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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2021 20:31:28 GMT -5
Back in the day when I was a little kid (Early Teens) I had a 14 foot Century Runabout with a 20 horse Mercury outboard. I raced around Long Beach Island N.J. with that boat all the time. But I needed gas, so I learned how to tread clams for gas money. I would catch a few hundred and bring them to the local fishery for gas money. & I would eat a dozen or so while I was right there neck deep in the water. Little did I know that I would someday manufacture clams with my guitar.
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Post by jbone on Feb 7, 2021 1:42:41 GMT -5
So kind of like the klinkers I have made via harmonica???
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2021 10:16:43 GMT -5
So kind of like the klinkers I have made via harmonica??? Yep
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Post by whitefang on Feb 7, 2021 10:40:02 GMT -5
With my musical history I wish I could get all that clam money retroactively! Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2021 18:26:31 GMT -5
With my musical history I wish I could get all that clam money retroactively! Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Feb 8, 2021 10:43:23 GMT -5
All fun aside, I never heard that word used for that sort of thing. I've often heard of BONE'S "klinkers", and once in a while the chorus teacher in high school would refer to singing off key as "squeezing lemons". Funniest I've heard was when comic Fred Allen took a dig at comedian Jack Benny's violin playing, which was really a put on for laughs as Benny was a fairly good fiddle player, but Allen quipped, "Benny plays the fiddle like the strings are still in the cat!" But that was based on the common knowledge that violin strings were made of a material known as "catgut". I have no idea if that was actually feline intestines or not. Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2021 16:26:13 GMT -5
Both larryz and I come from near the ocean and bay habitats, where we former clam-diggers call bad notes on guitar solo's clams.
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Post by jmuscara on Feb 9, 2021 7:15:36 GMT -5
When the Vaughan Brothers were talking about their album Family Style, they described the one tune where they played the same guitar and one would take it from the other at various points. They said you could hear when it happened because of the clam.
They are from Dallas, no clams, oceans, nor bays there.
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Post by whitefang on Feb 10, 2021 10:39:22 GMT -5
'round here the closest we came to that activity was actually the popularity of the slacks called "clamdiggers" in the late '50's -early '60's. But------ Considering the use of the word in this thread, "Clamdiggers" would have been a good(and appropriate) name for most of the bands I was in Whitefang
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Post by earleg on Feb 14, 2021 17:50:10 GMT -5
Clam Chowder!
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Post by whitefang on Feb 15, 2021 10:57:13 GMT -5
Heh..... That's a good title for a song full of nothing BUT "clams". Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2021 17:12:08 GMT -5
Considering the use of the word in this thread, "Clamdiggers" would have been a good(and appropriate) name for most of the bands I was in I was once in a band briefly called See Weed (yeah I know you spell it Sea Weed but I wanted the double entendre) I named the band that way back in the day. It was a 3 piece unit, 2 guitars and a drummer. We did one gig and about 3 or 4 months of practicing then we all bagged it and went our separate ways.
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Post by whitefang on Feb 19, 2021 15:00:18 GMT -5
"See Weed". Yeah, I got it. No 'splainin' needed. Guessing it was the '60's since band names did get off the wall then. We've discussed this in other forums. You'll recall I mentioned that a band I was in changed it's name on almost a weekly basis. Once, the other guitarist's Mother suggested the name "Cacophony" Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2021 19:47:39 GMT -5
Band Names of bands I played in. (First to last) See Weed, 3 piece, 2 guitars and a drummer. Late 60's or early 70's Only played out once at a church dance. No vocalist so we got nowhere. The Brant Beach Blues And Boogie Band. 5 piece, bass, keys, guitar, drums, and vocalist. Late 60's or early 70's. This is the band that performed every weekend at a local club. New Children Of Jazz. 3 piece drums, bass, and guitar. Late 60's or early 70's. Also played at that same club a few times. I did audition for an all lesbian band in Austin Texas who were looking for a lead guitarist. This was in the 80's or early 90's. I came in second to a local cop who had a bunch of pedals in his pedal-board (Which is what they had wanted in a guitarist). I was playing one of my Mesa Boogies with only reverb. The gals liked my playing more than his, but no pedals = no gig. I was practicing 4 hours minimum daily and I played better at that time then I played before or after. I guess my two thousand dollar amp was not impressive enough. I also had a killer PA setup, 200 watt per side 16 track board, with the amps on board, with efx as well. The gals did not know that at the time. I never heard of them after that audition & the bad news phone call.
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Post by whitefang on Feb 21, 2021 10:42:59 GMT -5
Maybe you didn't get that gig because you weren't a lesbian, and not the lack of pedals? And maybe that cop wasn't really a "he"? Or were those lesbians only the vocal group needing a backing band? Just a guess. But the bands I was in never had a keys player until a guy we met who had the notion to be our manager decided to put his accordion lessons to use and bought a Farfisa. He also brought an old friend of his in who was a fantastic drummer. That cheezy Farfisa gave us that "post punk/new wave" sound before it was cool! Whitefang
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