Ancients => Post your Favourite coin and *Favourite tune*

That's a cool tune & cool coin, Ajax (I've always loved that album)

=> coincidentally, we also named our first English Cocker Spaniel "Ajax" (it's a great name) ... but sadly, it died when it was very young of distemper (very sad)

Our next spaniel's name was "Phoenix" (he made it to 14 years old) ... looking-back, my father was very clever naming our second dog Phoenix (Phoenix rose out of the ashes .... Ajax had recently died of distemper, so this was obviously Dad's way of bringing back the poor lil' guy)

... then "Basil" (also lived to 14 years of age) ... and our current Spaniel's name is "Buster" (he's 8 years old)

=> Dogs and tunes are two of the good things in life, eh?

 

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I saw Heart live in Victoria when I was 14 years old (yes, there may have been some drugs involved!!) ... yah, I'm pretty sure even that my parents were gettin' high in the late 70's?!! (it was expected)





... Ann Wilson was a lot slimmer back then (weren't we all?!)



Funny, because Heart was backing-up April Wine (ummm, do you dudes even know of April Wine?) ... yup, two sweet ol' Canadian beach-party bands!!

 

Being a female and guitar player, naturally I loved Heart back in the 1970s. I only saw them live at a festival-style show, Texxas Jam 1979. That was one spectacular and wild weekend! I can't believe my mom allowed me to attend with my male cousin and his girlfriend. We camped out on the grounds the night before and the night of. By the time BOC took the stage I was partied out and barely hanging on, but the sinister guitar riff of Don't Fear the Reaper managed to penetrate the fog .


(Not my ticket)

 

I'm not really a Bowie fan, but I love Space Oddity and have been listening to it quite a bit lately. I'm in the mood for some good science fiction.



Space coin

 

TIF => wow, you must have been super high, because Don't Fear the Reaper is Blue Oyster Cult (BOC, as you stated)



... but your ticket stub says Boston, Heart and Van Halen (all winners at that time)

Man, I wish I'd known you at that time, my friend (hey TIF, listen it's Beethoven playin'!!) ... wha? ... what day is it?

 

Haha, but yes there was some record-breaking teenage foolishness going on that weekend . I'm lucky to have survived with a few brain cells intact.

The ticket doesn't list the entire lineup, which was:

TKO
Sammy Hagar
Nazareth
Van Halen
Boston
Heart
Blue Oyster Cult

Yeah... it was incredible!! Boston and Heart were two of my absolute favorites at the time (along with Rush, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin)

 

Sounds like a fun weekend ... maybe I was there?

 

@TIF
I love playing the chord progression from "Don't fear the reaper"-great fun. What is you axe of choice? I have 2. The first is my Yamaha APX, an acoustic electric and a great stage guitar. My second is a custom Fender Strat built by a friend of mine.

 

Me too. Oh wait, I was still in Germany on my first tour. Sorry for the interruption. Carry on.

 

I never really meshed with electric, although long ago I had a really nice Les Paul Silverburst, straight from a NAMM show, ~1981. Man, that guitar felt like it was made of lead! Heavy, but fantastic action and great sustain. I've always been an acoustic player. I was quite good at one point but rarely touch my guitars now.

Current guitars: Composite Acoustics GX (carbon fiber but it has an incredible balanced tone; decent transducer and electronics, fantastic action, nice wide thin neck), old Takamine Santa Fe with cedar top and turquoise neck inlay (need to get rid of it; neck is too narrow and thick for me), Daion Caribou (Japanese; very weird looking with a cutaway at the lower bout as well as the usual cutaway; arched cedar top, maple back, rosewood fretboard; brass nut and brass bridge; pickup), and a Martin travel guitar which I should also sell. The Daion was my favorite for a long time and it was so unusual that (locally) people would often recognize me because of it-- "oh, you're the girl with the weird guitar!". Sound techs hated it though because the electronics were awful onstage. More often than not I'd end up just miking it, which I hate because I can't move around.

My favorite acoustics that I've played but do not own: Lowden (O25c, I think... they've changed their models since I last looked) and Martin M body cutaways.

As for the Don't Fear the Reaper lick, I've loved that since I first heard it... on 8 track tape .



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To keep the thread legal, here's a coin


Ptolemy I tetradrachm

 

Big hair ... I was eight years old , watching the Sony & Cher show on black and white TV (good times)

=> oh, and my older brothers and older sister would make me do chores for them while we all watched Wild Wild West!! .... best times "ever"!!

 

Sorry gang ... but sometimes I just can't resist listening to old tunes ...

 

I had to Google 8 track tape. I think I may have heard of it before, but I didn't really know what it was. You guys are...how can I put it delicately... seasoned compared to me. I was listening to music on my first generation iPod back in the 11th grade. I barely remember tapes and the Sony Walkman, which were already obsolete and going out of the market when I was young.

 

Yeah, I understand. I remember when the 78rpms were becoming obsolete. Broke my heart.

 

The pace of tech extinction has really escalated in my lifetime! Vinyl (33 1/3 rpm, 45 rpm, and the already obsolete 78 rpm), followed by 8 track (what an annoying format!), followed by cassettes (mix tapes, anyone? ), followed by CDs, followed by various digital formats. What's next?

 

Well, here is the type of music I'd be listening to when I was 18 years old



And just to keep the thread legal: My Vologases III, which I haven't posted in this forum for almost 6 months. The poor coin needs a little love.

 

I liked the 8 track. It used to give that satisfying heavy 'click' when it changed to another track.

 

Was that the 78's or the Edison Drums................

 

Laser Cubes! Almost infinite storage!