian bluesman, since your out east do you ever get a chance to see Morgan Davis? He’s based out of the Maritimes……..

It's been awhile, but he plays Bearlys 4 times in the next month. I just may go check him out again.

 

[rumman]

It's been awhile, but he plays Bearlys 4 times in the next month. I just may go check him out again.

Well worth the effort imo, I have one if his cd’s it’s really good especially the song barbecue, as a grill addict it hits home……